https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/regular-energy

Regular Energy

Color Plus - 456 Fatality

https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/124719-basic-rhythm-on-the-threshold
http://basicrhythm.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-threshold

Anthoney Hart (who last appeared on Planet Mu as East Man) now returns under his Basic Rhythm alias with a new album 'On The Threshold'.

Recorded primarily with the DJ in mind, these tracks are colourful, brutalist and adventurous. Contemporary hybrids constructed from blocks of sound, their angular rhythms draw on Britain's dance music past, but with an eye firmly on the present.

The album starts with 'St. Fabian Tower', named after the now demolished tower block in Chingford where Anthoney used to DJ for Rude FM. The track's lush detuned synths and syncopated drums are girded by stern low end frequencies. Drum and bass, jungle and hardcore are the touchstones here, but the forms he creates make no attempt to imitate the music of those eras. Take the rolling, bubbling, almost jazz-drummer patterns of 'Yeah, I Like It' and 'I Want You' where strange pops and bubbles seem to be forced through the grid almost like they're an effect of pressure. It's an odd juxtaposition next to the soulful vocals but an effective one. 'Edge Of Darkness' meanwhile, is an intense, rough ride of sliding rhythms and elephantine bass. Elsewhere, like on 'A New Consciousness', things are tempered into a more streamlined techno-like hybrid. He lets loose in the claps and kicks banger of 'Fi Di Gyal', but even here there are neat sonic tricks that sound like nods to minimalist composition.

On The Threshold is a balance of smart and energetic, non linear thoughtfulness and makeshift experimentalism that does away with boundaries, but is very much its own self contained world.

On The Threshold

Basic Rhythm - Edge Of Darkness

Falling Not Walking

Air Max '97 - Falling Not Walking

For our 2nd upload we welcome Rogue Cuts family member @matt-laundro. Laundro has a debut album coming soon with label 'Nostro Hood System', and there's no better way to tide you over in the meantime than this tune. On 'Cave Level' he wields wonky synth lines as well as he does chopped up break samples. At 127 bpm, this track is a welcome addition to any club DJ's USB stick. 

Free download open as always, make sure to grab it while you can!

Mastered by @reclusebeats

Matthew Laundro - Cave Level

Download/Stream ➔ https://smarturl.it/tb10-ep03

10 years of Top Billin Music - EP 3 of 4

A decade of Top Billin Music equals for 10 years of having fun and after around 200 releases our main pleasure still remains the people we've been able to work with.

We've travelled all the countries, played some of the best clubs available, lived through pretty much all music styles there are, kept it club, and most importantly made a lot of friends along the way.

To celebrate this milestone, we have prepared a series of 4 special EP's with various music styles, this one containing some contemporary club, garage and bass cuts from our friends.

We bless the club, because that's where we're from and shall always be.

⁃ Sami & Heikki

TB10-EP03

Soreab & Tropical Interface - Collider Ritual [10 years of Top Billin Music / TB10-EP03]

[EQ Why, speaking from Chicago, Il.] Savannah 75

FR

Pour cette première sortie de l’année, nous vous présentons un Various Artist autour des drums et des percussions. Le Club Drums vol.1 EP navigue entre UK Funky, Baile et Breakbeats.

Aux commandes se trouvent 6 producteurs : 

Le parisien Amor Satyr qu’on a pu retrouver cette année sur Liquorish Records. 
BJF, curateur du label franco-suisse Couvre x Chefs . 
Kaval, membre d’Egregore Collective, auteur du très bon ‘Nocturnal EP’.
Labok, acolyte du collectif belge Lait de Coco.
Murmansk Sound System, alias mystérieux d’un membre d’Egregore.
Et enfin Tim Karbon, auteur d’excellents EPs chez POLAAR.


EN 

For the first outing of the year, we’re glad to present you a Various Artist dwelling in drums and percussions. The Club Drums vol.1 EP blends UK Funky, Baile and Breakbeats.

At the commands are these 6 producers : 

Parisian Amor Satyr which was featured last year on Liquorish Records. 
BJF, curator of the french/swiss label Couvre x Chefs . 
Kaval, Egregore Collective member, behind the ‘Nocturnal EP’ and countless quality edits.
Labok, from belgian collective Lait de Coco.
Murmansk Sound System, mysterious alias of another Egregore member.
and last but not least Tim Karbon, who released several quality EPs last year on POLAAR.

Audio showreel : https://soundcloud.com/egreg-re/preview-egru004-va-club-drums-vol1

Tim Karbon - Dis Bend Of Kali

Tracklist, interview and more about hard drum label Flood's cofounder Doubt on CxC: couvrexchefs.com/en/couvre-x-tape-32-doubt

@doubt_tx

Tracklist + itw

Couvre x Tape #32 - Doubt

May 11, 2020
Worli-Cognitive Bias
JWR033

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remixes by 
https://soundcloud.com/soreabuk
https://soundcloud.com/big-hands-1

artwork by Lorenzo Clementi
lollofromos.tumblr.com
Mastered by Colin Moir

Basic Rhythm - Edge Of Darkness

Planet Mu Records