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Belated post 2 – Here are the percussion Grooves (08AM)

November 20, 2018Roeland Otten

Running a label can be nerve-wracking as all pressing plants are super busy and the previous release (07AM) was getting delayed each time I was asking for it, it finally took 5 months from the moment I ordered it… So… Continue Reading →

Afro, disco, edit, latin, percussion, tropical

Belated Post 1 – Here is Articulat (07AM)

November 14, 2018Roeland Otten

On Christmas Eve 2017, I received an email from Ovidiu Stanciu, a Romanian DJ who I got to know about a year before. He had invited me and Marlijn van de Kerkhof to play at one of his monthly We… Continue Reading →

house, new / minimal wave, psychedelic, Sounds Articulat

06AM (Already!)

January 25, 2018Roeland Otten

Okay, 06AM contains three Turkish and one fake Turkish edit. They sound quite traditional but they all have a psychedelic electronic or percussive edge which makes them worth stretching a bit. As 05AM was delayed, this one can be considered… Continue Reading →

disco, edit, LoFi, percussion, psychedelic, Turkish

(finally) 05AM

December 18, 2017Roeland Otten

05AM contains two Bollywood bangers, loudly pressed – each on a 45rpm side of the record. Afrobot’s cut is a raw and fast percussive acid track, just wait till that 303 comes in, Bappi Lahiri already knew in ’83 what… Continue Reading →

Bollywood, disco, edit, house, LoFi, percussion, remix

Moroccan Sounds

August 31, 2017Roeland Otten

Last weekend of August I was invited to play at Atlas Electronic, a small scale electronic music festival that was happening in Villa Janna in Marrakesh for the second time. The location (approx. 10 km north from the city center)… Continue Reading →

Afro, Gnawa, LoFi, mix, percussion, psychedelic, Sounds

04AM is out now!

July 19, 2017Roeland Otten

End of January this year I received a message from the young dj and producer Perdu, artist name of Alain van der Born, who sent me a folder with some tracks he’d been working on, under which his take on… Continue Reading →

Afro, Bubblegum, disco, edit, remix

Records from Mexico

June 29, 2017Roeland Otten

Already back for more than a month from an amazing 3 week trip to Mexico, an intensive tour with Dany-E and De Dupe playing 8 gigs in 5 cities. Of course I needed to go record hunting, although I wasn’t… Continue Reading →

Ambient, cumbia, disco, latin, mix, percussion, psychedelic, rumba, tropical

Digging (in) Istanbul – days before the referendum

April 19, 2017Roeland Otten

Just a day back from a 5 day trip to Istanbul, got a gig in Minimüzikhol 🙂 was meeting friends and digging for that Turkish black gold. Booked a Airbnb in Taksim, just a bit outside the area the promoter… Continue Reading →

disco, mix, psychedelic, Turkish

EurAfrican Synth Sounds

January 19, 2017Roeland Otten

“In music people have always liked to travel.” That’s the last sentence of my bio and I try to grasp two meanings: literally, musicians tend to travel and go on tour and abroad they get inspired. What they hear will… Continue Reading →

Afro, disco, mix, Sounds

Here’s 03AM

December 8, 2016Roeland Otten

Hoooray! Here’s 03AM, the third release of the label related to this blog. This EP contains 4 edits: American and Bollywood disco on the A-side and two contemporary Afro house cuts on the B-side. The first track we definitely wanted… Continue Reading →

Afro, Bollywood, disco, edit, house, Kuduro, remix 03AM, afro, Disco, Kuduro, Release

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