AYAM EL DISCO – EGYPTIAN DISCO, BOOGIE & JEEL CASSETTES 1978 -92 / WEWANTSOUNDS – By Cal Gibson Super review by Cal Gibson, of The Secret Soul Society. It was almost four years ago that Moataz Rageb (Disco Arabesquo) put together the first Sharayet El Disco compilation of Egyptian disco casse…

#Ayameldisco compiled by #DiscoArabesquo reviewed at #banbantonton by Cal Gibson ❤🔥❤

"it’s one hell of a firing soundtrack to the beat-led conundrum of life."

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Looking For The Balearic Beat / February 2025 Paraphrasing the Soul Sonic Force and sorting through today`s releases for tunes that could have graced Alfie & Leo’s Amnesia dance-floor… Andy Bell / Apple Green UFO / Sonic Cathedral A damn f…

Andy Bell (ex-Ride, not Erasure) is getting a lot more experimental in middle age. Nice review here in #BanBanTonTon

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Max Essa / When I’m Homeward Bound / Is It Balearic? Is It Balearic? mainstay and family member, Max Essa returns to the label with the appropriately titled When I’m Homeward Bound. The original mix is textbook Essa, with gentle guitar picking surfin…

For me #BanBanTonTon is just the best music website imo. Rooted in the past but all about the here and now. Where else can you read about Max Essa's recent nod to Tears for Fears?

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Interview / Trevor Fung / Balearic Beat Original Trevor Fung is, without a doubt, one of the unsung heroes of “Balearic Beat”. I guess it may be a relatively well-known fact that it was Trevor who, in the summer of 1987, instigated The Famous Four`s...

Interview / Trevor Fung / Balearic Beat Original
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Looking For The Balearic Beat / Sure Beats Workin’ This tale of what happened next has been told and retold so many times that most folks - even those with only a passing interest  - can probably recite it by heart: Four London DJs travel to Ibiza and...

Looking For The Balearic Beat / Sure Beats Workin’
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Coeo / Eternal Waves / Toy Tonics Marvellous Munich duo, Coeo, serve up a most excellent E.P. of rebooted retro house. This, their tenth team up with Toy Tonics, features a trio of new tracks and one remix. Each piece draws inspiratio...

Coeo / Eternal Waves / Toy Tonics
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Primal Scream / Ready To Go Home / BMG In 1990, Andrew Weatherall and Terry Farley, two friends who co-founded the Boy’s Own fanzine - “Acid house’s village newspaper” - helped kickstart an “indie-rock / dance” crossover by remixing the Pr...

Primal Scream / Ready To Go Home / BMG
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Mr. Monday / Daybreak / Thank You Simon “Mr.” Monday rose to fame, during rave, as a keyboard wizard. Alongside the likes of Adamski he was one of the first UK artists to perform house live at parties and clubs. In the early 1990s he ...

Mr. Monday / Daybreak / Thank You
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Hardway Bros / Murky / Rekids Sean “Hardway Bros” Johnston has hooked up with Rekids, for his latest musical missive, Murky. The track’s title is a tip of the hat to the Miami, Florida, house sound of Oscar Gaetan and Ralph Falcon...

Hardway Bros / Murky / Rekids
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Label Lore / Terry Farley on Junior Boy’s Own – By The Insider Interview conducted by our favourite four-to-the-floor expert, The Insider. DJ, producer, promoter, and writer, Terry Farley, has been an integral part of the UK dance music community for more than th...

Label Lore / Terry Farley on Junior Boy’s Own
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Nuron / Blanchimont / De:tuned Blanchimont is Nurmad Jusat’s third E.P. as Nuron for De:Tuned. His first since the Belgian label unearthed his incredible DAT tapes from 1993 / 94. The new record lifts its name from another of Nurma...

Nuron / Blanchimont / De:tuned
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Andrew Weatherall & Keith Tenniswood / Still My World  / Rotters Golf Club Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood’s Still My World is effectively a little library of themes and cues. A collection of largely shorts of stoned sonic noodling, that are experimental, and mischiev...

Andrew Weatherall & Keith Tenniswood / Still My World  / Rotters Golf Club
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Jura Soundsystem / Remix Special / Isle Of Jura Jura Soundsystem was established in 2018. On a new 12 they’ve gone back over their catalogue and had a few crackers remixed. Quiet Village - Matt “Radio Slave” Edwards and Joel “Velvet Season & The He...

Jura Soundsystem / Remix Special / Isle Of Jura
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