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Cesare Vs Disorder ‘Antidote LP’

Artist: Cesare vs Disorder
Title: Antidote LP
Label: Serialism Records
Cat. #: SERLP002
Tracklist:
01 What?!
02 Just A Rephlex (vinyl only)
03 I Used To Hold You feat.Joe Le Groove
04 Tá Bom (vinyl only)
05 Oh Lord feat.Mike Ladd
06 Jupiter’s Rain [w.Cristi Cons] (vinyl only)
07 South East (vinyl only)
08 B Urself feat.Rockey Washington (vinyl only)
09 Brixton ’98 (vinyl only)
10 If You Are Free feat.MC Dreaminah
11 Seven feat. San Proper [w.Weg] (vinyl only)
12 Antidote
13 As Vezes (vinyl only)

Introducing Cesare vs Disorder’s highly anticipated debut album, “Antidote”, released via his label Serialism Records. After more than 20 years of relentless studio efforts and shows around the world, Cesare Marchese, the Italian-Polish mastermind behind the project, finally brings a unique blend of musical influences to the dance music scene with his first-ever album.

Born with a passion for classical music and honed through years of training, Cesare’s electronic music journey began in the late 90s when he started DJing, getting exposed to various genres of music, from Hip Hop to Indie Rock, Reggae to Drum’n’Bass. However, his love for Modern Jazz, Brazilian Bossanova, Dub, and Electronica left a significant bearing on his later musical taste. And that’s exactly this rich tapestry of mixed influences that gave life to “Antidote,” which showcases Cesare’s innovative approach to club music, promising to be a musical journey where the sounds of yesterday meet the future of electronic music.

The vinyl-only version unfolds between eight tracks, featuring collaborations with Romanian maestro Cristi cons, Amsterdam’s eclectic San Proper, Rockey Washington – a legendary Los Angeles based MC, and Serialism A&R and longtime Cesare’s friend, Weg.
The journey continues with 5 more tunes added in the digital version including featuring collaborations with visionary Boston Hip Hop Jazz guru, Mike Ladd, London-based DJ producer and captivating voice, Joe Le Groove and American vocalist Aminah Raysor with her moniker MC Dreaminah, and will be exclusively released on streaming platforms, transcending the traditional avenues of web sales channels.

Playful evolving throughout its duration, “Antidote” reflects Cesare’s diverse musical background, drawing inspiration from his early fascination with jungle and breakbeats to his deep appreciation for Trip Hop, Acid Jazz and Eletronica. The result is a captivating blend of old-school emotions and contemporary textures that will leave listeners feeling inspired and transported to another time. With its mixture of nostalgia and modernity, “Antidote” promises to be an unforgettable musical experience.

Lunar Disco ‘Terrible Happiness’

Artist: Lunar Disco
Title: Terrible Happiness
Label: Suck My Disco
Cat. #: SMD004
Format: Digital
Release Date: 6th July 2023
Tracklist:
01. Lunar Disco – Terrible Happiness
02. Lunar Disco – Terrible Happiness (Club Mix)
03. Lunar Disco – Terrible Happiness (Gumm remix)
04. Lunar Disco – Terrible Happiness (Radio Edit)

The glamorous Lunar Disco duo is back with Suck My Disco’s fourth new single, ‘Terrible Happiness’, featuring a remix from Gumm.

Australia-based but born out of the Parisian house music scene, Lunar Disco is DJ and composer Nicolas Blistene and his singer-songwriter partner Kate Elsworth. Together they have a unique mix of live vocals and richly textured electronic sounds that are deep, sensual and playful. Kate has worked with Sonny Fodera and Deep Dish on labels such as Defected, Mobilee, and Cafe Mambo, while Nicolas runs the French Kitchen label and has thrown events worldwide.

The excellent ‘Terrible Happiness’ proves that with seven minutes of uplifting retro-future disco brilliance – the drums are leggy and loose, the chords reach skywards, and Kate’s steamy vocals finish the cosmic trip off in emotional fashion. A Club Mix layers in darker bass that powers things onward even more, but the irresistible vocal remains in place next to expansive chords that take you ever higher.

Remixer Gumm is a mainstay on the Melbourne scene who has gone from renegade party promoter to beloved festival headliner. He co-founded the city’s Darklove brand and mixes up nu-wave, indie and disco. Here he gets dark, with slap-funk drums and prying synths bringing romance and late-night mischief to the original. The vocal becomes more haunting and makes this is very different but equally brilliant version.

This is another faultless package from Lunar Disco.

