TALES OF A HOODLUM

Dee Aura - GIVE BACK (Prod. EvilGiane) #TALESOFAHOODLUM 03/29/21

Make a scene, you're so keen

I don't want you more I want you less
In my tight white dress
Who'd you think you're trying to impress?
I would not undress
Push my hand right up upon your chest 
Make a fucking mess 
I just take a pic and you obsess 
Then I finesse 

Only on my own 
Always on my phone 
Slowly go round and round 
Crush 
Bring me down 

Goo Goo Goo 
Your heart is true 
I got the flu 
Thinking of you 
And I know that being stung is fun 
All the things I've sung 
I succumb

Crush 
bring me down 
crush 
I'll be around

Plush (prod. Rapallo)

Guapo Cobe - SAVE ME (Prod. Lockage)

produced by soza
mixed + mastered by jawndarko

Dark Knight Darko (prod. soza)

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

Jook goes in real hard with his productions. He approaches them with a potent, no holds barred ethos and the result of that are fearsome, evil-eyed grime cuts.

www.mixmag.net/read/premiere-jooks-sinister-juice-is-rammed-with-reverberating-low-end-bass

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NYKO - SAMPLING TECHNIQUES

We announce our first label signing; a shimmering 4-track EP from one of Brussel's most critical new producers, @hypna_52. The title track, 'Data Recovery' sets the tone for this atmospheric EP, fueled by bass weight & sheen & set to be released digitally alongside on a limited run of 50 12" vinyl.

Info & buy: https://ins-rt.net/label/hypna-data-recovery-insert

Data Recovery

Hypna - Infrared [Insert]

Inlight

Blind U

UK Garage edit of TeeZandos & Fizzler's "Phone Call"
(RSCS Dubz02)

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TeeZandos Ft Fizzler - Phone Call (Tommy Kid UKG Edit)[Free DL]

SAPERE AUDE

Beatmaker and Graphic Designer based in Zurich


Peace, Love & Music

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