Seltene Elemente

diese Elements are ruling hard over here atm…
cheers, Basso

Desperate Pleasures

I was just listening to this awesome EP by Tornado Wallace on Beats In Space and had to share these subtropic ambient disco pleasures with you. cheers, Basso

some private pressing things

see and listen here - thanks Jiro Bevis for hosting me!!
cheers, Basso

for your feet...

some "new" edits up on my cloud….

 

Long Distance at TESTPRESSING

http://testpressing.org/2013/11/merge-long-distance-growing-bin-records/

that funky feeling

Here's some nice german boogie from the late 80s released on the private? Plurabelle label. I discovered this record some years ago and nobody really cared about this until some weeks ago some french Boogie Dealers declared this to some kind of holy grail. Too bad that I ran out of copies ;)

here's a youtube preview


link in comments….

Instant Peterson & Andras Fox - Southern Shores

we have a new guest mix!
it's amazing and completely down under. Instant Peterson aka Lewis and Andras Fox aka Andy Wilson are blessing us with unheard songs exclusively from Australia and New Zealand. So many beauties in there... it makes me want to scream or simply go get the next "last minute flight" down under and file every record shop, thrift store, flea market or simply these 2 guys' record collections. You might know them from art exhibitions or strange holiday radio or noise in my head or you have heard Andras' amazing tunes. But you haven't heard this mix so go ahead and listen in amazement ....


Thanks Andy and Lew!!!


and here's the tracklist:


1. Intro (AUS)
2. Drouyn - Thursday Song (AUS)
3. Maiden Australia - Knowing That You're There (AUS)
4. Doug Ashwood - Leave Love Enough Alone (AUS)
5. The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast - Illuminated Bay, Illuminated Buoy(AUS)
6. Moving Lines 1 - Enchantment (NZ)
7. 3 Voices - Thunder on the Mountain (NZ)
8. Sea People - I Remember When She Had Jesus (AUS)
9. Megan Sue Hicks - Hey, can you come out and play (AUS)
10. Hiroshi and Claudia - Beats in the depth (AUS)
11. Nights in Shining - Surfing Reggae (AUS)
12. Asphixiation - Aural Risk (AUS)
13. Broderick Smith - Here Comes Trouble (AUS)
14. Hiroshi - Moonlight Dream (AUS)
15. Drouyn - Morning Comes The Sun (AUS)
16. Sam Green & The Time Machine - For The Ocean (AUS)
17. Equal Local - 12 Ways To Go (AUS)
18. Upper Hutt Posse - Stormy Weather (NZ)
19. Metronomes - 18 Creature (AUS)

Merge - Long Distance LP PRESALE

yippeeeee!!

our first record is being pressed these days and will arrive around
october 24th. there will be no more than 420 copies worldwide ...
you can preorder here:

RUSH HOUR 

GROWING BIN RECORDS

Cheers, Basso

Hearth Earth Heart

Hearth is one Innovative Communication lp that never made it onto cd. Who knows why, it's a very fine recording. It's also one of the vinyl albums that were intended to be played at 45 rpm. I decided to rip this at 33 because I often play it at that speed and have always enjoyed the slower sound and, of course, the much longer track durations. One thing about this record that makes it a standout in the Banfi discography is that he pulled in additional musicians rather than his usual solo outing. This music is played by a quartet featuring guitar, lots of slap bass and a very fine drummer, Bruno Bergonzi, who must have been one of busiest drummers throughout the 80s. Also, Baffo had bit of fun with the title on the labels. Side 1 reads "Heart" and side 2 reads "Earth".

Hearth/Heart/Earth

Serge Jazzmate - Baños De Sol

Kiew resident, music lover and DJ Serge Jazzmate is spoiling us with some more sunrays in late september. Since 2009 Serge is one of the residents of the LOW party series, one of the highlights of Ukranian Nightlife. His mixes have been spread all over the web including contributions to Noncollective, ANOE and Balearic Social .... to name a few. Finally he made one for the bin too : )
Thanks Serge!!

