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Moody and Zeitgeist have had the utmost privilege to bring onboard a team of some of the most accomplished musicians/wordsmiths India has to offer for this album. Working out of Island City Studios in Khar West, Mumbai, the duo assembled a team of musicians including acclaimed and awarded vocalists Vinay Sugatha Ramadasan and Anuja Zokarkar. The pair bring a lyrical depth to the music informed by millennia of North-Indian classical poetry and melody. Metaphor and imagery is intermingled with EX GENERATION's unapologetic rhythm and production style to form something that is profound and complex, whilst also accessible and innate in the way it confronts the listener.

Multi Culti dive deeper into muso alchemy with ‘Cimbal Tanz,’ a record release that bridges the cult solo 'cimbal’ performance of Emil Jourjou with fellow Moldavian producer Bliz Nochi’s electronics.

Bliz Nochi began learning music at age 7 playing the accordion, later mastering the guitar and piano. By 17, he was experimenting with new metal genres, Dub, electronic, and indie music. In 2016, he released his first works under the name Bliz Nochi, blending world music and exotica infused with Balkan elements, which led him to connect with master musician Emil Jourjou.

Emil Jourjou, a master cimbal player born in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, studied at the prestigious Ciprian Porumbescu music school. His years of experience and deep connection to Balkan musical traditions build a cultural bridge between classical and folkloric orchestral music, having performed at such events as the World Expo in Hanover, and for the Philharmonic in Lübeck.

In 2021, the pair began recording together, remixing their friend and mentor Andi Otto for Multi Culti (later licensed to last year's Buddha Bar compilation). That collaboration paved the way for this full-length LP, with one side focused on traditional cimbal recordings and the other side a fusion featuring Bliz Nochi's production, a format Multi Culti initiated to showcase the too often obscured talent of the solo musician.

Bliz Nochi's LP is more than an album; it’s a journey through sound blending tradition and modernity, offering listeners a unique blend of Moldavian music and contemporary electronic styles. This project highlights Bliz Nochi's dedication to his roots and innovative spirit, bringing a fresh perspective to the music scene.

Another amazing double-sided dynamite from the famous 7” Lego series.

This bringing a hypnotic mid-tempo afro disco groove and it will turn heads and twist legs on the dancefloor!

lim. to 200 180Gr Vinyl!

Schnieke is rich and fruitful, yet carries a sadness within. A 5-string violin charts its melodious journey from Istanbul to Belin, accompanied by electronics, breakbeats, live drums and percussions. An authentic oriental funky mood keeps you in a trance or gets your body moving tribally…

This is Schnieke, a.k.a. Özgür Akgül, with his first studio album Hediye, or Gift. The album is intended as a gift to Özgür's grandmother, Hadiye, who was very important to him and to whom he dedicates a song. But his debut album will also come as a gift to anyone interested in how a sophisticated musical sensibility brings together electronic elements with stringed instruments of all kinds. Özgür plays the violins himself, as well as the analogue synths and drum machines. Guest musicians include Hasan Gözetlik (trumpet and trombone), Göksun Çavdar (saxophone), Korhan Erol (electric guitar and bass), Burhan Hasdemir and Baris Güney (live percussion), Zafer Tunç Resuloglu (live drums), John Gürtler (church organ) and the Istanbul Strings, Turkey’s most vibrant string ensemble.

Their diverse influences create a wide emotional range on Hediye - sometimes dark and melancholic, sometimes wild, groovy and danceable, somewhere between jazz, dub and electro, each song surprising in its own way. Despite the variety of the individual songs, a captivating pulse runs like a thread through Schnieke's first album. Incidentally, Özgür came up with the band name during a night out in a bar, when a friend explained to him what Berlin slang he absolutely had to know. He liked the sound of the word ‘schnieke’ – it means something approximating ‘snazzy’ - and perhaps he secretly also wanted to flatter himself a little! Well, shouldn't we all do that much more often?

