Initially formed out of a desire to step back from the intensity of peak-time club spaces, the Edinburgh-based music project DRIFT has enjoyed 5 wonderfully relaxed years, during which they've curated some truly memorable listening bar events across the UK. In order to celebrate the special milestone, they've asked 12 producers and artists previously involved with DRIFT in one way or another to contribute something in their own style for a very special compilation album entitled "5 Years of DRIFT". Releasing fully on the 15th March, the release showcases a range of genres from spoken word and ambient, through jazz and neo-soul to experimental club and dreamy, distant jungle. The release will be available in physical format as bespoke, made-to-order lathe cuts with the sleeves featuring prints of the amazing hand-drawn artwork by Edinburgh based artist Ana Geissler and limited run DRIFT t-shirts.

This project showcases some of the very best in new music coming out of DRIFT's hometown of Edinburgh, as well as some contributions from further afield. There's honestly something in here for everyone, and with 100% of the sales going to the artists, any purchases directly support a blossoming music scene! Much love x

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5 Years of DRIFT

Chopping Board

Balcony Collective - Chopping Board

https://soundcloud.com/loftgarten
https://soundcloud.com/mschyen

Love Runs Angry In Veins

Loft Garten, Mschyen & Antonio - Love Runs Angry In Veins

Buy: https://clubmoniker.bandcamp.com/album/moniker003

Club Moniker is a Bay Area collective focused on forward-thinking underground dance music through intimate club experiences and a recently minted record label. 

The new V/A is studded with two collabs featuring Club Moniker resident and co-label head, Pteron, including bread.fm resident, Prawns, and dubwise Bay Area stalwart, Only Now, with releases on Bokeh Versions and Polaar. Rising talents Shai FM and Fallen Matter round off the release with their respective fortes in shapeshifting percussive workouts and fractured, razor-sharp sound design.

MONIKER003

PREMIERE: Shai FM - Bounce [Club Moniker]

Vina Konda steps up on the Turin-label Pho Bho Records with five track EP 'The Exit Screen Leads Nowhere'. The work "tries to bring you in the complex contradiction of the screen attraction. Between loss & profit, the dilated time now allows you to explore a world between reality and virtuality. Like an open gate between somewhere and nowhere."

Vina Konda
@vinakonda
www.instagram.com/vina_konda

Pho Bho Records
@phobhorecords
www.instagram.com/pho_bho_records/

Burning Leaf

Premiere: Vina Konda - Burning Leaf | Pho Bho Records

Mossambi makes his return to All Centre to follow up the stunning debut Resurf EP from the beginning of 2023. On The AI Told Me To, he delivers 3 more experimental techno exertions backed by a heavy-duty club remix from Holloway.

Reptate opens proceedings with otherworldly vocals stuttering over Mossambi’s distinctively inventive sound design. The track enters an off-kilter, compelling groove composed of deep kicks, growling subs and snippets of microtonal melodies, building up and playing out like an extra-dimensional take on dubstep.

The title track keeps up the momentum with deep kicks and shuffling hats, allowing a lush choral pad to stutter and proliferate amongst the percussive intricacies. The chord is manipulated, filtered and triggered in unpredictable patterns as the track progresses, keeping the listener on their toes whilst Mossambi holds down a transfixing groove.

Mossambi’s final track, Miscellaneous Vegetable Platter, slows things down to a hypnotic 110 bpm pace. A disorienting blend of scrambled vocals, fried digital synths and dubbed-out bass and chord hits are kept in check by steady drums, whilst a frenzied snare roll pushes and pulls at the track’s intensity as the track progresses, crafting an engrossing low-tempo workout.

Holloway translates Mossambi’s glitched vocals and heady sound design onto a ferocious four-to-the-floor groove. A warbling bassline bubbles underneath driving percussion, whilst a syncopated hard house siren brings the energy levels to a fever pitch.

Mossambi - The AI Told Me To [ACEN056] (PREVIEWS)

https://soundcloud.com/user-775234683
https://soundcloud.com/plasmasourcesmusic
🛒 https://plasmasources.bandcamp.com/album/soundsystem-music
🔊 https://youtu.be/cQQv4yCvibA

Plasma Sources is proud to present nosync’s Soundsystem Music, an EP which provides a fresh perspective on the high-fidelity and sci-fi influenced electronic music the imprint is known for. 

nosync’s work sits in a truly unique space in the sound system/club music-o-sphere. This in large part is due to his heavy deployment of progressive metal instrumentation, from chugging walls of overdriven guitars to relentless double-time kick patterns. On paper, utilising this palette in a club-music context may seem like an impossible task. However, where others might see a chasm of disparity, nosync has deftly identified the bridge connecting these two genres, seeing in these two landscapes the same desired emotional state - despite the different methodologies used to achieve this. 

“This record attempts to make the case that the essence of what makes these sounds so obsessively loved are one and the same. Gripping dramatism and intensity are the overlapping themes that I have attempted to bring out here, through the record’s sound design and film-like structure.”

