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RELEASE DATE: 2014-12-01 

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As the great Louis Armstrong said: there are only two types of music, good and bad. If there’s any one who knows where to find the good stuff it is Tirk Recordings founder and A&R man Sav Remzi.

Over the last two or more decades, a belly full of passion and a superbly open-minded approach to music has led Sav on a magpie-like flight across the land of music, unearthing both new and under-represented artists from the past, touching on soul, disco, house, hip hop, reggae, electro, funk, jazz, Afro-beat and many uncanny fusions in between. With more than just an ear for great music though, he has made a career of reaching out to the music makers themselves and convincing them to let him introduce their work to a new audience. Seemingly always a conduit of taste and artistic talent, its fair to say he has a knack for channeling good music to both people and scenes. 

I was first introduced to Sav in the basement of The Blue Note. The year was probably 1994 and as we talked Gilles Peterson was exploding the minds of most of the two hundred people in attendance. I later found out that Sav was instrumental in helping make The Blue Note a hub of essential and pioneering club nights, if not the first venue of significance in the new cultural landscape of the rapidly changing Hoxton. This was where the Metalheadz forged their name, and where the likes of DJ Food, Harvey and Andy Weatherall helped cement reputations as rebel DJs who would always tread their own paths. 

By 1995 Sav had set up Nuphonic Records with musician and Ballistic Brother Dave Hill. Their first release and almost every one there after felt fresh and a relief from the monotone sound of the by now mainstream dance scene. The label laid down the blue print for the underground nu-disco scene that is still flourishing today, whilst also curating and capturing the music and inspiration behind some of club culture’s most important nights, releasing compilations from the likes of David Mancuso and his Loft parties, Larry Levan and Paradise Garage, Norman Jay and Good Times.

Working at Jockey Slut magazine at the time, just around the corner from their offices, we were shocked when Nuphonic shut down in 2002. The label played a key role in the music scene in that part of east London at the time, but more importantly it was a champion of soulful and imaginative music, and alongside exceptional re-issue labels like Strutt, was helping turn a new generation of vinyl collectors on to the originators and innovators from the history of the music we loved.

But change was in the air, seismic vibrations were being felt through the music industry and many cherished labels were struggling to adapt. By the time the birth of Tirk was announced in 2003/4 the shift in the foundations of the music industry was unstoppable. Record labels needed to reinvent themselves or wither.

But of course there was still plenty of good music that needed to be heard. Tirk was going to be another label that could be trusted. A label dedicated to exciting underground music whether it was made on a Jupiter 8 or a Les Paul. It had to be eclectic, if not adventurous, but still true to Sav’s roots, or as he puts it: “People kept sending me good music that I felt needed to be put out there… Tirk was my chance to venture into new areas of music, be more experimental, whilst still retaining the soul boy at heart that drives everything I do.”

Starting with the post-punk funk of New Young Pony Club’s ‘Ice Cream’ and Fujiya Miyagi’s Transparent Things’, and a brilliant compilation from disco perverters the Idjut Boys, Tirk hit the ground running. Venturing into new forms of music, but still seemingly near the edge of the zeitgeist of contemporary music, the label went on to bring together an international collection of maverick music makers.

In its ten year history: Tom Findlay from Groove Armada has cropped up as Sugardaddy and Morten Sorensen; Greg Wilson has demonstrated why he is master of the edit; Richard Norris’ sent his Time & Space Machine into orbit; the Human League’s legendary producer Martin Rushent clearly showed that he still loved electronic music with ‘Itchy Hips’; Maurice Fulton continued to prove that his genius is a truly warped one; and original Blockhead Chaz Jankel wowed with previously unreleased tracks and a Todd Terje re-edit of his anthem ‘Glad To Know You’.

At the same time a new wave of producers/artists also found a home at Tirk. NYC’s Drrtyhaze; the SoCal grooves of Sorcerer; Sam Annand’s Architeq; The Love Supreme from Italy; modern day pop troubadours Tim Chad & Sherry; Space – the original galactic disco Frenchman in helmets; the sublime electronica of Acos Coolkas; and the vital energetic disco punk band Escort – all continue to give Tirk a currency in the blurred boundaries and sounds of today’s underground music and night-life. 

Good music will always be sought after, but it often needs a helping hand to find its audience. Quite what Louis would make of Tirk is anyone’s guess, but listening to this compilation and to the last ten year of the label, thank heavens there are still people like Sav helping connect the good stuff to our ears. 

Rob Wood, September 2014

Various Artists 10 Years of Tirk - Tirk [CLIPS] - Out 01/12/2014

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Kink -  Existence

Out now 'Crossing Borders' Feat. Fritz Kalkbrenner at iTunes: http://smarturl.it/crossingbordersit

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Love Inc

https://soundcloud.com/kurc and https://soundcloud.com/monsieur-m twist the soft FM staple "Would I Lie To You" into a danceable slowburner ready for the south balearic season of 2014. Free download!



