the moment has come for the latest stl platter provocative titled time is just an illusion to take place on your turntable in order to spin for pleasure and delight. surfacing from the local diy remote headquarter, something is calling like minded listeners and friends of analog deep house jams to take a trip out with three time evaporating tracks and two continuous etched loops.

etui records has opened the winter camp again and invited friends

nico stojan and david keno team up once again and they delivered a deep and soulful, melodic house record that will make a lot of friends these last days of summer. our hit machine beatamines doesnt let us down this time with his great remix of >how does it feel<. marvin hey and ferdinand dreyssig strip the original track to its basics and come up with a very functional interpretation with a great percussive vibe. lovely.

hidden fees is ivan berko and thomas gluibizzi, lifelong friends and conductors on new york citys underground dance music railroad. travellers in multiple decades of the citys ever-evolving time and space, the duo curate a perfect combination of grit and groove from each corner of the five boroughs and filter through the funky, spunky so what ep for beats in space records.

after a successful first year, untzz twelve inch start off 2014 with their first extended player, a collaborative offering between friends freddie norwood & dass on 180 gram vinyl. freddie touched gold since his debut they never used to stay out all night, winning the hearts of selectors and home listeners alike, and the tongue in cheek how low can u go went on to become an anthem of both european and australian summers. all the while dass has maintained a strong presence in the shadows, honing a dark and atmospheric sound that remains inviting for the creatures of the night. together, they have crafted an elegant and timeless record showcasing a further look into what is still to come from untzz twelve inch.

shadow sanctuary is the home of london based artist dexter kane. whilst the imprint is primarily an outlet for his own music, showcasing work from friends, established artists and rising talent is also a large part of its ethos.

so it begins, our good friends zoo look kindly kick off the abstract culture legacy, due out late this year the duo have worked out 2 awesome original cuts that each get remixed by some fine talent, together like this is the a-side and made with the dancefloor in mind, check it!

we start this year with the next release on freebase records and we are veryhappy, that our friends from dop made a killer remix for us!

at the end of the 90s a few friends united by love for music used to meet in an underground place dubbed last drop where they collected vinyl sharing music. our music comes from our souls and for us the music is the universal language of any hearts. last drop records born from the need of spread our concept to make music connecting with the universe ... music is connection.

in october last year, kompakt presented until the end of time (kompakt 288 cd111), a new full-length from hiroshi watanabe aka kaito putting an end to a long and meagre period of time for fans of the veteran producer who saw his last proper release and that was the way (kompakt 208) three years ago. as with hiroshis earlier full-length offerings, we are truly excited to bring you a special beatless version of the new album called less time until the end that shines a different light on the original opus.
the vinyl lp comes with a cd-copy of the full album.

the label of lars wickinger celebrates the number 010 of so what music.its time again for a various artist with a huge vinyl package and some friends likemadison & gaudier, marc de vole, du & ich and lars wickinger himself.played by: ramon tapia, benoît carretier, joseph capriati, someone else

played by raresh, dyed soundorom, dop, djulz, jef k...
for the next release we have set the bpm slower, we offer you the 1st collaboration between jaw, gaffy & varoslav, all good friends for years. its a pleasure to deliver such a superb original track made of vintage warm analog sounds surrounded by the mystical vocals by jaw. and there was something interesting to say about the parts of the track... we have invited some friends and producers from totally different places but one they all have in common is their passion for the warm sound. edward (from white-aim) who just delivered some of the most beautiful tracks & remixes this year so far and the lovely new comers from netherlands: times are ruff who has as their name indicates has a very personal touch and ruff sound.

janis guckes is a friendly musician from frankfurt. his love of music has led him to many a band and project. socialized in the robert johnson club, where he found his way to club music in the late nineties, he now produces excellent house in his own kitchen. he also runs a label with two friends, >house is ok<, where he released his first records.

the glossy yet deep electro power ballad from little jinders 2013 break up album, gets the remix treatment from two of her stockholm friends who also happen to be some of the hottest underground house producers around.

this is our second release on 136grad recordings from our friends from italy, manuel & katy aka digital project feat. katy blue. this nice package contents their single nowhere with some huge remixes from our friends ben anders, david bucka and superbuzz.

london based imprint wetyourself! will release the appiness l.p by british duo app this ? the first long player for the label and an incredibly unique body of work

for the last release of 2013 be as one has kept a very unique collaboration under wrap between two great friends and producers, shlomi aber and guti. the result of this encounter is blossom, a track where drums and basslines smoothly fuse together creating a funk swing on a tech roll, its deep, chunky and steady.

