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The unpredictable nature of life for a band with members scattered around the globe have forced Guts to give his line-up a shake to start their various tours in the best possible conditions.

A Brand New Revolution!

So Leron Thomas gave way to Wolfgang Volburn, who is also lead vocalist of The Ephemerals. Mary May climbed onto Lorine Chia's throne. Beat Assailant plucked a mic from the air that was still burning from the flow of Von Pea. While Florian Pellissier remains riveted to the keyboards, versatile Greg F. on the bass and Nico Rajao on drums, Guts has gobbled up the miles and bestrode stage after stage at the head of a revitalised live band.

New recruits had kept enhancing the well-practised repertoire with their vibes, redefining some of the contours, adding a bit more soul here or a lightness of touch there. Their impact was so great, in fact, that changing line-ups have become part of the band's identity.

Galvanized by this new alchemy, Guts and his new-look live band stopped off in the studio to compose and record some new tracks which he has brought together on "Stop the Violence", a five-track record that's more like a mini-album than a simple EP.

High on this regenerating juice, energy levels spiking into the red, "Ain't Perfect", "Pick Me Up", "Everybody Wants to Be a Star", "Drummer's Delight" and the title track light up boxes marked soul, afro, disco and jazz, brighten a groove carpeted with retro-funky keyboards and the brass of Cotonete, Heavenly Sweetness's resident jazz-funk specialists. Two birds with one stone, since Guts and his live band will obviously use "Stop the Violence" to set the stage ablaze after burning up people's decks.

"Picture the scene: A dark basement with flickering strip lights, sweat dripping from the ceiling & down the walls, bodies crammed moving to the thud of House & Disco colliding, vogue - poppers - vogue - poppers, a time when everything was raw, experimental and energetic, this is the underground...

Basement Bounce goes in hard with repetitive vocal stabs & nostalgic synths before a heavy hitting bassline thumps its way home, while 'Fierce' is the muscle rub you need for your workout, get on the floor as this is your time to shine, your moment, don't be shady... just Fierce.

'Over & Over & Over' cut, pastes and reshapes Sylvester into a jacking house cut which thrives at peak time, no standing, no photos. Leaving 'Nitemare' to build up the tension, gather pace and floor those in its path, a basement tested four tracker of straight to the point House.

NightMoves delivers some of the sounds you'll hear at Rhythm Box, the first EP in a line of collaborative records between Ruby Hills & Diamond Mountain and Rhythm Box Birmingham, pressed on 180gr vinyl.

Edits for the common man, that's 4 Edits covering the Leftfield side of Disco Music, limited to 275 hand-stamped pieces.

First there's Norway's very own Ivan Elster nodding his head to the late Walter Gibbons with his take on a devastating Gospel Disco tune. Then we've got Frank Music's Johannes Albert fusin' two Hi-Energy bangers and Mr. Fonk serving a "Disco not Disco" hymn to all the guys that crushed your toes senselessly. And last but not least: balearic blogging boy wonder FRWCTRL coming up with a nice slice of Middle East meets Eurodisco.

NYC's Disco powerhouse West End Records should need no intro. The home of too-numerous-to-list club classics for over 30+ years is still impacting today on what we know to be club culture. The label started by one Mel Cheren (RIP) with assistance from Larry Levan and more way back in 1976 is still held in such high regard today with it's catalogue constantly being played, rediscovered, reinterpreted and loved by waves and waves of new fans and admirers.
'The West End story Vol. 2' is an essential overview of this most iconic of labels, following on it's from it's predecessor the quality bar is obviously set extremely high, one only has to look over the tracklist to see the names and titles that are included! Cuts from Loose Joints, Taana Gardner, Barbara Mason, Stone, Raw Silk and more make up 4 joyous sides of essential forward looking post Disco classics - We're talking late 70's, early 80's, synths, mega overdubs, left-field arrangements and anything and everything in-between. A truly golden era of dance music history, names like Arthur Russell, Kenton Nix, Walter Gibbons and more make up some of the talent featured on this flawless selection of goodies. Oh, and for the record (no pun intended) these are all the extended mixes, 12" versions and special cuts, all killer - no filler!
All tracks featured re-mastered, re-pressed and re-released with the permission of and in conjunction with West End Records, New York City / BMG.

