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Manami - Eventide in Orbit [VT001]

Shake That Thang

It started, as it so often does, with two old friends hanging out. 

John Shima and C P Smith were joking around one evening in their home city of Sheffield. At some point, Smith challenged Shima that, if the latter could produce a record using nothing more than a small modular synth setup, then Smith would release it on his Central Processing Unit label. As heads will know, while Shima has drops on imprints like FireScope and Subwax Excursions to his name, he had never previously released anything via CPU. Shima accepted, and thus we now have his CPU debut, the four-track EP CPU Modular 1.

The specific setup that Shima worked with for these tracks was Smith’s Doepfer A-100P6 Suitcase, a small but mighty combination of modules and programmers. It’s no surprise that Shima was able to familiarise himself with the equipment in double-quick time - after all, Shima was an early adopter of the Eurorack modular format back in the day. What emerged from the CPU Modular 1 sessions was a quartet of devastatingly effective DJ tools, mid-set rollers which will get the dance moving something crazy.

Opener ‘003’ kicks the EP off as it means to go on. There’s something at once stiff-necked and buoyant about the rhythms here, all thwacking Roland tones and snares which crack like someone whipping a length of sheet metal. While the beat barrels unyieldingly onwards, the programming in the tuned modulars is more exploratory and even trippy, full of delay-laced bleeps and flighty rhythmic motifs. It comes together for a cracking mix in the vein of artists like Jerome Hill and London Modular Alliance. Second A-side cut ‘010’ is no different, the street-beat groove and grumbling low-ends underpinning all manner of modular wizardry.

CPU Modular 1 is really timeless stuff, a set of percussion-heavy, future-focussed beats which recalls Smith’s own CPU drop ‘DJ Tools Vol.1 - 808 Tracks’. ‘011’ kicks of CPU Modular 1’s second-half with a dose of Drexciyan dystopia, playing an atonal loop off of an insistent bass wiggle and neurotic hi-hats. Even when Shima tightens or slackens the modulars here, ‘011’ remains unyielding, a dose of pure ‘Wip3out’ energy that you could happily groove to all day long. The EP closes out with ‘005’, a gnarled, gurgling production which still retains the dancefloor punch of the rest of the record.

For his Central Processing Unit debut, John Shima was tasked to produce four tracks using a single small modular setup. Unsurprisingly given the pedigree of this seasoned machine-funk pro, Shima aced the assignment.

RIYL: Jerome Hill, London Modular Alliance, Matt Whitehead

CPU Modular 1

John Shima - CPU Modular 1

A-side: Manmade Deejay - Crawlspace
B-side: DJ Popup - PU's MPC(Central Remix)

Available in Århus from May 2022
Available worldwide from June 2022

Safe Archive 01 (SA01)

Hot off his 10 Seconds, Vol. 1EP, veteran DJ hero A-Trak teams up with Glasgow duo Illyus & Barrientos (Toolroom, Ultra) for a juiced up house anthem with classic diva vocals. Powered by a driving bassline, “Together At Last” will send you straight to the gym or to the dancefloor, depending on the time of day that you listen. Get ready to sweat.

A-Trak, Illyus & Barrientos - Together At Last (Extended Mix)

We’ve got a big Friday premiere courtesy of Denham Audio & Swankout as they team up for a happy hardcore link up. The pair for a feel good rave work out packed with jarring breaks, athematic piano chords and pummelling bass.

Club Glow co founder Denham Audio is no stranger to linking up with friends. Running the label alongside fellow break smiths ManiFesto, LMajor and Borai, the rave-focused producer has established the imprint as one of a leading name in acid hooks, lairy basslines and whiplash-inducing breakbeats, and here on CheekySneakers-he readies the release of five varied cuts of low-end pressure and sky-high euphoria alongside Swankout, Thug widow and CocoBryce.

Denham Audio have given the UK’s rave scene a fresh sense of intensity and vitality. The sound they’re pushing is steeped in UK hardcore’s past, but those bedrock sounds and genres have been spruced up, flowing into the buoyant areas of experimentation bouncing from 140 and 160 BPM.

‘Good Time’ does what it says. A cut of happy-hardcore inspired breaks beamed straight from the Midlands; there is just enough headsy energy to keep the chin-stokers entertained, whilst inspiring an emotional, smiling release for those whose infatuations lie closer to ravey keys and Bangface Weekenders.

