released in 1988, tougher than leather was the culmination of the rap/rock road that run-dmc travelled in since their earlier albums king of rock movlp675 and raising hell movlp633. its superb production, booming 808 beats combined with guitar samples, catchy choruses and smart rhymes made tougher than leather undoubtedly the best hip hop record that came out in 1988. great tracks include *mary, mary*, *runs house* and *i m not going out like that*. its equal appeal to hip hop as well as rock fans made the album a million seller, and underlined run-dmcs stature as living hip hop legends all over the world.
pressing on 180 gram audiophile vinyl.

for some grungy vocal house music with a touch of chicago percussion and a healthy splash of the indie-synth wave that came crashing over electronic music in the late 2000s, scissor & thread s black light smoke might be 2014 s answer to danton eeprom circa 2009. we say danton eeprom, as the voice on the b2, -screws in my head-, has a similar tone and enunciation of the frenchman, or are we getting mixed up with mathew dear? the title-track, -firefly-, brings back memories of azari & iii s debut ep only with druggy vocals coming from what could be the basement of a dfa rave in new york, while -morning comes- borrows some cowbells from the rapture and sultry french inspirations from jane birken. -black bricks- then provides some slo-mo, lo-fi phase filtered house - and one hell of a bassline. alternative electronics for the indie lover

der detroiter produzent apollo brown liefert mit -thirty eight- ein instrumentalalbum, dass geschickt die lücke zwischen 70er blaxploitation-soundtracks von größen wie curtis mayfield oder marvin gaye und den hip hop-platten, die von ihnen sampleten, überbrückt. der new yorker rapper roc marciano wird auf zwei stücken der bonus 7 inch gefeatured.

vol. 6 with great disco edits

deep and sexy 12- with two tracks taken from the forthcoming hell of a funky solo debut album country city country and an old school techno cut by prime numbers trus me. big with joy orbison, mosca, nina kravitz, dettmann, antal rushour, tini, deetron, spencer, ryan elliot. further support by kalabrese, crowdpleaser.

jiaolong011 sees daphni teaming up with composer/arranger owen pallett (final fantasy/arcade fire/beirut etc..) the a-side has been a staple in daphnis dj sets for the last year delivering bassweight worldwide. *that track is an enigma - when i listen to it at home it seems relatively innocuous but when i play it out all hell breaks loose*, says dan. the b-side is something even more strange and special - tiberius is perhaps the worlds first microtonal electroacoustic violin techno track.

play it say it is a hot new label brought to you courtesy of seth troxler, and the first release is a one-side monster of a track by sharam (deep dish) and featuring manfred manns earth band. hot on the heels of deep dishs recently released club hit quincy, sharam releases tripi, a rib-rattling, earth-shaker destined to cause maximum dance floor pandemonium. an incessant dirty as hell synth line underpins the colossal driving force of this beast as the rhythm breaks down to the unearthly enchanting keyboard break courtesy of manfred manns earth band. tripi was endemic throughout wmc and expect to hear it everywhere this summer. already getting heavy support, tripi is destined for big things. seth has kicked off his new label in style. expect more floor fillers in this vain from other luminaires on play it say it this summer. and remember, when you play it, say it!

re-issue of motörheads 1993 album *bastards*.

bedlam isrc – asylum limbo, psychotic sock draw and raving halfway-house ... some truths – man as samovar, staunch somnambulist, man as memory…aural yves klein seas sluiced from a flotilla of ohm-loan bugbrand & electro-harmonix vessels ... a sound accrued by loitering long at skipjack tables & tape duplicating plants ... the joyous melancholy seeping from this lps patched folk o ertones has been a reassuring cloak for me since its porous ones & twos dripped into the mm inbox. an album you can wear whose universal backstory is told deftly via these gilt-edged electronic daubs without sugar-coating – there is none of this soundtrack to a film yet to be made clotting up the ear canals…a basking shark of an album that gently filters the ill from the krill. some truths are bigger than others.

red rising out of the ruins - dystopian producer and mastermind rodhad follow up with his third ep on dystopian since 2012. in three tracks between hell and mars, the red techno man shows his amazing melancholic and deep style.

luaka bop will release william onyeabor - what?!, for which the label partnered with moog to commission remixes and covers of the remarkably elusive african electronic artist william onyeabor, on 2lp vinyl for record store day, april 19. the collection features reworkings of world psychedelic classics 5: who is william onyeabor?, one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2013. in the absence of participation from onyeabor, who long ago turned his back on music, luaka bop continues to engage other artists to create work, inspired by onyeabor, in various mediums. william onyeabor - what?! opens with hot chips cover of the onyeabor landmark *atomic bomb* and also includes jd twitchs (optimo) cover of *why go to war?*.

