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@ehuamusic
NH012 // Ehua - Aquamarine EP 

OUT 23/04/21
https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/album/ehua-aquamarine-ep

Nervous Horizon are back with the second in a series of quick-fire EP releases, this time in the form of Ehua’s ‘Aquamarine’ — her first EP proper for the label after contributing a track (‘Meteora’) to 2019’s ‘NH Vol.3’ compilation.

Following hot on the heels of SIM’s dancehall-inflected ‘Terminate’ EP, ‘Aquamarine’ details six new tracks inspired by both the colour and motion of water. With tempos ranging from 95-140bpm, Ehua also uses custom made percussive samples and original vocals — spoken thoughts in reversed Italian on ‘Black’ — to harness different motions and states, collecting thoughts on organisms, frequencies and vibrations that we might not be aware of or perceive.

These ideas and concepts take shape via a rich and experimental, six-track workflow that moves between the dark, sludgy broken-beats of ‘Xantho’ through to the unnerving, drone techno of ‘Diatom’ — a track written to mirror the darkest depths of the ocean.

Ehua - Xantho

@twinsenuk
@definitepartymaterial

To mark the label’s third anniversary we’ve enlisted a team of friends and family to remix tracks from the labels back catalogue spread across a range of genres that influence the labels. 

We’re also running a third birthday party on the 21st of August at VENUE MOT that features artists included on the compilation as well as some of our favourite London DJs.

ACEN3001 is released on the 20th of August via All Centre.

ACEN3001 (All Centre 3rd Anniversary Compilation)

Twinsen - They Come Alive In The Darkness (Ian DPM Remix)

@djgagreflex brings her Sisyphean Rhythms EP to Scuffed Recordings, weaving deftly between weighty breaks and percussive, rolling house across three tracks.

Originally from Seattle and now based in Berlin, Gag Reflex has spent the past few years gathering pace as a DJ in the U.S. with residencies in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco - and more recently with club appearances in Berlin and Lisbon, along with mixes for platforms including Rinse FM, HÖR, and Honey Soundsystem.

As a producer, her work nods variously to classic rave, techno and breaks influences, with a penchant for percussion and dark, oppressive atmospherics. With previous releases coming via none/such, Circa AD and Naive sublabel Naivety, Gag Reflex has gone a long way to establishing her sound and picking up some heavyweight support in the process.

The Sisyphean Rhythms EP features three new tracks exploring different facets of Gag Reflex’s sound - from the intense surge of opener Concussion, to the rolling flow of club tool Spit, and closing with the all-out rush of Valve.

Buy:
https://scuffedrecs.bandcamp.com/album/sisphyean-rhythms-ep

Gag Reflex - Spit

Pre-order: https://purapura.bandcamp.com/album/odyssey-club

Stepping onto France's @monstart-crew records, @pura_pura straddles rap influences, a fervent defender of 808 rhythms, and metallic club sounds on his latest offering - a six-track EP titled 'Odyssey Club' paying tribute to different historical currents of the dance music scene.

Taking over remix duties of the record's ghettotech-influenced 'Feel The 808', @sarahfarina illuminates the track by bringing rhythm and depth, directing the sound toward a new, energetic club sphere.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Pura Pura 'Feel The 808' (Sarah Farina Remix)

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* Pre-order: https://wearerhythmsection.bandcamp.com/album/shouts-2022

Rhythm Section International curates the third instalment of SHOUTS, spanning a massive 29 tracks, it traverses a vast range of genres from contemporary R&B through to club focused cuts. Encompassing the core of Rhythm Section’s wide sonic imprint, the compilation continues to focus on up and coming producers & artists alongside more established names to shine a light on the exceptional musical talent stirring in 2022.

Bradley Zero remarks,
“ SHOUTS was only ever intended to be a one-off project to celebrate 5 years of the label, but the process of hitting up artists we respect and admire to contribute a track to a compilation ended up being a game changer for us as a label. It turns out we have so much to shout about!

