Monkey on my back

This is a 57 minute DJ mix by Duncan Gray containing all of the tracks from his forthcoming album "Five Fathoms Full" which is released on May 30th 2024

This is DG's 5th album for tici taci and can be loosely described as "Electronic cosmiche dub disco" as all tracks feature dubby guitars, a large array of analogue synths - all recorded as Live audio takes, the so called "rhythms of the night", and more than a whiff of what used be called Kr**tr*ck .

the album will be released exclusively on bandcamp initially and will be available for a reasonable sum of money on Friday 31st May 2024

tracklist for this mix :-

mon oncle
full blag
astronomy
in the attic
best left
hot jupe
eiderdown
greenville
medicinal
shark bumps
two cold volts
five fathoms full

all playing and stuff by dg
the album was mastered by audio mage level 20 Rich Lane for his Cotton Bud enterprise.
the artwork was done by Nick Towers of Studio Towers (who has been resident designer at tici taci since 2015. Big up your bad self Mr T

Buy from Bandcamp

Duncan Gray - Five Fathoms Full (album Promo Mix)

Your silly little job doesn’t pay you enough to spend the summer on the Riviera, sipping freshly mixed Aperitivos? This moody cover version of Don Henley's «The Boys of Summer» will make you forget about your miserable life. It’s that strange song that makes your uncle shed bitter tears of melancholy over his forever lost youth in his garage when it plays on his favorite vintage radio station. And that’s the stuff summer hits are made of.

Ragazzi Dell'Estate

Energy Fields is Gus Paterson’s vinyl debut. One of the brains behind Bokhari Records, this four tracker melts disco, italo and house into a creamy funk fondue. Staggered bleeps and crisp percussion introduce the title piece, samples echo as a squelching thick bassline drops. Countering the fudgey strings are sparkling synthlines, bold brassy analogue bursts tethering the track to the floor. Although tempos drop for “Emotive Feel,” the energy remains high. Robust keys are further fortified by blasts from vintage machines, a free flowing groove lifted into astral jazz. Sharp beats open the flip for “Cyborg Dateline.” Soon, Paterson’s melodic skill takes over. Layers of inspiration are held together by ambling notes. Echoes of cosmic and disco are adopted, a contemporary twist delivered through the complex intertwining of elements. Paterson takes us into the stratosphere for the finale. “Jetpack Joyride” maintains the rhythm of its predecessor, pouring on the funk through daring piano lines and rich strings of double bass. A trip into the beyond from this debutant.

Digital: bordelloaparigi.bandcamp.com/album/energy-fields
Vinyl: bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/gus-paterson-energy-fields-ep/

Energy Fields

Gus Paterson - Cyborg Dateline

Tanz Bambolina (Marcello Giordani Disco Version)

A sad private issue has kept me from posting for the last two months, but there is a huge mix that's waiting to be released since around the same time so now I can't let you wait any longer and have to finally put it out here where you can listen to this amazing hour of music of one of my "heroes":

@FredBerthet aka DJ Steef in my opinion is one of the most skilled editors out there. The way he crafts reknown songs into mesmerizing 21st century bangers of mighty groove and lost-in-sound contemplativeness, distilling their essentials, enhancing their atmosphere, sexyness and trippiness with perfectly dosed dub elements for me is absolutely mindblowing - I would really love to hear him playing live at a party! For those who like his music as much as I do, I recommend checking his vinyl outlet Biomix or his Bandcamp, where you can find some Biomix in digital format or delve into his current digital project "Love Saves".

I really hope you will enjoy this mix as much as I did, being excited by the beauty, intensity, profoundness and workmanship of those edits from beginning to end.

1<3!

Dub Discodes #54: Fred Berthet

'A decade has passed since Infinity Night graced Bordello A Parigi with his wonderful Winter and Summer EPs. After too long a wait, the French producer returns with the aptly titled Le Temps Qui Passe. Six slices of select synthesizer music make up the 12”, tracks lovingly crafted with Frederic Bergamaschi’s trademark analogue warmth. A melancholic melody meanders through brightness in “Tu Ne Me Réponds Pas”, dulcet words hidden under the machine gauze of a vocoder. Skittish percussion gives way to the refrain of “It’s Full of Stars”. Hazy keys appear as an arpeggiator rumbles below a shimmering sky. “Les Souvenirs De Valerie” picks up where its predecessor left off. Astral notes are beamed into the heavens, echoing into the while crisp cymbals tether the piece. Infinity Night has always sought that point of balance in his music, a bittersweetness he accentuates and explores. This is true in the darker shades of “Nymphomania”. Beats are bolstered, key stabs piercing the tenderness of analogue trills. The title track is a rich patchwork. A burbling undercurrent supports forays into diverse tangents with lyrics surfacing through key shifts and sliding scales. Marching to militaristic rhythms, “I Comme Icare” is the curtain call. The stringent drums are broken by sailing synthlines, vocals masked in a familiar mesh to close. Le Temps Qui Passe, well worth the wait.'

