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God Of War 3 - Soundtrack - The Ghost Of Sparta

Nostro Hood System head honcho Galtier makes a return to the Bristol label with 5 visceral tracks which, through fusion of synthetic and organic textures, emulate human imitation of nature's essence.

He crooked his neck, not daring to make any bigger movements as he learnt his surroundings. His feet stumbled clumsily and he found himself spinning, his eyes receiving visual information faster than his brain could process it. The hardness of metal pressed itself into soft flesh, resembling the shape of human bodies, but not their movement. Faces showed their teeth and squinted their eyes, but didn't smile. Mouths projected noise, but didn't speak. It was grotesque but strangely enticing.  He looked down at his hands which couldn't hold.

In some respects, 'Imitation Plantae' is exactly what you'd expect from a Galiter release. 5 off-kilter tracks which laugh in the face of genres, maintaining just enough of their stylistic tropes to make them recognisable before screwing them up and making something totally new. In reality, it's hard to know what to expect from Galtier - an artist who basks in unpredictability and uncanniness.

Departing somewhat from his previous output, an introspective full-length album released on Mexico's Infinite Machine imprint , Imitation Plantae is a whiplash tour of club music's strangest corners. Crystalline sound design flirts with the senses, each blip and groan tempting to the touch, immersing their listener in its cyborg world. 

Our pick 'XX-101 (Process)' sees Galtier put his oddball spin on dembow. Arpeggiating synths and a razor-sharp buzz that whirrs mischievously above, add layers of movement to an assertive triplet rhythm. Club mutations at their most incongruous, we file this one next to Batu's most recent EP.

Imitation Plantae EP

PREMIERE: Galtier - XX-101 (Process)[Nostro Hood System]

Nostro Hood System founder Galtier emulates the naturally occurring world with fractious genre hybridity.

'Imitation Plantae' is out March 25th on Nostro Hood System.

Pre-order: bit.ly/37Ytzid

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@nostro-hood-system

Premiere: Galtier - Chrysanthemum [Nostro Hood System]

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Galtier makes his second return to his own label with a 5-track offering of off-kilter, obscure electronic madness aptly titled 'Imitation Plantae'. Inspired by the idea of man-made imitations attempting to capture the essence of natural beauty. Galtier's take on this very concept manifests itself through the ever-present sense of unease that is evident across all five tracks. The melodies drift in and out of tune, ever so slightly, ultimately sounding pleasing but always fleeting in their general aura of pleasantness. A showcase of Galtier's breadth of confidence across a huge span of BPMs and rhythmic influences that is showcased on his sophomore NHS release, reflecting the sense of uncertainty conveyed through the Intentionally awry mood throughout.

The EP itself is a distinct shift, once again, in gears off the back of his debut LP on Infinite Machine, which encapsulated the journey into one's own existence and presence in a vast world that is, to this viewer, connected on an atomic and deeply spiritual level. This decidedly stark difference in output originated as an attempt to play contrarian to his own 'style' of productions - Setting out to prove that he is capable of branching out once again into a new, confused realm that steers away from theatrics and hones in on sharp, digitized and overtly computer-programmed aesthetics.

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Galtier - Exhalation Of Blood

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Buy: https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/lithe-nora-drum-remixes

Mastered by Lithe 
Original artwork by Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi featuring photography by Hamish Thomson, remixed by Nathan Hurdle

Remixes

Lithe - Second Pavilion (Galtier Remix)

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.

Low End Activist ft.  Emz - Get Get

For the second release of the year, we’re delighted to welcome Paris-based Jumboclat, member of SeekSickSound and Exploration Music (RIP).

Author of a first solo release on Flore’s POLAAR imprint and producing the acclaimed ‘Tell Me’ released on Vernacular Records, he is also well versed in footwork, as demonstrated by his tunes on Le French Work.

His ‘Cloverleaf EP’ is a concentrate of everything he does best : from the emotional an deep 2-step ‘B With U’ to the razor sharp breakbeats of ‘Timeslip’, the prouction is meticulous, deep and melancholic, an ode to the carribean sounds and cultures blended with futuristic sound design. To round off the EP, Stacktrace delivers a psychedelic and oppressive dub remix of the title track.

https://egregorecollective.bandcamp.com/album/egr011ep-cloverleaf-ep

Jumboclat
https://soundcloud.com/jumboclat

Egregore Collective
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SOUNDCLOUD : soundcloud.com/egreg-re
INSTAGRAM : instagram.com/egrego.re
BANDCAMP : https://egregorecollective.bandcamp.com/

Cloverleaf EP

PREMIERE: Jumboclat - B With U [Egregore Collective]

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Bringing us to our twentieth release we have an NHS newcomer with their first ever EP, named Yotah, Offering up four tracks that teeter on the fringes of chunky maximalism and intricate, evolving modulation. ‘Rewiring’ is an exploration of hybridized and amorphous sonics into recognizable patterns, only to break through this consolidation (so evidently true to our nature) to peer into the unknown that lurks on the other side.

Such a notion is further established through the creative process that Yves pursued to develop his first body of work; learning and unlearning various styles of music to be left with a semblance of what was. His sound, not yet fully established as he humbly states, is always a vestige of the past, whispers of a previous set of patterns he has reinterpreted and rewired in his own mind.

