@kincaidofficial returns to Control Freak for a main label release with the Sugar EP - 4 saccharine, club-ready weapons from a producer at the top of his game.

Drawing on an array of club sounds from trance to UK garage and the best in contemporary leftfield techno, the EP marks our most rave-ready statement yet, with percussive drum tracks and soaring euphoric pads - carefully crafted for dark rooms and packed dancefloors.

On the A-Side, Air-ism and Sugar bubble with peak time energy - a pair of secret weapons which haven’t left our record bags for months now. B1 E is a pounding, energetic 4x4 pumper, whilst Sycamore closes things out with moody, shuffling drums and powerful low end pressure.

Kincaid - Sugar

Stolen Velour (@stolenvelour) returns to Kindergarten Records with another confident display of intricate sound design and mind-bending rhythmic fluidity. In equal parts an embrace of silliness on the dancefloor and a serious piece of floor-shaking heft, Jasper builds on the palette of his last EP with the label, Onyx, and elevates Stolen Velour’s sound to new heights. A pair of label regulars switch up the flavours on the remixes. Sobolik (@tomsobolikmusic) strips back the opener to inject some space and a touch of dub, whereas Despina’s (@despinadespina) take on ‘I Know, I know’ tames some of the og’s wilder impulses to laser-in on strobing breaks and a wobbly low-end groove.

Sobolik - Jasper (KINDER015)
Out on Kindergarten Records on February 2, 2024

Stolen Velour - I Know, I Know (Despina Remix)

🦐BAIT6-VEP2-ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY STEPS🦐 
Bait’s second VEP (Various EP) is a 4-track dive into a rather modern phenomenon: 150 dubstep, as DJs and crowds seem to be enjoying the faster bass sounds, yet broken rhythms and heavy halftime pulses. For this release we’ve got L.A.’s rising bass-music star @carreo, specialised in racing wobblers, who recently released her second solo EP on her label @fastatwork (first one was on Darwin's @specrecords). Track 2 is Berlin-based Femme Bass Mafia member @gaia-formella’s first ever release, a reflection of her upbringing in and around London, drawing inspiration from playful breaks to deep wobbly bass. Third track is by @fastcastle label captain Gent1le $oul, also Berlin-based and pushing hybrid dubstep in the German capital with hot vinyl releases and parties. Last but not least, @splt_music’s mental banger “Grill Party” that Beatrice M. happened to discover in Laksa’s Truant podcast (https://soundcloud.com/truants/truancy-volume-318-laksa) and reached out after dropping an “ID?” comment on soundcloud. The Lyon-based producer never misses, his tracks have been played out multiple times by Garçon and Agonis, in the continuity of merging bass and techno, always with an aspect of prog.
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releases May 3, 2024
mastering by @bademjan

One Hundred And Fifty Steps VEP (out 03.05.24)

https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/speleogenesis

Wisconsin-based producer and drummer Chants (The Trilogy Tapes, Maximum Airtime, Astral Plane Recordings) meets master drummer Dave Schoepke on this all-drums LP for Brussels-based Maloca Records. ‘Speleogenesis’ blends live drumming with dub techniques and dancefloor-informed production, guided by imagery of a subterranean world. It’s a full-circle moment, as the two met when Chants (aka Jordan Cohen) took drum lessons from Schoepke during his teenage years.

The recording process began with Chants creating skeletal demos for Dave Schoepke to improvise on. Schoepke recorded many layers of drums and percussion, running some of them through his hardware synthesizers. Chants then shaped these recordings, resulting in the cavernous dub techno track ‘Pressure Slide’, the Brazilian-influenced ‘Ritmo Crudo’ and ‘Ritmo Puro’, and the uptempo, slippery dancehall dub of ‘The Quickstepper’.

Chants then assembled a new palette of samples from this core and constructed dancefloor-focused bangers like the hyperactive ‘Cyclone Rhythm’ and minimal 170 bpm ‘Rafter’, adding his own homegrown breakbeats. As the album took shape, the music kept evoking mental images of caves, tunnels, and underwater caverns that in turn influenced the final pieces. ‘Notes from Underground’ and ‘Speleogenesis’ present a more unfiltered view of Schoepke’s nuanced drumming. ‘Airbell Dub’ was also created using material from one of Schoepke’s meditative solo performances. Finally, ‘Cavernicole’ features both drummers in full duet mode, trading phrases over an insistent kick drum pulse.  

