Bokeh 2021

November 2021

Music for the insomniacs and house trained cats

We've been away for a little while but none60 returns with a new various artists album - Audience of none.

Believe it or not the album's title was conceived just after "none of the above" was released and way before we even had any tracks ready for it, little did we know at the time that the title would sum up the last 15 months of club life in the UK and most of the world. You may find it even harder to believe that the opening track's name predates the pandemic! The earth has always been evil after all... how could the home of us humans be anything but?

Audience of none is a colder and darker album than its predecessor but each track has just the right balance of synths, beats and atmospherics that make it such a great return for none60. From the dub techno vibes of Arlow's "Bear Dub" , the pulsing synths of "Elevated State" by 3VS to the eight-minute abstract landscape of DYL's closing track "Elder Gods" there is an almost retro futurist theme running through the album.

A 4 track limited run 12 inch is also available containing the tracks -

This is available from the none60 bandcamp - https://none60records.bandcamp.com/album/nsy046-audience-of-none

A1 - Silent Dust - Evil Earth
A2 - Margari's Kid - Roundmoor Gardens
B1 - Jaskin & Uneven - Thumb Technique
B2 - Sorse - Sun Shower

Release Date -  June 25, 2021

Massive thanks to all the artists involved!

Mastered by Bob Macciochi @ SC Mastering www.scmastering.com

Artwork by Akuratyde
Sampler artwork by Scott Metro

none60 Bandcamp

07. Oliver Yorke - Replaced

SPINNET - PERTURBATIONS LP [SYH002]

We are very excited to present you our second release, "Perturbations", an album written by the futuristic Greek producer Spinnet, which we already know from releases on labels such as Literature Recordings or Regression Media among other important labels. His versatility as a producer means that we can also find him in other projects such as One Arc Degree or Space Scavengers where he explores other sounds of electronic music.

Spinnet captivated us with its sound and vision of Drum and Bass with Techno aesthetics and gave us a 9-track Grey Area style album, with two collaborations with Constant Strain, where cinematic and sci-fi sounds are complemented by atmospheres where light and darkness come together to immerse ourselves between hypnotic rhythms at 85/170 Bpm in an authentic cosmic journey through unknown universes. We are very proud to have this album on our label, we hope you like it!!!

Digital album available on Bandcamp:
https://syhdamusic.bandcamp.com/album/perturbations

SYH002 TRACKLIST:
01. Spinnet - Contrapositive
02. Constant Strain & Spinnet - Cyber-Cognitive
03. Spinnet - Conic
04. Spinnet - Asymptote
05. Spinnet - Imaginary
06. Spinnet - Contranegative
07. Spinnet - Divergent
08. Constant Strain & Spinnet - Recruit & Synchronize
09. Spinnet - Recurrence

@spinnet
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All tracks written and produced by Vasilis Spinnet except tracks 2 & 8 written and produced by Constant Strain & Vasilis Spinnet.

Mastered by Eddie Nesta.
instagram.com/eddienesta
Artwork by Oxoko Design.
instagram.com/oxoko_design

Perturbations

Buy on Bandcamp

SPINNET - PERTURBATIONS LP [SYH002] (Previews)

The 21st release on Kid Drama's CNVX brings together artists old and new on this 6 track Various Artists release.

Wagz - I was never really there

Locked Concepts returns with the next Interlocked installment, on the Periphery series. Vol. 2 is a Tellus and Sorse showcase, with remixes from Loomis, Akuratyde and Lockjaw. Full release out digitally on the 4th of September.

Tellus shares his take on Sorse's "Hybrid".

https://www.facebook.com/Tellusdnb/
https://soundcloud.com/tellusdnb

@locked-concept
www.facebook.com/LockedConceptAU/

Mastered by Sine Sound Mastering.
www.sinesoundmastering.com
info@sinesoundmastering.com

Art by Dan Eshleman.

