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Seminal UK house label Paper Recordings started in the mid-90s and was part of the Nu Brit House movement that spawned the likes of 20 20 Vision and Nuphonic, going on to help re-define UK club culture.
Since it's re-launch in 2007 the BPMs have dropped and the grooves have got deeper with a more varied funk fuelled sound. A new stable of artists that features the likes of Flash Atkins, Sleazy McQueen, Leon Sweet, 2 Billion Beats and Richard Seaborne are keeping the legacy alive and looking to the future rather than living on past glories.
And now they are launching Paper Disco with an album by Norwegian disco prodigy Proviant Audio. Still only 22, multi-instrumentalist Mathais Stubø has already had two albums out on BBE and is part of the new generation of Scandanavian producers, following on from the likes of Lindstrom and Todd Terje.
His Paper album of 2012, Real Love Tastes Like This! cracked the Norwegian charts and found fans with the likes of Ross Allen, Wolf + Lamb, The Revenge, and Ashley Beedle. Plain and Simple Magazine said 'this debut is so overwhelming, it's difficult to imagine anyone not falling devastatingly head over heels for the soundtrack it provides.' 6/6'.
Proviant Audio's first single Like Never Before stirs up the spirits of Daft Punk, Trevor Horn and Greg Wilson in to a heady mixture of forward thinking, genre busting disco. Released as a 7' edit in association with Oslo Records, it kickstarts Paper Disco straight out of the past and in to the cosmos!
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Runnin' Around
Runnin' Around (extended mix) - (6:11) 120 BPM Hot
Runnin' Around (Neil Diablo remix) - (6:59) 120 BPM
Runnin' Around (Leon Sweet remix) - (7:23) 120 BPM
Runnin' Around (Muddy Feet remix) - (5:30) 128 BPM
Runnin' Around (radio mix) - (4:15) 120 BPM
Review: Paper Disco's latest must-check missive comes courtesy of first-time collaborators From Beyond and sometime Paper Wave regular Super FU. In its original, 'extended mix' form, 'Runnin' Around' is a gorgeous chunk of baggy, piano-sporting slab of nu-disco-fired electronic pop with duet style male/female lead vocals. This hook-heavy, ear-pleasing number is subsequently remixed three times. Neil Diablo leads the way with a throbbing, Italo-inspired peak-time club mix, Leon Sweet delivers more than a few nods to disco-era outfit Gary's Gang on his Scissor Sisters-esque take, and Muddy Feet channel the spirit of Chicken Lips on a version that sits somewhere between dub disco, electro and NYC proto-house.
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PAPR 319
09 Mar 22
Disco/Nu-Disco
New Moon
New Moon - (5:54) 120 BPM
Earthbound - (5:15) 117 BPM Hot
Mass Transit - (5:40) 110 BPM
Review: Form Beyond is the musical alter ego of Alex Wastnidge, an "emerging talent" who is fast becoming a valued member of the Paper Disco family. According to the label, Wastnidge jammed out these three tracks using his MPC, a small collection of analogue synths and bass and electric guitars. This stripped-back set-up has resulted in a trio of tracks that are loose, warm, groovy, floor-friendly and tons of fun. We're particularly enjoying the low-slung dub disco bass, rolling beats and sparkling synth stabs of title track "New Moon", though the cowbell-laden deep space shuffle of "Earthbound" may appeal more to those who enjoy the dub disco antics of the Idjut Boys and the Leng label. Closing cut "Mass Transit", a cheery chunk of Balearic-minded Italo-disco, is also rather good.
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PAPDS 255
05 Dec 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
Phase Shift
Love Languages - (6:11) 115 BPM
Phase Shift - (6:30) 119 BPM
Galaxy Express - (5:57) 116 BPM Hot
Review: From Beyond's "Old Steel" was one of the highlights of Paper Recordings' most recent Trash The Wax compilation (volume five, to be exact), so hopes are high for this first outing on the label's Paper Disco offshoot. Happily, opener "Love Languages" is something of a skewed, mind-altering dancefloor treat, with the producer building up intensity via regular changes to the track's angular acid bassline, alien synth lines (think Maurice Fulton's Syclops project, and you're close) and jazzy, swinging machine drums. Elsewhere, "Phase Shift" sounds like a Blade Runner-inspired nu-Italo banger, while similarly raw and analogue closer "Galaxy Express" pulses, throbs and pops in all the right places.
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PAPDLS 235
23 Mar 18
Disco/Nu-Disco
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