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Fresh from across the pond: Text Chunk coming right at you with benevolent beats on DRIFT003: We See Them As We Are.

1. Winter Dope
2. Nuplex
3. You Used To Jungle
4. Floccinaucinihilipilification

Artwork: Tim Lindacher & Steffen Hotel

Release Date: December 7th 2018

Bandcamp: infinite-drift.bandcamp.com/album/we-see-them-as-we-are

DRIFT003 Text Chunk - We See Them As We Are EP

ARTIST: Silvestre (@silvestre_pt)
TITLE: Girar EP
CAT NUMBER: DSK045
RELEASE DATE: 25th January 2019

01.	Ir a Sagres 
02.	Deptford Bus 
03.	RC Surfer
04.	Everybody Is Happy

Diskotopia is extremely proud to kick-start 2019 with Girar, a four-track EP of new kaleidoscopic productions from Lisbon-born, London-based producer Silvestre. 

Silvestre is no stranger to Diskotopia, this being his third release with the label, debuting with the gritty noise-and-thump Frank Pike EP in 2014, and following that up with the more buoyant, latinate Floresta EP in 2016. In addition to producing, Silvestre also co-runs the Padre Himalya imprint, putting out 2018’s critically acclaimed Focus EP from tombak virtuoso Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Renato’s 2016 Alo Alo, plus his own Sport Theories and All The Things 12”s.

With the Girar EP, Silvestre continues to embrace the sonic culture-frictions between his home country and his adopted one. In doing so, he has created a pan-continental sound in which coarse-grained Ibero-percussive threads intertwine with digi-tropical synthetic tapestries; testimony of a truly unique artist in the modern current of electronic music. 

Opening with the bubbling Ir a Sagres, Silvestre constructs a basement-born psychotropic rhumba groove, strapped with fluttering arpeggios, nimble conga tappings and a firmly locked-in bassline. Following on, Deptford Bus is a woozier, mid-tempo spliff-house roller, stripped of the flora to leave a simple set up of haunted pads, crisp toms, and a deep sense of unease.

RC Surfer is perhaps the finest example of a soundclash of reggaeton, shoegaze and dub put to wax in recent memory. Here, Silvestre provides an ethereal soundscape with images of late-summer wining in city squares materializing through the cracks of the stoic riddims.

The Girar EP rounds out with the pseudo-rapturous Everybody Is Happy, a slice of breakbeat-house that nods lovingly to the halcyon days of rave past whilst holding a mirror at the present day with an unabating painted-on smile

Girar

Silvestre - Girar

ROW006 comes from Manchester-based Avernian and Strick from Ottawa with a remix by Impey and will be released July 22 via Clone Distribution

Artwork by Frida Pain (www.fridapain.com)
Release Date: 22. July 2019

Hairline Fracture EP

Hairline Fracture

Avernian & Strick - Hairline Fracture (Snippet) - Hairline Fracture EP

OUT NOW & AVAILABLE DIRECT via our serial FIGS compilation - one track every weekday in Oct - out in full Nov 1st > https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/track/misfit-city-rolling

Martyn and Dolo Percussion together on the track. Rolling drums and dubs forever. Big big tip, its an absolute wigpusher.

FIGS Compilation

Martyn x Dolo Percussion - Misfit City Rolling - FIGS - FT050

Artist: Otik
Title: Blasphemy
Cat. No.: BOOGIE007
Release Date: December 6 2019

Following on from Caldera’s 13 17 EP, Boogie Box invites Otik to the fold for an excursion into fresh and vibrant club music unbound by genre. London-based producer Ashley Thomas is perfectly aligned with the Boogie Box’s desire for unconventional angles on dancefloor-focused sounds with bassweight tendencies, and his ever-growing back catalogue proves the point via releases for the likes of Nous, Keysound and Durkle Disco. 

The EP opens with Blasphemy, a heads-down workout that exercises restraint as it tunnels into its groove. Otik’s attention to detail is plain to hear, as side-chained harmonic textures and processed voices pivot around the snaking rhythm of the drums, but the overall effect is subliminal and meditative. Unshut is twitchier from the outset, using bright swipes of chord and a wriggling bed of sound to shape out the personality of the track. Once again the dynamics of the track are executed with a cool head, using inventive approaches and conjuring up a fractured, nostalgic atmosphere in the process. 

Four Feet immediately strikes for the heart with its front and centre synths and re-pitched vocals. The beat is just as striking when it locks in – a tumbling, intricate construction made up of tiny shards of organic matter falling in loose but purposeful unison. Metrist, fresh from a recent drop on Timedance, steps up with a remix of Four Feet that does away with the emotive elements and instead opts for a future-shocking trip into pure electronica. Largely drawing on the complex percussion, Metrist uses those clattering textures as a springboard into chemically-treated sound design acrobatics and leftfield rave energy. 

Both the originals and remix alike opt for inventive creative decisions over dancefloor functionality, but never at the expense of the club potential of the resulting tracks. This is music that positively celebrates the breaking down of barriers, taking the notion of dance music somewhere exciting and new, but importantly somewhere it still bangs.

Blasphemy

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Otik - Four Feet (Metrist Remix)

@fleck E.S.C comes through with an absorbing bit of slow-building techno on @untitledrecs.

More: weareinsert.com/audio/fleck-e-s-c-shelters-untitled-recs/

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Premiere: Fleck E.S.C. - Shelters [untitled (recs)]

Following last years remix of ‘System’ with Tiz East, Simkin returns to All Centre with ‘Toxin’ the second dose of his infectious hybridized club sound.

On the title track he picks up where he left off, riffing on the tropes of techno and club styles with ease and continuing to set the pace for what’s to come. Sprawling high pitched FX fly overhead veering in all directions whilst a cavernous chord pins down the tracks chugging beat as it lurches forward.

B-side ‘Anarres’ begins with an assured combination of deep 4x4 kicks and industrious percussion that are later joined by an angelic haunting melody and a picked bass line. As the track glides along further drums begin to syncopate, locking the listener deeper into a phantom breakbeat groove.

Toxin is available across all platforms from the 6th of March.

Simkin - Anarres

For this edition of Brainwaves’ Threads* residency, Estebahn invites Yolek for a bit of Leck Meine Bahn action. A brilliant producer and impeccable DJ, Yolek is one half of DJ PG and one of the core members of Lausanne’s notorious rave collective La Sacrée Déter.

Threads*Plainpalais - Leck Meine Bahn w/ Yolek & Estebahn

Infinite Drift is a collaborative effort by Jose Fleury & Mathis Ruffing to collect and preserve stimulating ideas. Born out of a mutual interest in music & arts, it serves as an archive of sonic and visual experiments.