Banlieue enters 2022 with a bang courtesy of Mortimer Dubaton’s Athens VS Predator EP. Behind this monicker is Louis De La Gorce, an Athens-based French producer, notorious for his duo The Pilotwings and his solo project Eiger Drums Propaganda.

De La Gorce’s well-documented jocularity seeps through this release, right from its title to the track names and actual productions. This idea is approached through another angle with NEED FOR SPEED, a tune where car-related sounds are brilliantly used by the producer. Layering samples and building a tribal groove sprinkled with chopped up breaks, thick low-end bass, and a zest of vocal samples, this mutant track fit for a car chase in the eponymous video game finds its influence in modern hip hop vibes, but the spirit of rave music is never too far. The result is playful, forwarding thinking bass music that will elicit a response from listeners and dancers without fail.parallels with hard drum purveyors.

Words by Ed Isar
Mastering by Mathieu Berthet
Illustration by Nicol Bolas

Athens VS Predator

PREMIERE - Mortimer Dubaton - Need For Speed (BR014)

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Buy: https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/lithe-nora-drum-remixes

Mastered by Lithe 
Original artwork by Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi featuring photography by Hamish Thomson, remixed by Nathan Hurdle

Remixes

Lithe - It's Rhythm (Imitation Therapy Remix)

REMADE welcomes an array of new and exciting artists to the fold with a remix edition of SHALT’s 2140. The EP’s 6 remixes cover a huge range of global styles which all take the label’s ethos of sound design driven club music in their own unique direction.

REMADE003 is out digitally on 22nd March 2023.

Cover art by Helin Sahin.

SHALT - Falaise (De Grandi Remix)

Seudoplot - Cutting Mat

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Markham Road Records is back steering steady with atch22, Count, Rizla Ops, and Teqmun in the driver seats. MR003 finds form as a quartet of percussion providing some real bang for your buck. This release was dreamt up for quick stepping activity, and the four tracks assembled provide a wide ranging toolkit to get us all moving. Although each artist provides a unique solution, movement was and remains the underlying idea behind this third release.

MR003’s concluding track takes sonic blistering to a whole new level. Teqmun’s masterclass in unrelenting percussion continues to capture our hearts, and surge through our speakers. “Stop Scanning the Zebras” is a fast paced tech heavy track centered by vocals from the producer himself. “I imagined being so out of your mind that you can't stop trying to scan zebra's like barcodes with a scanner”. This track is easy to get lost inside of and therefore evokes some sort of free fall -> an exercise in letting go for eager ears in dimly lit spaces.

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Teqmun - Stop Scanning The Zebras

True Computer (Heddah Remix)

COUNT - CRAVE

Kingdom

XTRICTLY ELEKTRO 3

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Into Oblivion

2019 Archives - Self-released in 2020

Buy: https://jacquestorrance.bandcamp.com/

Photo by Olly Geary
Remixes by Thodén & Porter Brook
Artwork design by Yanni Caloghiris
Mastered by Rob Small

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Jacques Torrance - Construct (Thodén Remix)

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COUNT - CRAVE

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