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In the five (five!) years since his cracking debut LP System dropped, the type of music Linkwood excelled at - a meld of sun-kissed house and loping LA funkiness - has become widespread, and perhaps even played out. So the decision to furrow a different path on forthcoming sophomore Expressions (due next week on Firecracker) makes perfect sense.
That being said, the warm tones prove hard to shake, and the precision of craft never truly goes away. What begins as straight techno chugger in the vein of The Field circa '07 gradually emerges from its tunnel into bright daylight. It's a coy move, us premiering this one: "Object" is a bridge. But coming from, and going to where? We've waited half a decade - one week more won't hurt.

Linkwood "Object" - Boiler Room Debuts

Mat Playford - Mr Future

Berlin Hypnotic House XXIX - Backwards Head Mix

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/delft_la-4a

Kevin McHugh has spent the last few years redefining his sound as LA-4A, focusing on what he terms "roots techno" after a long period working as Ambivalent. This direction is at its most palpable on his debut album Phonautograph, which is inspired by the redundancy of futurism. Tracks are titled after and inspired by obsolete technologies, from the titular early sound-recording device and the semantron, used to call monks to prayer, right up to the relatively freshly dumped dialup (which you can hear on the track); "Technologies that helped create a ‘tomorrow’, but were quickly obsolete by the time that tomorrow arrived," as LA-4A puts it himself. The track we're premiering here is "Capacitance", and appropriately enough it's brimming with electrical charge, acid fizzing through its core.

http://truantsblog.com/2016/premiere-la-4a-capacitance/

Premiere: LA-4A - Capacitance

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Trudge (@trudged) embarks on the second expedition into the exotic lands of palm trees and blue skies with his ambient and dreamy ‘When The Rain’ EP on Lost Palms. 

Expedition two features four jams packed full of breakdowns, breathtaking soundscapes and lo-fi esque drum sequences.

When the Rain (Mixed)

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On Loop presents the debut EP from Avon Blume, ’Slowly Diving’. A mature three tracker sure to please club goers on the dance floor, and home listeners alike.

Slowly Diving EP

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Avon Blume - Ambient Pressure

DUB010: WHEELMAN - SIGNAL
AUGUST 2018
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WHEELMAN - SIGNAL [DUB010, SIGNAL EP]

MOS Recordings kick off 2019 with Better Dead Than Alien, a new EP from ASOK. The Liverpool, UK artist has been releasing on the label since 2014 but this is his first since 2015 and it features four more of his expansive and textured club tracks.
With one foot on the dance floor and a mind lost somewhere in the cosmos, ASOK again combines breakbeats, astral synth work and prickly percussion into fresh new forms here. The title track is a twitchy and futuristic bit of house with glistening and distorted textures, Find A Way has a rubbery bassline and old school rave breaks, and Many Locations is a bumping bit of deep Detroit house with a real sense of serenity. Closer Baal ends in the heavens, with celestial ambiance, spinning hi hats and broken beats all sounding delicate yet dynamic.

Release date : 04 Feb 2019

Pre-order :
https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6239/asok/better-dead-than-alien

https://soundcloud.com/mosrecordings

Better Dead Than Alien (mos025)

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PREMIERE : ASOK - Many Locations

* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/ari-bald-umberto-arpeggio-haws/
* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nKripQn_WDQ
* Pre-order: https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/pesce

Ari Bald, who made a name for himself putting out sample-based disco cuts, had announced a while back that he'd be focusing more on the analog side of music production in his coming releases. The first evidence of that was on the debut VA from Haŵs entitled Haŵs Party Vol. 1. Now he's following it up with a full EP of analog-style deep house for the same label. The four track EP is called Pesce after the opening track and it is packed with 80's style drum machines, lush pads, italo-style arpeggios and more.

Our premiere today is the closing track, Umberto Arpeggio, and it definitely focuses on the latter both in name and execution. A functional italo-style track, it's built around the bubbly bass-line and bright synth lead. Moody deep pads come into the fold for some nice contrast while the development is carried in part by the drum machine work and the filter cutoff on the synths which creates the slow building tension. The rest of the EP is well rounded with the breakbeat and electro-inspired Sunday Wool, 80's influenced Pesce, and the hybrid jam, Club Contradictory. Overall, it's a good release to have in your collection that you can pull out on a number of occasions.Be sure to support the label directly via their Bandcamp as the release is out next week!

PREMIERE: Ari Bald - Umberto Arpeggio

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