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Otik joins the Shall Not Fade family serving up five killer jams for their new ‘Basement Tracks’ series.

London based DJ // Producer Otik has been putting out some eclectic records over the past few years, including stand out twelves on Keysound, Nous & DEXT, amongst others. His latest outing sees him share some of his finest work to date, dark, moody synths dance gracefully with heavy drum sequences and weight basslines on ‘Zero-Sum Game’ EP.

‘Zero-Sum Game’ EP drops October 16th via Shall Not Fade

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PREMIERE: Otik - Falling Forward [Shall Not Fade]

The padlock had rusted beyond repair, they'd tried everything but it couldn't be unlocked. As time went on and different tools and gadgets had failed their duty, curiosity began to build. Nobody knew what lay inside the vault, perhaps there was nothing at all, but for now they'd let their imagination run wild with dreams of forgotten treasure and piles of gold coins.

To kick off their newly founded label arm, Brighton-based party starters Accidental Meetings have called on friends and family, including those who've played their parties, for a huge compilation that touches on the sounds that will remain central to the label going forwards. Spawned from the restlessness that came with a year of no events and a pledge to keep themselves busy, the AM guys have pulled together 21 tracks that journey from electro to glitchy breaks, dancehall and broken techno, enlisting the skills of Chungo, Charles Green, Alexis, DJ Tess, ZaaZaa and Kincaid, to name but a few.

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PREMIERE: DJ Tess - Vault [Accidental Meetings]

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Having been forced to pause the events in the spring, Accidental Meeting's restlessness has manifested itself in the form of their debut label release: a 21-track genre spanning compilation.

The crew chose to work closely with friends and family, artists that have an affiliation with AM, each expressing themselves in their freest forms from broken-techno, glitchy breakbeats and mutant dancehall, to IDM & electro.

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Premiere: Caldera - Sunset Chasing [Accidental Meetings]

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PREMIERE: Alex R - Cord (Eyeangle Records)

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Nara Records hit back for their third release with a five-track V/A headed up by music from label head Dawn Razor (@AwnAzor) and ArcheTech.

Dawn Razor & ArcheTech - Wonder Land [Nara Records]

Even in a crowded room of friendly faces he felt lost, unable to find his voice amongst the excited conversations and sputtering bursts of laughter. He needed to get out of his head and get into it, but though he wanted to, it was far more difficult in practice than it was in theory. For now he would fain a nod and muster a smile; remaining there in body but not in mind.

Manchester-based DJ, producer and 1020 Radio resident WDDS has been putting lockdown to good use this year. Following remixes for Codex and TR, a contribution to Accidental Meetings compilation, and a second release on his own Hectare Discs imprint he returns for a third on the latter, a two tracker titled Get Into / Lies From Diefeffell. Bringing contrasting but complementary sounds, the A-side merges hip hop influences with skittering drums while the flip brings deep pads and an off kilter D&B rhythm.

PREMIERE: WDDS - Get Into [Hectare Discs]

Nobody's life was perfect but he started to think he'd been dealt a far worse hand than many others. Several toxic relationships, a myriad of lost jobs and unsuccessful opportunities, not to mention the countless mishaps, had seemed to be the dish of the day since his youth. Luck had never been on his side and things just didn't seem to go his way; he'd come to terms with living with it after all these years. 

Previously shrouded in mystery, Brother Nebula is the moniker of dance music veteran Lance Desardi who, over the last few years, has crafted cosmic and atmospheric breaks and house. He made his debut on Legwork back in 2018 with a collaborative EP alongside Solar, before quickly following it up with his first solo releases on the same label. Last year saw him land on Nick Höppner's Touch From A Distance, but now he makes a triumphant return to Legwork once again for The Physical World, an album of retro-futurist and interstellar electronics.

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PREMIERE: Brother Nebula - Living With It [Legwork]

DSP welcomes back the prolific one-man-machine from Malta… Keith Farrugia AKA Sound Synthesis for the first solo EP on the imprint. ‘Memory Sequence’ Depicts a cerebral journey into the depths of cognitive recall.

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PREMIERE: Sound Synthesis - A3B0L3 (Distorted Sensory Perception)

The environment around them was ever changing, for as much as it was bright and light there were also moments of bleak, bitter darkness. They lurked around the corner. The planet was as much a living organism as they were, a bubbling ball of fertile unrest and unpredictable consequences. As the clouds rolled by slowly overhead he listened to their rumbling - it was ominous and yet weighted with such promise. A living dub, a noise and a drone in the distant skies above. 

Max In The World is a New York based producer and label boss. He runs Bliss Point - a promising imprint with a penchant for deep, ethereal electronics, dub and beyond. Max himself is set to release a new EP at the start of this year. It features an all guns blazing remix from Lyon dj and producer Sentiments.

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PREMIERE: Max In The World - The Living Dub (Sentiments' D-More Mix)[Bliss Point]

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