Browse by Label: 100% SILK

Artist:	MAGIC TOUCH
Title:	I Can Feel The Heat
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SILK 009EP

"Groove into Magic Touch's pleasure factory, a floor-to-ceiling inventory of disco-covalence, guitar gush rush, even-better-than-the-real-thing sample soaring, and jumpin' jackin' flash. The A side has you feeling the burn after a serious night of get-down. Or tasting the burn after a serious night of get-up. Flip to the B side when you're looking for love in all the ripe places. A vice is nice, but pills will never thrill you like the sensation of Magic Touch, that feverish fantasia of sweet heat. Let his fingers do the work, let the magic take you away, and please pump up these jams. If only to stop the longing. 'I Can Feel The Heat' features bonus shredding by So-Cal amigo Josh Anzano and 'Clubhouse' stars additional instrumentation by Miracle Clubber Honey Owens."

Artist:	OCTO OCTA
Title:	Let Me See You
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SILK 011EP

2012 repress. "'Tryin' to let it go' is the theme here: yearnin' to earn it. The Octo Octa rhythm IS feeling, especially when yr feelings are hurt. From letdown to getdown, when melancholia's callin ya, Octo Octa can break through. Emotions run high, and these cuts cut through somehow. It's dance therapy -- Docta Octa is in, checking yr pulse, charging by the half hour. Feelin' blue can be electric. If yr here, now, you haven't missed a thing. For the ball drop, the balloon drop, the moments after we're sweat-soaked, covered in glitter, standing in a room full of strangers and lovers and memories all fading into fog. And the DJ played on. Turning this house into a home."

Artist:	PHARAOHS
Title:	Uhh Uhh
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SILK 012EP

2012 repress. "Cat in the Hat hats off to mad Madchester vibes in Pharaohs debut Uhh Uhh. You'll have Happy Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays bouncing around to Pharaohs' electric piano keys, synthetic drum pads, funky 80s breakdowns, and pitch shifted way down vocal samples. A lot of freaky dancing went into this jangly, baggy World Party: Dublab aesthetics, memories of Buenos Aires bootleg cassettes, wave bending in Waikiki, Suzanne arts and Kraft. Add a bit of bubbly St. Germain acid, a pinch of 60s extended jazz grooves, a dash of 80s KLF big band UK nonsense, and a touch of 94.7 fm liquid sax/velvet breath and you've got the deep pleasure of Pharaohs. Like nothing the SILK has seen before; taking the shiny dance floor to the warehouse cement floor, to the sandy patio floor for some hot, hot Hacienda nights."

Artist:	MINERVA, MARIA
Title:	Sacred & Profane Love
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SILK 013EP

The best 100% Silk release of the year: a mini-album/EP housed in a gold-foil stamped LP jacket. "Producer and chanteuse (and fashion icon and social satirist and heartbreaker) Maria Minerva is the groove-gift that keeps on shimmy-givin.' Her forth effort this year -- after the wildly weird, how-low-fi-can-you-cry Tallinn At Dawn, the boy-you-turn-me upside down disco EP Noble Savage, AND the salty sweet gauze-ahh strip tease Cabaret Cixous -- comes just in time for Santa, baby. Sacred and Profane Love wraps it up with a bow: drugged-out drag choruses, saucy pans, lines of echo-coke, head-trippy candy flips, layered bangs, crooked hooks, top forty flirting, pop weaseling, sand dune sparkle, dream reels. With a wily wink Minerva serves allusions to the other gay nineties, reminding one of a Post-era Bjork or a 'Sampladelic' Lady Miss Kier or a 'Deeper and Deeper' Madonna. Sensual in every sense of the word. Maria Minerva just turned it up, so you better bring your M game."

Artist:	PEAKING LIGHTS
Title:	936 Remixes
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SILK 014EP

"Ponies from the SILK stable turn 936 dub-a-dub lullaby groovers into full-on synth-sex, acid-bubble, twinkle-starshine dance ditties on this remix redux. Beat it with the chic vocal pitch n' bounce and metallic/mechanic swing of Ital's take on 'Marshmellow Yellow.' Bring it on baroque with Xander Harris' Sly and Dario giallo-reggae revision of 'Birds of Paradise.' Innergaze hi-five the minimal wave of 'All The Sun That Shines,' transforming the original into a syncopated psych-out dark-disco-dose FX fest. And Cuticle's got the bleary bleep-bloop best of sweet serenade 'Tiger Eyes' with Casio keyed-up flourishes, hi-hat space jams, and damp ramp-up breakdowns. Even beater than the real thing; let the Domino fall for 936-gone-nightlife. "

Artist:	SFV ACID
Title:	Grown
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SILK 016EP

"Like the permanent midnight warm up at a Genesis '88 bash, the empty squelch sounds of SFV ACID are at their tab-on-tongue-in-cheek, acid burning best. But don't come listening for the happy-faced ecstasy-laced house-for-rent vibes of the free-samplin', glory vocalin', disco duckin' SILKy celebrators. These are heady, midsummer night dreams of a bygone house era. There's luxury and play to SFV ACID's homegrown arcade grooves, as the DJ tweeks and turns sci-fi sounds over luscious piano leisure. It's alien versus elator, Robo-copiousness. Driving down an alley in the San Fernando Valley never felt like this; woozy and wound up, sensual and cell-blocked, bouncy and breathy; like, gag me with a silver spoon. As one electronic element bends, another synthetic sonance breaks, into a pleasure pulse that bubbles up like a shaken sparkling water. That's the fizzy tingle, the SFV ACID aftertaste."

