Felix Lenferink - The Same Species Occur 12"

After appearances on Hot N Heavy and Sub Skank, and the woofer-warping collaboration with Pasteman, Camaro, on 877, Winchester’s most renegade bass merchant, the 21-year-old prodigy Tanka, known to his mum as Francis Leigh (not the Bo Selectah dude – that’s the other way round) returns on the ever reliable Chasing Unicorns with a double track EP of thick, sinuous house music. And yes, that’s a long sentence, but the Effervesce EP is one that brooks no restraint.

The title track, “Strutt”, is one cool beast wrapping choked stabs in laughter that floats across the soundstage; a warped and creepy foil to an chiming organ filtered almost to the point that you feel rather than hear it. Amid the legion of imitators rinsing Kerri Chandler’s legacy, here Tanka proves that you can innovate on classic themes, if you’re not a lazy fucker content merely to imitate. People need to start having their own goddamn ideas again, and if you don’t have any, then get the hell out of music, and leave it to the people with some talent. Never be lazy, baby, just get deep with the strutting, soulful groove.

On the flip, ‘Motion’ is an aqueous groover, in the vein of Steve Zissou as raised in the shadow of General Motors by Moodymann. Its supple low end loops out of the bass bins like an octopus’ tentacle, entwining the audience, before hot, thick ink spurts all over them. Just imagine those urgent chants of “You know what I want” pouring erotically from a celaphopod’s beaked mouth, to know what it’s like to be audio fucked by an experimental, eight-legged bastard who won’t take no for an answer. Octo-assault of the most intense flavour.

Tasked with the unenviable task of manipulating “Strutt” into new shapes is L.A’s brightest new star Sage Caswell, who ups the jack with glassy hi hats that echo the shattering of stained glass windows (take that, tradition! That’s right, it’s a social metaphor. We went there. Nothing is sacred (O mah G – double metaphor!)). Subs as lithe as a limbo dancer wind their way below stabs more deadly than a knife fight in a Hackney underpass. It’s Jersey house on Berghain’s main floor, that eponymous strut given a heads down techno edge, making it a crowd killing fixture wherever it’s dropped.



EARLY REACTIONS:

DJ Sneak - Strutt all day

Moodymanc - cool... Will try ta!

Terence (:terry:)( Freak N Chic)  - COOL HOUSE BEATS

Shur-I-Kan - Like Strutt , feeling it.

Roberto Ali (Rob Mello / No Ears / Crosstown Rebels) - Original version of Strutt for me here. Thanks!

Pablo Valentino	 (Creative Swing Alliance/Faces / MCDE) - Dope EP! Will play and support! My favourite will be STRUTT Peace 

Claudio Coccoluto - nice pack, thanx!

James Fox - Solid EP

Christian Sol (VIVa / Troll) - Some nice sounds in here!

DJ T (Get Physical) - Thank you for good music!

Jonas Kopp (Ostgut Ton, Spectral Sound) - Thanks!

Mike W	(Kolour Recordings) - Good, bumpy, rolling deep house with a tidy little remix to go along with it.  Cheers guys... 

Ricardo Miranda (Rush Hour) - You can clean your house and go play with your girl with this EP. Do it!

Nubian Mindz (Delsin / Rush Hour) - 'Strutt' (original & remix) hit that spot for me. Quality music!

Tony Rodriguez	(Brothers' Vibe) - Cool, thanks

Tanka - Motion (Original Mix) [Chasing Unicorns]

After appearances on Hot N Heavy and Sub Skank, and the woofer-warping collaboration with Pasteman, Camaro, on 877, Winchester’s most renegade bass merchant, the 21-year-old prodigy Tanka, known to his mum as Francis Leigh (not the Bo Selectah dude – that’s the other way round) returns on the ever reliable Chasing Unicorns with a double track EP of thick, sinuous house music. And yes, that’s a long sentence, but the Effervesce EP is one that brooks no restraint.

The title track, “Strutt”, is one cool beast wrapping choked stabs in laughter that floats across the soundstage; a warped and creepy foil to an chiming organ filtered almost to the point that you feel rather than hear it. Amid the legion of imitators rinsing Kerri Chandler’s legacy, here Tanka proves that you can innovate on classic themes, if you’re not a lazy fucker content merely to imitate. People need to start having their own goddamn ideas again, and if you don’t have any, then get the hell out of music, and leave it to the people with some talent. Never be lazy, baby, just get deep with the strutting, soulful groove.

On the flip, ‘Motion’ is an aqueous groover, in the vein of Steve Zissou as raised in the shadow of General Motors by Moodymann. Its supple low end loops out of the bass bins like an octopus’ tentacle, entwining the audience, before hot, thick ink spurts all over them. Just imagine those urgent chants of “You know what I want” pouring erotically from a celaphopod’s beaked mouth, to know what it’s like to be audio fucked by an experimental, eight-legged bastard who won’t take no for an answer. Octo-assault of the most intense flavour.