best single ever! (dj hell)support from the likes of ewan pearson, eric duncan, kiki, busy p, joris voorn, laurent garnier, and michel cleis

maddisco is back again with yet another 4 edits all on one 12inch, first up we have a serious piece of dance music designed for maximum effect on the dance floor, infectious bass line, heavy hammond organ, tight drums, add some brass stabs bit of guitar with just a sprinkling of vocals and weve got one hell of a party vibe goin on.

from the often indistinct morass of modern hip-hop comes something so singular as to merit special attention wrote the guardian about: brownstudys tell me more about bubble album, released on third ear in 2005. a most soulfully cerebral volume of no-pose wisdom. mojo wrote, musically: brownstudy evokes the clammy, distressed soul of sly stones riot, and the lush visions of 4 hero. life well lived is brownstudys new album. 11 songs (9 lyrical flows and 2 intrumentals).

when you listen to this ep you cannot keep yourself stable. your heart pulsates like a bat out of the hell, your blood boils for the rhythm, your soul lingers on one side to the other of the room where your body tries to check the discharge of adrenaline as it emerges.

cannibal society is a dutch hardtechno label straight from the city of rotterdam, serving you some serious rotterdamage.

bokhari number 8, features 2 deep as you like tracks from frances master of quality over quantity, life recorder - including the acid eiffel-esque toms of times.
b side is from russian newcomer semerka with a classy as hell real deal house remix from firecrackers fudge fingas.

part 4 of our 4 sampler 10 years full pupp compilation. each 12inch has 4 brand new exclusive tracks a 12inch. norwegians finest. cost to coast and hot as hell.

four tracks of gritty club ammo straight outta the east side torrents ... from bleep era warehouse vibes to sweaty dub to all out jak madness.

part 3 of our 4 sampler 10 years full pupp compilation. each 12 inch has 4 brand new exclusive tracks from norwegians finest young adults. cost to coast - out of the cold - hot as hell.

dublin born colin cloughley, aka anodyne, has been producing twisted electronic music since the 90s, forging links with labels such as psychonaviagation, combat and skam along the way. he creates emotive, yet dark futuristic tracks, inspired by ancient machines, experimental technology and desolate landscapes. produced using a mixture of analog and digital synthesis, the fractured ep fuses futurist electro beats with darkside breaks and analogue synths. limited to 300 copies worldwide, this vinyl version features 2 tracks exclusive to the physical release.

part 1 of our 4 sample 10 years full pupp compilation. each 12 inch has 4 brand new exclusive tracks from norwegians finest young adults. cost to coast - out of the cold - hot as hell.

part 2 of our 4 sampler 10 years full pupp compilation. each 12 inch has 4 brand new exclusive tracks from norwegians finest young adults. cost to coast - out of the cold - hot as hell.

the first keep it zen release of 2014 is a big one: future major player and romanian house gangster paco wegmann returns to us with a full four track ep titled pimpin. no bullshit, just real house music! the ep, already been spun by the likes of dj sneak, is loaded with raw underground grooves, jacking as hell chicago beats and killer bass line workouts that will feature heavily in other a-list sets this new year

one of chicagos most slept on remixers drops this 12 inch on tugboat edits featuring two of his best edits, unavailable anywhere until now: snakes and caveman. in 2013 he had releases on persnickety, grimy edits, and lumberjacks in hell and rocked it. hand stamped and numbered 12 inch.

coming off of a successful run of 3 hot vinyl releases from the same number of labels in the between mid-sept and mid-november,hit it n quit it(lumberjacks in hell label), mlk dreams/over my face(persnickety sounds label) & get up move your body (grimy edits label) cratebug slams you with yet another trio of bangers to feed your dance floor

2014 repress on black double vinyl, including cover foto as mini-poster.

only few copies! amazing piece of house!! future in sound presents its new face late in 2013, with its first release of the year. reaching its 10th edition in december 2012, the new year started with fis preparing for big things! future in sound kicked off its own network >listen & discover< bringing music from only underground/upcoming artists and labels from all around the place.in addition to that, fisr will be on vinyl! fisr011 is one hell of a package. following some detroit, electronica, tech, more electronica and some minimal techno (hailing from germany of course), we land right back into the house of house, with some french summer loving vibes by the talented florian muller project.

