Shinichi Atobe - Butterfly Effect

Hessle Audio are excited to announce the release of the self-titled debut album by Pearson Sound, aka label co-head David Kennedy. Characteristically minimalist in approach, its nine tracks use a handful of elements to craft mesmerising, self-contained worlds, alive with motion and near-subliminal detail: from vast and inky landscapes, to electrifying rhythm tracks, where layers of percussion and bass tumble over one another like rocks in a landslide. Recorded between 2013-4, Pearson Sound documents a distinct phase of Kennedy's studio explorations. "I had a signal chain set up that I was really happy with, and I started sending my machines through the same processes" he says. Expanding upon the techniques underpinning his recent REM and Starburst 12"s, its tracks emerged swiftly through improvised jam sessions; some were captured in a minimum of takes, while others later took shape through extensive sculpting and post-processing. "A lot of it was made by feeding the the same sounds between two different pieces of equipment and they'd end up feeding back between each other and snowballing. On some tracks it's about harnessing that and taking it to the brink before it disintegrates, and some of them are about just letting it go full-blown out of control." The result is a record of striking contrasts: bold, stark and visceral, yet also subtle, harmonically complex and deceptively playful. While Pearson Sound's livewire percussive energy remains inextricably rooted in the club, this exploratory studio process has created Kennedy's most wide-ranging yet coherent body of work to date: a suite of thrillingly impulsive, expressive and open-ended music, untethered from restrictions of form.


Pearson Sound - Glass Eye

jabulani

Steals

Hessle Audio is proud to present the first collaborations between longtime friend Joy O and saxophonist Ben Vince. Introduced to each other by Jon Rust, the two tracks are a result of studio sessions together as well as manipulation of Ben’s existing recordings. Both tracks explore the tonal, textural and rhythmic possibilities of Ben's playing within a focused dancefloor framework. Ben Vince will be releasing a solo LP with Where To Now? In late May, featuring collaborations with Micachu and percussionist Rupert Clervaux.

HES034

Systems Align (Clip)

Transition 2 (Clip)

'Dubber Funk' taken from Buttechno's "Minimal Cuts" EP (INC-005)
Vinyl 12" / Digital 
Out Jan, 28th, 2019

Vinyl: https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/minimal-cuts
Digital: https://inciensorecs.bandcamp.com/

Buttechno
https://soundcloud.com/buttechno
https://www.facebook.com/buttechno/
https://www.instagram.com/buttechn/?hl=en

Incienso
https://inciensorecs.bandcamp.com/
https://incienso.nyc

Buttechno - Dubber Funk [INC-005]

Get Centred
After an intrepid new phase in the label’s history - initiated by the “Solidarity Forever” series and followed by releases from Katerina, Mujaji The Rain, Gladkazuka and also Matias Aguayo’s “Support Alien Invasion” (w/ “Crammed Discs”) - Cómeme is happy to announce a new release by a wonderful and unique artist, who chooses to walk adventurous paths beyond nowadays musical normativity, and media spectacle: JOE. (You might already be acquainted with his releases on the ever-exciting “Hessle Audio” label)

On his first EP on Cómeme, JOE invites us to “Get Centred” via fresh sounds, perfect beats, and unusual time signatures – difficult to play, and easy to dance!

Get Centred

Juno

Joe - Get Centred

BLNK011 is the debut release by J Chrysalis. Produced between London and France in 2017-18.
https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/album/a-kind-robin

J Chrysalis - A Kind Robin

Alien Mode EP

Everything Inside Out (Snippet)

Trivin Fields

Koraimer Bro

Founded in 2009, the internationalist label Cómeme has established itself as a mobile home, a dance music caravan joined and nurtured by artists from BsAs, Joburg, Medellín, Bucharest, México, Köln and many more places on the planet. Cómeme aims to become a place for diversity, irreverence, musical insurgency and freedom.