Tasked with the unenviable task of manipulating “Strutt” into new shapes is L.A’s brightest new star Sage Caswell, who ups the jack with glassy hi hats that echo the shattering of stained glass windows (take that, tradition! That’s right, it’s a social metaphor. We went there. Nothing is sacred (O mah G – double metaphor!)). Subs as lithe as a limbo dancer wind their way below stabs more deadly than a knife fight in a Hackney underpass. It’s Jersey house on Berghain’s main floor, that eponymous strut given a heads down techno edge, making it a crowd killing fixture wherever it’s dropped.



EARLY REACTIONS:

DJ Sneak - Strutt all day

Moodymanc - cool... Will try ta!

Terence (:terry:)( Freak N Chic)  - COOL HOUSE BEATS

Shur-I-Kan - Like Strutt , feeling it.

Roberto Ali (Rob Mello / No Ears / Crosstown Rebels) - Original version of Strutt for me here. Thanks!

Pablo Valentino (Creative Swing Alliance/Faces / MCDE) - Dope EP! Will play and support! My favourite will be STRUTT Peace 

Claudio Coccoluto - nice pack, thanx!

James Fox - Solid EP

Christian Sol (VIVa / Troll) - Some nice sounds in here!

DJ T (Get Physical) - Thank you for good music!

Jonas Kopp (Ostgut Ton, Spectral Sound) - Thanks!

Mike W	(Kolour Recordings) - Good, bumpy, rolling deep house with a tidy little remix to go along with it.  Cheers guys... 

Ricardo Miranda (Rush Hour) - You can clean your house and go play with your girl with this EP. Do it!

Nubian Mindz (Delsin / Rush Hour) - 'Strutt' (original & remix) hit that spot for me. Quality music!

Tony Rodriguez	(Brothers' Vibe) - Cool, thanks

Tanka - STRUTT (Original Mix) [Chasing Unicorns]

Following rough and ready house groovers from Tanka and Admin, Chasing Unicorns returns on 21st October 2013 with something a touch deeper. Veering between liquid bass music, which channels Border Community as much as Burial, and sensuous Detroit techno, this debut EP from South London duo Howson's Groove is mesmerising from the off. That it marks their entry into production is nothing short of stunning.

A love of machines flows through every track on Blithe. The title cut is like trip into some sumptuous nirvana, acoustic instruments bouncing off shimmering synths over a fractured beat that seems to loll out of the speakers like a four drink buzz. When the drums straighten up in the second half, striding into a raw house stomp, it's like James Holden at his most ebullient. "Attempt" is rougher, strings soaring over warped synthlines that buzz and crackle like Carl Craig if he'd been raised in Croydon. It's a record that whomps with bass yet feels deft and enveloping, with a breakdown like sinking slowly into warm water.

"Give Me", like "Blithe", is rhythmically experimental, its drums bounding between four-four, 2-step and fractured clattering like a collapsed Shed. Again strings sing out, euphoric synths chunter and grumble before opening up into Balearic sweeps that are bright enough to be almost blinding, as though you've stepped out of a club to an Ibizan sunrise. Admin slaps on the shades for a raw house roller, all stomps and synth flourishes that takes the groove back indoors and onto the sweatiest of dancefloors.

"I Wonder..." lurches as though it's drunk too much sizzurp, a narcotic stumble through light and shade that seems to bounce back from every kick as though it's been punched. It's a leering, sex-drenched slice of drunken funk, that kind of record that makes you want to fuck everything in sight. London-based Italian ex-pat Baunz takes it to a more sultry place, upping the tempo and unleashing a storm of organ licks that wiggle in a way that puts even Miley Cyrus to shame. Expect this cut to be doing the rounds in a big way.

You'll hear no more impressive debut this year. Howson's Groove is a duo set for enormous things.

REACTIONS:

Tensnake - 'Great Electronica and perfect baunz remix'

Danny Howells - 'F**k .. that Blithe track is awesome!!'

Oris Jay - 'I Love "I wonder". Good EP overall'.

DJ Caspa (Rinse FM) - Nice Vibes

Ministry Of Sound - 'Admin Remix is the one. Great bass! 9/10'

Moodymanc - Nice vibes and sounds

Mutant Disco Radio Show (Croatia) - 'I wonder" stands out. Nice ep.'

Resident Advisor - 'Dope'

Shur-I-Kan - 'Very nice tracks - work for me on downtempo vibe'

Osunlade - 'Nice one... Definite support!'

Terence (:terry:) Freak N Chic) - 'Cool. Quality EP'

Andy Ash (Boogie Originals) - 'Really nice to receive some different stuff, some of these are ace!'

Tuomas Salmela	 (Phonogenic, Cocoon, 20:20 Vision) - 'Give Me sounds nice!'

CU006 Howson's Groove - I Wonder... (Baunz Remix) (21/10/2013)

CU006 Howson's Groove - I Wonder... (21/10/2013)

Following rough and ready house groovers from Tanka and Admin, Chasing Unicorns returns on 21st October 2013 with something a touch deeper. Veering between liquid bass music, which channels Border Community as much as Burial, and sensuous Detroit techno, this debut EP from South London duo Howson's Groove is mesmerising from the off. That it marks their entry into production is nothing short of stunning.

