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Alan Johnson - Goron Sound [BLNK004]

The room was vast and cold, decked with floor to ceiling mirrors that reflected the hazy light streaming through the dusty windows. It was clear that this house had once been a spectacle, owned by people with far more money than sense. But now it lay derelict and abandoned, forgotten by its owners who'd left it in a complete state of disarray. Like those who'd once owned this grand house, its history had been completely wiped out; lost in time and space...

London-based imprint Pseudonym Records entered the world at the end of last year with the first V/A release in their Corporeal series, bringing together several emerging producers operating in the spaces between broken club music, UK Techno and DnB. Now they're returning for the second release in the series, tasking a new line up of artists—Sputnik One, FoxMind, Palf, Big Hands and Thodén—with cooking up another EP rife with percussive, breaks-driven and bass-heavy sounds.

PSEU002 - Corporeal Vol. 2 mp3's

PREMIERE: FoxMind - Mirror Bounce [Pseudonym Records]

Halftime bassy stepper here from Granul taken from his brand new 13 tracker album on Yuku. Lots of drum & bass, juke and dubstep influences on this.

OS Premiere 
www.originssound.com/premiere 

Release Date: 
22nd July 2021

Artist Name - Granul
EP Name - Cypher
Cat Number - YUKU017
Track Name - Quarantine Groove
Label - Yuku

Follow: 
https://www.instagram.com/granul.eth/
@granulmusic
https://www.instagram.com/yukuwax/
@yukumusic

We want to hear your new music. If you have something you want us to listen to, please email danielle@originssound.com

Cypher

OS Premiere: Granul – Quarantine Groove [Yuku]

RV - WD-40

@bell_curve invites Anna Morgan, Kush Jones, Doctor Jeep, Fixate, Breaka and more to remix her ‘Unstable Orbit’ LP on @worstbehaviorrecs. Hear A.Fruit’s rework of ‘Lifted ft. Rider Shafique’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-bell-curve-lifted-ft-rider-shafique-afruit-remix

Premiere: Bell Curve ‘Lifted ft. Rider Shafique (A.Fruit Remix)’

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-caski-crooked

Following releases on Tectonic and Keysound Recordings, Bristol-based producer @caski lines up his first release since 2017 on @more-cowbell delivering three sub-heavy tracks.

Crooked

Caski - Crooked [More Cowbell]

Artist: Low End Activist
Title: Hostile Utopia
Label: Sneaker Social Club
Cat No: SNKRLP009
Release Date: 14th June

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.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Collage by Clayton Burke
Design by DR.ME

GetGet Ft  Emz

@ojodj
https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/album/coiled-up

Coiled up

DJ ojo - Coiled up

or Maloca's 9th installment, Le Motel returns to his own imprint and joins forces with UK's versatile pidgin rap experimentalist Magugu. After their 2021 Shoalin collaboration, these 2 prolific artists embark on a new musical voyage. Their upcoming 4-track EP “Kindness Weakness” carefully intersects Bass, UK Garage, Grime and Jungle.

Magugu is a Nigerian poet who fluently unifies Afrobeat, Dancehall with Grime and Drum and Bass. While performing Magugu raps in Pidgin, which is an English-based creole language spoken in Nigeria. For more than a decade he's been making a name for himself as a Cardiff-based artist with a distinguishable raw voice. After numerous releases on his own imprint GUGUGANG Records, the Pidgin Rap Guru also released on cutting-edge labels like Deep Medi Musik and Critical Music and has worked with significant artists like My Nu Leng, Phase and Chad Dubz.

On Topper is a Jungle/Baile anthem about reaching goals in life, regardless of who steps in your way. Blend is about being an individual that doesn’t fit in with the crowd. Everyone should make their own decisions. Kindness Weakness refers to the fact that some people view kindness as a weakness. Yet everybody has had their share of dark moments too. The final track portrays the softer side of the duo's artistic versatility. A laid back UK Garage groove accompanied by Magugu's soothing voice. Let me down represents finding inner peace and creating your own happiness because in life there are too many people who will let you down. This one goes out to making a promise to yourself and never giving up.

