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IND 003 is the 2nd Vinyl release on INDUSTRIA. Robi Insinna’s new project label. Industria is not just about music, but also products, art and more. This record one can say was planned a while back when Robi had a DJ gig together with Vox Low. The next day while meeting in the lobby for a late coffee and a croissant in a quiet Bordeaux Hotel, the idea came for a swap Remix on Vinyl. When Robi started Industria, he still had in mind that the second Vinyl release could be that swap. Guess both Artist coming from a similar background and working in a similar analog organic style liked the idea and knew what they would get sound wise would be something both have plenty to play with.

On the A side Vox Low remixed Robi’s HARD WORK, which was already released in 2018 including a remix by Die Wilde Jagd. Vox Low turned the track into a dark more dancefloor orientated version. Still with the trademark Vox Low sounds and Guitars.

On the B side Robi remixed You Are A Slave. He liked all the sounds so much that he thought it is better to keep as much from the original as possible, still trying to make it his own version. He added percussion to create a more funky/dark sound and extended the track. The dub was done in an old school kind of way. All the parts where laid out on a mixer and assigned to various tape delays and reverbs and would be dubbed real time, in the school of Mad Professor or Lee Perry. Not an easy approach and it needed several takes till it started making sense. All mistakes and organic things where important to this Dub.

Originally released in 2009. Ltd repress.

Khanum joins the small but already acquainted Dubs Galore family with 2 soundsystem hitters

Listen! Lord Jabu synthesises 64-bit dream-ware with solid-state trap in his crystalline 3-track release, ‘Yagoda’. In ‘Folklore’, colourful cubist polygons dance beneath festival-drunk Hyrule twilight. ‘Threehead’ goes grim, watching purple-skinned ogres bang distorted djembes in the lost woods. ‘Yagoda’ burrows deep, plucking the melodic soul of an abandoned young hero with no way home. Electrifying the murky, the lost and the lonely, Lord Jabu’s debut on Albion Collective opens the dancefloor up to a full-scale adventure.

After bursting on to the scene in 2017 with the dub techno stomper ‘Zulu Blues’ on Navy Cut records, Melbourne based producers Pugilist and Mystik collaborate once again, this time around with 3 tracks on Modern Hypnosis.

The A side ‘Sabu’; a unique blend of polyrhythmic Latin inspired percussion and chanting, complemented with a rolling bass line and dreamy synthesised chord progression; is a genre blending trip, sitting at 135bpm, capable of taking a set in many directions.

On the flip side, two sophistically crafted Dub-Step pieces. 'Misty in Roots’, taken from the vaults after hypnotising dances in Melbourne on dub plate for the last 3 years. Minimal, meditative, eyes down music.

'2 Steps Backwards’ (available vinyl only) is an energetic 140bpm piece. Nostalgic roots inspired 'Dub-step of old’ is infused with creative oscillating synthesis, musicality, and post modern dubbing techniques. A subtle bass line switch up on the second drop guarantees satisfaction.

001RAIN features ‘acecloud,’ a wavy 808 based solo track by Samba and ‘cookies,’a collaboration from Samba and Argo, which starts off as a sample based lo-fi beat which switches up heavily midway.

Samba, with releases on Division, System, DDD, Encrypted and more, has had his interpretation of the 140 sound supported across the dance music world from the likes of Noisia, Mala, Om Unit, Truth, Alix Perez, Commodo and Kahn. With his new label, 26.RAIN, Sam wants to put out music that has feeling, instead of sticking to a single sound or genre.

Argo, Parisian born and bred producer and photographer, writes a combination of instantly recognisable Hip Hop and bass flavoured beats. His two most recent outings, a ‘Lo-Fi Hip Hop’ EP on ‘Yellow Flower’ and a, now sold-out, trap flavoured release on ‘Encrypted Audio’. With support from most of the ‘who’s who’ in the underground dubstep scene he is now drawing attention from a host of MC’s and rappers across Parisian Hip Hop.

Bachala Dub // (Dubbing Sun & Digid Remix)

“Introducing COSMIC RESIDENTS v. 1, the first in an ongoing compilation series from Cosmic Resonance Records. This series will showcase emerging talent from Toronto’s underground creative electronic music scene.

This first edition features local favourites and Cosmic Resonance residents Radiant Aura Faculty (aka Raf Reza), KOREA TOWN ACID and Hemingway along with (and making their vinyl and Cosmic Resonance debut) Body Butter, WeTurnToRed and Smoke & Shadows.

On the A-side, Hemingway kicks things off with Astralnauts, a deep, dubbed out boogie breakbeat burner dedicated to explorers of the astral plane featuring fellow label don Chris Evans on rhythm guitar. Radiant Aura Faculty (aka Raf Reza) takes us even deeper with the mystical 'Cid Pit Riddim', a slamming 707 acid bender sure to melt any dance floor. Things get slippery with Body Butter’s debut single ‘Lights In The Hallway’, a timeless operatic pop opus featuring Neil Rankin (aka Burt Sugar), Chris Evans (aka Mr. Bliss) and Hemingway behind the board.

