Discobelle Records

January 4th, 2010. By Niklas

Discobelle Records will try to give you the best things you didn’t know you loved.

Here are the releases from Discobelle Records so far:

DBR21: Myrryrs – Feel U EP

Support Discobelle Records and Myrryrs, go buy the release over on Beatport.

DBR020: Turned On: Vol. 2 Compiled by Neoteric

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DBR19: Teenage Mutants – Bangla

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DBR18: Botnek – Plonk

Support Discobelle Records and Botnek, go buy the release over on Juno.

DBR017: Meati & Meech – Bock

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DBR016: Disco of Doom – Invader

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DBR15: Voltron – Freshmen EP

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ARWEB093/DBR006: Boeoes Kaelstigen – Lou

Support Discobelle Records and Boeoes Kaelstigen, go buy the release over on Juno.

DBR005: Femme En Fourrure – Dirty Blond II

Support Discobelle Records and Femme En Fourrure, go buy the release over on Beatport, Juno, or Boomkat

DBR004: Turned On: Vol. 1 Compiled by Neoteric

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DBR003: Femme En Fourrure – Dirty Blonde

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DBR002: Jamtech Foundation – Too Fast

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DBR001: MVSEVM – French Jeans

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If you are talented artist that would like to get in touch with us hit us up here or send it here:

Discobelle Records
c/o Niklas Mijdema
Sunnanväg 233
Lund, Sweden

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DISCOBELLE DJ'S - HORIZONTAL

Discobelle DJ’s

January 4th, 2010. By Martin

UPCOMING GIGS:

Fri 12/2 Revier Club, Zürich Switzerland
Fri 12/2 Club Bonsoir, Bern Switzerland
Sat 27/2 Pastor Wiberg @ Mejeriet, Lund Sweden
Fri 5/3 Belle Epoque, Malmö Sweden
Sat 6/3 Vive La Fete @ Café Rasoir, Malmö Sweden
Sat 13/3 Helsinki, Finland
Tue 16/3 Whyred in-store, Malmö Sweden
27/3 Sucasa Club, Ulm Germany
14/4 Smuts @ Babel, Malmö
12/5 Warriors @ Debaser, Malmö Sweden
15/5 Villa, Berlin Germany
21/5 Belle Epoque, Malmö Sweden
29/5 Vive La Fete @ Café Rasoir Malmö Sweden
2/6 Uberklub, Bielefeld Germany
12/6 Absolut Vodka party, Malmö Sweden
5/7 Club Monday, Halmstad Sweden
10/7 MaliBoom Boom Summer Tour party @ Strand, Borgholm Sweden
6/8 Belle Epoque, Malmö Sweden
21/8 Grolsch Block Party, Stockholm Sweden
28/8 WTF?! @ Hotel Reisen Stockholm Sweden with DBTY
17/9 Noize! @ The Warehouse , Malmö Sweden
24/9 Fashbinders with Mikix The Cat @ Adelgatan 2 Malmö, Sweden
3-4/11 Mstore by MacSupport, opening party in-store, Malmö Sweden
12/11 Belle Epoque Malmö
13/11 Noize! @ Inkonst Malmö
20/11 Nolla, Helsinki Finland with Femme En Fourrure & Tane Lee
19/2 Plano B, Porto Portugal
25/2 Humana in-store party, Malmö
25/2 Tricks/Tricks/Tricks @ Babel Malmö, with Zebra & Snake
4/3 Belle Epoque Malmö
23/3 Sound Pellegrino x Discobelle party @ Electric Pickle, Miami
1/4 Onitsuka Tiger Scandinavian Launch Party @ Slakthuset, Stockholm
5/8 Belle Epoque, Malmö
TBC 13/8 Rust, Copenhagen
12/11 Belle Epoque, Malmö
TBC Helsinki, Finland
TBC London
3/12 Belle Epoque, Malmö

INFORMATION:

Apart from all the blogging, we DJ quite a lot. We play the same sort of music that we post, so if you like the blog – you’re going to have a good time on our dancefloor as well. Also, the blog reaches out to a lot of people and attracts a crowd that likes what we’re about. That’s the sort of crowd you want as well, we promise.

We’ve shared the dj booth/stage with a wide assortment of artists/dj’s including the likes of Simian Mobile Disco, SebastiAn, Fluokids, Nadastrom, Tittsworth, Risky Bizniz, Thunderheist, Krazy Fiesta, Oxy Cottontail, The Glass, Dan M, DJ Suijinho, Audioporno, Kornel Kovacs, Fagget Fairys, DJ Dainja, Boody B, AC Slater, Sir Nenis, Sharkslayer, Pets On Prozac, Jamtech Foundation, Cousin Cole, Pocketknife, Casper C, Jess Jubilee, DJ Wool, Mumdance, Cobra Krames, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Ben Mono, Niyi, Renaissance Man, Sekta, Arveene, Solo, Spoek Mathambo, Bok Bok, WooBanger, Hot Pink Delorean, Femme En Fourrure, Solo, Tane Lee, Zebra & Snake etc.

