emerging from their recent album release beautiful searching, organic house band ananda project gets an ep with mixes that are bound to get the heads all abuzz. uk soulful house producer sean mccabe whips up a wicked dub on love like this feat. sepsenahki, complete with all its bouncing baseline, funky guitar licks and perfect rhythm. in addition, the world renowned 718 session / body & soul resident danny krivit teams up with japanese producers dazzle drums, and their collaborative efforts on heaven is right here fully enwrap aks sensuous vocal to create a masterfully crafted & beautiful song. last south american deep house producer fabian argomedo remixes menage a trois for a truly deep & moody affair

last night on earth continues to support and pluck artists that are turning heads, with ejeca at the forefront of ushering in the recent heavy 90s revival. his nu-house, garage style is ever present in his latest frequency ep. the first two tracks hi rollin and neva 2 far are dripping with classic vocals and vintage house sound. nassau storm brings a dubby side to the ep, while time for change adds calming intelligent beats fused with soul. last night on earth hit the spot once again as the supreme ejeca puts out another incredible release.

chicagos dj rahaan comes correct on this latest release from dublin disco heads fatty fatty phonographics. dirtyboyz takes an old bobby o production and sticks a rocket up its arse, blending in rough chi-town beats and some vocals from another music box/warehouse classic for some proper peak-time dancefloor devastation. getting up and dance is the kind of string drenched disco-boogie that he laces throughout his epic club sets, with some fiery ron hardy style edits to drive em wild. clap your hands, stomp your feet, meanwhile, rounds it off beautifully, a summery dancefloor swinger with a hellishly catchy chorus and a bouncy groove that just wont quit.

the soft rocks collective feature twice on the upstart black rox label with two heavily tribal remixes for a so far unknown artist. the soft rocks take on *filaw* is wrapped in horns and jungle sounds - not too far off a 1970s brian jackson and gil scott heron collaboration. on the flip is a possible talking heads reference in *once in a life time*, which gathers mesmeric african drums and percussion, grooving in harmony to ritualistic chant. a mohican david byrne perhaps?

hot on the heels of ornate musics last release featuring the bumping house business of digs, the imprint set their sights on welsh producer leif, who has been turning heads with his masterful deep house for labels like fear of flying and fina since 2003. kicking off with *circumstance 4*, whose smooth organ refrain drifts over a lightly rolling groove, the vibe switches up with *every cloud*, whose gentle jazz-inspired piano and abstract, dubbed out soundscape is strongly reminiscent of floating points more freeform productions. however, it is *each day made new* that provides the eps most surprising moment, an andres style hip-hop track with a cut-up, sunshine drenched quality calling recloose to mind.

highly destructive four track ep from the irrepressible, container (spectrum spools), on morphine records. totally deadly, stripped back and direct. following 12inchs from shake shakir, hieroglyphic being, madteo & metasplice, this one is also going to blow up heads...very loud tip! artwork by maria kassab

following on from the very succesful xoom001, the second release heads to deep house territory via artists lp, florian muller and jemaho. opening track my lady by lp hits hard with deep chords and an infectious bassline. we welcome back florian muller again for a2 with the beautiful and spacey solar.

over the last few years douglas greed live with his band has twisted heads at festivals over a few beers.underway with a percussionist and singer he is constantly on the highways ravaging the gas stations of europe – especially for the last few months. what has developed on the stage as a stout twister session for adults is now presented as a music release.the title piece masked up and messed up puts up a fat middle finger to everyone who lets their vanity slip out at the masked ball. the track is a bass-bellied house rocker along with vocals that wink an eye with a snot-nosed chorus added.with 5000 ansi lumen the lights roll on and off with a flick. there isn t anything the neighbors can do by knocking on the door when the cross-trainers are carrying the load of the baseline! the rainfall in the very first beat provides space for a a dried-out drum. in this dusty atmosphere, it builds up ever and ever more and takes flight to the foremost place. a groovy stop and go – dissolved into a supplication for rain and salvation.

