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Stepping up for MANT004 is the one and only Ian DPM. This EP continues an impressive string of releases for him, including on his own imprints Scuffed Recordings and Definite Party Material, all exploring the edges of club music with tunes belonging slap bang in the middle of the dancefloor.

Proceedings start with an evening service, except the gospel choir have forgotten the keys to the church and instead take themselves and their organ down to the club for some heavenly amen breaks. The rest of the EP remains firmly on the dancefloor, but the club itself is launched into another dimension, powered by overcharged acid and off-kilter percussion riding over weighty, no-nonsense basslines.

Compliments gives Acid Dance quite the beating on the remix by putting it through a paper shredder, grabbing some of the shreds of paper and sticking them back together with a highly flammable glue before lighting the whole thing into a chaotic frenzy.

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[MANT004] Evening Service - Ian DPM

Evening Service EP (Out Now)

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By now it’s common knowledge that Etch is one of the brightest sparks working in the field of contemporary breakbeat mangling. The Brighton-based producer has the depth of knowledge about breaks, and the expressive affinity for how to slice and rearrange them, to rank among some of the greats. We’re talking Photek, Paradox, Source Direct levels of drum science here. Of course he’s more than just a break slicer too – look no further than last year’s Strange Days LP on Seagrave for a more widescreen angle on the Etch sound.

Toasting five years since we first carried some of Zak Brashill’s advanced junglisms on Sneaker, and three since his 2018 album Ups & Downs, we’re thrilled to welcome him back for an excursion into the heart of his drumfunk practice. On the A side of this single the sound field is sparse and taut, echoing the stripped-back, minimalistic atmosphere Paradox just brought to SNKR029. All emphasis is on the drums, and the staggering contortions they’re bent into. Where there is additional sonic dressing, it comes in noirish chord drops and distant celestial vapours that add to the palpable sense of tension.

By the contrast the B-side welcomes in a little more human warmth, with a vocal hook on ‘Shadows Passed By’ that calls back to Smith & Mighty’s flip of the Bacharach soul standard ‘Walk On By’, and a collaboration with Luo that trades in blue-tinted vibes and airy diva vocals. In both instances, needlepoint beat programming is still key and an overall sense of restraint guides the composition, lingering in a sustained mood rather than breaking out in excess drama. Etch sounds more accomplished and in control than ever on this 12”, and we’re honoured to be releasing such vital additions to the jungle narrative.

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Don't Need A Title EP

Don't Need A Title

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Haida - Don't Need A Title [Elemental Arts Premiere]

It’s been a minute or two since we dropped some free music on you, so let’s fix that. 

Here’s our remix of Layla’s “Oh My Love”. Straight back to our roots with this one. 

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Mantissa 004 - Evening Service - Ian DPM - Snippets

Stepping up for MANT004 is the one and only Ian DPM. This EP continues an impressive string of releases for him, including on his own imprints Scuffed Recordings and Definite Party Material, all exploring the edges of club music with tunes belonging slap bang in the middle of the dancefloor.

Proceedings start with an evening service, except the gospel choir have forgotten the keys to the church and instead take themselves and their organ down to the club for some heavenly amen breaks. The rest of the EP remains firmly on the dancefloor, but the club itself is launched into another dimension, powered by overcharged acid and off-kilter percussion riding over weighty, no-nonsense basslines.

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Ian DPM - Evening Service [Mantissa]

Stepping up for MANT004 is the one and only Ian DPM. This EP continues an impressive string of releases for him, including on his own imprints Scuffed Recordings and Definite Party Material, all exploring the edges of club music with tunes belonging slap bang in the middle of the dancefloor.

Compliments gives Acid Dance quite the beating on the remix by putting it through a paper shredder, grabbing some of the shreds of paper and sticking them back together with a highly flammable glue before lighting the whole thing into a chaotic frenzy.