Hediye consists of eight tracks, three of which are traditional: Aman Doktor comes from Istanbul, Özgür's birthplace, and is a homage to his own origins. Kadioglu comes from the Aegean region and features the zeybek dance form which, despite its ‘standardisation’ in recent times, still summons up the ecstasy, inspired improvisation and musical finesse of its historical roots. The other five tracks are Özgür's own compositions, with Pasali providing the soundtrack for the 2010 Turkish feature film Memleket Meselesi. Creating compositions for film has been Özgür’s primary passion since his time as a student at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. You can hear that in his music, because on his debut album Özgür does completely without vocal support, the instrumental depth stands for itself, and, in the style of The Cinematic Orchestra, space is created for us to develop our own images while listening – it is a soundtrack for the film we want to make of it.

Formerly known as James Lascelles’ Quartet, Talking Spirits present a unique blend of world jazz. These highly respected London based session musicians - with a very mixed repertoire - have touched audiences wherever they play. The quartet mixes up world music, folk, jazz and Anglo/Caribbean grooves, inspired by influences from all over the world.

They have honed their skills over the decades working with some of the biggest names in music, including Frank Zappa, Joan Armatrading, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, L Shankar, Ginger Baker, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Incognito, Van Morrison, Billy Ocean, Mick Taylor and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.

The new Talking Spirits album ‘Hands’ will be released on Zephyrus Records early June. Tracks feature regular band members James Lascelles (various keys and percussion), Tim Herniman and former bandmates from the legendary Breakfast Band Richard Bailey (drums and percussion) and Kuma Harada (bass and guitar). Guests appearances by Tony Maronie on congas, Didier Malherbe (once of “Gong”) on duduk and sax, and the wonderful Mongolian group Andaunion, for whom James specially wrote Grasslands to feature the haunting morinhuur (horse-hair fiddle) and hoomei or overtone singing.

Daniel Ögren is one of the key artists in Sweden’s contemporary, underground music scene. He has already accrued quite the back catalogue, both as a member of the sensational quartet Dina Ögon and also as a solo artist with eight albums already under his belt. ‘Fastingen-92’ was originally released as a limited-edition vinyl pressing in 2020 on the independent label Sing A Song Fighter Records (the same label that first introduced us to Dina Ögon's music). The album came to our attention after hearing Daniels' solo band performing live at the Stockholm Jazz Club, Fasching. The band featured Love Örsan and Christopher Cantillo of Dina Ögon fame (who also records with the incredible Sven Wunder), and their sensational genre-busting set blew us away. It convinced us that this now out-of-print album needed to reach a wider audience.

‘Fastingen-92’ doesn't sit in one genre, it draws from Daniels's love of South American folk music, soul, Nordic folk music and film soundtracks, resulting in something unique, dreamlike and transformational.

It features 'Idag’, an epic, beautiful, cinematic song that introduces the ethereal vocalist Anna Ahnlund. ‘Idag’ has gained a cult following and Daniel has stated that it was the spark that started the Dina Ögon project. Tracks like 'Annalena' and 'Kristinehamn by Night (for Christopher)' sound like a new club sound that hasn't yet been invented (which Nicola Cruz would spin in his DJ sets), mysterious, hypnotic, and engaging. Other songs like 'Maj (for Tintin)' and 'Picasso' venture into blissed-out Scando-Balearic realms. Daniel's love of nature and the inspiration he draws from the geographic environment of the Swedish countryside can be felt in these tracks, they take you to other places and times and are simultaneously familiar, ancient and alien.


Alongside the collaborations with Anna and Christoper, the album features Josefin Runsteen playing the drums on 'Idag' and Swedish musicians Edvin Nahlin and Ulrik Ordin. The majority of the album was played, recorded and mixed by Daniel. For the Mr Bongo edition, we have added the bonus track 'April’, which was previously only available digitally. ‘Fastingen - 92’ is a truly remarkable record that gets into your soul, so please delve in!


