deep N dancey (warmin up)

2013 Red Bull Music Academy alum @klokeuk has been keeping himself busy with more exquisite output, recently dropping the 'First Light' EP on Melbourne imprint @subsquared, while also getting his live electronic trio @TRAVANCORE1 off the ground.

We kindly urge you to seek out 'First Light' (http://www.juno.co.uk/products/kloke-first-light-ep/553941-01/) and TRAVANCORE's self-titled LP (http://hiddenwaves.bandcamp.com/album/travancore) when you have a spare minute - but first we'd like to draw your attention to this gem of a @suzannekraft remix. A fellow graduate of the 2013 Academy in New York City, Suzanne Kraft adds a dusty drum & bass flavor to "Space & Time" letting the original's synth crescendos open up wide open spaces in between breaks.

You can stream previews of the 'First Light' EP here:
https://soundcloud.com/subsquared/ssq04-kloke-first-light-ep-clips-12-download

Buy 'First Light' via Juno:
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/kloke-first-light-ep/553941-01/

https://facebook.com/klokesounds
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Kloke - Space & Time (Suzanne Kraft Remix)

Chromatic - Smile

I am not the owner of this tune, if you want to support the artis you can buy her vinyl here : https://www.discogs.com/Eva808-Prrr-ALL-CAPS/release/10620750

Eva808 - Prrr

Alex Ferrazzi and Matteo Keemani a.k.a. Blue Mondays, longtime Laterra friends and collaborators (with releases on Sonar Kollektiv, Rebirth, Snatch!,Memento, Manocalda as well), strike again. They do it, as usual, their very own way: shades of Balearic flavours in there, but with a very dark and malicious twist. Marvin & Guy add some disco nuances (keeping it raw and obscure, though), while Nick Anthony Simoncino delivers a solid, strict, gloomy dancefloor affair. No frills, mad quality.

Mad At U

LT018 • Blue Mondays feat. Pat Cosmo - Mad At U (Marvin & Guy Whisper Mix)

The machinery was piled high inside cardboard boxes which towered high towards the ceiling. The warehouse was a place of militant storage and not somewhere expected to be of any sort of interest to the outside world. At least so he thought... Inside however, there was a playhouse, a fortress of solitude by which nobody else knew of. The palace of Xenon was his big time place of fun and after dark once all the staff had gone he was quite simply left to his own devices. He was the king of the castle. 

Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid is set to release a new EP on Exo Recordings on the 19th of February next month. A wonderful blend of elegant electronics, blissful pads and tricky rhythms.

PREMIERE: Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid - Xenon [Exo Recordings]

Sully brings pure junglist fire for the second release on Rua Sound offshoot, Foxy Jangle!

Premiere: Sully 'Soundboy Don't Push Your Luck'

3AM Spares is a new compilation of Australian Electronic Dance Music selected by Andras and Instant Peterson, encompassing the darker sounds and later nights of the 1990s and beyond. Following on from forerunner compilation Midnite Spares, this double LP draws from local 12” releases, CDRs and the archives of community radio station 3RRR FM to make a diverse and pumping scene audible once more. No longer confined to beer barns and back rooms, this generation of producers, DJs, clubbers and ravers spilled out into pavilions, warehouses and paddocks, embracing a new culture of machine-metaphor and chemical love.

Future Sound of Melbourne’s warehouse triptych Resist The Beat embodies a time when the country’s youth united with juggernaut stamina, partying beyond the long arm of the law. Restored from the ARIA award-winning trio’s original DATs, this debut 12” incited label offers from Jeff Mills, Frank De Wulf and Carl Cox.

Released by the likes of Clan Analogue, Creative Vibes, Volition, DanceNet, Juice and Psy-Harmonics, this era’s material has evaded sufficient digital documentation until now, some lost in the decommission of Angelfire, Tripod and Geocities websites. Often these bedroom experiments and one-off collaborations existed solely for compilation inclusions, a plausible scenario for the mysterious Inner Harmony. In the case of Tetrphnm, graphic artist Jeremy Dower’s glacial sub-bass was digitised from the only known CD-R copy, preserved by the 3RRR FM library.

Many key figures of this narrative have deep roots in the DIY/post-punk family tree. Third Eye, the impressive evolution of Whirlywirld founder and industrial legend Ollie Olsen, finds common ground with I Will Go, a hypnotic concoction by Adrenalentil and Poets of the Machine associate Jandy Rainbow, a transgender artist whose liberated electronics trace back to 1978.

The most unique take on this new wave of dance music comes from Turrbal-Gubbi Gubbi woman and Stolen Generations survivor Maroochy Barambah. Recorded in New York, Mongungi incorporates two lines of a traditional Gubbi Gubbi song Gurri Nina Nami with the sound palette of tribal house, highlighting the broadening ways that identity and culture were being negotiated and manifested within club music.

A lesson in intelligent appropriation, Artificial’s Sobriquet remix bends one of the most looped samples of all time to fit a wired new generation’s interrogation of that thing called disco. Artificial’s ingenuity was vital impact to the scene, releasing three influential albums as one half of B(if)tek and establishing the WINK Awards - a music prize that recognised and encouraged subversive electronics. Her playfulness is mirrored in Blimp’s frisky garage house, recalling Paul Johnson, while Ian Eccles-Smith’s borrowing is comparatively more discrete on the chillout sampledelic collage The Slaughtering Eye.

