Tag Archives: House

May 11 2012

Adamski’s ‘I Like It ‘ EP

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Adamski has had a long and illustrious career. Instrumental in bringing dance music to the Pop masses when he, along with his Ensoniq SQ80, brought digital synths into Acid House (I had an SQ80, used to spend ages trying to copy Adamski!) and gave the world Seal (movie soundtracks would never be the same again). That was back in ‘89, and he’s been recording off and on ever since, sometimes as Adamski, and in recent times as Adam Sky.

But it took our friend Jerry Bouthier’s Continental Records to get him to don the Adamski hat once more for his forthcoming ‘I Like It’ EP, and it strangely sounds just like Adamski should! The lead track is a big Disco-tinged rave monster. It’s a definite London vibe, deep, hypnotic riffs and brain infecting synths work best on the capitals dark mysterious dancefloors. Places you can loose yourself in a track that takes in the last two decades of the producer’s career. ‘Wot Happened To You?’ is more straight-up Nu-Disco, still with a strong ‘90’s House vibe but more of a solid groove and slick Disco guitar snatches here and there. We first heard ATTAR!’s reMix of ‘I Like It’ on the last Aeroplane mixtape and it does an amazing job or reining the track in with a solid bassline and, naturally cowbell (the only thing the original track didn’t have). ATTAR!’s mix has such an epic lead line that’s pure euphoria inducing, there’s no way that this won;t kill on the dancefloor. Discotexas’ Mirror People smooth things out even more with their late ‘70’s Funk inspired Disco workout of ‘Wot Happened To You?’. moving you with the Disco and surprising you with some Rave keys. Holding the read is another mix of ‘Wot Happened To You?’ from French synth guru Blackjoy with a Disco sampling dark and moody Italo version that stands out from the pack in it’s pure difference to the rest, it’s an epic, cinematic track that is the perfect closer.

♫ Adamski – I Like It

♫ Adamski – Wot Happened To U?

♫ Adamski – I Like It (ATTAR! reMix)

♫ Adamski – Wot Happened To U? (Mirror People reMix)

♫ Adamski – Wot Happened To U? (Blackjoy reMix)

The ‘I Like It’ EP is released 28th May on Continental Records and includes a reMix from Blackjoy as well.

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May 9 2012

Drop Out Orchestra’s May Mixtape

Drop Out Orchestra

Drop Out Orchestra – Mixtape May 2012 = Celebrating the forthcoming release of their new single later this month Drop Out Orchestra have dropped a brand new mixtape and it;s crammed full of killer tunes. Not only can you sample the Moullinex and Punks Jump Up reMixes of their ‘It Will Never Be The Same Again’, the new single (as featured on Aeroplane’s In Flight Entertainment) but also The Supermen Lovers reMix of A.N.D.Y. & Vicente’s new track.

♫ Drop Out Orchestra – Mixtape May 2012

The tracklist:

01. Drop Out Orchestra (Feat. The Reverb Junkie) – Sun Machine
02. NSFW – Let U Go (Dropouts Gonna Beat Dis Edit)
03. A.N.D.Y. & Vicente – El Barrio (The Supermen Lovers reMix)
04. Drop Out Orchestra – It Will Never Be The Same Again (Moullinex reMix)
05. Zombies In Miami – Heartache
06. Astrolabe – Cave Disco (Discotexas Edit (Hot Rod Mash-up By DOO))
07. Gossip – Perfect World (Rory Philips reMix)
08. Dato – Set Me Free (Drop Out Orchestra reMix)
09. Debonair – Your Love
10. Dublin Aunts – Heartbreak Reputation (Drop Out Orchestra reMix)
11. Shit Hot Soundsystem – Charlotte
12. Drop Out Orchestra – It Will Never Be The Same Again (Punks Jump Up reMix)
13. Just Kiddin’ – Paloma (Bit Funk reMix)
14. Punks Jump Up – Mr Overtime (Club)

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May 9 2012

A.N.D.Y. ‘s ‘Tape Three’

A.N.D.Y.

