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Garden City Movement's debut album 'Apollonia' is set for release on 16th March 2018. The trio of Roy Avital, Yoav Saar and Johnny Sharoni produce a blend of sounds drawn from their diverse cultural worlds, ranging from art-pop to experimental house to horizontally-aligned vibes.

Since surfacing at the close of 2013 with their breakout track 'Move On', Garden City Movement have released 'Entertainment' and 'Bengali Cinema' EPs, the 'Modern West' 12' in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory, climbed the Hype Machine Popular Chart with multiple singles, recorded live sessions for Boiler Room, Majestic Casual and FACT, opened for Bonobo, Caribou, Alt-J and played all over the world. The band's music video for 'Move On' received a nomination for Best Music Video at the LA Film Festival, won Best Video of The Year' at the MTV Israel Music Awards and the video for 'She's So Untouchable' screened at Raindance Film Festival in London.

Recording through 2017 at their studio in Tel Aviv, Garden City Movement took the time to explore their sound as a band. From the combination of dream-like vocals and cinematic-RnB in singles 'Slightly All The Time' 'Before I Fall' and 'A Means To An End' to the leftfield four-four of 'Mediterranea' and 'Sans Titre' or the ethereal jazz of 'I Knew Before I Met Her (That One Day I Would Lose Her)' and worldly influences of the title track - the heightened craft in their production is firmly felt across the album's 18 tracks.

After releasing three EPs, which each had a very tight deadline, recording the album has been a chance to grow. It's the first time we have been able to really take the time and experiment a lot in the studio, try to develop and deepen our language, come up with new sounds, and take our techniques even further'. - Garden City Movement

The album takes a darker path lyrically, exploring the breakdown of a fading relationship and the depression, loneliness and abuse that follows. While not explicit, this melancholy grounds the album in the real world. The fusion of forward facing production and confessional account of human-interaction frames an emotional and honest album of modern soul music.

3024 returns for another action packed V.A. EP with tracks from label head Martyn, UK Hard Drum master NKC, Washington DC local Djoser and an unreleased gem from Jacques Greene!

DJ Support
Hodge, Rob Smith/ RSD, FaltyDL, The Black Madonna, Ciel, Riz La Teef, LMajor, Candy Pollard, Barely Legal, DJ Guy, Mani Festo, Foul Play, Franklin De Costa, Lukas Wigflex, Stones Taro, 96 Back, Interplanetary Criminal, Ryan Elliott, Sherelle, Addison Groove, Deadboy, Sam Barker, G-23, Lorenzo BITW, Etch, J-Shadow, Eliphino, Sandy (Dr.Banana), Glenn Astro, Coco Bryce, Amy Becker, Laurent Garnier, Sean O'Keefe (2 Bad Mice/ Deep Blue) + more

It's time to rewind, reload and take one massive 2-step back to one of the biggest genres to come from the UK music scene. A sound that defined a generation and remains as popular as ever today. Ministry Of Sound presents Garage XXV. A 25 year celebration of the very best garage tunes.













 

An urgent, headstrong body of work, the LP uses the music as a mechanism for delivering ideas central to the group’s moral and political ethos. Vargas explores themes of power, identity, surveillance and environmental justice atop Rochman’s raw mix of rave synths, acid basslines, breakbeats and dembow rhythms.
While at times unpredictable, the album is unified in its fast and loose approach. A Mí Me Juzgan Por Ser Mujer (‘I Am Judged Because I’m a Woman’) is an anti-machista anthem, stylistically nodding to NY house. Though Vargas doesn’t identify as a woman themselves, they understand their experience as a woman in an imbalanced patriarchal society that excludes women, femmes and non-binary people. Habla Tu Verdad (‘Speak Your Truth’) emphasizes the need to overcome the stigma around discussing sexual harassment, offering courage and strength to those who may need it. Asegura (‘Secure’) deals with the unprecedented power of Big Data, which monetizes a surveillance based economy through its users’ data and behaviours. These themes are set to fierce unrelenting bpms, nods to gabber, and samples of a reality show where young men compete in a prison fitness contest. Caderona (‘big hips’), features a hardline perreo-tinged beat that carries Vargas’ vocals with refreshing ferocity.
Inspired by a cumbia song, Caderona offers a counterpoint to the male gaze, acting as an opportunity to demand space. Aquí describes the reality of a global corporate domination, where capitalist insatiability meets government inaction as we sit on the precipice of a mass extinction of our own making. Pelada hope to inspire critical self- reflexivity through engagement, building power, demanding space and action. Or as it is written in their liner notes: ‘ABRE TUS OJOS, LA BESTIA SE ALIMENTA DE LA EXPLOTACIÓN’ which translates to ‘OPEN YOUR EYES, THE BEAST FEEDS ON EXPLOITATION’.

