The Daisy Age revival starts here
1 (2) DE LA SOUL’S PLUG 1 & PLUG 2 PRESENT FIRST SERVE – MUST B THE MUSIC – PIAS
Upbeat hip hop that sounds fresh with an old skool feel and plenty of bounce to the ounce. Comes with 8 across the board remixes.
2 (1) JAGWA MA – COME SAVE ME – THE BLUE RIDER
Vintage samples, Spencer Davis Group rhythms and 60’s harmonies drive a modern psychedelic pop song that grooves. Comes backed with the tripped out What Love. Infectious.
3 (4) SOAP & SKIN – WONDER – PIAS
A beautiful and haunting piano lament from Austria.
4 (9) LIGHTSHIPS – SWEETNESS IN HER SPARK – GEOGRAPHIC
Debut release from Teenage Fanclub’s Gerard Love’s new outfit. A nostalgic spangling sunshine strummer on a warm breeze. The LP Electric Cables is due in April.
5 (12) LETTHEMUSICPLAY – SPACE / WAVES – LETTHEMUSICPLAY
The rolling, deep, lush and majestic Wave is a towering adrenalin rush, armed with Alex Gopher’s Euro disco mix, RAC’s glistening feel good number and Akiri Kiteshi’s panic stricken caught in a rip. Meanwhile The 2 Bears and Jacques Renault boost Space with added thrust.
6 (17) SUPER BEST FRIENDS CLUB – YES YOU ARE / EVOLUTION – HAKISAC
An intricate and carefully orchestrated ramshackle debut full of loveliness, from this ecstatic London sextet. Just go with it.
7 (16) SWEET LIGHTS – ENDLESS TOWN – HIGHLINE
Shai Halperin returns with a new project and a bittersweet feel good strummer about his home town Philadelphia.
8 (NEW) KRAAK & SMAAK – KRAAK BEATS VOL 2 – JALAPENO
Three tasty cuts to get your Saturday night teeth into. Runnin’ gets us under starters orders with a fine slice of 21st century disco. This Feeling takes the house route picking up some peaking elements along the way, and BPLB puts classic disco vocals over todays house stylings.
9 (11) FEATURECAST – GET LOVELY FT. GREG BLACKMAN – JALAPENO
It certainly is lovely, oozing soul with a cheeky nod, wink & soft shoe shuffle, can’t wait to play it on a sunny day. From the Around The Block EP.
10 (13) THE HACKER – SHOCKWAVE – DIFFERENT
Late 80’s early 90’s European rave complete with those oh so familiar chants of Ecstasy Ecstasy. Gesaffelstein and Mark Archer turn up the pressure. It’ll make you sweat.
11 (15) CHAMBOCHE – METACOMA EP – BLACK KEY
Lead track Mello is a deep percussive builder with lush pads & hooky repetitive synth riffs. Show It shifts up a gear sporting B-Boy swagger and an infectious acid line, and Perpetual Motion is perfect for that still at it sunrise buzz. Intoxicating house at its best.
12 (21) TOMAT – 01-06 JUNE – MONOTREME
Debut LP of out there sonic landscapes made up from 1 synth, 1 guitar and layers & layers of voices, creating an ethereal, almost biblical experience of miracle proportions. Amazing!
13 (NEW) ANDY LEWIS & WESLEY DOYLE – THE BEST OF DAYS / BARNEY’S THEME – ACID JAZZ
Go straight for Barney’s Theme on the flip, a bubble gum dancer that’s a bit Young Holt Trio meets The Archies, bringing 70’s right on cartoons to mind.
14 (14) YPPAH – FILM BURN – NINJA TUNE
Featuring the smokey vocals of Anomie Belle and riding some nice musical 21st century trip hop.
15 (NEW) STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS – STICK FIGURES IN LOVE – DOMINO
Another feel good summer strummer produced by Beck and lifted from the critically acclaimed LP Mirror Traffic.
16 (8) ESCORT – CAMELEON CHAMELEON & STARLIGHT (REMIXES) – NANG
Max Essa gives the disco infused Starlight a back in the day house boost, adding a familiar bassline, and classic percussion.
17 (23) SID LEROCK – TEMPTRESS & THE TAMER EP – MY FAVOURITE ROBOT
Sheldon Thompson marks MFR’s 50th release with a deep warm hypnotic number that contains a distant but up close and personal vocal, which is slightly disturbing and very effective.
18 (10) TANLINES – MIXED EMOTIONS – TRUE PANTHER SOUNDS
New York duo’s debut LP of nice contemporary pop with 80’s licks.
19 (NEW) THE AFEX – SHE’S GOT THE TIME – ACID JAZZ
Originally released in the mid 60’s, then much sought after in the 80’s. Another fitting gem in the Rare Mod EP series.
20 (20) MEMORY 9 – FRACTALS AND BLADES – MNEMONIC DOJO
A sumptuous warm bed of electronics with arpeggio twinkly bits floating around like some sort of magical snow storm. Wide eyed & blissed out. From The Black Dragon EP.
21 (25) TOOB – CHOP HOUSE VOL 1 – TOOB.ORG.UK
The lead cut Wave 4 is a deep and mystic brew that stirs the spirits. Nueva Onda dabbles in voodoo electronics and the title track is all about the delirious celebration after the sacrifice.
22 (24) MOONBOOTICA – ICONIC – CHEAP THRILLS
Heavyweight synths and cut up vocal snippets play simple but very effective riffs over driving house rhythms. From the mischievously titled forthcoming LP Our Disco Is Louder Than Yours.
23 (NEW) VELOCIRAPTOR – IN THE SPRINGTIME – TOO PURE SINGLES CLUB
Australian 12 piece cooking up some exciting snarling dirty basement garage rock with a pop twist. Makes you want to check out one of their gigs.
24 (NEW) VOSPER – RELEASE EP – MEANT
Nice slab of bumping techno from Canada via Paris with a bit of a Danny Tenaglia meets Chicago’s Relief vibe.
25 (27) MADCOLOURS – VERDA HUGO – TOO PURE SINGLES CLUB
Art school trio debut with urgent ramshackle jitteriness and fucked up African licks.
26 (26) KRIS MENACE – ELECRIC HORIZON – COMPUPHONIC
Eagerly awaited sophomore LP explores further into the spaced out melodic sounds of Nu Disco.
27 (NEW) KRIS MENACE – EFEEL – COMPUPHONIC
Big room Euro disco that has got 70’s holiday hit goes Balearic written all over it.
28 (28) THE MILK – BROKE UP THE FAMILY – SONY
Modern power pop from Essex with a lead vocal that’s a tad Holly Johnson meets Paul Weller. Hostage Vs Racknruin and Kenny Ken do the ravetastic mixes.
29 (NEW) LEE WAXMAN – HOT JUPITERS EP – ELECTRIC SHEEP
Track 2 Rogue Planet has got a lovely deep groove going on, and track 3 Ganymede cooks up a warm feeling of contentment. Nice.
30 (NEW) TIM NICE – FLY BY – TALL HOUSE UNDERGROUND
Locked in heads down groover with an early 90’s Balearic network feel.
To get your track submitted for consideration please contact Dean Thatcher at deanthatcher25@hotmail.com Vinyl & CD’s much preferred.
