Never Sleep introduce Zoo into the fold with much effect and verbosity.
unsuspecting world, pre Minimal Violence project of Ash Luk.
￼//ZOO hailing from Vancouver unleashes the single Soft Deceit which was lost in demo tapes from the early 2010s and now is let loose on the
Simplistic in its narrative yet the song is a barrage of chanting vocals,
catacomb guitar and those drums just demand the dancefloors attention.
Remix package is on point with Aasthma delivering an unsettling, dark, stripped back mix that ushers you into a hypnotic state while JASSS heading in the other direction just blows the whole thing wide open with a remix that deploys huge sonics to elaborate on the physicality of the
original in new and unexpected ways.
The original, heralding the hazy days of punk and sounding like a
bedroom party on xtc, is also not to be missed.
￼//ZOO full band made up of Ash Luk alongside Luna N (Champion Lawnmower, Other Jesus) and Corey Lee (Cowards) and Soft Deceit
was recorded at Otic Sound in Vancouver
"Lydia Lunch eats lunch with Johnny Jewel inside Tresor."
www.neversleep.life Releases April 30, 2021 Cat. NSR004

Soft Deceit

Soft Deceit (JASSS purple mix)

ZOO - Soft Deceit (JASSS Purple Mix)

Radio Soulwax - Cherry Moon On Valium [NSRTAPE002]
(Side A)

The legendary Cherrymoon on Valium mixtape, originally published by Radio Soulwax ten years ago as videomix, is now available on a limited edition C60 cassette tape published by Never Sleep.
Pitched down Belgian classic hardcore techno records, 115BPM long blends and high NRG visual aesthetic make this mix a classic. An absolute honor to release this influential mixtape on tape for the first time.

Tapes: www.gabbereleganza.com/shop

Radio Soulwax -  Cherry Moon On Valium  [NSRTAPE002] (side A)

Paul Seul - Amoureuse [NSR006]

Paul Seul - Je Sais Pas [NSR006]

Paul Seul - BDF (Summer 21 Happy Mix)

Money Lang returns to Gabber Eleganza’s seminal imprint Never Sleep with the single ‘Loveless,’ one year after the debut of the new alias with his ‘Treviso Mare Mixtape’ in Summer 2021.

The mixtape gained worldwide acclaim from established artists and platforms and led to a live debut at the PAN x Live From Earth ‘Intercity Express’ event at Berlin’s Funkhaus. Money Lang has also made an appearance on exclusive digital streaming platform Marine Snow with the single ‘Gucci Airbags.’

‘Loveless’ is divided in 3 parts, from the 5:55 minute long original, synth-filled, weightless journey with additional versions by vocalist and multi-disciplinary rising UK artist Rainy Miller who contributes an emotional lyrical representation to the track, plus bonus version from Canadian trance connoisseur Baby Blue.

The release artwork is by Berlin-based designer Tim Lindacher (Live From Earth, Yung Hurn, PLZ Make It Ruins)

Loveless

Money Lang - Loveless P1

Never Sleep present Paula Temple 'Live from the Mill".

Recorded live in the UK's oldest rave capital Preston in the beautiful summer of 1995. One of Paula Temple's earliest gigs, this mix was recorded at a rave in Preston 27 years ago when she was 18 years old.

Vinyl only at the time, this mixtape embodies the style she is consistently known for, a mix of raw relentless techno and rave.
In 1995 making mixtapes was the only way to go, so Paula would make mixtapes to give to her friends at clubs around the North of England such as Bugged Out (Manchester), The Orbit (Morley) and Voodoo (Liverpool).

Paula submitted this mixtape to MUZIK magazine to spend a day with techno artist Dave Angel.
Triumphantly she spent the day with Dave in his studio, was featured in the magazine and was just a young girl chasing her dream.

When we asked for this possible collaboration she dug deep and found a forgotten tape from long ago that had been lost but recently found, Archivio has brought it back to life for you to hear the younger Paula Temple's passion for the underground.