Credits :
released October 11, 2024
2024, Maloca

Music by Chants & Dave Schoepke
Artwork by Rémi Volclair
Mastered by Hypna

Speleogenesis

Chants & Dave Schoepke - Cyclone Rhythm

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Trip the Light, 2024
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Freedjom - 13_8=0_0

Sunden offers a further glimpse into his captivating sonic sphere, with his latest single release ‘Process’. A shimmering and ethereal amen dreamscape, accompanied by a dubwise club-ready flip from hero of the scene Dyslecta.

Following up closely on the tails of his well-received inaugural single ‘To Live Forever In A Skylit Room’ that garnered early support from the likes of Otik, Tom Ravenscroft, Fliss Mayo, Om Unit & JASSS; Sunden shows no signs of slowing down this year, with his sprawling new breaks-fueled single on grassroots label Loose Lips, confirming him as a certified one-to-watch. With ‘Process’, the enigmatic producer further demonstrates his dexterity in balancing emotional depth with cathartic dancefloor energy, crafting an IDM-tinged production that is as immersive as it is kinetic.

Buy: https://sundensound.bandcamp.com/album/process

PREMIERE: Sunden - Process (Dyslecta Remix) [Loose Lips]

“Softer hands” introduces a reality where art-electronics emerge from familiar club language. Sentimental melodies spray delicate feelings over metallic, hypnotising backgrounds. Distant, angelic choirs are softly moulded and shaped by whirring mechanical sounds, hisses and swooshes. Over time, the music leads inward, letting light through densely packed soundscapes. The result is touching, otherworldly, at times uncanny or post-apocalyptic, like an ensemble of machines learning to feel. The circle of three remixers perfectly understands the language cratje operates in, adding to the universe created within four original tracks. 
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cratje is a co-runner of MONTAGE, a Brussels-based trans-medial output, and host of "Stoute Muziek," a radio show on KIOSK.

cratje - VT4 (ehh hahah remix)

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London's Le Chatroom are a platform promoting open-mindedness and experimentation with electronics. Founded by Livity Sound affiliate, Kouslin the label has become synonymous with an intricate sound palette, landing their releases in the bags of Ben UFO and Call Super. 

With two releases already under their belt, they prep a third various artists affair featuring Amor Satyr, Soreab, DJ Tess under her new guise, Mala Femmina and Cando on the remix.

Soreab's offering entitled 'Cave Walk', is a dynamic percussive arrangement laced with a pungent groove. Bristol duo Cando take an insidious turn with their rework. Added percussion and industrial soundscapes paint thick tension, pulling up at breakneck speed. All the elements come together on this one, soundsystems shudder at the thought.

Read more: https://hyponik.com/features/first-listen-soreab-cave-walk-cando-remix-le-chatroom/

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@soreabuk
@lechatroom

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First Listen: Soreab - 'Cave Walk (Cando Remix)' (Le Chatroom)

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BAIT18: Tighe - Empty Units EP
BAIT17: Soa420 - No Nerve VIP/ Soa420 & Stacktrace - Basement 31
BAIT16: Old Man Crane - Hepp EP
BAIT15: One Hundred and Fifty Steps II VEP
BAIT14: Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Plexus LP
BAIT13: Conzi - AU2 EP
BAIT12: Argo - Syndicat
BAIT11: Sub Basics - Cause & Effect EP
BAIT10: Out of Step VEP
BAIT09: Soa420 - No Nerve EP
BAIT08: Andrae Durden/Chewlie - Lasca/Denial
BAIT07: Hyas - Soulless (Spectre remix)
BAIT06: One Hundred and Fifty Steps VEP
BAIT05: Baby Steps VEP
BAIT04: Ambit - In the Dark EP
BAIT03: Trois-Quarts Taxi System/Night Garden - Coma/Regenerate
BAIT02: Ekaliff/Parts Project - Ooze/Tomb
BAIT01: Hyas/ARtroniks - Soulless/Tension