Underground heads in the know have been watching Amadeezy quietly and smoothly blaze a trail to the top of the DJ charts over the last couple years. A staple in the sets of genre-bashing party starters like Boys Noize, Jensen Interceptor, Miley Serious, and MallGrab, the East Coast Bass Boss wears his rap-rave influences proudly on the sleeve of his Polo Sport windbreaker – he loves Dirty South rap, ghetto tech, g-funk, ghetto house, and electro (both Detroit and Clone varieties) and piles it all into some of the most irresistible new tracks modern booty music has to offer.
 
After releases on International Chrome, FTP, and Moveltraxx – plus the wicked thematic mixtapes and remixes you can find on his Bandcamp – Amadeezy debuts on EVAR RECORDS with the 2 LIT 2 QUIT EP, five tracks of rap-rave mayhem designed expressly with EVAR in mind. Despite his Boston roots, Amadeezy perfectly nails the classic mid-’90s Los Angeles sound with a mix of pounding hard house, golden-era Rotterdam hardcore, and the type of hoovers and dramatic Euro-dance synths that send the looners into a frenzy.
 
In the ’90s, Euro-rave producers were hugely influenced by American rap, electro, and techno – this EP represents Boston’s Amadeezy bringing one back home for the team. Deezy digs deep in his bag of obscure Southern rap samples, his arsenal of insane kick drums, and his DJ knowledge – serving up tracks with perfect mixing intros that also work at 150bpm or 75bpm for you half-timers. Cookie-cutter ‘90s gabber and old-skool rave rips are all the rage these days but this five-pack hits with a different level of style and finesse – Amadeezy perfectly capturing the essence of a bygone era while creating a fresh new take for today’s warehouse freaks.
 
“All the music I do is tailor-made to order for the people I’m dealing with,” says Amadeezy, whose artistic values and DIY punk attitude perfectly align EVAR’s ethos of free artistic expression and exploding the boundaries between genres. “For EVAR, I knew I wanted to do something with hard house and gabber. I fuckin’ love any rave stab you can think of. I fuckin’ love the Hoover, the 808… any kind of big, stupid kickdrum! I hate it when people say ‘Oh, Amadeezy is the Bass Boss, so he only releases Miami bass and electro records.’ I like hip-hop and it’s infused in the music no matter what I do but I don’t want people to put me in a box. I want people to know I can do whatever I feel like doing when I do it.”
 
Title track “2 Lit 2 Quit” sets the tone of this EP with a classic bouncy kick and “I can’t never stop” rap sample before launching into laser war of classic Dutch synth stabs and throwback house pianos – possibly the most simple but effective five minutes of dancefloor flavor you’ll hear all year. Hot on its heels is the pounding 142bpm hard house banger “Go Berserk,” driven by a percolating chicken-squawk synth lead that pays equal homage to Chicago kings like Robert Armani and DJ Funk and Industrial Strength and Rotterdam Records.
 
“Paradoxxx” is a delicious and devious lick – devilish Xan rap paired with German-type dark trance arpeggios and the type of galloping kick that has ‘em rushing the bass bins. “Choose Violence” is an equally dark and menacing hardcore banger that gallops in a Frankfurt/PCP Productions stylee – just when you think you know what’s up, the track breaks into some some unexpectedly nasty half-time snap music underpinned by murderous g-funk keys.  
 
2 Lit 2 Quit rounds out with the most anthemic track of them all. “Tales of Glory” is a magnum opus – equal parts “Posse on Broadway” and Human Resource at a hard-driving 170bpm, complete with mentasms, breakbeat chops, and a large helping of lyrical badness. Sorry, there is no chill out room at this rave. Throw on your black hoodie, knock back that energy drink, and report immediately to the speaker stacks.

Amadeezy - 2 Lit 2 Quit [RAVE4EVAR007]

Text Chunk - New Reality [EVAR014]

Los Angeles based producer Minion debuts on EVAR Records with the four-track EP 'Nite Lyfe.' Released on Aura T-09 and Trickfinger's revered record label, 'Nite Lyfe' merges hardcore, techno and gabber with soft textures and gossamer sheens, evoking an intense, wavey trip. This one is suited to a churning, post-3 AM dancefloor, or in Minion's own words, "warm summer nights in Los Angeles warehouses."

