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Belfast collective Spilt Milk Rekords are set to release their jam packed 22 track Various Artist compilation in aid of PIPS Hope & Support, highlighting the power of the creative community in Ireland.

Spilt Milk Rekords, the crew behind MINDS have been an advocate for Mental Health in the city for over three years, but with the closure of clubs and no longer able to raise money through events, the crew has come together to produce a genre-merging V/A - combining their passion for collaboration, mutual aid and community spirit. 

Today, we premiere one of the excellent tracks from the compilation, as we feature Belfast native and rising star, MATHESON, who's track 'Portal' is part of the mouthwatering 22 track compilation, featuring a whole host of Irish DJs and producers, who have all donated their music to this great charity.

The issue of mental health in Northern Ireland is a complicated one, the multi-generational trauma brought on by the troubles, coupled with years of austerity have resulted in a complex and struggling system. The pandemic has also led to an increase in feelings of hopelessness, with isolation and uncertainty often over-shadowing signs of progress. At times, however, conflict can inspire, unite, and while there is a long way to go, some collectives continue to put one small step forward despite having one of the toughest years of our lives.

You can check out MATHESON's track 'Portal' via our SoundCloud page, plus pick up and support the full MINDS V/A here: https://spiltmilkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/minds-v-a

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Four Four Premiere:  MATHESON - Portal [MINDS]

Four Tet - Ba Teaches Yoga

Amb Audio

The Sabres Of Paradise - Smokebelch II

For centuries we have been fighting for our country's freedom and will continue to fight for the liberty of our people until we reach our European future !
GLORY TO GEORGIA ! ! !

RESISTANCE

Daft Acid [I] - is the new hip ep release by daft riot which will showcase the new style of dirt and grit electro acid by stereoimagery and love ex. two mainstay names on daft riot with signature styles. both using different forms of acid to convey a better message of hip dance. Distributed by Label Engine - www.label-engine.com

Stereoimagery - Dert (Roadie)

B.U.F.F Ost-Klang edit, feel free to listen in

808TSIE b.u.f.f (Ost-Klang edit)

picture taken @ London Ship of Fools Club @ Bar & Co (Temple Pier, Sun 7th Mar, 2010)
remixed 06/Feb/2011


The Truth In Me - Roger O'Donnell (The Syron Remix)

JUNO

CL02 A1 Vin Sol Backside

Tongues

Our Time

Four Tet - As Serious As Your Life (Danky Remix)

Out Now: https://lnk.to/Endustry

Octave One announce their new album under the much loved Random Noise Generation guise. The first RNG release was 'Falling in Dub' in 1991 and sounding just as fresh 27 years later, ‘Endustry’ is due for release this spring. 

Something of a new take on their creative process the Burden brothers made most of this music on the road while they toured over the past year, using the country they were in at each time they recorded to influence and inspire each track. “We were tucked away in so many hotel rooms that we decided to make sure we brought enough extra equipment so that we could set up a true lab to create from country to country and make the grooves that we wanted to experiment with on the dance floor.” comments Lawrence.

This body of work encompasses 7 full length cuts, naturally all with that classic Octave One emotion. “'Alkaylze', more than any of tracks on this project, embraced the original spirit of Random Noise Generation in so much as the “machine” seemed to be really guide the creative process.” Adds Lenny “Much of the foundation of the composition was very accidental, but inspirational, with various musical devices interpreting data in a very unexpected results. It actually came together quite quickly but things just fell into place so naturally.” 

After touring and making music for decades the spirit and essential energy of the craft is what keeps them eternally inspired to keep creating and touring the globe… ”Once it takes hold of you you can’t stop even if you wanted to.” says the pair, and so 'Endustry' is born.

Endustry

Octave One presents | Random Noise Generation - Refraction

The UK nu disco projects Slync and Cuz Electric combine their powers as Paper Street Soul for a scorching-hot three-tracker titled 'Saurischian Dancers' - set to drop on Citizens Of Vice on July 22.

Ahead of the EP release, the trio has handed over the EP cut 'Always (On My Mind)' - a radiant exercise in futuristic funk with cosmic pads and a catchy vocoder hook.

Saurischian Dancers

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Premiere: Paper Street Soul 'Always (On My Mind)'

Facety 2:11 (prod. Four Tet)

Facety 2:11

Floorplan are debuting on @ausmusic next month with a brand new 10-track album called 'Supernatural', featuring the appropriately named 'Fiyaaaa!'. An opening of kicks and chords steadily builds to an incendiary crescendo of anthemic vocal cuts, distorted synths and syncopated rhythms. The Hoods never miss.

'Supernatural' is out November 8, pre-order it here: https://ausmusic.bandcamp.com/album/supernatural

Premiere: Floorplan 'Fiyaaaa!'

Protein Valve EP

Analog Track (Ghost)

FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
https://cmc.lnk.to/cmcd141d

Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".
Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties.
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. 

"Growing up in Detroit, I grew up with Motown in the house - a lot of Motown and Philadelphia soul, artists like Marvin Gaye of course and Curtis Mayfield. I remember Isaac Hayes, the soundtrack from ‘Shaft’ had come out. My father was a jazz musician; he played piano, trumpet and drums. My mother was in an R’n’B group.
We listened to a lot of Motown - in fact, my grandfather’s first cousin is Berry Gordy.
"I was influenced by my father - I wanted to play trumpet like he did."
Robert's father tragically died when he was just 6. The photo of Robert siting down holding a trumpet is his fathers.
"I had to beg my grandmother to let me borrow the trumpet to take a picture with it"

In the early 90's he began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-102 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with ‘Tranquilizer EP’ and ‘Drama’.

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically. M-Plant started in ’94. I had developed this “grey area” sound - what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno - it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.

Releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", “The Protein Valve” "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts", "The Pace", more recently "Range", "Alpha" and that isn't even touching his other monikers Floorplan, Monobox, The Vision, etc.
"M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. “It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal. “

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, mainly via his housier, disco, gospel moniker Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood,   Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends.

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