Falling For You

Surfface - Another World

Buy / Stream: https://ffm.to/budakid-milestones

Budakid is back on Exploited with a charming 2-tracker that exudes confidence and style. In 'Milestones' - which is the title track, he catched up with the highly talented vocalist 'Bad Actor' whose voice mesmerizes and hijacks your attention. Channeling early ‘80s ‘new pop’ (Simple Minds and the like) in a modern way with its vocal stylings, signature glitching sounds, soaring synths and realistic rolling bass. A sequenced melody descends and ascends in perfect harmony with the indie-ish low end and with some stadium-sized leads coursing through the veins of this expansive-sounding production, it’s like stepping into a time machine.

‘Graph The Jeff’ goes deeper and prettier with a sound that harks back to vintage electro/house flavours. Overflowing the stunning melody, it immediately stuns with its filtering, detuned 8-bit chord riffs fizzing away over thick, deep bass and spacious percussive rhythms. A dreamy melody coated in a gentle film of white noise rises from the depths in the breakdown, rhythmically in step with the chords but bringing a lighter counterpoint texturally. It’s a heavenly track that will leave you feeling more blissed out than a sunset gong-bath

Milestones

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Wassu - Not So Random [TOR040]
Release Date - 04.28.23
Stream & Buy - https://xyzlabel.lnk.to/NotSoRandom

Wassu will always hold a special mantle at the TOR imprint, as the man who inaugurated the label with his Andu EP in 2020. Since then, the New Yorker has turned heads with a string of prolific releases on the likes of Anjunadeep, All Day I Dream, and When We Dip XYZ. With each passing project, Wassu's mastery of warm melodies and boastful basslines deepens. His latest offering, the Not So Random EP, is distinct sign of his current studio soundscapes, and showcases the ever-evolving sound of the wizardly Wassu.

The title track Not So Random opens with a driving kick drum moving us right into high gear. A throbbing bassline widens the breadth, as classic piano chords bring a touch of the timeless. Energy elevates through the build, rich with reverb, as the big kick returns to offer quintessential dancefloor moments.

On the B-side Loux, Wassu brings a touch of percussive flavor to greet a very playful underbelly. Progressive tones reach deep into the cosmos to twinkle the senses, as floating melodies and distant vocal chops surge us towards higher planes.

Closing out the trio is Club 201, merging melodic movements to showcase Wassu's sound at its most magical. Rhythmic and riveting synthetics swirl, allowing a deep groove to cut through and send sun-drenched dancefloors into euphoria.

Connect with XYZ - https://linktr.ee/wwd.xyz
Stream releases in full via Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2uDd07z

Connect with Wassu
Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/wassumusic
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/wassumusic
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wassumusic/

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Wassu - Loux [Snippet]

Pre order: https://VA.lnk.to/Kellerkind-MysticForest_StilvorTalent

@kellerkind

Two years on since his latest incursion on Stil vor Talent with 'The Pictures', Switzerland-based producer Kellerkind turns in his newest four-tracker, 'Forest Mystery'. Delving in his natural inclination towards mystique-imbued tribal sounds, this new effort packs a serious Afro-futuristic kind of punch, laced with a powerhouse hi-tech feel bound to cut a path of devastation across the dance floors. Fully designed and kitted out to meet the requirements of extensive DJ use, this new package lets its whirlwind of polyrhythmic boogie and cosmic groove do the talk as Kellerkind ushers us in a blazing furnace of sorts.
Where the title-track 'Forest Mystery' flexes a bouncy swagger flush with middle-eastern tropes - including some fiery darbukkah solos, and nicely complemented by classic piano house stabs, flamenco-informed clapping and a hi-intensity buildup to rev it all with irresistible club impact, 'Karinda' treats us to a further hypnotic sequence of stripped-back East Coast grooviness and dubbed-out sensuality, bridging the gap between loungey house and proper ritualistic music thanks to spellbinding shaman-like vocal samples out the foggiest jungle.
On 'Mantra', a more aggro, industrial-flavoured verve echoes far and wide, ready to take on any sound system with both that typically intoxicating vox hoodoo wrapping itself around a thunderous techno backbone. Giving us a taste of eternity on the nostalgic closer 'Time', Kellerkind pulls out a massively emotional firework of Prophet-6-powered space dementia and intricate drum programming, laced with an unstoppable bass-driven landslide devouring everything in its wake, making clear 'Forest Mystery' dwells in the club and nowhere else. Set your woofers to 11 and blast away.

Erscheinungsdatum :
25 August 2023

Kellerkind – Mantra [Snippet]

Kellerkind – Forest Mystery [Snippet]

Richard Dominguez & Samira Hindie - Madness [Flug Lab]

PML - Organica Vol. 4 - Artist Demo by Len Walker

Iggy E-909 Dreams [Mutant Rebels]

Axis 2 [Minimal Groove Concept]

Shir Khan started Exploited in 2007. Exploited Rec now plays host to some wide-ranging and innovative electronic talent - including Adana Twins, Claptone, Budakid, Joyce Muniz, James Curd, Shir Khan (to name a few) - and its artists have been receiving numerous supportive spins from the likes of Solomun, Pete Tong, Soul Clap, Wolf&Lamb, Azari&III, Jesse Rose, Axel Boman and A-Trak.
This is serious dance music at it's most cutting edge with all the juice to really get you going. It's totally contemporary, innovative and has a chunky dirty feel. "Exploited" take you on an invigorating roller coaster ride back to your youth when you first listened to dance music with all the thrills and spills you so enjoyed about clubbing. It's heavy, exciting and special.
'"Exploited Records" is a seamless melting pot of varied styles that simply can't fail to please even the most discerning ears. Highlights here are plentyful. Not to be missed at any cost.' (Clash)
'Musical hybrids are truly the flavour of today, but few have managed to capture the atmosphere of an unpredictable microcosm of a night out on a recordlabel - until now. Shir Khan's label "Exploited" bottles the zeitgeist's giddy thrills with plenty of style and substance. This is dance music hybridism in all its most glorious forms, and Shir Khan is an expert at making square pegs fit round holes.' (DJ-Mag)
'"Exploited Records" boss Shir Khan has been gaining a lot of acclaim recently, and deservedly so - as he has shown us the high quality, diversity and forward-thinking nature of his label. Engaging, riveting and diverse.' (Data Transmission)

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