The first complete version of »Eye For An Eye« including the two unreleased tracks »Sub Cahra« pt1 & pt2 that were not on the first vinyl release.

»Eye For An Eye« sounds very much like Muslimgauze material from 1993 (»Salaam Alekum Bastard«, »Veiled Sisters«). Much more laid back than their later output. I always considered this to be the best era of Muslimgauze. Sometimes the distorted glitches and rapid stop - start cuts of later releases gets on my nerves. This one, like most of their others sounds dark, dirty and hot. Just the way I like it! It was recorded as a direct follow up to Betrayal, with which this release shares common musical ground. Recorded right after the PLO signed a peace treaty with Israel, which still hasn't become effective. How prophetic can it be?

»I adore this record. For me, so much sameness exists along the lines of 'Betrayal' throughout the catalogue, and some rare, pricey items that suffer, in my mind, from sameness that I can't get beyond, such as »Maroon«. This is a way better record, in my mind. I love what Bryn did in the mix, the cascading echoing keyboard and string, perhaps synthed, cover me and hold me timeless in a place of cascading, crystalline vortices. It's all in the mix. This record makes an adventure of the sameness, breaks it all down, and turns it into texture-fields of tactile melodic density. The timeliness of the title and the current world situation, It's really a cool record, and I'm glad to be able to listen to it.«

In collaboration with Croatian label Sareni Ducan, Discom proudly presents an official reissue of a very rare self-titled album of Yugoslavian 80’s funk band Boom Selekcija.

Boom Selekcija was a short-living group of musicians from Belgrade, active from 1979 to 1983. They recorded their debut and only album for the label Diskos in 1983 and after that disbanded. The line-up included musicians from Boban Petrovic’s backing band and Silva Delovska from Kim Band on vocals. The quality of recorded material and the complete lack of information about the band set them as a cult act among DJs and crate diggers. This is one of the albums which makes you ask ”What is this?” when you hear it, but nobody around could tell you an honest answer.

A side of the record begins with a track called Moje Cake (eng. My Tricks). It is a groovy theme with mellow vocals-a story of the poser who thinks he is very interesting. The same groove continues in the song Rokenrol Štipaljke (Rock And Roll Easy Girls) where friends are preparing for a crazy go out in a discotheque. It ends in a Balearic atmosphere in the songs Studentski San ( eng. A Student’s Dream)- a song about dreaming luxurious life on the Adriatic coastline) and Vladina Gitara (eng. Vlad’s guitar)-a nice dreamy guitar instrumental in the 70’s Yugoslavian style.

Equally groovy and interesting B side portrays naive and charming 80’s Belgrade: discotheques, parties, girls, tough guys, urban stories about real-common people and their destinies … all packed with such style and grace like you are in New York City suburbs in the late ’70s and enjoy perfect funk/soul musicianship. In this sense, you can hear: amazing slap bass by Vladan Mracic in the song Zuljas Me ( eng. You Are Going To My Nerves); cool funky guitar licks by Aleksandar Stefanovic in the song Bora Klej; authentic soul singing style of Mile Perisic and beautiful electric piano solo of Oliver Polak in song Frizerka Nada (eng. Nada, The Hairdresser) and convincing funk rhythm drumming by Zoran SImovski all way through.

This record will remain a significant point for investigating Yugoslavian funk history and it will be welcomed on every dance floor in the world that favors lesser-known grooves. We hope that we will manage to bring it closer to the younger audience and show how people used to live and have a good time in Belgrade and Yugoslavia.

Einer der besten Lounge-Serien der Welt, "Hotel Costes", setzt seine Vinylserie mit den Volumes 4-6 fort. Jede der von Stephane Pompouganc zusammengestellten Ausgaben hat ein individuell-exquisites Cover und Tracklisting. Vol.6 enthält 14 superbe Tunes von Tosca, Fingathing, Minus 8, Zimpala, Barbara Mendes, 3-11 Porter, Spiro Projecto, u.v.a.