Limited Warehouse find !

Vinyl only limited sampler of the forthcoming Clap! Clap! LP premiered by Gilles Peterson on 22nd October.

2x12" Purple Vinyl

Ascendant star of the new global underground, Slikback wraps up his first two digital-only EPs with three killer bonus cuts on a vinyl premiere for Hakuna Kulala, his prized sublabel of Nyege Nyege Tapes.
Hailing from Nairobi, Kenya via Kampala, Uganda, Slikback has rapidly attracted a wave of attention to his undulating mutations of current club styles, as found on the ‘Lasakaneka’ and ‘Tomo’ EPs between 2018-2019. Due to popular demand both those EPs now make their vinyl debut, packaged along with three previously unreleased zingers to weigh in the most significant showcase of Slikback’s acclaimed style and pattern in club circulation right now.
Distilling a range of inspirations from local East African hip hop to Congolese rhythms and Gqom’s cold percussion, plus influence from US trap and footwork, and the subbass common to JA and UK soundsystem cultures; Slikback’s music has arrived at a grippingly powerful sound which, while singular, is also entirely symptomatic of the thrilling styles emerging from Central Africa right now, and after many years of underrepresentation in the shadow of West and South African styles which have been popularised around the world.
On his debut ‘Lasakaneka’ EP Slikback swaggers from icy, robotic dancehall in ‘Acid’ to a gripping fusion of footwork and Gqom with a jungle bent in ‘Bantu Zen’, and dancehall techno drill on ‘Ascension’, along with the palpitating footwork pressure of ‘Venom’, and a nervy new ace in the itchy step of ’Shell.’ The follow-up of 2019’s ’Tomo’ meanwhile represents a mean progression of his sound; exerting a firmer control of his scudding bass rudeness in ‘Sonshitsu’, and the dissonant synth tone of ‘Gemini’, while the syncopated gabber styles of ‘Zuhura’ and ‘Rage’ give way to almighty exclusive joints in the hard seam of trap called ‘Kite’, and the Equiknoxx-gone-psycho styles of ‘Senshi.’
If you’re new to Slikback, trust this 2LP is the perfect place to get acquainted with his lucid, hi-tech madness, before checking for the full frontal futurism of his two new EPs in collaboration with Svbkvlt’s Hyph11e, Yen Tech, and Osheyack. But if you’ve already heard Slikback’s EPs, his Boiler Room at Nyege Nyege Festival, or witnessed his European tour dates, there’s surely no need to overstate the crucial nature of this “early years” 2LP comp.

* Last year it was estimated, that every minute 400 hours' worth of content was uploaded to YouTube, 2,430,555 posts were liked on Instagram, and 6,944,444 videos were watched on Snapchat. And these figures won't stay static. The amount of data we upload, and in turn the amount we consume every year, is growing exponentially. As this expanding data pool grows, making sense of it becomes concurrently more difficult; the distinctions between dream and reality, fact and fiction, truth and lie fade to obscurity.

* 'Information City', the sophomore album from Copenhagen's Tobias Hjørnet Pedersen aka Beastie Respond, attempts to reflect this world in a very direct sense. 'Information City' is the simulacrum in which we live and exist, where our cultural identities exist primarily as representations of a real without origin, he explains.

* Writing the album Pedersen set no limits on his sample sources, instead taking fragments from a vast array of media, reflecting on the themes outlined above. This resulted in 'Information City' being completely stylistically unchained, giving reference to everything from UK bass genres to electro, footwork and synthwave. 'Downloaded 4 R. D4wkins' for example pits Moving Shadow reminiscent rave stabs against juke-like percussive workouts, while opener 'Real Without Origin' recontextualises cliche´ trap-style drops with hollowed-out, swaggering low-end, calling to mind recent hybrids of UK Grime and American hip-hop.

* At other points, Pedersen eschews the dancefloor entirely. Tracks like 'Lullabies for the Lost and Forgotten' or 'He Used His Bench Lathe to Form His Wooden Sculpture' provide respite from the thunderous barrages of percussion with slurred melodies and dream-like anime soundscapes.

