The 4th Track from Noctambulant Sound's new Noctambulism VA,  comes out of Sheffield. Label Newcomer, MAKS, is a red blooded Sheffield raised Yorkshireman, who happens to make cool breaky bits. With haunting bass & top lines, solid breaks and even a bit of northern English style brass in this one. 

Releases 07/05/21, pre orders live now, only available over at Noctambulant's Bandcamp via the buy link. 

MAKS
SC: @bmaks
IG: https://www.instagram.com/maksmusicsheffield/

Noctambulant Sounds Records
LT: https://linktr.ee/Noctambulantsound

Noctambulism VA

PREMIERE: MAKS - Aktuator [Noctambulant Sound Records]

HAHAHA (Ultra slowed)

Vina Konda - From J To C

https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/album/satin

@lackmusic

Lack - Elementary Means

After 5 years of 'Fortnightly Freebies' columns collating our favourite free downloads, we decided to do things a bit differently for the 100th chapter. Introducing 'Big Material', a 19-track 'name your price' compilation that will donate 100% of profits made to Stonewall Housing, a London-based charity supporting some of the most marginalised and vulnerable in our society.

At a time when unfair austerity is increasing inequality and leaving so many behind, we hope to support a community that has given so much to the 'scene' and music we love. Digi-dub abstractions and drifting ambient to kaleidoscopic breaks and newly-coined genre, 'subtle donk', it's a pretty accurate microcosm of the If-Only curation as a whole.

Big Material pulls together music from some of If-Only's favourite artists, with tracks from @apsychicyes, @riveryarra, Material Things (@12th-isle), @priori-ties, @nicholaswilson1982 & @steviewhisper, @benoitb, @maxabysmal, @58daniel, @bogdan-drazic, @whyesss, @twitch, @warzouk, @thomasbakk, @eyemeasure, @rdjm0, @furiousfrank, Moonphase (AKA @cl_lit), @moonbowmusic and @aki-aki.

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Soft and calm, we, like light
fray into gentle chaos.
Big material unfurls
Then turns to collect, reform –
Like breaths, draw in
To new poise and structure;
Solid and slow.
Never still. Glacial.

Think back, before
A piece of things,
Moving alone, once a part –
But when is the fragment
not the whole?
When is the whole not the whole?
The salt which made the chalk
Which made the cliff
Which made the slate -

Hard to see,
Once a part and still, we are,
A piece of something else.

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All profits go to Stonewall Housing, a London-based charity working to ensure lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people live in safer homes, free from fear, where they can celebrate their identity and support each other to achieve their full potential.

Artwork by Parks Perdue.
Mastering by Ali Berger.
Poem by BSMN WNS.

Download

Moonbow - I Cried So Hard I Laughed

DBA045, IKONIKA - BODIES EP
BUY: https://dontbeafraidrecordings.co.uk/shop

BODIES EP

IKONIKA - NOBODY

The sound of Parisian label, Sample Delivery has only grown since its inception back in 2017. With producers DJ Suzmo, Gecin, Sun Gun and DJ Bivoul as the engine, this enigmatic four-strong crew have each ploughed out numeral releases whilst also bringing in other lesser known producers along the way. Sample Delivery can be remembered for it's undeniable quality, pairing top class production and sound with a marked visual language in their cover art.

Undoubtedly, one quarter of the SD crew, DJ Suzmo feeds into the maintenance of such standards. Clearly holding a deep appreciation for a whole spectrum of sounds, his 'Minuit Vingt Deux' is yet another essential listen. A love letter to UK jungle and hardcore, veiled with weighty jabbing kicks and fluttering, dopamine drenched synths. It's a fine piece of dancefloor engineering, poised to ignite moments of pure, unbashed elation for all. 

Read more: https://hyponik.com/features/first-listen-dj-suzmo-minuit-vingt-deux-sample-delivery/

@djsuzmo
@sampledeliveryrecords

First Listen: DJ Suzmo - 'Minuit Vingt Deux' (Sample Delivery)

Beauty and Danger of the Jungle

More info - http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/el-james-iron-gauntlets-intervention-1
@yungelj

INTERVENTION x V/A 001

Iron Gauntlets

Pre-order

PREMIERE: El James - Iron Gauntlets (INTERVENTION)

[MLD19] @jnskim - Odd One Out
is the 19th track of our monthly USB ONLY Digital Series

you can buy it here www.mergelayers.bandcamp.com
out on the other digital stores soon

Odd One Out

JNS - Odd One Out

He awoke disorientated, his vision blurred in the early morning light. His face had been stuck to the lino floor in the kitchen, seems he hadn't made it up the stairs to bed then. The stench of cigarette smoke clung to the air and the fumes of undisclosed alcohol spillages travelled up his nostrils. Everybody had already made their escape before morning (and the inevitable regret) had begun to creep in, and as usual he'd been left to pick up the pieces.

Last month we shared the news of Brighton-based party starters Accidental Meetings taking their first steps into the label world, enlisting the help of friends and family with close ties to the party to contribute tracks to their mammoth compilation. After lockdown left the crew with no events in sight, they made a pledge to pull together the 21-track offering which journeys through the electronic sounds that will be at the core of the label in the future. From dancehall and electro to UK techno and breaks, the release features cuts from the likes of Chungo, Charles Green, Alexis, Caldera, ZaaZaa, Kincaid and DJ Tess, which we premiered last month.

AMF&F001

PREMIERE: 96 Back - Punch Drunk Esc [Accidental Meetings]

HI WE ARE HERE NOW: 
www.mergelayers.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/mergelayers
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record label started by @natlek & @nobel focused on strictly club music.

contact: mergelayers.records@gmail.com

JNS - Odd One Out

Merge Layers