CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book preorder is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book). [Preorder Shipping in 6-8 Weeks]

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special.

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

DOWNLOAD

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2

Out April 23, pre-order it here: https://leftrightandcentre.bandcamp.com/album/terra-preta-ep-lrc004

Korzi embarks into new territory with this EP. Meandering around a slower tempo of 100 BPM, ‘Terra Preta’ encompasses three tracks that establish a fresh sound for Korzi. Proving his authenticity as an artist who constantly strives to discover new ground and breach boundaries. This marks the debut artist-led release from @LEFTRIGHTANDCENTREUK in which Korzi is the co-founder.

Based in Manchester, Korzi has been producing music intermittently since 2015. He is inspired by Soundsystem culture and music of low frequencies, which ties in with the label’s ethos to showcase the forefront of low end driven sounds. Prior to this, Korzi has released four EPs with other record labels (‘Move’, ‘Tommy Club/Playtest’, ‘Sound Freq’, ‘Footslog’).

Concluding the EP is 'Basmati Bandit', a track that brushes on more of an industrial flex with Korzi’s signature surprising rattles and twangs. A new direction for the young luminary and feet firmly in the ground for Left, Right & Centre as a record label.

Premiere: Korzi 'Basmati Bandit'

With @gipsytrax 'Travelers Wood' taken from the next @resourcesmusic 'Club Hexagon' EP, the label confirm their key role in the development of the club music landscape in France.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/gipsyan-travelers-wood

Article

Premiere: Gipsyan - Travelers Wood

Fraxinus - Powerplant Blue
Label: Powerplant
Catalog #: POW3R
Format: Digital Data (Vinyl TBA)
Release Date: 20/05/22

Another colour on the spectrum — Fraxinus delivers a further batch of industrial strength trax with his new EP Powerplant Blue. This is the latest in a series of colour-coded, no-frills white labels on his self-release imprint Powerplant.

Blue sees Fraxinus push the BPM range from previous releases, whilst retaining the same propulsive energy & lean aesthetics he’s known for. X-side up, ‘Interlock’ initiates the sequence with an uncompromising high-tempo workout. The raucous rhythm section rolls like thunder, a formidable breakdown supplying the only moment of respite. Second track ‘Frame Stall’ follows suit with its pounding kicks, upon which an insistent bleep unfolds restlessly.

Flipping to side Y, ‘Uplink’ makes for a dizzying listening experience — deep rolling bass frequencies & an elastic synth being pulled apart before the ears. Despite its bouncing beat, final track ‘Prow’ is a moodier affair. Skittering hihats & distant sirens echo through the mist, rounding out the collection in a heads-down fashion.

4 cuts of armour-plated techno, optimized for maximum warehouse utility.

--------------------

Recorded 2016 - 2018

Built by Fraxinus
Mastering: Saif Bari

Powerplant Blue

Uplink

Dites Safran returns to the fold with some extra heat for this summer’s dancefloors, serving 2 heavyweight cuts infused with his signature mix of organic and impactful sound design, starting with the mesmerizing dancefloor oddball ‘Fila’ and the galvanising comtemporary dancehall hit ‘Raole’ on the flip.

Fila / Raole - MNBN014

Dites Safran - Raole - MNBND014

[día, mes, año]
[fumenle para que les truene]

20/04

Free DL

Día

Blue 07 - Happa
Release date - 14th February 2020
Buy - https://whities.bandcamp.com/album/blue-07

A - Clip
B - One Three Five

Artwork designed by Alex McCullough.
Mastered Beau Thomas.

Distributed by Rush Hour

Blue 07 - Happa - Clip / One Three Five

Body over mind music. Sounds meant to be felt, then heard. 

Visceral dance music :)

Ayesha - Wildcard

Edited Arts is launching Beyond Shame, Any Second by DJ Meddle.

Beyond Shame, Any Second opens with a call and response, a melody relayed over a damaged line, altered by its journey. Throughout this debut EP, that broken signal is forged into jagged rhythms and raw club pressure.

Space defines Meddle's sound: skeletons of dance styles paused and peppered by deftly chosen samples and oddness. A love letter to Porto, echoes of London's dread. Chopped, ripped apart, fused back together, just enough and never too much.

Twenty Five Four features Ece Canlı, the Porto-based Turkish researcher and artist, soon to launch her debut album on local mainstay Lovers & Lollypops. Recorded in one enchanting take at Stop studios, Ece’s spectral voice glides out of a cadaverous instrumental, only to steer and bewitch it in the end

(Downloading gives access to stems and bonus art)
–––––
The thumbnail from the Ytube upload of The Ones - Absolutely Flawless is that emo-club picture of the woman with headphones on listening to a song looking really fallen, a swirl of light about her as if that is music itself or her own feelings made visible. It’s a thumbnail for a Traktor tutorial vid, or was it my 2010 HD desktop wallpaper? Wait that’s actually some private information… keep it to yourself please.

Meddle samples the word and it’s a good one: “correction”, and repeats it. It’s not that you or me or us if you’ll let me lump (us) together, need reminding of Absolutely Flawless for a smile, it’s that it’s actually quite difficult to cope with the day to day chronic loss of placeness, opportunity, collective spirit, when lyrics from tracks like these speak of things you’ve never experienced, or had said to you, which begs the Q’ who or what is flawless? Who’s shaming who? Am I the listener embarrassed to live a life not up to the sentiment of the song, or should u as the producer be uncomfortable to make me feel this way?

Meddle and Ece Canlı made a 15min track that is the exact opposite of a neon slow-shutterspeed glowstick swirl. It’s the royal gate music for the princeless, the loading music for a game about true bonds where the confidence to not be unspoiled is the mechanic.

