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OUT 10.03.23

Preorder: https://sprayforever.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-water

Tracklist:
A1. Heavy Water
A2. Heavy Water (D. Tiff's Floating To The Top Mix)
B1. Diact
B2. Trouble Down Groove

Wake up sleepyheads; after another rotation around the sun and the fog of the early year drifting across the realm, what better way to break through than breaks. Spray is once again on the archival quest, dusting off jewels for the dancers, with this time’s excavation taking us to a 1994 North London bedroom (heard that before huh?). Originally released on D*Fusion Records, at a time when the ever-rising pulsating amphetamine twitch of hardcore was side stepped, with some furthering their fury into jungle, and others receding into more cerebral and ethereal realms. This collection of huge tunes falls into the latter from the producer Anoesis; a release for the post-post generation, when bygone specters of trance dance mania become the ghouls of the moment, the need for Rave ever increasing.

All in all it takes about 15 seconds to know that ‘Heavy Water’ is an essential massive break your speaker hit. Gated vox pop out like sirens in the smoke and lasers, calling you to engage with the eternal/internal rhythm that is the acid squelch break. A perfect dose of psych deviates the song to a higher path. For the remix contemporary audio savant D. Tiff strips away the buzz saw grind of the original, encouraging hypnosis and trance-infected desires, with a touch of mooood.

On the flip Diact is super keen for an ascension. A menaced freaky overlord, pulling at the strings that the dancers are mere puppets to follow, channeling a big beat essence. Trouble Down Groove assumes the form of the classic break and vocal flip, full of twitched sampling hype; 1 for the dancefloor headspinners. Aligned to the Anoesis sound, it’s mutated with a certain type of alluring growl, a sonic signature, and the key sound running through this EP.

Cat Num.: SPRAY003
Format: 12” / Digi
Written & Produced By Howard Dodd
Mastering & Cut: Marco Pellegrino
Distributor: One Eye Witness
Artwork: Lauren Harewood
Release Text: Rhys Salt
Release Date: 10.03.2023

@howarddodd @d-tiffany

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Anoesis - 'Heavy Water' (Incl. D. Tiffany Remix) [SPRAY003]

Preorder
https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1675775011/Kasra-V-Hyperdelic-EP 
https://radiant-records.bandcamp.com/album/kasra-v-hyperdelic-ep

A1. Voice Note To Self
A2. Voice Note To Self (Byron Yeates & Roza Terenzi Remix)
B1. Vesper
B2. Night Prime
B3. Warm Up Great

@kasra-v @byronyeates @roza-terenzi

Kasra V’s Hyperdelic EP, his first release on Radiant Records, showcases the producer’s attentive ear for textural and rhythmic play. His last EP from 2018, Akasa, was a collection of dreamy, break-driven pieces, and a more ambient collaboration with Dopplereffekt; timbre and meticulously tuned sonics were also in focus then, but we now hear a reduction of form, and with it, a saturation of style.

“Voice note to self” kicks off the EP with a boom-bap drum loop. The rhythm continues as percussive elements are added and removed, adhering to the groove and its growing complexity. A warm bassline chugs along, pitched vocals mumble into the static, and an ascendant pad begins to give the track a gorgeous depth: a horizon. Following is a remix of the same track by Byron B. Yeates and Roza Terenzi, adapting certain samples from Kasra V’s production and looping them up to a brisk 142 BPM. As can be expected from these two, the kick’s punchy 4/4 structure is buttressed by crisp percussion and clever, unexpected rhythms.

On the B-side, “Vesper” takes us back to downtempo. Bumping on at around 80 BPM, Kasra V builds upon a drum-machine loop with processed percussion samples: a snare-roll one could hear in a jungle track, chopped claps panning across the break, and so on. And the slow, warm gurgle of an 808 comes in just at the point of fracture, holding it all together. “Night Prime” extends the EP’s principle of a drum loop serving as the skeleton – with greater drama, somehow. Like in “Voice note to self”, we hear vocal samples, but here  they swerve in and out of clarity; we break into unexpected moments of silence, and the loop restarts; 3 minutes in, a huge, minor piano chord breaks upon the track like dusk. “Warm up great” closes the EP with the blend of left-field groove and dissonance one might associate with Future Sound of London or early work of The Chemical Brothers. The textures and tunings of each sample are so dense, so delicious, Kasra V lets us savour them for the last 20 seconds of the EP, lost in the reverb of a singly struck piano key.

KASRA V
Title: HYPERDELIC EP
Cat: RADIANTLOVE006
Format: 12”
Distributed: ONE EYE WITNESS
Mastered: MARCO PELLEGRINO
Artwork: YENNY JRANT
Text: NAT MARCUS

KASRA V - HYPERDELIC EP

https://soundcloud.com/regfant

vinyl pre order
https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1676378701/Regularfantasy-Regularfantasy-Presents:-Plush-III

PLSH003
Formats: Vinyl 12" & Digital
Release date: Mar 20, 2023

Third times a charm, Plush III is presented to you by our fav Underground Popstar™ Regularfantasy, casting their web out to friends all over the globe in the name of lavish collaboration. First up, in cahoots with fellow Canadian icon Big Zen, the quintessential hit - Call U When I’m Done, a phone talk fantasy with a bonus beatdown remix from living legend Priori.

