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In the southern Indian Ocean all hell has broke loose recently. Some weeks ago the cyclone Dumile lashed the island La Runion. But in the eye of the storm Alex Barck also sweeps one stormer after the other towards club land. For his second preliminary 12inch of his upcoming solo album (Reunion) this time he invited the Swedish exceptionally gifted singer Jonatan Bckelie (hes according to some music press the Scandinavian Jamiroquai) aka Ernesto. Dont Hold Back is an incredibly euphoriant dancefloor anthem that contrary to its title celebrates the coitus interruptus until it hurts.
Or is this how the infamous quiet before the storm feels like Together with keyboard player Kasar from Freiburg Barck ventures on the flipside in a little cutter out on the heavy sea. What they capture as Atmosphere is another milestone in the career of the Berliner temporarily living in exile. This track booms under full sail and embodies the imperative: All hands on deck! Clubhit!
The remix by newcomer VECT from Toulouse slows down the maneuver in a virtuoso manner. Although the assignment of the genre chillwave would be appropriate conceptually, VECT sports a totally novel sound, which you cant pigeonhole at all and is simply just one thing: the future. So we all can scream excitedly: Land, ho! With this second annoucement release for the album Reunion Barck fuels expectations to the fullest. One can be assured though: He will live up to it.

Legendary figure known for his work w/Blue Note drops 4 dancefloor remixes f/Azymuth "Melo Dos Dois Bicudos", Deodato "Superstrut", Area Code 212 "Gaz-O-Lean" +1 from unknown source. Lots of Latin & JA vibes.

mystirous remix from a pop classic!

last copies of these great mixes, be fast to secure your copies

LATIN SOUL BROTHAS drop this limited white label 12" featuring 2 WAR edits from the "YOUNGBLOOD" soundtrack from 1978. CORDELL SWEETDADDY JOHNSON delivers on the A-side with a fresh edit of "FLYIN MACHINE (THE CHASE)". On the flip "YOUNGBLOOD (LIVIN IN THE STREETS)" gets the LSB treatment.

Basti style. You can enjoy techno influences with rhythms and excellent research of African voices.

The fourth and final installment in the Catz 'n Dogz vinyl series has saved the best for last. Sunset in the East is an epic opus, gradually unfolding in a cascade of warm toms, luxuriant ride cymbals, and assured sax stabs from their talented guests from dOP.

I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About And That Joy Used In His RA Mix And Daphni Played On Boiler Room'

(embossed sleeve art /180gr-vinyl) Zsou bring their trademark sense of drama and dynamics to an intense rework, Pioneering Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli remixes 'Caracas', a track that had heavy rotation in the "Cosmic" club that Baldelli DJ'ed at in the 1980's.
Zsou bring their trademark sense of drama and dynamics to an intense rework of 'Walking Through Heaven's Door', a track that featured on Manzanera's album K-Scope. The choice of track and remixer is particularly fitting for the B-side. Pioneering Italian DJ Daniele Baldelli remixes 'Caracas', a track that had heavy rotation in the 'Cosmic' club that Baldelli DJ'ed at in the 1980's. The 'Mental' remix adds a sense of disorientation and heaviness that echoes the vibe of Baldelli's sets from Cosmic.

On his new release for Desolat, Chilean producer Aldo Cadiz stays true to his musical vision. Tightly programmed beats, heavy dose of rhythms, haunting soundscapes. If you're looking for the good times on the dance floor, here is your soundtrack. Enjoy!

Light as a feather and colorful as the autumn and spring: the new album of Kuniyuki Takahashi, sometimes known as Koss, is an affair of the heart. It spreads love while revealing that the man from Tokyo is one of the finest Japanese producers at the frontier of classic, jazz, house, ambient, and electronic songwriting. One thing all his artistic expressions have in common: they are loaded with tones and rhythms straight from the heart that filter and modulate human emotions without losing their natural source. Until today he released five full length albums and countless Eps on Mule Musiq. And this with an artistic progression from an electronic producer to a musician that melts organic instruments with electronic sounds while showing his love for free spirited rhythms and bittersweet melodies. He is also a man of collaborations and already worked together with such one off a kind artists like Innervisions jazz house icon Henrik Schwarz .

