Video 4 Up Next New Season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbXXlpOKga8 
Directed by Nicolee Tsin and Cheruto Wang.

The EP opens with its title track, finally released after circulating in sets by M.E.S.H. and object blue for years. Exemplifying recharged energy, the titular piece is a mechanised swagger of emboldened electronics that strut onto the scene under the repeating mantra of ‘trying something new’ – a statement optimistically encouraging the listener to join in the artist’s efforts to break mental barriers surrounding the self.

EP tracklist:

1. Up Next New Season
2. Hammervand
3. Antitoxin
4. (Re)gain

Written, produced and mixed by: Tobias Rye Adomat
Mastered by: Joel Krozer @ Six Bit Deep

Up Next New Season

@speakermusic remix of an @axine-m track from "HAUNT3D BODY R3MIX3S" - a remix collection of tracks from @axine-m's 2020 release "ꔠ⍺Ⴎ𝜼τ𝟈ḋ ϦƠḋ𝙔 ³³³" to be self-released via Bandcamp on 05/05/21.

All proceeds will be donated to For the Gworls, a rent & medical fund for Black trans people. More info here: https://www.forthegworls.party/home

HAUNT3D BODY R3MIX3S

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PREMIERE: Axine M - sᑦ⍺𝜼 (s⍺𝗩𝐢Ơ𝑟〕(Speaker Music Remix)

Taken from SBKT050: ABADIR - Mutate
Release date: 22nd July 2022

Marking the 50th release-proper on SVBKVLT, we are excited to present ‘Mutate’, a new album by ABADIR.

‘Mutate’ started when I was trying out Maqsoum loops at high bpm blended with Jungle tracks during one of my DJ sets. I noticed that the Maqsoum rhythm complements the Amen break in a refreshing way. The first time I actually tried integrating both in my productions using “call and response” was when Ice_Eyes asked me to remix one of their tracks. The result was the closest to what I had always imagined to be my own club sound.

I set out to make an album using the same technique with some of my favorite club genres. My aim was to mutate those genres, collecting different types of Arabic rhythms and cooking them with Jungle, Jersey Club, Reggaeton, Footwork, etc. It’s an irreversible equation, like a chemical reaction, where the output is a melted piece which cannot be broken down into its separate inputs. Instead of ‘deconstructing’ or generally looking beyond club music, I made some fatty, straight up dance floor music.’ – ABADIR

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AِBADIR (Rami Abadir) is a music producer and sound designer born in Cairo, Egypt. His work focuses on experimental, club, glitch and ambient music, and he’s one half of the duo 0N4B. .

Artwork: Luke Griffiths
Photograph: Omar Elkafrawy
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Special thanks to Amira Elmasry

Mutate

ABADIR - Pyrolysis

Potentials - Zoë Mc Pherson

T5 01

Boomkat Product Review:

Heavy-duty Indian soundsystem carnage by its leading proponent DJ Smiley Bobby, on Uganda’s immense NNT - unmissable for anyone wowed by recent videos of Indian sound clashes, priming the label for incoming heat by DJ TSR.

A proper mazza from Maharashtra State in Western India, DJ Smiley Bobby’s ‘Dhol Tasha Drum Exercises’ presents nearly an hour of up-to-the-second, electronic re-interpretations of ceremonial drums. It’s a full-frontal example of the rave energies in BRIC countries currently catching fire internationally, paralleling innovative mutations of Baile funk in Brazil or from the Svbkvlt lot in China with a ruthlessly rough brand of dancefloor discipline that sharply bends tradition into the hot present. Yr ears will not deceive you - DJ Smiley Bobby’s gear is frankly some of the sickest we’ve heard in a minute and we expect this introduction to be prized by any ravers unsatisfied with Western club music’s increasing tendencies to imitate-not-innovate.

First formed by the late Shri Appasaheb Pendse in the ‘60s, Dhol Tasha Drum exercises were originally performed on a sort of acoustic kettle drum but became electronically adapted in recent years thanks to the likes of DJ Smiley Bobby and peers including DJ Aasif, DJ Ammy, and DJ TSR, the latter of whom is due to drop an album with NNT this year. DJ Smiley Bobby’s introductory session finds the sound at its stripped down and breathless best with a ceaseless battery of drums and percussive madness that truly puts willing bodies thru their paces as the mixtape steps from side A’s 90-110bpm workout to its 150bpm ‘Hard Drum Sound System’ on the flip.

Also kinda mirroring the way DJ Plead has flipped Arabic drum styles, how Bilou XIV have transposed Senegalese mbalax drum patterns onto machine grids, or DJ Diaki’s Malian balani knee-ups, we’re certain this one will light up the pleasure centres of proper dancers everywhere, and dovetail with the sort of thing Beatrice Dillon makes, or anyone who’s been scouting zones where Indian bhangra and UK rave music bump fists, a la Mick St. Clair’s remixes of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Un-fucking-missable!!!

DJ SMILEY BOBBY - Dhol Tasha Drum Exercises from Maharashtra (sampler)

Renslink - !85 EP
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM103
Format: Digital
Release: May 26th, 2023
Mastered by Fausto Mercier
Artwork by Luis Tomita

UK producer Renslink calls IM103 his first effort focused on the dancefloor, but it belies a lifetime steeped in it. This is prime material for the most advanced of DJs.

The first cut, Static, blends heavy, droning atmospheric sound design with the half-time template of dubstep, complete with jungle vocals. Before reaching the first half, however, it goes into a healthy techno gallop, making the track a perfect set opener if drama is your thing.

From that we go into the three-on-two mindbend of In My Mind, full of beautiful rhythmic trickery and rave culture nods in the sampled female vocals.

Cenotaph feels like a Pinch & Mumdance dub that they kept for themselves around the Control/Strobelight era, all rolling, persistent kick, dubbed-out dready vocals and dystopian hoover.

In Touching The Void we find a moment of drama and relative tenderness, as cinematic strings and choir soar over a busy rolling breakbeat. Occasionally, the proceedings are punctuated by a reese bass and bleeps fill that keep it fresh (an you on your toes).

Closer Silence is a mutant dembow wobbler with alien vocals by Nivalis, like dancehall for after the nuclear apocalypse, when we’ll have all the extra limbs we’ll need to dance to music like this.

!85 EP

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Renslink - Static (IM103)

A Gun Doesn't Care

Fresh off being crowned as one of our top labels of 2018, TT (@tobago-tracks) is continuing its industrious and impressive form into 2019 with a new EP from South London-based artist hmurd (@hmurdoch). 

The UK outlet has earned respected status for its dedication to pushing a vanguard of experimental producers making music on their own terms, and hmurd’s three-track outing ‘Boycott Ethical Consumption’ bolsters the imprint’s next-level repertoire. 

EP closer ‘Shepard’s Delight’ is an intense, compelling club concoction that places you in the swirling frenzy of 3am with a clarity of thought declaring: “this bangs”. Piercing tones are grounded in earth-shattering bass, raising adrenaline, before collapsing into a chaotic catharsis of clattering percussion and demented church chimes.

‘Boycott Ethical Consumption’ will be available from TT's Bandcamp on January 25: https://tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/

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Premere: hmurd 'Shepard's Delight'

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out on @jerryhorny VA

https://jerryhorny.bandcamp.com/album/jerry-in-shape-vol-2

Premere: hmurd 'Shepard's Delight'

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