An abstract black and white selection, moving back and forth between house, techno, beats, hip hop, footwork, post dubstep and what have you.

Playlist:

Shoulda – On My Roost (Astro Nautico)
XXYYXX – Set It Off (Kitsune)
RL Grime – Amphibian (Shlohmo + 2KWTVR remix) // Grapes (Future Life)
Dream Continuum – Giv A Lil Luv // Reworkz EP (Planet Mu)
Polar Pair – Cryx3 (Deft Remix) (Botanika)
Hudson Mohawke – Are You Feelin’ Hot? (Brownswood)
Midnight Runners – Tell Me (Darker Than Wax)
Midnight Runners – Love Calling (Darker Than Wax)
Danny Brown – Grown Up (Scion A/V)
Rotem Or – Little Bird (Rejoicer KC Filth Remix) // RotemORejoiceRemixes (Self Released)
Daniel Savio – Make It Personal // Assecs Denied (Mypr)
Distal – She Wears Pearls // Civilization (Tectonic)
Thomas – Individulasim // Sound Healers Vol 2 (Sound Healers)
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Power Of Love (Om Unit Re Edit) (Om units Edits)
Gene Hunt – May The Funk Be With You (Theo Parrish Remix)    (Rush Hour)
The Funkees – Dance With Me // Dancing Time, The Best Of Eastern Nigeriaís Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77    (Soundway Records Ltd)
Manmade Science – Phase (Philpot)
James Mason – Nightgruv (Rush Hour)
Lone – Lying In The Reeds // Galaxy Garden (R&S)
BICEP – $tripper (Love Fever)
Philipp Stoya – Triohu (Compost Black Label)
Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team – Strange Touch (My House) (acappella version)(Sound Pellegrino)
Arttu – Soul Stream (4Lux Black)
Moodymann – Got 2 Make It //  Picture This (Scion A/V)
FaltyDL – Mean Streets Part 2 (Swamp 81)
Gerry Read – Yeh Come Dance (Dellsin)
Forget Me Not – What Were You Gonna Say? feat. NEO (Auntie Flo remix) (Diamond & Raw)
Jack Dixon – Lose Myself (Dauwd Remix) (Skint Under 5′s)
Rommek – Turquoise // It Feels Better to Be Numb EP (Infinite Machine)
Mao – Harken (Bad Life)
Salva & Grenier – Forest Floor(Frite Nite)
Black Orange Juice – Back Of My Car (Some Think Sounds)
KingThing – Gift (Neon Bounty)
Devonwho – Sleet (All City)
Elgato – Zone (Hessle Audio)
Seven Davis Jr. – Thanks (Brownswood)

Mixed & selected by Amir Egozy.

Adrian Younge pres Venice Dawn – Turn Down the Sound // Wax Poetics
Synkro – Broken Promise // Apollo/R&S
Flying Lotus – Samsfav // Brownswood
Rotem Or – Dear Sir – Rejoicer remix // cdr
Ixvo-Exvo – Arovo // Digital Vomit
Mistakes are OK – Best Before – Kassem Mosse & Mix Mup remix // Hivern
Acute – Latitude // Botanika test
Grinderman – Heathen Child – Andrew Weatherall bass mix // Mute
Sinkane – Runnin // Emergency Umbrella
Souleance – Tryin // First Word
Wreck All Stars – One Touch // Nervous
John Talabot – Lovers Tradition // Young Turks
Fhloston Paradigm – Chasing Rainbows // Hyperdub
Philipp Stoya – Triohu // Compost Black
Helium Robots – Metallic Dawn // Dissident
Hardway Bros – The Flesh // Astro Lab
Cage & Aviary – Colourless Plastic – Chromatose dub // Internasjonal
Pittsburgh Track Authority – untitled // Pittsburgh Tracks
October – String Theory // Simple
Redshape – Dog Day // Millions of Moments
Piemont – With Small Pupils – Jay Haze For Palestine mix) // Suchtreflex
Moodymann – 9 Nites 2 Nowhere // Scion
Trevino – Derelict // Naked Lunch
Nocturnal Sunshine – Meant to Be // K7
Little Jinder – Keep on Dreaming – Distal remix // Trouble & Bass
Polar Pair – Be Gone – Zed Bias remix // Botanika
Juk Juk – Unwrap // Nomos
Burial – Loner // Hyperdub
Shlohmo – The Way You Do – Airhead remix // Friends of Friends
Tokimonsta – Fame Boozer’s Lullaby // freebie
Iva Gocheva – Frost // cdr
Soul Clap – Ecstasy // Wolf & Lamb
Feist – How Come You Never Go There – Beck remix // Polydor
Yppah – Film Burn // Ninja Tune