M.I.T.A. ‘Fatal Attraction EP’

Artist: M.I.T.A.
Title: Fatal Attraction EP
Label: Virgo
Cat. #: VIRGO019D
Format: Digital
Release Date: 5th July 2023
Tracklist
1) King Size Diva
2) Too L8
3) I Need A Fix
4) Fatal Attraction

Ilario Alicante invites M.I.T.A. to his Virgo imprint as the Italian DJ/producer delivers his ‘Fatal Attraction’ EP for his label debut.

Italy’s Mattia Borriello, aka M.I.T.A., has been producing records and playing shows across Europe for over a decade. Releasing music on labels such as Suara, UNCAGE, and Tronic, his style of driving, high-energy and punchy techno has seen support from key industry heavyweights worldwide. Building on a solid start to 2023, following up on his ‘Crazy Tribe’ EP on Paco Osuna’s Mindshake, early summer brings a debut appearance on Ilario Alicante’s excellent Virgo imprint as he readies the release of four powerful productions made for the dancefloor on his ‘Fatal Attraction’ EP.

Launching into the action with a tunnelling groove accented by playful vocal chops and a fiesta-inspired drum workout, lead track ‘King Size Diva’ is a production built to provide energy and vigour to any situation, while ‘Too L8’ brings a slice of funk as rolling drums and further vocal interjections work alongside heavy low-ends for more peak time material. Next, ‘I Need A Fix’ brings warping synths and tripped-out vox’s for a darker and more eerie effort, before closing with the euphoric and high-impact sonics of title production ‘Fatal Attraction’.

Fleur Shore ‘Whensday’

Artist: Fleur Shore
Title: Whensday
Label: Cuttin’ Headz
Cat. #: CH046
Format: Digital
Release Date: 7th July 2023
Tracklist
1. Whensday
2. Don’t Tell Me What To Do
3.Sumthing

Fleur Shore returns to The Martinez Brothers’ Cuttin’ Headz imprint with a trio of slick house cuts across her brand new EP, ‘Whensday’.

As breakthrough years go, Fleur Shore’s 2022 was up there with the best. Nominated for ‘Best Breakthrough DJ’ at DJ Mag’s Best Of British while being named as one of Radio 1’s Future Stars of 2023, the rising talent has taken the early praise and acclaim in her stride as she looks to elevate her sound further. Releases on labels such as Boogeyman and MicroHertz have housed a wealth of material spanning the house genre, while recent tours as far as Brazil have landed ahead of her debut US tour in July. Arriving hot on the heels of her recent Mixmag Lab and sets at fabric, OFF Week and back in Ibiza for Paradise’s 2023 opening party, she makes a long-awaited return to The Martinez Brothers’ Cuttin’ Headz imprint with three bustling productions across her ‘Whensday’ EP.

Bringing together a blend of slinking drum grooves and wonky, off-kilter synths beneath hooky hip-hop vocals, title cut ‘Whensday’ is a track loaded with energy and a production built for getting packed dancefloors moving. Next, ‘Don’t Tell Me What To Do’ is a soulful slice of house, with resonant brass leads met by warped and sweeping leads, all supported by the track’s crisp, rolling percussion, before the bubbling ‘Sumthing’ closes the show with an assault of acid-led grooves and icy hats.

Amy Dabbs & Athlete Whippet ‘Into You’

Artist: Amy Dabbs & Athlete Whippet
Title: Into You
Label: Aus Music
Cat. #: AUS186
Format: Vinyl / Digital
Release Date: 30th June 2023
Tracklist:
A1 – Deep In Your Love
A2 – Into You
B1 – Milkshake

Amy Dabbs and Athlete Whippet deliver a perfectly crafted journey through house music with ‘Into You’ on Aus Music.

The duo’s different yet wholly complementary musical backgrounds – Amy Dabbsbringing her extensive experience as a DJ & electronic music producer, and Athlete Whippet with his background as an instrumentalist & live band musician – have created a winning combination on Into You EP. The product of which is an intricately composed, highly musical suite of tracks produced to perfection for the dancefloor.

Having met for the first time at Cinthie‘s Elevate store in early 2021 for her DJ Kicks launch party, the compilation featuring one of Dabbs’ earlier tracks, Amy Dabbs & Athlete Whippet stayed in touch, which culminated in the decision to start working together in the studio in their shared hometown of Berlin.

Amy Dabbs has released a string of lauded 12”s since her 2020 debut, including her latest highly acclaimed EP on Shall Not Fade, in addition to collaborating with Coco Bryce, launching her own imprint Dabbs Traxx last year, and featuring regularly on BBC Radio1 Dance.

Athlete Whippet, headed up by Robin Braum, have delivered a myriad of esteemed releases across Toy Tonics, Rhythm Section and Tartelet, which have earned heavy support from Pete Tong, Jamz Supernova and Tom Ravenscroft, to name a few.

