Breakbaby

Volen from LA threw down some amazing old school deep house vibes in Selector Records in Seattle, delighting us with so many forgotten classics and rare house gems. With an upcoming EP on Artgang coming out in 2022 and a recent vinyl release on UFO Series, keep an eye out for him playing records and spreading positive vibes through his dope music selections! Huge shoutout to Makes Me Human of Seattle for getting Volen up here to rock Kremwerk, and getting him to play at the shop, much love!!!

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Volen Live @ Selector Records Seattle

RELEASE DATE Digital + Vinyl 26/01/2018

Yaleesa Hall is back on his home label Will & Ink with two EPs in quick succession. After releasing his debut album in 2016 this is the first solo output from the Amsterdam based producer on the label. This first EP is entitled Zoe Hayley Laura and features a trio of tracks that melt electro, techno and broken beats in arresting ways. Opening up the EP is Zoe Price, a silky electro track with shooting synths and big downward bass strikes that add real depth. It's a urgent and arresting affair to wake up the floor. Hayley Roach then has much more forceful drums that come in one two punch combinations to the gut. Synths writhe and gurgle up top as pads rise up and down the scale and the whole thing is brilliantly large. Laura Pomeroy then rocks back and forth on its heels, with train track like percussion and malfunctioning machine stabs. It’s a real tussle between different elements and locks you right in as a result. Once again then, the irrepressible Yaleesa Hall leads from the front.

Zoe Hayley Laura

Yaleesa Hall - Zoe Price (WNK012)

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Festivus season is upon us (Seinfeld fans, you know what we’re talking about) and it seems like good tunes are snowing here at Bolting Bits HQ. The Glasgow crew behind Craigie Knowes is full speed these last months. Releasing excellent music consistently since their start in 2016 the scottishs are planning to postpone your end-of-the-year-parties until mid-january with this new release.

Meet TEXTASY, mysterious producer with two EPs already out pleasing dance music snobs this year, a certain taste for syncopated drum patterns and man of the hour with this solo EP. Following the path established by previous releases on Craigie Knowes Textasy creates hybrids consisting of experimentations with 90's rave culture and detroit electro codes.
Starting with A1, he mixes rhythms straight out of Motor City, a pairing bassline and a angelic choir coming from what must be an old digital synthesiser. Throughout the track a deep voice repeats an psalm you can only agree to: bass and techno.

A2, relevantly named Blow Your Head, is the lovechild of an old floppy disk (you know, those containing samples that were circulating in the nineties) and a subwoofer. Oscillating between a 303 bassline, pulsating pads, incomprehensible vocal samples modulated to the max and UK signature sound fx, the track tries to go everywhere and, surprisingly, it works. Let's not forget the breakbeats loop supporting the electro rhythmics. An explosive way to end the first half of the release.

Flip to the other side and you will be welcomed by Eternal Gun, a fast piece of what starts like a jungle inspired tune, switches to a UK Hardcore piano track with a slamming beat and then makes a cocktail out of those two portions for the rest of the track. Pure speed.

Last but not least, the track waiting at the end is the one we are pleased to premiere today. I'm The Needle takes a bit of the pressure left by the previous track off and offers us what is probably the most effective tune out of the bunch. Reminding you to put the needle on the record over a jungle break, the track then exhibits classic rave piano chords, the most famous (and satisfying) sample of all dance music history and an arpeggiating bassline. You will find the same weight in the kick and subs, the same electro-ish pattern hiding in there than in the rest of the record. With many of the same qualities it has the advantage of being a bit simpler, making the track more efficient and self-empowered.

You know where we’re going with this. This EP is a no-brainer and should be preordered right now.

Dallas Gun Club EP

PREMIERE : TEXTASY - I'm The Needle

The Lone Star State terror Textasy joins the Craigie Knowes firm with 4 hardcore and electro heaters. For club use only ! Extra inside sticker in every copy, bang.

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PREMIERE : Textasy - Blow Your Head

Sheffield talent Atdhe (pronounced 'at day') was a complete unknown when he sent @monologues 'Earl Street Groovers', his debut release which came out in 2017. Fast-forward a few months and Move D was dropping 'Can I Borrow A Feeling?' on the regular, featuring it in several sets and live streams online, and we witnessed at first-hand the amazing reactions that the track gets in the club.

Atdhe's new EP demonstrates his impressive versatility, with the title track 'Illusionist' a breathtaking ride through crashing old skool breakbeat cut-ups, warm sub, pitched up ravey vocal cuts, distorted acid womps and blissful Rhodes-esque chords. It shouldn't work, but it really does.

Support: @monologues

PREMIERE: Atdhe - Illusionist [Monologues]

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A thoroughly ethereal EP is the soon-to-be-released musical result of an eastern European collision of Warsaw label, Gasp, and Moscow artist, Marco Lazovic.

Four tracks of heavenly chords and big reverbs are split into three breakbeat numbers and a more rhythmically-conventional house track and our premiere is the EP’s eponymous Aeorwalk.

Gasp’s discography, though nascent, exemplifies what’s becoming a trend in much of underground electronic music: a movement away from the synthetics of hyper-clean production quality and toward grittier and less pedantically-polished aesthetics. So it’s no surprise they’ve turned to their Russian neighbour for their seventh cut.

And our premiere deserves to be its title-track. A rampant, crashing breakbeat drives this song forward with the help of a simple three-chord progression and fuzzy bassline. The song is powerful and uplifting and slots in perfectly next to Violin Feelings – another of the EP’s frantic, breakbeat tracks featuring reverb-soaked melodic elements.

These two tracks are probably our favourite on the record. But also worth checking out are Goodbye Mr. Milky, which adds a spacey, playful and almost adventurous dimension, and, for the Chicago house-heads, Winter Flowers, by itself, might make this record worth the purchase.

Aerowalk

PREMIERE : Marco Lazovic - Aerowalk

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