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Bolam is back on Space Dust with the 'Lost In Time' EP, a continuation of the journey started with the widely acclaimed 'Suspended Animation'. Another well-rounded and diverse record dives into the wormhole with ’Moving Lights’, a high-energy affair propelled by filtering resonators and a haunting vocal. ’Ozone’ breaks through the stratosphere of a new world, a huge track with electro-inspired groove, booming kicks and a razor-sharp lead melody, creating a feeling of uncertainty and delirium with swelling pads and arpeggiators.

The B-side begins with the mysterious and epic, genre-defying anthem ’Air Tension’, enticing the listener into the strange new world with a chugging rhythm, tantalising textures and an indescribable melody that keeps you on the line between paranoia and euphoria. ’Bioluminescence’ descends into an alien jungle, with a hypnotic, dreamy, downtempo beat and iridescent synths and chords. Finally, as you lay down in the otherworldly glade, the record wraps up with the ethereal, ambient finisher, ‘2 Parsecs From Home’.

https://soundcloud.com/whambolam
https://soundcloud.com/spacedusttransmissions

Buy:
https://bolam.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-time

PREMIERE: Bolam - Moving Lights [Space Dust]

Between 1 April 2022 and 30 September 2022, food banks in the Trussell Trust’s UK-wide network distributed 1.3 million food parcels to people facing hardship – this is an increase of 52% compared to the same period in 2019. Half a million of these parcels were distributed to children. The charity says that for the first time, need for emergency food is outstripping donations as the cost of living emergency is leading to a drastic increase in the number of people turning to food banks for support. 

With this situation being more urgent than ever, Vief are delighted to announce their 2nd charity compilation will be raising funds for the Trussell Trust. Not only providing incredibly vital, immediate support to people facing hardship, the charity also works tirelessly towards the goal of ending the need for food bank in the UK. 

Spanning genres and tempos, reticulation stands as the label’s most ambitious project to date, and owes its thanks to the immense talent and generosity of the 20 producers involved. 

@mutable.mercury
@viefrecords

Buy:
https://viefrecords.bandcamp.com/album/reticulation-a-trussell-trust-fundraiser

PREMIERE: Mutable Mercury - Termites Talk [Vief Records]

Taking a break from his work on songs by Young T & Bugsey, Sean Paul, Aitch, Stefflon Don, PA Salieu, P-rallel, Hagan, Anz & more, Sam Interface returns to his own solo project. ‘Just Having Fun’ EP brings the sort of energy that can be felt when in the midst of carnival, with its grimey basses and Trinidadian soca vocals creating an infectious sound for the club.

‘146’ is a continued lineage in Sam’s uptempo experiments, following on from the equally imaginatively named ‘145’ on Sams collaborative 3:33 EP with Ahadadream in 2020 + his monstrous banger ‘Underground’.

@sam_interface
@moretimerecords

Buy:
https://saminterface.bandcamp.com/album/just-having-fun-ep

PREMIERE: Sam Interface - 146 [More Time Records]

@zonaemusic
@lucidjuicemcr

Buy:
https://lucidjuice.bandcamp.com/album/glass-bugz-ep

PREMIERE: Zonae - Glass Bugz [Lucid Juice]

LUXE & Tom Place are next up with their collaborative ‘Moonquake’ EP. The signature cross genre influences can be heard in the off kilter percussion, laid on top of bassy cuts, with subtle trance influences permeating throughout. 

@soundsofluxe
@tom-place-music
@dansudiscs

Buy:
https://dansudiscsuk.bandcamp.com/album/moonquake-ep

PREMIERE: LUXE & Tom Place - Polarities [Dansu Discs]

LWS returns to his imprint Matrice Recordings with a brand new two-tracker of bleeding edge UK techno. ‘Five Hundred’ is a euphoric, high-NRG banger packed full of catchy vocal chops and emotive chord progressions, whilst staying true to the forward-thinking framework of contemporary UK bass music. Watch out for the show stopping conga-roll breakdown!

@lws_trax

Buy:
https://matricerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/five-hundred-hedges

PREMIERE: LWS - Five Hundred [Matrice]

January 2023 sees the launch of 'Steppers Globe’, a 4-week period of releases to showcase overseas UK Garage artists and display their talent on the main stage. The project consists of 4 EPs (to be released one per week in January), each of which are crossover releases with overseas labels pushing the UK-Garage sound. 

SPRAYBOX (Japan) was founded by Tokyo based producers Genick,
Jacotanu, Nizikawa, and Oblongar in November 2021. Their sole purpose
was to support Japanese dance producers, whose music draws a direct
influence from UK Bass sub genres.

