@awo_ojiji debuts on Control Freak for the long awaited return of our White Label series with his ‘Solidify EP’ - four percussive, wonky & propulsive club cuts, complete with a remix from label heads Customer Service & Finnaman.

Based out of Graz, Austria, Awo Ojiji has been quietly carving out his own lane in the leftfield techno & bass music world. Distinct, detailed and fundamentally genre-fluid, his oddball productions cross a range of stylistic influences and tempos, purpose built for the explorative DJ.

Early support on this one from Laksa, re:ni, Gramrcy & more - very limited pressing of just 300 hand-stamped records - don’t miss your chance to grab one.

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Awo Ojiji - Solidify EP [WLFRK003] - Previews

DL : https://isthisrealityorjustadream.bandcamp.com/album/precision-flux-2

Guess who's back...

Hey everyone hope you're doing fantastic, it's been ages but i'm finally back on track with some new releases incoming ! I decided to start self-releasing more music from now so here's a first opus called Precision/Flux, some club materials using my now usual formula mixing influences from bass music to rap, dubstep and idm.

Hope you will enjoy these tracks, got more to come very soon ...

Precision

Following releases for 3024, Pressure Dome, Femme Culture & Pseudonym Records, @talik1's third EP for Intercept sees her hone her sound even further with two deeply sincere cuts 'Kundalini' and 'Home', the latter featuring incisive spoken word from The Slopes. 

Opener 'Kundalini' delves into its namesake energy, a form of yogic practice and expression focussed on movement and balance, literally translated from the original Sanskrit as 'coiled snake'. This sense of understated power emerges from a backbone of sparse rhythm and growling bass punctuated by assured percussion and subtle murmurs. Meanwhile, lyrical, synthetic melodies materialise and gesture towards this sense of introspective, cathartic motion. 

On the flip things get even deeper, 'Home' exemplifying Talik's penchant for pairing snarling sound design with sincere harmonies, sharpening her surreal, existential take on left-field bass. Accompanied by the lyrical dexterity of The Slopes, 'Home' interrogates loss, belonging, and companionship, a pensive reflection on our times and a perfect accompaniment to 'Kundalini'. 

Taken together, the two pieces further assert the potency and poignancy of Talik's sound, with The Slopes complementing and pushing her aesthetic vision even further forwards.

Talik - Kundalini

Pre-order: https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/look-mum-no-hands

@pressuredome label-head @yushh lands on @wisdomteeth-uk with her long-anticipated debut EP, ‘Look Mum No Hands’ - an assured four-tracker that draws on Bristol bass, footwork, jungle and broken techno to create something fresh and upfront.

On the EP's penultimate track, ‘Close Fall’ squeezes darkside d’n’b sonics into a chugging 95 BPM beat template.

Look Mum No Hands

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Premiere: Yushh 'Close Fall'

Kouslin returns to Livity Sound with a second collection of slippery club tracks after the 2020 Vision E.P. With an emphasis on head-twisting sound design and a detailed line in percussive programming, the London-based producer continues to reach into intriguing new areas without forsaking soundsystem-ready physicality.  

The tracks which make up the Patterns E.P. stemmed from a period of personal experimentation, where Kouslin returned to making music for its therapeutic benefits rather than a fixed purpose. The loops and sketches he returned to and expanded upon for this EP bristle with originality at every turn. 

There is a continued exploration of dancehall rhythms on ‘King’, while ‘Five Four’ toys with time signatures for a jagged, fast-paced abstraction of techno. ‘Why Don’t You Don’t’ is harder to pin down thanks to its knotty beat and mutant synthesis, and ‘Michael’ flips the script further with an unexpected swerve into pearlescent melodic lead lines – the perfect demonstration of the honest and instinctive approach Kouslin took when making these tracks.

Patterns E.P.

Kouslin - King - Livity Sound

Our sixth VA compilation continues in the collective spirit at the heart of Pressure Dome; here taking its fullest form. The first of its kind in the label catalogue, ‘Two [Is Greater Than] One’ sees a selection of PD regulars and friends of the label put their heads together across eight atmospheric tracks, equally as suited to the club as to solo listening. 

