Discobelle

You can’t help but fall in love with Miguel and his latest track, “Adorn,” after watching this video released just earlier this week. The center of the video is a piece of art that also happens to be the cover of his album, Art Dealer Chic Vol. 1, out later this month. Sensual and soulful, this is how R&B is meant to sound.

Mondkopf – Song of shadows by FoolHouserecords

The C90s are Jamie Paterson and Danny Ashenden from London who make disco beats with an emphasis on hand claps, piano keys and bass guitar, all of which is slightly reminiscent of Fred Falke. The guys have been having a pretty good year so far, with already several stellar remixes to their name. Their latest release is a February mixtape that keeps the funk going all night long. Take a listen for a guaranteed great start to the weekend.

Tracklist:
Neighbour – You Can Do It
Pop & Eye – Blow Me Down
C2C – Down the Road (Irfane Outlines Remix)
Figure of 8 feat. Sophie Galpin – No One Cries For Me (Cyclist Remix)
Krazy Baldhead – Surabaya Girl (Tropics Remix)
Luke Million – Dare You (Special Dub Mix)
Lou Teti – Shake (JKriv Mix)
Moon Boots – Aretha
Kraak & Smaak – Hold Back Love (Lovebirds instrumental)
Chrome Canyon – Computers Of Love
Malvoeaux – Sunsets
Robotaki – Raton Laveur
Osborne – Wait A Minute
Jokers of the Scene – Organized Zounds (Cosmic Kids Remix)
Odd Parents – Fame
The Mekanism – Can’t Believe (Mario Basanov Dub)
Bonar Bradberry – You Were Away (Space Ranger Hypno Remix)

Discobelle and clothing label/collective Uniforms For The Dedicated go way back and they’ve also been very creative in ways of combining music, visuals and fashion.

The label is currently part of the Preview exhibition initiated by PUB and Aplace together with other Swedish labels Hope, Minimarket and The Local Firm where focus lies on aspects of inspiration and creativity. We at Discobelle received a fine looking shirt that’s up for grabs for one lucky winner, just answer the question below and e-mail us to be be in the drawing for winning the shirt: Which year did the first Aplace boutique open its doors at the PUB department store?

Damn Maya!

Anonymity can be great sometimes. Sure, it occasionally prompts a quest for unearthing the more-often-than-not well known producer behind the productions (cough Sicko Cell), but for the most part it’s a great vehicle for delivering content that’s unattached to expectations. Such is one of the reasons that the white label only “Shimmy Sham Sham” series has held my attention for its last four releases. Powerful edits of everyone from Grace Jones to the Temptations to Al Green, delivered without ego or excessive liner notes.

This time around delivers a re-edit of Arthur Russell’s “In The Light Of The Miracle” which unleashes a slightly heightened version of the original’s strength – sheer ecstastic balearic dance pop bliss.

Letting the guitar riff come to the forefront of the track while cowbells swirl around in the background like constellations, it’s a classic that evokes some of Russell’s most pop friendly productions. Close your eyes and you can almost imagine yourself stuffed into a sleeping bag in the Rocky Mountains watching the aurora borealis swirl around the sky.

Pulsating bongos are definitely a component of what makes the b-side’s edit of Nina Simone’s “Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter” a powerful track to play out, but really Nina’s voice is the star here.

Smartly, the track doesn’t try to mess with the sass crammed vocal sample, and it actually cuts almost all other noise out halfway through so that it sounds like she could very well be whispering “you think you’re slick but you could stand a lot of greasing / the things you do ain’t never really pleasin’” right into your ear.

Slightly after that, things get kinda crazy as what sounds like a college drumline appeared out of a cloud of mist and started going ham in the middle of a nightclub.

Stream both of them below and grab it on Phonica ASAP!

Shimmy Sham Sham 004- Side A

Shimmy Sham Sham 004 – Side B

Nicolas Jaar’s progression from thrumming ambient house minimalism in his debut “The Student” EP on Wolf + Lamb to his now fully fleshed out live act (Clown and Sunset Aesthetics collective) is pretty remarkable.

Here’s more of Jaar doing what he does best – atmospheric piano moodiness with a heavy touch of trumpets added. Catch his PSA1 exhibition on February 5th, a five-hour live performance by Jaar and others.

