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Review: Here's another must-check missive of lesser-known and hard-to-find material from DJ Kaos's Jolly Jams label, curated with love by the man himself. Over the course of 12 tidy tracks, we're treated to ambient lusciousness (Superpitcher remixing Kaos's own 'World Turning'), deliciously dubbed-out proto-house (the 'Warehousin' Mix' of Split Secs' 'I'm Not Losing'), mind-mangling psychedelic electronic disco-meets-acid house (Red Axes' 'Promo Only'), dub disco (Slaves of Love and Tavish, whose 'Raw Seduction' is genuinely superb), soaring disco edit action (Spring Break Edit), Sylvester pitched-down and blissed out (Balearic Skip), Kenny Hawkes-ish disco-not-disco eccentricity (Luke Solomon remixing Richard From Milwaukee) and ragging acid tracks (Danny Russell & Timothy Alexander).
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JJ 088
16 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
16 Feb 24
Disco/Nu-Disco
Played by: Juno Recommends Disco
Review: As usual, Jolly Jams has not released details of the re-editor/reworker behind this trio of must-check revisions, though all indications point to imprint big cheese DJ Kaos. Whoeever is behind it, there's much to enjoy. Check first the loose-limbed, horn-heavy, fast-slow-fast tropical funk of 'Guilty Pleasures', which sounds to us like a wah-wah guitar-laden revision of an obscure tropical funk tune from Thailand or Indonesia, before admiring the sleazy, mind-altering, arpeggiated synth-bass, sustained Hammond chords, wonky synth-stabs and eyes-closed soul vocals of thrillingly sleazy EP opener 'Love Me'. Closing cut 'Balearic Softcore', a drowsy, sunrise-ready revision of a hypnotic, American minimalism-goes-new age ambient soundcsape, is also well worth a listen.
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JJ 076
21 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
21 Oct 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: Well this couldn't really be more timely, could it? Who exactly Winter Olympics are isn't clear, but here he/she/they serve up four suitably glacial-sounding electro/Italo-inspired cuts on DJ Kaos's Jolly Jams label. 'Luge Luge' fuses influences from Italo and early house, 'Power Session' gives Winter Olympics the chance to show off their library of vintage drum machine and synth sounds, the vaguely Yello-esque 'The Triumph' drops the tempo by several notches, while finally 'Ready, Set, Go' pretends at first to be "the obligatory downtempo closer" but then breaks out into a jerky, angular slab of Germanic-sounding 80s pop.
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JJ 072
18 Feb 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Feb 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: We're not sure who Balearic Skip is, or are, but we do know that the artist was responsible for one of Jolly Jams' best moments of recent years - a chugging, pitched-down, saucer-eyed revision of Syvester's 'Mighty Real' that first appeared two years ago. Hopes are therefore high for the Tribes EP, which marks the shadowy artist's return to Jolly Jams. Opener 'Chung' is simply superb, with tactile, occasionally grandiose, mid-80s Simple Minds style synths, attractive electronic melodies and slowed-down vocals riding a throbbing, arpeggio-driven groove. 'Theme From Judas' is a sweeping, flash-friend disco instrumental that offers subtle winks towards the theme from 'Shaft', while closing cut 'Tribes' is a radically slowed-down, chug-tempo take on a familiar Frankie Goes to Hollywood favourite. Tidy!
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JJ 063
18 Dec 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
18 Dec 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
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JJ 037
05 May 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
05 May 17
Disco/Nu-Disco
Review: DJ Kaos' Berlin based imprint presents another jolly jam from Milwaukee, WI based producer and visual artist Richard Galling who teams up with Gruzis on what makes this his fifth EP for the label. Starting off with the lo-slung, slo-mo disco of "Further Past The Break", they'll treat you to even more chilled balearica on "Flight" by way of '80s film soundtrack aesthetics (think To Live And Die in L.A. or Miami Vice) while "Tangerine Stream" like its name may suggest goes for some progressive rock style workout with sublime guitar treatments going head to head with rich vintage synth textures and glimmering arpeggios.
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JJ 034
20 Mar 17
Balearic/Downtempo
20 Mar 17
Balearic/Downtempo
