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Electric City

Squid Recordings inks its way into existence with a heavy foot on rave Americana. Four tunes, club-risen in an oven safe pan, dive into new territories for the California born Taylor Freels. SR001 grounds itself in the wirings of synths past while still focusing on heavy, sample-flipping grooves. The inaugural 12” for the project is a taste test for what is to come.

ZamZam and number 92 welcomes back Blind Prophet & Ishan Sound in their first cross-pond collab.

Invisible City Editions continues their 10 year anniversary in adventurous sounds.We are thrilled to announce the re-release of Rico Toto’s 1993 CD recording Fwa Épi Sajès. Mind melting synthesizers and drum machines fuse with ancient Guadeloupe Gwo-ka rhythms in this musical endeavour Rico Toto describes as “Electro-ka.” The improvised live instruments of the Moundjahka ensemble meld with electronic abstraction to create a psychedelic, immersive digital diaspora dream state. With nods to Jon Hassell's atmospheric soundscapes, YMO and Baldelli / TBC Cosmic mixtapes, this selection of songs encompasses an entire spectrum of moods and sounds.The A side begins with fourth-world tropical percussions, opening with sounds of nature in “Jungle Meditation” and leading into the downtempo summer synthpop jam “Yadadé.” The B side takes a darker turn, starting off with the deep chugging rhythms of “Rawal Pindi” and continuing even deeper with synth sounds and haunting vocals that culminates into the dreamy meditative final track, “Golgotha.”Limited vinyl repress in collaboration with Rico Toto.Artwork by Floating Bstrd.

NYC mainstay Ian Friday shows us once again how he easily transcends the ‘house’ genre by using his latin and jazz influences to transform his productions and arrangements into lush songs. The A-side brings us a cover of Detroit’s Gospel group The Winans and the flip side a reworking of the Level 42 classic. Much like previous successful collaborations with vocalist Byron J. Moore the songs sound like they were written especially for him, oozing musicianship and groove. These timeless vocal house gems were previously playlisted by Ron Trent and are now finally available on vinyl courtesy of MTMU’s reissue imprint ‘Music Take Me Back’.

Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe, 1980-1991 is the second multiple artist compilation on Music From Memory and is compiled by record connoisseur Raphael Top-Secret and label man Jamie Tiller. The compilation brings together twenty one tracks from across the continent; exploring the more unusual and unexpected sides of Pop music produced during that period.Drawing material from cult experimental artists such as Steve Beresford, Brenda Ray and Bill Nelson alongside one-off independent musical projects rescued from the fringes, ’Uneven Paths’ focuses on a selection of tracks that go beyond the confines of mainstream pop music but which also transcend expectations of much of the ’experimental’ music of the time. This is music with one foot in the avant-garde and another foot firmly rooted within the sensibilities of Pop; where Jazz musicians detour into Synth-Pop, Punk bands break into Boogie jams, and student doctors jam out on odd melodies with synthesizers and drum machines during their night shifts.