Electronic in Spatial Audio

Back to the source of it all, London’s Charles Green revives the initial grit of techno through hi-NRG blends of powerhouse percussions and dusty atmospheres. Teaming up with Neighbourhood boss Tasha for a special B2B, the British jockey and his acolyte grace us with a two-hour masterclass flush with propulsive old-school rippers, acid-drenched delicacies and further mind-expanding rave material. A true sense of pristine pioneering and enjoyably broad-spirited collagism flow across Green and Tasha’s transmission, making this listen a much essential listen. Lock in!

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Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 476 | Charles Green b2b Tasha

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Michael Mayer albums don’t come round too often, which is one of many reasons why his fourth collection, The Floor Is Lava, is a genuine event. It’s been eight years since his last one, the collaborative & released on !K7; its predecessors, Mantasy (2012) and Touch (2004), took their sweet time, too. It’s no real surprise, given the many hats Mayer wears – globetrotting DJ, revered remixer, inveterate collaborator, and boss of both Kompakt and Imara – that his solo productions are relatively sparing. But this also speaks to their quality: Mayer’s name on a record sleeve is a sign of quality, of music that’s both looking to the future and calling back to the past, that balances the imperatives of the dancefloor and the loungeroom, that’s as exploratory as it is functional.

On The Floor Is Lava, Mayer seems to be taking the temperature of both the music that surrounds him (past and present), and the ideas of the industry he works within. There’s that iconic album title, for a start. “The album’s mindset,” he says, reflecting on those four words together. For Mayer, it’s partly a critique of the way the industry boxes in both producer and listener, focuses them on genre, on market, on the next new thing: “Being a free minded spirit that transcends genres has become an uphill battle.” A battle worth fighting, though, and with The Floor Is Lava, the result is an album that’s varied, quixotic, idiosyncratic, charming, and deeply, addictively listenable.

Throughout, Mayer finds thrills in exploration and juxtaposition, allowing unexpected things to blossom and giving them their life, their platform, throwing the listener exciting curveballs: “It’s a DJ album by a DJ that’s easily bored.” Either easily bored, or endlessly curious, The Floor Is Lava is rich with ideas. It opens with “The Problem”, which looks back to look forward, embracing the rickety way early house productions threw samples together with gleeful abandon. Mayer mentions Pal Joey, and the scene around Rockers Hi-Fi and their Different Drummer imprint, as reference points, and you can hear that freewheeling spirit throughout.

That’s The Floor Is Lava: then and now, brainwaves and nerve structures, problems and solutions, genres on fire; the real, the unreal, and the surreal. An album for the easily bored and the endlessly curious. Mayer has the last word, telling us all you need to know about the album’s spirit: “Burning for the cause, being zealous, being addicted to the heat of the night, the exuberant powers of music.”

The Floor Is Lava

Ardor

Michael Mayer - Ardor

Barry Can’t Swim live at Brixton Academy

Still Riding (“Ridin Round”) - Green Diesel Version - Barry Can’t Swim (Live)

All Set Let's Swim

Back to Where We Were

Kill the Future

LYRICS //

My time is here 
And im makin it clear 
Oh I love u my dear 
But I'm goin, I'm gone 
I might come back
When the Benz all black 
Ten racks on my lap
If I don't relapse, and I stay strong 
I could do anything I want to 
Bump lil peep 
when I die ima haunt u 
I could live forever if I want to
I could stop time 
but I never wana do that again 
Nuthin worse than losin a friend 
And the feelin you get 
when everybody that u love ain't around 
I really got get away from this town 
I'm just waiting for a wave and I'll drown 
Satan lettin me down

I just wana help u see
U should run away from me 
Baby Ima drug and I don't wana hurt u 
no I'm not guna hurt u girl 
not at all
I ain't guna set u free
All u guna get from me 
Little bit a love and a little virtue
If hurt u, I'll end it all 

haunt u (prod. mysticphonk)

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big city blues w/ coldhart (prod. charlie shuffler)

absolute in doubt w/ wicca phase springs eternal (prod. foxwedding)

Teen Romance EP Peep x Lederrick

Album Art by @terroru

lil peep - teen romance (prod lederrick)

Gustav Ahr's Album

giving girls cocaine w/ lil tracy (prod. horsehead)

Lil Peep Part One

lil peep - Five Degrees

Beamer Boy

Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2

16 Lines

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☆LiL PEEP☆

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