The Groovy List #7

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Following on last year’s standout 7” release from Diogo Strausz, RNT now reveals the incredible extended mixes of the original pair of tunes, along with a strikingly beautiful remix of the title track by the inimitable Ron Trent. Originally conceived by the Brazilian producer to be long form songs that showcased the deep musicianship of Strausz and his cohorts, extended organ and piano solos and instrumentation now stretch out in all their jazzy glory across one side of a heavyweight 180g 12”. On the the A-side, Ron Trent takes Emancipação positively interstellar, with added instrumentation and mounting percussion that builds toward a soulful and hypnotic peak, the way only he can do!

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Emancipação Extended EP

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Diogo Strausz - Emancipação (Extended Mix)

Considered the Godfather of dance music in his hometown of Rio De Janeiro, award winning producer and acclaimed remixer DJ Meme now joins the Big Love roster with 'I Can't Get You (Out Of My Mind)'. First up on the package is the disco mix which encapsulates the Nu Disco sound paired up with a soulful hook, featuring funk-fuelled riffs throughout. Then comes Big Love label-boss Seamus Haji on remix duties, crafting a down-tempo, dreamy cut which flawlessly completes the package. DJ Meme, Seamus Haji and Big Love strike yet again, providing elite records for disco lovers across the globe.

DJ Meme 'I Can't Get You (Out Of My Mind) (Seamus Haji Extended Remix)' - Out 28.01

DSCOSTU & Victor Perry Never Enough

Two of the most prolific up and coming producers of the Soulful-Neo-Disco-House scene get together on this release in order to deliver some sultry funkyness and dancefloor joy encapsulated on the new track: "Desire".

DJ / Producer: Tommy Glasses delivers the original mix and Mr Birdee delivers the mega remix. Both including its corresponding extended versions.

Desire - Tommy Glasses

Whisper it quietly, but Andrew Meecham’s ninth album as The Emperor Machine, Island Boogie, may well be the long-serving producer’s strongest set to date. Of course, all his albums ripple with vintage synth sounds, colourful lead lines, dub-flecked electronic disco and lashings of cosmic intent, but this one just feels a little more special.

Island Boogie is certainly special. Meecham’s “most personal” full-length to date was inspired by his experiences at the Rotation Garden Party – a beloved micro-festival promoted by a group of friends (including sometime Bizarre Inc and Chicken Lips partner Dean Meredith), renowned for the quality of its custom-built Klipschorn soundsystem. “The album’s title sums up the vibe that you get from Rotation,” he explains. “It may be held in a landlocked venue but it gives a wonderful sense of isolation – it is an audiophile paradise.”

Meecham road-tested rough versions of the album’s eight tracks at Rotation 2023, with the feedback and dancefloor reaction guiding the sound and arrangement of the final mixes. Fittingly, Meecham will return to the event to showcase the album at Rotation 2024 this July. Given the inspiration he’s drawn from previous editions of the festival, that will be a very special occasion.

Musically, Island Boogie offers the most fully functioning and expertly constructed expression of The Emperor Machine sound yet, a style Meecham describes as “electronic cosmic disco-boogie”. It’s a sound that takes cues from early ‘80s NYC punk-funk and dub disco, vintage electro, proto-house and left-of-centre synth-boogie, but one that’s instantly recognisable to those who have followed Meecham’s career over the last three decades.

Island Boogie also sees Meecham continue his blossoming working relationship with Séverine Mouletin, whose stylish and distinctive vocals previously graced his popular ‘Dance Par Amour’ and ‘Your Own Style’ singles. Here Mouletin features on four tracks: the acid-flecked retro-futurist wave-boogie of ‘La Cassette’ (featuring additional percussion by Rupert Brown); the infectious, bleep-sporting headiness of recent single ‘Dévoilez-Vous’; and the squelchy analogue synth-funk of ‘Wanna Pop With You’ and ‘Vas-y-Le Chat’.

Meecham also finds space for a cover of Fox’s 1976 pop-rock classic ‘S-s-s-single Bed’, one of the Stafford-based artist’s all-time favourites. His version, featuring lead vocals by Michelle Bee and guitar from Dave Atherton, re-imagines the track as a subtly Chic-influenced slab of infectious electro-pop rich in kaleidoscopic synth sounds, sing-along choruses and shuffling drums.

The instrumental foundations of the classic Emperor Machine sound come to the fore on the album’s three other cuts. There’s the jazz-funk-flecked warmth of the LP-opening title track; the sparse squelches, bleeps, TB-303 style bass and brightly coloured electronics of ‘Walk The Dog’; and the exotic, slow-motion cosmic electronica of ‘Cha Murrah Etem’, a warm but poignant affair dedicated to his late father. Heady and intoxicating, with hints of Balearica and digital reggae, it offers a fittingly beautiful and tactile conclusion to Meecham’s most expressive and accessible album yet.

