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ACID HOUSE CREATOR

Acid House Creator is the second single from "The Life and Times” album. It comes stamped with the Andrew Weatherall seal of approval after he featured it on his Resident Advisor podcast.

The original is a pitched down deep house chugger that is heavy on atmosphere, lulling you in to the break when WHOOMPH! Arps take over, the bass unfolds then it’s tops off and time to get your gurn on. Things are taken down again and before you know it the break is back bigger, badder and better than the first time.

The first remix comes from the unofficial King of Norway Ralph Myerz and officially a producer who smashes it every time. Harking back to the legendary Erot, this is a pacy main room deep disco floor filler. Messy claps, clav, bumping bass, acid and plenty of disco dust hit the sweet spot and that’s before Javiera Menas brings the Brazilian flavour.

San Francisco’s Tal M. Klen takes things subterranean with a mix that is full of wonk and acid. There’s a heavy groove lurking under the bonnet with lush strings and Detroit pads sweetening the taste but this is serious electronic dance music for those who know.

Finally Paper favourites 2 Billion Beats take things to the beach. There’s a live kit, 80s bass, plenty of synths and we’re talking balearic baby as the original parts are woven in to a dreamy delight.

Ron Basejam - "Lovely acid. Tal M Klein's weirder take is my pick."
Sleazy McQueen - "Really diggin the Ralph Myerz remix!"
Fingerman - "Couple of great mixes here. Tal M kills it with his acid version but 2 Billion just peaks it with their tasty broken beat balearic remix."
Quincy Jointz - "Gig this EP much. Original version is my fav. Also dig the remixes of Tal M. Klein and 2 Billion Beats"
George Summers (Midnight Riot) - "Top dance floor business from the Flash..."
Kahuun - "The original is still my club favourite, but the other mixes adds more variety, Nice ACID!"
De Fantastiske To - "One of my favourites from Flash ́s album! Original is one hell of an anthem!" Chris Massey - "2BB all the way for me on here! Big beach bar vibes"
Greg Churchill (NZ) - "Killer release. Going Ralph's mix in particular"
Robot 84 - "All Killer on here, love Ralph's mix, also diggin 2 billions beats mix."
Murray Richardson - "Xlent stuff...Acid House Creator original is extremely good & the Myerz mix is top!"
80s Child - "Great Acid vibez on this, wicked stuff!"
Tronik Youth - "2 Million Beats for me"
Nikša Dragolin - "i love flash......he is out of this world and this new shit prove it all"

OCTOBER CHART

Acid House Creator

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THE LIFE AND TIMES - ALBUM TEASER

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LEVENSHULME ORPHANAGE FOR BOYS

Flash Atkins – Levenshulme Orphanage For Boys

1. Original
2. Deaf Boys Dub
3. Doc L, Junior Mix
4. Richard Seaborne Mix

Flash Atkins is a drunkard, drug user and general wrong’un. A super hero who has fallen from his purple patch in the 80s to purples stains on his pants in the 00s where he now lives in a campervan in a field in Yorkshire.

He is also the alter go of Paper Recordings’ Ben Davis and Levenshulme Orphanage For Boys is the first single from his forthcoming album Paper album “The Life and Times of Flash Atkins”. Each track title is named after a chapter of a short story to be published as an accompaniment to the long player.

Levenshulme Orphanage For Boys is a slo-mo tech heavy chugger that is locked down with rock sold beats and a throbbing side-chained bass. The track builds with synth lines before a sampled female vocal brings in some sparse melody and reinforces the hypnotic rhythm. An acid line adds to the tension before the reaching it’s peak with all the elements hitting home.

The Deaf Boys Dub goes down a more stripped back route with a Moog synth riff and techy hats along with the sampled vocal. A ricocheting snare heralds the arrival of the sub and things crank up a gear. It’s proper 4am lose yourself in the smoke club music as the synth riff filters in and out.

Doc L. Junior is a Norwegian legend who’s not been active for a few years but is back with a wallop. Deep, synthy and a hint of 80s, this is big room music that brings to mind So Get Up by Underground Sound of Lisbon.

Finally, Richard Seaborne turns in a classic sounding remix recalling Armand Van Helden in his prime. He ups the pace, adds a brutal bottom end, chucks in a jazz break on top of the acid and vocal and it’s dance floor dynamite.

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MARCH CHART

FLASH ATKINS - COLLABORATIONS # 2 EP

  Resident Paper munter and self soiler Flash Atkins is back with a second EP of collaborations. The first found favour with people like Danny Krivit, Bill Brewster, Crazy P and Moodymanc and was heard playing everywhere from The Warehouse Project to Croatian boat parties.

Flash?s first studio victim was young gun Chris Massey which resulted in a deep tribal house throbber that?s heavy on atmosphere as the first half builds around an arp, sub and subterranean percussion. For the drop the mood lightens with a Rhodes and 80s synth line as all the elements are re-introduced for maximum dancefloor dynamics.

Daco's head was next on the Flash?s studio block and their track Vowerk is named after a breed of chicken. Fact. It's a super-heavy slice of main room tech-house built around a distorted arped bass that summons up the spirit of John Ciafone and Mood II Swing.

Manchester veteran Neil Diablo didn't know what he was getting in to and by the time he'd worked it out they were two tracks down. Nezulka is deep house at it's finest and on a Hot Creations tip but without the whiff of sunglasses in nightclubs. Swinging drums and analogue bass keep it ticking over before the synths in the second half mellow things out to drag you out the K hole you may have been sliding in to.

The EP is rounded off with some 90s vibing house that?s got a bit of Balearic business going on. With samples firing off the track builds to the break where the organ does it's sunset thing. But wait, is that a male vocal singing Hey Yeah as the drums drop? By golly it is and doesn't it sound fine!

Moodymanc - Excellent vibrations from the most motley crew in dirty disco...

Stuart Knight (Toolroom) - NEZULKA is the one for me ...dope !!!

Justin Harris (Freaks) - Sodium Original is really cool - nice EP.

Nathan Detroit - Love Massey. Love Diabo. Love this!

Nick Holder (DNH) - Nice and deep.

Harri - NIce work!

Nutritious - Vowerk!

Da Wiseguy - Nice pack of 4 steady builders....but Sodium kills them all!

Aldrin Zouk - Sodium is my fav cut.

Jonny Miller (Southport Weekender) - Flash Atkins, total loser so thank god someone else is on hand to help here. I love the bass edge on 'Vowerk', one for the shufflers at Southport maybe? The Neil Diablo collar cuts also worked very nicely, great EP!

Da Sunlounge - Sodium is very nice, will play this.

Dan J - Fully digging Vowerk, proper druggy business and looking forward to trying this out.

CP (Inkfolk) - Sounds like a Tribal records Eric Kupper outing…Nice.

Bootsy - The Neil Diablo collab Nezulka is my pick and love the vocal sample. But may I say the Daco track Vowerk doesn't half kick eh? A close second!

Leri Ahel (Mutant Disco Radio Show) - Great EP, Vowerk is the one for me.

Ed Mahon (Cowbell Radio) - Loving everything about the Dirty Protest!

Dogan Aktay - I think the Neil Diablo ones stand a head above the other two but I like the overall coherence of the release.

Russell Pollitt - Got quality stamped right through this - brilliant EP.

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