Indeed Soundsystem Music as a whole feels wildly cinematic and is as much an exercise in atmosphere creation as music for sound systems, with nosync citing the video game Dead Space and its sequel as key influences for this body of work. From the claustrophobic, elasticated wind chamber of ‘Traced’ to the broken choir voices and FiS-esque ambient abyss of ‘Dead Land’, nosync has expertly matched the pace and atmosphere of these hugely iconic and utterly terrifying video games and channeled them into a purely sonic experience. 

The metal influences nosync brings to the table slice through the entire corpus of Soundsystem Music, although the linkage is perhaps at its most clear on ‘Airlock’, which features a full-on death-metal guitar chugging through the first half. In perhaps the most surprising switch-up of the entire EP, things suddenly twist into a guttural underwater club track a third of the way through. 

nosync’s love for the vast ecosystem of club/soundsystem music also comes through loud and clear on this release, from the grime-inflected leads and hyper-detailed polyrhythmic noise workouts of ‘Unregistered Hypercam’ to the reverberated metal clangs of ‘Kauket’s Arena’ which feels like witch-house on steroids - the soundtrack to some final boss battle with some type of nightmare-demon-entity. 

nosync has achieved something unique with Soundsystem Music. By drawing together a hugely disparate corpus of influences and pummelling them into a noise-fuelled apocalyptic aberration, he has created a sound which feels consistent, fully his own, and in many places, utterly dread-inducing.

Tracklist: 

1. Aberrations
2. Traced
3. Unregistered Hypercam
4. Dead Land
5. Airlock
6. Kauket’s Arena

PREMIERE: nosync - Airlock [Plasma Sources]

Following his 2021 debut on the reverse label with Retreat Ites EP and a spot on the Molten Mirrors compilation, Jurango is back on Livity Sound with another four tracks of low-slung soundsystem pressure. 

On An Amorphous Mass EP Jurango presents a particularly focused sound which draws on halftime D&B, dancehall and broken techno all filtered through the meditative pulse of low tempo club music. The measured pace of the tracks doesn’t detract from their weight, whether it manifests in the heavy roll of murky opener ‘Big Saver’, ‘Inner Seam’s mutant dembow rhythm or the heady breakbeat chops of the title track. The stripped-back subs and fractured percussion of ‘Muni Ce Boa’ close the record in potent yet understated style, proving minimal music doesn’t have to compromise on impact for the dance.

Jurango - An Amorphous Mass

Blessed to host 2 very good producers : Leese from Brussels & Bastian Benjamin from Netherlands.

Rinse France Podcast

Jerry Horny w/ Leese & Bastian Benjamin - 06 Février 2024

@kin_teal
@humanpitch

Accidental melodies and textural forms comprise Kin Teal’s Ecosystem, the Budapest-based producer’s second EP of iridescent club-not-club zones and debut for Human Pitch. Bridging 130-140 leftfield bass with liquid downtempo chuggers, Kin Teal uncovers hidden melodies in the resonant frequencies of percussion. “By amplifying certain frequencies in drum breaks, our brains latch onto that as a melody. These melodies are often askew, not perfectly tuned, and I wanted to embrace that.”

Doubling down on the record’s title and theme, Kin Teal played with the idea of a record in which each sound and track reacts to one another. Tubular melodies coil around syncopated drums as though by reflex and vocal blips flit through the gaps. There’s a clockwork but also a fluidity to Kin Teal’s oblique rhythms, which trace the producer’s growth, bending blueprints with a vibrant curiosity. 
credits

Ecosystem 

pi pi pi premiere: Kin Teal - Elastiwater (Human Pitch)

Premiere

🎨 Album Artist(s): Various Artists
📀 Album Name: 5 Years of DRIFT 
🏷️ Label: DRIFT
📅 Year: 2024
🎵 Track Genre:  #electronic #breaks
💵 Buy/Download link: https://driftrecords.bandcamp.com/album/5-years-of-drift
💿 Discogs:

Initially formed out of a desire to step back from the intensity of peak-time club spaces, the DRIFT project has enjoyed 5 wonderfully relaxed years, during which they've curated some truly memorable listening bar events across the UK. In order to celebrate the special milestone, they've asked 12 producers and artists previously involved with DRIFT in one way or another to contribute something in their own style for a very special compilation album entitled "5 Years of DRIFT". Releasing fully on the 15th March, the release showcases a range of genres from spoken word and ambient, through jazz and neo-soul to experimental club and dreamy, distant jungle. The release will be available in physical format as bespoke, made-to-order lathe cuts featuring prints of the amazing hand-drawn artwork by Edinburgh based artist Ana Geissler and limited run DRIFT t-shirts.

Sempra's contribution is a lush vocal jungle cut, showcasing the sound the Bristol producer has worked hard to curate during a prolific last few years which has seen him release chilled-out tracks across the tempo range. Perfect for closing out your sets or for rinsing out at sunset while chilling on a beach, the breaky track should give a taste of what else is to come on the compilation! Available for pre-order now on bandcamp!

