Easy Mongo

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)

Out on YOUTH: https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/track/emma-dj-toma-kami-julia-bashmore

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Emma DJ & Toma Kami - Julia Bashmore

Track preview from Cairo's 3Phaz new album 'Ends Meet'

To be released on Souk Records, 24th February 2022

For more information : www.discrepant.net/product/3phaz-ends-meet/

Ends Meet

3Phaz - Labash (from Ends Meet)

Seudoplot - Cutting Mat

BAD 2 THA BONE

POLAARIZED is a 6-track LP where the label’s core artists collaborate with some of the most daring and influential creatives shaping today’s music. Polarization—a scientific phenomenon that aligns forces in a shared direction—becomes a metaphor for the collective power of collaboration, where contrasting voices converge into something greater.

POLAARIZED reimagines the club as more than just a dancefloor—it’s a space for radical expression, a meeting point where boundaries blur, and communities thrive. This release is a sonic manifesto for those who live at the edge of the underground, where music becomes a force of connection and change.

To celebrate POLAARIZED, we’ve created a limited-edition sticker pack inspired by iconic Panini collections. Each pack includes 12 unique designs inspired by the concept of light polarization. Limited to 100 copies, these packs come with the digital album.

Bandcamp

Animistic Beliefs x Flore - Mercurated Rivers

Danny Mal cranks the BPM and returns to Odd One with a 3 track EP, showcasing versatility that spans from mood lifting groovers to high energy anthems. 

1. Wait 4 U: 
Weaving two vocal hooks through a progressive arrangement, "Wait 4 U" kicks off the EP with a high energy anthem, inspired by the sounds of old school speed garage.

2. That Riddim:
"That Riddim" continues the energy at 135BPM with a timeless, organ heavy, bassline roller. 

3. Trapped: 
Turning things down to 130BPM to close out the EP with this laid back, yet lively funky groover.

Extended versions available in all stores now.

Socials:
 @OddOne_Records  
 @DannyMalbeats

Danny Mal - That Riddim

CURER - MUSIC FOR YOUR MIND (TEASER)

Phantom Drop

Our aim is to deconstruct, distort and re-assemble the lore of (un)popular music. 

Discrepant: inconsistent; conflicting; at variance [from Latin discrepāns, from discrepāre to differ in sound, from dis-1 + crepāre to be noisy]
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