A love of machines flows through every track on Blithe. The title cut is like trip into some sumptuous nirvana, acoustic instruments bouncing off shimmering synths over a fractured beat that seems to loll out of the speakers like a four drink buzz. When the drums straighten up in the second half, striding into a raw house stomp, it's like James Holden at his most ebullient. "Attempt" is rougher, strings soaring over warped synthlines that buzz and crackle like Carl Craig if he'd been raised in Croydon. It's a record that whomps with bass yet feels deft and enveloping, with a breakdown like sinking slowly into warm water.

"Give Me", like "Blithe", is rhythmically experimental, its drums bounding between four-four, 2-step and fractured clattering like a collapsed Shed. Again strings sing out, euphoric synths chunter and grumble before opening up into Balearic sweeps that are bright enough to be almost blinding, as though you've stepped out of a club to an Ibizan sunrise. Admin slaps on the shades for a raw house roller, all stomps and synth flourishes that takes the groove back indoors and onto the sweatiest of dancefloors.

"I Wonder..." lurches as though it's drunk too much sizzurp, a narcotic stumble through light and shade that seems to bounce back from every kick as though it's been punched. It's a leering, sex-drenched slice of drunken funk, that kind of record that makes you want to fuck everything in sight. London-based Italian ex-pat Baunz takes it to a more sultry place, upping the tempo and unleashing a storm of organ licks that wiggle in a way that puts even Miley Cyrus to shame. Expect this cut to be doing the rounds in a big way.

You'll hear no more impressive debut this year. Howson's Groove is a duo set for enormous things.



REACTIONS:

Tensnake - 'Great Electronica and perfect baunz remix'

Danny Howells - 'F**k .. that Blithe track is awesome!!'

Oris Jay - 'I Love "I wonder". Good EP overall'.

DJ Caspa (Rinse FM) - Nice Vibes

Ministry Of Sound - 'Admin Remix is the one. Great bass! 9/10'

Moodymanc - Nice vibes and sounds

Mutant Disco Radio Show (Croatia) - 'I wonder" stands out. Nice ep.'

Resident Advisor - 'Dope'

Shur-I-Kan - 'Very nice tracks - work for me on downtempo vibe'

Osunlade - 'Nice one... Definite support!'

Terence (:terry:) Freak N Chic) - 'Cool. Quality EP'

Andy Ash (Boogie Originals) - 'Really nice to receive some different stuff, some of these are ace!'

Tuomas Salmela	 (Phonogenic, Cocoon, 20:20 Vision) - 'Give Me sounds nice!'

CU006 Howson's Groove - Blithe (21/10/2013)

After their storming debut on Chasing Unicorns, which found its way into the boxes of everyone from Tensnake to Danny Howells to Osunlade, London duo Howson's Groove return to the label for a two-tracker of throbbing house grooves. 'Body & Soul', backed with remixes from Fybe:One and Arkist, also marks the label's first foray into the world of vinyl distribution...

To celebrate the occasion Howson's Groove have offered up new track 'Live On' as a free download in preparation for the release. Shared via XLR8R, you can grab the download here.

Howson’s Groove are London based DJs and producers crafting their own style of UK bass music and have released previously on Chasing Unicorns as well as having remixed for the likes of Todd Terry on Southern Fried records. Ranging across multiple tempos, they fuse the nostalgic, fundamental sounds of garage and house with a modern musicality that makes their tracks instantly identifiable.

Howson's Groove - Body & Soul [CU007] 

Howson's Groove - Body & Soul (Original Mix)
Howson's Groove - Shake Up (Original Mix)
Howson's Groove - Body & Soul (Fybe:One Remix)
Howson's Groove - Shake Up (Arkist Remix)

Vinyl / Digital 14th April

‘Body & Soul’ is a spine tingling cut of house music with effortless grooves sweeping the whole along. Various synths and bendy tones bring light and musicality to the arrangement and deft key stabs keep things moving along at an inviting pace. It’s lush, spiritual sounding house that also works on the floor, which is no mean feat. 

Fybe:One, co-owner of the Shades label and soon to release his debut LP remixes this one into a woozy, louche and aloof bit of stepping bass music. Classic cow bells, squelchy chords and rubbery bass all make it a captivating listen. 

Howson’s Groove also contribute another original, ‘Shake Up’. This one plays with chopped up vocals, stitching them into a tapestry of more freewheeling synths, Rhodes like chords and skipping, garage inflected beats. It’s expansive and expressive stuff that really jumps out of the speakers and lures you into an emotive core - all underpinned by a heavy reese bass

Remixing this one is Bristol’s Arkist, who has released a number of times on Apple Pips as well as Hotflush and Hypercolour. His remix is a typically choppy affair with lively chord stabs, cut up beats and bubbling, gorgeously textured melodies that warm you right through. 

