Hell Yeah is delighted to be releasing a new album from South Wales' Secret Soul Society. Keep The Mystique is a 15-track collection of brand new curveball cuts built from lovingly sourced samples that arrives digitally and on a limited edition cassette that will follow in autumn.


The Secret Soul Society is Cal Gibson, who was one-half of Nottingham's deep house and downtempo outfit Neon Heights back in the 2000s. They served up plenty of low-key but classic sounds which Hell Yeah founder Marco has always had a real love. Since then, Gibson has released on Paper Wave Recordings and dropped an album on Slightly Transformed Recordings and co-founded Scruffy Soul Recordings while continuing to collect and play anything from the worlds of jazz, funk, Afro, beats, dub, soul and reggae. The Secret Soul Society digs into these same sound worlds and reworks them into new musical collages with a psychedelic edge, as proven by this new collection.

It kicks off with the intense but slow-motion dub-soul of 'Cards on The Table' feat Sato, twinkling melodies of jazzy downtempo number 'The Island' and leggy indie-disco of 'Searching' before heading to the dance floor with the funky and leftfield sounds of 'Gimmie A Break' and whacked out broken beat weirdness of 'Sugar In My Coffee'.

The vibrant but hard-to-define styles continue with the low slung sleaze of 'Don't Fight the Feeling', whistle-laced and loved-up grooves of 'Tatoo You' and tropical percussive dub of 'Freak Scene.' The second half of the collection explores shimmering piano soul, tripped out cosmic dub, late night downtempo and chugging bongo brilliance.

Every single track on this worldly collection is utterly different from the last - all have unusual musical characters and catchy rhythms and are sure to make an indelible impact wherever they are heard.

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BAN BAN TON TON interview
banbantonton.com/2023/08/17/interview-cal-gibson-secret-soul-society/

DREAM CHIMNEY interview
www.dreamchimney.com/interviews/Secret-Soul-Society/

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DJ feedback

AXEL BOMAN
wow what a collection of music!!!

JAMES BARON/ CRAZY P
Cal's always done his own thing - this is really good sample- flipping- a mixed bag as I’d expect - gimme a break an early fave.

BILL BREWSTER/ DJ HISTORY
Some nice bits on this, esp. Don't Fight The Feeling

COLLEEN COSMO MURPHY Love this please send.

FELIPE GORDON/ SHALL NOT FADE
The Island is such a beautiful track, amazing w

FRANCK ROGER/ REAL TONE RECORDS
Tatou you and freak scene are dope.; can’t wait to jam those trippy disco shits !!

DAVE JARVIS / MOTON RECORDS INC Sounds lush yes please this is pots ! X

ROCK STEADY DISCO/ PETER CROCE
Man Cal keeps busy! Some great tunes on here, loving "Gimme A Break" and "Don't Fight The Feeling" for dance floors.

LARS D’VOID/
Oozing cosmic funk and transcendental atmospheres here, The Island is lovely. Impressed.

DJ PIPPI / THE STANDARD IBIZA Interesting Mixes!! T

LEO MAS/ AMNESIA Amazing Album, Bravo Cal

ANDY WILSON/ SONICA IBIZA
.Cal’s been feeding me great edits and tracks for years so very happy to see him and Marco hook up for this lp.

BILLY SCURRY/ DUBLIN MUSIC HEAD
Beautifully sounding throughout. Great production, lovely vibes, really well curated samples. This shall be in the playlist for quite some time.

ANDY WILSON/ SONICA IBIZA
Great to see my pals Cal & Marco working together on this , love SSS and Hell Yeah , please send me the files

DJ NOVA
Is this an album that I was waiting for, but I didn't know? Probably
yes and surely another one ‘expect the unexpected’ by Hell Yeah Recordings. With one of the best Big Chill (out) and Millennium Balearic British tunes back in the day as project Neon Heights ''16 Again'' under his belt Secret Soul Society solo project of Cal Gibson is moving slightly on the edge of the chilled-beached side of music and stopping easily to any place.

LUIGI DI VENERE/
Beautiful vibes here! Her voice is incredible and I love the dub influences.

MAX ESSA / BONOBO JAPAN
What a fantastic collection - blissed-out, cinematic and groove- heavy. Love it!

JERRY BOUTHIER/ CONTINENTAL RECORDS
Always have a soft spot for Marco’s balearica, this is vibey, consistent and varied too, bravi!

KEN FAN/ CAFÉ DEL MAR Outstanding album.

ALI HERRON/ OOFT
This is sounding great - possibly Cal's best work to date.

KEREM GOKMEN/ WYEP PITTSBURGH
This new album from Cal Gibson came from out of nowhere but it’s what I didn’t know I needed to hear badly on this glistening Monday afternoon, powerful stuff throughout and I love how there’s fifteen tracks!!I have quite a few favorites - The Island, Searching, Sugar In My Coffee, Freak Scene, Whoop Whoop, and Ur a Wise Ass

MARI HAYAKAWA / MMM
I LOVE this album! smooth, deep, groovie vibes, WOW!

STEFANO TUCCI/ TANGRAM
A great collection of post chill out, cosmic dub, weird deep house, sampladelic psychedelia, absolutely lovely!!!
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VLADO MARKOVIC/
Needless to say, I love everything that comes out of Hell Yeah.

BEN DAVIS/ PAPER RECORDINGS
As usual with SSS, an embarrassment of riches.

TRISTAN JONG/ GRATTS
I used to be into Neon Heights. This is cool stuff. 'The Island' and 'Tatoo You' are my faves.

DOM SERVINI/ WAH WAH 45S
A wonderfully diverse album, as expected!

EVERYTHING GOOD/ MARCIA CARR
Don't Fight The Feeling, Where Has It Gone and FreakScene are just of the stand out joints on this gorgeous album!

SUBATOMIC/ AFTERLIFE
very cool album. immediate faves are gimme a break and freak scene. full radio support 10/10.

ED MAHON/COWBELL RADIO
Big SSS fan and glad to see him releasing on such an ace label like Hell Yeah!Strong start with Card on the Table and Island. Sugar in my Coffee also cool but I think my fave is Tattoo You, thanks x

HAWKS AKIRA
I love this Album. all tracks are totally worth listening to.