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2 Billion Beats – Noise In Your Eye / Full Moon Boogie

Here is the first EP in a double header to mark Paper’s 150th single release.

2 Billion Beats’ Tom and Col have been sat in their studio wearing Day-Glo and high tops waiting for the invention of the hoverboard to no avail. So to kill time they cranked up their collection of 80s synths, set to work and came up with a couple of tracks that could soundtrack Summer 2013.

Noise In Your Eye is a BIG floor disco track that plugs an LCD Soundsystem shaped hole. So much so that it was played by James Murphy at The Warehouse Project this Christmas. The mystery is, nobody knew how he got hold of it but a wayward licensing CD is thought to be the culprit!

Heavy 4/4 beats and a locked down bass start things off before the piano is intro-ed, followed by strings and the sample weaving it’s way in and out. With synth noodlings, the track keeps building before it breaks for the chord change and all sorts of mayhem breaks out.

Full Moon Boogie is on a similar tip of 80s inspired disco and it’s all about the piano at the end. A stuttering synth bass and nagging top line build tension until 2/3rds through when it drops to a piano that’s been nicked from the middle of The Hacienda’s dancefloor at 1.30am on a Saturday night in 1993.

Ralph Myerz – REALLY digging Noise In Your Eye. I’m a huge fan of 2 Billion Beats but really feel that they have taken their stuff to the next level with this release. Full support from me for a looooong time!

The Glimmers – Love it!

Tensnake – Both tracks deliver, nice disco jams

Eric Duncan – Really FUN!! Will play both.

Hot Toddy (Crazy P) – Noise in Your Ear pushes all the right Nu Disco buttons!

Dave Jarvis (Faith) – Oh yes! Ready for the Garden Festival Croatia 2013 Faith boat action!!!!!! Bring it on!]

Drop Out Orchestra – Great groover.

The Dead Rose Music Company – Boogie goodness!!!

Aeroplane – Cool release!

Rocky (X-Press 2) – Nice! Noise In Your Eye is my fave.

Will Tramp (Homoelectric) – Fantastic EP! Love both tracks.

Sleazy McQueen – I’m totally into Noises in my Eye!

Cowbell Radio – Two of the best tunes of 2013, no doubt, both have been massive on Cowbell. Noise in your Eye just gets the nod, but Full Moon Boogie is a proper ‘break glass in case of emergency’ dance-floor filler! Amazing work fellas!

Severino Panzetta (Horsemeat Disco) – Pretty cool.

Ryan Cavanagh – Nice release, love both.

Daniel Solar – Noise in your Eye for me.

Wrighty (Soul Buggin) – Noise In Your Eye has got Soul Buggin’ written all over it, nice work.

Mugwump – Great piano boogie biz.

Get Down Edits – Excellent Release, Full Moon Boogie is gonna be the dancefloors friend for sure.

Joe Morris (Clandestino) – These are massive! Got electric elephant written all over them, which as luck would have it Im playing at so Ill defo give them an airing chaps

Stuart Knight (Toolroom) – Whos nicked my lino!!! This shit makes me want to do a back spin…Full Moon Boogie is the one for me…more quality from the PAPER crew …Nice

Artist Required For Justin Harris Packshot!

We’re looking for an artwork design for the packshot of the upcoming Justin Harris release “1, 2, 3 Breathe”.

The winning entry will get a cd goody bag as well as have their work immortalised in the final release!

Submissions must be in by Tuesday 9th July by email (ben@recordlabelservices.com) and if possible uploaded to the Facebook fan page wall and/or posted on twitter with @paperecordings tagged in the tweet

1400 x 1400 pixels is the size 300 dpi is the resolution

Good luck!

Flash Atkins Juno Review

“Paper Recordings chief Flash Atkins is a friendly sort of chap, and in recent times has spent has evenings locked in the studio with some of the label’s lesser-known names. Here, he delivers the fruit of those labours: a collaborative EP featuring a trio of new cuts. “Wilco”, with 2 Billion Beats, begins as a chunky, low-slung, disco-influenced house number, before morphing into a Moroder-ish chunk of electronic disco madness. CP hook-up “Malawi Chant” (also available in stripped-back Dub form) is a breezy afrobeat affair – all undulating rhythms, darting organs and African chants. Finally, “Calieo Square”, with Havana Candy, is an atmosphere, picturesque slither of melodic nu-disco.”