This is yet more fresh and exciting music that fuses together a number of different contemporary styles without kowtowing to any one in particular.

For more information or to request a promo get in touch at contact@chasingunicorns.co.uk

Howson's Groove - Shake Up (Arkist Remix) [CU007] / Vinyl + Digital 14th April 2014

After their storming debut on Chasing Unicorns, which found its way into the boxes of everyone from Tensnake to Danny Howells to Osunlade, London duo Howson's Groove return to the label for a two-tracker of throbbing house grooves. 'Body & Soul', backed with remixes from Fybe:One and Arkist, also marks the label's first foray into the world of vinyl distribution...

To celebrate the occasion Howson's Groove have offered up new track 'Live On' as a free download in preparation for the release. Shared via XLR8R, you can grab the download here.

Howson’s Groove are London based DJs and producers crafting their own style of UK bass music and have released previously on Chasing Unicorns as well as having remixed for the likes of Todd Terry on Southern Fried records. Ranging across multiple tempos, they fuse the nostalgic, fundamental sounds of garage and house with a modern musicality that makes their tracks instantly identifiable.

Howson's Groove - Body & Soul [CU007] 

Howson's Groove - Body & Soul (Original Mix)
Howson's Groove - Shake Up (Original Mix)
Howson's Groove - Body & Soul (Fybe:One Remix)
Howson's Groove - Shake Up (Arkist Remix)

Vinyl / Digital 14th April

‘Body & Soul’ is a spine tingling cut of house music with effortless grooves sweeping the whole along. Various synths and bendy tones bring light and musicality to the arrangement and deft key stabs keep things moving along at an inviting pace. It’s lush, spiritual sounding house that also works on the floor, which is no mean feat. 

Fybe:One, co-owner of the Shades label and soon to release his debut LP remixes this one into a woozy, louche and aloof bit of stepping bass music. Classic cow bells, squelchy chords and rubbery bass all make it a captivating listen. 

Howson’s Groove also contribute another original, ‘Shake Up’. This one plays with chopped up vocals, stitching them into a tapestry of more freewheeling synths, Rhodes like chords and skipping, garage inflected beats. It’s expansive and expressive stuff that really jumps out of the speakers and lures you into an emotive core - all underpinned by a heavy reese bass

Remixing this one is Bristol’s Arkist, who has released a number of times on Apple Pips as well as Hotflush and Hypercolour. His remix is a typically choppy affair with lively chord stabs, cut up beats and bubbling, gorgeously textured melodies that warm you right through. 

This is yet more fresh and exciting music that fuses together a number of different contemporary styles without kowtowing to any one in particular.

For more information get in touch at contact@chasingunicorns.co.uk

Howson's Groove - Body & Soul (Fybe:One Remix)  [CU007] / Vinyl + Digital 14th April 2014

After their storming debut on Chasing Unicorns, which found its way into the boxes of everyone from Tensnake to Danny Howells to Osunlade, London duo Howson's Groove return to the label for a two-tracker of throbbing house grooves. 'Body & Soul', backed with remixes from Fybe:One and Arkist, also marks the label's first foray into the world of vinyl distribution...

To celebrate the occasion Howson's Groove have offered up new track 'Live On' as a free download in preparation for the release. Shared via XLR8R, you can grab the download here.

Howson’s Groove are London based DJs and producers crafting their own style of UK bass music and have released previously on Chasing Unicorns as well as having remixed for the likes of Todd Terry on Southern Fried records. Ranging across multiple tempos, they fuse the nostalgic, fundamental sounds of garage and house with a modern musicality that makes their tracks instantly identifiable.

Howson's Groove - Body & Soul [CU007] 

Howson's Groove - Body & Soul (Original Mix)
Howson's Groove - Shake Up (Original Mix)
Howson's Groove - Body & Soul (Fybe:One Remix)
Howson's Groove - Shake Up (Arkist Remix)

Vinyl / Digital 14th April

‘Body & Soul’ is a spine tingling cut of house music with effortless grooves sweeping the whole along. Various synths and bendy tones bring light and musicality to the arrangement and deft key stabs keep things moving along at an inviting pace. It’s lush, spiritual sounding house that also works on the floor, which is no mean feat. 

Fybe:One, co-owner of the Shades label and soon to release his debut LP remixes this one into a woozy, louche and aloof bit of stepping bass music. Classic cow bells, squelchy chords and rubbery bass all make it a captivating listen. 

Howson’s Groove also contribute another original, ‘Shake Up’. This one plays with chopped up vocals, stitching them into a tapestry of more freewheeling synths, Rhodes like chords and skipping, garage inflected beats. It’s expansive and expressive stuff that really jumps out of the speakers and lures you into an emotive core - all underpinned by a heavy reese bass

Remixing this one is Bristol’s Arkist, who has released a number of times on Apple Pips as well as Hotflush and Hypercolour. His remix is a typically choppy affair with lively chord stabs, cut up beats and bubbling, gorgeously textured melodies that warm you right through. 

This is yet more fresh and exciting music that fuses together a number of different contemporary styles without kowtowing to any one in particular.

