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Compliments is a non-binary dance music producer from Huddersfield, based in London. Their work is heavily influenced by the percussive UK styles of jungle, garage and bassline, with a pinch of nü-metal’s distortion and adolescent energy thrown in for good measure.

Tomgirl, their newest release on Mantissa, showcases these stylistic influences across four tracks that move between wonky 4/4 techno, amen-heavy jungle, spacey 140 and swampy chugging house, playing with the idea of floating somewhere between masculinity and femininity, hard and soft.

After experimenting with samples of their own voice on their debut album ‘The place where my voice should be’ (self-released in March 2022), the EP builds on this technique to create eerie atmospherics and strange rhythms in a more club-focused and dance floor orientated zone.

Tomgirl is topped off with a remix by Bristol’s Bex, channeling a potent strain of bassy, stepping techno that her productions and DJ sets have become famous for.

@djcompliments
@mantissa1

Buy:
https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/album/mantissa-003-tomgirl

PREMIERE: Compliments - Debt Of Androgyny [Mantissa]

"Compliments is a non-binary dance music producer from Huddersfield, based in London. Their work is heavily influenced by the percussive UK styles of jungle, garage and bassline, with a pinch of nü-metal’s distortion and adolescent energy thrown in for good measure.

Tomgirl, their newest release on Mantissa, showcases these stylistic influences across four tracks that move between wonky 4/4 techno, amen-heavy jungle, spacey 140 and swampy chugging house, playing with the idea of floating somewhere between masculinity and femininity, hard and soft.

After experimenting with samples of their own voice on their debut album ‘The place where my voice should be’ (self-released in March 2022), the EP builds on this technique to create eerie atmospherics and strange rhythms in a more club-focused and dance floor orientated zone.

Tomgirl is topped off with a remix by Bristol’s Bex, channeling a potent strain of bassy, stepping techno that her productions and DJ sets have become famous for."

Bandcamp: https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/album/mantissa-003-tomgirl
Pre-save Link: https://orcd.co/mnt003
Compliments: https://soundcloud.com/djcompliments
Website – https://mantissamix.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MantissaMix
Insta – @mantissa_mix
Twitter – @mantissamix
Bandcamp – https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/album/mantissa-002
Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/mantissa1

PREMIERE: Compliments - Sweat Chimney [Mantissa]

Stepping up for MANT004 is the one and only Ian DPM. This EP continues an impressive string of releases for him, including on his own imprints Scuffed Recordings and Definite Party Material, all exploring the edges of club music with tunes belonging slap bang in the middle of the dancefloor.

Compliments gives Acid Dance quite the beating on the remix by putting it through a paper shredder, grabbing some of the shreds of paper and sticking them back together with a highly flammable glue before lighting the whole thing into a chaotic frenzy.

Links:
https://orcd.co/mant004
https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/album/mantissa-004-evening-service

Premiere: Ian DPM - Acid Dance (Compliments burns the whole thing down) [MANT004]

THF Presents: @Mantissa1, a dance music label and mix series based in London, are showcasing four DJs from Europe to Korea. Downtempo, house, electro, techno and beyond.

@djcompliments: "This is a longer sound collage of field recordings, found sounds and unreleased music from myself. More abstract than a standard DJ mix, but hopefully just as banging when it needs to be. Enjoy!"

THF Presents: Mantissa w/ Compliments // 02.04.23

@mantissa1 Records returns with four dancefloor slammers spanning cosmic house, acid garage and techno-fied bassline

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-compliments-apres-garde-tomgirl-cant-sit-still

Premiere: Compliments ‘Après - Garde (Tomgirl Can't Sit Still)’

Bimonthly excursions through memories, geographies and nostalgia from NYC-based livwutang. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/livwutang/episodes/livwutang-5th-august-2024

Furniture without Memories w/ livwutang & Compliments 050824

Following their contribution to 2023’s VA compilation, label regular Compliments returns to Mantissa with another slice of bass-heavy 160.

A lean and stripped-back take on electro, Yuppie Flip combines catchy lead lines with muscular 808s and raw, rowdy percussion, heavily inspired by Detroit pioneer DJ Stingray 313.

In line with their recent output of minimalist 140 and drum & bass, Yuppie Flip is a straight-up, no-bullshit club tool, ripe for peak-time dance floors.

Artist Bio:
Compliments is a non-binary producer and DJ from Huddersfield, based in London.

Their tunes and sets are heavily influenced by the wobblier sides of drum & bass, dubstep and bassline, with a pinch of nü-metal riffage thrown in for good measure.

With eclectic mixes on the likes of Mantissa, 1020, Voices Radio, THF and NTS, their selections span a wide range of UK-focused flavours across the tempo spectrum.


Compliments is a non-binary producer and DJ from Huddersfield, based in London.

Their tunes and sets are heavily influenced by the wobblier sides of drum & bass, dubstep and bassline, with a pinch of nü-metal riffage thrown in for good measure.

