Name: Various Artists - Slam Jams Vol. 3 (HHANDS021) [clips] by Holding Hands in 22_06
Duration: 8 min

22_06

Vinyl Release
https://www.deejay.de/Tifra_Mesoamerica_EP_SPWX001_Vinyl__981653

Digital Release (Bandcamp Exclusive)
https://snppts.bandcamp.com/album/spwx001-mesoamerica-ep

After releasing four compilations on cassettes featuring tracks from Bliss Inc., Low Tape, Maruwa, DJ Lifegoals, Greenwald, DJ Safeword and others St.Petersburg based label Snippets Music present their first vinyl release. EP was written and produced by a musician from Utrecht, a regular guest of Operator Radio and the author of the digital release "Trans Atlantique" for Gestalt Records — Tifra.

https://soundcloud.com/tifradj
https://soundcloud.com/marco_lazovic

Mesoamerica EP

Mount Qaf (Marco Lazovic Remix)

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Tifra - Mount Qaf (Marco Lazovic Remix)

PHYSICAL: https://one-eye-witness.com/release/1651667515/Byron-Yeates-Sweat-Ur-Prayers
DIGITAL: https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/byron-yeates-sweat-ur-prayers

A1. Sweat Ur Prayers
A2. Waves

B1. Dreaming Is Essential -  Byron Yeates, Eoin DJ & Ruin
B2. Sweat Ur Prayers (Lawrence Lee Remix)


@byronyeates @eoindj @ruinxxx @lawrencelee

Sweat Ur Prayers, the next wavy addition to Radiant Love’s catalogue, is the first solo-EP of Byron Yeates. In their messaging, their timbres and grooves, the 4 tracks speak faithfully to Yeates’ inclinations as a DJ and label-head: the playfulness and buoyancy, a constant nod to the roots of rave, and a faith in dance music’s transformative power.

Opening the release is the title track, a bubbling and breakbeat-laden 8 minutes. Mantric repetition is a running theme throughout the EP, and we hear “Raindrops falling all around, freeing me from other sounds; trickling down my weary eyes, bringing me back, I’m ready to fly” as an opening salvo. Yeates’ is known for his vast, enduring DJ sets, inducing sheens of sweat from all involved – with these tracks, it’s clear he’s unafraid to take his time to build tension as a producer as well. The percussive conversation between hi-hat and snare complexifies until a clap enters near the 2 minute mark and suddenly we’re in the main, driving groove.

“Waves” is a dial-back to downtempo, floatation and introspection. The dancer and writer Gabrielle Roth is sampled, speaking on her 5 Rhythms movement meditation technique – the term “sweat your prayers” comes from her texts on ecstatic physicality. The track shimmers and sways in bright pads and delayed-out drum breaks, setting the reflective tone for “Dreaming is Essential”, co-produced by Eoin DJ. Opening with Radiant Love co-founder Ruin, her candid vocals are perfectly aligned for the dancefloor’s vulnerability: “What am I avoiding? I wish I could hold myself, like the dance holds me.” The track unfolds through layers of percussion and shadowy texture, taking a pivot to optimism halfway through, as a warm synth-line accompanies Ruin’s repetition: “Dreaming is essential.”

Lawrence Lee’s remix of “Sweat Ur Prayers” adapts the bounce of the original’s bassline to a classic, stabby rave synth. Again there is a percussive focus, but force and warmth are foregrounded, rather than polyrhythm – a shot, rather than a spritz. We hear again the opening mantra, and although “I’m ready to fly” may seem in opposition to Ruin’s “Let the dance hold me”, Sweat Ur Prayers seems to say they are one in the same movement.

BYRON YEATES
Title: SWEAT UR PRAYERS
Cat: RADIANTLOVE005
Format: 12”
Distributed: ONE EYE WITNESS
Mixed and Mastered: MARCO PELLEGRINO
Artwork: BYRON YEATES
Text: NAT MARCUS

BYRON YEATES - SWEAT UR PRAYERS

MAC-V - Phong Nha - (EP IS OUT NOW)

After debuting on the label way back when, Escape Artist returns to X-Kalay with a diverse EP of proggy electro, techno and mesmeric ambient. Roza Terenzi joins the trip on remix duty!

Pre order: https://bit.ly/3D3GpHk

Available 27/05/2022

@escapeartistaus
@roza-terenzi

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XK028 | Escape Artist - Wanna Dance? (incl. Roza Terenzi Remix)

Driss Bennis aka OCB's relentless drive for originality continues as he distills all things OCB into the 4-track Crocodile Tears EP. Tears of joy only, please.

Crocodile Tears EP

Pre-Order @ Bandcamp

CKNOWEP42 | OCB - Crocodile Tears EP

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.

Low End Activist ft.  Emz - Get Get

Pre-Order - https://fanlink.to/HHANDS021

Vinyl Release - 27th May 2022
Digital Release - 24th June 2022

We have rolled around to one of my favourite forms of Holding Hands releases. The various artists goodness that is Slam Jams, this being number 3.

I have drafted in bangers of the highest calibre from the likes of Ste Roberts, Bolam, Inner Zone and Yosh. They go high, they go low, they go fast and they go…slightly less fast. If you like slammers, and I’m guessing that you do, then this will be a veritable day out at the fair for your ears.

OK enough of my blather. Go and listen to the damn things yourself and decide if you like them, rather than trying to work it out from reading a bloody press release you weirdos. 

All four tracks are produced and sculpted for the club. They want big sound systems and dark rooms. Close your eyes, hold hands and experience transcendental space flight...

