Name: Fire House Rockers @ Keep It Cryptic 19.04.19 by Fire House in KEEP IT CRYPTIC WAREHOUSE PARTY TAPES
Duration: 1 h 2 min 13 s
Description: Live recording of @josh5446ray and @chewilson aka the Fire House Rockers at Kensington's Bakery Warehouse for the @keepitcryptic Bicycle Day psychedelic special - featuring a track in the works 'Eternal Desire' from a new project called Soulsmoke.

Live recordings from the sets featured at our parties.

KEEP IT CRYPTIC WAREHOUSE PARTY TAPES

Drumwarp launches Immanent Recordings with his debut ‘Outer Time’ LP on Friday 13th August. Born out of the existential tension of the first lockdown, fight/flight survival instincts were redirected into 13 dark and unrelenting tracks that draw from jungle, d&b, breakbeat, garage, broken beat, electro, acid, techno and psychedelia.

‘Awade’ starts the album at 160BPM with processed African drums, rolling subs and call & response vocals. ‘Th!nk’ takes things up another gear, employing classic bboy breaks to construct an aggressive jungle behemoth. While ‘Organised Chaos’ sees Drumwarp join forces with Lion Yute, an MC gaining serious traction in the Liverpool underground. His two verses call out the systemic evils of racism atop chopped breakbeats, commanding percussion and brooding Reese basslines.

Pairing dusty jungle with Sufi vocal and flute, ‘The Unification’ builds tension with pitched-down amens and chopped-up folk drums, which is unleashed with those same drums at 160 alongside roots reggae and hip-hop samples. Working with multi-instrumentalist and founder of Keep It Cryptic, Guevarism, ‘Back Into Time’ is a track that occupies its own space somewhere between dub, garage, trap, bruk and psychedelia.

Broken beats, bouncy synths and wonky garage sub-bass are underpinned by hip—hop and soul vocal samples in ‘Cheeba’. Nothing can be said about ‘Omertà’, except that it sits on the darker side of bruk, with hints of dub, Latin and breakbeat influences. ‘Where You At?’ is a track of two halves: playfully psychedelic ukg sets the scene with vocal adlibs, wobbling sub-bass and warped clock sounds before the track bursts into new life with a heavily chopped acid synth and familiar mid-‘90s vocal sample.

‘The Flow’ sits somewhere between electro, techno and footwork, repurposing a classic rave-era vocal sample to offer a new message. ‘Make ‘Em Clap (Get Crazy)’ is an unashamedly hyperactive beast that draws from hardcore, jungle and d&b, with hip-hop and funk vocal samples, effervescent acid flurries and a restless, ever-changing rhythm underpinned by a barrage of furious claps.

Re-pitched murkiness sets the tone for ‘No More Of That..!’, confrontational breakbeats that hark back to both the ‘90s jungle explosion and the pivotal early ‘80s sound system culture it was influenced by. Apocalyptic electro/d&b hybrid ‘Approaching Midnight’ is the fastest track on the album, with hip-hop and cult-classic film samples built around moody synths and metallic beats. ‘After The Afters’ concludes the album with an uncompromising d&b roller built around an esoteric vocal sample about death. Don’t fear the Mentasm...

More psychedelic, bass-heavy sounds imminent on Immanent Recordings.

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PREMIERE: Drumwarp - Where You At [Immanent Recordings]

Drumwarp launches Immanent Recordings with his debut ‘Outer Time’ LP on Friday 13th August. Born out of the existential tension of the first lockdown, fight/flight survival instincts were redirected into 13 dark and unrelenting tracks that draw from jungle, d&b, breakbeat, garage, broken beat, electro, acid, techno and psychedelia. Apocalyptic electro/d&b hybrid ‘Approaching Midnight’ is the fastest track on the album, with hip-hop and cult-classic film samples built around moody synths and metallic beats.

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PREMIERE: Drumwarp - Approaching Midnight [Immanent Recordings]

Those of the reality have lost their way, now we must listen to what myth has to say...

Produced by JRay. With thanks to Carl Jung, John Freeman, Sun Ra, Alan Moore, Burning Spear, Ryukyu Underground, Rare Earth, Funkadelic, Oscar Sulley and Dennis Coffey.

The Unconscious Collective - Beyond Time And Space

Drumwarp b2b Hendri b2b myself, back-to-back as 'The Cryptide'.

keep it cryptic warehouse rave @ the bakery liverpool 19/04/2019

Live recording of Jay Carder and I going back to back for the Keep It Cryptic' Warehouse Party in Liverpool this last Bicycle Day

Jay Carder b2b Eva Crystaltips (Recorded Live at Keep It Cryptic's Warehouse Party, 19/04/19)

Live recording of @josh5446ray and @chewilson aka the Fire House Rockers at Kensington's Bakery Warehouse for the @keepitcryptic Bicycle Day psychedelic special - featuring a track in the works 'Eternal Desire' from a new project called Soulsmoke.

Fire House Rockers @ Keep It Cryptic 19.04.19

A live recording straight from our last warehouse party at North Shore Troubadour - with room 2 antics getting warmed up by none other than Edinburgh-based Keep It Cryptic resident @evacrystaltips, who has been making major moves on the UK underground dance music circuit, having this month been back-to-back with Artwork, her mentor, with gigs at Arts' House, Wildwood Disco, and Mouvement.

