Honest Jon's Electronic & Dance 25 Items

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Killer EP. Next-level Shackleton.

Taking off from Beaugars Seck’s foundational sabar drum rhythms — recorded by Sam in Dakar in February 2020 — Shackleton has constructed a trio of intricately layered, luminous, enchanted, epic excursions. The second is more dazzled and meandering, with jellied bass, insectile detail, and discombobulated jabbering; the third is more liquid, fleet of foot, and psychedelic, with a grooving b-line and funky keyboard stabs, scrambled eastern strings and hypnotic vocalese.

The harmonium in The Overwhelming Yes sounds like Nico blowing in chillily from up the desert shore. The overall mood is wondrous, twinkling with light, onwards-and-upwards; an uncanny, dubwise mix of the ancient and the futuristic. Mark Ernestus’ Version is stripped, trepidatious, mystical, and stranger still, with just a snatch of the original melody, extra distortion and delay, and crystal-clear drum sound.

Twenty minutes of startlingly original music, with Shackleton the maestro at the top of his game, and a characteristically evilous dub by Mark Ernestus. Mastered by Rashad Becker; handsomely sleeved.

Sick to the nth. Love 4 Ever.

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2LP | 2009 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Vertical Ascent

Lamin Fofana & The Doudou Ndiaye Rose Family

Release: 2009 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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At the heart of Vertical Ascent is a dream crossing of Basic Channel, Larry Heard and Can, as at home with calypso as it is Stravinsky. Dig?

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Lamin Fofana

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Honest Jon's)

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10" | 2018 | EU | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Epic, grooving, dazzlingly creative, perfectly attuned blends of complex mbalax drumming, field recordings, thumping kick-drum, and cosmic, bubbling, jamming synths and electronics.

The opening is suitably liminal, haunted by a diachronic sense of times past, present, and to come: ancestral ghosts, scratched playback, scraps of old recordings, voices strangulated or just out of range; puttering drums; futuristic, kosmische keys. Part II picks up the pace; III gives the drummers some, and heightens the atmosphere of enchantment. Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music courses through a kind of Dream Theory In Dakar.

Toco SOS, the second side, is a thumping, throbbing, mesmeric future-classic; perfect for fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n on the Autobahn… in a spacecraft. Expert hand percussion, call-and-response singing, bin-trembling foot-drum, spaceways keys. Sleekly funky as prime Popol Vuh.

Both sides range expansively by way of Berlin, where Lamin resided for a few years: you can hear something of T++’s brilliant, landmark HJ record on the A, and elements of Mark Ernestus’ crucial Ndagga project, on the B.

Half an hour of stunning music; in a beautiful sleeve, with mirror lettering, and an intricate spot-gloss rendition of salt crystals, laid over a photograph of the salt mines at Lac Rose, outside Dakar.

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DJ Sotofett

Dub Off

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DJ Sotofett & Maimouna Haugen

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Three murderous steppers dubs on a propulsive, rat-tat-tat rhythm, combining mystical spaciousness with detail and ferocity. Angry-lion bass and smears of brass, fusillades and explosions, scares and shocks, oriental pentatonics, clattering percussion and synthy transcendence… the business. The second mix is nastiest; the third is the wildest and most discombobulated (and our favourite).

Letter-pressed, poly-lined sleeves.

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C'est L'aventure

10" | 2018 | EU | Original (Honest Jon's)

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2x12" | 2015 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Precious, timely, moody reflections on migrating from Côte d’Ivoire to Moss, in Norway, over ruff breakbeat funk supplied by the nimble bass-playing of Maimouna’s old man (from Kambo Super Sound), and the expert conga and kit-drumming of Stliletti-Ana (from Jesse, in Helsinki). Even in their delirium, b-boys and girls will savour traces of the Incredible Bongo Band, in the chorus. Over the eight minutes, and going deeper on the flip, the mix lifts off into a cosmic steppers dub, featuring Gilb-r alongside Sotofett on keyboards, with no let up for the dancefloor in energy and vibes.

In beautifully letter-pressed, poly-lined sleeves.

“It was in 2001 / I got the letter / A letter that said / I would travel to a cold world / Not knowing what would happen / I was full of loneliness / No country / Everyone was different / Not only skin colour / The way people spoke / The way people behaved / That’s the adventure / Obey / This is the story we’re told / The key to success / So we can do everything for our parents / Who need us / Desperate for a better life / That’s the adventure

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DJ Sotofett

Drippin' For A Tripp

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Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2012 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Fetch

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Moritz Von Oswald Trio operates at the bleeding edges where musical lineages collide. Feeling for the shared heartbeat that pulses through dub, techno and jazz, it seeks out points of contact before exploding them outward into hypnotic explorations of rhythm, texture and tone. After two previous studio albums and one live album through Honest Jon's, the Trio — Moritz von Oswald, Max Loderbauer (NSI / Sun Electric) and Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay / Luomo) — returns with Fetch, their most fully-realized voyage yet into these in-between worlds.

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2LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Horizontal Structures

2LP | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Horizontal Structures is palpably a more open, more expressive album than the previous studio recording, Vertical Ascent. There is more contrast, more light and shade. St Hilaire and Muellbauer add fresh drama and swing to the intimate tonal and rhythmic interactions of the core grouping.

