As Typeless steps into its fourth release, label head Aloka turns eyes and ears to the horizon with a shapeshifting drop of breakbeat, electro and ambient. Fusing together textural arrangements and genre hybrids, he sets his sights on experimentation with ‘Inta’.

The opening track ‘Inta’ moves with a dreamy, indirect gaze and wistful melodies as though sighing itself into existence. Amongst it all sits a subtle beat which carries it into the dancefloor realm, yet it’s when they apex together that its weight blooms from the core. ‘B4
XL’ begins almost as an ensuing chapter to its predecessor with its ambient washes, but soon ripens into an antagonistic electro number that tumbles between raging synths and breaks.
On the B-side, ‘Chroma’ diffracts into a million colours, glassy eyed in its introduction but hiding tyrannica kicks and syncopations underneath a swooping bass. The closing track‘Movement’ slinks straight into a workout-ready guise, merging panting exhalations, pearly synths and choppy breakbeats against the sensation of a spectral figure reaching a deep state of flow.

With this second self-release on the label, it’s as though Aloka is so deeply immersed in his complex vision that he’s stepped out of his body to watch it all unfold. There’s one word to describe this image of him in his effortless performance as both label curator and signee:
fitting

PREMIERE : Aloka - Chroma

💥 Four no-frills uptempo tracks that fuse electro, ghettotech and jungle as only Detroit's Filthiest can. Out on Nov 19, 2021 on vinyl & digital.

🏁 pre-order: https://album.link/DICA018

Fight To The Finish EP

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Detroit's Filthiest - Fight To The Finish EP / DICA018 preview

We invited one of the most jaw-dropping artists of the last year onto APECAST. Nova Cheq has stormed onto the scene and is showing no signs of letting up. Check out our quick-fire interview over on Insta, where we chatted about independent venues and musical inspirations.   

Nova Cheq is the enigmatic Leeds-based DJ and producer, who has engraved his multi-faceted sound of dark and chuggy bass tones with fast-paced hardcore wobblers. There are certainly no boundaries with this new to the scene artist. 

Nova has created a versatile and disruptive sound, since only starting production in the back end of 2019. Fast forward to 2021, this has proven to be the year of Nova Cheq. With an earth-shattering EP on Sherelle’s label ‘Hooversound’, releases on DJ Spits Rascals, Trax Haven, Das Booty and Gimme a Break. Not to mention his releases gaining regular play across the globe, with the support from industry idealists; Sherelle, VTSS, Mel G, Jessy Lanza, Kessler, Kush Jones and many more. 

Why else haven't you Cheq'd out Nova Cheq?  

Nova Cheq:
@novacheq
https://www.instagram.com/nova_cheq/
https://linktr.ee/novacheq

Ape-X:
www.ape-x.club
www.instagram.com/apexncl/
www.facebook.com/apexnewcastle
ape-xrecords.bandcamp.com

APECAST024 - NOVA CHEQ

Guest Mix for Benteki on Reprezent 02/07/22

FEEDBACK. VA 2 [FDBKVA02]
SMIFF - Badmin160
Label: FEEDBACK. Recordings
Format: Digital
Genre: 160/Dub
Release Date: 29/07/22
Bandcamp link: feedbackrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/fdbk-va02

Mastered by SMIFF
Artwork by Eden A Leal

SMIFF - Badmin160 [FDBKVA02]

//YouTube - https://youtu.be/a4fGA26s4aU

AK Sports
https://soundcloud.com/aksportsdj
https://www.instagram.com/aksportsdj/

Higher Power
https://soundcloud.com/higherpowerlabel

"Hot on the heels of their debut on Lobster Theremin, Sydney born and bred radio host, DJ/producer AK SPORTS readies five devastating cuts of distinct Nu-Sports club; finding their Higher Power - a new-age rave pairing formed from within a blazing ball of hell-fire.

Releases and remixes have followed on Dansu Discs, Mad Decent and CLUB GLOW (where they produced a collaborative EP with rising artist Kessler), and their Balamii radio show has welcomed guests from Dagga, Allan Fitzpatrick, Moktar, Mell G, Nova Cheq and Nikki Nair.

Inspired by the lack of female faces in a male-dominated scene, AK SPORTS has been at the forefront of a big-room, warehouse sound being championed in Australia (X CLUB, Mall Grab) that has been borrowing from the golden eras of trance and hardcore, whilst also catapulting that same energy straight into the dance through a contemporary lens.

‘West Coast’ tears itself into two forms - one a heavyweight 4x4 power mix, the other a ravey cut of breakbeat hardcore that melts across a scattered rhythm. ‘Une Amie’ floats like a killer-bee amongst swirls of synthy colours and patterns on a deep, driving and frenzied techno flow.

‘Eurostar’ is the soundtrack to what would happen if the high-speed, multi-national rail service was somewhere transported the a Mario Kart multiverse – a cut of trance-fused Euro-techno – before ‘Lockdown in the Big Smoke’ takes us on a melancholic trip into the dead of night on a killer techno-spooker."

Eurostar EP

PREMIERE: AK Sports - West Coast (Breakbeat Mix) [HIGHER003]

Morelia Teaser Clip

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/

Das Booty
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dasbootyrave
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dasbootyrave
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/das_booty_rave/

PREMIERE: Spaceface - Break It Down (Das Booty)

soundcloud.com/yth-trst-pstivty

kur8ed by:
instagram.com/wobbafete

The Framed Sting 005 w/ YTP

//Youtube - https://youtu.be/NIgU77DsoX8

Xenon
@xenon-dnb
https://www.facebook.com/XenonBLN/

Emotional Voyage Records
@emotionalvoyagerecords

EVR001

Coloured Leaves and Pretty Eyes

PREMIERE: Xenon - Coloured Leaves And Pretty Eyes (EVR001)

Fly By Night's first release of 2021, a 4-track fusion of breaks and techno from the Manchester-based Porchcrawler. Porchcrawler has been developing his sound drawing influences from darker electro & breaks alongside relentless warehouse techno.

• www.flybynightrecordings.bandcamp.com

@porchcrawlerr
@fbn-recordings

FBN006

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PREMIERE : Porchcrawler - Pistol Shrimp [FBN006]

Electronic music party starters since 2008.
Record label since 2019.

Event Enquiries - Apexeventsnewcastle@gmail.com
Label Demos - apexncldemos@gmail.com

Residents - Luke Scott & NORD

APECAST024 - NOVA CHEQ

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