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One of house music’s most in demand producers and remixers delivered the goods for Hypercolour’s 100th release.  KiNK aka Strahil Velchev nailed four cuts of genre bending bangers for the label’s milestone release on the ‘For The People’ EP.

For the second installment of the ‘For The People’ remix series, Nikki Nair and Elli Acula weave their signature styles into new interpretations of KiNK’s title track.

Nikki Nair supplies the damage with a sound mangling, bounce-laden banger, as Elli Acula turns up the temperature with a killer rave weapon.

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KiNK - For The People (Elli Acula / Nikki Nair Remixes)

Via her weekly Radio 1 ‘Future Dance’ show, broadcaster, DJ, producer and songwriter Sarah Story has been instrumental in championing emerging new talent and pushing for more female and non-binary artists to breakthrough into dance music’s upper echelons.

On this new single for Hypercolour, Story puts herself front and centre with a pair of pumping and hypnotic club belters for the long running UK label.

Sarah Story - Another (HYPE110)

Bareskin – Distorted Symmetry EP 
HYPEDIGI035

1. Distorted Symmetry
2. The Shape Of It
3. I Was Born To A Woman From Space

Release date: 18/11/13

Having already made a splash on Hypercolour and Losing Suki back in 2012 (‘Eyes’ EP and ‘Flow Control’ EP respectively), Bareskin makes a return to the roost in November with a sure fire packet of three.

Lead track ‘Distorted Symmetry’ is a deadly slab of pacey and techy house, its vocal bringing in a decent amount of soul to the proceedings.  A proper modern day house record, the production is first class, its reverberating and glitchy beats working a treat amongst the deep melody.

‘The Shape Of It’ comes deeper than a wizards sleeve, a twisted vocal hook held up with fat pads left, right and center, the minimal beats almost lending a pure ambient vibe to this one.  Bareskin AKA Josh Thompson, signs off with the cosmically titled ‘I Was Born To A Woman From Space’, a meaty beatfest, evoking shades of Mood II Swing at their dubbiest, with some extra terrestrial flutterings and deft keys holding up another cracking female vox line, defo one for the erection section.


Bareskin - I Was Born To A Woman From Space (HYPEDIGI035) clip

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Releasing, as he calls it, ‘boom boom music’ on labels such as Hotflush, Lobster Theremin and Neutralizer, Belfast based producer Carlton Doom tees up another set of slammers for this second release on the Hypercolour label.

‘Down In Red Light’ EP features a trio of raw and uncompromising bangers, breaks zip past and the rave is strong in these ones, with Carlton Doom deploying mega bass and brain scrambling motifs with serious intent.  Reger is enlisted for a top-drawer remix of ‘Wolf Whistle’ to boot!

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Carlton Doom - Down In Red Light EP (HYPE096) [clips]

At the very coalface of the UK rave/breakbeat/techno/call it what you like scene since the 1990s, Jerome Hill is something of a hidden treasure amongst the plethora of DJs and producers to have dropped both bangers and bloopers over the ensuing three decades.  With minimum of fuss and fanfare, Hill has steered record labels like Super Rhythm Trax, Don’t, Fat Hop and Hornsey Hardcore to revered acclaim, as well as firing out a consistent stream of releases for imprints such as Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Jr, Exalt Records, and I Love Acid, to name but a few.

Surprisingly, ‘Flow Mechanics’ is Hill’s debut album after a production career that kicked off in 1998 as one half of Groove Asylum. And its collection of unabashed acid and rave bangers is a perfect fit for the Hypercolour label, whose personnel over the last few years has included Luke Vibert, DMX Krew, Shelley Parker and Gary Gritness.  Tracks produced directly for club play; the album features 8 cuts destined to fit in cross-genre sets.

With pumping electro cuts such as ‘Deafening Lull’ and ‘Knob Jitter’, four to the floor acid stompers like ‘Walk The Plank’, the mutant garage of ‘Brought Up Badly’ and the house groover ‘Stax Had The Funk’, ‘Flow Mechanics’ is a joyous romp through rave’s sound palette, replete with playful samples and skits (featured on the vinyl LP version), and a mischievous demeanour that affords the listener an lively album that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Flow Mechanics

Jerome Hill - Flow Mechanics (HYPELP022) [clips]

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Jack Hamill’s Space Dimension Controller project has delivered some of the most enduring electronic music in recent times. Via single and album releases for the likes of Ninja Tune, Royal Oak, Dekmantel and Aus Music, SDC has thrilled with a certain timeless sound that has embodied science fiction swirling tones, glitchy and granular beats and a nostalgia for electronic music that always sounds futuristic.