A.N.D.Y.– A.N.D.Y. Tape Three = The new A.D.N.Y. tape is here. The ex-Mustang man has nailed it everytime so far, and now he makes it a hattrick. He really can pick the biggest sounds of the month, cannot wait for this guy’s EP with Vicente later this month.

♫ A.N.D.Y.- A.N.D.Y. Tape Three

The tracklist:

01. Finnebassen – If You Only Knew
02. John Monkman (Feat. Morgan Mackintosh) – Kiss Me
03. Punks Jump Up (Feat. Dave 1) – Mr. Overtime (Oliver reMix)
04. Chase Bush – Polly Molly
05. Crookers (Feat. Style Of Eye) –  That Laughing Track (Sona Vabos reMix)
06. Nina Kraviz – Ghetto Kraviz (Amine Edge Edit)
07. Osunlade – Envision (Argy Vocal Mix)
08. Alex Metric – Rave Weapon
09. Surkin feat Ann Saunderson – Lose Yourself (Brodinski reMix)
10. Foamo – Ocean Drive

Check out more from A.N.D.Y.on SoundCloud.

May 4 2012

Funerals’ new track

Funerals

So, I wasn’t going to write about out favourite synth weirdos Funerals’ new track for two reasons. Firstly because it is unmastered, and I’m sure the master will sound better and secondly because the said the unmetered stream would only be up for twenty Four hours. However, they have decided to leave the stream up due to an overwhelming positive response, and it sounds amazing even unmastered. So dive in!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; the reason I love Funerals is because they sound a lot like early Warp records/Bleep House stuff mixed with a bit of Cabaret Voltaire, two sounds that are very close to my heart. And ‘Boo Sra’ doesn’t disappoint in either department. to be released as part of a split EP with Ritualz, ‘Boo Sra’ is a deep pulsating House track with enough moody tones and otherworldly atmospheres to keep the most hardcore Bleep House nostalgia hunter happy. A deep ‘90’s House vibe permeates the track  and all those synthetic, alien, bleeps would make it the perfect fodder for a dark warehouse rave in the late ‘80’s/early ‘90’s, which makes it perfect fodder for me.

♫ Funerals – Boo Sra (Pre-Master Preview)

Funerals’ forthcoming split EP ‘Hypermotion’ is out 12th June.

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May 4 2012

Casio Social Club’s ‘Nordic Nights’

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Here we have the new single from Justin Winks, A.K.A. Casio Social Club. This time not on his own (and pretty awesome) Mullet Records imprint but as part of the first in a series of double A-side released from Eskimo Recordings. CSC shares this release with Djuma Soundsystem Vs. Kolombo, who’s downtempo Disco has got a good groove, but unsurprisingly Casio steals the show.

Mr. Winks has been quietly dropping a sting of ace tunes recently, ‘Rock The Discotheque’ is still regularly played round electronic rumors towers. ‘Nordic Nights’, Casio Social Clubs contribution to the double A-side, is a nice pumping, but quite deep, dancefloor tune that draws on both Disco and House influences and wraps them up in Casio Social Clubs‘ nostalgic Electro Boogie. Riding on a deep synthetic bassline and bright, shimmering, chords ‘Nordic Nights’ does seem to capture a bit of a Scandinavian flavour alongside keeping it retro with big electro tom rolls and even bringing a beach part vibe with some Tropical percussion. Casio Social Club has dropped yet another track destined to move the dancefloor with his rolling retro sound.

♫ Casio Social Club – Nordic Nights

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May 4 2012

Aeroplane’s ‘April Mix’

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Aeroplane – April 2012 Mix = As the world flies by past us, it’s that time again for Vito to drop is choice cuts from the past month.  the new killers from Punks Jump Up and Hey Today! are in the mix along with a new reMix of Adamski (yes! Adamski!) from ATTAR!. Here comes the weekend!

