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Introducing the Houndstooth: Patterns playlist, 

Select tracks across our sister label's discography featuring music from @scintii @aisha-devi @throwingsnow @lotic and more.

Houndstooth started life on February 25th 2013 with "The Present Tense" - an EP from Berlin based producer Call Super.

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London-based artist @Wordcolour returns to Houndstooth with a new single ‘Bluster’

Support the artist: https://hth.lnk.to/bluster

In Wordcolour’s own words, "all the way back in January 2021, when the UK was entering its second national lockdown, I set myself the task of trying to write a club track. I wanted to avoid the lockdown temptation to write melancholic, dreamy dance music, and so found myself trying to remember what the club sounded and felt like at a time when raving was a distant memory.

The result, Bluster, continues some of the club experiments I began on my first EP "Tell Me Something", but with a beefed-up heavier sound aimed at slow, chunky techno sets. Like that first record, this track has a sense of humour - constantly cutting in playful bits of vocal and drum detail. Both the title and the artwork imply an undue swagger - a sense of winging it through changeable unpredictable weather conditions: a combination that, for me, sums up the feel of this track as well as the circumstances in which it was made."
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released November 17, 2021

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We are excited to introduce you to London-based producer On Man, a musician whose previous collaborations include Giggs, Darq E Freaker, Zebra Katz and Mr Hudson amongst others.

More info: https://hth.lnk.to/OnMan

Squares and Triangles features fellow London-based rapper F-M-M-F alongside this video directed by Ian Roderick Gray (The Banksy Job).


“Squares and Triangles was a turning point for the project - the first track I finished where I felt like things were heading in the right direction. F-M-M-F’s fantastic vocals hooked me straight away. They read almost like a film, exploring the tension of a doomed relationship when incompatible edges collide, crack and crumble amongst the lies.”


On Man’s creative roots lie deep. An artist with a unique gift for sound design, he’s able to conjure perfect pop songs and then corrode them, revealing the emotional truths underneath. An electronic artist with a human touch, he’s worked in the studio for an array of other artists, as well as delivering huge cinematic soundtrack projects, all while pursuing his own solitary agenda. "Squares and Triangles" marks the first step of this personal journey and more will follow later this year.


Lyrics:

You said it from the start
We’re more than a mile apart
Call me animal
Still looking for Noah’s ark
Call me a cannibal
Then I left a hole in your heart
Hole in your heart when I
Left my phone in your car
You’re like a loan shark
Once you let go of the past
I swear it’s been about a year
Guess my roly’s fast
Heartbreak will send a woman wild
And now some little dick is 
Gonna make her smile
Now it’s just me myself
And the only eye
Got my head doing circles
I guess it’s only pi
No apology from here
Coz I ain’t liable
How could you go and find a square
And make a triangle?

You drive me round the bend whether
Automatic or manual
Upside down my
World’s feeling satanical
Text messages
Scriptures and parables
So many hate your
Shit is getting casual
Not to call you liar
I’m the person that fired you
Man slaughter killed it
But I was trying to 
Heartbreak will send a woman wild
And now some little mug is 
Gonna make her smile
Overreacting like there ain’t other guys
That lost their composure and told
A couple of lies
No apologies here
Coz I ain’t liable
How could you go and find a square
And make a triangle


Artist - Follow: On Man
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Squares And Triangles

Squares And Triangles (feat. F-M-M-F)

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On Man - Squares And Triangles (feat. F-M-M-F)

Artist: Benedikt Frey / @freybenedikt
Album: V.A. — Egonlab Dynasty
Label: Pinkman / @pinkmanrecords
Release date: 20/05/22
Format: digital / cassettes
Buy: https://pinkman.bandcamp.com/album/egonlab-dynasty
Additional: @egonlab

The label's word: "We're proud to finally present our collaboration with Paris based fashion brand Egonlab. Building bridges between past and future, fashion and music, Paris and Rotterdam, Egonlab incorporates Pinkman’s DNA in a new exclusive T-Shirt, while we've gathered six Pinkman artists to compose the theme's sonic interpretation.

The collaboration is the second chapter of the main Egonlab Spring/Summer 22’ line inspired by the activism of the middle ages. Consequently, both the visual and the audio parts are spreading a positive message, as much as they are channelling the rebellion."

PREMIERE: Benedikt Frey — Alleys (Pinkman, 2022)

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Tapefeed, the Italian duo that holds a residency at our iconic London night club fabric, join us here at Houndstooth with Anterograde, their debut release on the label with a five track techno / experimental EP due out December 2nd.

Travelling through UK breaks touching on dub, deep experimental and techno, their inspiration roots in the types of sets they have been consistently laying down at fabric.

Together with an accumulation of releases on labels Mord, Metempsychosis and Abyss, in 2021 Tapefeed launched their imprint “Inveterate” to focus on the duo’s vision.

Anterograde

Tapefeed - Analog Monkey

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/hysterical-love-project-lashes

Cement

windowseeker going solo messing around having fun.

http://www.instagram.com/lukasopp

windowseeker @ The Lot Radio 05-09-2023

Following notable releases on Editions Mego as Electronic music duo LCC, and multiple singles and collaborations on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label and Modern Obscure Music, experimental electronic artist Ana Quiroga (@ana_quiroga) announces her debut album Azabache for release on 8th September via Houndstooth. Ana also shares the first single from the project ‘Wallada’ which is available now to buy digitally and stream.

