ZULI's remix of Palestinian rapper Haykal falls somewhere between club abstraction and deconstructed grime.

'From Dawn Till Dusk' is out soon on Dawn Records.

@zulimusic
@haykalonol
@dawnrecords

Premiere: Haykal - Sot Ramallah (ZULI Remix) [Dawn Records]

luxxuryproblems folds reggaeton hybridity into his emosh soundscape for the Phillip Jondo, DJ Brom and Friday Dunard-helmed SPA Recordings.

'FLEXFIT' is out July 10th on SPA Recordings.

@luxxuryproblems
@spa_recordings

Premiere: luxxuryproblems - DESPERTAO [SPA Recordings]

Knechtjong draws from hardcore, fantasy and Isekai anime on their Body Motion debut.

'NPC Love' is out September 3rd on Body Motion.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2WvuXDi

@knechtjong
@bodymotion

Premiere: Knechtjong - Beserk [Body Motion]

Classically-trained experimentalist Katarina Gryvul conjures spectral electronics on Kyiv's Standard Deviation label.

'TYSHA' is out February 9th on Standard Deviation.

@katarina-gryvul
@standard-deviation

Premiere: Katarina Gryvul - Zvuchy [Standard Deviation]

Playful and percussive, Despina graces Kindergarten Records with a bassline-leaning wrecker.

'Gravity Games' is out July 1st on Kindergarten Records.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3OipkhR

@despinadespina
@kindergartenrecords

Premiere: Despina - Selfcare Dot Gov [Kindergarten Records]

Insistent, full-throttle torque as @toma-kami revives his ‘Speed Oddity’ series. 

A second instalment sees the Parisian revisit a blueprint where hybridity takes prominence. Tensile, hi-NRG club pressure for the duration.

Our premiere comes complete with an assist from @wajang co-founder @amorsatyr. Having masterminded the ‘Speed Dembow’ series with labelmate Sui Mata, he and Kami augment 'Djédjé' with tribalistic, free party propulsion.

‘Speed Oddity vol. II’ is out February 17th on Man Band.

Pre-order: tomakami.bandcamp.com/album/speed-oddity-vol-ii

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Premiere: Toma Kami - Djédjé (feat. Amor Satyr) [Man Band]

@hkolb achieves beatific utopia on an intimate @tobago-tracks debut.

Etheric in execution, ‘lost in my room’ is a gleaming, near-mythical offering. Four probing, enchanted slants on avant-ambient-pop hybridity.

We have the second single. More dancefloor-friendly than its counterparts, ‘in my room’ summons idyllic, pastoral dream states to mesmeric effect.

'lost in my room' is out March 3rd on TT.

Pre-order: tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-my-room

Premiere: Hayden Kolb - in my room [TT]

Straight-up hydromancy as @flore jumps on a water-themed @nehzarecords compilation.

Caught in a whirlpool of visceral sound design, the @polaarsounds boss conjures turbulent hardcore currents alongside hydro-powered contributions from the likes of Jossy Mitsu, Angel D’Lite and Nehza founder RONI. 

River rapid breaks suspended in a constant state of flux. 

‘Transaquæ’ is out April 28th on Nehza Records.

Pre-order: nehzarecords.bandcamp.com/album/transaqu

Premiere: Flore - Sensors [Nehza Records]

@specialguest-dj conjures imagined ecological utopias under their Caveman LSD alias.

Set for release on NAP's @sonidoisla label, ‘Total Annihilation Beach’ is the Berlin producer’s latest emission. It’s exactly the kinda thing we’ve come to expect from a key member of the smoked-out ambient/downtempo rhizome connecting the likes of Huerco S, Perila and Pontiac Streator.

A meeting point between ambient and club modes, this is all quintessential shy. Properly absorbing stuff that strikes a balance between warm, textured ambience and hand-played percussion. 

Our premiere, 'Lost Hours', comes on a woozy, tabla-fuelled flex.

‘Total Annihilation Beach’ is out May 19th on Isla.

Pre-order: isla.bandcamp.com/album/total-annihilation-beach

Premiere: Caveman LSD - Lost Hours [Isla]

@THISISMASS co-founder @djgapdjgap and @m1ssjay link on a turbulent slice of grime-tinged club.
 