With eclectic mixes on the likes of Mantissa, 1020, Voices Radio, THF and NTS, their selections span a wide range of UK-focused flavours across the tempo spectrum.

https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/

Links:
Compliments –
https://soundcloud.com/djcompliments
insta @lifememeswithtom

Mantissa –
https://soundcloud.com/mantissa1
insta @mantissa_mix
https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/

PREMIERE: Compliments - Yuppie Flip [Mantissa]

Welcome to the first volume of Sharing Plates—a new club-focused mix series from myself.

For the inaugural mix, I’ve recreated my set from last October’s day-to-night edition of Bleached Club at The Glove That Fits. I played downstairs from 7 til 8 PM with a loose brief of “hard and fast”. I immediately knew I wanted to move from 150 through 174 BPM—initially resetting the dance floor before steadily climbing up to modern 2-step drum & bass. Big tempo jumps are a tricky thing to balance without sacrificing flow, but I was feeling insanely inspired to try after a mad experience at Bang Face the weekend before.

Though I’d spun on radio and in record stores a couple of times, this was the first time I’d ever played in a club. Years before I even knew what DJs actually did, I’d always fantasised about playing to a proper dance floor. This was a real bucket list moment. 

In classic me fashion, I prepared by spending too many hours feverishly mixing at home with a rotating carousel of potential tracks, slowly arriving at a folder of music I felt confident in. Even if I don’t end up playing exactly the same tunes in exactly the same order as I do at home, something about knowing my exits allays the shaky pre-show jitters. 

For whatever reason that day, everything just sort of clicked. I got over my nerves really fast and locked in. It was the most fun I’d ever had playing and, bizarrely, as a fervent bedroom DJ, it was to a room full of people. 

Stupidly, I decided not to record the set that night. At the time, it was just another thing to worry about. Since then, though, I’ve found myself returning to that night with fondness. I decided to go back through my Rekordbox history and recreate the set I played that night, mixing as close to how the show actually flowed as possible.

Shouts out Karpo, FETCH* and the rest of the Bleached Club crew for inviting me to play. Having my debut club set be at such a wicked party will be a memory I’ll treasure forever.

Track list:  
Skee Mask — Cerroverb {Ilian Tape}
Untold — Test Signal {Hessle Audio}
Air Max ’97 — Ice Bridge {Timedance}
???
PARA — Infinite Jank Zone {Incurzion Audio}
Samurai Breaks — Oshee {Worst Behaviour Recs}
Fonzo — Ring Ring ft. Capo Lee {ec2a}
MJK & Impey — High Konga {Obligated Records}
Ziyiz — Asemia {early reflex}
Sinistarr — Turn Up (w/ Hyroglifics) {Hooversound Recordings}
Addison Groove — 160 Cowbells {Worst Behaviour Recs}
Chunky Strapz X Slinki — Watch My Feet {Self-Released}
Jensen Interceptor — Break Fluid {International Chrome}
Nectax — Twin Turbo {play:musik}
Nectax — Voychek {Over/Shadow}
Samurai Breaks & Napes — Frog Mob {Time Is Now}
Koherent — Bleep Test {Overview}
PARA — VVITCH {Incurzion Audio}
Kasra & Gardna — Spaceman (QZB Remix) {Critical Music}
Skeptical — Frozen {Commercial Suicide Records}
Digital & Spirit — Phantom Force (Fracture’s Astrophonica Edit) {Phantom Audio}

***Recorded on a pair of CDJ2000-Nexus 1’s and my trusty Xone:92 at home in South London.***

Sharing Plates Vol.1

Last November, I had the pleasure of playing the second edition of Club Citrus in Tottenham's Unit 58.

This was my first time opening a club—a slot that usually allows for constructing a weirder atmosphere. That kind of freedom was something I’d always wanted to explore.

As it turned out, I ended up having a rough bout of food poisoning the night before and, despite my better judgement, felt determined to play anyway. Subconsciously, I think this energy translated into a fairly spooky and delirious set—one that begins as a soundtrack to an empty club, before slowly opening up into something more graspable as dancers gradually filed in.

It's a testament to my hosts Lucas and Henry that I managed to have such a lovely time in spite of fighting nausea my whole set. Thank you so much for inviting me to play and looking after me just the right amount :-)

So anyway, here's that opening hour. There are so many peak-time mixes out there, I figured something a little earlier in the night might scratch a different itch. 

Track list: 
Beatrice & Kassem Mosse — Pulse {The Trilogy Tapes}
Ben Oliver — Shoreham {Unreleased}
Michael Mann — Heat (Diner Scene) {Warner Bros.}
???
Paleman — Talk Louder {PLMN}
Tammo Hesselink — Lattice {Redstone Press}
Toumba — Shurooq {Hypnic Jerks}
Lurka — Density {Timedance}
Sub Basics — Roll Up {Modern Hypnosis}
Terron — Nº 17 Governing {Whities}
Dorisburg — Splade {Northern Electronics}
Radial — Asiel {Mord}
Akkord —Navigate {Houndstooth}
Wen & Parris — Collide {Tempa.}
Jesper Dahlbäck — What Is The Time, Mr. Templar? {Svek}

Club Citrus — Opening Hour (Unit 58, November '24)

Highly Important w/ Compliments - 13.06.25

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Trying to make sense of the millenial dance music shitegeist 🥁

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