Nice melodies.  This would sound great with a breakbeat 😉

Excellent auditory fluid poured right into my ears...sounds great Simon!

The first single taken from the album is ‘The Heathers’, a stunning cut of psychedelic, beat-driven electronica. Initially built around the insistent hook of an arpeggiated bell refrain, it evokes shades of beatific 90s electronica and ravey euphoria, falling somewhere between the filtered French touch of Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon, early 90s trance, synth-laden post-punk and the more breakbeat-heavy end of the Future Sound Of London’s oeuvre.

‘The Heathers’ is the perfect taster for Tom’s forthcoming ‘Absolute Melt’ album campaign. The album itself is rich in agrarian textures, organic soul, evocative beatscapes, and 420 flavours, with a nod to the breakbeat hardcore of his roots.

The Heathers

Evl Tom - The Heathers

This piece is a linear recording of a performable lighting installation created in 2021 with FKB in Philadelphia. Four hundred LED lights were hung from trees throughout the park, and I created a non-linear soundtrack in spatial stereo to enhance the movement of the lights. There were hundreds of possible ways the lights would interact with one another, so I created a matrix of musical ideas that would correlate with the way in which the lights behaved. The lights themselves responded to user input from a custom built physical control surface.

What you hear is a random recorded section from the crowd-generated interaction. Listen on headphones!

Simon Shackleton - Spruce Street Interactive Sound-Light Installation (AUDIO DEMO)

01. Monty & Visages - Black Shield
02. Enei feat. Georgia Yates - Runnin
03. Camo & Krooked - Good Times Bad Times (Document One Remix)
04. DRS feat. Calibre - This Ain't Love
05. Bcee - Back to the Streets (S.P.Y Remix)
06. Ed:It feat. Pola & Bryson - The Ticket
07. Lenzman feat. IAMDDB - In My Mind (Break Remix)
08. Nu:Logic - Nova
09. Phaction feat. Riya - Aviatrix
10. Enei feat. Charli Brix - Just One Look
11. Keeno - Lost in the Clouds
12. Hybrid Minds feat. Alexa Harley - Phoenix
13. Calyx & TeeBee - Elevate This Sound
14. Skeptical - Musket
15. InsideInfo feat. Miss Trouble - Metamorphosis
16. Keeno - Enigma
17. Hugh Hardie - Love Troubles
18. Technimatic feat. Jono McCleery - Hold on a While
19. SpectraSoul feat. Tamara Blessa - Away with Me (Calibre Remix)
20. Technimatic feat. Zara Kershaw - Parallel (LSB Remix)

January 26, 2024

Escape to the Madness

DJ Tchort - Escape to the Madness

One half of leading international breakbeat duo Evil Nine, Tom Beaufoy is due to release his debut solo album. ‘Absolute Melt’. It is an intricately crafted opus that’s being released on Out Yer Box, the sister label to Irvine Welsh’s Jack Said What label. 

The album distils a wide range Tom’s musical influences including breakbeat, soul, funk, hip-hop, hardcore, house, into a succession of breath-taking widescreen beatscapes. 

After the dreamy and innovative debut ’The Heathers’, the second single turns up the energy to deliver a breaks-fuelled, disco-funk opus ‘Give Up (Don’t)’. The depths and breadth of Tom’s production ability really shines through on this diverse album with the release of this supercharged 8.45 mins of super groovy funk, contemporary soul and energetic disco all merged into one track. Primed for the dancefloor, it's bursting with bright guitar and bass licks – crisp drums, big strings and BV’s all amounting to a truly authentic mix that builds to a crescendo and back again. 

EVL Tom was formerly one half of Evil Nine with Pat Pardy, originally signed to Adam Freeland’s label Marine Parade. Their award-winning ‘You Can Be Special Too’ and ‘They Live!’ albums received widespread acclaim and in the process collaborated with such heavy-hitters as El-P from Run The Jewels, Danny Brown, Aesop Rock and Emily Breeze. They were residents at Fabric London, did a BBC Radio One Essential Mix and toured the world several times performing at Fuji Rock Festival, Space in Miami, Twilo in NYC, Coachella and Arcadia at Glastonbury. 

