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Forest Drive West - Creeper

A1. Creeper
A2. Sustain
B1. Greed
B2. Break

Breaking Greedy Creepers Powerslam on 180g vinyl.

ITX025 FOREST DRIVE WEST - CREEPER

Over the past five years, Fever AM has given us a steady drip of exquisitely modern, genre-defying club music, from angular rhythm sculptures like Gacha Bakradze's "Daraji" to twisted party-rockers like Rhyw's "Biggest Bully."

To celebrate their fifth anniversary, label founders Mor Elian and Rhyw have put together a compilation that captures their strikingly fresh vision. "It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature" presents core Fever AM artists like Xen Chron and Ayesha alongside a few newcomers to the label, such as Pariah, MSJY, Peder Mannerfelt. Fans of the label know what to expect: soundsystem-tailored bangers with a surreal twist, for DJs that like to keep the crowd on their toes.

It's Not A Bug, It's A Feature

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Pariah - Squishy Windows

Label: Midnight Shift
Catalog number: MNSX026
Artist name: Cocktail Party Effect
EP name: Oscilloscope Detachments
Date of release: 4 Nov 2022

A1. 77
A2. 88
B1. 99
B2. 111

Bringing his signature heavy freak crunch to the label, Cocktail Party Effect's "Oscilloscope Detachments" is the latest addition to the Midnight Shift catalogue. 

Instructions: Follow the oscilloscope to jack into the EP's pulse from start to end.

Headliner A1 '77' dazzles in melodic glory paired with glitchy underfoot and a high-voltage wire running hot. Next, '88' lets it all loose with classic breaks twisted on its head and with its core intestines spilling out. Unexpected turns in this effect-heavy club composition recalls the phrase that "you've gotta know the rules to break the rules" and CPE is undoubtedly a master of that. '99' takes it further down South London style for the heads, while ambient closer '111' visualises the previously underscored oscilloscope in full spectrum.

Written and produced by Eric Baldwin
Artwork by EPOD
Layout by Graeme "Gramrcy" Bateman
Mastered and cut by Simon from The Exchange

Oscilloscope Detachments

MNS X 026 - Cocktail Party Effect - Oscilloscope Detachments

Atrice - Backrooms

A1. Backrooms
A2. Chamber Of Mazarbul
B1. Nulspace
B2. Pipe Dreams
Digital Bonus. Dialect

Rousing Robocop Knock-Outs on 180g vinyl.

w&p by Atrice
Mastered by Tangible Air
Artwork oil on canvas by Bettina Zenker

IT054 ATRICE - BACKROOMS

Rhyw - Caramel Core

From the Fever AM compilation "It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature"

https://feveram.bandcamp.com/album/its-not-a-bug-its-a-feature

"1L4U" (from "It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature" comp on FeverAM)

Nerve Collect co-founder Gamma Intel follows up label partner Identified Patient's inaugural release with his thrilling E.M. EP. Across six club-ready cuts, the Dutchman explores the spaces where bass, techno, electro and acid all intersect. E.M. is available in digital and physical 12'' format.

On the A side 'Little Mirror Man' opens up with an elastic but thumping broken beat. A flurry of jungle drums rain down next to scratched metal stabs, bleep-techno melodies and all underpinned with heavy bass rumbles. 'Save Pair of Hands' doesn't let up, with knick-snapping hits and earth-shattering bass weight. As heavy as the groove might be, there is still plenty of room for deft synth designs to bring plenty of emotion. On '5AM-SBM' you are tugged in many directions at once - nimble drums dart about beneath prickly percussion and flaming hits that have a mind of their own. Although the low end is distorted, the details up top are well-defined and given plenty of space to make their mark.

The flipside takes off on turbocharged techno-electro fusion 'Sleep and Cry.' It's a devastating and visceral drum track that also packs an emotional punch as celestial chords suspend you at the doors of heaven. 'Panthera Leo' soundtracks the end of the world as acid lashes about amidst controlled but unrelenting drum chaos and finally, the drilling bass and frantic drum programming of 'Trust' is another all-powerful club track. Its dark energy sucks you in for a white-knuckle ride to remember.

This EP finds Gamma Intel pulling off plenty of unusual tricks and twists on his way to conquering the dance floor.