Taken from GÄP’s new album, the Ashida Park affiliate serves a payload of fiercely forward-facing collaborations. It’s an all-star cast too: Principé donny DJ Lycox and hyperpop distruptor TTristana among the names assembled but we turn attention to the Miss Jay cut.

With trace echoes of the coldest instrumental grime, ‘Crystal’ delivers some mutant club turbulence. Rude stuff from two producers known for tearing apart genre boundaries.

‘MUTUAL CARE’ is out May 31st on Mäss.

Pre-order: djgapdjgap.bandcamp.com/album/mutual-care

MUTUAL CARE

Premiere: DJ GÄP - Crystal (feat. Miss Jay) [Mäss]

@jamesk_1 tugs hard on the heart strings for @tobago-tracks' new guitar-focused compilation.

Achingly beautiful stuff from a comp bowing at the altar of the axe. From fret-burners and dive-bombers to billowing introspection, ‘Through the Fire and Flames’ is a homage to guitar music in the broadest sense.

Poised between romantic allure and forlorn abstraction, the multidisciplinary pop fantasist turns out some sublime, heart-on-sleeve shoegaze.

‘Through the Fire and Flames’ is out June 9th on TT.

Pre-order: https://tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-fire-and-flames

Premiere: James K - Destroying Angel [TT]

More full-throttle biz from @toma-kami as he jumps back on the ‘Speed Oddity’ series.

Set for release on his Man Band label, ‘Speed Oddity vol. III’ deploys accelerated styles to exhilarating effect. Peak-time, breakneck rudeness that darts between genres with reckless abandon. 

Our pick - the appropriately titled ‘hash mix’ of ‘Blades’ - marks a departure from what we've come to expect of the series. Low-end surge still intact, Kami opts for smoked-out breaks while ditching the original’s hard-edged ferocity in favour of gentler hues and woozy rolige. 

‘Speed Oddity vol. III’ is out November 17th on Man Band.

Pre-order: tomakami.bandcamp.com/album/speed-oddity-vol-iii

Premiere: Toma Kami - Blades (hash mix) [Man Band]

@sim_mtl and @sueuga have come packing the mutant dembow pressure in spades, complete with remixes from Toumba and Ultima Esuna.

Out soon on @parzubanil's @sacrilejiorecords, ‘Sumergir’ is a collaboration between artists operating at the intersection of hi-NRG dancefloor pneumatics and diasporic hybrid modes. Tensile, straight-for-the-jugular badness, and our pick, ‘Fibroid Motion’, finds this Dutch-Canadian alliance at its most devastating.

'Sumergir' is out January 5th on Sacrilejio Records.

Pre-order: https://sacrilejiorecords.bandcamp.com/album/sim-sueuga-sumergir

Premiere: SIM & Sueuga - Fibroid Motion [Sacrilejio Records]

@slinknyc debutant @jdotbalance coming thru with the vital, chest-rattling techno mutations right now.

Hot on the heels of SLINK releases from Nahi Mitti and Tristan Arp, insectoid sound design and unhinged rhythmic dynamism take centre stage across ‘Verdant’s four potent trax. Proper bleeding edge ordnance straight outta Chi-town.

Precision-tooled and immaculately detailed beginnings to the subsequent descent into violently thrashing maelstrom, our pick, ‘melt’, finds the Texas-born, Chicago-based artist at his most severe. 

‘Verdant’ is out January 26th on SLINK.

Pre-order: https://jdotbalance.bandcamp.com/album/verdant

Verdant

Premiere: Jdotbalance - melt [SLINK]

Listen back to our first Noods Radio show of the year... ⚔️ 

Featuring recent favourites from Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, Contacto, 500 & Opherings, HEDO HYDR8, AGILITÄT, Jdotbalance, ambent, Coffintexts X Gaby G, TDJ + more.

If-Only on Noods - 12th January 2024

Alt-pop experimentalist and Croatian Amor collaborator @altoaria pays tribute to lovelorn souls on their @rhz000 return.

Fitting that a release bearing a title referring to an all-consuming state of infatuation would land on Valentines Day. Striking balance between soft and severe, ‘Limerence’ is a lament to unrequited love; a homage to the heart-broken among us.

Tugging hard on the heartstrings, our pick is no less tender for its restraint. String-fuelled, heart-in-mouth melodrama imbued with a sense of yearning. 

'Limerence' is out February 14th on Rhizome.

