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This track features on: 'hey, do you need someone to talk to?' mini-compilation. If you like what you hear, the digi's will be available on October 22nd 2021 here - https://stickytapesmix.bandcamp.com/album/sticky-007-hey-do-you-need-someone-to-talk-to-mini-compilation

Fresh off the release of their first birthday compilation release this Summer which included contributions from Jossy Mitsu, Stones Taro, ELLES, Black Cadmium and more, Sticky tapes are back with a mini-compilation entitled ‘hey, do you need someone to talk to?’

This digital-only release features tracks from Tim Reaper, Ell Murphy & Picasso, PRAYER, IN2STELLAR, Theo Everyday and a debut outing from Kitsta.

Sticky Tapes launched their first tape back in July 2020 with Violet and ELLES and since then have released tapes with the likes Interplanetary Criminal, CC:Disco, Asquith, Om Unit and many more. To date, they’ve raised over £2000 for six different charities, all chosen by the artists on the tapes.

As always with Sticky Tapes projects, all proceeds will be being donated to charity. This release aims to raise awareness of three mental health helplines (The Samaritans, SANEline and Switchboard), all doing amazing work for those who need someone to talk to when they are at their worst.

To further awareness of the helplines, Sticky Tapes will be posting 500 posters all over London that feature rip tickets with the numbers of the helplines.

The compilation delivers a broad sound palette, from spaced-out trance to IN2STELLAR to ethereal breaks from PRAYER.

Label: Sticky Tapes
Artist: VA
Genre: Breaks, Garage, Hardcore, Trance
Format: Digital
Cat No.: STICKY 007
Released: 22nd October 2021

PREMIERE: Tim Reaper - Red Shells [STICKY: 007]

PHYSICAL: https://one-eye-witness.com/release/1651667515/Byron-Yeates-Sweat-Ur-Prayers
DIGITAL: https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/byron-yeates-sweat-ur-prayers

A1. Sweat Ur Prayers
A2. Waves

B1. Dreaming Is Essential -  Byron Yeates, Eoin DJ & Ruin
B2. Sweat Ur Prayers (Lawrence Lee Remix)


@byronyeates @eoindj @ruinxxx @lawrencelee

Sweat Ur Prayers, the next wavy addition to Radiant Love’s catalogue, is the first solo-EP of Byron Yeates. In their messaging, their timbres and grooves, the 4 tracks speak faithfully to Yeates’ inclinations as a DJ and label-head: the playfulness and buoyancy, a constant nod to the roots of rave, and a faith in dance music’s transformative power.

Opening the release is the title track, a bubbling and breakbeat-laden 8 minutes. Mantric repetition is a running theme throughout the EP, and we hear “Raindrops falling all around, freeing me from other sounds; trickling down my weary eyes, bringing me back, I’m ready to fly” as an opening salvo. Yeates’ is known for his vast, enduring DJ sets, inducing sheens of sweat from all involved – with these tracks, it’s clear he’s unafraid to take his time to build tension as a producer as well. The percussive conversation between hi-hat and snare complexifies until a clap enters near the 2 minute mark and suddenly we’re in the main, driving groove.

“Waves” is a dial-back to downtempo, floatation and introspection. The dancer and writer Gabrielle Roth is sampled, speaking on her 5 Rhythms movement meditation technique – the term “sweat your prayers” comes from her texts on ecstatic physicality. The track shimmers and sways in bright pads and delayed-out drum breaks, setting the reflective tone for “Dreaming is Essential”, co-produced by Eoin DJ. Opening with Radiant Love co-founder Ruin, her candid vocals are perfectly aligned for the dancefloor’s vulnerability: “What am I avoiding? I wish I could hold myself, like the dance holds me.” The track unfolds through layers of percussion and shadowy texture, taking a pivot to optimism halfway through, as a warm synth-line accompanies Ruin’s repetition: “Dreaming is essential.”

Lawrence Lee’s remix of “Sweat Ur Prayers” adapts the bounce of the original’s bassline to a classic, stabby rave synth. Again there is a percussive focus, but force and warmth are foregrounded, rather than polyrhythm – a shot, rather than a spritz. We hear again the opening mantra, and although “I’m ready to fly” may seem in opposition to Ruin’s “Let the dance hold me”, Sweat Ur Prayers seems to say they are one in the same movement.

