Label: Banoffee Pies Records
Artist: La Dame
Title: Zumbidos
Catalogue Number: BPMISC03
Genre: Dubstep / Dub / Broken Beat
Release: November 2022

1. Suaves Rumores Ft. Mr Jo
2. Conscious Ft. Goldie B
3. Non Ducor, Duco
4. Dazzled Ft. Florian Pellissier

Banoffee Pies Records welcomes La Dame on the label with her 4 track EP entitled "Zumbidos", lightly translated as "Buzzing" in Portuguese. The collection brings together a multi instrumentalist approach to a spectrum of percussion heavy, bass driven dubstep influences from the Belgium based French artist.

A musical journey neatly curated with three featuring artists, all seemingly cohesive, despite the wide net of sonics, with aim to illustrate and reflect the different sounds inhabiting the city of São Paulo. The lead track, "Suaves Rumores" aka "Sweet Rumours" invites Mr. Jo, a well known Brussels musician in the bass' underground scene with a harmonica insert, reminiscent of the early 2000 FWD dubstep sounds of the UK.

Goldie B, the French singer, MC, and producer based in Marseille, then enters with "Conscious", a catchy percussion of vibrant spoken word. "Non Ducor, Duco", meaning "I'm not driven, I'm driving", the motto of São Paulo, further introduces the next phase of La Dame's musical explorations. The last track, produced in collaboration with Florian Pellissier, a great French pianist, currently working with Iggy Pop and part of Cotonete, Camarao Jazz Orchestra and Os Foda, finally culminates with a flurry of keys in a broken beat jazz hybrid with "Dazzled".

BPR xox

Mastered: Optimum
Artwork: Melissa Santamaria

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‘To Illustrate’: a new collaborative album co-produced by a group of artists from the extended Wisdom Teeth family, spotlighting a scattered scene of producers making forward thinking electronic music of various hues around the 100 bpm mark.

It’s been impossible to miss the unparalleled levels of creativity taking place at lower tempos in recent years. Whether it’s the reggaeton-inspired club music coming out of the Americas, the resurgence of downtempo and trip-hop influences in ambient and electronica, or the chuggy UK bass variants coming out of cities like Bristol, London and Manchester, there has been an unprecedented creative buzz around these slower BPMs.

‘To Illustrate’ attempts to capture just a small slice of the action taking place here, and looks to an international pool of producers and interrelated sounds to do so. Nick León represents the booming Miami scene, where Latin American sounds are being reimagined and reframed to create something kindred with UK bass music. Salamanda and abentis - from South Korea and Japan respectively - contribute low-slung, tripped out takes on ambient and downtempo, finding close sonic counterparts in UK producers Iglew and Glances. Elements of hip-hop and RnB creep through in label-heads Facta & K-LONE’s ‘Kiss Me, Can’t Sleep’, while UK artists Henzo, Clemency, Yushh and Hussko pull things closer to the slow/fast stepping rhythms of dubstep and drum and bass. Taken together, we find a cross-pollinating global scene of producers making genuinely forward-thinking and no-name electronic music - interconnected, but only just.

Out 25th November

https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/to-illustrate

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Hessle Audio welcomes Toumba to the label with the 4 track EP 'Petals'. Based in Amman, Jordan, Toumba explores Levantine microtonality, rhythms, play styles and timbres across the record. Lead track 'Istibtan' is a twist on a typical Jordanian wedding song with deep subs providing the foundations, complimented by crisp percussion and warm melodics.

Toumba is a producer, DJ and sound designer and is a curator at MNFA, a club and arts space in Jordan's capital Amman. A nationally respected artist, Toumba also holds a residency at the MMAG Foundation. The foundation works with a selection of the most gifted artists in the Levant, providing a space for artistic research, production and critical discourse.

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This was another one of those rare moments when I listen to a straight up demo cold and just instantly know that it’s completely and utterly right for the label. Qant ( @qqantt ) served me up some eyes down, impeccably produced bass heavy slices of pie and I was gobbling them down before you could say extra mozzarella.

Big beats, big bass and enough bleep bloops to set up a satellite business.

Let’s go!!! Preorders are up and the record is out on January 27th

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Kouslin returns to Livity Sound with a second collection of slippery club tracks after the 2020 Vision E.P. With an emphasis on head-twisting sound design and a detailed line in percussive programming, the London-based producer continues to reach into intriguing new areas without forsaking soundsystem-ready physicality.  

The tracks which make up the Patterns E.P. stemmed from a period of personal experimentation, where Kouslin returned to making music for its therapeutic benefits rather than a fixed purpose. The loops and sketches he returned to and expanded upon for this EP bristle with originality at every turn. 

There is a continued exploration of dancehall rhythms on ‘King’, while ‘Five Four’ toys with time signatures for a jagged, fast-paced abstraction of techno. ‘Why Don’t You Don’t’ is harder to pin down thanks to its knotty beat and mutant synthesis, and ‘Michael’ flips the script further with an unexpected swerve into pearlescent melodic lead lines – the perfect demonstration of the honest and instinctive approach Kouslin took when making these tracks.

Patterns E.P.

