The Guvnor himself Andrew Weatherall played two tracks off Flash Atkins’s “The Life and Times” on his new Resident Advisor mix. Flash was last seen in Manchester trying to scab money for a bottle of champagne.
Hear it HERE
The latest Paper Radio has interviews with Emperor Machine and Magnus International & Blackbelt Anderson as well as a mix from the first lady of disco Sophie Lloyd. Add the latest and greatest from the label plus what’s coming up and a classic from the vaults.
1. Rave-enka – Påfuglen
2. Mezman – Heatwave
3. Weedyman – BMBJ (Radio Edit Jam)
THE EMPEROR MACHINE INTERVIEW
4. Brioski – Radio Anatomy [Emperor Machine Stretched Version]
5. Flash Atkins – Levenshulme Orphanage for Boys (Doc L Junior’s Flashing Thunder Dub)
6. Solaris Heights – Solarism (Off The Beaten Track Mix)
7. The Funk District – Don’t Stop
SOPHIE LLOYD MIX
8. Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco: Aperol Sunset (Disco Devience)
9. Aroop Roy: A Gira (Gamm)
10. Imagination: Music & Lights (Sleazy McQueen remix) Midnight Riot
11. Dr Packer: Hypnotising (Hot Digits)
12. M: Machistator (Delabel)
13 Sophie Lloyd: Womanly Tattoo (Paper Recs)
14. Ralph Myerz presents REC – Dirty Diva feat. Nomi Ruiz
MAGNUS INTERNATIONAL & BLACKBELT ANDERSON INTERVIEW
15. Annie – The Greatest Hit
16. Robot 84 – Automatic
17. Diskobeistet – Gammal Morro
18. B.G. Baarregaard – Partysvenskenes Dans
Ahead of his damn fine EP next year, B.G. Baarregaard has done us a super good mix that shows off his skills behind the ones and twos.
Originally from Iceland and now living in Oslo he’s one of the next generation of disco warriors giving disco some fresh kind of funk. With releases on Whiskey Disco, Midnight Riot and Editorial already under his belt and his Paper Disco debut next year, just watch him go!
1. Young Pulse – Back For More
2. Osvaldo Wilson – Diavolo
3. Tabo – 4am (Swifft Edit)
4. Iñigo & Future Feelings – Galactico
5. Alien Disco Sugar – Love Strings
6. Shalamar – There It Is (Honom edit)
7. Keep on Movin’ (Dave Allison Edit)
8. Blue Feather – Let’s Funk Tonight (The Funk District’s Feelin’ Alright Edit)
9. Imagination – So Good So Right (B.G. Baarregaard Remix)
10. Crazy Penis – Mind Wide Open (Original Mix)
11. Arcadion & Funky Junkie – Sly Gianna
12. Rabo & Snob – Here We Come
13. Flash Atkins – Levenshulme Orphanage For Boys
14. Sunner Soul – Keep in Touch
15. LeSale – Make Me Feel So Good
16. Gazeebo – Hyperspace Hotmix (Rotciv Dream Disco Mix)
17. B.G. Baarregaard – Kaffibarinn
18. Vinny Villbass feat. Ost – Lust For Wrong (Original mix)
19. Richard Seaborne – Times Are Hard (De Fantastiske To Mix)
20. B.G. Baarregaard – (Got Me) Runnin’
21. Intro Beats – Silly Walkin
22. Eric Ericksson – Love it (Original)
23. Martin Landsky – Let Me Dance (Sebo K remix)
24. Kraftwerk – Computerworld (SFD re-edit)
25. Kraak & Smaak – Mountain Top (Original Mix)
Paper Recordings – 20 Years in the Mix
We kicked off Paper in 1994 with PAP001 Salt City Orchestra’s The Book and are now up to PAPDLS175. In the meantime there have been sub labels (Repap / We Are Woodville / Def Drive / Paper Disco), club nights (Robodisco / Paper parties / Trash The ….) foreign tours (New Zealand / Japan / Portugal, Australia), lifelong friendships forged, marriages, deaths and births. During all that, except for a break from 2003 – 2009 when we went away and re-grouped we’ve been putting out music that we love the whole time.
