House News

A true king of the disco revival, JN is back with a 2019 sampler featuring his reworks of songs by TAMIKO JONES, THE TRAMMPS, and PATTI LABELLE. (Z RECORDS)

Budabeats Records' contribution to the long-awaited re-opening of the dancefloors is this EP including four sparkling tunes by four remarkable Hungarian producers.

Although musically completely different, they have one thing in common: they provide the perfect vibes for any late summer party from sunset till sunrise.
After starting off with up-and-coming producer, WaTa's timeless house burner, things get a bit more laid back with 'Historico' an honest and entertaining tribute to the early days of Italo disco, delivered by producer duo Pleasure Voyage.

Budabeats staple M.W.D. continues with a mid-tempo deep groover that builds elegantly and does not let go; the title says it all: 'Jazz808'.
Oneeyedman is another exciting and versatile figure of today's Budapest scene, his closing track is a satisfying slice of deep house with acidic bass, spaced out synths and just the right portion of cowbells.

Limited to 300 copies worldwide.

Disco Bits emerge from lockdown with two fat slabs of Hip House featuring two of the finest MCs ever to grace the mic riding over brand new disque-o rhythms...

A - BDK - ROK THE DISCO TECH
A sure fire party starter! BDK sets it off with killer rhymes over an up tempo prime time disco groove. DBS provides the perfect disco rhythm for an all time great to rock any disco tech.

B - RKM - RITMO ITALO
On a slower tip in that 80's Afro Cosmic Italian vibe. RKM let's the rhythm hit 'em over a chugging beat.

The Bonfido family is getting bigger and has a complete facelift for their new series. For their 004 instalment they are welcoming some new members and some old chaps from the international dance scene. On the A side we have the new coming disco duet Those Guys From Athens with a somehow future classic 90's jam "Like An Eagle", plus the mexican king of disco Hotmood with his latin flavoured "Que Pasa Muchacha''. On the B side we have another mysterious new duet Panta & Rhei with their warm and love oriented "Gimme Your Love". Last but not least the usual Bonfido suspect Sirhan is behind the pick hour, african stomper, "Disco Calippo".

3rd release for the Ravanelli Disco Club this time courtesy of Eben Rees (Haws). Freerange head honcho Jimpster & Tech Support on remix duties.

DJ Support:

Hotmood
Crazy P
Cody Currie
M.ono
Luvless

After S3A's "Pages" double album earlier this year we asked some of our friends to re-interpret and re-construct their favorite original track off the album and deliver these fine remixes. We aimed to have a nice variety in styles on this record and hope you enjoy these tunes as much as we do!
Starting off with the live disco funk of "Lorenz Rhode" who sets the tone for a class dance floor EP and followed by the soulful deep house vibes of French master "Art Of Tones" aka "Llorca" who delivered 3 different mixes to this release. The main mix is on the vinyl and there are two bonus mixes added to the digital release, a "Beats" and a "Dub" version. Ending this brilliant first side is London's newcomer "Dampé" with that deep and jazzy electronica approach we got to love him for on his first debut Dirt Crew Recordings release.

On the flip we pick up the pace and present you the faster dancefloor tracks of Amsterdam's "Nachtbraker" with his freaky hallucinating sounds placed atop of one of these irresistible bass lines only he can come up with and leading towards an "end with a bang" in best Detroit ghetto house style by our own Icelandic fire "Felix Leifur".

Each artist perfectly transported his own unique styles into these tracks and we hope this release with its broad approach will serve any dance floor to its best!

Debut release by Asymetric80. Music made during lockdown, a reflection of these uncertain times. From Apoptygma Berzerk to Covenant, with a genuine ‘Valencia Sound’ from ’90s.

On a newly arisen Amsterdam – Berlin axis, Daniel Monaco and Sauvage World unite for their first collaboration EP on San Francisco based Roam Recordings.

“Paninari On Acid” is a twisted tribute to the first golden age of Italian electronic music. Israeli talent Niv Ast turns the trip into a dance floor bomb, leaving no choice but to move with its chubby bass and synthetic lead lines.

