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Mit Veröffentlichungen auf Cristian Vogel´s Mosquito, Tresor Records, als Labelchef von Persona und als Live Act hat sich Stewart Walker seit den 90ern einen Namen auf dem Dancefloor gemacht. Nach einer kreativen Pause meldet sich der schon lange in Berlin lebende Musiker nun mit einem Konzeptalbum zurück, dem die EP "Accidental Still Life" im Mai diesen Jahres vorausgeschickt wurde. Im Zeitalter der sich ewig wiederholenden und gleichen Basslinien und Drum Machines besticht "Ivory Tower Broadcast" durch wirkliche Songs, in denen Walker seinen Erfahrungsschatz, seine genre- und grenzübergreifende musikalische Wurzeln verarbeitet, sich über die gängige Regeln hinwegsetzt und so neue Visionen entwickelt. Ein Album, das in der elektronischen Welt dieser Tage einen besonderen Stellenwert einnimmt und mit dem das Schweizer Label Mundo Recordings, ein Ableger von Two Gentlemen (Young Gods) einen furiosen Einstand feiert. Jetzt erhältlich als 2LP inklusive CD!

Remembrance is the Software Recording Co. debut from Baton Rouge's Suicideyear (born James Prudhomme). Written and produced between Florida and Louisiana during the summer and fall of 2013, Remembrance recalls those southern U.S. landscapes and Prudhomme's experiences across eight songs equally intimate, intoxicating and mercurial.

We first fell in love with Suicideyear by way of his Japan mixtape, a remarkable convergence of ATL trap beats and mid-late century American minimalism that turned and twisted more than a few heads. Software's label own head Daniel Lopatin was privy to an eerily similar convergence at an All Tomorrow's Parties festival one year earlier in which two performers, Big Boi and Terry Riley, converged at a nearby Burger King. When James revealed his childhood adoration for Speakerboxxx, we knew it was on.

Prudhomme wrote Remembrance while reflecting on themes of love and loss against the backdrop of the deep American south he calls home.

James' experiences of reflection and resolution led to the vivid, emotionally charged production that makes up Remembrance. Alive with an idiosyncratic sense of melodic space, his repertoire eschews a topical palette for a personal aesthetic that offers a visceral love letter to abstraction. Prudhomme references both forms we know to exist and speculates on how they can be newly realized.

Two tracks originally self-released in 1981: abrasive post-punk-come-proto-industrial, with vocals, guitar, programmed drums and synths.

As a member of Parisian band Club Cheval, a solo DJ and as one part of the notorious Bromance Records unit, Sam Tiba escapes on his own with the release of his 'Samuel' EP this September. With musical influences coming from the American ghetto underground, from Miami to Baltimore, Sam continues to push forward as an intriguing musician with his sensual and dreamlike productions.

Born in Roubaix in 1985, Sam began by studying theory at the local Academy of Music and learnt how to play the trombone, not your average instrument. In 2009, he met with his Club Cheval stooges from Lille (Panteros666, Myd and Canblaster) and they all agreed to start working on a sound of their own, somewhere between up-tempo rhythms with rave touches and R&B. Shortly after, Club Cheval were criss-crossing the planet as DJs and each member also working on solo projects. Their first album together should see the light of day in 2015.

For Sam, the solo adventure started in 2011 on Marble (the record label of his friends Para One and Surkin & Bobmo) when he released his first EP, 'Black Eyed Weed', followed in 2013 by 'The Saddest Show In Town', on Pelican Fly, Cashmere Cat's parent company. This September 15th Sam's new EP 'Samuel' will be released through Brodinski's label, Bromance Records. Following the release of 'Samuel', Sam plans to regroup his music and creative endeavours into an album to be released in the near future.

Sam will play a headline London show later this year scattered with keyboards inspired by Bach, chopped rhythms and mellow vocoder. With one foot on the dance floor and his head in the clouds, Sam takes you up there playfully with his pop and willing soul music.

