Marcos Valle – Estrelar
This killer piece of Brazilian Boogie from Marcos Valle holds the much-coveted accolade of my favourite record this week. If only his mother knew. She’d be mighty proud. By all accounts, Marcos had a long and varied music career, working his way through pretty much every genre of Brazilian music, and on to psychedelic rock...
The The – GIANT
What an appropriate name for a record. I was reminded of this gem on Facebook recently when the ever generous Rob J had another of his infamous late-night youtube musical spam-fests where he divulges record after record of pretty reliably awesome music. I think its far to say that, as far as uplifting 80s records...
Gregory Porter – 1960 What (Opolopo Kick Bass Rerub)
Ok I’m not going to lie. I co-opted this from a Four Tet website article where he was listing some tracks what he liked. But it’s great, and he doesn’t own it, so BACK OFF. A moving slice of jazzy dancefloor nearly-house that will rightfully position you as a chin-stroking auteur of the finest degree when you pop it...
Yo Yo Honey – Groove On (DJ Pierre Dub)
Feel the pump. DJ Pierre delivering a remix that is EVERYTHING A HOUSE RECORD SHOULD BE in a classic wild pitch style. Pumping bassline? Tick. Vocal about being taken? Tick. Drama? Oh yes, by the bucket load… It’s one of those rare records that somehow manages to be both soft and soulful, yet utterly nasty...
vtothed – We See Cool Babes Dancing In Water
This slice of late night house music has just made its way to the Tube, so I thought I ought to post it up as it’s had a lot of airplay round mine recently. I’m glad someone has posted it to youtube, mainly because it’s helped me figure out how to pronounce the name (vothed?...
Strategy – Dub In My System
Picked up this 7″ the other day and have been listening to it quite a bit since then so thought I’d to the honorable thing and spread the word. ZamZam Sounds is a rather fine little record label from Portland, Oregon who have just had a great run of new 7″ dub releases – a label...
Harmony Cats – Harmony Cats Theme
This is Brazilian disco funk at it’s very best. The Harmony Cats were a Sao Paulo based female quintet who mostly did disco covers of rock songs and movie themes, and apparently were fairly successful in their native Brazil until the group disbanded in the mid-80s. Harmony Cats’ Theme is one of their earlier recordings and...
Disclosure – Flow
Yeah so I know Disclosure are EVERYWHERE right now, but damn, they deserve to be. These youngsters are literally dripping in talent (how a pair of teenage brothers can make their shit sound this good is beyond me). For those of you who are even slower off the mark than me, these two are producing some...
Glitterball @ Secret Garden Party 2012
Good day! Due to a CIA level court injunction, we’ve had to stay relatively schtum about this until now – but finally we can reveal that we’re playing at Secret Garden Party this year! We’ll be joined by Mr. Patrick Pringle – original Glitterball party cog and purveyor of fine Bavarian humming funk – at the Belvadere tent by...
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