On the ‘Cro2ma’ EP, SDC serves up a trio of intoxicating productions for the Hypercolour label. Highly accessible, yet detailed and intricate in design, Space Dimension Controller soaks all three tracks with sanguine melodies and bass blippy frolics that make for an exemplary release from the seasoned producer.

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Space Dimension Controller - Cro²ma (HYPE092) [clips]

Peter Kremeier, AKA Losoul, has always been an artist we’ve greatly admired here at Hypercolour, so it’s a real thrill to have him on the label at long last.  A huge catalogue of eclectic, distinctive and funky music for labels like Playhouse, Moodmusic and Freak ‘n’ Chic, Losoul turns in two exceptional tracks on the ‘Slowly Turning’ release here.

‘Daddy, What’s A Rise?’ is classic Losoul; a heavy low slung groove never lets up, with micro disco stabs and distant vocal snippets, looping round and round for over 10 minutes, but without ever standing still, the filtering and deft touches keep things moving at just the right funky pace.

B side cut ‘Time & Space’ is a glitchy and dubbed out affair, a solid 4/4 beat underpins a myriad of delayed percussion and panning synths, spatial effects and an incessant chord stab, head music for the heads indeed!

Losoul contributes to the Hypercolour resurgence that has pulled in left of center releases from the likes of Eliphino, West Norwood Cassette Library, Will Azada and Maya Jane Coles over recent months, with plenty more goodies lined up for the coming months ahead.


Losoul - Daddy, What's A Rise? (Hypercolour) - Full stream

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Jerome Hill - Walk The Plank (Hypercolour)

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Jamie Russell and Alex Jones set up the Hypercolour imprint back in 2006 and the label continues to dish up genre bending bangers two decades down the line.  For the label’s milestone 100th release, KiNK cues up a killer four track release with ‘For The People’.

One of house music’s most in demand producers and remixers, KiNK has delivered time and time again for labels such as Running Back, Royal Oak, Macro and his own Sofia Records label, and so it’s with great honour that the Bulgarian artist commemorates the label’s centenary with a kaleidoscopic bundle of hyperactive bangers!

For The People

KiNK - For The People (HYPE100) [clips]

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Ed Davenport launches new alias Edsy, debuting on Hypercolour with the deadly three-tracker ‘Zipline’.

This marks a definite new direction for Davenport and after years of flirting with the broken-beat under his real name (see his previous release ‘Basium’ on NRK), he is now fully committing to the move, diving headfirst into the world of UK-aligned bass music and wonky not-techno-not-house.

Edsy - Zipline (HYPE105) [clips]

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Hypercolour label boss Alex Jones delivers a quartet of refined electronic cuts on his new EP ‘Infin’.

Always pushing the genre boundaries and blurring the lines of contemporary electronic music, Jones has most recently launched his Minder project with two stunning full-length albums ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Sanctuary’ for Sneaker Social Club and Hypercolour respectively, and also fires out seismic techno bangers as one half of Dense & Pika.

Jones convenes influences from some of the darkest corners of the rave spectrum to conjure up something special on this release, pulling together abstract rhythms and playful sampling across each of the four cuts on offer.

Infin

Alex Jones - Infin (HYPE108) [clips]

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Carlton Doom’s “Fine EP” sees a return to Hypercolour, adding to a strong discography, including releases on the likes of Hotflush, Neutralizer and Deep Sea Frequency.
 
Armed with intent, the Belfast-based producer & DJ calls on all things dark and distorted, as twisted sound design meets brutal raw breaks in this fervent 3-piece collection.

“I’ll B Fine” sews together shuffling industrial breaks with a grungy, mangled synth drone. “I Miss You” draws on cold steely drums laced with sparkling arps, and “Cesspool” provides stormy synth lines, alongside raucous rumbling drums.

Carlton Doom - Fine EP (HYPE106) [clips]

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Kohei Matsunaga aka NHK yx Koyxen follows up an impressive slew of releases for labels such as DFA and L.I.E.S. Records with a new full-length album for Hypercolour. ‘Climb Downhill 1’ is a dazzling collection of trippy post rave electro and wonky techno, pushing the sonics to breaking point in a contemporary stye.

Matsunga has previously deployed his brand of psychedelic bleeps and beats on albums for the likes of DFA Records (the legendary electronic label founded by James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem, Tim Goldsworthy, and Jonathan Galkin) as well as on London-based imprint Diagonal, run by Powell & Jamie Williams, and for Bruk Records.

Climb Downhill 1

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NHK yx Koyxen - Climb Downhill 1 (HYPELP025) [clips]

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Space Dimension Controller touches down on Hypercolour with a heady eight track EP ‘Na Púcaí’.

