DKL002: 82 Queens - City Heights EP

This month’s release is our first EP, coming from Bristol based multi-instrumentalist and producer @82queens!

Taking an unconventional approach to the genre he fuses drum & bass with lofi indie pop, featuring upbeat 174bpm rhythms alongside his own acoustic guitar, ambient synth chords and reverb heavy, melancholic vocals from a range of local artists.

If Mac Demarco spent a weekend at Boomtown he’d probably come up with something along the lines of this x

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82 Queens - See The Beauty (feat. Violette)

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Once again on the Roska Kicks & Snares imprint, we are back in business to unveil a very exciting new EP drop from a returning face we are thrilled to see. Following on from the previous launch of his ‘A49 / Rudey’ EP, we are truly excited to welcome back the sounds of SPD, who has been on an absolutely killer run, spreading a fusion of UK funky and bass music around the land alongside a number of different label projects such as Eatmybeat & Durkle Disco, with some seriously high levels of impact.   

This new project is made up of three absolute scorchers, again treading the thin line between UK bass and funky, combining different electronic elements and rhythmic themes to generate something completely new. We open up with the title track ‘Caught Napping’, an almost techno inspired sweep through vibrant syncopated drum lines and eerie woodwind overlays, all of course wrapped up in a sumptuous piece of bassline production.

Next, a track that leans slightly more towards the UK funky end of the spectrum as the busy drum work and more minimal backdrops of ‘Drum Squad’ are unleashed, causing a highly energetic output to occur, linking together nicely with scattergun sub punches, unpredictable LFO thuds and unorthodox woodwind toots. Finally, a much more UKG-centric sound as ‘Hepcat’ delivers broken-beat drum rhythms, lofi synthetic processing and super catchy vocal designs, all culminating in a euphoria-inducing breakdown that will have lighters in the air across many a dance this winter.

The whole feel of this project is extremely refreshing, with a clear and concise set of different influences all playing their part in pushing SPD’s sound forward into previously unexplored realms of underground dance music.

https://spdukg.bandcamp.com/album/caught-nappin
https://soundcloud.com/spdukg
https://soundcloud.com/rksltd

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PREMIERE: SPD - Caught Nappin' [Roska Kicks & Snares]

Bandcamp:
https://subcoderecords.bandcamp.com/album/dubcode-3

Bow Street Runner - Pole Sex (Duttiest Quality)

Simon Hafner aka Sun People is well known to fans of fast tempos, having released music on labels such as Exit Records, 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 intuitive action, 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 be rearranged 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. 

Release date: 17.11.2023
Label Guides / Outlines
Cat No: gui006
Format: digital / cassete (editon of 50) 
Mastered by: LXC
Artwork: Marta Sieczkowska

With the kind support of the city of Graz

Sun People - Joyful Discontent (gui006)

Krash Dubs (Militant Music) / Tread Show
Head honcho of Militant Music steps back onto the Treadmobile for round two for today's Tread Show! His dedication to the scene and passion for music is contagious, and his behind the scene work rate is unmatched. This high energy, technical mix, takes you through a journey of some of the best sounds around and plenty of bits from his label Militant Music which makes you realise how they have an arsenal of some of the best talents in the UK right now.


Link to our Guests Socials:
https://www.instagram.com/krash_dubs/?hl=en
https://soundcloud.com/krashdubs


https://www.instagram.com/militantmusic_uk/?hl=en
https://soundcloud.com/therealmilitantmusicuk 
https://militantmusicuk.bandcamp.com/music


Link to our Instagram
www.instagram.com/tread.official_/
Tune in every TUESDAY for new episodes, travelling through all genres.
#tread #treadshow

Krash Dubs - Tread Show

© 2024 Ramson Records
Artwork by Joab Harrison

Cyclosporin

FIRE

FTRAX071 by @nikes89.

Mastered by @djsideswipe
Artwork by @djsideswipe

NIKES - SLOWTHAI

A1 - Pugilist - Siphon 
A2 - Pugilist - Regrowth 
B1 - Pugilist - Nightshade 
B2 - Pugilist - Siphon (Coco Bryce Remix) 

One of the UK's freshest emerging dance music labels, responsible for stalwart releases from Special Request and Nightwave, return for their 19th release.

The succinct beats of Pugilist have perked the ears of labels like Whities, 3024 and Trule to name but a few. And having previously featured on volume one of the label's new 'EleVAte' compilation series, among artists like Otik, Appleblim and Commix, he returns to the imprint for his first, full four-tracker; 'Siphon'.

The title track, Siphon, blasts through with authentic jungle chops, scattered together asymmetrically like a beautiful chaotic tapestry.

'Regrowth' is a swung garage stepper, jammed live on a 909 with earthquaking low-end frequencies that warmingly morph from underneath.

On remix duties of 'Siphon', is no other than Lobster Theremin alumni, Coco Bryce. With surreal, microprocessing of the heavyweight blows from the original, he also resamples time-stretched speech samples to devastating effect.

'Nightshade' closes out the record with its steadfast amen rinse-out and pokey 808 subs, concluding one of the most forward-thinking and new-school jungle records for the label, all the while serving as an exemplary ode to the old-school.

Pre Order

DEXT014_PUGILIST_COCO_BRYCE_SIPHON EP_(CLIPS)

London based record label run by NAINA (@naina_ldn) and SHERELLE (@iamsherelle) 🌐🌐🌐

info@hooversoundrecordings.com
hooversoundrecordings.bandcamp.com/burna

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