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It received wide support from people in the know like Red Greg, Danny Krivit, Folamour, Soul Clap, Kenny Dope and many others. The first pressing quickly sold out and the tracks were sounding strong on discerning dancefloors until, well, \"The Thing\" hit and everything stopped.\nDespite this, the record has continued to grow by word of mouth, and so we thought it would be wonderful to have a 7\" version with an edit or even a remix of the jazzy funky disco banger 'Doing Our Own Thing'. No one better than Dimitri from Paris for the job, one of the DJs who happened to tell us he loved the track. 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And on the other side, a longer trip departing from McFadden and Whitehead's seminal Ain't Non Stoping Us Now and touching the revered latin disco version of Charanga 76, only to end up as a fabulous clap-driven rumba stormer. Two very necessary sun-soaked tunes for any self-respecting dj on neat black vinyl. And yes, it's a limited edition!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lovemonk","offers":[{"title":"7\"","offer_id":50394701332811,"sku":"2056079","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_6ad4ddeb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726446109"},{"product_id":"saint-malo","title":"Saint Malo","description":"\u003cp\u003eJavier Jiménez Rolo surprises with Saint Malo, a project that explores the intersections of neoclassicism, folk, ambient and electronic textures.\nThat Saint-Malo is a town in Brittany is the least of it. Even the fact that it exists is unimportant. Javier has never been there. Similarly, his album takes us to remote or not so remote places without moving from where we are. Javier composed these twelve songs between 2019 and 2021 from his room: \"One of the problems with recording at home rather than in a studio is that when you move, your recording space changes too. In the case of this album, I was involved in three moves during its whole process. Trying to see the positive side of this situation, I realised that, as well as a collection of songs, it was a testimonial to the different places where I had lived during those years and their respective views: 'Promenade' is an imagined walk from an interior flat; 'Picture In A Frame' is a sunny afternoon in a park in Ciudad Lineal, Madrid, and 'Bells Of Nowhere' is a stroll through the neighbourhood that was once my grandparents' and is now mine.\"\nIt's an eminently evocative album but also powerfully narrative, which moves through different emotional states. Along the way, references as heterogeneous as Javier's own tastes come up. From the inevitable Arvo Pärt, Max Richter and Steve Reich to the more unsuspected Thom Yorke, Burial, Caribou, Vulfpeck or even Dua Lipa. Stéphane Grappelli, Andrew Bird, Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds or Rene Aubry are other names Javier mentions when he talks about something similar to influences.\nThe journey, during which the songs miraculously fit with magical precision to the landscapes we are travelling through, begins with the promising 'Beware Of The Dogs' and 'Maltravieso'. It is followed by the obsessive arpeggios of 'Le Havre' that give way to the luminous 'Fields Of Gold', the emotion of 'Cais do Sodré' and the passionate 'Le pont roulant', reminiscent of a restrained Alexandre Desplat. Along the way, dogs will bark, rain will fall on the 'Promenade' and the sun will come out with the perfectly playful 'Dolce Far Niente' (\"a mix between elevator music and a song announcing the arrival of summer\" according to Javier) in which echoes of Isao Tomita and Raymond Scott resound.\nThe result of this captivating, unexpected and suggestive mixture is Saint Malo, Javier Jiménez's first album and the empirical demonstration that he does not have, despite his classical training, any red lines. \"I've always flirted with jazz, with swing... Then I moved on to messing around with loops, to doing more ambient and experimental things. I also had my folkie phase with the klezmer group Barrunto Bellota Band...\"\nIn Saint Malo the melodies grow, become small, return and intertwine with loops and improbable aromas, to form an album that describes a journey through emotions. 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Recognizing that he had some time to spare and already sharing a rapport with Phil, he set up camp in Dordrecht for an unpredictable period and they embarked on recording fresh material together.\nDespite Phil's involvement in the European funk and soul scene and Joel's inclination towards soulful pop, what led them to create new music is their shared affinity for contemporary instrumental bands such as Khruangbin, Calibro 35, Air or El Michels Affair, as well as classic influences like David Axelrod and the classic KPM library series.\nThey started crafting tracks for what would become \"Roadmaps\". The idea was to construct succinct mood pieces capable of transporting listeners on a three-minute odyssey, often traversing distant and distinct musical cultures. With Phil handling drums, percussion, keys, bass and guitar, and Joel contributing on keys, bass and guitar, they managed to flesh out most of the arrangements in Phil's studio, packed with vintage instruments including old Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, synths, Hammond organs and iconic Gibson guitars. Guest performers were called in only when absolutely necessary: Hannah Williams lent her vocals to 'Summer Rain', Peter Broekhuizen played the flute on 'Firecracker' and 'Spiritual World', Cees Trappenburg added his touch on horns for 'Scandinavian Railways' and 'Interstellar Bachelor Pad', while Yolande Kalb and Margriet Groenhof contributed as background singers on several tracks.\nThe result is \"Roadmaps\", an enthralling album that immerses listeners in a sonic expedition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lovemonk","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50395868823883,"sku":"2164003","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_33b2247b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726474354"},{"product_id":"give-me-the-strength-to-be-me","title":"Give Me The Strength To Be Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eGive Me The Strength To Be Me' is the exclusive single for Lovemonk by Soulnaturals, featuring London singer Chalibrann. 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And despite –or thanks to– the many unopened boxes, studio work, global emergencies and an unnecessarily large number of different rooms, out of those convulsive years emerged a luminous album that speaks lucidly of the passage of time, of truncated expectations that herald liberations and of growing old not as a drama, but as the long process of \"learning not to worry and to love the bomb\".