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Sweat Equity is happy to present its latest release, Bell Curve’s Fucked Up If True. The debut EP from the recent New York transplant, out digitally this month, is a six-track crash course in the potentials for sculptural bass music, just in time for back to school season.

It’s been a solid year for Isabel Munson’s Bell Curve project, making the jump from Boston to New York and straight into a spot on the exceptional Sister Vol. 1 compilation (curated by FXWRK and Circe), all while readying her first batch of EP tracks. Pairing a honed sensibility for scorched earth breaks and depth-charge low end, Munson’s works as a producer pull her own tastes as a DJ through a shapeshifting, hyper-kinetic approach. Drawing on halftime jungle, grime, and dancehall, Munson’s work artfully dances around easy readings or genre classifications, instead pushing each track’s evolving grooves outside their comfort zone.

The tracks are a lesson in meditative, precise attention to detail, allowing long percussive patterns to weave and twist around each other, weaving a dense tapestry of syncopations and grooves that serve as a restless counterpoint to the swells and swirls of bass fleshing out each track. It’s a slab of patient sonic sculpting, mixing together lush synth work with razors edge rhythmic elements that take a psychedelic spin on easy genre readings or familiar signifiers. Intently focused on movement and progression, F.U.I.T. carries some a serious cognitive payload, while never losing site of each track’s potential and purpose on the dancefloor, its mind-altering capacities stemming from an almost endless series of rhythmic permutations and changes that leave you miles from where you started.

Pre-Orders are available 9/15, with the record hitting stores 9/29. 
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released September 29, 2017

All tracks produced by Bell Curve
Mixed by Andrew Nerviano
Album art by Studio Fluora

Grip it Here

Bell Curve - Fucked Up If True

Bell Curve - New Realms

@TASTETESTER
@TREEKEEPER

Does she know that you like to play PS2 till 6 in the morning? 

Taste Tester x Treekeeper - 6AMPS2

DjnateXcassie

Taken from Skool Dayz EP, out June 3rd on bandcamp and all usual stores!

Full EP teaser: https://soundcloud.com/hexadecibel/hxdb-skool-days-ep-teaser

Follow @DRJEEP x @hexadecibel

twitter.com/b_yrslf • facebook.com/byrslfdivision

HxdB - Skool Dayz (Doctor Jeep Remix) - BYRSLF023 // OUT NOW

Out via @apothecary-compositions on vinyl & digital in all good recordshops May 20th 2014. Follow me @ www.twitter.com/slickshoota

HEAVEE - GMS

Bassline Conga

first single from my 2nd album Deep End, out Nov 17 on digital and cassette via Dome of Doom 
ft the amazing @Logan_OLM

additional mixing by Daddy Kev 
mastering Ten Eight Seven
art @ symbios.wiki

Maintaining (Step Out) Ft. Logan

https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/blistering
remix by Bell Curve @bell_curve

Defanged (Bell Curve's Melting Mix)

First single from the forthcoming EP;

T5UMUT5UMU - 玄 Gen
SNKRX014 // 21st June 2024

Pre-order Vinyl: https://bit.ly/SNKRX014
(Limited to 100 copies)

Beaming in from Tokyo with the kind of deadly new bass configurations to fully shut down a dance, Sneaker Social Club are very proud to present a five-strong shockout from T5UMUT5UMU.

You might have caught the breakthrough producer bringing their wayward signals to Hakuna Kuala for their debut 12” Sea Of Trees, but a dive into their Bandcamp shows a prolific studio head turning out beats with laser focus and unstoppable flair. Messing with the physical essence of Gqom, Dubstep, Grime, Trap, abber and more besides, the T5UMUT5UMU sound flexes between styles to make up its own soundsystem language, and this new EP on Sneaker is the perfect demonstration.