Charles & Eddie - Would I Lie To You  (Kurc & Monsieur M. Rework)

FREE DOWNLOAD! My edit of Gas Pedal by Sage The Gemini, master by Suture Mastering

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Audion - Sky (Daniel Avery Remix)

We Call Love (feat. Soul Clap & Osunlade)

Khurt's killer track "We Want" included in our Hundred And Ten Vol. 2 compilation.

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Khurt - We Want (Original Mix)

Boogie Vice - Bel Air (Original Mix)

Weather changes moods, spring is here again and we arrive with the 5th volume and this time we want to feel younger! The new fresh face is Rico and his original number is called "Sense", full of synth stabs that could re-animate any tired dancer. TYV does again... this time he takes a trip with Amadou & Mariam to Mali and wake up in a remote village with an acid drum machine. Our boys from EXZ throw some eastern european voodoo over "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye and to close this compilation, Mr. Gui Scott slow the vibe to the limit with Bryan Ferry's Slave To Love, and edit designed for lovers. This is Gop Tun.
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01 Bryan Ferry - Slave To Love (Gui Scott edit)

O paulistano Volkoder é produtor desde os 16 anos de idade, e já lançou por selos como Suara, Toolroom, Kittball, Snatch! Records e Material. Inaugurando sua participação em um dos selos mais quentes da house music, seu remix para “Everytime I See You” tem sido tocado por nomes quentíssimos como Jamie Jones, Petet Tong e Hot Since 82.
 
Sempre apresentando o que há de mais inovador na House Music, o selo de Jamie Jones convidou Nathan Barato e Volkoder para compor seu útlimo lançamento. A música “Everytime I See You” é uma faixa repleta de groove com uma linha de baixo envolvente, o que resulta em uma sonoridade nova: exatamente o que as pistas de dança merecem neste começo do verão. 

Producer since the age of 16 years old, Volkoder has produced music for major labels such as Kittball, Material, Snatch! Records, Street King among many others. His music has been championed by Jamie Jones and Lee Foss and they are happy to have him onboard the label.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Everytime I See You
A2. Everytime I See You (Volkoder Remix)
B1. Everytime I See You (Nicole Moudaber Remix)

Lançamento: 03.11.2014

Nathan Barato Feat. Room 303 - Every Time I See You (Volkoder Remix) @ Hot Creations

Acos Coolkas- Free Flight

Architeq- Birds of Prey

Tantra- A Place Called Tarot (Idjut Boys Re-Edit)

Hedford Vachal- Toys (Richard Sen Remix)

Chaz Jankel- Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Re-Edit)

DB-116 // Kill Frenzy - Taylr Swft
Available on Beatport: http://j.mp/taylr_swft
Available on iTunes + Vinyl: November 18th

All Night Long Official Music Video: http://j.mp/1x2uxMB

He’s ridden us raw with his naked piano, made our booties clap so hard we’ve needed medical care, shown us his titsss and he’s even taken us to the mo… Wherever that is. Now Belgian wunderkind Kill Frenzy is about to flip the biggest switch of his career and whisk us away on his most exciting, most extensive dirtybird adventure yet: His long-awaited debut album Taylr Swft.

Famed for his ability to carve carnal drama from one smouldering 808 sermon and a sleazy panty-dropping vocal loop, here we find Sebastian Vanschoonbeek developing his uncompromising, ghetto-bound repertoire with serious maturity, depth and class. Building on his well-established bass-laced bedrock, each of these cuts flex with dynamics that will find favour with all house and techno connoisseurs and do so with complete consistency as a whole body of work… hell, they work so well dirtybird bossman VonStroke is almost reluctant to release them.

"I'm almost sad to start sharing the new Kill Frenzy album with everyone else because it has been my secret weapon all summer.  At one point I was playing seven tracks from the album in the same set, it was almost embarrassing. I'm very fickle about choosing what I play and this album is amazing."

Proof of Kill Frenzy’s next-levelism is evident in every single direction; the cavernous thundering march of "All Night Long”, the bouncy techno fluctuations of “Inflation”, the sultry deep house dish “XXX”, the sheer tech tenacity and roof-burning electro-fication of “Lava”, the delicate jazz keys and purring sub bass of “So Fine”… The list goes on.

Press play, then press it again for good measure: debut albums often dangerously dice with displays of inconsistent dexterity, but with Taylr Swft Kill Frenzy has carefully created a collection that completely makes sense of his past work while staring guilefully into an exciting future. A bona fide dirtybird document that confirms Kill Frenzy’s position as one of electronic music’s boldest creators, Taylr Swft is everything you could possibly want from a modern day album: dancefloor gold, depth, range and an unswerving narrative. Get to know.

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Kill Frenzy - Gorilla [Preview]

In 1988 I remember buying a 12" called 'Weekend' by Todd Terry. I fell in love with it upon first listen, and it would always make the dance floor go crazy whenever I played it.
A few months later while record shopping I came across the Class Action original, and was completely blown away, not only by its absolute awesomeness, but also at how TT made it his own.
I've wanted to do an edit of the original for a long time now, and came up with this last Weekend. ;-)
It's Party Time!  LNTG.

Party Time [LNTG Rework]

My new Original coming out on Flat Belly Records!

Let us know what you think. 

