Out November 17 on "Crooked", Caski's first EP since 2017 and More Cowbell's first vinyl release

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[Premiere] Caski - Flip (out on More Cowbell)

Coco Bryce was live with DJ Sofa for a mixed bag of alt hip-hop, fusion jazz, roots and synth. John Holt, Vibe Tribe and Mangrove all feature on the tracklist.

Coco Bryce w/ DJ Sofa - February 2022

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@camillecamillefr invites a new talent from the modern club scene for a 5 minutes mix

Had the pleasure to invite the amazing @drjeep for this third episode
This one is dedicated to the New York City dance music scene with a fine selection of 100% NYC Based producers such as Downstairs J,  Ayesha, DJ Swisha & Kush Jones

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Artist: Low End Activist
Title: Hostile Utopia
Label: Sneaker Social Club
Cat No: SNKRLP009
Release Date: 14th June

Casting a self-reflexive lens over his roots via the medium of crushing, future-rushing soundsystem sonics, Low End Activist returns to Sneaker Social Club with a full-length of monumental proportions.

When the Low End Activism 12” ignited on Sneaker in 2019, it paid tribute to the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, UK, where LEA originates from. In the shadow of social inequality and strengthened by the unity of the multi-ethnic community, Blackbird Leys still imposes a powerful influence on LEA’s work, even as he’s stepped out onto Seagrave for last year’s Game Theory album and notched up the first couple of releases on his own self-titled label.

On this new album, Hostile Utopia sums up the conflicting emotions attached to memories of home – how it’s possible to feel nostalgic for the griminess of urban and suburban Britain, its ordinary tales of bitterness and frustration, but also its intrinsic passion and solidarity. At a time when social division is actively engineered by Machiavellian forces, real conviviality at street level feels like an impossible dream.

LEA communicates these tensions through a style which is becoming his signature – dynamic bass torsion and chiseled, fractalised rhythms slugging around the 130 mark. It’s moody like a UK-themed record ought to be, but it’s not morose. There’s fierceness in every snap and rumble, as the legacies of hardcore, jungle, dubstep and grime pour into the casing prior to the gunpowder lighting.

On previous LEA releases, the MC roll call has pointed to some of the most vital voices touching the mic in the present day. Flowdan, Sikka Rymes and Trim all had something different to impart over the riddims, and now Hostile Utopia expands on that with the most extensive show of lyrical strength yet. Mez lights up the woozy, abstract grime swerve of ‘Mercenary’ in a musical style. Emz brings a ruthlessly sharp verbal steez to ‘GetGet’, Killa P gets busy toasting over ‘DFRNT STYLE’ and ‘Superhighway’ carries the dexterous hip-hop flow of Cadence Weapon.

In between those standout tracks, LEA expresses just as much in the production. Tracks brimming with stories to impart, laden with symbols masquerading as samples and draped in aural garb that firmly places Hostile Utopia in a place, a mood, that could only belong to the UK. It’s a hybrid sound just like the society it sprang from, and therein lies its power.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Collage by Clayton Burke
Design by DR.ME

Parity

Previews for the upcoming album "Part Of The Order" volume 2

Available now for pre-order!

A2. Paragon Of Reason

In the guest mix this month, West Norwood Cassette Library invites Borai - one quarter of the Club Glow collective - for a deep dive into his personal production archives, spanning over a decade of quality underground dance music.

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West Norwood Cassette Library w/ Borai - August 2022

Korzi - Brain Zaps EP [Showreel | Out Now]

Tracksuit Goth is back once more, bringing two twisted and bass-centric cuts to the imprint for WORSHIP003. Following the love that was shown for his previous release with us we’re also including a bonus digital track with each dubplate.

“VHS” is a heavyweight cut that builds its groove around hefty 808s and distorted vocal hushes. Gunshots break tension built from front-of-mix basslines, tight drums, and anomalous artefacts of speech.

The flip side, "Sirens" occupies the signature space that Tracksuit Goth has created, a unique and bloodthirsty blend of techno rhythms and dubstep-esque bass engineering - uncompromising in creating terror-fuelled, dim-lit atmospheres. Abrasive horns and shrill percussion cut through muddied, stuttered techno kicks, complemented with twisted horror samples.

The digital bonus track “Jennifer’s Solution” is a dark, low slung 2-step cut that follows the desperate, uncomfortable, and deceitful recollections of a horrific murder told through muffled interview samples.

WORSHIP003 - Tracksuit Goth (Clips)

Headbanger Anthem

Mosh Pit Energy

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Setting fire to dancefloors with chopped breaks, deadly deep subs, soundclash mentality and pure euphoria. 

FFF started "djing" on 2 turntables (without pitch control) early 90s. Mixing mainly rave, techno and the sparse UK breakbeat hardcore imports that arrived at his local record shops. 
First steps into making music: combining sounds from vinyl mixed with tapeloops, sounds from his sisters keyboard and a lot of feedback. Things changed big time when his parents bought a PC and his friends turned him onto tracker software. 

Mid 90s he started the cassette label "Orange Socks" on which he released his own material plus music from his friends and artists he met through tapetrading. He released his first track on vinyl in 2001 (on the French Necromaniacs Industry label) and from then on kept releasing on  a wide range of labels (Planet Mu, Kool.Pop, Murder Channel, Prspct RVLT, Hong Kong Violence, Mindbender, Sozialistischer Plattenbau, Sprengstoff, Clash, K-produktions, Sonic Beligeranza, Ketacore, Encounters, Artcore, Dub Attack, Zero71) His first full length album "20.000 Hardcore Members Can't Be Wrong" was released on the Japanese Murder Channel Label in 2011. And the follow up "Keep The Fire" in 2013.

In 2001 Bong-Ra & FFF organized the Breakcore a GoGo parties. These became one of the first regular Breakcore nights in Europe. When BCGG ended in 2004, FFF continued to promote breakcore & Jungle on the monthly Wreck havoc nights which never officially stopped and still pop up once in a while. 

FFF is an obsessive vinyl collector. A trip to the record shop, flea market, thrift stores, record fair and the element of surprise that comes with crate digging are most of the times the basic inspiration for a new track. 

Live you can expect amen warfare, hoovers, rave horns and tropical vibes with elements of jungle, rave, bubbling, dancehall and gabber. 


"Every single track will have audiences calling “Tuune!” and demanding a wheel!!" - Kid Kameleon 

"..generating a kind of classic '92 Hardcore variation, littered with classic rave stabs and healthy Amen breaks, just the way we like it." - boomkat.com


"..blends my favorite styles of dancefloor music with ease and efficiency - ravecore at it's very best!"  - Parasite

A2. Paragon Of Reason

FFF - TripletimesF