July 2020

The B1 of PHZ003. 

All music by DJ Life.
Graphic Design by Balcony. 
https://www.studiobalcony.com/

Bandcamp - https://potatoheadz.bandcamp.com/album/phz003-biophilia
Juno - https://bit.ly/2AayQml
Redeye - https://bit.ly/30owWct
OYE - https://bit.ly/3dQGAIy
Decks - https://bit.ly/3fcwS3M
Deejay - https://bit.ly/3cIBTzi
Coldcutshotwax - https://bit.ly/2AkQTGn
Groovedis - https://bit.ly/2MMFvpq

Biophilia

PHZ003

DJ Life - Lightning Ridge

Lou Karsh returns to X-Kalay after a 2 year hiatus with the interplanetary "Lifeforms" EP. Four cuts of trademark acid, breaks and electronica >:^)

Pre order: https://bit.ly/2YsdzgY

Available 14th September 2020

@loukarsh

Buy 12"

XK021 | Lou Karsh - Lifeforms

@jurango attempts to bridge a gap between his West Indian and UK roots on new @resourcesmusic release 'Rift'.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/jurango-before-meander

Rift EP

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Premiere: Jurango - Before Meander

Klasse Wrecks co-boss and Hong Kong citizen Mr. Ho links up with South Korean and Seoul based producer Mogwaa over international waters for the ‘義理’ EP. Baile Funk drums mix with moody deepness on ‘Bail-E!’ whilst vivid and dreamy 909 electro is captured on ‘Hustler’s Billiard’, demented acid breaks on ‘Conquest’ and angry and distorted funk lets loose ‘DistFreestyle’. The four tracker makes for a varied and sonically diverse EP that conjures and distills the two producers various influences perfectly.

Buy vinyl and digital

WRECKS030 - MR. HO + MOGWAA - ‘義理’ EP

ORDER:
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/hacking-the-planet-ep
https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/bliss-inc-hacking-the-planet

@bliss_inc
@sunnysibar

There is not much information to be found online about Bliss Inc., whose Hacking the Planet EP comes out on Radiant Love this summer. Beyond the fact they’re named Alexander and hail from Saint Petersburg, the project is cryptic – somehow this is fitting for a set of songs that could’ve fallen out of an obscure 1994 catalogue. This is the year of Robert Leiner’s Visions of the Past, Opus III’s Guru Mother, and Paul Oakenfold’s BBC-1 Essential Mix: an aesthetic region in which tech and new age spirituality braid together, a time before this synthesis reached Silicon Valley; while it still lingered in the rave, incredibly sincere, everything sounded kind of wet, and the efficiency of spirit was means to no end but a state of bliss.

What keeps Hacking the Planet from falling into pure nostalgia is its tuning – the palette of 1994 has been lifted and run through a delicate sensibility. The title track is a piece of buoyant, airy trance, with orbiting filters and a set of loopy, very vocal synths. It bumps along at 130 BPM, but feels slower because of the ease and clarity with which the track progresses. “Infinite” has got the aquatic motifs and soft, panning cymbals of a set-opener, or a comedown jam. The break that swings in after a minute-thirty feels less like a punctuation than another stream of sonics joining the flow. Picking up the pace a little, “Transitions” opens with a whir that could issue from a field of crickets or a stack of hardware. The entrance of the bassline was the first moment in this EP one could call nasty. But its drive and weight is also tempered, played against by a clever drum break, a run of piano keys, and the ethereal reverb-washed vocal sample we expect in a piece of classic mid-90’s trance – absent, however, is any kind of signalling to Goa, “exoticism” or indigenous aesthetics. (1994 was also the year of Jean Paul Gaultier’s Les Tatouages collection, which, for all its romantic nomadism and deft tailoring and syncretic spirit, has no need of a 2020 update).

Bliss Inc.’s songs stream, rather than track – one gets a sense that the elements flow in and out rather than ride a structure. Sansibar, who provides a remix of “Hacking the Planet” to round out the EP, is solidly a producer of tracks: often electro-derived ass-shaking material that hits, and hits in recognisable sections that progress serially. His version of the title cut brings in a hefty acid baseline, jungle-style stretched vocals, and kicks out of the 4/4 grid. But let there be no mistake, this is a producer also quite capable of coaxing delicacy out of hardware. The chimes of the lullaby-like breakdown halfway through the remix sound like nothing but a ghost in the machine.

BLISS INC.
Title: HACKING THE PLANET
Cat: RADIANTLOVE002
Format: 12”
Distributed: RUBADUB
Artwork: BYRON YEATES
Text: NAT MARCUS
Release date: 24.08.20

BLISS INC. - HACKING THE PLANET

Kerne is a new imprint from Århus. 
First release is a VA.
3 bass-heavy tunes from @perkopair, N-Vert and DJ I.D.
Out now (july 2020).
Visit www.safedist.ro if you're interested in a copy.