These samples and sounds on here are special because they fit together not untouched but touched in this way. This isn’t music of extra loneliness for the already alone, or of shininess for the dull and lowly, it’s the music that says – “I’ll be there any second”–  for you, and just for you.

Album Artwork by DJ Meddle
*words by DJ Hard Shoulder // text by Emile 
Mastering by hmurd
*extra mixing on Twenty Five Four by André Ribeiro

DJ Meddle:
@meddle-uk

Edited Arts:
Instagram - www.instagram.com/editedarts/
Facebook - www.facebook.com/editedarts/
Twitter - twitter.com/editedarts

We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy the music. Thank you for listening.

DJ Meddle - All My Clothes Are Branded

@SHALT's 'Lung Squeeze' evokes similarities to the hard drum sound, born from a granulated lead and overdriven hand percussion. Forthcoming on his own imprint @re-made.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/shalt-lung-squeeze

Body Mirage

Premiere: SHALT - Lung Squeeze

@sietecatorce

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book).

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. A way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special. 

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

Siete Catorce - Juya

@8ULENTINA

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book).

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. A way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special. 

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

8ULENTINA - patch of sunlight

@larasarkissian ft. @miqayelvoskanyan
"A City Underwater"

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book).

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. A way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special. 

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

A City Underwater

Lara Sarkissian - A City Underwater Ft. Miqayel Voskanyan

@ajavision

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book).

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. A way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special. 

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

Piano Rain - Phone Home

@lorisms

CLUB CHAI Vol. 2 is a collection of tracks by artists whose work truly embodies the Club Chai ethos that exists in storytelling through sound. As we close out the label, this release remains a lustrous perspective on the future.

Alongside the compilation, the Club Chai Archive book is out today on our Bandcamp. You can preorder the book alongside the digital release of the compilation for a bundled price of $35 ($15 for the compilation and $25 for the book).

The archive book is a culmination of all the moving parts that make up Club Chai at once – a way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. A way to honor the project's complexity and intimacy. How do we remember and archive something that is really made up of a fleeting feeling? Being on the dancefloor with friends, singing in unison or zoning out in complete bliss. It feels right to create something physical that can be held, touched and encountered slowly and 
carefully. Making this book entirely with friends makes it feel even more intimate and special. 

Mastering: 8ULENTINA & Lara Sarkissian

Artwork credits:
Photo: Lara Sarkissian & 8ULENTINA
Textile: 8ULENTINA
Artwork edits & processing: Jessika Khazrik
 
Club Chai Book Design:
Art and Design Direction: Azha Luckman @azhaayanna 
& Peter Dolezilek @topchef_allstars

Loris - Shatra

Remix of Scarlett (@ohgodscarlett) original track "Leaving Ft. Ma Gda" (@magda4e) by Sébastien Forrester (@holy-strays), from "Thin Ice Remixed", out March 10, 2021.

Read: http://bit.ly/3uNpjsS
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/3q1pQUr

On Thin Ice Remixed, Scarlett invited four very talented and respected producers to rethink her first EP (released during the summer of 2020): Imaabs, Syn, Sébastien Forrester, and Galtier.

If the original EP was a series of dark ballads and introspective “avant-pop” songs shaped to be performed live, its remixed version highlights the club potential of each track.

Invited for their strong and innovative musical identities, the four artists all took this opportunity to invade areas of experimentation away from their comfort zone.

Imaabs (who was in charge of mixing and mastering the original EP and mixed this one too) turned Ran into a steamrolling jungle time bomb.

The Irishwoman Syn, whose energetic releases on Even The Strong and Flood shaped the sound of Hard Drum, gave us a reinterpretation of No Meaning mixed with UK gqom.

Sébastien Forrester remained faithful to his percussionist background (he is among other things Ladawndah’s drummer). His response to Leaving (ft. ma gda)’s roaring bass is an organic and perfectly executed drum rework. A remix already approved by Brodinski himself.

Finally, Nostro Hood System’s boss Galtier, gifted us with an extended muscular version of Lights In The Sky: a slow and powerful 7 minutes long technoid dembow crescendo.

Mastered by Imaabs for Modos Estudio
https://www.instagram.com/modos_estudio/

Calligraphy & illustration by Bile Noire
https://www.instagram.com/bile__noire/

Photography by Jean-Baptiste Grangier
https://jeanbaptistegrangier.earth/

Management & PR
http://couvrexchefs.com/en/

Premiere: Scarlett - Leaving Ft. Ma Gda (Sébastien Forrester Afraamix)

FOUNDERS:
@8ULENTINA @LaraSarkissian
2016 - 2021 • clubchai.bandcamp.com 
CLUB CHAI is a record label, event series and curatorial project founded by 8ULENTINA and Lara Sarkissian (fka FOOZOOL) in Oakland, California. CLUB CHAI centers diasporic artists with the intention of carving out sounds and spaces that consider the ways we build narratives as a reflection of our current and future selves. We believe in the transformative abilities of storytelling through sound and honoring its creation of genres and movements for marginalized people throughout the history of electronic music. Through our label releases and projects we hope to contribute to this archive and history.
CLUB CHAI hosted regular events in Oakland and San Francisco while participating in an international network of artists and collaborators. CLUB CHAI held showcases in New York City and London, and have also presented at Unsound Festival Krakow (2019), Mexico City, Milan, and a UK tour in collaboration with TT label. The label hosted shows and streams on NTS radio, Rinse FM, Lower Grand Radio, and Boiler Room.

Piano Rain - Phone Home

CLUB CHAI

Related tracks