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Highwood Recordings

Highwood Recordings

Led by Phil Mison aka Cantoma, Highwood Recordings has been serving up woozy, laid-back, downtempo balearic, disco and house since 2013. Although the label is based in London, Highwood, predominantly releasing Cantoma’s own tracks, lays down sun-kissed ‘music for far away places’. Noche Espanola, Coyote, Pete Herbert, Dennis Kane and Chris Coco are a select few who have remixed Mison’s tracks on the label.
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Way To The Sun
Way To The Sun - (4:02) 114 BPM
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HWEP 22
07 Apr 23
Deep House
Space For Us
Space For Us (feat Suad Khalifa - Noche Espanola remix) - (4:14) 120 BPM
Played by: Pete Herbert
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HWEP 6
19 Jun 20
Funky/Club House
To The Sea (Hear & Now Remix)
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HWEP 14
17 Dec 21
Balearic/Downtempo
Verbana
Verbana (Pete Herbert remix) - (5:48) 115 BPM
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HWEP 3
14 Dec 18
Funky/Club House
Way To The Sun (Calm Remix)
Way To The Sun (Calm Mellow Mellow Acid mix) - (7:21) 114 BPM
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HWEP 23
19 May 23
Deep House
To The Sea
To The Sea - (3:53) 102 BPM
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HWEP 13
08 Oct 21
Balearic/Downtempo
Kasoto (Dennis Kane Remix)
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HWEP 5
03 Apr 20
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Shelter
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HWEP 17
10 Jun 22
Deep House
To The Sea (DJ Pippi & Willie Graff Remix)
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HWEP 16
11 Feb 22
Balearic/Downtempo
Closer
Closer (feat Luna Asteri - Apiento remix) - (6:38) 110 BPM
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HWEP 7
24 Jul 20
Deep House
Way To The Sun
Way To The Sun (Noche Espanola remix) - (3:51) 114 BPM
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HWEP 26
15 Dec 23
Balearic/Downtempo
A Night At Apres Midi (Remixes)
A Night At Apres Midi (Rudys Midnight Machine remix) - (5:54) 55 BPM
A Night At Apres Midi (Dune People remix) - (5:36) 104 BPM Hot
Review: A single release for this track from 'Into Daylight', the fourth album by chill-out/Balearic legend Phil Mison in his Cantoma guise, which gets served up here in two very different forms. Rudy's Midnight Machine (AKA Faze Action's Robin Lee) takes the dreamy, lounge-y album version and ups the funk factor considerably, dragging its mournful, Brass Construction-like trumpets, sprightly piano notes and chorused male vox onto the disco dancefloor even if the pace remains quite sedate, while Dune People head in the opposite direction, dropping the tempo to a hazy, stoned crawl that's vaguely reminiscent of Groove Armada.
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HWEP 9
12 Feb 21
Disco/Nu-Disco
Kasoto
Kasoto (Noche Espanola remix) - (5:42) 115 BPM Hot
Kasoto (Karel Arbus & Eiji Takamatsu remix) - (6:24) 90 BPM
Review: If it's ultra-Balearic dancefloor fare that floats your boat, there's a strong chance that your music collection already boasts a number of releases by British veteran Phil Mison. Aside from his pals Mark Barrott and Chris Coco, few have quite as good a grasp of Balearic beats as Mison, something he consistently proves via his productions under the Cantoma alias. He's at it again on "Kasoto", a Flamenco guitar and synth brass sporting chunk of East-West dancefloor fusion that's as Balearic as dungarees, poolside parties and Jose Padilla's ponytail. Mison's own dancefloor-focused Noche Espanola remix, which sits somewhere between early Italian house and post-boogie Balearic disco, is particularly potent. That said, the new age inspired horizontal dreaminess of the Karel Arbus and Eiji Takamusto Remix is also sublime.
