Just wanted to point out two recently released 12″ sin­gles of edit-goodness from Kojak Giant Sounds label. Ace disco/boogie/house-y stuff! You can pre­view both releases @ Kojak Giant Sounds Sound­cloud page.

Buy Alpha­bet City Edits 12″ from Phon­ica or Juno. Buy Rayko edits 12″ from Juno.

Hiiop.

Mesak — MIX AUS 20 10 — stream or down­load from http://soundcloud.com/mesak/mix-aus-20–10.

Top­pen! Skweee pro­ducer, other half of Mr Vel­cro Fas­tener, and also being one of the peo­ple behind the Har­mö­nia record label among other things, Mesak mixes here a lit­tle bit of this and that together: older down­tem­poish elec­tronic music, skweee, and some stuff I’d describe just as beats (all these new slow tempo-synthy-j dilla influenced-lazer beats-whatever). And yeah, BBC Radio­phonic workshop’s fame-dame Delia Der­byshire also included as is everyone’s favorite Omar Soley­man. So once again: toppen!

I also really do rec­om­mend you to grab Mesak’s lat­est album “School Of Mesak” (pic­tured above) out on Har­mö­nia. For exam­ple these shops can pro­vide — boomkat: digi/vinyl — bleep: digi/vinyl.

Track­list for the mix:

Sci­en­tist: Dance of the vam­pires
Night Thought: Buck teeth
Cabaret Voltaire: Haiti
Afrikan Simba: Pro­tect I ver­sion
DJ Ele­phant Power: MC Ideas
Recor­dah: But­ter­nut
Soom T: Doo­bie ver­sion
Eerie Johannes: Eläin
Speed Bike: El gal­lito
Meat Beat Man­i­festo: Repul­sion
Randy Bar­racuda: Duck but­ter
Fum­ble: Ter­rain
Tapes: C20 rid­dim
Mesak: Pas­sion of the geist
Black Chow: Pur­ple smoke
Coco Bryce: Ghetto freaks
V.C.: 30:00
Maffi: Ver­sion
Rigas Den Andre: Juicy Juice
Delia Der­byshire: The wiz­ards lab­o­ra­tory
Mikhail Chekalin: ?
Omar Soley­man: Tour al zeenah
Daniel Savio: Imposter remix
Hov­a­tron: Gold star radiation

“Kitkali­itto is a col­lab­o­ra­tive band of 3 friends from Helsinki to flesh out their ideas in music and visual arts.” First release from the guys came out quite recently on Kann Records: the Swamp EP. Deeper ter­ri­to­ries of house with some hints of techno, and def­i­nitely jazz. Get the dig­i­tal release from Beat­port, What­peo­ple­play or Jun­odown­load. As for the phys­i­cal copies, VINYL/WAX I’m refer­ring to here, it’s a lim­ited press­ing but Juno Records got some as does Hard­wax. And then there’s always Discogs. In Fin­land I’d go to Stu­pido.

Swamp EP by Kitkali­itto

And then cou­ple of free­bies. Both are still only demos but sound quite fin­ished tracks to me. Kitkali­itto — Helsinki (Instru­men­tal Mix) — click here to down­load (256kb). Great, deep “gypsy-house”.

Helsinki (instru­men­tal) by Kitkali­itto

Kitkali­itto — Ella — click here to down­load (320kb). Deep house with some jazzy touches of trum­pet. Lov­ing the vocal sam­ple and over­all vibes here. Top notch.

Ella by Kitkali­itto

Let’s start 2009 with Italo­Janne Theme! Orig­i­nal or not, it’s hot.

Italo­Janne — iTalo­Janne Theme (320, 8,9mb) (3:53) or DivShare

Kyny­Nasty promises to be as Kyny and Nasty as ever (never).

New Finnish release! All the music on this record are sam­pled or influ­enced from a Finnish movie “Lentävät Luupäät” (1984). Here is a vid I made a while ago. It com­bines the best moments of the movie. (don’t bother unless you under­stand Finnish.)

The movie includes this infa­mous bassline by Aarno Rani­nen. Big up for releas­ing this!