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Pre-order: https://idlehandsdevilswork.bandcamp.com/album/ihdw004

‘Bass Finger Villain’ is the latest release from @g-twentythree on @farrell-devils-work, a powerful broken electro-techno track with hip hop imaginations designed for the dancefloor. 

@hodgebristol remixes the track, capturing the essence of bassy tech house with a little UKG tip.

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Premiere: Kreggo 'Bass Finger Villain' (Hodge Remix)

Toupaz lands on Grid with a luminous, deep and complex EP. 4 tracks mixing impossible genres with contrast as the watchword.

The lead track Rabatanto wanders between dubstep and techno influences, at once dark with sizzling bass lines and ethereal with dubby vocals and percussion samples. A club banger for any crowd.
Genuine Connection is the tool of the bunch, galloping along at 142bpm it will thrill everyone with its ultra-detailed uk bass vibe contrasting with airy and colourful synthesizers.
On the b-side, Birdsong slows the tempo down with a slow dancehall atmosphere mixed with deep subs and rap vocal samples. 

Islandish, the closing track puts the emphasis on emotions, with sentimental synth lines again combined with dub echoes and dubstep false slowness to create a one-of-a-kind stirring mood.

01 Rabatanto
02 Genuine Connection
03 Birdsong
04 Islandish

https://gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rabatanto-ep

https://soundcloud.com/toupaz
https://soundcloud.com/grid-records

PREMIERE: Toupaz - Islandish [Grid Records]

Blending quirky bass music, bold hyperpop, and ethereal sound experiments, Isle of Lag is an imaginary realm where time and space unravel.

Antwerp-based producer BAELY announces his debut solo album, Isle of Lag. Rooted in a DIY punk rock work ethos, Isle of Lag outrageously explores distorted electronic paths with hyperpop twists and turns. The album is set for digital release on November 8 via Belgian label Cloudshaper.

The new single, dubbed Rubber Burner, is now available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms. The track is a high-octane fusion of hyperactive beats and glitchy sound design. A whirlwind of rapid rhythms and whimsical melodies, Rubber Burner creates a surreal, digital dreamscape.

Buy: https://baely.bandcamp.com/track/rubber-burner-2

PREMIERE: BAELY - Rubber Burner [Cloudshaper]

Rome-based A-Tweed (@antakaatweed) continues to “colour outside of the lines” with his newest suite of uninhibited electronica

 ‘Riot Disco Punk’ is out Wednesday (18th September) on @humanendeavourrecs – have an exclusive first listen to the title track

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-tweed-riot-disco-punk

Premiere: A-Tweed ‘Riot Disco Punk’

Pre-order: https://woozydublin.bandcamp.com/album/wzy45

@woozydublin’s annual 'WZY.5' compilation summit gathers for its fourth instalment, celebrating nine artists of dubwise disposition that maintain label founder @emma-jane-g spellbinding tradition in futurist soundsystem music.

@maudevos’ 'Faerie Ring' gurgles with psy-eye wonder amidst its half-time hypnosis.

WZY4.5

Premiere: Maude Vôs 'Faerie Ring'

Text by André Florêncio: 

Friends, buddies, fake friends... We might think that Diogo's new EP was a treatise on fraternal love, if it were just for the title. Friendship as a cause or effect is felt in the sharing of the dancefloor where these tracks might be played, or in the collaboration that BLEID and Velvet Skin provide in the remixes they’ve created. But that would be a literal and reductionist view of this new Extended Records release.

Opening with “Bola Prá Frente;”—an incitement for music (or the devil) to descend on the body—this track features chopped, lilting, and repetitive vocals, broken rhythm, and ambient layers. It’s a party starter.

In the middle, “Caga!” bursts forth with trigger cutouts, a disguised Jay-Z appearance, some phantasmagoria, and hyperactive percussion. Watch ya mouth!

The EP closes with the hurried “Dar Ao Slide.” “Take me away,” but where to?

For dessert, BLEID accelerates the pace of “Bola Prá Frente” while Velvet Skin softens “Caga!” with a pinch of acid.

“Eu Amo Meus Amigos” is more about the music than the words. Perhaps, like friendship, it’s easier to feel than to describe. Even though the tracks don’t directly reference the titles, your friends will appreciate the statement.

Buy: https://discosextendes.bandcamp.com/album/eu-adoro-os-meus-amigos

Eu Adoro Os Meus Amigos!