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Jamie Lewis - Cookys 7

Cold Crush Brothers - Punk Rock Rap - ThankYou Edit

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Ghost Culture plays LIVE @ Corscica Studios, London 23rd September 2015.
Limited tickets available here: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/jqc2309

'Lucky', the third single from Ghost Culture's debut album released earlier this year, is a distinct slice of haunting vocal performance and psychedelic electronica. Co-produced by Erol Alkan, it is also perhaps the strongest showcase yet of Ghost Culture’s burgeoning prowess as not only a natural studio experimentalist but also as a confident and compelling songwriter, creating music that’s both instantly memorable and yet always intriguing.

You can hear Ghost Culture perform his live show this Friday @ The Great Escape, Brighton: http://greatescapefestival.com/artists/ghost-culture/

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Lucky

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Vinyl only. 12" SOLD OUT, repress coming soon....

Simonetti’s first solo release since 2011 is a huge departure from his Italians-era work and that label’s sound in general. He's been DJing around the world for almost 10 years and his DJ sensibilities are showing. These tracks are club ready.

Mike has a residency at Bossa Nova Civic Club and broke the tracks there to wide acclaim, so he decided to name the song after his favorite club.

Bossa Nova Civic Club Bootleg

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Mike Simonetti - Bossa Nova Civic Club Bootleg

<p>PMX Soundz makes his Freshin debut with two stripped-down tracks, and the title track shifts the focus to a hazy vocal, as the two-stepping drumset gets everyone moving, together with playful percussive elements and chromatic riffs.&nbsp; On &#8220;My Soul Two&#8221; we are introduced to a persistent bassline and punchy effects upon which a cheeky, spoken word passage is laid out, leaving ample room for tasty chords to make an appearance.</p>

PMX Soundz - My Soul Two (Original Mix)

" And You Know That" [Dub]  T.J Swann

New Navy - Zimbabwe (Flume Remix)

First preview of upcoming Kiasmos LP! Out soon on Erased Tapes Records

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Depeche Mode - Any Second Now (Nick Merenda Reedit)

Written By: Prince
Featuring: Stevie Wonder, Grandmaster Melle Mel, David Frank
Produced by: Arif Mardin
Originally released : October 1, 1984


Chaka Khan - I Feel For You (Wonderlove's Re-edit) 128kbps preview

Soundway Records present ’24 Hours in A Disco 1978 - 82’, 7 cuts of relentless disco grooves from the sublimely gifted Kiki Gyan. Hailed as Africa’s answer to Stevie Wonder, Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Kiki Gyan was a musical wunderkind who by 1975 had risen from the lowly status of high school dropout to being ranked eighth in a poll of the greatest keyboardists in the world (occupying the rarefied air of the top ten with heavyweights like Steve Winwood, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder) as well as becoming an in-demand session player in the top recording studios of London - all before his twenty-first birthday. 

Out on his own, he produced a series of highly ambitious disco records aimed at positioning him as an international star, but weighed down by the excesses of the era, Gyan saw his meteoric rise matched by an equally swift fall back into obscurity. 

Loved dearly by his contemporaries and sorely missed since his death in 2005 the story of the life of Kofi Kwarko ‘Kiki’ Gyan is one often told with warning by his friends to the new generation of aspiring Ghanaian popstars.

Soundway Records now collects the best of Gyan’s work as a frontman and solo artist, featuring an array of electrifying disco grooves that still sound contemporary (and in some cases futuristic) decades after their initial release.

Released on CD and 2xLP both formats are accompanied with detailed liner notes written by Uchenna Ikonne. LP version comes with a free MP3 download of the release. 

Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer

Audion - Mouth to Mouth

Tantra - Hills Of Katmandu (Patrick Cowley Remix)

Big Pimpin'

RELEASED: 16.01.13 (Beatport Exclusive)

Continuing the Toolroom Records series of classic Todd Terry tracks reworked by the hottest house stars of the moment, it’s Iban Reus this time around who takes on the old school vibes of notorious Terry club cut ‘Jumpin’.

Fresh from injecting the sunshine with the funk-drenched ‘Crazy Circus’, Ibiza’s resident groove-architect returns to Toolroom with an upfront take on this piece of house history. Soulful piano licks, old school analogue bass, and Reus’ trademark intricate drums alongside those iconic stabs make sure the legendary status of ‘Jumpin’ is transported into 2013 and beyond.

Prepare for a fresh season of partying and get in the mood for Miami and more as Iban Reus revitalizes this serving of Todd Terry house heritage for a brand New Year.

Todd Terry - Jumpin (Iban Reus Remix) - out on 16/01/13

Our edit of Dennis Edward's classic 'Don't Look Any Further'

Dennis Edwards - Don't Look Any Further (Benny & Gain Edit)

CANYONS PRESENT PINK GIN 
‘Blame Me’ (CLUBMOD008)

'Canyons present PINK GIN' is a heaving warehouse spirit, distilled from the duo’s private rhythm tracks.

Support coming from: Erol Alkan, Tensnake, Gerd Janson, Lovefingers, Jacques Renault, Mock and Toof, Moulinex, Kasper Bjørke and Joakim, among many more.

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VINYL
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