Island Boogie

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Emperor Machine - Vas-Y Le Chat feat. Séverine Mouletin

New pack of funky tunes by Petr Serkin, now with remix by Hauke Freer, the man from Session Victim band!

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12" Petr Serkin - Magic Roots EP - Freedom Sessions Records 07

JB Dizzy - Midnight Power

Wonderfully plodding slo-house from Leeds-based producer @leekonitz, off the sixth volume of the @rootsforbloomrecords S.H.A.G Edits series. 

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LK - Your Luv Is Mine (STW Premiere)

Low-bitrate snip of the B1 off The Popular People's Front's forthcoming EP on Black Ops, the 10th and final EP in the series.

Out soon, only on 12" vinyl

(SNIP) The Popular People's Front - Sweet Tooth (SBR-BO-10)

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Something from a new JN album due in 2017

JN "Prove That You're Feeling Me"

Manchester's Loz Goddard joins the Traxsource LIVE show this week to flex his funk muscles in celebration of his Drunken Monk EP, landing on the mighty Razor-N-Tape.  He'll be taking us through an hour of Disco stompers from the likes of Duke Hugh, Al Kent, Philou Louzolo and several of his own personal productions. His new EP is available now Exclusively at Traxsource!

Traxsource LIVE is your guide to the underground. The hottest guests and the finest underground dance music, delivered every week. A place to hear the freshest new and exclusive tunes before they hit the dance floor, an authority on upcoming artists and labels and your ‘source’ of knowledge for the tracks shaping the scene.

20+ countries, 80+ radio networks and 15million+ monthly listeners can’t be wrong. Keep it Traxsource. Keep it underground.

 
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LOZ GODDARD – TRACKLISTING: MAY 19TH, 2017

01. Yussef Kamaal – Yo Chavez - Brownswood
02. Makam – Dreaming Away - Sushitech
03. Duke Hugh – Burning Up - Music Is Colour
04. Loz Goddard – Moovish - Razor N Tape
05. Frikardo – Banyalicious (Loz Goddard Remix) Architects of Paradise
06. Jean Caffeine – Jeans Train Of Thought - Classic Music Company
07. Far Out Monster Disco Orchestra – Vendetta (Al Kent Dub) Far Out
08. DJ Heure – First Hour - Distant Hawaii
09. Untitled Gear – Just Better - SOBO
10. Philou Louzolo – Arfica Arising - Lumberjacks In Hell
11. Loz Goddard – Hazy
12. Loz Goddard – Juicy Lucy - Razor N Tape

FORTHCOMING GUESTS ON TRAXSOURCE LIVE!

Jesse Rose (May 26th) / Amtrac (Jun 2nd) / Demuir (Jun 9th) / Enzo Siffredi (Jun 16th)

Traxsource LIVE! #120 with Loz Goddard

Detroit-based producer Bale Defoe makes his debut on ELE records with the High Press EP. On the A2, 'Peddy Tendergrass' combines a no-nonsense kick with soulful samples into the perfect way to kickstart your week.

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PREMIERE: Bale Defoe - Peddy Tendergrass [ELE Records]

Reel People are back. Back to their roots. Back to the future. Back with a bang. Eagerly awaited new album Retroflection is out on October 19th and sees the revered collective recreating 12 soul, disco and boogie classics pivotal to their formation nearly 20 years ago and subsequent hugely successful evolution. Band leader Oli Lazarus has gathered a stellar cast of musicians and singers, – the likes of Angie Stone, Mica Paris, Omar, Tony Momrelle, Navasha Daya, Anthony David, LaSharVu and Sharlene Hector breathing fresh and irresistible life into seminal grooves by Maze, Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King and Teena Marie among others.

Before the long player drops, Reel People give us a taster of what’s to come with the luscious single Buttercup.

Reel People team up with regular collaborator Tony Momrelle to revisit Carl Anderson’s mid-Eighties gem Buttercup (written and produced by Stevie Wonder) with considerable finesse.

Retroflection is Reel People’s first full studio album in 10 years (following acclaimed releases Second Guess and Seven Ways To Wonder, as well as compilation work including Golden Lady), Retroflection reflects the highest possible level of passion and polish. Such soulful devotion and craftmanship has ever been a Reel People hallmark. Recorded in London and Atlanta over an intense 12-month period, Retroflection also avoids the formulaic overload of modern beats and basslines that countless others pursue. Here the past is artfully reawakened, Reel People’s talented cast of performers – overseen by experienced studio-hands Lazarus, Mike Patto, Matt Cooper (of Incognito fame) and Toni Economides - re-treading classic riffs with new yet respectful purpose. Their compelling neo-soul blend of now and then should awe diehards and newcomers alike. Retroflection is one hell of a return.

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Buttercup

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Reel People feat. Tony Momrelle - Buttercup

Taken from the compilation "From The Vault - The Remixes Vol.4" 
Released on Local Talk December 25th

From The Vault Vol.4

Rising

Kyoto Jazz Sextet - Rising (Ron Trent Remix)

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