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“Drop The Other,” the first e.p. from Emika – and already making a late shout for one of the year’s most auspicious debuts. Even before release, Emika’s has received airplay from tastemaking DJs like Zane Lowe + Mary-Anne Hobbs. On “Drop The Other,” eerie, near-classical piano collides into glitched-out edits and skitering drum patterns, while speaker-shattering lows rub against Emika’s own hushed, cryptic vocals, the iconoclastic blend marking her an artist that makes a habit of defying expectation. Just when you think you know what you’re hearing, Emika flips the script: the cinematic sound architecture evokes the deepest techno, but the tempo moves too slow, the beats too jagged; the sub-bass, meanwhile, could shudder the most underground dubstep club, but it’s paired with haunting, syncopated vocal hooks that suggest Aaliyah’s work with Timbaland taken to its darkest extreme.

 “I make pop, but with a hard edge, playing different sounds and intensities against each other,” she explains. “I try to stay on the fence, leaving room for the listener to create a sense of what its about. It’s all about tension for me.” Tension, indeed. Emika’s music evokes comparison to the visionary likes of the XX, Fever Ray, The Knife, Burial and Circlesquare – artists that stand outside of genre, maintaining an uncanny timelessness of their own. As such, the words and sonics captured on “Drop The Other” prove both utterly catchy but experimental, erotic yet never overtly sexual, clearly confessional but shrouded in mystery.It’s a sound and vision that parallels Emika’s roundabout entrée into becoming a performing artist, a musical journey spiraling from suburban London and inner-city Bristol to cutting-edge Berlin. 

Emika has called in some fantastic remixes. Scuba aka Paul Rose was a London dubstep pioneer, but in 2007 he too relocated to Berlin. His “Vulpine Remix” gets foxy with the original, importing vinyl static, ticking clocks and reversed cymbals, disembodying the vocals and making something deep and driving all at once. GeRM, meanwhile, takes the track “Double Edge” and spin it out into euphoric, glitchy electro-house that has already found its way on to Ministry of Sound playlists.  Emika is also working collaboratively with visual artist Mox, developing designs and video inspired by her music, as well as a kinetic, multimedia live show. Emika's music is full of unexpected emotional alleyways and late-night allure, tones that alternate between crushing and beautiful, beats hypnotic in both the club and in solitude. “Balancing the future and convention, submission and control—that’s very important to me,” Emika concludes. “What I find powerful is the margins: those things inbetween, pointing out but never explaining. It never resolves, so it leaves a pit inside you – but I like the pit.”

Drop The Other

Double Edge

Emika - Double Edge (GeRM Remix) 1

Emika - Double Edge (GeRM Remix Instrumental) 1

Taken from the Illum Sphere EP 'Spectre Vex' released April 21st on Ninja Tune.

Taken from the Illum Sphere album 'The Ghosts of Then and Now' released February 10 2014 on Ninja Tune.

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Spectre Vex

Illum Sphere - 'Embryonic' (Lone Remix)

Grasscut return with the second single from their forthcoming debut album. Continuing their theme of exploring the essence of our culture, on “Muppet” Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair deal with losing your ability to communicate, something Phillips describes as “a very English kind of frustration.”

“I was talking to a bunch of people having a conversation none of us could be bothered to have,” Phillips explains. “And I could hear someone gossiping about a mutual friend behind me – I couldn’t resist pretending to text while actually recording them.” While this may not make Phillips your ideal friend, it results in great music. “I wrote the song while walking home and recorded the vocal straight into my phone. Musically it had to go from a pop song to total self-destruction. I remember Marcus ramming a drumstick into a cymbal, jamming the stick into a tom and bowing the cymbal furiously while I was yelling at the end. We really went there.”

Remix duties are ably dealt with by Nathan Fake, the estimable Norfolkian who can throw in everything from next-wave computer rock techno to vertiginous ambient pilgrimages, or in this case, come up with something in between. The package is rounded out by the ecstatic, electro-psych sweep of “Meadowhall At Last”.

Already acclaimed by Tom Robinson as “making genuinely daring music that still remains an accessible and enjoyable listen,” Grasscut are set to release one of the oddest, most listenable and strangely uplifting albums of the year.

Press:
“One of that select band of artists who are making genuinely daring music that still remains an accessible and enjoyable listen” Tom Robinson BBC 6music
“Ghostly, weird and enveloping electronica" Sunday Times
"Highly melodic, intelligently crafted and genuinely interesting" Clash magazine
"Pastoral psychedelia... wonderful stuff" Stuart Maconie BBC 6 Music
"Rich, moody folktronica - and if that doesn't get you going, well - you might be beyond hope" Bearded
"A celebration of England at its naffest & most beautiful... I like it a lot!" Steve Lamacq BBC 6music
"Off-kilter wonky keyboards, choral layerings of robotic vocals... brilliant" Tasty Fanzine

Muppet

Grasscut - Muppet (Album Version)

Watch the Journey

Grit

I don't want to be an emperor

This Old Tune

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Dark Epic Electronic music

The Russian Equivalent by The Hadrian Brothers

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The Russian Equivalent [Spotify]

