2020

Deviant electro banger inspired by gastric sounds ! Comic soon... (release the 21th of May)

Preorder : https://comicsansrecords.bandcamp.com/album/osseous-labyrinth

Vina Konda - Melting E.coli

Easy Mongo

New York's Despina makes off-kilter, bass-heavy manoeuvres on their seismic All Centre debut.

'Limb Slip' is out February 11th on All Centre.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3ojWGBQ

@all-centre-504822953

Premiere: Despina - Packing (Phallus) [All Centre]

IM096 - @aroent - Say
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: May 27th,2022
Format: Digital
Artwork by Vojd

Following on from a release-packed 2021, Infinite Machine are back with a new 4-track offering from the relative newcomer, Aroent. Across 3 new original cuts (plus a rework by UK dance royalty, Ploy) the Berlin-based producer delivers some serious rollers crammed full of gnarly drumwork and a pervasive air of unease. Like the strange, abstract creature of the record artwork, the music of Say EP is an amorphous beast, mixing the dense arrangements/layering of 90s IDM records with the off-kilter and swung beats of UK Techno and Funky.

The EP opens with its title track; a whirl of snaps, claps and phantom samples all firmly underpinned by an acid-inflected bassline. Aroent embracing of chance and luck in his compositions is evident on this track, throwing in idiosyncratic automations and randomizers to grow and evolve the tune over its 5 minute duration. The vox samples (stolen from Breaking Bad) seem to decay and fall inwards on each other on ‘Say’, as if the song is soundtrack to a decaying and corrupted society (not dissimilar to Heisenberg’s).

On ‘Rolling Oddities’, Aroent’s love for the Bristol bass & techno scene really shines through clearly. A track that seems almost built for a spinny night that rolls on until the morning, the song really does what it says on the tin with its combination of driving, rhythmic elements and it’s smattering of pretty out-there decisions in terms of arrangement and sound processing. This is a definite must-listen tune for fans of Batu, Lurka or Hodge.

Next up, ‘Bobcat’ takes things in a slightly more buoyant and ecstatic direction with its ever-rising filters and muted percussion that seems like it’s dancing along on tip-toes. On this song especially, Aroent’s genre-agnostic approach to production is abundantly obvious with elements of techno and bass sitting alongside kick drums that wouldn’t feel out of place on some Jersey Club tracks.

Ploy brings up the rear on Say EP with a ferocious ‘Skeletal Tool remix’ of the releases’ title track. Taking a reductionist approach to his rework, the Timedance signee strips out some of the originals’ more hyperbolic or dramatic elements and reduces it to a polyrhythmic, semi-genreless heater. Seriously - you try and pin this edit down to a single ‘genre label’, I dare you!

Despite the small number of releases to his name, Say EP is a highly confident and well-realized offering from the Greek-born, Berlin-based producer. In a way, Aroent is already creating his own sonic signature that lifts and interpolates aspects across the UK Bass spectrum and turns it into something totally unique. This is music that lurks in the shadows of warehouse clubs.

Tracklist:

1. Say
2. Rolling Oddities
3. Bobcat
4. Say (Ploy's Skeletal Tool Remix)

Aroent - Say (IM096)

Here is my edit of 'Dot/Eyes' which comes from one of my favourite band Tortoise's 'It's All Around You' album from 2004. The original was begging to be made into a clubbier edit.

Artwork by Galtier

Dot / Eyes (Galtier Edit)

Tortoise - Dot/Eyes (Galtier Edit)

Bringing us to our twentieth release we have an NHS newcomer with their first ever EP, named Yotah, Offering up four tracks that teeter on the fringes of chunky maximalism and intricate, evolving modulation. ‘Rewiring’ is an exploration of hybridized and amorphous sonics into recognizable patterns, only to break through this consolidation (so evidently true to our nature) to peer into the unknown that lurks on the other side.

Such a notion is further established through the creative process that Yves pursued to develop his first body of work; learning and unlearning various styles of music to be left with a semblance of what was. His sound, not yet fully established as he humbly states, is always a vestige of the past, whispers of a previous set of patterns he has reinterpreted and rewired in his own mind.

Buy https://smarturl.it/NHS020
https://soundcloud.com/nostro-hood-system
https://soundcloud.com/yotahh

Rewiring - EP

PREMIERE: Yotah - Bouncer [Nostro Hood System]

Hear an epic six-handed action of laser-fuelled & syncopated UK Bass from the occasional trio of producers First Epoque, Slowglide & Vina Konda, with a gentle take on sound design and vocal science, to be released on Lyon’s oddest electronic bird nest Dill Dodos Recife.

Read more on CxC 🔗 couvrexchefs.com/en/dill-dodos-recife-first-epoque-slowglide-vina-konda-droseliane

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PREMIERE: First Epoque, Slowglide & Vina Konda - Droseliane (Dill Dodos Recife)

Pitching bass driven techno mayhem with a floaty chord breakdown...

DJ Support from likes of Hannah Holland, Jamie Jones, Terry Francis

Get the full 3 track EP on Bandcamp or all major streaming sites.

Strobe Lights Vol.6

Hand Up Drop Thing - Forbidden Fruit Recordings

Artist: @yilanmusic @amazondotcom
Title: Regression
Format: Digital
Release Date: September 13th, 2019

Mastered by Cyrcular Mastering 
Artwork by Tomás Urquieta

Infinite Machine welcomes Leeds producers Yilan. Following up his 'Diaspora EP' released earlier this year.

Yilan returns with 2 club ready tracks "Regression" and “Ark” (a collaborative track with producer Ren). Supported by 2 remixes from Los Angeles producer Amazondotcom who recently released her highly acclaimed 'Mirror River' EP on her label Subreal and from the Brazilian producer Superfície, who's well known for his affiliation with the label Salviatek.

Regression

Yilan - Regression (Amazondotcom Remix)

4 Letter Word

TTT SHOP

Flørist – 4 Letter Word

'recognise & realise' remix over a tight-ass downtempo number from ed rush aka ben settle of no-u-turn/virus notoriety, from the metalheadz box set ting

Merk-Ups

Ed Rush X Big Noyd X Prodigy / Recognise The Westway

Article: www.seeksicksound.com/premiere-bass-liqcryst-un-nouveau-doum-records-signe-sunnboo

@sunnboo
@doum-records

Doum

[Premiere] Sunn Boo - Liqcryst (out on Doum Records)

Silk & Honey

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

@amorsatyr
@siumata

Hailing from Paris, duo Amor Satyr & Siu Mata make their debut on NHS with two mutated dance hall inspired cuts laden with manic energy and seriously hard drum work. Following up their debut collaboration on Hiedrah Club de Baile comprised of two tracks focused on the 150bpm range, the pair slow down things to around the 100bpm mark. This has no effect on the frantic energy however, as both releases maintain a level of madness through the double time percussion programming and warped melodic aesthetics; an offering of truly innovative club tracks from these two fine producers.

Mastering by Doug Shearer
Artwork by Hamza Robati

Nahash - EP

Amor Satyr & Siu Mata - Nah

I run a net label called home away from home

www.hafh.online

(formerly Lithe)

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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

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