Artist:	BROWSER, BOBBY
Title:	Just Browsing
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SILK 017EP

"Bay Area bruiser Andre Ferreira aka Bobby Browser makes PeopleMover music: taking his sweet time to glide. Side A 'Bass-ic' backdrops are ever-changing: wade through winds on the night yacht, dewy fields for the drumline, front row Fashion Week, whirl-a-girl-globe-twirl. Side B 'Glist-opher's' guest vocals by Mara Barrenbaum give the EP that art-echo-deco, opulent opera, Blessed House happy-hedonist feel. Rollin' Roland silly strings play cucumber-cool Q and A with bubbly-bath acid stabs. It's sunny techno, rat-a-tat trance, Tom Bomb Club Dub, woodwind hopscotch, Rob Rouser five-star quality. For your Uplift Mo' Blow Party Plan. Just browsing? Just buying."

Artist:	POLONAISE
Title:	Trocadero
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SILK 018EP

"Scott Goodwin has elevated electronics through deliberate drone as Bonus and maximized minimal techno as Operative but with Avalon Kalin, the fine finder of Finesse, and tasty treater of Glass Candy, they've found a key-board to Portland paradise with Polonaise. The twosome remind that romance is alive and lively on Trocadero, a vibrant valentine to primitive piano-plush early house. As the San Francisco danger-disco-drug-dance destination Trocadero Club sucked you into its sparkle spectacle so, too, does this EP: down the K-for-Kraftwerk Hole into those chase-bassy Black and White balls, all trance tuxedos and superfluid Steinways. Polonaise patience keeps you measured and mindful, freely feeling a designed dance; the blueprint for boogie. Bot-bops and Polonaise sauce, eat it up."

Artist:	BODY DOUBLE
Title:	My Life
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SILK 019EP

"Big, butch, bossy, industrial, and immediate, Body Double conjures KLF's cult convictions, with the same stadium strength and flamboyant fire-technics. Imagine shirtless strobe-bro brawn, almost religious in its glory-grandiosity, Martin Gore-geous as an opulent outing. From shifted deep down vocal voids, construction/deconstruction factory fetishes, and bang-the-barrel-slowly tom fills on My Life to running man mounts, choral caresses, ghost-gospels, rally-reaching duets, and playful pitch stretches on 'Be Strong,' Body Double bass-bounds through the blues barrier. Mournful and masculine, sweaty and strapping, assertive and arresting. With a club-bump, 55 hour-energy boost remix from Sir Stephen, sure to congregate and convert."

Artist:	MI AMI
Title:	Decade
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SILK 020LP

LP version. Follow-up to last year's Dolphins on Thrill Jockey. "On Decade (Daniel Martin-McCormick) returns to work with Damon Palermo as half of Mi Ami, a record released by Not Not Fun offshoot 100% Silk, who helped establish Ital through a series of 12" singles in 2011. It's an apt way of tethering Martin-McCormick's dual careers, of drawing an easy line between them, especially when the expansive deep house influence at the heart of Decade kicks in." --Pitchfork

Artist:	STRATEGY
Title:	Boxy Music
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SILK 021EP

"Prince of Portland Paul Dickow turns his no-nonsense Nudge-sludge awesomeness into revved-up, avant tech-house arousal as Strategy. The moniker has found Dickow checking out hooks in his Community Library and niche-in'-out nooks on Kranky. With SILK he separates: 'Skanking Stabs' stomps with reverb canned-can drums, bouncing in a dancehall vault. 'Feel The Earth' is not your daddy's acid jazz, with its bouncing house arresting piano bar tipped jar. 'Starry Day' soft serves up a swirl of '80s vamp funk, contempo computer chocolate chips, and haywire Cyberdyne scheming sequences. The dueling 'Bolly Valve' tracks mix Arabic woodwind skill scales with whisper sizzle clatter data. Limited edition, with hot pink pop art Neu-bout-town jackets designed by the artist. Strategic move for winning your love."

