Selectors Assemble bring you yet another fantastic premiere this month - this time a track from WheelUP's debut album titled 'Good Love' which is coming out this Friday on Tru Thoughts records (PRE-ORDER on Bandcamp). On this track titled 'Rise Above' WheelUP (Danny Wheeler) collaborates with the Drum & Bass duo Pola & Bryson, who also go by their alter ego Abacus.  One for the bruk heads for sure!

‘Good Love’ is the debut album from WheelUP. In the words of the artist: “Good Love is something that I generally want to see in the world. This LP is my pursuit of broken beat excellence”. ‘Good Love’ is an amalgamation of WheelUP’s history and success, a record that places him alongside legends within the scene such as IG Culture and Marc Mac, as well as contemporaries EVM128 and Neue Grafik. “The future is not yet defined, but it is currently called broken beat, bruk or the West London Sound”, WheelUP preaches.

Good Love

[PREMIERE] WheelUP - Rise Above feat. Abacus

Following on from the recent LCSM remix EP, CoOp Presents continue with more certified bruk heat for 2021 - this one seeing the return of EVM128 and an all-new EP entitled ‘Dance Don’t Sleep’. Some sound advice.

A core-member of the Selectors Assemble crew, EVM128 is also co-label boss of the Dance Regular imprint and has had releases in the past on labels such as BBE, Studio Rockers, Local Talk, Rhythm Section, Wah Wah 45s and Tru Thoughts, amongst others.

As well as being nice behind the boards, he's an amazing Selector, playing regularly on the crew's Worldwide FM show, as well as Netil Radio monthly and past plays for Boiler Room and Dimensions Festival, with his eclectic blends of bruk, soul, jazz, house, garage, hip hop, ragga, afrobeat, UK funky and bass music.

EVM previously featured on the Selectors Assemble EPs - the track ‘Gamma Riddim’ in particular is still being rinsed in dances a few years later. His last release 'Bun Dat' appeared on the label's first compilation, ‘Plug One’, released late in 2020 and kicked off the year with a set of remixes of the same track.

‘Dance Don’t Sleep’ begins with the title track, setting off with Detroit-esque pads and JA clash samples, before a moderate-paced brukbeat kicks in accompanied by some squelchy synths and some sneaky breaks. Next is ‘Tell Me’ featuring the sweet soulful talents of Natalie May atop a percussive groove, gliding keys and bleeps. ‘UK Brukers’ follows (a play on UK Rockers), and it’s more bruk-step laced with ragga samples and a deep sub riding throughout, then into ‘Jazz Drumz’, which provides what it says on the tin - shuffling kits ride alongside piano and rhodes, all with EVM’s unique flavour. We close out with ‘Desert Island Bruk’; an off-kilter riddim with a slight UK Funky feel, completing a very dope 5-tracks that should ensure that you’re dancing, not sleeping.

As with the previous CoOp Presents release, this digital EP is again accompanied by some mind-blowing artwork by Mo Fingaz & Bee Graphics for Blood, presenting another genius part of the new CoOp universe.

With monthly releases stacked up for the rest of 2021, expect plenty more goodness to come from the CoOp Presents label imminently. Watch we work.

EVM128 - UK Brukers

masterplan lands on CoOp Presents alongside Liam Shortall with the 3rd in our one-shots series

Somethin' Truthful ft. Liam Shortall

Live From The Other Side

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Rude

from steve spacek and i 's ep as steve & i 


Steve & I "ComeandGetme "

Various Artists  - Selectors Assemble Volume Two 
 Release Date: 23rd February 2018
Pre-Order: https://selectorsassemble.bandcamp.com/album/selectors-assemble-volume-two

Brand new year, brand new imprint. CoOp Presents is an all-new record label, founded by IG Culture and Alex Phountzi, set to focus on the depth and wealth of talent that exists within the London Bruk movement and beyond, a project which they consider to be a continuation in the same spirit of the legendary CoOp movement.

Last Summer, the CoOp Presents crew released an EP via First Word Records entitled ‘Selectors Assemble’. This was the first collective offering from a foundation comprised of UK dance music pioneers and nowadays bruk soldiers, navigating in & around the world of broken beat and beyond over the last two decades to the present day. Reinvigorated by recent Boiler Room sessions, the crew proceeded with more parties, more radio shows, and gained access to an unlimited pool of all-new sounds. The squad were primed and ready to move forwards from the famed days of the Plastic People dances, and further explore the evolution of their sound.

Selectors Assemble exists as an umbrella to showcase talent from originators and newcomers alike, transcending genres and geographics. Over the summer, more members were introduced to the clique, and it was clear there was much more work to be done. So we proceed. 
Setting it off, we bring you ‘Selectors Assemble Volume Two’.
The first six-track selection from the stable for 2018. 

