Pre-order: https://okzharp.bandcamp.com/album/outside-the-ride

'Outside the Ride' builds on @okzharp's last EP for @hyperdub - a new 7-track record landing back on the label this August. Born out of a 127 bpm Gqom-influenced soundtrack created for a short film, 'Outside the Ride' sees Okzharp moving forward with a new amalgam of speedy music that explores a chimera of South African Gqom, turn-of-the-century techstep and footwork.

On 'Incline Disconnect', acidic leads slither against tense, trance-inducing synth swirls. Frayed, off-kilter drums and fierce 808 accents interlock in an unlikely, seductive soundsystem killer.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Okzharp 'Incline Disconnect'

Like countless others, Steve Goodman played a lot of video games during lockdown. At the time, the artist known as Kode9 and founder of the iconic Hyperdub label found himself imagining a game about Scotland and the country's plan to set up a colony in Panama back in the 1690s. Those thoughts later crystallised into Astro-Darien, an AV installation, "sonic fiction" and album that explores Scotland's space program and its past colonial ambitions through the lens of a video game.

Speaking to RA on this week's episode of the Exchange, Goodman delves into the various facets of this project, including Escapology, his score to Astro-Darien. The album, released in July, is "like a film trailer that's giving you a little taste of various bits of story and strands of a kind of palette of sounds and a world," he explains. "So if you want, there's places to go deeper on it but if you are not interested in that, just treat it as a slightly weird dance music record."

Science fiction aside, the Hyperdub founder also discusses the cyclical nature of music and why jungle is currently experiencing what many have called a revival. "Music doesn't move forward, it doesn't progress in a linear fashion," he describes, attributing that to "generational relationships."

For more deep thoughts and Goodman's guide on hiking in the Scottish Highlands, listen to the conversation in full.

EX.624 Kode9

To mark the 20th anniversary of famed British label Hyperdub, Line Noise organised a round-table interview with four of the label's key artists - founder Kode9, Ikonika, DJ Haram and Heavee - at Primavera Sound 2024. The results were fascinating, swinging from the obsession of running a record label to every artist's favourite Hyperdub songs. Picture by Cecila Diaz Betz.

Line Noise Episode 167 (Hyperdub special with Kode9, Ikonika, DJ Haram and Heavee)

Pre-order: https://ikonika.lnk.to/SAD

@IKONIKA arrives on @hyperdub with 'SAD', a 10-track record marking a distinctive push up from their past as a producer, with their sultry, unvarnished vocals directing the journey.

“This is an album travelling through seasons in your mind. It’s as close to my final form as I’ve known”, Ikonika explains. The languid 'Your Vibe' is a seductive paean par excellence.

Premiere: Ikonika 'Your Vibe'

hi frends

here´s a ruff free download  SOUND VOYAGE  (Niko Schabel ,Radio Citizen & Tom Wieland , 7 Samurai) edit of one of the best kept lo fi 80´s Afro Synth private press secrets for you.
Sounds like Maurice Fulton stranded  in Congo ? ,originally released 1980 on Julien´s own imprint in France on wax, Julien Babinga Records ‎– JB 003  .
Thnx Makossa for reminding me of this beauty !

enjoy folks.

soundcloud.com/7-samurai

free download

JULIEN BABINGA M'Bongui-Percussions SOUND VOYAGE future world edit

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Death Becomes Her' 
Released on Hyperdub on 1st March 2019.

Produced by Asmara
Preorder the album and receive ' Like A Girl feat K-Rizz' https://fanlink.to/Deathbecomesher

Death Becomes Her

Like a Girl Feat K-Rizz

Angel-Ho - Like A Girl feat K Rizz

Today's premiere is brought to you by Video Game music composer Yuzo Koshiro .  With an added twist from Hyperdub's head honcho Kode9, the track is from the new Diggin In the carts remix EP.

Watch the interesting interview with Yuzo Koshiro here:
https://youtu.be/TAuAM75Pf5w

Diggin In The Carts Kode9 Remixes is out on the 3rd May on Hyperdub on Vinyl and Digital

Various Artists - Diggin In The Carts, Kode9 Remixes

Premiere: Yuzo Koshiro 'Temple (Actraiser) Kode9 RMX'

Analogue x Hyperdub

Mana, ALTERED INTERZONE

Snooks - Rex

Ben Cardew meets fearless London producer Loraine James to talk math rock, Twitter collaborations, love and lockdown.

Line Noise Episode 63 (Loraine James)

Hyperdub is a record label based in South East London UK

Mana, ALTERED INTERZONE

Hyperdub Records

Related tracks