"Evaluated" ist das Remix-Projekt des Debütalbums von TSTI mit 10 Remixen von Produzenten und Bands wie Soft Riot, Phosphor, XIU, Heinrich Dressel, Castratii oder Roladex. TSTI ist ein in Heimaufnahmen entstandenes Soloprojekt des Upstate, New Yorkers S.Smith. Das Originalalbum enthält 80er beeinflussten, düsteren Synth Pop mit stampfenden Drummaschinen und erhabenen Melodien. 250 Exemplare, clear Vinyl, inkl. vier Bonus Tracks und Download Card.

Hailing from somewhere in Spain, Mystic & Quantum is a new label created to show stories of "adventures, magic, science" and they launch in quite auspicious fashion with an album length foray through analogue experimentation from one of England's finest DMX Krew. One of numerous handles taken by Edward Upton, Standing Stones finds the DMX Krew sound in particularly contemplative mood across a variety of tempos and can be viewed as an extension of the approach he took on last year's Reith Tracks LP for Rush Hour's No Label. However whereas that release saw Upton take inspiration from his surroundings on an Austrian farm, Standing Stones draws it's creative juices from the mysterious pillars of stone that have stood across Western Europe for centuries. The accompanying silk screened artwork - which is quite lovely - extends the theme. Whether you engage conceptually or just focus on the music, this is another rewarding set from the master DMX Krew!

New EP from Lil Silva. 5 track vinyl EP in full colour picture sleeve.

Features 2 tracks with Good Years label mate BANKS.

LP + Bonus PIC Disk
SBTRKT announces details of his much-anticipated second album. The London-based producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist releases 'Wonder Where We Land' on Young Turks, and it's a gleefully collaborative affair, featuring lots and lots of Sampha, as ever, along with old friend Jessie Ware. There's also a track with Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend and A$AP Ferg appears on the final track !

- 'Wonder Where We Land' follows his critically acclaimed eponymous debut album and a recent interim release of six instrumentals called 'Transitions', which joined the creative dots between the first and second albums.

- Since the release of his debut album in 2011, SBTRKT has cemented his role as one of the most acclaimed electronic artists and performers around. What began as praise in his hometown of London has now reached to every corner of the globe.

- SBTRKT's captivating and ever changing live show will be touring the world for the rest of the year.

After a series of experimental electronics, Emotional Response welcomes the return of William Burnett alongside fellow Brooklyn cohort Jon Beall with a EP of pure, unadulterated house and techno that should surprise followers of the label. With a debut appearance in auspicious company on Gerd Janson's Music For Autobahns compilation for Rush Hour last year, followed shortly after by an EP on the L.I.E.S white label series, the next move these Brooklyn based, studio sharing producers made together was always going to be of considerable interest. Having carved out their own unique spaces in an increasingly packed electronic gravy train, WT Records boss William Burnett aka Willie Burns / Black Deer, working alongside friend Jon Beall - more widely known as the elusive Entro Senestre - really push the boundaries across all 4 cuts. From the start, the variation from the almost brutal, no holds barred, slam of Snake Charmer is then contrasted with the deep techno throb of Take Me To Your Leader. It the EPs namesake though that caught the label's ear and pointed in a direction all protagonists want to explore. 4/4 kick and key stabs begin before a rattling breakbeat propels the track back to the fields of Buckinghamshire to the early proto-days of Rage, mixing a dash of "intelligence' era Warp before being pulled back with a genius subsonic touch of piano for the finale - a hark to hands in the air past. To end, a return to introspection, with the codeine dose of Hold Me Take Me Leave Me and it's forlorn call of keys, vocal snipes and crashing snare. Overall, an EP that accepts what has gone before but is very much looking to the future.

With two years of solid output behind them, Sheffield label CPU has established itself as a binary science lab that delivers precision electro time after time. This continues with the welcome return of Cygnus - Tesseractar is the electro world killer he has always threatened to make. Following on from his 2012 album Newmark Phase (the inaugural release on CPU), Cygnus presents a collection of sci-fi / video game influenced soundscapes and melodies with a healthy dose of the Roland TR-808.Heads up drexciyan researchers.

