Buy: https://controlfreakrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/clubforms-daisy-moon-henry-greenleaf-tammo-hesselink-keplrr-remixes

Since his last outing on Control Freak with the sold-out Bunzunkunzun EP, Syz has built a reputation as one of the UKs most distinctive club producers, weaving playful, percussive techno with soundsystem-driven bass music. Releases via Shanti Celeste’s Peach Discs and more recently on Banoffee Pies have cemented his position as a rising star of the UK scene.

Much of this acclaim started with 2020’s Mindforms - a self-released mini-LP which saw the young producer step away from the dancefloor to explore an expansive sonic world, ‘balancing the tranquility of the ecological world with the immediacy of the digital one’.

The original release was accompanied by a highly limited run of just 10 dubplates. Deeming this 6-tracker too good not to receive a proper pressing, Control Freak are proud to present the first ever complete vinyl run for Mindforms, housed in full-colour centre-cut sleeves featuring an adaptation of the original artwork by Jamie Fallon (Ghost Cell), reworked by London-based designer Blixa Aguerreberry.

Alongside the record, Syz & Control Freak have curated Clubforms, a collection of remixes from some of our favourite producers, each bringing the original release firmly onto the dancefloor with their own production flourishes. Daisy Moon takes a decidedly Bristolian approach, delivering a scorching hot, bass-driven club stomper.

PREMIERE: Syz - Unidentified (Daisy Moon Remix)[Control Freak]

Wir freuen uns, einen Leipziger Beitrag auf der 33-Track-starken Compilation "AIMCRVA001" auf @mindcontrolledrectifier als Track-Premiere vorab präsentieren zu dürfen: @friedrich_ernst mit "I.S.P." 

Was es mit der Compilation auf sich hat und wie wir den Track finden, erfahrt ihr hier: https://www.frohfroh.de/40534/track-premiere-friedrich-ernst-i-s-p(öffnet in neuem Tab)

AIMCRVA001

PREMIERE | Friedrich Ernst – I.S.P.

Parisian Pitstop EP

Plata

Artist: @simon-off
Titile: joyful discontent
Label: guides
Release date: 17.11.2023
Format: digital / cassette (edition of 50)
Mastered by: LXC
Artwork: Marta Sieczkowska
Simon Hafner aka Sun People is well known to fans of fast tempos, having released music on labels such as @exitrecords @rua_sound and @through_these_eyes. Hafner presents a wide range of music and guest mixes on his monthly Sub FM radio show and is also releasing music and doing A&R for the label @defrostatica.

His latest cassette on the Guides label, titled Joyful Discontent, is a tribute to minimalism, referencing the works of Frank Bretschneider and Mark Fell. The starting point for this release was a JMT VDR-1 drum synthesizer, characterised by its intuitive aspects, its limited sonic capacities and the challenge to stretch the machine's possibilities. This one instrument informs the structure of the album, fixed in tempo, track and total length. Reducing his tools to a bare minimum, Hafner explicitly refers to specific genre traditions inherent in this radical form. Structurally and sonically, the spirit of clicks & cuts (e.g., Komet’s ‘Rausch’) can be heard, as well as influences from dub, ambient and minimalist drum&bass and footwork.

In his thinking, however, Hafner goes further. The idea of interlocking all the pieces, complementing the overall grid of constraints, provides the frame for a playful exploration. The result was also fuelled by intuitiveaction, such as when a single gesture and decision changes the direction of a process that takes place in real time. When composing, despite the track’s live act structure, he produced recordings that could function as parts of a jigsaw puzzle that can berearranged freely in any order, thus opening the way for a reinterpretation of the whole. This is also why the album will be available in two versions, both as a mix of combined tracks, and as eight individual pieces that make up the whole.

Despite so many formal constraints, Joyful Discontent still sounds accessible. The pieces produced by Hafner move in the direction of Mark Fell’s compositional approaches, where music is devoid of evoking emotion, rather, aiming for a neutral and non-imposing environment for the listener. 

(with the kind support of the city of Graz)

This release is also available on the artist's bandcamp page. If you want to support him directly, I encourage you to do so.

sun people - joyful discontent (preview)

Drum wizard Nerve aka Joshua Wells treating us to a 30-minute excerpt from a live performance at the experimental underground venue Ochiai Soup in Tokyo, Japan.

The recording features both new productions and revisited works performed and improvised live at 170 bpm. Typically fresh and elaborate rhythmic explorations of bass music, d’n’b, dubstep etc from the powerhouse producer!

Recorded live at Ochiai Soup, Tokyo Japan May 14, 2023. Available now on cassette + digital as separate tracks and the full recording. 

Written & produced by Joshua Wells
Artwork by @msyawish 
Mastered by @coreykikos

Buy Tape or Digi

Nerve - Tiger Mask (BSRC01)

GOONS

Bandcamp Link: 
https://qruk.bandcamp.com/album/qruk016-nagasaki-ep

Press Release:
James Young steps up for his first release on QRUK with the Nagasaki EP, a dark and driving UKG cut that leans into the moodier edges of Garage and Speedy G. The North Wales-based producer has already made waves with House releases on labels like Smashin Trax and Pogo House, but this new EP sees him pushing into heavier, more dancefloor-focused territory. Nagasaki is packed with chopped-up drums, eerie textures and a tough low-end that hits hard. 

On remix duties is Kabo Cana, returning to the label after making a big impression with his debut I DON'T UNDERSTAND. His take on Nagasaki flips the original into a more club-ready, 90s inspired roller full of sub pressure and tight percussion. It's another strong showing from the Manchester-based producer who's quickly becoming an exciting name in the new wave of UKG.

Social Links:
Follow James Young:
https://www.instagram.com/_jamesyoung__/
https://soundcloud.com/jamesyoungdj

Follow Kabo Cana:
https://www.instagram.com/kabocana/
https://soundcloud.com/kabo_cana

Follow QRUK:
https://www.instagram.com/qruk_label/
https://soundcloud.com/qruk
https://qruk.bandcamp.com/

PREMIERE: James Young - SY4 [QRUK]

BE YOUR GIRL

Pre-order: http://www.watchthehype.com/2016/11/09/edeka-karton-gespart-spec/

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EXCLUSIVE: Edeka - Karton Gespart [SPE:C]

When Cities Collide VI
Back to wreck shop
On this release we will bring you more funk and stomp, you'll get funky more funky and even funkier
 while stomping your feet to these serious bangers.

Detroit <----<----<"___">---->----> RotterHague

RotterHague Records, When Cities Collide VI

A1 BTAIM002 Philipp Boston - Switchblade

frohfroh – we like electronic music from Leipzig.
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