Name: Loraine James x J Albert - New Year New Meh by Loraine James
Duration: 4 min 30 s
Description: New Year's Substitution 2 out January 1st 2020

On ACEN027, Amazinggaijin follows a series of releases on his Good Delivery Record imprint with four experimental club tracks for All Centre.

The EP opens with Construction Block. The track is inspired by Amazinggaijin’s stay in Berlin’s Rudolfkiez, an area which has been undergoing heavy gentrification, surrounding him with construction projects. Subtle sound design morphs underneath a series of driving kicks, before a machinic hi-hat pattern reminiscent of a jackhammer destroying the pavement propels the track forward. Shifts in reverb mutate the space of the track, building a captivating and disorientating atmosphere in this stripped-down drum tool.

On the second track Cacophonie, Amazinggaijin is joined by Irish producer Lighght. Cacophonie, which means “a harsh discordant mixture of sounds” in French, is a study on drawing on different sources of sound and making them work together (including a Virtual Sitar that Gaijin gives heavy treatment). It’s a match made in heaven between the Irish & French producers, as they push the boundaries between electro-acoustic and club music. The track begins with an entrancing, hypnotic melody created by tweaking a Korg Volca sample machine before a compelling drum pattern is introduced with subtle pitch-shifted hi-hats. A metallic, percussive melody enters the mix, morphing throughout the track and gradually growing in intensity.

Oxygen Tank begins with the same hypnotic chord progression but raises the tempo, bringing a grime influence into the drum programming and introducing a sino-grime melody. The rhythms of the melodies and drums shift around each other throughout, and a soaring siren-like synth enters the mix towards the end of the track.

The record ends with digital-only track The Strength Within, an ambient record underpinned by an atmospheric droning pad, occasionally interrupted by pieces of intricate, subtle sound design. The Franco-Congolese producer captures what loneliness induced by an atomized society who “celebrated” one year under a global pandemic feels like.

Oxygen Tank EP is available across all digital platforms as well as limited dubplate record from May 21st.

Amazinggaijin & Lighght - Cacophonie

Taken from SBKT041: NET GALA - 신파 SHINPA
Release Date: 25th June 2021

Written, Produced by NET GALA
Mixed by Kim Kate
Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Cover by Kynan Puru-Watt
Photo by Bakya

A regular at Seoul’s ‘Cakeshop’ and member of LGBTQ collective Shade Seoul, NET GALA’s SVBKVLT debut is named after Shinpageuk (신파극), a form of theatre from 20th century Korea. In contemporary context, Shinpa is a synonym for ‘tears and overwhelming emotions,’ but when it was first introduced to Korea, Shinpa was used to express progressive political views, cover social issues, and later the melodramatic domestic tragedies. There is a vast gap between the past and current context of Shinpa, and as such there has been a lot of mistranslation or misconception between the two.

After their first EP [re:FLEX*ion] (NBDKNW – 2019), NET GALA spent time researching Shinpa, finding parallels between the work they were making and the traditional theater style. The emotional, dramatic nature of Shinpa echoed the exaggerated affection of ‘pop’ – in which NET GALA searches for the impact on one’s own narrative and emotion. The ‘mistranslation’ applied to the terms history is reflected in the changing course between the two EPs – how one can reinterpret or warp one ‘lost’ cultural concept into another.

From the stretched-out ‘The Ha Dance’ sample combined with traditional Korean percussion and 808s on ‘Shpiral’, to the sample of a Korean lesbian protester struggling to claim her existence through the blasting drums on Dodomzit, ‘신파 SHINPA’ is NET GALA’s interpretation of the Shinpageuk. The EP is packaged with remixes from Amazondotcom, ZULI and Menzi further reinterpreting the original work.

신파 SHINPA

NET GALA - Shpiral (Amazondotcom Remix)

Endless Mow (@endless_mow) is a London-based DJ and producer. Mostly known for his releases on All Centre, Endless Mow can be found somewhere in between UKFunky, Bass and medieval folklore. Witchy vocal chops + subs.