All proceeds go the amazing www.womenonweb.org charity which supports women rights across the globe and provides abortion care for the most in need.

We are truly honored to put out a small testament in time and help those in the future.

buy it here: https://www.gabbereleganza.com/shop/paula-temple-live-1995-tape/

Paula Temple - Live From The Mill  [NSRTAPE004] side 1

Never Sleep present Italy's finest Talpah & Deepho 'Nanne' EP [NSR017].

Incorporating Hip Hop's never ending experimental spirit and molding it with next level electronic swing.

Huge bass weight, sonic pressure and Talpah's undeniable skill as a producer is at the forefront of the whole EP.
Deepho signature flow blesses every beat with energy, charm and an ever changing cadence.

'Klakla' sets the tone with larger than life punk esoterics whilst 'Nessuno' see's Talpah flex his sound design with devastating FX.
'Sexy Pummarola' is nothing short of a club banger as Deepho explains his love for the late night romance meanwhile 'Taco' keeps the trench slime at peak NRG.
'Tallone' wraps the whole thing up with a beautiful reflective tone.
Completely in its own lane and two of the best in the Italian rap game right now.

Company Flow meet up with Antipop Consortium for some mortadella.

NANNE

nessuno

Talpah + Deepho - nessuno

sexy pummarola

Talpah + Deepho - sexy pummarola

ULTRANCE is the new single by NZIRIA.

NZIRIA chooses trance sonorities to represent the growing tension of an entire city until its explosion, including samples of Neapolitan stadium choirs, friends' voices and Hardcore kicks.

“I cannot explain the experience of this event, which to some would have been a simple victory to celebrate in a bar, and to others would have had no effect. In Napoli, winning the national Championship meant winning not just a sporting recognition, but a social one."

With the end of the championship, Napoli began to change, turning more and more into a huge open-air museum of rosettes, festoons, murals, altars dedicated to Maradona, and monuments made of paper and plastic hung in the remotest corners of the city. 

The city turned blue and white, the colours of Napoli football, among graffiti of flying donkeys (‘o ciuccio), flags, scarves and smoke bombs.

A continuous party has begun, and as the end of the championship approached, following calculations and scores, the tension grew more and more. Maxi screens mounted in every neighbourhood, streets closed to traffic, subways completely saturated - and many, many fireworks - until the last game, when the team finally won the cup and the city could explode in a whirlwind of celebration and festivities, that had been brewing for months. I’ve never seen anything like this before.”

ULTRANCE [NSR018S]

ULTRANCE

NZIRIA - ULTRANCE [NSR018S]

UNKN0WN

Yazzus - UNKN0WN

CLOSEUREYES

Yazzus - CLOSEUREYES

Violent Magic Orchestra go big on their new single and conjure up a whole new sound with Gabber Eleganza on percussion.

Martello Mosh Pit	[NSR014S3]

Martello Mosh Pit

VMO feat. Gabber Eleganza - Martello Mosh Pit

NEVER SLEEP presents a lesson in the dangers of time travel and pisshead nationalism on SINKING SUBURB, the new EP from REAL LIES.

The small-town storytelling of Kevin Lee Kharas and Patrick King channels Stephen King via Paul Weller on their latest release, the EP a suburban revenge fantasy taking in family feuds, treacherous friends, funfair beatings, the long-defunct high-street poster shop Athena and the tendency for teenage Edens to curdle into dystopias behind your back.

All three tracks instantly conjure their own eerie, electronic atmospheres that shine and surge like the sun across motorway adjacent football pitches. We left some words below to the conquistadors themselves…

SINKING SUBURB is about a return to a childhood hometown that has been trapped in a bubble and eerily preserved behind a “time-resistant wall” as the world has changed around it. And the surreal events that take place upon that return. An Eden turned sinister. The air is bottle green.

