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Hidden Fees is Ivan Berko and Thomas Gluibizzi, lifelong friends and conductors on New York City’s underground dance music railroad. Travelers in multiple decades of the City’s ever-evolving time and space, the duo curate a perfect combination of grit and groove from each corner of the five boroughs and filter through the funky, spunky So What EP for Beats In Space Records.

Stricken of samples, loops and other tools typified in present day dance track crafting and screen mapping, “So What” is “organic music for the modern dance floor.” Berko and Gluibizzi depend on real humans – friends and fellow musicians – to originate proper live studio room works / workouts that breathe, smoke, snort and contort to the body clock’s unpredictable rhythm.

“So What” revels in this communal groove. The minor chord shuffle and percussion pump along rough n’ ready riffs rocketing from saxophone and guitars alike, each element stuffed in-the-pocket by a disco-indebted bassline. The spit-soaked vocals of Christopher Exits strut “So What” from the sweaty depths of a Brooklyn studio and onto the laser lit floor of a legendary night club in NYC’s disco party pioneers’ collective memory (or to the b-side of a Some Girls-era Stones single). Exits’ lyrics examine a narcotic urban codependence from the advantage of a man lost in his own sort of space, an experience we can all identify with or at least dream to believe still happens as cities sterilize.

On the flipside, Tiago touches “So What’s” humanity with acid reflex and a heavy-hitting kick over two strobe-ready remixes. “So What (Tiago’s One Good Mistress Deserves Another Mix)” dune buggies the original’s riffs into sparse terrains before introducing a rich, reverbed Rhodes melody to bring us back home. “So What (Tiago’s One Good… Dub)” embraces the house tendencies of Tiago with a little more pep in its step. The icey colorations of the original track form a slippery but solid glacial floor, while the hand-held rhythms mutate between alien and human pulses.

Each 12″ from Beats in Space Records features original artwork in considerate and serial form. Brian DeGraw of Gang Gang Dance contributes the glass-eyed tropicalia cover art for So What. The 12″ packaging constructed by Will Work For Good features a removable vinyl BIS logo cling.

Hidden Fees’ So What EP will be released on February 11, 2014 on Beats In Space as a limited edition 12” EP and digitally.

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Hidden Fees "So What" BIS012

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• Amritsar •
FORMAT: MP3/WAV
LABEL: KOSA RECORDS
CAT. No.: KOSA136
RELEASE DATE: 09/05/24
GENRE: Chillrave/Downtempo/Organic House/Spiritual Deeptech
COVER DESIGN: Kosa.designs
MASTERING ENGINEER - @branbg
BEATPORT : https://www.beatport.com/release/amritsar/4554397
BANDCAMP : kosamusica.bandcamp.com/album/amritsar

TRACKS -
Toulouse • Amritsar • Original Mix • kośa •
Toulouse, Sobhan • Amritsar • Remix • kośa •
Toulouse • Amritsar • Menori Remix • kośa •
Toulouse • Amritsar • Jack Essek Remix • kośa •
Toulouse • Amritsar • Adeil Airaki Remix • kośa •

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Toulouse • Amritsar • Menori Remix • kośa •

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Camping Goods

Summer is here and it’s time for the Sunday Paper compilation, featuring some of the more horizontal and forgotten corners of the catalogue.  

There are two exclusives with Bergen’s Keyboy making a return to the label and the wondrous GladLaks i Galaxen plus Leftside Wobbles’s unreleased space dub of Leon Sweet’s Sunny Bigler.  Add in artists new and old like Jamie L, Crazy P, Maxx Mortimer, Steve Cobby, Flash Atkins, De Fantastiske To, Kahuun plus many more and it’s sunshine all the way.
  
So crack a tinny / roll a fat one / stick the kettle on / crank the BBQ and dive in.

Sunday Paper Vol. 3

Gladlaks I Galaxen

Keyboy - GladLaks I Galaxen (96kbps)

Sweatshop Soundsystem's debut 12". 

Treat the music with respect... 

We decided if we're gonna to do this, we're gonna to do it properly. Heavyweight 180g black wax, full artwork, Ten Eight Seven masters + lacs, Optimal press. 

We've been in love with Ash's music since day one whilst he's been quietly killing it in the underground. Coming in with heavy dub pedigree Ash's sound taps the veins of Soul, Jazz and Funk, fusing them into a suspicious Trip Hop tapestry. Both tracks feature the killer horn work of Yazz Ahmed, one of the freshest artists to rupture the Jazz world with her psychedelic arabic rhythms. And RUDEBWOY visuals come courtesy of Sophie Bass, the dopest illustrator in the UK right now. 