Our first GO Ibiza Compilation has been compiled by Bobby & Steve and Michael Hughes and mixed by our very own Bobby & Steve.

It features 28 amazing tracks and is modelled around the launch of our Groove Odyssey Presents GO IBIZA four day weekender, which took place from the 19th - 22nd of May 2017 at the Beach Star Hotel, San Antonio Bay, Ibiza. With over 40 artists from around the globe coming together on the magical island of Ibiza, it was a memorable
affair and many of the guests now feature on the album.

This double CD features two mixes. CD1 is the Poolside mix and will set you up for the day with a journey from chilled to mid-tempo to prime time grooves, featuring a laid back mix of Joe Smooth's house classic anthem "Promise Land", the Kenny Dope remix of Skyy's 80's classic "High", Larry Heard's Fingers Inc "Bye Bye", DJ Spinna's remix of Hallex M's "Feeling" and Joey Negros' Sunburst Bands "In the Thick of It" amongst many other gems.

CD2 is the club mix and we get the party started with the DJ Spen mix of Richard Burton's "Bad Luck', followed by the Bobby & Steve remix of Leroy Burgess "Over Like a Fat Rat", Louie Vega/Monique Bingham's "Elevator", Mike Dunn's "Time Keeps Marching On", The Atjazz Tweak of Exel Tulemo's "Get Down" and Zepherin Saint featuring Sara Devine "Hurry".

We hope the mixes capture some of those special vibes that took place over the four days.

Tracks on the album have been supported by,
Louie Vega, Kenny Dope, Joey Negro, Terry Hunter, DJ Spen, Mike Dunn, Bobby & Steve, Opolopo, Dj Spinna.

Never failing to fill the hearts of Trance fans with joy, the 'Trance 100' compilation series is back with this year's 'Summer 2017' edition. Through no less than 100 records, it not only brings you the biggest smashes of today from the likes of Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, ATB & Andrew Rayel, Paul van Dyk, Dash Berlin, Gareth Emery and Super8 & Tab, but also reintroduced ancient and highly-acclaimed classics such as 'More and More' by Spoiled & Zigo and 'Till Tears Do Us Part' by Heaven's Cry. If Trance is the music you love, breathe and just can't live without, 'Trance 100 - Summer 2017' will make the summer for 2017 your best one yet.

Did you know Voguing, which gained mainstream exposure through Malcolm McLaren or Madonna, owes a little of its fortune to France : since the late eighties, this underground movement born in the Harlem ballroom scene fascinated the very first missionaries of house music à la française, whether they'd be DJs, journalists or promoters. Around the world, most of the wonderful Queens of Vogue had a break through with their performances in music videos on MTV, but nowhere else other than in Paris did we take this New-York gay and multicultural counter-culture so seriously. It didn't caught the attention of young producers nor rub off on the pavement of any other city. Therefore, it is without surprise that with their upcoming album « House of Melancholy », Acid Washed, a duo that arose from the second wave of French house, are bringing back a concentrate of everything that house music encloses (we will never say it enough) of polictical, social, utopian, and subversive matters.

