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Parisian label [re]sources returns with the third edition of its "Club Hexagon" series dedicated to showcase the current French club / bass scene. Gathering several in-house artists such as Dehousy and Blâme, the compilation features some established French producers like Flore, rRoxymore and Ténèbre but also some newcomers, confirming [re]sources' key role in the development of the club music landscape in France.

Blâme - Knight Rider

Available on Bandcamp:

https://daniel58.bandcamp.com/album/surge-protektor

Surge Protektor EP Snippets

||| MIXWORK 001 - T. MORIMOTO |||
Mix by artist, producer & @sumactrac co-founder @tmorimoto

TRACKLIST 
T.Morimoto - Mon Amour 4
T.Morimoto - Cage Time
T.Morimoto - Ice148
T.Morimoto - Mon Amour 6
T.Morimoto - Death of Bambi
T.Morimoto - Cold Rock
T.Morimoto - Life by Proxy
T.Morimoto - Cult Clubs
Utility - Revolver Hype Remix
T.Morimoto - Hwooo!128
T.Morimoto - PZN
T.Morimoto - Take a Walk
T.Morimoto - Contract Out
Utility - Sham
Poison - Mincc
T.Morimoto - Vacation
Utility - Flooot (DJ Plead Remix)
T.Morimoto - Mon Amour 7

MIXWORK 001 - T. MORIMOTO - 26/08/21

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London-based musician @ikavapii is up next on @EarlyReflex with 'EPOS Digitale', a three-track EP that builds on the sonic concepts introduced to us throughout 2020's two-part album 'Post Capitalist Hyperwars', released through Pii's co-founded label Too Much Information.

EPOS Digital

Ikävä Pii - the end of the end of History [Early Reflex]

AM: Let’s start with your album! Had such a whirl listening to it, how long was it in the making? What was the the concept behind it & what does your set up look like?

G: Thank you for the kind words! The album was around a 2-year project in total from the inception of the concept to finally being put through production ready for release. The concept originated from the beginnings of a personal spiritual journey that started 2 years prior to when I first started writing it, where I began to delve into philosophy from various periods of time, mostly being the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Buddhism and 1920’s Existential Philosophy to name the most predominant things I explored, along with the incredible world of psychology. Through making attempts to understand myself I began to make a connection with something greater than me – a kind of unifying bond that brings all of us and everything together as one, which the album title ‘Pulchra Es Elementis’ alludes to, translating roughly to ‘Elements Are Beautiful’ in Latin, where the elements are essentially what makes us who we are and everything else around us. The general mood of the album is quite uplifting, almost melancholic, which I think reflects the way life is most of the time; an underlying pessimistic, realistic perspective that I have learnt has allowed me to truly understand how beautiful the world can really be. We all experience some form of suffering, and I think that this is an important thing to consider about the human race; we are all bound together by this fact I think, and in a way I feel a powerful beauty around this idea that enriches my experience with the world. The setup during the production of the album was incredibly simple – an Akai MIDI Keyboard, monitors, and interface, my ancient Macbook Pro and Ableton Live 9. A lot of the production techniques I used on the album were sample-heavy, but I did use a specific set of VSTs, including Massive and Zebralette.

AM: Tell us a little about the mix, how and where did you record it? Did ya enjoy it? 

I recorded the mix at home in my studio (my bedroom) using a MIDI Mixer given to me by some friends (Thanks Neil and Jodie!) using Traktor on a sunny afternoon. I absolutely love recording mixes and taking the listener on a journey so the experience was great! When I record mixes I try to make each one different to the last, and this mix was centred around the more slower tracks on the LP, which are all featured throughout. I am a huge fan of slower tempos between 90 and 120 BPM for their more hypnotic, flowing nature and so I drew for a selection of tracks that followed suit with this energy, as the tracks off the album are made to capture this same force. There are a mix of older and newer tracks inside and it is cool to hear how different periods of music history from the last 10 years meld together so brilliantly! It is chuggy, meditative, warped and full of dense low end.


AM: We’re big fans of your label NHS too, it’s quite varied and all the releases are great. Was there a specific idea with it to start with?

