'IT WAS ALWAYS THERE vol 2'

It Was Always There vol 2

Destrata - Bait & Switch

Toma Kami returns to Livity Sound for a third EP of provocative, experimental club gear. At the helm of his own Man Band label the French producer continues to explore a hybridised style which favours fractured beats, playful samples and occasional psychedelic flourishes.

Compared to the busier sound of previous releases, minimalism informs Toma’s approach on LIVITY053 as he sits his crunchy drums and weighty low-end in a tangibly spacious mix on ‘Amapicante’. Even within a stripped-down context, his unique approach shines through as ‘Later To The Bone’ progressively ramps up in scratched and scuffed sonic interference and ‘Mzecal’ trips over its own fragmented found-sound drum formations.

Livity Sound is a label set up by Peverelist in 2011 as a vehicle for a raw and exploratory strain of UK techno, rooted in the heritage of UK dance music and sound system culture. It has since become one of the UK's foremost protagonists for cutting edge underground electronic music.

Amapicante EP

Amapicante

Toma Kami - Amapicante

@SisterZo stitches UK funky, two-step and techno with a personal touch on her debut EP for Martyn’s @3024world label

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-sister-zo-afraid-2-make-move

Freak Shift

Premiere: Sister Zo ‘Afraid 2 Make a Move’

Fresh from the milestone of their 10th release, Kindergarten Records keep their foot on the gas with another collection of percussive sorcery from label stalwart Despina. A titanic clash of the organic and the synthetic, ‘Gravity Games’ crashes about with gleeful abandon, guided by an unrelenting intensity and the sense that every space should be filled, every sense overloaded. Within these tracks respite is rare: precious gasps for air never far ahead of a tumbling return to neurological bombardment. ‘Skin Psychic’ is a tightly-wound, halftime stepper with glimmers of sweetness buried amidst its grotesque, heaving mass.

@despinadespina
@kindergartenrecords

Buy:
https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-games

Gravity Games

PREMIERE: Despina - Skin Psychic [Kindergarten Records]

PREMIERE of ''Crystal Wavelets'' by Mechanoreceptor, taken from Neuro-Sonic Transduction, available May 9th via Posse Up.

''Sonic data are rich tapestries of multi-dimensional spectral information. Three small bronze structures operate in orchestral fashion to transduce sound to subsequent stages of analysis. Neuro-Sonic Transduction recounts this phenomenon - the mechanical reception of sound.''

Buy: https://posseup.bandcamp.com/album/neuro-sonic-transduction

Mechanoreceptor
@mmechanoreceptor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mechanoreceptor_

POSSE UP!
@posseup
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ANGELS GUN CLUB
@angelsgunclub
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Bandcamp: https://angelsgunclub.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/artist/1RJN0WkFyhMMr10S6szS4o
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@angelsgunclub
Telegram: https://t.me/angelsgunclub

Mechanoreceptor - Crystal Wavelets [Posse Up!]

Thoden - Huey

@porterbrook's track 'To Remain Undivided' will be released on 'EM002' through @electromngr on April 2nd. More Info: https://bit.ly/BrookPrem

'EM002' includes the following tracks:

Porter Brook - Present Tense
Porter Brook - Linear Entry To Cyclical Thought
Porter Brook - Fwd
Porter Brook - To Remain Undivided
Porter Brook - Present Tense (De Grandi Remix)

EM002

Porter Brook - To Remain Undivided

[PNL004]

Sydney based duo, JV & Palf, join the Panel Audio family with their latest record ‘T4’. 

With four club-ready tracks, the Australians expose the listener to high energy driven drumlines. The label have pressed the EP to 180gr heavyweight vinyl, witha very limited run of 100 which is ready for pre-order.

Support has already come in from Re:ni / Laksa, Mr. Mitch, DJ Plead, Yak, LCY and many more.

[PNL004] JV & Palf - T4

@laksauk's ever-developing sound reaches new heights on his latest EP for Timedance Sen On One. South London dub pressure is fused with nimble drum work over four diverse and physical beat science experiments.

Artwork by Jo Minor

Sen On One

Laksa - FWD Ghosts

buy there : https://kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fluo-i

https://soundcloud.com/kindergartenrecords returns with a VA full of depraved glamour and malicious intent, welcoming back https://soundcloud.com/drvmmy and Despina with a pair of unholy club-movers ready to put the fear into any dance, while Italian duo Train to Eltanin make their first appearance on the label with a mangled stomper that splutters with chaotic energy. As for Ma Sha Ru, Taiga is the most accomplished use of Masha’s vocals to date, cocooning them in a tempestuous barrage of pulsating bass and a swirling, kinetic drive.

Newcomers Train to Eltanin are co-founders of the Cyberspeak Collective in Milan. Just in their early 20s, their contribution, Bambam speaks to a prodigious talent, taking a starting point almost reminiscent of 90s big beat before ripping it to shreds immediately, squeezing every ounce of freakiness from it’s bizarre vocal snippet and contorting the track beyond any recognition.

Drummy and Despina, featured on KINDER002 and KINDER003 respectively, double down on this atmosphere. The former, having shown already his penchant for the sinister, evokes the spooky raison d'etre of its namesake in RL STINE, and builds a shuffling stepper over PS2 squeaks, and a gargling broth of bass and taught drum hits. Despina meanwhile delves into disarray with Entropics, named for “the tendency of a system to go from a state of order to one of chaos.” The result is two build-ups for maximum tension, broken with two break-neck plunges into the abyss and a cataclysmic flurry of knotty beats and bottomless subs.

Fluo I

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

PREMIERE : Drummy - R L STINE

Scuffed Recordings line up the fifth release in the Scuffed Presents compilation series, looking ahead to 2021 with four new artists to the label, and sounds ranging from broken bass, UK garage, rave-inspired breaks, and rolling techno.

Opening the release is Austrian producer @awo_ojiji, a longstanding member of the Graz-based collective Disko404 who released his debut ‘Static Flow’ EP in 2020 on Eternal Ocean. His unique interpretation of broken, bass-led techno on ‘Woozy’ marks him out as an artist to watch in 2021.

Mixed by Zanshin.

Buy:
https://scuffedrecs.bandcamp.com/album/scuffed-presents-005

Scuffed Presents 005

Awo Ojiji - Woozy

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Demos/bookings/enquiries: scuffedrecs@gmail.com

Ran by @wagerdj and @definitepartymaterial.

Distributed by !K7

Awo Ojiji - Woozy

Scuffed Recordings

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