after sweating out the winter heatwave generated by chris mitchell and grey people with proper trax 4, alex falk distills a purified form of techno from the often unnecessary complexities of the style. terse—the fifth limited twelve from proper trax–further solidifies the labels unflinching commitment to the rough n tough sounds of the southern us underground. dont sleep, as this one is aimed to take its place in the record bags of the globes in-the-know heads. measure ones approach for a drastic result.

the ukrainian techno heads gather all their experience and mix their visions on this unique collaborative ep. what we have got on the output is something unique called mutual exceptions.

solar one music is always on the search for new missions and now its time for a new series on this label called the crystal issue. focus will be more on acid / chicago / detroit / techno / house which also big influences for the label heads of som. all releases will presented on one sided colored vinyls. first release will be from mantra who also releases on imprints such as bunker, creme, abstract acid etc. this is simply dark acid house at its best. limited edition on orange, marbled, one single-sided vinyl no digital release!

a man that is always thinking outside of the box and constantly turning heads with his super deep, leftfield productions is cameron mclaren or in the world of electronic music consequence.

ltd 200 copies! focused in the rhythm a new sound is coming. minds kept frozen, heads moving up and down confused into the smoke. time has stopped. music as nexus. expand our doctrine.

third installment on bottins own tin imprint. after teasing & pleasing vinyl lovers and hardcore disco heads with the luscious two releases lust & dirty (which sold out in a blink) bottin confirms once again his alliance with synth maestro rodion. the moustached duo delivers an incredibly sharp dance floor weapon aptly named *one for all*. think kraftwerk and metro area on a trip to italy, going to a rockets concert all spattered in silver body-paint. cybernetic disco? humanized techno? decide for yourself. pointy-edged synth layers cutting through the dancing bodies like a knife through butter, thrusting bass, piercing arpeggios, sexy warm chords, even a splash of guitar work and -icing on the space cake- an out-this-world chorus with bottins own processed voice impersonating some charming italo extraterrestrial. - extremely small vinyl edition on starry midnight-blue heavyweight wax!

part two of the idjut boys mixes on file under disco sees the legendary uk dj and production duo drop a tab of acid in jkriv & the disco machines orange juice. with effects units set to stun and a course set for acid disco space … the idjuts work classic acid house elements into these mixes to produce an effect as strong as any dodgy microdot. and with the disco machines authentic disco vocals riding and floating on top of this hybrid blend the result is a truly wanged out and rather devastating piece of dance floor magic. pure idjut style! both cuts can be filed under acid disco and are made for heads.

sampler 2 kicks off with scbs dissipate, a gritty 4/4 number thats been driving dancefloors crazy with its seemingly constantly ascending intro. this is definitely one of scbs finest productions to date and hugely sought after by his followers. basic soul unit provides the aa side, hot off the back of his debut nonplus 12 he continues in the same vein with untoward. this is heads down techno of the finest quality and this time hes thrown some acid into the equation which bubbles and brews into a monster of a track.

400 copies worldwide only! hot off the back of the success of the recent dennis ferrer remix of ‘underground nick curly picks two further ‘between the lines album tracks for remix treatment. this time calling upon osunlade and larry heard to give each track their own unique twist. larry heard aka mr. fingers and osunlade both deliver deep heads down versions perfectly complimenting the originals.

anton kubikov, for more than a decade well known as half of scsi-9, delivers with his solo debut a killer twelve inch for pro-tez records. limited to 300 copies, it is a reduced 4/4 dub vapored ep that unfolds into a blissed out session and sounds like a cross between chain reaction s fluxion and rhythm and sounds more bass-heavy emissions. dub techno heads listen up!

for our 7th release, we give you the opportunity to grab 4 fantastic trax done by one of th ebest deep house producer right now : adryiano. hes a music lover and vinyl enthusiast from cologne germany rooted somewhere inbetween the 90s house sub-genres. pretty much into vintage gear when it comes to productions using 90s hardware like the mpc 2000xl. he has already released a brillant ep on soul notes recordings. this ep is clearly made for the new jerseyish deep house heads. old scool vibe with some serious banging kicks and an incredible groove. such an ep just demonstrate how on top of their game skylax / wax classic is right now - big tip!

