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"After a run of new signings in 2016 - Aus music kick of 2017 with something a little bit different. To inaugurate the new year they welcome in Catz 'N Dogz for three separate interpretations of classic records from the Aus Music archives. Cherry picked from the vast back catalogue are tracks from Bicep, Geeeman and George Fitzgerald - all of which are given a rough, smokey treatment from the PETS Recordings owners. Kicking things off is the remix of Geeman's 'Wanna Go Bang- he title track from his punchy 12-inch from 2015 that now sees a driving and percussive reworking. Bicep 'The Game' is next in line - a track from the Irish duos first solo outing on Aus back in 2013. Soft, overlapping chords are propelled by snapping drums and multiple melodic lines that build an allaying palette The remix of George Fitzgerald's 'Hindsight' then caps things off as more frazzled drums propel a stuttering vocal line and a warped synth pattern. Continuing to keep things fresh - Aus look ahead to another year of new signings and surprises and kick off here with a reminder of the solid foundation that has come before it"

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Courtesy Of Balance welcomes Garrett David, the heir of Chicago house music, resident of Smart Bar's "Queen!" parties alongside Derrick Carter and Michael Serafini. Garrett is a true ninja of all things deep and groovy and every track shows the degree of mastery and knowledge in production as well as in arrangement and flow. This three tracker also sees the title track "The Time" (with Lailah Riech on Vocals) remixed by NIght Sea Journey, a remix collaboration with Colin Johson. As simple as it gets, Garrett sets the record straight and tells you what time it is...

* Over the past six years, Dimensions has become a leading name in the underground, with its festival, International Series, DJ Directory and Dimensions Soundsystem. Now, Dimensions extends its influence with the start of its label - Dimensions Recordings. The label launches with a 12-track compilation across three separate discs. 'An Introduction' makes a huge statement in setting out the label's intent and breadth. With artists established and new stepping up to present 12 exclusive tracks.

* An Introduction Part 2 turns the heat up with more dance floor leaning contributions from four American artists. From long established names such as Lady Blacktronika to relative newcomer Byron The Aquarius, each artist delivers a different but equally powerful piece. Marcos Cabral's 'Prochainement' is a driving, dubbed out melter with stomping kicks and big-room claps under fuzzy synths, whilst Byron The Aquarius drops his signature dose of funk into 'Full Moon'. One of the standout breakthrough artists of last year, the Atlanta producer has been part of the Dimensions team for some time. Queen of Beatdown, Lady Blacktronika steps up with a timeless, tripped-out house classic for her contribution 'Can We Still Be Friends', her vocal oozing melancholy. Rounding up is DJ Aakmael with 'Transit'; a raw, flexing cut that we've come to expect via his massively impressive output and his own superb imprint, UnXpozd Entertainment.

Raw Paper Records and Distorted Portrait present SELF PORTRAIT EP, a banging first release for both the label and the artists.

Distorted Portrait delve into intense musical research territory blending ambiance and cosmic sounds, dubby vibes, techno-mechanical soundscapes and acid squelches.
Take a journey thru dark and creamy atmospheres peppered with relentlessly groovy rhythms.

Remix duty is handled by none other than Imre Kiss, who manages to give a completely new life to the Dirty & Smutty track, making it distinctively his own.

Best served RAW

RFBCOLOURS 004 is aimed at the dark, jazzy smokey affairs. From the off u can see the imspiration fro the EP title with the a1 track from Sombro and Embezzlement Society capturing a low end, horn sampled groover with rough claps and an undeniable groove. Georgi Barrel delivers again with something that will warm up the coldest clubs or capyure you on sunset terraces. Long Island Sound hit the pianos hard on the slower paced but equally as grabbing and tense "Grit". Label owner Jamie Trench rounds off with Night Lanterns which is a track thats been waiting for a space on wax for a good few years now and fits beautifully with the rest of the EP.

Monologues Records' vinyl-only various artists series returns for its second volume with four hot trax. Long-time deep house guru Nail follows-up the successful re-issue of his classic 1996 album 'Big D's Lounge' with an absolute bubbler in the form of 'Decisions', all skippy percussion, woozy keys and slinky double bass. SMBD (commonly known as Brownswood regular Simbad) provides a stomping disco cut-up on 'Captain', a big track propelled by a crunchy, chunky rhythm. Athde remixes American spoken word poet Kamal Imani's 'Cosmic Being' in a lush lo-fi house way with jazzy keys and warm bass, while G. Markus rounds off with the mystical Afro jam 'Moon Face'.

