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Alien D - D’s World [Budget Cuts]
Cat No: BCV005 
Format: 12" EP 
Genres: Breakbeat, Techno, Club
Release date:  October 14, 2022

A1. Magnet Dance 
A2. Conga Dance 
B1. Berger’s Breaks 
B2. Release 

Written and Produced by Daniel Creahan in Brooklyn, NY 
Mixed by Andrew Nerviano 
Illustration by Joel Heath 
Mastered by Ten Eight Seven London  

New York underground legend Alien D debuts on Budget Cuts with 4 out of this world zonked club-ready head trips.

Budget Cuts is honored to present the debut EP from New York’s finest, Alien D (@aliendan). In a commanding vinyl debut, Alien D conjures new worlds on D’s World which boldly traverses the territories of breakbeat, techno, and Baltimore club. Deep subs, slowed breaks, and hazy stabs. In the eternal words of Alien D: “Another World is Possible” 

Daniel Creahan is an artist whose musical output takes many different forms. Creahan formed the noise group Mind Dynamics and went on to release solo material under the moniker Stress on Embalming lately and Bootleg Tapes. The Alien D moniker emerged in 2018 with a focus on amphibious textures. Most recently, Creahan co-created DeKalb Works with and releases a stunning album for Where to Now?  In 2020. Creahan is a central figure in the New York underground scene as both an artist and co-founder of Sweat Equity records. 

"yes!" - Moskalus 

"magnet dance for me" - Posthuman 

": - )" - hurf

">:)" - deep creep

"massively brilliant! soupey and swanpy and very heavy ace" - jaye ward

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BCV005 - Alien D - D's World EP (Previews)

Sorry Records is over the moon to announce the first release since 2020 from Sweat Equity cofounder and our friend Alien D (@aliendan) 👽

Four freaky new transmissions from Planet D mastered with love by Ali Berger and gloriously remixed by core sorry fam Drummy (Kindergarten Records) and west coast breakbeat legend Bassbin Twins who took two tracks and freaked em into a MEGAMIX 👅

I met Dan at Sustain-Release in 2018 and have been nipping at his heels ever since. His work with Brooklyn-based rave outfit Sweat Equity provided a blueprint for us early on and he was one of the first remixes we commissioned for Sorry Records. His music has moved us throughout the years too from countless solo releases to his work alongside Austin Peru of Vision Fortune on their collaborative experimental ambient leaning project Dekalb Works. Dan's a constant joy and thankfully consistent presence in both our lives and on the NYC dancefloor. He's also dirty at bowling. 

Support by Nick León & Bitter Babe, T.Wan, Lychee, boxofbox, and more. Jubilee opened her wild Boiler Room set from this year's Bass Coast festival with the Bassbin Twins mix and livwutang played Drummy's remix in a recent Eto Ano Lot Radio show. 

Written, produced, mixed by Alien D
Tracks 1,2,3 mixed with Andrew Nerviano
Remixes by Drummy & Bassbin Twins
Mastered by Ali Berger (trackland.us)

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Alien D - Tripper

NYC labels link up as @sweat-equity co-founder @alienDan makes his solo debut on @sorry-records

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-alien-d-giggle

To My Friends Nick & Tony w/ Bassbin Twins & Drummy remixes [SR54]

Premiere: Alien D ‘Giggle’

The lights flickered in the tall office blocks which overlooked the city - it's funny, some people were attracted to the glitz and glamour of the skyscrapers but for him they felt them to be like vulture preying over the streetwalkers down below. They watched with malice, waiting to suck you up to the high heavens.

As he wandered through the busy streets, headphones on, he was in some kind of melancholy trance. He found himself here often, lost in thought, guided only by the repetition of his footsteps and the magnetic dance which echoed between his ears.

Some day he might escape from this city but for now it was all he had to call home. Some day he might leave.

Alien D is a producer from New York, a key figure in the underground music community. He is set to release a new EP via Budget Cuts - a deep moving downtempo house record which demonstrates great restraint and insight. This one comes from a long lineage of classic house music, meandering between styles with one foot in the present and the other in the past. Highly recommended.

D's World

PREMIERE: Alien D - Magnet Dance [Budget Cuts]

It were as if he were swimming in some sort of thick soup, the air was exhaustive to breathe and engulfed the senses in a dense weighty fog. It was like moving through heavy cream, weighed down by the very thing which kept him afloat.

