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* Walton kicks off 2019 for Tectonic with 4 cuts of pirate radio infused dancefloor orientated DJ tools. 'Inside EP' follows on from Walton's exceptional 'Black Lotus' LP, which dropped on Tectonic last summer, gaining widespread acclaim - even rated as The Guardian's 'Contemporay Album Of The Month'!

* What we have here is 4 tracks that all sit around the 130bpm mark, providing grime sonics to a techno compatible form. Built for those who don't really give a f**k if you call it techno, grime or bass blah blah so long as it bangs in the dance and moves those feet.

* Sampling snippets of MC's chatting between tracks, each track takes a mostly functional approach, building raw elements in a simple but effective fashion. 'Bullet #2' sets the scene, kicking off with a radio style wheel up - before dropping into rolling 4/4 square wave power moves. 'Inside' follows the mood, building towards a more rolling technoid construct. 'More Cowbell' bangs out like an old 4/4 grime anthem with a contemporary production sonic, while 'Gunshot Clap'
closes out the EP, with its swooping square wave stabs and background shouts from behind the mic.

This record is special release for the label. It's a tune I have been chasing for years and just had to get released so that everybody can own a copy. Originally written in 2006, Snow Forest was a Slew Dem anthem and when I got to know Spooky in 2009 it was one of the first tunes I asked him for. Rarely given out to anyone, it was one of my favourite dubs but I always dreamt of putting it out on my label. After finding the original CD that Spooky gave me back in 2010 the time was right to finally get it pressed up on vinyl and in the shops. Backed with Funky Dub, a tune from 2009 that still gets a massive reaction.
This release shows that good music is timeless, simultaneously cartoonish and menacing with a blend of rudest bass and daftest melody in a proper UK style.

10" aqua green coloured translucent vinyl in pvc sleeve with sticker

Hi Tek Sounds is the new label from East Man (AKA Basic Rhythm) set up after his debut album for Planet Mu ‘Red, White & Zero’.

The second release on Hi Tek Sounds is a collaborative effort from East Man & Walton.

The A side, Horse Mouth, is a dread affair. Bursting into life with a staccato drum pattern and an ominous synth drone that slowly builds up before breaking down into a calm before the storm that utilises the now infamous vocal sample of Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace, before dropping back in with militant staccato drums and a deep booming sub stab. This one guarantees damage on the dance floor!

The B side, Gunshot, starts with soft, summery chimes and a minimal kick drum and clap pattern, peppered with vocal samples taken from an old recording of a pirate radio show, before dropping into a spacious but heavyweight drum pattern and deep rolling sub bass. Definitely one for the heads!

Cambridge-based beat-scientist Filter Dread presents the third release on the Tech Startup catalog, TS000003. Inspired by laboratories across the street from his studio, the four tracks take motifs from the genres of jungle, hardcore, and grime, and teleport them to alien dimensions.

The record kicks off with Rainforest, a track which mutates grime hammer kicks and classic jungle drum-rolls. The following track, Blizzard, flows like metallic ooze with its cold, cybernetic percussion and liquified pads. Tripping Up dishes a devastating jungle-tekno sequence with crushing snares and a sinister bassline. RX-4 Real brings the release to a close, bubbling and percolating with its reverb-soaked stabs and glitched out beats.

Out of stock for aeons, includes the legendary Four Tet Remix. Limited to 600 units.

