elektric - part 5

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Fly By Night welcome the return of Tom Place for his second release on the label with Rogue Nation, this time partnered with a heavy remix from Raider's Souci, releasing on all platforms Friday 20th May.

Club-centric is the theme as Rogue Nation leads with bass in the driving seat alongside a furious chopped break causing havoc; ready-made to cause damage to any club’s sound-system. Tom’s early influences become evident as his recognisable early electro & dubstep influences are felt despite traversing genres into unchartered territory. 

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PREMIERE: Tom Place - Rogue Nation [Fly By Night]

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Anchoret - Reign (Hugo Massien Remix)

Naarm alchemists Sleep D’s revelatory new synthetic ‘Electronic Arts’ is ready for circulation. 

Having released 4 EPs of mind-altering club tackle since 2019’s ‘Rebel Force’, the duo overcome second album syndrome, boiling down their chaos with a more developed sense of songwriting. Never banging one drum, ‘Electronic Arts’ mirrors the anything goes mania of their DJ sets, tactfully shifting through different sounds and styles. Tempos intensify and decelerate, at times pushing the threshold to 150 bpm from docile canine dreamscapes to full tilt Space Invaders in AR mind games. 

Largely built on road tested material from their live performances, the album is a tangible Butter Sessions gathering, busting out the gate with Martian rave initiation Planet Waves, Outdoor System’s polyrhythmic beatdown and the Orb-like hero dose affirmations of Sunrise In The Crater (I Exist). While ‘Electronic Arts’ is otherwise a self-dependent effort, Punch Drunk is brewed ever more potent by the hypnagogic vocals and lucid trumpet cycles of former futsal team member YL Hooi. Their unified energy incidentally manifests a profound matrix of ambient techno, motorik, Don Cherry and Everything But the Girl. 

Also touching on apocalyptic doof and minimal, the album is not exclusively peak time with Maryos Syawish and Corey Kikos’ specialty curveballs also playing their part. From Village To Empire finds the duo rooting down in Syawish’s heritage with a tapestry of purposefully deployed Iraqi and Syrian ethnographic samples and field recordings, dubbed within range of Muslimgauze and On-U Sound. As minimal techno finale Textile trails off into footsteps wandering back to base camp with a satisfied exhale, one wonders where Sleep D’s existential pathfinding could possibly take us next? 

Artwork – GGT 
Mixing – Corey Kikos 
Mastering – Nik Kozub 
Album notes – Michael Kucyk

B2 - Strange Sounds

'Ben Prophet showcases dark and energetic sound on 'From Dusk.'

Emphatic four-track EP set for digital release on 16th June, with vinyl to follow in July, via HAAi’s radical new Theory imprint.'

Follow: @prophetlol // @user-780669023

Premiere: Ben Prophet - Telepathy [Radical New Theory]

Klint

SHADOW

Checkste? - JamboAbi

Heat

Arla III

Teenage Birdsong

@Oli_XL — "Liquid Love"
from "Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer" (2019)
http://x-l.love

“Can you be my ringtone... I Feel liquid Love! 🗯”. The debut album by Oli XL. Artwork drawn by Roberto Ronzani._

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Special thanks to Emilie, Zak, Lisa, Anton, Emilio & Robin.

Oli XL — Liquid Love

Moons

For healing movement and meditation.

W.A.L.A - Sacrum Test (feat. Salami Rose Joe Louis)

Produced/Arranged/Mixed by W.A.L.A

Keys/Vocals by Salami Rose Joe Louis

Mastered by Fumitake Tamura (Bun)
www.fumitaketamura.com

Cover Artwork by Malaya Tuyay
www.malayatuyay.com

Sacrum Test ft. Salami Rose Joe Louis

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Rian Treanor returns to Planet Mu for his second album "File Under UK Metaplasm".

In 2018, Treanor left his home of Rotherham, a working class town in the North of England not far from rave nexus Sheffield, and headed to Uganda. He'd been invited to perform at Nyege Nyege festival, a mythical event that takes place on the shores of Lake Victoria in Jinja once a year. After nearly a week of almost non-stop syncopated bass, Treanor drove to the country's capital city Kampala to produce music for a month at the Nyege Nyege's Boutique Studio - an incubator that serves as a central hub for the record label and its many harmonic ventures.

A week later, while he was performing at Hollywood, the tiny dive bar that housed the Nyege Nyege crew's first events, Treanor began to think differently about the sound he'd been developing since 2015's acclaimed "A Rational Tangle". "Everyone was still beaming after the festival, full of energy and wanting it raw and fast," he explains. Treanor had been collaborating with Acholi fiddle player Ocen James, and absorbing sounds from the other producers at the studio like Tanzania's Jay Mitta and Sisso and Glasgow experimental duo The Modern Institute. The result was a jerky blend of hybridized footwork and singeli (Tanzania's own lightning-fast dance sound) that clocked in at a rapid 200bpm. "I played a Jlin track at the wrong speed and it was about 225bpm," he admits. "But it sounded really good so I went with it. People were going mental, it was so much fun."

Arriving home, inspired by the singeli production process, he focused on energy, building tracks and exploring urgency as the guiding method. Over the course of the year Treanor refined these ideas, building from raw components and eventually focusing on engineering the physicality of the sound. And at the end of 2019 he had the opportunity to tour Japan, where he was able to work out the finishing touches performing on some of the world's best soundsystems.

This polarity - the enigmatic, sweaty energy of singeli juxtaposed with slick, high-def bass weight - sits at the centre of "File Under UK Metaplasm", Treanor's second full-length. Opening track 'Hypnic Jerks' is maybe the perfect example of this, with crinkled percussive loops cut through by machine-gun kicks and acidic wobbles. Elsewhere, 'Vacuum Angle' takes Sheffield's Warp-ed legacy and brings it crashing into the future, with rhythms collapsing into static and noise but never deconstructing or losing the flow. 'Debouncing' meanwhile folds gliding square synths into rattling dancehall kicks, joining the dots between SND, Equiknoxx, Wiley and MCZO & Duke with a neon Sharpie.

"It's using all those formulaic dance structures but just slightly mangled or messed up," he says. "I'm still focused on making functioning dance music for clubs, but I'm really interested in how far you push that before it's just like - no."

File Under UK Metaplasm

Rian Treanor - Mirror Instant

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