BYRON YEATES
Title: SWEAT UR PRAYERS
Cat: RADIANTLOVE005
Format: 12”
Distributed: ONE EYE WITNESS
Mixed and Mastered: MARCO PELLEGRINO
Artwork: BYRON YEATES
Text: NAT MARCUS

BYRON YEATES - SWEAT UR PRAYERS

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A1 - Lavery - Love Somebody Else (Out now)

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

Pre-Order - https://fanlink.to/HHANDS021

Vinyl Release - 27th May 2022
Digital Release - 24th June 2022

We have rolled around to one of my favourite forms of Holding Hands releases. The various artists goodness that is Slam Jams, this being number 3.

I have drafted in bangers of the highest calibre from the likes of Ste Roberts, Bolam, Inner Zone and Yosh. They go high, they go low, they go fast and they go…slightly less fast. If you like slammers, and I’m guessing that you do, then this will be a veritable day out at the fair for your ears.

OK enough of my blather. Go and listen to the damn things yourself and decide if you like them, rather than trying to work it out from reading a bloody press release you weirdos. 

All four tracks are produced and sculpted for the club. They want big sound systems and dark rooms. Close your eyes, hold hands and experience transcendental space flight...

Slam Jams Vol. 3

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Various Artists - Slam Jams Vol. 3 (HHANDS021) [clips]

Returning after a 2 year hiatus, London label GlassTalk return with Spin Cycle EP, coming courtesy of emerging South London producer, @djcoefroms11 (Coe) (aka George Whitehead). The follow up to his acclaimed debut release Radial on Dublin's Woozy label last year, Coe now lands on GlassTalk with 3 brand new tracks, alongside a remix from 3024/Version affiliate @yaksound (Yak). Chopped snappy vox and snips of laughter sit over a volley of bouncy kick and sludgy bass tremors - this is futuristic, cheeky, tripped out electro, prime for a full club meltdown.

The full EP, is a showcase of Coe's affinity for mutant bass explorations, kinetic club sounds and intricate percussion, informed by his first love, Dubstep. Super Natural creeps along at a slower roll with acidic menace, while TORE, a nasty techno dancehall lurker that twitches near to a rinse-out peak, only to restrain itself with patient Half-Time tension. Spin Cycle also features a remix from UK based artist Yak (DJ Mag's 'Breakthrough Producer', 2019). His Super Natural refix surprises those familiar with his previous work, opting for a full DnB breakage session with modern flair. It's a glorious end to another killer release in Coe's small but impressive canon of forward thinking club music.

Spin Cycle title track available from 17th May, 2022
Full EP release June 10, 2022

Mastered by Boris English at Park View Studios
Artwork by Ed Finn
PR by Genevieve Taylor at Glisten PR

Spin Cycle EP

Out Now

GLASS005 - Coe - Spin Cycle EP (Previews)

Fusion - Love For The World (Bow Street Runner Bootleg)

M - Beat - Peeni Porni (Tim Reaper Remix) - MEK-10-001 - 192mp3 clip

G Simone & KRS 1 - Music For The 90s - LQ's Jungle Refix FREE DOWLOAD WAV

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Maximum Ruffness (Krave Remix)

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Ontology - Maximum Ruffness (Krave Remix)

dwarde & Mr Sensi - Energy '94 [GBW002 DIGI2] (Out Now @ greenbaywax.bandcamp.com)

Now available in digital format from my bandcamp at https://xnation.bandcamp.com/

FDX Black EP

X Nation - Infinite Waters

Afraid

Available to buy on Vinyl & Digital <3 
https://myor.bandcamp.com/album/diamond-life-10

LOVE - Diamond Life 10

It is with the greatest of pleasure that we welcome another debut solo EP to Kniteforce Records, this one from Dutch rudeboy Coco Bryce!

Three most excellent original cuts, with the EP rounded out by a truly excellent remix from MYOR labelmate FFF, make for a must-have EP for fans of the oldskool sound. 

KF133 - Coco Bryce - Pretty Like U releases February 19th exclusively through http://kniteforcerevolution.com 

Art by Luna-C
Mastered by Jon Doe/CLSM

KF133A2 - Coco Bryce - I Will Never Turn Away (FFF Remix) (clip)

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