Various - Funk.BR - São Paulo2LP Gatefold, with essay by Felipe Maia. NTS presents funk. BR So Paulo, an exploration into the magical and menacing world of the Brazilian citys current baile funk sounds. So Paulo has built up a reputation for its confrontational funk output over the past decade, and the emergence of the mandelo sound has underlined this. This riotous strain of baile funk has been tailor made for the favela parties (so called bailes or fluxos) of the Brazilian

Maurice Fulton's outrageous remix of "The Fall" by Rhye has been cherished as a stone-cold masterpiece for the past decade

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unpretentious simplicity

Influenced by the likes of Depeche Mode and Human League as well as the luminous disco of subcontinental icons like Nazia Hasan

whose stunning flute jazz cover of “Genius of Love” is also featured on this longplayer

a new label by CMYK

Chicago house

‘Now’s the Time’

A project that ran for almost a decade and formed by musicians Virgil Work Jnr and Nicholas Georgieff

This memorable production first appeared in 1995 on 11:07 records

or space alien invasions

A - The Prophet Drenched in a thick haze of layered synthpads