my man - this is crucial! love this! i need this!

The Navigator

lots of planetary stuff happening these days 🛸 
I've been sitting on this one for a long time – started working on it during a heatwave in 2017 ☀️ 
dedicated to a wise and generous old friend whose modular rig was sampled in the tune 💫

A Journey Through The Cosmos

kev/null is coming in hot with two breakbeat tracks to start off Qwerk's 2024 season! Starting off the EP with 'How About Drums' - kev/null & Mark Hardy deliver a punchy, raw tune. Secondly, kev/null joins forces with Adrian More for the spicy 'Catch a Raver' track!

kev/null QWERKS!
When did you start making music?
2019

What makes YOU qwerky?
I often seem really serious but actually I'm just really deadpan and cheeky.

If you were a cartoon character, who would you be?
Not quite a cartoon but…Kermit the Frog

What’s your favorite sound?
Helicopters overhead. No wait, SIRENS! No, not that. I think the sound of waves crashing in.

kev/null, Adrian More - Catch A Raver [QRK011]

A pioneer of UK breakbeat culture, having cut his teeth as half of Evil Nine, EVL Tom brings a myriad of influences to bear on his debut album, ‘Absolute Melt’. It’s an opus where Moodymann-esque Detroit soul flavours meet the psychedelic rave stylings of early Future Sound Of London, the raw but incessantly funky loops of hip-hop producers Madlib and the RZA rub up against the bass aesthetic of early ‘90s jungle/drum & bass. 
 
“Absolute Melt’ was me endeavouring to make a truly autobiographical record that represents my diverse tastes and experiences but bringing them together to form a cohesive whole. It’s a hybrid opus, the fulfilment of a life-long ambition to make an album solely by myself — to resoundly kick back against the Imposter Syndrome on my shoulder whispering that it couldn’t be done.” - EVL Tom
 
The thunder of rainstorms and other organic tones abound in the album opener ‘Trees’, a track drenched in bass with a Vangelis-esque horn melody riding it. Then it’s into ‘A Prayer’ with its mantra on peace and love, Tom’s stab at pushing out some positive feelings into the world, sonically harking back to early DJ Shadow and those seminal Mo’Wax joints. Two breakbeat cuts follow; ‘Incendies’ is a low-slung, smoked out roller with hints of Burial and ‘90s jungle (albeit at a fraction of the tempo), and ‘Eternal Lids’ is a track crafted to evoke late-night drives around cityscapes aglow with orange light and neon.  Taking a breath in the middle of the album we have the beat-less ‘Norman’, which is melancholically melodic like a sci-fi movie scene-setter, which then moves into ‘Rebels Of The Neon God’ where we’re taking it back to the club. The title references a Taiwanese cult film favourite of Tom’s and also serves as a tribute to Taiwan, a place dear to Tom after numerous visits over the years. An electro / hardcore hybrid, ‘Rebels…’ buzzes with an undercurrent of pure rave euphoria. 

Next up is the first single off the album, ‘The Heathers’, a dream-like, psychedelic epic with a dark second half that’s a counterpoint to the more wistful beginning of the tune. This is closely followed up by second single ‘Give Up (Don’t)’, something that Ron Hardy would maybe play at Muzic Box in Chicago, a tough disco banger pinned with an organic break that oozes raw funk. It’s a heads-down belter where the mood is positive and euphoric. Album closer ‘Love In Fire & Blood’ is the embodiment of a meme where a dude drinks a big bottle of cranberry juice whilst skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac — musically dense, and with the album’s signature blending of organic and electronic flavours. This delicate balance was achieved in the collaborative mixdown of the album by Tom and top bro Alexander James Fox, who brought his talent and knowledge to the table to craft it into the deeply woven epic you have before you.
 
