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The crucial UK DJ looks to the influence of South Africa.

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Next up!
Nervous Horizon honcho, Wallwork treats us to an hour of NH affiliated heat, mutant dancehall, low slung gqom to percussive workouts. It's full of serious club tackle, focusing on the Nervous Horizon family throughout. 
We also caught up with Tommy for a lil chat, read below! 

AM: Where and how did you record the mix & what was the idea behind it?

I just recorded it in my studio with Ehua's Pioneer decks.  It's a selection of all my favourite tunes from the label family at the moment, especially the new TSVI EP and some new DJ JM. 
Also played some gqom and old classics.

AM: Nervous Horizon is easy one of our favourite labels, tell us a little bit about it & how did it start? 

It started in Bow when I moved into TSVI & Federico's (co-owner) flat. We wanted to make a label that would bridge all genres from kuduru to techno , from club to dancehall. 
Soon after we moved into a huge warehouse in Hackney Wick and set up a studio. After 5 years of pressing records and warehouse parties things are finally starting to come together and the label is getting the recognition it deserves.


AM: What have you been listening to recently and what’s grabbing your attention at the mo? 

I've been listening to a lot of slow bpm stuff in the club world, Amapiano, a lot of drill and also a lot of R&B, Rap and Indie stuff from up and coming artists.

AM: Apart from heading up NH, what else fills your time?

Apart from running NH, I'm also a full time producer and mixing engineer for up and coming and established artists in London from all genres.
Hopefully you'll hear a lot of the stuff I've worked on in 2020 very soon!


AM: What’s next for you in 2021? 

I'm currently working on my own EP as Wallwork and also wrapping up a couple of very special EPs from some London based artists that I'm very excited about.

AM Podcast #43 - Wallwork

Twisting junglisms into irregular shapes since 2017, Manchester’s pride and joy Alex Lowther-Harris brings Thugwidow to Sneaker Social for a ruff yet refreshing ride through the rave. No doubt his skin in the game reaches back further than his first recorded output, but just trying to get a handle on his released catalogue is work enough. In 2019 alone he released no less than six albums and three EPs, laying down immense slabs of material on tapes as much as wax. As well as coursing through the dense undergrowth of the cassette scene, his 12”s have appeared on labels like Western Lore, Warehouse Rave and Astral Black, and he’s collaborated with Dead Man’s Chest and Bruised Skies.

Make no mistake, this is hardcore-rooted music, but it feels closer in spirit to that ill-defined period before scenes became delineated and tribal. All the ingredients are there, but Lowther-Harris teases them, fires them off at funny angles or flips them on their head. ‘Post Modern Assault Ethics’ maintains a sparse, restrained demeanour throughout even as the diva vocal slices ping endlessly through the mix and the bass wobbles away underneath. ‘Invisible Shell Of Energy’ juggles lesser-spotted breaks through a cloud of downcast pads, only to trip over and open the filter up on the loose and funky bassline at the final stretch. ‘The Sacrifice’ turns the break damage up, but keeps the moody vibe front and centre, and ‘The Voices Beneath The Earth’ wraps things up with a heavy-hearted belter that runs the risk of achieving anthemic status. 

For all the snappy programming, crisp edits and artful low end, it’s the pervading sense of emotional depth which makes Thugwidow such a powerful presence in the contemporary jungle scene. Pairing those all-consuming moods with his non-standard structures, you’ve got exactly the kind of renegade we love to carry here at Sneaker.

THUGWIDOW - Invisible Shell Of Energy

Closing set on Friday @ Sustain-Release Year 7

DJ SWISHA & Kush Jones LIVE @ Sustain-Release Year 7

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Two Shell - 09 May 2022

Scratcha DVA joins Ikonika on her show for 2 hours of heaters. You know the drill.

