@KNEECAP32 Sick In The Head is OUT NOW 💥 head over to their channel to watch the new vid in full! Heavenly Recordings 2024-02-20 | ...
‘My Desire Is Pure’ the brand new single from @HaloMaud is out now! 🗻❄️ Heavenly Recordings 2024-02-13 | ...
💥 BRAND NEW @revival_season 💥 watch the class new video for Propaganda over on their channel! Heavenly Recordings 2024-01-24 | ...
our favourite groove providers @Mildlife have today released their brand new single ‘Yourself’ 🌞 Heavenly Recordings 2024-01-23 | ...
🚨LYNKS - CPR IS OUT NOW 🚨 Watch the full vid here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExVklq3vWPcE Heavenly Recordings 2024-01-10 | ...
East Village • ‘Drop Out’ • 30th Anniversary Reissue - Circles Heavenly Recordings 2023-10-05 | • East Village • 'Drop Out' • 30th Anniversary Reissue •Sleeve notes by Jon Savage - released on January 12th, 2024.Limited edition vinyl and a special double disc CD edition via Heavenly Recordings.HVNLP3 • LP + digital download includes the album and bonus tracks.HVNLP3CDX • includes digital download and bonus tracks.PRE-ORDER: ffm.to/eastvillage-dropout •••An autumnal treasure, East Village’s Drop Out has spent the past thirty years finding new ears to bewitch and new hearts to melt. The only album from this British four-piece, recorded and released in the early nineties, it’s long been considered one of the hidden jewels of its time, and is talked of with hushed reverence by people who know. Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne once called it “an elegy for a particular brand of eighties guitar music, sweet minor chords and Dylanesque lyrics”, which captures what makes it so special; in summarising its era, though, it also effortlessly transcends it.Like all great guitar gangs, East Village fell together as a four-piece; having relocated from High Wycombe to London in mid ‘80s, brothers Martin and Paul Kelly on bass and guitar, set on forming a group together, were joined by John Wood (guitar) and Spencer Smith (drums). Wood and the Kellys shared writing and vocal duties; it was an ideal combination, and one of the many charms of East Village is their various song writing voices, a tip of the hat, seemingly, to the 60s folk-rock groups who influenced them.
@lynks9485 ‘NEW BOYFRIEND’ 💍 OUT NOW! #lynks #newboyfriend #newmusic #queerart #queersounds. Heavenly Recordings 2023-09-25 | ...
Check out the new single and video for @davidholmes3430 ‘Necessary Genius.’ #davidholmes. Heavenly Recordings 2023-09-18 | ...
⚡️💭 Dreamers, Misfits, Radicals, outcasts, oddities, revolution… ✊@davidholmes3430 18/09/23. Heavenly Recordings 2023-09-13 | ...
New Music @Mildlife ‘Return to Centaurus’ • Out now! #mildlife #jazz #ariaawards. Heavenly Recordings 2023-09-12 | ...
Pip Blom release ‘Get Back’, the latest track from their new album, Bobbie, which is out next month! Heavenly Recordings 2023-09-06 | ...
@MegaOneda brand new single ‘Love Reality’ ft. Fat Budha, OUT NOW! 💥💥 Heavenly Recordings 2023-09-04 | ...
@tapirband release a new video for ‘Gymnopédie.’ Out now! #tapir! #folk #indiefolk. Heavenly Recordings 2023-08-29 | ...
💥new @revivalseason 💥 ‘Everybody’ • 23.08.23 • #revivalseason#everybody#newmusic#hiphop. Heavenly Recordings 2023-08-21 | ...
💚💋 @Pipblom x @personaltrainer1050 ‘Kiss Me By The Candlelight’ is out now! 🕯💙 Heavenly Recordings 2023-08-01 | ...
This summers banger has landed! @lynks9485 ‘USE IT OR LOSE IT’ is out now. #lynks #queersounds Heavenly Recordings 2023-07-27 | ...
OUT NOW: @lynks9485 ‘USE IT OR LOSE IT’ #lynks #queer #newmusic #hotgirlsummer #queersounds 🌈 Heavenly Recordings 2023-07-26 | ...
New @Pipblom single and lyric video out now 🕯💋 @personaltrainer1050 #pipblom #newmusic #indie. Heavenly Recordings 2023-07-25 | ...
@franlobo6683 releases brand new track ‘Armour.’ Check out the video! Heavenly Recordings 2023-07-06 | ...
@WorkingMensClub smashing @GlastonburyOfficial on Saturday. Now available on Iplayer 📺⚡️📺 Heavenly Recordings 2023-06-26 | ...