Although Minion produced the tracks four years ago, 'Nite Lyfe' stands the test of time and doesn't follow any one trend or genre. Instead, it's an alchemy of sonic patterns and contrasting colours, nodding to Minion's punk, hardcore and experimental influences that cultivated oddball electronic music in the 80s. The afterglow of these sounds culminates in an EP that ripples with intriguing hooks, corrosive qualities and strangely blissful melodies. It reflects the expansive ethos of EVAR down to the final bar.

Minion - Nite Lyfe [RAVE4EVAR003]

XL ORDER - International Waters [EVAR015]

Speed Dealer Moms, the live electronics outlet comprising cross-genre iconoclasts John Frusciante (Trickfinger, Red Hot Chili Pipers) and Aaron Funk (Venetian Snares, Axeface the Viking), is over a decade into its idiosyncratic run. Set to come out Friday, May 10th,"Birth Control Pill” is only their third release. The boundless potential of the chaotic and elegant project snaps into focus.

If there are virtuosos programming synthesizers and drum machines, then they were in the room when these two tracks were recorded; as though Johann Sebastian Bach himself took an elevator up to the 67th floor of Burger King and threw a bowl of Ramen at the window. The epic title cut is perhaps the most "functional" track Aaron "func” Funk and Johnald Frusciante have released thus far. This is ruffneck skibidi bomp bomp dnb booyaka business, but it's also an ant farm in Hell, and also Speed Dealer Moms, so there is the requisite descent into chaos. The track's precise melodies are unceremoniously dunked into Funktastic Funk's funky signature ripping, voice of a generation breakcore. The drums pick up speed until the armchair journalists hit the wall; a thrilling, extratone breakdown.

More madness lurks on the B-side, "Benakis," which seemingly nods to the visionary Greek comic Zach Galifianakis. With its unconventional time signature and intricate scintillating melodies, this one slides in like a lion and out like a lamb, cycling through France by way of breakcore and hard techno before eventually giving the listener a reprieve by way of a dreamy, beatless, retarded sea of sexuality outro.

Speed Dealer Moms drive their own, crooked road built on friendship and a telepathic musical connection—the collaboration and encouragement of Funk ushered Frusciante into the dense world of hardcore machine funk. The results of these sessions don't sound quite like anything else. It is punkish electronic music made in fearless pursuit of the new. Funk and Frusciante follow ideas to an illogical endpoint, and this hurtling approach now results in the best, most concise Speed Dealer Moms record yet. The yellow brick road to wisdom, after all, is paved with excess.

Speed Dealer Moms - Birth Control Pill

Los Angeles native Sha Sha Kimbo undeniably lives for the rave. As exemplified through her every intentional move as a producer, DJ, promoter, radio host and label owner, Sha Sha radiates an unwavering love for amplifying, nurturing and supporting the culture of underground electronic music and the community that surrounds it, with her forthcoming release absolutely no exception to this.

Set for release as a digital download and limited edition cassette tape on August 13, the LA rave staple is happy to announce her debut EP on Evar Records, Total Chaos. A brilliant testament to the cathartic importance of staying up late and getting lost in a buzzing crowd of kindred spirits, Total Chaos harnesses the universal experience of having pent-up energy into massive, angst-ridden breakbeat anthems. Over six tracks, Sha Sha channels the hair-raising spirit of '90s rave along with her formative experiences with DMZ-via-Low End Theory dubstep and punk rock. Finding her place within LA's bass music, house, techno and rave scenes while defying easy categorization, Sha Sha personifies the no-rules electronic music ethos behind John Frusciante and Aura T-09's Evar Records. To supplement Total Chaos' three originals, LYZZA, Machine Girl and LCY provide three raw remixes highlighting various aspects of Sha Sha Kimbo's renegade rave spirit.

