it's just a really, really sick track. That's basically all it is.

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Joyce Muniz & Theus Mago’s feisty ‘Balin Bali’ Italo collaboration is a hot enough snack on its own, but with these two excellent new remixes it just got even tastier.

Marvin & Guy up the tempo to a pacey house bounce and lay on some gentle electro textures. Shimmering stabs fizz atop a galloping beat as relentless bass waves undulate propulsively. The synths unfurl further in the breakdown before the time-stretched vocal announces the drop, where a heady crescendo awaits us. Synth flutes add a mystical edge next as the track steps back into a more hypnotic groove.

French producer and Jennifer Caridni collaborator Damon Jee steps up next with an alternate Italo take on the original. The track builds slowly and with a moody edge as synths soar and snares hit hard over a chugging arpeggiated bassline, climaxing a dizzying breakdown which really gets the synapses firing. Slamming us back down into a sparse arrangement where that bassline rules all, the euphoria is snatched away from us suddenly in dramatic and very effective fashion.

Artist: Joyce Muniz
Release: Balin Bali Remixes
Label: Exploited
LC: 15799
Cat: EXPDIGITAL246
Publishing: Exploited Ghetto Music Publishing/Sony ATV
Beatport Pre-order: 11.08.23
Release Date Streaming/Beatport: 18.08.23
Release Date Global Download: 01.09.23

Balin Bali Remixes

Balin Bali (Damon Jee Remix)

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Røg - Atommic Heart

Rush EP is the 11th release on Unfound Sounds, a UK imprint founded by JOBE.

Unfound Sounds socials:
Instagram: unfoundsoundsrecords
Soundcloud: @unfoundsounds

JOBE socials:
Instagram: jobe_music
Soundcloud: @j0be

Written, produced and mixed by JOBE

Mastering by Rob Small
robsmallmastering.com

JOBE - Rush [Unfound Sounds]

JOBE - Halo [Unfound Sounds]

JOBE - Fuschia [Unfound Sounds]

We are excited to announce that the highly esteemed and beloved artist, "Menachem 26," has once again graced us with their presence and will be released a stunning EP. 

Support here : https://www.beatport.com/release/kishuf/4211201

The Kishuf EP boasts a beautifully crafted indie dance groove that is sure to take listeners on a mesmerizing journey. In addition to the already exceptional tracks, this EP includes remixes from some of the most talented artists in the industry, such as Benjamin Fröhlich, Daniel Rateuke, and Lauer. Each remix brings a unique and refreshing twist to the original tracks, creating an experience that is truly unparalleled.

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Menachem 26 - Kishuf (Lauer Remix)

Can't Stop is Jonathan Kaspar's debut EP on Maeve.

The title track runs to almost 12 mins and although debated and discussed many times, both the artist and label felt the track needs this length to fully intoxicate a dance floor. It is, in short, a trip.

Mano Le Tough steps up on remix duties for Can't Stop and delivers his signature magic touch. Littered with live percussive elements, it takes the original to deeper hypnotic level before firing the machines into life and surprising the listener with a soaring hook and glittering melodies.

Come Close is a straight up, heads down techno roller, made for late nights and hazy mornings in special dancing spaces. Rounding off the release is, "Too Late But Sorry", a sweet track that is reminiscent early Kompakt records in its beauty and pace.

All four tunes have their place in any DJ set and already have found an adoring audience the world over, it's fair to say we are extremely proud to have this on Maeve.
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released October 12, 2023

Mastered by Gio Conti

Jonathan Kaspar - Come Close

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/velvet_desert_music_vol_3_lp_7_dl

Kompakt unveils the third volume of Jörg Burger’s “Velvet Desert Music” compilation series, dedicated to music that hits the sweet spot between the cinematic, the (pop) ambient, and the psychedelic. With “Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3”, Burger and his friends wander afar, taking trips away from, or adjacent to, the dancefloor that’s acted so long as the crucible for the Kompakt aesthetic. Like its predecessors, it’s a gorgeous, lambent collection of late-night mood music.

Because it’s such a broad church, “Velvet Desert Music” admits all kinds of new experiences, as well, with Burger looking for music that “goes beyond the desert to explore different corners of the velvet universe”. Indeed, of all the volumes in the series, this third installment feels closest to an album made by a true collective. The roster has changed, with new contributors Flug 8 and Seb Martel, both with his trio Las Ondas Marteles and with Chocolate Genius and Zsela as La Finca, joining regulars The Novotones, Mount Obsidian, The Golden Bug, Paulor and Sascha Funke.

