Body Promise returns to the tape format with a 12 chapter missive from the Australian underground. 
With this stellar survey of corporeally-minded music, they compile some of the most interesting mutations of modern dance music. Smooth Sensation marks the third and final installment in the Body Promise compilation series. 

As the reels begin to spin, Fia Fiell (One Third of Jaala) builds to a textured wash of sound that eases the listener into the varied and exhilarating world this tape compiles. The leisurely, dubbed-out atmosphere of Low Flung and Freda & Jackson's contributions preface the bass-heavy boisterousness that both HED Ardennes (Fishing, Body Promise) and Letabruthaknow (aka Setwun) favour. Fishing's The Ghan opts for a hypnotic approach that slowly binds the listener in its spell until they realize it's time to flip over the tape. 

Waterhouse collates broken filaments of sound into a fissured mirror,  reflecting odd visions and ghostly presences. Lou Karsh's electro transmission has a spacey, introspective edge that it shares with the dissociative acid Andy Garvey has programmed for her return to the label. Both Lucy Cliche and DJ Yoni (Holy Balm) have been working at the nexus of DIY production and unruly electronics for aeons, each contributing demented dancefloor directives that are shot through with personality. We close with Emily Glass’ alien oddity, a pendulum that swings from shuddering intensity to eerie ambience until the tape stops spinning.

Smooth Sensation

@aeondelit 'Forma Inarticulada' is ideal to get washed away by endless tides of streaming data. Forthcoming on @causalchainclub.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/aeondelit-forma-inarticulada

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Premiere: Aeondelit - Forma Inarticulada

@xenmodel - 'Lurch' off of 29 Speedway: Channel Plus

Full compilation featuring trax by Xen Model, tofudj, Dekalb Works, AshTreJinkins, pent, K Wata, Ex Wiish, Special Guest DJ, LXV, Cajm, btw, J. Albert, Windowseeker, Opheliaxz, Axine M, Relaxer, and Ben Bondy

mastered by @ex-wiish

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Xen Model - Lurch

A @deardogs debut finds @apulati-bien at his most fluid and amorphous.

Following notable incursions on footwork and dancehall zones, new EP ‘Non Masse’ marks a departures into new ambient realms. Spatialised, probing sound designs ranging from percolating to vaporous. 

Our pick, ’Seeder’, floats in on a dense, widescreen cloud. The kind of ambient emission that resonates with the explorative nature of earlier Apulati releases.

'Non Masse' is out March 24th on Deardogs.

Pre-order: deardogs.bandcamp.com/album/non-masse

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Premiere: Apulati Bien - Seeder [Deardogs]

https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/pitch-blender-sf04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFCgd3IJhk0&ab_channel=SFX

Written, performed, recorded and engineered by Zoë Mc Pherson
Mixed by James Ginzburg
Mastered by Joker
Cut by Lupo Lubich
Artwork by Lucie Rox
Vinyl design by Tatjana Stuermer
Text by John Twells

Pitch Blender

Lamella

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@specialguest-dj conjures imagined ecological utopias under their Caveman LSD alias.

Set for release on NAP's @sonidoisla label, ‘Total Annihilation Beach’ is the Berlin producer’s latest emission. It’s exactly the kinda thing we’ve come to expect from a key member of the smoked-out ambient/downtempo rhizome connecting the likes of Huerco S, Perila and Pontiac Streator.

A meeting point between ambient and club modes, this is all quintessential shy. Properly absorbing stuff that strikes a balance between warm, textured ambience and hand-played percussion. 

Our premiere, 'Lost Hours', comes on a woozy, tabla-fuelled flex.

‘Total Annihilation Beach’ is out May 19th on Isla.

Pre-order: isla.bandcamp.com/album/total-annihilation-beach

Premiere: Caveman LSD - Lost Hours [Isla]

After encountering a green-sounding sound in a leafy spring/autumn, I kept myself looking for it – losing it, and… wandering lost, and… then being surrounded by it, when I didn’t expect it – looking back over my path, I could see a four-pointed constellation cast up from four different bpm-ecosystems, and an ambient core that had rose up and held a sundown’s worth of its sound-citizens’s dreaming – and then the pink wind blew my hair in my face again.

- NM

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We are thrilled to welcome UK-based artist, DJ, and cultural practitioner, Nahi Mitti to the label for their second album, "Nahi Mitti and the City".

Lithe in their perpetual movement and fearless in their curiosity, these five tracks are sewn together with an organismic intuition. Threads of club structures bubble up through spiraling ambience–unfamiliar textures appear and reappear until revealing a patient songcraft.

“Nahi Mitti and the City” is a mesmerizing feat of sonic world-building. We invite you to find your own path through the City.

