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Circling Sydney as the most prodigious producers in their adopted home, Tuff Sherm (Perth-born Eugene Hector / Dro Carey) and Cassius Select (Canada's Lavurn Lee / Guerre) guise-up for a split 12 that follows Dro's seven-date debut European tour, and Cassius' breakout ONE EP on Gardland's Hunter Gatherer imprint. Returning home after a string of releases via Merok, RAMP, Opal Tapes and The Trilogy Tapes, Tuff Sherm shifts the counter-balanced brilliance of Dro Carey with 'Beast Numeral' - a six-minute succession of classic house jaunts. Revealing a more positively playful side on 'Topaz Looper', Sherm continues to surprise in the footsteps of fans such as Ben UFO, Mark Pritchard and L.I.E.S founder Ron Morelli. Clocking stages with Australian heavyweights Jagwar Ma and HTRK whilst stringing supports for Four Tet and Jamie xx alike, Cassius Select finally goes to print with two cold-cut workouts flipped on an affinity for city-side recesses. Proving Australia's most unkempt secret since his early days under the bedroom R 'n' B alias Guerre, 'Bruv' now sees Lee splice and scrape classic taunts into a knockabout elegy to the UK's MC heyday. Skittered up until the blown kick and bass serve of 'Rete Avec Ou', Cassius locks out on a pummelling ode to distance and disconnection, ringing in the end for a true-to-form take on mother-country confusion with enthralling results. 'His rhythms move with an unusual elasticity' SPIN on Tuff Sherm 'Tuff Motherfucken Sherm' FACT on Tuff Sherm 'Percussive techno is employed in full force here' XLR8R on Cassius Select 'Utterly outré techno' MESS + NOISE on Cassius Select

LuckyMe are very proud to present the 'Rosario EP from S-Type.

S-Types rise started in Spring 2012. Emerging, gleaming and show-stopping from Rustie's seminal BBC Essential mix was a track called 'Billboard' from a new producer that was part of the LuckyMe family as far back as his teenage years.

The track had Soundcloud and blog commentators looking around for the hugest most galactic superlatives for this 'superhero' music. As skyscraping as the biggest US hip hop instrumentals but born of the ferment of Glasgow's world-WOWing club world, it made it into end of year 'Best Of' polls as well as the DJ sets of Rustie, TNGHT,and Benji B.

S-Type AKA 27 YO Scot Bobby Perman started getting recognised down the shops Glasgow. He was catapulted onto a 30 + date US tour and found himself in the studio with kindred spirits AraabMuzik and Baauer. There were rumours of national electronic goods adverts in South Korea and S-Type tracks in the running for inclusion on Drakes Nothing Was The Same album. On 19th Sept 2013, the buzz started all over again as LuckyMe family member Éclair Fifi dropped a new S-Type tune 'Rosario' on her BBC Radio 1 In New DJs We Trust show. Now LuckyMe can announce the wait is over. LM017 AKA S-Type's 'Rosario' EP is coming out on 16/6/2014.

'Rosario' sets the scene with a 2 min intro called 'Outside (Inside)', featuring Rustie and YC The Cynic, a rapper from Hunts Pont, The Bronx that XXL called 'one of the most promising artists in recent years', the complex wordplay sounding perfect over Bobby's wide screen arrangement. 'Franco' is a fierce club banger with plenty of his signature chord work. 'Lost Girls' stunts and fizzes in the way only an S-Type track can.

For the outro 'Inside (Outro)', Bobby's sweeping instrumental sets the scene for Long Island MC (and one time Flipmode Squad member) Roc Marciano, who sharply describes the beat as 'historic'. S-Type addicts, he's back.

Early DJ support from HudMo, Kode 9, Baauer, Joker, RL Grime and Jackmaster.

Video premiere on Channel 4 in Late May.

Save's 'Monsters And Fairies' is an abandoned hotel room located somewhere between England and Spain. It's real for some while for others it's just a fantasy. Who knows

Its in this exact same place that the american singer/vocalist Craig Louis Higgins Jr. (Paranoid London/Mutado Pintado/Black Daniel), the australian singer/composer Saskia Sansom and the fench electronic music composer Marc Nguyen Tan (Colder) got together to record these songs during the year 2012. However some listeners will find interesting to know, that until today, the three of them have never actually met in person.

Four tracks from this experience are available now on limited 10' vinyl with original artwork by London artist Sara Pope.