All tracks mixed and arranged by Gamma Intel
Artwork by Nina van der Berg
Graphic Design by Sander Molenaar
Mastering by Enisslab Studio

Dedicated to Eddie Moncef

Pre-orders https://nervecollect.bandcamp.com/

NC002 // Gamma Intel - E.M.

yet is a slippery word in English. Amorphous, these three letters in different contexts can define contrast or emphasis, set a place in time, show an expectation that something will occur or, paradoxically, that it is likely to stop. 

It is this mercurial nature that makes yet the perfect title for Tresor's latest compilation: the label follows on from the more explorative sections of 2021's landmark Tresor 30 boxed set with a compilation, featuring 13 artists making music that resists easy definition. 

Every track hints at and borrows from the familiar yet none follow the expected path: halfway through Deserto, Nandele &amp; A-Tweed dramatically reveal a very different sonic landscape that was initially suggested; DJ Sotofett collaborates with Sri Lankan artist Kavadi with results that are unlike anything in the Norwegian producer's catalogue as yet. 

Further invention can be found as Jean Redondo's Hypersonic moves across spaces inhabited by digital hardcore and hyperpop before swerving off-road and into a futuristic hip-hop section; on No Longer Human, Ireen Amnes takes a different path at the crossroads melding hyperpop, trance, and sci-fi soundtrack atmospherics, Significant Other heads towards UK Bass and Dubstep, and France's Willis Anne skims by the outskirts of footwork with a piece that is almost completely uncategorisable.

Yet more sonic experimentation comes from E-Saggila, Nadia Struiwigh, NVST, Solid Blake, and Viikatory who offer unique takes on the well-established electro blueprint, while Ryan James Ford, and Nit. both find ways to blend elements normally found in ambient pieces with those heard on a dancefloor.

The feel of the compilation is yet again reflected in the enigmatic artwork by Malik Arbab, where shapes and colours suggest animals and plants but in a world that appears to be transient and constantly evolving.

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NVST - Heatstress (Tunnel Edition)

https://dgohn-music.bandcamp.com/album/undesignated-remixes

Undesignated remixes is an expansive project containing 12 remixes of tracks from dgoHn’s iconic 2020 full-length by some choice artists from in and around the Love Love sphere. Remixes that take dgoHn’s unique razor-sharp original productions and send them through a loop and round the twist, some stripped down, some messed up, most but not all maintaining the speedier tempos that dgoHn likes to work around. The result is a collection of seriously futuristic electronic music with some stylistic leanings towards labels like braindance or drumfunk or jungle but completely genre-eluding as a whole, reshaped from the minerals of the original LP by some absolute dons of their craft.

Opening the album Equinox does a fantastic job highlighting the lushness of ‘Puppet’ layering sky-high sunshine pads before sliding into Meat Beat Manifesto’s heavy sci-fi acid dub version of ‘Daisy Takes Two’. A woozy remix of ‘Lucky Gonk’ by Macc & dgoHn marks the first new material from them as a duo since ’09 and Wisp also makes a rare appearance bringing his inimitable post-rephlexian vibes on an agonisingly wonderful, melody-heavy remix of 'Electryon'. Skee Mask’s choice of remixing ‘Robin’s Windmill’ turns the original into a bundle of writhing rhythms organically unfolding with swelling ambient tones. Homegrown heroes Rognvald & Scrase both opt for pumped up post-breakcore in unconventional time signatures while Djrum emphatically provides the LP’s dose of peak jungle choppage, tempering the drum breaks of ‘Ninnyhammer’ with a blistering amen. Also featured on the LP are crisp and beefy drum workouts courtesy of Coco Bryce and Forest Drive West, visceral and apocalyptic half-time bass from Activia Benz affiliated duo Quavis and virtuosic noir-jazz tearout from fellow East-Anglian Carl Brown.

Artwork by Colin McCallister
Mastered by Robert Macchiochi

dgoHn - Undesignated Remixes [LOVLP06 CLIPS]

https://meatbeatmanifesto.bandcamp.com/album/man-from-mantis

Long time collaborators and electronic music legends Meat Beat Manifesto (Jack Dangers) & DHS (Benjamin Stokes) get together on fresh new 12” EP ‘Man From Mantis’.