Introducing @tapirband • The single ‘On A Grassy Knoll (We’ll Bow Together)’ is out now 🎶❤️ Heavenly Recordings 2023-06-19 | ...
‘Is This Love?’ • New music from @Pipblom ft. Alex Kapranos (@franz_ferdinand). Heavenly Recordings 2023-05-31 | ...
🌟’Tricks’🌟 The new single and video by @franlobo6683 - Out now. #franlobo #newmusic Heavenly Recordings 2023-05-03 | ...
@baxter_dury ‘Leon.’ #baxterdury #leon#ithoughtiwasbetterthhanyou #newmusic Heavenly Recordings 2023-04-05 | ...
🌹 New @hhawkline4881 video and single ‘Milk For Flowers’ out now 🌹 Heavenly Recordings 2022-11-15 | ...
Check out The Orielles new video for ‘Darkened Corners.’ Out today! Heavenly Recordings 2022-11-08 | ...
Heavenly Remixes Volume 6 Heavenly Recordings 2022-11-04 | Heavenly Recordings have announced the release of Heavenly Remixes Volumes 5 & 6, a pair of compilation albums collecting together some of the label’s finest remixes out on Friday 18th November 2022. These follow previous remix compilations, including the pair of Andrew Weatherall volumes released in January of this year.PRE-ORDER:• LP - ffm.to/heavenlyremixes6• CD - ffm.to/heavenlyremixes5and6There’s been a lot said about how the Heavenly office is almost a living thing. Time and legend have anthropomorphised it into a towering character in the label’s rich history. Although the five-days-a-week work space is ostensibly just four sturdy walls, a bunch of furniture, a vivid explosion of framed artwork charting a unique and particular journey through the history of music, multiple stacks of records, a bulging fridge and an overworked stereo, the Heavenly office has ended up becoming less a someplace and almost a someone. The spirit of the office is a restless beast, yet it’s been loyal enough to have faithfully moved (almost) every time the label has relocated. And it’s a spirit that’s been emboldened whenever it has been based in Soho. Whatever the ley lines are that run under that square mile of central London, they seem to electrify the Heavenly office like a National Grid of vibes and volume; strange attractors to the ghosts of Soho’s rock’n’rollers, ravers, reprobates and roués alike who add a spectral joie de vivre to proceedings.While the Heavenly office itself might be notorious, it’s the music that fills it up in the after hours that truly gives the place life. While the open door has long offered something akin to a welcoming hug for both regular and first time visitors, it’s the always cranked up sound system that’s the equivalent of a mate leaning into you, guiding you through the peaks and troughs of the music. “Hang on, this next one’s amazing… listen to this bit… what do you mean you haven’t heard this version? Turn it up!” As with any good party, the office soundtrack evolves track by track like selections from an overheating rebellious jukebox. Any average Monday night (the weekend always starts on Monday, right?) might take in music from the label’s artists that’s just pinged the inbox, freshly minted demos that have piqued curiosity, dusty old 7s by long gone heroes or white label 12s with minimal info scratched onto them in felt tip pen. And playing between those tracks, a bunch of secret sounds from the Heavenly vaults; remixes that write a rich, alternate history of Heavenly Recordings.Since the first Heavenly recording, there have been striking remixes that reframe the original track. These remakes offer a parallel reading of the last four decades of releases; they take the music to places where genres can be pulled inside out before being reassembled for different dancefloors, or for a different state of mind.It’s a selection of those secret sounds that make up the latest in this series of flawless compilations. Each presents a parallel reading of the Heavenly Recordings story, a version that’s best heard as the light fades and the furniture gets shoved to one side of the room in decent work places the world over.
