Ahead of his performance at Farr Festival this summer, we invited Heist Recordings regular Frits Wentink to give us a taste of his current musical inclinations in this hour-long mix. Expect deep-cut grooves and low-slung soul.
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Leon Vynehall: Rojus (Designed To Dance)
The new double 12″ from Leon Vynehall is not an album. Great pains have been gone to ensure this point is chipped into stone, right up to the bracketed ‘Designed To Dance’ subtitle, yet here is Vynehall, levitating like a zen master.
Premiere: Photonz – Parque Da Liberdade (The Phantom Remix)
Fresh off the release of the excellent ‘Lotus Wheel On My Orion’ on Ali Renault’s Vivod, London-based producer Photonz returns with ‘Corroios Royalty’ EP – an ode to the suburb of Lisbon in which Rodrigues grew up.
Premiere: Giorgio Luceri – Along Came Ra
The opening track, ‘Along Came Ra’ which we’re glad to bring you in full-stream today, is a soulful twist of cheerful jazzy tones that slowly increase their rhythm to stumble on off-kilter broken beats and chopped-up vocals sneaking in and around the melody.
Farr Festival x Inverted Audio: Into The Woods with Park Ranger
Trouble Vision’s resident deejay ‘Park Ranger’ interlaces a broad range of lo-fi house music in this podcast for Farr Festival featuring tracks from Lauer, D.K., Medler, Betonkust & Palmbomen II and Avalon Emerson. Enjoy the trip!
Globex: Inversia 1
Getting out in the light for the release and release only, this is how Acting Press operates – each offering being delivered as an autonomous piece, existing in and for itself whilst driven by the immediacy of the consecrated in-club experience. A silent process crowned with massive impact.
Luca Lozano + Mr. Ho: Visions Of Rhythm
Similar in essence to its ‘Dobb Meep’ and ‘Drip Box’ predecessors, this new three-tracker from the Klasse Recordings pair goes straight for the jugular, dishing out a playful shifting of spacious harmonics and skittish drumwork gone wild.
Premiere: Peggy Gou – When Round, They Go
Following Peggy Gou’s debut on Radio Slave’s Rekids imprint, we’re proud to premiere the second part of the ‘Art Of War’ EP with “When Round, They Go” offering a window into her world of deep and chunky grooves.
Luca Lozano
Klasse Recordings label owner Luca Lozano found a gap in his busy timetable and laid down a belter of a fiery club-focused mix for us. We took the chance to find out more about all label-related ideas and process, current mood and projects as well as his epic label designs and personal street art backdrop.
In Conversation: Found Festival 2016
Ahead of Found Festival at Brockwell Park on June 11th, we caught up with the team behind Found (Karl Fuller and Yas Galletti) to discover more about the challenges and programming behind running a festival in London.
D.K.: Island Of Dreams
Whilst a major part of the current retro-driven house and electronica sometimes feels like losing itself in vain convolutions, D.K.’s sound certainly offers a way finer rethink of the well-tried recipes he gets to toy with.
Premiere: Social Service – Late Feeling
Today, we’re glad to bring you the exclusive premiere of ‘Late Feeling’, a Janus-faced groover bridging the gap between a fumy downtempo drift and a mazy, club-friendly backbone. One for the lo-fi pathfinders and askew techno lovers.
Farr Festival x Inverted Audio: Into The Woods with Hammer
Recorded live at Sub Club with a Gregg’s sausage roll and an ice-cold pint of Tennant’s in hand, Feel My Bicep affiliate Hammer weaves a trip through the highs and lows of Italo, disco and house.
Best Releases: March 2016
From Low Jack’s massive new LP on the ever-vanguard Modern Love to DJ Slyngshot’s debut effort out of the Yappin circle for the newborn Place No Blame, onto Suzanne Kraft’s summer-flavored ‘DJ Safety Track’ for Stuttgart’s finest Kitjen, there’s been full flocks of nuggets flying aplenty. Here’s our recap.
Pinkman announce Art Crime ‘Still Life’
Fresh off the release of Drvg Cvltvre’s new album ‘Into The Endless Night’, Rotterdam-based label Pinkman announce the imminent approach of Russian producer Art Crime with ‘Still Life’, a four-tracker scheduled for landing early May.
Farr Festival x Inverted Audio: Into The Woods with Project Pablo
Chances are you’re feeling a little jaded following Easter weekend…to help ease you out of your chocolate induced stupor, we’ve enlisted Canadian lo-fi house protagonist Project Pablo to deliver the twelfth mix for our podcast series we’re curating for Farr Festival and what a treat it is!