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Peter Brown is one of the ultimate in Harlem underground music business entrepreneurs. From the 70's, all through the 80's he had a stream of releases on a plethora of labels, but ultimately under the
P&P banner. From soul, to disco to the birth of hip hop, he covered all the street sounds of New York and in a series of comps Demon are exploring his legacy. P&P soul and funk covers the 1970's with a number of rare, sought after masterpieces and some
equally essential obscurities.

From the former category we have the magnificent ESP by Four
Below Zero, Dennis Mobley's Rare Groove instrumental version of Superstition and Florence Miller's soul floor filler 'The Groove I'm In' Super rare funk is present from Wild Honey, Smokey Brooks and Flame & The Sons. The roots of disco is well represented with Magnetic Touch's original version of Ain't No Big Thing and Ella Hamilton's I'm Gonna Fool You.

The good people from Mango Sounds are ready to harvest their first fresh crop of vinyl. With love and cultivation, the Mango Sound crew has produced a fine double sider with four supremely crafted cuts all in all.

On A1 Etur Usheo goes tribal on his 'Wo Ye Wa (Na Na)' slice. With subtle keys below a boogieing bass African instrumentations soon appears as called upon by a village in ecstasy. Chanting ensues luring you into the trance too.

A2 finds Whatever Charles going even deeper into the groove with his 'African Dialect'. Afro jazz at its finest drizzles its boogie onto the second round on the prestigious grooves of Mango Sounds first vinyl.
Ready to flip? Perfect! Danish Disco Dazzler Ziggy Phunk is ready to pick up the needle and lead it groove's way. 'Blues Grinder', a jazzy low key fusion piece with boogie built right in.

The last layer of the cocktail is roamed by German fusion discoists So.undso with their 'Ultrashake', an incredibly funky concoction of vibrant Disco, soulful Funk and a smidgen of electricity. Truly infectious!

Mango Sounds mean business, and this vinyl debut is bound to resonate!

A new face on Wrong Era - sounding, Berlin based duo of James Brook and Thomas Freudenthal. Three original tracks of peak-time new wave and electronic disco for the more discerning dance floor. Backed-up with a remix of the title track from label owner Franz Scala, Rodeo Star is an essential 12" for fans of chugging, synthetic Italo.

The telephone rings at midnight. The sound echoes through the halls of your home in the Hollywood hills. Nervously you pick up the heavy receiver only to hear the desperate breathing of a lunatic… The same lunatic that has been calling for months. Welcome to ‘Deranged Fan’ the score to an imagined American thriller by Tom Guycot. Laying somewhere between the Italian and French legends and Harold Faltermeyer, Deranged Fan is Beverly Hills Cop on mescaline and chloroform. Vintage strings sing over analog bass on a journey to the darkest places of your mind… Can you escape your fate as one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood? Or will you end up just another tabloid fable…

Elossa Records proudly present it’s third release, Yakovets – Temperaments. The first release from the Vladivostok born, self taught and talented musician, Yakovets.

Temperaments is a five track EP, including a remix from the legendary Vincent Floyd. Blissful and melancolic dance melodies, for all four seasons.

Monsieur-du-jour, Chevals, graces us with his presence for an EP of exquisitely produced edits. 'La Bouteille' opens things up with a rhythmic workout combined with filtered melodies that erupt into a summery piano driven jam. 'Under Your Command' then comes in with the classic golden era disco feel, tied together with a shuffling beat.

Flip it over and 'Fairy Tales' takes you into 80's boogie territory with those squelchy synths & irresistible vocals. Closing out the e.p. Chevals brings out the peak time, slap bass, disco stomper in 'Croisades', complete with sultry sax licks, sure to do damage to any dancefloor it's set before.

For over 40 years Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou has combined traditional Beninese music with soul, funk, afrobeat, rhumba and Cuban rhythms to create this infectious sound...

Hailing from Benin, West Africa, Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou has been churning out incendiary Afro grooves since 1966. On 'Bosq Meets Poly Rythmo Uptown,' Bosq tastefully reworks 4 of Orchestre Poly Rythmo's legendary recordings. As a die-hard fan, Bosq took a subtle approach to the project. According to him Orchestre Poly Rythmo has been a strong influence on his work and he wanted to be respectful to the original tracks. Bosq focused on making the tracks DJ friendly by beefing up the low end, rearranging and stretching parts out, and adding in extra percussion and a drum machine. The result is a 4-track EP of bumpy Afro disco, psychedelic funk, frenzied Afrobeat, and sunny soulful grooves.

