Our March Recommends playlist. Hopefully to boost you through this isolation period.

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Something a little fresh

Lithe & NORA DRUM - Split EP 

Four slices of polyrhythmic bass and breaks. 

"Split EP is the result of conversation between two work colleagues swapping and sharing tracks while on shift, finding common interest in music that takes the core stylistic markers of drum and bass and breaks it down into new and exciting forms. The result is a venn diagram of Lithe and NORA DRUM’s individual sounds, often overlapping and feeding back into the other but distinctly their own. 

Lithe’s contribution is markedly lighter in tone. Opener ‘It’s Rhythm’ is an upbeat, hard drum-inflected take on polyrhythmic drum and bass with pitched percussion and wobbling sub bass. The follow up ‘Second Pavilion’ is a lengthy, progressive take on liquid drum and bass that sits somewhere between fast techno and the composition style of Forest Drive West. 

NORA DRUM takes an introspective turn on their half of the EP with both tracks allowing space for mood and texture. ‘Lungfish’ is a rolling dark d&b number where polyrhythms encourage the listener to stop worrying about meter and give in to the feel of the track, with chaotic breaks on the back end that offer little respite. Closer ‘I Can Tell That You’re Trying’ is the heaviest of the four, with a deep, weighty lumber that crescendos into distorted amens and hoover bass."

Tracks 1 & 2 written and mixed by Lithe 
Tracks 3 & 4 written and mixed by NORA DRUM 
Mastered by Charles Murdoch 
Photography by Hamish Thomson 
Additional editing, graphic design, and art direction by Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi

Lithe - Second Pavilion

Lithe - It's Rhythm

Not a Pessimist

Dub Drum

Lithe - & Drop

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DRONF001

Happa - Wen U Relli Hit It

96 Back - 36th Chamberlain

Obsequies - Carcass EP
Format: Ltd Edition Engraved Vinyl / Digital
Cat.No. MN002
Release Date: 18 March 2020
Pre-order here: https://meinenacht.bandcamp.com/releases

Transparent vinyl, engraving of a Tercet on the centre piece of each record, transparent sleeve. A short-run of these pieces available.

Remixes from: @baojiaxiang @ssaliva for digital download. 
Mastering: Dom at Declared Sound

@obsequies

Carcass EP

Obsequies - Vacuité

A few words by Charles:

"The tracks compiled here are very much a product of their time and place. I’d never visited such a foreign and often unforgiving place emotionally and psychologically before and I wanted the listener to be able to visit that same place but from a safe distance. It’s probably the most autobiographical of the recent albums and I attribute that to how we confront crises of existence, pain, and, in the end, how we redeem our lives despite these exhausting factors."

Tracklist

Digital
1. Dirge for Eldridge
2. Ahead of Time
3. Oceanumfirma
4. Shanghai Somnolent
5. Rich Like Me
6. Out of Coffee
7. Fight with the Noonday Demon
8. In a Major Key
9. Hard to Explain

Tape
A1. Dirge for Eldridge
A2. Ahead of Time
A3. Oceanumfirma
A4. Shanghai Somnolent
A5. Rich Like Me
B1. Out of Coffee
B2. Fight with the Noonday Demon
B3. In a Major Key
B4. Hard to Explain
B5. Morose and Grieving Pals

Songs written, produced and mixed by Charles Taciturn
Mastering by GFXIII
Cover art by Eeva Holappa and Rafael Bucio

@charlestaciturn
www.instagram.com/charles_taciturn/

@xenonymsss
xenonyms.com

Appoggiatura

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Charles Taciturn - Out of Coffee

Lithe takes a half-step into the club realm with Yaya / Gunman, shedding the faux-rock instrumentation of 2017’s Fervent Gum and leaning further into rhythmic maximalism.

Yaya / Gunman is the first of three EPs from Lithe to be released throughout 2020. Each track transitions into the next and listening to all three installments consecutively will reveal a fully realised mini-album.

All tracks written by Lithe
Gunman features samples of 'Shakuhachi Grime' by UTILITY @utilitycatalogue
Art by Ryan Scheuer / sauce.design

Yaya / Gunman

Lithe - Yaya

@yre_den lands on @decisionsrecords with a hopeful, animated new EP titled ‘Inlight’. Previously Yre Den, who is based in Berlin, has released via labels such as Cologne’s SPA Recordings as well as Magazine.