Pic by Soulcat

From the deep end to the soulful heart

Selected and recorded live to HD by NDV

Samoyed – Cherry Ripe // Her Honey Dripping Behind EP (Glum)
Gerry Read – Yeh Come Dance (Delsin)
Reggie Dokes – Child Of The Sun (Cinematic Recordings)
Mr. Beatnick – Shifting Sands // Sun Goddess EP (Don’t Be Afraid)
Addison Groove – Skylight // Transistor Rhythm (50 Weapons)
Auntie Flo – Oh My Days (Pearson Sound Re-Fix) (Huntleys & Palmers)
FaltyDL – Mean Streets Part 2 (Swamp 81)
N.Y. House n Authority – Apt 2a (Rush Hour)
Jimmy Edgar – This One’s For The Children (Hot Flush)
Omar S & Ob Ignitt – Wayne County Hill Cop’s (FXHE)
Avalon Emerson – Payoff (How to Think It, Feel It, And See It) (Non Seq)
Nicholas – Free To Be (Hunee Remix) // Still Playing House (4 Lux)
Recloose – UHF // Magic (Rush Hour)
Trikk -Jointly (Man Make)
Sticky Disco – Deep Forest Swing (Holy Dubs)
2562 – Jerash Hekwerken (When in Doubt)
DJ Haus – Needin’ U (Unknown To The Unknown)
Graphics – Colour Her Hair // Mama Grizzlies (Made To Play)
MA1 – Beyond The Sea (Roska Kicks & Snares)
Little Jinder – Keep On Dreaming (Deadboy Remix) (Trouble & Bass)
Bondax – You’re So (Super)
Akkord – Back & Forth (Akkord)
Mak & Pasteman – Again // Do The Same EP (Shifting Peaks)
Pále – Fille // Why’d You Even Say (Fat!)
Kingthing – Cold Diss /// Waking Up (Infrasonics)
French Fries – Yo Vogue (Dirtybird)
Kodiak – Spreo Superbus (Numbers)
Lone – Crystal Caverns 1991 (R&S)
Magnum – Dense // All Over Me EP (92 Points)
Makoto – Different Rhythm (7even)
Cohen – Bass It (Botanika Test)
Mux Mool – Raw Gore // Planet High School (Ghostly)
Kromestar – Dont Make Sense VIP (Cosmic Bridge)
Ambassadeurs – M.O.P.E (www.soundcloud.com/ambassadeurs)
Boog Brown – Baby Girl (prod. Georgia Anne Muldrow) V2 (mellomusicgroup)
Apollo Brown & OC – Prove Me Wrong (mellomusicgroup)
Polar Pair – Cry (Side Brain Remix) (Botanika)

Hip Shakin Mama EP is a 300-copy, strictly vinyl release, which precedes the forthcoming Polar Pair album. The common thread of the EP is an old-school-meets-new-school approach. All the tracks draw their inspiration from classic moments in dance music’s history, while applying an up-to-date sound and production.

The A side is Hip Shakin Mama – essentially a jacking house tune, with deep pulsating bass, sprinkles of post-punk guitars, and a soulful, cheekily treated vocal sample.

The B side features two remixes of tracks from the forthcoming album, from highly respectful producers: garage hero Zed Bias contributes a vintage 2 Step dub monster, while Amsterdam’s purveyors of the deep Juju&Jordash came up with a tremendous proto-house/new beat hybrid.

Pic by Meredith Fleischer

Late winter edition, with many Detroit references, as we love the new Model 500 track on R&S. Scroll down for the “play” button.

