Lithuania’s RyRalio DJs took their last year release, the spacious and dreamy “Sultry Blue” to the world tour, and it appeared in compilations and dancefloors in the UK, Spain, France and even as far as Bulgaria and United Arab Emirates. Now they are back with another dancefloor filler, recorded with Californian nightingale Nica Brooke who also worked with Da Sunlounge (Myna Music) and ever impressive Rithma (Om Records). Here it is... "Dance Out Loud"...
The unstoppable house team Inland Knights were asked for a remix of the track, and here it comes – the true gem with acidic baseline and nicely cut vocals. And finally there is the topping of "Dance Out Loud" – the two remixes provided by the new house genius Nacho Marco (Freerange, OM, Aroma, Pacha, etc.). Always original, always sure of his production, always fresh – Nacho’s Vocal and Dub remixes give this record the well-deserved deep, techy and hypnotic edge...
From the mystical Lithuania, the land of quiet streets and uber-loud club nights, please welcome a piece of celestial house music!
More feedbacks on this release from all around the globe:
"Very very good package!!!! I’m happy to be able to play again some good vocal again." DJ Yellow (Yellow Productions)
"Inland Knights Remix is amazing, Nacho delivered quality house mix as well!" Satoshi Tomiie (SAW, Renaissance)
"Love all the mixes, very strong package!! Will give this radio and club plays for sure." Raoul Belmans (Aroma, Second Smell)
"Super funky mix by mister Nacho. Will play!" Laurent Garnier (F Communications)
"Digging the Nacho Marco Dub." Nick Warren (Global Underground)
"Excellent release! Love the IK mix, but the Nacho Marco dub is my favourite on this. Love it!" Giom (OM, Tango, Aroma)
"They’re are all well done and will get play at Various Times. Nice work!" JT Donaldson (OM, Freerange, Nightshift, Lazy Days)
"This is a VERY nice release ... All tracks/mixes have something to offer. The Original is catchy and vibrant. Nacho's mixes are fantastic, and the production in his Dub has a lot of depth. Inland Knights Remiix will probably get the most play ... I like how it builds and teases with the vocal. Full support ... cheers for it!" Q Burns Abstract Message (Eighth Dimension Records, Slip 'n' Slide, NRK)
"Nacho Marco dub is really nice late nite stuff. Full support, will be playing on upcoming Asian tour." Olivier Desmet (Amenti, Myna, OM)
"Digging the Inland Knights and Nacho's Dub." Fred Everything (Lazy Days, OM, 20 20 Vision)
"The Knights mix is the hot shit. Very playable to different types of audiences. The Nacho remix is nice too..." Joshua Heath (Salted, DAE)
"I like the Inland Knights mix and the original. Nice vocals, great sounds, thick on the Inland Knights Rr mix and the Original arrangement is excellent." Ken / East Coast Boogiemen (Blackcherry, Nightshift)
"Gents really diggin your Original mix and Inland's treatment. Great arrangement and energy!!" PC Synergy (OM Records)
1. RyRalio DJs feat. Nica Brooke – Dance Out Loud (Original)
RyRalio Records are back with its latest release by a young and very promising talent rising straight from the heart of Lithuania. Please welcome Santi Touch!
In 2004 Lauris Lee and Karalius from RyRalio Records noticed Santi Touch’s talent when he was only 18. Right after that his track was included in RyRalio CAFÉ compilation, where his remix of Latvian house crew Craft B appeared too.
In recent years Santi Touch has released tracks and remixes on “Reelgroove” (UK), “Soulstar” (Germany), Cabrio (Estonia). It seems like 2008 will be very busy year for this young producer as a bunch of new releases are already scheduled for this year.
The release starts with Original version (1) of “Candle”. This floorshaker combines sharp and shaking beats with some electrified and jazzing vibes which will make a real move on your dancefloor.
Spin Science Remix (2) enters deep spaces with sound that we call Nordic house. It’s a little bit progressive,a little bit spacey and always deep – exactly what you can hear on other Spin Science releases on labels like Plastic City, ROTD and Urbantorque.
The release is closed by Whare Wurlitzer Dub (3). This deep and dubby version is brought to you from Vienna‘s freshest project Whare. Watch out for those guys as their new record label takes departure in a few months and it will hit your record players quite heavily.
RyRalio Records from Lithuania are back for the final countdown of 2007!
