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Arpy Brown return to Toy Tonics with an EP showcasing emotionally layered dance tracks and their refusal to stick to genre conventions. The duo are synonymous with sublime cuts that are just as suited to late nights and early mornings on the dancefloor, as they are to home-listening, this perfectly exhibited on the "Noguiera" EP.

The four-tracker is named after a remote place in the mountains around Rio de Janeiro where it was made on a creatively fruitful getaway in 2021. It's sentimental, joyful, bouncy, and futuristic, and showcases the duo’s musicality combining bass guitar and piano, with hardware synths, loops and fragmented vocal samples.

Robin explains - "Spending time in Brazil in recent years was a blessing. The nature, culture and musical heritage over there is beautiful. Mostly in solitude, as I ended up spending most of my time in a remote place in the mountains around Rio, music became the only real emotional outlet for a while. So in a way this is a record of dance music created as far away as we’ve ever been from the dance floor!"

Both from a live performance background, Robin and Avi met studying at Goldsmiths London and found their way to the dance floor via playing in bands, Robin a guitarist, Avi classically trained in trumpet and later on picking up the keys. Absorbing the community of South London, they eventually set up artist collective and record label Squareglass - a proudly established home for new artists coming out of the area. They’ve remixed for the likes of Rhythm Section, collaborated with Olugbenga, and their releases have come with reworks from Ross from Friends, Cameo Blush, Baltra and Seb Wildblood. In 2021, their hybrid sound found a new home with tastemaker German label Toy Tonics who released their "Vesta" EP in May, followed by a run of European tour dates including Funkhaus Berlin, Phonox London and Amsterdam Dance Event.

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Athlete Whippet reveal second single ‘Mesmerise’, from their upcoming ‘Nogueria’ EP on Toy Tonics. The energetic, uplifting and bouncy delight is a result of the duo’s musicality, combining drum machines and loops with live performance.

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Premiere: Athlete Whippet 'Mesmerise'

Athlete Whippet returned to Balamii, inviting fellow Toy Tonics family members COEO for a two hour journey through the uplifting side of dance music, including bits from their upcoming record.

Athlete Whippet w/ COEO - January 2022

Pre-order: https://bfan.link/saltcopper

Made between London, Granada, and Berlin over the course of four years, @aphty_khea's next EP, 'Salt & Copper', takes the shape of a warm, soulful five-tracker via @squareglass.

The record's title track, 'Salt & Copper', tells the story of an emotional sexual encounter by the sea whilst menstruating, and embodies radical self-love, accepting and finding a home in your own body even when society deems it as filthy, unwanted or taboo.

Premiere: Aphty Khéa 'Salt & Copper'

Addressing the process of coming to terms with being non-binary and genderfluid, Aphty Khéa’s new single ‘Company’ speaks candidly of social anxiety issues and paints a myriad of emotions through rich electronic music production. With previous support already secured for their upcoming EP Salt & Copper, including a Mixmag premiere and a Kaltblut feature, ‘Company’ further demonstrates Aphty’s cosmic soundworld and sincere songwriting – as well as the singer-producer’s sensibility for creating deeply affecting grooves.


Salt & Copper EP out 23 September 2022 via @squareglass
Stream / download: https://bfan.link/saltcopper
Music by Aphty Khéa, additional arrangement production by Rho

Company

Espalhados entre Berlim e Londres, o duo Athlete Whippet é conhecido por fusionar distintas influências musicais em faixas contemporâneas que tem rodado o globo, e feito deles parte integrante das cenas de suas cidades.
Seus lançamentos, majoritariamente produzidos no studio coletivo Londrino Squareglass, acharam uma casa em labels como Toy Tonics, Rhythm Section e Kistuné Musique. Além de produzirem noites intimistas no sul de Londres, com convidados como Seb Wildblood, Hidden Spheres, Jitwam, Glenn Astro, Will Saul, e Asquith, tiveram recentemente radio shows ativos em programas como Balamii, Rinse FM, HÖR e Worldwide FM.

