Something gotta hold on me! And this 12 is going to have a hold on you once you hit play on those samples. Psychemagik are at it again with a duo of disco edits that are sure to turn up the heat. The consummate digger s diggers, the boys deliver a sizzling slice of soul…
After a few years staying busy with Flowering Inferno and The Western Transient as well as various collaborative projects, Quantic lets off his first proper solo album since 2014’s Magnetica. “This record feels like it grew naturally as I grew to know New York” says William Holland. “I had started the record with electronic sketches…
This excellent cover of The Sweetest Taboo (originally by quiet storm R&B group Sade) was “rediscovered” on a limited cassette mixtape by Beautiful Swimmers (on The Trilogy Tapes), causing much chin scratching and spawning many comments section debates before the source was discovered. In the latter half of the 80’s, as Electronic music spread across…
Sinkane is the primary project of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ahmed Gallab, but he’s no slouch in other areas. Born in England, he spent much of his childhood in Sudan before moving to the US, eventually settling in Ohio. Early on, he drummed for Yeasayer and Of Montreal, and a bit later in the truly incredible…
Can you handle me? Can you keep it up? SSJJ and Devin Dare (Duane Harriott + Sean Marquand) serve up two supple slices of candy-coated boogie bliss for Funkineven aka Steve Julien s Apron Records. SSJJ s side twists up a sweet loop of S***** ***** (snitches get stitches, listen closely and figure it out yourself) for the…
Limited UK import pressing of a rare Detroit beatdown jewel. Originally released in 2005 on short-lived but sweet West End deep house sublabel West End Blue, original copies of Fly Away grew to be increasingly scarce after appearing in sets by Blaze, Floating Points, Rick Wilhite and DJ Qu. The four tracks contained within feature a revolving…
If you came here looking for jungle, stop reading now. If you’re looking for spaced-out, balearic, freeform synth excursions, you’re in the right place. We don’t know much about Live In Napoli, other than it being The Mystic Jungle Tribe’s first ever live performance, and that it was recorded at a place called Semmai Factory, which…
Italo heat alert! NYC s Alliance Upholstery label doing it up once again with a critical reissue of Veronique s 1987 dance floor burner Jungle Man. The track is a sizzling cover of Kongo Band s Afrikan Man with the cheese skimmed off the top and a driving Italo-NRG twist (complete with theme-appropriate OOH-AAYE-OOHS to keep it pumping). The…
I have no idea how or when this happened, but all of a sudden, everyone loves Japanese music. Granted, we’ve all been into Damo Suzuki for decades, but those Haruomi Hosono reissues blew out of here immediately, and Midori Takada is topping year-end lists. As this material gets its first official release in the western world, PPU…