Henry Hodson
Blue Ones EP

Floating above the clouds you’ll find the silkiest producers making their beats. Specialising in smooth, breezy flavours; they are individuals who like to inject some sunshine onto the dancefloor. For the fourth excursion we’re excited to welcome Will & Batty to our little home in the sky.The lads came through with some bouncy and uplifting groovers that couldn’t be any more perfect for the label. We’re excited to get these out just in time for summer 🔆

Eclectic Beats Music release number 6 comes in the form of a vinyl 7” single with two Latin broken beat cuts!The A side is a collaborative remix from Born74 and Fradinho, twisting Jorge Ivan Martin’s original track “Yo Tambien Baile La Conga” into a broken beat remix, enhancing the Latin flavours with a dance floor direction, topped up with Frank Santiuste’s trumpet solos.On the B side, Fradinho digs out one of his earlier unreleased Latin tracks and gives it a broken beat flavour, with a Funk fusion through the bass line and synth solos and brass hits.

Porto’s based Arctween debuts his “Ping-Pong” LP in Madluv records landing with a overall ambient and dub based soundscape.The whole piece has many harmonic moments with drifty string arrangements and nu-wave synth pads, emanating a chemistry between balearic and world music with a constant feet on swinged experimental grooves. Showcasing the multi-instrumentalist’s ability to navigate between genres and languages.Throughout the album there’s an overall sense of trickling synthscapes mixed with carefully layered cellos and ethereal chords.Adding to the equation there’s a few different close collaborators present in the many moments of this multifaceted stellar listening journey.Recorded between 2021 and 2022.

Eclectic Beats Music release number 7 is Fradinho’s “Tropicafrica EP”, inspired by Ghana’s Highlife music. On the A-side, Fradinho delivers two original Broken Beat tracks: “Tropicafrica”, which also names the EP, is a journey into a slower syncopated Highlife guitar track, with a lovely progressive harmony and guitar picks. “Highlife” has a more upbeat atmosphere, still with the Highlife guitars on a happy vibe and a faster beat structure. On the B-side, there’s 2 distinct quality remixes:Sun 793 delivers a journey into a darker, futuristic, yet contemplating sonic bruk experience, with lush keys contrasting with the overall deep feeling of their “Tropicafrica” remix. Mr. Bird also remixes the track “Tropicafrica”, in a cross-genre fusion between house and broken beat, adding some vocal elements and brass, that results in this uplifting remix.

6 artists, 4 tracks for the first release of various artists of yay recordings.Techno, house, breakbeat and a bit of acid are the ingredients of this album that should not be missing in your bag.

After founding record label Pixel as the latest Carpet sub imprint, Sasha Pervukhin debuts on the main Carpet & Snares catalogue with four house tracks. All tunes were recorded in Montmartre, Paris during some hard times on Sasha's personal journey – so sometimes tough times can give us beautiful music…From the bump of Chicago to skippy breaks, from the stargazing of second-wave Detroit to a bit of New York swagger, the versatile Ukrainian producer puts his heart, emotions and musical understanding on to the vinyl; prompting smiles and shapes on the dancefloor.