Interlocked Vol. 2

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B. Sorse - Hybrid (Tellus Remix) [OUT NOW]

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Additional release info: 
LABEL: Onset Audio
ARTIST: Darkgray Heart, Missive
TITLE: The Bond That Can't Be Broken
GENRES: Drum & Bass, Halftime DNB
CAT: OA248
RELEASE DATE: 2021-10-01
TRACKS: 6

Check out other tracks on this release:
1.) Darkgray Heart - A Business Meeting Quickly
2.) Missive - Nueka (Darkgray Heart Remix)
3.) Darkgray Heart - Lost But Together
4.) Darkgray Heart - I Can Feel The Air
5.) Darkgray Heart - Seal of the Seventh Son (Missive Remix)
6.) Darkgray Heart - The Bond That Can't Be Broken

Darkgray Heart - A Business Meeting Quickly

From RDL Shellah's debut Showcase EP, prod by @seekersinternational

https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/showcase-ep

RDL Shellah (the artist formerly known as RDL) follows up the long sold out pop-grade 2021 Streets 7” produced by Mexico’s riddim queen Smurphy with a full Showcase EP featuring Canadian collective Seekersinternational (SKRS) on the buttons once again.

Lead single ‘Bad Wine’ is pure silky-tongued summer heater with a dusty boom-bap soul like a Jamaican take on Anderson Paak and Knxwledge; while the video tells a classic ‘where is my boyfriend’ story that’s as old as time. RDL Shellah has been part of I Jahbar’s Roolingz Musik collective, recording under the name Providence and guesting on tracks like ‘Rock the Party’ before joining him in Duppy Gun operations. The Showcase EP marks his first big artistic statement as a solo vocalist before he embarks on another collaborative EP in 2022 with I Jahbar sharing vocal duties (also produced by Seekersinternational).

Hear More / Buy Now

RDL Shellah - Touch Road

Kush Arora recontextualises Robin Sukhadia's insistent tabla into an insistent, overdriven kuduro mutation.

'Only Now Presents: Indian Unclassical Volume 1' is out October 25th on Bokeh Versions.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2Z4ZpFw

@kusharora
@bokeh-versions

Only Now Presents: Indian Unclassical Vol. 1

Premiere: Only Now - Cavern Trance (feat. Robin Sukhadia) [Bokeh Versions]

Taken from "Entity Attachment"

https://bkvcadavre.bandcamp.com/album/vom-entity-attachment

Cos goth is just dub for people without enough vitamin D…..

The first release on Bokeh’s goth/industrio-horror sister label BKV Cadavre rises from cvlt Glasgow band VOM. Before now, they were already the best and most original zero-nostalgia goth band in Scotland since Twisted Nerve - as heard on 2013’s perfect Altered States LP.

But anyone lucky enough to witness their live workouts or the few tracks on At War With False Noise’s 2020 comp Votive Offerings know there’s a different trio lurking. Entity Attachment is the first album in this long evolution: 6 tracks of macabre steppas and dread-drenched drum tracks for paranoid late night DMT trippers and folk-horror-scifi soundtracks. Spaces between drum machine hits fill with billowing noise, vocals are now stripped back to distant yelps bouncing off stone walls, bass brought to the fore in dub-grade workouts.

To understand what’s aligning here: there’s snatches of vampiric Bauhaus dubpunk buried between touches of industrial darkwave acts like Black Funeral, Murderous Vision and Controlled Bleeding surgically grafted onto the new breed of dread n bass like our pal Ossia (check the closer Goetic Ritual for most proof).

Buy Now / Hear More

VOM - The Zone

Often I wonder what it would be like to be the river blistering down Dwight, doused in sweat and steam, hastily rushing to where the waters meet. She moves with such ferocity and ease, unashamed to be sprinting while being bashful to the untrained eye. Even when her currents are withholding and her roots are spreading thin, I know that one chance meeting in her waters will unload me from the mess I’m in. 

Up-and-coming French producer Less-O releases hypnotic bass track 'Behind Closed Doors' ahead of his debut EP Shenanigans via  his brother Simo Cell's TEMƎT. Recorded during the recent lockdown over lengthy night watch shifts, the track is imbued with dark elation propelled by a manipulated laughing vocal sample and drum programming akin to the dripping of water droplets, clicking like excess time of lockdowns gone by. The infectious breaks and cascading bleeps transform mid-track into a miasma of trance influences, through the lens of arpeggiating synth lines and vast space in the soundscape. This track ensures that Less-O should be on everyone’s radar as a keen emerging producer to look out for.