For more information get in touch at contact@chasingunicorns.co.uk


Howson's Groove - Shake Up (Original Mix)  [CU007] / Vinyl + Digital 14th April 2014

Howson's Groove - Body & Soul (Original Mix) [CU007] / Vinyl + Digital 14th April 2014

Chasing Unicorns creeps ever closer to double figures with another fantastic offering, this time with a debut release from Zeb Wayne aka Zebidiah. Acclaimed talent and Civil Music man Brassica comes good once again on the remix front...

Whilst this is actually Zebidiah’s debut solo EP, in the past he has collaborated (on Southern Fried Records and NYC's Nervous Records) with Thomas Gandey aka 'Cagedbaby', for EPs that got plenty of praise from Wolf & Lamb and Damian Lazarus. Support has been coming in droves for his latest release with glowing reviews already from DJ mag UK, NME, the Ransom Note and a full premier of the Brassica remix this bank holiday weekend on BBC Radio 6.

Zebidiah / Wabi-Sabi / CU009 / 9th June

Zebidiah - Unpremeditated (Original Mix)
Zebidiah - Tengoku (Original Mix)
Zebidiah - The Soloist (Original mix)
Zebidiah - Unpremeditated (Brassica Remix)

Available digitally 09/06/2014

Opener ‘Unpremediatated’ is a spacious, lurching muddle of slapping drum hits and firmly rooted bass that’s run through with weirdly treated vocal snippets, found sounds and instrumental daubs. Eventually it coalesces into an upbeat – pop leaning house track but never does it sound anything less than wholly inventive. The Brassica remix is an 80s sounding, serrated and arpeggiated affair with over sized drums, laser like searching synths and corrugated rums that make you want to move.

Zebidiah’s next cut ‘Tengoku’ is another beguiling and off kilter arrangement of glitches, snatched drum hits and implicit post-garage rhythms. Never settling in one place it fires your every synapse with its urban sense of neo synthetic soul. 

Lastly, ‘The Soloist’ pairs skipping, rubbery drum kicks with off time percussion and an airy male vocal and, overall, has a playful sense of rhythm and unpredictable charm.

This is a fantastic statement of intent from Zebidiah and announces the arrival of a fantastic new talent on on the label.

For more information get in touch at contact@chasingunicorns.co.uk

Zebidiah - Tengoku (Original Mix)

Zebidiah - Unpremeditated (Original Mix)

Felix Lenferink - Geronto

Felix Lenferink - Doubloons

Felix Lenferink - Dim Depths

Felix Lenferink - Lodges In The Mind

Felix Lenferink - The Same Species Occur

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/11/geronto

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Chasing Unicorns usher in the new year with a two track offering from London based duo Dorsia. Listen to an exclusive full stream of 'Formative Years' and read a review of the EP over at THUMP. 

http://tinyurl.com/ms7e3cg

Dorsia - Bygones [CU012] Released 2nd Feb

UK duo Howson’s Groove make their return to Chasing Unicorns on March 16th with their third release on the label - 'Don't Stay'. The ‘Don’t Stay’ EP features three original tracks plus a remix from ex AZ&TOR and current MadTech artist, Kalyde. 

South East London producers Howson’s Groove have notched up remixes and releases on Southern Fried, Love & Other and Bear Fresh in the past few years and have seen support from the likes of Slam, Laurent Garnier and heaps of praise from Mixmag, and THUMP. 


Reactions: 

French Express - 'DJ feedback bullshit aside for a second, this is really excellent. the whole release.'

Jamie George (Rinse FM) - 'lovely soulful vibes, like the grittiness of the night also. thanks'

Osunlade (Yoruba) - 'beautiful'

Pete Tong - 'Kalyde is solid'

Danny Ward (Moodymanc) - 'some lovely textures here. Time stands out...'

Ed Bayling (Beyling / Lrusse) - 'Time is a lovely track, definitely feeling it. Thanks!'

Noah Pred (Thoughtless Music) - 'Nice work on the originals, thanks.'

Cassio Kohl - 'Love the label and this is another strong release - great production as always'

Tensnake - 'beautiful deep house thanks, downloading '

Danny Howells (Dig Deeper) - 'Dayum .. "The Night" is pretty beautiful!'

Simone Giudici (Dirty Channels, Ovum, Hot Natured, Rebirth) - 'cool!'

Stacey Pullen (Transmat (Detroit)) - 'cool thanks'

Howson's Groove - Don't Stay (Kalyde Remix)

Howson's Groove - The Night (Original Mix)

Howson's Groove - Time (Original Mix)

Howson's Groove - Don't Stay (Original Mix)

René Van Munster - The Sound of One Hand (20/03/2012)

http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/08/love-philtre-citizen-remix

CU002 touches down with three of the freshest cuts of Amsterdam house, brought to you by Brabe...

