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woulg takes us on a wild trip, delivered on purple marbled 180 gram vinyl.

2 eclectic summer jams filled with earworm melodies and retro drums right in time for the festivalseason

soundway releases new compilation of rare 1980s south african ‘bubblegum’ & boogie
in 1980s black south africa a local form of pop music evolved as the disco boom died down and slowly mutated. it was often ubiquitously described as bubblegum - usually stripped-down and lo-fi with a predominance of synths, keyboards and drum-machines and overlaid with the kind of deeply soulful trademark vocals and harmonies that south african music is famous for. compilers miles cleret (soundway) and dj okapi (afrosynth records) present a selection of 18 rare, handpicked 1980s cuts that highlight the period that nestles in between the ‘70s (where american-influenced jazz, funk and soul bumped shoulders with local mbaqanga) and the ‘90s when kwaito and eventually house-music ruled the dancefloors of urban south africa.

ruis nummer 7 mit zwei hypnotische minimal groover

live process madness by a young fellow from grenoble, france, deeply influenced by 90s techno and minimal wave, signed to in paradisum

auch auf ihrem sechsten album >bubblegum<, das von john congleton (bill callahan, st vincent) produziert wurde, gelingt es clinic einmal mehr, den eigenen hochgelobten stil neu zu interpretieren: wo bisher treibende riffs und aufgedrehte vocals zu hören waren, werden jetzt traumlandschaften voller cembalos, hackbretter und fließender streicher aufgebaut. zeit, die titelgebende single zu veröffentlichen. >bubblegum< ist ein perfektes beispiel, wie clinic sich in poppigere gefilde vorwagen, dabei jedoch ihr etwas schelmisch-freches augenzwinkern beibehalten. inklusive klasse mark e remix!

cool spaced out, funked up italo disco grooves

90s post rock, remastered

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limited pressing on bubblegum pink vinyl.

10th anniversary platinum blonde edition - magenta coloured double vinyl in embossed gatefold sleeve.

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upfront hand stamped promo copy of this bangin south african bubblegum tune, with house club mix on the flip!

second album from the international teachers of pop on limited bubblegum pink vinyl.

obed ngobeni and his backing singers the kurhula sisters were among the originators of shangaan disco, a genre that helped shape south africas bubblegum sound of the 80s.

exzellente compilation mit den lieblingssongs des jahres 2018 der britischen rough trade-shops. eine hochqualitative auswahl von echten musikkennern und -liebhaber/innen quer durch alle genres der aktuellen independent-szene - von den Überfliegern khruangbin über israel nash und baxter dury bis zu goat girl, bodega und den idles.

the 80s italo disco /proto-house classic ‘mbo theme’ by the mighty klein & mbo, repressed! comes with an heavy (and unheard) south african version on the flip. huge tip! the mbo theme (1983) has been a dance floor favorite since decades, created by mario boncaldo and tony carrasco - the legendary italian/us duo klein & mbo. the track got support in nyc and chicago by greats as larry levan, frankie knuckles and ron hardy.
the rare version on the flip is created by a south-african band called warrior. rush hour explain how they came across the track: “we bumped into this version on a south african record digging trip. it took us a few months to realize the scarcity of this version. ian osrin, a well respected engineer in south-africa who was involved in many 80ties and 90ties bubblegum, kwaito and south african disco records, explained us about music distribution in south africa during apartheid.

incl .roland, carl watson , charles vernon on, love dream, fancy and more

music from syd dale’s amphonic music library, made from 1973 to 1985. compiled by alan gubby.