Based in Medellin, Colombia, Bosq has released a collection of music on Ubiquity Records, Soul Clap Records, Fania Records, Razor-N-Tape, and more. Since 2015, Sol Power Sound, out of Washington, DC has released deep sounds inspired by rhythms and traditions from around the globe. The label's output includes Afro-Latin stompers, re-edits of lost disco grooves, heady percussive tech workouts, and other sonic treats.

Four stone-cold classic Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou tracks re-shaped by Bosq for the dancefloor today...

DJ Feedback:

GILLES PETERSON - All sounds great to me. You've got my support on this EP. I will play for sure.

MAX ESSA - These kind of sweaty afro-disco flavours always light things up real nice at Bar Bonobo in Tokyo. Four irresistible tracks to choose from here - this will never leave the bag!

JUSTIN ROBERTSON - Orchestre Poly release is massive! That's radio tackle for sure..

DOM CAPELLO YES I like this a LOT!

Multitrack wizard The Reflex returns for his second release on Revision Records with two more edits strictly rebuilt from the
original multitracks as only he can do it!

First The Reflex tackles THAT Marvin track, taking it as far away as possible from Blurred Lines, morphing it into a DJ delight that has been caned by the likes of François Kevorkian, Joey Negro, Dimitri From Paris, Craig Charles and many others. Or how to make the best of 11 minutes of multitracks for the 21st century dance floor.

Second is an incredible spin on Serge Gainsbourg disco sleaze summer anthem 'Sea,Sex & Sun' - three years in the making - that get rids of the cheese for a funky cosmic workout result, including vocals from both english and french versions. This one is exclusive to the vinyl and has never been previously available.

Two peaktime radical reworkings of classics tracks that are sure to raise eyebrows! Limited numbers so act fast!

Blockhead Recordings are back. This release features ANT LaRock who has been featured on some of the biggest labels in dance music today and has collaborated with some of house music's resident godfathers. Vanilla Ace has become a prolific and increasingly prominent force in house music and has been featured on some of the biggest labels out there including Spinnin Deep, Glasgow Underground & Nervous.
Hazzaro are coming hot off the success of their track called 'Make My Day' on Erase, lastly Scott Diaz is no stranger to the top ten on any platform. He can pretty much do anything from deep, sexy, sultry house to tech house bangers and do it with style and finesse.

Hong Kong based label FGHB. (Short for 'Fragrant Harbour') is continuing their steady outputs of two releases a year with this time an EP from BBRB, a Taiwan based duo composed of Riles Jay Bilgo and Benoit Bouquin (who usually released under 'L'Amour Fou' along with Move D and Marco Wollenberg) as a 6th release. Powder (Cocktail D'Amore) and Mr. Ho (Klasse Wrecks) completes the EP with a signature space workout of a remix of 'Cat Slaves' and a powerful EBM version of 'Two Policemen'.

Supported By: Roi Perez (Panorama Bar), rRoxymore (Ostgut Ton / Human Level), Yu Su

The Patrick Adams managed group Black Ivory scored a number of hits in the mid 70's, two of their most sought after are here together on one 12". The Paradise Garage and Loft anthem Mainline, penned by prolific disco producer Leroy Burgess has seen it's fair share of bootlegs but it's available here officially licensed and remastered for the first time since it's original release in 1976. Fans of Ron Hardy may be familiar with the break from the B side cut 'Walking Downtown On Saturday Night' as it feature heavily in his sets from the legendary Music Box in Chicago. Presented on heavyweight 180g vinyl.

Bordello A Parigi presents a compilation of demo tracks from the legendary Italo Disco icon: Federico di Bonaventura, better known as Fred Ventura. These demo tracks were supposed to remain secret until Fred started to digitalize them from tape a few years ago. Most of these tracks were part of the transitional period between the exit from his early 80's band State Of Art and start of his first solo project Actor's Studio and career as Fred Ventura. A versatile treasure of lost music recorded from 1982 until 1984 in Milan, Italy.

Comes with double front sleeve and printed inner sleeve.

Robin Renoir lands on Neon Finger with this excellent 7″ that many pose as an instant boogie – funk classic! With a clearly 80's sound and with fancy collaborations of Throwbakk, Roxy or Artur Uronen from Beverly Girl. Don’t miss it!

The Reflex is back with the fifth release on Revision Records. This time tackling what has been described by François K as 'one of the funkiest records ever made', the 80's classic jam 'Everything She Wants' gets rebuilt from scratch, strictly from the LP version multitracks.

On the B side, it's a Loft classic that had never been quite remixed in this way, tight at 123 bpm, it's one of for the soul heads and music lovers alike.

