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J. Albert – Envy Turned Curiosity EP @jiovanni-nadal / www.instagram.com/coolpics_n_vids/

A1. Money Between Friends
A2. Envy Turned Curiousity
B1. Deepstate Riddim
B2. Designer Life

Artwork by Martin Davis @unclemarty / www.instagram.com/martin__davis/

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Envy Turned Curiosity EP

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J. Albert – Deepstate Riddim

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

Silene - Nakano

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

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

Sapphire Slows - Emotion Still Remains

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.