Month: June 2013
R-A-G – Vacuum [MOSDEEP016]
R-A-G is MOS boss Aroy Dee in partnership with Marco Spaventi and G String. Together they make frayed and analogue house music that joins the dots between 80s Chicago and the modern day. This new EP does just that once more, opening with the dense sci-fi stomper that is Vacuum. With coarse synths and plenty of sonic scuzz it fires your every synapse. On the flip side, Plenum (Outer Mix) is a beat less ambient affair with lost synths ringing out in vast chambers of fine grain sound, before the Inner Mix slowly courses on raw kick drums. Whole ecosystems of synths spiral around like galaxies in the distance to make for truly filmic deep house listening.
Innerspace Halflife – 1000 Light Years Of Acid [SKUDGEWHITE003]
Hailing from Chicago, the latest entry from our new Skudge White series sees Innerspace Halflife venture into some of house and techno’s eeriest realms. When Ike Release and Hakim Murphy joined forces sometime last year, we immediately thought that their very own cosmic take on jackin’ house would be a perfect fit for our label, and boy did they deliver! We won’t bore you with any further description of those four tracks, but we sincerely hope you’ll enjoy the modernity and lushness of what the boys’ve been cooking us!
Paranoid London & Mutado Pintado – Transmission 5 [PDON005]
Paranoid London with another killer tune! Heavy 808 rhythms and big acid bassline… addictive stuff!
Boo Williams – 60 min Boiler Room Mix (Berlin) 22.05.2013
Moodyman – ABCD [KDJ043]
Kenny Dixon Jr. returns with a new Moodymann 7 track album on KDJ Records – initially sold during Movement Detroit 2013 at the Mahogani Music stand.
Hinode / Patrice Scott – The Hustlers [TMBR001]
Joey Anderson – Diagram Solutions [INMR003]
Fred P. – Reach EP [AHD004]
New York’s born and raised Fred Peterkin makes his debut on the A Harmless Deed label. “Reach” on the A side is a total dancefloor burner. Keeps building from start to the end, having the peaking point when the arpeggio comes up fading in at the middle of the track. B side, “In the blue”, is the deep cut of the record and its a perfect example of Freds dubby and warm feeling.
Andreas Gehm aka Elec PT.1 – Black Pukee [SOM024]
Bunker, Creme Org., Mathematics to name a few labels, who Andreas Gehm aka Elec Pt.1, the man from Cologne, releases his output the last years. After the Ep The Exaltics meets Elec P.1 early 2013, Solar One Music is happy to announce his fantastic Longplayer “Black Pukee”. 12 tracks on the edge of early Dark Jackin Acid, Chicago House and uncompromising Underground Techno and you can clearly hear his passion for the purest 303 Sound.
Mutant Beat Dance – Mutated Moods [LSD011]
Four Tracks on this new Mutant Beat Dance EP Protagonists, Capitulo Finale, Low Life and The Fight. Obscure wave and Chicago in the blender.
Chicago Skyway / Isoke – #@&*! [EGC4018]
Eargasmic brings this split 12″ with four solid raw house cuts. On the A-side Chicago Skyway brings two heart pounding tracks with “I don’t give a f*ck” and “Run Coward”. The flipside introduces Isoke to the game with the Relief sounding, Chicago “Rough Sh*t” and the heady bass heavy joint “Haunted”.
Rio Padice & Massimo Di Lena – Modulo RZ Ep [ROYAL017]
Raw house vibes on Clone Royal Oak by Rio Padice and Massimo Di Lena. Its the debut of this two talented Italian producers on Clone Records.
Ital – Workshop 18 [WORKSHOP018]
Leon Lowman – Liquid Diamonds [MFM001]
Music From Memory sets sail with a compilation of lo-‐fi beach funk and lazy synth jams from the Rhode Island keyboardist and ocean loving Leon Lowman. Something of a homage to his love of the local seashore and the women he was trying to woo there, the albums also express Leon’s pure love of the synthesizer sound and reflect his unique melodic wanderings. Along with previously unreleased material from the time, “Liquid Diamonds‘ highlights Leon Lowman’s unique blend of low fi synth funk and surf ambience.
Dwight Sykes – Songs Volume 1 [PPU044]
Dwight Sykes – Songs Volume One is a collection of material written, produced and recorded by Dwight Sykes on 4-Track Cassette, in his home studio L.U.S.T. Productions. He continues to write and produce songs on his Tascam 464 four track console. Although he uses other avenues to provide for the upkeep of himself and son, his love of music keep the hope alive that he will one day get that big break in the music business.
Theo Parrish & Tony Allen – Day Like This / Feel Loved [WHR001]
Wildheart Recordings is Theo Parrish’s new London-based label. “Sound Signature releases for the body, Wildheart is for everything else” is Theo’s pithy summary of his two labels’ aims and compatibility. Day Like This and Feel Loved are the first fruits of Parrish’s work with the legendary Lagosian, Tony Allen. Day Like This is masterful modern soul music. At the point where Parrish’s synth stabs into Tony’s groove beneath a swirl of falsetto vocals. Feel Loved goes deeper and for some will hit harder. An epic sweep of synth this time, around which Tony plays with growing freedom and excitement – showing again that he is the best drummer on the planet – before a majestic coda brings things to a close.
Analog Players Society – Coule’Ba [DSCVRY004]
Discovery Recordings is proud to release Coule’Ba by Analog Players Society, a collective melting pot of musicians lead by Amon. Coule’Ba draws from West African influences and features the incredible Missia Saran Diabate of Guinea on lead vocals.
VA – Supafrico Vol VI: The Sound Of Funky Africa [SF006]
Camp Supafrico return with the sixth edition of their highly acclaimed ‘Sound of Funky Africa’ series. Digging even deeper into the Afro-funk vaults, side A features the über-rare 1984 Shina Williams and His African Percussionists ‘Agboju Logun’. Grooving along for a massive eleven and a half minutes, this super-heavy Nigerian disco cut splices raw sounding horns with choirs and chants. Flip over for ‘Don’t Do It’ from Bongi Makeba, a mesmerising afro-funk workout with her powerful voice weaving in and out of the grooving bass and spaced-out sax. Last up is the sought-after ‘Mangous Ye’ from Black Soul. Originally the B-side of a 1976 release on tiny but top-quality NYC label Beam Junction, this Tom Moulton mixed slice of high-octane percussion-soaked afro-disco hit big on Italy’s Cosmic scene as well as the clubs of New York.
The Hipodrome Of Music 