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Casting a self-reflexive lens over his roots via the medium of crushing, future-rushing soundsystem sonics, Low End Activist returns to Sneaker Social Club with a full-length of monumental proportions.

When the Low End Activism 12” ignited on Sneaker in 2019, it paid tribute to the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, UK, where LEA originates from. In the shadow of social inequality and strengthened by the unity of the multi-ethnic community, Blackbird Leys still imposes a powerful influence on LEA’s work, even as he’s stepped out onto Seagrave for last year’s Game Theory album and notched up the first couple of releases on his own self-titled label.

On this new album, Hostile Utopia sums up the conflicting emotions attached to memories of home – how it’s possible to feel nostalgic for the griminess of urban and suburban Britain, its ordinary tales of bitterness and frustration, but also its intrinsic passion and solidarity. At a time when social division is actively engineered by Machiavellian forces, real conviviality at street level feels like an impossible dream.

LEA communicates these tensions through a style which is becoming his signature – dynamic bass torsion and chiseled, fractalised rhythms slugging around the 130 mark. It’s moody like a UK-themed record ought to be, but it’s not morose. There’s fierceness in every snap and rumble, as the legacies of hardcore, jungle, dubstep and grime pour into the casing prior to the gunpowder lighting.

On previous LEA releases, the MC roll call has pointed to some of the most vital voices touching the mic in the present day. Flowdan, Sikka Rymes and Trim all had something different to impart over the riddims, and now Hostile Utopia expands on that with the most extensive show of lyrical strength yet. Mez lights up the woozy, abstract grime swerve of ‘Mercenary’ in a musical style. Emz brings a ruthlessly sharp verbal steez to ‘GetGet’, Killa P gets busy toasting over ‘DFRNT STYLE’ and ‘Superhighway’ carries the dexterous hip-hop flow of Cadence Weapon.

In between those standout tracks, LEA expresses just as much in the production. Tracks brimming with stories to impart, laden with symbols masquerading as samples and draped in aural garb that firmly places Hostile Utopia in a place, a mood, that could only belong to the UK. It’s a hybrid sound just like the society it sprang from, and therein lies its power.

Low End Activist ft.  Emz - Get Get

@sputnik_one's pointillist club music takes a looser, but no less impactful, approach for the debut release on his N-Face label

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-sputnik-one-grafters

N-FACE001

Premiere: Sputnik One ‘Grafters’

Oh No

Fonda U

Jonas Kopp - 55 Dias

A1 55 Dias
A2 El Alba, Vos y Yo
B   55 Dias (Kowton Remix)

More infos: http://www.iliantape.de/itx02-jonas-kopp-55-dias/

ITX02 JONAS KOPP - 55 DIAS (W/ KOWTON RMX)

Sciahri - Mysterious Love

A1 The Dream Is True
A2 Mysterious Love
B1 Mind
B2 Emblema

More infos: http://www.iliantape.de/itx03-sciahri-mysterious-love/

ITX03 SCIAHRI - MYSTERIOUS LOVE

@TONYQUATTRO & @sietecatorce balance intricate experimentalism with club-tuned heft on their debut collaborative EP, featuring remixes from @nikki-nair and @Deeplinkin

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-tony-quattro-siete-catorce-cat-ft-lua-preta-nikki-nair-remix

Move Like A Fish

Premiere: Tony Quattro & Siete Catorce ‘The Cat ft. Lua Preta (Nikki Nair Remix)’

Skee Mask - Serum

A1. Cylo
A2. Torpor 12 (Session)
B1. Reduct Live
B2. Serum (Session 1)
B3. Serum (Revive)

More infos: http://www.iliantape.de/itx04-skee-mask-serum-3/

ITX04 SKEE MASK - SERUM

Buy full EP: https://localaction.lnk.to/rushing-1621

Local Action is very proud to present Rushing 1621, the first EP from a transatlantic meeting of minds and styles from two of our favourite artists: Om Unit and James Bangura. 

Based in Bristol, Om Unit is a titan of UK soundsystem music, pulling footwork, hip-hop, jungle, bass, techno, breaks and more into wild new shapes across an illustrious 15-year plus career.

DC’s James Bangura meanwhile has emerged as one of the most exciting artists on America’s east coast, releasing solo heat on labels like Incienso and !K7 and regularly touring the world as part of the Black Rave Culture collective, drawing from regional club styles across the States. 

The EP’s title Rushing 1621 is a reference to both artists’ area codes, so UK-meets-US synergy is the name of the game here (and if you know Local Action, you probably already know that this sort of thing is our catnip). Garage, house, breaks and even moments that recall early ‘00s proto-dubstep and dub-techno are all present, but really, it’s both artists’ immaculate drums and flawless production that drives this thing. Some records just feel unimpeachable, and this is one.

Tracklist:
01. Ruffneck
02. The Page
03. Sapporo Drums
04. Angles

Buy full EP

Ruffneck

Skee Mask - Junt

A1. Junt
A2. Hover
B1. Larus Canus
B2. Start Up Trak (Edit)

ITX05 SKEE MASK - JUNT

Moving The Center

2 The Front

02. switch,case - DXM

Something a lil heavier. lmk what y'all think. Full chune coming soon.

VOGZ - CHONK (clip)

Andrés Zacco - Dinosphere

A1. Thaw
A2. Quirt
B1. Beighty
B2. Thaw (Rupcy Remix)

http://www.iliantape.de/itx06-andres-zacco-dinosphere/

ITX06 ANDRÉS ZACCO - DINOSPHERE

Walton - Debris

A1. FX 625
A2. Djembe
B1. Debris
B2. Tek Breath Riddim

Rude Marching Drum Storms

http://iliantape.de/itx017-walton-debris/

ITX017 WALTON - DEBRIS

TEMET's first release is here !

Mastering by Krikor, Visual by DR.ME
Release date : 29 september 2020

Vinyl and Digital available at : https://temet.bandcamp.com/album/duo-road-ep

Duo Road Ep

E-Unity - Late Tate Tale

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

A true mystery is unfathomable and nothing is hidden inside it. There is nothing to explain . .. It has been said that the logic of this story is the logic of a dream.

♓︎

Munich based record label founded in 2007 and run by the Zenker Brothers. 
Artists: Andrea, Andrés Zacco, Atrice, Dario Zenker, Deetron presents Soulmate, Djrum, Dj Plant Texture, Etch, Fireground, Full Bloom, Jake Muir, Jichael Mackson, Kas / Galaxian, Katatonic Silentio, Kid Sundance, Konrad Wehrmeister, Laksa, Mia Koden, Marco Zenker, MPU101, Packed Rich, Pessimist, Prime Vertical, re:ni, Roger 23, ROLROLROL, Sciahri, Seba & Paradox, Simple, Skee Mask, Stenny, Surgeon, Sustrapperazzi, Thigpen, Walton, Zeki 808, Zenker Brothers

ITX017 WALTON - DEBRIS

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