Under his second nom de plume Koss he also produced beside lots of albums and EPs a jazz infiltrated ambient trip together with the Swedish Minilogue boys Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert. His new album features now again guests like Bugge Wesseltoft, Anne Clark, or Henrik Schwarz - just to name a few. They all play with and not for him! A quality that attributes to Kuniyuki's way of sharing music and to his rich diversified knowledge about it. Because beside his work as a musician he breath sounds all day long and listens to tons of possible musical expression from all decades to keep his consciousnees wide open.

This openess is inscripted in - Feather World' all over the place. The album opens with - Before Creation' - a slow ambient intro enriched with a sweet piano phrase, strings, and a clandestine loop driven rhythm. Then comes - Inner Groove' - a composition in which Norway's terrific jazz pianist Bugge Wesseltoft jams playful to an airy rhythm arrangement that reminds partly on Herbie Hancocks spiritual - Rain Dance' and that grooves with a Jaco Pastorius funk bass coolness.

Thereon Kuniyuki travels to Africa, drops an earthly rhythm and let the singer Sona Diabaté from the West African Republic of Guinea hum soulful together with a wild but noble touching African guitar melody. All those who are familiar with Kuniyuki's work know about his passion for house music made by such heroes like José - Cochise' Claussell. With the track - Shout' he assures this love while using electrifying percussion beats that dance around deep melancholic saxophone melodies played by Tetsuro Kawashima, one of Japan's most famous saxophone players.

That followed the guitar mojo ambient composition - The Big Wall' which functions like a little bridge that ease the listener before entering the second part of the album. This starts with the dancefloor bomb - The Session 2' - which Kuniyuki produced with his longtime buddy Henrik Schwarz. A house track full of stirring jazz flute madness and rhodes driven chords that got everything it takes to put a smile on the lips of dancers who like to enjoy jazzy mood experiments.

Subsequent with - Between Shadow and Lights' he continues to keep his eyes on the dancefloor - this time with a more minimalistic foggy arrangement to which the legendary New Wave spoken word queen Anne Clarke chants with her incompareable androgyn cold chilling voice. It is not that last time that Kuniyuki features extraodinary vocals on - Feather World'. In the very last quite part of the longplayer also Joyce Bowden, known for her heartfelt contribution to the Arthur Russel compilation album - Another Thought', hums to a folk influenced slow rythmn track that waves the listener a goodbye from a freethinking album to which he will return to forever!

The original 8:35 mix is joined on this 12" with 3 killer remixes from VOLTA CAB, VAKULA and OE. The mixes are all excellent and make this 12" essential. Comes in a GLENVIEW RECORDS die cut sleeve. Out in November. HOUSE DISCO
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the brand new 2010 mixes + the classic track !!!
The two guys from Supernoise, DJ Gil and Peter Fanai, turned "the mission" into a massive tribal tech house bomb !!! contains the great new mix + the original classic version !!!

Support from: Luciano, Âme, Mano Le Tough, Damian Lazarus, Charles Webster, Oliver Hafenbauer, Einzelkind, Laurent Garnier, Lil Tony and many more...
Housemusic that makes you feel like you are on LSD in Woodstock. There is a band playing this music. Something you have never heard before. They are called VTOTHED. But you cannot focus anyway. You cannot see shit clearly. But it doesn't matter at all. All is good and you feel cuddly well in your pink and babyblue vision. Then there is an old pal coming around the corner... It is Edward! And he takes you by the hand into this huge ghost town. Is it Detroit You'll never find out...

Presenting Roberto Auser's new independent label, Future Exotica is a very original and excellent sounding take on the Westcoast Cocadisco sound. A real Roberto Auser signature sound in a high quality. With previous releases on Viewlexx, Bearfunk and others, this one appears limited to 300 and comes in a carefully designed, beautifully silkscreened and hand numbered artwork by the man himself. In all, a product of pure passion! (First 50 get free poster!) Check out the sickest blend of dark Tribal Exotica and Monkey Voodoo around...

