Zeal....Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal. In our case devotion to deep, dubby, warm mirco grooves.
The label's first release comes from 'Monsieur Georget' which is an alternative alias for well-known French producer Chris Carrier, who many will recognise from his own label Adult Only Records, along with releases on other labels including Robsoul, One Records, OFF Recordings and Silver Network.
The release also features a remix from stellar German artist DeWalta, who along with a number of seminal releases on Meander, is a regular collaborator with Mike Shannon and boasts releases on other labels including Vakant, Haunt and Visionquest.
Track one titled Le Village Flottant' is the first of the three originals on the release. Setting the tone of what's to come, it has stripped back drums with delicate sprinkles of delay that are brought to life with a wonky lead synth and poignant piano stabs. The track fuses intricacy with dancefloor focused energy.
Second track called Mecrant Des Oceans' has gliding synths that line the back of the mix whilst the morphing tones and subtle squelch of an acid line provides the momentum. Murky and mysterious, there's a metallic ring to the percussion and it's a fine example of how less can often be so much more.
Third on the release is the DeWalta remix of Le Village Flottant' and keeping the originals ride, he adds his own dub Techno influence. With new synth parts he cuts the already stripped drums to a bare minimum, which gives his added synths plenty of room to breathe and creates a captivating ambience.
Finishing the EP is the third original track titled Picnic Dans Le Metro' and like the rest of this release, it twists and turns with rippling textures and deep atmospherics. Each drum hit is crafted with expert precision and every textured synth sound merges to create the perfect groove and mood.
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For its nineth installment Fasten Musique welcomes mysterious French artist Monsieur Georget from Ultrastretch,Do Easy Records and the 2 remixes are served by 2 talented producers.One is the New York based phenomenon Kamran Sadeghi is known for his work with Son of Rose and with Soundwalk Collective and anther is italian artist Third_Child is a new project aimed to mix sounds micro-house and house music.All tracks are a representation of the artists personal take on finely crafted grooves and sound designed elements.Vinyl Only release.
- A1: Matthew Dear - Wrong With Us (Dj-Kicks)
- A2: Kreon - Silo Sol
- A3: Caserta - Ricky (Thatmanmonkz Remix)
- B1: Gwilym Gold X Doc Daneeka - Lust For Sale (Mgf Mix)
- B2: Smoke - Nuutri
- C1: Italojohnson - Itj10B1
- C2: Groovesh - Glowing
- D1: Dudley Strangeways - Hallam
- D2: Gary Sloan & Clone - Harmonitalk (Alex & Digby Edit)
- D3: Dj Khalab & Baba Sissoko - Kumu
- E1: Nils Frahm - Ode (Cd)
- E2: Matthew Dear - Wrong With Us (Dj-Kicks)
- E3: Mahal - Ongaku (Hvl Remix)
- E4: Monsieur Georget - Double Lune (Third Child Boomer Mix)
- E5: Kreon - Silo Sol
- E6: Caserta - Ricky (Thatmanmonkz Remix)
- E7: Gwilym Gold X Doc Daneeka - Lust For Sale (Mgf Mix)
- E8: Smoke - Nuutri
- E9: Decius - Bread & Buttere11Vin Sol - Instinct (Matrixxman Remix)
- E12: Groovesh - Glowing
- E13: Duff Disco - Feed The Horse
- E14: Dudley Strangeways - Hallam
- E15: Alex & Digby - Angolan Rumble
- E16: Gary Sloan & Clone - Harmonitalk (Alex & Digby Edit)
- E17: Randomer - Rendell Pips
- E18: Markus Enochson - Hot Juice Box
- E19: Simian Mobile Disco - Staring At All This Handle
- E20: Pearson Sound - Xlb
- E21: Soulphiction - Sky So High
- E22: Audion - Live Breakdown
- E23: Audion - Starfucker
- E24: Audion - Brines
- E25: Dj Khalab & Baba Sissoko - Kumu
The long established and critically acclaimed DJ-Kicks series kicks off 2017 with suitably accomplished DJ, producer, vocalist and instrumentalist Matthew Dear at the helm.A man of many musical hats, Texas born, Detroit raised Dear has a wide reaching discography that takes in face melting techno as Jabberjaw, dark avant-pop under his own name and intricate minimal as Audion.Often with a gothic slant and full of curiousness, his pensive but playful music is an intoxicating distillation of many different influences, often withhis own stylised vocals at the centre.
Anything goes, everything is OK,’ is New Cool Collective’s free and easy creed. These eight jazz players are continually reinventing themselves, finding new inspiration and inspiring others. Brilliant as ever under a new spotlight, New Cool Collective excels on their 25th album Everything is OK, released by Dox Records this autumn on 25 October 2024.
Earlier this year, the band celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with a pocket-sized ode to their prolific past: 30 Years Live. Having played and partied, the group turned their attention to the future: what next for an ensemble that thrives on musical experiment and collaboration? Where to now? Which way to go to rekindle that creative spark and foster that flame?
New Cool Collective has met the challenge head-on, determined to surprise their audience, and themselves too. They spent a little time reflecting, considering suggestions, weighing up options – eight creative artists exploring, coalescing. Soon their ideas gelled into something special. They laid down a series of tracks that both build on the band’s thirty-year history and feed on a newfound freedom to simply be New Cool Collective. Everything is OK embodies that sense of a group which knows how to surpass expectations, to make music from the heart, to go back to their roots, back to the essence of those early years.
Anything goes, everything is okay on a record that features extensive brass arrangements and orchestral elements. There’s something magnificent about those seductively intimate tracks, something way beyond the traditional orchestral big band sound. New Cool love to experiment with alternative production techniques, developing the final mix themselves to create a unique, unmistakably recognizable sound – however surprising or unusual the music, you know you’re listening to New Cool Collective – like you’re there and the band is playing just for you.
Everything is OK is brimming with ideas, surprise and humour. The music is contemplative, yet it also leads straight to the dance floor: it gets you moving – body and soul. This is music for the intellect, to take you out of your comfort zone and to show you subtly, ironically: is everything really ok?
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