Lee Gamble signs up HXE (fka HEX) for a tightly coiled, hard-edged quartet of deco-rave recces in
the space between sound designer techno, mutant Latinx styles, and polluted megatropolis vapour
noise
Run out 3 years since the London-based duo’s debut with Liberation Technologies, and proceeding
their 2017 EP for Antifur, the ‘INDS’ EP is loosely structured around the practice and aesthetics of
modern, large scale industry. Its 4 tracks are brutalist in resolve and construction, but each derive
a sense of (perhaps perverse) pleasure and sensuality from the warped virtual/physical tension
and crunching industrial intensity of their sounds.
‘Rozay’ opens the A-side with an alarming sort of Industrial dancehall smackdown, all panic-
station strings and pummelling, off-kilter bass with unyielding effect, while the reticulated
writhe of ‘Worm’ synchs breathless synthetic gasps with mechanically reclaimed rhythm with
‘floor-flailing force, and ’Spill’ alternately sustains and vents the tension with lurching, gnashing
dembow dynamics.
Following Zuli’s ‘Terminal’, which ranked highly in the Wire’s AOTY chart, and Nkisi’s resoundingly
acclaimed ‘7 Directions’ album, HXE are a fierce new addition to UIQ’s gang of dancefloor mutants.
In a stark reflection of the music, ’INDS’ will be accompanied by artwork and video in collaboration
with Paris-based sculpture artist Anita Molinero, whose process of salvaging and irreversibly
deforming industrial objects and materials patently mirrors the process and abrasive, malformed
nature of HXE’s music.

Rhythm Rollers is proud to present as a limited edition 12” Vinyl, Jamakabi's Killer Club track “Wickedest Ting”. The Instrumental which is produced by Chimpo is as HARD hitting as it gets and everything a grime track should be – sure to go down as a grime classic!!!
For the A side, two grime greats come together for a new underground anthem. Those who have followed grime from its inception will be familiar with the name Jamakabi, who is a former member of the legendary Roll Deep Crew. So, grime fans will be ecstatic to hear that he has teamed up with another respected grime figurehead D Double E. The two who both hail from East London, come together for new track Wickedest Ting.
With its menacing beat produced by Chimpo, Wickedest Ting will have you bopping your head. The chemistry between Jamakabi and D Double E is evident, and both of them gel together as they exchange witty bars.

On the flip side Jamakabi rolls in an all-star line up for the Remix
OG Rootz, Footsie, Big Narstie and Devilman

Say no more!

Premo French trap producer and beat maker for Bad Gyal’s Spanish reggaeton hit ‘Fiebre’,
King Doudou answers his call up to the crack squad at Low Jack’s Les Disques De La
Bretagne in heavy style
Leading on from bullets by Low Jack, Clara!, Iueke and Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement,
Doudou’s double header finds him do gully drill with Baile Funk innovator MC Buseta and
yung gun Kaydy Cain on ‘Novinha’, alongside the darker dembow knuck of ‘Tremendo
Bumbum’, both replete with grade A instrumentals.
Over the past 10 years King Doudou has been a central node of globalised bass music in
France and Catalonia, delivering heat for everyone from Mad Decent and Mixpak to ZZK
and Sound Pellegrino. For Editions Gravats’ unruly sister label, LDDLB, Doudou bowls a
proper sidewinder with the whipsmart drill vamps and steel-fanged snares of ‘Novinha’
capped by the icy delivery of Kaydy Cain and MC Buseta’s mumbling inflection, while the
B-side’s ‘Tremendo Bumbum’ comes looser, wild-eyed with restless reggaeton torque
tempered by Buseta’s monotone, paso-doble chat.
A dead strong look for followers of new rhythms and voices from the Latinx dancehall -
especially Florentino, Clara! Low Jack, Riobamba.

