A New Dawn is a homage to the marvel of Mr Fingers aka Larry Heard, straight up house with a lengthy ambient outro with Freebooter CR Thomas providing the vocal.
Belfast’s Staying Low provide an old-school breaks remix, phat bass and funky beat with a 90’s feel, killer.
The Vico Pancellorum mix, one for the ambient lovers was recorded in the mountains of Tuscany, perfect to see in the new dawn.
Simon Sheldon has been writing, producing, releasing and performing under many pseudonyms for 30 years plus. In various ensembles and as a solo artist, he has played live in the US, throughout Europe and Asia. Now with his label The Freebooter Lounge, he has guested on Café Mambo radio during lockdown and had the 9th top selling Electronica track at Beatport for 2022 for his collaboration with fellow freebooter LOEW and DJ T which got to number 1 @ Beatport. Music legend Sasha put ‘Blaze’ on his hugely respected ‘LUZoSCURA’ collection.
Belfast based DJ & producer and Member of the Manhattan Project is CR Thomas.
A DJ for 20 years + and now a regular DJ @ the notorious Plan B night in Belfast,Tommy McKenna aka CR Thomas has more recently delved into hardware, drum machines to craft his production techniques.
Once-upon-a-rave, Belfast orientated producer Stayin Low AKA Craig Sheridan, met Label boss Simon Sheldon while working as a music journalist in the early 2000s. Flash forward 20 years and both are billed to play hybrid live-sets at the increasingly popular Plan B party Belfast, along with Freebooter ‘Deep Division’. “Party organiser Aidy McLoughlin suggested we work together and I was delighted to get involved with the Freebooter Label.
I’ve always loved Si’s work since first discovering Spree in the early 2000s. The calibre of his output is top quality, so to be involved with the label is a delight! It feels like a full-circle moment. Korg workstations and break-beats drive the remix, with the classic vocoder effect Synthesising the human need for hope, delivered in the lyric. “The multitracks wee of such a high standard I really wanted to match the quality of the original, but build on that feeing of the promise, and that sense of faith that comes from it.” Thanks Craig.
Stayin Low gigs across Belfast at Thompson’s, Jailhouse, Whites, Margot, and Boneyard. He’s a production mentor with Giving Hands Music and the senior Recording and Mixing engineer at AMPS Studio, Belfast.
Moody electronic music from Portuguese producer Toada, “Cambiante” underscores expansive ambient music with gentle beats. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 18, 2019
Synths light up like blips of Morse Code on the latest LP from Jokios Kultūros, all of them ping-ponging between drum & bass rhythms. Bandcamp New & Notable May 14, 2023
The first LP from nightlife cornerstone Melissa Maristuen, aka Doc Sleep, turns away from the dancefloor and toward the personal. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 21, 2023
“Boogie Meets Beatdown” on this epic album from the mole, where ambient interludes lead into sudden and scary dark alleys. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 29, 2023