Support so far:

Laurent Garnier, Ivan Smagghe, Steffi, Tiga, Young Marco, Patrick Wimberly of Chairlift, Steve Mason (Beta Band), Dan Carey Producer of Hot Chip/Franz Ferdinand/Toy/Kate Tempest, The Eccentronic Research Council

B-side Etched as per photo
Introducting Future Classic's newest signing, 123MRK - the enigmatic French whose intricate brand of future garage production has won over the internet. On his first vinyl release are two instrumentals 'Versatile' and 'Secret Secret', and on the B-side, his iconic dice logo etched into the 180gm black wax. This release will be launched in France with a co-headline show - FC labelmates Bodhi and 123MRK.

Luke's Anger's ace 'dinked' 7" label returns with part 6...
Comes on slinky clear vinyl in a clear poly bag
Limited copies for distro


Duke Slammer keeps the freak flag flying high with his sixth 7" release on bonus7 records. To coincide with the release of upcoming Duke Slammer album 'Droid Boogie', there is a limited run of 7" vinyl feat. Droid Boogie and a super-awesome remix by Datassette on the flip...

Hot on the heels of his successful autumnal tour of Europe, the antipodean beatsmith and low-riding soul-brother, Inkswel, arrives on the eighth 12 from Burek Records. Considering Inkswel's been working with people like Merwyn from Virgo Four, Gifted & Blessed and Linkwood for the third release on his own Hot Shot Sounds imprint, we weren't surprised when he told us about the recent collaboration he'd had with Dave Aju. Naturally we were keen to get this out into the world, complementing it with great remixes and additional tracks from Inkswel. The A-side comprises three funkadelicious, shape-throwing, pop-locking slices featuring the talents of San Fran's Dave Aju, Melbourne's Cazeaux O.S.L.O, Christchurch's Isaac Aesili and Adelaide's Charli James. They wear their shared love for hiphop on their sleeves, replicating old school sampling techniques and twinning them with a feel for modernity. The open kicks and sax thrills that begin 'No More Suckas' cement syrupy pads and swirling keys as Dave Aju rhymes about that classic conundrum, being given the chance for a night of intimate relations. Rotascoping blips and pads combined with fat bass work underpin the conscious spoken word poetry of 'Mind Yours', and 'Saturated' closes the side with razor-sharp claps, wonky chords and 808 cowbells laying the foundation for vocal call and responses. In classic turntablist style the bonus beat track 'Oishi Stylus' is also included, evoking the Pacific Rim's interconnectivity with its Nipponese flavours cut over solid beats. This ain't hip-house, it's hiphop-house.

Cold Mission is the debut album from east London-based producer Logos: it features fellow producers Mumdance, Dusk + Blackdown and Rabit. That Logos is member of two emerging underground collectives - new school grime specialists Boxed and the Keysound Recordings' 130bpm family - it gives you a rough sense of his whereabouts. At the first flickers of the album intro Ex101, you begin to sense the scope and scale of Logos' 'Mission.' His modus operandi is twin strike of connection and disconnection: he lurks in the spaces between places, both literally - down badly lit Eastend back streets - and figuratively, swerving between established musical nodes with the mission of finding new ones. It's suspended in the tension between then, now and what's to come. In simpler terms: Logos is a junglist but this is not a jungle album. He's a grime head but this is not a grime long player. This is an excursion in the dissolutions of forms and edges; of the elongation of patterns into repetitive plateaus of intensity. The album bristles with tension: for the 'Cold...' component it is like he dissolved the intros of a thousand darkside jungle 12's and dripped them into his analog hardware. The album features Keysound Recordings label bosses Dusk + Blackdown on the UKG exoskeleton 'Alien Shapes,' while eski excursionist Rabit collaborates on 'Swarming.' In 2013 Logos has formed a fruitful production partnership with Mumdance and their hyper-intense 'Wut It Do' features on the album, following their anthemic but paradoxical Keysound releases 'In Reverse' and 'In Reverse PIV'. Logos's 2012 'Kowloon EP' was recently lauded by Fact Magazine as 'year zero' and 'the catalyst' for a talented new wave of grime-inspired producers. Alongside artists like Beneath, Wen, Visionist, E.m.m.a., Moleskin and Etch, Logos forms part of a new wave sonically exploring the 130bpm space and finding life and creativity again in edgy 'London retro futuristic music.

EP with download card

Detroit-based vinyl-only label debuts w/a bracing set of late night sounds from disco to sludge by Sly Foxx label head, Appian, Atlanta's REKchampa, sludge purveyor, Marshall Applewhite.& local hater, The Friend.