Pre-order: rhz000.bandcamp.com/album/limerence

Limerence

Premiere: Alto Aria - Where The Heart Is [Rhizome]

Gassed to have arch futurist and @polaarsounds founder @flore on the podcast series.

As the brains behind a label constantly upending expectations and convention, the Lyon native has achieved cult status among discerning music heads. If you haven’t checked the POLAAR output, not to mention Flore’s own productions, you only have yourself to blame. It’s curation without compromise, defined by a voracious appetite for innovation.

Flexing a commitment to reckless abandon and clubwise experimentation, the mix treads a similar path. Bassbin accelerators and hardcore torque in abundance. 

“This mix is a collection of new and old tracks that represent my current mood: a mixture of introspection and excitement. In a few days we are starting the celebration of the 10th anniversary of my POLAAR label with a party at the Machine du Moulin Rouge in Paris (one of the biggest we have ever organised).

It proved the perfect occasion to delve back into the archives and it was surprisingly pleasant to see how far we have come. It’s also an opportunity to think about the new creative directions we want to take in the years to come. I've made the selection while working on this, and I think the mix reflects that state of mind.” - Flore

If-Only Podcast #130: Flore

Rewinding back to last week's heavy-duty Noods broadcast, complete with recent favourites from the likes of Seren Realm, Dirty K, aya, Stolen Velour, De Grandi and more.

If-Only on Noods - 14th February 2024

@innerinnerlife reflects on misspent youth and possible futures on an intimate return to @transatlanticrecords.

’ILYSM’ marks a soaring, triumphant homecoming for the self-proclaimed “enricher”. It’s steeped in nostalgia and the longing for times past; a sublime melange of frothing effervescence, bedroom pop aesthetic and layered shoegaze guitar.

Featuring a cameo from London’s @dontpoisoneverything, our pick, ‘what’s left inside your mouth’, drifts in on clouds of pastel-hued vapour. Captivating stuff.

'ILYSM' is out March 22nd on Transatlantic. 

Pre-order: transatlanticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ilysm

Premiere: innerinnerlife - whats left inside your mouth (feat. dpe0) [Transatlantic]

LYL Radio regular @jonnnah gets the premiere treatment today with a swooning trip hop elegy.

Set for release on his @second-end-rec label, ‘The Next Kingdom LP’ offers sensuality and romance in a genre-agnostic style. Big on soundscape, spectral and bruised.

The Lyon native runs the gamut from delicately widescreen bliss-out to gauzy IDM pointillism, and on a smoked-out, downbeat tip, ‘Fundamental Social Unit’ emerges an undeniable highlight.

'The Next Kingdom LP' is out April 19th on Second End Records.

Pre-order: secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/the-next-kingdom-lp-ser001

The Next Kingdom LP (SER001)

Premiere: Jonnnah - Fundamental Social Unit [Second End Records]

Gauzy bliss-out and pop abstraction to forward-facing dancefloor pressure, @imgonebaby founder Jetty (@mystictearz) delivers the 131st podcast. 

67 engrossing minutes from a real one. Definitely the handiwork for the brains behind a label that trades in the tender, mutant, smudged and sublime.

RIYL: Madjestic Kasual, Slagwerk, Organ Tapes, blastah, TT

“Sometimes I’m catering to the imaginary techno-industrial board of directors… sometimes my eyes are closed and my brain is smooth. This one has been Schwinn and Salt Marsh approved - the true test of pure intent. All glory goes to the producers behind the songs I stitched together.” – Jetty

If-Only Podcast #131: Jetty

London label @tobago-tracks serving up a vital one as @lovefear1 makes his debut album proper

Big on detail, ‘Schema’ imagines symbiotic futures. A spooling suite of sonic sensitivity and dank, lysergic vision, complete with a cameo from Sydney Bass originator 3NDLESS. 

10 tracks found in a hazy interzone of downbeat-adjacent styles, and it’s woozy number ‘Mother Null’ getting the premiere treatment today.

Pre-order: https://lovefear.bandcamp.com/album/schema

Mother Null

Premiere: Lovefear - Mother Null [TT]

Back on Noods playing recent favourites, including music from DJ Anderson do Paraiso, LAO, TSVI, Bianca Oblivion & ONHELL, Lord Spikeheart, John T. Gast, Jawnino + more.

