DIY label and online store, Earful of Wax deliver their second record in the form of a 12" VA, showcasing experimental club sounds from the UK’s underground. This one by UK Bass duo Heritage collaborating with Delo is their signature bass/breaks hybrid.

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- Release Date:
2nd August 2021

Artist Name - Heritage X Delo
EP Name - (no title)
Cat Number - EARWAX002
Track Name - Undesirable
Label - Earful Of Wax

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EARWAX002

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OS Premiere: Heritage X Delo - Undesirable [Earful Of Wax]

Our long awaited second record comes in the form of a vinyl only VA, showcasing a variety of experimental club sounds from the UK’s underground.

The A2 comes from the Berlin based Low End Activist. 'Circle Speak' is a 140bpm low end, club weapon who’s rolling sub bass and mid-track percussion set the precedent and typify’s LEA’s genre bending style.


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https://www.earfulofwax.com/product-page/heritage-x-delo-low-end-activist-krotone-yosh-remix-earwax002

PREMIERE: Low End Activist - Circle Speak [Earful of Wax]

Artist: Low End Activist
Title: Hostile Utopia
Label: Sneaker Social Club
Cat No: SNKRLP009
Release Date: 14th June

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.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Collage by Clayton Burke
Design by DR.ME

Amphibious Centurions

“Save/From” merges the sounds of Bristol’s post-dubstep scene with New York’s unique approach to techno, intertwined with signature Bloodhound production. The track emerges with disorienting, buzzing synths and progresses with a stuttered techno groove slathered in viscous bass.

Buy the full EP: https://worshipbristol.bandcamp.com/album/worshipleft001

Bloodhound - Save/From

**** Jah-Tek Premiere ****
Qant - More Life (KAV011)
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After working together for years as the curators of the Egregore Collective and sharing the decks on multiple occasions, Kaval & Qant finally join forces, conjuring up four tracks around their common denominators: powerful percussions, heavy subs, and a dash of dub chords. 

From the 4 track EP, Jah-Tek presents 'More Life', a 2 step, dub-infused sub mover, reminiscent of the stripped back pre-dubstep garage era.

Follow Qant:

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/qqantt
Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/qqantt
Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/qqantt/

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@JahTek
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jahtek/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/j4h.tek/

Qant - More Life (KAV011) [Jah-Tek Premiere]

Ritual Dingers - Hotline010

2017

Drip Dry  (JV's 130 pressure VIP)

Batu & Lurka - Curved

Pugilist - Shimmer

All proceeds from this release will be donated to Music Loves Ohio & Knowle West Media Centre (Bristol, UK).

Big up for the early support from: Emerald, Addison Groove, Patrice, Hypho, Eat My Beat, Eich (More Cowbell)

Vexxe , classically trained on the compositions of Debussy, Medtner, and Tchaikovsky, creates music for sound systems, club settings, and in-home listening enjoyment. He blends simple ideas with shades of nuance to build captivating moments within his musical explorations.

‘Pulse 5’ invites listeners into a spinning pool of echoed-out bleeps scattered over a broken beat rhythm, cementing itself securely as a tool in the 130 bpm bass genre. With an extensinsive back story and the original sought after online for the past 2 years, we’re thrilled to be approached to officially release this track, accompanied by 3 remixes from artists who have been pinging our radar off over the years with their movements.

Starting us off, Spektralsound strips and slows the track down to 120 bpm allowing frequencies more space to echo over the skeleton of big kicks and chuggy bass stabs. Keeping to the original tempo, Meta donates a techy 4x4 remix keeping the pace moving forward at all times whereas Hartta replicates the broken beat elements through a skippy 2-step garage style of sampling and arrangement. The release will be begging your local bass bins for every last decibel they have on tap.

All proceeds from the release will be split between Music Loves Ohio and Knowle West Media. Music Loves Ohio is a nonprofit providing opportunities for financially underserved youth in central Ohio to pursue their passion for music by providing education sessions, after school
programs, and instruments.

The Knowle West Media Centre works collaboratively in the heart of South Bristol to develop creative models for achieving social change while supporting people to develop the skills and confidence to be change-makers themselves. Their programs include access to an innovation lab, makers courses, free professional training and workshops teaching tools used in creative fields, and various songwriting and production resources.

Read more about the organisations here:

Music Loves Ohio
www.musiclovesohio.org/about_us
www.facebook.com/MusicLovesOhio/

Knowle West Media Centre
rawmusicmedia.co.uk/about
www.facebook.com/knowlewestmedia/

Big up the artists <3 
@Vexxemusic 
@metauk
@spektralsounduk
@hartta

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Vexxe - Pulse 5

Ido Plumes - Preparations (PDCOMP003)

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OS Premiere: Heritage X Delo - Undesirable [Earful Of Wax]

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