The final track off of last month's First Colour EP - sprightly melodies, acres of space and tunnelling bass from XMTR. A big thankyou to everyone who has shown support for the release so far!

https://geotactrecords.bandcamp.com/album/first-colour

First Colour

XMTR - Split Apart Like A Scroll

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@Strecke Records are on a roll with their 15th release, a four-track EP from Swiss producer @Namarone entitled 'Approach The Colossus', featuring a QZB remix and a vocal cut featuring Nathalie Froehlich.

Approach the Colossus

Namarone - Approach The Colossus [Strecke Records]

I am honoured to announce the first ever track premiere for Helmore Radio from up and comer https://soundcloud.com/axonberg on the forthcoming https://soundcloud.com/nu-kvlture compilation.

Hailing from Lyon, France - Léo Floréal has been making music for the last 10 years! Having recently had a mix featured on Rinse France this is his first proper release and is definitely one producer you are going to want to get to know!

With early track support from Realitycheck, Background, Bubanj&Bass, Bobby Lasers and Elon Skum I am super excited to help bring you this dark, UK bass and breaks heater!

Official Release: 2nd January 2022

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https://www.instagram.com/axonberg/
leofloreal@gmail.com

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https://www.instagram.com/nu_kvlture/?hl=ro
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HELMORE PREMIERE: Axonberg - Nexus [Nu Kvlture]

https://soundcloud.com/defrostatica
https://soundcloud.com/greazus
Phantasia EP is the culmination of nearly 2 combined decades of experience going out raving, producing music, DJing, running record labels and promoting underground shows in Vancouver by two of the city’s most renowned and prolific bass music ambassadors – HxdB & Patrik Cure aka GREAZUS. The four tracks are pure rave material with plenty of hardcore DNA and many moments of euphoria.

Greazus contributed to the acclaimed Hybrid Hooks compilation of Defrostatica Records in summer 2021 with Like This (feat. Klose) followed by the single Raverz later that year. Their trademark peak time sound features influences of UK hardcore, jungle and electro.

*PREMIERE* Greazus - Retro Active

Release date: 20.05.2022

Preorder: https://leftleft.bandcamp.com/album/dbgi005

Dudbridge Garage International co-founder LeftLeft returns with his second solo release on the label, with three new genre-dodging tracks bridging the gap between melodic and minimalistic club music.

Taking in influences from garage, techno, and bass-heavy UK club music, LeftLeft’s music sees swung, rolling percussion play off metallic synths and manipulated vocals, and on DGBI005 his sound has evolved further, experimenting with more melodic elements and different tempos to his previous releases.

Opener ‘First Word’ boasts a classic LeftLeft style beat, with sub-heavy kicks leading the charge, while a playful melody weaves in and out, and squelches and squeaks litter the track giving an uncanny, esoteric feel.

Next up is ‘Legging’, which is propelled along by sliding chords playing call-and-response with textured, pitched vocals.

Closing track ‘Zooki’s Return’ sees LeftLeft exploring new musical territory, with an altogether more laidback track influenced by trap and alternative R&B. It’s an unexpected end to the release, but one that shows LeftLeft’s plethora of influences and production skills.

LeftLeft - DBGI005 [Previews]

Artist: Low End Activist
Title: Hostile Utopia
Label: Sneaker Social Club
Cat No: SNKRLP009
Release Date: 14th June

Casting a self-reflexive lens over his roots via the medium of crushing, future-rushing soundsystem sonics, Low End Activist returns to Sneaker Social Club with a full-length of monumental proportions.

When the Low End Activism 12” ignited on Sneaker in 2019, it paid tribute to the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, UK, where LEA originates from. In the shadow of social inequality and strengthened by the unity of the multi-ethnic community, Blackbird Leys still imposes a powerful influence on LEA’s work, even as he’s stepped out onto Seagrave for last year’s Game Theory album and notched up the first couple of releases on his own self-titled label.

On this new album, Hostile Utopia sums up the conflicting emotions attached to memories of home – how it’s possible to feel nostalgic for the griminess of urban and suburban Britain, its ordinary tales of bitterness and frustration, but also its intrinsic passion and solidarity. At a time when social division is actively engineered by Machiavellian forces, real conviviality at street level feels like an impossible dream.

LEA communicates these tensions through a style which is becoming his signature – dynamic bass torsion and chiseled, fractalised rhythms slugging around the 130 mark. It’s moody like a UK-themed record ought to be, but it’s not morose. There’s fierceness in every snap and rumble, as the legacies of hardcore, jungle, dubstep and grime pour into the casing prior to the gunpowder lighting.

On previous LEA releases, the MC roll call has pointed to some of the most vital voices touching the mic in the present day. Flowdan, Sikka Rymes and Trim all had something different to impart over the riddims, and now Hostile Utopia expands on that with the most extensive show of lyrical strength yet. Mez lights up the woozy, abstract grime swerve of ‘Mercenary’ in a musical style. Emz brings a ruthlessly sharp verbal steez to ‘GetGet’, Killa P gets busy toasting over ‘DFRNT STYLE’ and ‘Superhighway’ carries the dexterous hip-hop flow of Cadence Weapon.

In between those standout tracks, LEA expresses just as much in the production. Tracks brimming with stories to impart, laden with symbols masquerading as samples and draped in aural garb that firmly places Hostile Utopia in a place, a mood, that could only belong to the UK. It’s a hybrid sound just like the society it sprang from, and therein lies its power.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Collage by Clayton Burke
Design by DR.ME

Parity

Orbit

Stereographics - East-West

Euphoria

[Premiere] Heritage - Outside Contact (out on Glome Sound)

Premiere: 

FR: Egregore Collective (@egreg-re) revient avec un nouveau V.A mettant àç l'honneur le collectif Francilien Few Tips to Heal. Ce sont les montagnes russes qui vous attendent avec 5 morceaux allant de la jungle à la drum n’ bass jazzy façon Total Science, en passant par une pointe de drumfunk. 
On vous présente la track de Agôn (@agonsound), 75 December. Une track résolument drum, jazzy et avec de grosses influences dub. A la fois légère, aérienne et entrainante, c'est un morceau parfait pour égayer vos premiers apéros printaniers. 

EN: Egregore Collective (@egreg-re) comes back with a new V.A that puts forward Few Tips to Heal collective. It's a real rollercoaster awaiting you with 5 tracks going from jungle to jazzy drum n’bass in Total Science way, and with a a touch of drumfunk. 
We introduce Agôn's (@agonsound) track, 75 December. A track that is definitely drum oriented, jazzy with big dub influences. At the same time light and aerial, it's also really catchy, to sum it up it's the perfect track to enjoy your drinks in the first beautiful evenings of spring.

XMTR - Split Apart Like A Scroll

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