We are back this month with another premiere, this time featuring a remix from one of our own - EVM128 and his version of JV1080 taken from the new XL Regular EP dropping on ANMA Records Apr 8th!  Listen to the full EP preview on Soundcloud (hit that Buy button above).

Following up from last year’s Outlines compilation, where Rome-based DJ and producer opened the album with a track jointly produced alongside Future Jazz Ensemble, the new offering shares further insight into XL’s expressive ideas, influences, and openness to fusing the old with the new.

A clear influence of the BRUK scene holds a common thread throughout the release, where the undeniably iconic rhythms of Broken Beat are reshaped; simultaneously tipping the hat to the sound makers who’ve paved the way and reworking the drums, bass and percussion to accommodate the harmonies, overlapping counterpoint elements and tones of keys, synths and horns that add a different overall texture that is new, individual and reflective of todays’ emotive depth and complexity in the sonic movements of Italy, London and Europe’s electronic dance scenes.

The influence extends further into the use of adlib and the way it’s puncturing the rhythm of the tracks by means of its placement within the groove. However, the newness of the record shines through via XL Regular’s moulding of synthesis and merging of faster tempos (hear ‘’XL3000’’). As one listens to the record, the way each element is arranged leaves each track sounding as if an extremely tight live band was working those -drums, bass, synths, horns and vocals- live (hear ‘’Sometimes’’).

The bubbling and high-octave synth textures perfectly compliment the bass’ synthetic infusion while not overpowering the melodies, keys, vocals and horns that are sitting in the middle of the frequency range, where the magic of current new Jazz shines through by means of XL Regular’s creative expression via use of multi-layer harmony and shaping of tone that is becoming undeniably familiar to the sounds of the current London Jazz scene bonding with electronic dance productions.

The record explores time by providing high up tempos and by adjusting such tempos through each track to reflect the right mood of the moment. Whereas one track could be for the beginning of your night, the other could be for the closing of such night, all varyingly different and individually explorative, yet all a set of a common creative expression by one soul (hear ‘’Jv1080’’ for the slower jam).

However, the icing on the cake is EVM128’s remix of ‘’Jv1080’’, a more stripped, low-end heavier and dub-focused version of the track that iconically puts a familiar sound of 128’s, a tried and tested BRUK forefather, into the context of new things to come by means of further bridging the international separations of today’s turmoil in the world and melding the sounds and ideas of old and new into something personal, free and special by means of XL Regular’s first solo debut EP, which is just a glimpse of more rhythms soon come.

[PREMIERE] XL Regular - JV1080 (EVM128 Remix)

A five track journey of unapologetically deep and organic, earth shakers. Paired with a layer of ethereal, icy smoke and texture, this EP has been claimed to induce profound trance like states of being, transporting the listener to visionary realms beyond our human comprehension, a place not for the faint hearted..
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PREMIERE : Squidge - Hammock

Elevate

Entering the Microverse (Sunrise Mix)

Meeting Again And Again

Max Ulis, Nina & Adam 2 - Mythra EP
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Faux Poly welcomes more newcomers to the label this summer, this time with a heady collaboration between Vancouver’s underground mainstay Max Ulis and Bristol-based Nina (aka 1/2 of DE-TÜ), featuring a bonus track with Adam 2.

Their EP Mythra was born out of opportunistic collaboration in Vancouver, while Nina was in town for a show. The lead track Culture was put together quickly and instantly the two artists knew that they were on to something good. This track, along with Bumpa & Papaya showcases a confident, hardware-focussed minimal techno sound with unmistakable elements of classic bass & dub. In-keeping with the Faux Poly imprint these tracks comfortably straddle multiple dance genres and are built for the club.

Finishing off the EP is the stellar dubstep curveball Testify, a collaboration between Max & Adam 2 using the unique Soma Enner synth alongside vocals from Nina.

Max has been instrumental in the building of Vancouver’s thriving underground and is a regular on the West Coast festival circuit. Max’s diverse music productions have found a home on labels such as Turbo, VRNT, Iile, Club Designs, Sloth Boogie and Thirty Year Recordings, and has seen support from DJs such as Ben Sims, Prosumer, Laurent Garnier, Roman Flugel, Anz, Skream, B. Traits, Soul Clap, and Om Unit.

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PREMIERE : Max Ulis - Bumpa

D-Bahn

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B2 - What A Relief, A Track With A Field Recording (TYR004 OUT AUGUST 24)

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PREMIERE: "GRIDLOCK" - RYAN WICK - *Free Download*

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Dreamscape

Skittering breakbeats collide with epic trance-meets-80's-hearthrob synth soundtracks, all shot through the lens of a space utopian future-Earth scene. Emotion-packed, kaleidoscopic electro bizz. 

Shedbug releases his 'There's Hope for You Yet' EP on April 26th on Lobster Theremin. Today on Peak Time we premiered "One Day Later"

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Shedbug - "One Day Later" [Peak Time Premiere]

Over the last month, the music and events industry has entered unchartered territory due to the Covid-19 lockdown, and artists and online media have found themselves in a financially vulnerable position with much more time on their hands. 

To help some of those artists, Ransom Note reached out to some friends of the website with the challenge to make a track in collaboration with another producer, musician or vocalist, remotely, in 10 days. The result is ‘Pen Pals’: a compilation featuring 15 collaborations from 32 artists. We feature Graded artists Tom VR & Otik's contribution titled 'Poly Echo 97'. 

Artist: @tomvalbyrotary & @otikmusic 
Label: @the-ransom-note 
Us: www.fourheadsmusic.com

B2 - What A Relief, A Track With A Field Recording (TYR004 OUT AUGUST 24)

Dj Swagger