Label: Banoffee Pies Records
Catalogue Number: BPSS03
Title: Surface Comms (Sonder Series 03)
Artist: Mistareez
Genre: Ambient / IDM / Downtempo
Release Date: 27.08.2021

1. Gauzelastic
2. Howlings
3. Affectionate
4. Total Restraint
5. Gel (Smothered)
6. Skate 2

Sonder: The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.

Banoffee Pies Records Sonder Series sub label that focuses on ambient, IDM and downtempo audio delicacies continues, with “Surface Comms”.

The 3rd instalment brings a 6 track collection of heavily textured introverted productions from Mistareez, another artist formerly residing in the city of Bristol. Seek refuge in the calm space inside your head, 
lose yourself in isolation. Music for reflection. BP x

Mastered: Optimum Mastering
Distributed by: KUDOS Records

Sonder Series 03

Surface Comms

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Mistareez - Surface Comms (Sonder Series 03) - CLIPS

Skenghis Kahn joins Shubzin with a beautiful serenade of twisted up transients and bouncy bass.

 This compilation is supporting Sisters Uncut a charity who have proved to be vital in the previous months rallying support and leading the Kill the Bill marches against new draconian changes to policing and prison laws.
This charity challenges gendered violence by challenging the government cuts to a number of social and community/health based services.
Austerity is a political choice with fatal consequences. 

Release day Sept 30th
@skenghiskahn
Insta @sistersuncut  
Web   https://www.sistersuncut.org/feministo/

SHUBZINVA004

Skenghis Kahn - Breakthru Juice

The glass building soared high into the sky, its floor to ceiling windows reflecting the sun as dusk set in. He surveyed the city below him; from up here the people looked like tiny ants, much like the team of workers he now forced to do his bidding. It hadn't been easy for him to get to this level of superiority, he'd had to step on a lot of people to make it to the top; something only certain people could do without guilt or shame trailing them. The only trajectory he had set his mind on was upwards.

There's been a lot of good stuff coming out of the Programm camp: the London-based label dealing in "system frequencies to make you dance." Since launching with a VA of their nearest and dearest, they've set the tone for their explorations into breaks, dubstep and bass, following this up with their first proper EP: a four-tracker from D3U5E & Gav, that paid homage to conspiracy theories, obsession and corporate illusion. Now D3U5E returns solo to take care of the label's third release, delivering two tracks that showcase his own spin on shuffling bass-driven electronics.

PREMIERE: D3U5E - UPWARD [Programm]

Studio Productions, Big Ever's second EP and first of his eponymous imprint.

Written, produced and mixed by Big Ever
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Cover image by Ja Beel

bigever.bandcamp.com/album/studio-productions

Big Ever - Studio Productions [Previews]

Do you ever have that feeling when another Bandcamp Friday rolls by and you have nothing new to put up? Well I set myself a challenge to start a track, complete it, mix it and release it in a single day. It was a lot of fun and I hope you like the result.

Heart Still Broken

Heart Still Broken (GANDJ003)

Momentum

A unwelcome sight greeted him this morning when he woke up. The house seemed quieter than usual, the buzz of the radio wasn't ringing through the house, no smell of coffee filling the air, and the pointed telling offs and rallying of small voices nowhere to be heard. Descending the stairs he noticed things had gone missing; pictures had been pulled off the walls, ornaments taken from the sideboards, but worst of all there was no sign of his family. A sinking feeling hit him like a punch in the gut - deep down he knew they weren't coming back...

On the next release from the Programm camp, and the first from the label this year, producer Rawtrachs draws inspiration from J Dilla samples. Marking his debut single on the London-based imprint, ‘It’s Just a Rinse’ is a pounding lo-fi cut that comes complete with two reworks from Sneaker Social Club affiliate Thugwidow and OfParadise co-founder Fade, who take their remixes in different directions - Thugwidow upping the ante and Fade stripping back the original and adding signature percussive touches.

The artwork for this digital release is the label's first generative cover. Made in a similar way to digital music, alongside artists Matt Heywood and Alfie Allen, Programm have created a new tool to combine human and computer input to create visuals that could only exist together.

PREMIERE: Rawtrachs - It's Just a Rinse (Fade Remix) [Programm]

After 14 years of curating events across the city, Ape-X Records aims to provide an established platform for artists and shine the spotlight on Northern talent.

'Good Night, Amen' marks the debut release from breakbeat junkie Product Toss. The 5 track EP explores the alluring sonic connections between complex drum arrangements, pulsating basslines, esoteric rhythms, and grime instrumentals. The young Newcastle-based artist has charged into the scene with an undeniably unique and club-focused sound. Product Toss is joined by Newcastle born up & comer Nectax and Leeds chaos enthusiast Nova Cheq on remix duties.

@ptoss
@ape-x-music

Buy:
https://ape-xrecords.bandcamp.com/album/product-toss-goodnight-amen-ep

PREMIERE: Product Toss - Goodnight, Amen [Ape-X]

The Scuffed family unite for a special Bandcamp-only compilation, out 1st May. 

All proceeds from this release will be split equally between the artists & The Trussell Trust, a charity aimed at bringing communities together to end hunger and poverty in the UK.

Various Artists - Loose Cuts (Previews)

Padre Himalaya is back with a first compilation release featuring artists from Lisbon, Porto, Brazil and beyond. 

The A side kicks off with Manchester-based P. Adrix and his futurist kuduro "Energéticos", Brazilian DJ Lima "Montagem do Telefone" funk infused electro bass beats, finishing off with Lisbon-based Rkeat's hardcore rave breaks in "Noid". 

Switching to the B side we're greeted with "Avariou O Quatro Por Sete", a luscious slow burner by DJ Problemas, a familiar face in Lisbon already, followed by "Dilema" a dreamy, spaced out buddy anthem by Colectivo Vandalismo from Porto and we're finished off with "Crying to U", a perfect cathartic and nosey short closure by Lisbon-based Odete.

Artists: 

https://soundcloud.com/adrixoff
https://soundcloud.com/limamalimali
https://soundcloud.com/rkeatonly 
https://soundcloud.com/djproblemas
https://soundcloud.com/coletivovandalismo
https://soundcloud.com/queriastarmorta

PH006 'Super VA' - Out 30 Oct 2020

From 'A Hole In The Sky' EP

ceadcead.bandcamp.com/album/impurity…ole-in-the-sky

Impurity - A Hole In The Sky

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