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R$N Premieres: December 2016

Old Soul - Radio Mix

Off of my debut 'Molino EP' out 11/4/16 on OWSLA
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Molino EP | OWS183

Mark Johns - Molino

𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧.

somber feelings aren’t there to control
but hiding it almost worse you know 
filling up inside till there’s no pain
until contentments almost lost its place

alter so it doesn’t show
so you have a place to go
alter so it doesn’t show
so you have a chance to flow

sentimental tenderness is flawed
when caring for yourself won’t last as long
all we’re waiting for is to adorn
fickle minded heads have yet to learn

alter so it doesn’t show
so you have a place to go
alter so it doesn’t show
so you have a chance to flow

Alter

The first single off of the collaborative record between PremRock & Fresh Kils, "Leave In Tact." Available everywhere on 11/11 via Toronto's URBnet records.
Produced By: Fresh Kils
Written by: PremRock
Single Artwork: Bronze One
*Album Preorder available here: 
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/leave-in-tact/id1162961209
Bandcamp: https://urbnet.bandcamp.com/album/leave-in-tact

Taking two of the most tireless acts away from their passports has yielded an album and stage show fit to clobber any unsuspecting rap lover. Fresh Kils is a "producer/DJ/sample magician…involved with two of the 5 most written about rap albums in Canada", according to Allya Kanani at Imprint Show Review. PremRock is no slouch either: "The hirsute and hooded rapper casts himself in a very short but worthy lineage…of rhymers artfully influenced by Aesop Rock" says Jeff Weiss of Pitchfork/LA Weekly. 

Thousands of words have been spilled on the technical prowess of Toronto producer Fresh Kils and his assault on the MPC, while New York emcee PremRock has written thousands more crisscrossing the globe studying Tom Waits and Ernest Hemingway. After three tours, countless studio sessions in Toronto, and numerous jaunts spiked by booze in back alley shakedowns, PremRock and Fresh Kils have officially linked up on record and on the road to milk their notoriety for all it's worth. 

PremRock is fresh off of his one-two punch of A Clean Well Lighted Place LP and Who Art in Nada EP, and Fresh Kils needed a challenge after winning the producer championship at both Toronto's Sound Battle Royale and the Bangerz Beat Battle. Together, they own every inch of accomplishment on the indie rap circuit, from freestyle battles to MPC beatdowns, sharing stages with giants like Nas, Ice Cube, and Rakim, and lassoing in Homeboy Sandman, Moka Only, El Da Sensei & C Rayz-Walz on the duo's first joint album, due in late September. 

The album PremRock & FreshKils is an instrument of flavorful angst, born from a partnership of two vagabonds born to bless stages but remain steely eyed to getting paid in "props". With a nod to Check Your Head-era Beastie Boys, PremRock finesses smooth breaks of all shapes with New York straight talk. PremRock stirs up lessons from De La Soul's Stakes is High twenty years later: we're still being eaten alive by our indulgences. As a bartender from and stalwart of the independent New York indie rap scene, PremRock is trusted by anyone looking for a good Old Fashioned or a frenetic live show that's kept him on the road for half a decade straight. As Impose Magazine described him, he's a "bar stool scholar" and the new album is his master thesis on keeping your edge when the sensibilities of your craft change on a dime. 

FreshKils answers the most important question for any rap album: "Are the beats banging?" You goddamn right. FreshKils blends the unquantized mastery of Slum Village-era J Dilla with the bounce of El-P's crowd roaring Run the Jewels production. This is boom bap for modernists - keep it warm, keep the heads nodding, keep it mean, clean, and chock full of thump. He tones down his Warlord of the Battle on the MPC and gives PremRock enough space and melody to clear the decks. Knowing restraint is the true mark of a master, and on this album FreshKils segues deftly into his new role as Instrumentalist first, Head Stomping Beat Battler second.

These guys got the right fix for the wrong crowd: the glimmering girls of the road, the rough-living mopes in the Northeast corridor, the purists who call bullshit, the big shots with short memories, The album is cool and magisterial, the live show is pumped full of surging blood. PremRock and FreshKils: they have it taken care of.

Leave In Tact

No Pleas Copped

Since meeting as students in Leeds, these two friends have shared their passion for music. The pair immersed themselves in the city’s clubbing and live music scenes and after discovering a mutual appreciation of Techno, Classic House, Indie, Acid and a lingering teenage love of Metal; they began making music together.

Early demos generated murmurs of approval amongst bloggers, clubbers, open-minded members of the indie glitterati and earned them a residency at the one of the UK’s most prominent club nights, Wax:On. Shows in the UK and Europe followed along with a couple of original EP’s and remixes which won them the support of fans and landed them a guest mix spot on Radio 1.

Summers spent darting back and forth between English festivals and Ibiza residencies were paired with winters spend in a dark South London studio full of old synths. Those long days helped tighten and focus their sound and resulted in a further run of original EP’s and a another host of remixes.

The Twins have continued to focus on their efforts in the studio in conjunction with DJing around the UK and Europe, and have gained a whole of new fans and champions including Mr Andrew Weatherall, who has not only consistently supported their productions in his DJ sets but also invited them into to play his A Love From Outer Space parties.

