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Label: Banoffee Pies Records
Catalogue No: BPWL02
Title: Banoffee Pies White Label Series 02
Artists: No Nation
Genre: Jungle / Drum & Bass / Hardcore
EP Release: June 2023
Single: 30.06.23
EP: 23.08.23

Tracklist:
A1 - I Wonder
A2 - DntSayMuch
B1 - Ideation
B2 - Gad Damn

Banoffee Pies White Label Series is back with a debut EP on the mother imprint from Bristol based Artist, DJ & Talent, No Nation. A deeply attuned junglist delivers their love sick transmission with four gripping, jazzy and skeletal hybrid rave compositions. BPR x

Mastered: Optimum
Distributed by: K7!

Banoffee Pies White Label Series

Banoffee Pies White Label Series 02

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PREMIERE: No Nation - Gad Damn

Ego Destroyer

Taken from the new Calibre D&B album Rudy. 

All 13 tracks written, produced and vocals by Calibre, apart from track 2 - More Fool Me with lyrics and vocals by Cimone.

The album features 7 of the previously unreleased tracks from Calibre’s Boiler Room Set: Stunted, Dumb Bum, The Game, Cousin, No Stopping & Treason. https://blrrm.tv/3JwwVJT

Album Artwork by Calibre.

Rudy

No Stopping

Heaven

Cosmosis

Best track of Aural Imbalance - Atmospheric Drum & Bass 

Aural Imbalance - Instantaneous

Metamorphosis02

Butterflies

Stream/Buy: www.linktr.ee/scissorandthread

@soelaela is the DJ and production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based experienced pianist and vocalist who has made a hugely impactful transition into electronic music.

Having released material on such labels as Kompakt, Dial, Shall Not Fade, Lost Palms, E-Beamz, Red Ember Records, Sushitech, and others, Soela joins the ranks of Scissor & Thread for this exquisite album - Dark Portrait. 

The album opens in a typically understated manner with Unsuitable - a melancholic trip-hop adjacent track that sets the tone for the next 8 pieces. As Soela explains, “I was dealing with some very complex feelings, so I came up with this album, which helped me not to despair, to work on myself, to grow internally, and to start listening to myself. It helped me to keep sane when my country invaded Ukraine with a full scale war. It absolutely broke my heart, and music was one of my main salvations.” 

This complex mix of emotions plays out across the album with tracks that utilize her beautiful musicality (Through the Windows feat. Francis Harris and Philipp Priebe, Drowning feat. Module One) and ear for details with skittering beats, ambient soundscapes (Spirits, Lost In The Fog) and lose-yourself dancefloor moments such as the collaboration with Lawrence on February Is Not Going To Be Forever. The title track Dark Portrait combines dubby elements with affecting pads and melodic touches, while the lead single Even If I Ask You Stay delves into multiple feelings around escaping toxic situations, and battling depression. It features a powerful vocal from Soela supported by a deeply affecting arrangement. The closing track The Darkest Hour Before Sunrise brings a sense of hope and light, balancing subdued keys and strings with ethereal tones and atmospheres

Dark Portrait

Soela - The Darkest Hour Before Sunrise

life after humans

wanting less

sweat

An Animal

Taken Together

The Anthology of Fragments

https://tensenpark.bandcamp.com/album/jurassimo

@tensen-park

Close your eyes, take a deep breath & allow your mind to bring you on a journey to a far away land. When your eyes open, you appear inside of a lush yet strangely digital landscape, billions of years into the past where the planet is overflowing with a myriad of the most unusual plants & animals. You find yourself comforted by the natural serenity of it all, the lack of human influence on the world around you. Submerged in the depths of cool, dense, mysterious jungles, interrupted only by the occasional river snaking through the trees. You trek across the most vivid of green mountains & through deep valleys that are peppered with crystal clear blue waters from the melted glaciers of a past ice age. It’s just the slightest bit familiar yet there is not a human in sight. A delicate shimmering coats the surface of everything you see. It’s as if you are in a dreamlike, artificial state of consciousness. This is the world of Tensen Park’s ‘Jurassimo’.

The Amsterdam-based producer takes you on an introspective ride through 4 dubby, ambient & IDM-adjacent tracks, each with a cool wash of crispy effervescence & crystalline ear candy. The music is full of so much beautiful detail which sounds as if it was performed in an improvisational manner. There is a meticulousness & attention to detail that is heard throughout yet everything somehow sounds unpretentious & flows naturally. The EP closes with a 5th track which is a wonderfully crunchy & upbeat rework from friend & occasional collaborator lmnop. 

Written & produced by Mark Tensen
Remix & additional production by Casper van der Lans at MRF Recordings
Artwork by Griff Fulton aka Aspetuck
Mastered by Sven Weisemann
Released by Never Late

Tensen Park - Midnight Hover

Another Space

Big Tiny

Un Hiver

Soft Focus

never hit the bottom

Kangding Ray's EP 'Predawn Qualia', out now on ara
https://kangdingray.bandcamp.com/album/predawn-qualia-ep

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Artwork by Kangding Ray

Trade On Azul

Kangding Ray | Trade On Azul | ara001

Maps and Diagrams - Kalia

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