Released through independent Wales-based-label My Pet Flamingo in December 2019 - the sophomore album from American YouTuber, music fanatic, DJ and producer Pad Chennington - who initially shot to fame a few years prior for his explorative deep dives into underground music - is an absolutely brilliant, and incredibly fun and playful record that manages to expertly meld the sounds of future funk and choppy, tight French house, with a few slower excursions thrown in there for good measure - that boasts an extremely impressive line-up of collaborators and serves as a major step forward in almost every way from his debut album Contrast, which I thought would be pretty hard to top after lots of listens! I initially discovered Pad's incredible music a couple of years ago after watching a plethora of his amazing YouTube videos that were focused on the genres explored in this album, however I only managed to give this record a full listen a few months back, and boy, was I impressed. The fi...
Hey everyone - welcome back at the discotheque! It's now the end of July (holy crap, where did all of the time go?) - and as per usual, the last two weeks were stacked full of absolutely incredible releases and lots of news - so much so, that if I had to add on the drops from the last few days, we'd be here for hours, so I'll be doing a separate post for them. There's some debuts on the blog, several anticipated returns and a super eclectic mix of stuff today, so buckle your seat belts - this is going to be a great one! Let's get started! Dequame - Seaside To kick this post off strong, I want to talk about something that's a little bit different from the stuff usually covered on the blog, and that comes in the form of French musician and producer Dequame's brand new EP, which was released on legendary net-label Creux La Nuit on July 25th. A far cry from his usual house productions - Seaside is an absolutely incredible record that borrows from the early 80s c...