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Wawa's Arcade Vol 1. 

A mix of some of the video game music that i've been listening to and collecting this year.

A collaboration with Slimebubble with a video accompanied https://vimeo.com/570705076

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Wawa's Arcade Vol 1.

If you can judge an artist’s quality by the company they keep, then FaltyDL is up there with the best of them. The label history of the producer known to his friends as Drew Lustman reads like a “who’s who” of 21st century electronic music imprints - Ninja Tune, Unknown to the Unknown, Planet Mu, Studio Barnhus, the list goes on.

With In the Wake of Wolves, we can now add Central Processing Unit to this illustrious roster. The Sheffield label joins the party at a notable juncture - while FaltyDL has kept up an impressive clip of releases throughout his career, In the Wake of Wolves is both the NYC-based producer’s first LP for two years and his first full-length release away from his own Blueberry Records for almost a decade. 

In the Wake of Wolves proves to be both a great match for CPU and also further evidence of the label’s burgeoning sonic palette. While CPU has built its reputation on top quality electro joints, recent releases have delivered adventurous electronica experiments (Proswell’s People Are Giving And Receiving Thanks At Incredible Speeds), hard-wired breakbeat techno (Baby T’s I Against I) and golden-age synth explorations (twenty-fifth anniversary reissues of Bochum Welt’s Desktop Robotics and Feelings on a Screen, both of which first emerged via the legendary Rephlex Records). In the Wake of Wolves takes things further still - this is a brilliantly genre-voracious record, one which marries the rhythmic cut-and-thrust that we have long known FaltyDL for with all manner of adventurous stylistic choices.

Those familiar with the FaltyDL experience will recognise the trademark blend of synthetic grit and harmonious softness in album opener ‘I Need You’. This could pass for Four Tet or even Hannah Diamond at points, the steady build of pulsing synths and looped vocals recalling a more mysterious version of the PC Music sound. ‘I Need You’ stands shoulder-to-shoulder with any of FaltyDL’s other great atmospheric album openers - no small feat given the competition. ‘Further’, the following number, is yin to ‘I Need You’s yang. This is a pulsating track which gleefully skitters between machine-funk, tubing darkside bass and breakcore-adjacent drum programming, all of which is peppered with some genuinely beautiful work in the higher synths.

‘Further’ sets the scene for several of the more club-facing cuts here. ‘Minds Protection’ similarly features all manner of strange percussive sounds to surprise the ear, and it also boasts a thrilling mid-section in which the bottom falls out the track to incorporate a short snippet of blown-out junglism. With its tunnelling low-end and clattering drums, ‘Full Spectrum’ kicks off a delightful run of grime-influenced joints which take cues from Mr. Mitch, Logos and many of those other producers who took the Eski sound to exciting new places in the 2010s. ‘Forget Me Not’, the album’s longest track which is placed three spots from the end, feels like the record’s climactic point - a pitter-patter post-house joint that has a hint of Caribou in its DNA, it’ll take the clubs by storm.

But as much as FaltyDL may consistently bring the heat in terms of the beat programming, the thing which has long marked Lustman out as a special talent is the musicality of his compositions. No matter how much drums clatter or bass bangs, FaltyDL always hooks the ear back in with a sonorous synth or pleasing nugget of melody. Nowhere is this more apparent than on In the Wake of Wolves’ more weightless numbers, each startling in their prettiness. ‘Half Spectrum’ is a new-era beat track packed full of ear candy; the keening keys of ‘GasGas’ are potent with feeling; and on the album’s closer, the evocatively-titled ‘Mila Stans In A Meadow For The First Time Eating Strawberries’, we get a gorgeous synth vignette that joins the dots between the modern mastery of Yung Sherman and the most emotionally affecting moments of Aphex’s Twin’s catalogue.

In The Wake Of Wolves

FaltyDL - In The Wake Of Wolves

Give Up Everything

Give Up Everything (Digital Underground)

Love Injection is a New York music and culture monthly fanzine in print since February 2015, founded by DJs, archivists, and audio enthusiasts Paul Raffaele and Barbie Bertisch. Their namesake record label launched in 2020. Avid record and audio enthusiasts, Paul is also an art director and Barbie writes and performs music with various projects.

