Apersonal Music is Andres Vegas’ balearic, nu-disco and deep house label based in Barcelona, Spain. Born in 2010, Apersonal has so far flung out feel-good grooves from the likes of: Lauer, Session Victim, Jimpster, Ron Basejam, Ponzu Island, Mario Basanov, Massimiliano Pagliara, Cisco Cisco, Trujillo, Paxton Fettel... the list goes on.
Review: Former Cafe del Mar resident and all-round Ibiza legend Bruno From Ibiza teams up once more with vocalist Moon Yet here. Imagine Crazy P trying to sneak their way onto a 'Too Slow To Disco' compilation with a midtempo groover topped with a jazz-inflected female vocal and sprinkled with Rhodes in the mid-section and you've got a pretty good idea what the original of 'Day For Night' sounds like, while Andres Vegas' 5am Edit houses things up just ever so slightly in a 'Marshall Jefferson remixing Soul Family Sensation in 1990' kinda way.
Review: Home to such great artists as Trujillo, Michael J Collins, James Teej and Paxton Fettel, Apersonal Music welcomes in the sounds of Paradism. Leading with the track "Twin Flame", it's bumpy, clapping and shuffle groove pushes disco to the max - with wandering synthlines adding to its cosmic flow. On the flip Paradism throws in a slightly techier and percussive "What Would I Do (Without You)" that looks to futuristic oriental electro themes that trip in and out of disco. NicoJP breaks it down into a syncopated and lo-fi groove, adding a cherry on top to a sweet single.
Review: Get down with the phat beats of DJ Dayjob and the searing synth line of "Electric Nova" to get the party started - Apersonal Music's La Isla Blanca EP is banging! Bringing us back down from the clouds and into the tropics is Trujillo's "Brothers Groove" which stays there, hot and heavy, thanks to the jungle bar atmospheres, jazz funk melodies and baerlic grooves of Andres Vegas & Gota Rai's "La Isla Blanca". With Jona Jefferies lastly dropping in with a lo-fi blend of stuttering synths and vocal melodies, she sees out an EP evenly balanced between the tropics and stratosphere.
Review: Having released music from the likes of Michale J Collins, Mario Bassanov and Paxton Fettel in the past, Apersonal Music now introduces the music of Juri Corrado and Nathan Dawidowicz, aka Juna. Described as a conjunction of free verse and analog soundscapes, the studio-proud Berlin pairing combine downtempo dance music with funky, vintage and retroactive stylings, coming across as a lost and forgotten Italo synth pop duo in "La Sera". With new age, exotic and trip hopping ambient sessions in "Giungla D'Acciaio" to some moody bassline love ballads in "A Sisifo", Juna are keeping a new kind of synth pop alive with touches of Detroit electro and '80s film score inspirations. Soundtrack you next drive into the setting sun with "Su Un Panorama Di Immagini E Acrilici".
Time Like Wind (Andres Vegas remix) - (4:53) 122 BPM
Review: Debutants Small Temple has asked for anonymity in a bid to let their music do the talking. Happily, the "secret trio of producers" has undoubtedly hit to the spot with "Time Like Wind", a deliciously dreamy vocal number that wraps gently drifting cosmic chords and subtle instrumental flourishes around a sparse, swinging early morning groove. The headline grabbing remixes come from wide-eyed retro-futurist Phillip Lauer, whose typically synth-heavy "Remix" and "Italo Dub" versions sound like the kind of rush-inducing, high-grade synth-pop the Pet Shop Boys might have made in 1990 after an evening out on happy pills. Andres Vegas provides the other rework, a horizontal slab of tropical Balearica that's even more delicious than a slap up meal at a Michelin-starred restaurant.
Review: Thanks to the slowly shifting warmth, gentle breeziness and sun-kissed appeal of the twelve tracks on Coastal Soul Volume 4, we now have a strong desire to kick off our shoes and flop down on the nearest sandy beach. You'll struggle to find a more languid and life-affirming chunk of jazz-funk/deep house/soul fusion than Jimpster's "Closer To You", while Kiss Me Again's gorgeous "Garden Waves" is arguably best enjoyed while sipping something boozy, cold and fruity. Highlights continue to come thick and fast throughout, from the subtly D-Train influenced throb of Jex Opolis's remix of Jules Etienne's "Free As A Man", to the lazy sunset warmth of Andras Fox's hybrid electronic/organic Balearic house take on Ponzu Island's "Super Koto".