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Artwork by Aviv Szabs & Emanuel Baumann
Mastering by Fausto Mercier

Release date: 28th October 2022

https://nostrohoodsystem.bandcamp.com/album/rewiring-ep

Rewiring EP

Arc Blast [NHS020]

Bringing us to our twentieth release we have an NHS newcomer with their first ever EP, named Yotah, Offering up four tracks that teeter on the fringes of chunky maximalism and intricate, evolving modulation. ‘Rewiring’ is an exploration of hybridized and amorphous sonics into recognizable patterns, only to break through this consolidation (so evidently true to our nature) to peer into the unknown that lurks on the other side.

Such a notion is further established through the creative process that Yves pursued to develop his first body of work; learning and unlearning various styles of music to be left with a semblance of what was. His sound, not yet fully established as he humbly states, is always a vestige of the past, whispers of a previous set of patterns he has reinterpreted and rewired in his own mind.

Buy https://smarturl.it/NHS020
https://soundcloud.com/nostro-hood-system
https://soundcloud.com/yotahh

Rewiring - EP

PREMIERE: Yotah - Bouncer [Nostro Hood System]

@yotahh

Bringing us to our twentieth release we have an NHS newcomer with their first ever EP, named Yotah, Offering up four tracks that teeter on the fringes of chunky maximalism and intricate, evolving modulation. ‘Rewiring’ is an exploration of hybridized and amorphous sonics into recognizable patterns, only to break through this consolidation (so evidently true to our nature) to peer into the unknown that lurks on the other side.

Such a notion is further established through the creative process that Yves pursued to develop his first body of work; learning and unlearning various styles of music to be left with a semblance of what was. His sound, not yet fully established as he humbly states, is always a vestige of the past, whispers of a previous set of patterns he has reinterpreted and rewired in his own mind.

Artwork by Aviv Szabs & Emanuel Baumann
Mastering by Fausto Mercier

Yotah - Landing Sequence

Outer Heaven

UVB76-025 : The Observatory | More hardcore | Minority Industrial Complex

A. The Observatory
AA1. More Hardcore
AA2. Minority Industrial Complex

Release Nov 25 2022

Descending in tempo across three tracks, Outer Heaven states his case founded in breaks. ‘The Observatory’, ‘More Hardcore’ and ‘Minority Industrial Complex’ trail across the hardcore continuum connecting drum & bass to hardcore to hip hop. Essential listening for the discerning raver.

UVB76-025

UVB76-025 Outer Heaven - The Observatory

Ellis delta makes his debut EP appearance on Manuka w/ his Ten Percent EP (MNK018). Expect genre fusion whilst Ellis puts his signature print on breaks, electro, dubstep and techno.

Release Date: 6th December 2022

MNK018 (Showreel) Ellis Delta - Ten Percent EP [OUT NOW]

Cru Plate

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Australian producer Jaise hits Metalheadz again for the last release of the imprint in 2022, the Something In My Mind EP.

Release date: 16/12/2022
Cop it here: https://bfan.link/somethinginmymind

Artist: Jaise
Soundcloud: @jaise-dnb

Label: Metalheadz
Soundcloud: @metalheadz

Jaise - Take A Closer Look [Premiere]

Brick Sweat | #urBass | Explicit | 2022 12 12

Full stream of Spaceface's "Electrical Disturbance," taken from Face Invader EP on Das Booty, out December 16.

More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Premiere: Spaceface - Electrical Disturbance

SPACEFACE - FACE INVADER EP

Out on Das Booty Records Friday 16 Dec 2022

Spaceface
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/space-face-1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rob_spaceface/

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dasbootyrave
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/das_booty_rave/

PREMIERE: Spaceface - Break It Down (Das Booty)

[Premiere] Exal - Riff Face (out on Faktice)


Tracklist

01. Steve Tulls - The Year 2000
02. Glen Judah - Mr Collie Man
03. Roland Burrell - Blood Shot Eyes
04. Pappa Natty - Dance Hall Rock
05. Mystic Radics - Nation Wide
06. Lambsbread - International Love
07. Mark Tyson - Thank You Jah
08. Anthony Levy - Never Found A Girl
09. Standford Shirley - The System
10. Jonny Thompson - Subtitute 
11. Noel Ellis - The Game Of Love
12. Danny Lover - Mind Readers 
13. Vernon Maytone - What A Situation 
14. Glen Brown - Lbya Round One
15. ET Webster - Tune In With Me
16. Ashanti Waugh - Good Shape 
17. Prince Alla - Mek She Gwan
18. PEP - Crisis
19. Swelele - Mr Officer
20. Cooly - Freedom
21. Jahfa Culture - Listen To We 
22. Little Howie - What A Calamity
23. Fisha - So Dem Say
24. King Kong - Reggae Mylitis
25. Franky Wilmouth - Babymother Friend
26. Shatter Nile - Hackle Them Body
27. Muzic Maika - 85 Degree
28. Rudo - Freedom
29. Elkana Gordon - The Eden
30. Phill Wonder - No Camouflage
31. Crazy Wilson - Murder Commit
32. Sugar Candy - That's How
33. Pappa Rueben - Punkas Pon Pankas
34. Dallas - She Want It
35. Junior Redwood - Ain't Going To Give It Away
36. Carl Meeks - Big And Broad
37. Den Roy Brown - red Natty Dread 
38. Ira Jone - Kettle Wire 
39. Bruce Ferguson - Ease Up Now Baby

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