Big release from the Trunkfunk label, DJ Nibc & Patrick L “Call Me” is about that yearning love while all you can do is wait for THE phonecall and this is wrapped up in a classic disco/house setting.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard the schizophrenic sampling styles of Jean Nipon, one of the core members of the now sadly deceased Parisian Institubes label.

Now he’s resurfacing with a new release on the increasingly prolific Silverback Recordings label – “The Girl Complex” EP.

Complete with one heckuva remix from Night Slugs alumni Jam City, the package also comes with a minimalist little re-edit from the boys in Voltron – a blissed out piece of melodic electronica with drums popping up and fading away in the background that sounds like a 3ball guarachero rhythm that’s been given a shot of morphine. You can grab the Voltron remix for free below:

Jean Nipon – Girl Complex (Voltron Minimalist Refix)

Also, revisit the Voltron “Freshmen EP” on Juno if you missed it the first time around!

Azari and III breaks all the rules with their remix of Sneaky Sound System‘s “Really Want to See You Again.” The original track itself is great and gleams with Connie Mitchell’s golden vocals and a 90s dance pop vibe. Dinamo and Alixander III flip the switch by cutting up the vocals and adding some retro feeling synths, turning the song into a decidedly deep house track that oozes sexuality.

Handclaps, airy cooing vocals, piano and funk. That’s what ‘Spoken Word’ by Lancelot is about. The track is off Lancelot’s upcoming debut EP, We Can Dance, available on Beatport February 20th. That means you only have to wait less than a month to grab this.

Linkoban’s hard hitting and addictive debut single “Like This” drops monday (February 6th) on Lucy Love’s label Superbillion Records who also directed the video.

22 year old UK based producer Joshua Leary has been causing a sensation with the YouTube releases of his Evian Christ project, he has now signed to Tri Angle Records who decided to hand out “Kings And Them” – a mastered collection of his tracks. Dark, eerie fleeting soundscapes mixed up with rap vocals and cut up beats makes for a perfect companion to the blisteringly cold yet surprisingly sunny Scandinavian winter days.

DOWNLOAD: Evian Christ – Kings And Them (Mediafire)

We’ve been waiting and it’s finally here, Smalltown DJs with their best of 2011 mix!

“…The spirit behind these mixes is to compile some of the year’s best non-club (mostly) tunes that got heavy airplay in the Smalltown sphere, and put them together in a fun way so you can bump it at your house, in your car, at work, or anywhere else…”

Tracklist after the jump.

1) California Sunrise – Dirty Gold
2) Bad Things (Remix) (feat. Freddie Gibbs) – Cults
3) Will Do (XXXChange Remix) – TV on the Radio
4) Embody (DJ Premier 95 Break Remix) – Sebastian
5) Make Some Noise – Beastie Boys
6) Go (feat Karen O) – Santigold
7) Don’t Move – Phantogram
8) I’m His Girl – Friends
9) Green Aisles – Real Estate
10) Dystopia – Yacht
11) Do You Believe – Poolside
12) Can You See Straight? (Nadastrom Remix) – The Death Set
13) Midnight City – M83
14) Soak it Up – Houses
15) Some Children (feat. Michael Macdonald) – Holy Ghost!
16) Starlight – Escort*
17) Kaputt – Destroyer
18) Without You (Version) – Rainbow Arabia
19) Close to Everything – Mickey Moonlight
20) Cool S#@! – Spank Rock
21) Real Hero – Michna
22) Nightcall (Dustin Nguyen Remix) – Kavinsky*
23) Loving You is Killing Me (Mano Le Tough Remix) – Aloe Blacc
24) Forever Young (Extended Afro Mix) – Joakim
25) Afternoon – Youth Lagoon
26) Manic – Azari & III
27) Everything Goes My Way (Jesse Rose Mix) – Metronomy
29) Far Nearer – Jamie XX
30) I Still Love You – Switch & Andrea Martin
31) Somebody That I Used to Know (feat Kimbra) – Gotye
32) Hold On – Sbtrkt

Tight Silk is the new project from Stockholm based Josefine Fagerström (previously of postpunk outfit The Je Ne Sais Quoi and playing with Swedish singstress Jenny Wilson), inspiration comes from the catchiest tunes of late eghties Chicago house and with a touch of that gloomy Nordic disco.