In this world of over subscribed pressing plants, 6 month lead times and increasing production costs, it makes more and more sense to transition this project into the digital realm…”

SHOUTS 2022 sees the label once again travelling across the world to find the most exciting sounds, integrating itself in the emerging soul and jazz scenes of Berlin with RS debuts from Yoofee of the Moses Yoofee trio, neo soul singer Noah Slee and hip hop downtempo jazz producer S.Fidelity. The compilation also welcomes several artists from across the Atlantic including but not limited James Bangura, the DC based producer part of the Black Rave Culture Collective whose dynamic percussion driven productions have taken him on tours across the world on tours through Japan and Europe. The UK offering see’s Cosmic Slop resident billy2chips step up to the plate alongside London based DJ and producer Manami who is fresh off her tour supporting the iconic Bicep alongside talented artist Toby Cato whose work and music may be coming through very soon..

“ Whilst a few tracks on this comp are the product of longer standing relationships ( Yak, Rejoicer, Natty Wylah, Athlete Whippet, Ian DPM, Sally C) big proportion of the tracks are the fruits of Rhythm Section’’s relatively new Label Team - consisting of Emily Hill as Label Manager and Label assistant Ayiesha Smith - who graduated from intern to full on employee this year.

This new blood is reflected in the increasingly diverse mix of selections for this year's SHOUTS, ranging from the “Ori” influenced soul of newcomer Akin Soul to JuJu Rogers’ new wave of Jazzy Hip Hop emanating from Emily's adopted City of Berlin. Long story short, this is a snapshot of where we are collectively at, where we are headed and what we want to shout about.

SHOUTS 2022

PREMIERE: Ian DPM - Overheard By The Birds

Stepping up for MANT004 is the one and only Ian DPM. This EP continues an impressive string of releases for him, including on his own imprints Scuffed Recordings and Definite Party Material, all exploring the edges of club music with tunes belonging slap bang in the middle of the dancefloor.

Proceedings start with an evening service, except the gospel choir have forgotten the keys to the church and instead take themselves and their organ down to the club for some heavenly amen breaks. The rest of the EP remains firmly on the dancefloor, but the club itself is launched into another dimension, powered by overcharged acid and off-kilter percussion riding over weighty, no-nonsense basslines.

@mantissa1

Buy:
https://orcd.co/mant004

Ian DPM - Evening Service [Mantissa]

Scuffed Recordings co-founder Ian DPM (@definitepartymaterial) debuts on @mantissa1 with a suite of breaksy, acid-dipped belters

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-ian-dpm-acid-dance-vocal

Premiere: Ian DPM ‘Acid Dance (Vocal)’

A shrill repetitive noise roused them in the early hours of the morning - like an air raid siren it cut through everything. Where it came from they didn't know, as far as they were aware there was nobody around for miles and miles - this was the middle of nowhere. Sleep was impossible now, though tiredness gripped every inch of them, they couldn't drift off for fear of the unknown. By the window they sat, squinting in the darkness, listening out for something moving in the bushes, but nothing appeared before day broke - had they dreamed it all?

As one half of the brains behind Scuffed Recordings and the curator of Definite Party Material, Ian DPM knows a thing or two about what constitutes a banging tune. Making his first forays into production himself a few years back with his Visions EP on Scuffed, he's since released a bunch of other EPs that teeter on the fringes of club music, fusing the likes of UKG, breakbeat, dancehall and techno. His next release comes via London-based music platform turned label Mantissa and is charged up with all the sonics you'd expect from him; weighty basslines, frenetic rhythms and crisp breakbeats.

PREMIERE: Ian DPM - Hardbody [Mantissa]

Pre-order: https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/album/mantissa-004-evening-service

Stepping up to London label @mantissa1, DJ and producer @definitepartymaterial shares his next EP exploring the outer edges of club music.

'UT6' lives firmly on the dancefloor - an off-kilter cut with percussion riding over weighty, no-nonsense basslines.