Any moron can make music these days. A bit of nous and a loose regard for copyright law can net you a set of production tools that Phil Spector would have shot a woman for back in the day. But while the tools might be available to anyone with a torrent client, making something that people actually want to listen to requires a little more talent. Which is why for their second release Sheffield imprint Chasing Unicorns decided not to type “Skrillex wub dubstep” into Soundcloud and see what popped up. Instead they extended their reach across the Channel and plucked the finest musical goodies from Amsterdam’s studio savant, Brabe.

"The Love Philtre EP comprises three fresh cuts of house music taking you on a journey right across the globe. From Persian Quran recitations via English 80s hug-and-sway music right through to obscure French poetry about the coming of the Final Judgment. The tracks are perfect for any setting – from a dark and gloomy Berlin night club to the sunny stage of an outdoor festival or perhaps just your headphones…"

- http://soundcloud.com/brabe

Brabe - Love Philtre (Citizen Remix) (04/08/2012) FREE XLR8R DL IN DESCRIPTION!

Much like Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann, Chasing Unicorns return with yet more valuable youth. But since they’re not the sort to hold whippersnappers to ransom, then cave their heads in with an iron bar and dismember them, they instead offer a triple-dip of floor-quaking house cuts from these Dutch groove-merchants. Which I think we can all agree is the more sustainable approach.

‘Give It Back’ is at once recognisable and wholly new, a winding groove of pulsing hi-hats underpinned by enveloping stabs that wiggle beyond your ears and onto the floor. It’s a deep and bounding cut, an eyes-rolling-back, arms-aloft strutter built on New Jersey’s finest moments, but unerringly of the now; proof that a sound coined before YB were born still has the power to make people lose their shit in dark rooms.

In Boxwork’s hands the vibe goes deeper, YB’s noises chopped and bent into an infectious rhythm of vocal snips and percussion chatter made for those early morning stalwarts still bouncing when the sun’s coming up, the roll on their jaws matched only by the snap of their hips. On the flip, ‘In My Heart’ is a rough slab of garage-inflected house music that in the mould of Dusky and Disclosure, a smile-inducing rack of rhythm and melody that bubbles up into your ear on the cab ride home and doesn’t leave for days, a funky tinnitus that won’t make you want to blow your brains out.

‘We Are’ is pure party music, sounds made for moving bodies and making sweat that draws on house’s disparate global strands and weaves them together into a crowd-whipping rope of gutter funk. This is fuel that starts fires like John Leonard Orr.


Y.B - Give It Back (Boxwork Remix) Clip [04/03/2013]

There's something ineffable about a raw sex groove. About that liquid pulse that climbs deep inside you, that heats the blood and makes your ass bounce like a meth-wracked Tigger in a bouncy castle showroom. It's that moment of dancefloor coherence when an entire room looks at each other and thinks ‘you know what, baby, it's time to fuck.'

Perhaps Admin, the production guise of 20-year-old Bristolian Adam Wickens, sees himself as a sexual messiah, a love-spreading Christ here to impart a funk-infused message of dripping sweat and getting wet. Can there be another explanation for 'For Junior', which winds its pornographic saxophone around a low-end that goes deep enough to tap cervix. As if Prince's libido was employed as manufacturing director of General Motors, it's a strutting slab of Detroit house made for peak time getting down that's as destructive in the bedroom as the club. And how to judge 'Looking Through', with its lethargic Rhodes licks dancing seductive up your spine. Making your skin pop and pucker, your back arch, it's a come on, no doubt about that; a call to the back room for Hollywood sex, all jump cuts and panning cameras, bodies entwined and indistinguishable. Play safe, kids.

The flip too crackles with between-the-sheets charge. But this is a more luxuriant, early morning fuck, a coming together of pliant bodies under a groove and moving toward a shared moment of sublimation. 'Sunday Loops' arcs through a static charge, its drums sparse and with the swagger of the next-morning walk home. The similarly citied Crump, fresh off his recent release for Red Bull, drops a Jamaican root extract, stares Admin's original in the eye, and puts its skull through the headboard with a throbbing column of bass that seems like it just...won't...fit......ohmigooooooood!

It’s perhaps of concern that two young men barely out of their teens should create such paeans to the beast with two backs. Maybe it's because of the sexualisation of our youth, a fuck-focused effect from the grot-filled images that fill their minds every day. Then again, when the results are quite this electric, this dripping with visceral sex-funk, that’s no bad thing.

@adminuk
https://soundcloud.com/crump_uk

Early reactions:

Josh Wink - Like the deep late night vibe of For Junior and the cheeky vocal sample...

West Norwood Cassette Library - Sublime!

Shur-I-Kan - Sunday Loops is a gem, especially the Crump mix - lush!

DJ Sneak - Nice stuff!

James Fox - Deep stuff. Original mix of 'sunday loops' is lovely.

Hannah Holland - Crump is the one :)

Glasgow Underground - Quality deepness from Mr Wickens. Top stuff.

Brodanse - Deep, slow and groovey! Cool Ep!

Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) - Real nice vibes on this EP. Dig it!

Tony Rodriguez (Brothers' Vibe) - All good!!