we stick with our concept for the second release. putting some of our own and some of our good friends music on a v/a ep. this time we have bartellow, a dedicated musician with several projects and bands. spirits combines his disco-affinity with raw deep house sounds and an ecstatic vocal sample. lewy l is the pseudonym for collaborations within our very family. getting rid of limitations this is the name we put our jam sessions results abigail brought a collabo track with nubody from melbourne from the time he spent living in australia last but not least its einerweniger, long time friend from munich with his typically groovy approach on house music. there will be more of him in future productions.

following his breakthrough release on cult bristol label happy skulls, which carried a tearing funkineven remix, adjowa marks his second release of the year with a slamming addition to the dba dubs series. beautiful swimmers own max d (known to his friends, but perhaps not his family, as maximillion dunbar), contributes the compulsory us remix on the flip, drawing on the grime, jungle and breakbeat hardcore tropes to create a truly otherworldly banger.

dville is the first single from the upcoming full length album reality is what you can get away with. dville is a return to a sacred recording place, omniscient recording studios first in berkeley and now in oakland, california and a collaboration between long time friends matt nee and josh tonnissen as kompvte and inspired by natural beauty and open air mountaintop festivals

i will never forget the many dancefloor dates my friends and i had with harry romero back in the late 90s and early naughties. nobody turned out beats like *choo choo*. cro-magnon, erectus, tania, night at the black, suck my clock, beats vol. 1 & 2, mas pito (as mongobonix), the list goes on and on… each and every one a seminal house smash, played by all and still sounding as fresh today as they did on their first spin. 2013 is the beginning of a new chapter for harry, parting ways with his long time label group subliminal, after completing a ten year deal, he is now free to release with other labels, and importantly, return directly to the beats. already forging ahead with new releases on ovum (under his vaggio alias) and sneaks i m a house gangster among others, here he makes his debut on circus recordings.

the on-going celebration of delsin reaching 100 releases continues here with the 4th in the series of 100dsr releases. featuring key label friends redshape, d5 and area forty_one, its another compelling package.

vinyl only. 180 gramm. following on the success of our first studio r release, the imprint returns for the second time with the same concept: a documentation of friends making important contributions to contemporary culture. on the next go around, we focus more on known talent to deliver a balanced, powerful blend of modern club music. as summer makes way for the annual rebirth through fall and winter, studio r s second compilation illuminates the mood of the seasons long dark nights, tailor-made for dancing. mastering by stefan betke (scape mastering)

hello fellow! edit lovers and disco nostalgic, here we are with the fourth release by enzinos! everything is changing! i am losing my hairs and realizing that wrinkles are going on and on in my face but the style is still the same! in this release, little enzino and his crazy friends are going to let you taste a purely house a side, whereas in the b side funky atmosphere will mix up with boogie disco for exquisite tastes. warm up your decks people!

following the release of his debut album home & garden, jay shepheard returns to his own retrofit imprint to present the albums remix ep. label friends locked groove and jacques renault remix two much love and type one a respectively, while jay takes the reins himself to rework 48 stacey and orbis tertius.

after re-launching touchin bass with two killer eps from quinoline yellow and plaster, we are now celebrating 12 fine years by bringing you an 11 track compilation featuring tracks from some old friends of the label as well as introductions to some new. this compilation *present tense* sets out to recapture some of the essence of the past but also launches you into the future with some innovative and talented artists from all around the globe.

milanese house imprint dabit records welcomes accatone in to their ever growing stable of talented producers. the portuguese house maestro (josé reis to his friends) made a quiet start to the year, but has started racking up the releases in recent months, turning out a thoughtful techy 4 tracker

friends for many years, richard sen and scott fraser come together with a dose of mutual admiration and back slapping by remixing each other on this 2 track ep. however, what makes this collaboration different is there are no original versions appearing, just these remixes.

so here i am, happily an album older, introducing the first of adamants remix packages. since the whole project was, generally speaking, a personal affair and a lot of the album was not necessarily club-ready (does that even make sense?), we invited our friends on board to do the dirty deeds for me and rework my sounds into something normal people can dance to. first up are mind against.

hayat zor is a beautiful blend of rave-nostalgia, 80s electro-pop and italo, all shot through with a melancholic, wistful air. working with analog synths, vintage drum machines, live instrumentation, and the help of a few friends and collaborators along the way. encompassing four original productions, hayat zor is a collection on which emotional resonance and technical expertise sit side by side. the vinyl comes with download code for the full ep, including 2 remixes by gavin russom and petrels.