James Leyland Kirby returns with an uncompromising, poetic and unexpected 4th and final instalment of his long-dormant 'Intrigue & Stuff' series despatched from his new base in Krakow for his own History Always Favours The Winners label. Since we last heard from the provocateur he's issued brilliant albums as The Caretaker and The Stranger, a cracking 12' for his formative heroes R&S/Apollo, and marked his 40th Birthday last week with a 40-track album of Piano pieces...yet we can't help but feel that he's saved some of his most deliriously spannered and heartbreakingly personal intimations for this new LP.

Kyle Hall back on Hyperdub for our 10th Anniversary - Yes please. In fact this is more or less a long delayed EP from the vaults, recorded around the same time as his 2010 'Kaychunk' EP ... which just goes to show how ahead of the curve the young Detroit producer is. Starting with 'Girl U So Strong', the track riffs on a distorted arpeggiating bassline, seasick organ and a dubbed out voice, and a flicking metronomic note, starting slowly before shuffling drums give the track some rhythmic focus. Soon a warm melody builds over some happy arpeggios, and the whole track feels like a product of brilliant spontaneous energy. 'Take Me Away' works an 8 bit bassline, bleeps and throbs into an off beat shuffle over a pulsing bass drum, loose and happy, dosed with sunshine and space.

Since 2012 the Sheffield-based producer has carved a steadfast reputation with an ascetic production technique augmenting the dread and atmosphere of early DMZ dubs with the velocity
of classic Grime and Bleep Techno, and the haughty rudeness of early New York House, minting a distinct new sound which sent shockwaves thru the scene thanks to his now-legendary showcase mix for Keysound.
Beneath's PAN 12' consolidates up-to-the-minute electronics and rooted dancefloor dynamics with incisive style and pattern. All four tracks are skeletal but big boned rollers' riddims and masterful exercises in dancefloor pressure. 'Bored 2' is rent with cattle-prod Grime stabs and a show-stealing, radioactive bass roil, whereas
the hunched, grimy rolige of 'Occupy' is all about his shifty, idiosyncratic syncopation. 'One Blings' cools out on buoyant subs with glass-cut electronic motifs standing miles out from his scene, and 'Stress 1' trips out with restless drums and lucid electronics tessellating dipping rhythms with skin-prickling harmonic resonance. It adds up to the freshest mutation of accelerated UK dub/SoundSystem culture, stoking an aesthetic extant since the first rumblings of Saxon Studio International and Coxsone in the late '70s/early '80s, thru the forward leanings of the contemporary UK sound in 2014, mapping the software timbres and possibilities of new technology to the timeless mantra of rudeboy dub
proper, yielding maximum affect from optimised elements.

Limited to 500 units.
Inspired by the rhythmic, clattering sounds of the industrial machines that soundtrack his day, Quirke produces a unique blend of acoustic and electronic music. From the frenetic, driving rhythm of 'Break a Mirrored Leg' to the modern classical piano on 'Acid Beth' Josh's sonic world is distinct and immersive; his bold sound felt best represented by one word, his surname: Quirke.

Jumping Back Slash returns with a brand new EP for Pollinate. With 'Namhlanje' JBS has shifted gear to his fast paced 'Khawulezayo' style. Literally translated as 'Fast' it's defined by military precise percussion that fires over a 150-160bpm range. The EP is a relatively deep affair that builds and builds with bursts of energy. In the spaces between snares & synth squelch, there's a cast of vocalists bringing the mic to life - Spoek Mathambo, Okmalumkoolkat & Qubekani The Ndola all feature as well as vocal edits from lost studio sessions... It rides similar to the Juke styles of Chicago but this is a distinctly South African record and perhaps one of the most accomplished releases to come out of the country for some time. And rightfully so: despite 'Namhlanje' meaning 'Today' it took almost a year to surface. To connect the dots we invited Chrissy Murderbot to remix 'Night Time Business'. With Spoek Mathambo at the vocal helm and Chrissy's irresistible urge to rave forging a hot Jungle/Juke mash up, it's a smooth & wildly percussive banger. Free with the record, the remix is a digital exclusive. JBS once again proves that patience is a virtue in the recording process and puts out one of his finest records to date - This is a record not to sleep on

The original soundtrack of an unreleased movie... became the soundtrack of a comic book.

14 tracks produced by Krazy Baldhead, Mr Flash, Busy P, Feadz and the mysterious 40106 (aka Mickey Moonlight).

