dadan karambolo  - benny harvey miss ye big man

Artist: Low End Activist
Title: Hostile Utopia
Label: Sneaker Social Club
Cat No: SNKRLP009
Release Date: 14th June

Casting a self-reflexive lens over his roots via the medium of crushing, future-rushing soundsystem sonics, Low End Activist returns to Sneaker Social Club with a full-length of monumental proportions.

When the Low End Activism 12” ignited on Sneaker in 2019, it paid tribute to the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, UK, where LEA originates from. In the shadow of social inequality and strengthened by the unity of the multi-ethnic community, Blackbird Leys still imposes a powerful influence on LEA’s work, even as he’s stepped out onto Seagrave for last year’s Game Theory album and notched up the first couple of releases on his own self-titled label.

On this new album, Hostile Utopia sums up the conflicting emotions attached to memories of home – how it’s possible to feel nostalgic for the griminess of urban and suburban Britain, its ordinary tales of bitterness and frustration, but also its intrinsic passion and solidarity. At a time when social division is actively engineered by Machiavellian forces, real conviviality at street level feels like an impossible dream.

LEA communicates these tensions through a style which is becoming his signature – dynamic bass torsion and chiseled, fractalised rhythms slugging around the 130 mark. It’s moody like a UK-themed record ought to be, but it’s not morose. There’s fierceness in every snap and rumble, as the legacies of hardcore, jungle, dubstep and grime pour into the casing prior to the gunpowder lighting.

On previous LEA releases, the MC roll call has pointed to some of the most vital voices touching the mic in the present day. Flowdan, Sikka Rymes and Trim all had something different to impart over the riddims, and now Hostile Utopia expands on that with the most extensive show of lyrical strength yet. Mez lights up the woozy, abstract grime swerve of ‘Mercenary’ in a musical style. Emz brings a ruthlessly sharp verbal steez to ‘GetGet’, Killa P gets busy toasting over ‘DFRNT STYLE’ and ‘Superhighway’ carries the dexterous hip-hop flow of Cadence Weapon.

In between those standout tracks, LEA expresses just as much in the production. Tracks brimming with stories to impart, laden with symbols masquerading as samples and draped in aural garb that firmly places Hostile Utopia in a place, a mood, that could only belong to the UK. It’s a hybrid sound just like the society it sprang from, and therein lies its power.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Collage by Clayton Burke
Design by DR.ME

Hostile Utopia

Korzi - Brain Zaps EP [Showreel | Out Now]

In anticipation of his forthcoming EP drop on WORSHIP, Bloodhound joined us for this month's show on 1020. Feeding off the energy of the highly popular track 3, Djum, this mix sees an hour of dark and skeletal drum & bass and jungle with a strong focus on atmospheres and stripped back beats instead of heavy dancefloor-guided basslines.

The EP drops in less than a week from now. Pre-order it here: https://worshipbristol.bandcamp.com/album/worshipleft001

WORSHIP w/ Bloodhound - 1020 Radio 28/08/2022

Extract from VA - Untitled Vol.  1
Out September 16 on Bandcamp and Beatport, September 30 everywhere.
Buy: https://eyesome.bandcamp.com/album/united-vol-1

Artist: @ladame1
Label: @eyesomecollective

[Premiere] La Dame - I Like Those (out on Eyesome)

Forthcoming on Bone Idle, Korzi's new label.

Label: @boneidleuk
Artist: @korzi_uk

Brain Zaps EP

[Premiere] Korzi - There In Five (out on Bone Idle)

Kem Ra - Subtle Radio - 29/11/2022

Out January 27 on "Glass Bugz".

Artist: @zonaemusic
Label: @lucidjuicemcr

[Premiere] Zonae - Crystalised (out on Lucid Juice)

Guest mix by @flore (Polaar, Lyon)

Sun People mix w/ music by:
Dylan Henner, Laima Adelaide, Al Wootton, Last Life, Toupaz, Drexell, Pariah, DL/MS, Shxcxchcxsh, MoMA Ready, Shackleton, Pev & Kowton / Pangaea, RDS, Pessimist, Aa Sudd, AceMoMa, Vril & Rodhad, Forest Drive West, Theater 1, Metafloor / Greazus, My Nu Leng / Ohare, Lemma1, Seventh Heaven, OpenEnd, EQ Why

Listen to the show:
Thursdays // four-weekly on Sub.FM // 5pm-7pm (CET)(Live)
Fridays // bi-weekly on Radio Helsinki // 22h-24h (CET)(rerun)
Thursdays // bi-weekly on Radio Helsinki // 13h-15h (CET)(rerun)

Send promos & dubs: simonoff(at)friendlypressure.com
Download the show via: archive.sub.fm/?s=Sun+People&submit=

Flore // Sun People - 12/01/23 - SUB FM

out February 16 on YUKU.
Buy: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/sinking

Artist: @fiestasoundsystem
Label: @yukumusic

Sinking

[Premiere] Fiesta Soundsystem - IR cursive crud bible (out on YUKU)

Payin' Top Dolla - Bassline Drop

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SSS Crew: @backgroundsounds / @pasci-hi / @idris-ght / @fluidmatter / @drazel / @clemseg  / @marco-kabbale

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