Because it's in the legendary club culture, with its heroes and its secret stories, that Andrew Claristidge and Richard d'Alpert found the clay, the ideas and the outline of pretty much everything that they wanted to inject into Acid Washed. Two house music and techno lovers swaying between nocturnal experiences and encyclopedias, both musicians picked up the house nation as an haven, a home to live in, a place to learn and exchange. One grew up next to the cradle of French techno (Grenoble), the other was trained on classical music, new-wave and punk : Andrew and Richard did indeed cross paths around a substrate named Daft Punk, but above all and later on, around the sprawling club culture which came to life at the same moment in Chicago, Detroit and Manchester, and gave birth to the duo. Considered as a return to the origins of house and techno music after the euphoric unpacking of a big bangish first album, « House of Melancholy » however proposes a synthetic cocktail, highly indiosyncratic : a return to the origins of their own house and their own techno. In this way, the ones who would only see Acid Washed as a pair of skillful technicians of vintage synths and references are in for a surprise. We won't dance nor dream to the songs of « House of Melancholy » like to any other album, always higher and louder, and a little bit stronger too.

For the fourth release of Hello Sailor Recordings, boss lady Renata do Valle curated the sounds of Fatnotronic and Joutro Mundo, two of Brazil's major Disco forces, to collaborate on the project, featuring edits from Gretchen 'Super Sexy' and 'Tudao' from Banda Black Rio. The new versions deliver a longer and punchier bass line and a groove that got extended to satisfy our ears and resulting in a dance floor-minded record, faithful to its original brilliance.

Jonas Rocha, the talent behind Joutro Mundo has been active in the underground scene of Rio de Janeiro for over 17 years.
Jonas has produced several parties in Rio, including the legendary Bootleg party that has run for over ten years.
Both as DJ and producer, he stood out with projects such as Superagua which gave him recognition as a producer and made him a featured DJ at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2002.
As Joutro Mundo got a great response in the nu-disco & disco re-edit scene worldwide. Founder of a project aiming to preserve the sacred chants of Brazil and with an intention to overcome prejudices toward the neglected indigenous tribes of South America, whilst working to approach contemporary music, Rocha won the award 'Funarte de Musica Brasileira' with the CD Cantos Yawanawa.

Fatnotronic is comprised of Rodrigo Gorky and Phillipi Alves.
The duo is known for an effervescent energy at parties and imprinting it onto their music. Their edits, often of obscure Brazilian Boogie, Disco and Balearic, is a meticulous work of long hours record digging in their native Sao Paulo.
Fatnotronic has released work under Chit Chat Records, Deewee and Razor-n-Tape.
The latter, which featured the anthem Margarida, was debuted live on BBC Radio6 with the blessings of Fatboy Slim.
They also recorded an exclusive live mix for "Diplo & Friends" on BBC Radio1, showcasing their latest productions and Brazilian charm alike.

Mirror Test' conjures that rare mood between darkness and elation, contemplation and celebration, and drives it home with an infectious, jacking rhythm section which recalls the late-80s NY club music of Boyd Jarvis and Paul Simpson, and labels like Easy Street and Fourth Floor, but imbues the sound with a toughness and precision only possible today. Analog synth figures, glassy and angular, ricochet around the track, trading jabs with funky snare work and robotic, stabby chord patterns to create a hook-laden machine groove which demands repeated listening.
The record's B-side feature, 'Replace Yourself,' is the subtler, dreamier, more futuristic of the two. Unmistakably urban with its swinging, bottom-heavy groove and strange, architectural chord work, it seduces and transports. 'Replace Yourself' dares you to do exactly that.

The first Trouble Maker 12' is here in full disco-led summertime force! Three sure-fire summer hits, that make you smile from ear to ear and transport you to those days spent dancing in the sun...

Makes You' treads the line between disco and house perfectly and delivers a summer anthem straight off the bat! The combination of party drums, howling melodic bassline and stand-out vocals makes this a stand out first release from the newcomer Hatterman.

Limited edition remastered of the rare Phillip Wright classic!

