The imprint from Turin celebrates its second birthday with Flex003, a compilation featuring ten tools from new, up-and-coming and established artists from around the globe.

Ranging from 90 to 160+ BPM, the release encompasses multiple aspects of experimental club music such as dancehall, drum’n’bass, leftfield techno and broken beats sounds.

The compilation kicks off with a bass post-club experiment of ‘Gain XP’ from Bladeblanc, which leads to the combination of broken beats and atmospherical sound design of ‘Wonder’ from AYLN. Follows ’East Wing Oslo House’, the new techno-adjacent-mutant-club contribution from Ikävä Pii, and ‘Scamming’ from Lighght with its psychedelic vocals and pitch-shifting percussions. To close off the first side of the album we find the leftfield techno of Alec Pace’s ‘Ghost Money’ with its syncopated bass and mysterious vocals. Opening the second half the compilation is Honeydrip with her new work ‘Wake the Phone’, characterised by a bouncing beat and a 90's feel, followed by ‘Sentimento’, the quirky and hypnotic interlude signed by BLCKEBY. Hassan Abou Alam then brings the listener into a distant world with his glitchy robotic tool titled ‘Freeze’. The BPM then shifts up for an explosive ending where club-driven percussive rhythmics blends with d’n’b excursions in ‘Day After the Last Day’ from Diessa and ‘Rek’ from NORA DRUM.

Flex003 is available on all platforms starting from Friday 3rd June 2022.

© & ℗ 2021 Early Reflex. All rights reserved.
All tracks produced and mixed by the respective artists § Mastering by Andrea Prato § Drawings by Giuseppe Cavuoto § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu & Giuseppe Cavuoto.

Wake The Phone

Honeydrip - Wake the Phone

Paradoxe Club is a record label of Parisian artists drawing influences from a global palette of club styles. Since 2016, Birol, Le Dom, Sunareht and De Grandi have been releasing innovative and bold electronic music from France.

Tune in for Paradoxe Club every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month, from 22h to 23h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

Paradoxe Club : De Grandi - 14 Septembre 2022

@djstrawberrymusic, or rather Emre Öztürk, is a Turkish sound artist, representing Algorave Istanbul. He debuted with the track 'Hafif Müzik' on the compilation album “grids” released by outlines. The album “Cycles”, which is the artist's full-length debut, is the third release in the catalogue of guides, a sub-label of the outlines label.

Side A of the cassette opens with 'Motion', an extremely spacious and ambient composition in which individual sounds gradually reveal a vast cosmic landscape. DJ Strawberry's next track, 'Dance/Music', floats in a similar sounding atmosphere, but is enriched by vocal samples, which in the initial phase of the track are repeated single words. In the central part of the recording, the author of the spoken words is revealed – he is one of the most important representatives of Chicago Footwork, DJ Spinn, who is joined after a while by his legendary friend DJ Rashad. Excerpts from their conversation are taken from a 2012 French TV interview. In it, Rashad and Spinn talked about the origins of footwork and it is this part of the conversation that is placed by Strawberry at the climax of the piece. The modern and futuristic footwork sound is combined here in a surprising way with the story of two Chicago legends. 'Variation' is the third number on the A-side, which calms the atmosphere after the extremely exciting and dynamic 'Dance/Music'. We find ourselves in a dub-ambient space, watching the spectacular ethereal images shift. Concluding the A-side, 'Fast Track' is a composition in which one can hear inspiration from the Japanese footwork minimalism of DJ Fulltono and CRZKNY from their joint project Theater1. A clear rhythmic pulse is surrounded by delicate micro-drops.

The B-side of the cassette is a consistent development of DJ Strawberry's created sound world. 'Acelem Var' presents a subdued liquid variation of ambient dub. 'Acelem Yok', on the other hand, is the most monumental track and its dramatic layer is as spectacular as the final section of 'Dance/Music'. The concluding B-side of “Cycles”, 'Mono Ton', is like an extended complement to the last track from the A-side, 'Fast Track'. Here, too, you can hear the scattered particles floating in rhythmic space against an underwater, impressionistic and ambient background.

DJ Strawberry's album “Cycles” is an extremely mature offering. Different genre traditions intermingle here: ambient, minimalism, dub techno, clicks and cuts and Chicago Footwork. Strawberry builds his songs with great sensitivity, combining the modern with the classic Chicago sound. An excellent example of this is 'Dance/Music', in which the producer seems to be drawing attention to the prevailing trend in recent times where music and DJs have become more important than the people on the dance floor. Emphasising this problem by referring to the foundations of the dancer/DJ relationship in footwork culture is a treatment that puts things back into perspective. In turn, the fusion of the unique beauty of ambient with footwork and a tempo of 160bpm moves the “Cycles” album towards illustrative music, which could be the perfect soundtrack to accompany the new discoveries of Webb's telescope. It's also not hard to imagine these tracks sounding from the radio of a space-traversing Tesla.

Artwork: Iwona Jarosz / Yes in Progress
Mastered by: Mateusz Wysocki

Cycles

DJ Strawberry - Cycles

Super Mop For Kids

Shytar

TL Premiere #1165 (2023.02.21) : Nico - Concentric [Grid]

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For this 30th Premiere of 2023, we have a track by Nico (@nico_dubs) (Timedance/Mother's Finest) titled ‘Concentric’ from his upcoming EP "Passage" on the record label run by french artist @Clad-fr : Grid.

