GUEST MIX SERIES

We welcome @boogie-cafe-records Alex to the guest mix series this week with a rather delicious selection for your weekend warm up. The label is a UK / Dutch collaboration with label heads Alex Dinham and Chezz at the helm. The label has been a firm favourite of the SB crew since its inception and we've always been digging their sound which regularly pushes the finest disco flavoured deep grooves.

We're excited to see what they've got in store for us in this hour long mix. You'll find some recent favourites as well as some upfront exclusives of new Boogie Cafe releases... 2 new tracks from the Piers Kirwan - Dialogue EP, available in October, as well as a new track from Brine. Later in the year there's a vinyl VA to look forward to called 'Rotterdam on the Move‘, featuring artists all from Rotterdam.

Tracklist:

Brine - Lets Brake - (Forthcoming - Boogie Cafe)

Ben Hauke - Night work - ft. Joe Armon Jones

Piers Kirwan - Afraid of the Dark - (Forthcoming - Boogie Cafe)

James Rudie - The Answer

Turbojazz , Sean McCable and Javonntte - Wanna Dance (Moondance Remix)

Crackazat - Eye Light

Dominique 2000 Pintes - Lost But Calm

Marlon Kirk - Mutted By Life

Letherette - Mokon

Lay Far - Heartfelt

Ben Hauke - Every Record

Piers Kirwan - Parley (Forthcoming on Boogie Cafe)

Don Pascal - Time (Trev Remix)

Trev - Here Together

Dominique 2000 Pintes - Kacoustic

Sean McCabe - Notes From The Universe (Boogie Cafe)

For the last 12 years, the way that Detroit-based DJ Pontchartrain has approached music, is centered around two things - learning and sharing. The result has been an interesting change up from the status quo of what comes out of the motor city. What started off as a project for edits and DJ tools has turned into a rediscovery of the roots of dance music. This shift in the last few years has pushed him into the new opportunities with some of the greatest labels in disco and house realm, and interesting achievements across the globe.

When it comes to performances, Pontchartrain believes in the overarching goal of community. From the time he brought the Detroit Children’s Choir on stage with him at Movement Festival to sing along, to the bold invocations of poetry and messages of love, the dancefloor is a place for everyone to come as they are, and enjoy the people they are with, centered around the ancient idea of the communal dance.

It's at times like these, when we remind ourselves of what will come again, that we need people like Pontch to give us a little escape. tune in folks... Friday is here once more.

Artist: @pontchartrain

Fresh off the back of his latest release on NYC's Nervous Records we welcome Ireland's George Feely to the SB mix series. He's supplied us with an hour of looped up Disco House energy that will get you on your way to the weekend. Make sure you check out Stanley's Disco out now on Nervous... we featured it in our last radio show so you know its good ;)

Follow George : https://soundcloud.com/georgefeely

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This week see's our mix series take a trip over to Stockholm where we welcome Art Alfie to take over for the next hour. As a producer you may have heard Art's releases via some of our favourite labels like Studio Barnhus, Toy Tonics and Karlovak - the imprint he runs jointly with Mr. Tophat. Most recently though... back at the beginning of summer Art Alfie's imprint Velvet Pony released its second compilation, Velvet Pony Trax 8 which is definitely worth checking out.

https://soundcloud.com/art-alfie

https://www.facebook.com/artalfie/

https://www.instagram.com/artalfie/

Good friend and Milanese heartthrob, Lele Sacchi returns to the SB guestmix series this week. The man knows his way around a house 12", having been in the game since the early '90s, bearing witness to the evolution of what we call house music. Lele also teaches musical history at his local polytechnic, so he's well placed, and even better versed, to take us on a journey through time. A couple months back we tasked him with digging through his collection to provide us with a soundtrack to the mid 90's... and hear lie the fruits of his labour.

"I recorded this selecting only underground deep funk and jazzy house tunes from the mid 1990’s, when I started leaving breakbeat music behind and mixing only 4/4 music.

It was a great moment for those genres, the US original sounds melted into the exploding UK sounds.

In Milan, I was playing at legendary nights at Tunnel, Gasoline and then at Magazzini Generali which became one of Europe’s most important underground large venues. It was also a period when I started getting international recognition playing in Spain, France and UK with likeminded spirits as Ralph Lawson, DJulz, Jef K and the likes..."