They remixed a whole host of acts such as The Temper Trap, UNKLE, Alex Metric, Timo Maas, Gorillaz and a tonne of others. The Evils also turned in compilation mixes for the ‘FabricLive’ and ‘Y4K’ series, establishing their credentials as one of the most sought-after breakbeats acts in the business in the process. 

Tom now chiefly DJs and produces solo as EVL Tom, has a monthly radio show The Evil Tom Show, and will be celebrating the launch of the ‘Absolute Melt’ album with a big event in his home city of Brighton!

Eternal Lids

Evl Tom - Eternal Lids

all-originals anthology-mix (2013-2023) on the house and techno side of my productions

tracklist:

Into Sleeping (2020)
What’s Your 4chan (2013)
A Journey Through The Cosmos (2017)
Avant Garden (2017)
The Pumps (2019)
Shelixir (2019)
Birdsafety (2023)
Keep (2022)
Mauvement (2021)
Milieu Vanilli (2019)
The Council (2023)
Honk Honk (2018)
Outage (2020)

intro: Nathan Fielder discussing The Curse
outro: Raquel Pennington at the UFC297 post-fight press conference

Put It in the Frame

Torie Live at The Barrel at Coalesce 2024 12/30 10:30PM
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Torie Live at The Barrel 2024

A pioneer of UK breakbeat culture, having cut his teeth as half of Evil Nine, EVL Tom brings a myriad of influences to bear on his debut album, ‘Absolute Melt’. It’s an opus where Moodymann-esque Detroit soul flavours meet the psychedelic rave stylings of early Future Sound Of London, the raw but incessantly funky loops of hip-hop producers Madlib and the RZA rub up against the bass aesthetic of early ‘90s jungle/drum & bass. 
 
“Absolute Melt’ was me endeavouring to make a truly autobiographical record that represents my diverse tastes and experiences but bringing them together to form a cohesive whole. It’s a hybrid opus, the fulfilment of a life-long ambition to make an album solely by myself — to resoundly kick back against the Imposter Syndrome on my shoulder whispering that it couldn’t be done.” - EVL Tom
 
The thunder of rainstorms and other organic tones abound in the album opener ‘Trees’, a track drenched in bass with a Vangelis-esque horn melody riding it. Then it’s into ‘A Prayer’ with its mantra on peace and love, Tom’s stab at pushing out some positive feelings into the world, sonically harking back to early DJ Shadow and those seminal Mo’Wax joints. Two breakbeat cuts follow; ‘Incendies’ is a low-slung, smoked out roller with hints of Burial and ‘90s jungle (albeit at a fraction of the tempo), and ‘Eternal Lids’ is a track crafted to evoke late-night drives around cityscapes aglow with orange light and neon.  Taking a breath in the middle of the album we have the beat-less ‘Norman’, which is melancholically melodic like a sci-fi movie scene-setter, which then moves into ‘Rebels Of The Neon God’ where we’re taking it back to the club. The title references a Taiwanese cult film favourite of Tom’s and also serves as a tribute to Taiwan, a place dear to Tom after numerous visits over the years. An electro / hardcore hybrid, ‘Rebels…’ buzzes with an undercurrent of pure rave euphoria. 

Next up is the first single off the album, ‘The Heathers’, a dream-like, psychedelic epic with a dark second half that’s a counterpoint to the more wistful beginning of the tune. This is closely followed up by second single ‘Give Up (Don’t)’, something that Ron Hardy would maybe play at Muzic Box in Chicago, a tough disco banger pinned with an organic break that oozes raw funk. It’s a heads-down belter where the mood is positive and euphoric. Album closer ‘Love In Fire & Blood’ is the embodiment of a meme where a dude drinks a big bottle of cranberry juice whilst skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac — musically dense, and with the album’s signature blending of organic and electronic flavours. This delicate balance was achieved in the collaborative mixdown of the album by Tom and top bro Alexander James Fox, who brought his talent and knowledge to the table to craft it into the deeply woven epic you have before you.
 
