{"title":"Love Injection","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"phantom-vibrations","title":"Phantom Vibrations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A place between deep listening and a dance” is how Gene Tellem describes the music she releases via her Montreal-based independent label, Bienvenue Recordings. However her words apply just as well to her own sound as an artist, producer and remixer. Though inspired by early deep house and its musical antecedents, Gene’s work possesses an emotional resonance that transcends influence. It’s a quality that’s characterized her output since debuting her productions in 2017 - whether working solo or within her four-piece group Secret Witness, with vocalists or instrumentally, or via Bienvenue or other labels within the indie community. And it’s in abundance on the fivetrack Phantom Vibrations EP - her latest contribution to the imprint with which she shares an appreciation for the sounds and spaces that blur active listening and movement, NYC’s Love Injection Records. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIts centerpiece is “Phantom Vibrations” - a paean to the allure of the elusive and ethereal that features the soulfully understated vocals of singer and co-writer Teddy Bryant across four distinct mixes. Gene’s “Main Mix” emphasizes the song’s emotive duality. It opens pensively - Teddy’s doubled voice pledging devotion to an unrequited “phantom love” over stuttering bass and percussion. But halfway through, his repeated refrain (“Step into the beauty\/ Let it soothe your soul”) becomes less a plea than an invitation. Bass and drums synchronize, the track motors up, and the lyrics’s melancholia is absorbed into the momentum of the dance. The “Radio Mix” and largely instrumental “Alt Mix” capture these intertwined emotional ghost notes as stand-alone statements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo remarkable additional remixes come courtesy of Sapporo, Japan’s Kuniyuki Takahashi. Long venerated as an artist, producer and sound designer (over a storied career that’s included collaborations with Theo Parrish, Joe Claussell, Henrik Schwartz, DJ Sprinkles and 4 Hero’s Dego amongst others), Kuniyuki’s “Kuniyuki Remix” dubs out Bryant’s vocals within a beautiful arrangement of darting synth work. His dreamlike “Beatless Remix” strips back the track to its melodic bones, and in the tradition pioneered by Francois K’s early ’80s Prelude dubs, bathes Bryant’s vocals in ecstatic echo. (In a bit of poetic happenstance, Francois mastered the entire EP as well.) An altogether new piano-led track from Gene, “Tough City,” concludes the EP’s digital version. And if its characteristics - visceral, insistent, persuasive, and ultimately addictive - encapsulate her affection for metropolitan life, they’re also apropos to the entirety of Phantom Vibrations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Love Injection","offers":[{"title":"12\" - Black","offer_id":52026982072651,"sku":"R6984-8925","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/click_f7df9f07-3776-4fff-bf09-d3550ccd8a4e.jpg?v=1750772523"},{"product_id":"water-sign","title":"Water Sign","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWater Sign\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut EP from producer and instrumentalist John Silas: a five-track suite that moves fluidly between peak-time dance and inward reflection. Deeply aligned with the open-eared ethos of NYC’s Love Injection Records, the release channels house and jazz into an emotive personal chronicle shaped by movement, memory, and community.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAt its thematic center is “Boundaries,” a dynamically arranged dance-floor meditation that begins with piano, 4\/4 kick and restless hi-hats before blooming into radiant synth work reminiscent of classic disco auteur Patrick Adams. Midway, the track shifts—electric piano, whistles and percussion reframing the groove into what Silas calls “hues of vulnerability.” The result mirrors the arc of love, release and renewal.“Cyber Dreams” leans into lush escapism, buoyed by surging keys and impassioned flute from Domenica Fossati, while a remix from Detroit mainstay Patrice Scott (Sistrum Records) adds unmistakable Motor City weight. “Foster Child” nods to Silas’ hero, the late Paul Johnson with exuberant Chicago spirit, and “Nasty” delivers a concise workout featuring Marquinn Mason’s robust saxophone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eWater Sign\u003c\/em\u003e reflects Silas’s trajectory—from a childhood steeped in Soul Train, coming of age with hip hop, to MPC craftsmanship, his Detroit musical family and present-day Brooklyn—into a deeply personal record equally suited to discerning DJs and deep listeners.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Love Injection","offers":[{"title":"12\" - Black","offer_id":56774055002443,"sku":"R8759-3399","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed-2026-03-11T181503.940.jpg?v=1773252913"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/love-injection.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}