Teaming up for the first time here, Amy Dabbs & Robin Braum deliver a fiery three-tracker for Will Saul’s Aus Music, covering a variety of moods across the versatile EP. Kicking off the A-side is ‘Deep In Your Love’, with swirling pads and emotive strings tangling around a tear-jerking vocal refrain, which make for a highly moving opener. A2, ‘Into You’ continues the emotional journey with lively percussion, subby basslines, and sensuous vocal samples overlaid with luscious analogue chords played out on the Juno 106. On the flip, ‘Milkshake’ closes out proceedings with a glorious blend of anthemic hands-in-the-air piano riffs and deep acid grooves. This track is a surefire summer hit, set to ignite airwaves and the dancefloor in equal measure.

Various ‘CAID’

Artist: Various Artists
Tracks by: Bendersnatch, Remote Viewing Party, Maxlow & Acid Jerks
Title: CAID
Label: Infolines Music
Cat. #: INFO005
Format: Vinyl/Digital
Release Date: 30th June 2023
Tracklist:
A1 – Bendersnatch – Road Map
A2 – Remote Viewing Party – Sophistry
B1 – Maxlow – Shooting For Saturn feat Motor City Strings
B2 – Acid Jerks – Digital Warfare

Infolines deliver Detroit techno compilation featuring members Bendersnatch, Acid Jerks, Maxlow & Remove Viewing Party.

Infolines is a mostly anonymous collective of Producers, DJs and friends based out of Detroit, with a label focus on compilations showcasing the involved artist’s unique styles. Kicking off the fifth instalment of the label’s V.A. release series is Bendersnatch’ ‘Road Map’. The mysterious artist provides a club-friendly techno tool in which pleasant bleeps transmit themselves over an anchored kickdrum. This is before label co-founders Mike Petrack and Aran Daniel AKA Remote Viewing Party’s ‘Sophistry’ comes in with house-infused guitar riffs, its dreamy melodies soothing the track’s crunchy drums.

The releases then sees Maxlow team up with Detroit-based string artist Motor City Strings, taking you on a scenic journey through space and time, marrying the machine thrum of techno with violin and cello strings. Lastly, Nu Groove, Music For Freaksand Local Talk veterans Acid Jerks make their debut on Infolines with an homage to the early days of Detroit electro jams, boasting lush chords and intergalactic arpeggios while a snappy snare drives the track to distant worlds.

Secret Factory ‘Twilo’s Legend EP’

Artist: Secret Factory
Title: Twilo’s Legend EP
Label: Secret Fusion
Cat. #: SFR038
Format: Digital
Release Date: 30th June 2023
Tracklist:
1. Twilo’s Legend
2. Twilo’s Legend (Ditian Remix)
3. Twilo’s Legend (LERM Interpretation)
4. Magnetic

Vital Hungarian label Secret Fusion is back with a new package of leftfield sounds, this time from label heads Secret Factory with fresh remixes from Ditian and LERM.

Secret Fusion is well known as a legendary underground party that has been the best place to dance in Hungary for over 20 years. Since 2019, it has also been an experimental house, disco and techno label that is just as forward-thinking and essential thanks to the fine curation of label heads Secret Factory. They have a meticulously crafted and synth heavy sound that has taken them to labels like Diynamic and MoBlack and is perfectly exemplified by these two new cuts.

Superb opener ‘Twilo’s Legend’ is a loose and lithe mix of rubbery drums and gentle chords which twist and turn and get joined by a pixelated lead full of hope. It’s artful, synth-heavy house for those moments when you’re lost in the smoke on the heart of the dance floor.

Innervisions associate Ditian steps up with a remix that turns up the synth brightness and works up a more turbulent track with freaky motifs pacing about the mix over a raw bassline. Hungarian artist LERM also remixes but his version stays deep and moody with swaying drums and pixelated stabs locking you in suspense.

The fantastic final original is ‘Magnetic’, a slow-burning mix of tangled synths and drums with crisp hits that come to life on big chords and explosive leads. A moody breakdown rebuilds the tension and when it drops again, the synths ride up and down the scales and take the floor into the next dimension.

This is another forward-thinking package of well-designed electronic sounds from Secret Fusion.

Tibi Dabo ‘Licht’

Artist: Tibi Dabo
Title: Licht
Label: Crosstown Rebels
Cat. #: CRMLP051A
Format: Digital
Release Date: 30th June 2023

Tibi Dabo unveils ‘Licht’, the first of three singles taken from his forthcoming debut album ‘Vista’ on Crosstown Rebels.