Support: Tom Trago, Danny Tenaglia, Scuba, Laurent Garnier, Kiko Navarro, Funk D#Void, Lrusse, Peter Kruder, Citizen, Luke Solomon, Oliver $ Waze & Odyssey, Larse, Droog, Auntie Flo, Moon Boots, Bonar Bradberry, MJ Cole, Atjazz, Nail, Breach, Golf Clap, Terrence Pearce, Lars Behrenroth, Mia Dora, Michel De Hey, Eli & Fur, Lancelot, Lrusse, Bill Brewster, Severino, Edwin Van Oosterwal, Moodymanc, Piek, Larse, Inland Knights + many more

Udopiya is introducing its record label under the name of "Udopiya Dusk & Dawn" offering a mirror of talented artists (across the planet). The label draws its source from HISHAM's musical univers - who's the multi-instrumentalist of Udopiya's family.

The EP will be the first of 4 Opus composing his debut album
«synesthésie générale» and opens with 'JOY' & 'BLUE' on the Dusk Face. 'JOY' takes you to a cold funk and cinematic atmosphere - led by a heavy bass line and tempered by a dreamy piano. 'BLUE' has a pumping and solid drum within a celestial ambiance...waiting for the bells. On the Dawn Face , while confusion becomes happiness, Melanoman and Aqualung are taking over. The liquid and organic drums of Melanoman keep
your body on earth, while a simple naive piano uplifts your soul : a pure emotional journey. AQUALUNG is a neoriental track with a percutant drum and an aerial piano, which has been inspired by the arab diva Oum Kalthoum .

If « synesthésie » denotes the ability to see music in colors, Hisham initiates here the « synesthésie générale » and expresses a state of sensory fusion between music, colors and moods. The project is gracefully delivered with calligraphied paintings as artwork, courtesy of the irakian artist Hassan Massoudy. 180g vinyl.

Silence In Metropolis is back on vinyl with four hot tracks that span the underground spectrum from deep, soulful, tech to techno.

For those in-the-know know the name Desos (Deso Records / Tsuba). He joins the label with a deep cut Ah Sh' that has smooth overtures and a solid low end that will pump on a club sound system.

We here at SIM have been long fans of Demarkus Lewis and so we are very proud to have him involved on the label with his signature sound highlighted in Spirits High'. Soulful driving deep house at it's best. He's been in the game for a while and for a good reason.

The B side are artists no strangers to SIM. JMF whose Point To Yourself' EP was very well received returns to SIM with a Tech House stomper of a track: Slice'. With JMF's distinct percussive sound and the deep driving groove we have no doubt that this track will be played at a lot of underground parties.

Next up, SIM boys Jus Nowhere & Jackson Ryland are back with a Techno roller coaster that is 3467'. A deep, dark excursion with Jus and Jackson at the helm. These guys are SIM family and they always deliver quality cuts.

Four solid tracks on wax. Enjoy.

Seriously dope Chicago house EP on JT DONALDSON's NEW MATH RECORDS. Dirty Chicago boompty business with 4 mixes including remixes by DERRICK CARTER, SEVEN DAVIS JR. and COLUMBIA NIGHTS. All sure to get the party started with a bang! VERY limited pressing so act fast.

Late 90´s techno producer did some raw detroit tracks. more than a decade later, we have brought the songs from their graves and sascha dive has made a remix.
Get your hands on this limited copy vinyl only release.

The Pathway Traxx journey continues! Following the storming success of the killer PT06 from DJ W!LD we welcome a stomping, home grown, 4 track EP from the Pathway label owner Niko Maxen. This EP has been over 3 years in the making, since the early days of PT01 when Niko produced the original tracks for the label. It has been an intention to follow that release with a solo EP, and that time has now come. True to form, Niko's EP delivers a hard dose of raw house, seductive vocals, slamming kick drums, and skippy hats.
2017 is set to be a big year for Niko as he lines us several big releases and another 4 track vinyl EP all in the early half of the year. It seems now is the perfect time for this in-form artist to come out from the shadows and into the limelight.

The EP comes out punching with the heavy rolling A1 track "The Future". This raw cut of house teases crunchy drums with playful pads and thought provoking vocal dialogue. A2 takes a slightly more laid back swinging stance but keeps the momentum well and truly forward with its rolling baseline. The heavily reverberated vocals and swirling pads, entice the listener into a hypnotic day dream like state, all the while keeping the head nodding with the constant shuffle of high hats and cymbals.

The B-side the release continues much along the same lines as its A-side brother, with "The Intervention" dropping a tonal and bouncy baseline under a flurry of airy chords and stabs. The EP is rounded off perfectly with the downright funky jam, "G-Strings". This punchy groove marries up the best parts of groovy house with teasing hints of disco strings, sure to bring life to any dance floor at any time.