Emotional Response again teams up with Meda Fury and Sad City to present an EP of remixes from the acclaimed debut album, Shapes In Formation. Enlisting a killer tag-team of DJ Nature, HOLOVR and Herron to bring their own retakes of Gary Caruth's music, arrives with justified anticipation. The success of Sad City's debut opus was a deserved conclusion to a journey across third world ambient, found sound samples and jazz-touched beats. All are reworked and expanded here while retaining the artist's all encompassing atmospheric oeuvre. First Milo Johnson dons his DJ Nature moniker for two mixes of Steady Jam. The stand out of the album for many, it seemed right to request Milo's skills to push the sample-based loops to a deep dance floor. Rolling congas, skipping hats and the teasing, soulful melodies come together to work their magic. Vocal and Dub are crafted and cut as one long-form take for the more adventurous, this is dub-disco for the today's real (to reel) entertainers. Side two is given over to rising names in HOLOVR and Herron. With releases on Opal Tapes, Further and Firecracker Recordings, Jimmy Billingham 303-infused sound is perfect in reshaping Caruth's trip that is Pace, Movements I-IV. Building slowly with trademark 909 meets acid, kick eventually arrives to take the remix beyond head nodding to swinging minds and hearts. The EP closes with a perfect dismantle and rebuild by Manchester's Herron. A man of talents, Sam Lewis is pushing his City's cultural landscape via the Soup Kitchen venue, co-running the on-point Meandyou Records, while still having time to record solo as Herron and for Hinge Finger as one half of CO/R, alongside label head Joy Orbison. The glitch beats, drone synthesis and orchestral vocal snatches of Rain fuse and percolate in the mind's eye. Sad City. Reshaped in transformations.

These tracks (both 13 Minutes) Paradise / In Love An Arc make the debut recording by AMOR, a new quartet based largely in Glasgow, consisting of Richard Youngs, Luke Fowler, Michael Francis Duch and Paul Thomson. AMOR is a master-class in blissful, searching, avant-disco fuelled by telepathic ensemble playing and an untouchable, higher joy. While unmistakably Dance music, these are analog recordings, sounds in a room, in space. The musicians are messengers, the message is love.

Recorded at Chem 19 at Green Door in Glasgow, it was mixed with Golden Teacher/The Modern Institute-member Richard McMaster. Both tracks edge the 14 minute mark, slices of ecstasy seemingly hewn from a band deep in the Zone. Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Studios, the balance between hefty, bass-thick kicks and crisp percussion, an elastic double bass that lends a bounce to proceedings and floating piano chords recalls a warped take on Philadelphia International Records, a version of This Heat decimating the disco charts of late 70s USA. Paradise begins with a proto-house kick drum and Paul Thomson's inescapably funky percussion, inviting Duch's bass into the mix. Fowler's subtle electronic touches set up some of the most open-hearted, love-infected vocals Richard Youngs has ever set to tape. Guided through various drops and ecstatic highs by ceaselessly inventive rhythm composition, the listener is elevated to several plains, to different levels and spirits.

In Love An Arc arguably goes deeper. Jane Sayer's guest violin scrapes us in, with formless shapes polluting the stereo field until a plaintive piano chord pattern brings us into the groove. Sounding like a lost spirit looking through the glass darkly, Youngs' vocal is melancholic and truthful. Fowler's synth playing evolves upward, duetting with the stringed instruments' deep excursions into the night. While these are only the first recordings by AMOR, the members have separate exceptional histories in modern music. Richard Youngs has a 140+ long discography covering any number of musics often invented by Youngs himself, while Luke Fowler is an award winning film-maker and visual artist, as well as an electronic musician in his own right. Paul Thomson is a drummer and percussionist with Franz Ferdinand and The Yummy Fur and Michael Francis Duch is a double bassist based in Norway with deep roots in the world of improvisation and minimalist composition. Most importantly, however, is that this is the sound of a band, as one.

Remastered limited edition : Originally released in 1984 on Eyes and distributed by Best Record.
Comes with the original picture cover art as was originally planned to be released.