He wondered how obvious it was to those all around him, did they notice as he weaved slowly between passers by as if in some sort of dream like haze. Did they notice as he tiptoed between the glow of flickering streetlights as the sounds and sirens of the city all around him swallowed it all up like some sort of pointed shark.

Who knew where his mind was? For he did not...

Kulture Galerie kickstart a new venture with the first release on the new label coming on strong and featuring a heavyweight cast of producers. Abdul Raeva, Gene Tellem and Nesa Azadikhah all feature on the first record on the imprint which is run by Metropolitan Soul Museum.

However, it is the Alien D track which we showcase today, music from a producer who we reckon is one to watch at the moment...

PREMIERE: Alien D - Heavy Cream [Kulture Galerie]

ALIEN D aka Daniel Creahan is a staple in the NYC underground. He co-runs SWEAT EQUITY and is one half of DEKALB WORKS. For this EP, he’s cooked up 4 heady dance floor churners that draw influence from many points along the UK hardcore continuum and US tech-tonic landscape. These cuts are applicable and psychedelically functional for all times of the night. Early support and play by CCL, AceMo, Miley Serious, 2Lanes, Wngdu, Devoye, Ru, Masha, Mazewski, and Furtive.

“Dream Burner'' opens up with a tantalizing, syncopated kick, a rim-shot rhythm, and a brain-scratching zoom…it starts out tiptoeing around the 4/4 and then fully gives the four only to end back where the track started…presenting you with the Beat in between the downs and ups. “Spicy Action” is the perfect mix of chill and party…dubbed-out breaks and synth stabs laced over traveling bass drum patterns. No seatbelts in this cruiser, so hang tight!

Flip to the B side. “Party Glitters” is a sunrise outdoor rave anthem. Blissed out techno breaks for the long-haulers. At 8 minutes and some change, this is one you’ll want to let work its own magic…it’s a goer! “Sunrise Deli” ends the EP with tangible optimism, the power of the kinship found at a solid rave. Lush synths ease in more brain-tingling techno percussion and bring the EP to a bright close.

300 copies pressed worldwide. Don’t sleep on this one.


https://aliendan.bandcamp.com/album/broadway-mid-tempo-party-music

https://soundcloud.com/aliendan
https://soundcloud.com/fixedrhythms

PREMIERE: Alien D - Spicy Action [Fixed Rhythms]

Tunnelly, trippy, slightly dark, slippery techno that tastefully dances in and around the 4/4. "Dream Burner" is the A1 off of Alien D's new slammer 12" "Broadway Mid-Tempo Party Music"...from New York to the rest of the world. Tap in and check the technoid fusion from this mainstay hooligan of the contemporary NYC underground dance music scene.

https://aliendan.bandcamp.com/album/broadway-mid-tempo-party-music

MOTZ Premiere: Alien D - Dream Burner

Buy Link: http://bit.ly/3ZW6nXt

https://soundcloud.com/aliendan
https://soundcloud.com/fixedrhythms

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Premiere: Alien D - Party Glitters - Fixed Rhythms

@aliendan
@fixedrhythms

ALIEN D aka Daniel Creahan is a staple in the NYC underground. He co-runs SWEAT EQUITY and is one half of DEKALB WORKS. For this EP, he’s cooked up 4 heady dance floor churners that draw influence from many points along the UK hardcore continuum and US tech-tonic landscape. These cuts are applicable and psychedelically functional for all times of the night. Early support and play by CCL, AceMo, Miley Serious, 2Lanes, Wngdu, Devoye, Ru, Masha, Mazewski, and Furtive.

“Dream Burner'' opens up with a tantalizing, syncopated kick, a rim-shot rhythm, and a brain-scratching zoom…it starts out tiptoeing around the 4/4 and then fully gives the four only to end back where the track started…presenting you with the Beat in between the downs and ups. “Spicy Action” is the perfect mix of chill and party…dubbed-out breaks and synth stabs laced over traveling bass drum patterns. No seatbelts in this cruiser, so hang tight!

Flip to the B side. “Party Glitters” is a sunrise outdoor rave anthem. Blissed out techno breaks for the long-haulers. At 8 minutes and some change, this is one you’ll want to let work its own magic…it’s a goer! “Sunrise Deli” ends the EP with tangible optimism, the power of the kinship found at a solid rave. Lush synths ease in more brain-tingling techno percussion and bring the EP to a bright close.