Neste episódio, a fusão de sons e referências do duo fica clara: navegam por sons mais dubby, electronica, electro, edits e house futurista.
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Renowned for cleverly fusing different musical influences into timeless contemporary jams, Athlete Whippet are a duo spread across Berlin and London and have become an integral part of both cities’ scenes in recent years with releases and remixes for the likes of Toy Tonics, Rhythm Section and Kitsuné Musique. Taking a communal approach to music making, they co-run artist collective and record label Squareglass - a proudly established home for new artists coming out of South London. They've also been hosting intimate nights with DJs from far across the electronic music ecosystem in London and Berlin since 2019. Guest sets from the likes of Seb Wildblood, Hidden Spheres, Jitwam, Glenn Astro, Aus Music head Will Saul, Lobster Theremin founder Asquith and some of London's brightest new talents have made for some unmissable parties in London's cosiest venues. The duo's releases have also come with reworks from Ross  from Friends, Baltra and Max Graef. Supporters incl. Pete Tong, Annie Mac (BBC 1), Tom Ravenscroft, Jamz Supernova (BBC 6), Mixmag, DJ Mag. Following a lockdown season with shows on Balamii, Rinse FM, HÖR and Worldwide FM (with guests incl. Nicola Cruz, Lefto, Nightwave), the duo have ended 2021 with European tour dates alongside Session Victim, Dan Shake, Paula Tape, Esa Williams and COEO. Their latest EP 'Nogueira' has seen strong support across DSPs, landing them on the cover of Spotify's 'Fresh Finds Dance' playlist.

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Produced and performed by Semi Precious
Additional mixing by Justin Randell
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Artwork by Roberto Ruspoli

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Premiere: Semi Precious - Fluid

Squareglass - Transparencies available on Bandcamp:
https://squareglass.bandcamp.com/album/transparencies

TRACKLIST:
1. Bunki - Smartass
2. Ballerino - Karl
3. Semi Precious - Ultimate Lounge
4. Leiik - Holes
5. King of Hearts - Sunray
6. Daniel Cherney - Priest
7. Junk - Wax / Dark
8. Crypt Thing - Archenemy
9. Semi Precious & Bunki - Hilly Fields

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London experimental five-piece return for more anarchic genre-blending adventures. 

London experimental five-piece Housewives return for more anarchic genre-blending adventures with their new single 'Speak To Me'; A synthesized collage written in Wetherspoons, cafes and anywhere away from their houseboats where they could find an electrical supply. 

Exploring the possibilities of electronic sound, with dead-behind-the-eyes chanting, this latest snippet of things to come marks a turning point for the band who sold their guitars to buy midi equipment and swapped London rents for houseboat living. 

Using huge live drums, saccharine vocal samples, pulsating sub bass and mechanically entwined guitar lines; 'Speak to Me' is a sign of the bands’ new direction with a constantly evolving sound, creating an anxiety and tightness that assumes the feeling of a knot in the stomach, or a strained smile. 

The band describe it as 'a love song of frustration and sensitivity through the eyes of a victim of the isolation of modern life. Quiet but not shy, voiceless, seething, dumb and in love'. 

In the video, created by the band and our in-house art department, we're transported into a manifestation of the inescapable digital experience of our everyday lives and its effect on our psyche. The thin layer of perceptible reality is constantly disrupted via the breaking of the digital facade. 



Speak to me 
your nice talk 
use your hands to help me 
your voice washes over 
lost in conversation 
I am in my own world 
I stand in the corner 
I am in my own world 
only an observer 
reel around the gas light 
your voice makes my eyes moist 
I feel awful fragile 
don’t look at the carpet 
I’ve done nothing recent 
nothing worth the paper 
nothing good and Godly 
like thin discs of wafer 
it will come unto me 

Written and recorded By Housewives 
Mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux 
Artwork by Mara Krastina 
(www.instagram.com/mara_krastina/) 
Design by Joseph A.C. Rafferty 
Digital release by Blank Editions

Speak to Me

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Housewives - Speak To Me

squareglass is an artist-led record label and collective, founded in 2014 in South East London and run by @athlete-whippet and @semi_precious.

The label focuses on emerging artists from South East London and beyond, having released original works and remixes by artists including Athlete Whippet, Semi Precious, Le Son, Olugbenga, Ross From Friends, Baltra, Max Graef and Seb Wildblood. 

Contact: info@squareglass.co.uk

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