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From the debut album by DJ Pitch / @djpitchdj

It's Not What You Said, It's Because You Spoke is out now

For darkening nights
For a world that is ending
That has ended
For what comes after
For that which we might make
For that to which we can give no words
To those words that we hold close
///
Towards a feeling
An opening, ineffable
There, a blurring
Some smear at the edge of perception
For a moment,
Permanence is lost
The outside reaches in
We find ourselves
A sound finds us
///
A quiet breath
We are resigned
We remain hopeful

Mastered by Mor Air
Artwork by Alex Buchan and Eliza

DJ Pitch - Think I Didn't

Think

Think (Actress Tone Two Remix Edit)

Celeste

Celeste Song

The Fifth Season (Versions)

Le Malentendu (Tirzah & Coby Sey Version) [feat. Lala &ce]

Brass

The Blues Remembers Everything the Country Forgot

B£E (feat. Blackhaine)

Unexpected. I recorded meditation music with Natalia Maczek for MISBHVs „Meditations: a sonic response“ compilation. Close your eyes and absorb Pt. 2 with work from Eva Geist, Julian Klincewicz, Natalia and me. ETHER. 🕉🐘📿🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏿‍♀️

Adam Port - Ether Feat. Natalia Maczek

Taken from the album 'Fire', released 27 August on Ninja Tune: https://thebug.lnk.to/fireSo

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Pressure (feat. Flowdan)

Taken from the album 'Fire', released 27 August on Ninja Tune: thebug.lnk.to/fireSo

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Fire

Hammer (feat. Flowdan)

V/A - Kikommando
Label: PAN / Hakuna Kulala
Cat.No. PAN 124 / HK029
Format: DL / Book
Release Date: 6 August 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Kikommando
Video: bit.ly/3i2EgSg

A collective effort from a vital scene in Kampala, KIKOMMANDO takes its name from Ugandan street food of flat bread and beans. As a ‘food of soldiers’ offering maximum energy for minimum funds, the eponymous mixtape, video series and book project is an equally nourishing and ambitious proposition. It all began in the East African summer of 2018, during a two-month residency at the Nyege Nyege label and collective’s villa, in collaboration with their sublabel Hakuna Kulala. Producer and PAN artist Simone Trabucchi (aka STILL) opened the door to his temporary studio in the city and a crucial cross-cultural collaboration was born.

“The intention was to record as much as possible,” Trabucchi says about KIKOMMANDO’s musical showcase of eight Kampala-based artists, coming from the spectrum of musical influences, crossing trap, drill, cut ups, kuduro, electro, smooth jams—the list goes on. In creating a sonic space to support the expression of its featured singers, poets and emcees, the mixtape ties countless styles and flows into a single snapshot of a particular part of the Kampala music scene, at a particular point in time. The invective of rapper and street legend Blaq Bandana’s “Nkwaata” is laid over a spare and brooding ambient. Kampala Unit trumpet player and first-time singer, Florence, rolls a thick melodic texture through the organic clicks, knocks and atmospherics of “Bae Tasanze”. Jahcity’s unique lyricism combines a personal take on traditional music and soulful-reggae with a jerky, wobbly collection of drops and donks.

Meanwhile, Ecko Bazz applies his grimey vocals and rhythmic, introspective words to lead single ‘Ntabala (Rolex Riddim) at a particularly pertinent moment of self-reflection. “I was trying to listen to the voice inside myself and wanted to achieve a higher level of understanding of things, life,” he says about the themes that he felt inspired to explore with Trabucchi at the recording desk. The accompanying video, shot on a rooftop in the Kampala neighborhood of Ggaba, is one of a series of slick and high-definition films complementing each one of the KIKOMMANDO tracks. These also include contributions from Ugandan emcee and key Hakuna Kulala member Biga Yut, don dada of the GabaGaza gang Swordman Kitala (with Omutaba on percussion) and South Sudanese poet and singer Winnie Lado.

Also accompanying a ‘visual mixtape’ of moving images for each song on KIKOMMANDO is a recording diary of sorts, where Trabucchi compiles a vibrant collection of pictures, colours and textures reflecting the its heterogeneous sonic palette into a book. Together this multifaceted, interdisciplinary project showcases, what Lamin Fofana’s liner notes describe as, “amazing originality, complexity”, while “embracing dissonance”.

Trabucchi’s personal take on a kind of ‘digital dancehall’ defined the sound of his ground-breaking rumination on Italy’s colonial history on debut STILL album, I, in 2017. KIKOMMANDO is a different proposition entirely, where he finds new ways to complement the personality and skills of its contributors sprung from a constant stream of visitors arriving at the Nyege Nyege Villa’s makeshift studio. “It was a dialogue,” stresses Trabucchi, who has always preferred collaboration as a means to escape branded and stereotypical identities, while creating something new. “I created the musical platform to make the singers confident, and challenged them at the same time. Working together accelerates ideas and reveals that nothing is your invention alone. That’s why KIKOMMANDO is a mixtape to me, and not an album.”

The mixtape is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by NMR. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11 & 12 mixed by Ville Haimala. Tracks 5, 6 & 8 mixed by Lorenzo Dal Ri.