“Teneré” was not only one of Milan’s paninari favourite motorbikes but – most importantly – means “desert” in the Touareg language. This is where Monaco and Sauvage World are taking you for a lysergic adventure filled with sand through a solitary land.

Fabrizio Mammarella brings it back to the age of the machines and delivers an hypnotizing electro version, brilliantly mixing the Arabic tinged nuance of the original with unstoppable killer rhythms and robotic vocals.

Marcel Vogel aka Em Yee joins the RNT roster with a 4-pack of unsurprisingly heavy edits.

The Lumberjacks In Hell label boss takes us on a little trip through one of his own eclectic sets, starting with the oddball boogie of You Move Me and then moving on to the hands-in-the-air positivity of Spreading Energy.

On the flip it's the up-tempo afro burner Don't Be Sabi Say, with the 12' concluding on the whimsically catchy I Wish I Knew The Words. Tried and tested and found true!

Specialgroove Records is proud to announce the release for the first time of the official reissue of MISAGE “you’re here again” It is a true gem of the Italo disco music scene, released in 1987 on a 7 “EP in one hundred copies and never distributed. Today, thanks to the precious collaboration with Michele Del Pecchia and Riccardo Boschi, we have recovered the 12 “extended version never released from the original masters. Side A contains the extended version, while side B contains the vocal and instrumental version 7”.

Closed Paradise brings his inimitably smooth ethos to Lovedancing. His sampladelic originals are a pastiche of sources, glued together for the booty and soul. At his request, none other than Whiskey Disco's own, Pontchartrain and The Silver Rider remix to round out and bring added funk and flex to the array.

Disco Dynamo, Pontchartrain flexes his best for Whiskey Disco 51. An out-and-out showcase of the Detroit native's house background and disco leanings.

After the rip-roaring success of Disco Made Me Do It Vol 1, Riot Records hit you with four more Nu Disco whirlwinds from Danny Kane, Massiande, Chevals and Mark Brickman remixed by the likes of Art Of Tones, Moodena and Michael Gray.

Heavyweight disco dancefloor destruction, that will cause a ruckus whenever and wherever they’re played.

Neon Danza brings you a belter of an EP of retro global house and disco reworks from Aroop Roy.

The producer has tracked down 3 super rare cuts and turned them into timeless dancefloor anthems.
'Tabu Afrique' is an unstoppable 80's Afro-disco monster, with sassy vocals and Soukous guitar licks.
'Magia' is an extended mix of a Brazilian classic with epic vocals and uplifting mid-tempo groove. Finally 'Na Boko Samba' is on a deeper tip, featuring an infectious chorus, and equally catchy synths and an 80's house beat.

If Shelter swam through the serene side of the Library experience on GBR016, CV Vision blasts off in the opposite direction, riding an explosion of funk breaks and frazzled synths into the event horizon on his retro-futurist opus ‘Insolita’.

As contemporary life accelerates way past peak-weird, CV Vision leans into uncertainty and leaves Earth in the rear-view. Strung out on Simulacron-3, World On A Wire and Omaggio Ad Einstein, the Berlin-based musician imagines his own Brave New World, an alternate eXistenZ in a secret simulation.

Using the space age obsession of the Italian libraries as a launch pad, Dennis Schulze slathers a sonic storyboard with ferocious percussion, psychedelic fuzz and the pastoral electronics of Germany’s Kosmische movement. But this is less Can, more uncanny - and Schulze perfectly renders the cognitive estrangement of a simulated reality through his adventurous production. The monolithic live drums, recorded in a Neukölln garage on a battered Soviet kit are smeared with tape hiss, compressed to death and fired through LFOs, re-materialising on record in impossible scale. Time slips out of joint under the wow and flutter of the reel to reel, drum computers add digital interference to organic rhythms and the unfaltering slew of the 303 lends the hallucinatory thrill of the club sound system to an already psychedelic affair.

As Schulze’s imagination runs free, we’re taken through epic space battles and narrow escapes, moments of reflection and affection and a final resolution, all expressed through a dexterous control of movement and mood. For every explosion of break-fuelled adrenaline, there’s a cruise into cryo-chamber music and holodeck exotica. For each neck-snapping blast of acid funk, there’s a zero gravity lullaby waiting just around the corner.

