November 2020

Artist: Huerta
Title: Dog At Sea
Label: Leizure
Cat No: LZR001
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist:
A1. Ruff Groove
B1. Dog At Sea
B2. Wavy Bro

Following releases on Slow Life, Small Hours, and Slapfunk, Huerta finally takes matters into his own hands with Dog At Sea, a 3-track club record for his new label.

Huerta - Dog At Sea (LZR001)

FUNGIE02 - Fio Fa - Take Off EP (CLIPS)

Preorder digital & vinyl: https://kalaharioystercult.bandcamp.com/album/eversines-plooi-w-oceanic-remix

Discogs: 
https://www.discogs.com/Eversines-RDS-Plooi-12/release/15420267

2019 was the year of breakthrough for Amsterdam-based talent and De Lichting staple Eversines. Continuing on his ascension, we’re chuffed to welcome him to the fold with ‘Plooi’ – a stupendous mini sonic odyssey of sorts, taking us from vaporous skylines to brightly hued seascapes. Both captivatingly melodic and kinetic to the full, the four tracks composing the backbone to Eversines’ new jaunt into elegiac dance territories work their magic in the gap betwixt zen-like atmospherics, velveteen acid, sun-bleached electro and chiseled breaks that step up to the plate.

Whilst the OG version of ‘Plooi’ eases us into a shape-shifting environment, swinging the pendulum between nu-age infused / Sino-flavoured harmonics, lysergic bass phrasing and muscular breaks straight out the UK rave scene’s heyday, the remix from De School resident DJ Oceanic alters the original into a subaquatic dub weapon, navigating its way across frothing and bubbling synth lines to emerge in geysers of thermal bleeping and rhythmic outbursts. A more jacking affair, ‘Efbol’ carves out a lane of its own in between angular techno and playful, retro-laced electronica a la KLF meets James Holden in his ’Idiots Are Winning’ days. Completing the set on a more understated note, ‘Missing’ in collaboration with RDS promises to fill your headspace with thoughts of beauty and quiet. Merging FX-dipped piano chords, laid-back junglism and heavily verbed-out envelopes to form a well unique piece of ambient lushness, Eversines ushers us into a world of vibrant musical rapture, nestling away from standardized tropes and patterned behaviours.

Mastered by Rashad Becker.
Cut at The Exchange.

Eversines - Plooi w/ Oceanic Remix (OYSTER27 - Snippets)

Not for the faint hearted! 150BPM and faster! Featuring happy hardkore, ghetto-tek, deadly acid and seriously serious tekno. Scream if you wanna go faster....we're just keeping ourselves entertained.

Buy here

LUCA LOZANO, MR. HO - "FAST & FURIOUS" EP

For DSD021 we welcome Australia’s @djlifee with his high energy, Hypersonic EP. This EP provides it all, from pumping tech house to 90’s inspired trance, it’s got all those peak time moments covered. 

On the flip side we welcome @adampits and @cl_lit, both providing 2 killer remixes. 

DSD021 - DJ Life

[DSD021] DJ Life - Hypersonic EP (includes remixes from Adam Pits and Ciel)

https://coymixltd.bandcamp.com/album/coy002
https://soundcloud.com/coymixltd

Rising producer Dylan Forbes is up next on Coymix with 4 proggy and trance-licked house anthems, heaving with rapturous melodics, driving atmospherics and relentless build-ups.

𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐅𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 ➟ Dylan Forbes - Soma

Hailing from Melbourne, Australian, Solar Suite delivers the account opener for Echocentric Records' new three-part series titled “Musica Australis Incognita”. The series focuses on showcasing timeless and captivating contemporary electronic music from a new-generation of Aussie producers. While the upcoming instalments will feature music by Point Guard, DJ Life, Rudolf C and PMA, Solar Suite sets the tone with an excellent 4-tracker, including a remix by Kalahari Oyster Cult releasing artist Escape Artist.

Read more: https://liquidyouth.nl/music/premieres/solar-suite-outer-orbit-escape-artists-mix-echocentric 
Buy: https://echocentricrecords.bandcamp.com/album/field-of-view-ep 

https://soundcloud.com/escapeartistaus 
https://soundcloud.com/echocentricrecords 
https://soundcloud.com/solarsuite

Premiere: Solar Suite - Outer Orbit (Escape Artist's Inner Orbit Mix) [Echocentric Records]

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* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/dylan-forbes-closer-coymix-ltd/
* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IDd3c0CVSAM
* Pre-order: https://coymixltd.bandcamp.com/album/coy002

Continuing his hot streak of 2020 releases, Dublin-based producer Dylan Forbes is back with a brand new four-track EP. Dylan’s recent releases have skewed more toward jungle and breakbeat. On this upcoming release via Coymix Ltd, Dylan returns to his house and techno roots, with the A2 track “Closer” being a perfect demonstration of his signature style.



