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Lily Huu Electic Picks guestmix on Melodic Distraction 15/02/23

Listen to "Feel Enough" by Drumskull taken from VA "ANY BPM Vol​.​03" out on 6th October via excess

Bandcamp: https://excessbristol.bandcamp.com/album/ab003-any-bpm-vol-03

excess RE-EMERGE FOR THEIR THIRD ANNUAL VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILATION ALBUM - ANY BPM VOL 3. 

Packed out with a fresh cohort of underground talent, 2023’s offering continues the label's expansion out to the furthest corners of the bass music spectrum. Once again, this record was undertaken in support of a Bristol-based cause - this year we are donating to Quartet Community Foundation’s “Cost of Living Fund”. 

Almost no-one has escaped the UK cost of living crisis unscathed, including the charities and support groups that help those most in need - donating to Quartet Community Foundation allows them to allocate funding to key frontline organisations such as debt support groups, food and fuel poverty organisations and charities supporting the homeless and vulnerable elderly communities. 

All profits will be donated so your purchases will help change lives across Bristol and the surrounding area. 

This year’s record sees moody downtempo and hyperpop go toe-to-toe with melancholy acid house and distorted tear-out breaks on this notably darker outing, all while delivering the heavy club grooves expected from an ANY BPM record. With 14 incredible contributions from a host of our favourite artists, this one sounds just as good in your headphones as it does on the dancefloor. Enjoy x 

FOREVER & BEYOND ‘23

Links:
Drumskull
https://soundcloud.com/drumskull_music
https://drumskull.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/drumskull_must_die
excess
https://soundcloud.com/excessbristol
https://excessbristol.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/excess_bristol

ANY BPM Vol​.​03

bandcamp

[Premiere] Drumskull - Feel Enough (excess)

Burna Flex Show 14th September 2023 W/ Bella Guard & Mongrel

MELT 004 w/ Mod Sens

Simon Hafner aka Sun People is well known to fans of fast tempos, having released music on labels such as Exit Records, Rua Sound and Through These Eyes. Hafner presents a wide range of music and guest mixes on his monthly Sub FM radio show and is also releasing music and doing A&R for the label Defrostatica.

His latest cassette on the Guides label, titled Joyful Discontent, is a tribute to minimalism, referencing the works of Frank Bretschneider and Mark Fell. The starting point for this release was a JMT VDR-1 drum synthesizer, characterised by its intuitive aspects, its limited sonic capacities and the challenge to stretch the machine's possibilities. This one instrument informs the structure of the album, fixed in tempo, track and total length. Reducing his tools to a bare minimum, Hafner explicitly refers to specific genre traditions inherent in this radical form. Structurally and sonically, the spirit of clicks & cuts (e.g., Komet’s ‘Rausch’) can be heard, as well as influences from dub, ambient and minimalist drum&bass and footwork.

In his thinking, however, Hafner goes further. The idea of interlocking all the pieces, complementing the overall grid of constraints, provides the frame for a playful exploration. The result was also fuelled by intuitive action, such as when a single gesture and decision changes the direction of a process that takes place in real time. When composing, despite the track’s live act structure, he produced recordings that could function as parts of a jigsaw puzzle that can be rearranged freely in any order, thus opening the way for a reinterpretation of the whole. This is also why the album will be available in two versions, both as a mix of combined tracks, and as eight individual pieces that make up the whole.

Despite so many formal constraints, Joyful Discontent still sounds accessible. The pieces produced by Hafner move in the direction of Mark Fell’s compositional approaches, where music is devoid of evoking emotion, rather, aiming for a neutral and non-imposing environment for the listener. 

Release date: 17.11.2023
Label Guides / Outlines
Cat No: gui006
Format: digital / cassete (editon of 50) 
Mastered by: LXC
Artwork: Marta Sieczkowska

With the kind support of the city of Graz

Sun People - Joyful Discontent (gui006)

Forthcoming on Killer Instinct by Ed Case

Ed Case - Unknown

@lockedon @silvabumpa @megancwroe @kolly-borda

Silvabumpa  x Megan Wroe - Without U (Kolly Borda. Remix)

SGP001 - Type-T

Back with some more edits I've been hammering in the summer sets!

House Nation

Cant Get Over [Blockrand 001]

Bringing the drums back. 
1) Antmaster - Shady Tam
2) Antmaster - Биджо 2
3) Antmaster - Хроники Эсэнджи
4) Antmaster - Where's the money at?
5) Antmaster - Sweep
6) Antmaster - БКБ

От работяг для работяг.

Председатель (antmaster mix)

Email: burna.au@gmail.com
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Burna Flex Show 14th September 2023 W/ Bella Guard & Mongrel

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