XXIII // VOLUME 10 is a club welcome. We’ve been through 19 months without parties and seeing people dancing in front of us.
After this desert of clubbing we celebrate the reopening of our favourite dancefloors with a compilation mainly made by Portuguese producers, but also some international friends we’ve met in the past 6+ years of XXIII’s life.

ARTWORK BY FRANCISCO TORRES
www.instagram.com/franciscotorress/

DOWNLOAD: https://xxiii.bandcamp.com/album/xxiii-volume-10

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SILVESTRE - MAU

The title "Walang Hinga" is in Tagalog and translates loosely to "without breath". It is a play on words from the common Tagalog phrase "Walang Hiya" which means shameless or bold.

I wanted to combine elements from genres I love and respect, such as club music, gqom, brazilian funk, and others - in a shameless manner :). Also, being from New Jersey, I always end up putting some jersey club flavor in my tracks.

I wanted these tracks to feel fresh and new, but at the same time clearly contain familiar elements of well-known and respected genres.

I've always loved sounds of respiration, or breathing in music. Sighs, gasps, airy vocals, or whatever etc. I weaved this concept throughout all three of the original tracks (hence the title).


Please enjoy and keep dancing!


Artwork: "Spirit" an original piece by Olivia Kope

WILHELMINA - Purificação

Banana Runtz

BANANA RUNTZ

2018-2022 collection of drumtrack or bonusbeats versions of my works. 
my own interpretation of beats mixes or drum versions often found on B sides of records from artists like Masters at Work, Kenny Dope, Armand Van Helden, Junior Vasquez, Shunji Moriwaki. 

https://neana.bandcamp.com/album/bonus-beats
production, art, mastering by Neana

Bonus Beats

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Broken drums

Written & Produced by Esengo
Samples "Sequencing" by Arma
Mixdown and Additional Production: Kombé
Mastering: Lino Schilling/Atrice

https://esengooo.bandcamp.com/follow_me

Arma - Sequencing (Esengo Edit)

just an idea evolving in my mind since weeks, but being unsure

heavyweight [demo]

Curtain Call (MATE Remix)

NKC - HD Anthem (EP)
ETS002
Release date: 26/03/2018

In 2016, NKC began Even the Strong with the intention of bringing together relatively new DJs and producers working at the crossover between tribal house, UK funky, dutch house, kuduro and other drum-heavy genres. Doing away with eclecticism, the idea was that the highly percussive 130bpm club sound that MM, NKC, Superficie, Tash LC, DJ JM and many others were playing and making would be tested, built up and developed in front of a solid crowd of dancers. At some point in the process, the term ‘hard drum’ emerged as a jokey shorthand for the sound, and has now firmly stuck. 

These three tracks were developed in 2016 and became set-staples at the parties. The title track ‘HD Anthem’ is just that - a hard drum anthem - combining rugged tribal house hits, tuned perx pushed just off the grid, and the rattle of chain-link fences. ‘Next Life’ centres around a hypnotic crash processed to an extreme crescendo, before breaking out into a brutal tom loop. ‘Codeine Crash’ samples the robotic dembow roll of Akito’s 2016 track Codeine Claps, phasing it and layering with hard cracks to create a whipped back groove. 

Artwork by 3000000000am and Nate James 
Mastered by Jeremy Cox

NKC - HD Anthem

Read more about resources forthcoming compilation Human [re]sources 3: couvrexchefs.com/en/omaar-druman-human-re-sources-3/

Don't miss their next party this Saturday, September 28, in Paris at Mini Club La Rotonde.

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[PREMIERE] Omaar - Druman [[re]sources]

Human [re]sources available on Bandcamp:
https://resources.bandcamp.com/album/human-re-sources-vol-3

Human [re]sources Vol.3

TenTwentySeven - Unknown II

Preorder (Vinyl/digital) : https://malocarecords.com/releases/maloca-vol.1/

Featuring 8 different artists from Mexico to Lithuania, Peru, Portugal, Florida, UK and Belgium, ‘Maloca Vol. 1’ outlines the worldly focus of Le Motel’s new label. 

Launching Maloca Records earlier this year, the label’s ethos is to build bridges interlinking disparate yet like-minded musicians dedicated to blending organic electronic and acoustic elements. The global network of makers highlighted on Maloca Vol.1, the label’s first compilation, confabs a terrestrial and borderless percussive sound that has been bubbling in clubs and Le Motel’s orbit. 

Opening the compilation is esteemed Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue followed by Lithuania's DJ JM who has previously released on the likes of Nervous Horizon and Goon Club Allstars, Miami artist and NAAFI affiliate Nick León and Lisbon’s DJ N.K. On the second half of the compilation, there are contributions from the label founder himself, Mexico’s Omaar, UK’s Coen and mysterious artist Tsongo. 

Maloca Records has put out three vinyl releases to date from Oakland’s Farsight, Beijing’s Howie Lee and Le Motel. The label is quickly building a reputation for releasing brilliant forward-thinking club records whilst capturing specific international sounds.

ARTWORK BY HELL’O COLLECTIVE 
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY LE MOTEL 
MASTERED BY BRANDENBURG 
DISTRIBUTED BY CREVETTE DISTRIBUTION

DJ N.K. - Quebra Ossos

Club sounds mainly influenced by likeminded people.
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Started in 2015 by @this-is-noia and @itsmetorres , XXIII (reads 23) has created a name both local and online. The global mindset influenced by afro-diasporic sounds and nightclub culture is embedded across all ramifications of this brand - music releases, parties, artists and club clothing.

XXIII's regular releases include Holandês, Cash From Hash, Caucenus, Kaval, Ahadadream, lym., DKVPZ, MU540, Ckrono and many talented producers across the world.

Roster:
@itsmetorres
@this-is-noia 
@caucenus
@3wa
@juvenilangustia
@cashfromhash
@curatedbyvalente
@elnando_turbo
@ug_ho
@senhorbaltazar
@mesqit

For inquiries/music: xxiiibeats@gmail.com

SILVESTRE - MAU

XXIII

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