Thank you! I had initially wanted to start a label when I still lived in Australia and cycled through a range of idea that didn’t stick. Nostro Hood System finally came to be when I considered my long-term love for Science Fiction and Fantasy. I imagined what it would be like to receive an audio artefact from an alternate galaxy; what would that music sound like? By this time I was deeply interested in the left-field realm of electronic music and it seemed fitting to take NHS down the thematic route. So Nostro Hood System is essentially the name of the alternate system much like our Solar System that occupies the universe and the records are the sounds that come from it. The team that interprets the sound files are Xenologists on earth who receive and transmit the audio into comprehensible sounds that our ears can comprehend.

AM Podcast #50 - Galtier

From RDL Shellah's debut Showcase EP, prod by @seekersinternational

https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/showcase-ep

RDL Shellah (the artist formerly known as RDL) follows up the long sold out pop-grade 2021 Streets 7” produced by Mexico’s riddim queen Smurphy with a full Showcase EP featuring Canadian collective Seekersinternational (SKRS) on the buttons once again.

Lead single ‘Bad Wine’ is pure silky-tongued summer heater with a dusty boom-bap soul like a Jamaican take on Anderson Paak and Knxwledge; while the video tells a classic ‘where is my boyfriend’ story that’s as old as time. RDL Shellah has been part of I Jahbar’s Roolingz Musik collective, recording under the name Providence and guesting on tracks like ‘Rock the Party’ before joining him in Duppy Gun operations. The Showcase EP marks his first big artistic statement as a solo vocalist before he embarks on another collaborative EP in 2022 with I Jahbar sharing vocal duties (also produced by Seekersinternational).

Hear More / Buy Now

RDL Shellah - Touch Road

Kush Arora recontextualises Robin Sukhadia's insistent tabla into an insistent, overdriven kuduro mutation.

'Only Now Presents: Indian Unclassical Volume 1' is out October 25th on Bokeh Versions.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2Z4ZpFw

@kusharora
@bokeh-versions

Only Now Presents: Indian Unclassical Vol. 1

Premiere: Only Now - Cavern Trance (feat. Robin Sukhadia) [Bokeh Versions]

Taken from "Entity Attachment"

https://bkvcadavre.bandcamp.com/album/vom-entity-attachment

Cos goth is just dub for people without enough vitamin D…..

The first release on Bokeh’s goth/industrio-horror sister label BKV Cadavre rises from cvlt Glasgow band VOM. Before now, they were already the best and most original zero-nostalgia goth band in Scotland since Twisted Nerve - as heard on 2013’s perfect Altered States LP.

But anyone lucky enough to witness their live workouts or the few tracks on At War With False Noise’s 2020 comp Votive Offerings know there’s a different trio lurking. Entity Attachment is the first album in this long evolution: 6 tracks of macabre steppas and dread-drenched drum tracks for paranoid late night DMT trippers and folk-horror-scifi soundtracks. Spaces between drum machine hits fill with billowing noise, vocals are now stripped back to distant yelps bouncing off stone walls, bass brought to the fore in dub-grade workouts.

To understand what’s aligning here: there’s snatches of vampiric Bauhaus dubpunk buried between touches of industrial darkwave acts like Black Funeral, Murderous Vision and Controlled Bleeding surgically grafted onto the new breed of dread n bass like our pal Ossia (check the closer Goetic Ritual for most proof).

Buy Now / Hear More

VOM - The Zone

Sensuous, apocalyptic and forward-facing, experimental vocalist Grove refracts Jamaican and Bristolian traditions through a queer lens.

'SPICE' is out now on Bokeh Versions/Spinny Nights.