Tracklist:

Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio feat. yasiin bey (Blue Note)
fLako Feat Dirg Gerner – Lonely Town (Keadz Remix) (Promo)
Parallel Dance Ensemble – Occupied (Salax Peep Show Remix) // Possessions And Obsessions Remixed (Permanent Vacation)
Blu Jemz – Darkest Night (Turntable Lab Editions)
Renegade Soundwave – Renegade Soundwave (The Leftfield Dub) (Mute)
Polar Pair – Not Real (SaBBo RMX) (Botanika Test)
Polar Pair – Fantasy Love (Juju & Jordash remix) (Botanika)
Maxmillion Dunbar – Polo // Max Trax For World Peace (Future Times)
Avalon Emerson – Warm Up Love (Promo)
Boddhi Satva – Make Up Your Mind Feat. Stephen Rigmaiden // From Another World (BBE)
Afefe Iku – Balao // Artifacts of Pottery Vessels) (Yoruba)
Moodymann – JAN (KDJ)
Arttu – Nuclear Funk (ft Jerry The Cat) (Royal Oak)
Gadi Mizrahi – So Addicted To You // Joint Custody EP (Double Standard)
Fhloston Paradigm – Chasing Rainbows (Hyperdub)
Reese – Rock to the Beat // Faces & Phases (SSR)
Untitled – Jumpin Omar (Promo)
Conqueror – Highest Order (Lobster Boy)
Bonobo – Kiara (Cosmin TRG Remix) // Black Sands Remixed (Ninja Tune)
Klic – Post (Promo)
Scuba – If U Want // Personality (Hotflush)
D’Angelo – Untitled (How Does it Feel) (L-Vis 1990′s Own Way Edit) (Promo)
Gregory Porter – 1960 What? (Opolopo Kick & Bass Rerub) (Tokyo Dawn)
Kaidi Tatham & Dego – Got Me Puzzled (2000 Black)
Recloose – Feels Like Magic feat. B. Slade (C2 Edit) (Rush Hour)
Burial – Loner (Hyperdub)
Maribou State – Olivia (MAO Remix) (Fat!)
Persian – Feel Da Vibe (Existence Is Resistance)
Jamie Grind – Rum N Raisin (Hackman Remix) (Wicked Bass)
Derrick May – Drama // Innovator (Transmat)
Model 500 – The Messenger (R&S)
Galaxy 2 Galaxy – Amazon (Underground Resistance)

Pic form The Arms Project by Lisa Manfre

Show starts clubbish and drops lower and more eclectic on the 2nd hour

Luke Hess – Leads to Life // FXHE
Jus Ed – Slammer // Underground Quality
Norm Talley – Earth to Moon // Thema
Clapz N Dogz – Ripgroove // Clapz N Dogz
Ital – First Wave // Planet Mu
Linkwood – Ignorance is Bliss // Shevchenko
Gifted & Blessed – Seven in 24 // All City
Joaan – Nocturnality // 7even
Burial – Loner // Hyperdub
Acute – Take // Botanika/test
Marvin Dash – Untitled 2/A1 // Workshop
Marcus Mixx – Special Creme – Rub It // Unknown to the Unknown
Todd Edwards – Saved my Life – DJ Sneak remix // I!
Destiny’s Child – Bills Bills Bills – Phuturistix remix
Kowton – Looking at You // Keysound
Jacques Greene – These Days // Vase
Babe Rainbow – Greed – 5kin & Bone5 remix // Mishka
Stubborn Heart – Two Times a Maybe // white
West Norwood Cassette Library – Flashlight – Adam Marshall remix // New Kanada
West Norwood Cassette Library – Flashlight // New Kanada
Guido – Vessel Dogs // State of Joy
Ifan Dafydd – Treehouse // Push & Run
Creep ft Nina Sky – You // Creep Intl
Mansions on the Moon – Athens // self-released
Damu – Mermaid – Subeena remix // Local Action
Rejoicer – Magical Pass // Botanika/test
Clams Casino – Illest Alive // Type
The Internet – Fastlane // Odd Future
Beautiful Swimmers – Touch Base // Future Times
Bullion – What Does She Know // R&S
Theshining – Hey You!!! // Young Turks
John Talabot – Last Land // Permanent Vacation
CFCF – Big Love – Junior Boys remix // Paper Bag
I:Cube – HNT // Edits du Golem
Phenomenal Handclap Band & Peaches – Walk the Night // Gomma

Pic by Phyllis Galembo

Winter can be warm and groovy. Here’s the proof.