Drawing from the Los Angeles punk rock and '90s rave music that soundtracked her youth, Total Chaos personifies how she grew up on the dance floor, showcasing Sha Sha's tried and true ability to express rich, nuanced emotions through tracks that, first and foremost, can level a warehouse party. Kicking off the vibe on July 30, the EP's lead single "Save The World" is a perfect representation of this, with the jump-up rave cut employing a megaton breakbeat and sickly-sweet vocal samples over simmering base of dark, UK-influenced atmospherics. From the late night energy of the title track to the euphoric, dawn-breaking feel of "Limited Perfect," Total Chaos offers the refuge of a robust dance floor with the warm reassurance to be one with the universe.

Rounding out Total Chaos EP are three remixes that amicably and serendipitously support Sha Sha Kimbo's visionary aim to both explore the unknown and bring people together along the way. Brazilian-born, Amsterdam-based powerhouse LYZZA adds a full verse and a nest of serrated rhythms to her version of "Total Chaos," while New York's Machine Girl applies their trademark punk electronics approach to "Save The World." Meanwhile, Bristol's own LCY hollows out "Limited Perfect" into a haunting amalgam of post-punk minimalism and low-frequency pressure. A study of the opposing light and dark energies of underground dance music, Total Chaos presents a breakbeat-heavy vortex, sure to awaken everyone's inner raver.

Total Chaos

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Sha Sha Kimbo - Total Chaos [EVAR007 PREVIEW]

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Dev/Null - RNG Remix

C.Z. debuts on LA’s Evar Records with the uncompromising Heat Index EP.

The Los Angeles-based producer, beatmaker and DJ sets a course through IDM, techno, jungle and trance to deliver five frenetic, emotionally-charged dancefloor cuts.

Over the course of an intensely productive career, Colby Zinser (aka C.Z.) has made music spanning genres like pop, rap, hardcore and jungle. As well as releasing music as C.Z., he’s operated multiple aliases, including the prolific Ice Underlord. Drawing from a longstanding fascination with breaks, trance and the IDM of artists like Warp Records’ Clark, he’s developed his own rich and eclectic style of club music - a sound that crystalized on his 2020 debut album Hyperfocus.

C.Z. emerged from 2020 armed with a mass of new dancefloor tracks, freshly inspired to make club music a central focus, after years of smuggling techno, trance and breaks elements into the rap beats he was making for others. As he explains: ‘It’s great to come back to music and just make what I love, I don’t want to be someone else’s secret weapon, I want to be my own.’ Heat Index refuses to toe a line, steering skillfully through genres and setting a tone that oscillates between club-fuelled euphoria, heartbreak and the looming threat of planetary crisis.

Opener ‘Midnight’ rattles along at a breathless 160 BPM, transporting you to a breakdown in the middle of a pounding hard trance set. Within a minute the rushing neon trance synths collide with huge, sub destroying kicks. The title track ‘Heat Index’ follows, with brooding pads bolted onto a tight breakbeat, leaving space open for the razor sharp, searching synth line.

Moving rapidly through the gears, ‘Hurricane’ is an aptly titled exercise in precision programmed classic jungle breaks, carried forward by bubbling earworm melodies. ‘Retrograde’ shifts the focus again - a pitch-black, dark, fast and seething techno track ripe for warehouses and dungeons, before ‘Radial Lens’, a melodic, anthemic set-closer built on a muscular, downtempo break.

C.Z.’s first appearance on Evar Records, the LA label founded in 2020 by Trickfinger and Aura T-09, follows a series of hard-hitting releases from Speed Dealer Moms, Limewax and Kilbourne, all artists who like C.Z., are able to traverse twisted electronica, club music and pure abstraction with ease. ‘I want to help encourage a more open electronic music space, less pretentious, and encompassing all genres.’ C.Z. says. ‘It’s an important goal of mine, and one the label shares.’ Heat Index is a wide-ranging EP from a versatile producer, and a celebration of unfettered expression, for minds and dancefloors free from inhibition or genre restriction.

