To kick start his new label Overload Liverpool, Irish Liverpool-based artist best known as The Cyclist drifts into the shop at 90mph under his second new alias of the year, The Motorist. A distinct homage to UK Garage, 2-step and breakbeat, his unique take on the genre shimmers through a haze of psychedelia and is accompanied by Liverpool local and girl-next-door vocal talent Flower Bed who floats above an undercurrent of bombastic bunker busting bass that’s sure blow a few funktion ones and heads.

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The Motorist - Round Feat. Flower Bed (from BBC6 Tom Ravenscroft)

Following up on a cracker split single last year, Overload Liverpool jumps into 2024 firing on all cylinders with a 5 shooter of freaked-out electro, warm house, deep dub cuts, and gorgeous ambient.

Firstly, Liverpool-based label boss Morrison highlights two of his distinct and dissociative styles. On the front end of the A-side, his The Motorist alias provides us with a freaked-out formant-filtered electro that’s bursting at the lips. On the back end, a deep yet bright house cut from his The Cyclist alias, with warm warbling synths layered over his Wurlitzer electric piano and suitably grooved and jaunty beats.

To kick off the deeper B-side of the 12”, Wax Tek, a founder of the Liverpool Soundsystem crew Polyone Audio, hits us right in the chest with his dubbed-out breakbeat wonder, Get Set, which diverges through Balearic, bass music, a delirious breakdown, and hard-hitting breakbeats.

Deeper still, the second B-side from Puncta, another Liverpool-based artist, who last year came to light with their release on Sputnik One’s N-Face, dives into the deep Arctic seas with Snow Crab, an exercise in dubbed-out electro-style bass music.

Finally, Belfast-based Aaron Thomas brings the 12” EP to a fitting closure with Concert², which, washing over the listener, dances like opulent drapes with its ethereal synths that crash to and fro.

B3 - Aaron Thomas - Concert (Squared)

B2 - Puncta - Snow Crab

B1 - Waxtek - Get Set

A2 - The Cyclist - Greed

A1 - The Motorist - Necronomicon

Building on the original sounds sculpted by Morrison, Tape Throb Records will look to release music which stems from the same nonconformity and desire to distort, blend, warp and innovate in the world of dance music. Now the platform has expanded from a bedroom in Derry to a recognised genre amongst those in the know the label will look to bring in more fledgling artists who share the same unconventional creative ethos and build Tape Throb from a niche sound to a movement. A movement that is at once soulful and punchy, warm but with a distinct sprinkling of fuck you.
Fittingly the first release scheduled for mid 2016 is a tape containing unreleased work by Buz Ludzha embracing a punk riddled jungle vibe punctuated with his signature warm distortion.
Watch this space.


The Third Mantra

Another Lying Politician

Adroit Rogues

Ruined By Blue

Higher Volumes (Dub)

Goin' Home

Grotesque Paradise

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Building on the original sounds sculpted by Morrison, Tape Throb Records will look to release music which stems from the same nonconformity and desire to distort, blend, warp and innovate in the world of dance music. Now the platform has expanded from a bedroom in Derry to a recognised genre amongst those in the know the label will look to bring in more fledgling artists who share the same unconventional creative ethos and build Tape Throb from a niche sound to a movement. A movement that is at once soulful and punchy, warm but with a distinct sprinkling of fuck you.
Fittingly the first release scheduled for mid 2016 is a tape containing unreleased work by Buz Ludzha embracing a punk riddled jungle vibe punctuated with his signature warm distortion.
Watch this space.


Buz Ludzha - Rollin' Round Digbeth

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Hailing from the Russian city of Murmansk, AL-90 brings an all embracing dance sound perfectly in keeping with the Tape Throb Records ethos of distort, layer and rework. Littered with ghostly vocals and the blurred flush of multi layered beats, infectious bass moves the whole in rhythmic brilliance. The A sides, Cheremushki Groove and Fluid, will bring on dream of 90's VHS house with warm broken beats layered with lush vocal samples. The B side Cataract flies higher with a jungle storm waist deep in ambience and the EP closes with a distorted stomping rework of the title track by label founder The Cyclist.

