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LAD 077EP
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After a six-year break, a poignant love affair between Life and Death and Marvin & Guy resumes with two catchy but effective tracks that breaks a two-year hiatus from releasing original music. Minimal and purposefully crafted for dancefloors, a departure from their usual emphasis on melodies. This record emerges organically during playful experimentation with just a bass on a synthesizer, preserving its distinctive rhythmic and harmonic changes. The girlfriend's continuous request to play "Who Dis" underscores its contagious allure. Both songs incorporate sounds like shattered glass, opening doors, a whip, and an authentic Formula 1 engine roar -- all meticulously recorded specifically for these ideas. There's not really specific creative process beside having fun with synthesizers; it's simply music crafted for the joy of dancing.
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PLAYRJC 085EP
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Let's go back to Italy with the dynamic duo Marvin & Guy aka Alessandro Parlatore and Marcello Giordani. On their first release for Live At Robert Johnson they team up with another dynamic duo: Hard Ton -- and you guessed right, they're Italian too. So, what else to expect than some real cool contemporary Italo Disco just in time for summer? "Save Me" comes in two different mixes: The "Disco Mix" and the "Club Mix" -- both featuring the marvelous falsetto voice of Hard Ton's singer Max -- himself quite a passionate singer in the field of heavy metal -- and disco -- yes, you heard right. But fear not, the heavy metal part isn't audible at all. We're talking Hi-NRG sounds galore and of course D.I.S.C.O. -- the Munich style disco of someone like Giorgio Moroder doing his thing with Donna Summer or Harvey Fuqua's and Patrick Cowley's work with LGBT legend Sylvester -- yes, the "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" Sylvester. Not a bad company to get name-dropped, right? Especially the "Disco Mix" of "Save Me" features many of those typical sounds of said producers and is a beautiful tribute to the golden disco era. The slightly darker "Club Mix" does a great job too by pulling all dancers straight onto the floor with its drum machine generated bass drum and its euphoric claps. Marvin & Guy's solo track, the aptly named "Supported By Your Favourite DJ" will surely be supported by everyone of our favorite DJs: It's a happy and positive track which definitely will not fail as a secret weapon in everybody's DJ bag. Now let's get saved by Marvin & Guy -- and let's support the Italian scene -- it's mighty real!
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PERMVAC 187-1EP
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Marvin & Guy return in full glory to Permanent Vacation after their 2017 Fire ! Fire ! EP (PERMVAC 156-1EP). "Hint Of '92" pays clear tribute to the techno/trance from early '90s. But they are not all about the pure retro-ness, instead M&G approach the matter with a contemporary point of view. The track also features fellow Italian Marika from Underspreche on vocals, who also contributed a discoid remix to the original. "Discoteque" may remind you of the early Marvin & Guy sound: rough, chunky, rocky, and full of disco-ish energy. While "Colours" is a calmer, yet mental trip.
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LAD 042EP
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Fresh off their outstanding performance at Life And Death's hedonistic circus in Amsterdam, Marvin & Guy return with their second etching in the label's stone -- Solar Warriors. "Idra", featuring techno-chanteuse, Perel, balances effervescent, nouveau-synth passages with a cosmic, spoken-word recital. Cut from similar silk, "Notte" featuring Allo pushes further outwards, while peering deeper within. "Stige (9AM Mix)" sees the duo complete their galactic revolution in fine form.
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LAD 034EP
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Italo-cosmonauts Marvin & Guy board Life And Death with the Superior Conjunction EP. Alessandro Parlatore and Marcello Giordani's four-tracker explores parallel worlds through expert synthesizer sequencing and cavernous vocals features. Celestial melodies paired with Athena's stream of consciousness Italian recital guarantees dancefloor devastation with "Superior Conjunction". The hypnotic theme of "Arpadia" complements the title track's restrained drama, while Fantastic Twins elevate "The Train Of Fantastic" to an altered state of being.
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PERMVAC 156-1EP
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"Fire ! Fire ! Dance with me." Permanent Vacation's first release in 2017 comes from the Marvin & Guy. They recorded four blissful tracks of fresh, twisted, and tingled creepy disco wave and eternal Route 66 flavor. The two cowboys want to give you the opportunity to dream and dance in the same intense way. "Despierta (Tus Sentidos)" features Mexico's hottest Zombies In Miami on the mic.
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CORR 042EP
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With Music For Race, Italian duo Marvin & Guy present a more conceptual approach informed by long countryside drives, the names of classic cars as learned from an illustrated children's books, a yearning to move away from the pack of identikit dance music, and a need to connect with their music in a physical way, as provided by the recorded hand-clapping refrain running throughout the tracks. A-side features Sebastien Bouchet.
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