So put isolation on ice and surrender to the strange, this is a trip you don’t want to end.

Following the groups major hit "Is It All Over My Face," Arthur Russell continued to release dance singles such as this disco classic "Tell You (Today)," an upbeat dance groove and Loose Joints holdover featuring the vocals of Joyce Bowden.

The song has been remastered from original analog tape for 2014 and repressed in conjunction with the rights holders, BMG.

Dutch duo Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets, better known as Dam Swindle, are the latest in a line of decorated contemporary producers taking on rework duties for legendary New York disco label, Salsoul Records. Comprised of four tracks split into two volumes, the pair provide fresh takes on a number of Salsoul hits, including the classic ‘Let No Man Put Asunder’ by First Choice and Double Exposure’s ‘Everyman’. There’s some funky edits of tracks by Kebekelektrik and Kongas, wrapping up an essential Reworks package courtesy of one dance music’s premier acts.

Caserta proudly welcomes Marvin to the BB family! Featuring support from BBOO3 featured artist Diana, Marvin features 2 distinct mixes.

A post disco ode to the late great Kashif with big drums and Moog bass make up the the A Side, will have people scratching their heads like “Who the hell is Casey?

While swinging garage 909’s and layered synths come
together for the house dub on the flip!

Most welcome to a world of handdrums and synthezisers. Spacious Present is the second release by Mount Analogue on Sunken Rock. A four track EP both suited for the livingroom and the evening at the club, wrapped up in a screenprinted cover for your delight.

After putting out Kito Jempere's well received Sea Monsters album last year, Hell Yeah now serve up another selection of remixes of it. Accomplished musician Jimi Tenor, plus Miskotom and Max Essa all contribute before a 7", also taken from the album, lands later in summer. First up is Jimi Tenor, the legndary Finnish musician who has released on Warp, collaborated with Tony Allen and has his own band as well as occasionally playing sax with Kito Jempere Band at live gigs. He flips Puzzled into five minutes of stripped back and moody electronics with plenty of his own flute playing in the track. Busted drum sounds, spooky sci-fi synths and scattered hits make it woozy and late night and utterly absorbing. Miskotom—a newly emerging pair made up of Mik and his wife Andra, both based in Vilnius, Lithuania with credits on Pleasure Unit and Balearic —then reimagine 'Ampa' as a beatdown but of deep house with trudging drums staying low and shimmering synths drift out in all directions. Crunchy hits bring a subtle sense of funk and reverb drenched vocals bring a heavenly feel to the soul drenched grooves and summery keys.
Then comes Max Essa, the Japan based Brit who is a regular on this label as well as the likes of Is It Balearic. His first remix is a huge one that is sure to soundtrack many a boat party this summer. It's a gorgeous rework of 'Ampa' that puts achingly blissful vocals front and centre as low slung bass and slowly turning drums sink you into a pan-pipe laced reverie. Secondly, Essa offers a Dub Reprise that removes the vocals and places all the focus on his churning drums and new age grooves.
This is another perfect package of masterfully electronic horizontal sounds.

Exclusive premieres scheduled in Music is My Sanctuary and Les Yeux Orange and heavy dj support including Groove Armada's Tom Findlay, Blessed Madonna, Erol Alkan, Dino Soccio, Tricky Disco, Leo Zero and many more

"In The Dark", is the new release from Casbah 73. A sensual, sinuous disco affair dealing with touch, human contact and yearning. Three different versions, each a completely different dancefloor proposition and ranging from organic and soulful disco, to hands in the air, uplifting funky horns to searing club banger, all crashing pianos, fierce bass, deep Moog and wild, dubby vocals. It is, in a nutshell, what we need now.

Following on from his recent debut release on Defected/Glitterbox Records, Spanish/US DJ and producer Casbah 73 continues from strength to strength with this, his latest offering, out now on his spiritual home Lovemonk Records.

Recorded locally with a group of top flight musicians and featuring a stellar vocal performance from Angela Gooden.