Strictly limited (only 100 pressed) clear vinyl 1-sided white label 12"s featuring two upcoming remixes by VAKULA and OE. VAKULA's remix is a slick acid house groover with lush synths and a soulful, jazzy keyboard line. Sick! OE drops a moody house burner with some cool exotic breakdowns. Don't sleep on this!

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Toolroom head-honcho and internationally acclaimed electronic music master Mark Knight returns with two exclusive vinyl samplers of the hottest House music taken from 'Toolroom Knights Ibiza 2012 Mixed By Mark Knight'.
'Toolroom Knights Ibiza 2012 Mixed By Mark Knight Sampler 1' offers 4 scorching cuts personally selected by the Toolroom label boss. Starting off the sampler is Mark's seminal own production 'Alright', alongside DJ Chus' distinctly Iberican mix of Franky Rizardo 'Caracoles', Miguel Campbell's deeply delicious 'Something Special' and Prok and Fitch's upfront 'School Of Todd Remix' of Todd Terry presents Sound Design's 'Bounce To The Beat'.

Benny Rodrigues is not only a nice dude with his first 12 for Desolat. His recording career goes way back to early collaborations with Afrojack or Darko Esser, as Rod he releases on Klockworks and CLR, has remixed Josh Wink and DJ Pierre. The list can go on, but we'll focus on our lovely release here. Somewhere between relentless prime time techno and stripped-down house grooves, with woozy chords carried on a jet-stream of tight rhythms, this is definitely our favorite Benny Rodrigues release. Enjoy!

Ltd. One Side Release..... No Artist Infos...

a great latin house burner with remix by axwell !!! limited 1-sided white label pressing !!!

Hailing from Montpellier, Rodriguez Jr. makes his return to Leena with "Kids Of Hula", bringing the coastal sounds of his hometown along with him.

Elektro Guzzi have been called a lot of things - from 'Man-Machine' to 'first ever real live techno band' - and most critics have added plenty of superlatives to their descriptions.
It's a hype you can safely believe: The energy and precision of their fabled live shows has to be experienced first hand in order to understand why Elektro Guzzi are regulars on the world's clubs and festival circuit, having played Berghain and Fabric, SÛnar and Time Warp in 2011.
It's also a hype you can safely ignore: Listening to Elektro Guzzi's music it becomes completely irrelevant that these tracks are created using guitars, drums and effect pedals. They stand tall for what they are: Spectacularly unique sounding and brilliantly flowing exercises in dark, organic techno.
From hypnotic 'Fat Pony' to 'High Noon's swirling pads and 'Jangu's steel-drum-led Jeff Mills allusions, the trio's Pomelo debut is an EP that's firmly made with the dance-floor as its inspiration and goal, refining their style while embracing new influences, such as the wobbly bass lines and bouncy UK-style grooves in 'Asteroid'.
Once again aided by the legendary mixing skills of Patrick Pulsinger at Vienna's Feedback Studios, Bernhard Hammer, Jakob Schneidewind and Bernhard Breuer are clearly at the peak of their prowess and well on the way of making Elektro Guzzi the most radical dance band of the decade.

the first release on this brandnew label !! check the african voodoo and get hypnotized of it !!! contains also a remix from the thokadee guys tholli and wodz (thokadee) !!! a supersmasher !!!! first pressing limited to 500 copies in white vinyl !!!

Reissue of obscure Chicago EP that slots into the Muzik Box scene (big Ron Hardy fave). Early 80s synth pop w/new wave vox on the minimal wave tip.

