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NH012 // Ehua - Aquamarine EP 

OUT 23/04/21
https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/album/ehua-aquamarine-ep

Nervous Horizon are back with the second in a series of quick-fire EP releases, this time in the form of Ehua’s ‘Aquamarine’ — her first EP proper for the label after contributing a track (‘Meteora’) to 2019’s ‘NH Vol.3’ compilation.

Following hot on the heels of SIM’s dancehall-inflected ‘Terminate’ EP, ‘Aquamarine’ details six new tracks inspired by both the colour and motion of water. With tempos ranging from 95-140bpm, Ehua also uses custom made percussive samples and original vocals — spoken thoughts in reversed Italian on ‘Black’ — to harness different motions and states, collecting thoughts on organisms, frequencies and vibrations that we might not be aware of or perceive.

These ideas and concepts take shape via a rich and experimental, six-track workflow that moves between the dark, sludgy broken-beats of ‘Xantho’ through to the unnerving, drone techno of ‘Diatom’ — a track written to mirror the darkest depths of the ocean.

Ehua - Xantho

@issu34 brings episode 020 of Science Cult Radio!

Tracklist:
Volsoc - Calzoni
Kafkactrl - Gradient Descent
Dexterous Numerics - Soul Cube
Kor Boira - Like That
Serge Geyzel - Off The Ground
Ben Pest - Titanium Bizness
Zeta Reticula - Wakefulness
Norwell - Ancient Surfaces
issu - Unreleased
Liebknecht - Barcelona (Syrte Descent)
PAAL - Problem With Privilege
Maelstrom - La Nuit Est A Toi
issu - Unreleased
138 / DJ Angeldust - Fuck That Shit
Gaja - V
Martinelli - Jaula
Nite Fleit & Umwelt - The Hellgramite Method
Chris McCormack - What kind of Sound pt. 1

Science Cult Radio 020: Issu

Hurtling at great pace, the inaugural SOSOSO release from label owner Metrist is a dedication to speed.

Forova is three tracks flung into existence that roll and yaw. Pitching between function and turmoil from the 2003 epoch riff-work of ‘Nathanielismo’, the possessed pace of ‘Oerchar’ and snake charmer motif’d ‘GMFGR’…Forova sits itself down in the chrome-plated uncanny valley of clubland.

Artwork and art direction from Josh Costar, mastered by Beau at Ten Eighty Seven.

Forova out 24th June

Forova

Nathanielismo

Leikeli47 - Zoom (Spud's 80bpm Dumper)

Hessle Audio welcomes Toumba to the label with the 4 track EP 'Petals'. Based in Amman, Jordan, Toumba explores Levantine microtonality, rhythms, play styles and timbres across the record. Lead track 'Istibtan' is a twist on a typical Jordanian wedding song with deep subs providing the foundations, complimented by crisp percussion and warm melodics.

Toumba is a producer, DJ and sound designer and is a curator at MNFA, a club and arts space in Jordan's capital Amman. A nationally respected artist, Toumba also holds a residency at the MMAG Foundation. The foundation works with a selection of the most gifted artists in the Levant, providing a space for artistic research, production and critical discourse.

Toumba - Istibtan

Maze Run

COP ENVY - CRY002
OUT AUGUST 2018
Global distribution via Rubadub.

Sydney via Melbourne-sider Cop Envy brings forth two heartbursting, patient and effective tools to mark the return of the Cry Baby imprint - long silent after their debut exploration with Dan White.

The anachoic, blistering tones of Balanced push the vinyl medium to it's absolute limits with Heavy, HEAVY bass and incredulously well produced embellishments making this a DJ tool for the year 3000.

Leisure laces the flip with something a little closer to the present day no thanks to barely melodic musical structures peeling away to reveal the rhythmic intricacies and soul rattling subsonics that roll effortlessly through to the bitter end. REWIND.

Cop Envy - Balanced

A track off my latest iKEA Summers EP, out now on Treehouse! 

Can buy the EP now here: 12treehouse.bandcamp.com/album/ikea-summers

Follow Treehouse: @treehouseuk

Music written and produced by JABES
Mastered by Declared Sound
Photography by Gabriel Deacon
Artwork by Evan Majumdar-Swift aka 96 Back

IKEA Summers EP

Buy it now

Etch A Sketch

When it comes to inventive percussion, few labels can top Livity Sound, even as the UK outpost headed up by Peverlist has gradually expanded beyond its Bristol home base in recent years. On June 28, French producer Toma Kami will be returning for his second go-round on the label with the 'Negative Extasy' EP. Ahead of the record's arrival, we debuted the speaker-rattling title track on Red Bull Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

@toma-kami
@livity-sound
http://redbullradio.com/shows/first-floor-shawn-reynaldo
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Negative Extasy EP (LIVITY035)

Toma Kami "Negative Extasy" [First Floor Premiere]

Danish duo Lyra Valenza (aka Hjalte and Jens Konrad) operates on the outskirts of contemporary electronic dance music. Armed with a playful approach and a patchwork of digital and analogue equipment, Lyra Valenza carved their own space in the Copenhagen scene by genre-blending Jungle, UK Garage, and Footwork into a mix of forward-facing and euphoric dance music for 2020 and beyond. A testament to the duo's unique approach to sound design, they were selected for this year's SHAPE - a platform for innovative music and audiovisual art from Europe.

