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San -  Under The Scope

Philip D Kick
Orbit
Astrophonica

New single from the forthcoming 8 track EP, 'Off World Tales', out on 24th February.

Available to pre-order here: bit.ly/APHA028

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We asked Om Unit for some more info.. here's what we know.

"Phil called me up in the early Spring telling me a load of tall tales about apparently having been abducted by aliens. I didn't really know what to believe because the stories were all pretty weird tbh and I can't really go into it here but I'll just say he's soundtracked some of what happened in the form of a set of DJ tools for Astrophonica' This is going to be the third and final Philip D Kick release for Astrophonica to complete a trilogy. What the future holds who knows!"

Philip D Kick - Orbit

Conundrum

Subject To Change

Taken from Water Damage, out now on @yukumusic

"This project originated after discovering stacks of old family photographs, loosely bagged and fused together in the damp and soggy shed that once stood in my maternal grandparents’ back yard in the peak district.

Many of the images were inadvertently stripped, through the long process of soaking and separating them from their albums and wallets; those that didn’t completely perish (and many that did) took on abstract new shapes unrelated to those exposed onto the original film.

These images (and the tracks they accompany) have since taken on a greater weight and meaning to me in their embodiment of times, places and faces no longer around. They represent cloudy memories, branches of a family tree cut down and consigned to the past."

Written & produced by Jim Ehlinger
Artwork provided by Jim Ehlinger
Mastered by Sam at PRECISE
Set free into the wild by YUKU

Water Damage

Earl Grey - Break Stride [YUKU]

For the first time i tried an odd time signature in one of my electronic tracks and together with the dark atmos and textured glitches i created a very unsettling listening experience.

Download

Echo from the Shadows

on the swag

Yoofee - Clart [TTE006]

EARTHBASE03
ES.TEREO
RA

12" VINYL / DOWNLOAD: 
bit.ly/EARTHBASE03_BC

A1. Ultimas Breath
A2. Temple of Ra
B1. Ancestral Path
B2. Flying Disc

Release Date: 25th October 2019 // Limited Edition 12” Vinyl & Download

File Under: Electronic, 160, Bass, Footwork, Drum & Bass, Jungle

www.cosmicbridgerecs.com

We welcome for our final release of 2019, Germany’s very own Max Hock aka Es.tereo. This, our third release on our ‘Earthbase’ series, sees Max arrive with an already solid pedigree of output via such labels such as the now defunct but seminal Hidden Hawaii imprint, as well as German modern dnb staples such as Absys Records and Urban Poetry. His perhaps most notable previous work is arguably his ‘Theme’ project (via Samurai Music) which saw universal praise from the leftfield dnb scene and beyond , taking the landscape of dub techno atmospherics into a whole exciting new format of 170bpm-led excursions, when most people where hypnotised by minimalist sub-lead dread.

‘Ra’ Sees Max taking on a whole new level of sonic architecture, with dense and complex arrangements that almost lean into modern experimental breakbeats, remaining coherent enough for dancers at your local jungle rave. The levels are however undeniable, this is modern atmospheric jungle taken to a different level altogether.

‘This EP was conceived whilst focusing on different energies and the translation of mixing those energies into soundscapes. Ultima’s Breath was the beginning and is the centre of the EP. It´s the ultimate Unification/Union of those energies I feel that came out of that process. All the other pieces came with the flow subsequently and I decided to explore the different vibrations and facets which lead to this similar feeling. I feel the result is this balance of 4 expressions of this energy.’ 
- Es.tereo

The EP Sets the scene with ‘Ultima’s Breath’ a frantic but atmospheric breakbeat meditation that opens the doorway to new levels of breakbeat layering that might excite fans of skee mask, square pusher and remarc alike, moving swiftly into the heavy hitter ‘Temple Of Ra’, a half-stepping but still energetic sound-system staple, coming with a kind of tribal slow/fast style but taking the idea to a whole new level of intricacy, whilst maintaining a concrete backbeat that DJ’s can be sure to be drawing for years to come. the B-side opens with a complex tech-stepping dnb roller in the form of ‘Ancestral’ wherein The Alternating breaks provide grounding for yet another complex landscape of percussion and brush strokes of reverb and melody that orbit around the core gracefully. The EP closes with ‘Flying Disc’ - a Frantic medley of minimalist percussive motions that seem to levitate above a dominating saturated sub-bass line that will test any decent system to it’s limits.

‘RA’ is the ideal blend of dancefloor and headphones that we feel we have been honing with our output at Cosmic Bridge, and we are happy to be a part of what may be the evolution of a dnb artist about to potentially transcend the genre itself.

This is put simply, fresh as fuck.

Temple of Ra

Flying Disc

Out on Yellow Island Records - June 19


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