Influenced by John Carpenter, Wendy Carlos and Vladimir Cosma, the Ed Banger records artists imagined the perfect soundtrack of a "à la Ed Wood" movie.

Nostalgia and sound anticipation, Vandroid should be listen reading a comic or the head in the skys.

A concept album which allows the artists of the label the least exposed to prove their talent.

Chris McWayne's productions tie in his hip hop & jazz themes then pushed to the outer realms much like his friend Afrikan Sciences. Includes the title track, and the gorgeous winding "Islands of Dust". Afrikan Sciences chimes in with a remix for "Islands

It's been a while since King Thing last surfaced, and now he does so with a fresh EP of hybrid beats for Millions Of Moments UK, the spin-off label of more bass orientated business. These particular tracks twitch with intricacy as they occupy a space somewhere near electro, not least on lead track "Never Say Never". With a snappy square wave bass line and a killer stop-start groove, well-placed chords and snippet samples inject a little soul into the machinations as the track develops. "Inside Of Me" opts for a more old-school flavoured stab as its central hook, relegating the beat to the bottom of the pecking order in favour of a sizable chord and another plethora of curious found sounds. "Unity" rounds things off with a catchy workout that revolves around a woodblock melody and a cyclical patter of technoid beats.

In Summer 2013, Butterz took residence at Red Bull Studios and this collaboration is one of many tracks built over that period. Version One was built for the offshoot party the label have been running quietly for the past year: Jamz, Version Two for the big nights they now hold in Fabric, and Version Three is designed to chill too. Following their individual forays into the Garage area over the past 12 months - Flava D's Hold On broke her as an artist last year getting regular spins from Garage legend DJ EZ. Royal-T's 'I Know You Want Me' on Rinse was a massive hit seeing him continue his regular DJ travels across the UK & Europe. Following Swindle & Joker's collaboration record Let It Be Known this marks a second creative link up this year on Butterz that will probably never be repeated. Listen: https://soundcloud.com/cargorecords/royal-t-flava-d-on-my-mind/s-NUuDt

DJ Clent - the low end legend - has been known for his music since the days of Dance Mania, releasing tracks such as 'Bounce' and 'Back Up Off Me' which are juke classics. He also released the grimy call to arms footwork track '3rd Wurle', as well as tracks on both Bangs & Works Compilations. 'Hyper Feet' starts off the EP with a high-speed footwork homage to Mike Dunn's classic 'Magic Feet', replicating the hits and using 303 acid to make a sparse but precision-tooled piece of footwork. Next up, 'Baby Yeah' works a vocal and sax sample into shimmering cut-ups and high-speed rhythmic shapes. On side B 'Clent's Dog Catcher' is a half-speed chop up of the intro to George Clinton's famous 'Atomic Dog', sliced and diced into itchy, slippery shapes. 'Don't Go Down' pits an MPC drum workout of the word "down" against a looped "don't go" sample and a mournful piano line, while 'Don't Leave Me (Baby)' contrasts soul samples with a clipped vocal of of 'Baby C'mon' before the track flips into cascading synths.

Following the great unspooling of 2013's Syndrome Syndrome, Gardland and RVNG Intl. step back into the duo's not-sodistant past with Improvisations, three live performances ripped from local Austrailan radio in early 2012. The aural impetus behind the artists and label joining forces, this triptych of tone lashed tracks captures the duo in exhilarating, uninhibited form.

Fresh from supporting Jagwar Ma on a UK and European tour, the Cape Town band John Wizards drop the lush 'Muizenberg' as a single. Taken from their critically acclaimed and eponymous debut, the track exhudes southern hemisphere sunshine with a warm guitar figure sending a gentle bounce through the track. Lead singer John delivers a gentle falsetto before the track drops into a scuffy bass coda. Beatmaker extraodinaire Seiji turns a gentle piano line that you barely notice in the original into the centrepiece of his mix, running rhythmic, crunchy kicks and snares alongside bubbling filtered effects.On the flip The 2 Bears create a thing of beauty. A slow, rippling mix that's absorbed all the sunshine of the original, turning it inside-out and building the track up gently over a slow house beat, before dropping in gentle repeated vocals over the epic nine minute timespan.

"DJ Sliink, springing from the Jersey Club scene, has built an impressive reputation for his contributions to North American dance music. So much so that Vibe Magazine included him on their list of 30 DJ's to watch. His angular, spare take on club music can be described as straight forward, as much as a punch in the face can be described as straight forward anyway.