Review: Following his recent strong turn on Cocktail D'Amore, Jules Etienne makes a trip back to Apersonal Music with more of that island groove for the smoothest slack-wearers in town. "Free As A Man" is a beautifully laid back but funky offering that speaks to all kinds of good times. Jex Opolis turns in a remix of the track that has a little more bite to suit the later demands of the dancefloor. "Don't Wanna Talk About It" sees Etienne linking up with Disco D and winding all kinds of slick strutting business into his sound, and then "Rhythm For The Garden" heads off into wonderful tribal percussion that serves as a handy tool for DJs who want to get some rich drum sounds into their set.
Review: It's been relatively quiet from Trujillo recently, but now the Venezuelan producer casts out a transmission from his Berlin base to let everyone know that all is well and we can get back to the business of smooth grooving. "Everytime I Think Of U" speaks to the Balearic tendencies embedded in the producer's aesthetic, with a reflective vocal swirling amidst dreamy guitar chops and swooping synth warbles of a strictly blissed out nature. Telephones does a sterling job of remixing the original version into a warm and funky deep house jam peppered with organic delights. Kiss Me Again comes back to Apersonal Music, with an Afro-house-disco remix of "Everytime I Think Of U".
Review: After an extended summer break, Apersonal Music returns to action via a first EP in five years from Cisco Cisco. It opens with the comforting shuffle of "Jazzy Days", where intricate electric piano lines, woozy chords and soulful vocal samples ride a near horizontal, slow-house groove. It's accompanied by a trademark Ron Basejam remix, which retains the rich, jazzy deep house feel of the original, whilst adding a little more disco swagger. Further disco and boogie influences can be heard on "Jazzy Nights", which is a flickering, synth-heavy deep house treat. Andre Vegas' smooth, sweet and sultry interpretation of that track rounds off a fine E.P.
Jerome C - "The Wind" (Quarion remix) - (7:27) 121 BPM
James Teej - "City Celebrity" - (7:43) 110 BPM
Alexander Maier - "Socializing" - (7:40) 115 BPM
Review: The Apersonal label are masters of jumping between house and disco - that's disco with a modern twist, of course - and their releases have come from a wide selection of European talent over the past few years. This time, the label have put together a compilation, one big release to showcase what they're all about. House master James Teej opens the festivities with the docile and ethereal dance gem that is "Light & Love", a gorgeous blend of sounds that's followed by even more chord-heavy madness with C-Rock, Sello and Leonid, among others. This is dance music for the coasts, a bundle of beautiful music to warm your soul.
Review: A shining light on the East Midlands house scene with Rhythm Plate, YSE has been carving more of a solo niche of late. His thing is woozy and bassy off-kilter house, and on Never/Forever he does this particularly well. The title track is the most conventional on here: all deep and retro 90s house vibes and the dreamy and emotional gospel grooves of "The Sky Fell Out" is an EP highlight. Elsewhere "The Beautiful Dream" is a skippy bleep-fest and "What It Means To You" wraps things up with scattershot brittle beats and dubby rhythms.
Review: Connor 'Debonair' Bevan burst onto the scene in 2012, delivering an impressive debut EP for Kolour Recordings, as well as tracks for split EPs from House of Disco, Editorial, Whiskey Disco and Much Love. Three years on, he returns with arguably his most polished set of tracks to date. Committed to a dreamy, atmospheric take on deep house, all four tracks bristle with tactile dancefloor intent. Arguably the most impressive cut is "Terra Firma", where Bevan smartly combines "Deep Burnt" style strings, bass-heavy grooves and yearning vocal samples, though the chunkier, retro-futurist bounce of "Real Talk" is not far behind. The twinkling electronics, tumbling pianos and enveloping grooves of "Afterglow" are pretty darn tasty, too.
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