Burger himself shows up alongside Fritz Ackermann of The Novotones and Max Würden and Thore Pfeiffer, in The Velvet Circle. Their contributions are pure lush life electronica: “Our Tribe” hitches a ride with a low-slung groove, flickering psychedelic reels of acoustic guitar traipsing across moody bass and taffeta layers of drone; their opening remix of Flug 8’s “Puerto Rico” gently introduces the album with softly tangling electronic tones, while guitars, drenched in reverb, pirouette in the background. Mount Obsidian’s remix of Burger´s The Black Frame “Sacrosanct” spins around the listeners ears like a kaleidoscope catching the reflections the sun makes in San Luis Potosí’s ornately decorated churches.

La Finca’s electronics and voice miniature, “What Clouds Say”, is a masterclass in poetic restraint; Martel’s “Dark Mambo”, remixed by Burger, is one of the collection’s big surprises, for it indeed does what the title says, a drifting, surrealist take on the mambo form, full of pensive chords, rich with unrequited longing, a breathy saxophone whispering under the song’s sly rhythmic carriage.

Old friends reappear, too: Golden Bug’s “Es Cucuruc” is a muted slow burner. The Novotones chime in with a slyly propulsive, Krautrock-esque charmer, “Liberty Bell”, and the guitar-led tone-drift of “Valley of Oblivion”; Paulor’s “The Last Coke in the Desert” is a chiming, lilting dreamscape; Mount Obsidian are joined again by vocalist Charlotte Jestaedt for two modern takes on early-hours art song, „Fade“ and „Marole“, the closing track of the compilation, which is a spooked requiem for times passed. Sascha Funke’s “Mathias Rust” is a lavish dancefloor dream, vocal samples drifting through the song as it slowly envelops the listener in its opulent radiance.

What’s most compelling about “Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3”, perhaps, is the way everything sits together so tightly, so neatly – it’s the album in the series so far that feels the most like it’s been made by collaborators in one long, playful session of experiment and exploration; everyone’s on the same page, exploring the fractured wastelands, dust squalls, sunburnt scapes and psychedelic cacti of the psyche; burnt sienna, desert lilies and willows, fairy dusters, yucca and greasewood… an extravagance of blooming, riotous colour, erupting from the sun-cracked landscapes within each of us.

This is just a taste of the rich pleasures of Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3, a triumph of a compilation that takes the psychedelic visions of its predecessors and looks for the desert within, a dusty kiss, a road-movie hallucination flickering on the listener’s eyelids, a cinematic projection from deep inside the mind.

Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3

Mathias Rust

Sascha Funke - Mathias Rust

Twenty Year Weekend (Two Decades of Darkroom Dubs) is the twenty-anniversary label compilation compiled and curated by Glasgow's Silicone Soul. Rather than take the retrospective
route, they mark twenty years since they launched one of the UK's most revered underground house
music labels with a new collection of music from a fresh global roll call who like it deep, dark and a little twisted.
Oslo-based duo Of Norway are the only act to feature on both anniversary compilations (bridged by 2015’s towering Black Desert Disco Cult 12-inch). Mixing glacial electro with spaced-out strings and eastern-tinged melodies, Always Almost is suitably auspicious. 
@of-norway
@darkroomdubs

Twenty Year Weekend - Two Decades of Darkroom Dubs

Of Norway - Always Almost [Darkroom Dubs]

Out December 8th.
Pre-order: https://lnk.to/EXPANSION_EP

https://soundcloud.com/signaturebykiko / https://soundcloud.com/oliviergiacomotto / https://soundcloud.com/david-carretta

Another quadruple shot of Kiko brilliance rounds out 2023 on a high.
 
Kiko’s contributions to Watergate Record thus far have been absolute treat; from his team-up with POPOF to craft the excellent ‘Night Sky’, to his solo EP debut on the imprint with ‘Data Entry’, which saw the legendary Hacker make his label debut with us, the respected French artist has always brought his A-Game (and his finest French compatriots) whenever he’s stepped up to the Oberbaumbrücke plate. 
 
His latest offering ‘Expansion’ is no exception. The title track is Kiko on the solo tip and begins as a funky filtered electro jam, before waves of silky chords transport the cut into uplifting dancefloor territory. Mainstay French artist Olivier Giacomotto joins for ‘Deca’, a sleek and punchy slice of progressive that builds to a climax via a succession of powerful bass stabs that fizz in the background. ‘Serial’ sees Kiko go unaccompanied again for a straight up fire track that melts progressive and electro influences into a fireballs of driving rhythms, while a succulent melody line gives the track plenty of warmth. The iconic David Carretta makes his Watergate Records debut and adds his remix touch to ‘Expansion’, re-working the EP’s title track into a dreamy late-night burner, while still keeping the essence of the original as Kiko’s chords dance atop Carretta’s crushing minimalist drums.

JOBE - Rush [Unfound Sounds]

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