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Metallic structures towered high above the rest of the city, their appearance ominous and menacing. Who resided in these buildings, nobody knew. No signage emblazoned the entrances, and only on rare occasions were people seen arriving or leaving. They weren't offices or homes, they weren't schools or charities, their purpose was unknown, their story untold — an unsettling mystery that remained unsolved.

Next up on Coloray's Intercept Records comes the debut outing from UK producer Charlotte Denham AKA Talik. Influenced by her time spent living in Berlin, Hackney and Brighton, the four tracks across 'Cold Silver' showcase her ability to play with texture, rhythm and tension — crafting music for the body and the mind and finding comfort in the spaces between light and dark.

PREMIERE: Talik - Cold Silver [Intercept Records]

This Spring, Intercept proudly welcomes debutant Talik for a first EP that makes an immediate impression. Cold Silver features four tracks of rhythmically inventive electronic music with a wide sphere of reference.

Talik is UK producer Charlotte Denman, who is making her production bow after a year spent honing her sound in various states of lockdown. Talik takes influences from time spent living in Berlin, Hackney and Brighton, alongside her past years at university in the Midlands amongst projects such as Watch The Hype. 

Often starting a track on the piano before moving to Ableton, Charlotte works with various field recordings, manipulates a wealth of different sounds and then organises them into cavernous, atmospheric tracks for body and mind. All of that is evident in the richly constructed tracks she offers up on this EP.

Opener 'Cold Silver' is a tense and dystopian piece with thumping broken beats and whirring machines, loopy leads and plenty of textural sonic effects that mean the whole track brims with life. 'Can You Feel It Spark' taps into late night dance floor energies with a haunting lead synth and scraping hits all unfolding over vast, lurching beats and bass. 'When The Air Runs Dry' is an accomplished ambient track with a grainy, rainy wall of sound punctuated by shards of light and hope, while closer 'A Fazed Gain' shuts things down with reverberating bass and a nebula of scraping, glitching, dripping sounds that is offset by a more smooth and serene chord sequence.

There is a duality to each of these tracks that finds beautiful tension between light and dark, harsh and soft that immediately marks out Talik as an essential new producer.

Talik - When The Air Runs Dry

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Talik - I See Faces In The Trees

Talik - Sound Of Your Shadow (INTL.PDCOMP001)

@talik1 her single ‘Let it Break’ is out now.

After the succes of ‘Cold Silver’ and releases on both @pressuredome and @3024world we have the pleasure of bringing you ‘Let it Break’. ‘Let it break‘ is the title song to her upcoming 4-track EP in which Talik introduces us to a more melodic side of her productions, combined with the strong beats we know her for.

Talik - Let It Break

Talik follows up her debut 'Cold Silver' EP with another offering for Intercept. Floating pads, off-kilter drums. A playful and conceptual trip showcasing everything she has to offer in the UK's leftfield electronic scene. 

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Release Date: 
8th October 2021

Artist Name - Talik
EP Name - Let It Break
Cat Number - INT030
Track Name - Dust Masks The Silence
Label - Intercept

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https://soundcloud.com/talik1
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Let It Break

OS Premiere: Talik - Dust Masks The Silence [Intercept]

@Talik1 sculpts celestial broken techno jams at slower tempos on her ‘Let It Break’ EP for @interceptrecords. Hear ‘Don't Look Else You'll See’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-talik-dont-look-else-youll-see

Premiere: Talik ‘Don't Look Else You'll See’

Talik follows up her critically acclaimed 'Cold Silver' EP with another offering for Intercept. After releasing on 3024 and Pressure Dome, 'Let it Break' ventures further into the world Charlotte Denman has sculpted for herself, cementing an aesthetic that floats between a dream state and waking up with eyes wide open. A sound largely influenced by nature, her background in yoga, combined with a love for the UK’s leftfield electronic scene. 

The opener 'Don't Look Else You'll See' is a perfect example of what makes Talik tick. The floating pads, off-kilter drums and water-like fx sounds make for a great introduction in the next chapter of Talik's story. 

Title track 'Let It Break' uses alien-like synth work combined with vocal chops, a swampy bassline, breaks-inspired drums, and big sound fx to build a world that on one hand feels technological, but on the other strangely organic; a feat that Talik has shown in her work to date. 

'Dust Masks The Silence' further builds on the flow of the previous two tracks, interchanging the colour for something that's less saturated but still very playful. We're taken on a conceptual trip into the inner psyche of an artist showing her strengths in each corner we take. 

'When an Iris Blooms' finishes the EP, showing a more gentle side to the story of the EP. The raw drums are interchanged for choirs, soothing synth work, and percussion bathed in reverbs and delays. It closes off the EP perfectly, cleansing the listener in the process. 
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Talik - When An Iris Blooms

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Following the release of @talik1 ‘Cold Silver’ EP earlier this year on @interceptrecords - @3024world label boss Martyn steps up to deliver a typically bass-heavy UKG version.

Cold Silver (Martyn's Time Freeze Mix)

Talik - Cold Silver (Martyn's Time Freeze Mix) [Intercept]

Co-founder @sam-black747 returns to the label with our next dubplate :) <3 We also welcome an artist we've loved for ages to the family, @talik1 with a pure 🔥 remix!

Cutting 10 of these again, and full digital release
Release date: 27/08
Preorder: https://pseudonymrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pseudub003-slacker-almost-punk

PSEUDUB003 - Slacker - Almost Punk [PREVIEWS]

Picking up on the launch of Marie Montexier’s Paryìa label with a trippy EP by a.b.u.3.0.3., the second release comes from the Dublin based shooting star Small Crab.