Socials:

https://soundcloud.com/drift-mix-series
https://www.instagram.com/drift.dance/
https://linktr.ee/DriftMixSeries

https://soundcloud.com/xsemprax
https://www.instagram.com/sempra95/
https://sempra.bandcamp.com/
https://linktr.ee/sempra

Sempra - My Own || DRIFT || Premiere

Edinburgh party series & label DRIFT celebrates 5 years in operation with a very special 12 track compilation.

Initially formed out of a desire to step back from the intensity of peak-time club spaces, the Edinburgh-based music project DRIFT has enjoyed 5 wonderfully relaxed years, during which they've curated some truly memorable listening bar events across the UK. In order to celebrate the special milestone, they've asked 12 producers and artists previously involved with DRIFT in one way or another to contribute something in their own style for a very special compilation album entitled "5 Years of DRIFT". 

Our featured premiere comes from the alter-ego of Shetland-born, Malmo-based producer Bolam, Timo Torben. An artist focusing on captivating, textured sounds as he explores experimental breaks, dreamy soundscapes and organic, downtempo percussion. 

'Where Do We Go From Here' beautifully evolves from revereating ambient textures and spacey synths into wonderfully hypnotic downtempo breakbeat. Showcasing the very best of a range of genres in a single track and highlighting the producer's ability to create psychedelic electronic music of the highest calibre.

Releasing fully on the 15th March, the release showcases a range of genres from spoken word and ambient, through jazz and neo-soul to experimental club and dreamy, distant jungle.

Available to pre-order via Bandcamp.

PREMIERE: Timo Torben - Where Do We Go From Here (DRIFT)

Eloi - Chrysanthemum (J Wax Remix)

Out now on Drift Dance Records. 

https://driftrecords.bandcamp.com/album/5-years-of-drift

https://open.spotify.com/track/4AOTYnRYiHW8qo95WfUC3g?si=ec54bfca60834d55

Eloi - Chrysanthemum (J Wax Remix)

@cab_asa makes his debut on Control Freak with 4 tracks of stripped back, percussive dance music, plus a remix from NYC/Kindergarten’s @aye5ha.

Belgian producer Cabasa has carved a distinctive niche in the fertile Brussels club scene with his sleek & minimalistic productions, which reimagine UK soundsystem culture through a fresh, contemporary lens.

'Bird Tool' traverses a range of genre and BPM ranges in typical CF fashion, from the 140-influenced stylings of ‘Volume 3’, to the mutant halftime rhythms of title track ‘Bird Tool’ and ‘End Credits’ - exploring a tempo range that’s become a popular fixture of UK club music in recent years. Rounding off the release, Ayesha delivers a slick ‘Drums You Can Touch’ dub of 'Bird Tool', fresh off the back of her critically acclaimed LP ‘Rhythm Is Memory’.

For Fans Of: Peverelist, Toma Kami, Ehua

Cabasa - Bird Tool

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Various - One Hundred and Fifty Steps
BAIT, 2024
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://baitdubstep.bandcamp.com/album/one-hundred-and-fifty-steps-vep

🔴 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥
https://www.instagram.com/carre__carre/
https://soundcloud.com/carreo

🔵 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕝
https://soundcloud.com/baitlabel
https://www.instagram.com/beatricem._bait/

YOUTUBE

𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖊#207 📢 Carré - plotting smth [BAIT]

Jack & Prince present "Kwaheri," a track that seamlessly blends melodic Afro and progressive vibes. This captivating release showcases rich melodies and rhythmic grooves, creating an immersive listening experience that transports you to a world of vibrant beats and uplifting harmonies.

Producer: Jack & Prince
Final Mastering: YHV Recordings
Publisher: YHV Music Group
Record Label: YHV Records

Instagram.com/yhvrecords
Facebook.com/yhvecords
Soundcloud.com/yhvrecords

Managed by:
www.yhvmusic.group

Jack & Prince - Kwaheri (Original Mix) [YHV RECORDS]

5 Years of DRIFT Compilation OUT NOW!

Music for the mind.
Edinburgh-based label curating the finest in home-listening, downtempo and chilled-out electronica.

CONTACT - info@drift.dance

SUBMISSIONS -
submissions@drift.dance

DRIFT is a music collective aiming to provide a chance for DJs to craft music and mixes which twist and turn through genres not usually heard in a typical club setting. Providing a break from fast-paced and hard-hitting tracks and allowing creativity and experimentation in both track selection and mixing.
4th Tuesday of the Month 20:00 - 22:00 on EH-FM
Run by @ssid_drift

Profiling the experimental dance music world and throwing parties in between.

~~~ Edinburgh / Glasgow / Galway ~~~

PREMIERE: Timo Torben - Where Do We Go From Here (DRIFT)

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