PRE-ORDER: https://loveontherocks.bandcamp.com/album/dream-ritual-incl-eris-drew-octo-octa-youandewan-remixes

7 years in the making (and the 24th release on her own label) Paramida's debut EP is here. This huge 12” contains two never heard before cuts, ‘Dream Ritual’ and ‘French House 2000’, backed up by deadly remixes from the Octo Octa & Eris Drew and Youandewan, and in ritualistic style, is being released in a divine ceremony coinciding with the lunar cycle. Intentions have been set.

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Premiere: Paramida 'Dream Ritual' (Eris Drew & Octo Octa's Alchemical Sisters Dub)

Belfast's Hammer and Zambian-Scottish artist KILIMANJARO join forces for a new EP on the former's Remmah label. Listen to the Tornado Wallace's trippy, percussive remix of title track 'Muleña' now

Premiere: Hammer & KILIMANJARO 'Muleña (Tornado Wallace Remix)'

Up here in the mountains, above the clouds, sunrise was the most beautiful time of day. Everything was still and silent, from the green hills to the sleepy towns in the valley, except the intermittent buzz of insects and soft whistling of birds in the distance. The sky was hued with hazy pinks and burnt oranges as the sun began its journey into the sky and light started to spread across the landscape. The world began to wake from its slumber and the cycle of the day began once more.

Seb Wildblood's first release of the year - a three-track EP titled vitara 3000 - comes via Istanbul-based imprint Oath. Marking his first material since last May's sophomore long player do you feel it too?, the music represents a new creative chapter in his life physically and sonically. Having moved to LA from London a few years back, the tracks that form the EP, a nostalgic, blissed out broken beat affair, were spawned from him finding his first proper studio space in the city, and showcases the 'sound and energy' that this new location stimulated in his creativity and production.

PREMIERE: Seb Wildblood - vitara 3000 [Oath]

Seb Wildblood invites SOS Music co-founder Maddy Maia to mark her debut solo EP on All My Thoughts. An introspective record for the dance floor, fuelled by her journey through a challenging music industry. 

The London born / LA based DJ/producer, radio host, label owner, event curator and A&R has dedicated a decade to nourishing artists with a focus on female and gender minorities, elevating new talent through her mostly female DJ sets and radio shows on Worldwide FM & DUBLAB, and most notably of late via the SOS Music (Sisters Of Sound) imprint and curated events series of which she co-founded with DJ Tottie in 2019. ‘With U’ is a full circle story of a dedicated tastemaker reflecting on her contribution to the community.

Sonically, title track ‘With U’ is a nod to seminal oldskool genres that Maddy grew up on, breaks, drum n bass and rave. “I love that this element is back in dance music again!”she explains. ‘Fembot Fashion’ represents the music you’d expect to hear throughout a Maddy Maia DJ set; it's seductive and fresh. The EP doesn’t just represent Maddy’s sonic palette though, it’s a breakthrough in confidence and culmination of charged emotions. 

Maddy Maia - “After being behind the scenes for so long working in A&R - which has been a difficult journey at times - I’m finally feeling confident enough to put my own music out there . It was a very different landscape when I started my career in music. I was so scared of producing, thinking I needed loads of gear I couldn’t afford and spent a long time with imposter syndrome intimidated by the scene. All reinforced by the environment around me being fairly toxic in my early days working in music, a reason clearly driving my work with SOS Music. A lot of emotion has come out in these tracks. They’re my love letters to the dancefloor (dancing has always been intense therapy and probably one of the reasons I was drawn to club culture in the first place) but also the soundtrack to a charged snapshot in history. I made Fembot Fashion when we got the Roe vs. Wade news in the USA and at that moment all our work on championing diversity with SOS Music and throughout my time in the industry just suddenly felt pointless. I was so angry, and happened to have a weekend to myself so I sat in my little studio in East LA and channeled some of that fierce energy I was feeling into this track.

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PREMIERE : Maddy Maia - Fembot Fashion (Bell Towers Remix)

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Faux Poly celebrates its first year, launches new remix series
Spring ‘23 sees Faux Poly release the first in a series of remix compilations, 8 tracks from different artists
across multiple genres.

‘Faux Poly: Remixed 001’ marks the start of the label’s new regular quarterly remix series, where a wide variety of producers are invited to pick anything from the label catalogue and reimagine it, making the core sounds of the label transcend their original setting and permeate through different club scenes around the world.

Highlights for FPR001 include Skudge’s unmistakable sound with Kassian’s flagship track ‘Off World Vehicles’, which has already garnered ongoing support from the likes of Ben UFO and Dixon, New Zealander newcomer Emanuel’s incredibly rowdy flip of Jay Carder’s A1 single ‘Eva’s Stoned’, and a club focussed change of tone from Demi Riquísimo, taking a left turn from his regular house influenced style with a choppy breakbeat remix of Jay Carder’s ‘So Carelessly’.

Faux Poly launched in early 2022 as means for label bosses Kassian to focus on a more specific heavier club sound. One year on, the label has put out 5 EP’s (Kassian, Jay Carder, Ste Roberts) and now boasts a monthly release schedule for the whole of 2023, with forthcoming EP’s from Sister Zo, Adam Curtain, and Guava to name a few.

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PREMIERE : Kassian - Off World Vehicles (Skudge Remix)

Pre-order: https://supreems.bandcamp.com/album/nachtschone

Antwerp's @supreems releases his debut LP, 'Nachtshone', a bass-forward 11-track release landing via his brand new imprint, @sweetsunrecords.

The record's title track makes use of a familiar sample, most notably popularised by Jamie XX and Joy Orbison, and justified stylistically by Supreems on the full length’s conclusion.

Premiere: Supreems 'Nachtschone'

Stories would be told about him one day, that was for certain. As the sun began to set he looked out over his small village and considered his options, might he run away or stay and fight. The light was fading slowly and it felt symbolic of the way in which his own time was running out.

Never had he imagined he might be forced out like this, yet his truth was all that mattered now and the stories that he’d leave behind would go down to be those of mischief and meander. Perhaps it was always supposed to be this way, a Lahla boy running wild and free with no place to go.

Supreems is set to release a new album on the newly launched Sweet Sun. It features a number of emotive electronic cuts channeling elements of broken beat, breaks, UK bass and beyond. This track features vocals from Off the Meds affiliated vocalist Kamohelo.

PREMIERE: Supreems Ft. Kamohelo - Lahla Boy [Sweet Sun]

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Fantastic Man - I Love You Baby (Love On The Rocks)

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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: Seb Wildblood - vitara 3000 [Oath]

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