Bostro Pesopeo - Cheer Up

Well, here's a treat for you. Bostro Pesopeo's new track "Cheer Up" out soon on Permanent Vacation does just that. It's a lovely piece of deep disco/house/unclassifiable that just makes you happy with its bubbly rhythm and quirky melody.



And I know another reason why I instantly like it, and that's because it reminds me of another classic German house track Isolée's "Bon Mot Plage" which is one of my favourite tracks of all time (I have quite a few of those though).

Clancy - What You Do EP

Cool label Dirt Crew just announced a new sub-label called S P I E L, and judging by their first release it's going to be just as cool. The person who got the honour to make up the first release is old favourite Clancy who used to make awesome dreamwave and nu disco but now mostly make awesome house of the deeper variety. And to top it off he gets remix support from Sweden's dear brother country Norway, in the form of a deep diskomiks (Norwegian for disco mix) from Prins Thomas. Out digitally and on Vinyl on September 30. Pre-order your digital copy on What People Play or your vinyl on Juno.

The Magician - When The Night Is Over

The Magician is releasing new original material soon. "When the Night is Over" will be released on September 23 on Parlophone and features Swedish duo Newtimers (you might recognize Andreas Cavaco's voice from DJ Nibc's "Call Me"). Haven't really delved into the lyrics, but they seem to be about a late-night game of ¨Twister.



Newtimers released a great EP last spring filled with retro-flavoured nu disco and electro with a nice cheesy R'n'B or even boy-band feel to it.



Oh, and wasn't more than a couple of months ago The Magician released this bad-boy that we have put to good use over the summer.

PORTMANTEAUX BY TRACASSEUR: GROOVEBOX (ESP)

This Friday, September 13 we will premiere our new club Portmanteaux at The Box in Stockholm. We are really excited, because this place will be one of the hottest clubs in Stockholm this fall and winter due to really good bookings so far since the opening a couple of weeks ago, so the hype is already there. 

To be one of the acts that will hold a monthly club here, we are both honoured and filled with excitement. For the premiere night we have flown in a superb act in Groovebox from Spain. One of our most wanted bookings, so prepare for a crazy night!

Link to the event:
PORTMANTEAUX BY TRACASSEUR: GROOVEBOX (ESP)

GROOVEBOX (ESP)
One of our fave tech house producer right now is Groovebox. We've played his tracks the whole summer in Sweden and abroad and the crowd have loved it every time!

Groovebox is a Spanish producer that kind of quickly has established himself as one of the most renowned names of the tech house scene. He has already released music on the most prestigious labels in dance music including Deeperfect, 1605 Music Therapy, Suara, Hotfingers, GreatStuff, Toolroom, 100% Pure, Skin Records, Younan Music, Nervous Records, Shpera, Mjuzieek, Pacha among others.

Groovebox has also had plenty of top listings on Beatport with his releases, the latest that was No 1 was "Cause and Effect" together with UMEK.



Our absolute favourite Groovebox track is "Brooklyn", that we've played over and over and over this summer. It kind of became our dance summer anthem and so it was for others too, it was placed at No 1 on the Tech House chart on Beatport for 2,5 months!!!



"Strictly Funk" is another gem that has been one of our tunes lately. It is produced together with the Italian duo Phunk Investigation on Deeperfect Records.



Another tech house pearl is produced together with Blaqwell.



And a week ago Groovebox released his latest work with the EP "The Blackout" including these two.





We finish off this Groovebox post with a Mp3 with the wonderful title "Does Umek Drink Papaya Juice?", where Groovebox has remixed Serotonin Thieves.

Serotonin Thieves - Does Umek Drink Papaya Juice? (Groovebox Remix)

LBCK - The Goods album

Long Beach duo LBCK (acronym for Long Beach City Kids) released their début album "The Goods" last week, and I can't help but to draw comparisons with another duo's recent album; namely Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories".

Luigi and Alex have always been trusted go-to producers if you want no-frills party music. Their brand of pumping, cut-up disco house bangers has been from the same mould as people like The Phantom's Revenge or the La Valigetta crew and has been made almost exclusively for a dancefloor. And not of those sleepy early nights dancefloors.

So with that in mind, "The Goods" is both a few BPMs and a few calories less than the music we have gotten used to. "The Goods" is, like  "Random Access Memories" an album, and an album that give a nod to music that probably formed the Kids, even if the nods aren't towards Giorgio Moroder and Niall Rodgers but towards classic hip-hop, Bag Raiders and the Daft Punk of "Homework" (they even have a flirt with DP's "Teachers" in "Rock the House".

"RAM" was also DP stepping off the gas, even if they probably already were doing the speed limit, which meant their album had a Florida senior's speed. LBCK, on the other hand, are still speeding at times, but would maybe get to keep their licenses if the cops were to clock them. So all in all, "The Goods" is LBCK's introverted, backward-looking, old-geezer-rock album. Or it would have been if they'd had longer careers and were pushing 40 instead and not 20-something.

The whole album is available for free on LBCK's website. And below are my picks that represents slower discoier LBCK, hip-hop-flirting LBCK and classic, pumping party-LBCK.

Get four (4!) tracks from ColeCo for free

Less than a month ago we told you about a track named "You're So Fine" that ColeCo gave out for free after a while on their SoundCloud. We also told you it should be on the release "Thrillhouse Forever" released ny Thrillhouse Records. The release holds four tracks from ColeCo and now you can get the whole release for free.

We always loved ColeCo and even more now! Give them and Thrillhouse your finest support. And download your zipped file here with all four tracks.