Reissues Label Melodies International Founded By Floating Points
Established in 2015, Melodies International is a brand new reissue label whose soul aim is to share very special and relatively undiscovered sounds - music that few ears have been lucky enough to hear before.
With roots in dusty crates and dingy basements, Melodies is the result of some unique people - and some particularly unique records - finding themselves harmoniously unified on dance-floors across the globe. From London to New York to Berlin, Floating Points' internationally acclaimed ‘You’re A Melody’ parties have seen scores of DJs and dedicated dancers celebrate the sounds of modern soul, disco and boogie, long after the lights have come up every time. Out of this energy emerged a common desire to circulate the anthems of these dances to an even wider audience, with the additional hope that the transient essence of ‘You’re A Melody’ might also be preserved in some way.
UPCOMING RELEASE ON MELODIES INTERNATIONAL:
WOMACK & WOMACK - MPB (MISSIN' PERSONS BUREAU) / PARADISE BALLROOM MIX 12" (MELODIES INTERNATIONAL)
With MEL011, it is our immense pleasure to direct focus towards both Soul and House royalty, selecting and reissuing two of Frankie Knuckles’ scarcer remixes of an all time classic: Womack & Womack – MPB (Missin’ Persons Bureau).
MELODIES INTERNATIONAL RELEASES AVAILABLE AT DUSTY CRATES:
MEL006 arrives as a 7-inch, with the original version and the edit on the flip. First released in 1979 as a three-minute up-tempo library recording, “Disco Baby”
Floating Points and Red Greg have slightly tweaked the original material, realising that played in the right context, it can become a true disco anthem.
Open Soul is quite simply one of the best examples of raw, stripped down soul in its purest form, and for this reason has become a highly sought after rarity. The album has been carefully reproduced and will be officially available for the first time in 40 Years,
MELODIES INTERNATIONAL PROUDLY MOVES FORWARD WITH AN ELUSIVE PIECE OF MID-TEMPO CHICAGO SOUL ORIGINALLY PERFORMED BY GLORIA J. JENNINGS IN 1977.
Carefully re-mastered from the tapes, MEL008 comes forth in its original 7” format with a 14”x14” poster.