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Higher Love Vol​.​1

by Higher Love Recordings

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Digital dealers for discerning dance-floors and sophisticated sundowns, Higher Love Recordings, celebrate their first birthday with a damn fine compilation. Birthed by Brighton-based collective, The Balearic Ultras, just over 12 months ago, the label now launches an expansive selection of tracks, submitted by friends and extended family, that serves as an imprint sampler of sorts. Giving listeners a taste of the artists that have already helped along the way, plus a glimpse of a few future releases to come. Featuring luminaries of labels, kindred contemporaries, including Eclectics, Is It Balearic?, Melodica, NuNorthern Soul, and Paisley Dark.

In the 21st Century, as and well it should be, this balearic beat business is a global affair. The music here has travelled from Daytona Beach, Dubai, London, Manchester, Moscow, Santa Fe, and Stockholm - plus, of course, a couple of bits from Brighton, showcasing local talent such as Perry Granville, and Andres Y Xavi. The former a pseudonym of Hotel Pellirocco stalwart, Dave Sibley, whose Dexter In Dub pays tribute to the early `90s work of The Grid and Andrew Weatherall, with seismic subs, rattling rimshots, and an ethereal damsel echoing around an equally ethereal organ melody. The latter, the duo of Steve Ellis and Glenn Fallows, teamed up with Rolo McGinty, of The Woodentops. What Do You See In Me? is taken from their recent album, Sounds From The Secret Bar, but given an exclusive, fresh spin, one rocking some righteous axe action and soaked in Soul II Soul strings.

Some of the players surprise by stretching themselves to expand into previously personally unexplored genres. For example Adam Warped, ditching the disco-not-disco floor-fillers of this own Cala Tanida Musica and Whiskey Pickle imprints to deliver the avant ambient atmosphere of Zolpidem. The Strange Days radio show resident drawing inspiration from drone and vaporwave for a serene stream of sustained, splintered notes. Others stick to what they do best. Glass Coffee`s Kunafa With Jose recalls the DJ / producer`s last conversation with the sorely missed original sunset maestro, Jose Padilla, where they discussed sharing said Middle Eastern desert, laughing as they decided to add a Ramadan fast-busting beer to accompany the sugary syrup and filo. He soundtracks the scene with sampled surf, tides of new age, Suzanne Ciani-Like, keys, and the romantic ache of a Romany violin. Faint Waves` Dancing Flame `21 - reworked from the Sol den Serra E.P. - is a sleepy, sun-stroked, keyboard-driven skank, which touches all tropical basses with snatches of steel pans, Spanish guitar, and the odd click of castanets. James Bright`s Quaquaversal kinda updates Art Of Noise`s Moments In Love. Surrounding that act`s trademark treated heavenly vocals with IDM squiggles - gentle post-rave fractals - and warm, rushing, rumbling LFOs. Alterleo plucks and picks at traditional stringed instruments, hammers hand-percussion, to compliment the sampled savannah chants and impassioned, spirit-lifting lead vocal on his tune, titled Long Way. Initially limiting the electronics to an unobtrusive bottom-end hum, before turning his TB-303 on.

Of the new-comers, Harbor Tea Rooms` Summer `99 is a slo-mo electro boogie, designed to send folks back to their hopefully care-free childhood, while Alex Donofrio`s mindful, consciousness-questioning, Look For What’s Looking, buoys Durutti Column-esque dexterity with bulbous, bass-y, looped beats, floats fragile snippets of song, sailing, on stirring cinematic orchestration. Atlantic Brain`s Tough Problems, Easy Solutions is a lush, dark, Tangerine Dream-flavoured, phased, electronic, kosmische pulse. Go Satta drum up a little drama on Leaving Town Was Wise, with collected bongos and congas supplemented by synthetic swells and pads. All dancing beneath a lyric that details a betrayed, cheated, lover, and deployed with an aesthetic that summons “balearic goddesses” Anna Domino, and Linda DiFranco. Remixed by Ed Mahon, of Cowbell Radio and Alfresco Festival fame, the track`s bashed by a bad (meaning good) reggae bass-line, dubwise effects and a breakbeat. The fabulous Jesse Fahnestock, in his 10:40 guise, fashions the set`s finale. His Kissed Again begins by bubbling bucolically, before its big piano chords build an end-of-the-night excitement, and a climatic acid breakdown cements its anthem-sized ambition.

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released September 3, 2021

Track 1 written & produced by Glass Coffee. Non-exclusive release track. Publishing Barlas Agg. Nikolaos Music
Track 2 written & produced by Justin Weems
Track 3 written & produced by James Bright
Track 4 written & produced by Mat Lane
Track 5 written & produced by Alex Donofrio
Track 6 written & produced by Adam Warped
Track 7 written & produced by Atlantic Brain
Track 8 written & produced by David Sibley
Track 9 written & produced by Glenn Fallows, Stephen Ellis & Rolo McGinty
Track 10 written & produced Mo & Phoenix Love. Additional remix by Ed Mahon.
Track 11 written and Produced by Denis Leonovich.
Track 12 written & produced Jesse Fahnestock
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 7 mastered by Anthony Puglisi at Sentrall Sound, Los Angeles.
Tracks 8,10 & 12 mastered by Rich Lane, Cotton Bud Mastering.

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