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This is a promo sampler from new label, Hot Piroski. Produced and recorded at 12Tree Studios in Barcelona.

The label is a boisterous mix of Space Disco, Deep Funk edits and Balearic Beats.

Hot Piroski Sampler Vol.1 features :
'N'Gwode' - a remix of the underground Afrobeat classic by Aleke Kanonu .
'Sugamomma' - an uptempo deep house disco track, feat. vocals from a young Stevie Wonder. Lauren Laverne made this her Tune of the Week on BBC Radio 6.

What the tastemakers say ...
* Pete Herbert : "Bloody great!"
* Chris Todd/Crazy P : "These are ace!"
* Dan Psychemagik : "The N'Gwode edit gets a proper dance floor boost without losing the essence of the original. Love this!""
* Tim 'Love' Lee : "It's a scorcher! Nice work"

After mixing and releasing tracks with disco dons Pete Herbert, Payfone, Tim 'Love' Lee, Phil Mison, Richard Fearless, and Balearic legends Jose Padilla and Bubble Club, this is the first release on 12Tree's own imprint.

This Time The Armed Disco-duo (berlin-based Producer Alexander Palmestål Aka Mythologen And Gothenburg-based Mikael Enqvist) Returns With A Industrial And Quite "krauty" Seven Inch-revenge. First Track 'organs & Drums' Will Manipulate You Like A Hare Krishna Recruitee Would - If He Or She Had A Manic Groove And Swagger. B-side 'beat Of The Tune' Has An Autobahn Baseline Combined With A Dreamlike Landscape That Will Drag You Up To A Place Where Neu!:s Golden Era Echoes Inside Yer Head Like An Appealing Conny Plankocd!

Over his twenty year The Hacker has traversed a spread of styles, from frosted electro to raging techno slammers. "Midnight Bliss" shows another side of this multitalented artist. Warmth flows from the title piece. Clean rhythm patterns are spiked by synthlines as liquid melodies are swirled into a carefree cocktail that simply radiates. 'Heavy Duty Disco' takes over the flip and runs headlong into speakers. The Hacker builds a track of generous proportions. Textured keys weave through columns of toms and snapping beats before bruising basslines descend for a late night encounter of formidable intent. Without doubt, a future classic from a classic creator.

Our Mexican brother for the second time on Disco Fruit. Hotmood continues to give fantastic jazzy, funky, afro and disco groove blended with house elements on each release. We can say...his style is now recognizable. Tropical EP with 4 tracks for everyone's taste, similar to the first one EP, called 'Mr Funkyman'. Enjoy !

Rise to the top. I've got to make it to the top. The empowering hook that shook up dance floors in 1999 is back, and it couldn't come at a better time. Featuring mixes from house heavyweights Soul Clap, Robosonic, and Deep Dish, this package is likely our most prodigious yet, as we continue going down the memory lane with our Yoshitoshi 20th anniversary packages.
Soul Clap's Sounds of Life Remix feels like church on a Saturday night. It's big organs and uplifting energy carry the original preacher vocal like a seasoned gospel group, while the drums - reminiscent of early Masters At Work, keep the groove going nicely. As the nearly-ten minute arrangement unwinds, Soul Clap's expertise as purveyors of modern funk becomes apparent, It's deep, it's soulful, its funky, Its vintage Soul Clap.
In other news, Robosonic are back with their third Yoshi classic remix! The boys flex their funk muscle with a mix that is equal parts classic house and modern banger, and sports one of their best bass lines to date. The original vocal has been perfectly interlaced with this track's propulsive beat.
Finally, the mix that meant everything, the original Deep Dish vs. Eddie Amador version. This mix tore down walls 15 years ago with an infectious vocal hook and relentless bassline that has stood the test of time, and now comes to you remastered.

Finnitus 7-inch time!

Finnitus Edits #3 is yet another serving of incredibly dodgy bargain bin tracks trimmed into submission and ready for the floor.
Side A's 'Klabb & babb' is a Space Disco heater, while side B's 'Eroding in Africa' is your standard below-par Bony M-esque Afro flirt, made into something you can dance to.

While their trademark sound has always been flourished with plenty of nods to the past - think jazz-funk, disco, acid jazz and boogie - Reel People's career has been forged on crafting new songs and instrumentals. For their latest album, "Retroflection", they've decided to flip the script, serving up a set of covers of classic cuts with the assistance of some notable vocalists. It's a neat twist and one that results in a string of superb revisions. Check, for example, the Mica Paris-fronted take on Alicia Meyers' "I Want To Thank You", their starry version of electrofunk staple "Don't Stop The Music" (complete with sublime Angie Stone vocal), an Incognito style take on Willie Bobo's "Always There" and a riotous, scene-stealing romp through Pleasure favourite "Joyous".