After a few years of demand for Kon's rework of "Spirit of the party" ( gimmie the night ) its finally here, with two other cuts giving us a triple threat 12".
"Love x Kon" the tune is stripped down to the bone, with quite an epic acapella ending.
On "Star of a story" Kon hones in on the groove and stretches it out a bit.
Completely fresh takes on 3 classic tunes, exposing and breaking down instrumentation not heard before.

Rare and obscure "Boogie Disco Funk Bomb" from Italy, recorded in 1981 but pressed in 1983 "300 copies only" and featuring: Roland Zaniolo the lead voice of the italian disco-funk group of "FIREFLY".
This release is a collector's edition, limited to 300 copies like the first release but it comes with a nice picture cover artwork plus liner notes containing infos and pictures provided from the original producer.

Mikkel Nordsø and Ole Thiell are no newcomers. Influential key players both on Copenhagen's jazz scene and on the international circuit since the late 1970s, they have recorded and performed with such greats as Santana, L. Subramaniam, Jan Akkerman and George Duke to name but a few. Their numerous
local projects include the much revered Bombay Hotel trio featuring Kenneth Knudsen. On their first record from 1989, they bridged the gaps between fusion jazz, new age and traditional Asian folk music into ethereal expressions that stand out even today.
With this new album for Music For Dreams, the duo delves deeper into that soundscape with an even more profound knowledge of their instruments. With Nordsø on the flute and guitar and Thiell on various percussion instruments, they form a musical language together that reaches high spiritual levels while carefully blending electronic instrumentation to complete the experience.
Guest vocalist Caroline Francesca steps in on the opener "Good Morning" and the closer "Sun Fo Ni" - the first being a sun-drowsy Brazilian-inspired jam, while "Sun Fo Ni" leans further towards crisp English folk. The inclusion of Francesca comes naturally, as she is the daughter of percussionist and long-time collaborator Jacob Andersen (who also releases on Music For Dreams as Bongo Entp.) making this quite a family affair.
Named after a harbour town in Morocco, the track "Essaouira" weaves field recordings of children playing in the sun together with brooding oriental folk and a discrete drum machine beat.
For "Japtal" the flute takes centre stage, leading us on a serene journey that unfolds into improvised passages along a chugging heavy groove, escalating and releasing in tempo much like the breathing techniques of yoga.
"Velvet Sky" sees the duo at their most relaxed, letting it ride on feather light ambient chords and noodling out into a wigged out prog rock ballad.
"B Phrygian" takes us into ancient Anatolian territory, again showcasing the duo's vibrant live instrumentation with Thiell hurling an army's worth of percussion layers onto the dusty beaten path laid out by Nordsø's stone-faced psychedelic assaults.
This album is a classic in the making already getting strong support from Phil Mison and Manchester's Moonboots who declared it "the best record I have heard in the last 10 Years!" Don't miss...

Well, KAT Records reach the ripe ol' age of 21 with an exactly what it says on the tin release being the Giant Cuts EP which pays testament to the versatility that's seen the KAT label take on board varying styles & ge-nres since it's conception back in 2007.

This 4 tracker of gargantuan proportions from edit hot shot Deadly Sins sees both classic and underground cuts getting the royal edit treatment and then some this time, mainly focusing on disco, soul & funk.

Starting proceedings we have El Afro, a wicked up tempo disco beauty with an ace afro disco conga loop, squelchy bass, clavs a plenty and love boat-esque keys & strings.....Proper!
Hot on the heels we have Shave a Pair. This absolute Loft classic gets that all important break beefed up and stretched out to satisfy all your dj & dance floor needs.

Mary's Red Hot Grooves kicks off the flip. Originally by Mary Wilson and out in '79 this rolls funk, soul & disco into one producing a monster of a dancer that is simply irresistible - Again, that the break's been stretched followed by a mighty fine arrangement that takes this track from good to great.