On the flip side, things heat up with Shamanta Chandran’s project WeTurnToRed (recently releasing their debut EP on ORO Records), featuring the progressive modular techno odyssey 'Warm Winter', an escape from Toronto’s long and tumultuous blizzards. Emerging from the Mahogani Forest, Korea Town Acid reinterprets Hemingway’s emotional ode to the jazz aesthetic 'Blue Notes' with her trademark cerebral rhythms and a masterful bassline that elevates the original to new heights. Closing it off, we have an amazing collaboration between Curtis Clark (aka Smoke of Lab.our Music) & Em Zy (member of Nikki Fierce) called Smoke & Shadows with their stellar debut single Convincing Thoughts that features Em Zy’s hazy vocal emanations amidst a backdrop of mystical reverberations and a dark, powerful groove.”

New Moonshine Records

Fracture returns to the fast lane in 2019 with "Big Up The Ladies" EP - four fresh and futuristic, genre defying cuts that build on the momentum of the London producers recent 'turbo' experiments that side steps the turbo-berghain-esque intensity of 2018's Dropping You and Turbo Toms and pivot for the dance hall.
Title track "Big Up The Ladies" is a positive party starter full of swagger and powerful hooks on top of a driving 4/4 kick and half time clap rhythm.
"Percussion Sweet" continues the fresh patterns while adding edgy vocal stutters and a searing reese breakdown propelling the listener towards a perilous mix of jacking 909 hi hats and trademark bass stabs. Turbo in full swing.
"Verhoeven" switches up the techno kick patterns in favour of an 808 bounce to deliver an ambitious electro fused bubbler which as Fracture explains is 'like a scene in a future-society film when the main character enters a disorientating subterranean club with loads of weird and wonderful people coming in and out of shot' Finally "Sci-Fi Tramp" closes the EP with a sense of sleazy uneasiness viewed from behind a pair of mirrored shades. Alarming bass womps jack the listener straight into the system to hack the rave and get the hell out...
Big Up The Ladies is released on 12" & Digital on 12th April 2019 on Fracture's own Astrophonica imprint and follows the label's huge Fracture curated "Gradients Vol.2" compilation featuring Luke Vibert, DieMantle (DJ Die & Dismantle), Dream Continuum (Om Unit & Machinedrum), Falty DL, Fracture, Taso (Teklife), Sully, Moresounds, Proc Fiskal (Hyperdub), Sam Binga, Lewis James, Rider Shafique and more. As ever the release is accompanied by ever incredible art and design from Utile.
It's a party yo! Come celebrate the sheer brilliance of catching a vibe... and.... Big Up The Ladies!

After the hypnotism of Pugilist's Chrysalis EP, TRUSIK enlists Rarefied cohort Zygos for a three track EP that brings his dank, claustrophobic and horror-film atmospherics to bare.

'Direkt', in collaboration with Teffa, features soundclash chatter, but morphs into something quite different with ghastly wails in place of your typical dubstep wobs and growls. As the song develops further, the ghoulish caterwauls take a melodic approach and become a fiendish melody for the damned.

On the flipside, 'Run Down' sees Zygos take a techier route with a pneumatic bassline and cybernetic grit that deserves to be blared at an inadvisably loud volume by a 22nd century bosozoku gang in Neo-Osaka.

Lastly, 'Drained' guides you down a dark stairwell into an underground pit fight with its bone-snapping snares and abysmal bass-weight leaving you bruised and battered.

Featuring nightmare fuel from the mind of Ben LaDieu (last seen on Tremble's release) who again graces TRUSIK with his brand of dense and horror vacui line work to match Zygos's nauseating soundscapes.

The next IFSXXX white label, vinyl-only is here. For the second instalment, Infernal Sounds welcome Bristol based duo, DE-TU¨ to the platter and dish up a weighty two-tracker ready to rattle the rib-cages far and wide. The duo have been making seismic waves the past couple years, having already released on IFS' main catalogue, alongside a killer EP on White Peach, it's only fitting they deliver yet another top drawer EP for this series.

This Ep Is About To Absolutely Cement Distinct Motive's Position In The Dubstep Scene As A Producer Who Can Create So Much Vibe While Keeping Things Simple And Straight To The Point.
radar' Was One Of The Picks Of Outlook Festival 2018. Hearing Mala Drop This Track In Every Set And And Watching The Crowd Go Completely Nuts (instant Rewind) Was Such A Treat.
All The Tracks On This Release Have A Proven Record At Causing A Large Amount Of Damage At The Rave.

