Dense & Pika celebrate a hat-trick of releases on their Hotflush home with a display of mercurial melodic flair.

With all the hallmark analogue, dust-treated sounds, the record kicks into gear with the unpredictably lush piano refrain of ‘Colt’, betraying a level of sensitivity not normally associated with the boldly direct duo.

Elsewhere, they’re as visceral as expected. ‘Black Deep' a demonic workout, all kitchen-sink percussion and body-blow bass, whilst 'Vomee' cruises along a bed of sparse atmospherics, dub-indebted stabs and bastardised vocals. 

Rounding off the EP is their most refined work to date. 'Airless (Live)' recorded in one take with live percussionists, woodwind and modular synthesizers, exhibiting their latent versatility and teasing at the possibilities yet to come.

Tracklist:
A1. Colt
A2. Black Deep
B1. Vomee
B2. Airless (Live)

Release date: October 14th 2013

Dense & Pika - Colt EP (HF041 Preview)

Another exclusive courtesy of mixmag.net

Glimpse released his ‘True South’ EP via Aus Music last year and now we premiere the b-side from his latest offering on Will Saul's label called 'L.E.D'. The track opens with the word 'heavy' being repeated over and over before a hefty bassline and thunderous kick drum come piling in. Check it.

http://www.mixmag.net/words/news/premiere-glimpse

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Premiere: Glimpse 'L.E.D.'

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exclusive mix by https://soundcloud.com/glimpse (Aus / Hypercolour / Dense & Pika) 

next TOYS w/ GLIMPSE & SHENODA
05 SEPT 2014 // PRINCE CHARLES // BERLIN
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TOYS Mix #014 Glimpse

The arena-conquering duo glide from gritty rave to skyscraping arpeggios on RA.1000, a mix many years in the making.

A new name undeniably entered the pantheon of major electronic live acts over the past decade: next to Faithless, The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers, now sit @feelmybicep.

The Belfast duo's music doesn't half reach for the stars: a melodic blend of ambient, breakbeat, trance and tech house, able to turn the biggest arenas into intimate affairs.

If anything, mainstream success, BRIT Award nominations and mammoth dance crossovers like "Glue" have only hardened Andy Ferguson and Matt McBriar's resolve to keep innovating.

Their prized blog, running for nearly as long as the RA Podcast, regularly platforms upcoming artists. And you won't find many festival headliners releasing climate change-themed records with Indigenous artists, as they did recently on Takkuuk.

RA.1000 exists in that spirit. After many polite declines, and before a year off to usher in the next era, Bicep come through at the last: from dub techno and screwface breaks to São Paulo garage, before a tide of signature synths floods the zone. Stadium-sized intimacy at its finest.

@feelmybicep 

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1015. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Bicep

True South

L Plate (Tom DeMac Remix)

Glimpse - True South - Aus (sample)

DENSE & PIKA - RESIDENT ADVISOR PODCAST  04/03/13
For bookings contact - tom@paramountartists.com

Population one - Computer Rights - Harbour City Sorrow
Elec Pt.1 - I am not a freak -  Bunker Records
MPIA3 - Wttp - Avian 
Dysrexia - The Plankton Organisation - Tresor
Surgeon - La Real (Part 3) - Downwards 
dense & pika - Move your body back - Hotflush
dense & pika - Crackling - dense & pika 004 
Truncate - Truncate 17 - Enemy Records
Narcotic Synthtax - Muff Diver - Perlon
VIN 006 - Downwards  - Unknown
Richard Harvey - User 004 - A2
VIN - 002 
Marshell Jefferson - The Groove 
DJ Shufflemaster - Gaylan - Subvoice
James Ruskin - Indirect World - Blueprint Records
The Electric 10 - Deep Inside - Rough Cut Records
Dysrexia - Birth of new life - Tresor
Jo Far - Flora - CDR
dense & pika - Morse Mode - dense & pika 004
Jared Wilson - Let your body learn - Dolly 
Purveyers of funk - This is a track - Peacefrog
Tin Man - Giving it to you - Global A
Sweat on the wall - Clone 
DJ Deeon - Fuck for free - Juke trax 
Johan Afterglow - Captain Crooked (Angel Alanis) - Slap Jaxx
dencent 001
dense & pika - bad ink - dense & pika 
Time to Jam - CDR
dense & pika - 31 - Hotflush
Minmal Man - To hold you - Dossier
Special Request - Lana Del Ray (inside the ride) Special Request 003
Reload - Peschi - Warp


Dense & Pika - Resident Advisor podcast  04/03/13

dfhwze - lost tribe

This week we have an hours worth of upfront heat from the vastly talented Glimpse. The selection includes a haul of exclusive from the likes of Pounding Grooves, Glimpse, DJ Bone, Lucretio, Basic Soul Unit, Sandewell District, Audion, dense & pika and Trus' me.

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https://www.facebook.com/glimpseofficial

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Dense & Pika 
Move Your Body Back EP
HFT029

Chris Spero (otherwise known as UK house and techno producer Glimpse) and Hypercolour co-founder and producer, Alex Jones, return once again as Dense & Pika to the Hotflush fold with ‘Move Your Body Back.’

Having crept out of the shadows back in 2011 with a collection of white labels released through their own eponymous imprint, Dense & Pika went on to bolster their rising profile with the release of their Hotflush debut (‘Crispy Duck') which landed late last year as well as with their memorable live set at Hotflush's recent Boiler Room Takeover. 

There is nothing chin-strokingly complicated or needlessly over-worked about their productions. They make interesting techno aimed at the dance floor and ‘Move Your Body Back,’ continues with this central aesthetic. The three track EP plunders percussive depths by way of stern machine rhythms, swollen low-end grit and the echoing, anthemic elements of warehouse rave techno.

The title track of the EP may already be familiar to many having appeared on their Resident Advisor podcast in March and is already being played out by Maya Jane Coles, Boddika and Adam Beyer, amongst others.

Tracklist: 
A1. Move Your Body Back
B1. Lack of Light
B2. Backstage Mute

Release date: June 17th 2013

Dense & Pika - Move Your Body Back EP (HFT029 Preview)

GLIMPSE / DENSE & PIKA 

Hotflush, Planet E, Aus, Drumcode, Hypercolour

For bookings please contact - alasdair@elasticartists.net

https://gigs.gigatools.com/user/spero

L Plate (Tom DeMac Remix)

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