Macadam mambo djs hail from Lyon France , Sacha mambo and guillaume des bois are collectors and top notch djs.
The macadam mambo record label is a firm favourite with Lenny paradise so it only made sense to ask the French duo for some of their cuts for the passport to paradise label . Four tracks again in various styles all aimed at the more discerning dance floors .

3 Rough and ready discotheque weapons, thought to be long lost, but now back on the streets for your DJ bag. Super limited vinyl only pressing. Early support from: Ben UFO, Midland, Gilb'R, DJ Nature, The Maghreban, Joe, Erol Alkan & more.

From a discarded CDR, rediscovered in a dark corner in a sun kissed flea market in Versailles we bring you some rare and unheard personal edits from the archives of the city's Pierre Yves Marie. A name not familiar to many, Pierre was a locally known DJ and switched-on music lover whose interests in Disco, Italo, HI-NRG and early house sounds led him to visit the USA - particularly the midwest - numerous times throughout the late 80's and early 90's. It was here, inspired by the DJ's he heard firsthand in Chicago, Detroit and other places he visited that he became inspired to create his own versions and mixes of tracks to play at his small Disco parties at the city's "Les Caves Du Roi", an intimate club space that allowed Pierre to create his own atmosphere where he attracted a hedonistic, stylish and very mixed crowd to hear him play. These edits were rediscovered a few years back, languishing in a shoebox at said flea-market, dumped after Pierre's struggles with the 'party life' in the late 1990's and he was eventually tracked down via some solid detective work and local knowledge. He has, after much discussion, very kindly allowed a limited amount of these unique DJ tools to be pressed onto wax. Being a keen follower of technology, he had originally transferred his reels and tape edits onto CDR's in the early 1990's, which lends a lo-fi and raw vibe to these edits. We feel this surely adds charm and beauty to these roughly hewn personal mixes and we are lucky to be able to share in this small piece of history.

In a new transatlantic partnership, UK label Secret Reels and Washington, DC imprint Better Listen Records have teamed up for a run of collaborative records. The joint brand, Secret Listen, combines the labels in sound as well as in name. Imagine the lush, pensive and moody deep house tones of Secret Reels joining with the sample-heavy disco soul leanings of BLR.Secret Listen Vol. 1 takes two artists each from both rosters for the first amalgamation. The "Secret Side" hosting English producers Harry Wolfman and Chocky, while the "Listen Side" invites Sune and Vitamin D of High Hat Appreciation Society and the newly founded Honey Butter Records to the affair.It's a V/A release with a variety of offerings and flavours. Wolfman's "Floozy" sits first in the record as a bright and whimsical flute-led morsel, while Chocky's "Inner Disco" is a cerebral, loopy cut. On the flip, Sune provides some exquisite Rhodes action in his groovy midtempo effort, "Glidin'", and his Swedish compatriot closes out the affair with the bittersweet "Lately".

OVERVIEW: To celebrate 40 years since their formation in Leeds in 1978, Soft Cell, aka Marc Almond and Dave Ball, release some brand-new remixes this summer on their own Big Frock imprint.

Soft Cell have been synonymous with the club scene since their debut single release Memorabilia in 1981, (produced by Mute Records' Daniel Miller) which is widely cited by many dance music luminaries as the first ever acid house record. The band cut their teeth and built their notoriety in clubs across the world, from Leeds Warehouse right across the Atlantic to New York's legendary Danceteria. Second single Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go went on to become one of the biggest club (and chart) hits of all time, reaching Number 1 in 17 countries later in 1981. The first true electronic UK duo, the band have sold over 30 million records throughout their career and have been covered or sampled by artists as diverse as Rihanna, Nine Inch Nails, a-Ha and Marilyn Manson, and well as influencing many others. The EP features remixes chosen by two internationally-renowned UK DJs, both massive fans of Soft Cell. Hifi Sean has remixed Insecure Me, B side to 1982 single Torch, as well as So, flip side to the single What. Jon Pleased Wimmin has remixed one of Soft Cell's earliest compositions, A Man Could Get Lost.

While intended as a club tool for DJs, Soft Cell are making available a strictly limited number of the 12' picture disc EP, for their fans, on a first come, first served basis. These mixes will not be released on any other format, and do not feature on the upcoming Keychains & Snowstorms: The Soft Cell Story box set.

Bitter End continue to forge a path that's entirely their own, with another in the limited pre-release series...

'Dimension Extension' on side A, cooks up a sumptuously throbbing, cockle-warming Disco stew from the meagre ingredients of a sprouted wah wah guitar potato, brass carrots and a bouquet garni of dizzying strings. Yum
On the flip 'Be There Again' takes as inspiration a swirling Funk-Soul nugget from '77, augmented with some 21st century sonic sorcery and most welcome synth noodle in the 3rd act

Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns

Light years ahead !

