undecided - jcs feat. patsy fuller (EP) release date: 13/2/2012 - available to download soon
Brand new release from Jeremy Sylvester and Birmingham Jazz/Blues singer Patsy Fuller. Undecided is a modern take of the old Jazz Standard giving it a new burst of energy with House legend Jeremy Sylvester delivering an awesome track designed for the sexiest dance floors all ove rthe world.The original was released in 2009 with huge support from many of the worlds top djs including Roger Sanchez, Dj Disciple, Aarron Ross, Dennis Ferrer, MAsters at Work's Loue Vega & Kenny Dope, Kerri Chandler, Andy Ward, Soul Purpose, Beppe Gioia, Grant Nelson and many more.This new package comes with a nice selection of Deep House/ Soulful House mixes.
adonis - boys noize (EP) release date: 23/1/2012 - available to download
There is hardly any other track so closely connected to Sven Väth's twelfth Ibiza season, like "Adonis" by Alex Ridha aka Boys Noize. With his fusion of Energy Disco with massive percussions and Chicago memories, "Adonis" fitted just perfectly to the intensive late summer we had. But there's still more to come, and so Cocoon Recordings are offering no less than five congenial versions: on the vinyl edition we find, besides the original version, the first remix of "Stone Breaker" Mark E, DJ and producer from Birmingham who recently had the honour to do an album on the well-respected US label Spectral Sound. He skilfully transfers "Adonis" into a hypnotic House opus with a recognisable Detroit pinch. And besides that he opens an After Hour-compatible Motorcity Cosmic Disco with his slower Acid Dub Mix, which is the second Mark E remix, included in the digital version only. Likewise only featured in the digital version and also no stranger to the community is the Frenchman Terence Fixmer. Being well-known as the innovator of a sound symbiosis between Industrial, EBM and Techno (for International Deejay Gigolo, Planete Rouge and Electric Deluxe, among others), he purges the track to a vibrant form of Dark Acid with spare vocals and thus catapults the Acid Trance of the Nineties into the modern age. The Cocoon homie Patrick Kunkel interprets "Adonis" significantly more percussive and takes up the summery atmosphere of the original without ever losing his personal artistic handwriting, while Djedjotronic, companion of Popof and highly promising newcomer on Ridha's Boys Noize label, puts the exceptional qualities of the track in a nutshell, with his compact edit.
compost downbeat selection 2 - various (CD) release date: 9/2011 - available to download
Various - Compost Downbeat Selection Vol. 2 - One Step Forwa
After one and a half decade and more than 370 releases, Compost Records bundles some of their finest tunes as Various Artists digital download compilation albums.
The variety and full spectrum of Compost’s repertoire has never or rarely been presented in form of a musical genre compilation. These releases will be compiled or DJ-mixed by Compost’s artists and are available as digital downloads, except in some rare cases very very limited as 500 CDs. With the second Downbeat Selection, Compost head honcho and compiler Michael Reinboth shows the folky swinging side of the Compost repertoire. Vocal pop and uplifting tunes from our most talented songwriters highlighting a small but delightful spectrum of the Compost vault. Btw, Michael’s life-course shows that he compiled more than 25 compilations in his long term career, his first one was Germany’s first ever Hip Hop sampler called “Krauts With Attitude” in 1988, as well as he compiled two comps for Sleeping Bag Records (released on German label Intercord) with classics from Arthur Russell, Weekend, Konk, Class Action, Todd Terry a.m.o., including linernotes by Michael Reinboth, not to forget the „Future Sound Of Jazz“ (vol.1-11) serie, which will be continued with Vol.12 this autumn 2011.
backflash - kellerkind (EP) release date: 16/1/2012 - available to download
Backflash - as the title of Kellerkinds new EP on Stil vor Talent rightly suggests - is a full-blown blast from the past that utilises 80s aesthetics in order to craft a wonderfully contemporary EP much in vain of the en vogue sound of 2011: slow, forceful goovers with basslines so big, they might just crush you. Nothing less was to be expected of the charismatic Swiss producer Marco Biagini who has already proven his wide-ranging understanding of house music with tracks like Länzer is a Dänzer or Groovebox.
The title track works around a delicately crafted, vintage Miami synth lead: while it naturally provides 'Backflash' with a nostalgic touch, its mellow qualities are lifted by a dangerously obese bassline and devilishly catchy hook. Add Kellerkind's impressive ear for groove and vocal sampling, and you're on to an absolute winner. Moving on, Niko Schwind's remix of 'Backflash' subtly shifts the original's elements around while extending on its vocal sample – a soulful voice urges the listener to 'get it right'. When the break introduces Schwind's trademark piano keys and shuffling rhythmic structures, it's clear that the SVT stalwart is once again on target here.
Kellerkind continues to explore the vintage theme with 'Disco Light', whose laser synths, mesmerising bleeps and chugging bass might just catapult you back to Paradise Garage in '78, were it not for the track's classicist house percussion. Finally, 'Down To' brings the fun back to the dancefloor as Kellerkind's own deep vocal hums serve to replace a traditional bassline. Underlined by yet another beguiling synth motif, 'Down To' concludes this stunningly retro-futuristic EP, which is both, sonically coherent and viciously enjoyable.
talk to me / my goose is cooked - bob williams (EP) release date: 19/12/2011 * reissue * - available to download
Two contrasting R&B killers from this fantastic but little known vocalist! Recorded for RCA in the early '50s as the rock 'n roll era was about to dawn, 'Talk to Me' is a wicked, driving Jump Blues with cool horn riffs and even cooler jangling guitar accompaniment. The flipside 'My Goose Is Cooked' is a greasy piece of twisting Black Rock & Roll which surfaced on two obscure independents near the end of the same decade. Both are sure-fire dance floor sure-shots and very hard to source on their original issues.
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