2022

The second release for Atomic Alert sees False Persona delivering his hard-hitting, explosive electro sound. Although a fresh face, the 21 year old Bournemouth-based producer has been self taught music production and DJing since the age of 13, and after spending years learning how to make different styles of music under a multitude of aliases, his sound as an artist definitely serves as a hybrid of genres.

On the title track Unknown Variable, he combines extra-terrestrial mutating synths and ghostlike pads with an insanely infectious bass line. Similarly, Hive Mind is a deep space club roller constantly buzzing its way through your mind.

The introduction of Brighter Days and By My Side is False Persona's own form of alchemy; reconstructing his usual element of club-ready electro with an expansive sonic landscape of subsonic pressure waves and euphoric pads layered with other-worldly vocal samples and magical glitchy percussion. A nuclear remix of Brighter Days cooked up by Dexorcist, one of the most prominent icons of electro and a dreamy rework of By My Side, Atomic Alert's Nite Fleit presses the button on this diverse weapon of an EP.

“Unknown Variable is a release that’s extremely special to me in so many ways. Not only is it my first proper EP, but for the longest time I’ve wanted to encapsulate my typical electroey sound alongside the more emotional, floaty side to my productions - some of which I’ve been sat on for months, even years, but hadn’t quite found the right moment for them until now.
I’m super excited to finally share these tracks with the world, along with stellar remixes from Dexorcist and Nite Fleit, two of my absolute favourite producers that I never imagined I’d one day be calling friends :)” - False Persona

A3 False Persona — Unknown Variable

Out 11/11/2021
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Full EP available for Preorder via
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1. Saba
2. As Time Passes
3. Saba (Axon Growth Factor Remix)
4. As Time Passes (Nora Drum Remix) 

Things are clearer now for Meanjin (Brisbane) producer and Pocketmoth co-founder Itrat Memon, who in the 3 years since his last EP release, worked tirelessly to reconfigure his creative practice. A first glimpse came in May 2021 when he relinquished former alias ‘Black Mannequin’ in favour of the name Meanjin’s dance music community fondly knows him by: Iti.

This signalled an intention to break free from former personal narratives, and instead view releases as extensions of the transient self from irretrievable moments in time. In other words, a firm self-commitment to finish music while at its most visceral peak, for as time passes, so too does one’s emotional connection to its birthing point. Acknowledging this impermanence, the ‘Curvework’ series houses tracks conceived and finished within ephemeral moments of creativity.

Vol. 1: As Time Passes A fast-paced 2-track, 2-remix EP, suited to a variety of dance floor contexts. The EP begins with Saba (Urdu; wind, breeze): a swift, airy groover, fusing the percussive textures of Iti’s Pakistani heritage with soft, breathing pads and his signature vocal sampling. This is followed by the EP’s title track, ‘As Time Passes’; a high-energy, broken-beat number. Here, more of Iti’s hypnotic vocal chops weave cleverly with thundering rhythm and tabla sections.

The EP’s remixes come from two of Meanjin’s most exciting and active producers; Axon Growth Factor and Nora Drum.

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Off the back of his stunning release ‘Cytokenisis’ on Naarm (Melbourne) label The Space Between Us, Axon Growth Factor continues his excellent form with a stripped-back electro remix of ‘Saba’, injecting the intricate drum programming he is rapidly becoming known for.

Nora Drum, having released an equally stunning EP in collaboration with Lithe in September, continues his exploration of Drum and Bass with an immense take on ‘As Time Passes’, featuring a clinical rhythm section and textural atmosphere. Hats off.

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All tracks written, produced and mixed by Iti, Meanjin (Brisbane), AU.  Mastered by Chris McCormack at Blacklisted Mastering, UK.  Artwork by Enter.