Today we’re premiering the EP’s title track ‘Inlight’. Naturally, as title or lead tracks often do, it offers the purest taste of Yre Den’s musical intentions as it twists, twirls and quivers as if filled with a springtime-ish renewal of energy and sanguine exuberance. A kind of energy and sanguineness we could all probably do with at the moment, if we're honest.

 And speaking of present day events, Yre Den has decided to direct all profits from the release to the GoFundMe campaign attached below. The campaign  aims to support LGBTQI+ and BIPOC individuals and communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

DECISIONS will release ‘Inlight’ on March 27. 

Pre-order: https://yreden.bandcamp.com/album/inlight
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/covid19-relief-fund-for-lgbtqi-bipoc-folks/

Inlight

More exclusive music

Premiere: Yre Den 'Inlight'

Ikonika - Chvrches Lies Dub Rmx

It's Bandcamp day today! Please go support your favourite artist :)

https://tsvi.bandcamp.com/album/old-unreleased

TSVI - Evil Reg
TSVI - Ballad
TSVI - Labyrinth (128bpm edit)
TSVI - Prayer
TSVI - Analog ambient
TSVI - Syyyyymn
TSVI - Becoming capable of dealing with yourself

https://tsvi.bandcamp.com/album/old-unreleased

Old / Unreleased

contact [at] hafh.online

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Prior Self discography:

Ministry of Self: Edits 2021-2025 (2025)
https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/ministry-of-self-edits-2021-2025

Gorgeous*3 Energy [home away from home] (2024)
https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/gorgeous-3-energy

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Lithe discography 2017 - 2024

Count - Split (Lithe Remix) [Markham Road Records] (2024)
https://markhamroad.bandcamp.com/album/count-work-mr002

92 Ends EP [Meld] (2022)
https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/92-ends

Mainline EP [Flood] (2022)
https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/mainline

Lithe & NORA DRUM - Remixes (2022)
https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/lithe-nora-drum-remixes

LTH003 (2021)
https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/dendrites-pressure

& Drop [Accidental Meetings] (2021)
https://accidentalmeetings.bandcamp.com/album/am-friends-family-vol-2

Not A Pessimist EP [Basilica] (2021)
https://basilicanights.bandcamp.com/album/not-a-pessimist

Lithe & NORA DRUM - Split EP (2021)
https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/lithe-nora-drum-split-ep

Hard Fantasy - Hard Relate (Lithe Remix) (2021)
https://hardfantasy.bandcamp.com/album/hard-fantasy-remixed

Twoface [Early Reflex] (2021)
https://earlyreflex.bandcamp.com/album/flex002

Nos [Flood] (2020)
https://floodireland.bandcamp.com/album/nos

Distant Voice [CLM] (2021)
https://clublatemusic.bandcamp.com/album/chain-of-whispers-02

Gabba Charm [CLM] (2020)
https://clublatemusic.bandcamp.com/album/chain-of-whispers-01

Kutta [Egregore] (2020)
https://egregorecollective.bandcamp.com/album/egru005-club-drums-vol-2

LTH002 (2020)
lithe.bandcamp.com/album/agrippa-soft-light

LTH001 (2020)
lithe.bandcamp.com/album/yaya-gunman

Nate Swan & Lithe - Initiate / No Contact (2020)
https://nateswan.bandcamp.com/album/initiate-no-contact

Hammer [Rogue Cuts] (2019)
https://soundcloud.com/roguecuts/lithe-hammer

Oblinof - Holotropic (Lithe Remix) [UNIZONE] (2019)
https://unizone.bandcamp.com/track/holotropic-lithe-remix

Machine Gun Reloaded [CLM] (2018)
clublatemusic.bandcamp.com/album/machine-gun-reloaded

Fervent Gum Remixes [Enhancer Records] (2017)
https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/fervent-gum-remixes

Fervent Gum [Enhancer Records] (2017)
lithe.bandcamp.com/album/fervent-gum

Lithe - Yaya

prior self [hafh.online]