12 Days of Choonsmas

Disk Frisk

On the fifth day of Choonsmas my true love came on down… to the best damn record shop in town…
Fiiiiveee gooollldddd rinngggsss. 💍

Next up is two of the deepest choon miners in the game currently, @diskfrisk (aka @kaynethehermit&@moreycillar ). We are always gushing with praise for Kayne the shelled king, so when him and @continuous_movement’s golden ringleader Corey Miller decided to put their egg noggin’s together and start shifting obscure musical peaches plucked from the Mariana Trench, we were excited. ⛏

Unfortunately for us everything they post sells out before we get our arses in gear – a testament to their belter snooping powers, and a boon to YouTube playlists across the scene. Be prepared to add to yours…

12 Days of Choonsmas

Disk Frisk

On the fifth day of Choonsmas my true love came on down… to the best damn record shop in town…
Fiiiiveee gooollldddd rinngggsss. 💍

Next up is two of the deepest choon miners in the game currently, @diskfrisk (aka @kaynethehermit&@moreycillar ). We are always gushing with praise for Kayne the shelled king, so when him and @continuous_movement’s golden ringleader Corey Miller decided to put their egg noggin’s together and start shifting obscure musical peaches plucked from the Mariana Trench, we were excited. ⛏

Unfortunately for us everything they post sells out before we get our arses in gear – a testament to their belter snooping powers, and a boon to YouTube playlists across the scene. Be prepared to add to yours…

Some of the stuff we have been digging this year and personal finds!

A5 & Sara-Mo – Hiraeth 

Corey: This ones from Ki / Fragments in Wax I have been obsessed with his YouTube channels & mix series all year, so he deffo deserves a shout out! This one I have rinsed all year - Welsh dub at its finest. 



Curve - The Gaigy Gougue Go 

Kayne: Funky new wave synth dig I found this year seems to be pretty unknown with little information regarding the band too. Has a folky harmonica and clear country influences, the perfect blend of oddball for me.

Nino – Tu Me Donnes Envie

Corey: One of the best things we have had in the shop this year, end of. I am absolutely obsessed with it, Killer basslines and big dramatic synths, the perfect New Beat record!

The Droids - Armageddon

Kayne: Had to include a cosmic sounding record since I have started moving over to that stuff over the last year, another pretty unknown thing. Dug this up during a very long and painful “New Wave Synth Pop” search on discogs. A little bit nerdy but worth the graft!

Purple Schulz Und Die Neue Heimat – Sehnsucht

Corey: Sehnsucht, my most played warm up track of the year, always play it at the Love Inn no matter how much I try and avoid playing it again.

An Douar Bras – Le Joueur De Lune

Kayne: Bought this from Bruno at Perfect Lives in the summer and has been one of my most listened to records when making dinner at home. Whole album is amazing, crazy and intense - Celtic/Medieval melodies but with crazy synth work as well!

Highlight of 2021:

Opening/Starting the Disk Frisk shop online of course! Had such a nice response, thank you to those who have supported

Looking forward to in 2022:

We have loads of fun gigs abroad and digging trips planned from February to May - The Disk Frisk Record fair/party we’re hosting early next year, with two of our favourite shops! Almost a late launch party in some ways, but generally just excited to get our own physical space in Bristol, busy busy!

Christmas Tune 

Unknown Artist - Sound of 1979

A cool upload by Sofa, a promotional cosmic disco track with festive infused lyrics and samples throughout. Will play this all year round! Merry Crimbo from Disk Frisk!


Keep up with Kayne & Corey at Disk Frisk via Instagram, and make sure to hit these two lovely pals up in the Disk Frisk dms if any of their earworms give your ears a wriggle!


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Left, Right & Centre

12 Days of Choonsmas

A varying degree of musical tastes seem to exist within the Left, Right & Centre camp between ourselves so there may be a bit of disparity between each of our selections. However I think we can both agree that it’s been a topsy turvy year, but there has been lots of highs for us as a label and party, as well as individually. Huge shout out to all the crews doing the do and pushing things along in Manchester and further afield, and of course a big thank you to the Semi Peppered dons for getting us involved.