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Playlist:

Quantic & Alice Russell with the Combo Bárbaro – Look Around The Corner (Tru Thoughts)
Salinas – Like A Rainy Night (Cadet)
The Sidewinders – Like Your Stuff (Jazzman)
Gerry Read – Narry (Fourth Wave)
Morphosis – Impulse (Dekmantel)
Blind Prophet – Got Me Thinking (HGLDT remix) // Skeleton Key EP (L2S)
Makossa & Megablast – Wangu (feat. Tony Allen & OG Spiritual Godess) // Soy Como Soy (Luv Lite Massive)
Bjorn Torske – Langt Fra Afrika (Todd Terje Enda Lengre mix) (Smalltown Supersound)
OCP – Let Them (Aim)
Recloose – MYM230 (R.I.P.) (Planet E)
Arttu – Get Up Off It (feat. Jerry the Cat) (Royal Oak)
Jacques Greene – Clark // Concealer (Vase)
SFV Acid – Library (100% silk)
Zeitgeist – I Dance For No Reason (Save Room Records)
Sei A – Frozen Flower (Turbo)
Cyclonix – Gynougv2 (CDR)
Disclosure – Flow (Make Mine)
Jeuce – As We Move (Kastle remix) (Noise Kitten)
Scuba – The Hope (Hotflush)
Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka – Juggernaut // They!Live (50 Weapons)
Dj Naughty – Naughty (Roska Kicks & Snares)
KiNK – Machines Don’t Cry // Tracks from the vault vol. 2 (Sharivari)
Machinedrum – SXLND (LuckyMe)
Mak & Pastemn – Heat // Get With The Program EP (Sounds of Sumo)
French Fries Feat. Bambounou – Champagne (ClekClekBoom)
Persian – Feel Da Vibe (Existence Is Resistance)
Arabyrd – Blank Wall (Kalbata Remix) (free download)
Polar Pair – Be Gone (Zed Bias old Skool dub) (Botanika Test)
Roxy – Music (CDR)
Om Unit – Vibrations // Transport (Civil Music)
Polar Pair – Cry Cry Cry (Deft Remix) (Botanika Test)
Homeboy Sandman – Unforgettable // Subject: Matter (Stones Throw)

Mixed live to HD by NDV

Nick Waterhouse – Some Place // Pres
The Watkins Screamers – Night Time // Ten Thousand Ten
Eddie Kendricks – Keep On Truckin // Motown
M. Ashraf ft A. Rushdi – Dama Dam Mast Qalandar // Finders Keepers
Jonti – Flesh of Morning // Stones Throw
Milton Nascimento – Clube de Esquine No 2 – Joystick Jay edit
Cubo – HNT // Les Edits du Golem
Jesse Boykins III – B4 the Night is Thru // Paris 96
Jay Simon – Faith // Wild Oats
Eros – unknown // Eros
Principles of Geometry – L.A. – Joakim edit // Tiger Sushi
Awanto 3 – Pregnant // Dekmantel
Behling & Simpson – Left Behind // Future Boogie
S-Type – Bairns // Lucky Me
Clams Casino – What You Doin // Type
James Blake – At Birth // R&S
Dexter – Bo-Dyned // Clone Basement
Linkwood – Secret Value // Shevchenko
Jen – Dark Matter // Underground Quality
Gerry Read – All By Myself // 4th Wave
Analogue Cops & Blawan – Sickle // Vae Victis
Locked Groove – Drowning // Hotflush
Arttu ft Jerry the Cat – Get Up Off It // Clone Royal
Lisa Lee – When Can I Call U – Nicholas dub // Needwant
Solid State – Who Is He? // Strobelight Honey
Cubo – Piano in Paradiso // Les Edits du Golem
Redshape – Goom – bonus beatz // Running Back
Goldffinch – Arabian Prince // 877
Boddika & Joy Orbison – Swims – alt mix // Swamp 81
Seiji – Face Up // Seiji
MachineDrum – Van Vogue // Lucky Me
Jim-E Stack – Come Between // Good Years
Metronomy – The Look – Ghostpoet remix // Because

Izik Finley, AKA Bunny on Acid, has finally unleashed his debut album, A Way Back Home, on his own Holy Dubs imprint. If you have been following Bunny’s 3 releases on Botanika records, his album’s themes will sound familiar to you. Even more, he is letting himself explore deeper soundscapes and combine them with highly charged emotional motives. Head to the bandcamp page and bag a copy of the album.