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@djgagreflex brings her Sisyphean Rhythms EP to Scuffed Recordings, weaving deftly between weighty breaks and percussive, rolling house across three tracks.

Originally from Seattle and now based in Berlin, Gag Reflex has spent the past few years gathering pace as a DJ in the U.S. with residencies in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco - and more recently with club appearances in Berlin and Lisbon, along with mixes for platforms including Rinse FM, HÖR, and Honey Soundsystem.

As a producer, her work nods variously to classic rave, techno and breaks influences, with a penchant for percussion and dark, oppressive atmospherics. With previous releases coming via none/such, Circa AD and Naive sublabel Naivety, Gag Reflex has gone a long way to establishing her sound and picking up some heavyweight support in the process.

The Sisyphean Rhythms EP features three new tracks exploring different facets of Gag Reflex’s sound - from the intense surge of opener Concussion, to the rolling flow of club tool Spit, and closing with the all-out rush of Valve.

Buy:
https://smarturl.it/SisypheanRhythms

Gag Reflex - Concussion

@tamlinspeaks makes his solo debut on @scuffedrecs with the ‘Bitter Fruit’ EP

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-tamlin-diazemax

Bitter Fruit EP

Premiere: Tamlin ‘Diazemax’

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Introducing a first ever guestmix courtesy of the wonderkid from the CloudCore family, @stingbristol.

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Catch me 23:00 - 01:00 every 4th Friday on voicesradio.co.uk

Debba w/ S T I N 9 on Voices Radio | 26 August 2022

One for a night-time drive, a dance with friends or a moment alone, Kalopsia provides you with the space (and place) you might not have realised you need. Unafraid but not arrogant, this EP wanders into emotions with enough space to take your own journey, but never leaves your side. Kalopsia is an invitation to explore your nuances and travel wherever you dare.

T SOMETHING G
Always nearby, but never close enough, T Something G provides a space for youthful (sometimes naïve) curiosity and questioning. Ever present tambourine teases at something more but you never reach it – at least not the way you’d expect.
“What happened?” “What did they do to you?”  
Maybe you already know the answer, or maybe you wish you didn’t know, or maybe you haven’t been asked before, maybe you have no fucking idea. Either way, it doesn’t matter. T Something G is asking, and it’s listening.

HEARING VOICES
Hearing Voices opens like an eerie dollhouse – haunting, ominous, looming. Despite the growing hum, there is a sense of ‘lack’ with the spaces left in the track providing a kind of hollow weightlessness. Repetitive low-end beats keep you grounded as sound speeds past your face like a cool breeze. Hearing Voices recognises the strength required to keep going in tough times but reminds you of your ability to persist.

AMBER
Amber is a dynamic journey through the abyss of reflection, but not necessarily resolution. Like a busy but well-planned motorway, the song moves with intention and consideration. You can find a certain beauty in controlled chaos, and Amber proves this. Soulful vocals flutter through slowly and swirl back into the music as swiftly as they come.
Closing like an interrupted thought and demanding the replay button, Amber is as fluid and multifaceted as the thoughts, emotions, and life of its listener.

U 4 ALL
Mechanical breakbeat shatters and splinters as breathy, pitch-shifted vocals float by. Metallic kicks and snares slice through the atmospheric low end but don’t disrupt the tracks overall course. The track moves through the spectrum of emotion like a grieving mind; anger, bargaining, accepting, and repeating. U For All finishes with a level of ambiguity while still feeling instinctive and relieving, like a bird disappearing into a dark horizon.

LIMELIGHT 
Orchestral and atmospheric, Limelight begins at the end. Diving in headfirst, the track invokes a sense of longing – for information, understanding, connection. The song builds to something dark and solemn but intriguing, like a painful yet relieving realisation. Distorted vocals pull you out but leave you in a kind of aural limbo, unable to predict what’s next. There is a confused emptiness created by the repetitive build and release of synth that threatens to consume but is ultimately held together by the song's ability to transform with grace.

Mitigation
Soft and gentle, short and sweet. Mitigation is reminiscent of a child’s wind-up box but is far from childish. Like a big, cathartic breath before diving back underwater, you know comfort can’t last forever. Mitigation is a sentimental stroll through experience, a soundtrack for re-living bittersweet memories. Is the story it’s telling sad or happy? You decide.

Lithe Remix
A grimy, futuristic version. The limited vocals in the initial take the forefront and are supported by a comfortingly familiar breakbeat that has many shifting forms throughout the track. Deep bass rides in to support the weight of the vocals and drums. This one is one for some good headphones.

Small Crab
Small Crab brings life to spaces that you didn’t know where there and bends the song into a new form. As primal beats keep time, industrial flairs slice through to create a sonic playground. One for a summer sunset disco by the water with your mates (minus the mosquitos).

Kalopsia

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@gesturesound presents three new tracks exploring contorting, glitched-out breaks on his INTO EP.

Debuting the Gesture alias in 2021 with an appearance on the Scuffed Presents Vol.7 release, the London-based producer immediately showed his unique take on production with ‘Skynet’, which picked up support from Surgeon, Plastician and Mixtress among others.

A 2-tracker on Torre Recordings followed in early 2023, with Gesture flexing the full gamut of his musical influences - with his erratic rhythmic attack and weighty bass honed during his earlier days making breakcore, and a compositional flair brought along by his work as a cellist and film composer.

The ‘INTO’ EP carries on the development of the Gesture sound, with its three tracks united in their frantic breakbeat workout and distinguished by their unconventional use of samples and instrumentation. Stretched vocals, pounding bass, and winding melodies are the name of the game as Gesture puts his stamp over the entire release.

Buy:
https://lnk.to/GestureINTO

Gesture - INTO EP (Previews)

WELCOME TO THE EGG WITH FLISS MAYO

how do you make mayo... lots of OEUFS

@felicity-mayo

SCRATCH N SNOEUF 002 - FLISS MAYO

Pantile - Runny [FREE DL]

Expect a very spicy bass music salad, made with love in Occitania

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Artist: @tenndril
EP Title: Source EP
Label: GODDEZ
Format: Digital
Cat. Number: GDZ023
Release Date: August 11th 2023

GODDEZZ unveils a celestial 3-track ep from enigmatic new signing tenndril. An exploration into overgrown, nature-full worlds of alien fauna, source ep traverses deep and everchanging sonic landscapes, sounds that coil around the listener and take them into the undergrowth…

Having previously appearing on GODDEZZ’s meditation comp TARAXIA alongside names such as Oliver Coates, Salamanda and SHE Spells Doom; tenndril reveals to us a rare first glimpse into their sonic realm with these three completely unique electronic offerings that traverse breaks, balearic, IDM, ambient and hip-house… all joined by unbridled feelings of optimism and curiosity throughout.

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Bass Kitty: VA001 OUT NOW on Bass Kitty Records

XENO UK presents his track OH YEAH, a UK Garage tune with thundering, hypnotic basslines, perfect for raves or clubs. 🔊🔥🎶

Artist: @xenomedia
EP: Bass Kitty: VA001
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: UK Garage

Where Bass Meets Grace #basskittyrecords
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