– Where are we?
– Doc, don't panic. Keep yourself warm. Your teeth are chattering.
– What the h-h-hell is g-g-going on?! Is this Bigfoot?

Two hours earlier.

A heavy door, slammed shut in the face of the pursuers, served not only as a life-saving barrier, but also as a trap. Looking around, Cat realized that he had ended up in a freezer. The undercoat could keep him warm for some time, but his energy had left him. He spent what was left of it on dragging the professor. Frustration and confusion made his heart beat faster. A few moments later, it became obvious that there was more to the room than just the refrigerator. An icy dimension stretched all around. It was unknown how long the fugitives would have to stay there. Spacelunch regained consciousness, trying to explain what hallucinations he had seen as the result of intoxication.

– Hehe! Pure skill and no cheating! The video tutorials on how to start a fire from Travel-TV worked. At least we won’t turn into icicles for the time being.

Cold Vibrations

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Deeplush @ Basscraft Music Festival 2023 (Reflektion Stage)

Gnomes of Kush - It's All Good (Grove Remix)

Mango Tango

A pioneer of UK breakbeat culture, having cut his teeth as half of Evil Nine, EVL Tom brings a myriad of influences to bear on his debut album, ‘Absolute Melt’. It’s an opus where Moodymann-esque Detroit soul flavours meet the psychedelic rave stylings of early Future Sound Of London, the raw but incessantly funky loops of hip-hop producers Madlib and the RZA rub up against the bass aesthetic of early ‘90s jungle/drum & bass. 
 
“Absolute Melt’ was me endeavouring to make a truly autobiographical record that represents my diverse tastes and experiences but bringing them together to form a cohesive whole. It’s a hybrid opus, the fulfilment of a life-long ambition to make an album solely by myself — to resoundly kick back against the Imposter Syndrome on my shoulder whispering that it couldn’t be done.” - EVL Tom
 
The thunder of rainstorms and other organic tones abound in the album opener ‘Trees’, a track drenched in bass with a Vangelis-esque horn melody riding it. Then it’s into ‘A Prayer’ with its mantra on peace and love, Tom’s stab at pushing out some positive feelings into the world, sonically harking back to early DJ Shadow and those seminal Mo’Wax joints. Two breakbeat cuts follow; ‘Incendies’ is a low-slung, smoked out roller with hints of Burial and ‘90s jungle (albeit at a fraction of the tempo), and ‘Eternal Lids’ is a track crafted to evoke late-night drives around cityscapes aglow with orange light and neon.  Taking a breath in the middle of the album we have the beat-less ‘Norman’, which is melancholically melodic like a sci-fi movie scene-setter, which then moves into ‘Rebels Of The Neon God’ where we’re taking it back to the club. The title references a Taiwanese cult film favourite of Tom’s and also serves as a tribute to Taiwan, a place dear to Tom after numerous visits over the years. An electro / hardcore hybrid, ‘Rebels…’ buzzes with an undercurrent of pure rave euphoria. 

Next up is the first single off the album, ‘The Heathers’, a dream-like, psychedelic epic with a dark second half that’s a counterpoint to the more wistful beginning of the tune. This is closely followed up by second single ‘Give Up (Don’t)’, something that Ron Hardy would maybe play at Muzic Box in Chicago, a tough disco banger pinned with an organic break that oozes raw funk. It’s a heads-down belter where the mood is positive and euphoric. Album closer ‘Love In Fire & Blood’ is the embodiment of a meme where a dude drinks a big bottle of cranberry juice whilst skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac — musically dense, and with the album’s signature blending of organic and electronic flavours. This delicate balance was achieved in the collaborative mixdown of the album by Tom and top bro Alexander James Fox, who brought his talent and knowledge to the table to craft it into the deeply woven epic you have before you.
 
“The title ‘Absolute Melt’ started as an in-joke, just a dope phrase that made me and my crew crease up, but then as I started to think on it, many levels were revealed to me. There’s ‘melting’ everywhere, with its climate change connotations; the psychedelic slant; and also perhaps a self-deprecating angle where maybe I’m the absolute melt… or you are, ha ha!” - EVL Tom
 
The artist also records as one half of Evil Nine with Pat Pardy, originally signed to Adam Freeland’s label Marine Parade. Their award-winning ‘You Can Be Special Too’ and ‘They Live!’ albums received widespread acclaim and in the process they collaborated with such luminaries as El-P from Run The Jewels, Danny Brown, Aesop Rock and Emily Breeze. They were residents at Fabric London, did a Radio One Essential Mix and toured the world several times performing at Fuji Rock Festival, Space in Miami, Twilo in NYC, Coachella and Arcadia at Glastonbury.

Absolute Melt

The Heathers

7 Evl Tom - The Heathers

Djoon Radio - Ecran Total (Bande de Filles takeover)

Analog~1 - Counterpoint

Un encuentro contra el fascismo y por la camaradería dentro de la música electrónica. 

De un lado, desde la capital del imperio borbónico, Thierry Marseillais: activista cultural, juntaletras y locutor de radio desde finales de los noventa.

Del otro, desde San Sebastián: ВĒИ (Beñat para los amigos), polímata incansable y capitán general al frente de Secret Sun Society, proyecto activo desde 2020.

Y juntos, por fin, en esta nueva entrega electrónica. Tres horas grabadas en directo dando rienda suelta a buenas costumbres musicales que no te dejarán indiferente.

👉 https://soundcloud.com/thierrymarseillais

👉 https://www.mixcloud.com/s_ben/

SSS #38.1 ::: THIERRY MARSEILLAIS X ВĒИ

For a song that was written originally about getting back out into the dance, Footshooter has taken an ethereal jazz exploration of the theme and flipped it directly into the centre of the dancefloor! 

Infectious broken beats and bass are surrounded by delicate piano and soothing vocal hooks, all allowing And Is Phi to rise above the white noise and elevate the spirit. 

"This is the recovery song playing in your soul the first time you made it back out to the dance floor on your ones after a heart break so massive it laid rest to the person you used to be."

White Noise (Footshooter Remix)

And Is Phi - White Noise (Footshooter Remix)

Through the inspiration of many great friends who are incredibly talented techno producers and dj's.. I myself, have caught the 4/4 bug! So I felt compelled to compile together a 2hr journey, swimming through all my preferred styles and flav's from the techno realms..
Hope ya digg!!

Techno FE4V4

I really don't know how to classify this as a genre ... but it's a whole lotta fun and only took a couple of days to piece together.  A crunked up re-rub of The Eagles Hotel California. 

Funkedub - Motel California

In a world saturated with new music, social media and “likes”, FUNKEDub toys with having his ego propped up by acknowledgment and appreciation of his cultural output. Sitting in an office chair in front of a large monitor and a couple of speakers, he stares at grids and adjusts knobs and sliders consuming tea and scotch as he goes. The end result is definitely listenable and could well bear repeated listening if added to the appropriate Spotify playlist

Funkedub - Motel California

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