If you want get in touch about a booking, either drop our booking agency – Awesome Agency – a line over at leo[at]awesome-agency.com or contact us at booking[at]discobelle.net and we’ll get back to you.

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Rizzla + Blk.Adonis – PNP EP

October 25th, 2011. By Brendan

“Having gay sex to homophobic reggae is almost as thrilling as blowing lines to anticocaine reggae” reads one of the Rizzla tweets that the Generation Bass blog showcased while debuting the new Blk.Adonis collaboration EP yesterday, whose title is a double play on Jamaica’s beleaguered People’s National Party and “Party and Play,” i.e. drug-fueled gay sex.

For those used to dance music that packs a little less of an socially inquisitive punch, Rizzla’s statements can come off as a little confusing. Is this critical of dancehall? Professing a love for it? Wedged somewhere uncomfortably between these two sentiments?

I’m more familiar with Rizzla than Blk. Adonis, but I can speak to the huge respect that I’ve seen Rizzla proclaim for the dancehall, reggae and soca genres that the “PNP EP” runs through a gauntlet of washing machine style throbbing basslines.

And while the “PNP EP” is full of twisted vocal snippets and amen breaks with sinister ha’s layered in between liquid drum & bass that on first listen might not resemble a dancehall influence, spending some time with it you can see a re-contextualized pastiche of dance music that’s both critical and embracing of the source material it draws inspiration from. At least, maybe. Maybe I’m not so sure.

To that effect, it’s a shame that Rizzla’s now defunct Wasted Youth Soundsystem blog isn’t still active, since it’s maybe a good place to look for more contextualization of the music. As well as pointing out the political hypocrisies of some queer circles exercising an outernational pursuit of sanctions against reggae artists, WYS also had tons of amazing soca edits and great articles, like this one on Gay Imperialism by Jin Haritaworn. If you’re interested in reading more about Rizzla’s relation to the politics of Jamacian music and North America’s somewhat neo-imperialist motivated persecution of it, it’s a great blog to spend some time on, as well as the comments in this thread of the Wayne and Wax blog for his take on imperialism and dancehall.

But geez, enough politics – what does this EP sound like? Pretty fantastic, actually. “PNP” sounds like a slice of moody, dark, cough syrup injected dancehall gets rubbed all over with KY Jelly and starts a wrestling match with Kingdom. “She Only Dance” pitches the phrase ‘she only dance to reggae and calypso’ to a uncomfortably high level, and envelops it in a castle of pounding kick drums, eerie vocal echos and rhythmically aggressive SOS signal bleeps.

“Go Straight Vs. So Fine” is total warehouse fare, integrating dissonant ha beats sampled from the MAW classic staple around some heavy, heavy jungle beats. Finally, the closer “Bekiki” is described fantastically by Generation Bass as being a “melancholy future-bashment” piece of work, and showcases a slower burning style of production that still fits extremely well with the vibe of the rest of the EP.

Download the full EP below, courtesy of Generation Bass (thanks folks)!

BLK.ADONIS + Rizzla – PNP EP

Tracklisting:

1 PNP
2 SHE ONLY DANCE
3 GO STR8 vs SO FINE
4 BEKIKI

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Rizzla – FTM Mix

September 18th, 2011. By Brendan

Big, big things are in the works from Rizzla, who provided us with an unbelievably hot mix to start the week. Kicking off with what sounds like a dial up internet connection that you might hear dissonantly playing in the background of a David Lynch movie, things only get more frenetic from there.

Amidst the chaos, you can find a plentiful helping of Ha beats influenced by everything from New Orleans bounce to apocalyptic military reincarnations of the classic Masters At Work “HA Dance” track, each providing enough of a variation on the original theme to sound jarringly different every time.

There are also plentiful original productions from Rizzla here, further showcasing a dancefloor versatility that’s positioned itself somewhere hazily in between house, intensely homoerotic rave, techno, garage, bass, soca, dancehall and vogue, all mixed with maybe a little side of scathing political critique. I mean, when you name a track “Battyboy bleeding in the dark”, there’s gotta be some politics at work. Regardless of how you choose to characterize it, some of these gems may be finding a home on a certain fantastic soon-to-be-revealed label later on this year.

As if that’s not enough, the mix is also stuffed to the seams with exclusives from Mikeq, Dubbel Dutch, Kingdom and previously featured dance music disemboweler blk.adonis. Grab it now, you won’t regret it.

Rizzla – FTM Mix (Mediafire)

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Kingdom – Take Me ft. Naomi Allen (Nacey Remix)

August 18th, 2011. By Brendan

Nacey’s reworking of Kingdom’s collaboration with Electrik Red’s Naomi Allen is nothing short of clubworthy, highlighting all the best parts of the original and adding a few elements that will turn any dancefloor into a frothy mess. Grab the original release on Fool’s Gold and you get the fantastic b-side “If You Buck”.