Vinyl: https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/infinity-night-le-temps-qui-passe/
Digital: https://bordelloaparigi.bandcamp.com/album/le-temps-qui-passe

Infinity Night - Les Souvenirs De Valerie

'A small package that delivers a serious wallop, “Try No More” by Glitterin is guaranteed to provide some heat on dancefloors this Summer. From the juddering throb of the opening kicks to the ricocheting rhythms, the track fixes itself directly under the mirrorball from the outset. Produced by Jason Core, this is late night lover affair material that is brimming with energy. When the firework melody bursts, it ignites. Sharp and warm synth stabs are left smouldering by the driving and impassioned voice of Sandry Sanz. A tale of unrequited love unfolds between the cymbal crashes and spiralling synthines, lines that grow ever bolder through Tony David’s emotive guitar solo. The flip is dedicated to Core’s instrumentation with the range of analogue sounds and synthesizer intensity coming to the fore. Intricate patterns and counter melodies are woven, key shifts and pulsating percussion imbibe this dub mix with all the spirit of the original. Fierce and fiery from beginning to end.'

Vinyl: https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/glitterin-try-no-more-7/

Glitterin - Try No More

out on nein
https://neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/slow-is-smooth

Viper Patrol - Murky Waters

last release of this monthly rendez-vous with some more DYSFUNCTIONAL DISCO
Dysfunctional Disco - #7 - July 2025

tracklist - Lily Haz - Secret Birds (Curses Remix) - N I G H T N O I S E
Amevicious, Phred Noir - The Atonement - Ombra International
Flexy Ferg - We're Stuck (Ludviq Remix) - Bonkers Records
Discodromo - Cosmorama (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) - Internasjonal
Shit Robot - Torpedo - DFA Records
Sworn Virgins - Searchin for Hiro - DEEWEE
Golden Bug & In Fields - Contact
Khidja - Die Wilde Spirale (Aufgang B Remix) - Hivern Discs
Ivan & Johnny - Balance No Bass
Timo Maas - Kick1 Kick3 (Maetrik Remix) - Rockets & Ponies
Konrad Black - Draconia
Odopt - Frapol Porger - Hivern Discs
Luca Lozano, DJ Steve - I Called You 
Gabriel Ananda - Doppelwhipper - Truesoul
Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier - Demented (Laurent Garnier Edit) - F Communications
Patrice Baumel - Mike Tyson - Something Happening Somewhere
Umbra - Velvet Backseats - Feines Tier

GBDT - Dysfunctional Disco #07

thomassjackson.bandcamp.com/album/bandc…s-chapter-1

This is the first chapter of tracks i will be uploading exclusively to Bandcamp. Some tracks are just meant to release directly to people without a label and straight into your usbs or hard drives!
Enjoy and thanks for the support!

Thomass Jackson - Motorhouse 2

The first release of 2016 on Clouded Vision comes from  Jo Howard, AKA Bird Of Paradise. Like all artists from the label, Jo comes from a wide background of music, raised on a steady diet of punk/post punk, and learning to play instrumentation from an early age defines his way of arranging music.  His eclectic taste and tendency to veer away from the norm is typically Clouded Vision and we welcome him to the label with open arms.

https://soundcloud.com/birdofparadisemusic
https://soundcloud.com/clouded-vision-recordings
https://facebook.com/birdofparadisemusic/
https://facebook.com/cloudedvisionrecordings/
 
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Release Date: 25th March 2016

Available this Friday!

PRÈMIÉRE: Bird of Paradise - Sky Rostrum [Clouded Vision]

"Stigmates vol 2" is a selection of 12 exclusives and unreleased tracks compiled by Mille-Feuilles labelhead "Molécule".
The compilation features home made artists as well as close collaborators and newcomers, for who sound experimentation and testing of all kinds of analog instruments are the very substance of their creations. An album which moves between fresh and unreleased music, warm and cold-beats, down and up-tempo taking in styles across the globe. You can find confirmed and old names from the french scene like Molecule, Arnaud Rebotini, Etienne Jaumet from Zombie Zombie fame (Versatile), the underrated Automat or Yan Wagner , here premiered, under his electro moniker "The Populists" with the track "Opale" sounding as fresh as some of the best Gosub productions !

