Super Colour - EP

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01. Return to Jupiter 
02. Altered Chords 
03. U Ain't Really Down 
04. I Love Juan 

DMX Krew returns to Gudu Records with ‘Return to Jupiter’, his second EP for the label and the first release of a 2023 that will be the label’s busiest yet.

Ed DMX made his debut for Gudu with 2019’s ‘Don’t You Wanna Play?’ EP, becoming the first artist to release on the label outside Peggy herself. Ed and Gudu have retained a regular working relationship ever since: he mastered Indonesian crate-digger Dea’s ‘Glazer Drum’ release for Gudu, contributed a pair of remixes to the reissue of Riff’s South African electro curio ‘Jacks Jive’, and now returns to the label with ‘Return to Jupiter’, a new original four-track EP.

Ed has been one of electronic music’s most respected faces for over 25 years. Debuting in the mid-1990s, he released his first decade of music almost exclusively through Grant Wilson-Claridge and Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label and his own Breakin’ imprint, but recent years have seen him ply his trade across a who’s who of dance music’s most acclaimed underground labels: including Hypercolour, Balkan Vinyl, Central Processing Unit and, of course, Gudu.

Inspired by the futurist funk and vivid synthesiser epics of classic Detroit, ‘Return to Jupiter’ is dripping with richness and colour, driven by the sort of thick analogue basslines and distinctive melodies that have come to define Ed’s catalogue. The EP’s title track sets the tone for what’s to follow, introducing a language of sorts for the record - before ‘Altered Chords’ turns the funk up to 11, ‘U Ain’t Down’ aims its distorted kicks and wiggy, manipulated lead straight at peak time dancefloors, and ‘I Love Juan’ closes the EP on a star-gazing tip.

DMX Krew - I Love Juan

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Emanating from Bristol’s bubbling underground, emerging artist variable_self debuts on Remmah, incorporating a wide-eyed three tracker to Hammer’s ever-reliable label family. Forging a progressive approach to acid-tinged hardware and analogue sounds, each of the trilogy of tracks on the Stone Jam EP is a synapse-firing delight, bridging past and future with rare ease.

Title track ‘Stone Jam’ is itself a weighty introduction to these playful studies of rave and club culture, a glorious and tuneful collage that nudges a crossfader between pulsating deep chords, neon hip-house, and deeply felt 808 pleasure. ‘Prism State’ tightens things up further, offering the invitation to trip with abandon on some of the cleanest electro this side of your local windfarm, guided by cascading human chords, blissed out in the mix.

Concluding the release, ‘Repetition 94’ offers up a warehouse-sized treat for the purest ravers. Riding on a serious bassline and defined by joyous piano keys, it flirts playfully with the sonic signifiers that have kept the club scene bubbling for decades. From the South West to the world, variable_self looks backward only to push forward.

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