Buy: bit.ly/3D7a94q

@theyisgrove
@bokeh-versions
@spinnynights

SPICE

Premiere: Grove - Soft Cheeks [Bokeh Versions/Spinny Nights]

The earliest known recordings of thee great lost cosmic squatters / dub punks: Reducer.

reducer.bandcamp.com/album/nada-nuevo

"This cassette is a re release of a 2 track cassette Reducer gave away to the 1st 23 punters through the door at our 2nd gig in 1985. We have added 2 other tracks from the same recording session because we are lovely people who wish to share enlightenment"

Reducer - Force Of The Source [1985]

READ MORE -- https://www.dummymag.com/new-music/premiere-dj-plead-ana-ho/

Arab electronica is a burgeoning genre across the globe, and a new compilation is charting the trajectory of Egypt’s underground, bass-and-beat-heavy dance form – Mahraganat music. The ‘Cairo Concepts’ comp features club producers like DJ Haram (who recently delivered an excellent Dummy Mix drawing on Middle Eastern influences), and @1djplead, looping them in with Mahraganat’s most influential Egyptian figures such as Belya Al Karnak and AlShareef Tor5y. It’s being put together by one of the first DJs to dedicate himself to Mahraganat outside of Egypt, Phil Battiekh. We’re premiering ‘Ana Ho’ by Melbourne-based Nervous Horizon affiliate, DJ Plead – featuring Alaa Fifty (formerly known as Alaa Fifty Cent). Interpolating the instrumental of Dr. Dre’s ‘Still D.R.E’, he’s spun it into a cutting-edge banger of Arabic dance.

Cairo Concepts: Mahraganat Music X Club Scenarios

Premiere: DJ Plead - 'Ana Ho ft. Alaa Fifty'

This track is out on 7" via LAVALAVA from 26/11/20 -
go get it from RWDFWD.COM

Big up O$VMV$M.

thanks for listening, and thanks for the support.

O$VMV$M - Alaarm

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Paradoxe Club : De Grandi - 02 Décembre 2020

Boardgame James, the @1000doors label head, has been grafting on all fronts (check the length of the tracklist). We're delivering the results — a 100% production mix — in the form of our next Exhibition.

Tracklist

Exhibition Mix: Boardgame James

Club Night Club is proud to announce its first release via Manchester based Herron, who delivers four diverse excursions aimed squarely at the dancefloor. 

On the A1, Dead Frogs Down, ethereal vocals are submerged and held captive by the molten, stumbling textures which give them form, they rise out of the chaos every now and then, breathing life into a soundscape of club ready punches and kicks. The result is a punishing five minutes of peak time breaks with a delicate undertone floating in between. 

Velcro Spider, true to its name, weaves a similar blend of the synthetic and heartfelt. A stumbling, low slung groove mutates over the course of the track, quietly building and sustaining a tension the listener is unaware of until all hell breaks loose in true drug chug fashion at the halfway point. 

The B side similarly advances this fusion of midtempo tension.  

Noroveerno is a head bobber, the double time kicks coming like a heartbeat. There is a sense of purpose to the unrestrained impacts that pump and push the sound design heavy, Sludge-Techno forwards. A simple, distorted vocal sample: “Do I Want?” is peppered amongst the chaos, presenting as a rhythmic element which contributes to the track’s flow rather than diverging from it. The inflection gives the impression that this is a question to which the artist already knows his answer. 

Closing things out on the B side is IWillTry2d0, a dystopian piece that has a tensible core of thick and hearty synth pulses. Evocative of the Toulouse Low Trax breed of intentional, ambiguous chug, but in keeping with the rest of the record smothered in impact and delay. Like the others, it has a percussive outer shell which protects something emotional and questioning at its root.

B1 - Noroveerno

Digital and 7" vinyl available here:
https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/streets

CDMX, Mexico, Portmore, Jamaica, LA, Bristol, UK: listen. Shining a light on Duppy rising voice RDL for his first solo offering (another smash combo with Smurphy on the buttons). RDL first surfaced on the Duppy radar on 'RichMiProud' from 2019's I Jahbar & Friends album and 'Bumper' (from 2020's Montegod Riddim pack). RDL strikes out on his own now with 3 bold minutes of bubbling auto-tuned heat coming off the lockdown Streets of Portmore; riding a pristine pop-ready riddim from Smurphy.

RDL - Streets [Smurphy Prod.]

Outopia Thru Sound // BKV Industrial + BKV Cadavre + Bokeh Thought Programme // Avon Terror Corps // I serve Duppy Gun // Pheasantry Life ⚔

RDL - Streets [Smurphy Prod.]

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