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Label: Banoffee Pies Records
Artist: Pugilist
Title: Static
Catalogue Number: BP019
Genre: UK Techno / Dub / Down Tempo
Release: February 2022

Tracklist:
A1 Déjà Vu
A2 Future Retro
B1 Static
B2 Sky Blue

Banoffee Pies Records 19th release in the Original Series lands with a very special solo EP entitled "Static" from Melbourne based Producer/DJ, Pugilist. Alex has been making incredible selections of bass infused, UK and Dub tinged music for many years. A fitting welcome on BPR as the label hits it's 8 year anniversary since its inception in 2014. The platform continues to evolve with an ever growing number of releases representing different sounds across its sublabels and many blossoming side projects alongside.

To honour the frequent mood changes and feelings of relative isolation experienced in the last 2 years, the A side aims to reconnect those lost moments with "Déjà Vu" & "Future Retro" - both tracks channelling a UK centric sound for the dancefloor and a further proof of the depth and quality found across Pugilist's back catalogue. The B side flaunts a completely parallelled sound palette with "Static", a down tempo dubby track partnered by the beautifully stylish "Sky Blue". A combination of anthems and cloud hopping ballads for the record collectors. Much love, BPR. X

*The release includes an extra goodie in the form of the digitally exclusive track “Illumination” - a low key 2step / garage mood to close out the EP.

Mastered: Optimum
Distributed by: KUDOS Records

Banoffee Pies 019 - Static

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Casting a self-reflexive lens over his roots via the medium of crushing, future-rushing soundsystem sonics, Low End Activist returns to Sneaker Social Club with a full-length of monumental proportions.

When the Low End Activism 12” ignited on Sneaker in 2019, it paid tribute to the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, UK, where LEA originates from. In the shadow of social inequality and strengthened by the unity of the multi-ethnic community, Blackbird Leys still imposes a powerful influence on LEA’s work, even as he’s stepped out onto Seagrave for last year’s Game Theory album and notched up the first couple of releases on his own self-titled label.

On this new album, Hostile Utopia sums up the conflicting emotions attached to memories of home – how it’s possible to feel nostalgic for the griminess of urban and suburban Britain, its ordinary tales of bitterness and frustration, but also its intrinsic passion and solidarity. At a time when social division is actively engineered by Machiavellian forces, real conviviality at street level feels like an impossible dream.

LEA communicates these tensions through a style which is becoming his signature – dynamic bass torsion and chiseled, fractalised rhythms slugging around the 130 mark. It’s moody like a UK-themed record ought to be, but it’s not morose. There’s fierceness in every snap and rumble, as the legacies of hardcore, jungle, dubstep and grime pour into the casing prior to the gunpowder lighting.

On previous LEA releases, the MC roll call has pointed to some of the most vital voices touching the mic in the present day. Flowdan, Sikka Rymes and Trim all had something different to impart over the riddims, and now Hostile Utopia expands on that with the most extensive show of lyrical strength yet. Mez lights up the woozy, abstract grime swerve of ‘Mercenary’ in a musical style. Emz brings a ruthlessly sharp verbal steez to ‘GetGet’, Killa P gets busy toasting over ‘DFRNT STYLE’ and ‘Superhighway’ carries the dexterous hip-hop flow of Cadence Weapon.

In between those standout tracks, LEA expresses just as much in the production. Tracks brimming with stories to impart, laden with symbols masquerading as samples and draped in aural garb that firmly places Hostile Utopia in a place, a mood, that could only belong to the UK. It’s a hybrid sound just like the society it sprang from, and therein lies its power.

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Grown Folk - Steady Moving

Artist : Nouveau Monica
Name : Nouveau Monica
Format : Digital
Release date : 18/10/2022

Mastering : hdn_mastering @a-sim1988

Tracklist :

- Nouveau Monica - Universal Mind Chaos
- Nouveau Monica - Focus
- Nouveau Monica - Post Scriptum Anthem
- Nouveau Monica - Loop Collage

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An unexpected but refreshing fusion of styles, this Special 4 Track E.P. sees recent Dimeshift labelmates Delian Sound and Spectre come together to self-release a collection of hard-hitting, hybrid music that shelves trends in favour of carving out a new soundworld.

In a format harking back to the early days of Tempa, the E.P. taps into both producers' interest in writing fresh takes on the '02-'03 post-garage moment, reinterpreting elements of 140/dubstep, breakbeat, and more.

Delian Sound's signature breaks, sampling ethics, and wobbles bookend the release, leading the opening breakstep-excursion "Bass Odyssey " and reese-drenched roller "Eclipse" in the finale.

Meanwhile, the measured edge of Spectre's pad, synth, and drum work set the stage in the merciless, keeps-you-guessing track "Anything" and meditative progressions of "Stasis".

released October 4, 2024

Written & Produced by Delian Sound v Spectre

Mastered by A2E Sound

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