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Tengo

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Huna + Joe Polar 'Tengo' [CloudCore]

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For the 6th release on the @prettyweirdrecords imprint, @chloerobinsondj enlists the architectural minds of @djadhdgotbngrz and @nikki-nair to return once more to the label with a two-track EP of peak-time proportions.

Nikki’s solo jaunt on ‘Startrack’ is a crossbreed love affair between acid and breakbeat, with crisp kicks and psychedelic loops that seem to be caught in an endless, hypnotic crescendo.

On ‘Rips’, the Knoxville producer is joined by DJ ADHD, who recently
made his debut after a diversification from his ALXZNDR alias. It’s all stripped back drum-patterns for this one, with lurching bass inflections and clipped vocal hollers that demonstrate the power of minimalism employed attentively.

The final result: two razor-sharp tools designed for primal bodies and responsive lighting.

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Premiere: Nikki Nair + DJ ADHD 'Rips'

Breaka - Who's This

Casting a self-reflexive lens over his roots via the medium of crushing, future-rushing soundsystem sonics, Low End Activist returns to Sneaker Social Club with a full-length of monumental proportions.

When the Low End Activism 12” ignited on Sneaker in 2019, it paid tribute to the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, UK, where LEA originates from. In the shadow of social inequality and strengthened by the unity of the multi-ethnic community, Blackbird Leys still imposes a powerful influence on LEA’s work, even as he’s stepped out onto Seagrave for last year’s Game Theory album and notched up the first couple of releases on his own self-titled label.

On this new album, Hostile Utopia sums up the conflicting emotions attached to memories of home – how it’s possible to feel nostalgic for the griminess of urban and suburban Britain, its ordinary tales of bitterness and frustration, but also its intrinsic passion and solidarity. At a time when social division is actively engineered by Machiavellian forces, real conviviality at street level feels like an impossible dream.

LEA communicates these tensions through a style which is becoming his signature – dynamic bass torsion and chiseled, fractalised rhythms slugging around the 130 mark. It’s moody like a UK-themed record ought to be, but it’s not morose. There’s fierceness in every snap and rumble, as the legacies of hardcore, jungle, dubstep and grime pour into the casing prior to the gunpowder lighting.

On previous LEA releases, the MC roll call has pointed to some of the most vital voices touching the mic in the present day. Flowdan, Sikka Rymes and Trim all had something different to impart over the riddims, and now Hostile Utopia expands on that with the most extensive show of lyrical strength yet. Mez lights up the woozy, abstract grime swerve of ‘Mercenary’ in a musical style. Emz brings a ruthlessly sharp verbal steez to ‘GetGet’, Killa P gets busy toasting over ‘DFRNT STYLE’ and ‘Superhighway’ carries the dexterous hip-hop flow of Cadence Weapon.

In between those standout tracks, LEA expresses just as much in the production. Tracks brimming with stories to impart, laden with symbols masquerading as samples and draped in aural garb that firmly places Hostile Utopia in a place, a mood, that could only belong to the UK. It’s a hybrid sound just like the society it sprang from, and therein lies its power.

Low End Activist ft.  Emz - Get Get

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Longtime Scuffed family member Farsight joins forces with friend of the label Breaka for a bouncing, UKG-influenced collab on 'Flow State'.

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@breakaleeds

Buy:
https://lnk.to/FarsightFlowState

Farsight - Flow State (ft. Breaka)

An Avrin returns to Scuffed with explosive bass wobbler Paticake.

Buy:
https://lnk.to/AnAvrinPaticake

An Avrin - Paticake

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Sputnik One & EMBY - Supa Natural [N-Face001]

New Ravey bit from @maxulis and i out now!

GET IT HERE:
https://garneau.bandcamp.com/album/beat-that

Beat That @ Basscoast - Boiler Room
https://youtu.be/AZHr3LZ1Tqw?t=1823

Garneau & Max Ulis - Beat That

PRRRROOOODDUUUCCCTT TOOOSSSSS!!! What on Earth?!?!

Man like Tossy BWOI has become known recently for mastering the art of the eerie soundscape - whether its murky 2 steppers on ratface or his own self released downtempo macarena edit - my man knows how to set the VIBE!!

This demonstrated here on the LATEST EP from the DONNYS over at Out Of Sorts, providing the LEFT FIELD SEXY VIBES with this one. Canned is a 150bpm UK Techno STOMPER, but with plenty of that classic Product Toss FLAVA that we've all come to love. This ones extra percussive and slappy, too - 5 STARS!!

The EP contains 4 tracks from Mr Toss, followed by a remix from Tano, and when I say they're all special in their own right - BELIEVE ME, OKAY?!?! The whole ting drops December 16, and you can GRAB DAT PREORDER over athttps://outofsortsrecs.bandcamp.com/album/product-toss-go-way-2-oosx003 NOW!!

Go Way 2

PREMIERE: PRODUCT TOSS - CANNED (OUT OF SORTS)

"Glick Glock by Kessler sets the scene for this EP, a heavy broken sound that crafts together gunshot samples, ominous ticking and furious fast paced percussion in a classic breakbeat composition with a modern twist."

@leftrightandcentreuk
Written by Various Artists
Artwork by OFF → KORZ
Distributed by Unearthed Sounds

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