“The title ‘Absolute Melt’ started as an in-joke, just a dope phrase that made me and my crew crease up, but then as I started to think on it, many levels were revealed to me. There’s ‘melting’ everywhere, with its climate change connotations; the psychedelic slant; and also perhaps a self-deprecating angle where maybe I’m the absolute melt… or you are, ha ha!” - EVL Tom
 
The artist also records as one half of Evil Nine with Pat Pardy, originally signed to Adam Freeland’s label Marine Parade. Their award-winning ‘You Can Be Special Too’ and ‘They Live!’ albums received widespread acclaim and in the process they collaborated with such luminaries as El-P from Run The Jewels, Danny Brown, Aesop Rock and Emily Breeze. They were residents at Fabric London, did a Radio One Essential Mix and toured the world several times performing at Fuji Rock Festival, Space in Miami, Twilo in NYC, Coachella and Arcadia at Glastonbury.

Absolute Melt

Trees

1 Evl Tom - Trees

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This week's guest mix is Jinjé. 
As a founding member of the Leeds-based experimental band Vessels - an act acclaimed for their ability to defy categorisation - Lee Malcolm is no stranger to breaking the boundaries of genre. With his solo project, Jinjé, he delves into atypical sonic wanderings that navigate between acoustic and electronic, synthetic and organic, employing a learned ear for the fusion of seemingly disparate elements. Following on from his MESH debut back in 2021, Jinjé returns with Escape from Luna, a four-track EP expanding further on the infinite sonic worlds of his solo production work. For this latest release on MESH, he hones in on these moments of coalescence, fusing various stylistic pieces together with an infectious sense of optimism and an open mind.

Jinjé social media :

https://soundcloud.com/jinje-music
https://www.facebook.com/JinjeMusic

Playlist Mutant Disco Radio Show By Leri Ahel #417 - Guest Mix Jinjé 

Leri Ahel Mix

01. Automat - Youth Man (Only Good Stuff)
02. Sigward - Triptych (Invisible, Inc.)
03. Dead Can Dance - Nierika (Diamond Setter Edit)
04. Brainbeats - Music Brings Us Together (Ubiquity)
05. Pauline Anna Strom - Alpine Flight (RVNG Intl.)
06. Eluard - In The Next Room (Slow Motion)
07. Rude 66 - The Five Swords Of Venus In Aquarius (Bordello A Parigi)
08. Nandele - Sou Plastiko (Meu Lugar) (Human Endeavour)
09. Bufi & Kubebe - Sternana (Hermetics Remix) (Duro Label)
10. Lucie Antunes feat. Baby Volcano - Luchadora (InFiné Music)	
					
Jinjé Mix 
Playlist coming up

Airing dates:

Monday March 25th 2024 @ Radio Roža 9 PM CET (Croatia)
Tuesday March 26th @ Radio Student 10.30 PM CET (Croatia)
Wednesday March 27th @ Dinamo FM (Turkey)
Friday March 29th @ Kanal 103 9 PM CET (North Macedonia)
Friday March 29th @ Radio Aparat 10 PM CET (Serbia)
Saturday March 30th @ KLFM 00 AM CET (Croatia)

Mutant Disco Radio Show By Leri Ahel #417 - Guest Mix Jinjé

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Contra Tempus's debut release 'Follow The Signal' with remixes from Ákos Győrfy & Retroid and Sean Ae.

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In this Soundcloud account, I cover music from all my eras and aliases, including Simon Shackleton, Elite Force, Zodiac Cartel and Lunatic Calm.

I feature a TON of vintage and current DJ mixes from my 25 years on the frontline as well as many classic revamps, remixes and originals.

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