This track has an angry kick and some stupid noises. This is a short clip of a longer track.

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OUT NOW: https://criticalmusic.com/releases/critical-new-energy-vol-1/

To round off 2018 we wanted to bring you a fresh new compilation. This album features core Critical family alongside some special guests. Familiar names as well as those starting to make waves. A 360 view of the Critical Sound, a new Energy.

New Energy Vol.1

Hotel Motel

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Ivy Lab - Hotel Motel

“Following our debut album we wanted to signpost future direction whilst offering a reassurance our  aesthetic won’t suffer an abrupt swerve. ‘Gunk’ and ‘Jinxed’’ are tied together by sonic heritage but set apart in the scope of their intention - one’s intended to tear up a club whilst the other crowns a new dawn of joining forces with inventive lyricists in an effort to start crafting some truly boundary-pushing experimental hip hop.

The moment our team put IceColdBishop on our radar last year, we knew we had to work with him - this dude carries an endlessly creative, adaptive and unique flow which can feel as sinister and malignant as it can breezy and mischievous. The track has an off kilter, arachnid-like movement which Bishop makes light work of nailing effortlessly amidst a threatening narrative of familial angst. He is quite simply one of the most exciting up and coming rapper prospects about.”
- Ivy Lab

Tracklisting:
01. Ivy Lab & IceColdBishop ‘Gunk’
02. Ivy Lab ‘Jinxed’

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Ivy Lab x IceColdBishop ‘Gunk’ 
Release Date: 15th March 2019
Label: 20/20 LDN
Format: Digital
Cat No: 2020LDN015

Gunk

*** BOOMKAT PRODUCT REVIEW****

Hailing from the Eastern Congo city of Goma, Will’Stone’s barking, stentorian style has come to define the sound of his city’s war torn youth. On ‘Mbv5’ he’s joined by Kampala-based Congolese MC, Le Bon to spray fire over a crushingly heavy groove built from drop forge drums and sweltering, even panicked patina of field recordings, and in a way that wouldn’t sound outta place on JPEGMAFIA’s ‘Veteran’. Cutthroat, hardcore business.

mbv5

Preview_Will Stone Feat LeBon - MBv5

2 years ago we came to the Grove on the most fleeting of visits, hardly having a chance to even cool down from post-show-adrenaline before rushing off to another tour stop. We ain’t messing about with any of that lark this year . We’re on site from start till finish, soaking up the spectacle, transitioning from performer to audience member and back again as fully invested witnesses to one of the most celebrated gathering anywhere in the continent. Gassed is an understatement. 

TRACKLIST
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1/ Ivy Lab - “Stars”
2/Julo - “Temp”
3/ no puls & Aztek - “Ooobahting”
4/ Drae Da Skimask - “PHB”
5/ Ivy Lab - “Lullaby”
6/ Ivy Lab “Untitled”
7/ Tommy Genesis - “Tommy”
8/ Ivy Lab - “Untitled”
9/ Dolenz - “BBoxyrama”
10/ Lil Wayne - “Uproar” (Andre Palace remix)
11/ Ivy Lab - “Untitled”
12/ Tsuruda - “Dragon of the Darkness Flame”
13/ Ivy Lab & Two Fingers - “Orange”
14/ L-Zee Roselli - “Make them see the Devil”
15/ Up High Collective x Vorace - “Helophïo's Hunt” 
16/ Julo - “Gutter Slither”
17/ Ivy Lab & Barclay Crenshaw - “Betty White”
18/ Eun - “Clear”
19/ Up High Collective x Vorace - “King Consom”
20/ Ivy Lab - “Untitled’
21/ Mono/Poly - “Teach you all a Lesson”
22/ dBridge - “Nacthlus (Fear Ratio Remix)
23/ Mono/Poly - “Stackin Ones”
24/ no puls - “Jukeflook”
25/ Casisdead - “The Code”
26/ Ic3peak - “Грустная сука”
27/ Up High Collective x Vorace - “Binomium”
28/ Tiedye Ky - “Chain Smoking in LAX” ft. Mindset
29/ The Northaze - “DayTwoRescue”
30/ Untitld - “Tequila”
31/ Ivy Lab - “All Day Swimming”
32/ Ivy Lab - “When I Go”

Shambhala 2019 Mix Series - Ivy Lab

Taken from SBKT030: Slikback & Hyph11E - Slip B

Artwork by Sam Rolfes
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Release date: 6th September 2019

For the first output from an ongoing exchange between East Africa and East Asia, via collectives Nyege Nyege/Hakuna Kulala (Kampala - Uganda) and SVBKVLT (Shanghai – China), we are excited to present ‘Slip A’ and ‘Slip B’, two Eps made during Slikback’s China tour/residency in April 2019.

After making first contact online in late 2018 and subsequently meeting up at CTM festival, Berlin, in January 2019, Nyege Nyege and SVBKVLT founded the beginning of a long term project exploring collaborations between East-Africa and East-Asia based artists.

For the first stage of the project, SVBKVLT invited Kenyan producer Slikback to China for a 3-week tour and residency in April 2019. During these 3 weeks, Slikback performed in 5 cities (Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Beijing), spending time in the studio with artists throughout the tour. The results of these studio sessions are now being presented in the form of two Eps, to be released simultaneously across the two labels Hakuna Kulala and SVBKVLT on September 6th, coinciding with Nyege Nyege Festival 2019, Jinja – Uganda, at which Slikback and 2 of the collaborators, Hyph11E and 33EMYBW, will perform.


‘Slip B’

The second EP, entitled ‘Slip B’, is a 5 track EP from Slikback and Hyph11E, consisting of 3 collaborative tracks as well as a remix exchange of the artists' previously released works. During his China tour, Slikback spent the majority of the time in Shanghai, spending 3 intense days in the studio with Hyph11E. As well as presenting these works at Nyege Nyege 2019, Slikback and Hyph11E will play an exclusive b2b set at Unsound Krakow in October 2019. ‘Slip B’ will be released via SVBKVLT on September 6th 2019.


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More info on 'Slip A' and the first track 'Zeno' by Slikback and 33EMYBW here:

https://soundcloud.com/hakunakulala/album-preview-slip-a-slikback-33emybw-zeno

Slip B

Slikback & Hyph11E - ISHU

Hints of acid, at a relatively sedate pace. Needs played loud and requires time...

Ewige Blumenkraft

There's never enough money for spare parts, etc....

Some samples over a basic 4/4 type beat....

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