KERNE VOLUME 1 by Perko, N-Vert & DJ I.D (Snippets)

O.G Ghettotech
buy > https://casavoyager.bandcamp.com/album/original-not-crispy
@detroitsfilthiest
distributed by @clone-distribution

TWR05 - DETROIT'S FILTHIEST - ORIGINAL NOT CRISPY

Release date: 07/08/2020

Pre order here: https://bit.ly/3j4xL0T

A1. Breaka - Loose Subs
A1. Guava - Outerbody Innerspace
A1. Lrds - Quanda
A1. Dawn Razor - Be As One 1

After the success of the first Slam Jams last year it seemed like an obvious shout to return for a second trip round the mulberry bush. This edition has two label stalwarts Breaka and Guava in fine form, slamming it and jamming it till the cows come home. Coming in at 160bpm Loose Subs is also the first track on the label to start reaching the lofty heights that all you nasty speed freaks are after. Outerbody Innerspace takes the tempo back down but in no way takes the foot off the pedal. Freaky deaky shit from start to finish.

On the second A side it is time to bring a couple new faces into the fold. Lrds from North London sent me through this absolute steam roller of a demo and it just felt so god damn right. This tune was destined for Holding Hands the second it was bounced out of his computer. Finally the man from Russia Dawn Razor comes correct with one of the deepest but certainly also one of the fattest tracks I’ve had the pleasure of releasing on the label. It’s a proper pleasure to put out a track from him as he was one of the first people to start sending me demos when the label started a few years ago. It takes a serious wallop fest of a track to cut it’s way through all the noise and this spicy number achieves that before it’s even got out of bed in the morning. Fair fuckin’ play mate.

@breakaleeds
@guavanoise
@lrdsldn
@awnazor

Slam Jams Vol.2

HHANDS013 - Slam Jams Vol.2 (Clips)

https://soundcloud.com/cl_lit
https://soundcloud.com/d-tiffany
https://soundcloud.com/ludwig-roehrscheid
https://soundcloud.com/adampits

PRE ORDER
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/12212/s/faerie-stomp/

PE012 is a label friends & family junction, a 12” summoning the distant yearning of otherworldly sonic release. Ciel and D. Tiffany unite as new collaboration Psychedelic Budz, long time friends who share a mutual affinity for prog and a desire for elevated states; offering Faerie Stomp, it’s internal reworking plus remixes from Ludwig A.F. and Adam Pits. The aural synergy of the record is laced throughout, tripped out spooky tech-trance, evocative dark imagery conjured at different speeds and energies. Like most of the Planet Euphorique catalogue, these tracks can duly be heard echoing throughout the night sky through forest or bush, as bodies flicker and move in hypnotized, unleashed states. 

The A side; the Origin Mix of Faerie Stomp and the Enchanted Mix by the Psychedelic Budz themselves sets the tone; tweaked atmospherics and field recordings, scurrying textures creating rhythmic collage. Drama and tension build through drones and bubbling 303 lines, villainous cackling and delay consuming the introduction in anticipation as the track develops into a stomping four to the floor promenade. Snares roll and chop in dizziness, encouraging your surrender to the lucid melodic synth lines, twirling in transfixion. The alternative mix could almost fit entwined into the original, slightly murked and more rhythmically rigid with metallic snares cutting through the denser timbre. Overall an expanded aura and creative opportunity for the deejays and those inhibiting dance space. 

Flip to the B side for the remixes, firstly Ludwig A.F.’s Haunted rendition. Keeping the eerie attitude in check he morph’s Faerie Stomp into a bombastic bass heavy club anthem, playing with build ups and stripping back elements for effect, the track is always propelling forward, shuffling shakers and scratches making it impossible not to move with it. Adam Pits also maintains the essence of the original whilst offering a whole new translation for his Undergrowth Mix, gargling baselines and whip crack percussion - buckle up for a hard and fast trip to new heights. Sweet relief is brought from floating stabs and melodic subtlety, softer break chops rolling over the brutal low end before the end of the record dissolves down to the encompassing swirling modulation and charging drum work. 

Four different devilish dance workouts for this unprecedented time. The power lies in the mesmerization. Lose yourself to the supernatural environment in the sonic texture.

Psychedelic Budz
Title: Faerie Stomp
Cat: PE012
Format: 12”
Distributed by Rubadub
Artwork by Logan Sturrock
Words: Katie Campbell
Preorder: July 21, 2020
Release date: August 3, 2020

July 2020

Sean Jukes