If-Only on Noods - 14th March 2024

Nature has always featured prominently in Dmytrij Wulffius' creative exploits. Whether as a photographer - capturing moments when our manmade world and the great outdoors collide - or a producer, the Ukrainian native is clearly fascinated by his natural surroundings. Reflecting these qualities in his music, there's something profoundly bucolic about the title track of Wulffius' full debut.

Buy now: www.juno.co.uk/labels/Wicked+Bass/

@the-wicked-bass
@wulffius

Premiere: Wulffius - In The Pines' Crowns [Wicked Bass]

'Tri-gate' finds Sync 24 hooking up with UK techno noisenik @truss for a muscular electro workout with bass weighty enough to grab you by the throat, and dizzying 808 breaks to put your head in a spin. It’s a paranoiac soundscape with vocal smears and interference, driving you through a futuristic urban darkness in the way only good electro can, without ever being formulaic or predictable. The old cliche is true – if it ain't broke don't fix it, but to that we might add: just keep pushing it to its limits. Truss and Sync 24 are certainly doing that.

'Ten Year Electronics' is out soon on @cultivated-electronics.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2iyOoS1

Ten Year Electronics

Premiere: Sync 24 & Truss – Tri-gate [Cultivated Electronics]

‘Plannt’ begins with some unaccompanied moody chords which quickly fold in favour of a truly arresting electro composition, and this is where @shinra truly allows himself to shine. The underlying rhythmic sirens help to highlight the sheer density of this track and its elements: the flexible and richly layered nature which persists throughout means that ‘Plannt’ is one that can suit both listening on the floor and on headphones in equal measure.

The Meteor EP is out May 12th on @analogicalforce.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2pySXQo

Premiere: Shinra – Plannt [Analogical Force]

Innovative, mutant electro from the inaugural release on @buttechno's new label, plus an interview about his influences, style and working process.

'1984' is out October 23rd on @rassvetrecords.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2zhRPpN

Cxema

Interview

Premiere: Buttechno – Cxema [Rassvet Records]

A radiant workout complete with Italo bassline propulsion that speaks to Kasper Marott​'s versatility.

The 'Keflavik EP' is out September 21st on Seilscheibenpfeiler.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2xmUE9A

@kaspermarott
@user-736029411

Premiere: Kasper Marott – Keflavik [Seilscheibenpfeiler]

DJ TABLEDANCE helps Berlin-based party starters WARNING christen their eponymous label, giving some classic soulful house the 'S3NS3TIVE EDIT' treatment with an electro rework.

'WAR1901' is out soon on WARNING.

Buy: bit.ly/2MiyVrk

@tbldnce
@warningberlin

Premiere: Unknown – Lovelee Dae (DJ TABLEDANCE S3NS3TIVE 3DIT) [WARNING]

UTE.REC data scientist Oprofessionell dives down the fractal chasm with some acid-laced, hard throb trance.

'UTE003' is out February 7th on UTE.REC.

Pre-order: bit.ly/37E7DDP

@oprofessionell
@uteklubb

Premiere: Oprofessionell - Elektrisk [UTE.REC]

An effortlessly classy exercise in deepness and mesmeric nuance from the Butter Sessions founders.

'SHOUTS - 5 Years of Rhythm Section INTL' is out April 3rd on Rhythm Section International.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3blXrkN

@sleepd
@bradleyzero

Premiere: Sleep D - Hydralite [Rhythm Section INTL]

Mikel Rev and Oprofesionnell switch the trance turbos on to remix some Berghain-laced techno.

'Blue Hour x UTE [Remixes]' is out October 19th.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3k5frF2

@omformer
@mikkel-rev
@oprofessionell
@bluehour909
@ute-rec

Premiere: Alpha Tracks - Golden Shot (Omformer 'Energy Cycle' Mix) [Blue Hour x UTE]

Locked Club bring their unfettered brand of overdriven, tape-damaged electro to System 108.

'Five Years of Love' is out December 18th on System 108.

@lockedclub
@system108

Premiere: Locked Club - Salat [System 108]

Seo John gets a hypnotic, trance-fuelled supercharge from Omformer, AKA Oprofessionell and Mikkel Rev. 

'Dive' is out February 19th on GODDEZZ.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3rbvFj2

@omformer
@methejohn
@goddezztemple

DIVE

Premiere: Seo John - Dive (Omformer's 'Deep Dive' Mix) [GODDEZZ]

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