When 'Stuck In The System' dropped on Pinch's imprint Earwax back in '07, he detonated a multicoloured paint bomb onto what was then a relatively monochrome musical landscape. Since then Joker has continued to carved a path of his own amongst the new generation of electronic music producers and can lay credible claim to birthing a new brand of vivid productions some label as purple.
* Joker: Reimagined is a collection of Jokers favourite productions from his back catalogued reimagined by some of his favourite producers right now. DJ Khaled might have titled it 'The Best of The Best Remixed By The Best' but we're a bit more humble on these shores.
* 7 cuts which include a massive remix of the inaugural Joker release, Stuck In The System from new Bristol talent Asa & Sorrow, the already heavily rotated remix of Joker & Ginz collab Purple City from Deep Medi Muzik and Butterz whizz Swindle and long demanded release of Kromestar's take on 'Tron'.
* Everybody featured here comes correct, not a filler in sight in this the latest in a stellar line of Kapsize releases.

Please note: Due to error the tracklist on the sticker for the A-side is incorrect. It runs 'Dream In Colour', 'Controller', 'Dance With Me' rather than what is written.


Eckoclick is the brand new collaboration between the Slowfoot signed producer, Crewdson (aka Hugh Jones) and the fast rising vocalist, Femme (aka Laura Bettinson). Their debut remix of Bambooman's 'Sun' received alot of radio support, mainly from Gilles Peterson on BBC 6 Music, who also put the track on his Brownswood Bubblers Vol 10 compilation. Early support from The FADER, BBC R1 Introducing, BBC 6 Music and The Line Of Best Fit.

'Push' sees the bridging of two minds, a spontaneous event of shared loops, ideas and vision. My Panda Shall Fly & Mau'lin join creative forces giving birth to five abstract free-form compositions. Having followed each others work for some years, the pair found themselves in an East London studio first commencing a sonic dialogue just days before Christmas.

Each track breathing a new life; a conventional genre is hard to pin down. Fusing elements of neo-jazz, broken house and down-tempo ambient, resulting as an eclectic product of unforeseen joint creativity.

Opening track 'Sea Beast' heralds entrance into a murky journey through time and space. With jilted, broken keys drizzled upon a throbbing bassline a distant moan finds its way through dense textures. 'Red', eases up tightened bolts, it lifts a hazy smog with its loose, almost 'Buddha Lounge' melodies. A poly-rhythmic venture of crossing synths, snares and percussion each teasing the other in & out. Taking you into a videogame-like realm, 'Gingerbread House' summons intrigue with a conflict of virtuous and sinister emotives. Its minimal pulsing bass line transports an ethereal synth with playful bleeps and shuffling stirs. Calling in Irish outfit Lakker, they instinctively gravitate towards the more organically moulded '15Keys'. Dismembering a canon of cascading marimbas and chromatic percussions they splice and reconstruct it into a euphoric slow burner. Marking the last leg of an enchanted journey, 'I' finds its dance-floor energy in swelling melodies and a confident staccatoed bass gifted with sharp hi-hats & breaks. Twinkling keys descend as if embossing a newly-cleared night sky with falling stars.

Devoid of preconceived concepts, MPSF & Mau'lin have managed to bind together their own musical idiosyncrasies creating an EP of seductive suspense and intelligent textures.

IV' is the long awaited follow up to 2010's 'Corrosion'. Colin N Cloughley aka anodyne returns to his roots, mutating multiple genres into his own brand of emotive, deep electronica.Analog bass and soul seeking strings envelop the listener while melodies entrance and beats get your head moving.

He displays his musical diversity across IV's twelve cuts. Bass-heavy downtempo beats, melodic electronics and emotive strings. Warped bass, futuristic electronica, disjointed voices echo between reverb soaked melodies and bass heavy beats.

For fans of early Black Dog, Autechre and damn good electronica. Head music for the dancefloor ...

45 RPM Acid Jungle killers... featuring 2 original tunes, one TR808 remix and one Acidpella formula... Jungle Skelettons in approach ! LIMITED 200 copies !

Pipé Scuttleworth & Jeremiah Klinger team up for this Detroit label's 2nd release. Scuttleworth distills frenetic beats & chirping melodies; Klinger complements the spastic w/ a calm reminiscent of Caribbean waters.

Mext step by the Belgian electronic wizard after his critically acclaimed cd-only album on Peter van Hoesen's Time 2 Express label. Four advanced experimental early morning bass/techno cuts for the more adventurous dj.

