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Loud E, Albion and Ric Piccolo are soon to be releasing tracks on "Passport to Paradise", the label run by Leeds music veteran and all round top fella Lenny Paradise.
Loud E: "The folks at Passport to Paradise deliver more exotic sounds from the farthest reaches of Earth and beyond, for your aural pleasure. Your concierge today is cosmic disco maverick Loud E, taking us from 123 to 456 to 789 in a masterclass of disco edit wizardry. Step inside the elevator... The doors close.
Loud E welcomes you with ‘123’, flicking gears and switches while offering you a space mojito. It’s a smooth ascension; suddenly, the elevator wobbles and the lights blink to the beat of 124bpm. Still with us? We land on ‘456', and the doors creak open to reveal the orange surface of Mars. Space dust floats around a disco ball; strobe lights penetrate the atmosphere. By ‘789’, you’re seeing stars - literally.
Loud E takes us from nought to sixty in the blink of an eye, or perhaps the stamp of a passport. Three cosmic cuts for the more enlightened of dancefloors."
Albion: Ferocious propeller fans blast the sweat off your brow. Analogue synth raps on the walls in off-kilter glory. Gunshot tom drums race around the room, like mice you keep missing. This is ‘Operation’, the first track on Albion’s long-awaited second offering for renowned disco edits imprint PASSPORT TO PARADISE. Following the superb Kompression EP last year, the Swedish disco druid is back for another leftfield voyage through paradise. Don’t touch the sides.
Where are you? Cruising at light-speed through a disco multiverse. An offering from the aliens- a vocoder box. Layer it on top of a chugging mid-80s synth bass. Put it on your playlist.
Flip around. Space cigarette, anyone? You ascend far above the milky way, reaching heaven just as the sun disappears through the clouds. The angels are out dancing. ‘Sunset Reggae’ is blissed-out cosmic dub sweetness for the headiest of evenings. Back to earth. sort of. B2, ‘The Music Makes Me Feel Good’, is a straight-ahead boogie killer, making Albion Vol. 2 as versatile as it is fashionable, as eclectic as it is galactic.
No sleeping in space. Give your dance floor a planetary edge with the latest trip to paradise."
Ric piccolo: Stamping the passport this time round we have DJ Ric Piccolo by way of Buenos Aires, who takes lost and obscure Argentinian records and injects them with a turbo shot of discoid overload. If you've just got onboard the Passport to Paradise spaceship, don't fret- PTP13 is the perfect introduction for the aspiring cosmic voyageur.
Ric Piccolo kicks off with the heady throes of 'Fuck All Nite' . You've heard it before but you can't renumber where. Take the advice- this is your 3am matchmaking tool. Then head onto A2, 'Passage', where the wind whistles through tropical vines and monkeys play Moogs on the rain-forest floor. TIP!
On the flip side we have '1, 2, 3..', sounding like the lost credit track to a 1980's Latin horror b-movie, where flare-clad zombies with glasses of fernet rock and sway with drunken señoritas. It could well be. Finally, B2, 'Venus', invites you on-board for a healthy dose of spaceship funk. Lose yourself in the rainbow tones of the cosmic slop - Passport to Paradise are at it again!"
On Saturday March 31st they're taking over the 1's and 2's at the Doghouse Bar and Record Store, DJ's Craig Christon and Scott Oxley will be filling your lugholes from 7pm.
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