Elevater Action's cadre of producers and DJ's emerged from the nascent UK Funky scene of 2010, running a monthly event that followed the bleeding edge of that sound as it morphed into the nebulous genre of "Bass Music". The collective hosted DJ Sliink to a packed house in 2012, and have featured a diverse range of artists including HXdb, Distal, Donga, Cosmic Revenge, Prism, and Mike G.

As a label, Elevater Action puts aside ego and theatrics to focus on forward thinking, quality releases for fans of the ever-evolving concept of the sound system. There's no better way of expelling hubris than using their third vinyl release to again showcase artists they respect and admire, this time via two of the best remixes of Elevater Action's own productions.

DJ Sliink's reworking of FBOM's haunting 'Jansen' gives a muscular edge to the original, with crushing bass and a stark intensity that's set to tear up vinyl sets everywhere. A longtime favorite of the EA crew, KingThing reworks Dylan C's fantastic "Invasive Species" into a thumping, slow-burn of uncontrollable gyration. The propulsive, but dark brand of minimalism exhibited by both tracks is primed to ignite the dance floor. "

The next release on Alter will come from Hackney-based electronic voyager Ralph Cumbers, aka Bass Clef. An expanded double vinyl edition of his acclaimed 2013 cassette Acid Tracts, originally released late last year via Cumbers' own Magic + Dreams label, its seven dense and immersive club tracks comprise his most expansive and multi-faceted work to date. They meld his modular synthesiser's hard-edged tones with grinding drum machine rhythms, traveling from the anarchic techno of 2012's Reeling Skullways album still further outward into the void. Acid Tracts represents the latest stage in the ongoing evolution of Cumbers' music. He first cut his teeth in Bristol mid last decade, crafting scuzzy takes on dubstep with an arsenal of analogue hardware and a trombone - an approach quite distinct from the software-based sub-bass experimentation of his then-contemporaries. In the years since, he's continued to follow a highly individual path, even as he's taken stylistic divergences towards cosmic techno (with Reeling Skullways and its subsequent singles) and the freeflowing improvised modular synth jams released under the Some Truths pseudonym. Acid Tracts is his first Bass Clef release to unite those two strands of his work, drawing the fluidity and instinct-led feel of his Some Truths music into tightly structured club tracks. With punning titles like 'Strings Of Death' and 'Apathy Flash', they play cheeky tribute to Cumbers' personal history and ongoing love of the atmosphere and attitude of rave, acid house and jungle. Throughout Acid Tracts the high-pitched, wriggling tones of his modular reimagine the TB-303's signature acid splatter in crisp hi-def, making for a dazzling and mind-altering listen. For the recording of Acid Tracts, Cumbers hooked his modular synthesiser up to a borrowed MFB Drumcomputer, before laying down the entire record's worth of tracks across the course of a single weekend. "In hindsight I'm not 100% sure how I made some of these tracks, of which noises came from what, of which cables went where, et cetera," he recalls. "I do remember it, though, as a special weekend of total solitude and immersion, with the moon rising high and shining bright into the studio windows." The one exception was 19-minute euphoric epic and album centrepiece 'Lower State Of Unconsciousness', which was originally recorded during the sessions for Reeling Skullways. For Alter's expanded vinyl edition of Acid Tracts, the original limited cassette release's six tracks are joined by an additional track recorded during the same sessions - the taut and drone-laden house of 'Music Sounds Better Without You'. Its full release on vinyl is an appropriate way to open what looks set to be a busy and important year for Cumbers, with this coming spring also seeing upcoming Bass Clef releases through PAN and Public Information, and the promise of future Some Truths material to come