Lyra Valenza's latest EP, Nightshade Edition, is a package of sweet and dangerous cuts to the taste of dystopian romance. The prime dance floor material hits with metallic percussion and bursts of fluttering synths tuned with just the right amount of trance. From stepping UKG, to lush digital soundscapes, the four breaks heavy tracks are hyper-modern sonic experiments processed through a retrospective haze.

The Nightshade Edition EP is released on Lyra Valenza's own Petrola 80 label. It follows their 2018 debut EP "Scan Deliver" on UK imprint Opal Tapes and comes as a welcome return from the energetic producers.

Artwork by Laurits Hanak.

@lyravalenza
@petrola-80

Buy:
https://petrola80.bandcamp.com/album/nightshade-edition

Nightshade Edition EP

PREMIERE: Lyra Valenza - Sport Mode [Petrola 80]

The chitter chatter buzzed and echoed in the headset as she began to dose off and fall asleep.

The phone had been ringing all day long and her patience was thin by this point. The voices, their endless reverberation bounced between her ears as the fuzz of the phoneline and the static crackled unpleasantly. Anyways, what use was the job to her? Why should she sit and listen to the complaints and angst of others? This was not her life, it was time for something new, a fresh beginning. 

Loraine James has been a favourite for a while now, ever since we first heard her killer album on Hyperdub we have been steadily following each movement, be that compilation features or mixtapes. She has a singular sound, an off centre appeal and releases music which is reminiscent of old school pirate radio and rough tapes. We love it. 

Her latest appearance is on the newly launched label protopost and it needs no more introduction.

enter:protopost

PREMIERE: Loraine James - Anyways [protopost]

Here's my debut collaboration with Clara! , recorded at the beginning of the year. Had a lot of messages about this one so excited to finally have it out there. It's out this Friday :) 

Written by Clara Sobrino & David Kennedy
Produced and mixed by David Kennedy
Recorded in Brussels and London
Mastered by Matt Colton @ Metropolis
Design by David Coquelin

Mi Cuerpo

Buy on Bandcamp

Pearson Sound X Clara! - Mi Cuerpo

Various - Tlub Cools
Release Date : November 2020 (Digital)
Label : Comic Sans Records
Cat n° : COMPILSANS3

Graphic Design by Virgile Flores
Mastering by Troels B. Knudsen

Tracklist :
01_Modern Collapse Still Missing Your Morning Texts
02_Estebahn Rudeboy
03_Maquis Son SistŽm Tamborn C—r
04_luxxuryproblems SCENE CHANGE
05_J-Shadow Asphyxiate
06_Realitycheck Breach
07_Splash Pattern Freeside Run

Comic Sans Records is back with a new compilation of 7 fun tools to play in imaginary clubs.

Realitycheck - Breach

@cleyraa comes with an absolute banger on the new Timedance compilation Sharpen, Moving.

Sharpen, Moving

Cleyra - Shafted

Club Night Club is proud to announce its first release via Manchester based Herron, who delivers four diverse excursions aimed squarely at the dancefloor. 

On the A1, Dead Frogs Down, ethereal vocals are submerged and held captive by the molten, stumbling textures which give them form, they rise out of the chaos every now and then, breathing life into a soundscape of club ready punches and kicks. The result is a punishing five minutes of peak time breaks with a delicate undertone floating in between. 

Velcro Spider, true to its name, weaves a similar blend of the synthetic and heartfelt. A stumbling, low slung groove mutates over the course of the track, quietly building and sustaining a tension the listener is unaware of until all hell breaks loose in true drug chug fashion at the halfway point. 

The B side similarly advances this fusion of midtempo tension.  

Noroveerno is a head bobber, the double time kicks coming like a heartbeat. There is a sense of purpose to the unrestrained impacts that pump and push the sound design heavy, Sludge-Techno forwards. A simple, distorted vocal sample: “Do I Want?” is peppered amongst the chaos, presenting as a rhythmic element which contributes to the track’s flow rather than diverging from it. The inflection gives the impression that this is a question to which the artist already knows his answer. 

Closing things out on the B side is IWillTry2d0, a dystopian piece that has a tensible core of thick and hearty synth pulses. Evocative of the Toulouse Low Trax breed of intentional, ambiguous chug, but in keeping with the rest of the record smothered in impact and delay. Like the others, it has a percussive outer shell which protects something emotional and questioning at its root.

A1 - DeadFrogsDown

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With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

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PREMIERE: Loraine James - Anyways [protopost]

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