Keita Sano – Jewels EP preview. Released digitally: Monday 16 September, 5 Kinds of Jewels will be released on Postcard vinyl. For more information: www.keepup.co.uk

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Keep Up! is excited to announce a new EP from a brand new group straight outta OZ: Sydney’s Zigsbig. The label heard about their music via an almost completely anonymous Bandcamp upload of a track simply entitled Part One. The label got in touch to see if the group would be interested in issuing the nine minute minute long modern electronic jazz track accompanied with some remixes. This is the result.

Zigsbig is an instrumental band from Sydney, Australia. Taking influence from artists on Brainfeeder, Ninja Tune and Warp, as well as bands closer to home such as Hiatus Kaiyote and the Venusians, they aim to drop heavily-improvised bliss bombs. The group is composed of Zeke Ruckman (30/70, Melbourne), George Sheridan (The Liberators, Record Kicks), Vernon Zamora (The Liberators, Record Kicks), Joel Jenkins (JJ3) and Ken Allars (The Liberators, Mike Nock Trio).

Title track Part One is a free-flowing, multi-movement, tempo-shifting electronic jazz composition which is certainly experimental but remains consistently mellow. Accompanying this are remixes of the original from Swamimillion (AKA Keysound Recordings’ LV) and Bristol-based beat maker Ded Tebiase. Swamimillion fed the stems to the original into their MPCs, re-programmed, re-playing and re-imagined Part One into another improvised piece of electronic music leaning casually towards Hip Hop. Ded Tebiase’s interpretation moves even closer creating a new groove from one slice of the original track and adding a neck-snapping beat.

The three track Part One EP is released digitally via Kudos Records Distribution on Monday 29 September 2014.

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The Stagger EP sees Keep Up! sticking with more-beat driven instrumental productions with four tracks of good old-fashioned Hip Hop. Two to stomp to; two to mellow and in the mould of a beat tape. Opening with title cut Stagger could be something straight out of the Madlib school of hooks with its immediately recognisable sample flip accompanied by live swinging drums. Two Point Four drills down harder at the dancefloor with a skippy beat, relentless bassline and coupled with a cheeky vocal hook. 5am switches the mood to back the home stereo. Laid back, but still sample-based. The blinds are drawn down on the EP with closing track Smoke in my eyes’s supremely mellow piano and double bass lick is the call to stub out the last light of the night.

The Stagger EP is released digitally via Kudos Records Distribution on Monday 16 February 2015.

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Keep Up! Records is excited to reveal its second release of the year which is another debut for the label. Its also a debut release for the artist himself, Brixton based DJ and producer BodyMoves.

North Spaulding is a four track EP of instrumental hip hop, soul and beats, carved out of a three month period of living in and around Los Angeles. Armed with a Native Instruments Maschine and a turntable, and inspired by the sights and sounds of record shops, yard sales and swap meets; North Spaulding is a raw yet soulful production.

However, this EP is more than an homage to the LA beat scene. Opening track This Is Gabor's House is more dusty Afrohouse than Flying Lotus with rootsy percussion, chanting and otherworldly melodies running throughout. Mellow Cotton is an off kilter hip hop number, this time working a soulful vocal sample and reshaping it into some entirely different. What You Gonna Do edges towards disco with a memorable brass hook and the same Maschine edit treatment. The EP closes on a mellow but soulful, swinging tip with Next Up, by using a cleverly chopped up sample which seems to be playing backwards as well as forwards and a killer sub.

North Spaulding works not just in the headphones but out on the dancefloor and is just the beginning for BodyMoves. Watch this space!

Brixton based beatmaker BodyMoves has been playing soulful house, beats, funk and disco around South London's eclectic dancefloors for over five years. Over the years his music, (in different guises but mainly as BRXTNFNK) has had DJ support from Josey Rebelle, iZem, Hector Plimmer and Bobafatt. It has featured on mtv.co.uk, Comedy Central and the BBC, and he recently remixed a track by Collocutor from their Gilles Peterson All Winners album for Peckham via SubSaharan Africa label, On The Corner Records.

BodyMoves hosts regular radio shows on Nula.FM and Dinamo.FM as well as guesting on NTS Radio with CDr and was a finalist at the Samplethon beatmaking competition in 2014 organised by WhoSampled.com and iconic music library Boosey and Hawkes.

'An original melange of tropical, tough beats, soulfulness and a little darkness' - Dom Servini, Wah Wah 45s

'This is killer! Low slung discobeats done proper. Full support!' - DJ Gilla, First Word Records

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