Our favourite Ship Sket is back with a second production mix premiered earlier this year on the Balamii SZNS7N show ♡

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SHIP SKET 3.0 (200% PRODUCTION MIX)

Junior XL combines off-kilter tendencies and melancholic appeal with an appreciation of club-facing rhythm.

'Spiral2' is out December 17th on TT.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3GR9ruF

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Premiere: Junior XL - Real Scam [TT]

SLIKBACK X KNOW V.A. - WATCHING ME

PLAYBOI CARTI - KELLY K (SLIKBACK REMIX)

Late flight re-work of Grasps - Heaven courtesy of @roma_baby <3

@grasps - Heaven released by our friends at @pneumatic-pneumatic

NO HEAVEN FOR A SNIPER

ROMA - NO HEAVEN FOR A SNIPER

Hyperdrift Coaster (Björk X Teriyaki Boyz X Ovid)

Fresh heat outta Kyoto, a return to @svbkvlt finds @rilla-almadella delving further into the uneasy realms of rhythmic experimentation. 

Sporting remixes from Nahash, Tra Tra Trax’ Bitter Babe and Gorong Gorong’s Kadapat, ‘Yukou / 遊光’ leaves genre boundaries decimated in the pursuit of breakbeat and dembow abstraction. In the case of our premiere, a dancehall rhythm quickly descends into rattling, acid-tinged maelstrom. 

'Yukou / 遊光' is out October 26th on SVBKVLT.

Pre-order: svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/yukou-ep

Yukou / 遊光  EP

Premiere: Rilla - Aoi [SVBKVLT]

Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

v1984 & City - Parallel Phrases [digital only]

Isaka - H34T D34TH (superN0V4)

taken from the too oh won nein comp of edits and booties available at the above link as pay what you like

out to kryptic minds on the original

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On ACEN021 producer Jennifer Walton steps out from releasing Mutualism & Illegal Data to deliver a club focused four track on All Centre.

Title track ‘Flash On’ Jennifer enlists fellow All Centre artist BFTT to drum up a charged introduction. Characterised by a lurching beat and fizzing percussion the tracks namesake sample ushers in the tracks impenetrable bass movements. Crisis of Confidence brings to life monotone vocal samples by swaddling them in bouncy drum patterns meancing acid bass stabs. Culminating in a capitulation to a dequantized breakdown, dowsing the stereo canvas in drum hits.

On Neo-Renaissance girl bit crushed drums and a listful piano twirl amongst one another in a track that’s equal parts evocative, blistering and frenetic. One second a rich harpsichord jostles for your attention whilst the next an ascendant tone or lacerated sample demands the listeners attention.. The record’s closing statement ‘Blush’ is the record’s nod to the UK’s dance music canon, with a swung garage beat leading a death charge beneath a chiptune melody typical of Walton’s digital sensibilities.

Flash On is available across all platforms from the 2nd of October.

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