♫ Aeroplane – April 2012 Mix

The tracklist:

01. Pioneerball – Bananas
02. Joakim – Nothing Gold (Todd Terje reMix)
03. Trujillo – Acapulco Gold (Ron Basejam reMix)
04. Rocco Desentis – Danze Fraternalle
05. Finnebassen – If You Only Knew
06. Raiders Of The Lost Arp – Night Theme
07. Alistair Gillespie & Alex Deep – Good Ol’ Days (Thomas De Lorenzo reMix)
08. Hunter/Game – Reckless Lady
09. Adamski – I Like It (ATTAR! reMix)
10. Punks Jump Up – Mr. Overtime (Club Version)
11. Hey Today! – 83
12. Andrea Di Rocco – The Past Present

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May 4 2012

Grum reMixes Mary Epworth

Mary Epworth

After a period or relative quite,  Grum is back in the game. hot on the heels of his reMix from Lonsdale Boys Club a couple of weeks ago he’s keeping the momentum going with this new reMix for British singer/songwriter Mary Epworth. Epworth has already been reMixed by a host of awesome names and getting Grum in on the game, one of the pioneers of the Dreamwavey end of Nu-Disco, is the icing on the cake.

Grum’s reMix of ‘Long Game’ sees him continue to walk the part toward the a big room sound, not that he wasn’t always a purveyor of huge, uplifting tunes. If fact, I would go so far as to say this new sound Grum is flirting with is Nu-Disco in a Euphoric Trance mould, it basically has the arrangement of a hands-in-the-air Trance track but with more of a Disco groove, just a little bit more. Because really this is a big Trance track, and a really good one too, perfect for a peak time moment and Mary Epworth’s vocals play right into that. Grum is going huge, the future is his.

♫ Mary Epworth – Long Gone (Grum reMix)

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May 3 2012

Goin’ Old School: Simon Harris, Lil’ Louis & Neneh Cherry

Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia:

Simon Harris’ ‘Bass (How Low Can You Go)’ video from 1988 was like who’s who of UK Hip Hop in the ‘80’s, some US pioneers too…and Dave Pearce.

From 1989, Lil’ Louis’ groaning ‘French Kiss’ terrified old people at the time. Hypnotic Sex House will do that.

Neneh Cherry’s 1989 follow up to ‘Buffalo Stance’, ‘’Manchild’ was a more personal affair.

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May 3 2012

WhoMadeWho reMixed by Figure Of 8

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I’m starting to wonder if Figure Of 8 really is just one guy, as he claims, or whether it’s actually a conglomerate of producers working round the clock. There seems to be a new Figure Of 8 reMix every week, and with no letting up on quality there can be no way just one man can keep up that schedule. Unless he is superhuman. Figure Of 8 might be superhuman?

So, this week we have this awesome deep Piano House reMix of WhoMadeWho’s ‘Never Had The Time’, a laid back, enveloping track that wraps you in it’s warm, woody, bassline and hammering melodies. Bolstered by a gently hypnotic piano riff and chimes the reMix makes great use of the quite vocals as another instrument in it’s in it’s smooth, dreamy House groove.

♫ WhoMadeWho – Never Had The Time (Figure Of 8 reMix)

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May 2 2012

The C90s’ ‘May Chart Mix’

The C90s

The C90s – May Chart Mix = I swear it hasn’t been a month since The C90s last mix? Maybe it’s just me still rocking Aprils collection. For May they drops a whole host of fresh tunes, including A.N.D.Y. & Vincente’s ‘El Barrio’, a tune we’ve only been teased so far.

♫ The C90s – May Chart Mix

The tracklist:

01. Alexander Louvre – This Feeling
02. Joakim – Nothing Gold (Todd Terje reMix)
03. Pillow Talk – Makings of a Lover
04. Bukka & Molinari – Mind Games
05. Black Magic Disco – Downtown (ODahl reMix)
06. A.N.D.Y. & Vincente – El Barrio
07. DJ Agent 86 – El Himno Ibiza (Disco Funk Mix)
08. Moon Runner – Interactive Track
09. Rambla Boys – Cocomero (Frank Agrario reMix)
10. Cristalli Liquidi – Volevi Una Hit
11. Shep ‘N’ Wily – Hefty Done Me Right
12. Betamax – Disco Dracula
13. Punks Jump Up (Feat. Dave 1) – Mr. Overtime (Club Mix)

If you’re in London on 26th of May you can Catch The C90’s alongside Edwin Van Cleef, Futurecop!, Fear Of Tigers and yours truly at The Nest in Dalston, details here.

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