New Arrivals

Two low-slung disco edits on the eleventh Tuff Cut. 'Shame' reworks Evelyn "Champagne" King's 1977 disco hit and gives it room to breathe, and on the flip 'To The Rhythm' is a fresh resplice of Grace Jones's 'Slave To The Rhythm', respectful of the original and built for the floor.

Berlin's Cinthie returns to Will Saul's Aus Music with three disco-tinged, sample-heavy house cuts. The title track sets cinematic strings against squelchy acid bass, loose organic percussion and a chopped vocal loop, while ‘Time To Move’ lets a looping string figure build anticipation until a wild, galloping bassline breaks loose....

Mike Huckaby’s first LP gathers in-demand cuts from his Detroit catalogue, remastered and cut louder across two records. ‘The Jazz Republic’ appears three ways: the original, the ‘Groove Box’ version and the bongo-laden ‘Mathematics From The Jazz Republic’. Around them sit ‘Dance’, ‘The Rowdy Swing’ and the sax-laced disco-house of...

Tuff Cut returned for Record Store Day 2016 with four edits. 'Hold Tite' turns Change's 'Hold Tight' into a lush vocal summer cut, 'I Don't Like Acid' strips 10cc's 'Dreadlock Holiday' down to a bouncing groove, 'One Nite In A Disco' spins strings from Sister Sledge's 'He's The Greatest Dancer',...

The eighth Tuff Cut runs four loopy, house-friendly reworks of pop and soul staples. 'Go For That' opens Hall & Oates' 'I Can't Go For That' into a long breakdown, 'Heard It' gives Marvin Gaye's 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' a soft house touch, 'Dreams' turns Fleetwood Mac warm...

Record Store Day 2015 brought the seventh Tuff Cut, initially limited to 500 copies. Late Nite Tuff Guy's 'Party Time' reworks Class Action and Christine Wiltshire's 1983 boogie cut 'Weekend', and on the flip 'Hands Up In The Air' takes on C+C Music Factory's 'Do You Wanna Get Funky'. One...

Nearly a year after the first, Late Nite Tuff Guy's second Soul Cut 12" blurs re-edit, remix and sample-heavy production across three tracks. 'That's The Way' is enveloping deep house with a head-nodding pulse, 'Nothing Can Keep From U' a subtly housed-up rework of a disco-soul classic, and 'Number 1'...

Four edits on the sixth Tuff Cut from Carmelo Bianchetti, the South Australian producer once known as DJ HMC. 'Get It Right' reworks Aretha Franklin, 'Love Is' draws on Diana Ross's 'My Old Piano', 'Feelin' Good' takes Revelation's 'Feel It', and 'Dance Shout' stretches The Jacksons' 'Shake Your Body (Down...

Tuff Cut's Record Store Day 2014 edition, repressed in 2016. 'Make Me Feel' beefs up Sylvester's 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)' for the long mix, 'Love2Love' eases down and turns up the heat on Donna Summer's 'Love To Love You Baby', and 'He's Mine' gives Brandy & Monica's 'The...

The first Soul Cut 12", Late Nite Tuff Guy's funk-and-soul offshoot of his Tuff Cut edits, carries four unlabelled reworks of soul standards: Marvin Gaye's 'Sexual Healing', the Jackson 5's 'Never Can Say Goodbye', Sly and the Family Stone's 'Family Affair' and the Commodores' 'Easy'. The South Australian re-editor Carmelo...

Two originals, three cuts on the fourth Tuff Cut white label. 'Think Of U' reworks Chic's 'I Want Your Love' with added rhythmic muscle and a retuned bassline, while the flip splits Tom Browne's 'Funkin' For Jamaica' two ways: a full vocal mix for the sing-along and a bass-heavy Funkin'...

Tuff Cut's third white label carries three Late Nite Tuff Guy reworks, with no titles printed on the record. 'Holiday' stretches Change's 'A Lover's Holiday' past nine minutes, 'I Love Ya' reworks Rufus featuring Chaka Khan's 'You Got The Love', and 'Lovely Day' gives Bill Withers a looping dancefloor lift....

The second hand-stamped white label in Carmelo Bianchetti's Tuff Cut series, pressed with no track titles on the label. 'Nobody' loops and stretches Rufus & Chaka Khan's 'Ain't Nobody' over Late Nite Tuff Guy's crunchy, slowed-down drums, while 'Reality' lays the Soul II Soul 'Back To Life' vocal over Chic's...

The record that launched Tuff Cut in 2013, Adelaide DJ Carmelo Bianchetti's label for his Late Nite Tuff Guy edits of disco and pop classics. 'Bless The Rains' opens with a tense, rising intro before sparkly synths lead into Toto's 'Africa', and 'Not In Love Anymore' on the flip reworks...

The second release on Brooklyn's Razor-N-Tape, handed to Adelaide editor Late Nite Tuff Guy for two long, funk-heavy re-edits. 'Do I Believe In God (LNTG Muscle Mix)' reworks Prince's 'Controversy', while 'My Sugar Is Gone' fills the flip. First pressed in 2012 as a limited stamped white label and repressed...

Paris producer KUSS makes his debut on Len Faki’s Figure with a six-tracker of heavy, scuffed-up techno, with hypnotic percussion and dense filtered basslines under metallic textures. Two cuts, ‘I Want You’ and ‘Drifting Phase’, are made with Clotur, setting KUSS’s clinical drums against more cinematic atmospheres. Dark, introspective and...