plastic soul is a collaborative project between paul bateman and bob bhamra – two old friends with a penchant for procrastination that makes my bloody valentine look like stock, aitken and waterman. after several years of to and fro, wncl017 is finally in the bag…

rare strictly groove #01 is the first chap. of a series of 12 inches which include the best unreleased tracks from artists already in the labels roster and very close friends. this v/a open with *waltz to share* by avenir, a quite old track from the very superb catalogue of our favorite producer from palermo. modern and fresh deep house, enriched by the beautiful voice of clara and some precise arrangements of space sounds and more vocals. also we find two tracks by salvatore stallone, one of the artist is influencing more at this time, with his unique and amazing jazzy touch and incredible eclectism. *etes* and *brian off* are both very concrete underground pearls, inspired by masterpieces of the past. but the main theme of this release is dedicated to *the king* by daughters & sons. some expert house rhythms and groove with his name looped in an involving memory.

the seventh record released by the miteinander musik imprint extends summer for another couple of turns – the birds tweet and the waterfall splashes on mm007. trinidad, three swiss guys with an affinity for instruments and beats, deliver two melodious house tracks: >l oiseau< and >cascades<. two masters of their trade, stefano ritteri and yooj, take care of the remixes. italian expat ritteri, who runs his congaloid label out of london and who without a doubt counts to the ever-growing circle of friends of the miteinander musik family, lends >l oiseau< more tempo and swing. yooj, who found his way from his native san francisco all the way to the turntables of respected outlets such as berlins watergate, reinterprets >cascades< as a garage-influenced tune.

damian schwartz and jonas kopp, two old friends and part of the esperanza family come back to the label to deliver a split ep full of deepness and dubby yet summerish feeling. a side, hidden house its the deep cut of the record with a huge detroit feeling, analog synths, melodies, pads. chords, strings. jonas track on the b side is a great tool we have been using for years already, 100% his own unique stlyle of dubby techno. must have!

drei lange jahre sind vergangen seit kaitos letztem regulaeren release and that was the way (kompakt 208), zu lang fuer fans des altgedienten produzenten. nachdem die hungrige meute bereits mit der vorab-12inch behind my life (kompakt 284) angefixt wurde, präsentiert kompakt nun ein neues album mit dem titel until the end of time. das doppel-vinyl erscheint inklusive cd-version des albums.

polymath james leyland kirby must surely have one of the most confounding cvs in the business: he spent years taking the piss out of the music industry with anthems rallying against the (vv)mcps, he notoriously fell out with various well known record labels for reasons you ll just have to google, goaded aphex twin with a series of tributes and channelled his love of everything from falco (rock me amadeus), chris de burgh, frankie goes to hollywood and stockport karaoke nights into a stream of increasingly bizzare 7 s back in the early noughties. but at the same time he was responsible for releasing some of the very earliest material from boards of canada (hell interface: 1997), made a ruck of frankly groundbreaking industrial electronic records, brought new beat to the worlds attention and, in 1999, made his first album as the caretaker, a project that would go on to release some of the most loved ambient/ lynchian albums of recent times.

myles serges saure music group expands its self to create smg limited. smg limited showcases only special and one of a kind tracks in a vinyl only format. the 1st release is from two of our good friends plural (aka james johnson) and general vex who split the release to create pure madness!

after whispering the name >the jaydes< for a few months, the dame-music crew is proud to finally reveal their first single >step on light< on a vinyl only release. the jaydes are a collaboration between two friends and studio partners bloody mary and attan. their first remix of anaxander >7 ways< on the last dame-music release was a good introduction to their album, that >step on light< is a hint on what is forthcoming. the album, due in february 2014 will include nine tracks and some serious featuring artists. >step on light< rises from its very strong 80s influences to the 21st century with class and power. the swinging drums and the percussive bass mark the tone and lead the groove all the way till the end.

the two red hot producers drop their first collaborative ep on defected. huxley & shenoda are two of the most in-demand producers on the underground house scene and the chatsworth sound ep is the pairs full collaborative debut. long time friends and label mates on hypercolour and huxleys saints & sonnets, the duo have undeniable studio chemistry and chatsworth sound debuts it beautifully.

the light fantastic is a dancefloor orientated club album with a range of influences like – deep house, vintage synthesizers, classic boogie, disco, chicago jack, acid house, and even a dash of full-throttle rave revivalism.