UK deep house legend Nail returns to Monologues Records for a full release after his sublime 'Decisions' featured on the 'Dialogue Vol. 2' various artists 12" at the end of last year. Ever consistent, he delivers two deliciously deep gems. 'Voodoo' is a low-down chugger, chunky beats doing battle with disco and soul samples in hypnotic effect. 'On Wid It' also oozes soul in its vocal sample and twinkling keys, a garage tinge to its groove. G. Markus steps up for the remix of 'Voodoo', keeping things rolling and injecting a big groove of a bassline into the proceedings.

Taken for the widely played and adored Lenny Williams Spark of Love Album, which was released during the Disco Era of 1976 and featured disco hits like, 'You got me Running', I still Reach and 'Midnight Girl' comes 'Changes.'

Edits and Overdubs Produced and Performed by Joaquin Joe Clausell; Changes is the tune that was mostly ignored from the extensive Lenny Williams music catalogue.
Similar to his past works where he chooses songs that are mostly un popular to the outside world but classics amongst himself and his siblings at home, Joaquin Joe Claussell takes this Jam that he used to groove to at home as a young teenager, lifts it out from obscurity and turns it into something that will sure be played by most DJ's who are into the Lenny Williams Sound, soulful disco and beyond.

Listed at a time length of (5:03) Joe cleverly up lifts this soulful disco composition and extends it to a time of (9:01). He achieves this, as usual, with respecting the original composition and with never anyself-masturbation. In the end, the results are a New Disco Classic that drives with relentless energy and enough soul for anyone who's seeking more soul that hailed mostly from the urban side of American disco music.
So, listen, dance and spin.

Lenny Williams - Changes Edits & Overdubs by Joaquin Joe Claussell will be the first single to come out from the forth coming Joaquin Joe Claussell Presents Edits & Overdubs PT 2 2XCD and Special Limited 7Inch.

New Aussie label, Corella Records, run by producer/DJ Blind Tiger (formerly Captn K) is broadening the repertoire with a second release, a new indie disco
12" single, Forbidden Fruit.
Forbidden Fruit - Field of Fruit Mix, is the one to check out. It's an indie dance/nu-disco excursion with driving bass and piano. Reverb slathered vocals from Steve Hensby
and dreamy strings make this track an uplifting 8 minute journey.
With a touch of early Chicago House in the piano stabs, Georgio Moroder in the rhythm, the drive of Underworld and repetitive elements reminiscent of Field.

Forbidden Fruit - Original Mix, is serving up some classic disco with funky synth bass, driving drums and percussion and the full range of vocalist Steve Hensby makes this a great dance floor mover.

Forbidden Fruit - Fruit Jam Mix, Blind Tiger delivers party jam vibes. Complete with electro drum machine, party goers and warped electric guitar from Luke

Dux. It's a fun, stripped-back remix, that feels like the guys have stumbled on a vintage drum machine and a bunch of instruments at a house party and start cooking up a fruity jam.
A little of something for everyone on this one, check it out.

Tel Aviv's Hectik and Asaf Samuel come with a vicious edit of a drunk and rowdy wedding classic. Mexico's Mufti takes the Maserati into overdrive with his rework of an 80's heater. International waters won't be muddied by this unity of lust and fury.

Kicking off the first of two tracks by Sondrio Night Train is smooth and subtle, this melodic low slung groover is made for those warm summer days. The Deep tones give the low end just enough attitude to get those boots knocking.

Give It Like is punchy and upbeat, Sondrio gives you a dance floor weapon that'll have the punters up in arms. His signature low end notes drive this record with vocal stabs that will fit in any set.

First up on B side Ant LaRock drops another groovy house number Better Think with a mesmerising vocal laid on top of nothing but luscious chords. Summer needs records like this, it's what memories are made of.

Ant also delivers Pleasure that feels like a good DJ tool perfect to break up those disco vocals with choppy chords, swinging drums and a cheeky vocal to match.

House music at its finest.

Support from artists

Demuir, Black Loops, Greco, Buried King, Colour Castle, Jay Bhana, Litmus, Antoine Vice, French Toast (DJ MAG), Paul Scott ( Pioneer DJ Radio), Nick Spurway, Tom Ackroyd, Pesci (Trojan House Records), Jerk Boy (So Silly), Bronx, Loz Goddard (Outplay), VO (Hot Sunday), Arthur Baris, Ramon Lopez, Supermini, Donald Leicester, Peekay, Oscar de Lima, Adamwah, Pantheon (Unknown Records), Jack N Jerk, Brillstein, Jason Hodges, HOOPS, Ludovic, Avon Stringer, Juany Bravo, Brillstein

Radio plays include Data Transmission Radio, Pioneer Global Radio, FBI Radio, Housewerk Radio

Manchester, 2016. 1/3 FRAK & NEBULA = THE SYSEX MEETING. Disco - House - experimental Hip House and parapsychic jazz. Limited 300x