VA - Sapyens Vol. 3 [SAPYENS015]
https://sapyensrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sapyens-vol-3-sapyens015

Let’s celebrate with us! It’s 5+ Years and 15th releases of Sapyens Records, so it’s great time to serve brand new food for your ears!

Sapyens Vol. 3 is compilation of 15 tracks by the artists from 9 different countries like UK, USA, Mexico, Australia, Germany, Austria, Finland, Belgium and Czech Republic. Various sounds and tempos such as UK Funky, Jungle, Bass, Dancehall, etc.
Early support from the names like Om Unit, Madam X, Addison Groove, Blackdown/Keysound, Doctor Jeep, A.Fruit and many more.

*** This release comes along with the LTD edition of USB Flash Drives = 16GB of space incl. whole back-catalogue in mp3 (15 releases)

mastering: @merakiolab / io.lab
artwork: IG @ruzofie

VA - Sapyens Vol. 3 [SAPYENS015]

Retail Therapy

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Johney - Retail Therapy

Drumskull presents ‘Accelerate’, 90 minutes of rapid fire breaks, bass and energy from past to future. He invites guests each show to explore the faster regions of their music collections and/or production catalogue with a minimum tempo of 160bpm. Hold tight.

Drumskull Links:
https://www.instagram.com/drumskull_must_die/
https://www.facebook.com/drumskullmusic
https://twitter.com/Drumskull_
https://soundcloud.com/drumskull_music
https://linktr.ee/drumskull

Smutlee Links:
https://www.instagram.com/smutlee
https://linktr.ee/smutlee

Listen live: www.threadsradio.com
For more shows: @threadsradio

Accelerate w/ Drumskull + Smutlee (*Waltham Forest) - 06-Jun-23

Simon Hafner aka Sun People is well known to fans of fast tempos, having released music on labels such as Exit Records, Rua Sound and Through These Eyes. Hafner presents a wide range of music and guest mixes on his monthly Sub FM radio show and is also releasing music and doing A&R for the label Defrostatica.

His latest cassette on the Guides label, titled Joyful Discontent, is a tribute to minimalism, referencing the works of Frank Bretschneider and Mark Fell. The starting point for this release was a JMT VDR-1 drum synthesizer, characterised by its intuitive aspects, its limited sonic capacities and the challenge to stretch the machine's possibilities. This one instrument informs the structure of the album, fixed in tempo, track and total length. Reducing his tools to a bare minimum, Hafner explicitly refers to specific genre traditions inherent in this radical form. Structurally and sonically, the spirit of clicks & cuts (e.g., Komet’s ‘Rausch’) can be heard, as well as influences from dub, ambient and minimalist drum&bass and footwork.

In his thinking, however, Hafner goes further. The idea of interlocking all the pieces, complementing the overall grid of constraints, provides the frame for a playful exploration. The result was also fuelled by intuitive action, such as when a single gesture and decision changes the direction of a process that takes place in real time. When composing, despite the track’s live act structure, he produced recordings that could function as parts of a jigsaw puzzle that can be rearranged freely in any order, thus opening the way for a reinterpretation of the whole. This is also why the album will be available in two versions, both as a mix of combined tracks, and as eight individual pieces that make up the whole.

Despite so many formal constraints, Joyful Discontent still sounds accessible. The pieces produced by Hafner move in the direction of Mark Fell’s compositional approaches, where music is devoid of evoking emotion, rather, aiming for a neutral and non-imposing environment for the listener. 

Release date: 17.11.2023
Label Guides / Outlines
Cat No: gui006
Format: digital / cassete (editon of 50) 
Mastered by: LXC
Artwork: Marta Sieczkowska

With the kind support of the city of Graz

Sun People - Joyful Discontent (gui006)

Sapyens Records is back after hiatus. 2-tracks ep by London-based 95Bones & MCKNZ.

Early support from Jossy Mitsu, Dusk&Blackdown, Ila Brugal, Martha, A.Fruit etc.

https://sapyensrecords.bandcamp.com/album/witch-no-3-house-of-ziggurat-sapyens018

https://soundcloud.com/95bones
https://soundcloud.com/sapyensrecords

Witch no. 3 / House Of Ziggurat [SAPYENS018] (2023)

PREMIERE: 95Bones & MCKNZ - House Of Ziggurat [Sapyens Records]

Schmeichel (Leipzig, Germany) has teamed up with Shane Lizard (Berlin, Germany) to expand their respective footwork influences. In the process, they have carved out a pulsating, constantly breathing core full of soul beneath ice-cold drum blocks that ultimately seeks resolution on the dance floor. The four songs on the Breath Studies EP reflect breathing techniques for control, support and redemption in interpersonal situations.

out on Bandcamp / everywhere else on 26-01-2024

Schmeichel @schmeichel34
Shane Lizard @shanelizrd

Breath Studies EP

Schmeichel + Shane Lizard - Breath Studies EP previews

Dubix - Sound Therapy Show (Février 2024)

Neida (Février 2024)

Mary Young with a heavy set of 140 bpm sounds in grime & dubstep accompanied with a special guest emcee, the legendary rapper XT aka Ex Tuuttiz! This one's something you don't hear every day!

Mary Young feat. XT @ London Zoo UG

Mues - Drazel invite DJ Skwat (Mars 2024)

Dubrunner continues to shape out a vital, modernist slant on the soundsystem tradition with this second drop on his label Menace. In keeping with the approach set out on 2023’s Ruthless EP, his firm foundation of steppas, dub and digi is a springboard for explorations of broader club styles, taking in elements of breakbeat hardcore, techno and plenty more besides.

Fallen Tree builds on the promise of his debut with four further meditations. Lead single ‘Shangdao’s Revenge’ is a monolithic, moody half-stepper electrified with dub techno chord shimmers and elastic breakbeats, and spaced out with deep wells of atmospheric processing.

‘Fallen Tree’ locks into a tight 4/4 march driven by detailed percussion, with a classic steppas bassline, off-beat chord chops and distant melodica touches paying tribute to hugely influential UK steppas pioneers Alpha & Omega and their apocalyptic cut ‘Ground Is Shaking Dub’. The presence of log drums remind you Dubrunner is bringing his own fusions to the table, drawing on the amapiano explosion as fuel for this hybridised fire.

‘Overruled’ strikes a more forthright, political tone, as Dubrunner foregrounds his values in a fierce statement against the oppressive systems of state control, capitalism and racism. The vocal samples come from Sankara Future Dub Resurgence, whose focus is on Africa’s defiance of its colonial history. The taut, high-definition construction around the message takes its cues from the explosive sonics heard at Darwin’s bassweight REEF sessions in Berlin.

The breakstep lead-in on ‘Pressure’ tells you to prepare for a drum-focused workout, and that’s precisely the approach Dubrunner takes as he chops up the percussion and maintains a light-footed impact in contrast to the broad, cinematic heft of the other tracks on the EP. It’s a potent demonstration of the versatility in the Dubrunner sound, while still maintaining that grounded sense of soundsystem meditation which courses through everything he turns out.

Tracklist: 
A1 Dubrunner - Shangdao’s Revenge
A2 Dubrunner - Fallen Tree
B1 Dubrunner - Overruled
B2 Dubrunner - Pressure

Mastered by Subvert Central
Artwork designed by Alex Kubis

Dubrunner - Pressure

Tensor / Lens out now on all platforms.
2 stripped back percussive tools produced back in April 2022.

Dom Carlo presents Tensor / Lens, the first project of the Bristol producer's new self-released series bringing bass-oriented explorations from the vaults.

Tensor / Lens

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Dom Carlo - Lens

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