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Following the video release of Lamella, SFX co-label head Zoë Mc Pherson elevates their groundbreaking album Pitch Blender released in March, to new heights with an electrifying remix EP that's sure to set dancefloors On Fire! 
Today we have your first listen of Chicago artist Jana Rush's high-octane dancefloor remix of Potentials. The high-energy purveyor of ghetto house, injects Potentials with frenetic beats, chopped vocals, and irresistible grooves that are bound to get bodies moving. 
Drawing on a diverse range of styles and influences including Ghetto House, South African club music, Rave and Experimental Electronic music, this EP boasts an exciting lineup including Scratcha DVA, Kasimyn Gendang, and Jessica Ekomane who bring their distinct touch and talents to the table, resulting in a thrilling reimagining of the original album. 
Additionally,  MC Yallah and Mc Pherson also collaborate on a spontaneous rework of "Lamella" showcasing the fierce energy of Kenyan/Ugandan rapper in a high-speed tom-infused jukey-steppy rework, also released in it’s instrumental club rework version.

The artwork created by SFX co-label head Alessandra Leone is an alteration of the futuristic Unidentified Objects story, extracted from the duo’s Pitch Blender AV show, which is currently on tour.

Follow the Buy link to Pre-Order Now! Out May 26th!

[PREMIERE] Zoë Mc Pherson-Potentials (Jana Rush Remix)(SFX)

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Tongue In The Mind - Pretty Canary 
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 140S
Release Date: 20 September 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/PrettyCanary

Tongue In The Mind shares ‘Pretty Canary’, the first single from the upcoming EP out via PAN.

Performed by Juliana Huxtable, Via App, Jealous Orgasm

Production by Juliana Huxtable, Joe Rinaldo Heffernan, Fakethias
Vocals by Juliana Huxtable
Synthesizers by Joe Rinaldo Heffernan, Juliana Huxtable
Guitar, Drums, Backing Vocals by Joe Rinaldo Heffernan

Tongue In The Mind - Pretty Canary (PAN 140S)

Artist: @laughingears
Catalogue Number: IM086
Album: Blood
Release Date: February 26th, 2021
Format: Digital

Laughing Ears is poised to release her second LP this January via club music vanguards, Infinite Machine. Her lengthiest offering to date, Blood consists of 10 tracks that highlight Laughing Ears’s knack for building otherworldly atmospherics within club-ready, dance music structures. Taking the tale of Fenrir as it’s starting point, (a giant wolf in Norse mythology who spent much of his life bound and chained to a rock in captivity), the album conceptually deals with family ties and the melancholic beauty that can be found in the darkness of loss.

Blood opens with the airy, gliding synths and heavy drumwork of Flickering Shadows. The track has a unique sense of space due its wide stereo-imaging as well as Laughing Ears’ haunting melodies and driving rhythms. A 100bpm creeper fit for exploring uncharted virtual lands. On the following track, Loki, things are stripped back to their functional essentials. Tabla hits, bass pluses and strange whistles brush up against each other in a head-spinning assemblage before surging towards a climactic resolution.

The serene Untouched Places showcases Laughing Ears’ unique approach to melody and harmony. With a background in singing herself, her synths lines here seem to tonally intertwine, like vocal DNA, veering from harmonious and dissonant phases. Compared to the tranquility of Untouched Places, LP title-track, Blood, moves the record in a more intense direction. A brick wall of compressed percussion and humanoid-sung samples seem to battle it out for the listener’s attention in an enthralling sonic confrontation.

On Blood’s mid-point, Night Whisps, the producer’s love for the thrilling soundtracks of Satoshi Kon’s anime movies definitely comes through clearly. Bass drones claustrophobically reverberate around the mix - acting as a musical backbone that a wide array of staccato samples are stitched onto. Next up, Murderous Means, as its blood-thirsty title suggests, is a brutal and hard-hitting club track that’ll keep listeners guessing as the composition twists and turns. The song’s furious, ever-evolving drum patterns create mesmerizing rhythms you can’t help but bob your head to.

The polyrhythms continue on the following piece, Buona Fortuna. Like footwork, a genre she looks to for inspiration, on Buona Fortuna, the main groove is built out of a disparate family of drum samples which work in tandem - much like how individual dots of an Impressionist painting cooperate to form a single, concrete image. Laughing Ears then slows things down slightly with Glimmer, which sees the producer mix the low end stylings of UK Funky with strung out horns and gong hits.

On Potcheen, the longest of the record, Laughing Ears ambitiously constructs a track that starts from curious, ambient beginnings before morphing into a ferocious footwork-infused banger. Rounding off the release, Warm as A Lizard is a groove-laided drum freakout, crammed full of dense textures which build into a tonal fever pitch.

Artwork by Nic Symbios
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Blood

Laughing Ears - Loki (IM086)

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