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Terrestrial Funk's sixth release explores over a decade of Armenian disco, funk, and soul. Compiled by Darone Sassounian who spent three years tracking down the records and artists; fulfilling a calling to lift his people's voice, a people that have always faced the threat of erasure. The music was made a generation after the Armenian Genocide, a testament to perseverance. The seven tracks featured are incredibly inventive and unique in their interpretations of Western seventies sounds. This compilation comes at an urgent time as 2020 set the stage for Azerbaijan and Turkey to perpetuate genocidal rhetoric as they invaded Armenian borders and bombed civilian cities eventually resulting in the loss of lives and land stewarded for millennia. All while the western world paid little notice. It is with great gratitude and purpose that Terrestrial Funk rebirths this music and uplifts the voice of the Armenian Diaspora.

Party tribe in a balkantek style !! At least something to complete the famous Balkantekl 001 in the miw ! And the Pin Up and the Resh G stuff...
DON'T MISS you deejay of the "bad vibes Full-stop" !!

The pioneer producer of all things electro swing and
Balkan beats comes up with a brandnew EP full of new
tracks, remixes and edits for the likes of Boban i Marko
Markovi, Savages Y Suefo and Barefoot Basement.
The vinyl edition is limited to 250 copies, so be quick!
Ulf Lindemann aka dunkelbunt, troubadour & world
traveler is one of the pioneer producer of Balkan Beats
and Electro Swing. ..

It's been around three years since JPattersson opened up a whole new horizon of formerly unheard possibilities between the worlds of Dub and Techno. A lot has been happening ever since, and that's very noticeable on his second album. It still has all the signature elements of JPattersson: There's his dreamy, virtuous trumpet play and his witty vocals, there's his dubby delays and heavyweight beats which often line up in a Downbeat rhythm. However, besides his fanfares there's now also many folks, many musical friends who contribute to the vibe of this album. There's a track with Berlin MC Longfingah, latin-flavoured rhythms from Polish Reggae and Dancehall producer Dreadsquad as well as a stylistically wide range of remixes that reflect the symbiotic cooperation and mutual inspiration of these last years.

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superwitziges nu jazz cover !!!

Unissued 60s Detroit Brilliant Version, Never Heard Before and set to wow dancefloors across the UK.

DER DRITTE RAUM is a super project at constant altitude flight. Releasing music on labels such as Harthouse and Cocoon since the early ninetees DER DRITTE RAUM has established a name for high quality electronic music and a live show you will never forget.

Neuauflage des 2010er-Erfolgsalbums, das lange vergriffen war! Die LP erscheint mitsamt CD!

limited red vinyl 12" Tzigane electro hip hop and techno tunes... dancefloor master piece realesed for the first time on a coloured vinyl. A must have !

Wenn es auf der Tanzfläche nicht nur nach vorn, sondern hüpfenderweise hoch und runter geht, wenn dir der Sinn nach munterem Mitgröhlen steht, und wenn sich der Verlust deiner Kontrolle einfach verdammt gut und richtig anfühlt - dann ist es sehr gut möglich, dass auf der Bühne gerade das Skazka Orchestra spielt. Dessen Album - Kalamburage' aus dem Jahre 2012 wurde jetzt geremixt. Herausgekommen ist eine Sammlung, die ähnlich bunt, wild und abwechslungsreich ist wie der Hintergrund der Berliner Band selbst: Mal bleibt die Neuinterpretation recht nah am Character des ursprünglichen Songs, mal wird er von housigen oder electroiden Rhythmen ins pulsierende Zentrum eines schwitzigen Clubs katapultiert. Mal geht's mit ordentlich Druck nach vorn und hinten, nach oben und nach unten, und mal gestaltet sich der Remix als dekonstruktivistische Klangkollage. Immer klingt es irgendwie russisch, aber irgendwie auch ziemlich international. Und immer ist es feierfreudig und draufgängerisch. Skazka Orchestra Remixed halt. Auf vinyl wie immer in feinster Klangqualität!