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KIKOMMANDO

STILL, Blaq Bandana - Nkwaata (PAN 124 / HK029)

Régime des Fleurs

Gazzillion Ear

Gazillion Ear (Thom Yorke Man on Fire Remix)

Black Encyclopedia of the Air

Made A Circle (feat. Nappy Nina, Maassai, Antonia Gabriela & Orion Sun)

godrime

lilchou (feat. Maoupa Mazzocchetti)

What if i should fall asleep and slip under ?

'Holding On To You' by twenty one pilots from Vessel - available now on Fueled By Ramen.

Vessel

twenty one pilots - Holding On To You

Spearhead Records Present...

Spearhead 100

The official 100th release on Spearhead Records.

Available from www.spearheadrecords.co.uk

24 Brand New tracks and remixes from some of the best producers the world of Drum & Bass has to offer.

CD 1
1) The Vanguard Project – Stitches feat. Jemimah Read (Calibre Remix)
2) Bungle – Northern Dub
3) LSB – My Squeeze
4) Redeyes – Outlines
5) Villem & McLeod – The Sea feat. Heidi Vogel (BCee Remix)
6) Low:r – Other Side feat. Anna Pancaldi
7) John B – If U Need Anything
8) Macca & Loz Contreras – One Love
9) BCee – Wanderer (Black Barrel Remix)
10) Airshots – Can’t Catch Me feat. Ben Shemel
11) Dexcell – Missing Pieces
12) Saikon – Eastern Shimmer

CD2
1) BCee – Hand On My Heart
2) Technimatic & LSB – Sight Lines
3) Walk:r – Wallflower
4) ZeroZero – Before feat. LaMeduza
5) Anile – Turn Around
6) Villem – Reflections feat. Jevon Ives
7) Riya – We Belong feat. Maverick Soul & Frank H Carter III (BCee Remix)
8) Seba – My Love
9) The Vanguard Project – Is This Love feat. Lucy Kitchen (Dexcell Remix)
10) Utah Jazz – Handle This feat. DRS (Pola & Bryson Remix)
11) Jonny L – Bass Break (Nu:Tone Remix)
12) BCee – Back To The Street feat. Philippa Hanna (BCee’s Re-fix)

John B - If U Need Anything

Impazamo

Gqom Tera (ft. Ecko Bazz)

Amnesia Scanner — Tearless
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 108
Release Date: 19 June 2020
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tearless

Berlin-based duo Amnesia Scanner have announced the impending release of their sophomore LP, Tearless, a sonic reflection of how it feels to experience Earth at a time when collapse is emerging as the prevailing narrative. As Amnesia Scanner founders, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala watch their icy home country of Finland thaw- the staggering scale of political recalibration and the worldwide climate crisis blows open old norms. “There’s a looming sense of radical change,” they noted pre-COVID, connecting the period of making the album to a fin de siecle horror and curiosity regarding what new world is being ushered in. Tearless has been referred to as “a breakup album with the planet”, to which Amnesia Scanner responds, on the LP’s closing track: “You will be fine, if we can help you lose your mind.” Amnesia Scanner are previewing the album in the form of a video for their accidental quarantine anthem “AS Going,” a clip featuring a cascade of images of spiraling humans.

Tearless marks a turning point in the duo’s trajectory, one begun in 2014 with the AS Live [][][][][] mixtape, followed by audio play Angels Rig Hook, two EP’s for Young Turks, and their 2018 debut album, Another Life (PAN). For Amnesia Scanner in 2020, the walls of the nightclubs, galleries, and institutions fall away and are replaced by full-scale theatrical productions complete with jumbotron stages, animatronics, and a surrealist costumed cast (literally so in the XL version of the album’s live show, Anesthesia Scammer). Likewise, the musical scope of the album is expansive, with guest vocalists — the Peruvian artist Lalita and the Brazillian DJ/producer LYZZA — descending into a vast uncanny valley of sound. With the crossfader on Tearless sitting closer to pop than abstraction, so too does the audience for this record widen in scope. Opener “AS Enter” sets a sombre tone until the fucking riffs of the second track (the titular, Lalita-helmed “AS Tearless”) make clear there’s plenty of roaring to come. A feature from metalcore band Code Orange on “AS Flat” follows, along with “AS Trouble” (feat. Oracle, the third, machinic ghost-member of Amnesia Scanner) and together they hit as black-metal-gaze dirges. Closing Tearless is the sadboy grunge of “AS U Will Be Fine” with a clear statement of intent: doom, despair, insanity, absurdity, it’s all natural, all cathartic, and all OK.

For the art direction of this release, Amnesia Scanner collaborators PWR scavenged the pop cultural unconscious, as if ventilating memory dissociated by trauma. The gatefold vinyl reveals a four-panel comic, full of iconic pre-millennial motifs, which arrive cut up and reassembled collage-style: fitting visuals for an album that channels Deftones as much as reggaeton, menace as much as the drop-outness of grunge. Refuse like the ‘90s and party like the ‘20s—if that seems senseless, you are doing it right.

The album is mastered by Enyang Urbiks, featuring visual direction from PWR Studio.

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Tearless 

Amnesia Scanner - AS Enter (PAN 108)

C2E (feat. Bladee)

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