Heavenly Remixes Volume 5 Heavenly Recordings 2022-11-04 | Heavenly Recordings have announced the release of Heavenly Remixes Volumes 5 & 6, a pair of compilation albums collecting together some of the label’s finest remixes out on Friday 18th November 2022. These follow previous remix compilations, including the pair of Andrew Weatherall volumes released in January of this year.PRE-ORDER:• LP - ffm.to/heavenlyremixes5• CD - ffm.to/heavenlyremixes5and6There’s been a lot said about how the Heavenly office is almost a living thing. Time and legend have anthropomorphised it into a towering character in the label’s rich history. Although the five-days-a-week work space is ostensibly just four sturdy walls, a bunch of furniture, a vivid explosion of framed artwork charting a unique and particular journey through the history of music, multiple stacks of records, a bulging fridge and an overworked stereo, the Heavenly office has ended up becoming less a someplace and almost a someone. The spirit of the office is a restless beast, yet it’s been loyal enough to have faithfully moved (almost) every time the label has relocated. And it’s a spirit that’s been emboldened whenever it has been based in Soho. Whatever the ley lines are that run under that square mile of central London, they seem to electrify the Heavenly office like a National Grid of vibes and volume; strange attractors to the ghosts of Soho’s rock’n’rollers, ravers, reprobates and roués alike who add a spectral joie de vivre to proceedings.While the Heavenly office itself might be notorious, it’s the music that fills it up in the after hours that truly gives the place life. While the open door has long offered something akin to a welcoming hug for both regular and first time visitors, it’s the always cranked up sound system that’s the equivalent of a mate leaning into you, guiding you through the peaks and troughs of the music. “Hang on, this next one’s amazing… listen to this bit… what do you mean you haven’t heard this version? Turn it up!” As with any good party, the office soundtrack evolves track by track like selections from an overheating rebellious jukebox. Any average Monday night (the weekend always starts on Monday, right?) might take in music from the label’s artists that’s just pinged the inbox, freshly minted demos that have piqued curiosity, dusty old 7s by long gone heroes or white label 12s with minimal info scratched onto them in felt tip pen. And playing between those tracks, a bunch of secret sounds from the Heavenly vaults; remixes that write a rich, alternate history of Heavenly Recordings.Since the first Heavenly recording, there have been striking remixes that reframe the original track. These remakes offer a parallel reading of the last four decades of releases; they take the music to places where genres can be pulled inside out before being reassembled for different dancefloors, or for a different state of mind.It’s a selection of those secret sounds that make up the latest in this series of flawless compilations. Each presents a parallel reading of the Heavenly Recordings story, a version that’s best heard as the light fades and the furniture gets shoved to one side of the room in decent work places the world over.
🔥LONDON TOWN🔥 Confidence Man are ready to party at Koko tonight! Heavenly Recordings 2022-11-01 | ...
Cherry Ghost - Thirst For Romance (Making of...) Heavenly Recordings 2022-07-05 | Edgar Jones (bass) & Jimi Goodwin (drums) recording People Help The People and Mathematics at Ape Studios, Little Neston 2006.'Thirst For Romance' is re-issued on August 19th via Heavenly Recordings.Pre-order the record: ffm.to/thirst_for_romance.
Heavenly Remixes 3 & 4 Heavenly Recordings 2021-12-02 | We can finally announce the release of Heavenly Remixes Volumes 3 & 4 (Andrew Weatherall Remixes), a brace of compilation albums collecting together some of the finest remixes from our long-time friend, collaborator and go-to remixer. Released on Friday January 28th, these compilations follow our Heavenly Remixes Volume 1 & 2 which will be released in December and showcase some of the label’s other great remixes.Pre-order the compilations on vinyl or CD: ffm.to/heavenlyremixes3-4⦿By the time Heavenly was born in the spring of 1990, Andrew Weatherall was already an inspirational sounding board, as well as a fellow traveller on the bright new road that stretched out ahead thanks to the massive cultural liberation of acid house. Back then every energised meeting could be turned into a fortuitous opportunity in this burgeoning new underground economy. Bored of your job? Start playing records out! Start a club night! Get in the studio! Start a label! Just don’t stand still. Commandments Andrew would follow for the rest of his life.At the start of things, Andrew was a regular visitor to Capersville — the pre-Heavenly press office run by label founder Jeff Barrett (soon to become Andrew’s manager). It was there that he famously picked up a copy of Primal Scream’s unloved second album and singled out a track that would later become Loaded, after being given an instruction to ‘fucking destroy’ it by the band’s Andrew Innes; it was there too that the idea to remix the first Heavenly release came about.Andrew’s mix of that first Heavenly record is very much a product of its time. The World According To Sly and Lovechild is a swirling bass punch topped with a hypnotic marimba line and the kind of ecstatic diva vocal that you’d hear coming out of the speakers all night at post-Shoom clubs like Yellow Book. His take on the label’s next release — Saint Etienne’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix of Two Halves) — would set the template for his next three decades of audio exploration. A drawn-out imperial dub, the track builds and builds with a moody intensity (partly down to the melodica played by Weather Prophets legend Pete Astor) that’s far more Kingston JA at dusk than Kingston-upon-Thames at kicking out time. It’s both a dancefloor record to get lost in and headphone psychedelia of the highest order — a perfect example of what he did better than anyone else.Between 1990 and his untimely death in 2020, Andrew fed more Heavenly bands through the mixing desk than those of any other label. Consistently, he returned visionary music to the office, often in person for (at least) one ceremonial playback — a ritual that would involve the volume cranked up high and Andrew rocking back on his heels, eyes closed, lost in the alchemy of it all.Each time, he would warp and twist originals into beautiful new shapes — elasticated club records that might evoke Detroit techno one second and Throbbing Gristle the next, before wheel-spinning into something akin to The Fall produced by King Tubby.Andrew’s studio adventures would always be guided by that early advice to destroy the source material. It’s why he was the first name that came up when remixes were discussed; the first number on the speed dial. Listening back to these remixes now — to thirty years of glorious outsider sounds — it bangs home again just how fucking good Andrew was.