Hip Hop world music mixes... finally DJ Click pressed some vinyls from his tunes ! Cool !

Proud and glorious ambassadors of a new pop era, Kadebostany deliver their much-anticipated album 'Pop Collection", a compelling collection of pop anthems that is sure to assert the band's reputation and widely display their talent at merging various music styles and influences to the best effect. Epic, catchy and yet singular in equal measure, 'Pop Collection' is a versatile album that brings a colorful pallet of tracks defying the set boundaries of the pop music genre. - Kadebostany quickly made a name for themselves with their singular brand of pop music, striking visual identity and uniquely powerful live. The album 'Pop Collection' ranked high in the iTunes charts in several countries and has received strong praise from both medias and fans around the world.

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The second single of Varieté by AKA AKA & Thalstroem is a cooperation with umami who tell you what really matters in your life!

"Live+ Akustisch im Kuhstall" war das Motto für das neue LaBrassBanda Album "Kiah Royal" (Kiah= oberbayerisch für Kühe), für welches LaBrassBanda ihre Hits umarrangierten, um sie letztlich im Domizil von 85 brav mampfenden Wiederkäuern im Chiemgau in Bild und Ton aufzunehmen. Musikalische Gäste, wie Rocko Schamoni, Stephan Remmler (Trio) und Christoph "Stofferl" Well (Biermösl Blosn)" waren für diese besondere Session in unvergleichlicher Szenerie ebenfalls dabei.

Here is the next höhenregler from basti a nice Re-Edit from Nancy Sinatra -how does that grab you darlin lets rock..

God that album is so good! Much better than good actually....very very special - Trevor Jackson

Stunning, Perfection - Psychemagik
I like it a lot, you did a great job - Leo Mas
Love it - Paul Noble, Monocle Magazine
Woah.. nice work - Paul Murphy Claremont 56
Excellent work, really lovely vibes - Nick Warren
Destined to become a Classic - Dr Rob, Test Pressing
The album is a delight, gorgeously quirky and wonderfully atmospheric. - Chris Coco
This is what I call Balearic. Jose Padilla
I liked the album, loved the sound of it - you´re always spot on with sounds and productions! - Todd Terje

Balearic is a feeling - and Jose Padilla embodies it. The hugely influential DJ soundtracked the 1990s with his sunset sets at the Café Del Mar, selling six million albums containing his selection of widescreen electronica, dubbed out ambient and the likes of Penguin Café Orchestra and inspiring everyone from Madonna (who selected his Café Del Mar compilations as the ideal desert island listening) to Bestival's Rob Da Bank to underground DJ heroes like Harvey and Andrew Weatherall.

'Solito' marks three special moments 40 years of Padilla as a DJ, his return to Cafe Del Mar after 15 years and the first sign of a new partnership with label International Feel who will release his artist album in 2015. Where could be a better home than on the Balearic mecca, International Feel, the label that also managed to persuade DJ Harvey out of retirement. "International Feel fly the flag for balearic music in the right way. They're Balearic from the beginning and it reflects on the label. They have substance." Jose Padilla

'Solito' is a soft and inviting wash of North African mysticism, warm and dusty beats and a
heathaze bassline that Frankie Knuckles would have been proud of. It was recorded on the first sunny day after winter in Padilla's living room with Mark Barrott from International Feel as producer. "It was very cosy and the music came very quick. It was incredible how fast we connected, like we've been working together for years."

Balearic is a feeling - and Jose Padilla embodies it. The hugely influential DJ soundtracked the 1990s with his sunset sets at the Café Del Mar, selling six million albums containing his selection of widescreen electronica, dubbed out ambient and the likes of Penguin Café Orchestra and inspiring everyone from Madonna (who selected his Café Del Mar compilations as the ideal desert island listening) to Bestival's Rob Da Bank to underground DJ heroes like Harvey and Andrew Weatherall.