- SLINK

Nahi Mitti and the City

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Nahi Mitti - City

@cleyraa

From TLPITS01 : Tendrils (i)

The first of three tapes -
‘Tendrils Lurched Purple In The Slush’

twinsystem.bandcamp.com/album/tendrils-i

Artwork by Megan Willis & Lewi Boome.
Mastered by Johnny Arthur.

Out July 3rd

Tendrils

Cleyra - Cross My Mind

Bandcamp

Deadpan Tool

The Ambient Works Collection brings together eight original EPs produced between 2015 and 2021 presented here in chronological order.

ANTON'S CAT VOLUME ONE

TRACKS 1-4 - MUSIC FOR PUZZLES (2015)
TRACKS 5-8 - SUMMER WITH ERIK (2015)

ANTON'S CAT VOLUME TWO

TRACKS 1-4 - GLIMPSES (2016)
TRACKS 5-11 - PARALLELS (2016)

ANTON'S CAT VOLUME THREE

TRACKS 1-5 - A SENSE OF SPACE (2016)
TRACKS 6-9 - SLOW MOVERS (2016)

ANTON'S CAT VOLUME FOUR

TRACKS 1-6 - MILES FROM ANYWHERE (2020)
TRACKS 7-9 - GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL (2021)

Anton's Cat - Ambient Works Four - 09 - Tides

Ｂａｄ Ｔｉｐｓ🔸https://linktr.ee/badtips
𝕽𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖘 👉🏾 badtipsaudio@gmail.com


⏬𝐁𝐔𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒 & 𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐒⏬

https://bodypromise.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-sensation


Check Low Flung
https://www.facebook.com/lowflungmusic/
https://soundcloud.com/lowflung
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4469793-Low-Flung

Check Body Promise
https://www.facebook.com/bodypromise/
https://soundcloud.com/bodypromise

Low Flung - Pay It Forward [Body Promise]

@fredaandjackson

Taken from Smooth Sensation out Friday 15th March 2019

Freda & Jackson is the uncategorizable joint project of two musical omnivores - blending house, jazz, downtempo, broken beat and a few secret herbs & spices into a unique mode of self expression that transcends any genre boundaries. Their contribution “Flux” is a scattershot sample collage of diced breaks, booming voices and spiralling echoes that drift outward and coalesce together into a hallucinatory miasma as they’re dubbed in and out of the mix.

Freda And Jackson - Flux

@letabruthaknow

Letabruthaknow is another moniker of the multi-talented composer and bandleader Setwun. With this pseudonym, they seems intent on burning the signifiers of the UK’s soundsystem continuum down to a few red-hot embers. On “DANCEFLOORPULLINUP”, sirens wail and disincorporated MCs cut over the massive bassline and breakbeats, conjuring up the sweaty exhilaration of a rammed dance even on a quiet commute. In its element, unleashing this would be utter MURDERATION!

Letabruthaknow - DANCEFLOORPULLINUP

@waterhouse-1

Waterhouse’s “broken rave” is like a hall of mirrors, all ghostly refractions, chirps and drones that signpost something that’s already faded. As the track progresses, these echoes fall away too, leaving a hollow remnant that blooms into silence.

Waterhouse - Broken Rave

@hed-ardennes

Hed Ardennes happens to be one-half of Body Promise, the lovely people who put this compilation together (They’re not the ones writing this, lest you accuse them of massive egotism). Before you write “Acid Funk”’s inclusion as mere nepotism, your well-hewn cynicism will be torn to shreds by this RIPPER. The rippling bassline is underpinned by taught, sinewy drum programming, particularly the steely slice of a incredibly sharp hi-hat, that balances out the shuddering low end to make for a lithe dancefloor killer.

HED Ardennes - Acid Funk

@fiafiell

Fia Fiell is the moniker of Carolyn Schofield, who channels her virtuosic skill as a pianist and refined understanding of timbre into visceral electronic music that evades the posthumous toe-tag of “ambient”, creating broad and shifting soundscapes that retract and expand, from tender melodies to dense walls of sound.  "Ladder" opens proceedings: the watery figures dance like sunbeams reflected by the sea, the parts forming together like shimmering threads intertwined into a gorgeous filigree.

Fia Fiell - Ladder

Label curated by @djscorpion3000

BP005 Roy Batty Jr - city livin' means pillow crying', June 2, 2023
BP004 - Command D - Clone Dialogue, March 18, 2022
BPVA003 - Smooth Sensation, March 15 2019
BPVA002 - Fantastic Effects, November 24 2017
BPVA001 - Harmony From A Dominant Hue, October 28 2016

Contact:
amelia@bodypromise.club

Waterhouse - Broken Rave

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