\nThroughout the album, irony shines through, as in 'Small Circus, So Many Clowns' or 'Parking Lot', while pop innocence sparkles in 'Devotion' or 'Hey Matisse'; combined also with Pajaro Sunrise's more somber moments, such as 'The Mute And The Blind', 'Shallow Waters' or 'Inhale', where Mendez's voice reaches a new degree of maturity without completely shedding the candor ofhisfirst albums.\nPajaro Sunrise is a rare specimen in Spanish independent music, a guy who treads his own path with a catalogue of exceptional songs and a diverse body of soundtrack work. 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Other genres peripheral to club sounds, such as post-rock or kraut, also appear.\nThe idea of creating something that could almost be considered a soundtrack is present, but Delone's singularity has taken the album down a different path, using his own musical vocabulary to articulate a narrative that leads him towards his desired destination, keeping experimentation and dance culture, constants in his career, very much in mind.\nIn 2014 and together with his partner and friend Carlos Trujillo, Andrés created Riverette, a record label that became a record store in the center of Madrid, with his studio in the basement. From there he unleashed his productions as Dos Attack and his first works as Delone. Riverette quickly became a key creative pole in the Spanish electronic underground, and the label has released records by Legowelt, Kornel Kovacs or HAAi.\nThroughout the eleven tracks of \"Romanticismo siempre\", a story materializes in which the protagonism falls on the adrenaline of passion. Through a very personal sound, with a certain introspective vocation, Andrés tells us a wonderful tale with the help of exquisite arrangements and a rich expressiveness.\n\"Romanticismo siempre\" is a polyhedral album that can change with every listen, with every track, and reinterpret itself almost with every playback. 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Now, finally, Cristina Plaza (identity gracefully hidden under the Daga Voladora name that was before Gran Aparato Eléctrico and also a quarter of Los Eterno and half of Clovis) releases an album and does it, for the first time, on vinyl format. \"Los manantiales\" is the title of the long-awaited return of an artist that never completely left. \n\n\"Los manantiales\" (\"The Springs\") refers to all those sources from which I drink to make my songs: Stereolab, Broadcast, Galaxie 500, Cate Le Bon... And also something from the flamenco language. Flamenco in my own way, of course,\" explains Plaza. \"Los manantiales\" will also bring echoes of acts that the artist has not practiced as much, such as Esclarecidos, Vainica Doble, Ana D or Kikí d'Akí. Deep voices for songs with substance. \n\nBut there is also that other idea of the spring that gushes forth when it can no longer be contained. \"It has taken me so many years to make this album because I had a prejudice related to the previous one [\"Primer segundo\"] in which there was a coherence. Not finding that concept or thinking that this or that wasn't Daga Voladora, I couldn't get into it. Until I decided that maybe I didn't have to impose such a rigid direction on myself...\" \n\nSketched in a town bordering Ávila where Plaza decided to get lost in the summer of 2022 and then finished off in a basement in Madrid for several months, the nine songs of \"Los manantiales\" make up a short album, premeditatedly short (\"I don't like the songs to be longer than 2:50\") but, above all, varied. Because, as can be sensed in the song 'Quise ser' ( \"I wanted to be a fictional hero, an expressionist painter, a promising actress\"), here are all the imagined Cristinas and their different lives (\"The song 'Lejos de la multitud' is that longing of mine to be a vagabond\"), an unmistakable sign that, as the artist confesses, \"I am my own spring\". And all this joyful dispersion comes from the premise with which Plaza approached the album: \"I said to myself: 'Let's play'. I set out to have a good time. Suddenly, I wanted to do a dub track and I came up with 'Fosforito' or a rock song like Lou Reed in the 80s and there was 'Me vi penando'. I wanted a rock record, an experimental record, something like Broadcast, and a musical! I wanted to do a thousand things!\" \n\nThe result is a playful album, very enjoyable; but above all elegant and extremely precise. In both form and substance. Thus, the melodies are so catchy at first listen; the music would work perfectly on its own, stripped of lyrics that respond to the maxim, so often ignored, that there is really only one way to say things. \"I have tried to refine the texts a lot. There are some phrases taken from Steinbeck, other things that emerge in a somewhat magical way. There's also Gary Snyder, Kerouac and his Dharma Bums, echoes of California...\" \n\nIt's an album made, as usual with her, in the most absolute solitude (except for the collaboration of Andrés Arregui on sax and the final mix by Fino Oyonarte). \"I recorded everything with my computer, with my instruments, my analog keyboards, my rhythm boxes, little noises I make around... I don't make demos. I just do it. In a rough way. What I do do is repeat. The good thing about this method is that many things happen spontaneously and that's where they stay\". \n\nAn album that, for all of the above, responds to the best notion of caprice. 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On the other side,\"EL Barrio en la Mirada\" is a powerful Latin Soul number, with Ale's vocals shining in a song that explores the experience of being an inmigrant in a big city.\n\nAjí Gua Guao has been recentrly played on BBC6's \"The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show\"\nIt has also been remixed by DJ Koko: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CbZ32o2h6_u\/\nAnd DJ Fonkycheff.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lovemonk","offers":[{"title":"7\"","offer_id":50431966019915,"sku":"2165222","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_df59a939_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726861439"},{"product_id":"cerebro-orgasmo-envidia-and-sofia","title":"Cerebro, Orgasmo, Envidia and Sofía","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis riotous, psychedelic Latin funk anthem, taken from Martín Buscaglia's 2006 classic album \"El evangelio según mi jardinero\", sees its very much requested first time on a 7\". 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