Pre-Order - https://bit.ly/INTLPDCOMP003BC

Pressure Dome rematerializes in a coalescence of connections from across the globe with the first of their INTL Pressure series. 

Precision engineered polyrhythms and twisted time signatures meet introspective expressions and high impact fragmentations of sound in this versatile ensemble of electronic experimentalism.

Incoming late July on Bandcamp and other digital platforms.

INTL.PDCOMP001 - Various Artists [clips]

@sisterzo brings her debut EP to Scuffed Recordings with four tracks of heavy, percussive club music.

Midwesterner Sister Zo has been building a name for herself in recent years as a co-founder of Kansas City’s UN/TUCK label, using her DJ sets and productions as a means of channelling her experiences as a queer trans woman growing up in the North American Bible belt.

As one of the alumni of the Scuffed Recordings Artist Development Scheme, Sister Zo honed her production skills throughout 2021 and the result is the Screw Cheek EP – featuring four moody, bass-heavy tracks.

From the tension-building title track, to the rolling percussion of ‘Don’t Test Me’, to the broken beats of ‘Fire’, and eerie atmospherics of ‘Inhale’, Zo exhibits intricate sound design and carefully-considered production throughout the EP, marking her as a producer to watch in 2022 and beyond.

BUY:
https://lnk.to/ScrewCheekEP

Sister Zo - Screw Cheek EP (Previews)

Modern Swerve - Phantosmia EP Samples - TGR011

Austrian producer @awo_ojiji brings his Mantecatura EP to Scuffed, featuring four new intricately-crafted, bass-heavy cuts.

From the mid-tempo opener ‘Recess’, to the footwork-influenced ‘Stress’, bassweight-focussed ‘Balsam’ and percussive dancehall-techno hybrid ‘Inwards’, Awo Ojiji displays a unique slant across the course of the EP with tracks that are at once club and headphone ready.

Buy:
https://smarturl.it/MantecaturaEP

Awo Ojiji - Recess

Wrong Ibiza

Premiere: 'Wrong Ibiza' (Ploy Remix)- Guber

A shrill repetitive noise roused them in the early hours of the morning - like an air raid siren it cut through everything. Where it came from they didn't know, as far as they were aware there was nobody around for miles and miles - this was the middle of nowhere. Sleep was impossible now, though tiredness gripped every inch of them, they couldn't drift off for fear of the unknown. By the window they sat, squinting in the darkness, listening out for something moving in the bushes, but nothing appeared before day broke - had they dreamed it all?

As one half of the brains behind Scuffed Recordings and the curator of Definite Party Material, Ian DPM knows a thing or two about what constitutes a banging tune. Making his first forays into production himself a few years back with his Visions EP on Scuffed, he's since released a bunch of other EPs that teeter on the fringes of club music, fusing the likes of UKG, breakbeat, dancehall and techno. His next release comes via London-based music platform turned label Mantissa and is charged up with all the sonics you'd expect from him; weighty basslines, frenetic rhythms and crisp breakbeats.

PREMIERE: Ian DPM - Hardbody [Mantissa]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-sdc-big-shoe-nrg 

@spacedimensioncontroller is well-known for lush, synth-drenched productions, sometimes funky, sometimes dreamy, which makes our premiere of 'Big Shoe NRG' and TQN005 as a whole all the more surprising.

TQN005

Space Dimension Controller - Big Shoe NRG [Tiraquon Recordings]

DL:
https://www.beatport.com/es/release/spoken-week/5198703

Jonth V - Spoken Week [Out Now]

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Son of decay

Across expansive dunes, endless footsteps mark the ancestral path, leading the way to the basilica of the Bedouin. A pilgrimage only taken every seventy years, their single living leader the slowest of the camp. Beneath the unforgiving Saharan sun, the only moisture for miles is the sweat which now evaporates from their skin like mist, clothes sticking to every crevice of the body. The nature of the journey is one of spirit; no room for cynicism when higher powers lead the charge.

Out on London-based Panel Audio, the label’s latest comes in the form of a remix release of their latest release, JV & Palf’s T4 EP. Across the four remixed tracks, each artist adds their own style to an already eclectic mix of originals. From more ominous ends of the techno spectrum to minimal dubstep, the release has something for everybody. Our pick is Pluralist’s take on ‘En Route’, a mirage of a track seething with Middle-Eastern promise, with syncopated drum fills and vocal samples littered throughout.

PREMIERE: JV & Palf - En Route (Pluralist Remix) [Panel]

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