B2 - Cheremushki Groove (The Cyclist Remix)

B1 - Cataract

A2 - Fluid

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Hailing from the Russian city of Murmansk, AL-90 brings an all embracing dance sound perfectly in keeping with the Tape Throb Records ethos of distort, layer and rework. Littered with ghostly vocals and the blurred flush of multi layered beats, infectious bass moves the whole in rhythmic brilliance. The A sides, Cheremushki Groove and Fluid, will bring on dream of 90's VHS house with warm broken beats layered with lush vocal samples. The B side Cataract flies higher with a jungle storm waist deep in ambience and the EP closes with a distorted stomping rework of the title track by label founder The Cyclist.

A1 - Cheremushki Groove (w Monokle)

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Hailing from the hazy streets of NYC, Baltra's trademark sounds have been pleasing the ears of ravers and recliners alike and appeared on just about every dance music list worth a dime at the conclusion of 2016. With recent releases on labels such as Craigie Knowes and Hokkaido Dance Club, Tape Throb are honoured to bring Short Term Goals to vinyl and to contribute to the rise and rise of this talented producer. Think throbbing drums and universal chords with that trademark Baltra warmth that keeps you coming back for more. Ethereal vocals dance on punchy base and silky refrains give you just enough time to catch your breath. All the radiating warmth of house, with all the reminders that you are experiencing something seminal, these are beats on the cusp.

Baltra - Dis Aura (B2)

Baltra - Feds Watching (B1)

Baltra - Twist Of Fate (A2)

Baltra - Up 2 You (A1)

Order here: https://tapethrobrecords.bandcamp.com/album/affinity-projects-ep

Dance music is a medium which has always been associated with a coming together of like minds, an enjoying in unison of a universal feeling captured in a sound; an affinity with the bodies moving close beside you in a crowd, or the ear listening a thousand miles away to the same record. 
Affinity Projects reaches around the world, from the UK to Australia, to bring you a psychedelic electro pop embrace for the summer. The distorted beats and infectious pickups of The Cyclist melt with the silky vibing voice and resonating lyrics of Tanaya Harper in a record that epitomises the unifying aims of the genre. This is white sunlight across a crowd, this is a warm positive pulse for a tempestuous time, this is Derry beats meets Perth poetry. Turn it up and slide away.

Affinity Projects - Move Back

Affinity Projects - Closer

Affinity Projects - Stray

Affinity Projects - It's All Around You

Bandcamp: https://tapethrobrecords.bandcamp.com/album/modulated-landscapes-vol-1

Continuing to draw on Northern Ireland’s seemingly endless pool of alternative talent, Tape Throb Records brings you our first dalliance into ambient with Johnny Delaney’s Fully Automatic Model. A series of original ethereal soundscapes, TTR007 rests on deep synth notes only to move inexplicably to higher plains of electronic mastery, coursing through a series of exciting tracks guaranteed to convert sceptics to an appreciation of the ambient stratosphere. A project which is at once peaceful and provoking, reassuringly enveloping while also boundary pushing in conception, this futuristic endeavour is emblematic of a changing landscape of electronic experimentation. Complimented by artwork from Tape Throb Records’ regular moulder of shape and colour, David Morrison, this neat and ready tape radiates the cool and collected record it promises to deliver. Fully Automatic Model is an intricate multi-layered exercise in audio technology, leaving us asking once again, is there anything the maiden city can’t produce? Available through the TTR Bandcamp from April 2019.

The Fully Automatic Model - A New Dawn Chorus

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Tape Throb Records has been reborn as Overload Liverpool and will look to continue to release music which stems from the same nonconformity and desire to distort, blend, warp and innovate in the world of dance music from a new locale.
Watch this space.

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