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Here is the second track from the compilation that we release in "Avant-première".

With "Want Her" the American/French Duo @tanlinesmusique brings back the original French Touch flavors and they're personal style to it as well. 
Retro Synth Sounds, tight drums and a driving bass-line make this track a fresh reminiscence to the early days of this electronic era.
Be sure to give a listen to this one, it will not disappoint you for sure !
Site down, relax & enjoy the trip.

Stay in alerte ! J-2 before the entire compilation !

HRZN

Tan Lines - Want Her

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Broken beat pioneer, Afronaut, returns in full force for Brighton's long established purveyors of fine sounds, Tru Thoughts, with a lesson in dancefloor rocking production.

Afronaut, aka Orin Walters,  founding member of both the bruk supergroup Bugz in the Attic and the pioneering trio Neon Phusion, makes his debut on Tru Thoughts with club-stomper “How It Goes”. 

Following on from his collaboration with mentee and “honorary Bug" WheelUP on the summer-groove “Good Love”, “How It Goes” is the start of a partnership between the bruk legend and Tru Thoughts, a label whose output has been known for championing the West London Sound.

Tru Thoughts honcho had this to say about working with Orin: “I have always been a big fan of Afronaut and many of his songs have been anthems at my club residencies in Brighton. Orin has been mentoring WheelUP so to connect through that album has led to Tru Thoughts now working with him on some forthcoming releases which are sounding amazing. Orin is still pushing musical boundaries and this track is just the start.”

"How It Goes" by Afronaut is out this week. We can't wait to hear what's the next, but we'll certainly be rocking this in the meantime.

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Exclusive Premiere: Afronaut "How It Goes" (Forthcoming on Tru Thoughts)

Mellow Tune

PREMIERE: Moo & Jo - Falling [Calamar Records]

We are back this month with another premiere, this time featuring a remix from one of our own - EVM128 and his version of JV1080 taken from the new XL Regular EP dropping on ANMA Records Apr 8th!  Listen to the full EP preview on Soundcloud (hit that Buy button above).

Following up from last year’s Outlines compilation, where Rome-based DJ and producer opened the album with a track jointly produced alongside Future Jazz Ensemble, the new offering shares further insight into XL’s expressive ideas, influences, and openness to fusing the old with the new.

A clear influence of the BRUK scene holds a common thread throughout the release, where the undeniably iconic rhythms of Broken Beat are reshaped; simultaneously tipping the hat to the sound makers who’ve paved the way and reworking the drums, bass and percussion to accommodate the harmonies, overlapping counterpoint elements and tones of keys, synths and horns that add a different overall texture that is new, individual and reflective of todays’ emotive depth and complexity in the sonic movements of Italy, London and Europe’s electronic dance scenes.

The influence extends further into the use of adlib and the way it’s puncturing the rhythm of the tracks by means of its placement within the groove. However, the newness of the record shines through via XL Regular’s moulding of synthesis and merging of faster tempos (hear ‘’XL3000’’). As one listens to the record, the way each element is arranged leaves each track sounding as if an extremely tight live band was working those -drums, bass, synths, horns and vocals- live (hear ‘’Sometimes’’).

The bubbling and high-octave synth textures perfectly compliment the bass’ synthetic infusion while not overpowering the melodies, keys, vocals and horns that are sitting in the middle of the frequency range, where the magic of current new Jazz shines through by means of XL Regular’s creative expression via use of multi-layer harmony and shaping of tone that is becoming undeniably familiar to the sounds of the current London Jazz scene bonding with electronic dance productions.

The record explores time by providing high up tempos and by adjusting such tempos through each track to reflect the right mood of the moment. Whereas one track could be for the beginning of your night, the other could be for the closing of such night, all varyingly different and individually explorative, yet all a set of a common creative expression by one soul (hear ‘’Jv1080’’ for the slower jam).

However, the icing on the cake is EVM128’s remix of ‘’Jv1080’’, a more stripped, low-end heavier and dub-focused version of the track that iconically puts a familiar sound of 128’s, a tried and tested BRUK forefather, into the context of new things to come by means of further bridging the international separations of today’s turmoil in the world and melding the sounds and ideas of old and new into something personal, free and special by means of XL Regular’s first solo debut EP, which is just a glimpse of more rhythms soon come.

[PREMIERE] XL Regular - JV1080 (EVM128 Remix)

A spiritual seance of an electronic contact medium leaves deftly marks on the dusty surface of conservatism. Chilling machine replicas, a roll call of mystical glitches, paranormal distortions and atypical transformations make one dive into the gloomy aesthetics of a trance. These mind games, with their meticulously thought-out digital recording errors and hardware failures, have never been so seductive.

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@anton-kubikov

Medlena Telega

Premiere: Anton Kubikov – Tegevattegela

Words, vocal melodies & arrangements Antony Carle
Instrumentation, production David Pimentel
String arrangement by Leon Feldman

What Have You Done For Me

Yazid Le Voyageur - Find The Way

Wild West Ounce$

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqc6mOG6adw

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snobytheoz

A tech house acid banger, featuring vocal samples from Danny Dyer and Kevin Bridges.
Free Download: https://hypeddit.com/track/4ubrye

The Old Firm

Deeon Doez Deeon!

House-O-Matic

Vancouver based producers Ali DK & Syrus collaborated to deliver a beautiful track inspired by a cover done by London Grammar of the classic Wicked Game by Chris Isaak.

Artists' SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/alidk01 // https://soundcloud.com/syruslive

PREMIERE: London Grammar - Wicked Game (Ali DK & Syrus Remix)

Contours, a UK based DJ and producer, known for bubbling dance rhythms and undertone melodies focuses on a wide range of organic percussion on this 4 track EP. 

Rounding off the record, we premiere the remix from one of the London underground scene’s key contemporary figures, K15, adding a darker tone to the flow of the track while upping the dancefloor energy of the groove.

Artists: https://soundcloud.com/contoursmusic, 
https://soundcloud.com/anma-recordshttps://soundcloud.com/k15
Label: https://soundcloud.com/anma-records
Buy: https://anmarecords.bandcamp.com/album/forward-motion-2

PREMIERE: Contours - Returning (K15 Remix) [ANMA Records]

Early copies available here: https://aex-series.bandcamp.com/album/x012

Official Release date: 11 July 2020

Tracklist 12"

  a1 Albert van Abbe - iX One
  a2 Troy - Y.B.
  a3 Taupe - Zeus
  b1 Jasper Wolff - Kari
  b2 Kaap - Basics 002
  b3 Tetelepta - ANYIB 003 

We're back with the 12th installment for its various artist compilation series. ÆX012 presents 2 new names to the ÆX roster: Troy and Albert van Abbe. You might know for Troy for his output on Klockworks while Albert van Abbe keeps pushing quality releases on his own imprints. They are responsible for 2 high-energy techno rollers which set the tone for this bold new ÆX chapter. They are accompanied by households Taupe - showing his skills with a Drexciyan electro-techno workout. On the B-side, we find a typical melodic 909 jam by Jasper Wolff while Tetelepta and Kaap finish things off in dub-depth craft and mastery.

ÆX-012 - Albert van Abbe / Troy / Taupe / Jasper Wolff / Kaap / Tetelepta

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Naux - Supo Discer (Agrume Remix)

Future Classics & Forgotten Treasures — Selections for the Adventurous Music Listener (Founded in 2007 by Lexis)

Exclusive Premiere: Afronaut "How It Goes" (Forthcoming on Tru Thoughts)

Music Is My Sanctuary