Semi Peppered Mar '21

Peppered Digs

SP: It's actually entirely to do with the pubs reopening. Enjoy with caution

More 12 Days of Choonsmas

Semi Peppered

Thank you to everyone that has been a part of Choonsmas this year, it's been a lovely way to end a turbulent year <3

d .clemente & DJ SWEAT

d. clemente: Same as last year, I am here with a whole selection of dance music (sorry I actually don’t listen to anything else lol) that made me go like “wow, yeehaw, yes, alright alright, mmmmm”. DJ SWEAT: *siren plays* D-D-D-D-DJ SWEAT on tha haus! *toilet sound* merry all! *jingle jingle*

CUE: K.I.I.A. & LMR

In no particular order these are our top releases from 2020. Coincidentally featuring plenty of previous Cue guests (we’re not biased, honest) alongside some other favourites.

Semi Peppered

2020 has been tough, and we’ve been fortunate enough to get through it with the help of those close to us. Now we hope you can join us in looking to 2021 as another year to be inspired by one another, and to keep on keeping on together.

Drips of Fosterham

Tried to keep it as weird as possible. And shed some light on some smaller acts from Bristol to Chicargooooooo.

Semi Peppered Jan ‘21

SP: Huge shouts to everyone who was there for us and supported us in music and beyond last year, we look forwards to sharing good times together again soon!

Abena

I really had to stop myself from putting Babyfather’s ‘Meditation’ as my sole entry to this list because I’ve been playing that every day for the last three years. I thought it would be best to solely focus on tracks that have been released this year so here’s a list of my faves. Most of them have been included in mixes and radio shows and danced to in my parents’ living room.

Murmurs Sound

Tracy: The selections picked by us are tunes that we’ve rinsed a lot this year and played quite often on our radio shows. I think they represent our sound as individual DJs but also as a collective.

Ruari & The Trouserlings

We hope you enjoy sifting through our proper mixed bag of tunes that have soundtracked an incredibly west period in history. We feel these releases have been on the ride with us and deserve acknowledgement. What better way than a big old peppered round up eh?

Semi Peppered Feb '21

What ho!? The sun has shone, the birds have tweep tweeped and the second edition of our Peppered Digs is launched for public enjoyment. Celebrate the springtime harbingers with some bangers in bloom :)

HARDCORE SOY

Taïga: There’s going to be no jungle / 160 I’m afraid, if anyone wants to hear our fave selections from that genre they can just listen to any of our sets! Mia: 2021 has been a great year for music, much like last year, the year before that, and all the other years. I don’t really think it’s possible for there to be an entire year where the whole planet collectively just puts out shit music, even if artists like Burial are giving it their best shot.

Vid

Compiling this list for the SP crew made me realise how many amazing releases came out this year, a cause for celebration in a year of woe. This list scrapes the tip of the iceberg in terms of what I’ve enjoyed, but I have somehow narrowed it down to 8 LPs of 2020 that I have been rinsing and repeating.

Escalator To Nowhere & Chukwudi

ETN: "We've spent most of the year agonisingly far apart from each other so our choices and highlights feel very unconnected. Doing our Noods shows as socially-distanced fb-chat b2bs has been an interesting diversion, but we're longing for the affectionate chaos of the studio sessions. We all miss each other and hopefully next year will be full of the shared experiences and connection that are the best things about being a Shrubbery!" Chukwudi: "Having blown my last ETN royalty cheque investing in phonecards, I've asked the band to get together for one last reunion gig so that I can keep the lights on this Christmas. Unfortunately all the clubs are closed so I've had to make do with an (apparently unpaid) spot on the semi peppered xmas countdown instead.‍"

MLE & The Solway Canine Collective

MLE: Hi, you may remember me from radio stations such as Balamii, Noods, Worldwide FM and the occasional guest appearances on NTS. Find my 2020 highlights alongside my fav bunch of dawgs…May 2021 be infinitely less painful. Solway Canine Collective: Ruff noises straight from the kennel. Another year of gutter tunes from the junkyard dawgs.

