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Fake news has been rife throughout the pandemic, one example of which being the claim that swans and dolphins had been spotted swimming in Venice's canals. This bogus story (which actually turned out to be sort of true in the end) was the title inspiration for Berlin-based producer @guavanoise's latest EP, 'The Dolphins Are Back In Venice'. Forthcoming on Control Freak Recordings, the club-ready EP finds collaborations with some of the cream of the UK's bass producers, Breaka (listen to his Dummy Mix here), and LUXE. We're premiering EP track 'SZD Orion' here, a track that comes complete with skittering hi hats and cosmic, floating synths - sonically apt for a track that was inspired by flight. "I always think it's essential to start with a track title before making a piece of music," Guava says. "I'd recently been reading about the 1972 Gliding World Championships, in which Polish pilot Jan Wróblewski won flying a glider called the SZD-Orion. I thought it was an excellent title for a piece of music. Most of my tunes are inspired by flight; in the same way, Kraftwerk used the 'Trans Europe Express' to convey a sonic narrative. When I write music, there is always a theme and a story that I'm trying to tell. In this piece, you can hear Jan gliding from cloud to cloud with the bubbling synthesisers representing the turbulence and air moving around him."

The Dolphins Are Back In Venice

Premiere: Guava - 'SZD Orion'

Months of planning had gone into the event; every single element has been carefully thought through and fulfilled with the utmost care. There was a lot riding on this, her reputation was firmly on the line. She'd not been quiet about how successful it would be, in fact she'd proudly promised the best party the city had ever seen. There was no room for mistakes; she had to make a splash...

Over the last year South London's Sticky Tapes project have notched up five cassette mixes, from Violet and ELLES, Om Unit, CC:Disco. Asquith and Criminal, raising an incredible £1,500 for five different charities. As a celebration of reaching their first anniversary, founder Theo Giles is taking things up a level with a compilation that features 11 original cuts from some of his favourite producers over the last year. Comprised of music from the likes of Jossy Mitsu, LUXE, Black Cadmium, Cyphon and Stones Taro, the release moves through different strains of electronic music, from garage to breaks and electronica to downtempo.

It wouldn't be a proper Sticky Tapes release if it didn't come complete with a mixed version of the selections across the comp. As an accompaniment, Theo has called on London-based DJ and Balamii resident Amaliah to weave the tracks together, available exclusively on cassette. All profits from the compilation and the cassette mix will be donated to Samaritans.

PREMIERE: Stones Taro - Splash [Sticky Tapes]

A tribute to Alex T.

Buy: https://skinsdub.bandcamp.com/track/hold-tight

Any money raised from sales will go towards putting out a remix compilation, and ultimately all money raised will go to Meningitis Now.

Hold Tight

'Banoffee Pies Records drop their 12th release in the original series with a solo EP from New York-based Tristan Arp. With a string of intricate music on the likes of Human Pitch and a recent LP entitled “Suggested Forms”, which offers a wider exploration into his work, Tristan’s passion for sound design echoes in this record.

All four tracks offer an environment somewhere between a feeling and a dance floor with obscure influences in polyrhythmic drum patterns and a clear combination of digital and analogue processing. “Swept Thru” opens proceedings with a spiral of rhythms and heavy percussion leaping in energy throughout.

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Tristan Arp - Slip EP - Banoffee Pies Records

PREMIERE: Tristan Arp - Swept Thru [Banoffee Pies Records]

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Suze
@suzemusique

Pressure Dome
@pressuredome
www.facebook.com/pressuredome

Pressure Dome returns from the isolation of our remote research facility with a ten-track collection of emotionally depth-charged explorations of movement and mode.

Dubbed-out atmospherics, futuristic UK Techno, IDM tinged jungle and 2-step rhythms take us through a world of playful hybridity and fluid frequencies.

All proceeds from PDCOMP002 will be split between Black Minds Matter UK, The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and Caring in Bristol.

PDCOMP002

Porpita

PREMIERE: Suze - Porpita (PDCOMP002)

Leeds-based producer Dubrunner (@dubrunneruk) brings his debut release to Scuffed Recordings, with three new tracks firmly rooted in his soundsystem influences.