You can catch her in Liverpool for our next party on Halloween: https://www.facebook.com/events/344105136474454/

LIVE DJ MIX: Eva Crystaltips @ Keep It Cryptic's Warehouse Party 16/08/19

A live recording straight from our last warehouse party at North Shore Troubadour - with room 2 antics getting shut down by none other than Keep It Cryptic's very own collective, the rave monster known only as The Cryptide, which includes the combined selections of @josh5446ray @chewilson @coshep and Hendri, with an analogue dub siren box. Some seriously heavy tunes got dropped during this set and we're thankful we have the tape to prove it!

You can catch The Cryptide in Liverpool for our next party on Halloween: www.facebook.com/events/344105136474454/

LIVE DJ MIX: Drumwarp b2b Guevarism b2b Sound Of Drowning b2b Hendri @ Keep It Cryptic 16/08/19

LIVE DJ MIX: Beat Detective @ Keep It Cryptic's Warehouse Party 16/08/19

An excerpt from our last Cryptical Listening show on Melodic Distraction radio, where we were joined by Nottingham MC/beatboxer Motormouf, also member of Rubber Dub, for some freestyle bars over instrumental beats selected by @chewilson and @josh5445ray in the trip-hop and dub realm.

Full show: https://www.mixcloud.com/melodicdistraction/cryptical-listening-with-residents-motormouf-september-19/?fbclid=IwAR3fiSGXJufsjj8quk9gKZmSyuI47XI2aCchZj89P0wcooqGZofyVCrQf9s

Motormouf guest freestyle with Ché Wilson & Josh Ray on Melodic Distraction Radio 05/09/19

Born out of the ashes of Darkwood Dub, one of the Balkans’ most revered alternative rock bands during the ‘90s/’00s, Bella Technika is the latest project of Bojan Drobac, the group’s guitarist and main songwriter. Joined by former bandmate bass player Milorad Ristić as well as opera singer Katarina Jovanovic, amongst others, Bojan has found a new direction with Bella Technika. 

Bella Technika join forces with Super Weird Substance for Substance Select Vol.2, which features three remixes and an original production from the band’s debut ‘Section’ LP, released last year. 

Henry Greenwood provides a wonky, idiosyncratic version of ‘Heat Control’, slicing the hypnotically repeated vocals in and out of his chugging psychedisco groove.

Released 31st January 2020. Available here: https://bellatechnika.bandcamp.com/album/substance-select-vol-2

Bella Technika - Heat Control (Henry's Remix)

Digital single - released 13th March 2020. Available here; https://soulsmoke-music.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-desire

Soulsmoke is a project that emerged out of a shared love of underground US disco, melodic Italian house and esoteric Balearic treasures. With Ché Wilson (Guevarism) working alongside Josh Ray (JRay), Soulsmoke flirts with all three styles, bridging the down and dirty grooves of disco with the floating euphoria of house music, all with an eye on the hedonistic, loved-up party beaches across the Europe.

Arriving with a statement of intent, 9-minutes of hard-hitting piano-driven house, Soulsmoke’s ‘Eternal Desire’ pulls no punches in the pursuit of moving a peak-time crowd. Working with younger Liverpool-based musicians, Super Weird Substance is ebbing slowly closer to its goal of a house-band, with Andrew Wileman providing infectious keys and Lady Soul stepping up with a primal take on JRay’s cosmically charged lyrics, backed subtly by Carmel Reynolds.

Having been DJing together for over a year, whilst previously collaborating on a number of DJ edits as the Fire House collective, Ché Wilson and JRay have built up a solid working relationship, with a finessed and varied musical ability paired with a deep and extensive knowledge of music.

Soulsmoke can be seen as the Yin to the Yang of the Cryptide collective, another project formed by duo, which also includes a host of like-minded musicians and producers. The dark and brooding acid/electro/breakbeat sounds of The Cryptide form a balance to the majestic and uplifting disco/house/Balearic sounds of Soulsmoke.

JRay and Ché Wilson have recently begun DJing together as Soulsmoke and are set to take Super Weird Substance’s new sound to venues and festivals around the UK, with further releases later this year.

Soulsmoke - Eternal Desire ft. Lady Soul

Digital single - released 17th April 2020. Available here: https://guevarism.bandcamp.com/track/moonlight-kept-us-up-ft-carmel-reynolds

The third in Super Weird Substance’s 2020 digital releases, Guevarism's ‘Moonlight (Kept Us Up)’ sees the label further broadening its horizons to take in a wider scope of dance styles.

Ché Wilson has been integral to this new direction. Having forged his own path as a musician, he’s more recently found a new outlet for creativity, becoming a DJ/Producer in his own right. Guevarism is his own club-based project.

Setting the tone via a series of remixes in collaboration with his father Greg Wilson, for Confidence Man, Underground System, The Jungle Giants, Bella Technika, Sleight Of Hands and Hipnotic, the duo provided the label’s first digital release of the year, 'Love' with their new project The Emanations. Following with Soulsmoke's 'Eternal Desire', the debut from a new collaboration between Ché Wilson and JRay.

The uplifting ‘Moonlight (Kept Us Up)’ features vocalist Carmel Reynolds, who has already made key contributions to the label’s evolution. A futuristic breakbeat workout, 'Moonlight' is intricate yet forceful, sometimes ethereal; sometimes menacing; it revises the rave blueprint for a new generation of dancers.

With his band Rubber Dub in increasing demand, whilst the Keep It Cryptic underground parties he co-promotes in Liverpool go from strength to strength, Ché is a rising force within the Merseyside music scene – this new single further enhancing his emergence.

Fire House Rockers @ Keep It Cryptic 19.04.19

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