Living Young, Living Free

Vinyl & digital: https://hypeddit.com/sonic/embers

“When I drive through Longsight to pick up my daughter from school there’s this abandoned pub I used to meet friends in sometimes back in the late 90s. Looking at it, I remember all the energy that used to be inside and think that there still could be that light in the window if someone revived it…

Made me think of how embers can still be fire, given enough air. They’re never truly extinguished while a faint glow still exists.”
—@djsonicuk

Embers

Vinyl—Digital

Sonic — Embers

Jasper Byrne + Sonic - Blacklight

Live recording from Spellbound at Band on the Wall Manchester 2024

Spellbound Band on the Wall 13 09 2024

ONE DAY

HANDS

CREEPING IN

ECHO PARK

Dead Man's Chest proudly presents Blunted Breaks Vol.1, a compilation LP drawing from some of the freshest talent in the contemporary jungle movement.

4 track sampler released 27th July 2018 on soild pink vinyl/digital, pre-orders go live at www.westernlore.co.uk Thursday 5th July.

Hold tight for Blunted Breaks Vol.1, dropping September 2018 on 3xLP, cassette & digital with cuts from Dead Man's Chest, Tim Reaper & Drumlinezz, Coco Bryce, Threshold, Response & Pliskin, Earl Grey, Thugwidow, Cavanaut, Theory, Sonic and King Kutlass.

Dead Man's Chest X Sonic - Kool With A K

Jasper Byrne AKA Sonic (Sonic & Silver / Accidental Heroes) spent the late 90s & 00s dropping releases on pretty much every legendary D&B label going (Reinforced, Metalheadz, Renegade Hardware, Formation, Virus, Soul:R and his own Space Recordings), before mysteriously disap- pearing to the Far East & re-emerging years later as a hit indy computer games developer (Lone Survivor) & soundtrack artist (Hotline Miami).

After a chance encounter with Dead Man’s Chest at a gig in LA (where Jasper had been working on a game and wholeheartedly soaking up the local Low End Theory music scene), it quickly emerged the two had shared similar musical stories; straying from previous D&B careers and into the musical wilderness, only to drift back toward the tempo with a new found ‘outsider’ approach and eerily familiar conclusions...
After teasing us with 2018’s 110174 mixtape (ltd edition cassette only release) and his appear- ances on Blunted Breaks Vol.1, 2019 sees Sonic mark his return to the world of dance music proper with this two part, heavyweight EP for Western Lore.

Blending techno, footwork, LA bass, hardcore, synthwave and d&b under a loose jungle tekno framework, 110174 sees Sonic crafting beats, breaks & bass with an artisanal deftness rarely seen.

- Released March 1st 2019 on digital and heavyweight (180g)2 x black vinyl, shrink-wrapped and housed in a full art reverse board sleeve.

- Records purchased directly from www.westernlore.co.uk come with a unique LORE005 sticker & limited edition trading card. Also available and exclusive to Bandcamp is a signed Risograph print of the cover art by Alex Eveson (limited edition of 200).

Pre-orders go live Thursday 7th February from www.westernlore.co.uk

Sonic - Serendipity (110174 pt.1 Serendipity)

Beats and bass from Jasper Byrne.

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/podcast-577-sonic

Jasper Byrne + Sonic - Blacklight

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