repress in pink vinyl ... supported by: ricardo villalobos, dj hell, karotte, gabriel ananda, tocadisco, john acquaviva, oliver huntemann, umek, joel mull, pig & dan, italoboyz, dirt crew, disco boys, moguai, delon & dalcan and many many more. it doesnt happen every day, that a record is released, which can be found in the cases of the italo- and the dicso boys, of tocadisco and the dirt crew, of markus lange and pig & dan, but then again, butch does not release on a.f.u. limited every day. butchs follow-up to his smash-remix for silent breeds >sync in< on a.f.u. brought him on the radar of monika kruse, karotte and blackstrobe and has proven the foundation of this hype surrounding him through the quality of his >butch ep<. 3 tracks, >mushroom man<, >tickles< and >botanik< have found fans from all continents and genres, which is the result of clever and new arrangements, high sound quality and funny and innovative ideas. butch is coming! watch out

highly recommended! back to the basics, raw, grimy and underground. produced by detroits own dj roach. this ep gets em up!! its simple. not too much, just funky as hell detroit style. this is a label to watch

the road to hell is paved in gold. one that guides to disorder, repression and eventually a last leap into od. yes, boy, this is life. unfair, menacing, dark and twisted, like the new ep from r-a-g out on lux rec. the dutch trio presents its first release outside the m>o>s legacy and delivers three excessive tracks wandering on the fringes of the jacking zone, analog techno and wavy obscurity. walk in, embrace life. hear it pulsates, disappear. gold vinyl in a gold printed sleeve. free download included.

pressing on transparent double 12 inch vinyl. comes in printed sleeve with detachable postcard.

syndrome syndrome is gardlands debut full-length album. its timely release captures the fever pitch of gardlands off-kilter electronic music at the tail end of the groups first year.

last year m.a.n.d.y. brought over their new release, twisted sister, 2 tracks - whereas the title track already received the full remix treatment via dj hell, uffe and more. this time we take the second track superstitious and give it a whirl. djedjotronic, chaim, and just be take their turn, and the results are amazing! be sure to pick this one up as soon as you can and keep a lookout for the very special edition vinyl coming soon to get physical music!

original soundtrack from nicolas winding refn s movie : valhalla rising

another french producer on local talk? yes, you are damn right. let us welcome max fader aka s3a (sampling is an art) to the family. we have been keeping an eye on this talented producer who has been making waves with his massive releases on phonogram, hold youth and 4lux. sleepless 909 and intensity are great examples of s3as tightly spliced works of wonder. disco and funk fueled loops paired together with slammin hi-hats and organ stabs. does it kick? hell yes! this 10 inch will keep any party moving. local talk is talking to you!

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.

through the gate of hell a wild savage forest of wretched souls had let me frozen and faint. now all is heard. lux rec presents the second appearance of echo 106 on the label. free download included.

well worth the almost lifetime of waiting, luaka bop present world psychedelic classics 5: who is william onyeabor. spread across 3 lps wit download code included, this is the essential collection of one of the most unique and mysterious musicians in recent history.

prspct xtrm 009 by the dj producer will be unleashed to the masses...

laurent garnier on tribute & fantasy ep: since the very first ep arno released a few years back on his own imprint, i have been a big fan of his productions. arno has always stood apart from the so-called hype and has developed his own style of trippy-as-hell dancefloor grooves.

rockabilly meets punkrock aus schweden!

this august nexgen music unscrews the lid of a huge jar of summer goodness with four new tracks from a selection of their newest, and finest artists from around the globe. with a roller factor of 10, all four of these musical gems ooze afternoons in the park, cloudless skies, beers on the balcony, and cosmic dancing.

arts is an independent label established in 2013 based on sonic dimensions. after the great success of the first release, arts is back with one hell of a legend called samuel l session (sls), he comes with a full leght ep of 4 tracks, depth of research that goes into the sonic dimension in his own unique way.

early support from martyn, michael mayer, dj hell, ame, deetron..(locked groove rmx) talbot wood was featured on a various artists ep on other heights earlier this year, but this is his debut ep with a stomping locked groove rmx

massive curtis mayfield album, incl hit tracks : move on up & (dont you) if theres a hell below, we re all going to go

humans latest ep emerges with obvious maturation, each track carrying a depth of sound, evolved production, and focused vision, while never straying from their early commitment to make music for the dancefloor. the duo recently played sxsw and cmw and are set to tour with young empires this summer.