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Sounds From The Sanitarium

Fashion Queens – Music Is My Life (Phantom Power Freestyle) © 1993 Midas Records*Memphis - Deep Core © 1992 Memphis Records.2 tracks.45 RPM.Remaster & Loud Cut.Compiled by Rey Colino.Mastered by Marco Pellegrino.Design by AJAM.Fashion Queens – Music Is My Life (Phantom Power Freestyle) is vinyl only.

Following a series of VA EPs, Broken District releases its first mini LP: “South Side” by Sofatalk. The collaboration between the label and the Italian artist feels natural, as they share a mutual vision of music, a nifty blend of jazz and soul-influenced electronic music landscape. Throughout the 6 tracks of “South Side”, SofaTalk explores and twists jazz, broken beat, house music and funk, resulting in the most accomplished work to date for the producer, but also for the label.

F.T.V. Rec. is a label run by JenZi, based in Baden, Switzerland dedicated to dirty beats ranging from classic house to hip-hop.The Beat Poet is dropping 4 cuts of lyrical patterns and mad wizardry onJenZi's 'From The Vaults' label. Following Sneaker's EP's of 'Meet The Heat' and 'Rhythm Composer', we have here another exercise in drum programming and syncopated rhythms. Groove and acid. Drama, culmination and relief. 'Beat Goes On' is an 808+303 jam with long-term collaborator and solder-king Jacob Korn. Sneaker gave the message a voice - with a classic acappella from the Orbit.Exploiting the classic Dancemania drum machine, 'Dr. Rhythm' dazzles you with a doubletime kick, triplet toms, tropical cuíca screams and scratches - and when you just begin to find yourself again, it slaps your red cheeks with more whipping snares.

This time round it’s a 3 track VA from Serbian artists Marko Nastic and Bosko Balos, plus another Banger from the UK producer Len Lewis.‘Music Is the Highway of Shared Experiences’A1 The Void, Len Lewis: “This track is a sinistertechhouse representation of when I died and went down to ‘the void’ in 2017. Then clawed my way back up through the earth to now!”B1 Thinking, Marco Nastic feat. Ryan James Owens: “One playful jam session in my studio resulted in this house/techno oriented track with Ryan’s vocal on top”. B2 Bag Me Up, Bosko Balos: “Starting 2022 I lost all of my projects from the last two years. Among a handful of wavs was Bag Me Up which marked a change in my sound. A combination of electro-break and old techno / house style”.

After recent resurrection from the early 90s on labels Mirror Zone, Animals on Psychedelics and Klasse Wrecks, Memphis returns with the Essences EP brought to you from timezones past and present.Staring at the eye peering from the centre of Side A you’ll find yourself aboard an Obsidian Submarine roaming through an alien world’s vast oceans battered by clanking synths, drenched by foaming acid and awash in tense pads.Coming ashore the buzzing tribal rhythms and floating ambience of Essences provide an immersive hyper-real landscape to consider the fundamentals of where we’ve been and what we’ve seen.Moving over to Side B, where the eye seems to have melted into a distant nebula, On Stranger Tides conjures a liana-covered lost temple built from ancient rock kickdrums and bone-dry hihats permeated with stuttering chants and a plaintive call into the night.Finally we head back to 1994 to rediscover an old prog house gem dug up from the Beneath a Different Sun EP, omitted due to time constraints from the Mirror Zone 2018 re-release, and now given a chance to breathe again.Thanks to Jeremy Hegge for his beautiful field recordings and Snoozy of Rat Face Records for all his sonic guidance.

L-O-N-D-O-N LONDON that’s where we’re coming from ! Limited, vinyl only business.