Plush royalty Chrysalis returns with regfant, a jam Down Under manifesting as a flirty kiss on the cheek to Aqua, Life in Plastic. The B side raises the roof back to Montreal with larger than life references and partnerships for tried and tested chart toppers Sweet Emotion & Sucks To Be You.. Kristian North, D. Tiffany, Steven Tyler, Prozzak and Oprah to name a few. A crowded house party at Le Chateâu; make sure you’re on the guestlist!

Regularfantasy "Plush III" [PLSH03]

Preorder Vinyl & Digital via Bandcamp:
bit.ly/40FPNeL

One Eye Witness:
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Various Artists - The Chants Of The Holy Oyster | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER40)

Cat Num.: OYSTER40
Format: 4 LP Box Set/ Digi

Written & Produced By Big Zen
Label: Kalahari Oyster Cult
Mastering & Cut: Marco Pellegrino
Distributor: One Eye Witness

Big Zen - Really Bad Habit

MAGIC020 - @bliss_inc "Mind 2 Mind" in stores 12/05/23

preorder from IoAT - https://instituteofadvancedthinking.net/product/bliss-inc-mind-2-mind
 
bandcamp - https://magicwire.bandcamp.com/album/mind-2-mind

Whence comes such light of the Mind?

MAGIC020 - Bliss inc. "Mind 2 Mind"

Naarm alchemists Sleep D’s revelatory new synthetic ‘Electronic Arts’ is ready for circulation. 

Having released 4 EPs of mind-altering club tackle since 2019’s ‘Rebel Force’, the duo overcome second album syndrome, boiling down their chaos with a more developed sense of songwriting. Never banging one drum, ‘Electronic Arts’ mirrors the anything goes mania of their DJ sets, tactfully shifting through different sounds and styles. Tempos intensify and decelerate, at times pushing the threshold to 150 bpm from docile canine dreamscapes to full tilt Space Invaders in AR mind games. 

Largely built on road tested material from their live performances, the album is a tangible Butter Sessions gathering, busting out the gate with Martian rave initiation Planet Waves, Outdoor System’s polyrhythmic beatdown and the Orb-like hero dose affirmations of Sunrise In The Crater (I Exist). While ‘Electronic Arts’ is otherwise a self-dependent effort, Punch Drunk is brewed ever more potent by the hypnagogic vocals and lucid trumpet cycles of former futsal team member YL Hooi. Their unified energy incidentally manifests a profound matrix of ambient techno, motorik, Don Cherry and Everything But the Girl. 

Also touching on apocalyptic doof and minimal, the album is not exclusively peak time with Maryos Syawish and Corey Kikos’ specialty curveballs also playing their part. From Village To Empire finds the duo rooting down in Syawish’s heritage with a tapestry of purposefully deployed Iraqi and Syrian ethnographic samples and field recordings, dubbed within range of Muslimgauze and On-U Sound. As minimal techno finale Textile trails off into footsteps wandering back to base camp with a satisfied exhale, one wonders where Sleep D’s existential pathfinding could possibly take us next? 

Artwork – GGT 
Mixing – Corey Kikos 
Mastering – Nik Kozub 
Album notes – Michael Kucyk

A1 - Planet Waves

BUY: https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/microtransitions-ep

Proud to present this beautiful mix of peak time minimalism, intricate electro, come-up euphorics and come-down remedies by the masterful 'not even noticed' duo on their Craigie Knowes debut EP, "Microtransitions" - something for every moment, yet nothing out of place.

Design by Mel Keane
Mastered by Johanz Westerman
Distributed by Clone Distribution

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CKNOWEP49 | not even noticed - Microtransitions EP

Bristol mainstay Remotif debuts on X-Kalay and heralds the label's 30th release, complete with a bonus digital-only remix from Youandewan.

Pre-order: tinyurl.com/2b5mmj93

Available 31st July 2023

@remotif
@youandewan

Buy 12"

XK030 | Remotif - In the Blink of a Cosmic Eye (incl. Youandewan Digital-Only Bonus Remix)

Preorder Vinyl & Digital via Bandcamp:
bit.ly/3OkExQv

One Eye Witness:
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Big one from our reptilian overlord. On a landmark 50th release for the label, Reptant returns to Kalahari Oyster Cult with a one-two punch of cybernetic machine funk.

The followup to 2019’s ‘Phasic Reflex’ EP, ‘Duality of the Gecko’ picks up where its predecessor left off: 2 tracks demonstrating an innate ability to achieve Detroit-styled deepness without sacrificing dancefloor propulsion.

Curdled sci-fi melodies and neck-snapping rhythm take centre stage across both tracks. Nocturnal, mainframe-tapping biz from one of contemporary electro’s foremost proponents.

OYSTER50

Reptant - Duality Of The Gecko | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER50)

Here is my new track together with Focus FL in Superordinate Music. We have had commercial success with the track since it's in the 28 position of the Top 100 Hype Progressive House, hope you enjoy it.

Sonora

Beatport

Sebas Ramos, Focus FL - Sonora [Superordinate Music]

label by https://soundcloud.com/sleepd
since 2010

A1 - Planet Waves

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