A personal odyssey, shaped by Ana’s deep connection to her homeland Asturias and her experience since moving to London, underpins Azabache. From the rich Celtic heritage of Asturias – the mines, minerals, and mystical feminine energy – to the urban occultism of their now-home London and the enchanting streets of Hackney and the East End, Azabache embodies the connection between deep and highly symbolic ancestral roots and these contemporary new beginnings.


Written, composed, produced and pre-mixed by Ana Quiroga Olavarrieta / Mixed by Paul Corley / Mastered & cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis, London

Wallada: Bass guitar by Chris Norrish. Additional vocals by Catalina Barceló

Inner City Light: Written in collaboration with Gorka Molero. Bass and backing vocals by Gorka Molero

© Original Artwork by Estela Oliva
Graphic Design by John Philip Sage

Mary Anne Hobbs - 7th June 2023

Wallada

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Ana Quiroga 'Wallada' - as heard on Mary Anne Hobbs - Album 'Azabache' out 08 Sept

Firnis DC - Firnis der Civilisation (FELT007)
 Release Date: 26th April 2024
12" Vinyl & Digital

Discordant trudges of twilight romanticism from pastures far beyond.

Vinyl - rubadub.co.uk/products/firnis-der-civilisation
Digital - f-e-l-t.bandcamp.com/album/firnis-der-civilization

Mastered by Tomas Bodén
Design by Fergus Jones & Marie Øst Vejbæk
Distributed by Rubadub

Firnis DC - Firnis der Civilisation (FELT007)

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Ghent-based record label Viernulvier gear up to issue the debut album ''wow, x' ' from Brussels-based abstract virtuoso maya dhondt...Our pick from the album is third track 'untitled'. Providing a satirical French monologue to her audience, the track transcends the misplaced feeling of being lost in translation with a dewy-eyed piano introduction morphing into a superstorm of deconstructed frequencies intermingled with a hyperactive chorus and bass-driven oscillations.

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untitled

maya dhondt - untitled [VIERNULVIER]

Djrum's first release since 2019, the Meaning’s Edge EP is an introduction to a whole new world. For the artist also known as Felix Manuel, it was created in the final stretches of six rather traumatic years work. Having carefully honed his techniques and aesthetics, and learned some hard-won emotional lessons over this time, finally he began to work in a quicker, lighter fashion – and to cleanse his palate a little by bringing in a fresh ingredient: his own flute playing. For listeners, though, it will serve as an appetiser, a way into the delights and complexities of this new phase of his creativity.
 
It’s a serious work in its own right, mind. The use of flutes – including Bansuri, Shakuhatchi, Western Classical, and synthesised all blending and blurring into one another – gives it a coherence and a sense of airiness that unites the five tracks over half an hour, however divergent their beats get. And as in all his music, 
 
Here you find the opening track ‘Codex’ which alone touches on OG dubstep, Aphex Twin-like braindance, post-classical exploration, movie themes and more. The gentle tones and melodies that rise up out of it perfectly conjure Felix’s running theme of a protective bubble that provides a sense of safety and tranquillity even as the beats and acid gurgles and spurts all around it conjure up the slings and arrows of life’s difficulties.
 

… and it’s only just the beginning. This is the return of a master craftsperson more focused than ever on his vision and vocation and ready to blow your mind all over again.

12" vinyl @djrum - "Meaning's Edge" - Out 22/11
https://hth.lnk.to/djrum

Meaning's Edge

Codex

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Djrum - Codex


With Soma, @eleaal present a seamless, deeply reflective EP that explores the intimate relationship between sound and silence. Born from the opening track of the same name, Soma became the catalyst for the creative journey that followed. At its core lies a central question posed through layered samples: “What is sound?”
Rather than treating sound and silence as opposing forces, the EP examines how they coexist—how silence can be found within sound itself. This theme runs like a red thread through the uninterrupted progression of tracks, forming a cohesive sonic narrative.
Referencing timeless explorations like Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” and John Cage’s groundbreaking work with silence, Ele & Aal offer their own interpretation—less concerned with stillness, and more with silence as an experience embedded in sound.
More introspective and atmospheric than their previous releases, Soma is a free-form, artistic reflection—an immersive listening experience that invites contemplation, and gently challenges conventional boundaries in electronic music.

Soma

Links

ele & aal - Agnosia

Fabu - As The Forest Awakes (Original Mix)

Delusion remake

buy there : https://miras1000000.bandcamp.com/

The debut release on Miras stems from co-honchos and long-time residents Atrice. Their musical work is heavily inspired by the uncanny interplay between the tangibility of digital stimulus satiation and authentic real-life encounters in an increasingly disconnected world. Atrice’s compositions have a strong focus on detail, which originates from their academic formation as sound designers. However, the key to the Zurich-based Duo’s production is their playful approach to established genres resulting in emotive soundscapes and energetic amalgamations.
On the three tracks this approach is perfectly mirrored through a hybrid of sultry House, hard-hitting Breaks and neck-bending Gabber. The EP kicks of with the title track "J.A.-Ris", a contagious homage to early Jungle with tight basses and witty Juke inserts. The deep pads enter like a windy thunderstorm on a humid summer day, momentarily taking the light from the sky. It’s followed by the second composition "Give Me", which moves between Breakbeat and House with a futuristic sound design. It penetrates through the darkened clouds and lets the first sunrays shine on the asphalt. A slight smell of Petrichor underlines the dystopian moment.  Lastly "Demorado" enters with many familiar facets, which however are being completely turned on their heard over the course of the piece, reminiscent of a spellbinding whirlwind. It is characterized by Gabber, IDM and Drum'n'Bass influences with cinematic gestures and complex drum structures.
That's all, hasta abajo !

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PREMIERE : Atrice - J.A. - Ris

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