3ft Above // 

One for the heads. 

"3ft above was inspired by Ezra: he made a sketch originally that i reworked into my own vibe, removed layers and then added in drums, bass etc until i ended up with what it was.... then Yazz truly finessed it..... lots of space echo used". 

Bagger // 

An opiate laden dancefloor stomper. Big Fishtank Funk. 

"Bagger was originally made at my old studio in crouch end, and was inspired by the greek/turkish food i was eating at the time in the area.... I played it with Charlie at home, decided that it would sound great with Yazz on, and pulled the trigger.... the Bagger was born". 

Also, a slice of each record goes to the anti sweatshop activist organisation 'No Sweat' - fighting for workers rights worldwide. 

We also throw loophole raves... 

3ft Above Inspired by Ezra-Lloyd Jackson (www.ezralloydjackson.com) 

Horns - Yazz Ahmed 
The Rest - Ash Walker 
Making it all happen - Charlie Curran 

Mastered and cut by Rob Thomas at Ten Eight Seven (www.teneightsevenmastering.co.uk) 
Pressed at Optimal Media 

Artwork by Sophie Bass (www.sophiebass.co.uk) 
Art direction by saCCuli

3ft Above - Ash Walker (ft Yazz Ahmed)

Five years since its double EP release on Back To The Balearics, the Pastel Love suite is now united as one album for the first time.

Maricopa's self-styled “Balectronica” sound is showcased across nine colourful and melodic instrumentals that channel a timeless sense of nostalgia in a world of its own. 

This release features new album art, matte finish, poly sleeve and classy tracklist card to keep you right on your journey.

https://maric0pa.bandcamp.com/album/pastel-love

Pastel Love

Purchase CD Reissue

Cellular • Pastel Love • Ltd CD Reissue Out Now

Artist: @ezechiel-pailhes
Label: Circus Company
Cat#: CCS114
Release date: 10/07/20

Tracklist: 
01. J'aimerais tant (Archil & Leon Remix)
02. Oh ! Pourquoi te cacher ? (The Saxophones Rearrangement)
03. Sans l'oublier (Chloé Remix)
04. Oh ! Pourquoi te cacher ? (Gautier Vizioz Remix)
05. Wolf 359 (Brandt Brauer Frick Rework)
06. Bien certain (dOP Remix)

Short Info:

Following the release of his latest album, Oh !, Ezéchiel Pailhès hands his creations over to a cast of remixers for an EP that takes his experimental chanson into exciting, eclectic new realms. Building on his previous two albums, Oh ! found Pailhès further exploring the intersection between poetry and music, with his conservatoire-trained piano playing setting the mood and the song-writing verve of his many years in Nôze lingering in the background.

Parisian duo Archil & Leon are renowned for their innovative instrument designs and their productions. Here they bring their highly customised creative flair to “J’aimerais tant” with a subtle treatment that works glitchy processes into the romantic swoon of the original track in a tastefully inventive manner.

Sharing Pailhès’ accomplished approach to instrumentation, Oakland-based husband and wife duo The Saxophones gently unfurl a bed of bittersweet guitar, flute and sax underneath Pailhès’ downcast rendition of Victor Hugo’s words on “Oh ! Pourquoi te cacher ?”.

The one and only Chloé exercises her evocative twist on minimal wave as she orchestrates an array of synths to re-frame “Sans l’oublier”. The words of 19th Century poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, as sung by Pailhès, are embellished with a richly noirish composition that borders on the baroque.

Gautier Vizioz is a talented Parisian beatmaker who collaborates with a broad tapestry of local artists. His own interpretation of “Oh ! Pourquoi te cacher ?” glides between dream-pop reverie and deeply rooted funk – a fittingly luxurious backdrop to the song.

Brandt Brauer Frick take on “Wolf 359”, one of the album’s few instrumental tracks, and infuse Pailhès’ keys with their own organic timbres played with an electronic attitude. The lines blur between the motorik pulse of the core rhythm section, the skittering percussion played on top and the interplay of synthesised tones and raw piano.

Ezéchiel Pailhès - Oh ! Pourquoi te cacher ? (The Saxophones Rearrangement)

From the outback of Brazil to the favelas of Adelaide Xanga hurls bolts of lightning at the people chosen to be his followers, leaving behind imprints of stone axe blades on the Earth's crust. 
With a collection of ambulant drum patterns and raw junk-box rhythms Xanga set the mood for a party. A real party. Forget the deep basslines and moody melodics for a second and put yourself in the hands of these propitious shamans of movement. 


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