In 2014 Hyperdub is 10 years old. Founded by DJ and producer Kode9, the label has grown from its humble origins as a left-field dubstep label, and spread out to function as a cross-genre hub, absorbing sounds and ideas, keeping listeners on their toes, and refreshing itself while still maintaining its core sensibilities. To celebrate, Hyperdub will release four compilations which cluster thematic highlights from the last five years, all augmented with new material, as well as staging a number of international showcase events across the year. First up comes 'Hyperdub [aJ] CD 1-10 | 1', a double CD covering the label's dance floor dimension. Disc 1 features almost all new material from Hyperdub regulars such as Kode9 & The Spaceape, Quarta 330 and DJ Rashad, along with old and new allies. Opening with the oddball groove of DVA's 'Mad Hatter', we move into young Detroit producer Kyle Hall's 'Girl U So Strong', a slow builder that culminates in a blissed-out g-funk groove, Mala's 'Expected', a rock solid, melancholy half-step bulldozer, Kuedo's 'Mtzpn', Morgan Zarate's recent martial snare anthem, 'Kaytsu' and Helix's club-ready remix of Kode9's 2013 'Xingfu Lu'. We also welcome back Flowdan, who appeared on early label hit 'Skeng,' with the malevolent, Footsie-produced 'Ambush'. The pace picks up on the second half of the CD with a volley of woozy and twisted footwork from most of the key members of Chicago's Teklife crew. Taso & Djunya's Darwinian 'Only The Strongest Survive' descends into DJ Spinn's bombastic 'All My Teklife', DJ Taye's fizzling R&B jam, 'Get Em Up', the immaculate diva vocal cut-up of 'I'm Gonna Get You', DJ Rashad and Gantman's squiggly banger 'Acid LIfe', and the stone cold 'Icemaster' by Heavee. Earl, Rashad & Taye's 'Bombaklot' takes Hyperdub full circle with a yardcore bomb like a 2014 upgrade of the label's early days. Disc 1 closes with 'Chasing A Beast', a new gnarly hip hop track from Kode9 & The Spaceape, and Tokyo-based veteran ally Quarta330, who crafts in 'Hanabi' an epic, uptempo synthesiser jam. Disc 2 spotlights 17 high points of Hyperdub's last half-decade, proven dance floor material from the grittier end of UK funky, grime, dubstep, hip hop and footwork. Artists featured include Burial, Cooly G, Champion, DVA, Funkystepz, Ill Blu, Walton, Ikonika, Kode9 & The Spaceape, Morgan Zarate, Mark Pritchard & Om'mas Keith, Terror Danjah & Riko, DOK, LV ft. Okmalumkoolkat, and DJ Rashad. 'Hyperdub [aJ] CD 1-10 | 1' is more an ammunition belt than an album. Keep it locked for news of [aJ] CD 1-10 | 2, [aJ] CD 1-10 | 3 and [aJ] CD 1-10 | 4 across 20

Featuring the 4 best songs from the phenomenal debut "AMATEUR GIRLFRIENDSGO PROSKIRT AGENTS" CD! "SPORTS NOT HEAVY CRIME", "DOUBLETALK...","FUNNYBONES & CRAZYLEGS", & "MORE POWAH TO YA" all sound like some of thebest releases from early NINJA TUNES or MO'WAX! Nuff said! (BEATSERVICE US)

Fay expands the sonic palette from her debut "DIN" pushing elements of drone, no wave/post-punk and dub higher into the mix.
Two years after the release of her groundbreaking LP DIN, FAY re-emerges with her new exhilarating new masterwork Deathwatch. Treading many of the signature avant-pop and rough-and-tumble R&B tropes first heard on DIN, Deathwatch expands the sonic palette pushing elements of drone, no wave/post-punk, and dub higher into the mix.

Debut album from Andy Stott and Demdike Stare's Miles Whittaker, aka Millie & Andrea, who collaborated on an occasional series of 12inch releases of jungle, garage and techno hybrids between 2008 and 2010. Their debuts contiues this story...

An album borne from a love of both pop and club music, made to evoke an adrenalised, hedonistic, as well as an emotional response.

Austinite producer kicks off in mid-stride w/a slinky, sultry mix of vocal shards & staccatto beats. Distal warps & twists the stems w/blurred energy pierced by strong beats. poolboy92 kicjks minimal elements up a notch w/drops of syrup. Red vinyl.

For Samuel Evans, or Rain Dog, creating this album was a vast experiment to combine different attempts of blending more traditional elements of song writing and composition with the more contemporary influences of modern electronic dance and bass music, all within the confines of his computer and chair...
Being compelled by melody and variation, Rain Dog, by his own admission, never had much talent for songwriting in terms of lyrics. To circumvent this, however, he focuses on creating a narrative within the music through the combination of synth work and samples. He starts with anything that sparks an interest or emotion in him - Tom Waits, Joni Mitchel, Ella Fitzgerald, Portico Quartet and moments from movies, samples like these usually work as a foundation for the tracks. He then adds layers of unique and organic synth sounds (a notion he finds quite interesting when working entirely from a digital platform) before eventually completing the production with the beat.