Roberto Ferrante, now president and founder of Planet Records Group, wrote "Come On Closer" at the age of 18 and "Eyes" and "Faces" by Clio before he was 20. All the songs were entirely created, arranged, mixed and played "by hand" by him, in 1983 the computer had not yet arrived in the recording studios and Ferrante did not have the money to buy a sequencer! "Come On Closer", a classic of Italo-dance were played in Chicago by top deejays who created House Music in the 80s as Mickey Oliver and Ralphi Rosario. This track was played in all clubs and at Chicago Radio Station WBMX by the legendary D.J.s Hot Mix 5, and still today is a very "sought song" by collectors and fans who consider this piece one of the best and clearest examples of proto-house, also used as Sample/Cover by various international productions (Peter Visti/Kenneth Bager "Besos", Neon Indian's "Psychic Chasms", Moulinex "Come On Closer") and used for Tom Ford's US promotional campaign in 2015. The 12" proposes the two original versions: the vocal version by Douglas Roop (an American marine stationed at the NATO base in Naples in those years) and the dub version, both re-mastered in June 2020 by Roberto Ferrante himself in his studios at La Habana, Cuba.
Nobody should be surprised that high energy and Italian-disco were popular in Chicago: house music was in its embryonic phase, so it wasn't competing with Hi-Energy in 1983. This repress edition (without remix) was made with superior sound quality. This sound is present, alive... and still dominating in all clubs!

Swell is the debut album by Marske, a spoken word performer, musician and visual artist originally from the North East of England.

Written and produced with fellow north eastern music maker Man Power (aka Geoff Kirkwood) and released on Me Me Me, Swell is available digitally, and as a special limited edition 12" record featuring a gatefold sleeve designed by Marske.

Swinging from poignant self reflection to wry social commentary and laugh out loud midlife malaise, Swell sits somewhere central in a Venn diagram featuring The streets, Throbbing Gristle, Sleaford Mods, John Cooper Clark and Underworld.

It's a coming of (middle) age album that sees two established creators working together at their idiosyncratic best to create something as honest as it is unique.

"Welcome to Marske. It's not for everyone"

A swelling, string-drenched slice of soulful disco, Kyoto Jazz Massive co-founder Shuya Okino’s 2011 release ‘Still In Love’ remains a hugely in-demand cut for discerning selectors, thanks to its life-affirming vocal provided by Navasha Daya and lush instrumentation. Now Glitterbox Recordings deliver a specially curated 12” package of this record box essential, as this enduring modern-day classic is given a number of re-works from dance’s A-List. This package features mixes from true DJ’s DJ The Reflex, Berlin duo Kyodai, and house legend DJ Spen, which are joined by the blissful original, illustrating the versatility of a truly special record.

The Stone Tape EP is the fourth record in Session Victim’s Pen & Paper series and sees Matthias Reiling’s first solo outing for the vinyl only imprint. Three original cuts betray Reiling’s fascination with the mystic and occult, elevating the listener’s perception and sending dancers into a spiritual and physical seance. Fellow Sorcerer Leafar Legov’s coproduction and Erobique’s enchanting Melodica on Tarot Nouveau and Ouija Dub add more layers of depth and an extra set of black magic spells to the whole. On top of that, italian beatsmith Broke One stuns everyone at Pen & Paper with his remix of the title track “Vibrate", boosting the original with an intense rhythm section and finally lighting up it’s dark path with warm and hopeful harmonies. Vital Sales Points: Matthias Reiling is one half of Session Victim and has released his solo material under his own name on labels such as Giegling, Retreat and XK.

Collecting orders for repress

The second record on Pen & Paper contains two Session Victim original tunes, demonstrating the duo's trademark taste for sublime sample composition.
Smile is dominated by a heavy drum set that paves the way for an assortment of smaller and bigger funk loops, eventually joined by a vibrant lofi chord.
Mourn sees a moody blues sample float on top of the creamiest synthpad, echoing in and out while telling it's dark, old story.

Blue Vinyl

Los Angeleno and all around swell guy Dino Soccio has been building his rep as a premier selector and editor with his own Pleasure of Love edits series, and now joins the RNT ranks with an EP of rarified rework gold.