PREMIERE: Diogo - Caga! [Discos Extendes]

Rising Finnish-American star @dj_lumi christens her new @skadirecords label with a seductive techno thumper

‘Losing My Mind’ is out this Friday (20th September) across streaming platforms – have an exclusive first listen to the track now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-lumi-losing-my-mind

Premiere: LUMI ‘Losing My Mind’

Pre-order: https://scuffed.lnk.to/BatomuEP

Dublin-based @smallcrab makes her @scuffedrecs debut with a dubstep-inspired, three-track EP, 'Batomu'.

With two of the EP's tracks clocking in at 160BPM, Small Crab’s love of UK club genres manifests itself in her use of percussion and warping bass synths. "I wanted this to be one for the dancefloor", she says. "The centrepiece is the bassline".

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Premiere: Small Crab 'Dosa Dosa'

RIDE’s Andy Bell, recording under his electronic alter ego GLOK, and the producer and Insult to Injury label boss Timothy Clerkin have joined forces for Alliance, a brand new seven-track album released by Bytes on November 8. The collaboration finds Andy and Tim with their freak flags flying, working in a freewheeling environment where nothing was off limits, with influences ranging from Death in Vegas and Boards of Canada to James Holden and New Order.

The woozy ‘Empyrean’, which combines the analogue-decayed production of Boards of Canada and the ethereal vocals of ‘Xtal’ from Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 with a fizzing behemoth of a synth line, is a fitting way to launch the album as it was the first track they worked on together. “It’s basically a Timothy Clerkin remix of a demo I sent him,” Andy explains. “I can’t get enough of it. To me, it’s one of the best tracks I’ve ever been involved with since I started making music.”
credits
released September 19, 2024

Written and produced by Timothy Clerkin and Andy Bell
Mixed by Timothy Clerkin
Nothing Ever lyrics written by Beth Jeans Houghton
Mastered by Keith Tenniswood at Curved Pressings
Artwork by Nick Taylor
(P) and C) Bytes 2024

Alliance

PREMIERE: GLOK & Timothy Clerkin - Empyrean

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Long Island Sound - Searching

Order Vinyl & Digital:
https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures-de-auto-rhythm

August 2018: It’s already been three years since Domenique Dumont made its entrance in the music world with a debut EP named Comme Ca. Despite a seemingly very quiet musical activity (the opening song to Antinote’s compilation Five Years Of Loving Notes was the only song released by the band in 3 years) a few things have changed in-between these two summers: Domenique Dumont is no more the mysterious lone French producer we introduced last time but a Latvian duo, Arturs Liepins and Anete Stuce, which has been collaborating with “an enigmatic French artist whose existence cannot be confirmed nor denied” (sorry, but it sounds like there’s still some mystery in the air, and, again, we’re just as clueless as you might be), the duo have been touring live and, most importantly, they kept on broadening their musical palette experimenting in a definitely pop field. Eight of these experiments are now tied together in Miniatures de Auto Rhythm.

The record probably begins where Comme Ca ended: frantic but light drum programing backbones a solar and slightly melancholic melody on Le Début De La Fin (“the beginning of the end”). However, the scope gets enlarged as soon as one reaches the second tune, Quasi Quasi, or Quand, on the flip side, perhaps the most overtly pop-rock oriented song on the record with its Mediterranean guitar and emotional bridge.

The road towards the apex of the record, Le Soleil Dans Le Monde, is a narrow and windy one, punctuated by toy instrumentals like Ono Mambo Haiku or the Donkey Kong Country-friendly Message Of The Diving Bird; however it never departs from its original tongue-in-cheek attitude. It’s quite pleasant to imagine these eight “miniatures” as field recordings from an enchanted world of pop music designed by some Pierre & Gilles’ disciples – or are there
musical interpretations of half-mechanical, half-organic creations from a certain Otto Rhiesem (who might have inhabited the Locus Solus villa)? There might be no definitive answers to this second set of riddles by Domenique Dumont.

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DOMENIQUE DUMONT - LE SOLEIL DANS LE MONDE

Pre-Order Vinyl ~ http://bit.ly/ordermiddaymoon

Midday Moon is a survey of ambient and experimental music that emerged from Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1995. These recordings are sourced from a rich variety of micro-labels, private pressings, theatre soundtracks and artists’ personal archives.

Curated by Melbourne based DJ and archivalist, Sanpo Disco (a.k.a Rowan Mason), the collection delves deep into the world of outsider music that emerged in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of the twentieth century, as synthesisers and early workstations began to enter the consumer marketplace.