Last but no means least we have Give Me Your Love - Originally penned by none other than Curtis Mayfield and covered by Sisters Love in 1973. Deadly Sins firmly has the dj in mind with this re-assembly laying the building blocks and slowly building from the break then those meltingly good vocal stabs hit followed by that riff. Soul music at it's finest !


Early Feedback:

HARRI, Sub Club, Scotland - Digging all of these, full support and thanks for sending :-)

TOM THORPE, PBR Streetgang - I love this e.p... badboy. Full support from me. El Afro probably my favourite. Keep up the good work.

DJ POPE, Baltimore, USA - These four joints are straight butter those grooves are all on point.

ABE BORGMAN, PureSonica, South America - Hey ! I love this release... Nice funky chubby tracks... I will play them this Friday and see how it goes, but really like the EP over all... abrazos !

MARK MILZ, Further in Fusion Radio, Germany -pretty damn good funky edit stuff !!! support 4 sho !!!

NEIL SCOTT, El Daiblos, UK - 4 great disco bombs there. BOOM!

SEAN GORHAM, Love Vinyl Record Store, London, UK - Great release from Deadly Sins nails it as usual full support as always with the KAT label never a bad release Marys Groove is the one for me on this one.

BOBBY BEIGE, The Garden Festival, Croatia - Some Strong action coming here for KAT 21, Doing it for me is the a**ehole ripping extended edit of Afrodesia a perfect way to get a percussive groove going before slamming in the original. Also loving the Sisters of love edit, really lovely,

KEV BEADLE, SunCeBeat, SPW, Mind Fluid Radio - Definitely a couple of useful tracks on here.

Die Orangen, aka aussie producers Dreems & Kris Baha are teaming up for the first time with 2 new unreleased jams under their new alias. Slow and atmospheric, yet punching and grooving Die Orangen managed to meltdown genres into 100bpm 11 minute long trippy trancey bonanza with a substantial amount of jungle psychedelia and heavy drum machines. One Day in Sheperton is a more drum oriented industrial power house tune. With the diggerido and distorted voices coming in towards its 2nd half. This ep includes, as expected from the Malka Tuti crew, with awesome remixes by Italian maestros Fabrizio Mamarella (of Slow Motion records) and Alessandro Adriani (of Mannequin records), Oodandatta Rain is an ep that throws the listener back to the early days of partying in Anjuna beach, when trance was not yet a genre, but a state of mind, and where the "tribal element" could be found in all sorts of bizzarre contexts and remote corners...

No one else but one of Chicago's finest DJ Lil 'Tal is responsible for the ninth Footjob release. The underground veteran has brought himself to attention in the 90s by releasing on the legendary label Dance Mania. "Who Came To Boogie" on the A-side is a pretty disco loop combined with tight and uncompromising drums - undeniably an ear-piercing banger - followed by the label owner Phonk D's insane filtered remix version. The B-side consists of the rough, reduced-to-minimal drum track "Jack Your House" plus the funky sample tune "Buzz The Doctor" with a beat that makes your dancing feet run straight to hospital. FOOTJOB german record label launched in 2014. run by Phonk D - focussing on house music made for dancing feet.

collecting orders for repress!

More white label love on Boogiefuturo; as always rolling fast off the shelves. Two soul driven essential disco edits, this time hand crafted by Fun Bobby, offering up full blown '79 nostalgia, and all round good feelings as the summer months come to a close.
A tasteful release for your record bag, cooly curated by the BF camp. 'You Get Me Hot' (Spring Break Edit) as the title so aptly suggests, jumps out as a notable dance floor classic with intended party purpose and a powerful vocal cut to match. Super Limited soul infused classics adding yet another notch to a growing list of White label fun. As ever, limited press on these - Disco TIP!