Having dropped the infectious ‘Cro²ma’ release on the label back in November 2022, SDC takes flight one more with a collection of esoteric sounds, granular electro beats and a nostalgia for electronic music that always sounds futuristic.

Via single and album releases for the likes of Dekmantel, Ninja Tune, Royal Oak and Aus Music, Space Dimension Controller has carved out a singular sound that pulls influence from electro-funk, 80s pop, acid house, sci-fi ambient and disco for an unparalleled experience.

Na Púcaí

Space Dimension Controller - Na Púcaí (HYPE109) [clips]

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One of house music’s most in demand producers and remixers delivered the goods for Hypercolour’s 100th release.  KiNK aka Strahil Velchev nailed four cuts of genre bending bangers for the label’s milestone release on the ‘For The People’ EP.

In the first of a series of EP remixes, Perc & Bailey Ibbs both come correct with new versions of one the EPs highlights, ‘Vacation’.

Perc tears it up with a no hold barred techno ripper, whilst Bailey Ibbs weighs in with a funk laden, tech wig-out of the finest order.

Vacation (Perc / Bailey Ibbs Remixes)

KiNK - Vacation (Perc / Bailey Ibbs Remixes) (HYPE107) [clips]

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Via her weekly Radio 1 ‘Future Dance’ show, broadcaster, DJ, producer and songwriter Sarah Story has been instrumental in championing emerging new talent and pushing for more female and non-binary artists to breakthrough into dance music’s upper echelons.

On this new single for Hypercolour, Story puts herself front and centre with a pair of pumping and hypnotic club belters for the long running UK label.

Another

Sarah Story - Another (HYPE110) [clips]

For The People (Remixes)

KiNK - For The People (Nikki Nair Remix)

KiNK - For The People (Elli Acula Remix)

Out now on Hypercolour >> https://fanlink.to/another_

Via her weekly Radio 1 ‘Future Dance’ show, broadcaster, DJ, producer and songwriter Sarah Story has been instrumental in championing emerging new talent and pushing for more female and non-binary artists to breakthrough into dance music’s upper echelons.

On this new single for Hypercolour, Story puts herself front and centre with a pair of pumping and hypnotic club belters for the long running UK label.

Sarah Story - Another

Sarah Story - Too Shy

Blue and Green is the combined production efforts of Josh Thompson AKA Bareskin and J. Wiltshire.  The two young producers both have history with Hypercolour; Wiltshire having recently dropped his ‘False Awakening’ single on the label, and Bareskin having contributed to both Hypercolour and Losing Suki imprints in the past.

Emotive territory is plundered on ‘The Wait’, a breakbeat flecked and pacey production that blends introspective vocals, dark guitar melodies and distorted bottom end with refreshing results.

Alan Fitzpatrick, picks up the mantle on the first of two remixes on this
single.  The Drumcode regular has been firing on all cylinders these last 12 months, with class remixes for Trus’me and dubspeeka and releases for Hotflush, Figure, Cocoon and Adam Beyer’s aforementioned Drumcode label. Fitzpatrick strips back the vocal and creates a peak time rolling Dub Mix in his own solid and inimitable style.

A second remix comes courtesy of techno psychonaut, A Sagittariun.  The Elastic Dreams boss follows up singles on HypeLTD and Secretsundaze and remixes for Permanent Vacation and Futureboogie with a distinctively warm and telepathically charged “Re-Dream”. 


Blue & Green - The Wait (Alan Fitzpatrick Remix) (HYPEDIGI049) [clip]

Klasse Recordings and Grafiti Tapes impresario, Luca Lozano, rolls up to Hypercolour with a 12” par excellence of genre blending, future dance grooves.  Leaning on his Sheffield upbringing, it’s of no surprise that the break beats, edits and bleeps of his native city seeps into his own forward thinking productions.  Having racked up some super releases for Sex Tags UFO, Optimo Trax, Crème Organization, alongside his own imprints, Lozano really impresses on his Hypercolour debut.  

‘Gun Fingers’ is a strictly heads down affair, luscious synths, tantalising breaks and heavyweight b-line sandwich in-between pounding kicks for a classy cut, whilst ‘Calling All Dancers’ is indeed a call to rave, laced with the familiar components of a golden era of UK dance, that never slips into pastiche, instead sounding fresh, vital and relevant to the times.

Kindred spirit, DJ Sotofett, weighs in with two versions of ‘Gun Fingers’ exclusively for the vinyl edition of this release.  Those who know Sotofett’s killer style will know the score here, and he certainly does not disappoint.  And those who spent time chasing around motorways and A roads in search of the party will most definitely know what’s up on this set of remixes!