James Rudie opens the selection with ‘Port Funk’, a soulful 4/4 stomper, adrift with jazz licks and weighty bassline. Danvers up next with ‘My Nina’, a deep vibesy breakbeat opener that chops away, flipping its groove several times through the track. EVM128 steps up & steps in with the no-messin’ tough tribal bounce of the ‘Gamma Riddim’ next. Cengiz opens up the flipside of the plate with some straight up bruk-funk that rides ‘On On On’. Entekenters the dance with a twisted swagger and next level sonics on ‘Robbery’, ticking numerous groove boxes, before we approach the final cut from N15’s own Miraa May, on the soulful flex of
‘I Don’t Want Ya (Didi)’. The rub on this last one coming courtesy of label founders, NameBrandSound aka IG Culture and Alex Phountzi.

Selectors Assemble appear on rotation monthly on Worldwide FM, as well as numerous other shows and dances individually, including upcoming parties at The Jazz Cafe, and the formation of a new base, The Flex Space, a multi purpose warehouse space in East London. The movement is only destined to grow. The stage for 2018 is set. Get involved.

Miraa May - I Don't Want Ya (Didi)(NameBrandSound Remix)

This I've been sitting on for a while, played first at the CoOp presents Boiler Room session and after being asked so many times is this coming out, I decided to give it to ya'll !! 

Play it Loud!

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purple ep

desires (k15 hats & scarves ting)

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Soul Fever Refix

Sivey - Nobody Else

A1 - TRACK 1
A2 - PROPEL AHEAD
B1 - TRACK 3

FORTHCOMING ON MELANGE

RELEASE DATE: TBC

MEL005 KEARL (K15 + EARL JEFFERS)

EVM128 is a producer and DJ. Originally from Bristol but rooted in London. He has DJ’d alongside the Likes of Gilles Peterson, Ross Allen, Don Letts, Norman Jay, Greg Wilson, IG Culture, Afronaut, Henry Wu, K 15, Neneh Cherry, DJ Vadim, Roots Manuva, LV, Artwork (Magneticman), Afrika Hi-tek, Silkie and Flako to name a few! His Dj'ing is eclectic ,with influences ranging from 80's Boogie, Soul, Electro, Broken Beat, Afro, House and Disco to HipHop, Ragga, Jungle, Garage and Bass genres. 

His first EP "Groove Content" released on Ross Allen's Meltdown Music Recordings is a mash up of styles, part Dilla, Part Joy Orbison, but is it's own thing entirely. Gilles Peterson hailed it as a 'classic' and 'right up his street'... Groove Content is in Gilles' All winners top 50 of 2011. 

In 2014 after releasing two EP’s he has steadily gained support from Annie Mac on Radio 1 and various Rinse FM shows, as well as DJ support from Scott Garcia, DJ Cartier, LTJ Bukem, Brackles, Jesse Rose, Richy Ahmed, Dom (SubClub), Tom Dinsdale (Audio Bullys), Gorgon City, Joyce Muniz, Bill Brewster (DJ History), Jozif, Kyodai, Shadow Child, Rob Smith (Smith & Mighty/ RSD) My Nu Leng, Tensnake, Monki (Rinse), Maribou State, Thristian (Boiler Room) Auntie Flo + more.. Having already played the Boiler Room and released a single on Somethinksounds (with EL-b on remix duties) 2015 was looking good for EVM. 

After a remix for Bunny On Acid featuring Amp Fiddler which had its first radio play by Lefto, he then released his first single of the year on `Studio Rockers called ‘Beyond’ featuring UK Soul legend Omar, which got played on various radio shows, podcasts and dancefloors worldwide! He then had UK Garage track of the week on Rinse FM with his remix of Scott Garcia’s G.A.R.A.G.E ft MC Neat. 

On 19th Sept 2015 he released his debut album 'NOVA' on Studio Rockers, featuring collaborations with Omar, Shy One, (DVA Music) Daiva, (Keymono) Bahia, (Tru Thoughts) and Romaine Smith. EVM has been noted in a Guardian review as being one of the producers at the vanguard of London’s Brokenbeat resurgence. In 2016 he clocked up releases on BBE, Local talk and WotNot Music. 

Most recently, through performing at Dimensions Festival in 2016 and a seminal CoOp presents show at London’s legendary Boiler room in 2017, EVM was brought in by IG Culture and Alex Phountzi (aka NameBrandSound) as a new member of the CoOp Presents, Selectors Assemble family along with a whole slew of new Bruk Soldiers that form Selectors Assemble. These include Danvers, James Rudie, Entek, Wonky Logic, Neue Grafik, Cengiz, Oliver Night, Gonzi and Ry Da Vibe. With a ton of events and shows happening, Selectors Asssemble have been busy in the studio and setting foundations for for an ever growing collective.

EVM, now heavily involved in the CoOp presents label and Selectors Assemble crew, with an EP and a second album to drop, its full steam ahead for 2019…

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