06. Estiva - Alive (Extended Mix)

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@hokkaido-dance-club: A label not a disco on a north Japanese island, is helmed by Jordan Saxton (aka @Viers & @leekonitz) and Joe Sagar  - two pals from Leeds with a dirty habit of unearthing a gem. HDC have been somewhat quiet of late. Their most recent release being early 2017 from label honcho Viers; a sumptuous offering which left HDC fans all Oliver Twist - begging for more of that tasty metaphorical audio gruel. If you don't have a bowl yet - get one.

When we first heard this - it's safe to say we were a little surprised (pleasantly of course). Part of HDC's legacy has been their contributions towards the dance floor - four/four lead post 12am heaters. Medrea's (https://soundcloud.com/medreadj) 'Untitled' and this features Premiere kicks the record off as it means to go on - maintaining Hokkaido's gritty aesthetic with about as much saturation as the fat content in the porkiest of pies, yet veering (no pun intended) away from the hallmark stonk. Broken beats combining and interacting with etheral strokes and mechanistic hues throughout make for an immersive and entrancing listening experience. In more simple terms - imagine PS1's Duke Nukem gliding his pixely fingers across a Roland D-50 as part of a dystopian future-soul band. Still not with us? Just listen - s'good.

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PREMIERE: Medrea - Untitled [Hokkaido Dance Club]

@trudged embarks on the tenth expedition into the exotic lands of palm trees and blue skies with the infectiously moody ‘Negative Spaces’ EP. 

Expedition ten features four jams packed full of broken drum sequences, dreamy pads and scorching acid basslines.

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Negative Spaces EP

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PALMS010 // Trudge - Negative Spaces EP

Now we bring you a fresh cut from Joakim Hellgren. His track "Arrrpfaded" is a tasty house number that's included on the inaugural VA EP from the up and coming Monoground label. The tune is ripe with feeling. Slow moving pads, spiked synth leads, plenty of low-end rumble and thump, and a pleading vocal sample are all plentiful here. It's familiar and fresh all at once. You'll definitely be coming back to this one again and again. Release Date: December 15th
https://monoground.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-yours

Joakim Hellgren:
@joakimhellgren

Monoground:
@monoground

LIFE IS YOURS EP

*Premiere* Joakim Hellgren - Arrrpfaded

@toorough4radio is a “hazy, chicken wings on wax, tape and digital" label helmed by @en_rico_tr4r and @florianstuetzer and based between Berlin and Haldensleben, Germany. A home for a multitude of up-and-coming acts, for their latest V/A package they call on an array of fledgling producers, each of whom puts in an impressive shift here. Clued-in sounds for clued-in heads, this is a release that fans of discerning house are sure to lap up, with TR4R 02 featuring no less than 6 producers and friends of the label. 

At only 19 years old, @huhany is by some distance the youngest producer involved here. Based in Bonn, Germany, he’s an architecture student, drum player and bass player whose contribution here is nothing if not an auspicious one. ‘Refuel’ brings matters to deep and dark territory in a manner akin to celebrated veterans of the scene such as Jus Ed or Patrice Scott. A steeling baseline is paired with some clever drumwork here on a track that’s both haunting and beguiling at the same time. Seriously triumphant stuff, this is impressively sophisticated stuff from a producer who still hasn’t reached his 20th birthday. 

Pre-order: 
Lobster Records: bit.ly/2Lj7VcR 
Bandcamp: bit.ly/2GPuMXZ 
Decks: bit.ly/2VrcvKt 
Deejay: bit.ly/2UTBwcm 
Clone: bit.ly/2GYhFow 
Redeye Records: bit.ly/2vxroeT

PREMIÈRE: Hany - Refuel

Super Dimanche Records : 
https://soundcloud.com/superdimancherecords

Leyzerowitz :
https://www.facebook.com/Leyzerowitz/
https://soundcloud.com/leyzerowitz

PREMIERE: Leyzerowitz - Year 2020 (Lofi Edit) [Super Dimanche Records]

"Fashion Is Your Profession" EP by @MRAMORA //our mate Rodion (aka mramora) makes respectable sound for respectable people (aka "солидный саунд для солидных господ"), in a word - monolithic and groovy house sounding, EP offers us a melancholic variation on the theme of modern deep thought-provoking sounding.

01 Mramora - Dark Passion
02 Mramora - Fashion Is Your Profession
03 Mramora - Next Day

More:
www.instagram.com/mra_mora

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/38ZMuWeglDL5Wd64uzhXDI

Bandcamp support

Mramora - Next Day [Welofi]

ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE MARSHA P. JOHNSON INSTITUTE

The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) protects and defends the human rights of BLACK transgender people. We do this by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting our collective power.

We intend to reclaim Marsha P. Johnson and our relationship as BLACK trans people to her life and legacy. It is in our reclaiming of Marsha that we give ourselves permission to reclaim autonomy to our minds, to our bodies, and to our futures.  We were founded both as a response to the murders of BLACK trans women and women of color and how that is connected to our exclusion from social justice issues, namely racial, gender, and reproductive justice, as well as gun violence.

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Jacopo SB - We Don't Talk

PREMIÈRE: null_user - slow_wav

Bristol based independent record label since 2015.
www.shallnotfade.co.uk

PALMS010 // Trudge - Negative Spaces EP

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