Mauro Bianco - Bianca Di Luna

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Dark Entries again shines a spotlight on bathhouse disco don Patrick Cowley with a newly remastered release of Kickin’ In. Although Cowley tragically passed from AIDS-related illness in 1982, he left an extensive archive of unreleased tapes, many of which Dark Entries has had the honor of releasing. While working as a lighting technician at The City, SF’s disco cabaret, Cowley saw rising star Frank Loverde perform. Cowley asked Loverde to contribute vocals to some material in progress, and Frank, Linda Imperial, and Peggy Gibbons joined Cowley in the studio. The resulting songs included “Kickin’ In,” a 9-minute cybernetic disco stormer that taps into the essence of Cowley’s hi-NRG sound: equal parts spaced out and zoned in on the dancefloor.  In May 1978 Cowley joined Loverde on stage at The City to perform “Kickin’ In” as they opened for disco diva Sylvester.
 “Kickin’ In” was initially released in 2015 via Honey Soundsystem who found the tapes in the basement of Megatone Records owner John Hedges. This newly remastered version was made possible due to the discovery of the original multi-track recordings of "Kickin’ In," allowing for a fresh mixdown by Jim Hopkins as well as the creation of a new instrumental version. Also included are two impeccably sleazy Cowley jams recorded in 1980, “Thief of Love” and “Make It Come Loose.” Cowley narrates excerpts from his erotic journals on these raunchy slow-burners, capturing the vibe of SF’s leather bars and backrooms.  “Thief of Love” features frequent Cowley collaborator Paul Parker on background vocals. This reissue of Kickin’ In includes features an illustration by Gwenaël Rattke that originally appeared Cowley’s erotic journal, Mechanical Fantasy Box, as well as a postcard with lyrics. “Patrick parted the veil and entered a dark world of forbidden vices, wondrous musical panoramas and bold, strident, hopeful possibilities. Patrick brought the future to us and laid it at our feet.” – David Diebold, Tribal Rites

Kickin' In

Patrick Cowley - Kickin' In CLIPS

A kaleidoscopic sonic riot, Belgium-Japanese duo Aili's debut album Nandakke? has proven to be one of 2024's breakout hits, its joyful collision of electro-pop, electronica, house music and so much more grabbing the attention of everyone from the Belgian national press to the likes of KCRW in the United States. Now, whilst the band are busy touring the album, Eskimo present some club ready remixes and reworks.

First up is another Belgian newcomer GAIKO, who has been making a name for himself over the past year with his own rhythmically intricate, genre defying electronica. For his remix of Oyasumi, Gaiko has plated the track's rolling bass line and ecstatic breakbeats in a sheen of chrome adding hypnotic gqom influenced rhythms and staccato snares to produce an adrenaline fuelled remix that demands to soundtrack an ultra speed car chase through neon lit streets.

No stranger to Eskimo Recordings, Danish producer Kasper Bjørke returns to take the razor to previous Aili single Fashion and deliver a dreamy cosmic remix. Teasing the track apart, Bjørke applies a soft gossamer gauze to Fashion's already languid bass line and gives the song's laidback disco rhythm even more room to breathe, allowing Aili's vocals to float up into the night sky and allow the track to take its place amongst the stars.

Clash Lion co-founders Terr & Daniel Watts team up to deliver a remix of Japanese street food anthem, Takoyaki. With a string of hits on labels like Permanent Vacation and Phantasy Sound to their credit both producers know how to re-tool a track for the club and they don't disappoint here transforming Takoyaki into the kind of unstoppable disco house that builds into an ecstatic wave of pulsating synth arpeggios, cowbell and Aili's celebratory vocals, all ready to wash over the dancefloor.

Swedish producer and another Eskimo regular Paresse turns his attention to Aili's tribute to the power of love (and Justin Bieber), Babychan. Sensibly Paresse does nothing to dampen the original's joyous explosion of sound, but rather channels its exuberance into a more DJ friendly shape, reworking many of its existing parts so that Aili's vocals are now carried into the night by rubbery synths, electro bass stabs and a club ready house beat.

For their take on Fashion, French electro/techno stars Maelstrom & Louisahhh have opted to completely rework the track and take it in a much darker direction. With its overdriven bass, corroded industrial beats and Louisahhh's own interpretation of the vocals, this version of Fashion is one tailor made for strobe lit Berlin warehouses rather than the catwalks of Paris or Tokyo.

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PREMIERE : Aili - Fashion (Maelstrom & Louisahhh Remix)

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Vivien Vee - Laser (Hysteric Edit)

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Third installment of the Neovinyl Edit series with our Berlin homie Carlo who did a club rework of the fabolous track from Hall & Oates - I Can't go for That (No Can Do)

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Hall & Oates - I Can't Go Gor That (No Can Do) (Carlo Edit)

On the flip side Italian born Berlin resident Franz Underwear ups the tempo with a stunning piece of slamming European musclebeat. Shades of Ibiza 88-89 pervade here; the kind of pumping, chunky synth action, Teutonic vocal exhortations and vaguely menacing but ultimately benign vibe that sent thousands of potty European kids totally round the bend and changed the world of dance music forever.


Franz Underwear - Grauzone - World Unknown 001

This time we would like to introduce you one of the biggest Italo selectors nowadays, owner of the cool record label Slow Motion, especially known in the Italo disco/dance/club scene, Franz Scala.
The Berlin based dj/ producer delivers an EP full of italo edits and you may think it’s gonna all get cheesy here, but that's totally wrong.
Three of highly slick Italo-disco tracks that blend contemporary feel of the style and will fit into a wide variety of DJ’s sets.
Be careful, wont you blow up the disco ball !

PREMIERE : Wish Key - The One You Love (Franz Scala Edit)

Can't resist to erase those cheezy classic house screams and vocals of the original remix to convert it into a more trancey track.

We reestructure the whole progression too so, if it was a club focused track already, now goes beyond.

Videodrome (feat. Trans-X)

Tobias Bernstrup