More edits from Ron. Bamboo – Space Ship Crashing, Aeo – Pts 1 & 2 and Easy Going – Do It Again.
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Vercetti Technicolor – Hard Pill EP [GD025]
Label co-founder Vercetti Technicolor returns to Giallo Disco with the soundtrack to the psychedelic neon-soaked slasher short Hard Pill, directed by writer-director Daniel Freedman. The title track’s dark romance is epic suspense and moodlighting reminiscent of the great John Carpenter while B side electro cut “Voice Of Darkness” goes down the same gothic brooding path as Visonia. It all comes to a thrilling climax on the slow burning closer “She Does” full on rich vintage synth flar, ricocheting Linn drums drenched in gated reverb and the most razor sharp arpeggios you’ll ever hear.
H&S – Sandy Traces [HS001]
Mothball Record presents the first collaboration between Hysteric (Public Possession, Fuego International, Bordello A Parigi) and Shelter (from Plaisir Partagé and International Feel), who are now working together as H&S. Both known for their edit skills and obscure taste, they now bring us dark balearic versions of two underground Italo killers. With strong new beat influences, and two versions of each track for added flexibility, this record can fit easily in different sets.
VA – Elsewhere MCMXIII [ICI003]
Elsewhere MCMXIII is a 12 track journey of future retro oddities that navigates through different waves of electronic territories, all that with a taste for experimentation while being great to dance to. Put together carefully by DJ soFa for débruit’s ICI label, the track listing’s emotional depth balances between retro and modern, lo-fi and high end, warm and cold… make the listening experience an exciting, surprising journey. Genre-wise the music floats between borders of disco, new wave, synth-pop, kraut and trad elements.
OTTO – Full Auto [SAUBERBLEIBEN]
OTTO – whose last album ‘Greatest Hits’ created furore not only with their female fans – have just backed it up with a new self release. Quirky krautrock influenced tunes by Alexander Arpeggio and Cid Hohner.
VA – Riviera Disco Vol. 8 [BAP103]
The 8th volume in the Riviera Disco series with Model Man and Kraver from The Netherlands, Iamnotarobot from Spain and Can Love Be Synth from Germany.
Win2Win – Fantasia 500 [WE004]
Win2Win is a new project from two of Slow Motion’s most loyal artists Phillip Lauer and Fabrizio Mammarella. Fantasia 500 channels the spirit of Detroit electro and even dare we say it ghetto house through the disco grinder to make something totally new. With enough chug and swagger to rock any floor this four tracker is 100% party ready.
Tornado Wallace – EP For Animals Dancing [ANIMALS003]
After a fashionably long hiatus between drinks, Melbourne’s Animals Dancing returns with its third release, this time from Boroondara’s Tornado Wallace. Strap yourself in and feel the G’s.
Vincent – Fast Forward [MFM024]
Music From Memory return, this time with four tracks drawn from Virgil ‘Vincent’ Work Jnr’s little-known cassette only debut from 1987. This album reflects a more stripped back and raw musical approach from the St. Louis musician. The ‘Fast Forward’ sessions grew out of a series of late night jams with Vincent’s brother Scott who was then living in Kansas. With nothing planned in advance and no written music involved in the final recording sessions, the songs that would form ‘Fast Forward’ very much evolved out of improvisation. As Virgil himself explains, the title of the album in fact came about because it felt “as if I had fast forwarded to a different sound”. Although the album received a good response from local radio DJs and music magazines, the album sadly never gained enough momentum or demand for a further run of copies. Fast forward to 2017, exactly thirty years are their production, and Music From Memory are delighted to be able to finally make Vincent’s music commercially available again.
Club Paradiso – Panoramica [MGCP001]
An hypnotic and groovy journey that starts off with ‘Batongo’, a tribal and exotic dancefloor banger that will let the sweat out of the listener in zero time. ‘Espresso Notte’ is filled with organic house grooves, dreamy pads and a synth that tells you a story that could go on and on and on. ‘Gulliver’ and ‘Litoraneo’ pick up from there and bring the sound scenario down heavy with 70s-80s disco sounds and boogie, transporting mind and body to a warm and mellow planet. Panoramica reflects perfectly Club Pradiso’s goal of mixing past and future, an über-cool EP that is both club and disco friendly.
Pussycat – Le Chat [BST-X021]
Limited edition remastered reissue of an obsure Italian Balearic Disco song produced and arranged by Victorio Pezzolla. The plus on this limited edition reissue is that the production is directly handled by the former producer to obtain a more accurate sound compared from the first release.
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I-F @ Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival 05.08.2017
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Ali Renault @ Mechatronica, Griessmühle (Berlin) 12.08.2017
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Automatic Tasty – A World Of Moving And Connected Parts [SLPR006]
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Warp Factor 9 – The Atmospherian [ESP056]
Warp Factor 9 is a one-off project by John and Russell Kilby of esoteric post-rock bands The Crystal Set and Bhagavad Guitars respectively. The Atmospherian originally appeared on their self-released 1993 album Five Days In A Photon Belt. Carpentaria made an edit of the track linearly and replayed certain elements from scratch along with some re-recorded vocals from John. During this process, Tamas and Paul generated elements that would subsequently be used for a remix by fellow Aussie producer and prodigy Tornado Wallace.
The Hipodrome Of Music 