Pre-order: https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/mainline

@lithetrax’s catalogue of productions have brought one word to mind consistently: precision. ​

Whether syncopated and loose or rigid and driven, track after track rolling drumlines are executed with the kind of focused intensity that breaths an alive urgency, one which never fails to embody a sense of momentum that heightens their danceability in any club environment.​

​'Mainline' EP on @floodireland is no exception. Laden with sub and crisp percussion, the EP opener, 'Annan', encapsulates Lithe's unique take on the hard drum style: metallic, cold, mechanised & atmospheric. 'Knock' follows, a brooding 116BPM banger that sounds like an alien mutation of the Timbo production style. 'Mainline' & 'Wikd' close out the EP with off kilter techno kick drums, uncompromising percs and synth lines comparable to Detroit techno with a harder edge.​

More exclusive music

Premiere: Lithe 'Knock'

@lithetrax returns to Glasgow and Cork-based label, @floodireland. with four cuts of warped hard drum and techno

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-lithe-mainline

Premiere: Lithe ‘Mainline’

Pre-order: https://floodireland.bandcamp.com/album/degrees-of-freedom

@ozwalddublin returns to @floodireland next month with a brand new four-track EP, 'Degrees Of Freedom'.

On the record's title track, Ozwald layers dark, droning synths under rapid 4/4 percussion, setting the pace for an EP exploring the corners of leftfield techno.

Premiere: Ozwald 'Degrees Of Freedom'

Live @refugeworldwide

Tracklist: https://www.instagram.com/_ellll_/

ELLLL - Refuge Worldwide - Feb 2023

REMADE welcomes an array of new and exciting artists to the fold with a remix edition of SHALT’s 2140. The EP’s 6 remixes cover a huge range of global styles which all take the label’s ethos of sound design driven club music in their own unique direction.

REMADE003 is out digitally on 22nd March 2023.

SHALT - Falaise (NXâME Remix)

D.C. native Ovid returns to Cork imprint Flood for a third time with his latest EP, ‘The Palace’. 

A follow on from 2022’s ‘Stone Coaster’, the New York based artist returns to form with his uncompromising hybrid of funky and hard drum across 4 original tracks, plus a further remix from Shai FM on ‘Crawl Out’.

The release also sees Flood founders Doubt and Tension collaborate with Ovid for a second time on ‘The Palace Pt. 2’, reigniting a three-way collision of sharp, forward facing club drum. 

Our featured premiere, ‘North From Here’, blurs the lines between mechanical and traditional sounds, fizzing with industrial melodies and effects alongside anthemic percussive builds and foundations.

The EP drops in full on July 31st here: https://ovidmusick.bandcamp.com/album/the-palace

PREMIERE: Ovid - North From Here (Flood)

"The Palace" sees Ovid return to Flood for his third release with the label. The NY based artist comes packing a fully realised EP that fine tunes the mechanical layers of rhythm and gritty textural melodics synonymous with his production.

Label: @floodireland
Buy: https://ovidmusick.bandcamp.com/album/the-palace

PREMIERE: Ovid - Crawl Out (Shai FM Remix) [Flood]

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Doubt - Lurkling

lan Nyquist explores sonic innovation and pays homage to a traditional instrument on his album, 'Gilded' scheduled for release on September 5th. Nyquist plants his feet on the shifting terrain of Ireland's pastoral traditions, offering a unique sonic voice that doesn't lose sight of its cultural inheritance.

The beating heart around which 'Gilded' is woven is the bodhrán, a native Irish frame drum with which Nyquist uses innovative techniques to push the instrument beyond its ordinary confines.
Mirroring the instrument's sound through modelling software, the album's title itself nods to a theme of transformation, suggesting something familiar burnished to a new brilliance, giving it new life. The result being a truly unique unfurling of the harmonic, hypnotic and rhythmic potential of the bodhrán.

This spirit of transformation is most vividly realised through Nyquist's collaborations with some of Ireland's most evocative voices. On a version of 'Leis a'bháta Dhubh Dharaich (The Black Oaken Boat)', Edinburgh-born, Dublin-based singer-songwriter lona Zajac lends her haunting vocals to an old Gaelic rowing song, her voice holds the track in a timeless tradition even as Nyquist's arrangement swirls around her; an anchor in a storm- tossed sea.

Similarly, on 'Úna Bhán (Fair Una)', Cork's sean-nós singer Lorcán Mac Mathúna brings a sacred and ethereal quality to the 18th-century love song, his voice floating assuredly over Nyquist's sparse, shimmering arrangement.

An original composition by Laucan, 'What Else Am I For?', marries introspective, dream-washed vocals with an impressively fine-tuned production style. Once again, Nyquist demonstrates his ability to connect diverse genres and musical traditions.
Ireland's music scene continues to branch out and evolve, spurred on by the artists-like Nyquist; with 'Gilded', he melds the sound worlds of old and new, of technique and heart, of heritage and reinvention. His work resists neat distinctions and rigid genre typologies, while retaining a sense of where he calls home.

Traditions are never static; they are reiterated, redigested, and recast.

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