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BUCKDUN (M.I.A dub)

One track is about coming undone, the other is about building again. OTMI001 is two halves of the same orange, by Anz.

+ Remember to take your vitamins everyday, okay!

OTMI001

OTMI001 B: Anz - Morphing Into Brighter

It’s been a while since we’ve described something as ‘outsider’. Remember that spell when everything which wasn’t 4/4 and sounded a little like Blawan was described as such?

Well – this new EP from Nikki Nair on the longstanding UK label Lobster Theremin is as weird, wonky and reminiscent of that bass driven era which helped go on to define UK music culture for the next decade or so.

This is a frantic, pacy, sample driven EP which will likely do sever damage in the clubs over the winter period and well into next year. Get involved.

PREMIERE: Nikki Nair - WWC [Lobster Theremin]

On February 25th, Palms Out will release the first in a series of compilations on cassette and digital. Titled plainly: "End Broken Windows", 100% of the proceeds of the series will go to charity in an effort to raise awareness about broken windows policing methods. Specifically, I hope this project contributes in some small way to spreading the word about the ways in which policing and prosecuting low-level offenses serves only as a way of terrorizing and traumatizing vulnerable populations, without achieving the intended goal of preventing violent crime. The theoretical premise of broken windows policing is fundamentally flawed, and woefully misguided -- there is no evidence that focusing police power on low level violations like sex work, loitering, minor vandalism, petit theft, minor drug offenses, etc. leads to any reduction in violent crime. The practice must end.

Each volume of the series will benefit a different charity doing work to counteract the effects of broken windows policing; all it really does is criminalize being black, trans, queer, young, unhoused, etc. The first volume will benefit the SBB National Sex Worker Bail Fund (swopbehindbars.org/donate). Sex workers are often intersectionally and inordinately affected by broken windows policing, and should never be forced to spend a single night in jail merely for exercising agency over their own bodies.

Musically and conceptually, this record is inspired by a place where broken windows policing is disproportionately felt: the subway/metro. I gave all of the artists the vague prompt to write music inspired by the NYC subway system -- and the results were expectedly varying. For this volume, I pursued artists who have been generally exploring midtempo dance music without focus on 4 to the floor drum patterns. The result was a collection of largely breakbeat-oriented songs, some with direct classic NYC & Detroit electro references, others with more melodic and euphoric UK hardcore inspiration, and others still that kind of split the difference between modern bass and Baltimore club (for lack of better descriptors).

@djcarli
@palmsout

Buy:
https://palmsout.bandcamp.com/album/end-broken-windows-vol-1

END BROKEN WINDOWS Vol. 1

PREMIERE: Carli - XP10 [Palms Out Sounds]

Breaka - Who's This

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In light of the horrors that we are all witnessing in Ukraine, we wanted to help in at least some small way.

This track from Liebus has been one of my biggest dance floor heaters of the last six months and he has kindly agreed to put it up as a 99p + pay more if you want download with all the proceeds immediately going to donation.dec.org.uk/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal

If you like the banger and can spare the money then you know it will be going to a good cause.

Here’s hoping for as swift a resolution as possible over in Ukraine.

xx

Download/Donate

Liebus - Baile Bias (HHANDSUHA) [clip] (Ukraine humanitarian appeal fundraiser)

* Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/3tCDsU5BwVg
* Buy now: https://ngoestoinfinity.bandcamp.com/

mountain by Nikki Nair & DJ ADHD is the fourth release on n → ∞.

mountain

Buy.

PREMIERE: Nikki Nair & DJ ADHD - mountain

Plug

It's NP-Complicated

Music by Nikki Nair
Mastered by Bob Macc at Subvert Central Mastering

Nikki Nair - Eyes On You

@nikki-nair continues his hit streak with a breakbeat electro four tracker on @Astrophonica

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-nikki-nair-where-r-u

Premiere: Nikki Nair ‘Where R U’

Combining 808 drums, acid growls, and beatboxing from ROMO is a tasty but tricky treat recommended by cyborgs and humans alike. It is best digested with high volumes, serious speakers, or epic space battles.

ROMO Acid

Romo Acid

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Pre Columbian Gold Museum (Sho Madjozi dub)

my next record is out now on hessle audio, buy link above :) i'm too hype i can't even come up with a normal caption so i'm just gonna copy the blurb:

Anz makes her Hessle Audio debut with a club-ready three track EP, following releases on the label by Pearson Sound and Pangaea in July. Lead track 'Loos In Twos (NRG)' goes turbo, with a ruffneck bassline, clattering breakbeats and dramatic rave stab breakdowns all combining to memorable, killer effect. On the B side, 'Gary Mission' gets loose with disorientating flanged FX and a wriggling low end, with the minimal beat track 'Stepper' using sharp vocal snippets and chest-rattling sub to light up the dance. Anz is a DJ and Producer based in Manchester (via London, Liverpool and Madrid). Renowned for her genre-spanning productions and mixes, she unearths the links between Electro, UK Garage, Jungle and more, underpinning a versatile take on contemporary UK club music that is as bright as it is unpredictable....

HES038 - Loos in Twos (NRG)

Anz - Stepper

LIMITED EDITION BLUE VINYL: https://hth.lnk.to/Blue


Just after the start of lockdown, Hodge aka Jacob Martin released his debut LP, Shadows In Blue, his first foray into the world of the long player. Gaining critical acclaim, and with clubbing on hold indefinitely, the album makes the most of that flexibility, building on his dancefloor sensibilities while making good on the experimental tendencies that have long lain just beneath the surface of his music.

Fast forward a further half year and Lockdown 2.0 is in full effect in the UK, but this time we want club bangers, a sense of release, the urge to dance. And with this, 7 producers, 6 remixes from a collective of like-minded musicians being let lose to rewire tracks with the club space in mind.

Manchester via London, DJ and producer Anz kicks things off her Hooover remix of ‘Lanes’, a bouncy rave reduction with an unremitting sense of energy.

Bristol’s Facta & K-Lone take on one of the faster cuts from the album ‘Sense Inversion’ Building on the sound they champion on their killer wisdom teeth label they turn in a melodic and hypnotic remix with a bounce perfect for opening sets.

Shanti Celeste offers a master class in groove with her club ready rework in her remix of ‘Lanacut’, while Surgeon uses his trademark big room driving sound on the album’s title track, proper 4am business.

AYA’s latest remix see’s the Manchester producer flex her production skillz with screwed kicks, next gen sound design and mind gargling synths on ‘Ghost Of Akina’. We end with New York City’s Kush Jones, who closes Remixes in Blue with lush strings with a minimalistic footwork print underneath.

Tracklisting:

1 	Lanes (Anz's Hooover Remix)                                                  
2 	Sense Inversion (Facta & K-Lone Remix)                         
3 	Lanacut (Shanti Celeste Remix)                                                                                                                                                                      
4 	Shadows In Blue (Surgeon Remix)                                      
5 	Ghost of Akina (AYA 2010 All At Once Remix)                
6 	The World Is New Again (Kush Jones Remix)    

Pressed on Blue vinyl – mastered and cut by Matt Colton.

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Hodge - Lanes (Anz' Hooover Remix)

Mete Com Força (Chungo Edit)

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PREMIERE: Nikki Nair - WWC [Lobster Theremin]

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