Quattro(FREE DOWNLOAD)

https://plazaplazaa.bandcamp.com/album/like-water 
Plaza social media: instagram.com/plazaplazaa facebook.com/plazaplazaauk 
Absenol. social media: instagram.com/absenol.music facebook.com/absenol.music

PREMIERE: Absenol - 5am Lights [Plaza]

For your sake, we hope you’re up for a challenge. An outback jungle where distorted sonics and fast-pace rhythms are the sustenance on offer. On the surface, our dusty jungle appears a lovely haven for every head in the land.

What’s the matter? You look a little ‘Stressed’. ‘Nervous’ even. Could it be that persistent, spine-shattering sub wub? Catches up with you, doesn’t it? Add in an unrelenting 303 rendered rich in resonance. Feeling it now, aren’t you?

How about that in the other direction? Soul-shaking kick thuds, ear-pricking gated vocal pads, tenacious, shifting arpeggiated synths. You’d best do as you’re told and “Put the drums On The Shelf” if you know what’s best for you. See that over there? See, it belongs to the boss. He doesn’t like it when people aren’t Dancing around his Stray Ute. Sure, the jungle birds inside might sound cute but you'll change your tune when it’s coming nearer. Gaining velocity. Gathering steam. Barrelling toward you. Don’t you worry. Or do. Just be ready. Ready for drums befitting a true jungle. Ready for sliding and prodding bass notes; each more paint-peeling than the last. Ready for overdriven percussion smashes; each more sinister than their predecessors. Reverb-bathed idyllic cuts, striking hybrid synths. Really think you can handle it?

Maxy Cozy has other ideas. His euphoric chords will lull you. Trick you. Make you think the belligerence is behind you. Wrong. You’ll be brought back to earth with a smack in the mouth for thinking you’re capable of managing. Long bass notes fortify, stabbing with malice. Innocent-seeming sounds turn instantly unforgiving. You didn’t think you’d get through it without a scratch, did you?

Magnetic. Energetic. Kinetic. Poetic. Unapologetic

https://eclecticsydney.bandcamp.com/album/stray-ute-dancing

https://soundcloud.com/eclecticsydney
https://soundcloud.com/ekzander
https://soundcloud.com/maxy_cozy

PREMIERE: Ekzander - Stray Ute Dancing (Maxy Cozy Remix) [eclectic.]

Mal was live with 60 minutes of UKG, house and minimal sounds from the likes of Papa Nugs, Arfa and herself.

Mal - October 2021

Let's Go

Go With It

Edition of 300 vinyl:
https://shallnotfade.co.uk/album/when-u-call-ep

1-800 Girls makes his eagerly awaited return to the Shall Not Fade catalogue with a 4-track tribute to the early-hours ravers. With skittering drums, synth plucks and peppers of whimsical vocals, When U Call EP captures a sound at once blissfully nostalgic to ‘90s rave, and boldly forward-facing in its mutation of today’s scene-defining sounds of UK Bass.

Although barely discernible underneath off-kilter synth stabs and squelching drums, Burial-esque vocal chops do their best to haunt the title track, colouring it with both a sense of melancholy and deliverance. On that same note, enter ‘OCB’. Its stripped-back successor is equally as moody yet somewhat more modest with a mournful melody and minimal drums. The aptly-named ‘Start Over’ welcomes a switch in mood. With high-pitched staccato vocals and an up-beat drum pattern, its trancey-tempered quality is not a million miles away from the music of Overmono. Finally, listeners of the EP’s closer ‘Move With Me’ need little more than the title’s instruction as its 150 BPM and pop-adjacent vocals do all the talking.

When U Call EP drops February 11th via Shall Not Fade.

When U Call

BUY RELEASE

SNF067 // 1-800 Girls - When U Call EP

Comme Des Garçons is a statement piece from Front Bench. Across 41 minutes, he announces himself as an artist keen to tell a deeper story, as he ditches format and enters the sprawling, moody longform.

Through moments of synthy ambience, electronic hip-hop, sample-heavy dubstep, and full-blown vocal pop, these 10 tracks - written in two lonely lockdown weeks - pensively reflect on what has been a challenging and formative period.

London’s Holly Wilks makes a stunning vocal appearance on I Would’ve Meant It, the album’s jewel, and regular collaborator Tom Jarmey lends glitchy production to For A Very Long Time, as the album winds to its finale.

Comme Des Garçons marks an experimental shift towards a more commercially structured
sound, and marks an evolution for Front Bench, as well as for the sonic direction of his label.

Front Bench - For A Very Long Time (feat. Tom Jarmey)

EETS-T-UCKED MIX

Dylan Dylan - TRX

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Synth-washed jungle from Glaswegian producer @creepwoland on his return to @jonphonics' @astralblack.

Read More & Buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2020/05/05/premiere-creep-woland-lord-chamberlain/

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