Kédu (@keduu), otherwise known as Jess Penson, is an undeniably pivotal artist currently based in Tamaki Makaurau. Kédu has explored many different facets of her musicality throughout the years, starting off in Rnb girl group Techniclr and later finding her way into electronic music as one half of producer, DJ, and live electronic performance duo Kédu Carlö. Influenced by her eclectic taste, Kédu’s sound draws on genres such as Jazz and RnB as well as her love for Chicago/acid house, Left-field, Jersey Club and Breaks.

✎ flower illustration by Naktattoo
✄ design by Grace Verweij

RA MIX 017 - Kédu - Frequency CNTRL

Action Figures

Yogi5dbmf Gladiator

4NIC - Want To Feel(Body Count)

ACEN 015 is the first release of 2020 from All Centre founder DJ P, offering up two tracks that are distinct in their intensity but share a lighthearted production approach.

A side ‘Pbat’ uses a mournful organ to signal it’s beginning, with floating fx splaying across the stereo spectrum as the introduction drives forward. At the 1:50 mark the introductions suspense is broken, being overrun by gliding portamento synths and tear out drums whilst supporting chords slowly build around the tracks core. As the track steadily loops over more synths, fx and fuzzy repetitions of the phrase “Love me til I love you back ‘’ join in, forcing the track towards its eventual wind down.

B side ‘Things Can Only Get Worse’ deploys a skippy broken beat, with the tracks key motifs gathering around it’s snare patterns as a blown out sub convulses below. DJ P allows the track drums to drive forward confidently before they become untethered at the halfway mark, sliding into a call and response breakdown between the tracks synth parts.

Pbat is available across all platforms from the 3rd of April.

Pbat

DJ P - Pbat

https://eastmanuk.bandcamp.com/album/prole-art-threat

'Prole Art Threat' is producer Anthoney Hart's second LP for Planet Mu under his East Man alias, after 2018's well received debut 'Red White & Zero'. It brings together a set of MCs from all over London, Darkos and Eklipse from East London and Lyrical Strally from near Feltham who were on the first album, Ny Ny and Mic Ty also from East London, Streema and 'Vision Crew' member Whack Eye from Lewisham plus Fernando Kep, an MC from the burgeoning Brazil grime scene. They work across a cohesive set of tight riddims forged from thoughtful amalgams of grime, dancehall and drum & bass.

The album takes its name from a Fall song/mission statement of the same title, the band being self-consciously working class and led by a brilliant autodidact in Mark E Smith. East Man relates that the title is to be taken as “a reflection of working-class creativity and how the establishment marginalise us and (perhaps on a subconscious level) see us as a threat.”

Les Back, author of 'The Art of Listening' and 'Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics and Culture (with Vron Ware)' contributes liner notes to the record:

East Man understands the force and the democracy of the mic. Listening to Prole Art Threat is like being at a dance. As the mic is passed between each of the MCs, a different tale is ‘elevated... off the map’ as Ny Ny puts it. We hear instalments from Forest Gate, Lee, Lewisham and Manor Park as these ‘lyrical gaffers’ and ’top boys and girls’ tell tough stories of life under the scrutiny of the ‘Feds’ in a brutal and divided city. The bars and rhymes document what it means to live here; from the double standards applied to the sexuality of young girls and boys to the corrosive violence of everyday life. All this is dissected without compromise. This is not just a London story though, the inclusion of Fernando Kep from the burgeoning Grime scene in Brazil is evidence of the outernational reach of the music.

The tracks on East Man’s album explode the wilful ignorance of those who see ‘the working class’ in contemporary London as code for whiteness. This is the sound of a proletarian urban multiculture, made from Caribbean and African influences, sound system culture, pirate radio and the inexorable rhythms of Grime, Drum & Bass, Techno and Dancehall. It is the stirring of the "white" & "black" working classes who are living together and coming together on their own terms in sound. ‘Making music because you love it... what the fuck else could you do?’ as East Man says. The tracks and voices you are holding in your hands are, as a result urgent, vital, as hard nails and twice as sharp.

Prole Art Threat

East Man & Streema - Know Like Dat

eastmanuk.bandcamp.com/album/prole-art-threat

'Prole Art Threat' is producer Anthoney Hart's second LP for Planet Mu under his East Man alias, after 2018's well received debut 'Red White & Zero'. It brings together a set of MCs from all over London, Darkos and Eklipse from East London and Lyrical Strally from near Feltham who were on the first album, Ny Ny and Mic Ty also from East London, Streema and 'Vision Crew' member Whack Eye from Lewisham plus Fernando Kep, an MC from the burgeoning Brazil grime scene. They work across a cohesive set of tight riddims forged from thoughtful amalgams of grime, dancehall and drum & bass.

The album takes its name from a Fall song/mission statement of the same title, the band being self-consciously working class and led by a brilliant autodidact in Mark E Smith. East Man relates that the title is to be taken as “a reflection of working-class creativity and how the establishment marginalise us and (perhaps on a subconscious level) see us as a threat.”

Les Back, author of 'The Art of Listening' and 'Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics and Culture (with Vron Ware)' contributes liner notes to the record:

East Man understands the force and the democracy of the mic. Listening to Prole Art Threat is like being at a dance. As the mic is passed between each of the MCs, a different tale is ‘elevated... off the map’ as Ny Ny puts it. We hear instalments from Forest Gate, Lee, Lewisham and Manor Park as these ‘lyrical gaffers’ and ’top boys and girls’ tell tough stories of life under the scrutiny of the ‘Feds’ in a brutal and divided city. The bars and rhymes document what it means to live here; from the double standards applied to the sexuality of young girls and boys to the corrosive violence of everyday life. All this is dissected without compromise. This is not just a London story though, the inclusion of Fernando Kep from the burgeoning Grime scene in Brazil is evidence of the outernational reach of the music.

The tracks on East Man’s album explode the wilful ignorance of those who see ‘the working class’ in contemporary London as code for whiteness. This is the sound of a proletarian urban multiculture, made from Caribbean and African influences, sound system culture, pirate radio and the inexorable rhythms of Grime, Drum & Bass, Techno and Dancehall. It is the stirring of the "white" & "black" working classes who are living together and coming together on their own terms in sound. ‘Making music because you love it... what the fuck else could you do?’ as East Man says. The tracks and voices you are holding in your hands are, as a result urgent, vital, as hard nails and twice as sharp.

East Man & Ny Ny - Who Am I?

Architecture 2.0:
Chapter 5

Artwork by Wameme
Mastered by SIM

Chapter 3-soundcloud.com/classicaltrax/sets/architecture-20- Chapter 4 -https://soundcloud.com/classicaltrax/sets/architecture-2-0-chapter-4

Dom Perignon - Glass House

via @haus_of_altr

https://hausofaltr.bandcamp.com/album/hoa011

HOA011

Jacuzzi

Cooler than the Atlantic spray

Full release July 30th 2020 via @2-b-real

Ice Cream Mane

Brighton label Accidental Meetings announces its launch with debut compilation, "AM: Friends & Family Vol. 1", to be released on November 6th.

Read more on CxC: https://couvrexchefs.com/en/kaval-accidental-meetings-friends-family

East Man & Streema - Know Like Dat

Planet Mu Records

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