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Madteo

Head Goes Wrong By Noise

12" | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Visceral, elemental, electronic funk, conjured from scraps of sound, breath, mutterings, dubwise remembrances, scuffling, sweat and blood, thin air — ‘crawled out of the slime’, as the opener puts it, self-engendering like the baddie in Terminator — all harnessed to cruelly grooving earthquake bass and b-boy drum science.

Rhythmically it has ants in its pants and it needs to dance, with an improvisatory, streetwise nervous energy and uninhibited, purposeful rapture, crossed with on-song Pepe Bradock and stripped-to-the-bone, mongrel hip-hop.

It’s unruly and edgy, a bit off its rocker, emotionally ranging — typically anxious, often nostalgic — and riveting dance music.

Mastering by D&M; first-class Pallas pressing; stunning gatefold artwork by Will Bankhead.

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Madteo

Str8 Crooked

Release: UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Pinch & Shackleton

Release: UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tony Allen / Moritz Von Oswald

Ole

12" | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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10" | 2019 | EU | Original (Honest Jon's)

DJ Sotofett & Osaruxo

Hebi / Haru

2LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hebi is tough, stomping, mesmerizing romany funk, riding Far East from the Baltic Sea on clopping hooves of uranium, with synths from spaceways further out still. Weakheart deejays will scatter, but Sotofett has road-tested this on dubplate for six months, tearing up parties and dancefloors.

Deeply meditative, desolately beautiful, Haru will stop you in your tracks. Osaruxo’s violin could be a rebab or a shamisen, a reed instrument or a voice.

Ravishing music.

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Tribe Of Colin

Age Of Aquarius

2x12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Something really special.

Juddering bangers and hypnotic body-rockers, dazed spells and rootical wig-outs spun from early Detroit, West African field recordings, dub and beatbox hip hop; rough as fuck and clatteringly percussive, but shot through with a gritty numinousness. Soundboy techno; Stokey worries.

Gorgeously sleeved in midnight-black art-paper, intricately printed in silver with the visionary photography of Katrin Koenning, folded by hand and packed into Japanese cellophane envelopes.

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Don't DJ

Laniakea

15,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Great new Don't DJ. Don't miss!

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2LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Sounding Lines

Demdike Stare / Hype Williams

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The Moritz Von Oswald Trio opens a new chapter. There's a new configuration to the project, with Tony Allen joining original members Moritz von Oswald and Max Loderbauer. Tony Allen, the legendary drummer who's amassed a formidable catalogue both as a solo artist and as part of Fela Kuti's band, has taken over percussion duties from Vladislav Delay. Together, von Oswald, Loderbauer and Allen form something close to a dream team, two masters of the electronic sphere meeting an afrobeat pioneer. Allen had already established a rapport with the group before they entered the studio to record Sounding Lines - he's been touring with von Oswald and Loderbauer for more than a year, playing live shows around the world. There has been an evolution on each new Moritz Von Oswald Trio record, and Sounding Lines is no different. The album, which was mixed by Ricardo Villalobos, maintains the project's trajectory—a fearless exploration of dub techno, classical music and jazz—but the prevailing mood feels looser and more organic than ever before. Allen's imperious percussive work sits tantalisingly in the mix. His drums meet the electronics of von Oswald and Loderbauer in a way that renders the project in new, vivid colours. There are 4/4 tracks, beatless interludes and complex jazz structures, with propulsive recordings ("3") coexisting alongside more languid moments ("1"). Sometimes Allen provides flourishes of drums (notably on "4") while at other times spectral synths come to the fore (as on "5"). Von Oswald, a masterful composer and arranger with a deep understanding of space, paints the crevices of each composition on Sounding Lines with rich detail. Individually, von Oswald, Loderbauer and Allen are formidable and hugely influential musicians. As a trio, they've conjured something remarkable.

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Demdike Stare Meets Shangaan Electro / Hype Williams Meets Shangaan Electro

12" | 2012 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

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2LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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All those words in the title & namedescriptions should be enough ... Hype!

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Pinch & Shackleton

Actress Meets Shangaan Electro

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The two dubstep pioneers at the top of their game. The deadly concision, the rhythmic punch and dramatic timing, the spry, side-to-side detailing of a cavernous stage, the crisp-biscuit vocal sampling and Middle Eastern percussion — their sound signatures are not so much totalled as squared. Truly an album, the music is multi-levelled — dark as anything at times, but engrossingly varied and emotionally shaded, always on the move.

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Actress

12" | 2011 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

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12" | 2011 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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UK electronic producer Actress takes the Shangaan sound to another level.

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Mark Ernestus

Mark Eernestus Meets BBC

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2011 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Tshetsha Boys

Anidyi Nyama

2LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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/ TTB / Mahala / Raxa Remix ... Storming, squinty Shangaan Electro to herald the current European tour of Tiyiselani, the Tshetshas and producer Dog.

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Vladislav Delay Quartet

42,99 €*

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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New Wave Dance Music From South Africa

Shangaan Electro

2LP | 2010 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

12" | 2010 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2010 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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An astounding compilation of the breakneck Shangaan dance output of the Nozinja studio in Soweto, recorded between 2006 and 2009.

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Actress

Paint Straw And Bubbles

12" | 2007 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2010 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Including the Zomby Remix plus "Maze" in a long version!

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Tony Allen

Kilode Carl Craig Remix

Release: 2007 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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