Heat Index

C.Z. - Heat Index [EVAR008 PREVIEW]

Johnny - Brand E (unreleased vocal version) 
Foul Play - Beats Track
Lena Raine - Trance State (Anastasia Kristensen Remix)
Dave Quam - Calypso of Juke
Bicep - Fir
Scott & Keith - Deranged (Bonus Drums Mix)
Quest~Onmarc - Archangel (Quest~Onmarc Extended Bootleg)
Special Red - Body Mind And Soul
Blue Hour - First Light (3KZ 'Jungle' Mix)
Mixrace - Express Yourself Rmx
Young Lychee - Dtf
Gary D - Kinetic Pressure - Bonzai
DJ Trace - Final Chapta (Rollers Mix)
Sel.6 - Kemuri
Macc & dgoHn - Mustard Greens
Tim Reaper & Devnull - Anytime (Unsigned)
Special Request - Elysian Fields
Iljuswifmo - Frenetic
Skanna - Untitled
Ibon - No Sleep
Booty Buster - Continuous Love
Clouds - Another Day

Evar Woldwide Radio Takeover - Aura T-09 For Radio Raheem

Wrong Way Out

Mutant Joe - The Living Dead (Preview)

Dev/Null - Dark Fours (Tim Reaper + Dwarde Remix) [Preview]

Dev/Null - E-Yeah (DJ Marfox Remix) [Preview]

"Cry Tough" is a boot-up sequence of THX rather than VHS horror with foley from planet-sized machines, cries of Al arpeggios in crisis, and wavetable synthesis via cerebral implants.

Immaculate Poison

Cardopusher - Cry Tough [Preview]

Track premiere of Cardopusher's "Haunted" from RAVE4EVAR006 - Immaculate Poison

Hard house kicks and gated supersaws place “Haunted” among the burnt synapses of the after-afterhours

Pre-Order on our bandcamp, out February 3rd, 2023

Cardopusher - Haunted [RAVE4EVAR006]

Amadeezy - 2 Lit 2 Quit - [RAVE4EVAR007]

Amadeezy - Tales Of Glory [Preview]

Amadeezy - Choose Violence [Preview]

Amadeezy - Paradoxxx [Preview]

Amadeezy - Go Berserk [Preview]

Text Chunk & Sven K - I - 9 Hittaz [Preview]

Text Chunk & Sven K - Clang [Preview]

Text Chunk - Nani [Preview]

Text Chunk - Flow [Preview]

Text Chunk - New Reality [Preview]

Pzg & Dubsknit - Trouble Roots
Coco Bryce - Pretty Like U
DJ Y - Love Potion
Ruffkitt - I Can't Take It (Tim Reaper Remix)
WE ROB RAVE - WE COME 69
DJ Y - Perpignan Avignon
Pzg & Dubsknit - Session Love
FINGERGAP - 恭喜你
Afdez - Dynamo 05
Oakly - Jungle Demon
Bastiengoat - Want To Make You Fall In Love
Noxy - Braindead
Insane S - Can't Wait
N-Vitral - I'm A Rebel
D-Frek & JKLL - Monster
Profuse - Bass Level
D-Frek & La Teigne - Partycrasher
No Left Turn, Kate Lesing, Saiyan - Time 4 Dance
Pzg & Dubsknit - Candy's
Benncart - Heartcore Theme
Hudson Mohawke - Bicstan
Afdez - New York Breakfast
MIMIDEATH - Renegade
WE ROB RAVE - I LOVE PEOPLE WHEN I HATE PEOPLE
Stereo Nuttah - Sleng Teng Dis
thirtyonetwentyfive - Every Time We Touch
Bastiengoat - Tell Me If You Like It
Emufucka - Hyperion (Coco Bryce VIP)
Yerba Terps - Bitwork
Graz - Last Call
Nick Drexler + Millennia X - Short Dick Fan (Gabber Edit)
N-Vitral feat. I:Gor - Crack Ya Neck
FUC - IShowSpeed

Evar Radio Dublab with Kitsch

Amadeezy - Go Berserk ( EL PLVYBXY Remix) [Preview]

Amadeezy - Go Berserk (Shawn Cartier Remix)[Preview]

Final track 'Saturday Night in a Parallel Universe' displays Minion's versatility as a producer. Delving into a potent palette of electro, breakbeat, techno and 2-step, he welds rapid-fire claps, fizzing hi-hats and a heartfelt melody, weaving through bleeps and a chunky bassline—a signal to end a long trip, somewhere in a parallel universe.