To know where we are going, we must first know where we have been...

“I was one of the first cats bringing two reel-to-reels and spinning with them at the parties. I was bringing out two Pioneer 707s, doing the Hummingbird, Jacks, The Courtyard, etc. I’d bring a drum machine, too. I would make tracks right then as the party was going. Way before my guys Daft Punk and all of them were doing live gigs, I was doing that at the basement parties – just bringing drum machines and doing everything live. A lot of my early tracks came from me doing them at the party when the party was going on. I’d save it in memory and bring it home and polish it up. But I listen to it now and it’s like, damn… didn’t use enough cleaner!” - Mike Dunn

Ladies and gentlemen, it's the weekend, and it's time... to jak!

Our good friend, co-conspirator, remixer (check out his effort of Jad's Mutano Trumpet Jam on our SBJamz label https://soundcloud.com/boltingbits/jad-the-matano-trumpet-jam-aleksandir-remix )and all-round legend Aleksandir steps up to the platters that matter and delivers instalment #247 in the guest mix series.

Alex has said... "light and summery to begin, higher bpms afterwards and then a proper deep ending haha, hope you enjoy this"

Welcome to the weekend everyone x

Artist: @dialogg

This week we're finally able to put out Cici's SB mix, having been in talks about it since last year?!

Cici came onto our radar off the back of some stellar sets at the likes of Warehouse Project and Fabric as well as some choice radio spots on Ibiza Sonica, Rinse FM and Pioneer Radio. It's in Ibiza that she's been really finding herself musically and developing her craft as a resident at The Zoo Project and Pikes over the last couple of years.

She's currently out there right now waiting for some kind of normality to return to the island. We couldn't think of anywhere more suited to enjoy her deep and tribal tinged brand of electronic music and this heat wave in the UK will serve as the perfect backdrop to the next hour's mix. So get it locked in and drift away to some choice hypnotic vibes ahead of the weekend!

https://soundcloud.com/cici-cavanagh

https://www.instagram.com/cicicava/

https://twitter.com/CiciCavanagh

https://www.facebook.com/CiciDJ

https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/cici

Tracklist:

1. SubJoi - When You Love Me

2. Jump Source - Nearly There

3.The Pilotwings - Congo Libre

4. Jungle Wongz - The Jungle (Jamies Jungle Sounds Edit)

5. Ex-Terestreal - 2DS

6.Rhythm on the loose - Break of Dawn

7. Pegasvs - Dreams_Reality

8.Chaos in the CBD - Background Explorer

9.DISK - Acid Rain (whiteloops)

10. Shanti Celeste & Hodge - Alula

11. Jay Hill ft Ursula Rucker- Evolution Party (tiger stripes mix)

12.Apollo View - Dissident 5NR

Playfully bringing the deep grooves to the underground and the pumping house to the big rooms, Glasgow’s Austin Ato has seen his profile rise over the past two years. Initially releasing on the taste-maker Phonica's white-label imprint, showcasing a blend of live keys and drums with exquisite sampling, he then created a blazing 12” of loopy, disco and drum machine house for Man Power’s Me Me Me label. This immediately put him on our radar, and we've supported ever since.

His music comes in many forms, be it afrohouse on Defected with "Oh Mama" or making some Detroit and Chicago influenced tunes for Luke Solomon's Classic Music Company with 'Drip' and 'Heat' from the EP named after the latter. His DJ sets have led him to play many of the best parties in the UK from Percolate with Daphne and Floating Points, to Horsemeat Disco and Karizma.

Having evolved from the enigmatic Drums of Death, our man Ato has a diverse ear, and a knowledge of what makes a groove. He serves up an hour of eclectic ear food for us in the mix series, moving through multiple genres, but always with a rhythm which urges you to move.

Welcome to the weekend once more...

Austin Ato links: https://linktr.ee/austinato

Artist: @austin-ato

Guestmix #244 - Makéz ...

Fresh faced Dutch duo Makéz step in for this weeks guestmix. With recent fire released on Detroit Swindle's Heist recordings these boys are well and truly on our radar. Strap in for Friday you lovelies. .