“Closer” is a love letter to that moment on the dance-floor when everything starts coming together, evoking that near-indescribable feeling you get at the start of the night when the club begins to pack up, the punters find their groove, and the DJ slowly builds momentum. The track is built around a four-to-the-floor kick and an understated breakbeat, but these elements soon give way to an electro-tinged lead melody influenced, in equal measure, by old-school trance and current tech-leaning sounds. It feels apt that Dylan draws on these European influences for a release on an up-and-coming label out of Estonia and Finland; doing so whilst channeling the love and passion these electronic styles have always been met with within his native Ireland.

On paper, you would think that the styles Dylan draws from would be at odds with each other. Historically, trance music has always been at its best when it takes you on a bold, overstated journey, while the success of minimal techno and deep tech-house is dependant on the subtlety and nuance of the format. The result here, however, is a roaring success—a dance-floor-ready groove that will have those lucky enough to experience it smiling from ear to ear.

PREMIERE: Dylan Forbes - Closer

STEP01 - Step Ball Chain 
Roza Terenzi - Stylish Tantrum
Pre Order @ One Eye Witness: https://bit.ly/2GZPc4m

A1 Cosmology [6:21]
A2 Stylish Tantrum [7:19]

B1 Chosen Family Feud - Roza Terenzi & D.Tiffany [5:26]
B2 Illusions [5:40]
B3 Sxc Saloon - Roza Terenzi & Saoirse [5:59]

Popping The Cherry of 2020’s latest modern-contemporary record label; Step Ball Chain, is Roza Terenzi with “Stylish Tantrum”. Suggestive title to set the tone; the 5 track EP insisting sharp, sassy, high-tempered bombs with full bodied bounce. Unexpected tempo and timing variations, flared-up bpms, half time drum cuts and slicked modular flourishes, Terenzi’s signature cheek ramps up to an extra twisted club climate, atmospheric and evocative in texture as always. Featuring collaborations with D. Tiffany and Saoirse, the release covers extended dancefloor territory, assertive anthems delivering femme finesse, choreographed to perfection.

The A side fires up with an exuberant 4-by-4-2-the-floor routine, Cosmology. Vocal cuts from the queen Fiorella, billowing bells and dramatic synthetic sweeps to form fluidity over the tight bouncy low end. Whilst flirtatious melodic notions come and go, zip-lock percussion and commanding drumwork hold it down; squeaky steeze not-so-politely letting you know what’s to come. Deceivingly dubwise introductions soon furiously interrupted with Stylish Tantrum. Ricochet rhythms and bone breaking clap backs echo around your head, electrifying percussive fills and vocal spills snatching your attention before the everything glues together vicious harmony, baseline pulsating underneath a whiplash drum display - one for the dangerous deejays.

Chosen Family Feud opens the B side, a collab with seasoned associate @d-tiffany, showing off a bossy stomping brigade. Mumbling voices, waspy sirens and spooked out synth lines haunt the beginnings of the track, stripping back to a bassline breakdown before wailing vocals and clattered percussion take over, cymbals bursting. B2 is a moment to reflect, Illusions brings the energy down, low slung metallic backbeats thrown over encompassing, effortless pads and soaring resonance. The downtempo atmosphere crept up on by a double time d’n’b re-jig, softly gliding in over the growling sub, chopped breaks reflecting and falling. Closing out the record is another joint effort, recorded in Melbourne with @saoirsemusic ; Sxc saloon dashing back to the dancefloor, hot and deep. Throbbing bass married with slick galloping drums, sensuous fleeting whispers looping to draw you into hypnosis before a climactic tempo plummet intended to turn heads.

STEP01 is kicking its heels up, stomping, strutting and trailblazing for what’s to come.

Mixing by Katie Campbell & Thomas McAlister
Mastering by Alden Tyrell 
Cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Artwork by True Tender

Roza Terenzi - Stylish Tantrum (STEP01)

"For DSD021 we welcome Australia’s DJ Life with his high energy, Hypersonic EP. This EP provides it all, from pumping tech house to 90’s inspired trance, it’s got all those peak time moments covered.
On the flip side we welcome Adam Pits and Ciel, both providing 2 killer remixes."

releases November 20, 2020


DJ Life
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/djlifee
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealDJLife

Adam Pits
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/adampits
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdamPitsMusic

Dansu Discs
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dansudiscs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dansudiscs

PREMIERE: DJ Life - White Bricks (Adam Pits' Topsy Turvy Mix) (Dansu Discs)

Hessle Audio welcome @laksauk to the label with three tracks of rowdy and forward-thinking dance music, following his last release on Timedance in September.

