Detroit native Young Muscle (@architecture_in_tokyo) brings his first full EP to Scuffed Recordings, exploring an array of heavy hitting electronic influences over three new tracks.
Rounding things off is the appropriately named ‘Beat Up By the Drum’, a relentlessly percussion-fuelled club workout.

Amalgamation EP

Young Muscle - Beat Up By The Drum

PREMIERE: Yikes - Corroboree [Midnight Elevator]

Love From Above

Sumac presents three exclusive tracks from label founders DJ Plead, Jon Watts and T.Morimoto. This is the first in a series of releases dedicated to reworked material from Utility's singular 2019 release Nexus Destiny (SU005).

DJ Plead extends 'Flooot' into a hypnotic 140BPM journey; Jon Watts contextualises 'Vert Bend' against his signature hard-as-nails electro template; and T.Morimoto bends '96Khz Rapture' + 'Cloudy Choir' into a heady psychedelic mix.

Nexus Destiny is an experiment in preset aesthetics conceived by Utility (T.Morimoto and Austin Buckett) as equal parts sonic readymade, machine/human collaboration, ambient soundtrack and sample pack for fellow producers.

utility101.bandcamp.com/album/nexus-destiny
unprojects.org.au/article/interview-with-utility-part-i/
unprojects.org.au/article/interview-with-utility-part-ii/

Nexus Destiny Reworked

Flooot - DJ Plead Remix

@sputnik_one's pointillist club music takes a looser, but no less impactful, approach for the debut release on his N-Face label

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-sputnik-one-grafters

N-FACE001

Premiere: Sputnik One ‘Grafters’

Pre-order: https://toumba.bandcamp.com/album/rosefinch

Amman-based @toumbaa announces 'Rosefinch', his first EP on wax, and the debut release from London-based record label @hypnicjerksrecs.

The record's opening track, 'Multipack of Limes', is a percussive workout dotted through with zesty keys, building up to a driving lead that recalls the keyboard players of Jordanian weddings.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Toumba 'Multipack of Limes'


https://outofsortsrecs.bandcamp.com/album/product-toss-go-way-2-oosx003

Product Toss delivers for our third outing on the OOSX digital series, joined by NY-based Tano for the remix duties.

The Newcastle native has enjoyed a string of releases with Stolen Groove and Ape-X in recent months, as well as a series of self-released tracks which have been getting airtime from the likes of DJ Plead and Phillip Jondo.

Product Toss pushes his post-dubstep off-kilter club sound to the limit with this release, scouring each corner of the UK techno continuum and settling on a sound which is both complex and functional. The unmistakeable vocal sample of the title track is one that will be as likely to get smiles on faces as it will get the legs moving. On remix duties, New York based Tano flips the sample on it's head again to create a tight percussive-laden groove.

Dropping on 9th December in all the usual places. Pre-order live on bandcamp now with Spittoon available instantly.

Go Way 2

OOSX003

*PREVIEW* Product Toss - Go Way 2 w/ Tano Remix [OOSX003]

Kaval & Qant - More Life EP
BUY LINK: https://ruffkaval.bandcamp.com/album/more-life-ep-kaval11
https://soundcloud.com/ruffkaval https://soundcloud.com/qqantt

After working together for years as curators of Egregore Collective's label side and sharing the decks on multiple occasion, Kaval & Qant finally join forces, conjurating four tracks around their common denominators : powerful percussions, heavy subs, and a dash of dub
chords. 

With it's range of different rythms between 130 and 140bpm, this split EP titled 'More Life' is guaranteed to make you move.

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Kaval - Júnior Dub

From end to end the street was filled with all your wants and needs. You could get practically anything and everything here: sweet spices in beautiful packages; well-loved clothes; hordes of bric-a-brac; dusty vinyl and tapes; hot homemade dishes from all over the world. Each vendor had their own specialty or expertise; nobody stepped on anybody's toes, there was no sense of competition. They were one huge family who looked out for one another.

Dudbridge Garage International return for their last release of the year courtesy of their own co-head Chungo. Alongside fellow label boss LeftLeft, the Lisbon-based artist has moulded the label into a platform for expertly produced UK bass and garage - you'll know a Dudbridge release when you hear it. On the sixth release Chungo draws on these sounds in his own singular way. Over the course of three tracks he showcases his precision at sound design, matching signature chopped and screwed vocals with heavy bass lines and crisp, swung drum patterns.

PREMIERE: Chungo - The Vendor [Dudbrudge Garage International]

@goodmostlybad brings three new chugging, bass-heavy tracks to Scuffed on her Shawty 3.0 EP. 

Since debuting the alias in 2020, Indian-born, Qatar-based artist GoodMostlyBad has been honing her craft both as a producer - with tracks appearing on compilations from Daytimers, Earful of Wax, and Reel Long Overdub, alongside a string of self-released projects - and as a DJ, guesting on Rinse FM, Balamii and Reprezent, as well as hosting her own residency on New Delhi’s Boxout FM. 

Citing hip hop, Afrobeats, dancehall and grime as major influences, GoodMostlyBad’s sound eschews definition but pulls from an array of contemporary club genres to create throbbing grooves and dark, intense atmospheres. 

On the Shawty 3.0 EP, GoodMostlyBad further develops the sound she has been nurturing over the past few years, with three tracks that are as ready for headphone sessions as they are for chugging club sets.

Buy:
https://lnk.to/ShawtyThreePointOh

GoodMostlyBad - Shawty 3.0

[PNL004]

Sydney based duo, JV & Palf, join the Panel Audio family with their latest record ‘T4’. 

With four club-ready tracks, the Australians expose the listener to high energy driven drumlines. The label have pressed the EP to 180gr heavyweight vinyl, witha very limited run of 100 which is ready for pre-order.

Support has already come in from Re:ni / Laksa, Mr. Mitch, DJ Plead, Yak, LCY and many more.

[PNL004] JV & Palf - T4

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PREMIERE: Chungo - The Vendor [Dudbrudge Garage International]

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