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La Mano - Be My Fire (Local Suicide & Wiener Planquadrat Remix)[Tusk Wax]

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.

Also marking a quarter century since Craig Morrison and Graeme Reedie released their first Silicone Soul 12-inch on Slam's esteemed Soma imprint, the compilation gets underway with the duo's own Fahrenheit 625 featuring Bitch Traxx originator Franklin Fuentes on a scene-setting killer groove declaring presciently, "I’ll take you there."

Thirteen further early-hours throbbers ignite with Italian future disco duo Phunkadelica unleashing malevolent chugger Phunkarama lashed with robotic vocals, metallic swells and early 90s bleeps and hoover tones. Mexican DJ/ producer Theus Mago, co-founder of the Duro label in 2015 with Moisees, then uncannily plugs into the metaphysical Darkroom Dubs current with Intensify, garnishing its groin-thwacking turbo groove with cascading melodic synth interplay.

Lucky Luciano uncorks another top-notch percussive workout from Glaswegian Darkroom Dubs favourite Am$trad Billionaire, its dense, percussive groove mosaic slashed with ghostly sample shards. Hot on its heels are Berlin-based, Greek-German tour-de-force Brax Moody and Vamparela – aka Local Suicide - who duet with Wiener Planquadrat for some sexy rogue electro on Flashdance, splattered with lacerating Moroder-esque sequencer savagery.

Next is the Factory City head-honcho Undo, fresh from his recent sublime house missiles on Darkroom Dubs, like Acid Summer and Aliens Go Home, who unleashes his ominous bass-driven acid monster, Vencejos. Before Nayan Soukie - aka Amount - rides the shimmering skyline surfer Figure Skating, packing the Darkroom Dubs trademark subterranean bass to the hilt. Then, the mysterious Subcisco conjures the ultimate funk party behemoth with Boiling Point evoking blaxploitation soundtracks in its aquatic stew of mangled strings and brass spectres hot-wired by contagious elastic bass.

Parisian DJ/ producer Id!r, whose Darkroom Dubs missives include 2016's bass bin shredding Two Days In Hell, pulls off a typically dark, simmering groove beast on Haowie, topped with a gargling robo-vocal hook. Madrid-based Rotten City Records owner Alvaro Cabana then detonates 90s-style peak mayhem with Arde, casting its wailing power rhythm with crashing snare action. “Born in the 80s, raised by the 90s, lost in the 00s”, exclaims maverick techno-punk Pvlomo, immediately standing out with the sci-fi robot-gargling and Godzilla-like bass on My Little Vampire, his strength lying in lethally audacious twists and turns executed as the track powers mercilessly on into the darkness.

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. Istanbul’s Gunce Aci follows with Fallen Leaves, built on a juddering mutant electro lurch lathered with devilish voices, climaxing in the snarling acid disco thunder of Lead Boys, cultivated in Bogota’s Kaputt Club by enigmatic duo Nuclear Digital Transistor. Dense and pulsing with disembodied goth-like vocals, the track makes a suitably idiosyncratic finale for a compilation tangibly driven to breathe new life into Silicone Soul's manifesto to celebrate, nurture and push the music they love to play, make and support.

Proper underground house music has always been about fearless electronic innovation with a human soul. An ethos crystallised in this spellbinding collection. - Kris Needs

https://darkroomdubs.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-year-weekend-two-decades-of-darkroom-dubs

Twenty Year Weekend - Two Decades of Darkroom Dubs

PREMIERE: Amount - Figure Skating [Darkroom Dubs]

Our Annual Compilation brings a selection of the best tracks released in 2023, plus some unreleased gems.

Last Call (Original Mix)

Teemon & Poomba - Last Call

Pleasure Seeker is Derek from the Italian duo Derek & DJLo (SXDNS047). Envisioning to explore his most inner influences, he decided to fly solo and now brings to life his very first EP: A fine darkness-meets-groovy single, filled with Italo Disco references and remixed with love by Alberto Melloni, Astore, Monao80, Moran, and Mystery Kid (SXDNS398).

The single is coming soon as part of the celebrations of the second anniversary of his own Nubians Of Plutonia Records, a rising & shining Milan-based label devoted to expanding the universe of beloved genres such as Proto House, Italo Body Music, EBM, and Indie Dance.  

The mastermind behind the remix we selected to review/premiere needs no introduction amid the retro-infused side of the electronic music scene. With acclaimed appearances on Mélopée, Raibano, Bordello A Parigi, Paradiso, Ulla, and Italo Moderni, just to mention a few, Alberto Melloni had his name carved in stone and became one of the most prominent artists of his generation.

For his debut on Nubians, maestro Melloni made the original live up to its name and turned it into a true singularity by bringing the theme to outer space and soaking it with Cosmic Disco elements such as deep leads and psychedelic synth layers resulting in a zero-gravity experience for dance floors.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://nubiansofplutoniarecords.bandcamp.com/

Follow @pleasureseekermusic, @albertomelloni and @nubiansofplutoniarecords, peeps!

PREMIERE699 // Pleasure Seeker - Singularity (Alberto Melloni Remix)

The Start of Something New

#eazyedits is a series of lofi edits featuring house, disco, boogie, soul, funk, jazz, latin, afro and rare grooves all produced on a Roland SP404 and (re)mastered by ron eazy in Toronto, Canada.

#eazyedits01 is dedicated to the warm memory of "Dancing" Dino Leo, who tragically left us in August 2023. We miss you, Dino ... RIP.

Released November 2023.

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ron eazy - Cyber Luv (Edit)

Old edit that resurfaced, for you enjoyment

Oh Mama (Moscoman Edit 2011) FREE D/L

Sat upon the end of the boulevard there was an empty building, an art deco affair with a delicate poise and a sense of grandeur which had been lost to the age of time. It had once been a beautiful dancehall, bustling with life and the luxurious, balearic elegance of a sun kissed assortment of the rich and famous. A unique disco, every Friday night it was celebrated and frequented by the finest in the land.... Now it sat there, empty and lonely upon the Italian coast, watching as the waves crashed in and outwards against the shore. This was to be no more. 

Alexander Robotnick is a producer who needs no introduction, a fierce talent and a pioneer of the italo disco movement across a generation. His music has travelled far and wide and has been a staple of dancefloors for decades. Soon he will retire the moniker but for now it see's a revival on Hell Yeah Recordings alongside a remix from our own Bawrut

PREMIERE: Alexander Robotnick - Undicidisco (Bawrut 1-2-3-4 Remix)[Hell Yeah Recordings]

A new batch of artists collaborate remotely for Volume 2 of @the-ransom-note's Pen Pal compilation, including a low slung reflective cut from Test Pressing boss @apiento and singer/songwriter @c_a_r. Out on @ransom-note-records.

Read More & Buy: https://www.stampthewax.com/2020/06/18/premiere-apiento-c-a-r-life-in-the-skyline/
Listen on Youtube: https://bit.ly/ApientoCar

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Apiento & C.A.R. – Life In The Skyline (STW Premiere)

Demo : Music@beweird.fr 
Promos : promos@weirdosrecords.com

Neurotiker - Euforica (Mala Ika Remix) [Weirdos Records]

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