Claudio Coccoluto - Crump rmx rocks

Tristan Da Cunha - Sunday Loops orig is the one for me here , nice deepness ... Thanks

Nick Craddock (Uzuri) - Looking Through and Sunday Loops (orig) are doing it for me, cheers! Nice jazzy business.

Bastian Völker - Cool. I like thanks

Pablo Valentino (Faces / MCDE)	- Sunday Loops for me! Dope track

Terence (:terry: / Freak N Chic) - love the Sunday Loops cool vibe

Admin - Sunday Loops (Crump Remix) [15/04/2013]

There's something ineffable about a raw sex groove. About that liquid pulse that climbs deep inside you, that heats the blood and makes your ass bounce like a meth-wracked Tigger in a bouncy castle showroom. It's that moment of dancefloor coherence when an entire room looks at each other and thinks ‘you know what, baby, it's time to fuck.'

Perhaps Admin, the production guise of 20-year-old Bristolian Adam Wickens, sees himself as a sexual messiah, a love-spreading Christ here to impart a funk-infused message of dripping sweat and getting wet. Can there be another explanation for 'For Junior', which winds its pornographic saxophone around a low-end that goes deep enough to tap cervix. As if Prince's libido was employed as manufacturing director of General Motors, it's a strutting slab of Detroit house made for peak time getting down that's as destructive in the bedroom as the club. And how to judge 'Looking Through', with its lethargic Rhodes licks dancing seductive up your spine. Making your skin pop and pucker, your back arch, it's a come on, no doubt about that; a call to the back room for Hollywood sex, all jump cuts and panning cameras, bodies entwined and indistinguishable. Play safe, kids.

The flip too crackles with between-the-sheets charge. But this is a more luxuriant, early morning fuck, a coming together of pliant bodies under a groove and moving toward a shared moment of sublimation. 'Sunday Loops' arcs through a static charge, its drums sparse and with the swagger of the next-morning walk home. The similarly citied Crump, fresh off his recent release for Red Bull, drops a Jamaican root extract, stares Admin's original in the eye, and puts its skull through the headboard with a throbbing column of bass that seems like it just...won't...fit......ohmigooooooood!

It’s perhaps of concern that two young men barely out of their teens should create such paeans to the beast with two backs. Maybe it's because of the sexualisation of our youth, a fuck-focused effect from the grot-filled images that fill their minds every day. Then again, when the results are quite this electric, this dripping with visceral sex-funk, that’s no bad thing.

http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/04/looking-through

@adminuk

Early reactions:

Josh Wink - Like the deep late night vibe of For Junior and the cheeky vocal sample...

West Norwood Cassette Library - Sublime!

Shur-I-Kan - Sunday Loops is a gem, especially the Crump mix - lush!

DJ Sneak - Nice stuff!

James Fox - Deep stuff. Original mix of 'sunday loops' is lovely.

Hannah Holland - Crump is the one :)

Glasgow Underground - Quality deepness from Mr Wickens. Top stuff.

Brodanse - Deep, slow and groovey! Cool Ep!

Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) - Real nice vibes on this EP. Dig it!

Tony Rodriguez (Brothers' Vibe) - All good!!

Claudio Coccoluto - Crump rmx rocks

Tristan Da Cunha - Sunday Loops orig is the one for me here , nice deepness ... Thanks

Nick Craddock (Uzuri) - Looking Through and Sunday Loops (orig) are doing it for me, cheers! Nice jazzy business.

Bastian Völker - Cool. I like thanks

Pablo Valentino (Faces / MCDE)	- Sunday Loops for me! Dope track

Terence (:terry: / Freak N Chic) - love the Sunday Loops cool vibe

Admin - Looking Through (Original Mix) [15/04/2013] FREE XLR8R DL IN DESCRIPTION

There's something ineffable about a raw sex groove. About that liquid pulse that climbs deep inside you, that heats the blood and makes your ass bounce like a meth-wracked Tigger in a bouncy castle showroom. It's that moment of dancefloor coherence when an entire room looks at each other and thinks ‘you know what, baby, it's time to fuck.'

Perhaps Admin, the production guise of 20-year-old Bristolian Adam Wickens, sees himself as a sexual messiah, a love-spreading Christ here to impart a funk-infused message of dripping sweat and getting wet. Can there be another explanation for 'For Junior', which winds its pornographic saxophone around a low-end that goes deep enough to tap cervix. As if Prince's libido was employed as manufacturing director of General Motors, it's a strutting slab of Detroit house made for peak time getting down that's as destructive in the bedroom as the club. And how to judge 'Looking Through', with its lethargic Rhodes licks dancing seductive up your spine. Making your skin pop and pucker, your back arch, it's a come on, no doubt about that; a call to the back room for Hollywood sex, all jump cuts and panning cameras, bodies entwined and indistinguishable. Play safe, kids.