Christian Marclay, DJ Rashad, LFO, Dilla, Luc Ferrari... Chorus is the new single from Holly Herndon, the inimitable artist and technologist responsible for 2012's acclaimed album, Movement. Another evolution in her production technique, Chorus bridges multiple disciplines and spaces to blur the politic between natural and synthetic. For 'Chorus', Herndon sampled her daily browsing experience, channeling YouTube, Skype and other audio sources across the web for data that freely forms atop a bumping beat. Much like online browsing, 'Chorus' creates a coherent/incoherent experience from disparate conceptual and contextual sources. 'Chorus' continues Herndon's emphasis on vocal processing, crafted with polyphonic passages from live vocal takes and re-synthesized instances of her own voice and those foraged and sampled. 'Chorus' may come as a stylistic deviation from Movement, but more accurately continues Herndon's practice outside of genre orthodoxy — a stratosphere where multiple styles and histories are experienced in her personal laptop space. In contrast to the laborious studio effort that went into the a-side, 'Solo Voice' was tracked in a single take. 'Solo Voice' takes a rhythmic, polyphonic vocal effect customized by Herndon and spreads it across a spectrum of song to sputter for a unsettling minimalist accomplishment. Chorus is a timely reminder ahead of Herndon's next album that her universe is one meticulously crafted with each creative and technological discovery.

Enter Mumdance & Logos. Having been introduced to the label earlier this year via 'Drum Boss', on Tectonic Plates Volume 4, and generally killing it both together or independently with their releases on the Keysound imprint - the production duo are currently championing a sonic that is set to spread, mutate and progress the sound of the underground. True to the original spirit of Tectonic. With a sense of grand simplicity the duo have managed to seamlessly merge elements of UK hardcore-jungle, pounding, mesmerising techno, gut-wrenching grime and paranoid dubstep into the dancefloor beast that is 'Legion'. Rising panic is struck immediately from the dissonant strings that lead you into the rhythm, before luring you into an ambushing in the foam a pounding, relentless, weighted kick pattern. The vibe builds until a calculated submarine blip signals the start of an emerging, creeping reese baseline - ready to fully terrorise any dancefloor, anywhere. This is a weapon you want in your DJ bag. 128bpm danger zone. Flip for 'Proto', continuing the old-skool jungle vibes and rolling them out, again, at 128bpm. The intro charges up with a muted 4/4 kick pattern, and a demented hoover sample - getting progressively more aggressive as it develops. Then comes the rush of broken breakbeats and 808s, cutting forwards and backwards, unsettling your balance and wrong-footing your expectations. 100% killer. ´

Michigan native Todd Osborn, also known as Soundmurderer, also known as Osborne, also known as Superstructure... ran the first Drum & Bass record store in the Detroit area, the legendary Dubplate Pressure shop and would later own his own label, Rewind Records.

Todd has also built airplanes, computers and hovercrafts. Or has he

At this point we need to just accept a mystery. May of 2012, I flew out to Detroit to play DEMF and called Todd to see if he would be available to grab a bite and chat some shit before the show. A few hours later Todd arrived in his converted Police Cruiser with spot light to take me away from the festival to his house to listen to unreleased joints by him and his heroes. That planted the seed in my head to work with Todd. A year later at Red Bull Music Academy in NYC, where Todd had built the recording studio, I finally had my shit together enough to properly propose an EP.

Here, Blueberry Records presents to you the "Michigan Dream" EP. With support from Cosmin TRG, XXXY, Mike Paradinas, Eclair Fifi, Illumsphere, Altered Natives, Mike Q and FaltyDL.

Across 4 tracks, from Hip Hop to jacking vocal House, from druggy Techno to Braindance, Michigan Dream has it all.

It's a vibe. Get into it.

Hinter Cashmere Cat steckt der norwegische Produzent Magnus August Hoiberg, der bereits mit/für Rihanna-Hitmaker Benny Blanco, Lil Wayne, Jay Z, Drake und Kanye West produziert hat. Als Cashmere Cat zaubert er aus Glitzer-R&B, französischem Electro und 00'er Club-Hip Hop einen schillernden Dance-Sound, der mehr von Pop und Hip Hop als von Stadion-EDM inspiriert ist. Sein Track "With Me" wurde unveröffentlicht fast 600.000 mal auf Soundcloud angeklickt und zeigt, wohin die Reise 2014 soundmäßig hingeht.

