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"Mutual Aid 2020 is the first ever Bokeh compilation, with 100% of all proceeds going direct to artists - for themselves or for distribution in their local community. 17 tracks breathe in the whole history of what we would never ourselves call 'the Bokeh sound'. From sci-fi digi to dancehall sampling shoegaze chuggers, B-movie horror drill, industrial spoken word, euphoric steppas, surf-indebted metallic roots, acid goths remixing gqom. This is all we've ever been about."

Mutual Aid 2020

Buy at Bandcamp

Low Jack - Reaction (Bokeh Allstars - Mutual Aid 2020)

Part of Various Artists - Tender Squads. Release on May 24th, 2020

This release is part of the Balance Club / Culture Festival — Web Edition 2020. See balance.ifz.me for additional info.

Mastered by Lorenz Lindner at MADPREMIUM Mastering.
Artwork & Design by Anja Kaiser. Picture by Rachel De La Torre
Balance Club Culture Festival and this release is funded by SHAPE Platform [Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe], Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Initiative Musik, Stadt Leipzig and depart.one.

TSVI - Noflute

@cleyraa comes with an absolute banger on the new Timedance compilation Sharpen, Moving.

Sharpen, Moving

Cleyra - Shafted

NOLA-d up version of Impey's Conquest Mode

ENERGY!

Buy on Bandcamp

Impey - Conquest Mode (Mosca's NOLA Version) [RENT004 / Ghost Notes]

Dummy Electronics Spotify playlist feature: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1rjQXQDCGyNJl71vfLb0K7?si=SI2mGmvCSiWmcsmxRMgw_A

Air Waves Spotify playlist feature: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2my1Q01NvKx2vqUMxpRBLC?si=jJVl8qHMQ9eJkMu25ycilA

A final parting gift to close off the year that changed the lives of so many. This is for you. Well done for making it through. You are still upright, still powering on, still here. 

Use the skills you have learnt this year to move forward with great strides. You've been through tough times now. You know that you are stronger than you think. You can do this.

Mastering by Fausto Mercier
Photo taken by Galtier

Soem1 (Ode 2 U)

Entering new territories of the physical realm, ANE returns with an EP and accompanying remix collection from  Crosspolar. Te Bristol-based artist harnesses the once hyperreal aesthetics of computer simulations from the 90s to  early 00s in dreamlike odes to distorted cyberspace memories. Tis release will see a limited edition of floppy disk  packs containing two recycled disks, one of originals and one of variations. Using Unreal Engine to construct a cold  landscape the multi-disciplinarian has also created an accompanying video for the climactic title track.  
An upbringing in Finland during the 90s serves as a catalyst for the inspirations for these sprawling, cinematic  ambient tracks. Repurposed rompler instruments and high sheen sound design represent lost dreams of the future.  Sugar sweet rave euphoria is met with icy desolation. Crosspolar plunders his childhood fascinations to create this  not so uncanny valley: keygen music, click-to-discover online worlds, 90s television, and turn of the millennium tech.  Tese tracks accelerate at blistering pace whilst always looking backwards.  
Opener 1oK Lux welcomes the listener with gleams of artificial sunlight in the form of grime-meets-post-vaporwave  arps. New Vistas is hypnagogic keygen music with a foreboding orchestral core. Title track Simulacra sees Crosspolar  accessing cloudy recollections of 90s information television theme scores, reproduced and rehashed through the lens of  sprawling, sci-fi informed ambient. Te accompanying remix package features 4 variations including a Sangam  version in which the artist dials up Simulacra’s desolation and a Tugwidow remix, complimenting the uplifing rave  sequences of 10K Lux with choppy, dancefloor-ready breaks.  

@crosspolar
@thugwidow
@anerecs

Buy:
https://crosspolar.bandcamp.com/album/simulacra-ep

PREMIERE: Crosspolar - 10K Lux (Thugwidow Variation) [Angels Never Expire]

C Powers - Which Ad Experience Do You Prefer?
CD002 | Out January 29

Georgia-born C Powers is the second artist to join the fledgling Contagion Discs imprint. 'Which Ad Experience Do You Prefer?' is their first release of 2021 and collects four compound tracks that scratch and bump through breaks, house and garage. C Powers has been making tracks and DJing in the South and around the world for well over a decade, while recent releases have come via labels like Sorry Records and Sweat Equity.

Now based in Portland, C Powers has both refined and expanded their vision of a groove-based, in-your-face electronics over the years. 'Which Ad Experience' consolidates that vision, utilizing a sequence of hard breaks, shuffling 2-step and tight, playful basslines across its four tracks. Dub and psychedelia flit throughout the title track and “FishWash”, while “Tinea” and “Lost Extract” channel martial rhythm into seductive dancefloor anthems.

C Powers uses they/them pronouns. 'Which Ad Experience Do You Prefer?' is out on January 29 via Contagion Discs.

Artwork: Adele C. Winn (www.adelecwinn.com)
Design: Caleb Ali Miller (https://www.caleb.world/)
Mastering: Will Mitchell

Which Ad Experience Do You Prefer?

C Powers - Lost Extract [CD002]

Lead single by @gramrcy and @de_grandi for upcoming compilation release 'Exchange'.

Pre-order digital, cassette or T-shirt:
https://petrola80.bandcamp.com/album/exchange

https://www.instagram.com/ndegrandi/
https://www.instagram.com/gramrcy/
https://www.facebook.com/petrola80

Exchange

Gramrcy & De Grandi - Sea In Air

Second and final chapter of Prisoner of the Self, the novel-reflection forged by Katatonic Silentio, reinterpreted & scream-reworked by the subterrestrial squad formed by Stenny, ZULI, Walton, Herva, Kinlaw & Franco Franco
Five and one chain reactions auto-industrial approach tunes, committed in this world spinning on the way to ruin.
The “condition of suspended animation" experienced in a trivial way, the collapse of a civilization, a conclusion of dystopia.
New movements are bound to be born, we see beyond their disguise, we can rightly evaluate our dilemma, realize our modern condition, and mobilize further to avert the true catastrophe, whose shapes we’re already witnessing.