Find it HERE

Space Coast Hits DJ Mag

Sleazy McQueen’s Space Coast project gets a glowing review in DJ Mag.

Paper Recordings’ 150th Single Release

Paper is hitting it’s 150th single release on July 8th with a bumper double EP release from young guns 2 Billion Beats and Leon Sweet. Here’s how they are going to sound!

DMC Review of Richard Seaborne

Richard Seaborne gets a great review from DMC

When Paper Recordings met Cottam

For Paper Radio 3, we interviewed beep beatster Cottam.
Here’s what he said :

Paper Recordings – How did you get into dance music?

Cottam – Through an old school friend of mine. I was listening to a lot of 80s soul & hip hop and he broadened my horizons to bleeps, squeeks and boom boom boom! When I started DJing there were bits of everything to be honest. Lots of early Italian house stuff with hardcore, you couldn’t pigeonhole the stuff I played! It was a whole melting pot of all sorts.

Paper Recordings – What gear do you work off?

Cottam – At the moment I just have a laptop. It takes up minimal space plus it’s in my front room where I have 3 children and lots of toys! I do what I can with what I’ve got.

Paper Recordings – What I like about your stuff is you get the groove and then ride it, which is a deceptively difficult thing to do.

Cottam – I think that comes from me as a DJ. When I was playing techno I was very technical and loved to mix & blend stuff for ages, chopping two tracks together to make something new. That’s probably why most of my own tunes are about 12mins long!

Paper Recordings – Do you play a lot of gigs and what is your favourite kind?

Cottam – I go through my quiet and busy periods but it’s going well at the moment. My favourite was about 2 months ago at a venue called Shanty in Moscow. It’s an underground complex that has tea rooms, a restaurant and a bar with a nightclub in the basement.
The night I was playing the club was closed as the sound system wasn’t working so they set up in the restaurant & bar area. I got to play stuff I would never have imagined and the crowd were really going for it.

Paper Recordings – What do you usually play?

Cottam – I can start off slightly techno at around 100bpm, playing into disco and house and picking it up with a bit more acid stuff. Then it’s up to 120bpm for some afrobeat and acid house. That’s my kind of night!

Paper Recordings – You’re playing Fabric again in a few months?

Cottam – Yes, I played there after a crazy Bank Holiday weekend last year. I flew out to Moscow on the Friday then straight back on Saturday for Fabric which was good but I was in a bit of a daze!
You get the crazy weekends then during the summer and later in the year it quiets down.
My ambition is to get our own night up & running all night somewhere. A pub that has a function room so we can do a barbecue in the day and get everyone outside eating, then take everyone inside later on.

Farley Silvester – After Hours

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Farley Silvester

After Hours

1. Original Mix
2. Early Mix
3. Late Mix

Two bona-fide heavyweights of the dance scene return to Paper with their second release after last year’s Jam Down Beat Down. Terry Farley helped write the book on acid house and continues to fly the flag for all things quality through Faith and the Boys Own parties. Stretch Silvester is involved with music for fashion and ads as well as concentrating on his “Bring Back The Future” boogie record label.

After Hours is dubbed out peak-time house music that arrives with a thump. The original takes the nagging “after hours “ vocal and sets it over a bouncing sub. Rattling drums keep it driving along along with tripped out keys.

The early mix strips things back with a more wild-pitch bent. Reverbs are used to bring out the drops and that sub keeps bouncing along.

Finally the late mix replaces the bass with a more analogue line and brings in some extra synths. It’s a fine package of quality house music that Stretch and Terry Farley have built their reputation on.

REACTIONS

Tensnake – It’s always a pleasure to listen to the works of these guys. I love all versions, but the original is my fave.

Tom Findlay (Groove Armada) – Ooo yeah this is large!! Essential house music alert!

Simon Baker – Liking this!! Not sure which mix i prefer! Maybe Late!

Doc Martin – Solid release for sure!!! Mr. Farley gets much love around our way. Can’t wait to play this in Tokyo on the weekend!!!

