A Sound of Norway Launch
A Sound of Norway launch tonight at Cafe Krystall with Ralph Myerz, Eddie Da Bass, Carina & Ciscoe (The Treatment)……Details HERE
A Sound of Norway launch tonight at Cafe Krystall with Ralph Myerz, Eddie Da Bass, Carina & Ciscoe (The Treatment)……Details HERE
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Paper Recordings has a long standing connection with Norway’s musical output, dating back to the label’s release of the seminal ‘Kaminsky Park’ by Those Norwegians in 1997. The label helped create a template for the Norwegian sound with its off-kilter beats, organic soul and giddy electronics and from the ashes of Those Norwegians rose Torbjorn Buntland who went on to form Royksopp and leftfield pioneer Rune Lindbæk who released ‘Sondag’ on our sister label Repap.
The series will draw on the best electronic music to showcase the modern Norwegian disco sound, featuring brand new tracks by established and up-and-coming producers. The first EP kicks off with this three tracker from Ralph Myerz, KeyBoy and Ciscoe accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by illustrator Joe Lobley.
The EP opens with Ralph Myerz ‘My Dream Queen’, a superb slice of slo-mo disco tinged house with warm melodies and ethereal vocals that go to show why Myerz has been such an important musical influence over the last decade.
Next up KeyBoy deliver ‘OYB’, a follow up to their hugely popular ‘Viva Blue’ from last year. It’s an intense techno / disco fusion which marries deep soulful melodies with tough analogue sounds providing a brilliant cut that is perfect tackle for soundsystems and home listening alike.
Finally we have newcomer Ciscoe (The Treatment) who turns in a lower tempo slab of 80’s influenced electronics cum disco. Beautifully arranged and bristling with an edgy soul this is a great piece of music and perfect closing opus to this wonderful package.
Buy it HERE
What the press and DJs are saying:
Chris Duckenfield – Worth it for Ciscoe alone, Claudja Barry loopage always handy.
Erol Alkan – Like My Dream Queen
Aldrin Zouk (Zouk) – Lovely EP! Especially loving the laid back grooving My Dream Queen and Elevators.
Phat Phil Cooper – Elevators is lovely… nice and trippy…
Roberto Rodriguez (Compost / Freerange) – Super cool tracks. Love all of them, sounds like Norway!
Mathew Krysko (Warehouse Project) – Cisco – BLAM! Great cover of Secret Agent Man… love it!
Ben Bleet (Howling Monkey) – Elevators is cool
Stuart Knight (Toolroom) – Cool E.P on the lefter side of central ..OYB standout for me.
Jonathan Moore (Leftside) – Loving all the tracks but OYB just edges it for peak time action. All three will be getting major support though.
24:hrs Soundsystem DJs – Paper is slowly getting my attention more and more. This new release is a pleasant surprise from fellow country Norway. Like Ralplh Myerz dreamy pop meets dancefloor track.
Jonny Miller (Jus’ Listen) – Really like the vibe on OYB, proper mid set deepness…
Frank Lihaug (Norway) – Fresh out of Bergen, Norway. Love all tracks, OYB is the winner for me though.
Chris Coco – Mmmm dreamy.
Patski Love – Heia Norge! Heia Ralphen!
Craig Woodrow – Nice EP!!!
Emma Warren (NME) – I love this EP, particularly Dream Queen which just sounds great. Am going to see if I can play on my NME Radio show.
Stefano (Disco Outcasts) – My Dream Queen & Elevators are lovely. Full support.
Karoshi – This is real quality. Proper autumnal music, Elevators is especially lush. Bit of Royksopp in there, but still doing it’s own thing. Slo mo disco – this is the next thing. Gimme more fellas!
Kahuun – Tight and swinging release folks!
Martin Brew (J-Walk) – Elevators is very, very awesome – will be rockin’ this shizzle!
Ralph Myerz – What an amazing EP!!! INCREDIBLY talented people! They also seem like a very nice and cool and smart and handsome gang too.
Gareth Sommerville (Ultragroove) – ‘OYB ‘for the club, ‘My Dream Queen for the bar. Elevators for the sunny beach I wish I was on right now.
Seth Troxler – i like Elevators and My Dream Queen…. love it actually!
James Teej (Rekids) – Another dope dose of solid music, the Keyboy track is illll… Diggin’ the Ciscoe track too.
Freak N Chic – Interesting mid tempo music & paper is back ..as usual nice funky stuffff.
Ola Smith-Simonsen – Enjoying the Ralph Myerz track! Nice to see Paper Recordings back!
Geir Aspenes (Norway) – Great EP! Keyboy for me. Go Norway!
Thanks for supporting Paper Recordings and just to show you we care, there’s an exclusive unreleased Atjazz Instrumental of Flash Atkins’ Make Your Move for you to download – for FREE!