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Four Four Premiere: Denham Audio & Swankout - Good Time [Cheeky Sneakers]

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL ! [R*]

with @0noahh my broda
cover by @lovekhaed on instagram

produced by me
stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/4fB4h9hSnQluUXqDjdxnfr?si=0P2hE9Z8SCa6TViCxZUDAQ

lyrics: 

Woke up at the party and everyone is dead on the floor
was it my fault or should i just let it go
try to walk out but someone fucking closed the door
stuck in my head cant fucking let it go
x2

noahh
idk dumbass didnt write em down

dead on the floor ft. Noahh

Tony Johns Edits - Little Love

Pre-order: https://visceratransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/eventide-in-orbit

An EP full of brain melting progressive trance-esque house courtesy of @manami-b on @visceramusic, ft. a remix from the one and only Adam Pits.

'Eventide In Orbit' cruises across the star-shot horizon. An era-spanning blend of ambient techno and melodic trance trailing lofty astral tones, before warping into 303 hyperspace

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Premiere: Manami 'Eventide In Orbit'

For the debut vinyl EP on Viscera Transmissions, Manami embarks on an interplanetary voyage to distant moons. Let her distinct, melodic style bathe you in a dreamy celestial glow.

Eventide In Orbit cruises across the star-shot horizon. An era spanning blend of ambient techno and melodic trance trailing lofty astral tones, before warping into 303 hyperspace.

Afterburners roaring, our voyage brings us to Interaxial, exploring the weightier side of Manami’s sound. Evoking images of an interplanetary battle, laser synth barrages flash across the skies of this heads down techno thumper.

On the flip side, Overture One prepares for docking protocols, slowly drifting on cosmic winds back towards the ambient mothership. Pulsating synth wobbles take the helm and ride the driving baseline into the sunset.

Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the known cosmos, Adam Pits ignites an extra-terrestrial dancefloor with his aptly titled ‘Stomp’ remix of Overture One. Alien booties shake to a breakbeat tip before morphing into a squelchy cosmic slugger. Tentacles head skyward for Adam’s mind altering sound. Heavy as!

PREMIERE : Manami - Overture One (Adam Pits' Stomp Mix)

Full stream of Stelios Vassiloudis' "Waves," taken from his EP Saudade on Apparel Tronic, out May 27.

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@stelios-vassiloudis

Saudade

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Premiere: Stelios Vassiloudis - Waves

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The 24th release of Sengiley has been in preparation and languishing for a long time, like aged dry wine in a French castle cellar, a French bouquet of young talents from Awlies & Véronique Samsung on their original Spot The Difference EP!

This experimental release is a dynamic and hypnotic journey where the languid and experimental sound of Awlies replaces the expressive and driving versions of the duo Véronique Samsung. Individually, Véronique Samsung is a living duo, born after a decade of collaboration between Clement Cosse and Tom Nomine, in 2019 in Nantes (France). The project has recently been marked by several great experimental releases and their virtuoso live show with drum machines, synthesizers and guitar, which showed their professionalism, seriousness of intentions and noticeable recognition.

Awlies, hidden in his Parisian studio in the middle of his tower of analog instruments, between a mpc and a cassette recorder, wants to produce a music without rules. A bit nostalgic, he naively seeks to find the electronic music of yesteryear based on contemporary melodic structures.

His part on the EP remains a plan without a projected artistic direction, like a bottle in the sea. Here, Awlies wanted to try deep-house, he tried.

PREMIERE: Awlies - Modern Ghetto Bird (Véronique Samsung Experience)

Buy: https://superluxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/superlux-006-n-gynn-the-heavens-ep

Behind the wheel for the next chapter of the @superlux-records story is label co-founder, @n-gynn. The sixth release on the vinyl imprint sees the UK producer return to the label with four energetic encounters designed for the club. 

The A2 and title-track 'The Heavens' is crammed with glitchy drum work, and otherworldly textures as the title aptly explains. All of the elements are perfectly weighted, each of them leaving enough room for the next, an elastic bass continues to propel the track as trippy vocal samples flash in and out, giving this one the Superlux effect.

Premiere: N-GYNN 'The Heavens'

PRE-ORDER: https://slumprecordings.bandcamp.com/album/slump003-false-flat-ep

Baby Rollén’s Slump Recordings imprint gets ready to release the debut, full length EP from Stuttgart based producer and DJ, mpeg. 

Having released single tracks on seminal underground labels including Haŵs and Wex, both for Ukrainian war aid compilations - amongst a slew of incredible other artists; mpeg is swiftly becoming a name on the European underground network. With his tracks already in the hands of DJs including Demi Riquisimo, Eris Drew and more - the young talent steps towards the release of the False Flat EP, his premiere extended player.

Slot 16 (Baby Rollén Remix)

Premiere: mpeg 'Slot 16' (Baby Rollén Remix)

Buy: https://surusinghe.lnk.to/HeavenSo

Steel City Dance Discs welcomes Surusinghe for an explosive debut. Five tracks built on the foundation of rhythm heavy percussion, thought provoking melodies inspired by traditional Sri Lankan instrumentation, and an underbelly of engulfing bass. 