* Comprising the fourth release from Foul-Up, 'Information City' is a brave proposition for a second album. Pedersen tackles it with vibrance and audacity, inviting us into a fast-paced world of bright lights and unbridled imagination.

Launch event on September 5th in Image Movement, Berlin with Beastie Respond and Eva Papamargariti

INSTINCT 07 is here in force and welcomes Jack Michael to the label.

Introducing Lost City Archives - showcasing the sounds of the UK's underground. Kicking off proceedings we have the enigmatic new-comer(?) Ash Brown, delivering 12 inches of 90's tinged nostalgia. Crispy.

DJ Support
Coco Bryce - "Well havin this"
Persian - ""Highly recommended Bass Bin Business, Sounds like something i would of made..."
Dead Mans Chest - "Dutty & dusty, dope rhythms!"

OG Deth” is ragga for 2015. Wheez-ie twists and turns his way through genre tropes. Mixing elements of jungle, footwork, and grime, “OG Deth” bashes its way through the wilderness. Can you keep up?

Can you feel it? Wheez-ie’s 2015 update has been destroying dance floors all around the world for quite some time! “Touchy” burns its way through 90’s garage at a speedy 160 bpm. Not for the faint of heart!

Get ready for some original DJ culture!
As cassette tapes are making a comeback it is time for us to revive Intrauterin Tapes after a 15 years hiatus with a new release by Intrauterin Recordings mastermind baze.djunkiii who is
bringing on his latest mixtape outing „The Gangster Files“ for all lovers of original and classic UK Garage / Sublow as well as real Jungle / Drum'n'Bass headz featuring a massive vinyl selection
of rare whitelabel cuts and essential classics.

The history:
Originally launched in 2001 and operating until 2004 the Intrauterin Recordings sister label Intrauterin Tapes released eight volumes in these first years, making a previously unprecedented move in German mixtape culture in focusing on studio recorded, MC-free vinyl only DJ-mixes for true bass music lovers, covering a musical spectrum from Drum'n'Bass, DarkJungle and UK Garage, put together by both hot, emerging talent from the local Hamburg
underground as well as a special final edition featuring US-based (Dark)Jungle legend and scholar Larissa Mann a.k.a. DJ Ripley for a preliminary closing in 2004.

The title track, “We On 1” is the pinnacle of footwork minimalism. Gut wrenching subs compliment Rashad’s own vocals in this syrup laden anthem! Not for the faint of heart!

Rashad teams up with longtime partner in crime DJ Spinn for “Come On Girl.” Drawing from their Ghetto House roots, Rashad and Spinn have crafted a club banger guaranteed to destroy dance floors.

If Not Now When is the first release by Tizzy on Slivers. Created over 12 months in the Deep Blue Studios of Vancouver, Canada, the backbone of the 808 takes the listener on a journey through past and present. The purposefully short tracks on ‚If Not Now When' invoke the history of artists such as J Dilla, Madlib, and Prefuse 73 in its journey.

Tizzy has quietly been behind the scenes of releases and performances for a number of artists on Hybridity Records, the New Forms Festival, and a number of other projects over the past 20 years. Tizzy has performed and presented in festivals such as MUTEK, Transmediale, ISEA, the FCMM, the New Museum and Next Wave under a number of different monikers.

A rework on the classic "Blues For You" from Danny J Lewis & label boss Marc Cotterell

New Swedish label Soul X Tension delivers groovy, adventurous & playful dance music. For the 1st release label heads Ebende & Matinda bring you a diverse but coherent split EP. 4 well crafted cinematic pieces of Electronica, with elements of UK Garage, Ambient, Techno, House & Tribal.

Off the back of the highly conceptual project 'Plata - Last Dayz', Circadian Rhythms quickly return to focus on their white label series and solidify their signature sound. CRWL003 takes form of three club driven tracks from the arsenal of Leicester based producer R@ (Lewis Ireson). The 21 year old's current studies in Video Game Development have evidently started to seep into the ferocious sound that has drawn him attention.
His praised debut EP 'Neural' was released on Stella Beats in October 2018 and following his DJing debut at the CR003 Live event alongside Mssingno and Plata, he now continues this run with his first vinyl release, showcasing his signature production.

Global tracks is a mystery; browsing the name online gives nothing associated with the artist. All we really know is that Gothenburg is home base. Most points toward that this is Global Tracks first release and Hoga Nord Rekords are more than proud to be first out giving his/her music out.