tanstaafl ends the year with october and john osborn manning the helm bracing us for the dark days that lie ahead. big kicks and pseudo acid sounds collide with dub sound system principles in this collaboration between the two label heads. limited to 300 units so get them while they last.

mgun is the pseudonym of rising detroit star manuel gonzales. since collaborating with kyle hall as nsnt prjct in 2010, gonzales has developed a uniquely lo-fi sound all of his own, a sound first showcased on his debut solo release which appeared in 2012 on the wild oats imprint. his first release for don’t be afraid will hit stores in october 2012 and is bound to spin heads, demonstrating as it does his particular avant garde take on modern techno, not least the game changing ‘gas chamber’ cut which, at 138 bpm, sounds as at home in bow e3 london as it does in his native detroit.

luc who? marianni? this reclusive french composer paved the underground music history with a handful of mind-blowing lps but still managed to surprisingly fall under the radar. even the experts seem to have forgotten about him when there were clues all over the place! it is true luc marianni didnt belong to no family but his own, with his constant work-in-progress through the gathering of friends and the odd random musical chance meeting.
it is therefore with great pleasure that we offer for the first time in decades the scarce remaining stock of original copies from his first and last vinyls, hoping to turn some heads along the release of the remix ep on ddd records: ddd-lmr-t01 with remixes of jared wlison (detroit), dam mantle (glasgow) and nukubus (rotterdam).

luc who? marianni? this reclusive french composer paved the underground music history with a handful of mind-blowing lps but still managed to surprisingly fall under the radar. even the experts seem to have forgotten about him when there were clues all over the place! it is true luc marianni didnt belong to no family but his own, with his constant work-in-progress through the gathering of friends and the odd random musical chance meeting.
it is therefore with great pleasure that we offer for the first time in decades the scarce remaining stock of original copies from his first and last vinyls, hoping to turn some heads along the release of the remix ep on ddd records: ddd-lmr-t01 with remixes of jared wlison (detroit), dam mantle (glasgow) and nukubus (rotterdam).

already a regular fixture on figure, swedish talent mikael jonasson returns for his third outing on the label with two cutting-edge techno experiments. incredibly crisp and clear, already primed for the worlds finest bigsystems, cravings encapsulates everything that a modern paranoid techno jam should be. surging textures, static-madness and a whole lot of detail wrapped up in a rolling, funky workout. jonasson is well known for his attention to detail and freaky, alien sound effects, and cravings only solidifies his talents there. the fizzing, low slung thump of swings still twists and shimmers in the high frequencies, full of details, but the deeper earthy kick and bass barrage take this one into more serious, heads-down zones. a real slammer for moments when you know youve captured your followers completely

nice price deal !!! we are glad to welcome two gladiators of the slow-house game to our comfortable little home. behling and simpson have turned quite some heads over the last year with great efforts on their homelabel futureboogie recordings and bristol based applepips. with their recognizable slow but jacking sound they have now come up with a mesmerizing 3 track counting ep which covers different sides of their varying flavours.

deep peak-time nu disco at its finest. arms & legs welcomes uk based producer rob made with the dancefloor bomb ‘the way i see featuring the hypnotic vocals of house don pete simpson. this release features a stellar remix from label heads daniel steinberg & nils ohrmann.

vinyl only! focus on quality! strong limited pressing, handnumbered! hand screen printed artwork designed by philip mitton. appian sounds is a new vinyl only label based out of london with firm roots in dublin. the first release is by our good friend and analogue techno don eduardo de la calle. three beautifully crafted techno cuts of varying degrees of intensity to suit all intimate dancefloors.
full support from house heads and techno lovers alike - played by xdb, joey anderson, fred p, dj spider, juniper, imugem orihasam, ney faustini, marcel dettman, derrick may amongst others......

