Tis that time of the year for the annual comp! This time a selection of old & new, some hints to upcoming releases, some old time mates.
As always big ups to everyone who contributed, Ciaran Birch on the artwork, Brendan @ Cirrus Audio on the masters, all profits to Mind.

1. The Arkive - u ask i who is rastafari
2. wzrdryAV - No Profile Neighbourhood
3. DJ ojo - Mycelial
4. EYRA - Snooose
5. Simkin - Steppin
6. Dome Zero - Transition Dub
7. Lithe - & Drop
8. Troy Gunner - Fragment
9. Elijah Minnelli - Tim Lovejoy Riddim
10. How Du - Hd-Gold
11. Odd Lust - Tyranny of the Dominant Culture
12. Soreab - G.79
13. Bluetoof & Theo Everyday - Spillage in the Arcade
14. LUXE - Duchess
16. Angel Hunt - AIRFOILL
15. RV - Utter Gutter Butter Flutter
17. Jasper Jarvis - Huff (Tape Sketch)
18. Kiara Scuro - Trance Would Be A Fine Thing
19. Eiger Drums Propaganda - Dark Age Of Rezuvaj

AM: Friends & Family Vol.2 (PREVIEWS)

Bogotá’s @TraTraTrax ends a landmark year with a 16-track compilation of club music from across Latin America and its diaspora. Hear @drjeep's ‘Prisma De Luz’

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-doctor-jeep-prisma-de-luz

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Premiere: Doctor Jeep ‘Prisma De Luz’

[PREMIERE] Hoka - Hyas | Grosse Goutte [2023]

All Centre kick off the new year with a two tracker from label mainstay Holloway. Following a busy 2023 for the London-based artist, holding down a residency on Rinse FM, tearing up parties around the world and launching his own label Waylo, Holloway starts the year as he means to go on with two incendiary club tracks.

Beans opens in atmospheric fashion with lush pads and dubbed-out sirens held together by enthrallingly syncopated percussion. The structure then strips down to allow a wistful, jazz-inflected theme to come to the fore, deftly complimented by a bouncing, descending bassline and a deep kick pattern. Lightly swung drums give an edge of UKG stylings to this deep, introspective cut.

On the flip Holloway ramps up the tempo with Trinco. Soulful chords fuse the sound of 90s DnB into precise, stepping percussion. The track launches into another dimension at the drop, driven by techy drums, growling basslines and warped vocal samples. The track breathes with the reintroduction of the atmospheric pads, before the bassweight emerges again with renewed force.

Beans is available across all digital platforms from the 12th January 2024.

Beans

Holloway - Trinco [ACEN055]

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EtherwerkZ is back with "Ascension Vol. 2", the leftfield-infused second volume of their VA series,once again serving up high vibrational frequencies to create that magic transcendental dance floor experience.

The compilation kicks off with a heavy, raw halftime/bass-hole riddim from Bristol Amity collective's unstoppable Soundboy Elpac, who has delivered nothing but fire output in 2024

Xen Chron returns to the label with his Xenology-influenced style, sounding something like a 2-stepish take on Autechre remixing a track by Stinson's legendary Transllusion project, perfectly exemplifying his USA - UK relation and connection.

UK bass first team player Product Toss keeping game deep and rolling, but a bit more percussive and bassy, preparing the road perfect for the late night driving in Kid Kun-s German whip with his sub-loaded darkside stepper.

Mexico City's exciting underground club scene don Octoptic delivers an idm-ish technoid breakbeat weapon, ideal for late-night club workoutz.

Tokyo's Albino Sound continues the frequency invasion via his experimental street-style psychedelic techno, of course with key elements from the UK bass sound and scene (the foundation of this subterranean compilation).

Then, label top boy Iggy presents his new project "EssΞncƎ". A 2-step, warp-drive bass-powered journey to outer space, somehow dark and ethereal at the same time with an ambient Lee Gamble-style outro as well as a powerful message via TikTok!

On closing duty, Hungarian sound artist Audio Compression provides ambient bliss therapy for listeners' minds, slowly sinking into ethereal depths, taking us to new levels of this magic ascension.

Massive shouts to all the soundboys and the rest of the fam for making all this happen. The truth is  out once again.

Mastered by www.instagram.com/weightausend/
Artwork by www.instagram.com/annexmarrie/

FREE PALESTINE SAVE TikTok!!!

https://etherwerkz.bandcamp.com/album/va-ascension-vol-2https://soundcloud.com/etherwerkz
https://www.instagram.com/etherwerkz/

https://soundcloud.com/octoptic
https://www.instagram.com/octoptic

PREMIERE: Octoptic - Hoku [EtherwerkZ]

Lacuna returns swiftly for thirds, offering a now-cursory split EP from Chile’s Nicoba and Peru’s DJ Latinchat. 4 tracks trading on a futurist dembow tip, bridging a stunning array of global club sounds into delirious transmissions of vital latinx dancefloor mutations.

Nicoba steps up to the plate first with ‘Encuentros en el Fin del Mundo’, optimistically stepping on its doomsday surroundings by shaking its traditional reggaeton rump in cosmic delirium, bordering on galactic euphoria throughout its supposed endtimes. ‘Pensándote’ is next, shifting the tempo to boil garbled vocals and fizzing sound design amongst a techno dembow pump.
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DJ Latinchat tags in to continue the walls-sweating dancefloor pressure with ‘Keribel’, a raptor-like stomper with clever vocal cuts and a tight coil of pressurised drum rollage. ‘Cafuné’ is our close, a sincere yet deadly dancehall and half-time lurcher that seesaws on a tension and release edge with a devious glare.

Tracks mastered by Imaabs
Press release by Nevan Jio

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Lacuna 03 Previews (Nicoba / DJ Latinchat)

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NEPTU

DEPTHS OF THE SEA

Parisian producer @firstepoque delivers his debut EP for Dill Dodos Recife and attempts to connect several music eras.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/first-epoque-epoque-no-7

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Premiere: First Epoque - Epoque No. 7

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