‘Make Your Move
(b/w Atjazz and Ashley Beedle Rmxs)
Paper Recordings
PAPD11
The Superhero past his prime, Flash Atkins is back with a timeless release of deep slow burning soul that shows off his chops as a producer and is backed with some heavyweight mixes to boot. Featuring Crazy P’s Danielle Moore at her sultry best, the original has live bass, drums, guitar, horns and guitar plus Rhodes and electronics all wrapped up in a killer 90BPM 4/4 groove.
Atjazz pitches things up for some classic deep house in his own inimitable style, laying down an afro groove, shuffling percussion, gorgeous pads and keys that taunt and tease before the bass hits. He then brings out the heart and soul of the song before taking out the bass and stripping it back down to create a hypnotic middle section reminiscent of Global Underground’s The Way. The bass and keys then re-emerge for the soulful end….ahhhhh.
Ashley Beedle, a man who’s had his sticky paws in some of the best dance music of the past twenty years takes the track in a psychedelic rock direction. He gives it a heavyweight drum groove and showcases Danielle’s vocals, using plenty of the original parts but adding some heavily effected guitars and percussion to superb effect.
The Reprise strips the original mix of all its beats and let’s Danielle’s vocals soar over the Rhodes; and finally Atjazz and Ashley Beedle’s dubs are included for those allergic to vocals!
Overall a release of incredibly high quality that sees Flash Akins coming of age.
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Flash Atkins
http://flashatkins.blogspot.com
Rocky (X-Press 2) : Atjazz getting played on this week’s show. Closing track. Beeeutiful
Jazzanova : My fav is the Atjazz Remix. Sound and arrangement is great.
Tom Findlay (Groove Armada) : Original is great, Ashley Beedle mix is fav though.
The Revenge : What a package – most of these mixes will be getting played.
Mathew Krysko : Paper’s back with a happy chugger – nice one Flash.
Rub n Tug : Cooooool
Chris Duckenfield : Lovely slinky ‘Delta House’ styles from Sir Beedle. Bonus Blender particularly tasty & some fine Herbertesque scrubbings from AJ as well.
Wolf & Lamb : Jeez… Beedle killed it here!! Amazing, musical remix… my pick of the bunch.
James Teej (Rekids) : Awesome fucking release, finally some real music! The original is dope as hell, and the Ashley Beedle is smashing.
Peter Kruder : Mellow & nice
Osunlade : Love the Atjazz remix.
Roberto Rodriguez (Compost / Freerange) : 5 star release here. Really good original with excellent remixes. Full steam ahead!
Leo Zero : Loving this slo-mo funker! – Original Mix and Ashley mix for me!
Jay Tripwire : Adding the Atjazz Remix to my RA Chart immediately, amazing project. All the mixes have a time and a place.
Leftside : Great package, all mixes will be played but especially liking the original mix for those sultry Sunday Soul sessions.
Luke Howard : Very nice slow groove, cute vocals and lyrics. Right up my strasse.
Danny Mac : What can I say. Wicked! This is going straight to the front of the box!!! X
Balihu : Nice warm and soulful and i also like the little acid touch…:)))
Jimpster : Atjazz Instrumental! Gorgeous!
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PAPERVINYL03 available now in the Paper Shop
Crazy P
Smoovin’ Groovin’ (Ray Mang’s Dumpy Re-Rub)
Star War (Greg Wilson Edit)
Crazy P’s releases with Paper Recordings in the late nineties/early noughties
are for many some of best records released by both the act and the label.
Now in 2010 Paper have handed over the tracks from A Nice Hot Bath With to
some of their favourite producers (Yam Who, Faze Action, PBR Streetgang,
Flash Atkins, Rune Lindbaek and Brennan Green) and have created the
marvellous ‘A Nice Hot Edit With’ due out next year to follow the re-release
of the re-mastered orginal in November.
The first vinyl sampler for the album contains two cuts, the first of which is
Greg Wilson’s epic thirteen minute edit of ‘Star war’. Wilson needs little
introduction; as one of the UK’s true DJ heroes he started his career back
in 1975 and was a pivotal force in breaking electronic and post disco music
to clubland through his residencies at everywhere from the Wigan Pier to the
Hacienda. For his reworking of ‘Star war’ he turns in a groove laden slice of
deep disco that drips with class from every pore and even after thirteen
minutes leaves you wishing for more!
The flip side of the release sees the wonderful Ray Mang whose DFA release
earlier this year was a huge success. Here he delivers his ‘Dumpy re-rub’ a
chunky, dark edged piece of floorfilling house with an electro/disco twist;
simple, hypnotic and brilliant.