incl. her in demand tune -tomorrow- . six-track anthology of south african singer ntombi ndaba, featuring 2 songs from 3 of her solo albums, mina ngiljaji (1988), mama nature (1989) and why me (1991). . ntombi ndaba first rose to fame in 1985 with ntombi & survival, becoming one of the most popular singers of the bubblegum era. after setting up the independent label anneko with her producer a.t. ‘rubber’ khoza in 1988, she went solo. following khoza’s death in the early 1990s, ndaba never recorded again. mastered by: wouter brandenberg

the world of b. is like a giant disco ball, where she likes to dance all around and meet some friends to share some music: roger thornhill gave classic disco perfection, hysteric sent a letter from the far east, or maybe from italy, turbo boom-boom chewed a funky bubblegum song to make a housy rolling track and baerlz reworked a boogie track, just what it needed to have the righteous construction for the dancefloor.

off the back of the recent gumba fire compilation, soundway selects more sure-fire disco burners: a 4-track, dancefloor-orientated ep drawing from the heads label out of south africa.

confidence man, das pop-quartett aus brisbane, australien schickt sich weiter an, in diesem jahr der heißeste export aus down under zu werden. nicht umsonst bennent triple j die band schon als the best up-and-coming live band in australia. seit fast einem jahr bringt die australische band fantastische videos raus, lässt sich remixen oder remixt selbst. einen namen haben sie sich aber vorallem mit ihren live-shows gemacht! nun ist es endlich soweit, die elf songs des debütalbum confident music for confident people erscheinen auf heavenly recordings.

late 80s south african dance floor winners only! selected by dj okapi and antal, the compilation holds tracks by jivaro, the hard workers, ayobayo band, s.y.b. & many more. this is the sharp electronic music that fuelled the local pantsula dances during the 80s and 90s . a must have for fans of bubblegum and kwaito music. top tip! the 12 tracks selected for pantsula! come from a very unique, very different time and place. they represent the birth of electronic dance music in south africa, through the songs of one particular independent label from the time: music team. the sound represents the culmination of the bubblegum era, when south africa’s disco artists outgrew their american influences and forged an increasingly electronic and ‘local’ pop sound.

professor rhythm is the production moniker of south african music man thami mdluli. throughout the 1980’s, mdluli was member of chart-topping groups taboo and cjb, playing bubblegum pop to stadiums. mdluli became an in-demand producer for influential artists (like sox and sensations, among many others) and in-house producer for important record companies like eric frisch and tusk. during the early ’80s, mdluli projects usually featured an instrumental dance track. these hot instrumentals became rather popular. fans demanded to hear more of these backing tracks without vocals, he says, so mdluli began to make solo instrumental albums in 1985 as professor rhythm. he got the name before the recordings began, from fans, and positive momentum from audiences and other musicians drove him to invest himself in a full-on solo project. it was the era just before the end of apartheid and house music hadn’t taken over yet. there wasn’t instrumental electronic music yet in south africa. as the ’80s came to a close, that was about to change.

the album’s title makes a direct and heartfelt reference to a real-life l.a. musician, long presumed dead, who resurfaced online in 2007 after 35 reclusive years to pen his autobiography and tragic life story in a series of blogs and youtube tirades. “his book and life resonated with me to such a degree,” pink states, “that i felt a need to dedicate my latest record to him.”

the 04am a-side contains two south-african 80 s bubblegum tracks, revamped by young dj and producer perdu. he provided the tracks with delicate intros and rearranged them with new percussion, synths and deeper basslines. on the flip afrobot delivers two kind of new beat cuts, making the originals more abstract by some heavy chopping, reducing the amount of samples used, and adding disco breaks to the track jungle. handstamped with another drawing by frank koedood.

awesome tapes from africa continues to unearth must-hear gems for a wider audience with its reissue of south african bubblegum music stars umoja s 1988 ep 707. huge tip!