Title : Prisoner of the Self remixed
Artists : Stenny, Zuli, Walton, Herva, Kinlaw & Franco Franco, Katatonic Silentio
Genre : IDM, Breakcore, Experimental, Electronic
Catalogue : BNC006
Format : 12" Vacuum cage packed and insert, 300 copies violet numbered

Mastered by Analog Cut mastering studio
Artwork & Sleeve Design by AnchorE
Distributed at RWDFWD

Prisoner Of The Self REMIXED

Katatonic Silentio - Prisoner Of The Self REMIXED (BNC006)(Preview)

@1djplead

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book).

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. A way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special. 

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

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DJ Plead - Jif And Lemon

ELLLL returns to Dublin’s First Second Label with the ‘Housebreaker’ EP, featuring a murky, chopped and screwed remix from Parris. Hear the dark, twisted 150 bpm breakbeat ferocity of ELLLL’s title track now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-ellll-housebreaker

FSL011

Premiere: ELLLL ‘Housebreaker’

ZULI — All Caps (UIQ0012)
12” + DL
Pre-Order — https://zulimusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-caps-uiq0012

Released 12th March 2021

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Insert Design — Dave Gaskarth

ZULI —  Keen Demag

Put together this remix for the mighty Swordman Kitala, big up Blip Discs!!

Available on Bandcamp with all proceeds going to Swordman.

Mastered by Olivier van der Lugt (Air Max 97)

Kimbalagala (Remixes)

Swordman Kitala 'Kimbalagala' (Huna Remix)

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-snkls-stir/

French imprint @PolaarSounds prepare to release 'Half Horn', a four-track EP of hardened club gear from producer SNKLS (@SnakeLeSerpent).

SNKLS

Half Horn

SNKLS - Stir [Polaar]

@ovidmusic's B-side 'Cold Snap' comes with subzero melodic vibes and relentless pounding rhythm. Forthcoming on @indexlife.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/ovid-cold-snap

Purple Heart Dubplate

Article

Premiere: Ovid - Cold Snap

@laughingears @infinite-machine
Read more: pw-magazine.com/2021/premiere-laughing-ears-night-wisps/

Premiere: Laughing Ears »Night Wisps« [Infinite Machine]

The first single from Loraine James' new album 'Reflection' is a solo introduction and a reset. It's a direct song called Simple Stuff vocalled directly and diaristically by Loraine, a minimal, gentle plea to be treated equally (as a black, queer woman) over criss-crossing drums. Loraine's vocals dissolve into distortion and fx's as if they are getting lost and then heard again.

Reflection is Released on 4th June 2021 on Hyperdub
Vinyl / CD / Digital - Purple Vinyl and A Limited T-Shirt available direct from our bandcamp - preorder here and get this track upfront: https://smarturl.it/reflection.album

Reflection

Simple Stuff

Loraine James, Simple Stuff

@sim_mtl

SIM - Terminate EP

NH011

Release Date: March 12 2021

nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/album/sim-terminate-ep

Tour de force club label Nervous Horizon kick off 2021 with ‘Terminate’ - a rugged and boisterous five-track EP from new signing, SIM.

Based in Montreal, SIM — influenced primarily by dancehall and artists like King Tubby and Dave Kelly, as well as Plastikman, Jeff Mills and Equiknoxx— found his entry point into electronic music via the crunching US dubstep sounds of the late ‘00s, before later finding his niche in club music. It was upon being introduced to Epic B, Uninamise, Hitmakerchinx and Brooklyn’s wider FDM network in New York that SIM began to refine and polish his own productions, culminating in the release of introspective debut EP, ‘Neural Gain’, in February 2019.

Drawing on myriad electronic influences, SIM’s work on new EP ‘Terminate’ treads a different path, meshing together the dancehall sounds of his childhood with the sort of searing, upfront club pressure that has become synonymous with Nervous Horizon over the past five years. Slotting into a back catalogue already boasting crucial early records from artists like DJ Plead and DJ JM, his music feels very much at home under the tutelage of label heads, TSVI and Wallwork.

“Writing ‘Terminate EP’ felt really intuitive and made sense”, SIM explains. “As a raver kid myself, channeling this need to party towards my own craft was sort of therapeutic and gave me hope that a new era is on its way. Heavy subs shaking you to your core, squeaky synths echoing in the depths of the warehouse, sweat dripping down your face, this collective motion of hundreds of people, just moving to one rhythm. One pulse. That is what inspired me to write this EP."

SIM’s ‘Terminate’ EP is out March 12 on Nervous Horizon:

Tracklist:
1. Big Mac
2. Stock Pile
3. Fall
4. Chased
5. Terminate

SIM - Fall

Taken from SBKT039: Osheyack & Nahash - Club Apathy
Release date: 2nd April 2021

‘Club Apathy’ is a new collaborative EP from Osheyack and Nahash. 4 club-ready tracks, with remixes from DJ Marcelle and Nkisi.

Cover photo: Dre Romero
Layout & Design: Luke Griffiths
Handstyles: Orron Fearon
Makeup: Freya Ni 
Hair: 柯维涛
Model: Ary
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

Club Apathy

Osheyack & Nahash - Club Apathy

On "Thin Ice Remixed", Scarlett invites four renowned producers to highlight the club potential of the songs from her debut EP.

Read more on CxC  🔗 https://couvrexchefs.com/en/scarlett-thin-ce-remixed-galtier

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