LoEB Vinyl & CDs

Review: Taken from the recent, highly acclaimed 'Milky Disco' compilation on Lo Recordings, 'Spacer Woman' is a scintillating slab of hi-octane,
Italo space-disco. Created by Johan Agebjörn, who was responsible for all the production on Sally Shapiro's 'Disco Romance' album, the
12" includes remixes by Rude 66 and Elitechnique which take it even deeper into space and onto nu-disco dancefloors. Dutch electro
artist Rude 66, with releases on labels like Viewlexx, Bunker and Crème Organization, previously remixed Sally's hit 'I'll Be By Your Side',
receiving plenty of club play from DJs like The Hacker and Tiga. His take on this 12", titled 'Deeper Space Woman', is a slow and deep,
dubby trip which will work well as a start-up for slower DJ sets. Dutch duo Elitechnique, with releases on Clone and Radius and earlier
remixes for Black Devil Disco Club and Alden Tyrell, take the track into a nu-disco dancefloor monster called 'Outer Space Woman' with
additional backing vocals by the Dutch actress Loes. The 12" ends with a wicked sidechain dance version of a computer game track,
'Mega Man II re-mix' by Johan Agebjörn, here without Sally's vocals but with vintage 8bit sounds. Sally Shapiro's debut album 'Disco
Romance' was released in 2007 and received excellent reviews from magazines like Pitchfork Media, Vice, Der Spiegel and XLR8R. It
was recently nominated as 'electronic/dance album of the year' by U.S. Plug Awards and Sally was nominated as 'female artist of the year'.
'Spacer Woman From Mars' was originally intended for 'Disco Romance', but was taken out because of its space rather than love theme.

Review: "Blackout" was created by a collaboration between Black Mustang and the magical Kerrier District (Luke Vibert), Cornwall's answer to Metro Area. Kerrier Distract provided the chunky disco beats over which the Mustang stacked layers of Moog and tripped out dub vocals. This LoEB release with scare the hell out of your ears.

Review: Minimal electronic house tour de force here as Border Com's James Holden teams up with the UK's Jon Tye (aka Milky Globe) here on the A-side, while on the flip Nathan Fake and Milky Globe join forces for the Dusty Cabinets mix of "Lava Flow". The "Sun Spots" cut is a deep slice of electronic dub combining Holden's ever-shifting palette of abstract tones and crisp percussion. "Lava Flow" takes Nathan Fake's signature keyboard work and stretches it out over a sweet low-end groove.

Review: Matt Waites drops a compelling afro-disco effort on Lo Recordings’ new, more disco focused offshoot, LoEB. "Deep Heat" launches the imprint with some highly electronic disco that builds with ancestral rhythms and an exotic feel throughout. Accompanied by a strong remix package, this is a statement of intent from the new label.



Now recording under his Moscow alias, Mr Waites has been around for some time, most notably under the Nightmoves moniker, which saw the talented producer unload killer remixes of Robbie Williams, The Klaxons, Roisin Murphy, Friendly Fires and Freeform Five & Mylo. In an attempt to turn onto a deeper, more atmospheric sound he gave birth to his Moscow project, which launched with two highly acclaimed remixes of They Came From the Stars I Saw Them and Detachments. This was followed up with his debut original production, the epic "Throw Up" disco jam on Japanese label, Endless Flight.



Now, "Deep Heat" lands just as we move into the blissful months of a warm summer. A definitive cut of modern, leftfield disco, the title track builds throughout its entirety with a kind of trance music feel. Crisp layers of percussion and succulent synth textures ride over a fluid bassline, proving Waites’ deft production skills in one, dance inducing sweep. Moscow’s dub mix strips it down and instils a wonderfully spaced out feel before DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy turns in a more electronic remix as The Loving Hand. Toby Tobias is up next with two excellent remixes. First he places emphasis on a heavy bassline to create a driving atmosphere with touches of acid before his ‘Cut to the Chase’ remix develops the emotional synth motif even further. The Blessed finishes proceedings with a harder, big room peak time rework. A label debut is always an important release for establishing a tone and feel for further releases, and we can be assured that only the very best of electronically enhanced disco will get through the doors of LoEB.