On the A-side, ‘Fire Kit’ sees the London-based producer and DJ approaching his sound from a different direction, with dancehall infused percussion offset by enveloping layers of sub-bass warmth at 95bpm. The B side jacks up the tempo with a raucous energy as the temperature drops to below freezing. Basslines rumble in ‘Belly Brocka’ and ‘T’s Tent’ like an approaching storm and snares lash through the mix like ice picks, with the broken rhythmic energy driving the dance forward in 2021 and beyond.

Running the club night and monthly NTS show ‘re:lax’ with re:ni, Laksa has been consistently pushing bass mutations since his early EPs on Beneath’s Mistry label. A Bristol bass bobbler at heart, his hybrid sound has found a home on many respected labels such as Timedance, Ilian Tape and Whities, cementing his place amongst the latest UK talent.

Fire Kit EP

Laksa - Fire Kit [HES039]

Early support from: Josh Wink, Andreas Baumecker, Laurent Garnier, Mark Archer, Chrissy, Ciel, Coco Bryce, Etch, Vladimir Ivkovic, Kamera, Ténèbre, Shedbug, Nick Craddock, Michel De Hey, Mani Festo, Omega III, Klose One, Candy Pollard, Roger 23, Extrawelt, Colin Dale, Doc Scott, Redstone Press + more to follow

Pre-order
Bandcamp: https://kouncilcuts.bandcamp.com/album/potholing-ep
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/label/kouncil-cuts/81573
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/potholing

UK producer BufoBufo (Ritual Poison / Batrachian Records) brings his amphibious sound to the growing Scottish Highland based label. The ‘Potholing’ EP takes its name from the definition of ‘underground cave exploration’, with three original tracks that pull you further into the deep, dark sounds of underground rave.

‘Cave Network’ sets the tone for the EP, immersed in acid-like textures, deep sweeping pads and interchanging breaks rhythms. Second in is ’Giant Antlion’ with cosmic style analog arp’s that lift towards a hefty breaks / bass combo, then ‘Blue Demoiselle’ takes you back to the surface with a rolling breaks number smothered in dreamlike pads and uplifting melodics. London based producer - and Ritual Poison co-runner - Corporeal Face ties the EP up with a phenomenal twist on ‘Cave Network’.

The ‘Patholing’ EP releases on Kouncil Cuts on November 13th.

Cave Network

Bandcamp

KNCL005 | BufoBufo 'Potholing' EP

Stationed in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, rising talent Ed Dix provides a psychedelic ride for the Barcelona-based record label. While the three original mixes our loaded with with deep basslines and acid modulations, the remixes come courtesy of Stevie R & Parisinos and Velmondo. Airing the latter one here today, we see Hivern Discs releasing artist Vemondo keep the acidic vibe of the original 'Halusinasi' and add some fine-tuned quirkiness into the affair. TIP!

Read more: https://liquidyouth.nl/music/premieres/ed-dix-halusinasi-velmondo-remix-playground 
Buy: https://playgroundrecordsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/halusinasi-inc-velmondo-and-stevie-r-parisinos-remixes

https://soundcloud.com/playgroundrecords 
https://soundcloud.com/velmondo 
https://soundcloud.com/ed_dix

Premiere Ed Dix - Halusinasi (Velmondo Remix) [Playground Records]

Full stream of Oceanic's remix of "Plooi" taken from Eversines's upcoming EP on Kalahari Oyster Cult, out November 15.

More: www.orbmag.com/music/

@oceanicocean
@kalaharioystercult
@eversines

Plooi

Listen more

Premiere: Eversines - Plooi (Oceanic Remix)

PREORDER:
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/13051/s/peace-tranquility/

DIGITAL:
https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/e00-peace-tranquility


@eva00

Two years ago, the Paris-based producer and DJ E00 released an EP called Do Not Visit The Club. It’s a cheeky title for this artist’s output of dreamy, driving, floor-stirring work—however, in 2020, it bears an entirely different reading.
 