‘GOOD GIRLS / BAD GIRLS’ is a culmination of the sounds and culture that have influenced Surusinghe throughout her life. Listening to a combination of traditional music with her Sri-Lankan born father in her youth, to the more current impact that heritage and contemporary sounds of UK rave has had on the young producer since she moved to London from Melbourne in 2019 to further pursue a career in music.

Premiere: Surusinghe 'Heaven'

Pre-order: https://www.unearthedsounds.co.uk/collections/a-all-preorder/products/reflec-spectra-incl-dbridge-remix

The long awaited sixth release on @neighbourhood-music by the talented @reflec-1, coming with a mixture of breaks, techno, broken beat, lush pads, sweet melodies & everything in between. dBridge has put his unique twist on 'Spectra', tough snares, gnarly bassline & subtle acid licks. It's hard to pigeon hole this one!

Premiere: Reflec 'Spectra' (dBridge Remix)

Pre-order: https://atwrecords.bandcamp.com/album/atw002

After the success of @atwrec's 'ATW001' during lockdown, @interplanetary-criminal and @mainphase001 come together again, this time influenced by the 04' speed garage scene that exploded from Sheffield to Birmingham mixed with the current sound of post-pandemic UK club culture. 'ATW002' is very cheeky, yet very serious...

Premiere: ATW 'Backshot'

There’s a first time for everything, at least that was what he had been told. Then why was it that he felt as if he’d been here before? Lived through this moment? The deja vu of a reality that was not his?

This was the first overture. It might be the only opportunity presented to him to escape from this place, perhaps that was why he felt as if he’d lived this moment a thousand times already. In some ways he already had.

He’d dreamt of far flung getaways, of action packed escapes, of perilous and noble pursuits which would break down the walls and cease the charade for them all. This was the one shot…
 
Manami is set to release her debut full length EP on Viscera Transmissions, the record label offshoot of the prominent dance and electronic music focussed magazine. The EP features a collection of tracks inspired by early trance and 90’s house – the result is effortlessly progressive and spaced out. This one is a track called ‘Overture 1’ and it features atmospheric pads, acid stabs and euphoric sequencing which will lend itself to the later hours.

PREMIERE: Manami - Overture One [Viscera Transmissions]

Optical Delusion

Day One (feat. Dina Ipavic) [Manami Remix]

@demiriquisimo & @manami-b take a tech-tinged trip into outer space on the new collaborative EP, ‘Sugar Snap’, out via the former’s A Lifetime On The Hips sub-label 

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-demi-riquisimo-manami-sugar-snap

Sugar Snap

Premiere: Demi Riquísimo & Manami ‘Sugar Snap’

Dreaming Still

Sheffield’s @djdeepheat delivers four transportive, trance-infused heaters for @goddezztemple, alongside remixes from @1800girls, @manami-b, Stone, @djfingerblast666 and @espforever

‘Age Of Aquarius’ is out 2nd August – have an exclusive first listen to Manami’s remix of the title track

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-dj-deep-heat-age-aquarius-manami-remix

Age Of Aquarius

Premiere: DJ Deep Heat ‘Age Of Aquarius [Manami Remix]’

Buy here : safar-records.bandcamp.com/album/safar-to-lebanon

Safar To Lebanon

Manami - Souri

Buy:  https://sune.bandcamp.com/track/sune-for-when-its-dark

Sune - For When It's Dark [FH Unsigned]

‘Is It Dry?’ Out Now -
Technicolour / Stream / Download: https://projectpablo.lnk.to/hyw

"Aimed at the big-room, falling short for the mid-room"

Taken from ‘Hope You’re Well’ released 20th October 2017 via Ninja Tune imprint Technicolour.

Is It Dry?

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Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (Archie Hamiltons Space Dust Bootleg) Al Dare Refix

I was introduced to Abi at the end of 2010 through a mutual friend - Johnny Dub who co-runs the excellent Manchester night hoya:hoya. Instantly I was blown away by her voice
I sent her some stuff that was on a slightly different tip to my usual beats. She dug it, sent it back - worked on it some more, Tobyjug was born and i'm glad to say it has been the start of a long working relationship and friendship.
 
We worked together a lot last year on her solo material and the year culminated in Abi flying to Berlin to work with Benjamin Damage and I on our recent album They!Live.
 
I love this song. Hope you do too. DD x 
 
this is coming on 12" and digi with an amazing remix by Lando Kal

track is written by M. Watkins / A. Wyles & T. Dawes - Arranged, Engineered & Produced by M. Watkins

Premiere: Manami 'Eventide In Orbit'

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