Global Underground present a brand new mix concept: 'Adapt'. A continuous mix of layered, edited, reworked, reprised and adapted tracks from some of the world's leading electronic music producers. 30 slices of eclectic electronic dance music all adapted to work over a blistering 80 minute mix with selections from Sasha, H.O.S.H., Patrice Baumel, Nicole Moudaber, Max Cooper, Yousef and many more. Mixed in-house by scene stalwarts Trafik, the devil is really in the detail here and by using the latest technology to manipulate, re-edit and re-imagine these amazing tracks will see you pressing play again the second the mix is over. Very much a mix of it's time, Adapt does just that, takes the best of a cross section of sounds and re-invents them as a cohesive whole. More than the sum of its parts, Adapt brings the very best of the 90's CD aesthetic bang up to date for Millennial music consumption. Adapt is like your cooler older brother who finally lets you hang out with him, and what a party it is!

Ministry of Sound are just as renowned for creating the best down-tempo compilations as we are for making upbeat, club-friendly albums. With that in mind we return with The Chillout Session, the essential guide to the very best laidback classics featuring some of the most recognisable hits of the year to the most memorable smooth house anthems.
We've hand-picked the best range of melodic tracks perfect for any occasion where you can unwind, from an after-hours session to chilled daytime summer vibes. CD1 focuses on commercial, upfront artists, all of whom have produced internationally acclaimed hits, including Gotye, Florence & The Machine, Lana Del Ray, Jessie J, Ellie Goulding, Emeli Sande and Ben Howard. Roll over to CD2 and be immersed in the super smooth, spaced-out sounds of Royksopp, William Orbit, Lemon Jelly, Zero 7 and Groove Armada. Finally CD3 is a collection of some of the greatest chilled house beats to date, from the likes of Deadmau5, Erid Prydz, Faithless, Roger Sanchez and Delerium, all of whom have made their mark internationally
So whether you are winding down at an after party or having a lazy Sunday afternoon, The Chillout Session is the ultimate companion.

SITUATIONISM brings you a deep soulful house release by BitterSuite and Andre Espeut.
'These Thoughts' sees BitterSuite take the undeniably soulful vocals of Andre Espeut & melts them over a delicious deep house groove, warmed with chords & brought to the boil by a jazz funk fuelled live bass line.
Julian Sanza brings his unique production style with this deeper edged, conga driven remix, building a truly hypnotic boogie experience, taking the vocals cleverly into a more dubstyle vibe.
Situation take things a little more straight up deep soul house with sharp beats over a real fat old school synth bassline covered with the deepest chords, warm synths & of course Andre.
Dan D3 delivers a moving house dub remix that hauntingly draws you into its infectious filter heavy trancelike groove ...built for late night shenanigans.

Label boss Tonbe is back on Disco Fruit under the moniker Loshmi for the first time. Loshmi is specialized for great disco and funk re-edits and he is a well known with his "Serious Edits" series on digital imprint. He constantly trying to blur dots between disco, funk and house music. These four tunes are selection of Loshmi's best selling pieces on digital imprint. Highlights include the pounding disco-rock-flute workout "Drugstore". "Sweet & Nasty" is just about as seductive as you can get - those strings do some real damage in that groove, while "Wsoop Wsoop" deliver heavy, floor-friendly P-funk workouts.

Here with a special collaboration with Glasgow's infamous At War With False Noise, Giallo Disco and AWWFN are unbelievably proud to present, for the first time on vinyl ever, the elusive soundtrack to one of the most notorious, twisted and downright wrongest video nasties of all time: Island Of Death by director Nico Mastorakis. These ultra rare recordings of one Manson-meets-The-Wicker-Man babylonian folk and a 'let's cry a river' ballad were the perfect counterpoint for this sleaze masterwork regarding a sex and murder obsessed couple causing havoc on a Greek island. Do not sleep on this. You'd be a fool... in a lye pit.

The good doctor has been a cherished member of the Jalapeno Records family for the best part of ten years now with three albums and many more singles to his name.