In SHIRLEY ROAD I return to by hometown on the run from some unspecified crime and find my dad still asleep on the family sofa, as Cremonese-Atalanta plays on Channel 4’s ‘Football Italia’ show from the 1990s. The ominous sounds of a dial-up modem punctuate the static silence of one of the “lizard-brain English Sundays” that used to be a reliably sleepy and tedious end to every working week in the 90s. Until the internet tore life off its temporal hinges and made boredom a thing of the past. I hope to find sanctuary there but instead find a ‘sinking suburb’ that hunts me like prey because I’m an intruder from a different time, the walls beneath the classic posters from Athena high street shop “growing teeth” and chasing me across the strange landscape.

In SHADOWLANDS there’s a reminiscence of how we used to try to escape the listless boredom of our teenage hometown: in my mate Dan’s blood red 1.4 SR Nova. (It’s pure coincidence that it’s the same car Mike Skinner talks about in HAS IT COME TO THIS?) Dan was renowned for being the fastest, most dangerous driver in our hometown and we would get stoned and let him bomb us up and down country lanes. It was incredibly stupid but in the moment it was a kind of escape, at least until the engine stopped.

I REMEMBER HIGH STREETS is a suburban revenge fantasy in which the real reason for my return is revealed: I have come back to confront the traitor Simon Mahon, who I’m still convinced was getting off with my first girlfriend/first love when I was 15 years old. This is one of the “secrets” talk about in the new last verse – I have my own but I’ve been away from the town so long now that they no longer seem particularly significant or threatening. The town no longer has a hold over me – so while the town is no longer home to me, that has its advantages.

The whole EP is inspired by Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, The Jam and memory loss.

Out on Never Sleep 28 November 2023

SINKING SUBURBS

SHIRLEY ROAD

REAL LIES - SHIRLEY ROAD [NSR020]

Welcome To The Death Rave

Flapping Dragon Wings

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Flapping Dragon Wings

Song For The Moon

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Song For The Moon

Fyre

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Fyre

Ecsedi Bathory Erzebet

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Ecsedi Bathory Erzebet

Supergaze

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Supergaze

Abyss

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Abyss

Venom

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Venom

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Martello Mosh Pit

Satanic Violent Device

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Satanic Violent Device

Planet Helvetech

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Planet Helvetech

Warp

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Warp

Choking Persuasion

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Choking Persuasion

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Welcome To The Death Rave

Kokka

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Kokka

The Destroyer (Electric Utilities version)

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - The Destroyer (Electric Utilities version)

Gabber Eleganza launches his label Never Sleep with Multo Crudo by London via Brazil & Russia producer Lizzitksy. The label is “an organic step after seeing the original Gabber Eleganza archival project grow into a multi-platform endeavour”, with a remit to showcase new and old artists that symbolise not just rave and post-rave culture, but a wider DIY aesthetic. 

Lizzitksy’s debut release draws from a disorientating suite of tropes - blasts of harsh noise, hollowed out sub-loaded kick drum barrages, digitised 90’s Italian Trance melodies, sped up reggaeton snare rushes & post-hard core vocal manipulation. Despite the range of elements in play, there is still a clear aesthetic red thread present - the rhythmic building blocks of the various genres referenced are sliced, distorted and re-arranged but never to such an extent that their dance-floor rending capabilities are compromised, whilst occasional flashes of melody and feedback laden shrieks help unravel each track. 

“Dark Millennium DJ Tool” deploys slowed down noise-charged kicks and ear piercing synthwork before switching into an 8-bar grime breakdown, whilst “Untitled EX4” takes the 150 BPM+ broken hardcore rhythmic template currently being established by the likes of Slickback and E-Sagglia and perforates it with howling feedback and Shackleton inspired percussive work. “Beef6” and “Bad Vein” melt power electronics fuelled drums into a post Latin-Perreo mis-en-scene – with “UMS303”  and “Video Green” providing moments of melodic introspection.

Ums303

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