 In this link-up, Steppers Club founding member Sam Deeley joins
 forces with That Fancy I, another very special Japanese prospect.

@samdeeley
@tom_i
@steppersclub
@spraybox

Buy:
https://cygnusmusic.link/llmojqe

PREMIERE: Sam Deeley & That Fancy I - 98 Riddim [Steppers Club x Spraybox]

@proteansound

Buy:
https://proteansound.bandcamp.com/album/machines

PREMIERE: Protean Sound - Push It

‘Chud God - Chud Tools’ - The 3 Track EP infuses hard hitting grime rhythms with bright bubbly, playful productions and features a bonus Bandcamp exclusive. Available on all platforms now. Artwork by @baitmoss

@line_156

Buy:
https://line156.bandcamp.com/

Chud Tools

PREMIERE: Chud God - Nokia Kyote [Line: 156]

@uavuk
@roadkill_uk

Buy:
https://roadkilluk.bandcamp.com/album/roadkill-presents-006

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

The thirtieth anniversary release of the label is presented by the figure of the German electronic scene from Berlin - Mistigris, with his three-track EP "Shades of Blue", as well as an electro remix from the bright representative of the Moscow electronic scene Marco Lazovic.

Starting with the hypnotic broken electro journey "Ultramarine" where the atmosphere of the tune immerses in the upcoming journey in the electro remix from the Moscow talent Marco Lazovic. Dark as metal, acidic as an element, "Cobalt" continues its journey through the silver-white nebula, and the blue-green "Cyan" with its golden barrel and pritransovanoy atmosephrovoy leads us to the end of the journey on the waves of the future. 
The entire release is written on the old-school legendary Roland MC303.Undoubtedly Cyril and Alexander demonstrate their audacious productive approach by combining retrospective elements into future productions.

Buy: 
https://sengiley.bandcamp.com/album/mystigrix-shades-of-blue-ep-sng030

https://soundcloud.com/mystigrix
https://soundcloud.com/sengileywax

PREMIERE: Mystigrix - Cobalt [Sengiley Recordings]

Kin Teal is an alias of Budapest based producer Balint Haller, making organic and tactile music that’s rooted in club culture. Kin Teal is a new project, meant to express the contrast and connection between nature and humanity, and juxtapose natural textures with machine-made ones. There’s also a strong visual identity attached to the music, as a result of Balint’s interest in creative coding and emulating natural processes through code.

@kin_teal
@tropopauserecords

Buy:
https://kinteal.bandcamp.com/album/piqued

Piqued EP

PREMIERE: Kin Teal - Hasonmás [Tropopause]

@interceptrecords
@janvdlugttsepo

Buy:
https://intercept.bandcamp.com/album/must-finish-perc-track

PREMIERE: Tsepo - Perc Track [Intercept]

For the first release of 2023, @kindergartenrecords is thrilled to welcome to the label one of the most exciting young producers around. @tomsobolikmusic’s cuts on early reflex, Cloudcore, Woozy, and Martyn’s 3024 label gathered widespread respect in a short time. Focusing on rhythmic play and an embrace of freneticism, their release feels like classic Kindergarten, a hailstorm of maximalist invention wrought from the tumultuous highs and lows of the artist's first full year living in New York after lockdown. 

Buy:
https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/packet-loss

Packet Loss

PREMIERE: Sobolik - Update [Kindergarten]

What do clouds sound like? For 3024's first release of 2023, we are super proud to present an exploration of that question by the amazing Italian-Ivorian producer Ehua on her new EP.
"Clouds EP" consists of four sonically and energetically varied tracks inspired by the paradoxical nature of these mood-shifting objects, suspended in space. They can be heavy or light, menacing or comforting, distraught or at ease. They are still but in motion, they can cause fear and confusion or give you strength, awareness and empowerment. Ehua's music combines live handmade percussion and flutes (the ancient Duduk on Nefele and recorder on Vola) with fierce drum programming and synth work. This is music for the mind and the 'floor! Enjoy.

@ehuamusic
@3024world

Buy:
https://ehua.bandcamp.com/album/clouds-ep

Clouds

PREMIERE: Ehua -  Piume [3024]

Attention all those in need of a UK funky fix – Tribal Brothers’ LR Groove is back on his own Renk Groove label with a five-track special poised to wreck the dance. The Cantankerous EP is headed up by ‘Nuclear’, a war dub built especially for a b2b DJ set featuring the mighty Troublesome shelling down in his inimitable toasting style. 

