BDB PRESENTS: THE BLUE TAPE//VOLUME ONE (PART TWO)

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G-house / Tech-house / House / Garage house #1

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

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📓 Info:
Artist: https://soundcloud.com/killjoybadboy
Label: https://soundcloud.com/bluedollarbillz
Release Date: February 24, 2023
Format: Digital

Part One available HERE with tracks from Main Phase, Oldboy, Frazer Ray & many more ;) https://bluedollarbillz.bandcamp.com/album/bdb-presents-the-blue-tape-volume-one-part-one

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Tracklist:
DJ SNOWY BUFFET - Act Like A Furio
Dunman - Ello Moto	
Killjoy - Everyday 4x4
L&F - Don't Let Go
Retrospect - Show Me
S T I N 9 - Eyeleve1
Robin Wylie - Reflex Action
Lawless - LDN
Skeptic - 681
Pantile - Ard
Product Toss - Kudos 

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https://bluedollarbillz.bandcamp.com/album/bdb-presents-the-blue-tape-volume-one-part-two

02 Dunman - Ello Moto

04 L&F - Don't Let Go

01 DJ SNOWY BUFFET - Act Like A Furio

05 Retrospect - Show Me

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Taken from my ´Shoulder To Shoulder´ EP. 

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My debut track out now on @dirtybird !!!

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"My latest single MAKE ME FEEL, which I produced together with French talent SIKS, combines a funky disco break with an energetic drop which makes it a powerful and fresh dancefloor weapon. The crowd goes off every time I drop it. This is my third release on HEXAGON and it Makes Me Feel happy to be part of the powerful HEX FAM." - Steff Da Campo

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Steff Da Campo x Siks - Make Me Feel

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Tchami & Malaa - The Sermon (Malive & Lowdown Remix)

Keith Sweat - Twisted (DJ Crisps Mix)

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