DJ SOYBOI - RETICULATED (Not Bad For a Girl - Big Bally Beats 001) 
Release date: Friday 17th November 2021

Manchester based producer DJ Soyboi isn’t approaching Not Bad For a Girl’s first EP “Big Bally Beats 001” lightly. Their track “Reticulated” is a beautifully crafted progressive 170bpm track that takes us on a high-tempo journey through what Soyboi describes as “snake inspired Dnb”.

As shown on this track, DJ Soyboi has definitely solidified their own sound within the jungle genre. Combining both the darker realms of jungle with their recent release “Brainsticker / Chainsplitter” with chicago inspired footwork, they have definitely set the bar high in terms of production. Soyboi has had a successful year with support from heads such as LCY, India Jordan & VTSS as well as the incredible success of their new club night “Tough Act”, and we are sure their success will not stop here!

Manchester's favourite collective Not Bad For A Girl are making their Label debut with Big Bally Beats 001 - a compilation of Manchester's most hyped women & non-binary producers with all proceeds going to local charity @brightersound. The tracks in the compilation are a super eclectic collection of genres and moods, from dancefloor-ready 160, to lush breaks, to punchy, syncopated GQOM, floaty, vibrant house and more.

Brighter Sound is a creative music charity. Rooted in the North of England, they change the lives of individuals through music, support and promote diverse talent and act as a catalyst for change in the music sector, from education to industry.
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Artwork - Alyah Saltiga (Instagram - @alyah.designs)

PREMIERE: DJ Soyboi - Reticulated [Not Bad For A Girl]

Krush Juke w/ DJ Soyboi - Subtle Radio - 25/01/2022

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With this EP Polo Lilli channels the lost spirit of rave, with two tracks of euphoria that will make your head spin and bring a tear to your eye! Despite the modern production these two tracks could have come straight out of 1992.

Out 18/March/2022

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BANG BANG BANG, back in style with another Biccy Guest Mix from one of our favourite producers/ DJs in the 160 scene @Team GB

Expect high energy Footwork and Juke with a sprinkle of Acid and Jungle. 

Co-founder of Juke Joint, resident on Reform Radio and heavy releases on labels such as Aeronema, The Big Fresh Collective and 4ncurrency, Team GB is one to look out for!

"Choccy Biccy asked me to put a mix together ahead of Fridays show so I decided to go full pelt with the flavours you can expect from a Team GB live set. Got some new and old stuff from myself in there alongside some mates & greats inc. Samurai Breaks, Chunky Strapz, Swisha, Mani Festo & Luke Vibert'. Expect relentless 160 energy throughout!"

Biccy Guest Mix 025: Team GB

Artist: Low End Activist
Title: Hostile Utopia
Label: Sneaker Social Club
Cat No: SNKRLP009
Release Date: 14th June

Casting a self-reflexive lens over his roots via the medium of crushing, future-rushing soundsystem sonics, Low End Activist returns to Sneaker Social Club with a full-length of monumental proportions.

When the Low End Activism 12” ignited on Sneaker in 2019, it paid tribute to the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, UK, where LEA originates from. In the shadow of social inequality and strengthened by the unity of the multi-ethnic community, Blackbird Leys still imposes a powerful influence on LEA’s work, even as he’s stepped out onto Seagrave for last year’s Game Theory album and notched up the first couple of releases on his own self-titled label.

On this new album, Hostile Utopia sums up the conflicting emotions attached to memories of home – how it’s possible to feel nostalgic for the griminess of urban and suburban Britain, its ordinary tales of bitterness and frustration, but also its intrinsic passion and solidarity. At a time when social division is actively engineered by Machiavellian forces, real conviviality at street level feels like an impossible dream.

LEA communicates these tensions through a style which is becoming his signature – dynamic bass torsion and chiseled, fractalised rhythms slugging around the 130 mark. It’s moody like a UK-themed record ought to be, but it’s not morose. There’s fierceness in every snap and rumble, as the legacies of hardcore, jungle, dubstep and grime pour into the casing prior to the gunpowder lighting.

On previous LEA releases, the MC roll call has pointed to some of the most vital voices touching the mic in the present day. Flowdan, Sikka Rymes and Trim all had something different to impart over the riddims, and now Hostile Utopia expands on that with the most extensive show of lyrical strength yet. Mez lights up the woozy, abstract grime swerve of ‘Mercenary’ in a musical style. Emz brings a ruthlessly sharp verbal steez to ‘GetGet’, Killa P gets busy toasting over ‘DFRNT STYLE’ and ‘Superhighway’ carries the dexterous hip-hop flow of Cadence Weapon.

In between those standout tracks, LEA expresses just as much in the production. Tracks brimming with stories to impart, laden with symbols masquerading as samples and draped in aural garb that firmly places Hostile Utopia in a place, a mood, that could only belong to the UK. It’s a hybrid sound just like the society it sprang from, and therein lies its power.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Collage by Clayton Burke
Design by DR.ME

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LOOKOUT is full of heavy womps, grotty synths and a heavy drum kit designed to make you jump. This track has been in my files for a while now and it’s a representation of my progress. Starting from my selecta edit all the way to now, this track is only the start of what’s to come. 🔊🔊

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Oxidiser (Bandcamp exclusive)

Hyperfold

Death Of The Multiverse

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