Pre-Order Here - http://bit.ly/CRIT068 

At the start of 2012 Sabre, Stray and Halogenix teamed up to drop one of the most blissful pieces of drum & bass that year, ‘Oblique’. Since then the dreamteam have continued their late night studio sessions and are now ready to announce their new collaborative project, Ivy Lab. Kicking off Critical’s 2013 season is the first fruit of their labour, ‘Afterthought’, again featuring the esteemed vocal talents of Frank Carter III to create the most inspired start to the year we could wish for.

‘Afterthought’ is a masterpiece filled with polished breaks, melancholic chords, reversed strings and Carter’s unmistakable heart wrenching sounds that draw us into the spine-tingling production, coming as an Ivy Lab standard. A late night marcher or a summers day soother, the choice is yours for the most beautiful, teary-eyed slice of drum & bass you’ll have heard in a long time. Quality through and through.

‘Brat’ on the other hand shows the other side to Ivy Lab as the guys get aggy at the controls for a supremely sick peak-time performer. Creeping bleep FX open it up as the b-line seeps into the mix for a drop into some proper dance floor funk. Meticulous on the edits and the morphing bass, it’s a dirty yin to the A-side’s yang.

Included in the package is a Digital Exclusive remix of 'Brat' by South London Ordnance

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Ivy Lab - Brat [CRIT068]

DJ Bookings: francesco@primarytalent.com



"Love all, trust a few, harm none" 
Instruments make melodies, drums make rhythms, but it is the voice that brings all these elements to life to create MUSIC.
“As Eduard Hanslick wrote in 1854 in On the Musically Beautiful,

Instrumental music is one art form in which form and content are indistinguishable. We can never say, with total confidence, what a particular musical phrase is "about", because the "musical idea" (as Hanslick calls the melody and rhythm) is not "about" anything. A Manet painting of a picnic is About the picnic. The beauty of instrumental music seems to come not from outside itself but from within.

And yet though utterly intangible this invisible art reaches places in the heart and mind that nothing else can touch. It is indeed a very mysterious medicine, especially for those who  want concrete explainations of how things work, in a culture that often favors the visual over the acoustic, and where "seeing is believing." What is heard is often suspect; the voice is transitory; people speak dismissively of "hearsay" and scoff that "talk is cheap." Sound exists momentarily in the ether, while for many, "the real," "truth," and "lasting proofs" are what can be seen physically, concretely. We like our proofs visible, like those of geometry, which literally demonstrates it's truths pictorially.
Yet regardless of the culture we are born into, we all begin life in darkness, and we do our most substantial growth within it. Our first contact with existence is enclosed within the vibrations of our mother's heartbeat, the tide of her breathing, and the music of her voice, it's melody and rhythm, even without knowing the meaning of her words. Such longing as this engenders remains with us forever.” -The Brain's Way of Healing p. 352

Music is absolutely a medicine for the mind, body, and soul which, in truth, are all one.

Someone once said, "Art is how we decorate space and music is how we decorate time", and I agreed.
I might be too uncommon to have common sense.
We were given the gift of choice and what did we choose?
My body is in Washington, my heart is in the forest and my mind is in the Jungle.
Subconsciously mixing the soundtrack of my life in my head.

You ARE human. Your life has value. You have the power to change.
"Once you realize the emptiness in things, 
everything becomes real and not just substantial"

140 and 174 + everything in between. 
[deep | dark | obscure]

instagram: @ tiare.monoi

upcoming
03/10 mucha @ tag der clubkultur, berlin

2025 so far
29/08 pwr festival @ somewhere, cgn
16/08 breakzone w/ phace, technimatic, zombie cats @ odonien, cgn
27/06 teamplayer @ artheater, cgn
06/06 flexout x hanzom / qzb & arkaik @ artheater, cgn
16/05 krach für gerechtigkeit @ az, cgn
09/05 gloom @ kulturlounge, leipzig
27/04 addicted2bass @ deepspace radio, www
05/04 cgn dnb radio @ evosonic, www
22/03 cgn dnb rave @ ???, cgn
02/03 vykhod sily @ sc, www
21/02 subwise @ rote flora, hamburg
06/01 drumbulanz @ 674fm, cgn

2024
31/12 tschüss @ die bank, cgn
30/11 mucha @ sc, www
25/10 shake up @ die bank, cgn
12/10 double impact w/ skeptical + trei @ odonien, cgn
17/08 breakzone w/ mefjus + etherwood @ odonien, cgn
05/08 drumbulanz @ 674fm, cgn
29/06 subardo stage @ fusion festival, lärz
08/06 double impact w/ pola & bryson @ odonien, cgn
03/06 drumbulanz @ 674fm, cgn
04/05 swamp @ az, wuppertal
20/04 soli event @ die bank, cgn
09/03 neckbreak dnb @ az, muelheim a.d. ruhr
24/02 basement session @ haus mainusch, mainz

2023
31/12 silvester @ kolbhalle, cgn
16/12 benefizrave @ kolbhalle, cgn
18/11 dub pub @ session, bonn
17/11 complexx @ trafic, cgn
11/11 carnival @ kolbhalle, cgn
03/11 wave w/ fre4nkc + submarine @ domhof, cgn
31/10 halloween @ die bank, cgn
23/09 elusive @ az, cgn
17/09 kunst- & flohmarkt @ die bank, cgn
19/08 breakzone w/ halogenix, current value, zardonic, roklem & mc fava @ odonien, cologne
21/07 london groove @ schick, mainz
03/07 drumbulanz @ 674fm, cgn
10/06 mucha @ ???, cgn
03/06 rave against repression @ az, cgn
05/05 lost in bass @ mephisto, hanover
30/04 tanz in den mai @ kolbhalle, cgn
09/04 local bass w/ wingz @ cube, düsseldorf
01/04 friek out! w/ submarine @ jaz, rostock
06/03 drumbulanz @ 674fm, cgn
24/02 odonia noire @ odonien, cgn
16/02 electronic carnival @ kolbhalle, cgn
20/01 hanzom w/ aggresor bunx @ helios, cgn

I live in Colorado and music is my obsession.  Produce music using Akai Studio MPC, Ableton Push 2, my turntables and vinyls, and Virtual DJ 7 (most of my uploads are created in Virtual DJ 7).  Im here to share my music and explore others, and I hope you enjoy my creations.  