The Skin & Blister founding member delivers three percussive breaky tracks that highlight a wide range of her musical influences. Combining smooth textures with tribal rhythms the ’Flowing with Honey’ EP perfectly rounds off with a bass heavy remix by London based producer Talik, who recently gained attention through highly acclaimed releases on 3024 and Intercept.

Artist: Small Crab
EP: Flowing with Honey
Cat.-Nr.: Paryìa002

Flowing with Honey

B2. Small Crab - Yerba Cereal (Talik Remix)

Following releases for 3024, Pressure Dome, Femme Culture & Pseudonym Records, @talik1's third EP for Intercept sees her hone her sound even further with two deeply sincere cuts 'Kundalini' and 'Home', the latter featuring incisive spoken word from The Slopes. 

Opener 'Kundalini' delves into its namesake energy, a form of yogic practice and expression focussed on movement and balance, literally translated from the original Sanskrit as 'coiled snake'. This sense of understated power emerges from a backbone of sparse rhythm and growling bass punctuated by assured percussion and subtle murmurs. Meanwhile, lyrical, synthetic melodies materialise and gesture towards this sense of introspective, cathartic motion. 

On the flip things get even deeper, 'Home' exemplifying Talik's penchant for pairing snarling sound design with sincere harmonies, sharpening her surreal, existential take on left-field bass. Accompanied by the lyrical dexterity of The Slopes, 'Home' interrogates loss, belonging, and companionship, a pensive reflection on our times and a perfect accompaniment to 'Kundalini'. 

Taken together, the two pieces further assert the potency and poignancy of Talik's sound, with The Slopes complementing and pushing her aesthetic vision even further forwards.

Talik - Kundalini

In a relatively short space of time, @talik1 has built a reputation as one of the most distinctive of the new breed of UK electronic music innovators.

Brooding, richly textured, and intricately polyrhythmic, Talik’s unique style has caught attention from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs & Marie Montexier. She’s also been championed by Martyn, who’s become both a mentor and a friend - releasing her music on his label 3024 and remixing ‘Cold Silver’ from her debut EP on Intercept Records.

As a longstanding member of the CF family, Talik’s debut on the label feels long overdue, but this collection is well worth the wait. Deep, percussive and snarling, with a powerful low end emphasis, the release taps into a rich vein of bass music heritage with a fresh new take.

Rounding off this impressive 4 tracker, Intercept label mate @french_ii joins on remix duties, bringing the BPMs up for an explosive 160 rework of ‘Wood & Water’. Essential CF tackle!

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Talik - Wood & Water [CTRLDD002] - Previews

London’s @talik1 serves up three cuts of shuddering, chasmic club music on @controlfreakrecordings, alongside a weighty remix from @french_ii

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-talik-what-do-you-feel

Wood & Water

Premiere: Talik ‘What Do You Feel’

Pre-order: https://controlfreakrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/wood-water-inc-french-ii-remix

As a longstanding member of the @controlfreakrecordings family, @talik1’s debut on the label feels long overdue - her next EP 'Wood & Water' featuring an expert remix from @french_ii lands on the label this Friday.

'Gripping Dust' lays emphasis on the low-end, a snarling and percussive mutation of UK bass.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Talik 'Gripping Dust'

After debuting on 3024 in July 2021 with "I See Faces in the Trees" on the label's first Artist Mentorship Compilation, we are very proud to present Talik's Firefly EP. 

On this record, the London-based producer explores and experiments with the twitchy, flickering movements of animals of the night, their behaviors perhaps analogous to our own in dark and loud rooms surrounded by strangers- alone but together.  Through four beautiful tracks we are shown a more energetic side of Talik's music, layered with the moods of her earlier work for Intercept, Pressure Dome and Control Freak.

Enjoy!

Music w&p Charlotte Denman
Mastering Bob Macc @ Subvert
Artwork Jeroen Erosie

https://www.instagram.com/char_talik/

Firefly EP

Buy on Bandcamp!

Talik - Snake (3024-TAL1)

After debuting on 3024 in July 2021 with "I See Faces in the Trees" on the label's first Artist Mentorship Compilation, we are very proud to present Talik's Firefly EP.

On this record, the London-based producer explores and experiments with the twitchy, flickering movements of animals of the night, their behaviors perhaps analogous to our own in dark and loud rooms surrounded by strangers- alone but together. Through four beautiful tracks we are shown a more energetic side of Talik's music, layered with the moods of her earlier work for Intercept, Pressure Dome and Control Freak.

Enjoy!

Music w&p Charlotte Denman
Mastering Bob Macc @ Subvert
Artwork Jeroen Erosie

www.instagram.com/char_talik/

Buy on Bandcamp

Talik - Firefly (3024-TAL1)

Talik - Serpent (3024-TAL1)

Talik - Gloworm (3024-TAL1)

Her thoughts were bubbling, they ran wild and recklessly from subject to subject taking up brainspace. She looked through glass eyes, glazed and distant by what sat behind.

Wandering between the cars, the people, the noise. She was simply lost in her own little world, delighted and happy to be at a disconnect from it all. It was magic up here.

The rain was falling heavily, puddles were forming by the corners of the road. It would only get colder and wetter from here but meanwhile she felt warm.

Talik appears on a new compilation celebrating five years of Pressure Dome. Her track is excellent, deep and weaving. The label invites friends and family to contribute as they mark a special milestone.

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PREMIERE: Talik - Brainspace [Pressure Dome]

3024 / Intercept / Pressure Dome / Control Freak