Released by:
    Pocketmoth
Release date:
    11 November 2021

Curvework Vol. 1: As Time Passes

Iti - Curvework Vol. 1: As Time Passes [PKM012] (Previews)

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It seems Gestalt Records are going to end the year on a strong note, not that anyone, keeping an eye on this bustling outfit, would expect otherwise. In just over 3 years of existence they have released a number of stellar EPs from producers with fresh ideas and elegant sounds. Encompassing trippy progressive, leftfield house, hypnotic breaks and everything in between - the Tallinn-based label has created a signature sound which we’re big fans of here at Bolting Bits. And it is obvious that the latest addition to their ranks will fit right in.

For their 25th release, Gestalt Records have recruited Ed Hodge, who has previously released on Distant Horizons, White Peach and Dansu Discs. Hailing from the city of Birmingham, he also makes up ½ of Mother Of Pearls, his partner being the impeccable Tom Jarmey. A true man of culture, Ed is a fully trained saxophonist/clarinettist and his output is laced with classical influences. And this release is a classic Gestalt Records 4-tracker - filled with surging beats, pacey atmosphere and progressive soundscapes.

Clocking in at just over 6 minutes, the title track ‘Zest’ was clearly created with a club setting in mind. The 127 BPM piece starts subtly but soon evolves into a rollicking number that features a number of ups and downs, sure to get listeners moving - whether that’d be on the dancefloor or under the table. The elevating synth line, coupled with relentless percussion and an obscure but catchy vocal sample holds ground and leads the way for the remainder of this forward-thinking release. Whether it’s the ethereal ‘Black Flag’, gritty ‘Genesis’ or acid-infused ‘The Secret History’, each track on the ‘Nassau’ EP features enthralling sound design and is ready to be put to the test, by the wide-eyed dancers around the world.

PREMIERE: Ed Hodge - Zest

Two confined souls are looking for each other in the house, they feel, look at each other,
attract each other: they meet before a synthesizer and the “seduzione” immediately
becomes “irresistibile”. The fusion of their desires turns into music and the confinement
turns into freedom. This is where this EP was born.
Includes Remixes of Imanol, Panko & Inda Jani.

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PREMIERE: Manu Barcelo & Cu Da Curuxa - Seduzione (Imanol Remix) [U're Guay Records]

SYNTAX Electronix is back with its first release in 12 ”format. The bet is firm on the emerging producer Kör Boira, a young Valencian located in Berlin who arrives with great force. Kör Boira's proposal is direct, electro with ghetto aromas and street sounds. The reference comes with remixes of Hermeth and Detroit In Effect.

PREMIERE : Kör Boira - Like That

“Comanche EP” is a journey with some dark, groovy and psychedelic vibes that reveal once again the “ethno-disco” side of Alberto Melloni.
The native chants and traditional instruments rely on a landscape of electronic music and disco grooves that through canyons and blazing deserts, give life to two original club tracks: “Comanche”, clearly focused on peak time, and “Cortical”, a slow motion and 90s flavored trance-ish banger.
The release is completed with two inspired remixes from Italian master Amarcord (Ombra International, Dust & Blood) and Turkish Fat&Bald (Belly Dance Services, Latido), both showing their eclectic and cosmic vision of dance music.

Comanche EP

Alberto Melloni - Cortical (Fat&Bald Remix)

Out now on Rebellion: lnk.to/RBL084

Toronto-based talent Mustafa Ismaeel inaugurates Rebellion’s 2022 release schedule with the four-track EP Right Here. It marks his first output on the label and sets the tone for a highlight year ahead.

Mustafa spoke on what the release represents, stating: “This EP captures the essence and versatility of the music I play and create. Crossing multiple genres and styles, yet they all share the two main aspects of my music: groove and emotion."

The title track leads the charge, taking the form of a gently-building dance cut as glistening hats converge on sweeping kick-hat pairings. Darkest Love soon arrives, a collaborative effort between Mustafa and London-mainstay Hoomance. It warms with a gentle lucidity, as dream-like pads meld into ethereal vocal tones, before Messing Around takes its place. Four-four drum patterns cosy up next to echoing lyrical samples, paving the way for the final piece: Hindsight. Emotive and soothing, it retains an inherent club-ready feel - the perfect match for opening or closing a performance.