Hot out of Lisbon’s ghetto sprawl, 19 year old Puto Tito breaks thru on Príncipe with 20 tracks
produced when he was barely into his teens, all salvaged from an old Soundcloud account and
newly remastered for the dance.
The sound of ‘Carregando a Vida Atrás das Costas’ is patently influenced by Tito’s Angolan heritage
and faithfully employs the popular slow Tarraxho and tougher Kuduro rhythm styles. Yet, like the
best of Príncipe’s releases, it’s the way he injects a playful, weirdo character and uncompromising,
psychedelic vision to his trax that sets Tito’s music apart form the crowd, whilst being very much
connected to it.
With a direct fervour and naturally experimental quality to his productions, the album scales from
drowsy, red-eyed, to brightly coloured downbeats on one hand, while charging into jagged and
nagging uptempo styles on the other hand. But whichever way he goes, it’s always with an off-the-
cuff flair and rhythm-lead suss that works the dance to its best.
The 2LP highlights the full spectrum of Puto Tito’s early remit, diving in with the darkside drone
and rasping rhythm of ‘Noite Magica’, to swerve from the celebratory, drop-top cruise of ‘Mestre
Das Artes’ thru to wickedly screwed Tarraxho in ‘Malucao’ and the deadpan drag of ‘1 2 3’, while
he can hardly suppress his brilliant, weirdo tendencies in the zig-zagging arps of ‘C L Prod’, the
heat-warped funk of ‘OIHo JoOnAe’, and the heatsick, syrupy pressure of ‘Locura Tutal’. Further, the
digital bonuses extend the wigged-out fun in seven short, sharp shots, slipping farther down the
rabbit hole into a bittersweet beatless flex on ‘Melodia daquelas’ alongside the hypnotic uptempo
styles of ‘ABuzaNtesS’.
Tito’s arguably and understandably naif approach speaks to an ideal of dance music as punkish,
fresh and direct, rather than overworked and generic. It’s an approach that, in the past, has
yielded some of the finest underground music, from the UK’s early ‘90s hardcore and jungle, to
South Africa’s Gqom scene, Chicagoan footwork and the Singeli sound of Dar-Es-Salaam. More
specifically, its possible to place Puto Tito in the same dare-to-be-different, bedroom producer
category of grimy Kuduro, Batida and Afrohouse as young heroes Nídia or P.Adrix, as ‘Carregando
a Vida Atrás das Costas’ vividly demonstrates.










[j] [Puto Tito]










[j] [Puto Tito]

South London grime/drill producer Nammy Wams kicks off Grime Tapes, a physical wing
of Slackk’s seminal pirate radio archive, Grimetapes, with ‘Yellow Secret Technology’
- a killer 20 track retrospective pulling from Nammy’s archive of hyper-colourful grime,
R&G and drill circa 2013 to 2018
Compiled and sequenced by wise wan, Slackk, ‘Yellow Secret Technology’ is the 1st in a
series of releases promised on Grime Tapes the label, which is founded just over 10 years
since the demise of Slackk’s Grimetapes. During grime’s golden era in the mid ’00s,
Grimetapes was one of very few sites online to share pirate radio recordings beyond
their original broadcast range, providing an invaluable service to many appreciative ears
and early grime fiends in the UK and abroad.
As host of his own weekly Croydon FM show and producer for Marcus Nasty’s Rinse FM
slot, Nammy Wams brings that London grime radio connection full circle in ’Yellow Secret
Technology’. Under a title that nods to his Vietnamese heritage and the aesthetic of A Guy
Called Gerald’s classic jungle LP, Nammy’s trax exemplify a certain strain known as grime
which has been in the water since day found everywhere from the riffs of Jammer’s
Neckle Camp and Mr. Wong’s Channel U anthems to classic early Hyperdub riddims.
Without exception, all 20 tracks of ‘Yellow Secret Technology’ are bangers in their own
right, each riddled with nagging hooks and burning emotions, but it’s Slackk’s sequencing
that makes the collection such an enjoyable album. Selected from an abundance of
material, the final cut expertly highlights myriad shades to Nammy’s style, from the star-
eyed pads and wavey flow of ‘Rocks’ at the front to the giddy rude fanfare of ‘Less’ at the
back, taking in crushing grime/drill fusions such as ‘Tempest’ and the darkside pressure
of ‘Wapper’ alongside ecstatic dancefloor sidewinders in ‘Miharu’ and spine-tracing
sweetboy grime of ‘Prayer’.

Burke Is A Producer & Dj From Ireland Residing In The Uk Since 2015. He Started Working At Idle Hands Record Store In 2016. Tracks From Burke Have Been Supported By The Bandulu Gang (kahn, Neek, Boofy & Hi5ghost), Compa, Trends, Spooky, J:kenzo, Sicaria Sound And Many More. The Aforementioned Tracks Have Also Featured On Radios Such As Bbc 1xtra, Rte, Rinse, Resonance Fm, Pyro Radio, Reprezent, Mode Fm And Many More.


