CircoLoco and Rockstar Games Join Forces for New Imprint, CircoLoco Records

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Since 1999, Cir­coLo­co has been find­ing ways to keep the par­ty going for dance music lovers world­wide. From their ear­ly Mon­day Morn­ing Ses­sions to the mas­sive Cir­coLo­co Ibiza, their aim has been to bring you raw, unfil­tered, old school vibes for the love of the cul­ture. Rock­star Games, who has been com­mit­ted to push­ing new music and sounds for­ward through their titles — the amount of music being used in the Grand Theft Auto series alone! — is on a sim­i­lar wave­length, even going as far as to hav­ing play­ers build a pirate radio sta­tion in the GTA Online world. Need­less to say, it shouldn’t be a sur­prise that Cir­coLo­co linked with Rock­star Games to cre­ate Cir­coLo­co Records, a new imprint that’s sure to push what both Cir­coLo­co and Rock­star have been doing in music.

Their first release, Mon­day Dreamin’, will be released in a series of EPs. The first drops on June 4 (pre-order is avail­able now), and fea­tures mate­r­i­al from Sama’ Abdul­ha­di, Ram­pa, Dixon, Ker­ri Chan­dler and Seth Trox­ler, who’s tune ​“Lumartes” is a banger and stream­ing right now.

Won­der­ing how a part­ner­ship like this comes togeth­er? CircoLoco’s Nick Benedet­ti explains. ​“The strong friend­ship between Sam [Houser, Rockstar’s founder] and Anto­nio [Car­bonaro, Cir­coLo­co pro­mot­er] was the real begin­ning, which evolved over time through shar­ing the same pas­sion for music. We had talked for a long time about doing some­thing togeth­er that would con­tribute some­thing new and mean­ing­ful to the scene,” Benedet­ti con­tin­ues, ​“and this took on more shape as we talked dur­ing the lock­down peri­od and dance music cul­ture was hit very hard. Sam and Anto­nio both had the feel­ing that it was time to join forces to cre­ate some­thing spe­cial for the sake of music and our community.”

When it comes to what’s in store for Cir­coLo­co the label, Ben­det­ti speaks on want­i­ng to up the ante. ​“After 22 years of his­to­ry in music,” he shares, ​“we are ready to bring in every­one that has been part of our com­mu­ni­ty and our jour­ney, and that is reflect­ed in the scope of artists that appear on the com­pi­la­tion. As for the future, Cir­coLo­co has always tried to give new tal­ent a plat­form, as has Rock­star, and we want to do the same with the label — we real­ly want to push the bound­aries to com­bine new music gen­res and artists from around the world. There will be a lot of sur­pris­es com­ing out from this project. You should expect the unex­pect­ed.” One has to imag­ine that any­thing is pos­si­ble, from a mas­sive Cir­coLo­co x Rock­star fes­ti­val to, who knows, maybe an entire Cir­coLo­co sta­tion in GTA Online. Or it’s some­thing that’s far from the basic ideas we came up with.

Ben­det­ti also shares that the Cir­coLo­co teams has been play­ing Grand Theft Auto V ​“since it first came out!” He says that the game has made a huge impact, and com­ments on how it ​“feels unre­al to join all our forces in the name of music.” Know­ing how Rock­star gets down, this is only the begin­ning. Expect the unex­pect­ed, indeed, and be sure to check out the first EP from the Mon­day Dreamin’ com­pi­la­tion when it is released on June 4

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