We don't usually do premieres, but we made an exception for our guys @crazed-behaviour - after hearing the tracks for their upcoming V/A 'Counter Attack' this one was an instant favourite - so we're very happy to be the ones sharing it! Mind blowing tune from our boy @teenorthwest (who featured on our first ever Kultura & Friends edits compilation)

The whole compilation drops Friday 2nd April (Bandcamp Friday!) - over 25 slices of electro, ghetto & 160 madness including 3 tracks from members of our collective.

Download the whole compilation here: https://crazedbehaviour.bandcamp.com/album/counter-attack

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PREMIERE: Tee - Blackburn Belligerent [Crazed Behaviour]

An Avrin brings his signature style to the Eminent free download series with 'Skwam'. Fusing huge breaks with big basslines and choppy vocals, this one really does lift you off your feet.

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Free Download | An Avrin | Skwam

Casting a self-reflexive lens over his roots via the medium of crushing, future-rushing soundsystem sonics, Low End Activist returns to Sneaker Social Club with a full-length of monumental proportions.

When the Low End Activism 12” ignited on Sneaker in 2019, it paid tribute to the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, UK, where LEA originates from. In the shadow of social inequality and strengthened by the unity of the multi-ethnic community, Blackbird Leys still imposes a powerful influence on LEA’s work, even as he’s stepped out onto Seagrave for last year’s Game Theory album and notched up the first couple of releases on his own self-titled label.

On this new album, Hostile Utopia sums up the conflicting emotions attached to memories of home – how it’s possible to feel nostalgic for the griminess of urban and suburban Britain, its ordinary tales of bitterness and frustration, but also its intrinsic passion and solidarity. At a time when social division is actively engineered by Machiavellian forces, real conviviality at street level feels like an impossible dream.

LEA communicates these tensions through a style which is becoming his signature – dynamic bass torsion and chiseled, fractalised rhythms slugging around the 130 mark. It’s moody like a UK-themed record ought to be, but it’s not morose. There’s fierceness in every snap and rumble, as the legacies of hardcore, jungle, dubstep and grime pour into the casing prior to the gunpowder lighting.

On previous LEA releases, the MC roll call has pointed to some of the most vital voices touching the mic in the present day. Flowdan, Sikka Rymes and Trim all had something different to impart over the riddims, and now Hostile Utopia expands on that with the most extensive show of lyrical strength yet. Mez lights up the woozy, abstract grime swerve of ‘Mercenary’ in a musical style. Emz brings a ruthlessly sharp verbal steez to ‘GetGet’, Killa P gets busy toasting over ‘DFRNT STYLE’ and ‘Superhighway’ carries the dexterous hip-hop flow of Cadence Weapon.

In between those standout tracks, LEA expresses just as much in the production. Tracks brimming with stories to impart, laden with symbols masquerading as samples and draped in aural garb that firmly places Hostile Utopia in a place, a mood, that could only belong to the UK. It’s a hybrid sound just like the society it sprang from, and therein lies its power.

Low End Activist ft.  Emz - Get Get

Debba - Theories

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Off Beat return with their third release - a mind-bending three-tracker from label-head Ryvahl.

Kicking things off is title track ‘Protopattern' - an off-the-wall sub-bass nose and chest tickler with heavy, scattered drums that are modulated to destruction.

'Send Signal' continues in the same vein with more of the classic sound design of Ryvahl’s previous work. Swift, choppy, UK sounds combine with juke hits, drum machines and dingy reverbs to expand the stereo field into a 4D landscape.

Closing out the release is the playful 'Blacklight'. A drum tool that would appeal to fans of Pearson Sound and early Night Slugs records. Big tip!

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PREMIERE: Ryvahl - Protopattern

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PREMIERE: U-A-V - Drum Fortress [Roadkill]

after thought

"Glick Glock by Kessler sets the scene for this EP, a heavy broken sound that crafts together gunshot samples, ominous ticking and furious fast paced percussion in a classic breakbeat composition with a modern twist."

@leftrightandcentreuk
Written by Various Artists
Artwork by OFF → KORZ
Distributed by Unearthed Sounds

Right Place, Wrong Time

Glick Glock

Taken from the Pink Dolphins EP by @Sam_Interface (formerly known as SNØW)
Out September 25th - https://smarturl.it/pink-dolphins

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Sam Interface - Underground

Federation latest partnership with Gimme A Break’s “WE ARE VIABLE” compilation is now a reality.
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The comp will be released on Friday 13th November! Over the last few months GAB has been extremely lucky to work with 15 producers from Leeds and further afield to curate an album of UKG, breakbeat, techno and jungle edits. 
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All coin related income from this compilation will be donated to MAP, a Leeds-based charity providing alternative music education to young people who cannot access mainstream schooling. In these trying times, we must support charities such as MAP which are integral to the North’s creativity and vibrant music scene. 
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GAB would also like to say an enormous thank you to Alex Kubis and Ben Mercer who have designed the album artwork and accompanying tote bag for this project.
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Big up to our boy @joekoshin for this beautiful tracks
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Cheers to all G´s who make this project come true:
@mean_e
@papanugs
@phasmidmusic
@slimshaemusic
@user-804156034
@user-711667808
@optimust1
@tom-dalzell
@joekoshin
@user-987117160
@rubysavilldowns
@3phasesupply
@gmkdub

Thanks to @van_roy & @saucebag for putting all the pieces together 
Big up to @m2exe for taking care of this special Press.

We are Viable V/A

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Joe Koshin - Do You Feel Me  [GIMME A BREAK RECORDS]

CNP014 • 'Torrefiel / Digital Sight' - @flixmusic87

Full A/AA release: 04.03.21

BUY: https://canape-records.bandcamp.com/album/torrefiel-digital-sight

'Canapé welcomes long-term collaborator, F:lix, back to the label, for a thrilling excursion into hi-tempo drum workouts and euphoric, celestial soundscapes.

Equally fit for pumping soundsystems or introspective trips, the Bristol producer offers a playful spin on original 160 sounds, with a captivating originality.'

A note from F:lix:

"Dedicated to Sophie Russell - thanks for all your support, for listening to me play you the same tracks countless times, and for giving honest and useful feedback xx"

Written, produced and mixed by Felix Hewitt.
Mastered by Charlie Stork at Canapé HQ.

Artwork by George Thomas.

© F:lix 2021, ℗ Canapé Records 2021. All Rights Reserved.

Torrefiel / Digital Sight

F:lix - Torrefiel

Indépendent Frequency Surveyors 🛸
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📀 CNP022 ~ @vilhelmhasselgren: https://bit.ly/3g0qMJa

F:lix - Torrefiel

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