DJ Tennis - The Outcast feat. Pillow Talk

This is the latest offering from Life And Death co-founder DJ Tennis. The Outcast is a melancholic dance floor masterpiece indulging in lush vocals and psychedelic intimacy. Together with the seminal Pillow Talk, the bustling DJ, producer, event promoter and label head weaves an intricate web of late ‘60s influences, finely-tuned whispers of pop and raw beats rigged up for prime time success... once again proving his uncanny ability to take a handful of influences and ideas and mold them into a great club track that represents more than the sum of its parts. The Outcast" is out on September 3rd via Kompakt.

PillowTalk - Sunny

The boys from Mercury had a massive hit with their edit of Marvin Gaye's version of the classic "Sunny". Now it's time for San Fran trio Pillowtalk! They serving up tastefully housed-up soulreworks of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny", this time with the simplest of house beats added, making this an essential for hot summer nights. The A-side is a edit of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's late 60s soul anthem "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", turning it into an extended, chugging disco-soul bomb.

Deniz Kurtel & Tanner Ross - I Knew This Would Happen feat. Pillowtalk (Extended Single Edit)

Effortlessly weaving entirely new sub-genres, while daring to convey their fragility, Deniz is once again inventing a fresh sound palette, combining the music with visual art and creating a deeper live experience for the tour entitled ‘Double Exposure’ that will accompany her new LED installation, ‘The Introspectacular’. Mastering a new dexterity across the whole album, Deniz conquers stillness and rich rhythms, once again turning house on its head with an unhurried approach more in line with a hip hop pacing that enriches the sound of tomorrow, bringing attitude back to electronic music. Going beyond the realms of the expected, the striking artistic passion emanating from this petite girl from Turkey beats through every track. With a collaborative approach typical to the Wolf + Lamb label, the artists featured are part of the tight-knit yet loosely woven family collective now termed the Marcy All Stars. Much akin to the Wild Bunch (the early Massive Attack) or Soul II Soul, their visions are explored and shaped through a fluid, dynamic and supportive experience. On the EP’s selected tracks, Deniz, along with hotly tipped producers Tanner Ross, San Francisco’s Pillow Talk and the young Brown university graduates Voices of Black, deliver an array of moods and sounds - from sensually sublime album opener ‘I Knew This Would Happen’ in a special extended version to the jazz infused ‘The Beat Drops’, full of deep atmosphere and heavy bass groove and animated 80s funk of ‘Thunder Clap’.

PillowTalk - Far from heaven EP & Video

When it comes to making love PillowTalk can definitely teach you a thing or two based on their latest sleazy release on Wolf + Lamb. The Far From Heaven EP is pretty much sex music.
Far From Heaven is a four track EP which, on two tracks, goes deeper into song based r&b than have the trio before, but which also gets a little more energised and dancefloor aligned for the other two. An accomplished and underlying musicality, though, is never far away..

Tracklist:

1. Heavens Gate
2. Weekend Girl
3. Far From Home
4. Street Walker


"Heavens Gate" is a delicate disco lullaby where claps, gentle chords and one finger notes all drift around each other as a breathy vocal hangs in the air. It’s rinsed with an 80s innocence and comes across with a heartfelt but tongue-in-cheek cool.





"Weekend Girl" is a steamy R&B charmer which snakes its way under your skin with wet, echoing claps, tinkling melodies and a seductive 90s male vocal (which turns to coy, softly spoken rap) all coalescing into the creamiest of creamy slo-jams which its impossible not to love, frankly.





"Far From Home" is a gaunt house jam with eerie synth work, purposeful male vocal and subtle but effective pop-house baseline.





"Street Walker" is a steady Roland beat stripped to its core with a magnetic vocal performance to fill the void and pull you in while a horn-like bassline burping out over and over as hi-hats and claps grow ever louder in the background.