Premiere: Ian DPM 'UT6'

Ploy - Intrigued By The Drum EP

out 14th July 2017

A1. Intrigued By The Drum
A2. Zoom
B1. Blow Poke
B2. Bad Seed

art by Danielle Doobay

Intrugied By The Drum

Ploy - Zoom

Straight outta Copenhagen. The young Danish duo Code Walk delivers the first release of the year for Peder Mannerfelt Produktion. Six tracks that encompass a perfect balance of attitude, speed and atmosphere. Expect the unexpected and expect to hear more about Code Walk in 2019.

Code Walk - 'Distance'
A1 - Distance	
A2 - Touch	
A3 - Streak	
B1 - Red	
B2 - The Same As Me	
B3 - Monitor

Cat #: PMCW001
Label: Peder Mannerfelt Produktion
Format: Vinyl / Digital
Distribution: Boomkat

Release date: Feb 15th 2019

Code Walk - Touch

HGL - 001 - A2 JAY - Nostag

TIMEDANCE019 see's Air Max '97 join the ranks and introduce his signature unclassified sound to the table. The London based New Zealander refines his sound here with an emphasis on functionality and groove. Contemporary sonics interact with a FWD>>> attitude for a sound that is rude, tough and different.

Ice Bridge / Bruxis

Air Max '97 - Ice Bridge

Here's my debut collaboration with Clara! , recorded at the beginning of the year. Had a lot of messages about this one so excited to finally have it out there. It's out this Friday :) 

Written by Clara Sobrino & David Kennedy
Produced and mixed by David Kennedy
Recorded in Brussels and London
Mastered by Matt Colton @ Metropolis
Design by David Coquelin

Mi Cuerpo

Buy on Bandcamp

Pearson Sound X Clara! - Mi Cuerpo

OUT 25/9/20

https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/album/object-blue-tsvi-hyperaesthesia-ep

Following a stellar run of recent releases including best-of-year EPs from the likes of DJ Plead and DJ JM, Nervous Horizon are back with their first record of 2020 — a unique new collaborative EP by object blue and label co-head, TSVI.

Out on September 25th, ‘Hyperaesthesia’ details four sweltering new club tracks — described by the pair as “body music” — that mesh together object blue’s widescreen, experimental club tones and TSVI’s borderless percussive styles.

Inspired by ‘ever-present conversations about machines and sentience’, the EP’s mechanical crux plays out in the narrative of the tracks too; from a sense of machines ‘waking up’ on near 8-minute opener ‘Thought Experiment’ to the frantic, processing energy of ‘Turing Machine’. The record also comes complete with a special remix by Loraine James and vinyl-only bonus track, ‘Syntax’.

Tracklist:

1 Thought Experiment
2 Turing Machine
3 Thought Experiment (Loraine James Remix)
4 Syntax (Vinyl Bonus Track*)

object blue & TSVI - Thought Experiment

'Rolling Empires' is the first track off of my next EP 'Explorations In Music For Dancing: Volume 1'. Out on 4th September.

To aid me in my research, I recruited his fellow scientist and collaborator, Caitlin Mcloughlin, who has developed the visual identity for the EP. Frustrated by the restricting formats of a digital download, Caitlin’s visual output extends far beyond the square format cover art. A mock typeface and specimen are both available as a free download with the EP.

Designed by Caitlin, the typeface was first moulded out of plasticine, reflecting the playful nature of the project, whilst the specimen acts as a space to document their process and explore the influences and building blocks for the series.

Explortions In Music For Dancing: Volume 1 

Explorations In Music For Dancing: Volume 1

Pre-order

Happa - Rolling Empires

Record label from @djpitchdj @simkin0 @tomsobolikmusic

Everything 2 allcentre000@gmail.com

Artwork by @bette-blanchard
Mixing and Mastering by @djpitchdj

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platform curated by Ian DPM 🥷
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Twinsen - They Come Alive In The Darkness (Ian DPM Remix)

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