Stigmates #2

PREMIERE : The Populists - Opale

HNRUK002: Vox Low - Loving Hell EP / Höga Nord Rekords
Limited to 300 copys
Available world wide today!
Physical:
http://shop.hoganord.com/product/vox-low-loving-hell-ep-12
Download:
https://itunes.apple.com/…/album/loving-hell-ep/id1152550752
Stream:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5xfbkQuFWlm6MWINWgY8RJ

Vox Low - I'm Coming To Your House (feat. Tarik Ziour)

Out Now at Beatport: https://K7.lnk.to/ForYouRMX

Michael Mayer online: 
Facebook: http://smarturl.it/MichaelMayerFB
Twitter: http://smarturl.it/MichaelMayerTW
Instagram: http://smarturl.it/MichaelMayerIG
YouTube: http://smarturl.it/MichaelMayerYT

Michael Mayer & Joe Goddard - For You (Pachanga Boys Remix)

Mix by Bedouin Sahrawi
http://soundcloud.com/bedouinsahrawi
Artwork by Will Calcutt
http://ghostly.com/visual/will-calcutt

Bedouin Sahrawi is a DJ and music collector from Western Sahara currently living in the Canary Islands but born in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria. Moving to Spain opened him up to a new world of western music and he effortlessly braids the music his desert roots with the duende and melancholy of Spanish music.  His GhostlyCast traverses an expanse of genres, skipping and twisting like a whirling wind across open sand and over open ocean.  Stop at any given point in its two hour span, and you could find yourself soaked in Balearic sunshine, lost in the meditative turnings of folk samples, or being shepherded along by hazy, bubbling acid bass lines.  The vast space of the horizon swallows each echoing note as the mix pulls you into the deeper heart of the desert.

TRACKLIST
Mueran Humanos – Miseress
The Asphodells – Another Lonely
Gatos Negros – Habanero
Aleceo – Nevesomost
Praus – Lucas Valley Dr
I Am the Cosmos – Lost Rhythm
Almunia – One Time (Craig Bratley Remix)
Last Waltz – Criminal World (Phoreski Remix)
Last Waltz – Tangiers (Cottam's Cosmic Wobble)
Chica Vas – Te_Quiero (Drrtyhaze remix)
Autarkic – Accidents
Maya Danon – Mad Hatter
Illustradora Carmen ‘n’ Alves’s –  Hmmmmmmmmm (Rosa Barbosa)
Oppenheimer MKII – My Girl Friday
cobblestone jazz – w
Eamonn Doyle – The Red Queen
Infamix – A Walk In The Park [1990 - Ee 45]
Trickfinger – Before Above
Oneiric – Blue Envelope
Maheras – This Is The Girl 
Melody – Acid Sunday
Versalife – Ionization
Duke Slammer – Bangkok Skytrain
Cottam – Breaking Through The Pain Barrier
Daniele Baldelli – Casiopea
The Project Club – Intro (Ray Mang Mix)
Redcell – New Age
Friendly Fires  & The Asphodells – Before Your Eyes

GhostlyCast

GhostlyCast #67: Bedouin Sahrawi - From Western Sahara with Love

tici taci 038 - Duncan Gray - Tweak Streak Freak

with a remix of Streak from Hardway Bros

released 3rd march 2017

Buy from Juno

Duncan Gray - Streak  - Clip

tici taci - bringing you electric funk rekkids at tempos below 120 bpm. No pre-packed freeze dried loops here, all tracks have live instruments well to the fore, from funky wah-wah guitars and deep chunky bass to temperamental analogue synthesisers and live percussion.

Now 2 years later (July 2015) we're at 23 releases from a range of artists and remixers, with one release scheduled each month.


Duncan Gray (biog) : Perhaps best known as one half of the Sons of Slough along with Ian Weatherall - see discogs entry for details of releases. The Sons were a formidable Live act (see You tube) playing regularly across the UK. DG's own releases also gained some popularity, starting with cuts for Scatological (1996) Blue Black, Whole9Yards, SaltHill, through to Aquamelon (2009). Since returning to music production in 2013 he has released tracks on NEIN, Eskimo, Blindetonation, Play Pal, Rock to The Beat, plus Andrew Weatherall's vinyl only Birdscarer label. He has played guitar on half a dozen AW remixes.
DJ Bookings : julieann.smith@gmail.com

CONTACT :  ticitacimusic@gmail.com


Yes, I do want to hear new tracks. I am always interested in music which features REAL INSTRUMENTS - or electronic originality. I'm getting fussy these days...please email files to the email address above. (don't just send a soundcloud link please) If you don't know what the sound of this label is like, don't bother sending me stuff. I get quite a few demos with a note saying "I love the sound of your label" from producers who have clearly never listened to any of our releases.

PLEASE NOTE : 2020 release schedule now full, but I can always make room for something spectacular, or a really cool remix...

Duncan Gray - Streak - Clip

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