Earl
Strong To Survive

Swiss re-issue label PROXIMA moves on from italo into the New Beat Belgian categories with this great release by Jo Bogaert, aka Thomas De Quincey, who played a strong role in putting Belgium on the map during the New Beat era into the early 90's with projects like Technotronic. This release features 3 tracks in one EP with different mixes and a new remix by Audrey Danza.

All Tits are Real, All Money is Fake, All Hail Satan is the first EP from newcomer peachlyfe. It contains three fast-paced trance inspired bangers and one ballade to make you come down afterward.All Tits are Real, All Money is Fake, All Hail Satan moves between depictions of loneliness within communities and suggestions for resistance strategies. The piece is created based on a feeling of necessity, that has occurred parallel with peachlyfe's gender liberation process. In the LP and the zine peachlyfe reflects on how humans can be a part of communities without being disciplined by norms and unrealistic expectations. Through the album, peachlyfe depicts the queer reality they live in and for once put the heterosexual reality, that the western society is permeated by, secondly.

Press text__________________________________Fresh yet nostalgic, melodious yet deep; that's what newcomer from Chicago, Emil Gayles has brought us with his new EP as a second installment of our Contrafact label aiming on deeper house from the windy city.Seduction will stomp your mind, body and soul straight into space with superb percussions, a never ending bass groove and melodramatic chords. Spirit Dance on A2 adds foam to the milky way with a jolly high tone bass line and clutching high hats, shaking up your mind.Instant lift off with the atmospherical Fly Birdy on the B1 side, whilst Monlade hitchhikes you from Saturn to Jupiter

Not the same OPM that made "Heaven Is A Halfpipe" - and thank God...

Simple, but vibey stuff...

Indonesian doom-trance getting the rmx treatment!