Check their new release on Beachcoma - The Fridge Click EP here:

http://www.junodownload.com/products/eskimo-twins-the-fridge-click-ep/3258180-02/

tracklist:

1. Cass - Space Talk / The Chase / Holding On
2. Roman Flügel - Nameless Lake
3. Kenton Slash Demon - Peace (Red Axes Remix)
4.  Boyd Jarvis - The Music Got Me
5. Heretic & Buran - Fractal
6. Eskimo Twins - The Fridge Click (Undo Remix) /  The Fridge Click (Orginal Mix)
7. Phil Keiran - Make a Change
8. Heretic & Bruan - Revile
9. Sebastian Voigt -  No Time
10. Abstraxion - An Error Occured (Kasper Bjørke Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/eskimotwins
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44,100Hz SC

44,100Hz Social Club #43 - Eskimo Twins

When looking back he now realised that there was very little which he could have done to prevent what happened. In retrospect, the scene of the crash had been far too chaotic and messy to be able to salvage any of the stock. The van had laid tipped over by the side of the road and the produce was spilt far beneath on the banks of the highway. In hindsight he should have run away, The cops were always bound to catch him. Boy, had they punished him when they busted his ass. They didn't take too kindly to having product spilt on the roads of their great country. 

Mculo steps up with a new release for the Roots By The Oder label which marks its third release with an EP simply titled "Lago Santo". This one features three warm house cuts with a tech influence.

PREMIERE: MCULO - In Retrospect [Roots By The Oder]

Sanity was long gone. He had little left to believe in but for what lay before him. Who the hell knew if he could trust that. As he walked down the street he scowled through the shop windows, the glass flickered under the glint of raindrops. The noise of traffic echoed horribly around his head and the voices kept talking back and forth. He wanted to run but who could say how far he would ever get. A broken man walking alone through the rainy streets of a town he once knew. 

This one is pretty special. Yotam Avni has been making vast waves over the last twelve months and this track first surfaced in Ame & Dixon's Essential Mix earlier this year.

PREMIERE: Yotam Avni - Yeezianity  [Enemy]

The wheels began to spin. For too long the car had been stuck in the mud and the acceleration had failed to propel. It had taken all of the might god had given him to maintain sanity behind the wheel. In the passenger seat his girl looked longingly into the distance, a stretch of vast land lay before them but it looked now as though they might just make it. Everything works backwards, it had simply taken time for him to accept that he might have to confront the demons of his past before he could move beyond. 

Duckett return following his last EP on Greta Cottage Workshop. This time he releases on Galdoors and delivers four moody house tracks which captivate and intrigue.

Stories Of Data Loss EP

PREMIERE: Duckett - Everthing Works Backwards [Galdoors]

The venue was far too busy. Smoke filled every coner of the room and condensation dripped from the ceiling. He had no idea where his friend had vanished to. Somewhere within the crowd she was now lost to the mercy of music and movement. As he looked through the body of shadows he could see very little which might give any indication as to her whereabouts. He started to panic, started to dance because he had little choice and continued to move between the sea of darkness. He needed her now, his friend. 

Kerem Akdag appears on a new EP for Apparel Music as part of a sixth birthday release edition. His charming take on a sound which has been commonly associated with South London sees him get deep.

Apparel Music B-Day 6

PREMIERE: Kerem Akdag - Friend [Apparel Music]

The grand hall looked ever so elegant perched atop the hillside. As he climbed the stairs his haert began to race with a nervous sense of anticipation and awe. How had he ended up here? This was no place for a mere pauper, back home he was a nobody, a rookie and man of the people and the town. He did not deserve to walk amongst royalty. He pushed the golden doorbell and a long ominous ring echoed through the house. He tapped his toes, a jig if you will, and waited...

Folamour has had an exciting year and may well be the next to rise amongst the international club circuit. The French producer returns to see out 2016 with a remix of Exon Bacon's 'Doorbell'.

PREMIERE: Exon Bacon - Doorbell (Folamour Dusty Fingers Remix)[Play Label]

Remix we did back in 1995 for Speedy on Richie Hawtin  and  John Acquaviva's Plus 8 records.

Speedy J - The Oil Zone (Edge Of Motion Remix)

The galaxy lit up with a bang. A burst of energy roared through the black night's sky leaving with it a trail of unprecedented chaos. Meteor's fell from the stars above down to earth. The supernova had struck. The waves began to roar wildly and soon the plains would be engulfed by ferocious water. This may very well be the last hours for the chosen who few who had made it this far and the apocalypse was nigh. They ran fast, quickly heading towards ground base, it might be their final hope. Skyward they would fly. 

Golden Bug returns after what has been a hugely busy and successful year. His last outing of 2016 sees him return to Ivan Smagghe's record label Les Disques de la Mort as he explores the depths of space with a bang.

Progress

PREMIERE: Golden Bug - Supernova [Les Disques de la Mort]

The flames from the man have faded away, the cold is not easy to deal with... DJ Tennis has to go on a mission so Jennifer Cardini takes over to continue the Journey on the side of Rebolledo... The dust storms are getting stronger and more frequent but this would not stop the powerful and energetic drive they created to move on towards the last sunrise of the week... Mission Accomplished.

Enjoy

Also watch the full set on Video:
https://vimeo.com/194176830

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Cover Photo by: ©MatthewOliver
Cover Design by: Esteban Armendariz 

Mayan Warrior 
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Mayan Warrior - Sunday Sunrise - Burning Man 2016

Rebolledo x Jennifer Cardini - Mayan Warrior - Sunday Sunrise - Burning Man

Levels are all over the place, for balanced listening move yourself closer and further away from your speakers.

Joe Hart live @ CDA

Ata's Robert Johnson X-Mas Mix 2016 live recorded at Folklor Club in Lausanne on Saturday, 10th December.

Ata – Robert Johnson X-Mas Mix 2016

The second release off of the debut self-titled Cool Company Album!  

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