With albums like 'Selected Ambient Works' by the Aphex Twin and cities like London and Sheffield as a ground for the sound, Global Tracks displays how breakbeats should sound in 2019. The music is mostly influenced by Jungle, but also by Footwork and Dancehall. The roots lie shallow but the phantom behind this music don't give up with trying to recreate the nineties straight up, instead he/she develops the legacy from all the best and most drug marinated DJ:s from England circa 1995.

Breakbeat has a new vanguard in this mysterious shadow crawler that we know almost nothing about, but rumor has it Global Tracks is locked up with the machines under ground somewhere in Vastra Gotaland in Sweden working on new broke up beats, ready to surface when the time is right for more, deep and ganja oozing dance music!

* Livity Sound continues to be one of the most innovative labels of its era with another essential release, this time in the form of a debut long player from Forest Drive West. This extended 2 x 12' and digital release, 'Apparitions' lands in October 2018 and is a fascinating further development of the producer's intricate fusions of techno, dub and jungle.

* The acclaimed UK artist has released two EPs on the label before now, as well as on its sister label dnuoS ytiviL and the likes of Hidden Hawaii, Appian Sound, and London drum & bass outlet Rupture. Little is known about the London based producer but in just a couple of years he has established his own unique blend of complex rhythms and tactile sound design, distilling a rich history of UK musical influences into fresh new forms.

* This record continues in that tradition with a mix of sparse rhythm tracks that contrast heavy weight drum programming with rich and deft sound design. From menacing and mysterious, to cinematic and hypnotic, it makes for a compelling and immersive experience. 'Apparitions' is a landmark release for one of the UK's most exciting new producers.

A collection of garage house tracks forming the new garage movement in 2019.

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Never Ready Records welcomes Dublin's Major Grave to the label delivering Grime, Garage and Dubstep munitions from the Major's sonic arsenal, decimating all that lays in his path.

"Take Charge" drops like a depth charge of shimmering bass cannons and 2-step snaps. Waxing lyrical with "If You Want" sees Grave notch the mood down and get melodic, while still keeping proceedings bouncy. The B-Side is reminiscent of early FWD days with the woofah bass galore of "S.W.A.T" and the dark transient melodies of "Dem Nevah Ready".

From Dublin's first Boiler Room event to 12's released on Big Dada , Local Action , Sulk and with years behind the MPCs as part of Ireland's premier underground bass crew 'Standard', Major Grave cements his position as a force to be reckoned with in the instrumental grime and bass scene.

Never Ready Records' second release in a four part salvo of underground ordnance continues with cover artwork from Nerog, 180g coloured vinyl and limited pressing of 300 units.

Toma Kami returns to Livity Sound in style for the label's first outing of 2019. This new EP of stripped rhythm tracks and deeper grooves is precision tooled for the mix, showcasing both his sampling finesse and dj-ing sensibilities.

Soulful dance music on top quality vinyl for DJ's who know the deal. Limited to 150 copies. Vinyl only.

No mp3. No promo. No marketing. All vibe.

Tollarp Transmissions is a deeply personal and moving album created by Johanna Knutsson. Closing herself off from the flutter of the outside world in her Berlin studio, Johanna has painted a series of melancholic yet warm pictures of her childhood for Kontra-Musik. Johanna grew up in the small hamlet of Tollarp in the south of Sweden, surrounded by fields, forests and silence - a priced commodity not to be found in Berlin. Each track is named after a physical memory of Tollarp, the intro Vramsn, for instance, is named after a stream close to Johanna's home and heart. Befittingly, the first timbres of Vramsn remind one of Tuba Mirum from Mozart's Requiem, solemnly played by an old ice cream truck. A sound every child in Sweden knows. Tollarp Transmissions is not a grand Requiem, however. It's a heartbreaking Reminiscence.

The second release on O'Flynn's Hundred Flowers label comes from up and coming artist Soundbwoy Killah - and follows on from his sold-out releases on Sneaker Social Club and Warehouse Rave.

The A-side 'Burning' was a highlight of Mall Grab's most recent Boiler Room and is a straight up breaks banger destined for dancefloors. Whilst the B side 'Moving On' takes on the same formula, in that it too is a stone cold banger.

Delsin's first reissue album of 2019 is the album 'Repeats', an important techno and IDM record from collaborative outfit Repeat, which originally landed on A13 in 1995. Nineties collective Repeat started out as Mark Broom, Andy Turner and Ed Handley, with Dave Hill joining in later on. Ed and Andy, of course, also recording as Plaid and also still members of Black Dog Productions, with whom they recorded albums closely before and after this one. The result is a hard to categorise album that breaks all the rules and draws on IDM, techno, ambient, house and electro to make for nine tracks of atmospheric analogue music that still sounds fresh and in a world of its own.

