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Taken from: Aquarian - Mutations I: Death, Taxes & Hanger - Dekmantel - DKMNTL-UFO11

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Canadian born, Berlin based producer @Aquarian debuts on Dekmantel Records’ UFO imprint with Mutations I & II, a series of two EPs following his debut album The Snake That Eats Itself and his collaborative records as AQXDM. The series marks his return to club focused solo material for the first time since 2017.

Originally written as inflection points for his typically boisterous and genre collapsing dj sets, Mutations deftly splices the foundational DNA of his earliest productions — electro, hardcore and broken beat techno – with new and vital influences.

Mutations I: Death, Taxes and Hanger finds Aquarian gleefully contorting mid-2000s dnb tearouts, wrong footed IDM and progressive trance euphoria into thrilling new shapes. Fast techno, hi-tek jazz, amphetamine-addled filter house and breakcore join the fray in Mutations II: Delicious Intent as he pushes intensity levels past breaking point. Whichever the touchstone, the results are clear: distinctly modern, highly-propulsive body music with an unapologetically emotive core.

Death, Taxes & Hanger

Aquarian - Death, Taxes & Hanger

Dance Trax, Vol. 39

Tommy 2000 - Opal

Pipe Dream

Arriving on Cheeky Sneakers and bringing the essence of UK rave with him is UK based producer Ravetrx who deliver four huge cuts of breakbeat, jungle and trance-licked hardcore for the masses.

‘Run ‘N’ Hide’ begins with fairly familiar territory for the producer. Sitting somewhere between techno, breaks and speed garage, this peak-time warper is a sure-fire party starter, before ‘Show Me’ transitions into breakbeat completely; it’s deafening bass-kicks, euphoric builds and jungle-percussion providing a throwback to a golden era for dance music.

The familiar chords of the M1 ring out on ‘Mind Games’ - a classic trance love-cry brimming with emotion - before the 160bpm jungle riddims of ‘Shebeen’ provide a lairy and screw-face-inducing climax.

>> @ravetrx

Run 'N' Hide

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CHEEKY005 // RAVETRX - Run 'N' Hide

Hot on the heels of his LOW BATTERY debut and the announcement of his next EP on Shall Not Fade, Club Glow co-founder Mani Festo readies his latest arsenal of breaks-fuelled dubs for the Lobster White Label series. 

Having become one of the go-to names for high quality electro, breakbeat and jungle over the last few years – thanks to releases on Sherelle and NAINA’s Hooversound Recordings, E-Beamz and WNCL Recordings – the UK producer picks up where he left off, re-imagining rave futurism and hardcore sounds through his own distinctive lens.

‘Digital Projection’ is a terrifying cut of grime-laced jungle. Stripped-back, but packing a punch, its large, alien-like wubs will make even the cleanest of ravers need a shower afterwards. ‘Jungle Poison’ reconsiders the typical junglist template with a dose of 2-step influence that makes for a high-energy cut of bouncy UK fusion.

The tempo drops as we venture into 130BPM breaks territory on ‘Roam’ – it’s introspective and melodic aesthetics providing a moment of calm from within the eye of the storm – before ‘Sleepless in West Norwood’ captures that distinctive warehouse rave energy with a sequence of breaks-scattered techno.

>> @mani_festo

Sleepless In West Norwood

Sleepless in West Norwood

LTWHT031 // Mani Festo - Sleepless In West Norwood

Danger

Pessimist - Danger

//YouTube - https://youtu.be/a4fGA26s4aU

AK Sports
https://soundcloud.com/aksportsdj
https://www.instagram.com/aksportsdj/

Higher Power
https://soundcloud.com/higherpowerlabel

"Hot on the heels of their debut on Lobster Theremin, Sydney born and bred radio host, DJ/producer AK SPORTS readies five devastating cuts of distinct Nu-Sports club; finding their Higher Power - a new-age rave pairing formed from within a blazing ball of hell-fire.

Releases and remixes have followed on Dansu Discs, Mad Decent and CLUB GLOW (where they produced a collaborative EP with rising artist Kessler), and their Balamii radio show has welcomed guests from Dagga, Allan Fitzpatrick, Moktar, Mell G, Nova Cheq and Nikki Nair.

Inspired by the lack of female faces in a male-dominated scene, AK SPORTS has been at the forefront of a big-room, warehouse sound being championed in Australia (X CLUB, Mall Grab) that has been borrowing from the golden eras of trance and hardcore, whilst also catapulting that same energy straight into the dance through a contemporary lens.

‘West Coast’ tears itself into two forms - one a heavyweight 4x4 power mix, the other a ravey cut of breakbeat hardcore that melts across a scattered rhythm. ‘Une Amie’ floats like a killer-bee amongst swirls of synthy colours and patterns on a deep, driving and frenzied techno flow.

‘Eurostar’ is the soundtrack to what would happen if the high-speed, multi-national rail service was somewhere transported the a Mario Kart multiverse – a cut of trance-fused Euro-techno – before ‘Lockdown in the Big Smoke’ takes us on a melancholic trip into the dead of night on a killer techno-spooker."

Eurostar EP

PREMIERE: AK Sports - West Coast (Breakbeat Mix) [HIGHER003]

PT/3.2

Happa - Clouds (Sax)

Taken from the Termina EP  //  Out May 17th on R&S Records 
smarturl.it/termina  //  @r-srecords

Termina EP

Stampede

Buy the EP here

Yak - Stampede

Second Language

Minor Science - For Want of Gelt

Label: Banoffee Pies Records
Artist: ANGEL D’LITE
Title: Dolphins Have Sex For Pleasure
Catalogue Number: BP014
Genre: Jungle / Hardcore / Garage
Release: 21/08/20

Tracklist:
A1 CRYSTALZ
A2 CRYSTALZ (DIAMANTÈ MIX)
B1 DANCE LIKE DOLPHIN
B2 DANCE LIKE DOLPHIN (JAY REMIX)

Banoffee Pies 014 - Dolphins Have Sex For Pleasure

CRYSTALZ

Buy 12" / mp3

PREMIERE: Angel D'lite - CRYSTALZ

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