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Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

"this mix is my love letter to dubstep. i normally try to play as many different styles and genres as possible in my sets, but this time i leaned deep into the 140. over the years it's become objectively my favourite genre to dance to, and whenever i hear it on a big soundsystem i'm always surprised and delighted by the new ways i learn to move my body. there are some darker bits, dreamy moments, silly curveballs, but most importantly lots of grimy abrasive wobbles that you've probably come to associate the genre with."

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Forward-thinking sounds from across the bass spectrum from NTS WIP artist re:ni and Timedance/Ilian Tape producer Laksa. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/relax-w-reni/episodes/relax-w-reni-3rd-march-2024

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The first PMx of 2024 comes straight outta Bristol courtesy of @elpacuk

Tracklist:
Xterea - AWE
Lurka - Red
Aa Sudd - Outside Of The “official” Network
HEAT CRIMES - Inner War Delirium
philinamaze - Share The Snare
Flore - Disruption
Krenz - STOPAROBA
Atki2 - Average Speed Check
Edison Electric - Bonus Track 2 
DJ Stingray 313 - Potential 
Glimmerman - Temple Sublet
Osheyack - Thrall
EYRA - Schtum (Version)
Marco Shuttle - Bella di Giorno 
Elpac - Skos 
muslimguaze - Purdah Zealot
Chrisman - Alarmed For Passion
Nahash - AA ANDORRES fear JAW
NAP & Linear Flux - IoHgy
Off The Meds - WOF
Vina Konda - Burning Leaf
Herron - Reducer 
LAPS - Who Me?
Ken Ishii - Frame Out 
Leese - Naia 
DJ Bwin - Cell Phone 
cntx167 - Scatterbug
DJ ZNOBIA - Tirou Ponto feat Nakobeta
3Phaz - Slomo Strut (Amazondotcom Remix)
Shackleton - Blood on My Hands
D.K - Disciples Of Power
NVST - Distorted Ambience In Your Life (Youbeingignored Edition)
Hassan Abou Alam- Ma3rafsh
Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones - Lurk 101
Ma Sha - Beat Goes Off 
Georg-i - Body Static
Lechuga Zafiro - Sapo Diablo
LDS - Vone 
Martyn - Masks (Pino Peña Remix)
Holloway - Send It On 
Kode9 - Infirmary
Low End Activist - 7 Breaks for 7 Essays
Tirzah - OOo Never 
Donato Dozzy - Tao
RAT HEART - I’m A Fuckin Songbird, M8!

PMx 19 - Elpac

Milan-based producer and DJ @piezopz has spent the past decade refining his meticulously mutated strain of club music, with releases appearing on lauded labels such as Wisdom Teeth and Nervous Horizon. 

Alongside a head-spinning Recognise mix, he tells Christian Eede about his early days in the Italian freetekno rave scene, formative years in Bristol, and the global sound palette of his Ansia label’s latest compilation.

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-piezo-interview

Recognise: Piezo

DJ and producer Yushh transports us to her formative years with the latest Off-Kilter submission. 

Featuring a collection of reflective tracks from 2008-2012, this collage is an insight into her delicate and emotive sound palette - intricate drum workouts, blissed out dub grooves, dream like vocals and emotive melodies phase through bass driven frequencies. 

Here, she tells a tale of what came before, a story of memory and influence, timeless and honest; it’s quintessentially Yushh in the rawest of forms.

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