Tracklist:

MTG - FAZ O PIX PRA ELA BROTAR ( DJ PEIXOTO ) 2K22
Dubh - The Destruction of Belor's Tower
Hildegard Von Bingen - Enixa est puerpera (hymne)
Anima - Say So
Duswunder - Adorned
Doubt - Friotaiocht
Amor Satyr - Kika Uma Vez
DJ Gran Turismo - ALLURE
Sully - 5ives
NCOG, Local Gods - Lunasa
Anima - DRMABTU
hironori nagatsuma - Formkedja (polerad)
ONY - 777
Anima - DRMABTU [REPRISE]
Local Gods - The Ascendancy (Uiscálainn’s Scendish Mix)
AEVA - Mysterious World
Kaval - Doubtful Mixture
Racine - Ibiza
Lithe & DJ Local Support - Rogue Cuts
Air Max '97 :') SIA - HPE Heart
Simkin - See You
Hildegard Von Bingen - O gloriosissimi lux
Tessela - Let Up
Endless Mow - Modern Automated Looms
AEVA - I Feel Blu
Racine - Sans Titre
Oravin - Eye, Iris

RA MIX 022 - Endless Mow - spectral Terra

Apple Music

KILLER MANTIS - BRING IT ON

Un son qui claque à 140 BPM ! Remix signé La Freepouille mélange l’essence du rap marseillais de Puissance Nord avec l’énergie frénétique du breakbeat. Entre rythmiques fracassantes, samples bruts et sirènes en écho, c’est une plongée dans l’univers underground où la police rôde et les kicks cognent. Un hommage à la culture street et à la puissance des soirées où le son fait vibrer les murs.

Puissance Nord "Plus de hardcore" La Freepouille Remix

New EP from one of our original Hemi.Wav family members BackLeft! Broken Digits features heavy hitting collabs from walk_ill, hokey boi, Osis & Seeka!

Check their music out here: 
https://soundcloud.com/backleftmusic https://soundcloud.com/hokeyboibass https://soundcloud.com/osisbass https://soundcloud.com/walk_ill https://soundcloud.com/seeka-official
Cop the EP on Bandcamp here: https://backleftmusic.bandcamp.com/album/broken-digits-2

BackLeft x walk_ill - Number Cruncher

Paradisia V5

N.M.O. - Nonobstant Mais Oblique

New Year's Substitution 2 out January 1st 2020

Loraine James x J Albert - New Year New Meh

On ACEN 017 London producer hmurd joins the All Centre ranks following releases on TT & Cherche Encore.

Title track ‘Low Grade Plastics’ continues with the sparse landscapes and dizzying atmospheres explored in hmurds productions so far. Opening with spartan drum choices, heavy kicks and cantering hi-hats sit at the tracks core whilst heavily processed percussion and FX make fleeting appearances. With eight on beat snare drum repetitions the track descends into it’s main theme. An austere four note melody, with frenetic kicks firing off around it as a loosely anchored snare provides a woozy half time rhythm. As the track progresses further FX heighten the sense of tension building around the tracks core, with a single oscillating bass note providing a nod to the tracks dubstep influences.

B side ‘Beighton Champ’ takes a different slant to its counterpart. Rapid hi-hats and percussion signal the tracks beginning and create a rhythmic sense of security, before being dispelled as the track collapses into a series of erratic de-quantised percussion breaks. Suddenly the confusion is broken, melting away into familiar percussion patterns accompanied by an angular melody courtesy of hmurd collaborator Emile Frankel. The melody is suddenly broken by a rising granular sound which signals an abrupt switch to a straighter beat, with kicks, claps and breath sounds carrying the groove.

‘Low Grade Plastics’ is available across all platforms from the 5th of June.

Low Grade Plastics

hmurd - Beighton Champ

Trancey stabs meet a UK funky-come-reggaeton beat on Belia Winnewisser's SPA debut.

'A Comet Blazing In The Empyrean' is out soon on SPA.

@beliawinnewisser
@spa_recordings

Premiere: Belia Winnewisser - Boreal [SPA]

Edited Arts is launching Between Rooms by Diessa - a venn diagram of Room 1 and Room 2 dance music. This 4 track EP cuts sharp and deep, springing samples left to right. Confident head bop material for those with a preference for the underworld of BPMs.

Producer and DJ Diessa makes excursions into UK club sounds, melding segments of footwork, techno, bass, jungle and ambient. Diessa continues to grow as one of the finest talents in the underground right now. Recent and upcoming affiliations include Babycakes, Hi-Nrg, All Centre, cxd, Overthinker Mob and SZNS7N.

Mastering by Mor Air/Colin Moir
Artwork by Eliza

www.instagram.com/diessa__/
soundcloud.com/diessa1312

Between Rooms

Diessa - between rooms

Manager: eva@theblackacre.co.uk
Contact: setfiretoloraine@gmail.com
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