Light Sounds Dark fire another bolt from depths of genuine obscurity. There's not much we can tell you about "Untitled", apart from the fact that this is about as righteous as it gets: A mirrored, triple-gatefold sleeve housing a bevvie of unidentified, amazing, terrifying, sumptuous and sexual sounds. We're probably best leaving LSD themselves to explain it in their own words:

"This Album depicts an Extraterrestrials extortion to us, explaining how to: Link life to death in a continuous experience. Utiilize the resulting thanatonic energy to travel faster then the speed of Light, turn matter into consciousness and back again, alter evolution at will and exist simultaneously at every moment of time. Move the entire Universe into the fifth dimensional realm, and say when in history it is possible for this to happen. Light Sounds Dark has also received other information it cannot understand. Since this information was given to us directly but not for us per se, it must be communicated to others, many of whom are better prepared then us to receive it. Accordingly we were shown how to make this Album into a Psychotronic, or mind-matter interactive device which is activated by the approaching listener. By doing this, new information will come to you through the active use of the divine proportion, which is the proportion of life connecting to death."

The latest from Tri Angle Records is a new album by Bristol-based producer Vessel. It's titled Punish, Honey, and it sounds as sleazy as it sounds

A producer working tirelessly for Bristol's Young Echo group, Vessel is following up his first solo record of dark electronica with 'Punish, Honey'. Not interested in repeating himself, Vessel has turned to industrial and acoustic sounds for his second record, deigning to create something heavier and rawer and equally confrontational

Ikonika is in straight up banger mode on this EP, possibly her finest release to date. Confident, energetic and tough, these tracks are made from solid tour experience and made for big room dancing. The EP is made with an almost 3D sense of contrast, and a brilliant ability to balance dusty old school sounds and shinier new ones and reshape them into something that sounds really fresh.
'Position' kicks things off with rough kicks and snares that sound like they've been created in a foundry, mixed into rolling kicks lifted from a crumbling drum machine and vocals sliced and diced into sharp hallucinatory rhythms. 'Praxis' sounds like a track that could have come from her groundbreaking 'Contact, Want, Love, Have' debut album, except the straightforward melodies with droning synths and steamy drums over growling bass give the track a confident upgrade. 'Strawberry Underlay' builds melody lines over a single basic, repeating riff in quick succession while a series of interchangeable, tight old school drum patterns stop and start underneath in quick succession. It's a brilliant exercise in dynamics and tension. 'Wakeup Sequence' sounds like freestyle pop driven into strange Atari game shapes, bubbling arpeggios, rough, funky melodies, ancient drum machines, and distorted guitar synth and weird squeaks.

Nach Releases auf Mule, Ghostly und Ki Records erscheint das vierte Album des Kölner Elektronikers Till Rohmann aka Glitterbug auf Gold Pandas Notown-Label. Ein Grund für diese Entscheidung war Gold Pandas brillanter, metropolen-erweckender, von Reisen beeinflusster Zweitling "Half Of Where You Live" (2013), der Glitterbug maßgeblich zu den deepen und erhabenen Klanglandschaften auf "Dust" inspirierte.

Muscle is the new single from Gwilym Gold, and the first release on HYMN, a new record label founded by Eddie Peake in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory. Due for release on 14 July, the single comes backed with a remix by Beam.

Fittingly, the seeds of the music that would become Muscle were sown with Gold and Peake working together for the White Cube exhibition, Adjective Machine Gun. Eight hours a day, four days a week for six weeks straight last year, Gold would sit at a piano in the gallery improvising a soundtrack to Peake's work with five dancers for a piece entitled Infinite Disparity. Like some fast-tracking of Malcolm Gladwell's fabled 10,000 hour rule of greatness, from this mammoth 200-hour extemporisation came forth the tender and strange beauty that is Muscle. As with previous collaborations, Gold has created the music and Peake the visuals, including all of the single artwork and its forthcoming video.

Muscle is the first new recorded material from Gwilym Gold since the release of the ground-breaking TENDER METAL project in 2012. A pioneering musical piece available exclusively in BRONZE - the generative-music format created by Gwilym Gold with producer Lexxx - which reinterprets songs in real time, manipulating all aspects of the sound to open up a world of unprecedented musical possibilities. As an idea, it remains truly ahead of its time.