▶︎ The EP will be available from February 24, 2023 in digital on Bandcamp : https://gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/passage-ep

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Release Info :

Nico - Passage EP [Grid // GRID008]

Snippets : soundcloud.com/grid-records/nico-passage-ep-grid008

Launching 2023 with a five-track EP from Mexico City's Nico!
'Passage EP' is complete polyrhythmic bliss with minimalist, ethereal elements that sparkle among the overall dread-driven atmosphere.
With the title track also featuring Tristan Arp (@tristanarp) (Wisdom Teeth/Banoffee Pies/Human Pitch), the range of works perfectly encapsulate the style for which Nico has been renowned for via releases on Timedance, Naafi, Mother's Finest and Midnight Shift.

Tracklist :
1. Nico - Passage (feat. Tristan Arp)
2. Nico - Timex
3. Nico - Passage (Tech Dub)
4. Nico - Caracala
5. Nico - Concentric

releases February 24, 2023

All tracks produced and mixed by Nicolas Guerrero, except 'Passage' produced and mixed by Nicolas Guerrero and Erin Rioux.
Mastered by Krikor Kouchian
Artwork by Unité Services

Supported by : Addison Groove, Amor Satyr, Ariel Zetina, Atrice, Azu Tiwaline, Basile3, Breaka, Call Super, Chekov, Ciel, Cleveland, Danielle, De Grandi, DJ Autumn, Facta, Giant Swan, GiGi FM, Giulia Tess, GЯEG, Hassan Abou Alam, Henry Greenleaf, Henzo, Hodge, Ido Plumes, Jabes, Jasmín, Joanna OJ, Jon Beige, Jonny From Space, K Wata, Kellen303, Kaval, Kvanchi, Les Fils De Jacob, Lisa More, Lurka, Machine Woman, mad miran, Martha, Metrist, Nick León, Oceanic, Om Unit, Piezo, Realitycheck, Rhyw, Romy Mats, Ronan, SHE Spells Doom, Shifted, Simo Cell, Soreab, Stone, Syz, Tammo Hesselink, Traces, Yilan, Yushh and more.

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Follow Nico : 
Bandcamp : www.nicodf.bandcamp.com
Instagram : www.instagram.com/nico__dubs
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/nico_dubs

Follow Grid :
Bandcamp : www.gridrecords.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/2205553-Grid-6
Facebook : www.facebook.com/gridrecord
Instagram : www.instagram.com/gridrecords
RA : www.ra.co/labels/18537
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/grid-records
Twitter : www.twitter.com/GRID_Records

Passage EP

Concentric

TL PREMIERE : Nico - Concentric [Grid]

https://soundcloud.com/isabassi
https://soundcloud.com/super-hexagon
🛒 https://isabassi.bandcamp.com/album/speaking-things
🔊 https://youtu.be/vzurXn0gNIo

‘Speaking Things’, the new album from Isabassi, is a collection of highly detailed industrial music examining her singular perspective on rhythm and texture. Through brittle percussion, supernatural atmospheres and astonishing bass power, the Brazilian composer and artist explores a conversational narrative on the first full length Super Hexagon release.

Tracklist: 

01 Escapist Foley 
02 Janus 
03 12 legs 
04 Speaking heads 
05 Mesclado 
06 Inadequacy
07 Liquid Stone
08 Mist dub
09 you dialled the wrong number

PREMIERE: Isabassi - Speaking heads [Super Hexagon Records]

There was one question which burned brighter and more pressing than any other. It had been troubling him for some time and had plagued his very existence.

'Were they in the future and was this real at all?'

Dreamers have always pondered the meaning of life and whilst some were regarded as esteemed men of thought others were simply regarded as lunatics and mavericks.

'What was he?'

As he wandered slowly through the city streets he looked around him at the miscellaneous faces which passed by without knowing. Little did they know about such big questions.

'Is this future now?'

This is a track taken from a new EP on Early Reflex predominantly made up of remixes of material originally recorded by Alec Pace. This track however, remains untouched and untampered. A new original which features deconstructed breaks, rough high pitched electronics and a nod to old school bass music culture.

EYX012 Is This Future Now?

PREMIERE: Alec Pace - Is This Future Now? [Early Reflex]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-small-crab-glucosides

@leftrightandcentreuk enlist rising talent @smallcrab for their next release, providing a masterclass in tension, effervescent rhythms are cloaked in disconcerting atmospherics. Deployed at the right moment, Glucosides is sure to cause pandemonium on the dancefloor.

Glucosides / AYY + Tokyo

Small Crab - Glucosides [Left, Right & Centre]

Thick droplets of water hit the basin with a loud thud, like a ticking clock counting down to an unknown event. The room was cold and damp, the wall paper had begun peeling all over and thick layers of dust had settled on every surface; it was no place for a person to inhabit, at least not any more. Once upon a time this room and the home it was in had been a sanctuary to many; a place that brought comfort and happiness; a place that was loved and looked after - now it lay dormant, a relic of the past forgotten with time.

Doline's new release marks two big milestones for the artist and its home Grid Records; a debut album and the first long player on the label. The French artist and Sound Pelligrino affiliate has already released on the imprint back in 2021 and this follow up, Dompte-regard, is another showcase of his deftness at sound design and playing with mood and tempo. It's refined as ever, pairing melodic touches and glistening synth lines, which have it sitting somewhere between the club and home listening.

Dompte-Regard

PREMIERE: Doline - Mill The Pink Link [Grid Records]

I Wish I Was Aphix Twin

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