With evergreen support from the likes of BBC6Music and especially Craig Charles his back catalogue never seemed to fall out of fashion and we consistently received requests to reissue classic tracks on vinyl for discerning DJs and fans.

Well we're not the types to argue with anyone and frankly we thought that they might have a good point so we've relented and are releasing a special 7" vinyl with two versions of his seminal track 'Disco Scene'.

Of course the classic original mix is present and the frantically energetic 'Breaks Of Wrath Re-Edit' has got its back...One vinyl, two banging mixes, many happy people - it's just simple maths really.

REPRESS ALERT: Fresh from 1986 - and recently re-edited by John Talabot - documents do not get any more Balearic than this.... Spanish trio Ishinohana's debut album is rich in cosmic attitude. At points daydreaming while the sand laps at its toes (the lilting nylon strings and soft padded hand drums of "Lucia", the overlapping guitars and galloping refrains of "La Flor De Piedra"), at others a much darker, more spacious star-gazing affair (the Arabic dreams of "El Beso Negro") and at others a heavier rhythmic, floor-minded approach (the lolloping bass and reggae-wise strums of "Variacion 23") this is a timeless document that befits situations and sceneries that existed long before this record was conjured up... And will remain so for generations after. Stunning.

For the past four decades, a growing cult of soul music collectors have sought two obscure LPs and a handful of extremely rare 45s released on the vanity record label LAD Productions, Inc. between the late seventies and the mid eighties by the mysterious South Side Chicago singer/song writer Larry Dixon.
Larry's raw songs capture the transition from R&B to boogie-down as disco was rapidly becoming extinct.
They also perfectly illustrate Larry's ability to overcome his environment and discrimination, transcended by his determination to write and produce music. With the support of his faithful musicians, Larry's success was only hindered by lack of airplay and promotion, but his talent shines through.
This is the story of Larry Dixon, his label LAD Productions, Inc., and his friends and family throughout four decades of music in Chicago's toughest neighborhoods.
Jerome Derradji is proud to reactivate Past Due Records - the boogie funk division of Still Music to release this fantastic archive - what many consider to be the Holy Grail - of Chicago Funk, Boogie and Soul.

The tuffest unit, the TMLR aka Kaidi,Mr Mensah,Matt & dego drop more london boogie, afro funk and goodgood vibes.

- Previous releases on Italians Do It Better, Eskimo, Bear
Funk and more- Limited to 200 copies
- One half of live tribal house duo Deardrums, also
available on 2MR 'YAML' has a long history... nearly 10 years of it in fact! Bottin produced most of the instrumental almost a decade ago when he had a bedroom studio and his girlfriend at the time came up with the 'You are my love' (hence the title 'YAML') hook and the first notes of the melody. It's a song about a somewhat destructive yet playful relationship: the girl is willingly submissive and mixes reality with her dreams - she portraits her lover as dominant while she's in fact leading the game. Finally Bottin enlisted his friend Lavinia Claws who helped out with the final lyrics and recorded the vocals in Berlin. Lavinia will also be starring in the forthcoming music video of the song. The flipside of the record 'Roulez Jeunesse' is Bottin's soundtrack to an
imaginary amusement park. We don't know the exact
origin of the French saying Roulez Jeunesse but the person in charge to set you up and start the ride would yell 'Roulez jeunesse!' when everyone was locked in. The expression is now commonly used to mean that you're all set to go, which seems fitting given the propulsive space disco vibe of the track.

Ibiza's DJ Pippi & Willie Graff kreieren zwei funky Disco Burner mit dem - magic feeling', den die beiden Balearic Disco Pioniere seit Jahrzehnten auszeichnet. Obendrauf gibt's erstklassige Remixe von Ron Basejam (aka Crazy P) und Siren (Siren sind Darshan Jesrani von Metro Area und Dennis Kane aka Citizen Kane).

'70's Afro-beat and Colombian Cumbia blended with the early 80's New York no-wave sound of ESG and Liquid Liquid.'