This week on Topshelf we're delighted to have with us Chilean UKG DJ/Producer Hitch.93.

With a plethora of tracks to his name and the EP's starting to stack, Hitch.93's soulful UKG grooves represent the growth of a genre establishing itself on the world stage, with Hitch.93 perfectly embodying the movement.
Inspired by the UK Garage previously being blasted through pirate radios on London speaker systems in the mid 90's, Hitch.93 is helping add to that lineage with tracks like 'Yoh!', 'Raw Vibes', 'What We Do' and his whole 'Legacy' EP flawlessly incapsulating that energy and releasing it onto fresh ears, half way around the world.

Now fresh off the back of his brilliant remix of Rena Brunette's "Tu Mamá Te Habla", and with our 2nd ever UKG mix, we're extremely excited to give you Topshelf 092 w/ Hitch.93. Enjoy

The Library LMD Presents Topshelf 092 w/ Hitch.93

SPEEDIN’ - VOLUME 1 (UK GARAGE MIX)

#09 Louis aka 'General'.

Louis makes up one half of the team at DAT LOUD RECORDINGS. Being one of the newer names on the underground house and garage dubplate scene. With 2 tasty releases under their belt and plenty more cooking, 2024 plans to be a big year for the label. 

Louis began his love for music when he worked in the original D’vinyl Records. Whilst hopping around the under 18’s DJ circuit and pirate radio scene. Moving on to promoting events, while keeping the dust from settling on the turntables.

Now doing a monthly show on The Garage House Radio as part of The Friday Night Business and following on from the legend Paul the Guv’na French. Playing House and Garage, both classic and fresh tracks.

Louis has a passion for not only promoting new artists, new tracks but what also came before and you can hear this, in edition #9. His inspiration comes from hearing others making amazing music be it jungle, hardcore or garage.

Hopefully this mix can do that for you, enjoy.

Featuring Pirate Cutz Records, Amigo Dubs, The Original Midnite, Perception, Jay Ward/Dubplate Pressure, Zero FG, Hercule Poirot and NO:EL.

#09 Louis General

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Pressing on swiftly with their 2024 schedule, emerging Chilean-born talent Hitch.93 arrives on Phuture Shock - for the seventh outing in the label’s ‘PSM Dubz’ series - with a tasty double dosage of UKG-laced-bruk flavours by name of ‘Blanka’s Kick’ b/w ‘Mary Jane’.

Hailing from Santiago de Chile, Hitch.93 has been garnering attention in the global UK garage scene of late, with his 90s-inspired, multi-ranging productions – touching on bumpy 4x4 to fresh hybrids of 2-step and bruk - that he describes as “Half2step”. Having taken up production almost a decade ago, the artist has dabbled in an array of styles; including D&B, dubstep, footwork, and broken beat, before solely finding favour with the sounds of UK garage around 2020.

In the last few years, the producer/DJ has carved out a distinct path of his own among UKG’s new wave, through a string of self-released efforts, and further releases on budding labels such as Vibesy, Fourbyfour, and Amigo Dubs; not to mention a notable V/A feature on garage legend Karl ‘Tuff Enuff’ Brown’s 2TUF4U imprint. Equally prolific on the DJ front, he’s also supplied a raft of guest mixes for Rinse FM, Balamii, Piñata radio and Bristol’s SWU FM station, to name a few. With a growing resume behind him, Hitch.93 continues his hot streak with ‘Blanka’s Kick’, an assured 2-tracker that is heavily rhythmic at its core, but veers ever-so-slightly away from the throwback UKG flex of his previous work, and leans closer towards some of the bruk-influenced, yet genre-fluid output of Phuture Shock Musik. 

Opening the A-side is the percussive antics of ‘Blanka’s Kick’, which pairs the melodic vibes of 2-step with the jittery syncopation of broken beat, for a cut where an earworm of a keys-line slithers between sundry vocal stabs and a dizzying combo of tuff, foot-flinging beats that hits harder than the iconic video game brawler which the track title pays homage to. Housed on the flip is ‘Mary Jane’, a funky broken bubbler that’s heavy on the vocal chop trickery of classic UKG, where hooky RnB-sampling vox frolic  over an undulating chord sequence, replete with deep subby bass, and underpinned by off-kilter snares, claps and skittering percussion that nods to Hitch’s past Chicago juke influences.

Label: Phuture Shock Musik
Cat #: PSMDUB007
Format: 10"
Release date: 22nd March 2024

Blanka's Kick

[PSMDUB007] Hitch.93 - Mary Jane

[PSMDUB007] Hitch.93 - Blanka's Kick

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Demo's: 
demo@phutureshockmusik.co.uk , or use the soundcloud dropbox.

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info@phutureshockmusik.co.uk

[PSMDUB007] Hitch.93 - Mary Jane

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