Today, we simply and definitively do not visit the club—the ethics of sharing sweat, spit and space have radically shifted. We miss it for the social effervescence, for the bullshit, most of all for the dancing—which begs the question: what does it mean to release dance music in this moment? To listen to tracks and dance in one’s kitchen is an act of memorial, and although a bit mournful, is also a kind of spiritual respiration: we need it. Rightfully so, E00’s drop on Radiant Love, coming out on the tail-end of this nightmarish year, is titled Peace & Tranquility. 
 
The title track, which opens the release, starts off not with a bang but some kind of thrust: a low note felt in the gut, echoing and loopy chimes, and right away a drum pattern driving us forward. Over the next 8-plus minutes, some horizon-wide pads come into the mix, as well as a shuffling bass-line that speaks directly to the ass. Balancing the A-side is “Flexible Ground”—a downtempo ride awash in white noise and distended vocal samples that give a nod to Deep Forest. It’s a textured, complex sonic surface, with some particularly gorgeous processing of the drums—characteristic of E00, the hi-hat loop becomes a kind of expressive instrument that gets turned, tweaked, and filtered as the rest of the track rolls on.
 
“Biosphere” sets the B-side in motion with canopy birdcall and some ruminating pads; we get one bar of straight 4/4 kicks, and then the structure begins to play, evolve. Starting with those distinctive phase-shifted hi-hats, we work our way into a terrain of barking dogs, delicate piano lines, and even a clever drum-break so tastefully cloaked in reverb. Closing the EP is “Parade”, whose first minute and a half has all the makings of a low-tempo trance track: a punchy kick-drum marching along at 134 BPM, a dry clap and a hi-hat marking the off-beats. Before long, E00 pulls us back into the lush and syncopated world built up through the past three tracks. It’s hard to find a better word than ‘dreamy’—although we won’t simply be jolting awake from the terror of 2020, Peace & Tranquility is a welcome instance of lightness in this year. And I imagine it will be stirring up the dance floors when we visit them once again.

E00.
Title: PEACE & TRANQUILITY
Cat: RADIANTLOVE003
Format: 12”
Distributed: RUBADUB
Artwork: BYRON YEATES
Text: NAT MARCUS
Release date: ~soon~

E00 - PEACE & TRANQUILITY

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-human-movement-waiting-d-tiffany-remix/ 

Sydney-based label @Of-Leisure have recruited Canadian dancemaster @D-Tiffany for a remix of Human Movement's track 'Waiting'.

Human Movement - Waiting (D. Tiffany Remix) [Of Leisure]

Preorder Vinyl & Digital via Bandcamp: https://kalaharioystercult.bandcamp.com/album/furious-frank-trip-2-fantasy-w-ludwig-a-f-remix

One Eye Witness: https://one-eye-witness.com/release/16200797/Furious-Frank-Trip-2-Fantasy

Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/16200797


@ludwig-roehrscheid
@furiousfrank

 Kalahari Oyster Cult welcomes another from down under, Furious Frank with his very own Trip 2 Fantasy via OYSTER28. Three OG acid-licked club-ready rollers from the Australian 303-connoisseur plus a bonus destruction mix from trusted Frankfurt associate Ludwig A.F. 

A1 Existential Crisis, aka the current natural state of the world, sparks fly with flanged percussion springing between damaging drum work, making space for the juicy acid evolution. The journey develops to include dystopian stuttered vocals, glistening bells and pads to form a melancholic driver. 

Continue the mood, elastic processed rhythms roll and dip for the A2 Artificial Simulation, robotic mechanism holding hands with the heavenly, dream state timbre, fluttered and full of melodic resonance. 

The title track on the B1, Trip 2 Fantasy opens bold and brave, a punishing bass line and commanding claps, hot syncopation aimed for bodies moving. Thundering toms run stealthily underneath an ascending motif of delicate synthesis. “Join Me in my Dreams, My Trip to Fantasy” echoing out in seductive bliss over the driving undergrowth. 

The record is rounded off with an even deeper, throbbing rejig of the former from none other than Ludwig A.F. The “Floor destruction” mix isn’t coy about its intentions, risers, diced vocals and anticipation through the roof. 

A record ready to explode, whenever and wherever that may be.

Furious Frank - Trip 2 Fantasy w/ Ludwig A.F. Remix (OYSTER28 - Snippets)

https://soundcloud.com/pillow-queen

https://one-eye-witness.com/release/1601908562/Pillow-Queen-Burn-Me-Up-12%22

Type “Was Joan of Arc” into Google and the suggested endings for this statement give you an accurate gauge of her place in pop culture: “Catholic” / “a nun” / “canonised” / “a prophet” / “French” / “a witch” and so on. Related questions to “What were Joan of Arc’s last words” on the info-sharing site Quora include “Was Joan of Arc bisexual” and “Was Joan of Arc simply crazy?” Everyone seems to agree this person was burned at the stake in 1431, but beyond that, Joan’s narrative is an enigma. It is this lack of definition that the production duo Pillow Queen harnessed for their second release, Burn Me Up. Inverting the image of the devout Christian girl, the Joan who stands as this record’s heroine was a heretic, a transvestite, most definitely a dyke and a hot femme-top at that. 
 