After the success of the first volume of RyRalio Cafe compilation, which has shipped over 3000 copies in tiny Lithuania alone, RyRalio DJs: Lauris Lee and Karalius serve the freshest house music selection as we know it. The new baby RyRalio Café vol. 2 arrived in the very first week of December.
Carefully selected and mixed 12 pure house tracks reproduce the soulful and passionate dancefloor mood of RyRalio events on the Baltic shores throughout the magic 2007. RyRalio Café vol. 2 unites Seattle’s own LawnChair Generals representing Aroma, UK house scene, Rise Recordings and Drop Music favorites Inland Knights, the talented François DuBois from Urbantorque remixed by Nic Fanciulli and many more house gems... The crown of the compilation is the RyRalio DJs own track Dance Out Loud, with vocals by the magnificent Nica Brooke....
RyRalio Café vol. 2 CD is available in Lithuania only.
1. Soul Central feat. Abigail Bailey – Time After Time (Yoruba Soul Mix)
RyRalio DJs feat. Monica BrookeSultry Blue - Remixes [RYRAD001]
Lithuania’s best RyRalio DJs present three new remixes of Sultry Blue – and unforgettable single of the summer of 2007 and a unique collaboration between the Baltic deep house scene and the Californian singer and lyricist Monica Brooke. In this release, it is enhanced by the contributions most important figures of Lithuanian house scene Andy Lau with 2 remixes each for different house or electro crowd and the perplexing sound master Zickus.
The original release was supported and endorsed by Rocco (Freerange, Buzzin Fly, Shack), Richard Earnshaw (Spiritchaser, Dufnotte Recordings), Matt Shrewd (Shrewd Music, Nightshift, Myna), Ross Couch (Bargrooves), Manuel Tur (Freerange, So Sound, Agave), Pete Dafeet (Lost My Dog), Andy Compton (The Rurals, Peng), Murray Richardson (Rebel Waltz, Sensei), Blacksoul (Greenhouse Recordings, Odds&Ends Music, Black Soul Music), Jay West (Flavour, Drop Music, Blockhead and many others.
Let you relive the fascinating tale about the Ocean, the Deep and the Summer of Your Life - Sultry Blue. Take pleasure once again!
1. RyRalio DJs feat. Monica Brooke – Sultry Blue (Zickus Original Re-Rub)
RyRalio DJs feat. Monica BrookeSultry Blue [RYRA 004]
Building on the success of their recent single “Nothing Special” Lithuania’s best RyRalio DJs present an inimitable, unforgettable single of the summer of 2007. Sultry Blue is a unique collaboration between the Baltic deep house producers Karalius and Lauris Lee and the Californian singer and lyricist Monica Brooke.
Emerging from Lithuania (where it won the first ever “Radiocentras Best Dance Act” award – a sort of Lithuanian Grammy - for RyRalio DJs), Sultry Blue was the No.1 dance music single of 2006 in local radio charts. The success was quite unsurprising - as the original track had a lazy summer sunshine mood and is deep as the Baltic Sea – the new Mediterranean...
The matchmaker between Monica Brooke and the RyRalio DJs was Rithma from ”Om Records”, who has collaborated with both sides during his impressive career. Monica Brooke has tried out being a musical performer, a member of 4-piece girl r’n’b band and even headlining a rock band in LA, until a “Music Connection” reviewer compared her to Aretha Franklin. She has never looked back then, and has scored numerous collaborations with Rithma, Alan Baratt and is now completing her solo debut album.
For the international release, some special remixes have arrived, including the “Sunset Remix” by the British artist Da Sunlounge (2). Remix was crafted in one special building in Nottingham, where the artist and fellow masters of deep sound Crazy P and Inland Knights teams share neighbouring studios. Guess who did some SECRET contribution to the remix? And let the deep and kicking beats, euphoric keys by Da Sunlounge make your summer night even more fascinating!
It’s time now for the German sound of 2007, as the duo Luna City Express (3) does some sharp and minimalistic edition to Sultry Blue. The “Sun Remix” was created by Marco Resmann & Norman Weber, famous for the deep and housey attitude, expressed in the much loved new “Moon Harbour Inhouse Vol. 2” compilation.
Finally, there is some fresh and enthusiastic Lithuanian remix gems of Sultry Blue, including the one by a fellow Kaunas producer and one of the most important figures of local house scene Andy Lau (4). And there is a bona fide progressive reinterpretation of the track by Simuck and Kastis Torrau (5), which has already find the way into the playlist of Deep Dish.