Dance music has changed massively from those early naive wide-eyed DIY days when everything was “house” or “techno” in to the global phenomenon it is today with hundreds of splintered sub-genres. When we started we were the new thing and hip in places we had barely even heard of but now are inevitably part of the establishment and a long way from the cutting edge. But with a new generation of artists we are hopefully still releasing relevant quality dance music with the recognizable Paper sound.
On doing the mix I chose to cover only the singles and do so in chronological order by year (which can be followed in the comments). This means that some mixes are more successful than others (!) but gives a taste of how Paper has developed. There are some glaring omissions of tracks and artists that were hugely important to the label (Problem Kids / Pa Pa Washington Trio / Reset) but with 39 hours and 53 minutes of music to choose from it’s inevitable that some favourite moments were missed. Maybe I’ll try and get them on the 25 years anniversary mix!
Anyway, we’re very proud of what Paper has done and will continue doing what we do so thanks for helping us along!
Ben Davis
The whole Paper catalogue is available digitally on all good online stores.
Here it is on Juno
A recent article and interview with The Ransom Note on our 20th Birthday.
1. Salt City Orchestra – The Book (Epilogue Reprise)
2. Paper Music Issue One – Downtime
3. Dirty Jesus – Cut The Rug (Da Floor Mix)
4. Those Norwegian – Hurdy Gurdy
5. Crazy Penis – Summer Bummer
6. Essa – 2 With A Star (Road To Damascus Mix)
7. Dirty Jesus – Don’t Fuck With My Shit
8. Streetlife Original – Lara’s Theme
9. Kenny Hawkes – Sleaze Walking
10. Stryker – Can’t Stop
11. Head Nodding Society – Nudge Up
12. Crazy Penis – Do It Good (Tom Middleton’s Cosmos Mix)
13. Harlem Zip Code – I Feel Music
14. DJ Tvyks & Håkan Lidbo- Version 1
15. Keyboy – Viva Blue (Ralph Myerz 5am Eternal Mix)
16. Daco – Aquarium
17. Flash Atkins – Make Your Move (Atjazz Mix)
18. 2 Billion Beats – The Moodymann
19. Research – Day By Day (Psychemagik Mix)
20. Neil Diablo – Let’s Get It On
21. Flash Atkins – Freak Club
22. Richard Seaborne – I Know You Love Me
23. 2 Billion Beats – Noise In Your Eye
24. Leon Sweet – Show You (Dean ‘Sunshine’ Smith Mix)
25. Kit Tacchini – New York Steak Of Mind
26. Joe Morris – Always
27. Ralph Myerz & The Kosmik Diamondz – Lett Sommarmat
Mixes are like buses, you wait for one for an hour after a heavy night with your can of Red Stripe getting warm when three arrive at once. So we are with with a Rune Lindbaek set from the legendary Klub Kebbab in 2013, Flash Atkins mixing up deep house and disco to perfection and Research getting their electro boogie on.
Here is the first in an ongoing series of mixes from our artists and friends.
Leeds resident Joe has been DJing for 20 years and has played all over the world. Here he’s done us a mix of the deep stuff that has got the touch!
His new new EP on Paper drops on October 28.
Our favourite former Superhero has been busy behind the doughnuts and come up with two mixes of ver different sorts. First up is a selection of summer jams taking in disco, soul, edits and deep beats. And at the other end of the spectrum is a mixtape of JJ Cale favourites to mark the passing of a legend.
So get them downloaded and in your ears!
Our favourite loser Flash Atkins has set up the decks in the back of his camper and done us a mix of damn fine deep house. There’s an exclusive preview of the new Farlet Silevester track After Hours that is out in March.
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.