bring u up originally appeared on romans blackmale label in 1995 as a rumbling slice of new jersey garage complete with gospel samples and romanthony collaborator the trojan horse. it was a bit of a cult favourite with underground heads like dj deep. it wasnt until roman completely re-produced and re-sang the song in 2000 that it fully took on anthem status. out went the heavy kicks and hypnotic moods and in came james brown horn stabs and a live beat that sounded like bernard purdie had joined him for the session (the drums were actually provided by roman himself). the result was an instant club hit with everyone from pete tong to francois kevorkian that reached (a very respectable 74) in the uk national charts. on this 12 inch deetrons takes the funk vibe of romans 2000 version and toughens it up for todays dancefloors, lee webster adds a monster baseline and some serious beats. on the flip-side the original blackmale version is re-issued on vinyl for the first time as is an unreleased dj friendly edit of the 2000 version done by kevin mckay.

northern england based outcross records bring you the break out ep this november by inland knights backed with a remix from label heads mam (miguel campbell & matt hughes).

hello listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners. this is the future of the music industry. not the music, just the idea of the artists writing their own pr faffle. next year ill probably have to carry my own bags on tour too tragic.

super-tasty acid cuts from our favourite acid producer, elec pt.1. also featuring etcher, crime scene and takeshi kouzuki. splendid sounds for the oldschool heads. strictly limited edition.

classic album back on audiophile 180 gram double vinyl.

now repressed on clear vinyl !!first own ep from the tanzbar musik label heads binary & durden! with a homage to her homebase near munich, the brothers presents a melodic tech house tune, far away from all the minimal stuff. with a progressive touch and warm melodies, this track represents the fee...

reset robot makes his second appearances of 2012 on truesoul with an expansive ep that explores the middle ground between techno and house. >she lives above the door< stomps heads-down through burrowing grooves before revealing its killer hook, >snotty< rolls out a shuffling deep house inspired vibe.

back and forth starts the autumn with another amazing vinyl, the sixth of its collection. label heads cosmic cowboys this time invite on this baf006 the well know duo johnwaynes from portugal alongside gene, one of israels most talented artists teamed up with a couple of incredible remixers such as tigerskin and molly! baf is back and ready to rumble!

droning techno that will be a hit with the sandwell district heads.

use of weapons 5 lands noisily in your back yard with five house marauders hotter than salma hayek eating a hot apple pie. five different artists bring the bacon: label heads deep space orchestra remixing themselves, ex-cosmic boogie overlord asok, perseus traxx, other worlds and wet play executive board member ruf dug. dont forget to bring a towel.

tresor are pleased to announce kern: a showcase of old meets new, house meets techno, in the form of an exciting mix series aimed at delivering fresh narratives in electronic dance music. kicking off the series is parisian protagonist cyril etienne aka dj deep. selected for his career-defining dedication to detroit techno, nyc and chicago house - the roots of house and techno - as dj, producer and head of the deeply rooted house empire, dj deep heads back to his own origins to present kern vol.1.

expect the usual heads down, subterranean business! side a contains probably the most dance floor friendly track that laak have produced, always true, with a solid bass line and 303 subtleties to get going. the second mix of it adds some classic chords to great effect. flipside is for the underground heads, with a lush brooding track called mixed messages and a slo-mo burner amor meus closing the ep. only available on vinyl as usual.

as the title suggests the new before the show album depicts beginnings and endings. we believe that life has many different beginnings and endings, and that the various journeys we take from one beginning to one end are filled with detours – and it is these detours which continually shape and define us as the people we are. musically years&years&years picks up where hearts and heads left off, however, it has developed towards a bigger and more complex sound image. it can best be described as a combination of sting and peter gabriel on one hand, and smashing pumpkins and radiohead on the other.