The flip too crackles with between-the-sheets charge. But this is a more luxuriant, early morning fuck, a coming together of pliant bodies under a groove and moving toward a shared moment of sublimation. 'Sunday Loops' arcs through a static charge, its drums sparse and with the swagger of the next-morning walk home. The similarly citied Crump, fresh off his recent release for Red Bull, drops a Jamaican root extract, stares Admin's original in the eye, and puts its skull through the headboard with a throbbing column of bass that seems like it just...won't...fit......ohmigooooooood!

It’s perhaps of concern that two young men barely out of their teens should create such paeans to the beast with two backs. Maybe it's because of the sexualisation of our youth, a fuck-focused effect from the grot-filled images that fill their minds every day. Then again, when the results are quite this electric, this dripping with visceral sex-funk, that’s no bad thing.

https://soundcloud.com/adminuk


Early reactions:

Josh Wink - Like the deep late night vibe of For Junior and the cheeky vocal sample...

West Norwood Cassette Library - Sublime!

Shur-I-Kan - Sunday Loops is a gem, especially the Crump mix - lush!

DJ Sneak - Nice stuff!

James Fox - Deep stuff. Original mix of 'sunday loops' is lovely.

Hannah Holland	 - Crump is the one :)

Glasgow Underground - Quality deepness from Mr Wickens. Top stuff.

Brodanse - Deep, slow and groovey! Cool Ep!

Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) - Real nice vibes on this EP. Dig it!

Tony Rodriguez	(Brothers' Vibe) - All good!!

Claudio Coccoluto - Crump rmx rocks

Tristan Da Cunha - Sunday Loops orig is the one for me here , nice deepness ... Thanks

Nick Craddock (Uzuri) - Looking Through and Sunday Loops (orig) are doing it for me, cheers! Nice jazzy business.

Bastian Völker - Cool. I like thanks

Pablo Valentino (Faces / MCDE)	- Sunday Loops for me! Dope track 

Terence (:terry: / Freak N Chic) - love the Sunday Loops cool vibe

Admin - Sunday Loops (Original Mix) [15/04/2013]

There's something ineffable about a raw sex groove. About that liquid pulse that climbs deep inside you, that heats the blood and makes your ass bounce like a meth-wracked Tigger in a bouncy castle showroom. It's that moment of dancefloor coherence when an entire room looks at each other and thinks ‘you know what, baby, it's time to fuck.'

Perhaps Admin, the production guise of 20-year-old Bristolian Adam Wickens, sees himself as a sexual messiah, a love-spreading Christ here to impart a funk-infused message of dripping sweat and getting wet. Can there be another explanation for 'For Junior', which winds its pornographic saxophone around a low-end that goes deep enough to tap cervix. As if Prince's libido was employed as manufacturing director of General Motors, it's a strutting slab of Detroit house made for peak time getting down that's as destructive in the bedroom as the club. And how to judge 'Looking Through', with its lethargic Rhodes licks dancing seductive up your spine. Making your skin pop and pucker, your back arch, it's a come on, no doubt about that; a call to the back room for Hollywood sex, all jump cuts and panning cameras, bodies entwined and indistinguishable. Play safe, kids.

The flip too crackles with between-the-sheets charge. But this is a more luxuriant, early morning fuck, a coming together of pliant bodies under a groove and moving toward a shared moment of sublimation. 'Sunday Loops' arcs through a static charge, its drums sparse and with the swagger of the next-morning walk home. The similarly citied Crump, fresh off his recent release for Red Bull, drops a Jamaican root extract, stares Admin's original in the eye, and puts its skull through the headboard with a throbbing column of bass that seems like it just...won't...fit......ohmigooooooood!

It’s perhaps of concern that two young men barely out of their teens should create such paeans to the beast with two backs. Maybe it's because of the sexualisation of our youth, a fuck-focused effect from the grot-filled images that fill their minds every day. Then again, when the results are quite this electric, this dripping with visceral sex-funk, that’s no bad thing.

https://soundcloud.com/adminuk



Early reactions:

Josh Wink - Like the deep late night vibe of For Junior and the cheeky vocal sample...

West Norwood Cassette Library - Sublime!

Shur-I-Kan - Sunday Loops is a gem, especially the Crump mix - lush!

DJ Sneak - Nice stuff!

James Fox - Deep stuff. Original mix of 'sunday loops' is lovely.

Hannah Holland	 - Crump is the one :)

Glasgow Underground - Quality deepness from Mr Wickens. Top stuff.

Brodanse - Deep, slow and groovey! Cool Ep!

Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) - Real nice vibes on this EP. Dig it!

Tony Rodriguez (Brothers' Vibe) - All good!!

Claudio Coccoluto - Crump rmx rocks

Tristan Da Cunha - Sunday Loops orig is the one for me here , nice deepness ... Thanks

Nick Craddock (Uzuri) - Looking Through and Sunday Loops (orig) are doing it for me, cheers! Nice jazzy business.

Bastian Völker - Cool. I like thanks

Pablo Valentino (Faces / MCDE)	- Sunday Loops for me! Dope track 

Terence (:terry: / Freak N Chic) - love the Sunday Loops cool vibe

Admin - For Junior (Original Mix) [15/04/2013]

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