the formula was simple: marry bubblegum and soul to the absolute sincerity of an enthusiastic child, cross your fingers and pray for airplay. but while the youthful sums of that formula may have grown up and walked away from their illusions of stardom, their permanent records remain. by 1973, michael, tito, jermaine, marlon and jackie were as hip as kids could get—household names, with lunchboxes, coloring books, a saturday morning cartoon, and an alpha-bits cereal commercial pushing the j5 brand onto any kid with television reception. their impressive run of four consecutive #1 singles playing on both pop and r&b stations cemented their appeal to both whites and blacks, prompting mgm to launch the osmonds as the safer (read: white) alternative. and parents? well michael had that wrapped up with his impossible-not-to-love mini-james brown thing. even their song selection straddled both sides, with “zip a dee do dah” and “abc” for kids, and contemporary standards “standing in the shadows of love” and “my cherie amour” for the older crowd. this extreme marketing and merchandising juggernaut created the kid soul explosion. a decade removed from our acclaimed home schooled compilation comes a fresh batch of talent show titans. with enterprising parents, neighbors, and teachers turning play dates into recording dates, groups like magical connection, little man and the inquires, and five ounces of soul emulated the jacksons, who’d made grade-school stardom appear easy as abc. afterschool special: the 123s of kid soul contains 19 tiny tunes ranging from bilingual d.a.r.e. anthem, to james brown bio, to young love and life beyond the playground.

nice price deal !!! this is the first single taken from remutes new, entirely crowdfunded album play the game and you can sing a long to it in the shower. get lucky meets bubblegum crisis meets ymo meets 16bit videogames meets ...

nice price deal !!! the creation of >mecha squirrel< has been a long and arduous struggle between the various machinations that inhabit j. saul kane s mind. in the lengthy hiatus since his last release under the depth charge moniker (2004s >hi voltage man<) his musings have taken many points of focus: the homeless cats of north west london, the aesthetic charms of japanese bubblegum machine cards, but always in the background has loomed the ferrous monstrosity of mecha squirrel.

boost, max d s third lp, is coming in february on future times. seven songs acting on instinct. check! mixed in amsterdam with jordan gcz, who also features with additional instrumentation as well as benedek, jack j, and motion graphics.

emotive and raw: this is how house music should be. after some amazing releases on labels such as freerange and hivern discs, kresy comes back to bons records with two tracks: -ridmix (feat. the blacksun)-, a 90 s-feeling house track that will kill the dancefloors of the nightclubs this summer and -bubblegum diskzhouse-, a perfect disco-sample bomb. on the other side, guim (one half of we like turtles) presents -walking in the rain-, a kerri chandler influenced track and -love & fascination-, which combines a romantic vibe with a punchy bass line. you better dance!

the galleria is a new project from morgan geist (storm queen, metro area) that ripples with echoes of the indigenous music of long-gone new jersey malls and nyc radio stations: bombastic freestyle, club dubs, razor-edits and bubblegum-pop r&b.

girlseeker keyboard player and prolific musician jonas frederiksens cassette deck fantasy, toekomstje, finally comes to life on vinyl. includes a colour insert/lyric sheet and sticker. very ltd edition.this is so sick - james pants (stonesthrow)

in 2011, we begin to think about doing a record label. we had been following somaticae for some time and at this moment he was playing some art & punk gigs with a furious live of electronic improv, on the edge between hypnosis and noise. two of these sessions became our second release, *dressed like a bubblegum*, raising the interest of people like surgeon, perc, and peter van hoesen , his remix for mondkopfs *ease your pain* receiving praise from ancient methods as well as labels downwards and avian. but somaticae had already moved forward, and in a matter of a few weeks, he was sending us what quickly and easily took shape as *catharsis*, a ten track piece which is to be the first album release on in paradisum.

produzent und multi-instrumentalist stefan merse ulrich und singer/songwriterein neve aka alexa voss mit hammerdebut, das little dragon mit micatone vereint....

sieben jahre war es musiklisch sehr still um megastar justin timberlake. mitte januar meldete er sich mit einem paukenschlag zurück und lieferte uns mit seiner street-single suit & tie featuring jay z einen ersten vorgeschmack auf sein neues album the 20/20 experience.