The Revenge – Both of these mixes are ace…full support
Soul Clap (Wolf & Lamb) – ray mang for us! nice laid down disco vibation.
Horse Meat Disco – Great to see Paper back! Both are great …!!
Richard Dorfmeister – NICE!!
Chris Dukenfield – Nicely crafted re-do’s here Greg’s version tips the scales, probably on account of the associated half ton of defunct hardware
Trus’ Me – Feeling the Greg Wilson Edit
Diskjokke – Thanks for reminding me of that fantastic album, listened to it continously in 1998 and will put it back in my bag now. nice remixes, liked Ray Mangs the most.
Eric Duncan (Rub N Tug) – Sounds great!!
The By:Larm Festival in Norway are looking for artists for their line up this year.
Click on the link below and give leave a comment bigging up our new signings Proviant Audio so they get rebooked.
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The Deadstock 33s : We Could Be
PAPD10
Released this week
1.We Could Be (Original)
2.We Could Be (The Deadstock 33s Club Mix)
3. We Could Be (Flash Atkins Mix)
4.We Could Be (Ashley Casselle & Mark O’ Brien)
5.Magikal 100
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BUY IT AT THESE STORES: Paper Recordings Shop, Beatport, Juno and iTunes, plus all other cool download stores…….
PAPERecordings is back from it’s summer hols with a release that breaks the template from dapper gent and Balearic legend Justin Robertson. Justin is one of acid house’s true pioneers, constantly evolving and pushing new sounds using his vast armoury of music that ranges from reggae to synth pop to techno to house and rock.
We Could Be is his second outing on the relaunched PAPERecordings and it’s a belter. The original is warped 4/4 business with a nagging slap bass riding the sub. There is all sorts of analogue synth action and choppy edits to give it unexpected drops and fills resulting in big floor energy.
Next up Justin’s own remix takes live drums and creates something akin to oldskool techno played by a band. The detroit bass dominates with a killer groove and plenty of fills to keep it rolling.
Boozer, drugger and sound manipulator Flash Atkins takes his remix down the electro pop route with floating keys, synth washes and plenty of delays. The middle section goes in to a heads down percussion session before breaking into an arpeggiatored ending for the big finish…..mahem ensues!
Ashley Casselle and Mark O’Brian have taken the parts of the original down a deep techno route that keeps it tight. They work the groove for maximum impact but with plenty going on under the hood.
Finally there is the bonus Magikal 100 that wears Justin’s 80s influences well and truly on it’s sleeve. With a dropped down BPM it sounds like woozy Japan at a comedown party after a particularly heavy night…and that’s got to be a good thing!
Murray Richardson- Paper digital is rocking my digital world!!! 5/5
Slutty Fringe- Epic disco sleaze!
Justin UnaBomber- The Deadstock 33 mix & Flash Atkins is in me ball park big time. 4/5
Chris Coco- Very cool.4/5
Tom Findlay (Groove Armada) – Like the club mix and Magikal 100
Electronica Magazine- Wicked release, loving the varriety of sounds
Karoshi Brothers- Real tasty, Flash mix is fave, esp the big lead synth solo in the outro!
Magik Johnson- 33’s club mix is ace
AMDJS Radio- We like the whole package, but Ashley Casselle & Mark O’ Brian’s mix is serious one! 5/5
Gareth Sommerville- Vibing Flash Atkin’s mix.
Luke Warren (Pinch)- All about the club mix! Excellent release
Fred Deakin (Lemonjelly)- Justin’s club mix is the one.
Aldrin Zouk- Magikal 100 is fab. We Could Be original is also fresh.
DiskJokke- Nice and deep remix by ashley casselle and Mark O’ Brien, works well for me!
Neil Quigley- The Flash Atkins remix is deliciously quirky and groovy, excellent.
Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West / Distinctive)- Heavy tune ! Supporting :)
DJ Aleksij (Sloevenia)- Fuckin’ love paper whatever they put out for over a decade! Very good release with good mixes to choose from! The saga continues!
Randall Jones (Tigerhook Corp)- WOAH!! Paper Recs back in the house. I love the remixes!
Hiro Tanaka (DJ 19)- The Deadstock 33s Club mix is 4 me. Good groovin bass!!
Ben Mono- Digging the Deadstock 33s Club mix.
Paper continues to be one of the world’s best-loved independent record labels operating as a thriving cottage industry. We have been pushing the creative envelope since 1994. We have released over 2000 tracks, streamed over 60 million times, created by over 500 artists, producers, and remixers in over 50 countries. Our style ranges from deep house and disco to Balearic and leftfield, with the label evolving to incorporate Paper Vision Films, which produced the award-winning Northern Disco Lights and Wild Water documentaries, plus the critically acclaimed podcasts Paper Air Waves & Paper Talk.