Rocky – Fabulous.

Dean ‘Sunshine’ Smith – The late mix for me, nice shuffling head nodding business!

Krysko – Reminds me of being ‘heads down’ and ‘flat out’ going for it at 4am in Basics in the late 90’s. This, is a good thing. Ace.

Aldrin Zouk – Diggin’ these hypnotic groove driven beats.

Mitch Davis – Another quality release. All three mixes are solid.

Billy Scurry – Excellent full frontal house assault!! Full sweaty support!!!

The Lovely Jonjo – So flippin lovely, can’t wait to play the late vesion out this weekend.

untitledmusic – Classy

Nathan Detroit – PUMPERS!

Phuturelabs – Loving this EP. Hard to pick a favourite.

Sonny Wharton – Nice vibes – like these alot, thanks for sending :)

Marius Våreid (Full Pupp) – Dancefloor food for the connoisseur.

George Toolroom – Fantastic and will be played by me at every party I play at.

Dubble D – Cool pack of really useful tracks to dj with, thank God some people haven’t forgotten!

Chris Todd (Crazy P / Hot Toddy) – NIce! Like all 3 mixes.

Andy Baxter – Love these.

diskJokke – Love it!

Beat Slave Auto Video

Here’s the new video by artist Miles Halpin that is a psychedelic lo-fi journey made using DIY techniques. It was first premiered at West Yorkshire’s Magpie Cinema.

Beat Slave Auto first came to our attention via the great Billy Scurry who heard it on Soundcloud and pointed it in our direction. It’s a super heavy, hypnotic, pitched down slomo acid track that weighs in at over 10 minutes. Straddling techno, cosmic, house, acid and disco, it twists and turns in to what is proper head music.

Leon Sweet – Beat Slave Auto / GTTR

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Leon Sweet – Beats Slave Auto / GTTR

1. Beat Slave Auto
2. GTTR

Leon Sweet is a producer who paid his dues and has the scars to prove it! He cut his teeth in the madness the free party circuit in the 90s, has been stuck in the middle of a gangster / bouncer showdown in the booth of the MOS whilst DJing and experienced major label meltdown.

And now after a break he’s back with two dance floor bombs for Paper on this debut two track EP for the label.

Beat Slave Auto first came to our attention via the great Billy Scurry who heard it on Soundcloud and pointed it in our direction. It’s a super heavy, hypnotic, pitched down slomo acid track that weighs in at over 10 minutes. Straddling techno, cosmic, house, acid and disco, it twists and turns in to what is proper head music.

On the flip, GTTR lightens things up with a rough as you like disco sample and the vocals of Christabel Cossins. Vox stabs, nagging bass and congas build to a classic piano riff that does what it says on the tin; smiles all round!

REACTIONS

Tensnake – Loving that disco tempo with the deepness and piano. Nice single

Aeroplane – GTTR is really sweet!

Eric Duncan – Great tune!

Soul Clap – GTTR!

The Dead Rose Music Company – Hands in the air greatness!

Reza Athar – “Beat Slave Auto” is definitely the best track in the history of paper. dig it very much.

Krysko – GTTR is a belter… a proper burner.

Billy Scurry – Legendary, been waiting on GTR also fullest of support!!

Neil Diablo – Sheet this track is da bomb son!

Stuart Knight (Toolroom) – Solid as ever from the Paper camp, GTTR pips it for me …old school baby!!

Nathan Detroit – Sleeeeazy stuff!

2 Billion Beats – Beat Slave, whadda tune.

Kelvin Andrews – Like… will play out kx

Severino Panzetta (Horsemeat Disco) – Great track no.2. Love that happy pianooo

Sleazy McQueen – Diggin’ that!

Pathaan – Christ On A Bike ‘Beat Slave Auto’ is everything I want inna TUNE !!!!

Chris Massey – Ace release! Great balearic chuggy goodness on Beat SLave Audio, will sound good on the Croatian shores.

diskJokke – That disco touch aah.

Marius Våreid – GTTR!

Causa (Tusk Wax) – Beat Slave Auto is the pick for me. Great track that keeps you interested all the way.

Ste Hodge – Hands in the air biggie with GTTR – sunshine goodness. ACE !

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