Artist:	FORT ROMEAU
Title:	Kingdoms
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SILK 022CD

"'Jack this groove,' a deep voice persists in 'Jack Rollin',' the tour-de-four-on-the-floor force set opener of Kingdoms. Seedy deeds are done during Fort Romeau's late-night lush, a frolic down London foggy fascination streets. Vinyl crackle on the hush-hush, Fort Romeau plays bass face-time and clap attacks through shadow jackin' steam, muted mambas, and the sultry spiral of total texture. A feminine touch, soothing and somnolent, with a man's musk, pounding, pursuing. Makes you teary, tearing down Romeau's Row, as syncopated swishes, like woodwind winter winds, suck, sigh, and blow. It's a sauna sound: hot gusts, warmer water jets, sensual shuffles, breathy and beautiful. 'I need you,' a yearning voice persists as the album closes, that covetous caress you've got your heart set on, that Fort Romeau languishing lull you set your heartbeat by."

Artist:	FORT ROMEAU
Title:	Kingdoms
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SILK 022LP

LP version. "'Jack this groove,' a deep voice persists in 'Jack Rollin',' the tour-de-four-on-the-floor force set opener of Kingdoms. Seedy deeds are done during Fort Romeau's late-night lush, a frolic down London foggy fascination streets. Vinyl crackle on the hush-hush, Fort Romeau plays bass face-time and clap attacks through shadow jackin' steam, muted mambas, and the sultry spiral of total texture. A feminine touch, soothing and somnolent, with a man's musk, pounding, pursuing. Makes you teary, tearing down Romeau's Row, as syncopated swishes, like woodwind winter winds, suck, sigh, and blow. It's a sauna sound: hot gusts, warmer water jets, sensual shuffles, breathy and beautiful. 'I need you,' a yearning voice persists as the album closes, that covetous caress you've got your heart set on, that Fort Romeau languishing lull you set your heartbeat by."

Artist:	OCTO OCTA
Title:	Oh Love
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SILK 023EP

"100% Silk begs and pleads for all things OCTO--that eight-sided honest octagon: sweet, sad, shy, hopeful, blissful, light, lifting, longing. Going deeper, swelling higher than his first Let Me See You 12', Oh Love unifies crucial human experience with technology, sound, and rhythm in a totality of touching vision. The thesis thrill here: selling dreams that can't be followed, finding love that can't be lasting, seeking a future that can't solve your present. 'Oh Love' is honeyed with tender integrity; musings on dance history merge euphoniously with a wealthy sample bank. Octo Octa's the new search engine; he's connected and connective, the feeling fish to your computer chips. The dancefloor has been pulled out from under you, now you're free to float in the 'Oh Love' atmosphere--warm and womby, roused and roomy, a tear-jerk body-work. Poise yourself for poignancy. He's TRYING to break your heart."

Artist:	MAGIC TOUCH/ITAL
Title:	Split
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SILK 030EP

"Groovesome twosome, din-yin and bang-yang, San Fran band of solo brothers, Damon Palermo and Daniel Martin Mccormick disjoin forces here for a split personality. Magic Touch and Ital, respectively, travel the globe separate and together (as the harmoniously, ever-evolving Mi Ami), forging a years-long relationship that supercedes the prod of producer's ego. Like his previous paean 'Clubhouse' but with gospel-gush swirl and swoon, Magic Touch's 'Anywhere You Want Me' bursts with soul to squeeze, a slip-disco house hunt for the perfect ease-ster egg. Then, re-envisioned by Ital, 'Anywhere' goes satin to satan, perfect paranoia pitch, choir curse, a 'bot-banger out of darkness into flight. Flip to Ital's 'From A Dream' and find your BPM on a trip-treadmill, jacked, pumped, maxxed Max Headroom seizure samples, with moments of power-pretty sweat-spritz dizziness. The remix from Magic Touch jumps through Italo-boogie loops and hoops for a revolution-evolution of hooks and crammies, all dissolving into an interzone afterglow."

Artist:	LA VAMPIRES BY OCTO OCTA
Title:	Freedom 2K
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SILK 031EP

"Octo Octa adds the melancholy to LA Vampires infinite fadness on Freedom 2K, their reachin'/preachin' 50/50 collaboration on 100% Silk. Here LaVamps has traded her cheap n' chic booty-budget grooves for sleek n' chic haunted house. With lyrical references to Minnie Riperton, Arthur Russell, and Evelyn Champagne King, vocalist Amanda Brown reappropriates realms of romance, skewing them into fresh sonic moods. Her wash n' rinse sing/speak is backed by Nick Malkin's keys-like-skippin'-stones, Britt Brown's Tex-Mix dub-bumps, and Brian Foote's sense and sexpertise, which are all just spit and shine for Octo Octa's moonlit piano na�ve melodies. Gloss and glow design by aesthetic-elevator Bobby Houlihan, with silver and pink toned drop-of-androgyny photography by Ashley Anthony, will push your candy buttons. Freedom 2K provides dance-or-be-danced-on anthems for the 21st Century, with a diagonal devotion to our generation's gay nineties."

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Artist:	MALVOEAUX
Title:	Broken Anthem
Label:	100% SILK
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SILK 015EP