Dj Support
Dream Eater 007 Has Been Supported On Radio Stations Including Mode Fm, Rinse Fm, Subtle Fm By Several Djs Including Spooky, Scratcha Dva & Nights,
Press
Mixmag - Review In May Issue (printed)
Magnetic Mag - 'bram Stoker' Premiere - *live This Evening*

First edition of 300, in printed sleeve and hand-stamped inner. "Murderous debut disc on this label, combining the fierceness of grime with the bassbin pressure of UK techno, and setting it off with cutting edge rhythm workouts to devastating effect." Mastered and cut by Lewis at Stardelta. Design by Studio Tape-Echo.

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

Limited Edition Vinyl With Sticker Insert

Keysound Recordings are excited to present three very unique cuts from Scratcha DVA x Gage: 'FLYTNURSE,' 'PIFFD' and 'FLYTNURSE (DARQMIX)'. Dark, euphoric, weighty, and somewhat restless, they defy obvious categorisation. Gage has made himself a formidable reputation by releasing some of the most forward-thinking darker dance music in the last three years, predominantly on the ever-quality Crazy Legs imprint. 'Telo' was a standout dancefloor moment, equal parts impactful and experimental, quickly followed up by the "Mercury EP," "2017 STAY PARO" and his banger-collab with Kevin Jz Prodigy, "Bad Bitch." Scratcha DVA first appeared on Keysound 66 releases ago with the explosive dread grime anthem 'Bullet A'Go Fly' featuring Badness, Riko, Flowdan and Killa P. But in truth he has a lengthy production back catalogue both before and after that 12', with albums on Hyperdub, his new 'Interludes' project and a track on the recent landmark Kode9 & Burial Fabriclive 100 CD.

Infernal Sounds brings forth the lucky number 13 with a bone-crunching EP from Bristol's finest, Chad Dubz. Having already enjoyed a successful run of releases during 2018, he steps up with a variety of tracks showcasing the hidden depths to his productions, bridging the gap between dubstep and grime, eloquently.

Debut 12" by l.a. artist fmvee called 'lotus freaks'. switches from vicious party tunes/tools to more pensive ideas
mastered by brandon hocura.
screenprinted sleeve. hand stamped.

The latest episode on Piezo's no nonsense, hand stamped and heart warmed Ansia label has arrived! ANSIA003 is the follow up to his early 2018 'Parrots EP' and for this release the Milanese producer has enlisted 3 other disparate yet like minded artists to let loose on this monster 4 tracker. StabUdown Productions (James Donadio aka Prostitutes) kicks it off with the opener 'FyeRRR!' A deadly burst of blown out ragga replete with an arsenal of kicks and vocal cut up shrapnel. Next up label head Piezo drops 'OiOiOi', a masterwork of electro gated basslines, jungle breaks and absurd delay feedbacks. A perfect continuation of the surrealistic/abstract path started by tunes like 'All My Money' on 'Parrots EP'. Fresh off his Lobster Theremin's album, Kreggo/G-23 (Super Rhythm Trax, Secret Rave, Art-Aud) delivers 'Ligeti': a flat out mover with it's skittering percussion and deep haunted stabs hovering around the supernatural subs. It all finishes up with Bristol's Facta, whose releases on Idle Hands, Livity Sound and his own excellent Wisdom Teeth really needs little introduction. 'Not Now' is an elastic, low gravity heavy hitter that snakes through bass bins and before you know it, you're completely wrapped.

RAMP is proud to welcome Visionist through it's esteemed halls.
*Appearing on the scene in 2011, new school Grime producer Visionist's dark, stripped down, emotive sound has won fans from Oneman, Benji B, Kode 9 and Pearson Sound to fellow RAMP artist Zomby. Visionist arrives on RAMP with "M" & " Secrets".

The Sickness continues

Returning to Giallo Disco after a 2 year absence is the mighty Ketsueki Sakuru. Trademark arps and low-motion rhythms collide this time with the sleaze of a different era. Taking cues from the book of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk the Snuff EP imagines itself as the video game remake directed by Hidetaka Suehiro. Carrying itself with the confidence of a gigalo, not even wearing a smile, the Snuff EP lurks in dark drones, distorted snares, new beat grime and retrosynth moods. Art by Eric A Lee. Mastered by Brassica. Limited to 200 Copies.