As a co-founder of Leeds’ notorious Stretchy Dance Supply parties and a staff member at Tribe Records, Dubrunner’s eclectic DJ sets reflect back into his productions, with house, breaks and electronic influences sitting alongside sounds from steppa dub and soundsystem culture.

The ‘Scorpio Season’ EP shows the spectrum of Dubrunner’s influences in full flow, with tracks ranging from the 140bpm stepper ‘Destination Unknown’, to the weighty breaks of the title track, to the wonky electronics and dubby chords of ‘Syntax Error’.

Buy:
https://scuffedrecs.bandcamp.com/album/scorpio-season-ep

Scorpio Season EP

Dubrunner - Scorpio Season

Guava - Water Off A Frog's Back

The debut single on Skiptrace has been curated by Mystique. This deep, atmospheric Electro number and its thumping breakbeat evokes not too distant memories of raves, cub nights and festivals.

Mystique is the brains behind Shifting Spheres, a collective that runs DJ training programs for women, transgender and non-binary people. During the lockdown she has honed her craft with the production and has a busy schedule of releases ahead of her. We are very excited to have her and her talent on board.

Mastered by Rob Small.

Redemption

SKIP001 Mystique - Redemption (Original Mix)

A1 - Pugilist - Siphon 
A2 - Pugilist - Regrowth 
B1 - Pugilist - Nightshade 
B2 - Pugilist - Siphon (Coco Bryce Remix) 

One of the UK's freshest emerging dance music labels, responsible for stalwart releases from Special Request and Nightwave, return for their 19th release.

The succinct beats of Pugilist have perked the ears of labels like Whities, 3024 and Trule to name but a few. And having previously featured on volume one of the label's new 'EleVAte' compilation series, among artists like Otik, Appleblim and Commix, he returns to the imprint for his first, full four-tracker; 'Siphon'.

The title track, Siphon, blasts through with authentic jungle chops, scattered together asymmetrically like a beautiful chaotic tapestry.

'Regrowth' is a swung garage stepper, jammed live on a 909 with earthquaking low-end frequencies that warmingly morph from underneath.

On remix duties of 'Siphon', is no other than Lobster Theremin alumni, Coco Bryce. With surreal, microprocessing of the heavyweight blows from the original, he also resamples time-stretched speech samples to devastating effect.

'Nightshade' closes out the record with its steadfast amen rinse-out and pokey 808 subs, concluding one of the most forward-thinking and new-school jungle records for the label, all the while serving as an exemplary ode to the old-school.

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DEXT014_PUGILIST_COCO_BRYCE_SIPHON EP_(CLIPS)

After the fantastic reception of Equus’ ‘REHD’ EP, seven artists have each selected a track from the release, resulting in five different but wholly dance floor ready remixes. 

The names behind the up and coming Ghost Palm Records, Benko and Blokssom, have have firmly cemented their sound onto their take of ‘Inbetween the Eyes’. Journeying through dubby basslines, huge breaks and rolling percussion, this one is sure to have everyones gun fingers raised. 

@lil-black-juice
@blokssom
@equusequus
@slipperysounds

Buy:
https://slipperysounds.bandcamp.com/

PREMIERE: Equus - In Between The Eyes (Benko & Blokssom Remix)[Slippery Sounds]

Break-ing into 2021 from Sweden via Manchester JERK002 comes from Bars of Beats co-owner Oblique with 4 tracks of Break influenced Techno.

As Another Entity opens up with menacing intent and slamming drums beckoning the end of rave as we know it, before A2 sends us falling down Futility Flight’s ‘Fuck Th’ twisted wormhole.
On the flip we have Mania, a break infused high tension builder, giving way to an all-consuming bassline and closing things off with Faulty, a sub bass lead heady groove that’s threatening to implode.

@obliqueswe
@jerkitmcr

Buy:
https://jerkitinternational.bandcamp.com/album/conditioning-is

PREMIERE: Oblique - Mania [Jerk It MCR]

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