Name: Phil Manzanera - Listen Now (Velvet Season & The Hearts Of Gold Unlimited Financial Resources Remix) by Velvet Season & the Hearts of Gold
Duration: 9 min 8 s
Description: We are huge Roxy Music fans and this was an honour to remix for Phil - twilight balearic funky rock from outer space!

Jigsaw Moon/Jules Y Cynthia

Jules Y Cynthia

Jules y Cynthia

Moon Makeup

In spite of the odds, dreams sometimes do come true. And when they do, they feel like Fuga Ronto’s remix of Choices. Sweet in composition, encouraging in ideas, and over quicker than you wanted them to be. Fuga Ronto’s Choices remix is a perfect sun downer of a tune, a heater that oozes cool, relaxing, refreshing and rare as fuck. Hello island, bye bye city life.

Choices (Fuga Ronto Remix)

BUY: https://mhostlikely.bandcamp.com/
(official release date 12.05.2023)

Jæger and Full Pupp mainstay, Ivaylo, features on his first original release at Mhost Likely. Accompanied by the modern-day keys wizard Byron The Aquarius and Radio Piñata resident Tom Manzarek, the Spectrum EP is a collection of tracks equally suitable for listening and clubbing.
The EP kicks open with the title-track 'Spectrum'; a cruise into dreamy synths and driving drums. Spectrum makes no mistake about its intentions, immediately introducing you to a pulsating drum section, followed by a stepping and syncopating bassline. The song's continuous evolution is sprinkled with an ever-evolving array of percussion, synths and vocals that melt together in a pot of beautiful and mesmerizing deep house. For the second track, 'Radar Fønk', Ivaylo notches up the tempo. The drums and percussion are ever-present, and the bass rolls across the groove, inviting you into his soundscapes. The rhythm section continues with the shaking percussion and dancing groove as a natural follow-up to the previous track, complimenting the last track title superbly.
Byron The Aquarius is next, touching 'Spectrum' with his signature Detroit-inspired sound. The Alabama-based producer keeps the original theme of the track intact with dreamy vocals and classical Detroit-inspired electric piano while adding another layer of funk with a more traditional deep house beat, giving the song a new but familiar glance—a must-have on every DJs USB. Tom Manzarek completes the EP with his leisurely sun-waxed and dubby take on 'Radar Fønk.' The French producer takes the original tempo down, with pulsing pads accompanied by moody melodies, while at the same time pinpointing his dubby production style, which makes for a fitting end to our voyage.

Spectrum

Ivaylo - Spectrum (Mhost Likely Green) [OCC PREMIERE]

Canebrake (AKA Palms & Charms cofounder Samuel Bruce) offers up two new tracks very much in the 'Balearic trumpet' genre, backed with remixes from Max Essa and Minus Yogis (Jansen Jardin). 

First up, Major Barbara takes you on a poignant, yet uplifting emotional journey propelled by a chugging Moodswings' State of Independence-style rhythm. Pads and strings are joined by trumpet playing pure, extended tones. 

Bike Ride 6am is an ode to the joys of cycling at dawn. Organ leads into a lazy, loping groove, the bass keeping time, before dropping into a dubbed out breakdown. Once again, the horn leads, and along with a smattering of squelchy acid sounds, heads back home. 

The Max Essa Remix of Major Barbara does something rather special with the original, and will leave your knees trembling. Additional keys and a harp-like sound, along with some classic Essa guitar, add tension before a perfect resolution. Superb, moody, downtempo chugging. 

Finally, Minus Yogis (stalwarts of the Tokyo-based Jansen Jardin label), up the tempo of Bike Ride 6am, and add percussion and keys. The result is a mellow house workout with a sub-reggae rhythm, additional trumpet parts from Canebrake adding tropical bounce. The sun is a pink haze on the horizon, and the rapidly brightening sky offers you the promise of a new day. 

"A beautiful release" - Leo Mas
credits
released April 18, 2023 

Written, performed and produced by Samuel Bruce. 
Track 3, additional production by Max Essa. 
Track 4, additional production by Minus Yogis.

Major Barbara / Bike Ride 6am

Bike Ride 6am (Minus Yogis Remix)

The Way we Were

Group efforts are always a great thing. Lengthy in part but very much rewarding in the end. And this is exactly what is happening with the next Dub Disco Release: What was supposed to be a Remix record, in the beginning, turned out to be much more! But first let us introduce Aporia. Born and raised in New Zealand and located in Berlin, he showcases a blend of synth-pop and Balearic gentleness or as he describes it; “Supernatural synthetic, tropical rock n roll”. In 2016 he released his first album ‘Almost Tropical’ on cassette via Cosmic Compositions & Prison Tapes, featuring the tracks Jupiter’s Goldcoast and Stereo Moon. The cassette now being sold out we decided to put it on our next record, alongside some remixes from friends and family. Quickly we received remixes by the likes of @Aussteiger, @LITS801, @S&W and Cosmic Palms and decided to include 5 tracks by Aporia himself, turning an initial 4 track project into a 9 track long EP.