Barcelona-born, Berlin-based producer and tastemaker Tibi Dabo walks the line between classic and cutting-edge sonics, journeying deep into rich textures, merging the past, present and future. With a formal background playing the drums and touring Europe and the US with his band, he also has a deep love of electronic music, which leads to a never-ending and absorbing string of experimentation across his material under the Tibi Dabo alias. Releasing a wealth of material on his adopted home label Crosstown Rebels over the years, including original material and remixes of Guti & Dubshape, Carl Craig & Dubfire, and the label boss himself, it makes sense that Damian Lazarus’ renowned imprint welcomes his debut album later in the year. The long-player is set to showcase some of his strongest and most creatively unrestricted material to date and offer up a statement body of work, hinted at and previewed by this superb first single ‘Licht’ – his first material back on the label since 2022’s excellent ‘Isla’ EP.

“Licht, meaning light, is a fitting title for the first single that opens the door and illuminates what I like to describe as a club-oriented, multicoloured safari of an album” – Tibi Dabo.

The majestic ‘Licht’ is a mellifluous mix of lithe synth work and rubbery basslines that are fluid as can be. The tightly interwoven groove bubbles zip amongst radiant energy as wispy synths break out. It’s a sublime and supple concoction that cannot fail to make you want to cut loose on the dance floor and get lost in its subtle cosmic radiance and a charming first offering from the new school tastemaker’s forthcoming LP.

Shane Mahon ‘All Day Dancing’

Artist: Shane Mahon
Title: All Day Dancing
Label: Hottrax
Cat. #: HXT108
Format: Digital
Release Date: 23rd June 2023
Tracklist:
01 All Day Dancing
02 Affection

Shane Mahon makes his debut appearance on Jamie Jones’ Hottrax with ‘All Day Dancing’ this June.

Shane Mahon is a London-based DJ/producer and Sound Engineer who has releases on Harvibal, Zealous Records, and THUNDR, picking up support from SYREETA, Ms. Mada, Marco Carola and Harvey Valencia, and of course, Jamie Jones. Landing on Jones’ label with his latest release, Mahon drops two swinging, UKG-tinged, House tracks sure to set dancefloors alight.

“Jamie Jones has played a massive part in the inspiration of my sound and to now be able to express myself on the label means the world to me. The idea behind this EP is to connect and communicate with everyone listening as a reflection of some of my experiences through music, dancing all day and affection.” – Shane Mahon.

Martinesque ‘Think Outside The Box LP’

Artist: Martinesque
Title: Think Outside The Box (LP)
Label: Adam’s Bite
Cat. #: ADAMLP002
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Release Date: 23rd June 2023
Tracklist
A Space Night
B1 Lost In Time
B2 Replicate
C1 The Broken Circle
C2 Floating Mirror
D Think Outside The Box
E Perceptions
F1 Back In The Days
F2 Beholder

Martinesque · Martinesque | Think Outside The Box | ADAMLP002

Adam’s Bite label regular Martinesque serves up his long-awaited debut album ‘Think Outside The Box’ this June, with the nine-track trip exploring classy dancefloor dynamics drawn from two decades of personal history with electronic music in a coherent but eclectic fashion.

Martinesque, aka Adrian Martin, is a Swiss scene mainstay who brings 90s Mid-Western US style to his tracks. He is also head of bookings at the revered Elysia, having held various vital residencies in Switzerland. Previous outings on the label have mixed up classy house and minimal-leaning techno with meditative rhythms, New York colour and classic acid, and now he ups his game with a debut album on Adam’s Bite that conjures up nostalgic memories of nights gone by, with nods to acid, breaks, pop, trance and big beat tied together by that unique Martinesque style.

“This is a set of transcendent tools dreamt up the morning after and presented to invite receptors to rearrange, reshape, and recompile. This is the sum of its parts, and parts might differ.” – Martinesque.

The album opener ‘Space Night’ is a lithe and elastic house cut with fresh cosmic melodies lifting you off your feet and starting this journey in fine fashion. ‘Lost In Time’ then slips into cruise mode with smooth tech house and trippy sci-fi details over the top of a compelling bassline. ‘Replicate’ ups the ante with more tightly coiled tech funk – the rubbery bass and drums interlinking perfectly as vocal details and alien life forms peel away up top. ‘Broken Circle’ brings expert sound designs and intricate drum programming to another bright, balmy astral tech house cut that suspends you just above the dance floor, while ‘Floating Mirror’ zones you out with its star-gazing pads and molten acid lines over slick deep house drums.

The title track is an epic eight-minute adventure that goes into darker house territory with a real sense of tension, and ‘Perceptions’ is a thumping acid cut with undulating 303s, slinky drums and icy hi hats all working you into a meditative state. After the sublime progressive tribal sounds of ‘Back In The Day’ comes closer ‘Beholder,’ a bristling melange of broken beat loops and cosmic turbulence that zones you out with its richly layered sounds. ‘Think Outside The Box’ does just that and is a sublime soundscape from Martinesque.