Those who have followed the label for a while will be no stranger to the comp’s first collaborator. Human Resources teams up with London dub techno specialist, Keplrr, on ‘Spring’: a mood-led composition where the impact is contained in atmosphere. Fragmented drum breaks are engulfed by airy synth pads and punctuated by a dancehall-indebted rhythm that marches at 90BPM. ‘Yuppel’ welcomes Noods Radio mainstay Sid Quirk aka Keppel into the mix. He is joined by label boss, Yushh, on a ruminative percussive tool, guided by cavernous drums that fabricate a vivid, immersive environment. With the guidance of Brighton’s Caldera, the journey continues with Süss Choc. The reverb-laden synth plucks on ‘evoke water droplets, and hallucinatory details echo around them to create the illusion of being in a mountainous cove.

Delay Grounds – an audiophile in the truest sense of the word – is next to take the baton. Together, he and Yushh take it up a notch on ‘Telomere’ – a full-bodied club-ready track packed with glitchy chords and giddy drums. A gnarly, Pariah-esque breakdown segues into the track’s second wind where pitched-up vocal chops accelerate it to the compilation’s energetic climax. With the help of London drum specialist, Syz, ‘Fuzbidun’ keeps our feet firmly on the dancefloor. Breakbeats are chopped and rearranged, flitting between double and half time whilst a distorted mid-bass roughens things round the edges, prepping the ground for the compilation’s move to a more inorganic feel.

Bristol don, Forever, joins Yushh next on ‘Passing Notes’ – a groove-driven club track where skittish percussion ricochets from side to side, so palpable it tempts the touch. ‘Crash Bash Party At BUFOs’ is no different. The link-up between Delay Grounds and dance music’s stalwart of musique concrète, Wordcolour, is completely idiosyncratic to both artists: the perfect combination of found-sound percussion and skillfully rehashed vocal samples. It’s up to two PD mainstays – Roy Mills and Human Resources – to close proceedings. A chugging rhythm bubbles under the surface of ‘Sycophantasy’, sending us on a dubbed-out trip before picking the pace back up again.

Copy – Annie Parker
Artwork – Jesse Webb
Mastering – Matthew Bentley

Yuppel

Keppel X Yushh - Yuppel (PDCOLLAB001)

Prolific New York artist @jiovanni-nadal steps up on Couldn't Care More with five cuts of shapeshifting, dubwise electronic music 

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-j-albert-court

NT015

Premiere: J. Albert ‘Court’

1h30 of drums explorations, dancehall, dubbed tracks, uk funky & more / 90 to 140 bpm

Tracklist here : www.instagram.com/remikaval

Lost Drums Show - Kaval (Mars 2023)

Of Paradise continue their Various Artists series with an 11-track masterclass in shapeshifting underground dance music.

Comprised of all new material, the fifth instalment in the label’s VA series showcases a spellbinding collection of cross-genre and multifaceted compositions that mutate from rumbling bass pressure into atmospheric jungle, contorted techno and beyond.  

Featuring selected works from Slolek, Kellen303, Destrata, Pugilist, Fiesta Soundsystem, Tom Jarmey, Vilhelm, Fade, Atrice, Lazarus and D3U5E, Of Paradise Vol. 5 is a mesmerising and hallucinatory soundtrack curated to be played out across a shattered club landscape.

1. Slolek – Obsidian
2. Kellen303 – Pulse Analysis
3. Destrata – Meridian
4. Pugilist – Serpentine
5. Fiesta Soundsystem – Passivity Trap
6. Tom Jarmey – Crystal Fields
7. Vilhelm – Peak
8. Fade – Acrylic
9. Atrice – Levels
10. Lazarus – DJs Hate This Trick
11. D3U5E – Helm

@slolek, @kellen303, @destratavan, @pugilistmusic, @fiestasoundsystem, @tom-jarmey, @vilhelmhasselgren, @fadeofparadise, @atricemiras, @lazarus_nbg, @d3u5e.

Talik - Kundalini

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