These are lab-grown rhythm bombs, finely tuned off-kilter grooves, razor sharp crucial beats ready for the future.

Written & Produced by Jack Dangers & Benjamin Stokes
Cover Art by Sam Fez
Mastered by Keith Tenniswood

Meat Beat Manifesto & DHS - Man From Mantis [LOVEP03 CLIPS]

Another all-out techno affair from Ben Pest on the LOVLTD series. Storming acid!!

Bandcamp link: https://benpest.bandcamp.com/album/cancel-couture

Ben Pest - Cancel Couture [LOVLTD04 CLIPS]

Drumfunk/braindance don dgoHn (John Cunnane) returns to Love Love for a collaborative 4 track EP, ‘Talk To The Planets’, alongside avant-garde experimentalist Danish friend Oliver Duckert. Oliver is an electronic evangelist and founding member of chameleonic cyberjazz group Badun, created in Århus, Denmark, but often found tuning in and out of the space-time hyperlink. John who needs no introduction at this point makes his first appearance on the label since widely-lauded 2020 album ‘Undesignated Proximate’ and follow-up 2022 remix project which featured an array of peers such as Skee Mask, Djrum, Meat Beat Manifesto and Equinox. 

What results here is a bubbling platter of otherworldly sound design full of warmth (and the slickest drum-work going!) that fully imbibes both artists’ individual songwriting sensibilities, striking a curious balance between organic improvisation and meticulously detailed programming. 

Sonically the EP could be described as hi-resolution psychedelic drum n bass as much as it could alien future-jazz, detailed and rich with mad grooves just beneath the surface. Structurally the tracks are unpredictable but not jarring, with a free-flowing quality and a pace that feels like meandering at lightspeed. Way too immersive for casual listening, this is music for getting lost in the stars. Like using arcane beat science at a ruffneck drum circle to astral project through the multiverse.

https://dgohn-music.bandcamp.com/album/talk-to-the-planets

dgoHn & Badun - Talk To The Planets [LOVWAX12 CLIPS]

Love Love host a collaborative release by two of the freshest contemporary Avon producers, Best Pest and Kursa. Kursa (also one half of S.Murk) has built a notable following in the UK as well as in the USA, playing out often at big stateside events with his own style of tight, maximalist bass music - think Tipper, Eprom, Noisia etc… Ben Pest is no stranger to Love Love with 2 previous solo releases under his belt, best known for his crunchy techno & electro and ripping hardware live-sets. Here they come together for a 5 track genre-hopping EP, each flexing their respective production sensibilities, splicing elements of dubstep, grime, hardcore & garage together, along with a healthy dose of multi-dimensional sound design, to make some of the noisiest modern dance music going.

Opening track ‘Hide Rate’ takes the shape of mutated future garage that glides forwards effortlessly before breaking down midway with expansive sub-nautical melodies. ‘Lard Style’ invites fellow Bristolian musician Fat Dave (Scheme Boy) along for an absolutely slamming acid breaks affair with one of the cheekiest grooves to ever bother a subwoofer. The A-side closes with ‘Having An Obnoxious Moment’, a furious clattering ‘ardcore piece with heavy nods to early noughties grime that pushes the dial way past 11. A track so hard it’ll knock your Kangol off and make you wonder what year it is. The B-Side focuses more on half-time rhythms with ‘Big Square Wheels’ providing more than enough grit & glitch for any extraterrestrial bass addict, whilst closer ‘Totally Kippered’ explores some seriously skronked out, spooky low frequencies.

https://kursa.bandcamp.com/album/hide-rate

Hide Rate

Ben Pest X Kursa - Hide Rate [LOVEP04 CLIPS]

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Up in the clouds, they found themselves very comfortable. They sat looking down upon planet earth watching as it ran itself in circles. Who had ever known heaven could be as sweet as this? Up here they lived a happy, peaceful, contented life in which they were not bothered by the woes and troubles of a wild and wonderful world below. They live, they breathe, they dance...

Forest Drive West recently released an EP on German record label, Midgar. It was titled "They Live" and was a stellar showcase of the deep, pensive, thoughtful electronics that he has become best known for. Now the label have announced a new remix package which features some hugely talented producers in what is a tastefully  curated affair.

Ben Pest - Cancel Couture [LOVLTD04 CLIPS]

Love Love Records

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