'Solito' marks three special moments 40 years of Padilla as a DJ, his return to Cafe Del Mar after 15 years and the first sign of a new partnership with label International Feel who will release his artist album in 2015. Where could be a better home than on the Balearic mecca, International Feel, the label that also managed to persuade DJ Harvey out of retirement. "International Feel fly the flag for balearic music in the right way. They're Balearic from the beginning and it reflects on the label. They have substance." Jose Padilla

'Solito' is a soft and inviting wash of North African mysticism, warm and dusty beats and a heathaze bassline that Frankie Knuckles would have been proud of. It was recorded on the first sunny day after winter in Padilla's living room with Mark Barrott from International Feel as producer. "It was very cosy and the music came very quick. It was incredible how fast we connected, like we've been working together for years."

Mark Barrott's forthcoming album 'Sketches from an Island' compresses the Balearic heartbeat into nine warm gems, which paint a picture of the island, the people and the magnetic beauty that pulses through it. Recorded in Ibiza's northern hills using 'weird percussion, some slide guitars and a few borrowed synths,' it's a melodic and mysterious representation of a place steeped in a rich and rebellious history. Ahead of the album release in June, comes the second teaser EP package 'Sketches from an Island 2'.

Hailed as 'the most requested record ever' by London's Phonica Records, re-release of this brilliant track on International Feel, complete with a 2013 Techno Redux and the glorious New Beat of 'God is Gracious'. 180 gram vinyl. Played by everyone!

"Der Untergang" refers to an dystopian city in which from one day to another everybody went crazy - the perfect outline for the remixers Oliver Koletzki, umami and label heads AKA AKA!

finally repressed !!
are you ready for the follow-up of Klezmer~ Here we go with Remzelk! Check out the glorious Remix-Package incl. Andy Kohlmann and Ricky Montanari!

finally repressed!

[B] A2 | Sina Nari [circle Dance]
[C] A3 | Udri Mile [kick It, Mile]
[D] A4 | Rromano Bijav [romany Wedding]

[F] B1 | Od Srca [from The Heart]
[G] B2 | Mundo Èoèek [worlds Dance]
[H] B3 | ljivovica [plum Brandy]
[I] B4 | Dumbus Funk [chaos Funk]
[J] B5 | [dunkelbunt]cinnamon Girl

Latino and Balkanic. A suberb music coming straight from bogota thanks to the Galletas Calientes crew... Circo della vida !

Haaa cette bonne vielle Mamy... featuring 4 tunes, and at least 1 which is pretty strong. Deserve to be checked out..

Ireland's Kormac has been releasing records as a solo artist since 2007. His debut album 'Word Play' (2010 Scribble Records) features DJ Yoda, Koaste (Black Grass,) DJ Cheeba (Solid Steel/Ninja Tune) Messiah J & The Expert and MC Little Tree. At the age of seventeen he presented and produced his own radio show on Radio Caroline moving on to Power FM while his club deejaying progressed. He's supported everyone from DJ Hype and Goldie to Grandmaster Flash and Jurassic 5's DJ Numark. Not just a wizard behind the wheels of steel, Kormac's AV sets have seen his perform in UK, Europe and Eastern Europe alongside a recent Oz tour with Portishead.

His latest release for Scribble Records sees him teaming up with old pal MC Little Tee for the ska driven 'Superhero' while the guitar and string laden 'Another Screen' is a collaboration with literary great Irvine Welsh(Trainspotting, The Acid House, Skagboys). 'Another Screen' came about when Kormac turned up on Welsh's Edinburgh doorstep with the track written especially written for him. Rather than take out a restraining order the generous author took him in, fed and watered him and sent him home with the track complete. The result is a double header of contrasting styles that prove Kormac's on a creative high.