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HWEP 4
31 May 19
Disco/Nu-Disco
Shelter (Chris Coco Sundown Mix)
Shelter (Chris Coco Sundown mix) - (7:02) 118 BPM Hot
Shelter (Chris Coco Sundown instrumental) - (7:02) 118 BPM
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HWEP 25
23 Jun 23
Deep House
Alive - Conrad McDonnell Remixes
Alive (Conrad's instrumental) - (5:23) 120 BPM Hot
Alive (Conrad's Vacant Lot remix) - (6:26) 120 BPM
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HWEP 21
09 Sep 22
Deep House
Back Into Daylight (Remixes)
Back Into Daylight (Leo Mas & Fabrice remix) - (6:26) 106 BPM Hot
Back Into Daylight (Ruf Dug remix) - (5:10) 106 BPM
Back Into Daylight (Pete Herbert remix) - (5:32) 56 BPM
Review: To celebrate Phil Mison's fourth LP under the Cantoma moniker - an album that took in collaborations with Quinn Lamont Luke, Hush Forever, Suad Khalifa, Apres Midi, David Philips and Luna Asteri - its remixers are equally exciting in Pete Herbert, Ruff Dug and Leo Mas & Fabrice. Ruff Dug simultaneously balances post punk and Italo disco in his melancholic yet wholly uplifting remix, with Pete Herbert heading straight into indie, disco and pop territory that will appeal to fans of a New York City sound. And for something a little deeper house leaning but still loungey, ambient jazz, and groovy - Leo Mas & Fabrice hit the spot!
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HWEP 12
07 May 21
Balearic/Downtempo
The Mountain Remixes
The Mountain (Lexx remix) - (5:30) 59 BPM Hot
The Mountain (Chris Coco remix) - (7:50) 84 BPM
The Mountain (Coyote remix) - (6:32) 118 BPM
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HWEP 8
25 Sep 20
Balearic/Downtempo
Verbana
Verbana (original mix) - (4:55) 108 BPM
Verbana (Noche Espanola remix) - (5:46) 112 BPM Hot
Viusu (instrumental) - (2:27) 81 BPM
Review: Phil Mison returns with another blink-and-miss wax special that takes the name from a medicinal leech. Fitting; one session with any of these three versions will drain you of any ill will or negativity. Rising in tempo and energy from the original across Noche Espanola's remix and instrumental version, this is pure Balearica with its glistening strums, sunset chords and magically scattered percussion. The seasonal timing of this is no coincidence.
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HWEP 2
27 Jul 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Alive EP
Alive (feat Bing Ji Ling) - (4:56) 120 BPM Hot
Just Landed (Pete Herbert remix) - (6:58) 120 BPM
Alive (instrumental version) - (5:00) 120 BPM
Just Landed (Reverso 68 remix) - (5:30) 115 BPM
Review: It's been some three years since Phil Mison last graced the world with some original material as Cantoma, and fans will be glad to hear that the producer is preparing a third album for release in October. Some advance insight into how it will turn out is afforded with this EP release of lead single Alive that features the silky vocal talents of Bing Ji Ling. The crooning alter ego of fuzzy headed Phenomenal Handclap Band member Quinn Luke, Bing Ji Ling is the perfect vocal foil to Mison's guitar flecked arrangement which is bound to feature on many an upcoming Balearic compilation. Meanwhile Mison's Reverso 69 partner in crime Pete Herbert delivers a glistening discoid take on "Just Landed".
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HWR 002
04 Nov 13
Disco/Nu-Disco
Noche Espanola
Noche Espanola - (6:06) 120 BPM Hot
Noche Dub - (5:18) 120 BPM
Domino (Outdoors mix) - (5:43) 118 BPM
Domino (Indoors mix) - (6:34) 118 BPM
Review: If you don't keep a close eye on vinyl releases, you may have missed two stellar 12" singles from Noche Espanola - a dancefloor-focused, mid-tempo Balearic house project from White Isle chill-out veteran Phil Mison. This eponymous first digital download outing gathers together all four floor-focused cuts from those two EPs. First you'll find two versions of "Noche Espanola": the hybrid dub disco/Mediterranean nu-disco cheeriness of Mison's original mix, and an arguably superior Dub revision that smothers an Idjut Boys style bassline in sumptuously spacey chords and synths. "Domino" is also available in two variations: the equally dreamy, sun-kissed and jaunty "Outdoors Mix" and the more robust, percussive and acid-flecked "Indoors Mix".