Since Montreal native Jacques Greene, 24, emerged with his first solo releases in late 2010 - The Look 12" EP (LuckyMe) and Another Girl 12" Single (LuckyMe, a Pitchfork Top 100 Track of the Year) - he has drawn upon real R&B, House & Techno to create a modern palette which served to influence contemporaries from Jamie XX to Disclosure and Julio Bashmore. But with the UK offering such excellent cross-over Dance successes in 2013 it can be easy to forget where our musical landscape was just tree years ago when Jacques Greene's faceless demos began to creep online. Just prior to the young Canadian's debut, US R&B had recently combined with the worst of European 4/4 Electro House & Trance to form a bottle-service delivery of compressed Pop-Dance to our charts. Greene represented something wholly contrary. A young outsider who, in isolation, was experimenting with fusing the fraught sentiment and sexuality of modern R&B and movement and soul of classic House and Techno. Not in any way retro, there are very few modern producers who can claim to have mastered their form - using original analogue equipment and the very essence of their influences to create such expressive and rich dance music.

LM015 - On Your Side EP is the product of many years of experimentation at the boundary between R&B and Dance music. It is only now after a slew of taste maker releases in dance music that we find Jacques Greene as an accomplished writer and arranger aspiring to work in song format. With our lead single featuring Tom Krell aka How To Dress Well, this is not the exaltation of a lone R&B hook that we are used to but rather a fully developed original song that finds it's place perfectly balanced between both artists. It's unashamed hook and addictive bridge in a beautifully delicate falsetto which rides on top of assured shuffle of percussion. No one here can claim this is a Summer record - the air of cool it evokes is for 4am at any time of year. This is the crystallization of something JG has been working towards. All his tastes reconciled into one stunning moment of classic house / modern house, classic pop / modern R&B.

The remaining tracks too, show JG's development. B1 Faithful returns to JG's vocal sample hallmark but this time without the processing. This is not a percussive use of vocal but rather an upfront gospel-inflected hook in the vein of classic US house courtesy of good friend Olivier Day Soul. Then to close we return to the deep instrumentals we have expect from JG. B2 Quicksand first appeared as an 'untitled' highlight in Greene's takeover at BBC 6Music in October. Now with 160,000+ plays on Soundcloud Quicksand finds its place as the euphoric finale of this satisfying three track EP which further establishes Jacques Greene, still young and evolving; a clear leader in his lane.

Now touring with fully analogue live performance and vocalists - with additional visual gallery show and separate DJ sets, Jacques Greene is stepping out like never before.

Hotflush presents the third single from George FitzGerald: 'Shackled'. Having already dropped two excellent EPs for Aus and Man Make Music this year, George returns on Hotflush Two with three tracks embodying the style he has matured over the last two years.Using a sonic palette that melts the emotive flavors of UK garage & soulful house into a slower amalgam of dubstep and techno, this emerging London producer offers his own suave and enticing blend of bass music. 'Shackled' has already made a distinct impression as a standout track on Scuba's DJ Kicks mix compilation released in October.

Feadz is releasing his debut album ' Instant Alpha' fifteen years into his career. His music is a careful balance of urban and electronic that finds its roots in rap, freestyle, electro, techno and house, but also in more ghetto influences such as footwork, trap, baile, etc...

In short, Feadz's music is a quintessential Edbangerian alloy. Feadz is a total music geek on a constant search for new things to play or to sample, and an erudite of vinyl production, illustrated by the namedropping of super edgy labels delivered via Kito's voice on 'Electric Empire'.

'Instant Alpha' is the result of a fifteen-year journey for Feadz. These 13 tracks are the expression of his hybrid and concise spirit; vivacious, electrocuted, colorful, cheeky dance music in 3 or 4 minute tracks. Joyful, unifying and open party music. Typically Ed Banger.

Feadz is releasing his debut album ' Instant Alpha' fifteen years into his career. His music is a careful balance of urban and electronic that finds its roots in rap, freestyle, electro, techno and house, but also in more ghetto influences such as footwork, trap, baile, etc...

In short, Feadz's music is a quintessential Edbangerian alloy. Feadz is a total music geek on a constant search for new things to play or to sample, and an erudite of vinyl production, illustrated by the namedropping of super edgy labels delivered via Kito's voice on 'Electric Empire'.

'Instant Alpha' is the result of a fifteen-year journey for Feadz. These 13 tracks are the expression of his hybrid and concise spirit; vivacious, electrocuted, colorful, cheeky dance music in 3 or 4 minute tracks. Joyful, unifying and open party music. Typically Ed Banger.

Uk garage and bassline superhero from Manchester Krissi B!