Ambient Babestation Meltdown

Here’s a lil selection of a few of my fave tracks that have gone into Ambient Babestation Meltdown mixes this year, and a few tracks that I plan to feature in upcoming mixes. Finding new music was never a problem working at Rye Wax, but as we’ve been shut since March I’ve been having to dig A LOT DEEPER and I think it’s helped make my mixes a lot weirder haha. Please enjoy my selection and dream of the day we can all float about the club in silly outfits and silly states once again.

Ruari & The Trouserlings

The Trouserlings + Papi Ruari bring you another collection of varied morsels to warm the cockles. Here is to another year of following the Semi Peppered boys blindly into the sun.

Gut Level

Not much new music in here (we’re crap at keeping up to date), but lots of goodies that we’ve played and enjoyed both inside and outside the space this year

Vindya Feb '21

I mostly mix techno / breaks / house / fusion music. So I’ve tried to include six tunes that showcase these genres as much as possible! One thing I’ve learned from mixing is that there is endless music to explore and to never make your mind up on whether or not you like an entire genre! Fusing elements of one genre into another is a real game changer for me :)

Robbie Bloomer & d. clemente

Robbie: "Some highlights from a rollercoaster year, remembering the soundtrack of initial lockdown turmoil to reminiscing about the last tunes heard in the club." David: "As someone whose main hobby is clubbing and nightlife, this year I haven't stopped listening to dance music. Here's some new tunes I really look forward to listening to on a big soundsystem."

Left, Right & Centre

A varying degree of musical tastes seem to exist within the Left, Right & Centre camp between ourselves so there may be a bit of disparity between each of our selections. However I think we can both agree that it’s been a topsy turvy year, but there has been lots of highs for us as a label and party, as well as individually. Huge shout out to all the crews doing the do and pushing things along in Manchester and further afield, and of course a big thank you to the Semi Peppered dons for getting us involved.

Kayne The Hermit

Apologies! I’ve not bought a new release since the Music from Memory Almost Grown record, which was still a reissue haha! These ones are some of my fave digs from the year - a mixture of cheap and hard to find stuff, records that I have wanted for a while but managed to cop this year. Lots of digging and hermiting time, hope you like them/find them interesting! Merry xmas 💖💖 xx

Boris Cobblestone & Deburgh Apr '21

We’re long time friends and musical collaborators born and raised in Sheffield and now living West of the Pennines in Manchester. We spent some years in Sheffield running ‘Don’t Look Now’, a series of ludicrous parties, expressing our shared love of club culture and the musical heritage of the Steel City. Having temporarily taken a step back from promotion we now also host a monthly radio show called Roadside Picnic in which we can explore our more otherworldly thoughts and dreams.

MLE & the LDN Mad Dogs

Ed: My selections reflect exactly what I’ve been listening to over the last year or two - lots of slow music to soundtrack many days spent at home. I’ve thrown one freaky dance tune in there for good measure, to keep the aliens over at Semi Peppered happy. Ben: Mad dog by name mad dog by nature, woof woof MLE: I am so strong haha

fig & Goutham

This has been a weird af year but here are some highlights from us which we hope you enjoy. Special shout out to Goutham for having the self control to not list Cockroach - Pearl (Bright Edit) [COMPOSE] {1996} multiple times.

Rob & Rosa

Here's some choons, new and old that kept us going in this weird as hell year. Hope you enjoy.

Rosa Méthol

Here are some of my top listens this year - ones that I've been playing and replaying. Most have been released in 2020, with a sprinkle of oldies too. I inevitably remembered loads that should be in here after making this, but I hope in sifting through this list there will be some enjoyable/meaningful listens in store for Semi Peppered friends and followers 🐇

Emma & Jonah Mar '21

We’re Emma and Jonah, old friends and lifelong music obsessives. We both share a love for tunes that make us nostalgic for a neon lit past that didn’t happen. If it clears the floor, we want more.

Semi Peppered Mar '21

SP: It's actually entirely to do with the pubs reopening. Enjoy with caution

Tilly and Balouu

Our top 8 tracks of 2020 (we’ve listened to tonnes of old ones from the 80s through out the digging process but we’ve tried to keep this strictly 2020 - with some of our fave oldies thrown in) but also less club focussed as clubbing seems so redundant right now (although we have thrown a few heaters in for you). A mixed bag for a funny old time!