Manchester's Indigo is an artist that was always in our sights for a Horo release when the label was created. An open minded,
experimental individual that takes on different tempos constantly and masters them with his own unique style to the point that the
speed of the music is unrecognisable. 'Reaching The Source' is the approach a lot of people have come to know Liam Blackburn aka
Indigo for - a floating island of dream excerpts anchored by crisp percussion and Poppy Roberts vocals, a true lesson in the power of
subtlety. 'Tethys' bares its teeth and writhes around with a bouncing menace that has had adventurous dancefloors enthralled. But
ironically, of them all, this EP began with 'Talia' an ambient piece that you could loop to infinity, a deep valley of sumptuous sonics
whirling around your ears. Limited 12" marbled vinyl only.

12' Vinyl limited to 350 copies Worldwide and housed in a custom printed reverse-board sleeve designed by Robby Mulpalah & Qori Hafiz. Mastered by Beau at TenEightSeven.

'In some ways this might be the release we've always wanted to put out. It ticks all the boxes for us, atmosphere, spaciousness and killer snares. Hopefully the timing is good too, dubstep may be going through a(nother) transitional phase, finding a new identity. These 4 tracks by Gremlinz & AxH strip things back to the raw basics and put the emphasis back on primitive top-notch production.' - JonBoka

Introducing Challenger Deep: showcasing dub from the abyss.
Mr. Roque resurfaces from his solo mission to the deepest chasms of the Mariana Trench, bringing with him two high pressure cuts.

Hand stamped. Limited run. No digital.

Mr.K has smashed it in 2018 with solid releases on Wheel & Deal, White Peach and Deep Dark and Dangerous. He has consistently toured the UK, Europe and USA through out the year and featured highly on all Wheel & Deal events including our Boat party at Outlook festival Croatia and Sold out 9th Birthday in London.

We are proud to welcome him back for his third release on Wheel & Deal Records. Itch EP has been a staple in many of the Dubstepper's playlists including N-Type, Coki, Causa, Sepia, Kromestar, Khan & Neek, Compa, Sukh Knight, Squarewave, Distance, Darkside, Hatcha, Samba, Cimm, Vivek, Youngsta, Ternion Sound, Saule, Sicaria Sound, Distinct Motive... to name a few.

If you're not familiar with his music it carries elements of Roots Dub and Dread vibes, reminiscent of days gone by but with a fresh and exciting take on Dubstep. This is Sound system music at its finest!

Once again Sa Bat' Machines invites you to a travel... A very musical EP here offering some psychedelic synths meeting up with saxophones with Seven, the first tune... Second track invites you to a more Folktronic dubstep trip, a bit in the STEPPAS Records spirit. The flip opens with a pure Dub groover, sweet and bassy, offering a tune at the frontier to be a powerfull riddim... The EP finishes on a short Klez track, electroswing killer !

Sa Bat' Machines & Tam Ly continuent sur la lancée et proposent un nouveau EP 3 titres electro deep bass.
La Combinaison de Sa Bat' Machines, producteur parisien, musicien, et compositeur de bass music et de Tam Ly, chanteuse auteure, compositrice et caméleon passionné de jazz, de musique classique et de mélopées orientales, avec le guitariste Pierre Maddio fonctionne suavement.
Les influences sont multiples, entre sons concrets, harmonies jazz et riffs de guitares un tantinet rock. La voix est mélancholique et syncopée, expressive ou fantomatique.
Elle invoque des instantanés intimistes, "Strange Fruit" est une interpretation du titre d'Abel Meeropol popularisé par Billie Holliday puis Nina Simone.
Road trip electro, ce vinyle n'est pas dsans nous rappeler la bande original du film "Mulholland Drive".
A écouter tard, ou au réveil.
text: Supa Cosh

Back in 2015 we released the Pantherkatze for the very first time on our limited Social Sounds From Planet Dub CD. First time we listened to that monstrous tune by T-Jah and Kuriooki, we instantly felt in love with it. Surely we knew, if we ever start a label, this tune gonna be one of our first releases. We infected the two dubheads from Chemnitz with this idea.

Now, for our second vinyl release we can present to you a brand new version from that already classic Pantherkatze tune, which enters the gate with some rumbling basslines, hypnotizing skanks and nuff dubwise business. Dangerous like the path of a black panther, this tune surely makes it to any soundsystem session this summer. If the heavy T-Jah & Kuriooki tune is not enough for you, you'll find a killer version on the flipside by another german dub don called Jah Schulz, who already mashed some baldheads with his great releases on Railroad Records.

Dalek One needs zero introduction to the trained EA ear having branded his sound into the foundations with not 1 but 2 digital releases!
Since then Dalek One has gone on to gain support and releases from a plato of scene staples such as Truth, Caspa and Hatcha. His tracks have seen plays from a multitude of scene name brands.