Tik tok tik tok, this about to liiiift off

BUY NOW

Natives

@4navr1n returns to Scuffed Recordings with four new originals and a remix from Sonia Calico.

The ‘Parisian Pitstop’ EP is his second release on Scuffed, and sees An Avrin building on his previous work while also expanding his horizons into different tempos and styles.

The A-side opens with the one-two of the title track - which is as good a primer on An Avrin’s sound as it’s possible to have.

Buy:
smarturl.it/ParisianPitstopEP

An Avrin - Parisian Pitstop

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.

Low End Activist ft.  Emz - Get Get

BUY: https://extraspicy.bandcamp.com/album/possible-people-loving-is-hard-ep

Possible People - Loving Is Hard

Dual Monitor - Strugglin - Rewire Mix (clip) OUT NOW ON EC2A

Free Download

[Free Track Thursday #2] - Debba - Archives

Longtime Scuffed family member Farsight joins forces with friend of the label Breaka for a bouncing, UKG-influenced collab on 'Flow State'.

@djfarsight
@breakaleeds

Buy:
https://lnk.to/FarsightFlowState

Farsight - Flow State (ft. Breaka)

@uavuk
@roadkill_uk

Buy:
https://roadkilluk.bandcamp.com/album/roadkill-presents-006

PREMIERE: U-A-V - Drum Fortress [Roadkill]

Vinyl release date - Thurs 3rd March 2016

Pre Order >>  https://coldrecordings.databeats.com/vinyl/coldr007

B2 The 4th Wall CLIP

\/ BUY HERE \/

https://4navr1n.bandcamp.com/album/barry-drewmore-2

4n.avr1n@gmail.com

Barry Drewmore (Flowdan vocal rip)

\/ Buy Link :) \/
http://4navr1n.bandcamp.com/album/pre-columbian-gold-museum

Low End Activist ft. Emz - Get Get

Sneaker Social Club

Recent comments

STATION ROSE

emillysogorskij

Niels Brouwer

Veeto

Related tracks