Eddie Peake's work encompasses a broad array of media, and in his performances he often draws upon the power of live music and sound as a means to convey, as well as dictate, emotional and psychological narratives. His recent music projects include last year's Sing About Me Part 1 with Kendrick Lamar, St John Sessions with Actress, and Infinite Disparity with Gold, Ben Esser and Alexis Nunez.

Much anticipated series of 3 new 12's from SBTRKT - SBTRKT launches 'Transitions', a collection of six instrumentals written and produced over the past year that reference the creative process that led to his debut album

"This is music written over the last year, whilst recording for my second album. Much of the music I released before my debut album was instrumental and I want to continue to share this side of the music I make. This series of tracks is titled TRANSITIONS. " - SBTRKTs

After more than a decade of releasing raw and emotional house music, Dutch producer and architect Aroy Dee is about to drop his debut album on his own M>O>S label! * Limited Edition of 300 with sketch book* TIP!

Pt.2 of Design A Wave's continued experiments in sound, sci fi and alien counter balance...

New Tape release by Amsterdam based Dollkraut. Heavy analogue, drummachine driven house tracks. Tip!
Influenced by some classic Asian B-flick action, Dollkraut's long awaited drummachine driven 'Theme Of Fukoyama', full of synthesizer layering takes you back into the mid eighties where machines took over.

This mini OST to a non-exsistent movie ends with a collaboration together with Bernard Crochet who took care of the analogue synthesizer sequencing of the 'End Titles'.

Limited 12" comes with artwork of the highly acclaimed USA based artist Roy G Biv.

Warp präsentiert den Soundtrack zur Londoner Ausstellung "Universal Everything & You" des gleichnamigen Digitalkunst- und Designkollektivs. Ein 20-minütiger Track von Simon Pyke, der als Freeform in den 90er Jahren aufi Warp und Skam veröffentlichte, später zu Designers Republic wechselte, bevor er Universal Everything And You gründete und seitdem im Auftrag von Warp, MTV, Sky TV und der Londoner Sommerolympiade arbeitete. Superlimitiertes, einseitig bespieltes 180g Vinyl in Klarsichthülle, Siebdruck auf der Flipside, plus jeweils 1 von 4 Prints mit Bildern aus der Ausstellung. Die 4 Versionen werden gemischt verpackt an- und ausgeliefert.

Mannequin is really proud to announce the forthcoming brand new 12'' from Tropic Of Cancer, one the most important realities in the
modern post-punk and darkwave scene.

Three years after his last album - Ghost People - Martyn joins the Ninja Tune family to present his third long player. Universally respected for his ever-evolving, but inimitable sound, the Dutch-born, Washington DC-based producer brings an entirely new sonic direction with The Air Between Words. This is an exploration of the essence of all of Martyn's music: a rugged four-to-the-floor groove, intelligently sculpted and artfully composed

SINCE OBTAINING HIS FIRST SET OF TURNTABLES AT JUST 13, BRIGHTON BASED ELECTRONIC DJ & PRODUCER DISMANTLE HAS SINCE RISEN TO THE FOREFRONT OF THE UNDERGROUND DANCE WORLD, BRINGING RAW BEATS, POUNDING BASSLINES & NEW, UNDISCOVERED SOUNDS TO THE UK BASS SCENE. FUSING THE RAUCOUS ENERGY OF DRUM & BASS AND GRIME WITH THE SMOOTHER RHYTHMIC THRUST OF HOUSE, DISMANTLE'S UNIQUE SOUND HAS GAINED HIM REGULAR SUPPORT FROM RADIO 1 DJ'S DIPLO, ANNIE MAC, SKRILLEX, MISTA JAM&SKREAM& WITH HIS MONTHLY SHOW ON RINSE FM HIS FAN BASE IS RAPIDLY RISING ACROSS THE GLOBE. NOW A KEY MEMBER OF SHY FX'S DIGITAL SOUNDBOY CREW, DISMANTLE HAS PROVIDED REMIXES FOR SUB FOCUS, A-TRAK, JAKWOB, TODDLA T&ZINC AND COLLABORATED ON TRACKS WITH BASS LEGENDS CASPA, BREAKAGE&DJ DIE. THIS YOUNG TALENTED PRODUCER PROVES HE IS NO LONGER A NEWCOMER & WITH APPEARANCES AT HIDEOUT, SW4, GLASTONBURY, GLOBAL GATHERING&TOMORROWLAND IT LOOKS LIKE THE FUTURE IS SET TO BE BIG.

