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Only For The Footworkers Vol.1 is a dedication project to all dancers for footworkers appreciation month hope you all enjoy .

Lupay - F That Test

Amadeezy - Go Berserk ( EL PLVYBXY Remix) [Preview]

War Room

The Best

無我 (not self)

The Next Wave, Volume. 20 - Mixed By DJ Manny

abode santann

ur such a loser ( prod.58 )

crazy_prod_ck.mp3

project engineered, written, & mixxed by Jah2230/Lessworth
cover by jah2230
prod by (not in order)
2shanez
astral
ebekenezer
nbarchive
attidude
dhan
dhearttt


slan (prod. attidude)

Mixed by @pleasetrax

TRACKLIST:

For Your Ears To Hear - DJ Manny
Clap Yo Hands 2011 (Factory Style) - Slick Rick Da' Master
Bodyflexin - Traxman
The Wizard of Move - Rondell Adams
Work That Magik - Lester Fitzpatrick
My Song 5 - Fuj
Midnight Stop (2012) - Bok Bok
Sadist-fied (feat. Ziptopher) - Please
Traffic Control - DJ Hank
The Almight - Boylan
Scream - Saint Icky
Pump Ya Fist - Lupay

The Next Wave, Volume. 1

The Next Wave, Volume. 1 - Mixed by Please

Sounds by the one and only @composuresquad

TRACKLIST:

roza terenzi - open me
millia rage - ayame (ft. scim)
desert sound colony - al gore rhythmic (feat guava)
interplanetary criminal - tension
lady lykez - muhammed ali (feat lioness - remix)
paleman - titan vulture
lorenzo bitw - Amrutha (feat Snow)
khalfani - fashion v1
suzi analogue - stay ready / ur dreamz 
key - hard soft 
saint icky - word around

The Next Wave, Volume. 2 - Mixed by Composuresquad

2oo4 JUKE

The Next Wave, Volume. 3 - Mixed by Velaluna

Sounds by @julioc0rd0va

TRACKLIST:

DAF/DOS - A Moron 
DJ Hyperactive - S.O.S. 
DJ Hyperactive - Bearcrawl 
Developer - Risky 
Bergsonist - Viruses Slowly Destroying the Planet 
Hugo Moya - Move (Original Mix) 
Robert Armani - Scrabble 
Amotik - Tetalis (Ellen Allien Remix) 
Mike Dearborn - The Voice of God 
DJ Misjah - The Strong Rhythm 
TAH - 44357972 (Faith is What Remains)
Max Watts - Hesitancy 
Ángel Alanis - Night Life 
L & B Project - Up and Down 
Mark V & Poogie Bear - What You Waiting For
Alex Peace - L.O.V.E. (Alex Peace Filthy Mix) 
FALSEBOI - Skin 
Flore - Cosed Language (Hodge Remix) 
Kush Jones - DOPPLER 
Two Sided Agency - Nowhere Fast 
MoMA Ready - Uneven Pressure 
Raul Zerna - Creeping (Angel Alanis Remix) 
Amazonsotcom / Siete Catorce - Parti 
SANTA NIÑA - LOKA 
Hardfloor - Beavis At Bat (Dave Angel Remix) 
Metrakit - Bass Up 
XOXO Miro - 鼓一 Drum Studies 1
DJ TUERCA - Cyber Loop 
Stiwie - Plata O Plomo 
quest?onmarc - Fuck The Club Tool
LYM. - CONFRITAMENTO
Mani Festo - The Core 
Merca Bae & Miss Jay - Portal 
Foul Play - Feel The Vibe

The Next Wave, Volume. 4 - Mixed by Julio Cordova

Sounds by @rayreck

TRACKLIST:

1. THERE'S SOME HOUSE - (RAYRECK LOFI WAP REWORK)
2. RAISE YOUR HANDS - STACK CHIP
3. U KNOW WUT - GHOSTWIP
4. WORK CUT - GARNEAU
5. NOTHING BUT NET- DJ SWISHA
6. NON STOP - FTP UP
7. BEAT THE R70 - DJ DEEON
8. XES WORK - FTP UP 
9. FEMININE ENERGY X ASSAULTLAND (RAYRECK MASHUP)
10. EAT IT NOW - SILKYBLACK
11. EVERY FREAKIN NIGHT - SILKYBLACK
12. JERK IN THE SAND - VULVAREEN

The Next Wave, Volume. 5 - Mixed by rayreck

Artist: @laughingears
Catalogue Number: IM086
Album: Blood
Release Date: February 26th, 2021
Format: Digital

Laughing Ears is poised to release her second LP this January via club music vanguards, Infinite Machine. Her lengthiest offering to date, Blood consists of 10 tracks that highlight Laughing Ears’s knack for building otherworldly atmospherics within club-ready, dance music structures. Taking the tale of Fenrir as it’s starting point, (a giant wolf in Norse mythology who spent much of his life bound and chained to a rock in captivity), the album conceptually deals with family ties and the melancholic beauty that can be found in the darkness of loss.

Blood opens with the airy, gliding synths and heavy drumwork of Flickering Shadows. The track has a unique sense of space due its wide stereo-imaging as well as Laughing Ears’ haunting melodies and driving rhythms. A 100bpm creeper fit for exploring uncharted virtual lands. On the following track, Loki, things are stripped back to their functional essentials. Tabla hits, bass pluses and strange whistles brush up against each other in a head-spinning assemblage before surging towards a climactic resolution.

The serene Untouched Places showcases Laughing Ears’ unique approach to melody and harmony. With a background in singing herself, her synths lines here seem to tonally intertwine, like vocal DNA, veering from harmonious and dissonant phases. Compared to the tranquility of Untouched Places, LP title-track, Blood, moves the record in a more intense direction. A brick wall of compressed percussion and humanoid-sung samples seem to battle it out for the listener’s attention in an enthralling sonic confrontation.

On Blood’s mid-point, Night Whisps, the producer’s love for the thrilling soundtracks of Satoshi Kon’s anime movies definitely comes through clearly. Bass drones claustrophobically reverberate around the mix - acting as a musical backbone that a wide array of staccato samples are stitched onto. Next up, Murderous Means, as its blood-thirsty title suggests, is a brutal and hard-hitting club track that’ll keep listeners guessing as the composition twists and turns. The song’s furious, ever-evolving drum patterns create mesmerizing rhythms you can’t help but bob your head to.

The polyrhythms continue on the following piece, Buona Fortuna. Like footwork, a genre she looks to for inspiration, on Buona Fortuna, the main groove is built out of a disparate family of drum samples which work in tandem - much like how individual dots of an Impressionist painting cooperate to form a single, concrete image. Laughing Ears then slows things down slightly with Glimmer, which sees the producer mix the low end stylings of UK Funky with strung out horns and gong hits.

On Potcheen, the longest of the record, Laughing Ears ambitiously constructs a track that starts from curious, ambient beginnings before morphing into a ferocious footwork-infused banger. Rounding off the release, Warm as A Lizard is a groove-laided drum freakout, crammed full of dense textures which build into a tonal fever pitch.

Artwork by Nic Symbios
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

The Next Wave, Volume. 20 - Mixed By DJ Manny

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