Ever talkative, passionate and daring, Cerrone continues to run on desire. For him, nerves and fear will always coexist with ambition and self-assurance, an ambivalence that has enabled him to prevail.

“Right time, Right place.” This idiom perfectly sums up his experience – he’s even got it tattooed on his lower arm. He’s received multiple awards (Grammys, Golden Globes), performed a dizzying number of collaborations, tackled some impressive challenges, earned a collection of nicknames (such as the disco maestro) and has had instinctive bursts of creativity that often win the jackpot. Here is someone who has travelled across cities, countries and generations – going everywhere except the wilderness. 

Cerrone’s music has been covered, sampled and revised hundreds of times, today giving it a particular sort of status which is firmly cemented in the heart of the collective conscience. The sixty-something-year-old works tirelessly on his compositions, never recycling old formulas but instead is always striving to push the envelope of electronic music forward, a reflection of his eternal youth.

So much so that over these past few years, Cerrone has followed the path more towards DJing, at the suggestion of his record label and manager. “I got caught up in this whole reinvention game. I started putting together snippets of music to feature in my sets.

These sections then started to take shape, building into four-and-a-half even six-minute-long songs. Over the space of a few months, I quickly began to totally immerse myself in these sounds, little by little. They sounded vintage yet frighteningly current, with the kind of spirit I had at the beginning of my career, which is to create musical atmospheres rather than pop songs.” 

He continues to follow his own rules, distancing himself from marketing diktats and trends, just like he did when Love in C Minor was released. The result? The record DNA, which represents everything he put into it, all his effort, skills, old desires and new dreams, and also because he created it entirely himself, with his loyal sound engineer, Richard Turek.

“I always aim to never be like anyone else.” He puts this declaration of intent fully into practice, delivering for the first time a quasi-instrumental record which was written, produced and recorded in the space of four months. Atmospheric and filled with tension and fissures, DNA panders to the imagination, incorporating film score premises. He leap-frogs between the past, present and future, with his fascinatingly epic, unsettled sounds like monotonous electronic chants. “With this album, I reconnected with a musical period that I’d pushed somewhat to the wayside.

This was basically my whole electronic period at the end of the 70's for example, Supernature and the series of soundtracks for Gérard de Villiers’ and Brigade Mondaine’s erotic films.” 

Cerrone’s 17th album - DNA - opens with The Impact, a throbbing track of bendy entanglements all with an environmental stance. Halfway through, we’re treated to an excerpt of a speech from Jane Goodall, the world-famous primatologist and ethnologist: “Every single day we make some impact on the planet. We haven’t inherited this planet from our parents. We’ve borrowed it from our children.

If we get together, then we can start to heal some of the scars that we’ve inflicted.” It’s hard not to draw comparisons with Supernature, in which Cerrone declared his first warning about man’s impact on the planet, 43 years ago. This nine-track concept album is built on wandering contours and magnetic sparkle, from which bursts saturated oppressive synth pads (Obsession), a nod to Pink Floyd (DNA), and dramatic soundscapes (CloseTo The Sky, Experience) and clammy atmospheres that are delightedly languid.

“What if I told you that the idea for Air Dreaming came to me after watching a video of a parachute jump featuring naked parachutists? When people ask me whether I’m still inspired by love and sex today, naturally my answer is yes.” Cerrone doesn’t deprive himself either of pushing Kraftwerk’s logic of unleashing robots on the dance floor (“I’ve got a rocket”, ”Let Me feel”), as his songs appeal to both the intellect and the body’s desire to move. “Let me dream, let me see, let me feel.” What better mantra for bringing this album full circle.

2x12" 180g Download code inside

Detroit Swindle present 'High Life', their second studio album due on the 28th May on the duo's own Heist Recordings. The heart of the album was recorded over a three week period at their Amsterdam studio in March 2017, and the release will coincide with the fifth anniversary of the label. Since forming in 2011, the Dutch duo have carved a unique place for themselves in the scene. Their sound - which merges references from multiple decades into one smooth aesthetic - quickly rose to popularity for its careful blend of soul and rhythm, taking cues from their passion for obscure records, with influences ranging from house and funk to afrobeat and soul. Dynamic live shows and DJ sets afford them a packed touring schedule across the globe, whilst their label Heist Recordings is credited with consistently breaking new artists. The album explores the intersection of live and electronic music, with much of the improvised material left largely untouched to maintain its organic sensibilities. Detroit Swindle describe the album as an 'electronic album with a live approach, combining our love for house, ambient and jazzy harmonics, making it a record interesting for the club, as well as a pleasant album to put on at home.

Re-issue of this sought after ’85 italo classic with Flemming Dalum and Hysteric edits.