Artist: Solar Suite
Title: Clear Skies
Label: Haŵs
Cat No: HAWS017
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1. Clear Skies
A2. Tasman Transmission
A3. Subtropique
B1. Still Life
B2. Contact

Solar Suite has something to say about liminal spaces. It’s that eerily familiar transitory state between here and there, where a shift occurs and the thrill of the change perforates through the atmosphere like a dreamy fog. Some find this anticipatory realm uncomfortable, but some find it as the means for creative inspiration. For the 17th release on Welsh imprint Haŵs, Naarm-based DJ/producer Solar Suite explores the playful liminality of dusk and dawn, taking locked grooves and prog sounds as the tools to transform the strange into something exhilarating.

‘Clear Skies’, ‘Tasman Transmission’ and ‘Still Life’ comprise the record’s club-ready tracks. The EP’s opener is expansive and uplifting, with an elated stride and synths that roll away like sheets of clouds finally departing a new-born sky. Meanwhile, ‘Tasman Transmission’ and ‘Still Life’ sink into lower, stubborn grumbles, signalling the spontaneous bursts of energy for those who haven’t quite yet chosen to head to bed yet.

Balancing out the up-tempo rhythms, ‘Subtropique’ and ‘Contact’ deliver the slow chuggers of the release. The former heralds the wide-eyed expectancy of a memorable night ahead, while the closing track preserves the threshold moment where night and day make brief, electrifying contact for all but an instant.

Five tracks with dedicated circumstances to be plucked out from record bags and presented to a willing crowd. The only question left: what occasions personal to the selector will they rear their heads?

Solar Suite - Clear Skies (HAWS017)

For release 13 on Subsequent we didn't have to look far, in fact just explored the incredible talent of the next generation producers within the UK. The result is striking. 4 powerhouses of tracks tailored for every situation on the club floors.  A1 delivers a hell of a breaks track, whereas A2 goes into a more cinematic direction but no less powerful. B1 fires up the rolling acid while B2 is made for those heady late moments in the club.

Mastered by TB Mastering London

B2 // Croft - Levi [Snippet]

Time LDN 017 - Adam Chapman

035 / OSMAAN 🇬🇧

Been a while since we posted a mix so here's the first 2 hours from Lou's all nighter at the pub last week.

Hope you enjoy :)

Thanks for listening x

005 - LOUIS JAY (Live @ The Lion & Lamb)

A2 Chill Pill

Big beats from Yorkshire, A solid mix that sums up matts style perfectly in just over 1 hour .. 

Matt was one of the first bodies on a beatnik hosted dance floor way back in 2018 when we managed to get Tristan Da Cunha to come down to our very first party with a beg and a plea. 

Not only was he the first on the dance floor but he then didn’t part ways with until 3 blurry days later, spent in a jam packed Manchester airbnb where the no party policy was rudely unadhered to. There’s a solid foundation for a friendship. 

Matts part of the collective responsible for bringing The Imaginarium in leeds to life which is nothing sort of an effervescent cauldron of culture, sick heads and wall to wall beats. We need more Matt JLs. 

He also lays down some seeeeriously good parties via Audial

Beatnik Collects 022 // Matt JL

Tested on dancefloors worldwide — and most recently lighting up the crowd at Garbicz Festival’s Juicy Bar — FBR’s rework of Doug Lazy’s Let The Rhythm Pump brings old school energy with a modern twist.  Built from the original acapella, layered with drum machines and analog synths, this edit stays true to the classic hip-hop vibe while reimagining it for today’s floors. 

Available as a free download via wezienwelrecords.bandcamp.com

Original: Let The Rhythm Pump by Doug Lazy (Gene Douglas Finley)  

#fbr #wezienwel #douglazy #trackid #garbicz #rework #juicybar #freeedit #letthetherhythmpump

Free download

Let The Rhythm Pump (FBR Rework) [WZW-REWORKS-034]

Far from Boring. Energetic UK Garage with vintage vibes. Deep, rolling  Reese bass with a drum groove that will get you moving! 

Boring

Artist: Raze of Pleasure
Title: Sweet Release
Label: Curated by Time
Cat No: BYTIME004
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1. Catch It
A2. Deep Love
B1. Makes Me Feel
B2. Catch It (Find The Groove Mix)

Classic House Alert! Raze Of Pleasure originally released this underground beauty back in 1993 on the now defunct UK label Vice Versa Records. "Sweet Release" as the EP is called has all the right elements which defines pure house music and sounds just as sweet now as it did back then...

Sound Of London Volume 3 1995 - 1998

Pierre Codarin