Geno is happy to welcome Alland Byallo into our family. Alland has been gaining strong momentum by already releasing for several labels including Poker Flat, Liebe*Detail, and Missive. Alland is also know for his monthly, techno focused nightclub event KONTROL based in San Fransisco. Alland has also played several international events such as Detroit's DEMF Movement Festival, Tokyo's La Fabrique, Brazil's D-Edge, Munich's Harry Klein, and Berlin's Panoramabar, Watergate, Bar 25, Cookies, and Tresor.
The Turn You Up EP is a truly versatile EP. The title song, 'Turn You Up,' is a future classic in the making. Modern organic percussion, trippy pulsating pads, and subtle organs grow into a sampledelic house gem. The flip side, 'Blessing Box,' is a deeper tech house exploration. Atmospheric tones and cathedral reverbs moan and wash your ears into submission. Just let go.

The first of a three part series titled "LOST TRIBES". Three instrumental house tracks all dance floor tested by RON himself. "ODUWOLD","OPEN ROADS", and "THE CLAN SPEAKS". More heat from the Chicago house legend himself. On PRESCRIPTION's sister label FUTURE VISION.

Out from the skies arrives Reiterate Music Group, offering 4 older cuts with new interpretations. A side is on the Afro percussive tip, B is more on the disco funk side w/edits by DJ Qu.

Into Your Mind / D Journey (Davidson Ospina Production / David Morales Remix)

Hi everyone, it's been a while since last release (Anthemusa E.P.) and I would like to thank for following us with increasing interest and for the great feedback. I have been taking my time for the upcoming release, because I know it takes time and quietude to craft a good one. Today I'm proud to announce the third release of Outis Music; I have had the pleasure to collaborate with a old friend from Rome: Giorgio Gigli. From my personal point of view he has a really personal style in every track he produce, and I0m sure that this is why his music is worldwide recognized and played. What is somewhat unusual is the fact that despite we have been living in the same town, we never had the pleasure to collaborate on the same project; then, suddenly, due to a mixture of factors, we were able to find the right timing for working together to produce "Sons of Poseidons E.P."

Beginning his relationship with Cadenza back in 2008, German production wizard Reboot has since frequented the label, his solid tech house soundscapes and innate ability to keep his musical structure moving forward being catalyst to his reputable name. Following the incredible Shunyata' album on Cadenza in 2010, Reboot is back on the imprint with the "Beautiful Parasite'"EP, including two remixes from Robert Dietz and Cesar Merveille.

What a joy to enjoy the house roar, the funk rejoicing and the black energy from the 90s of the first reference of this new Oblack label in which their own mentors, Los Pastores, debut. Who better than them to set the stage for a new sound platform in which, above everything else, there is no boredom and the track is greater than the one in a Formula 1 circuit.
In this 'Other Sentido EP' the duo from Valencia, facing the 90s without anger and with a clear underground scent -is more groove than ever, making a track which gets deeply involved-, with an original range of crazy sonic elements to it being added as it evolves. It finishes bursting into a kind of Martian orgy in which there is room for even breaks, 8-beats, Chicagoan pianos, soul vocals and all that amalgam of sounds, with nothing in common, but that together are a bomb -rare and catchy- on the dance floor. Different, fun and brave ... that's Los Pastores, and this 'Other Sentido EP' in which the unmarked cards of Oblack are disclosed.
Aldo Cadiz signs a remix based on the original track giving it a stronger and clearer appeal. He makes it more technical and shapes it, providing it with somewhat trance atmospheres, and then adjusting it to any club where these types of crazy tracks are enjoyed and no one knows what will happen right around the corner of each beat. Definitely, a bizarre remix that perfectly fits the disobediently dislocated and difficult-to-label track.
Finally, 'Curcuma', original track by Los Pastores, brings us back to those passages of house with strong African-American roots, a very warm percussive character - as addictive as prone to dancing-, and a taste for rumbling retro sounds - or we could better say timeless- which are recovered here to perfectly combine new with avant-garde. Afro sensuality, jazz dyes and synthetic soul are the unmistakable characteristics of the pastoral home. Bravo -Oblack and Los Pastores-, and carry on.

supported by: Loco Dice, Ricardo Villalobos, Hermanez, Gel Abril, M.A.N.D.Y, ...