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Sophia Kourtesis & Daphni - Unidos

Hold On

She's Mine

She's Mine (feat. Isaac Delusion)

Goblin Booty

STREAM : AlterK.lnk.to/Impulse_EP

Who says you can't mix club tools, soaring synths and disco loops? Impulse is Jabberwocky's new EP, designed as a soundtrack to the first rays of sunshine. The 6 tracks draw on the duo's DNA while turning their attention to the dancefloor.

There are raw, UK-style club tracks like G-SPEC, as well as tracks like Keep On that are reminiscent of the duo's signature: synths that flirt with melancholy and soaring, heady vocals that go straight to the heart. Finally, Good Tonight, inspired by disco samples, unfurls danceable loops carried by an ultra-efficient house rhythm. With each new release, Jabberwocky are forging a more dance-oriented path, and Impulse is a powerful affirmation of their new identity.

CREDITS
Composed, produced & mixed by Jabberwocky 
Stems Mastering : Alex Gopher
AD & Cover by Amsem
Label : AMSEM 
Edition : Baïdy 
Format: Digital 
Distribution by Alter K 
Management : Grand Musique Management

Impulse

Keep On

Jabberwocky - Keep On

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Brooklyn-based Praveen Sharma joins the Hypercolour ranks under his genre spanning, dancefloor leaning Braille alias. ‘Goblin Booty’ serves up two tracks of crisp, forward thinking club music oozing with his signature sound.

With a career spanning well over a decade, across various aliases and styles, Braille has made a name for himself appearing on Rush Hour and LA-based Friends Of Friends, as well as being a staunch regular on Scuba’s Hotflush Recordings since the early 2010s - notably as one half of Sepalcure with Machinedrum and more recently with his 2024 Triple Transit LP.

Lead single ‘Goblin Booty’ is a skittering, swinging slice of UKG full of vibrant synthwork and a playful, wandering bassline, while ‘Paradise Vest’ is a sprightly house cut of glittering, filtered keys, choice vocal samples and thick, analogue low-end.

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Braille - Goblin Booty (HYPE130) [clips]

’Serenity EP’ is out now on @exhaleofc: found.ee/amelielens-serenity

Title track ‘Serenity’ kicks things off in signature Amelie Lens style: a no-nonsense, high-impact techno cut built on pounding percussion and driving beats that lock you in from the first bar. Charged with tension and peak-time rave power, this is warehouse euphoria at its most refined – sharp, streamlined and dripping with mainstage heat. A powerful follow-up to her club weapon 'Falling For You', 'Serenity' fuses pulsing rhythms, warped synth textures and a guest vocal performance radiating in kinetic energy.

On the flip, ‘Club Of Extremes’ is an irresistible offset that sees Amelie dive into deeper, darker territory. Deliciously twisted club grooves, etheric, spacey pads and self-assured, icy-cool vocals give the track a heady, transcendent edge – part warehouse throb, part lucid dream. The lyrics cut through like a mantra, while the sweat-factor is firmly cranked to 11. This is late-night techno for the fearless. With Serenity, she brings us back to the source: driving, emotive and built to move minds and bodies as one.


Amelie Lens - Serenity

Mirror Boys

Parkour Sundae (SCB Edit)

Parkour Sundae

Brooklyn based Praveen Sharma has always taken a genre absorbing, dancefloor-oriented approach to his output as Braille,  effortlessly floating through house, techno, melancholic ambient and UK Bass. His singles on European labels Rush Hour (“The Year 3000”) and Hotflush Recordings (“A Meaning”) were critically acclaimed and set the stage for his full length album debut on LA based label Friends of Friends (“Mute Swan”). With an ear for sentimental melodies and an unprecedented step into the vocal arena, Braille’s first full-length demonstrated his ability to step outside the dancefloor box. Braille’s return to Hotflush with “Stand Still” marks an infusion of color and optimism to his sound and sets the stage for a renewed focus on the dance.

Praveen Sharma has been making a diverse range of music from folk to juke since 2004. He has released as “Praveen” on Neo Ouija, Moodgadget and Supermartyr Records, “Praveen & Benoît” on Music Related, and alongside Machinedrum as one half of the Pitchfork “Best New Music” awarded “Sepalcure” on Hotflush Recordings.

Goblin Booty

Braille

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