LISTEN

Leon Lowman's Liquid Diamonds

Here 's the Reissue / Compilation of the year!
Made by the almighty Music From Memory / Red Light Records Crew!

just in case someone missed this compilation of impossible to find tunes by Leon Lowman by now - be quick, it's almost sold out. You still find copies at Relight Records Amsterdam, Rush Hour and at growing bin records though : )

soundclip

KoolMisterDJ - Levin And Black Haze Drifting

continuing with the mixes.................
this experimental mix comes from record collector and DJ Julian Sulz aka KoolMisterDJ from Munich. Into digging since the late nineties he nowadays focusses on obscure 45s, Italo, Cosmic and all things Synth. You'll find him on soundcloud too : )
The mix he kindly made for us is a psychedelic excursion into the cosmos - illustrating the dream journey of friends Levin and Black Haze.
Now get your spacship ready to fly.....

LISTEN!

from aficionados for aficionados

just in case you haven not heard about this beauty - Nado 004 is out!!
Blissed balearic tunes by Joan Bibiloni and Coyote plus a remix by almighty Rune Lindbaek in company of Øyvind Blikstad.

LISTEN HERE

PS. Thanks Moon!

Henri Aleksi - Closing Time In Mexico

the growing bin has been sent some lovely mixes in the last weeks and and I'm sorry that didn't yet manage to post these - until today!
so we're going to spoil you with 3 mixes in a row now - starting off with Henri Aleksi's Closing Time in Mexico.
Henri's a music lover from Helsinki. He's studying Portugese and Latin American studies - no surprise then that there's a lot of that wonderful south american organic sound in the mix. He mingles it with contemporary classical, blissful jazz, ambient and balearic tunes and creates an atmosphere that makes me want to set sails for the desert.....and blissfully drift away - LISTEN!

Thanks Henri!!


PS. more of his Sound here & here

Synthesizer Samba under the Radar

Here's some lovely synthesized Samba by the group Radar from Estonia. They recorded 2 LPs which both are excellent Jazz Funk / Fusion records. This mighty fine track here is unfortunately only available on a estonian compilation from the early 80s (available over at my shop, of course ; )
cheers, Basso

one of my favourite albums ever

I'd just like to celebrate this wonderful and timeless album with you. I won't tell you what I love so much about this album, because pretty soon you'll feel it anyway.
Fila Brazillia have always been heroes to me and Maim That Tune is my fave among their many (and still not enough) albums (all amazing). This particular album is 18 years old now and I can't believe how time flies. Nevertheless I still enjoy this like day one. Back in the days people called this downtempo, triphop or chillout, but none of these pigeonholes seems to work for Fila.
Been listening to this record a lot when traveling and the sounds have been weaved into so many neural networks.... Played out a CD and had to buy another one, taped it to cassette, mini disc, converted it to mp3 for traveling AND had many dreams of seeing this on vinyl one day. Btw - why doesn't some friendly guy out there make my dream come true? I'm sure a LOT of people would be happy about it... how about a gatefold double abum ; ) Another dream of mine is a Fila Brazillia ambient album, but I better stop pestering you with my dreams. God bless Fila Brazillia!

LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD HERE 

Austria Drei Illinois Eins

Here we have something Austrian that doesn't quite sound "austrian". It's mainly Werner Pirchner's Marimba that gives this fusion outfit an ethnic/world music feel and some of those tricky rhythmic structures make you forget completely about alpine idyllic scenes. Adelhard Roidinger's bass workouts might make you forget about everything else (Check Lonely Frog).  I'll also mention "fast fingers" Harry Pepl on guitar and "tight" Todd Canedy, former member of the legendary Rhythm Combination & Brass, on drums. I'll also mention that I hope you'll enjoy this fine album!
Cheers, Basso

Andras Fox - Soft Illusion

get down with some top notch balearic boogie from down under!!



Andras Fox & home loan records

last mixes

Nice people have been asking me for mixes lately. Here's what I recorded after pausing from making mixes since december. Cocktails By The Pool is the first mix of a series mixes called The Breeze. It's pretty tropical / balearic, sometimes even emotional and a bit cheesy too whilst Plum Flowers In Golden Vase (named after the first track) is more eclectic with a touch of friendly voodoo. Not to forget the relaxed and Lazy Day For The Sirens , the second mix in The Breeze series. Hope you enjoy them! Summer's here : )
Watch out for some breezy edits coming your way soon ...
Cheers, Basso







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