Launched in 2020, Maloca Records aims to bring together an international network of artists. Maloca Vol. 1, featuring tracks by Nick León, OMAAR, DJ JM, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Coen, DJ N.K. and Tsongo. Maloca has also released solo EP's from Howie Lee, Farsight, Griffit Vigo, DJ JM and Yuto Takei.

Vocals by Magugu
Music by Le Motel
Mixed and mastered by Jean Vanesse @ greenHouse Studio
Bass on « Let me down » by Victor Defoort
Artwork by Le Motel Typography by Lucas Descroix

Kindness Weakness

Magugu x Le Motel - Kindness Weakness

SCRATCH N SNOEUF 004 - OVID

https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/track/a-square-a-circle

@big-hands-1

A square, a circle

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Big Hands - A square, a circle

A1 Stick on ice
A2 Helmet in the water
A3 Old guitarist (outside with birds) 
A4 Hetty Brain
B1 Suitcase in the water
B2 6AM (Sunday 24th January)

https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/album/suitcase-in-the-water

Jacob Dwyer & Sam Purcell - Suitcase in the water (clips) (BLNK021)

https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/album/lost-paradise-blissed-out-breakbeat-hardcore-1991-94

A1 Sleepwalker - Age of Aquarius (L.D remix)
A2 Hedgehog Affair - Parameters
B1 DJ Mayhem - Inesse
B2 Luxury - Twirl
C1 The Invisible Man - The Flute Tune
C2 Escape - Escape (The Optical Mix)
D1 Skanna - This Way 
D2 Xray Xperiments - Techcore

Compiled by Sam Purcell and Tammo Hesselink
Design: Sam Purcell
Mastering: Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven
Press release: Fergus Clark

Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94

Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94 (clips) (BLNK022)

https://linafilipovich.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-an-imaginary-dancefloor-2?label=3071650940&tab=music

@linafilipovich

Music for an imaginary dancefloor

Lina Filipovich - Omqroid (BLNK023)

DPNDF29 // Proove - Champ Price Dub

Format: Digital
Distribution: Bandcamp & Cygnus music
Release date: 17th May 2024

Thank you for supporting our movement & sound system culture!

Links:
@proove
deependmovement.bandcamp.com

Proove - Champ Price Dub (DPNDF29)

Label: Banoffee Pies Records
Artist: Cassius Select
Title: Heavyweight
Catalogue Number: BP015
Genre: Techno / Broken Beat / Grime
Release: November 2020

Tracklist: 

A1 Born To Defence 
A2 Honda Civic
B1 Sicko Groove
B2 Guia Circuit


Banoffee Pies Records 15th Original Series release comes from Cassius Select. Canadian born producer Lavurn Lee, now residing in his home city of Hong Kong, drops his latest solo EP “Heavyweight”. His unique style and selective output has drawn our attention for some time. This release does exactly what it says on the tin. With previous appearances on the likes of Matthew Herbert's Accidental JNR., Hypercolour and more, he has maintained a primary focus on rhythmic structures, alienated textures and eerie vocalisations that flaunt a strong influence and appreciation for UK techno, Hip Hop, Garage, and all things Broken Beat. 

The release kicks off with “Born To Defence”, a mood setter scattered with punchy drum rolls and wild toms that set the tone for a harmonic palette across the 4 tracks. The A2 “Honda Civic” displays a tougher edge using a hybrid of sound. Pulsing late night business - Hatchback style. “Sicko Groove” gets the B side off the ground with a chest rattling, Grime inspired club track, sliding further up the weight divisions before things close off with “Guia Circuit”, a more techy low end tool with notable energy shifts. BP015 sustains stripped back but relentless percussion throughout. “The Original Circuit Training Soundtrack”. Love BP x

Alan Johnson - Goron Sound [BLNK004]

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