'Midday Moon' out November 2 thru Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records (AU/NZ), Omnian Music Group (USA/CAN) and Cargo Records (UK/EU). 

http://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Midday Moon 

Helen Ripley-Marshall - Under the Sun

French modern classical, galvanising and melancholic in equal measure.  Taken from an anthology curated by Julien Dechery, on Noise In My Head-affiliated retrospective label @efficientspace.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/09/25/premiere-sebastian-gandera-chienne-de-vie/

Le Raccourci

Sebastian Gandera - Chienne De Vie (STW Premiere)

The jungle was beautiful at this time of year, the plants were growing with profound ease and the dense green of the forest seemed to appear from everywhere as if it had sprouted from the centre of the very earth itself. The cries of tropical birds could be heard from the rooftop of leaves which hung overhead whilst the hustle and movement down on the forest floor was enchanting and busy. In the distance there was the sound of water, it cascaded from a tall waterfall in the midst of the jungle...

MINIMALAFRIKA are set to release a new EP on E-Beamz and blimey is it a good one. Beautiful percussion workouts with abstract sensibilities and freedom.

Clean Sunrise

PREMIERE: MINIMALAFRIKA - Tropifunkammet [E-Beamz]

LP/CD/Tape/Digital out now
https://sourakatakoite.bandcamp.com/album/en-hollande
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Senegalese kora master Sourakata Koité began music from pretty much day one. "All the Koité are musicians!,” he says. Indeed he is a member of a family of djéli (or griot in french), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians in West Africa. After moving to Paris in the late 70s he began to play in different bands and for musicians like Manu Dibango, Touré Kounda, Mangala, Mah Damba and more. During a festival in Holland, a music producer form Plexus Records heard him and asked to make a recording. In 1984 in an old chicken coop near Delft, Koité recorded the entire album in one take, including overdubs. The rich sonics and deep sound beautifully presents Koité’s virtuosic and entrancing renditions of traditional and original tunes. With the reissue of en Hollande, Awesome Tapes From Africa continues its mission of bringing tapes posted on the ATFA website over the years, including this one, to music fans all over the world.

en Hollande

Sourakata Koite -- Ha-Madi

https://lnk.to/COMEME048

Cómeme delivers to you one of the freshest rhythms of 2018, recorded in Johannesburg, the new residency for the renegades of the beat. This is “Rain” – starring Matias Aguayo and the actress, dj and singer Ayanda Seoka aka Mujaji The Rain. She’s resident at the legendary Bar Kitchener’s all femme “Pussy Party”, a space for feminist / queer action and dancefloor joy, right in the centre of Joburg. 

Cómeme has been since some time in a serious and passionate relationship with that city. Radio Cómeme transmitted shows from there with electronica legend Felix Laband, Mpumelelo Mkatha from BLK JKS, the queer performance duo Faka, Gqom pioneers RudeBoyz and also Kwaito’s legacy keeper Spleef McZaul. Matias Aguayo ventured into a beautiful collaboration with DJ Spoko, released two years ago on this label. 

“Rain” is a deeply rhythmical track, inspired by the grooves that converged when Cómeme swing crossed the paths with the syncopations people in Joburg were dancing to. It has become quite clear in the recent years that elegantly shuffled triplets are marking a way to the future in dance music, especially in the southern hemisphere, no matter if you’re in Durban, Rio or Santiago. 

On top of this modern groove we can hear Mujaji the Rain enjoying how she gets wet under a dark and tropical sky. Laughter, joy and ecstasy is what she emanates while hypnotically involving you into this atmosphere of dense drumming and trance. (side note: Cómeme has been consequently< evading the description hypnotical in press releases but this time it was unavoidable). 

For further jacking fun we generously included a “Club Mix”, including more drum frenzy towards the second half of the track, and a “Just Drums Mix” for the skilful DJ. 

Side B features the jam “Serious”, which comes along with another killer beat, reminiscent of Michael Jackson or Cheri. A late-night track in which Mujaji The Rain turns into a sensual but slightly annoying creature that doesn’t want to leave the dancefloor. and for sure doesn’t want to go home. 

We added an instrumental version to this complexly arranged tracks, which feature pianos, strings, and heavy synth bass stabs. 
All tracks on this 12” are written in a 6/8 signature, which some normative DJs might shy away from, but be safe: both tracks are in 120 bpm and carry the seal of official Cómeme dancefloor approval by the label’s highly respected DJs.

Matias Aguayo ft. Mujaji The Rain - Rain Orginal Mix

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