No doubt about it, HypeLTD are on a bit of a roll at the moment; recent releases from the likes of JoeFarr, The Analogue Cops and Marco Bernardi have helped shape the Hypercolour sub-label into a consistent purveyor of raw and rootsy techno music.

On the ‘Split’ EP, various artists are assembled to flex their prowess, namely Warlock, Zoé Zoe & Enoah Ballard and Samuel Thalmann.

Opening up the EP is Warlock, the driving force behind London’s Rag & Bone label.  This seasoned British breaks and electro producer offers up ‘Sawhorses’, a weighty 909 kick and incessant, filtering stabs give this an air of familiarity, Berlin in sound, Detroit in spirit perhaps, but a straight up club cut for certain.  A proper jacker, and an ace reverse edit right on the end!

Lithuanian brothers, Zoé Zoe & Enoah Ballard, team up for the ‘1234’.  Zoé Zoe has been behind previous releases on Planet Mu and Sneaker Social Club, and joins his sibling on this dark and ravey breakbeat driven track.  The kind of cut that separates the wheat from the chaff come closing time at your local discothèque, ‘1234’ is both eerie, cosmic and flat out deep all at once.  

Closing this ‘Split’ EP is Samuel Thalmann AKA Okain, a man behind an incredible musical CV, including music for Tsuba, BPitch, Memento, Four:Twenty and many more.  Samuel offers up ‘Not Anymore’ under his birth name, a blinding 909 drum workout with some freaky Chi-town modulations goin on.  Almost like a perfect accompaniment to Warlock’s ‘Sawhorses’, this is simple yet effective dance track that’ll have ‘em jackin and pumping their fists til dawn.

Selected DJ reactions

Maya Jane Coles - Sawhorses and Not Anymore are killer
Perc (CLR) – Sawhorses is quality
Bodyjack (Clone) – All over these!!
Norman Nodge (Berghain) – 4 stars for Sawhorses, big tune!
Mark Henning (Soma) – Excellent release
Huxley (Hypercolour) – all three tracks are really good
Justin Robertson (Bugged Out) – Great stuff
James Zabiela – 1234 is rude, thanks
Edwin (Foals) – Really like the Okain track, proper bonkers
Phil Kieran (Stiff Kitten) – Like it thanks
Laurent Garnier – Raw dancefloor funkiness, will play for sure
Alan Fitzpatrick (Drumcode) – liking this guys
Jimmy Edgar – Good release
Loco Dice – Nice one, Not Anymore my favourite 
Murderbot – Warlock killing it as usual
Phil Kieran (Stiff Kittens) – Sawhorses for me, like it!
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Dope!


Samuel Thalmann - Not Anymore (clip)

Josi Devil - 08 April 2025

From KAPS003 – gyrofield – Suspension of Belief

gyrofield - Rorschach (ft. Flo State)

Impérieux debuts on Hessle Audio with the Fena EP, an immersive collection of 4 tracks defined by his unpredictable and varied sonic palette. Drawing on a heritage that threads through Turkey, Greece and his home city of Kırcaali in Bulgaria, Alper Durmush channels a turbulent year in which six months of creative stillness ignited unexpectedly into an explosive burst of musical ideas.

"Fena is a word my Mum used to call me as a kid" recounts Durmush on the title track. "The name comes from Turkish, but with a Balkan twist, it means a mischievous rascal - wild, unpredictable, a bit too much at times". This restless energy is perfectly captured with jittering interferance and snarling sawtooth synths bursting through the mix, threatening to overwhelm the speakers and sending sound engineers running for cover. 'Sickomode' encapsulates the push-pull emotional sensibility of the EP, with confidence and meloncholy rotating, shifting, and giving way to each other.

'Saat' is an attempt to recreate a track based solely on a surreal description, relayed by a veteran of the rave scene in his home town - "This guy told me about a festival in the woods back in the early 2000s, where someone played a track with dogs barking in the break - the volume rising constantly." The initial dissonance of its detuned lead releases into a euphoric rush of melody, a combination which is becoming something of a producer trademark. The EP closes with the quiet, unwavering warmth of 'Cawuso', a nickname for a person that the artist met last year. "This very special person showered me with kindness and purity. It almost felt unreal, so I decided to dedicate this track to them." 

Fena EP

Buy on Bandcamp

Impérieux - Fena EP [Snippets]

Dual Monitor - 03 May 2025

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Carré debuts on Woozy with Meltdown, the label’s third instalment on wax. An exciting new iteration for the dubstep blueprint, three weighty and heady half steppers in the proudest one-forty tradition with a modern dub-club twist. Comes with two striking remixes from legends dBridge and NVST.

Label: @woozydublin
Buy: https://woozydublin.bandcamp.com/album/meltdown

PREMIERE: Carré - Crawler [Woozy]

Summertime mix coming straight up. Drop a line for any tunes.

Debba // Voices Radio – June '25

Same Thing (Ghost Phone & DJ Persuasion Remix)

Same Thing (Noah Tucker Remix)

The third unknown – untitled show on Rinse, tracing forward-thinking underground sounds while expanding on the label’s evolving concept.

unknown - untitled - 27 August 2025

Demos: info@hypercolour.co.uk
Label enquiries: nick@nerdlabels.com