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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!
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.
Richard Seaborne – The Reasons Why
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Richard Seaborne – The Reasons Why
1. Original
2. Flash Atkins Mix
3. Sleazy McQueen Mix
4. Leon Sweet’s Negative Positive Dub Mix
5. Instrumental
Richard Seaborne has been described as “ginger and hard partying”. Quite what this means to the music he makes we don’t know but it could be important at some point. The Reasons Why is his debut for Paper Recordings and has been catching the attention on Soundcloud of the likes of Bill Brewster, Cosmic Boogie and Faith’s Dave Jarvis.
The original is a low-slung slice of garage disco that could have come out of NYC in the mid-90s. It’s got nagging percussion, a super heavy kick, driving hats and wobbling sub all wrapped round a chunky sample. The deadpan vocals are a take-down of a former lover and there’s something of the drag queen scene in it’s pithy bitchiness and attitude.
Flash Atkins takes it deep and dancefloor for a heads down main room shoe shuffler. It’s tribal and hypnotic with analogue synths washing in and out while the shifting bass takes centre stage as the vocals tell their story.
Next up Sleazy McQueen brings out The Reasons Why’s disco heart with a mix that sounds like a mirror ball on a Saturday night. With a popping Orange Juice bass circa Rip It Up, synth toms, that sample and classic house piano it’s modern disco at it’s best
Another new signing Leon Sweet brings his own pitched-down bottom heavy chugging sensibility to the table. He nags the vocal in before the tech bass sets off and the track builds with congas and acid line in to a reverbed big floor head-masher
Finally, the instrumental finished things off for those allergic to vocals.
REACTIONS
Doc Martin – Viva le Paper!
Drop Out Orchestra – Flash Atkins does it again!!!
Tensnake – Nice single, my favourite is the Sleazy Mcqueen remix.
Roberto Rodriguez – Yeah this is cool. Loving the bass in the original and the remixes are ace also!
Ralph Myerz – Loving the Sleazy McQueen & Flash Atkins mixes, full support. Another superstrong quality release from Paper.
The Glimmers – Great!
Hot Toddy (Crazy P) – I like the original very much.
diskJokke – AAAACE!!!!!
Hannah Holland – Wicked release, Sleazy McQueen is the one for me.
Aeroplane – Great, thanks!
Neil Diablo – Ace release. Like the sleazy production of the leon sweet remix the best but an all round good package.
Reza Athar – Leon Sweet is one hell of a fresh new comer. Loved his first EP on Paper and his mix on this is absolutely the one for me.
Marius Våreid – Sleazy McQueen is really doing a great job on his mix here, it’s my fav track on this great EP!
Andy Baxter – Very cool and very funny.
Trent Grimes (MOS) – This has made my day! Sleazy is on fire at the moment and Flash is always on point!
Tony Nwachukwu – Heavy!
Nick Holder (DNH) – I’m digging this!
Gareth Sommerville – Hahahaha. OG, Flash Atkins and Leon Sweet mixes all vying to be my favourite. Will play loads.
Sleazy McQueen – Such a pretty and nice song, it’s the kind I want my wife to sing me.
Danielle Moore (Crazy P) – Wa ha! Great lyrics, love it. Not got past the original yet! Chosen the original mix on the basis this is where the rest of the ace mixes came from.
Stevie Sole – Solid grooves from paper again.
Cole Medina – Like the original the best, nice remixes too!
Nuno Cacho – WOW!!! What a release!!!! Love the hard kick with post-disco flavour, Flash rocks!! On my radio show for sure, the problem will be which one?
Nelson Ramalho – Original and Sleazy McQueen are my favourites. Great package and all remixes are great and it’s great that there’s the instrumental too.
Billy Scurry – Really digging all the interpretations, hard to pick a fav as all are pretty smokin’. Full support for all!!
Jerry Bouthier (Kitsune) – Lovely samples, like the original best.
Causa (Tusk Wax) – Fine package, the Leon Sweet mix is my favourite. Top chugging business!
Stuart Patterson – Original is pick of a good bunch.
Ste Hodge – Dirty low-down goodness – big love xx
Leon Sweet’s GTTR gets a rosy review in Stoney Roads Blog
“Sugary, no holds bar uplifting grooves coming in hot from Leon Sweet on “GTTR.” I don’t know much about Sweet other than he’s “a producer who has paid his dues and has the scars to prove it! He cut his teeth on 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.” “GTTR” is evidence of these chops.
This release has received support from names like Tensnake, Soul Clap, Jacques Renault, and appeared on Aeroplane’s recent March mix. In Vito’s mix, there’s not really a weak track on the mix–and, aside from two hot burners–it’s a list of names that simply deserve more exposure. And that’s what makes Aeroplane’s mixes stand out: music discovery. You can count on new names coming from obscure producers equipped with some serious chops. Leon Sweet is one of the latest.”
Thanks for the support Bary Poppins
Jamie L – In The Burg DJ Review
Jamie L gets a 9/10 DJ Review for In The Burg. He’s a mysterious figure of undisclosed origin and history who fits in to the Moodyman / Theo Parrish mold of heavy future disco; which his new production ‘(What We Saw) In The Burg’ nails.
It’s a heavy leftfield groove laid over broken house beats with a filtered bass, samples and deep vibe. The Detroit pad creeps up to the break and filters in and out as the track works it’s way through for locked down dance floor business.
Close your eyes and let you feet do the talking
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 !
Paper Radio 5 – Winter ’13
Paper Radio is back with a heavyweight dose of music, interviews and mixes. Alongside Ben Davis (Flash Atkins) in the presenting hotseat is 2 Billion Beats’ Tom Lonsborough and between them they play a damn fine selection of music that’s been out, will be out, is nearly out and won’t be out for a long time.
There are interviews with Terry Farley, Rocky (X-Press 2) and Tom from Psychemagik who also does an exclusive 30 minute mix featuring brand new remixes hot off the desk.
Worth getting involved!
TRACKLISTING
Jamie L – Dubbin’ The Burg
Crazy Penis – Do It Good (Tom Middleton Mix)
2 Billion Beats – Noise In Your Eye
TERRY FARLEY INTERVIEW
Farley Silvester – After Hours (Original)
Hot Toddy – Muthasucka (Ron Basejam Mix)
Salt City Orchestra – Theme From…..
Richard Seaborne – The Reasons Why (Original)
PSYCHEMAGIK INTERVIEW
PSYCHEMAGIK MIX
Les Mondes Engloutis – Aliço vs Çağrı (Psychemagik 5am Mix)
I Love It – Cassian
Loose Grip – Bonar Bradberry
Peaking Duck – Mojo Filter
Mutha Sucka – Hot Toddy
Sweeter Than Honey – Indra Indra
Deep Burnt – Pepe Bradock (Copy Paste Soul’s String & Bass Mix)
Leon Sweet – Beat Slave Auto
Rainer Trueby – Welcome To Our World (Session Victim Mix)
ROCKY INTERVIEW
Problem Kids – Miles Away
Flash Atkins & 2 Billion Beats – Dr Feelgood
Brand New Jamie L Track
After the hot wax that was Jamie L’s (What We Saw) In The Burg, the digital release is ready to drop on Jan 21 with a brand new mix of leftfield disco wonk.