A-Side contains 4 Remixes and the B-Side comes with 5 warm soulful melodic super original tracks. 

PreOrder Available via Bandcamp. Out on Vinyl soon and later digital!

Dub Disco presents Aporia

Dub Disco presents Aporia & Remixes - Previews [DuDi04]

Being Borings - Love House of Love (Dr. Dunks Club Remix)

We are huge Roxy Music fans and this was an honour to remix for Phil - twilight balearic funky rock from outer space!

Phil Manzanera - Listen Now (Velvet Season & The Hearts Of Gold Unlimited Financial Resources Remix)

Mirador

As the world and its wife tries to board the last plane out of 2020, Eclectics rolls up with a charter flight big enough to ferry all-comers to Shangri-La. The Oh! EP, from Ibiza-based Italian producer Luca Averna and legendary British veteran Chris Coco, is 35 minutes of delightful, deep-dive distraction from a world gone mad.

This isn’t simply a collection of tunes sitting cheek-by-jowl with their remixes, this is a soaring suite – a movement in five parts put together with care, confidence and consummate craft.

First up on the in-flight entertainment is “There Is No Planet B”. Despite the distress-signal sentiment of the title, it’s an audio hug of breathy synths, languorous lead lines and slow, whirling propeller percussion. A mid-paced reminder that we really are all in this together, the melodic flow coalesces midway through, giving directions to the dance.

The Veteran Delinquents (Joe’s Bakery and Passport to Paradise stalwart Craig Christon along with producer Tim Hutton) pick up the baton and increase the momentum like veteran DJs reading the room. Their remix follows on seamlessly from the original, bigging up the boogie with handclaps, piano and a beat that channels electro and new wave New York.

Next up is Jazxing (The Very Polish Cut-Outs/ Transatlantyk), who find another gear and chug straight ahead – full steam in widescreen. Increasing the bandwidth even further they throw in guitar licks and percussive punctuation, forcing the familiar melody into bold new territory.

And suddenly, there you are, in the middle of a four-to-the-floor groove for discerning dancers after a journey so smooth you couldn’t even feel the corners.

As the bass peters out, title track “Oh!” blossoms into view, building slowly, layers lapping over each other, gentle yet steady, fragile but with a firm foothold. The pace has quickened, but the pin-perfect pacing means you don’t realise until you’re halfway in and committed to the ride. Oh! indeed…

Then, the final act. Once again, Eclectics frequent flier James Bright tales the controls and banks away beautifully from the original, leading you into territory littered with broken beats, rippling synths and an afro-infused groove. This is all played out against a gentle backdrop, a watercolour wash of sound that smooths the flightpath, tempers the turbulence and joins the dots between guitar flourishes and snare snaps.   You have reached your destination. Enjoy.

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Luca Averna & Chris Coco - There is no Planet B(Veteran Delinquents Remix)

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Gerard Rooney & Joel Martin
‘Velvet Season & the Hearts of Gold’ is the musical adventures of DJ/Producers Gerry Rooney & Joel Martin. 

They have captured the imagination of sophisticated music lovers and DJ’s via their acclaimed innovative productions, remixes, and unique collectable special version edits for Hivern Discs, Resista, Golf Channel etc, as well as their bi-monthly radio show on Worldwide FM.

Velvet Season’s musical history speaks for itself - Gerry, alongside DJ Harvey, created and produced the infamous ‘Black Cock’ Records, and Joel, is one half of cult Balearic Exotica duo Quiet Village, alongside Matt Edwards (Radio Slave).  
  
As DJs, VSHOG see no genre boundaries on the dancefloor, and intrinsically understand the power of music to elevate your mind body & soul - Narcotic House Music, New York Disco classics, funky Euro electronica, Tropical booty-shakers, downtempo twilight sleaze, spiritual jazz, and everything in-between! 
 
Gerry & Joel have played the World’s finest nightclubs and festivals over the years both individually and collectively – Panorama Bar/Cocktail D’Amour Berlin, Plastic People/Fabric/ London, Yellow/Vent Tokyo, Sonar Festival Barcelona, Potato Head Beach Club Bali, Deep Space NYC, Lux Lisbon, to name but a few!

Free your mind and your ass will follow! X

Phil Manzanera - Listen Now (Velvet Season & The Hearts Of Gold Unlimited Financial Resources Remix)

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