SHOWCASING THE BEST SUB-DRIVEN HOUSE, DUBSTEP & GRIME BEATS, 'TOOLROOM KNIGHTS MIXED BY DISMANTLE' IS A TRUE REFLECTION OF THIS TALENTED DJ'S MIXING PROWESS. FEATURING TRACKS FROM THE BIGGEST NAMES IN BASS INCLUDING SHY FX, DIPLO, DJ FRESH, DISMANTLE, ROSKA, A1 BASSLINE, SHIBA SAN, CHOCOLATE PUMA, MELE, MONKEY WRENCH & SPOILS& MANY MORE, PLUS 3 BRAND NEW EXCLUSIVE TRACKS FROM THE MAIN MAN HIMSELF. JAM-PACKED WITH A MASSIVE 29 TRACKS, 'TOOLROOM KNIGHTS MIXED BY DISMANTLE' IS THE EMBODIMENT OF DISMANTLE'S SOUND; SYNCOPATED RHYTHMS & ENERGETIC B-LINES; A TRUE COLLECTORS ITEM FOR ANY BASS-HEAD & AN ALBUM YOU'LL BE SURE TO HAVE ON REPEAT.
1 Sole Fusion - Bass Tone (Chocolate Puma Remix)
2 Firebeatz&Apster - Cencerro
3 Kevin Ayala - Hoolin
4 Rene Amesz - This Is True
5 Roska - Shocking
6 Tony Quattro - The Sound Feat. Uniique
7 Doctor Jeep - Eccies
8 Dismantle - Escape
9 Seiji - Basslips
10 Maison Sky - Glamour
11 Dismantle - Mood Swings
12 Jus Now Ft BunjiGarlin&Stylo G - Tun Up - Dismantle Remix
13 Monkey Wrench & Spoils - On & On
14 Jay Lumen - Play Cool The Old School
15 Bellavoid - Bounce
16 Shiba San - Okay
17 Oscar Luweez - The Hustler
18 A1 Bassline - Intasound
19 Spoils - Grillz
20 French Fries - Space & Smoke (Justin Martin Remix)
21 Dismantle - 7am
22 Mele - The Boogaloo
23 LAXX &Snarebox - Three Legged Race
24 Dismantle - Warp
25 Bladerunner - Love Is Gone
26 Lynx - Shimmy
27 DJ Fresh Vs Diplo - Earthquake (Shy FX Remix)
28 Potential Badboy Feat Yush - I Need a Roof
29 Boosta&Atmos T - Feeling Inside

Piano/ Trip Hop/ Electronic. For fans of Boards Of Canada, Pole, Hauschka, Four Tet, The Notwist. Working across a variety of media John Lemke explores all things sonic through live performance, sound design and his work as a documentary film composer. The Walizka EP is his latest solo release on Denovali Records. Three items in a suitcase, a clarinet, a looper and a microphone - is how it all started. A free improvisation with friend & collaborator Lukasz Bernacki (on clarinet) sparked John's desire to bring his compositional and production approach back down to the most basic elements. Creating simple, yet distinctive rhythms only through tapping contact microphones run into noisy guitar amps became the base for the EP's three tracks, consequently inspiring its live, lo-fi feel. Written and recorded between John's native Berlin and his adopted home of Glasgow, Walizka (Polish for 'suitcase') somehow absorbs the defining atmospheres of both cities in its core. Previously released digitally as a teaser for John's debut album, the Walizka EP actually presents newer material, progressing the electro-acoustic nature of 'People Do' towards more dub drenched territories. Refining John's blend of prepared piano and field recordings with hand crafted beats and swampy bass lines, this deeply moody and danceable release bends genres with refreshing ease. The EP is furthermore enhanced by a second half of remixes by fellow Denovali artists Piano Interrupted, SaffronKeira and Petrels and the ever elusive Everyday Dust. Far from conventional remixes, these pieces fall more in the category of re-imaginations, complementing the EP's first, more rhythm anchored half with a coherent ambient counterpart. CD: digipak. Vinyl: thick covers + thick printed inner sleeves, 180g vinyl, different vinyl colours, free download.