Sultry Blue is the universal tale about the Ocean, the Deep and the Summer of Your Life. Enjoy!
1. RyRalio DJs feat. Monica Brooke – Sultry Blue (Original)
The 6 track EP "Nothing Special" opens with RyRalio DJs deep and funky original version (1) from their studio in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Chicago house godfather Johnny Fiasco, who actually stood at the roots of all of it, added dubbed, driving and acidic musical touch to the release by his remix "Tonic Mix" (2). Johnny's productions are sweet as roses, but bite as the hedgerow thorns.
From still sunny California, comes the moody "Sure Is Special" (4) version of the track by Om Records talent Rithma, the author of highly acclaimed album "Music Fiction". He supplies a lot of micro breaks and special soundscapes from his studio in Topanga Canyon. Rithma is about to release his second full-length album "Sex Sells" on Om Records, and "Sure Is Special Mix" shows the darker, experimental side of the Californian producer. This track is the part of the musical storm, which Rithma has already started after the calm year of 2006.
And finally, you will be able to take a ride through moody Baltic lands, with Riga‘s finest Bandmaster’s Flight (5) duo (Amber Muse, R2 Records) providing the deep house version of "Nothing Special". It is a subtle touch of chilled grooves and melodic sounds.
At the very end RyRalio welcomes Lithuanian house whiz kid, who made great debut on Reelgroove Records in the very last days of 2006 and who just finished remix for Lenny Fontana & Byron Stingly track "I’ll Give You". Please welcome Santi Touch and his "Santi Special" (6) version colored by breaky, funky and electro influences.
RyRalio DJs: Lauris Lee & KaraliusRyRalio CAFE [RYRACD 003]
"RyRalio CAFÉ" reflects hottest dance music, created not only in RyRalio studio, but also in prime music labs of Riga and Tallinn. For five years rumors goes about unique, delicate blood of RyRalio house style. This time all the best and interesting not only in Lithuanian, but also in Latvian and Estonian dance scenes they have included into twelve tracks. The pearl of the album – “Sultry Blue” is touched by owner of unique voice – Monica Brooks.
This disc includes everything that is fascinating – passion, depth and never-to-be-forgoten nights of this side of Baltic Sea.
This 80 000 pcs. giveaway mix cd represents true house style of RyRalio. Mixed compilation holds works of house music grands like Johnny Fiasco, Da Sunlounge, Jay-J and others.
RyRalio House: Sobieski uogos still holds the record for bigest cd edition pressed in Lithuania. It was given out with three most popular magazines in november 2005 and now can be found in every house music lovers record collection.
Selected by Lauris Lee & KaraliusPizza Jazz Music [RYRACD001]
First ever lounge music CD in Lithuania "Pizza Jazz Music" represents highest standarts of music, a real gourmanic dish for the ears. Compilation was created in collaboration with such artists like Neon Heights, Rumpistol or Rithma alongside with lithuanian artists. CD, consisting of twelve tracks, was released in strictly limited edition.
Simuck is a homey-electronica wizard from North Lithuania and no wonder his "Still EP" has a number of jewels. "Still" is an outstanding deep house track with the night energy.
Already 4am classic at "RyRalio" events in Lithuania, the calm and brilliant title track is the favorite by house and tech house DJs and fans.
"Still (Late Nite Mix)" takes on to even deeper journey to the late night music. It comes with more chilled vibes. We heard not a single person say this is the best Sunday house track ever made in the Baltic's.
And our definite "RyRalio" office favorite "Wingfield" is light and easy piece with minimalistic loops and superb groovy mood. So delicate and soft, dreamy and catchy it has vibe, which grants dancehall the second breathing during those lovely morning hours.
The jazzy, playful and spacey cut from RyRalio production team features one of the best contemporary Lithuanian vocal talents Giedre from EMPTI fame. She also wrote a beautiful text, dealing with nostalgia, love and living the life "At Full Speed" (actually, this is the Lithuanian name of the song). Do you remember the evening you danced on the roof... "Visu greiciu" is about that magic moment.
"Life Is Long" is an opening gate to the world of Lithuanian jazzy house. The funky basslines and turntablist stylings, topped with the organic sounds of light, swinging, latin percussion, wailing saxophones, and fluttering flutes forms the distinct sound of Jazzus Juice. The release includes amazingly frivolous and funky remix crafted by talented mr. Rithma (Om Records).