Kingdom – Take Me ft. Naomi Allen (Nacey Remix) by nacey

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Kingdom Mix for Fade To Mind

July 11th, 2011. By Brendan

Tough to pick favorites in this mix, front to back filled with exclusive jaw droppers. A Kingdom remix of the criminally overlooked Mariah Carey + Nicki Minaj collaboration?! New material from NGUZUNGUZU’s upcoming EP on Fade to Mind and DJ MikeQ? A military ode to vogue offered amongst flying bullets and exploding percussion in the form of “Wartime HA”? Yeah, sounds like they’re all going to be my favorite forever.

Kingdom: Fade To Mind Mix (via Mixcloud)

Best described by Kingdom himself:

This mix marks the inauguration of my new label Fade to Mind, and its first release, Nguzunguzu’s Timesup EP. It contains songs from that EP as well as my upcoming single for Fool’s Gold, “Take Me” featuring Naomi Allen of Electrik Red, among other exclusive tracks and edits from the Fade To Mind universe. Singular subwoofer visions, sideways club trax, and darksided R&B dubs.

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NGUZUNGUZU – Timesup EP on Fade To Mind

July 5th, 2011. By Brendan

NGUZUNGUZU have never failed to deliver productions that massively shift the way we conceive of dance music, so it makes sense that their release on Prince William and Kingdom’s collaborative record label Fade To Mind.

Billed as “a record label and a movement, a series of club nights and cooperative projects in music, visual art, video, and apparel”, Fade To Mind is off to a stellar start with the NGUZUNGUZU created “Timesup” EP – full of intricately crafted pieces of dance music.

“Water Bass Power” sounds like someone sharpening daggers on a waterfall – unstoppably fluid, movement based dance music with a serious kick to it, and Kingdom’s laid back but anxiety laden R&B recut of the shuffling, “Timesup”, a tune about having to call people back, turned off phones, and an underlying unsettled vibe about one’s relationship. With production like this, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Fade To Mind gang were responsible for 98% of computer hacking that’s going on these days – futuristic, global club virus music going full speed ahead.

Buy the Timesup EP here, with remixes by Total Freedom and Kingdom, as well as three mind eclipsing original tracks by the NGUZUS.

You can also download a mix full of exclusives from Rizzla, Dubbel Dutch, AraabMuzik and more below.

NGUZU NGUZU XLR8R Podcast 205

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Kingdom – Uptown Buck

May 23rd, 2011. By Brendan

A new Scion collaboration with Trouble & Bass has produced this new “Sound of NYC” imprint, featuring contributions from Cubic Zirconia, Drop The Lime, Hussle Club, and this cut up club masterpiece by Kingdom, which merges the club rave and hip hop influences together in a chirpring, stutter step inducing package.

Also, Kingdom’s new collaboration with Girl Unit on Night Slugs white label vinyl series drops this Thursday and includes a pitched up re-imagining of Ciara’s “Ride” which will haunt your dreams for a while, most likely.

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Win Win – Interleave (Kingdom Remix)

May 6th, 2011. By Brendan

In preparation for tomorrow’s party with Total Freedom and NGUZUNGUZU, Kingdom flips Alexis Taylor’s soulful crooning into a pitched chipmunk diva noise on this re-edit of Win Win’s “Interleave”. Spaced out bliss for a late night out.

Win Win, “Interleave (Kingdom Remix)” by The FADER

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Poirier – Vivendo Juntos (video)

April 5th, 2011. By Martin

The Enchufada label, home of kuduro kings Buraka Som Sistema, this week the label releases the fifth in their Hard Ass Sessions series featuring an international line-up consisting of NYC producer/dj Kingdom, Montreal’s world traveller Poirier, Bert on Beats and Pocz & Pocheko, each of whom have risen to the challenge and created their own unique take on a kuduro beat.

Montreal’s Poirier should be well known for the avid Discobelle reader, he is a rising DJ/producer who, in his own words, focuses his productions on “the fusion of Caribbean and electronic music.” Never afraid to integrate a myriad of influences in his music, he rose to the Hard Ass challenge admirably with the track “Vivendo Juntos”, his first ever foray into kuduro and you can check out the video above.

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NGUZUNGUZU EURO PROMO MIX

March 17th, 2011. By Brendan

Global club / virtual reality pioneers NGUZUNGUZU continue to develop their trade in 2011, releasing a promotional mix for their upcoming European tour featuring a brand new Girl Unit remix and new chunes from Dark Sky, Kingdom, and themselves. Hack the world. Also, check out an old interview with the NGUZUs that Mipak Records did last year.

NGUZUNGUZU EURO MINI PROMO MIX!

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Pocz & Pacheko – Tuki Love (video)

March 7th, 2011. By Martin

With the release of “Hard Ass Sessions Vol. V” (dropping in April with contributions from Kingdom, Poirier, Bert On Beats and Pocz & Pacheko etc.), portuguese label Enchufada further deepens their reign of releasing bass pounding and booty rattling kuduro compilations which sole mission is to make you get down and dirty. Check this video for the Pocz & Pacheko track “Tuki Love” for inspiration…

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