Gun Fingers

Luca Lozano - Calling All Dancers (Original Mix) (HYPE047) [clip]

Hypercolour round off a busy year that has seen recent releases from the likes of Kerrier District, Gary Gritness, Roman Flugel, DMX Krew and Outboxx.  And in their 10th anniversary year, the label close 2016 with the heavyweight pairing of Mathew Jonson & Sebastian Mullaert.

Two summers ago, with no distinctive aims or deadlines, Jonson was invited to come and work with Mullaert and stayed for 5 days in the exceptionally beautiful surroundings of one of Sweden's National Parks. Inspiring a creative process far-removed from the harsh and harried pace of urban life; freedom to jam, play around and most importantly, reconnect with nature and the natural flow of ideas while deep in the forest, allowed their collective visions, directions and feelings to comfortably unwind. 
 
As Mullaert puts it "the freeing up of space and time allows an artist to rediscover him or herself. Frames can't be too rigid, static detail hinders the process to unfold in a beautiful way". Engaging mostly in ambientic-style sessions 'Pollen 4 Life' was made on a day the mood took them in the direction of the dance floor. True to form and still escaping any kind of prescribed formula, the music embodies this fluid, evolving journey and a sense of losing yourself...
 
Both long-time figureheads of electronic music, Mathew Jonson (one third of Cobblestone Jazz) and Sebastian Mullaert (one half of techno duo Minilogue) have been collaborators and an inspiration to each other for over a decade, first with releases on Jonson's label Wagon Repair and most recently as live trio Mathew Jonson vs. Minilogue, which only stopped touring last year. Originally meeting at the fabled Labyrinth festival in Japan 2005, Mullaert explains "our paths have crossed in different ways and now it's time for an EP together; the fruit of Mathew's visit to Röstånga. Pollen 4 Life".

Pollen 4 Life

Mathew Jonson & Sebastian Mullaert - Pollen 4 Life (Dub Mix) (Hypercolour)

A riotous romp through imaginatively used samples, familiar piano riffs, customary beats and other rave tropes, the master of mischief Luke Vibert puts together a 10 track ode to the era of M25 convoys, mobile phone hotlines and raving amongst dogs on strings in British aerodrome fields. 

With a long and extensive history in the UK’s dance counterculture spanning three decades, Vibert has released a barrage of inventive and animated music over the years that really doesn’t take itself too seriously, and is all the better for it.  LPs and singles for Mo Wax, Warp, Planet Mu, Ninja Tune and Rising High really speaks for itself, so it’s a honour to welcome Vibert back onto Hypercolour (after 2014’s ‘Ridmik’ album and 2015’s return of his Kerrier District moniker).

Vibert stiches together a collage of sounds, samples and beats for ‘Luke Vibert Presents UK Garave Vol. 1’ that captures the essence of the rave era perfectly.  Shuffling breakbeats and spine-tingling synths provide the flashbacks on ‘Heard It All B4’ whilst an onslaught of classic vocal hits come at the listener faster than a double drop rush on ‘Feel The Melody’.

‘Feel The Riddim’ doffs it cap at the dawn of UK garage with big bass bin rumbling riffs and Todd Terry beats on +8 whilst ‘U Can’t Touch Dat’ fuses skippy garage beats, rave-tastic stabs and another rewind on the ‘Can You Feel It’ vocal sample that never fails!

Whether you are an ageing raver, or a wide-eyed newbie, ‘Garave Vol. 1’ is a hugely enjoyable frolic in rave’s DAT tape archives, with Vibert playing master of ceremonies to a musical genre that quite simply refuses to die!

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Luke Vibert - Heard It All B4 (HYPELP008) [clip]

Luke Vibert - Feel The Riddim (HYPELP008) [clip]

As proprietors’ of the Will & Ink label, Yaleesa Hall & Malin Genie have been maintaining a busy and consistent release schedule of top notch techno sounds, largely releasing their own, well received, productions. The duo appeared on Hypercolour’s “10 Years” compilation in 2016 with the excellent “Buchan Trap”, and we’ve been blessed to secure a full single release with the on-point pair.

The mechanical funk of “Artin” swings with plenty of assured groove; the shuffling hats, dense kicks and dubby stabs that ping pong across this fierce production mark this out as a real killer cut.

Dario & Marco Zenker, AKA the Zenker Brothers, take time out from their busy Ilian Tape operations to remix “Artin” into a brutal yet funky techno goliath. Congas perpetually roll forward, with frenetic 909 hats and raw and ready stabs in what may well be one of the Zenker’s finest remixes to date.