Based in the thriving cultural hub of Toronto, DJ and producer Mustafa Ismaeel is an artist that consistently redefines musical boundaries. Born in Iraq, growing up in India and maturing in Canada, the Deep House Toronto founder has released on several of contemporary house’s leading imprints, including Steyoyoke, Manual and Dream Cultur to name a few. Now, Right Here marks the biggest release of his career so far, showcasing him as a standout tastemaker in today’s scene.

Mustafa Ismaeel, Hoomance

Messing Around

Mustafa Ismaeel - Messing Around

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Rotterdam's @matadisk steps up on @nousklaeraudio with ‘Surrounder’ EP - fuelled with the kind of detail-orientated techno which has defined much of the Dutch imprints catalogue.

Surrounder

Mata Disk - Surrounder [Nous'klaer Audio]

Qbical has set himself the ambitious goal to release one new track each month on his own Qbism imprint - the place where has has complete creative freedom and that's when he's at his best! Check out the rumbling acid mix of 'Hi Eye'.

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Qbical - Hi Eye (Acid Mix)

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Alien Invasion Welcome Rave on 180g heavyweight vinyl.

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@curtiselectronix is proud to present "Destroy Your Future", the new LP from the one and only @galaxian. In the last years Mark Kastner aka Galaxian has become a prominent figure in the underground scene because of his high quality productions and his unique take on electro. We all know electro started with futurism and well, this work is pure futurism. Each cut is a trip into his restless creativity. Each track is a mind altering exploration of a deeply cinematic soundscape with a massive number of elements perfectly fused together with his "one of a kind" sci-fi aestethic that immediately pulls you out of the schemes. Caustic distortions, post industrial environments, mind expanding electronics and primitive drum patterns are only the main elements of this sci-fi masterpiece. There is no "Detroit Nostalgia" in it. This is sonic militance. The same that inspired the originators back in the days. When you play it, time runs faster and future looks closer. We are on board, but Galaxian is the only pilot of the ship.

Discogs:
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Release date:
7th March 2022

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Galaxian - Destroy Your Future LP (CRTSX008)

LYO is back and ready to take your breath away with the second volume of their compilation series «Driving Blind».
They follow up on their first exquisite offering with an even wider and larger selection of 23 tracks from captivating artists from all over the globe. Selected with care and love, it will bring you on an electronic journey pushing boundaries of style featuring only fresh new original music!

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‣ Release date: 28 January 2022

Metalheadz and Grey Code are proud to announce 'Renewal', the debut Grey Code album set to be released in January 2022 which follows up from the UK producer's seminal EPs ‘Reprieve’ and ‘Helios’, as well as a critically acclaimed remix for Goldie’s ‘The Mirrored River’ and Beatport No.1 collaboration ‘Call In Me’ alongside Phase.

With a huge package of new music ready to be revealed to a fan base that has grown around Grey Code's deep, soulful and intricately woven rhythms, he’s once again set an enviable standard. The album positions itself perfectly within the back catalogue of Metalheadz, with the South coast born producer now an imperative part of the roster.

‘Renewal’ marks a continuation in Grey Code’s journey, one which has enabled him to tour internationally, from Austria to Japan, as well as everywhere in between. Flexing the razor-sharp production skillset which he’s become renowned for, ‘Renewal’ is another example of the young producer’s value. It’s a fully immersive album from start to finish, including the sounds of ‘Prima’ setting the pace whilst ‘Voyage XIII’, ‘Eternal Garden’ and ‘Quantified Self’ follow suit. Meanwhile, ‘Actress’ and ‘Miserere’ deliver the darker hues whereas ‘Lone’, ‘Birth’ and ‘Nowhere Ever’ take you back into Grey Code’s more emotive musical landscapes.