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Dark Epic Electronic music by The Hadrian Brothers

The Inner Workings Of An Infinite Man [ Instrumental ]

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Dark Epic Electronic music

The Black Queen's Love Creation [Spotify]

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Butchers Hook by The Hadrian Brothers

Dark Epic Electronic & Heavy Instrumental

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Butchers Hook [Spotify]

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Polynation - Dew

Amon Tobin occupies a peculiar position in the dance music firmament – a point where the gravitational forces of IDM, EDM, D’n’B and rather more hipster-friendly bass music balance one another out. He’s got every bit the production finesse, and often the weirdness, of WARP luminaries, he can also make some very deep and dark basement-friendly tunes – yet he is something of a rave superstar in the USA, and for The Six Rhythms EP he’s on Dutch loudness-warriors Noisia’s label Division. His Two Fingers guise was originally created for tracks with UK MC Sway, but it’s now an instrumental project. We won’t lie, the other tracks on this EP slide a bit far into stadium rave territory for us, but this one – a healthy dose of body-rocking warehouse electro – does the business and then some. It’s out on 22nd June – you can preorder on the Division site or iTunes.

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Two Fingers "Adrian's Rhythm" - Boiler Room Debuts

OLDY CLAP - NOTHING SOUNDS BETTER
✔ From the album "Soul Machinist"
✔ Available on : www.thefrenchtouchproduction.bandcamp.com

CREDIT :
✔ Prod by Oldy Clap

THE FRENCH TOUCH CONNECTION - Nothing Sounds Better

'Prey' feat. J.G. Thirlwell taken from DJ Food's latest EP 'Magpies, Maps &amp; Moons', out 7 Nov on Ninja Tune.

Available on 12" vinyl including poster by 2000AD artist Henry Flint and download.

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Magpies, Maps and Moons

DJ Food - 'Prey' feat. J.G. Thirlwell

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One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World

All Covered In Darkness Pts 1&2

DJ Food - All Covered In Darkness (Parts 1 & 2)

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Method [Spotify]

new beattape "ego trip" out now on bandcamp...!

BUGSEED - EGO TRIP
https://bugseed.bandcamp.com/album/ego-trip

01.TIME TO BUILD
02.JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
03.GRASSROOTS
04.NUN
05.FLOWERS
06.MIDNIGHT ROUND
07.DUSK TILL DAWN
08.DOMINANT FACTOR
09.BEDLAM
10.BREEZE

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I am Hexxus [Dark Epic Electronic]

EP out 14th December

DJ Food aka Strictly Kev – one of Ninja Tune’s true veterans and powerhouses – returns with the next installment from his forthcoming, long-awaited album, “Stolen Moments.” And while the personnel of “DJ Food” has changed over the years, as has the musical vision, the name is always a guarantee of the utmost quality.

“Sentinel (Shadow Guard)” is the first ever studio collaboration between Kev and longtime DJ partner and Solid Steel producer DK. A track of contrasts - harp, acoustic guitar and ringing electronics versus filthy bass, heavy drums and rattling percussion. All held together by Ninja labelmate King Cannibal working the mixing desk, the results are driving and sinuous, but subtle, too. “Extract from Stolen Moments too” is a further peep at the creepy piano theme which will be visited and revisited across Food’s forthcoming EPs and woven throughout the album that will follow. “Brother John” is a tribute to the great John Rydgren, now sadly deceased, a pastor from the Lutheran church who subtly blended the word of God with the music of the day back in the 60s and 70s via his radio shows. This is classic Food – a seamless blending of vocal samples and musical goodness. “GIANT is voiceless cover version of the closing track from the classic “Soul Mining” album by The The. Literally years in the making and still not finished, The The’s main man Matt Johnson has given it his blessing and will be providing a new take on the original vocal for the album next year. “Sentinel (Lunar Defence)” We end where we came in - kind of - a completely different take on the opening track transforms it into a brooding guitar-led theme that delves into dark afro-percussion without warning – beautiful and unsettling in equal measure.

We hate to be the bearers of bad tidings, but there are difficult decisions for Food lovers to make. The 12” single once again comes with an A2 poster cover of exclusive artwork by 2000AD artist Henry Flint with colours and design by Openmind aka Strictly Kev. On the other hand, the download comes with three bonus tracks, the “All Covered In Darkness” Mr P remiix suite. Ex-DJ Food veteran and sometime Cinematic Orchestra member PC (Patrick Carpenter aka Mr P) returns from a musical hiatus to deliver not one but three versions of “All Covered In Darkness.” A favourite from the last Food EP, it features the dulcet tones of Ken Nordine and harmonies from The Dragons. He twists it from 4/4 to 6/8 time and back again, making it his own across an epic 13 minutes.

Maybe get both…?! 

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The Shape Of Things That Hum

GIANT

DJ Food - Giant (Instrumental)

Track from the forthcoming Wagon Christ album 'Toomorrow'

Released 14th March 2011 on Ninja Tune.

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