Obwohl sich ihre Energie und ihr Auftreten seit den frühen Post-Punk-Tagen von Rip Rig & Panic nicht verändert haben, stellt "Blank Project" eine musikalische Abkehr von allem dar, was Neneh Cherry zuvor gemacht hat. Ursprünglich geschrieben, um mit einer persönlichen Tragödie umzugehen - quasi als Selbsttherapie - fällt sofort die Reduziertheit des Albums auf: einzig losgelöste Drumbeats und einige Synthesizer begleiten Nenehs wild-poetische, teils gesprochene, teils gesungene, soulgeladene und zeitgleich rohe Vocals. Wie der Name schon andeutet, kombiniert "Blank Project" Elemente der Beat-Poetry, Avant-Electronica und wunderschöne Gesangsmelodien, um aus einfachen Ideen etwas gänzlich Originelles zu erschaffen. Trotz der persönlichen Probleme, die Neneh während des Schreibprozesses erfahren hat, sind die Lieder weit davon entfernt, introvertiert zu sein.

Skrufix is a Berlin based outfit steadily strengthening their stature behind a series of revered parties and left-of-centre releases. Never opting for the path of least dance-floor resistance, Skrufix champion off-kilter strands of Breakbeat driven Rave, Techno and House and have released music from Turtlez, MightHor and Things With Wings.

SKRUV001 inaugurates an exciting addition to Skrufix's operations - a vinyl project aiming to outlet choice cuts of cross-genre dance-floor fodder from the auspicious and the established.

First in line is Edward Upton a.k.a EDMX - a producer with a back catalogue of considerable depth and consistency inclusive of shape-shifting releases that date as far back as the mid-90's. A bonafide veteran of U.K dance music, Edward has released under myriad aliases (most notably DMX Krew) for labels such as his own Breakin', Mathematics, Rephlex and Power Vacuum.

The 'Wicked Drummer' EP sees EDMX turn in four floor-targeted weapons spanning U.K Garage, 2-Step, Acid, House and Breaks rife with his signature nifty synth work, multifarious rhythm-structures and taught, effective bass tones.

With this being the first of many pressings, Skrufix continue to expand their project with the next release already lined up from their very own Crane in October.

Release of 250 12" handnumbered black label. Packed in vacuum bags with a poster.

Release is featured by Tailored Communication with streams and news and interviews(Big Up Magazine,Juno,Bleep). After the Shape Worship remix the collaboration with Dave Saved continues with this EP, Aisha Devi joins the project with a remix.

Norway's SLICK SHOOTA with some of his best work yet. This limited edition pink 12" comes with 4 hyper juke originals that showcase his signature sound (featured on HYPERBOLOID, LOOSE SQUARES and MAD DECENT). The 6 track EP comes with remixes from OM UNIT and ADDISON GROOVE and a DL code card. CLUB DNB

The first release from the TSR guys in several years here - and what a corker !

Following the success of their recent titles from Rrose, Sandwell now invite Yves De Mey aka Eavesdropper and half of Sendai
(with Peter Van Hoesen) to the party with a truck full of his analogue gear and a superb collection of finished tracks to boot.
Shades of Frank Bretschneider and Alva Noto collide providing a coherent insight into the mind of an artist clearly going somewhere...








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FLEAS ON SKIS IS THE NEW PRODUCTION MONIKER OF THE LEGENDARY DANCE MUSIC MAESTRO, ADAMSKI. 'IT'S A MAN'S MAN'S MAN'S WHIRLED' AND 'HAPPY NESS' SHOWCASE ADAMSKI'S FUTURE WALTZ SOUND ALREADY BLOWING UP IN THE HIPPER CLUBS IN AND AROUND EUROPE. THESE TRACKS ARE SET TO CREATE A SUBSTANTIAL STIR THIS SUMMER ON THE TURNTABLES OF VINYL AFICIONADOS AROUND THE GLOBE.