Finishing the album are selections ‘MANTA’, with its euphoric levels, and ‘Primrose’ with its old-school breaks, alongside ‘Illiad’ which nods to its namesake through being sonically epic. Grey Code has constructed a work of art through his ‘Renewal’ album and it’s easy to hear within every track. As his music flourishes alongside some of the most renowned cuts to come through within drum & bass, he is becoming more and more notorious amongst its circles. With music like the type featured on ‘Renewal’, it’s easy to see how he’s one of the most hotly tipped artists coming through this generation of music creators.

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Renewal

Grey Code - Primrose

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PREMIERE: B3 - Davide Piras - Cliffhanger [DSD031]

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J-Shadow 'Ion Drive' (Gremlinz Remix)[Beat Machine Records]

'Remember Rainbow Bridge’, the new album by Croatian Amor, is a homage to youth and the delicate metamorphosis that occurs as childhood trips into maturity. Focused on this tender flux, the songs on 'Remember Rainbow Bridge' are infused with the restless energy of adolescence and a dawning sense of mortality. From the sun-kissed title track, to the night burn and wet pavement of ‘Paper Birds’, monumental highs are shuffled with great lows that we perhaps feel most clearly and earnestly in those formative years.

Since the earliest collages committed to tape under the name of Croatian Amor, Loke Rahbek's alias has at every step gravitated towards constant discovery and experimentation. The sound collages are still present while the unity of each song's construction now often conceals the juxtapositions and overlapping edges. Employing a medley of diffuse electronic music traditions, fantastical synthetic worlds are evoked and while ‘Remember Rainbow Bridge’ heavily relies on rhythmic structures to propel the compositions, Croatian Amor continues to tend a highly textured field in his own inimitable way.

'Remember Rainbow Bridge' is a celebration of the liminal space between phases of life, the chrysalis of youth. It is a record about coming to terms with our ever-changing place in the world, its title urging us to see the world with a child’s eye, to never forget the miraculous at play only an arm’s-length away.

“This world as we see it is passing away” Posh Isolation 270
Tracklist :

1. 5:00 am Fountain (03:51)
2. Remember Rainbow Bridge (06:17)
3. Young Adult, Common Nettle (04:08)
4. Paper Birds (04:09)
5. Worthy Contender (04:39)
6. Cup of Humanity (03:16)
7. Alabaster (03:59)
8. So Long Morningstar (05:02)

Credits :

All Music by Croatian Amor
Recorded 2020-2021.
2, 4, 5 Vocals by Maria Leth Schütze
4, 8 Cello by Cæcilie Trier
8 based on a composition by Tobias Elof
Mix, mastering & production assistance Malthe Fischer
Photos made in collaboration with Mikkel Ulriksen & Skjold Rambow Released 2022 with support from Koda Kultur
Croatian Amor is 1989
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Release date March 25th

Remember Rainbow Bridge

Croatian Amor - Remember Rainbow Bridge

Music composition and Sound design for TUTORIAL, 2-act study on transformation.

For AVATARA

Premiére at "Il divertimento per li regazzi", Sacca San Biagio, Venezia.

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Pentland Park - Overcast (KETTAMA's Del Boy Remix)

IMOGEN returns to Sunil Sharpe’s Earwiggle imprint, this time with Ben Pest for their first full release together, ‘Volts’, out today. Over the four tracks, the pair showcase their diverse style as crossover the realms of raw techno and UK hardcore, channeling volcanic energy. ‘Shibooty’ is a perky take on Chi-town techno with cartoonish vocal sequences, humming bass and elevated funk levels. It’s a groover!

IMOGEN is a resident at NTS and fabric and has previously released on femme culture, HE.SHE.THEY, Lobster Theremin amongst others. Bristol-based artist Ben Pest has collaborated with Radioactive Man, made appearances on Off Me Nut, Riot Radio Records, and Asking For Trouble and released under the OverworX moniker. 

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Volts

Premiere: IMOGEN & Ben Pest - Shibooty

Dyslexia, better know by his real name Aleksandar Dukovic, is an Serbian DJ/ Producer based in capital Belgrade who usually playing Electro, Electro - Break, Break - Beat, Techno music and more genres of electronic music. .  More tracks, mixes and events soon coming soon. Stay tuned.
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