Join two of BBE's most prolific artists and compilers, Mr Thing & Chris Read on a voyage into the mysterious, strange and wonderful world of Library Music, courtesy of Cavendish Music. Founded in 1937 and originally known as Boosey & Hawkes Recorded Music Library, Cavendish Music is the largest independent Library Music publisher in the UK and also represents a host of music catalogues across the globe. During the Library Music heyday of the 60s and 70s, thousands of riginal instrumental tracks were produced across a broad range of enres for companies like Cavendish, who then created vinyl and tape collections, often arranged by theme or mood, for their customers in radio, television and film. Cult British TV shows such as The Sweeney and The Professionals as well as documentaries and feature films relied heavily on these catalogues, and companies like KPM, De Wolfe and Boosey & Hawkes went a long way toward defining the sound of British popular culture at the time. Never commercially available, music created for these libraries that never made it to the promised land of TV or Radio was destined to languish in Cavendish Music's vast London vault; only recently unearthed by a new generation of DJs and producers searching for rare gems or a perfect sample.
Mr Thing & Chris Read were first invited to examine the contents of the Cavendish Music archive in 2014 as part of WhoSampled's 'Samplethon' event in which producers created new tracks against the clock using sample material mined from the catalogue. Whilst digging through box upon box of records and tapes looking for interesting sounds, the pair also discovered a host of 70s library music which has not only stood the test of time, but deserves to be heard in its original form. From dramatic big band numbers reminiscent of Lalo Schifrin's film scores to atmospheric proto-hip hop instrumentals produced before the genre's existence, right through to fairly straightforward jazz and funk cuts; this amazing collection of music is sure to inspire and delight DJs and beatmakers the world over.



















S d2 | The New Dance Orchestra - One Way Trip (Cool Version)

Discos Capablanca return with a record from the mysterious Detroit-based Sharif Laffrey (we know little more than his place of birth, and that he likes to ride his bike and warm weather) who brings the heat on the Turn It Up 12". Recorded in Detroit in the late 80s and released on a cassette tape compilation in 1988, the original "Turn It Up" is a long forgotten gem from the period that Electro was beginning to morph and mutate into nascent forms of Techno. Excavated by Hugo Capablanca's label, the track is presented in an edited version that stays true to the original and complemented by an Acid Dub Not Dub version that implements plenty of deranged 303 action.

written and produced by Unseen
made in Detroit by Detroiters
mastered by José Rico @ Downbeat Studio
released by Dockside Records / Vinyl only

What do you get when you cross a Frenchman, a Dane, two Irishmen and a Swede The debut various artists compilation from Kyoku Records, of course. Gathering the producers who make up their whole discography thus far, the Melbourne-based imprint are welcoming back Dorsi Plantar, Sune, Long Island Sound and Ethyene (alongside Folamour and Marc Bianco). Translating from Japanese to a befitting "dancing birds", the Odoru Tori EP is revitalizing the elegant origami series for one last spin. The orizuru, hachidori, oumu and hakucho, that is, the paper crane, the hummingbird, the parrot and the swan are bringing the handmade array to a suitable conclusion. On the A side, the Scandinavian connection is responsible for bringing some summer heat. Dorsi Plantar sheds his usual wistfulness for a slightly moodier, more functional track with "Senorita Lolita", although still incorporating some of that playful sampling he's now come to be known for. "Californicate" from Sune takes a more laidback approach and channels the breezy and carefree atmosphere of the coastal Golden State. On the flip side, Long Island Sound follow the same recipe that made "Delusions" such a big hit with the intricate sampling and eloquent arrangement of "Ease In". To top things off, Ethyene, with the help of Folamour and Marc Bianco, close out the record with a groovy, vocal number that sees them employ their signature French Touch formula to great effect on the simply titled "Good".

Matlock's finest Rhythm Plate resurface brandishing a new label in Pressed For Time, and what better way to inaugurate it than revisiting one of their key tracks. Released back in 2002 on the Mantis label run by Atjazz, "Lean Part 2" was a wonderfully sleazy slab of deepness notable for the lascivious vocal hook that hung slinkily over the production throughout. It still sounds superb some 13 years on and is backed with an unreleased version that was done in the same period, along with deliciously freaky new "Leaner" mix from the pair.

OTO Casa Discografica celebrates Italy's hidden treasure and hometown: Bologna, the city that gave birth to the most creative italian cultural movements since the mid sixties.

Contemporary art, comics, design, music... You name it, we made it before, better and wilder!

Bologna host the greatest techno club in Italy, Link, where Angelo Sindaco (OTO boss label), Mayo (aka Abyssy) and Luca Ghini filled the dancefloor in the early nineties with a blend of Detroit techno, Chicago House, Electro and their own productions.

Skank Bloc Bologna is a serie of limited 12's in the typical OTO fashion: each volume features four artists/producers from Bologna for a total of 3 issues.

SKANK BLOC BOLOGNA VOL. 01 features:
Sindaco and Carli Moretti's OMBRA SILENZIOSA reworked by Pasta Boys honcho Uovo, Abissy (Mayo) with a pure analog Detroit style gem, a Luca Ghini's typical techno funk lick and, last but not least, Paolo Iocca from RA-1 Records with a dark, powerful dance stomp. Packaging feature a tartan fabric cover (all different!) and an orange silver-screen printed cardboard poster.

Limited edition of 100 pieces.