Slam Jams Vol. 3

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Various Artists - Slam Jams Vol. 3 (HHANDS021) [clips]

Returning after a 2 year hiatus, London label GlassTalk return with Spin Cycle EP, coming courtesy of emerging South London producer, @djcoefroms11 (Coe) (aka George Whitehead). The follow up to his acclaimed debut release Radial on Dublin's Woozy label last year, Coe now lands on GlassTalk with 3 brand new tracks, alongside a remix from 3024/Version affiliate @yaksound (Yak). Chopped snappy vox and snips of laughter sit over a volley of bouncy kick and sludgy bass tremors - this is futuristic, cheeky, tripped out electro, prime for a full club meltdown.

The full EP, is a showcase of Coe's affinity for mutant bass explorations, kinetic club sounds and intricate percussion, informed by his first love, Dubstep. Super Natural creeps along at a slower roll with acidic menace, while TORE, a nasty techno dancehall lurker that twitches near to a rinse-out peak, only to restrain itself with patient Half-Time tension. Spin Cycle also features a remix from UK based artist Yak (DJ Mag's 'Breakthrough Producer', 2019). His Super Natural refix surprises those familiar with his previous work, opting for a full DnB breakage session with modern flair. It's a glorious end to another killer release in Coe's small but impressive canon of forward thinking club music.

Spin Cycle title track available from 17th May, 2022
Full EP release June 10, 2022

Mastered by Boris English at Park View Studios
Artwork by Ed Finn
PR by Genevieve Taylor at Glisten PR

Spin Cycle EP

Out Now

GLASS005 - Coe - Spin Cycle EP (Previews)

original soundtrack from the motion city Casablanca.
written and produced by @drissbennis aka OCB
https://casavoyager.bandcamp.com/album/transhuman-x-press

CSV09 - OCB - TRANSHUMAN X-PRESS

Welcome the debut offering from Program Earth. 5 Wonky club tracks from label heads DJ Life & Reflex Blue that will send you spinning back in time. 'Tripped out resonance and turbulent bass push us into the danger zone as we scoot across our perilous surroundings. The lava thickens with various peak time moments as we slow our descent into safer grounds. Blissed out pads and soaring vocals guide us the way as we continue our journey into uncharted territories. With grazes, cuts and a few close calls, we finally reach the dig site.'

releases July 18, 2022

Mastering: Joseph Buchan
Art: Popdabadel

[PGE001] - DJ Life & Reflex Blue - Meganeura EP (Previews)

Esteemed proponent of outré dancefloor manoeuvres, Superconscious Records co-founder Fantastic Man makes his Kalahari debut proper.

Having shown up for rework duties on a couple of occasions, we find the mutable oddball at his most trippy and esoteric. In fact, OYSTER42 is the handiwork of a producer who has his formula of balmy, lysergic dance music down to an exact science.

‘Alltogethernow’ gets on a swaggering cosmic tip, all sub-loaded and celestial as levitational arpeggios and funked-up groove dovetail to mesmeric effect. ‘Alpha’, on the other hand, takes a vision quest through enchanted jungle terrain. Initiating with a hypnotic ritual chant, it’s tunnelling and murkily psychedelic; occulted dancefloor rapture tailor-made for the wormhole interior.

As if it were some artefact from a distant ‘90s utopia, Bioxy’ evokes a time when warehouse parties littered the Melbourne landscape. Where its predecessor evokes ceremony and ritual, this is an anachronistic, dilated flashback to simpler times. FM kicks it languid and life-affirming on the closing number. Radiant synth lines flutter with a gentle headiness as ‘Trojan Force’ takes us full circle with a reprise of the rainforest FX.

Alltogethernow EP

Fantastic Man - Alpha [Kalahari Oyster Cult]

https://sounddeptcc.bandcamp.com/album/fusion-ep-gst27

The 27th release on Gestalt Records comes from Manchester-based Aiden Francis, spanning three original cuts of driving techno and a levitating remix by South African producer Terrence Pearce aka Biodive.

Aiden Francis - Entropic Nature [Gestalt]

4 new tunes with a cruise control of 134 MPH

Anderson - Rave Racers EP

PRE ORDER: https://dualitytrax.bandcamp.com/album/atlas-corporation-ep-2

The fourth EP in the Duality Trax series comes from Estonia based artists Steffan Todorović and Joonas Arro under their Abdul Raeva alias. 

It’s a sonic match-made-in-heaven, with both contributing artists and label head sharing an admiration for bouncy, fun and deep club music that dangles its legs on the border of emotionality without taking itself too seriously. 

Ear-wriggling acid lines and psychedelic atmospherics balance a gritty and driving drum rhythm across a kaleidoscopic six minutes in the lead track 'Atlas Corporation', before ‘Death Race’ blends techy dub with Abdul Raeva’s signature proggy sauce, best played as the sun begins to rise again. 

Staying true to the concepts of gender and sonic duality, the remix comes from Australian DJ and Pure Space-founder Andy Garvey who turns in a breakbeat-laden, broken acid-techno rendition of the A2, before we come to a meditative close with the tropical, downtempo sounds of ‘Guardian of the Vault’.

A1 Abdul Raeva - Atlas Corporation
A2 Abdul Raeva - Death Race
B1 Abdul Raeva - Death Race (Andy Garvey Remix)
B2 Abdul Raeva - Guardian of the Vault

@Abdulraeva
@andygarveyandygarvey

Mastered by Curved
Vinyl distro by Inch by Inch
Digi distro by EPM
Artwork by AJAM

DUALITY4 - Abdul Raeva - Atlas Corporation EP (ft Andy Garvey Remix)

Next up on X-Kalay it's fresh heat from one of the finest among a current generation of prog-inclined producers. Navigate the mystic zone and achieve ascension with Guy Contact's "Out of My Head (Into My Body)" - a sublime exploration of utopian dancefloor utility ♨️

Pre order: https://bit.ly/3YC5YK4

Available 30/01/2023

@guycontact

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