orbsessions volume three - an illustrated handbook with stereo sound.
the third and final installment of the orbsessions series is actually a new album, featuring music created specially for werner bootes film >plastic planet<.
>there is a very special atmosphere to this album: two men bouncing ideas and exploring in unique orb style to make a classic orb album, hitting the magic place alex always strives for, but this time with a lustful vengeance tempered with new gentleness and a movie in their heads.<

sixth instalment from the shack and another generous exult in aural pleasing for the intelligent of house heads out there. two original tracks, two in-house remixes, you know the score with these guys…this is how they work. key to the label and artists success is being reliable and consistent with the flow, something obviously being picked up as the label once again is topping the right charts and getting the props from the right people. expect no different with 006.

italian producer joe drive serves you his first ep for 4lux. and what an excellent ep this is. deep house tracks with a true analogue feel. rain dance is an exquisite deep house bomb with smart tr707 drum programming, deep driving bassline and disco-ish vibes. title song junopolis is dedicated to the legendary juno synths and shows you capabilities of these machines in clever fashion. alden tyrell brings you the extremely deep remix for tefnut: steady drum programming with spaced out synth filtering and dubby tape delays. this is one for the heads for sure. joe drives original is included too. recomended!

paper recordings continue their journey back to plastic with another vinyl release once again proving why they remain one of uks best loved labels. jamie l is a mysterious figure of undisclosed origin and history who fits in to the moodymann / theo parrish mold of heavy future disco, which his new production >(what we saw) in the burg< nails. it is a heavy leftfield groove laid over broken house beats with a filtered bass, samples and leftfield vibe. the detroit pad creeps up to the break and filters in and out as the track works its way through for locked down dance floor business. next up, havana candy breaks out the analogue and takes things deeper and techier. with a rolling bass and tweaking acid line, it cuts to a rhodes before filtering down and riding back to the heads down groove. cottam steps up for paper for the first time and demonstrates what all the fuss is about with a very special mix. clocking in at 9.41 it is deep, tough soulful house that crosses the 4/4 divide from techno to disco and deep house to soul.

jolly mayhem, this one is sure to rock the floor & is already getting major support from some serious heads! the flipside is a more mid tempo house affair but is equally as devastating. richard from milwaukee takes on better off, a stomping disco groove which escalates into full-on crowd control.its all about the classics here, with richards trademark chunky percussions & synths galore. did we mention the bassline? kick back to this one. dj kaos jolly jams imprint delivers again!

anders wasserfall from oslo has dedicated his work as a producer to warm sounds and floating atmospheres. this lead to music that earned him releases by greta cottage workshop, soul shift music and bleepsequence. his music starts off chains of associations, blissful deepness, cloudy horizons and dimmed lights start spreading in listeners heads.

craig mcwhinney is a melbourne based dj, producer and live artist. beginning his techno explorations behind the decks in 2000, his transition to the studio has been swift and fruitful. a string of releases on his own label haul music which he co-founded in 2008 with friends mike callander and christian vance, are now being backed up with remixes and eps for speedy js electric deluxe, and brendon moellers steadfast records. drawing upon his wealth of djing experience, he crosses the boundaries of dub infused techno and house with precision and intent, blurring the line between dance floor dynamics, home listening, experimentation and sound design. he is also collaborating with mike callander as haul music live, fusing craigs rhythms with mikes soundscapes to create unique dance floor interpretations of their individual sound experimentations. wild coast is a low-slung filthy minimal romp that possesses as much primal energy as it does futuristic funk. bassbins and heads are likely to be blown by this demented puppy. echologist keeps things lofi, hypnotic and subby.

>sometimes music just needs to be released directly from the soul.< and.id, or andreas as we know him, does not fit the mold of the standard dj or live act. as a swing rhythm trumpeter, he brings a foreign texture in electronic music to the table. his love for live performance, sound boards, equalizers, free styling and jamming in bands has fused his talents into something unique that has the name and.id bouncing off the lips of fans and label heads alike.

icu boy n dread has been making some serious waves of late and when you hear his music, it doesn’t take long to understand why. his debut here on smokin sessions is soulful and beautifully engineered. clean crisp highend frequencies tickle your ear drums and the low end cuts through with a weighty punch. all 3 tracks have been supported by the deep heads page and had a very positive response.