Opening up the A-side, the title track is a call— a battle cry, but also a summoning. In a time of need one calls upon their patrons and elders from history; a DJ beckons and gathers dancers to the floor; prayer and sweat go hand and hand. A traditional Irish bodhrán drum beats out the first rhythms, joined by a steamy vocal sample that gets caught, chopped, and soon “Burns Me Up” is pumping along with organ chords and distorted keys. Pivoting away from the 4/4 format, “Submission” is a textured, downtempo slowburner, with close-mic’d vocals from Vani-T and the D. Tiffany’s deft drum programming. When the choral pads come in, there’s en echo of the 1990s German worldbeat project Enigma, with its Gregorian chants and flutes laid on top of lounge beats—here, though, the chorus is stripped of kitsch, only driving the track deeper into a mood. 
 
If Burn Me Up’s sequence of tracks is read as a kind of narrative, they seem to tell the story of Joan’s last moments. “Burn Me Up” is, frankly, heat—aggressive, the high-end crackles and the bass puts a pyre under one’s feet. “Submission” is like an exhale, a giving-in to death’s grip; there is, along with the sensuous tread, a melancholy. It only makes sense that one flips the record to “Resurrection”, which rolls in a tremolo’d wail of pitched vocals for 30 seconds before a kick drum begins the 141-BPM march. The percussion is central here, as the track shifts between polyrhythms like a range of resuscitations, varied heartbeats. “Salvation” closes the record, again dialing back the tempo to the deep nod of dub. To no surprise, the scene of redemption here is not one of sunlit cherubs—the church bell sample tolls one strike every few measures of bass-throb and shadow, while Vani-T intones, “Then he lay down and died”. Death can be salvation to some; living as many selves, living in contradiction, is a saving grace to many more.

Pillow Queen "Burns Me Up"
Cat: DR001
Format: 12”
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Artwork by Tori & Sophie
Words: Nat Marcus
Preorder: now
Release date: 08.12.2020

Pillow Queen - Burns Me Up       [DR001]

Various Artists - DKMNTL x PATTA 12 - Dekmantel (DKMNTLxPATTA 12)

a1. upsammy - Translucent Edges
a2. RAFF - Disparate Fragments
a3. Darling - Japanter
b1. Zohar - Minor Discomfort
b2. Animistic Beliefs - Save Aru Islands
b3. Ranie Ribeiro - Junee

Digital: dekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/dkmntl-x-patta-12
Vinyl + Merch: https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/dekmantel-x-patta-2020

On November 26th, we are happy to unveil the sixth in our annual series of collaborations with friends and Amsterdam streetwear icons Patta. This year's drop features six items of clothing and a compilation with new music from upcoming Netherlands producers Animistic Beliefs, RAFF, Zohar, upsammy and Ranie Ribeiro & Darling. Vinyl copies are available only with each merchandise item from the collection, and digital copies can be pre-ordered only from Bandcamp.

The focus here is on exciting emerging talents from our home country, and first up is Dekmantel regular and unconventional soundsmith upsammy with the hiccuping rhythms and refracted melodies of 'Translucent Edges.' Clone employee and exciting next gen talent RAFF follows with the drilling bass and funky drums of 'Disparate Fragments', enigmatic Safe Trip associate Darling layers up hyperspeed kicks and soothing melodies on 'Japanter' and Amsterdam's foremost low frequency and heavy bass specialist Zohar brings real menace on 'Minor Discomfort.' Spellbinding Rotterdam live duo Animistic Beliefs weave dark and mangled synths into their industrial-techno offering 'Save Are Islands', while Ranie Ribeiro (fka D. Ribeiro) brings his harp playing skills, soul-driven keys and live percussion to the bright, bristling and broken beats of closer 'Junee.'

@upsammy @animisticbeliefs @zohar01 @raff_ak @ribeirosfate @ddaarrlliinngg

DKMNTL x PATTA 2020: upsammy / Animistic Beliefs / RAFF / Zohar / Ranie Ribeiro / Darling

@liquidearthmusic

https://smallhoursberlin.bandcamp.com/

November 2020

Sean Jukes