Minion - Saturday Night In A Parallel Universe [Preview]

The penultimate track 'Grey Goo' is the toughest of the foursome. Built with off-kilter, grainy kickdrums and cinematic pads that slink between rusty beats, it bridges hardcore motifs with delicate shades of grey, Minion-style.

Nite Lyfe

Minion - Grey Goo [Preview]

On 'Magnetar', we're caught up in the Thunderdome circa 1990, but just for a moment. While rubbery kick drums and whooshing hoover sounds shape the track, Minion combines these old-skool elements with a more modern quirk, producing a twinkling melody that arouses emotion and euphoria.

Minion - Magnetar [Preview]

Opener 'sAD B0i MASSiVe' blends distorted, gabber-flecked drums with crunchy snares, while a hazy, Daft Punk-esque synthline conjures a dreamy vibe. This signature Minion move conveys his knack for serving up harsh yet romantic atmospheres, pairing two opposite moods that melt into one another like acetone and water.

Minion - SAD B0i MASSiVe [RAVE4EVAR003]

10. XL ORDER - Digillusion [Preveiw]

7. XL ORDER - Industrial Dance [Preveiw]

6. XL ORDER - Clubbing Planet [Preveiw]

5. XL ORDER - Cleanse [Preveiw]

4. XL ORDER - Hybride [Preveiw]

3. XL ORDER - AVA [Preveiw]

2. XL ORDER - Ode [Preveiw]

1. XL ORDER - Realm [Preveiw]

Speed Dealer Moms, the live electronics outlet comprising cross-genre iconoclasts John Frusciante (Trickfinger, Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Aaron Funk (Venetian Snares), is over a decade into its idiosyncratic run. On "Birth Control Pill," only their third release, the boundless potential of the chaotic and elegant project snaps into focus. 

If there are virtuosos programming synthesizers and drum machines, then they were in the room when these two tracks were recorded. The epic title cut is perhaps the most "functional" track Funk and Frusciante have released thus far. This is ruffneck dnb business, but it's also Speed Dealer Moms, so there is the requisite descent into chaos. The track's precise melodies are unceremoniously dunked into Funk's signature, ripping breakcore. The drums pick up speed until the crash test dummies hit the wall; a thrilling, extratone breakdown.

More madness lurks on the B-side, "Benakis," which seemingly nods to the visionary Greek composer. With its unconventional time signature and intricate melodies, this one slides in like a lion and out like a lamb, cycling through breakcore and hard techno before eventually giving the listener a reprieve by way of a dreamy, beatless outro.

Speed Dealer Moms drive their own, crooked road built on friendship and a telepathic musical connection—the collaboration and encouragement of Funk ushered Frusciante into the dense world of hardcore machine funk. The results of these sessions don't sound quite like anything else but feel spiritually connected to iconoclastic '90s work by the likes of Bogdan Raczynski or Andrea Parker—punkish electronic records made in fearless pursuit of the new. Funk and Frusciante follow ideas to an illogical endpoint, and this hurtling approach now results in the best, most concise Speed Dealer Moms record yet. The road to wisdom, after all, is paved with excess.

2. Speed Dealer Moms - Benakis - [Preview]

1. Speed Dealer Moms - Birth Control Pill - [Preview]

First Release on new Evar Records Imprint

EVAR001 - 04 - Trickfinger - Look Down, See Us

EVAR001 - 03 - Trickfinger - Cymm Trace

EVAR001 - 02 - Trickfinger - Meaning To

EVAR001 - 01 - Trickfinger - G R8

Part of the "Untitled" EP in all good shops May 14th 2021

Untitled

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Ushio

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Midnight

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Sha Sha Kimbo - Save The World [Machine Girl Rmx]

Sha Sha Kimbo - Limited Perfect [LCY Rmx]

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