The essence of funk continues in Hall & Malin’s music, with “Cahen”, a great slab of compelling techno that never slips too far into darkness, instead keeping an ever evolving groove and some abstract drone like synthesis to keep the mood buoyant.

Wrapping up the release is “Brown”, a track that finishes as urgently as it starts, perhaps with a cap doffed to the Purpose Maker sounds of a certain Jeff Mills, but broadening the palette to allow some trippy sound architecture and an effective breakdown mid way through.

Modern day techno supplied by a duo that will most certainly flourish over the coming months, Yaleesa Hall & Malin deliver the goods aplomb on this Hypercolour single.

Artin Brown Cahen EP

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Yaleesa Hall X Malin - Artin (Zenker Brothers Remix)(Hypercolour)

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Four pure heaters from Cop Envy on the ‘Cotton’ EP; dense and meditative breaks, plentiful bass and wide-eyed themes.

Cop Envy’s debut for Hypercolour follows on from distinguished releases on Black Opal, Templar Sound and Cry Baby Records.

Cotton EP

Cop Envy - Cotton EP (HYPE076) [clips]

The Hypercolour train picks up yet more steam with their next release, a double A side from Maxxi Soundsystem Featuring Name One on vocal duties and legendary sonic inventor Matthew Herbert in the remix role. Brighton based beatsmith Maxxi Soundsystem has risen to the top of the pile in recent months with heartfelt jams for Needwant and Futureboogie all fusing uplifting melodies with melancholic beats. 

And it’s a similar MO on this unassumingly anthemic new track, ‘Regrets We Have No Use For.’ Characterised by a wavy, frayed synth line that grows louder then quieter in the mix, soft shakers bring some wiggle whilst the breathy voice of Name One floats up above. It’s charming and sultry, slowly working its way under your skin at the same time as making you dance all under pinned by a monstrous, all consuming and grumbling bass line that makes your chest throb and head bob. 

Found sound innovator and general all round music chief Matthew Herbert goes for a much less soupy sound on his remix. The beats here are less smooth and more splintered, propping up the now distant, filtered vocal that drifts in and out of focus. Of course, the background synth are now much more unhinged and trippy in Herbert’s hands, with the resulting effect one suited to darkened back rooms in the dead of night. 

As ever, an unpredictable release from Hypercolour but that sounds as unique as anything the label has offered up in the past.

Maxxi Soundsystem - Regrets We Have No Use For (w/ Matthew Herbert remix)

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Back on Hypercolour after 2017’s ‘All The Things’ EP, J. Albert returns to the label with more underground goodies and beat science. 

Precarious synths cling onto stammering rhythms, as the Trilogy Tapes / Black Opal artist flexes his multifarious skills over four finely crafted tunes.

Wake Me Up

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J.Albert - Joy Of Rebirth (Hypercolour)

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Available on 122" vinyl/Digital from 15th November

Asquith brings his own imitable brand of UK garage/rave/breaks hybrid to Hypercolour for an EP brimming with real underground vibes.

Hot on the heels of a series of 12”s on his own Asquith label, the Lobster Theremin head honcho drops four cuts of heavy, distorted bass brain melters on the ‘Time & Space’ EP.

Time & Space

Asquith - Time & Space (HYPE081) [clips]

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Carlton Doom bosses it on the ‘Ard EP, bringing together deadly rave influences and razor sharp breakbeats for a trio of no-nonsense, face melting, brain scrambling, party tackle.

With previous releases on Dixon Avenue Basement jams sub-label Neutralizer, and Or:la’s Deep Sea Frequency label, Carlton Doom continues to bare his musical chops with aplomb, on his Hypercolour debut.

'Ard

Carlton Doom - 'Ard (HYPE082) [clips]

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You know we are in for a treat when Luke Vibert, exponent of electronic beats and breaks since the dawn of rave, delivers not one, not two, but three new album projects, each with a specific musical theme and thread.  A set of three long players, collect them all like bubble gum stickers and annoy your neighbours by playing at high volume!

Vibert’s previous album projects for Hypercolour, both as Kerrier District, and under his own name, have always excelled, not to mention his ground-breaking and brain scrambling long players for Warp, Rephlex, Rising High Records, Planet Mu and Ninja Tune.

Vibert revives his Amen Andrews moniker after over a decade lying dormant.  Squarely aiming the sound at the ‘Amen break’, ‘Luke Vibert presents Amen Andrews’ brings together 14 slabs of raucous breakbeat bangers, riddled with cool as fuck samples and bass bin shattering sub!

Luke Vibert presents Amen Andrews

Luke Vibert Presents Amen Andrews (HYPELP015) [clips]

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