BC Pre-order: https://aliendan.bandcamp.com/album/broadway-mid-tempo-party-music

pi pi pi premiere: Alien D - Sunrise Deli (Fixed Rhythms)

Track from forthcoming cassette/digital "Spiritual World" out 10/2/23 on Lillerne

Alien D - Crystal Chamber (w/Mister Water Wet)

Alien D - Seeing Thru

@aliendan
@banlieuerecords

BC: https://banlieuerecords.bandcamp.com/album/br16-va-labor-of-love-2

Labour Of Love is signing the end of Banlieue Records.

2015- 2024

More infos to come…

pi pi pi premiere: Alien D - Liquid Nails (Banlieue Records)

Nature's Pencil

Alien D - Judith's Roof

13-minute gentle roller by Alien D, taken from his forthcoming 12". It's out June 13th on Theory Therapy.

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-early-hours-of-a-world-in-bloom

Produced by @aliendan
Mastered by @specialguest-dj
Guitar by Ben Seretan

Alien D - Breather

@aliendan
@theory-therapy

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-early-hours-of-a-world-in-bloom

pi premiere: Alien D - Soil Dub [Theory Therapy]

New jam up from forthcoming tape on @Lillerne.  Out 1/20
https://lillernetapes.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-painting

Full album up on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3TxavZ8haiOEHmSCBafd6p

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Alien D - Bump

* Read more:  https://boltingbits.com/alien-d-frog-shirt-fifteen-pm/

Following an incredible release earlier this year on Lillerne Tapes Alien D is back. This time on fifteen.pm with 3 more kaleidoscopic journeys to drift away to. Today's premiere features the track Frog Shirt from the forthcoming Jazzin' the Cube EP. The track opens with bouncy kick while airy and shimmering synths float above. As the square bass enters the mix, it begins pulsing along as a frog's neck does while meditating on a lily pad. There are tons of bits of sound to get lost in on Frog Shirt. Alien D illustrates again an ability to make tunes that are both contemplative and groovy – calming to the soul yet makes you want to get up bop around too. It's this sense of duality and playfulness that makes us stoked for each upcoming release from Alien D.

Jazzin the Cube is out this Friday 3/27 via fifteen.pm. Hop on over to their website to purchase the EP and also check out their incredible library of interactive music videos.

Jazzin' the Cube

PREMIERE: Alien D - Frog Shirt

"We're living in the past, developing a habit of moving on, when it's time to go, move on. It can make it easier for us right? Adjustment moments, we have a lot of adjustment moments when we're being offered the opportunity to let go of something that has been easy or pleasant or desirable about this old life. And, these are always things that are not likely to be around a year from now and so we're offered these adjustment moments, opportunities to let go of it now so we have a gentler settling in to place and not a sudden crash off the cliff. Does that make sense?"

Dublin's First Second Label put family first on their new compilation *Completely Sold Out Rarities, a collection of tracks from previous label mates as well as artists who the imprint will be working with in future. First available on a limited CD, the 13 tracks are now available digitally for the first time, featuring the likes of Sputnik One, DJ OK, Lee Kelly and Alien D.

PREMIERE: Alien D - Evaluate for Truth [First Second Label]

Fifteen new tracks from all of our friends at once. 

All proceeds go directly to the artists and ppro-black/anti-police charities and bail funds such as The Okra Project, Bushwick Ayuda Mutua, and G.L.I.T.s.

1. @ama_l - The Jaunt
2.  @donis-bk - The Ha Dance (I Do Believe Flip)
3. @panooc_music - Low Ways
4. @DULLAFTRUSE - Fantasy Hall
5.  @mvaughanmusic - Room To Breathe
6. @djfinetouch - Ankle Track
7. @t_o_n_y_g - Morocco Rococo
8. @deejaydylan - Let's Float
9. @drvmmy - Love - Like
10. @masharu - Hear The Smell
11. @skulptormusica / @analolaroman - Yemoja's Swollen Sea
12. @stickfigure36 -  Stuck Under Rock
13. @escaflowne-iii - Jungletine
14. @sstress - Breath
15. @cranklincroons & @t_o_n_y_g - 0000rchestra

Art by Tony G
Mastered by Drummy

Sorry Records & Friends

Breathe

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Alien D - Breath [SRVA01]

A contribution to the latest @Lillerne compilation, the full expanse of which can be heard at the link below.  Please pick a bundle of tunes up and support Brave Space Alliance (www.bravespacealliance.org) and Urban Growers Collective (urbangrowerscollective.org)

https://lillernetapes.bandcamp.com/album/lillerne-122-fundraiser-compilation