Korzi - Been There, Bun That EP [Showreel | Out Now - 28.10.22]

@realitycheck-4 fits into this new generation of DJs and producers of a hybrid kind of music, his influences drawing from a large spectrum of electronic music and beyond. The quest of a unique mix of sounds, textures and rhythms constitutes the essence of his work as a DJ.

Catch Realitycheck every 2nd Tuesday of the month from 21h to 22h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

Realitycheck - 14 Février 2023

Co-Founder of Dublin’s Thrust Collective, Glimmerman for a Multi Genre SUB focused hour that goes the distance!

https://www.instagram.com/_glimmerman_/

Glimmerman @ The Lot Radio 03-18-2023

aya joins us for an hour every other month to leak brain fluid into the London studio.

https://www.nts.live/shows/aya/episodes/aya-5th-april-2023

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Fittingly, Control Freak's first full length LP comes from the artist who launched our imprint near-on 4 years ago. @keplrr's ‘Petra’ is a remarkable entry into the canon of contemporary ‘non-functional’ techno.

After a string of acclaimed EPs and singles, the South London-based DJ/producer brings his unique ear for sound design to the forefront across his debut album, a continuous piece with many recurring musical themes and motifs. Drifting between dream states and the psychedelic, ‘Petra’ sees Keplrr set aside the rigid constraints of club music and delve deep into the wells of the subconscious.

The album moves deftly through styles: meandering ambient/downtempo pieces, including a collaboration with classically trained Jazz singer Livi Graham, to the deep & techno-influenced ‘Two Prophets Lay Here’, reaching its crescendo in the IDM-inflected ‘Celestial Body’.

For fans of: Call Super, Leif, Koreless, Perila, Lorraine James.

releases May 12, 2023

Voice of: Livi Graham
Mastered by: Stefan Betke
Artwork: Isaac Kniveton

Petra

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Keplrr - Re-reality (ft. Livi Graham)

A pillar of bass music since the early 2000s, DJ & producer Flore has made a name for herself in the landscape of French electronic music.Since 2014, she’s been hosting her @polaarsounds show on Rinse France, on which she invites her current musical crushes, and promotes a complex-free approach to club music.

Tune in for POLAAR every 4th Sunday of the month, from 20h to 22h [CET] on rinse.fr

POLAAR invite SNKLS et Sun People - 28 Mai 2023

After heavy-duty releases on self-administered imprints Low End Activism and Sneaker Social Club, as well as London’s beloved graffiti-laden mutant-bass stronghold Seagrave (RIP), the almighty Low End Activist makes a welcome debut with the ESP Institute. No stranger to mining distant regions the hardcore continuum and the residue of soundsystem culture at large, his relentless traversing and assembling of U.K.-specific rhythms demonstrates there is no end in sight when it comes to evolving the region’s musical gene pool. The 5-track 'Gossip Is The Devil’s Radio' strings together a smear of dystopian instrumentation—ghostly pads wrapped in melancholy, percussion that marries bleep with low resolution shrapnel, and vocal fragments that resemble a control tower’s two-way radio on the fritz—all imperfectly focused through a damaged lens of dancehall. We’re drawn to a dull moan that pervades throughout the record, reminiscent of the nihilistic moments in Abigail Meade’s score to 'Full Metal Jacket' where the sonics resemble a slow churn of molten steel occasionally punctuated and pierced by crystalline shards. The depth between the bone dry immediate foreground and distant wet background creates an exquisite sense of longing which isn’t inherently dark or menacing, but seductively bleak. As voyeurs, we may certainly appreciate the aesthetic LEA portrays, but we can’t fully comprehend the sense of escapism rooted within this music without having come of age in the damp and restless confines of England on the cusp of Thatcher’s abuse. Its a reminder that the light at the end of a tunnel, while it may be dim and grey, is still a light after-all, and the only way out is through.

[ESP115] Gossip Is The Devil's Radio

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B1 - Strings of Sorrow

A2 - Good Question

Everything Merged Vol 2
(release Dec 2)

‘Everything Merged’ is 3024’s second series of compilations featuring artists from the 3024 Mentoring Program. At the beginning of the pandemic, label owner Martyn started forming a lively online community of artists, providing them with ideas and inspiration. This community grew larger and larger, and musicians started to connect both online and offline, across continents and genres. It resulted in the “It Was Always There” series of compilations in 2021, as well as countless independent releases, radio appearances and gigs, putting a host of artists on the map.

Working on the program made Martyn and partner Jeroen Erosie reconsider the purpose of running a record label in 2022. ‘Are we still interested in putting out records via the usual channels?’ Or should a label become more of an umbrella for various activities by a larger community, both online and IRL, with digital and physical products, in other words merge everything into one.

“Everything Merged vol. 2” features both artists debuting their first tracks on a label as well as mainstays of core local scenes like London, NYC, SF and Berlin. From the percussive mastery of Sister Zo, Arcane Prospect and Manchester's DR MYSTERY to the sly techno mutations of Kudeki, Clay Wilson and Pino Peña, this collection highlights the wide variety of sounds and influences inhibiting the current electronic scene. Especially check out the post-pando exuberance of uuklyph, Henry Kerins and Padua and the bass mutations of Dutch duo TMSV & Case, Kenji Ko, Ragdy and Rex the Bard! 

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released December 2, 2022

Everything Merged vol 2

Kenji Ko - Coaxer

Founded fifteen years ago, SeekSickSound is a prominent collective and media outlet in electronic music. Known for adventurous aesthetics, it offers podcasts, events in Parisian and Swiss clubs, and a Rinse France residency.

Tune in for Seek Sick Sound every 4th Sunday of the month from 00h to 02h [CET] on rinse.fr

Seek Sick Sound invite Honeydrip b2b pasci - 08 Septembre 2023

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