Deadly square wave bass punching into the dead of night, granulated speech patterns and whipcrack drums, grimey flute stabs and dramatic percussive rolls all spill into the soup at various points and the mood remains heavy at all times, but it’s never morose. The drops are too fiery to keep your head down, and there’s space for more than just sullen sonics (check the rousing melodic refrains hovering over the tumbling taiko drums on ‘Ikusa’ and you’ll see what we mean).

This kind of inventive progression of the bass music idea is exactly what Sneaker is built on, and it’s our pleasure to bring it to your ears.

T5UMUT5UMU - 武者 Musha

Hünter - Cypress [OMM012]
@hoonterdot

Ommaya Records
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www.instagram.com/ommayarecords

Hünter returns to Ommaya with his debut LP 'Cypress,' a deeply personal exploratory expansion of his sound inspired by memories from his childhood. NYC-based Bell Curve @bell_curve (co-founder of the incredible albeit no longer active Worst Behavior) and San Diego's Bloodhound contribute remixes that flip Hünter's ethereal offerings into two undeniable head knockers.

Hünter wrote a few words on the project:

"The album's core focus is the sounds of my nostalgia. As a young boy, my father and I would often travel to British Columbia and I’d help around our property on Bowen Island. I’d be by myself in the thick of weeds and plants toying with garden machinery while my dad blasted opera and choral music in the house. These were times of solace in my youth, as a kid I spent a lot of time alone. Bowen was and still is my favorite place on earth.

The title ‘Cypress’ is the name of the ski resort that you can barely see from the East shores of the island. Its lights twinkle in the clouds at night. It speaks to the environment of which this album is built upon. Towering mountains, large bodies of water, cool breeze, greenery, fresh crisp air. Stunning summers and comfy winters.

The album was greatly inspired by artists like Autechre, Lee Gamble, Boards of Canada, Bjarki and Loraine James. Without intent it naturally came together with a variety of genres. Projects range from December ’22 to April ’24 and include a variety of field recordings from this period."

Download

Hünter - Sediment (Bell Curve Remix)

Mile High Meltdown Compilation v.2
Track 7
https://soundcloud.com/nadasound

FREE DL

NADASOUND - Consume

Taken from @Shokryme's 'Bandana' EP
Out on Equiknoxx Music 28/04/16
Read more:
http://www.factmag.com/2017/04/27/equiknoxx-releases-eps-rtkal-shokryme-hear-shokrymes-drop-now/

Equiknoxx Presents Shokryme Bandana

Drop

SHOKRYME feat. FRISCO - DROP

The Unity Project is a celebration of Culprate’s Twitch channel and the community that has grown with it. Each track featured on the project has been the collaborative effort of Culprate and other producers and/or songwriters from the Twitch community. There will be four parts to the project, each with a different aesthetic and each presenting an opportunity to discover fresh emerging talent from across the world.

Visit Culprate’s Twitch channel here: https://www.twitch.tv/culprate

Unity Project, Pt. 1

Support The Artists

Culprate & The Widdler - Chained

Sweat Equity is happy to present its latest release, Bell Curve’s Fucked Up If True. The debut EP from the recent New York transplant, out digitally this month, is a six-track crash course in the potentials for sculptural bass music, just in time for back to school season. 

The lead single, 'Heaven and Hell,' is a slab of patient sonic sculpting, mixing together lush synth work with razors edge rhythmic elements that take a psychedelic spin on easy genre readings or familiar signifiers. Intently focused on movement and progression, F.U.I.T. carries some a serious cognitive payload, while never losing site of each track’s potential and purpose on the dancefloor, its mind-altering capacities stemming from an almost endless series of rhythmic permutations and changes that leave you miles from where you started.

Pre-Orders are available 9/15, with the record hitting stores 9/29. 
Produced by Bell Curve
Mixed by Andrew Nerviano
Album art by Studio Fluora

Pre-Order Here:
https://sweatequitynyc.bandcamp.com/album/fucked-up-if-true

Fax Machine is Trying to Kill Me

Sweat Equity