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Ikonika w/ Scratcha DVA - May 2022

08. Galaxy ft. BKAT

Release Date: 03/06/16 
CAT: NH004 
Release type: 12"/ Digital 

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Tracklist: 

A1 Lloyd SB - Boida Flare 
A2 Lloyd SB - Hypercube 
A3 Lloyd SB - King of the Castle 
B1 Lloyd SB - Peach's Palace 
B2 Lloyd SB - Pirate Bay 
B3 Lloyd SB ft. Wallwork - The Portal 
B4 Lloyd SB - Pirate Bay (TSVI rmx) 

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20 year old Sheffield based producer Jack Chapman AKA Lloyd SB spans multiple genres, moods and BPMs on 'Boida Flare', his debut EP via London collective Nervous Horizon. 

"The release contains tracks I made within the last couple of months to almost two years ago. It feels good to see these tracks side by side on the same release as you can see how I’ve developed my sound over time and experimented with different tempos. I came up with the name for 'Boida Flare' after watching a Boi-1da interview on YouTube where he spoke about artists having their own individual flair. It’s more of a name I gave for the palette of sounds I’ve made, similar to a collective noun. But then I adapted the spelling to link in the Wiley vocals before the drop ‘I light up the dance’…‘I told you before I’m a top boy’." 

After early support from Murlo, Slackk, Scratcha DVA and Plastician, his first track 'X-Out' was released on the very respected Boxed001 compilation. He joins the Nervous Horizon crew after signing '3X23' to their Vol 1 compilation last summer. He recently played the Nervous Horizon Boiler Room session curated by Sound Pellegrino's Teki Latex, another big supporter of his music. 

With the title track seeing early support by Kode9 on BBC Radio 1, the EP features a multitude of productions with influences ranging from grime to techno, a collaboration with Wallwork, 'The Portal', and a percussive remix of 'Pirate Bay' by Tsvi. 

As FACT Magazine called for when they named him in their 10 Grime Producers to Watch in 2016 - "Surely now’s the time for a full EP?"

NH004 A1 - Lloyd SB - Boida Flare

Format: LP/Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 82
Release Date: 10 November 2017 

buy: http://p-a-n.org/product/m-e-s-h-hesaitix-pan82/
bandcamp: https://optimate.bandcamp.com/album/hesaitix

01. Nemorum Incola (05:26)
02. Mimic (06:29)
03. Blurred Cicada I (02:19)
04. 2 Loop Trip (05:12)
05. Search.Reveal. (06:20)
06. Privileged Lord (02:18)
07. Coercer (06:01)
08. Blurred Cicada II (02:16)
09. Signal Ride Drum (03:17)
10. Diana Triplex (03:48)
11. Ihnaemiauimx (02:25)

Further departing from both the cinematic abstraction of ‘Piteous Gate’ and the hectic drums of ‘Damaged Merc’, Berlin producer M.E.S.H’s new full-length, ‘Hesaitix’, is marked by its hyper-ornamented rhythms and a sense of pensive, moonlit spaces.

The atmosphere has shifted; the radical deconstruction of previous releases has given way to subtler interventions, building new structures in strange territories. Shifting from the meditative to states of manic unease, Hesaitix is an unnerving injection into both the social space of club music and the interior space of digital audio fantasy.

How did I become so stupid?

A sound can be both formless and over-rendered, like a boneless but fleshy hand from a life drawing class. 

What agent could set these broken sounds in motion?

A laugh behind an evil curtain. A drummer that’s cool and grotesque, a detuned siren. A brushfire under a full moon.

Recorded in Berlin and Umbria, Hesaitix sees Janus resident and PAN staple M.E.S.H. firmly engaged in a kind of sonic world building, a place where the unconscious and the alien intersect.

Hesaitix

M.E.S.H. - Signal Ride Drum (PAN 82)

Juke Bounce Werk X Dublab 11/14/17 radio show w/ @sncd + special guest, @kanyon_ny

NH004 A1 - Lloyd SB - Boida Flare

Lloyd SB

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