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HWEP 1
22 Jun 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Out Of Town
Maja - (6:10) 102 BPM Hot
Gambarra - (6:10) 105 BPM
North Shore - (4:22) 108 BPM
Only People - (4:50) 115 BPM
Under The Stars - (4:56) 102 BPM
Paloma - (4:04) 85 BPM
Suomi - (5:46) 97 BPM
Dix Verte - (4:47) 117 BPM
Out Of Town - (5:18) 80 BPM
Viusu - (3:19) 80 BPM
Trees Of Highwood - (2:16) 81 BPM
Review: Cantoma's Out Of Town has long been regarded as something of a modern Balearic classic. It first appeared on Leng Records back in 2010 as a CD-only release, before getting a deserved vinyl release four years later. Now the album's creator, long-serving chill-out DJ/producer Phil Mison, has reissued it on digital download. It still glistens as majestically as the Mediterranean Sea at sunset, with highlights including the dreamy dancefloor bagginess of "North Shore", the dub-powered, head-nodding shuffle of "Under The Stars", the up-tempo, accordion-sporting tango-house goodness of "Dix Verte" and the impeccable neo-classical ambient lusciousness of sublime album closer "Trees of Highwood".
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HWLP 004
04 May 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Into Daylight
Back Into Daylight (feat Quinn Lamont Luke) - (3:32) 105 BPM
Verbana (feat Hush Forever) - (4:55) 108 BPM
Kasoto (feat Jo Jo Mendy) - (4:30) 105 BPM
Space For Us (feat Suad Khalifa) - (4:16) 55 BPM
A Night At Apres Midi - (4:52) 110 BPM
Road Home (feat David Philips) - (4:21) 105 BPM
Solando (feat Luna Asteri) - (4:42) 102 BPM
Another Place - (4:10) 70 BPM
Closer (feat Luna Asteri) - (4:18) 110 BPM
The Mountain - (6:22) 119 BPM Hot
Review: At the time this review was written it's 12 hours until the official release of Cantoma's second studio album! Released on Highwood Recordings, Into Daylight presents the fourth studio LP for Phil Mason's project and second for the label following others on Leng and Horizon before that. With warm touches of Spanish guitar gracing tracks like "Solando", "Road Home" and "Verbana", you'll find cool pop, folk and jazz in numbers like "Another Place" to disco strings, smooth brass sections and African percussion throughout "Kasoto" and "The Mountain". Best enjoyed at Sunset!
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HWLP 005
01 May 20
Balearic/Downtempo
Remixes & Bonus Tracks
Talva Lumi (Apiento remix) - (6:37) 110 BPM Hot
Top Banana - (4:00) 156 BPM
Echo (instrumental) - (3:49) 92 BPM
Just Landed (Reverso 68 remix) - (5:30) 115 BPM
Talva Lumi (instrumental) - (4:18) 110 BPM
Tabarin (Whatever/Whatever remix) - (9:07) 111 BPM
Just Landed (Pete Herbert remix) - (6:58) 120 BPM
Monk Island - (5:24) 108 BPM
Alive (instrumental) - (5:00) 120 BPM
Abando (feat Javier Bergia - instrumental) - (6:28) 94 BPM
Review: As the matter-or-fact title suggests, this expansive set gathers together a swathe of previously unheard remixes of tracks by Phil Mison's Balearic-minded Cantoma project, plus a handful of never-before-released bonus cuts. There's naturally much to set the pulse racing from the word go, when Test Pressing sort Apiento blends Padilla-style flamenco guitars, jaunty Afro-funk flourishes and early '90s Balearic breakbeats on an inspired rework of "Talva Lumi". Elsewhere, Mison goes all dubby and lucid on "Echo (Instrumental)", joins forces with old pal Pete Herbert as Reverso 68 for a synth-heavy, Balearic nu-disco interpretation of "Just Landed" and encourages Whatever/Whatever to reach for the acid lines in a sublime, floor-friendly remix of "Tabarin" that's worth the admission price on its own.
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HWLP 002
11 Aug 17
Deep House
Just Landed
Tabarin - (5:30) 94 BPM Hot
Alive (feat Bing Ji Ling) - (4:56) 60 BPM
Just Landed - (5:04) 120 BPM
Echo - (3:51) 92 BPM
Abando (feat Javier Bergia) - (5:12) 94 BPM
Talva Lumi - (4:32) 110 BPM
Viala's Journey - (4:48) 94 BPM
Clear Coast (feat Brenda Ray) - (4:30) 94 BPM
Sea Of Blue - (4:19) 105 BPM
Claudio's Theme (feat Danny Rampling) - (6:40) 119 BPM
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HWCD 001
27 May 16
Balearic/Downtempo
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