The record kicks off with the meteoric energy of 'Star Beaming', a rolling interstellar disco stomper, then lays back with the low-slung 'Fred’s Groove' and jazzy balearic groove of 'Laid Back', finishing off with the bouncey early-'80s boogie feel of 'Forgot'. All dusty digger’s delights, simonized and edited to perfection for maximum vibes!

We know you could have done it as well - but you didn’t. Two chopped and pumpin’ edits that without a doubt fit the club and your record bag! Heat it up with Back 2 Rhythm + the 2020 Flex of 2010 and let the Bonus Flex take care of the rest.

Early support from:

- Kapote (Toy Tonics boss)
- Rhode & Brown
- Alex Virgo (Pomme Frites boss)
- Dance System
- DJ Delivery
- Dirty Channels
- REES
- Swales
- Tom Jay
- Crowd Control
- Phone D
- Paddy
- Slug Father

Live Ones let loose label boss Lorca for their sixth release - a tribute to the one and only, Larry Levan.

The A side ‘Larry’s Bomb’ channels that inner disco fire burning deep within. Extended and re-blended Lorca takes the essence of the Paradise Garage and reworks it with a modern tinge.

Flip it to find ‘Look What You Do’, a sun-soaked disco house number perfect for hazy, care-free days as equally as it is for bubbling up dancefloors.

After releasing on Correspondant, Traffico Music and Mortordiscs, the new Cantor EP ‘Convergence’ is published by his own label Underground Pacific. Convergence is an emblematic rendering of Cantor’s attitude in sonic form – a sampling from his consciousness.

Pared down to four arresting tracks, influenced by new wave and post punk, including a remix by the legendary Alexander Robotnick, Convergence presents auditory concepts through which to explore the fundamentals of Cantor’s music: distortions, psychedelia, romanticism and sonic cheerfulness.

The vinyl edition is carefully tended featuring a unique contribution of the Italian artist Fabio Baggio (artbajo).

Black Pearl Records is very proud to present the very timeless
and diverse club-music album "Alles Paletti!", by the
internationally recognised and well respected DJ & Producer
Enzo Elia. "Alles Paletti!" will take you on a musical journey
through the 80s & 90s club music era and it´s genre clash of
Disco, New Wave, Electro, Dub, Balearic, Cosmic, Loft Classics
to the early years of House productions, that again merges
perfectly into the "Zeitgeist" of today. Growing up as a
teenager and a music interested mind at those decades in
Italy, of course Mr. Baldelli & Co. has left a permanent
impression, and the "Cosmic" influence of this unique club
scenery is easy to recognize in Elia´s music. Bringing all these
influences and experiences of Enzo Elia together, melted into
one piece of vinyl, is the perfect time-capsule that captures the
essence of those influential early years onto this album. The
title "Alles Paletti!" resumes out of a typical Berlin phrase,
shows the Berlin-Italian connection, and the city of choice for
Enzo Elia to live for the last 12 years. The whole album was
realised in a very playful time period of about one year,
creating new ideas from scratch or build on Elia´s skteches
together with the producer Roskow Kretschmann in his studio,
preppered with quite a few guest insturmentalists and
vocalists. Since beeing a youngster Enzo Elia is spinning
tracks and delighting audiences in small clubs to big festivals,
releasing music on several reputable labels from mellow-sundown-balearics to hard-hitting-techno, that made him the
international respected DJ and Producer he is today.

Discos Capablanca are back. Loud-E is back. Cherry Chocolate Chaud edit series volume II is precisely what you'd hope for ! It's a double A sider with two mouth watering, instant classic floor melters from the maestro.

Remastered & Remixed versions of the ‘Quare Groove’ classic first released on the group's own Feral Records imprint in Ireland in 1985. Originally inspired by Con O Laoghaire,s trip to Carnival in Trinidad ‘where a woman told me she would see me later at a fete when she was looking ‘Hot and Sexable’’. This is the full vocal version sung by Denise Keogh. As well as this extended club mix of the original, the set feature three other versions. All are reimagined by Morgan Buckley (Wah Wah Wino / No 'Label') using source stems from the original 1985 master lacquer and multitrack tapes courtesy of Windmill Lane Studios.