Heavenly Remixes 2 Heavenly Recordings 2021-09-30 | Here at Heavenly Recordings we are fired up to announce details of ‘Heavenly Remixes Vol 1 & 2’, a pair of albums documenting some of our label's finest remixes over our 30 + year history. The LP editions are double LP's on black vinyl. Volume 2 features Heavenly artists remixed by Andy Votel, Beyond The Wizard Sleeve, Mikey Young, Lindstrom, R.Seiliog, Jono Ma and more...PRE-ORDER THE HEAVENLY REMIX COMPILATIONS HERE: heavenlyemporium.com/heavenly-remixes-1--2Heavenly was all but founded on the art of the remix; the label’s sadly departed friend Andrew Weatherall remixed the first ever release, and the label has built up an immense catalogue in the intervening years that demonstrates all that is good about the art form and on Friday 10th December 2021 the label release Heavenly Remixes Vol 1 & 2, a brace of albums documenting this long history.A label forged in the white-hot heat of post-acid house Britain, these Heavenly remixes are perfectly weighted with respect and irreverence, the remixer in each case carefully chosen to add heft to the song - the tracks across the 2 albums are curated, remixed and delivered with love (and a teensy bit of impertinence) and are a glimpse into the catalogue of one the UK’s finest independent labels.There may well be no rhyme, nor reason, to how these compilations have been put together, beyond the fact that they are assembled with love, an innate understanding of the power of great pop music, and a skilled marriage of song and remixer.There is no sense of order to Volume 1. You’ll find a smattering of older tracks: album openers Saint Etienne are taken on a Poseidon Adventure with Underworld, who inject ‘Cool Kids of Death’ with typically manic energy. Elsewhere, ’90s Brum duo Mother add dancefloor pzazz to Espiritu’s innate glamour on an all-funked-up reworking of ‘Los Americanos’, and Mark Lusardi’s remix of Moonflowers’ ‘Get Higher’ is an early Heavenly classic.On ‘Terracotta Warrior’, a perfect, psyched-out, Mancunian union is created betwixt Jimi Goodwin and Andy Votel, whilst Goodwin cohort Simon Aldred, in his Cherry Ghost guise, receives a proper Tamla-Motowning from Richard Norris (aka Time & Space Machine) on an inspired cover of Cece Peniston’s glam-house hit, ‘Finally’.There are several of Heavenly’s current darlings there too. One of the most exciting young British prospects, Yorkshire’s Working Men’s Club, effectively remix themselves, as Minsky Rock — WMC’s Syd Minsky-Sargeant and producer Ross Orton — cleave ‘X’ into a riotous industrial racket. Jagwar Ma’s Jono Ma takes the Kraftwerkian leitmotif on ‘Automatic’ and drives the Australian jazz-funkers Mildlife down an electro-convulsive psychedelic tunnel (thankfully no-one was harmed during the making of this remix); Sheffield’s DJ Parrot and Jarvis Cocker deliver one of the outstanding remixes of 2018, turning Baxter Dury’s ‘Miami’ into a lovelorn minor opera; and, making its first appearance on vinyl, David Holmes’ Unloved project is taken on a panoramic Welsh waltz thanks to Gwenno.Though not purposely themed, beyond being judiciously chosen as the catalogue’s finest gems, there’s a tiny hint of psychedelia about Volume 2 that is hard to ignore. Firstly, there are the acid contributions from Gabe Gurnsey, who knows his way around a coruscating bassline, and from Graham Massey, whose impeccable credentials in 808 State are brought to bear on ‘Valleys’, by young turks Working Men’s Club (acid house being modern psychedelia, whether the rock press approves or not).Jono Ma, meanwhile, flips Night Beats’ amazing ‘Sunday Mourning’ into ‘Warm Leatherette’ on benzos, creating a disorienting glimpse of a dystopian Sunday that most definitely doesn’t include a genteel read of the papers and a nice cup of tea. On the other side of the miasma is Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve’s redemptive re-interpretation of M. Craft’s ‘Chemical Trails’, which, alongside Boy Azooga’s ‘Face Behind Her Cigarette’ (Mikey Young remix), Gwenno’s ‘Chwlydro’ (R. Seiliog remix) and and Katy J. Pearson’s ‘Take Back The Radio’ (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito Dub), is issued on vinyl for the very first time.