cumpa limited is a vinyl and digital chilean label company. it is born in 2013 under the motivation of a group of friends and lovers of electronic dance music for dance floor. our label constantly looks for an harmonic fusion of organic melodies and synthetic textures through voices and folk roots sounds, managing to deliver a spatial personality to our rhythms.
this label has a strong tendency for the rescue of our electronic sound culture, which has enabled us to enter in the sets of recognized djs and be identified worldwide as the chilestyle sound. cumpa limited requires to all producers to have a special personality in order to become a real cumpa (friend).

die frage ist sicher nur rhetorisch: does anybody wanna funk? fragt paulo mendonca, und wer den schweden mit portugiesischer herkunft kennt, weiß: sein funk funktioniert! nach hunderttausenden verkauften tonträgern und tourneen mit größen wie tina turner gibts ein wiederhören mit dem großen funk-gitarristen.
18 jahre lang veröffentlichte paulo keine alben mehr, er trat zwar noch live auf, widmete sich aber sonst ganz seinem verlag in london. doch dann juckte es ihn wieder in den fingern. er begann, songs für ein neues album zu schreiben und aufzunehmen. das resultat ist ein feuerwerk aus funk und rock, handgemacht und sehr groovy.
der vinyl-lp liegt ein download-code für das gesamte album bei.

mellys uses striking kicks. sobre and efficient his sounds are physical and brings a natural born good feeling on the dancefloor. the a-side is all about that, a powerfull dancefloor 180 bpm fat confort. his selectas of friends tunes on b-side is exactly on the same scale. format c brings an obsessing hardtek oldschool tune while zside brings a superb dancefloor track as well. honstely this is a total sticking 100% to the peur bleue sound style. digging for more collab! and very awaiting playing this record for real on the dancefloor!

to mark a decade of their live techno outfit, exercise one release a new album and series of vinyl remix eps by friends and fellow travellers from along the road. choosing 10 remixes for their 10 years of performing live and 9 tracks on the album for 9 years of releasing records.

following four releases in the bangers and ash 12 inch series, styles upon styles inaugurates the label proper with an ep from our friends and community cohorts, archie pelago. from their earliest digital releases on end fence and tectonic, through substantial 12 inches via mister saturday night, well rounded, and their recent self-released transmissions (sly gazabo ep and breezy whey), each body of work from the trio of hirshi, kroba and cosmo d contributes to a growing narrative in their catalogue of improvised, acoustic-electronic dance music. mastered and cut by matt colton at alchemy in london. pressed at mpo in france with artwork from calvin ho and sus sleeve design by tschiegg.

growing up in the deep south of germany with multi ethnic friends and big interest in many different music genres of the world, borrowed identity built his wide knowledge in music. this variety in his musical taste is also the reason why he is working under different aliases producing a big variety of sound from ambient to house to experimental music and everything inbetween.

vinyl only. 180 gramm vinyl. shrinked. its ten years since both tom ellis and leif released their first ever vinyl record mindtours 06, which also featured label boss steevio. this marked the beginning of tom and leifs steadily growing reputation on the international underground house and techno scene, with both artists releasing countless records and tracks on many important labels, and as founders and residents of the much respected freerotation festival, all three friends now enjoy worldwide exposure.

hirofumi goto aka rondenion made his debut releases on still music back in 2005. shortly after, he released a streak of detroit infused house 12 on rushhour, aesthetic audio and more to great critical acclaim. a dj and producer born in japan. he began working as a recording artist in the late 90s under the name hirofumi goto, and released his global debut, >ameria ep<. it drew attention for its dark beats, unusual for a japanese artist, and was played by top djs like derrik may. he changed his name to rondenion to show respect to chicago and detroit, and began working on an overseas release. ultimately, his love bound ep was released by major labels such as >rush hour< and became a big hit. it reached the top on the rushhourstore sales chart, and became popular in europe. in 2012 he formed >ragrange symphony< with his old friends no milk and kez ym, and he is currently working on a number of projects for his own record label, >ragrange records<.after being approached by roundabout sounds for a remix, discussions shortly after were directed towards a plan for releasing rondenions debut album on both vinyl (roundabout sounds) and digital (plug research). the result is the luster grand hotel debut album, ready to drop in september 2013. luster grand hotel is the most accomplished project from rondenion, an absolute blend of detroit and chicago house, reminiscent of the music from moodymann, theo parrish and rick wilhite. a must have for any real house music fans.

close friends woo york return to dynamic reflection with an all new ep two great original tracks, vacuum and oka, accompanied by two outstanding remixes from label residents samuli kemppi and unbalance!