Following up on the long awaited 'Melody' / 'Stop Fantasy' reissue from 2016, Mothball Record returns with a lesser known, but no less brilliant, double-sided disco bomb from Plustwo.
Lighthearted and infectious melodies on both sides are matched with superb production and unmistakably beautiful vocals: this is no fast food but elegant music to enjoy for years to come.For many years a favorite in the Mothball Record offices, yet strangely unknown by many, 'Mad Radio' and 'New Sensation' will put some unexpected spark in your next disco set.

Cinthie’s 803 Crystal Grooves Collective Cuts returns this June with
a fresh four- track EP from S3A aka Sampling As An Art.
Parisian producer and DJ S3A has been releasing his take on soul-infused, sample heavy electronic music over the past decade via imprints such as Syncrophone’s Phonogramme, Lazare Hoche Records, 4Lux and Dirt Crew where he dropped his debut album. Here after the success of his debut LP ‘Pages’ and the ‘92’ Anthem’ track, which featured on the inaugural Collective Cuts release alongside music from Asquith, KETTAMA and 9th House, S3A returns to the imprint to conclude the story of his half acoustic half electronic album with the ‘« Pages » Epilogue’ EP.

What makes a house tune a unique house tune Secret Crunch Volume 5 focuses on the basics principles of making house: We are talking about an unique groove, we are talking about the original use of samples and we are talking about a soul thang. Secret Crunch Volume 5 presents four cuts of fresh and undiluted house music.
On Side A Felipe Gordon from Columbia opens with the cool jazz infused stepper "Teusanquilo Step", while Ashley Stevenson contributes to Crunch with his new project The Last Trip To Gandahar. His track "Planet Music" captivates with earwig vocals and a catchy groove. On the b side Vienna's finest Jeremiah delivers an exciting acid experience building from the beginning to the end. Newcomer Gus Nobel finishes the EP with "Radical Science" in style - and yes, it´s a crunchy banger.

After their debut single “Midnight Passion”, VISION releases a full-length album that will delight not only Eighties synth-pop lovers. The Switzerland-based producer duo put their hearts and passion into each of the nine meticulously arranged tracks.

They comprise of various sub-styles of the genre and reflect the social and the political mood of the 80’s decade. The song themes range from the declaration of love by a trench-coated protagonist to a mysterious midnight lady to the tragedies of the Vietnam War and the division created by the Berlin Wall. Over in France, VISION celebrates the french culture in the romantic song “Chérie” set in Paris, featuring a german and french spoken verse style. And there is more to discover!

Uncompromising in recreating that genuine synthetic sound of their teenage years, VISION use exclusively hardware synthesizers, samplers and drum machines from the 1980’s thus creating that unique and pure sound throughout the album.

As a crowning touch, the visuals of the record cover, inner sleeve and labels matching the musical content could come straight from the mid-eighties and were designed by the producers themselves.

VISIONS’s first album is a truly authentic and aesthetic tribute to the neon-colored pop music culture of the eighties and a real feast for the ears and eyes of all music lovers.

Following on from his stellar record store day 2017 double-pack, Dimitri is back with another clutch of indispensable Disco edits from his impressive archive for the legendary Salsoul label. Any self-respecting DJ or Disco-lover will be brimming over with excitement upon looking at this impressive selection of tracks, all respectfully and lovingly tweaked by Disco-Dim. Salsoul Orchestra's 'Ooh I Love It (Love Break)' kicks things off, a true blue classic, just gently touched in all the right places and extended in the best possible way. Following up is Skyy's total anthem 'First Time Around', a classic Garage groove and Dimitri's version is near perfect, again, re-touched by someone who truly understands what Disco all about! Essential stuff. On the flipside The Jammers - 'Be Mine Tonight', is another massive Garage smasher, here Dimitri almost edges Shep Pettibone's OG mix into the Boogie stratosphere, just incredible! It makes perfect sense that this amazing double-pack should finish on one of Dimitri's most sought after edits - Love Committee's 'Just As Long As I Got You', an epic slab of soulful, almost dark, Disco. Absolutely huge.