Links:
https://orcd.co/mant004
https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/album/mantissa-004-evening-service

Premiere: Ian DPM - Acid Dance (Compliments burns the whole thing down) [MANT004]

Scuffed Recordings co-founder Ian DPM (@definitepartymaterial) debuts on @mantissa1 with a suite of breaksy, acid-dipped belters

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-ian-dpm-acid-dance-vocal

Premiere: Ian DPM ‘Acid Dance (Vocal)’

A shrill repetitive noise roused them in the early hours of the morning - like an air raid siren it cut through everything. Where it came from they didn't know, as far as they were aware there was nobody around for miles and miles - this was the middle of nowhere. Sleep was impossible now, though tiredness gripped every inch of them, they couldn't drift off for fear of the unknown. By the window they sat, squinting in the darkness, listening out for something moving in the bushes, but nothing appeared before day broke - had they dreamed it all?

As one half of the brains behind Scuffed Recordings and the curator of Definite Party Material, Ian DPM knows a thing or two about what constitutes a banging tune. Making his first forays into production himself a few years back with his Visions EP on Scuffed, he's since released a bunch of other EPs that teeter on the fringes of club music, fusing the likes of UKG, breakbeat, dancehall and techno. His next release comes via London-based music platform turned label Mantissa and is charged up with all the sonics you'd expect from him; weighty basslines, frenetic rhythms and crisp breakbeats.

PREMIERE: Ian DPM - Hardbody [Mantissa]

Pre-order: https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/album/mantissa-004-evening-service

Stepping up to London label @mantissa1, DJ and producer @definitepartymaterial shares his next EP exploring the outer edges of club music.

'UT6' lives firmly on the dancefloor - an off-kilter cut with percussion riding over weighty, no-nonsense basslines.

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Premiere: Ian DPM 'UT6'

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🛒 https://maisonfauna.bandcamp.com/album/remur
🔊 https://youtu.be/KLL5SRLpS9w

These two club-ready tracks combine techno, IDM, break beat, and self-coined genre "farmtime" for a well-crafted, hard-hitting debut, featuring analog elements and crisp sound design.

Body Logic is the new, joint project from Adam Berwick and Joel Wycherley, based in the UK.

Tracklist: 

Body Logic - Remur
Body Logic - Unkind Cut

PREMIERE: Body Logic - Remur [Maison Fauna]

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Out end of January
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2302 - Untitled (2302)

Digital Release: 15th January 2024
Vinyl Release: 26th January 2024

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Lake Haze - First Contact (THUNDER007)

Serge Geyzel returns to Adepta Editions with a 6-track ep "It' Cancelled", which will enrich our 12" AEX series and will be released during 2024. Here we offer you a small preview as a present for all of you who have supported us during these first two years of Adepta Editions. Happy holidays to all.

Performed by Serge Geyzel 
Mastered by Gabriel Covacich @ Pressure Alley Studio 
Art by Vesna Vrdoljak 
Design by Aplauso Studio

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AEX–03 | Serge Geyzel | A2-Take Your Time And Be Mine

Etch's 'Ups & Downs' album is a collection of dubs which date as far back as 2014 and up to the present day. 
 
The album's tracks are united by being examples of the artists' efforts to escape the shackles of reality by using music as a vehicle. 
The theme of space recurs across the material - both the 'outer-space' of the universe and galaxies that surround our planet and the 'inner-space' of exploring the infinite recesses and depths of our mind's imagination.
 
However these creations were made during a period experiencing a (not-uncommon) lifestyle of mad peaks, joy and optimism, and yet also, times of struggle, adversity and depression.
That is of course a familiar human tale - but expressed here through Etch's own singular musical vision. 

Etch's music is informed by psychedelic experiences, sci-fi, occult and horror themed films and the evolution of gaming - (these being tools often used to escape the prescribed tedium of society's rules and roles). 
This is then combined with a deep love of sampling vinyl and rearranging breakbeats in an unforced homage to his family roots in UK hardcore breakbeat, jungle and d'n'b.
Furthermore, these hybrids are often filtered through a keen understanding of current musical developments which are then explored and deployed where it feels appropriate. 
Add to this a smattering of teenage Goth influences  that rear their heads within the dark sound of certain tunes and you've got a serious distillation of culture being explored within these beats.

Out on 19th of October, vinyl & digital.

Etch - Ups & Downs

Coco Bryce delivers an upbeat, junglistic cut for Western Lore...

Coco Bryce 'Come 2 U'

MANTX004 - Aom - Water Boatmen
https://mantissa.bandcamp.com/track/water-boatmen

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