“The title ‘Absolute Melt’ started as an in-joke, just a dope phrase that made me and my crew crease up, but then as I started to think on it, many levels were revealed to me. There’s ‘melting’ everywhere, with its climate change connotations; the psychedelic slant; and also perhaps a self-deprecating angle where maybe I’m the absolute melt… or you are, ha ha!” - EVL Tom
 
The artist also records as one half of Evil Nine with Pat Pardy, originally signed to Adam Freeland’s label Marine Parade. Their award-winning ‘You Can Be Special Too’ and ‘They Live!’ albums received widespread acclaim and in the process they collaborated with such luminaries as El-P from Run The Jewels, Danny Brown, Aesop Rock and Emily Breeze. They were residents at Fabric London, did a Radio One Essential Mix and toured the world several times performing at Fuji Rock Festival, Space in Miami, Twilo in NYC, Coachella and Arcadia at Glastonbury.

Absolute Melt

Eternal Lids

4 Evl Tom - Eternal Lids

Incendies

3 Evl Tom - Incendies

A Prayer

2 Evl Tom - A Prayer

Trees

1 Evl Tom - Trees

J.Gill Live at The Barrel at Coalesce 2024 12/31 6PM

J.Gill Live @ The Barrel 2024

LEXXI - 13 March 2024

Mixed by sliderfunk. This season's liquid drum and bass mix with an hour of tunes new and old. Featuring tracks by Seba, Insideman, Calibre, Furney,Bop & Subwave, Technimatic and more. Shouts out to all the producers making this music. Hope you enjoy the sounds.

Liquid Drum & Bass Mix - Spring 2024

Ultimate VILIFY bass journey... Take A Trip 🍄



1	VACANT	Greyheart
2	LORN	I AM A DAGGER
3	I Awake	Life Cipher
4	LORN	PAWO
5	Moby	Extreme Ways
6	Chace	Neon Lights
7	yunis	Fade
8	Ilan Bluestone	Guru
9	Narkatta	Decommodification of the Modified
10	Gerra G	A Mascara (DERROK Remix)
11	Raury	God’s Whisper (Shorpi’s Slow Much Edit)
12	Hiatus	River
13	GYRL	Night Writer
14	Whynnel	Murcan
15	PlayPlay	Flamingo Footwork
16	Voodoom	Drums of Damballa
17	Clap! Clap!	Black Smokes, Bad Signes
18	Vacant	Deep Down
19	yunis	Stomper
20	General Malice	This is the Year
21	Fzpz	Migraine
22	LORN	ALL DIRECTIONS ARE THE SAME
23	Calibre	Give it Up
24	Mahakala, Om Unit	The Exodus
25	Subtention	Fairlady
26	Thing	Shine
27	Unknown	The Way 2017 refix
28	Kid Drama & Skeptical	Versus #1
29	Flybear	Hollowed
30	yunis	Malfunction Ft. P A T H (Mindset Remix)
31	Tipper	Lattic
32	VILIFY	Wasting Time
33	Vacant	Revenant
34	VILIFY	Here for You
35	VILIFY	Above the Clouds
36	Bicep	Glue
37	Detboi	Fragile
38	Junior Murvin	Police and Theives
39	t q d	Touch
40	Rodriguez Jr, Liset Alea	Waste Tomorrow
41	Tipper	Sorus
42	Kupla X j’san	Raindrops
43	Vacant	Amberlight
44	LORN	SCORCHED EARTH

VILIFY - Genre Is A Social Construct (Vol 4)

▴ genre-agnostic, sometimes comedic music production (jungle / drum and bass / halftime / house / techno / experimental)
▴ automated Ableton mixes designed for feeling and flow
▴ podcasts (Up Close and Personal, Or We Could Change)
▴ film sound design and mixing (Endless Content Forever)
▴ technical producer for twitch.tv/clevah_gal
▴ 'remixes' of my favourite comedy bits and guided meditations

half of Wiod with https://soundcloud.com/clevah_gal
half of https://soundcloud.com/rlygud
half of https://soundcloud.com/thebrocoder

rhymes with droll

A Journey Through The Cosmos

Eckhart lol

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