Kouslin - King - Livity Sound

Obligated Records 001 out February 17th 2023

Full project:
1. Novelist - Mercy prod. Sus Trapperazzi
2. Novelist - Mercy Instrumental
3. Novelist - Mercy (Wize Remix)
4. Novelist - Mercy (Skee Mask Remix)

Pre-order now: obligatedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mercy

Artwork: Misbah

Mercy

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Scuffed Recordings co-founder Ian DPM (@definitepartymaterial) debuts on @mantissa1 with a suite of breaksy, acid-dipped belters

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-ian-dpm-acid-dance-vocal

Premiere: Ian DPM ‘Acid Dance (Vocal)’

Spring ‘23 sees Faux Poly release the first in a series of remix compilations, 8 tracks from a different artists across multiple genres.

‘Faux Poly: Remixed 001’ marks the start of the label’s new regularly quarterly remix series, where a wide variety of producers are invited to pick anything from the label catalogue and reimagine it, making the core sounds of the label transcend their original setting and permeate through different club scenes around the world.

We feature New Zealander newcomer Emanuel's contribution to the VA, an incredibly rowdy flip of Jay Carder’s A1 single ‘Eva’s Stoned’

Faux Poly launched in early 2022 as means for label bosses Kassian to focus on a more specific heavier club sound. One year on, the label has put out 5 EP’s (Kassian, Jay Carder, Ste Roberts) and now boasts a monthly release schedule for the whole of 2023, with forthcoming EP’s from Sister Zo, Adam Curtain, and Guava to name a few.

Grab it here: https://fauxpoly.bandcamp.com/album/faux-poly-remixed-001
Label heads: @kassiansound

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PREMIERE: Jay Carder - Eva's Stoned (Emanuel Remix) [Faux Poly]

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hree years after their first collaboration, culminating in the release of “The Passenger”, Om Unit and Martyn are back on 3024 with another four track exploration of tempo and vibrations on a new EP called “AJ^6”.

The two ‘veteran’ producers have been highly prolific over the past years, with Om Unit making waves with his massive Acid Dub Studies project as well as new work under his Philip D. Kick alias, and Martyn spearheading and mentoring a robust group of new musicians responsible for no less than five (!) compilations on 3024. What brings the two producers together in the studio once again is the constant hunger for new and interesting sounds on the outer rim of the ‘bass continuum’. Instead of tirelessly rehashing old tropes they are continuously inspired to write new music that’s both current as well as firmly in their aesthetic profile.

‘Basilisk’ and ‘The Trenches’ are great examples of the duo blending odd tempos with dub wise heaviness. ‘Basilisk’ has already been doing some serious damage on the dance floor with its punchy 107 beat structure and headzy breakdown, while the almost imperial march of ‘The Trenches’ introduces a bubbly bass line. ‘Illroy’ and ‘Dragonfly’ both inhabit a dreamier, more melodic universe and have a timeless, ambivalent quality to them, somewhere between a lost b-side of an early 00s Hospital Records release and something on Scuffed. Enjoy!

Expertly mastered by Bob Macc at Subvert Mastering

AJ^6

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Martyn X Om Unit - Dragonfly (3024-OMM2)

Pre-order: https://craigheneveld.bandcamp.com/album/escaping-gravity-ep

Craig Heneveld - Escaping Gravity EP - DCCI002

1. Planetary Plinko (#46) 
2. Neural Nitro (#37)
3. Spacewood (#52)
4. Veiled Verses (#43)
5. Escaping Gravity (#51)

DCCI002
Format: Digital
Release date: June 26th, 2024

The Escaping Gravity EP by Craig Heneveld is a hallucinatory techno odyssey that mirrors several transformative experiences in the formless realm. Spanning five tracks, the EP captures a journey from introspection to raw, unguarded energy. The grooves flurry between static and broken beats, setting an atmosphere perfect for both contemplative listening and energetic dance floors.



Escaping Gravity opens with “Planetary Pinko,” a buoyant, playful, atmospheric techno track whose percolating sounds bubble up from the void as if they were let through a cosmic zipper that tears at the fabric of the song - setting the stage for navigation through space and sound.

The next track, “Neutral Nitro,” kicks into gear, as if the vehicle for this EP is forced to propel into hyperspace by a sudden cosmic event. Rather than a casual jaunt through the expanse, this “Neutral Nitro” feels more sinister. Confined dub chords are at the center of this track that loop - eventually opening up, scattering, and surrounding the track like a storm engulfing a ship at sea. This chaos is marked by a broken beat kick and a rapid-fire of hi-hats that seem to ignite the track into an evasive maneuver into the dead of space.  Here the listener becomes confronted with the feeling that they are not alone due to the alien croaks that bubble up from its depths.

During “Spacewood” we’re cruising through gravity’s waves. Deep, sultry bass and jackin’ claps dance around open reverb-laden hi-hats that keep the pace while the occasional flutters of closed hats act as the thruster that propels it to the next level. Modular arpeggios oscillate smoothly in tandem with all of these elements, possessing the listener, as if influenced by an ancient ritualistic force.

“Veiled Verses” is less subtle. At this point, the euphoric hallucinations of “Spacewood” have turned diabolical. Any essence of cosmic benevolence has been replaced by menace. A kick drum, as furious as a meteorite colliding with metal is omnipresent, seemingly driven forward by the mad delusions of indecipherable chants. A funky, hypnotic bassline and living drumline acts as the tracks lead, pulling the listener deeper into the dark. Submission is simply the forces of gravity keeping one oppressed - a feeling one seeks to escape from. That is never more apparent in “Escaping Gravity,” the EP’s eponymous song.

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Produced and Mixed by Craig Heneveld
Mastered by Dominik Hoffmann at Copilco Productions
Artwork by Rory Lawson at SINKORSWIMⒸ Graphics

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