green circle

Melbourne's Junji Masayama makes his debut release on Bear Funk in a couple of weeks with a tasty blend of dubby Disco, Altz-like quirkiness, leftfield techno & solid rhythm heavy grooves on his 'Green Circle' EP. I love this ep, it's a stand out release amongst outstanding recent releases (Bear Funk are on some kind of extended quality roll as usual). The title track seems after several plays to be the lead moment, but everything here is simultaneously interesting and deeply groovy. It's always a good thing when u can add a new name to the 'things to look out for' list, Junji is no ordinary thing though; very leftfield, very heavy rhythms, very very...

Junji Masayama - Green Circle

ps - still got the heavy deadline blues, apologies for the slowness...

coming right now

Before I set the next Press Play on you and launch the new visual content guest program here on a.n.o.e., I wanted to hand over this extremely beautiful Afro Folk track by Ofege. This Nigerian outfit's albums (there are four of them) are pretty hard to come by, but they are so remarkable and wonderful that finding them in any format is pretty essential. 'Come Right' is from their album 'Higher Plane Breeze' and was recorded right after it's members graduated from high school, as it is the third of the four albums, u can thus gather that Ofege were still in school when they recorded the absolute genius that is 'Last Of The Origins' and 'Try and Love'. Gem amongst gems!!

Ofege - Come Right

it's a sin

The weekend is here (felt like it was never gonna arrive), which means it's time to 'Dance and Free Your Mind'. I wish I owned this 12", but so far it's eluded me due to it's price tag, I'm optimistic I'll find it for a reasonable amount though. Sins Of Satan's 'Dance and Free your Mind' is pure gold, good feelin', deeply soulful Disco from back in 1976 on the brilliant Buddha Records... a track for the weekend, a track for life... inspiration starts here...

Sins Of Satan - Dance and Free Your Mind

don't send me away

If you go the bootleg route with Garfield Flemming's 1981 release 'Don't Send Me Away', it should cost a lot less than the original Becket Records 12", or go for the Unidisc re-issue which is priced somewhere in between. It's a classic and in my opinion needs a little slowing down on the turntable, just to really emphasize it's sexy midtempo groove. smoooth!!

Garfield Fleming - Don't Send Me Away

love is hurt

Leeds based Cosmic Disco headz Lunar Jam are back with a second set of edits done by Cristoidz & Ticker, it's in stores from this week and it's really very good. Lunar Jam, in case you don't know (and you really should since their first release was such an ace one), takes the form of a label and a night in Leeds, it's the brainchild of DJ's Andy Whittaker & Craig Christon and they definitely know a thing or six about the deep and far out end of Disco & Balearic. Lunar Jam 002 has four new tracks, well three, if u don't count the mad spaced outro 'Bah'tat'; 'Roller Disco' tells u exactly what it is, only it's also set in space or on one of the original Star Wars film sets - it's a great party track. Continuing the theme on 'Ewoks Endor Forrest Jam', the Lunar's go deeper into stranger hybrid off world music for beards and come up with a truly original jam, with its grooving bass lines and easy beats, it's bound for left field dance floors at the same time. 'Love is Hurt' is an epic & melancholy, spacey (u getting it now?) & spectacular journey into and out of the heart of Disco darkness (well sort of), it's lavishly detailed, dramatic and pretty damn excellent. Keep your eyes on the Lunar Jam myspace for upcoming activities, buy this release and check out the lo-res mp3 of 'Love is Hurt'...

Lunar Jams - Love Is Hurt

greymatter #1

Two or three weeks of erratic posting is like suicide in blog land isn't it? Anyway forget that, moving on I have loads of things to hand over...

Brighton's Greymatter has a very healthy year ahead of him, with numerous projects and releases scheduled, amongst which will be a second set of Basement Soul edits for KAT. The first volume, out around June last year, was a wee bit special mainly, for me anyway, due to Greymatter's ridiculously fine edit of The Gap Band's 1982 hit 'Outstanding'. So I figured it's the perfect track to kick off a series of upcoming posts with the man's deeply soulful edit's here on a.n.o.e. Keep your eyes on Basement Soul's new website and look out for Greymatter releases on Tru Thoughts, Wolf Music & Unique UnCut; I am particularly keen to check out his re-work of Atmosfear's classic 'Dancin in Outer Space' which will be out soon... more to follow...

The Gap Band - Oustanding (Greymatter Rework)