Cardinal Fuzz and Lovers & Lollipops are proud to bring to you the new magnum opus from Black Bombaim titled 'Zone Of Resident Bodies'. Black Bombaim approached their latest creation with the mindset of pushing the boundaries of their musicianship by working with three different electronic composers in three unique recording settings -an old workers auditorium, a huge empty space on the postal office building and on a reverberation room on the university of engineering. Working with Jonathan Saldanha, Luís Fernandes, Pedro Augusto helped Black Bombaim break free of the constraints of a band in a recording studio as each new recording environment and composer brought new textures and ambiance to the music created. It really is rather special to hear.
'this is an amazing album of collaborations that I am sure has taken the participants outside of their respective comfort zones to produce a set that is innovative and explorative. You really will need to hear it all to fully appreciate its strength and breadth because it is outside those zones of familiarity where true expression can flourish... and flourish it certainly does here.' Psych Insight

Orbital 002 Hot off the heels of their successful first release 'Opposite Visions', Orbital London make a second statement with 'Coopers Dubz EP'. Sidewinding in on the A side is label front man, Jack Michael. 'Never Said That' is a familiar sound we have come to expect from the young talent, warm, and born to be heard loud. A bit lighter on its feet, with a definite spring in its step is fellow UK artist Harry Wills' interpretation of 'Never Said That'. Juicy by name, and juicy by nature. Kicking off the B side with a 'Clout' is Wills again, with a much darker outlook. A tight garage groove that packs a punch. Returning the remix favour is 'Jack's Dusty Mix', a mysterious and pacey affair to round off the Dubz. A four track release, fulfilling all of your bassline requirements. Big up Cooper.

Serving up another fierce 4-track EP, Inner Sunset Recording's Low Top (Homero G.) is back at full force as The Honorable Mr. Top. This 12 doesn't waver one bit from the classic dance vibes that Inner Sunset Recordings is hailed for, nor does it fail to deliver the same excellent variety and quality that can be found throughout the label's highly sought-after catalog. Side A's two mixes of To Fantasize offer up a superbly crafted nod to classic US/UK garage and house sensibilities. Side B's That Happy Day is a brilliant and flashy hybrid of deep house and breaks-driven grooves, while Lunar Launch Candidate dares to defy genre classification, taking the dance floor on a wild and pumping ride through atmospheric pads, deep organs, rave stabs and rolling breakbeats. This EP is sure to go down as one of the label's seminal releases, so grab your copy now before it disappears!

Rinse-FM-DJ Kode9 startete 2004 das Hyperdub-Label, das sich schnell zu einer innovativen Brutstätte für UK Bass-Sounds des Post-Milleniums entwickelte. Kode9 selbst veröffentlichte drei Alben, mehrere Mixsampler, sowie Tracks/EPs u.a. bei Rephlex, Warp, Domino und Soul Jazz. Einer der außergewöhnlichsten und profiliertesten Hpyerdub-Künstler ist zweifellos der enigmatische Burial, der mit seinen zeitlosen Meisterwerken "Burial" (2006) und "Untrue" (2007) neue Massstäbe in der zeitgenössischen elektronischen Musik setzte. Gemeinsam erstellen die beiden Koryphäen einen 74-minütigen, hypnotischen Trip, dessen 37 Tracks mit verwirrend vielen Tempiwechseln bis in die obskursten Ecken vordringen. Die Künstler stammen aus Afrika, China, Südamerika, Japan, aber auch Europa und USA. Der atemberaubende Mix deckt eine Vielzahl an Genres von Gqom, Juke und Foodwork bis Trance, Jungle und Grime, sowie jede Menge Material, das nicht kategorisiert werden kann, ab, und klingt, als ob er aus einer Box aus unbekannten Mixtapes zusammengesetzt wurde, die irgendwo in der Gosse gefunden wurden. Ein gebührenden Finale einer ikonischen CD-Serie!

birthportal presents its first release featuring tracks from Don Stan.
Swinging drums and wild synths row profuse at Don Stan's. With a bit to look back on and something to hang on to, we arrive at the magic of asking. Luck of any sort may eventually present itself as a heated dance floor, a synchronous connection, or a well-deserved mental disparity. And thus, from sacred cash to elevated divination, there appear many a cut of tech, 'tro, and tracks in between.