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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

Listen, buy & support here: https://fanlink.to/icr002

After a very well received first EP made up of 5 powerful experimental Bass cuts produced by Leeds based artist Renslink, Teki Latex and Brice Coudert's Impossible City Records decides to strike at a more dancefloor level this time with a straight up banger by US artist Chants.

Teki Latex:
"I have known Chants since his brilliant post-club EPs for Astral Plane in the mid 2010s but what happens when the Wisconsin-based producer takes his mastery of precise sound design and puts it to use in order to create a ravy piano dancefloor belter? The answer is Dance The Crevice, the new release on Impossible City Records."

Mastered by Precise Mastering
Visuals and logo by Pierre Thyss & Studio Jimbo
Distributed & published by Underscope

Chants - Dance The Crevice [Impossible City Records]

Barely stuck to the ass of a partially blind bee. In a resin-soaked wasteland that's not sweet or melodious - butchered ecology tells a really bad joke. Is there a room left on the station? A corner of the shelter? A rapturous t u l i p ?

Gaul Plus | Soiled Ether

Buy & Support:
Digital:
vimanismo.bandcamp.com/album/aprieta
12¨ vinyl:
www.one-eye-witness.com/release/16732…Phran-Aprieta

A3 - Sons (feat. oma totem) - preview -

There was a strange feeling lingering in the air, an eerie sense of tension which hung thick and left a bitter taste in the mouth. Why would it be that there was so much stress? Where had this come from? Why now? What caused the pinch?

He sighed as he wandered through the quiet city, it was dead, the people of the week had left town to return to their families leaving nothing but empty streets and still puddles.

There were no sirens, no cars, ho beaming headlights. Yet still it was noisy where he was.

Preference releases a new EP on Ayeland – a futuristic extravaganza which lends a nod to the early days of Bass music alongside the deconstructed improvisations of the genre which later followed suit.

PREMIERE: Preference - Pinch [Ayeland]

All Centre kick off the new year with a two tracker from label mainstay Holloway. Following a busy 2023 for the London-based artist, holding down a residency on Rinse FM, tearing up parties around the world and launching his own label Waylo, Holloway starts the year as he means to go on with two incendiary club tracks.

Beans opens in atmospheric fashion with lush pads and dubbed-out sirens held together by enthrallingly syncopated percussion. The structure then strips down to allow a wistful, jazz-inflected theme to come to the fore, deftly complimented by a bouncing, descending bassline and a deep kick pattern. Lightly swung drums give an edge of UKG stylings to this deep, introspective cut.

On the flip Holloway ramps up the tempo with Trinco. Soulful chords fuse the sound of 90s DnB into precise, stepping percussion. The track launches into another dimension at the drop, driven by techy drums, growling basslines and warped vocal samples. The track breathes with the reintroduction of the atmospheric pads, before the bassweight emerges again with renewed force.

Beans is available across all digital platforms from the 12th January 2024.

Beans

Holloway - Beans [ACEN055]

Mossambi makes his return to All Centre to follow up the stunning debut Resurf EP from the beginning of 2023. On The AI Told Me To, he delivers 3 more experimental techno exertions backed by a heavy-duty club remix from Holloway.

Reptate opens proceedings with otherworldly vocals stuttering over Mossambi’s distinctively inventive sound design. The track enters an off-kilter, compelling groove composed of deep kicks, growling subs and snippets of microtonal melodies, building up and playing out like an extra-dimensional take on dubstep.

The title track keeps up the momentum with deep kicks and shuffling hats, allowing a lush choral pad to stutter and proliferate amongst the percussive intricacies. The chord is manipulated, filtered and triggered in unpredictable patterns as the track progresses, keeping the listener on their toes whilst Mossambi holds down a transfixing groove.

Mossambi’s final track, Miscellaneous Vegetable Platter, slows things down to a hypnotic 110 bpm pace. A disorienting blend of scrambled vocals, fried digital synths and dubbed-out bass and chord hits are kept in check by steady drums, whilst a frenzied snare roll pushes and pulls at the track’s intensity as the track progresses, crafting an engrossing low-tempo workout.

Holloway translates Mossambi’s glitched vocals and heady sound design onto a ferocious four-to-the-floor groove. A warbling bassline bubbles underneath driving percussion, whilst a syncopated hard house siren brings the energy levels to a fever pitch.

Mossambi - The AI Told Me To [ACEN056] (PREVIEWS)

embark on a genre-defying journey through electronic landscapes with ultrascope's debut EP - gash. Blending elements of bass, techno, IDM, breaks, leftfield, and dubstep, this release showcases the artist's dynamic range and innovative sound.

papaya kicks off the EP with half-tempo beat and slowly creeping bassline that rapidly turns into stealthy dagger, piercing right through sub frequencies.

gash will release on 12th April 2024, and as the inaugural offering from ŚLINA, it sets a bold precedent for the label's future.

gash

ultrascope - papaya (gash [SLV001])

Extra song

D-Bahn

I'M HERE, I'M YOU pt. 1

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

Not a Pessimist

prior self [hafh.online]

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