Andy Rantzen returns to Efficient Space in two incarnations - as one half of Itch-E + Scratch-E ambient alias Screensaver, and in collaboration with General Electrik on Leather Lover, a cocked and loaded glimpse at the bottom end of Oxford street, originally recorded for the Club Kooky compilation Gay In The Life: Adventures in the Queer Underground. Reinventing himself as Hypnoblob, fellow Sydney Oz Wave artist Ian Andrews also gives us his pneumatic-drill-step Deep Down.

3AM Spares: Compiled by Andras and Instant Peterson

A2 Hypnoblob - Deep Down 5:00 (ES009)

Touch My Body (Regfant Rework)

By now if you’re a fan of underground bass music you’re probably familiar with the Nervous Horizon back catalogue. Just last year the likes of label honcho TSVI, Da Soul Boyz and Marcus Nasty released via the imprint, each sharing a unique slice of dancefloor ammunition with the world and indeed the clubs.

Now, the label has lined up six “hard hitting, hi-impact club tracks” from Melbourne-based producer DJ Plead. Inspired by his Lebanese heritage, ‘Pleats Plead’ merges motifs from Lebanese pop and even traditional wedding music with new gen bass sounds spanning hard drum, mutated r‘n’b and more. 

Today we’re premiering exuberant EP closer ‘Crush and Burn’ – think breakneck drum work, subtle pad atmospherics and a slew of colourful samples.

‘Pleats Plead’ drops March 1 on Nervous Horizon.

Pleats Plead EP

More exclusive music

Premiere: DJ Plead 'Crush and Burn'

Space Oddities, Vol. 1

Diving Bodies

The rumble echoed from the dusty speaker which sat nestled upon the corner by the kids playing ball. The boombox blasted the very best in vibrations radio, a sound which had become synonymous with the beats on the street. It was loud and aggressive, the bass distorted and raw - exactly as it was supposed to be. 

It was a hot summer's day and they would play outside until dark, shootin' hoops and talkin' crap with their friends in the heat of the afternoon. In the distance the sound of sirens bellowed above skyscrapers and rooftops but that was not their world. They were kids from the borough and this was there home...

Huey Mnemonic is set to release a bangin' new EP on Vanity Press records, a mixture of rough and ready cuts for the clubs and the streets. "Vibrations Radio" was our personal highlight and it sounds exactly like you might expect...

Huey Mnemonic EP

PREMIERE: Huey Mnemonic - Vibrations Radio [Vanity Press Records]

Truly a renaissance man, Helsinki-based Halonen studies painting during the day and crafts uplifting yet surprising house tracks during the night. The tropical summer hit “Mattolaituri” is complemented with a left-leaning track “Tulva” off of the forthcoming EP; also remixed by DJ Fiskars (let’s call it art school acid house).

Release: July 19

Premiere: Halonen // Mattolaituri

Mygraine Urgraine / Harbour Run

Harbour Run

ifonly.bandcamp.com/album/big-material

At a time when unfair austerity is increasing inequality and leaving so many behind, we hope to support a community that has given so much to the 'scene' and music we love. Digi-dub abstractions and drifting ambient to kaleidoscopic breaks and newly-coined genre, 'subtle donk', it's a pretty accurate microcosm of the If-Only curation as a whole.

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Soft and calm, we, like light
fray into gentle chaos.
Big material unfurls
Then turns to collect, reform –
Like breaths, draw in
To new poise and structure;
Solid and slow.
Never still. Glacial.

Think back, before
A piece of things,
Moving alone, once a part –
But when is the fragment
not the whole?
When is the whole not the whole?
The salt which made the chalk
Which made the cliff
Which made the slate -

Hard to see,
Once a part and still, we are,
A piece of something else.

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All profits go to Stonewall Housing, a London-based charity working to ensure lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people live in safer homes, free from fear, where they can celebrate their identity and support each other to achieve their full potential. stonewallhousing.org  

released March 19, 2020

With samples from 'Virus Crack Team - Lovechild (Rise)'
Mastering by Ali Berger.
Poem by BSMN WNS.

Moonphase - Elastic Donk (from VA - Big Material)

https://thebirdsthatmimicsolitude.bandcamp.com/releases

Jack Chrysalis - Life Codes

t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said (leinaD Running Through Your Head Remix)

Here's my debut collaboration with Clara! , recorded at the beginning of the year. Had a lot of messages about this one so excited to finally have it out there. It's out this Friday :) 

Written by Clara Sobrino & David Kennedy
Produced and mixed by David Kennedy
Recorded in Brussels and London
Mastered by Matt Colton @ Metropolis
Design by David Coquelin

Mi Cuerpo

Buy on Bandcamp

Pearson Sound X Clara! - Mi Cuerpo

SpaceGhostPurrp - Diamonds And Chrystals (Amor Satyr Edit)

RROXYMORE - FORWARD FLAMINGO REMIXES
FT. JOE, ALTERED NATIVES, BADSISTA, DJ PLEAD, BANGA
DBALP006X, 02 OCTOBER 2020
BUY: http://dontbeafraidrecordings.co.uk/shop

FORWARD FLAMINGO REMIXES

RROXYMORE - FORWARD FLAMINGO (DJ PLEAD REMIX)

DBA10.01: VARIOUS ARTISTS - 10.01
FT. RROXYMORE, TYLER DANCER, KERRIE, KAMAU, GENERAL LUDD, M GUN, JAYSON WYNTERS, BRASSFOOT, LURKA, KAREN GWYER, MR. BEATNICK
BUY: https://dontbeafraidrecordings.co.uk/shop

10.01 MR BEATNICK - IN CARCOSA

✧༺♥༻   c8t1?n   ༺♥༻✧
drums n wubs n textural dubs

@resonancenaarm

contact: caitlinmaybond@yahoo.com.au

deep N dancey (warmin up)

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