A dancehall MC who got his taste for the studio in Trinidad and in Jamaica, Troublesome found his voice working with the likes of Daddy Noddy in Brixton and has since gone on to a two-decade-deep career taking in garage and jungle as much as Jamaica-rooted sounds. LR first clocked him on a white label Huckleberry riddim back in 1999, and when an opportunity arose to have Troublesome throw down on one of his war dubs, he jumped at the chance – ‘Nuclear’ is the right word for the end result.  

As one half of Tribal Brothers, working with the likes of Scratcha DVA and DJ Polo and dropping the heat on labels like Livity Sound and Nervous Horizon, LR has more than proven his worth in recent years, but his legacy reaches back to the breakthrough years of UK garage. The decades of dedication shine through in the versatile club weapons he crafts on Cantankerous EP, where the foundation of sub bass and stripped-back, crooked grooves act as a springboard for the LR Groove sound. It’s a style which responds to the cross-pollination happening across UK club music, as the influence of amapiano, footwork, gqom and dancehall all feeds into a razor-sharp style steeped in flair, and there’s space for the drama of techno as much as UK funky’s upfront drops. From ‘Middle Finger’s teasing tension and epic synth sweeps to the raw bleeps and nagging drum pressure of ‘Clap Back’, this is an EP loaded with neck-snapping gear that sits comfortably across a whole range of scenes in the current UK club music climate. 

@lrgroove
@user-927768308

Buy:
https://renkgrooverecordings.bandcamp.com/album/cantankerous-ep

Cantankerous

PREMIERE: LR Groove - Middle Finger [Renk Groove]

From a fresh generation of producer without any blinders, this resident DJ from both Rinse France and Positive Education Festival, and audio alchemist acidobasic (fka Basic) is making his Global Warming debut with a dancefloor driven 2 tracker for stompy adventurers. 

Both immersed in a singular soundscape of bleepy synths, uncanny melodies and bass-loaded 4 to the floor kick drum, Baile & Tooping are the ideal soundtrack to both a peak time carnival street party, or a game of Mario Kart on acid. In both cases, designed to be played too loud.  

The release is visually scored by Marseille-based graphic guru Ben Hubbard, responsible for previous Global Warming artworks from Realitycheck, Jon Beige or Ouai Stéphane. He’s adding an extra layer of styles crossover, using a blend of video footage, graffiti, visual warps and collage to create a unique piece for each track.

Global Warming Records is run by Franco-British producer and talent seeker Malcolm, who imagines and shapes each project hand in hand with his artists. Global Warming just won the Ed Banger & Trax Magazine prize for the most promising electronic labels. Baile / Tooping will be the label’s 19th release.

@acidobasic
@globalwarmingrec

Buy:
https://www.globalwarmingrec.com/gw019

Baile / Tooping [GW019]

PREMIERE: Acidobasic - Baile [Global Warming]

Intercept welcomes Destrata with his debut EP for the label: Squib. Over three tracks, the Vancouver based artist shows you his take on UK influenced bass and techno.

The title track 'Squib' is Eli's first foray in 4x4 music and showcases his talent for energetic moves whilst still retaining a taste for detail. With a lead built out of a twisted vocal sample and a bass that's as grooving as it is chest pumping, it perfectly sets the tone for the EP.

@destratavan
@interceptrecords

Buy:
https://intercept.bandcamp.com/album/squib

PREMIERE: Destrata - Squib [Intercept]

Maroki launches the Spitskool Records imprint with 3 cuts of absolutely devastating club orientated sounds. Spitskool is a platform for Maroki and Coralie AKA ‘MXC’ and friends to release their music that perhaps wouldn’t fit elsewhere. Although it seems there is now a home at last.

‘AC4XT’ is a sleeping giant, again using the powerful rips and an earth shattering break and a sub that is oh so reminiscent of the old DMZ days but wholly different. The synth lines are tactile - loud, almost overpowering at times but once they disperse the space that is left is wide and compelling.

@letsgomaroki
@spitskool

Buy:
https://maroki1.bandcamp.com/album/maroki-no

PREMIERE: Maroki - AC4XT [Spitskool Records]

WDDS (pronounced 'Woods') returns with his first works of 2023; four, cold, moody, captivating, atmospheric dubstep tracks following a suit of releases on his label Hectare Discs and a stand-out jungle track on EMA's Woozy 2.5 compilation.

The Mancunian draws a wide range of influences, spanning cinematic techno and contemporary film scores, already perking the ears of honourable selectors such as Jossy Mitsu, Mixtress and Mantra.

'Rough Peak' is glitchy and eerie, complimented by a warping baseline and a sinister drone that slowly builds into a peak-time driver.

@wddsmusic
@hectarediscsmixes

Buy:
https://wddsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pedra-ep

Pedra EP

PREMIERE: WDDS - Rough Peak [Hectare Discs]

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