Following up on his Timedance debut in 2019, Sydney based wunderkind Air Max ’97 signs his return in style with a double dose of hi-detail club warpers. 

Without sacrificing any of his grimy and sub-loaded tendencies, the New-Zealand born producer expands his intricate and futuristic palette further with his most trance-inducing production to date.

Listen and preorder: 

Artwork by Harry Butt

Air Max '97 - Eat The Rich

Lithe - & Drop

@imitation_therapy

Buy: https://lithe.bandcamp.com/album/lithe-nora-drum-remixes

Mastered by Lithe 
Original artwork by Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi featuring photography by Hamish Thomson, remixed by Nathan Hurdle

Remixes

Lithe - It's Rhythm (Imitation Therapy Remix)

IM096 - @aroent - Say
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: May 27th,2022
Format: Digital
Artwork by Vojd

Following on from a release-packed 2021, Infinite Machine are back with a new 4-track offering from the relative newcomer, Aroent. Across 3 new original cuts (plus a rework by UK dance royalty, Ploy) the Berlin-based producer delivers some serious rollers crammed full of gnarly drumwork and a pervasive air of unease. Like the strange, abstract creature of the record artwork, the music of Say EP is an amorphous beast, mixing the dense arrangements/layering of 90s IDM records with the off-kilter and swung beats of UK Techno and Funky.

The EP opens with its title track; a whirl of snaps, claps and phantom samples all firmly underpinned by an acid-inflected bassline. Aroent embracing of chance and luck in his compositions is evident on this track, throwing in idiosyncratic automations and randomizers to grow and evolve the tune over its 5 minute duration. The vox samples (stolen from Breaking Bad) seem to decay and fall inwards on each other on ‘Say’, as if the song is soundtrack to a decaying and corrupted society (not dissimilar to Heisenberg’s).

On ‘Rolling Oddities’, Aroent’s love for the Bristol bass & techno scene really shines through clearly. A track that seems almost built for a spinny night that rolls on until the morning, the song really does what it says on the tin with its combination of driving, rhythmic elements and it’s smattering of pretty out-there decisions in terms of arrangement and sound processing. This is a definite must-listen tune for fans of Batu, Lurka or Hodge.

Next up, ‘Bobcat’ takes things in a slightly more buoyant and ecstatic direction with its ever-rising filters and muted percussion that seems like it’s dancing along on tip-toes. On this song especially, Aroent’s genre-agnostic approach to production is abundantly obvious with elements of techno and bass sitting alongside kick drums that wouldn’t feel out of place on some Jersey Club tracks.

Ploy brings up the rear on Say EP with a ferocious ‘Skeletal Tool remix’ of the releases’ title track. Taking a reductionist approach to his rework, the Timedance signee strips out some of the originals’ more hyperbolic or dramatic elements and reduces it to a polyrhythmic, semi-genreless heater. Seriously - you try and pin this edit down to a single ‘genre label’, I dare you!

Despite the small number of releases to his name, Say EP is a highly confident and well-realized offering from the Greek-born, Berlin-based producer. In a way, Aroent is already creating his own sonic signature that lifts and interpolates aspects across the UK Bass spectrum and turns it into something totally unique. This is music that lurks in the shadows of warehouse clubs.

Tracklist:

1. Say
2. Rolling Oddities
3. Bobcat
4. Say (Ploy's Skeletal Tool Remix)

Aroent - Say (IM096)

Despina returns to Kindergarten Records with a new EP, ‘Gravity Games’. The releases follows shortly after their debut on London-based label All Centre earlier this year. 

On ‘Your Invisible Room’, Despina explores the concept of space and stillness, with moments of quietness amid of the chaos of jittering, warping synths and crashing drum pattern. It’s a track seeped in organic textures, with the bird song opening inviting you into Despina’s futuristic nature. 

‘Gravity Games’ by Despina will be released on the 1st July via Kindergarten Records - pre-order here: https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-games

@despinadespina
@kindergartenrecords

Gravity Games

Premiere: Despina - Your Invisible Room (Kindergarten Records)

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Make Boys Cry - Reappear [Tinkah Remix]

REMADE welcomes an array of new and exciting artists to the fold with a remix edition of SHALT’s 2140. The EP’s 6 remixes cover a huge range of global styles which all take the label’s ethos of sound design driven club music in their own unique direction.

REMADE003 is out digitally on 22nd March 2023.

Cover art by Helin Sahin.

SHALT - Falaise (De Grandi Remix)

25% of label profits will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians www.map.org.uk

releases May 12, 2023

All music written and mixed by georg-i
Artwork by www.missridd.biz
Mastered by Joker

Rave Ballista [YCO006]

Rave Ballista

georg-i - Strobe Fodder

On his first official EP (2020, [re]sources), Bristol producer Jurango highlights the links between dancehall and UK club music, read more on CxC: https://couvrexchefs.com/en/jurango-re-sources-thahkek

Rift EP

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[PREMIERE] Jurango - Thahkek [[re]sources]

To celebrate the label’s second anniversary we’ve enlisted a crew of friends and family to put together a compilation which looks to consolidate the sound that the label has honed so far and envision where it’s headed in the future.

Additionally our in-house artist Bette Blanchard has created 8 artworks responding to the compilation, which have been riso printed on A3 to go in the home or studio <3

ACEN2001 is released on the 17th of August via All Centre

ACEN2001

Endless Mow - Fey Dor (Taken from ACEN 2001 - 2nd Anniversary Compilation)

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the hotline - jsh.metrist@gmail.com

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