Shenanigans EP

PREMIERE: Less-O - Behind Closed Doors [TEMƎT]

https://soundcloud.com/chezdemilo
https://soundcloud.com/futureboogie
🛒 https://fanlink.to/Futureboogie10
🔊 https://youtu.be/91WiGixRHzY

Futureboogie Recordings is calling time after ten years with a 20-track compilation that sums up the sound of the lovingly curated Bristol label. From throbbing arps and noirish guitar twangs to errant analogue blips and ceaseless, rolling grooves, it’s a different sound to what you might have heard five years back on the Summer Riot IV compilation, and certainly a long way from the early days. Consider Futureboogie 10² an ode to evolution as much as a toast to all the great tracks and the family of artists that have passed through the wide-reaching Futureboogie sphere since before the label was even a sparkle in the disco ball.

When Futureboogie Recordings launched in 2011 with Julio Bashmore and Javeon McCarthy’s ‘Father Father’, it represented an extended circle of friends close to the label from Bristol’s deep pool of talent and beyond – amongst them Eats Everything, Waifs & Strays, PBR Streetgang, Behling & Simpson and Crazy P. The reach of the label grew in tandem with its reputation, not to mention the endeavours of the team in other areas of the music game. The Boogiefuturo label became a vital entity on its own terms, carrying a lauded DJ Nature remix of Typesun which encapsulates two distinct generations of Bristolian house music at its best. DJ Nature, who cut his teeth as DJ Milo in the Wild Bunch days, has gone on to become a regular feature on Futureboogie, helping define its soulful, adventurous spirit.

It’s also hard to separate Futureboogie from Team Love – events specialists who share some of the same management. From their flagship Love International festival in Croatia (having steered The Garden before that) to the Love Saves The Day weekend in Bristol, the Silver Hayes dance area of Glastonbury to the Waterworks festival with Percolate in London, you can see the unmistakable Futureboogie stamp across an international spread of events now. 

Sonically, Futureboogie shifted its direction at the halfway point with Fernando’s Mid Decade EP. Artists like Mark E, Felix Dickinson, Kiwi, Lauer, Ponty Mython, Ruf Dug and Toby Tobias are of course still intuitively connected with the foundations of disco and funk, but their sound teases at the edges to shape out a more inquisitive strain of house. The remixers passing through the label at this time speak volumes as well – the late, great Andrew Weatherall, Roman Flügel, I:Cube and Ivan Smagghe amongst them, every one an iconoclast within the strictures of club music.

So we come to Futureboogie 2021, which lands in the wake of a sterling run of 12”s from breakthrough names like Theus Mago, Zakmina, Chez de Milo and Warehouse Preservation Society. Across 20 tracks, this expansive collection celebrates the same omnivorous love of grooves which Futureboogie embodied before it even had a name. There’s a moodier, freakier strain to the sound across the compilation, but the tradition of warm, snagging party starters holds true. It’s a triumphant note to end on. But one has to ask, why, and what comes next?

Tracklist: 

1. Francesca MacKay - Desire
2. Tech Support - Writers Block
3. Natural Sugars - Wormholes
4. Warehouse Preservation Society - Ron's House Feat. Dan Hastie
5. Ponty Mython - I Summoned Rick
6. Rodion - morti DFAMe
7. ID_UA - Think
8. Maia Lee - Less But Better
9. Manami - Narcos.Is
10. James Welsh - Times Square
11. Theus Mago & Jepe - Thief of Time
12. Chez de Milo - Need Someone
13. N-GYNN - Dutch-E
14. Kams - All In Your Mind
15. The Robinson - Scream
16. DJ Nature - Goin' On
17. Lauer - Offset Pat
18. Zakmina - Driving to Nostalgia
19. Toby Tobias - Trippy Steve (Fantastic Man Dub)
20. Hard Ton - Don't Believe The Hype

Futureboogie Compilation 10²

Need Someone

PREMIERE: Chez de Milo - Need Someone [Futureboogie]

https://soundcloud.com/decemberxxx
🛒 https://deathandleisure.bandcamp.com/album/d-but
🔊 https://youtu.be/in4NeXo1CE4

After ten years of producing music and ten years of being terrified of doing this : Tomas aka December finally releases his first album.

The myth of the first album can be heavy on musicians, putting a lot of pressure on artists thinking they have to craft the ultimate record, condensing and transcending their style in one perfect release.
Of course it’s not the case and it shouldn’t be.

It took years for Tomas to realise this and finally get it done.
Oliver Ho aka Broken English Club, who’s always been a crucial supporter of his work, helped him compile extracts from live shows, rough studio sessions as well as careful arrangements and the record slowly took shape : « DÉBUT » was born.

This first album exorcises his fear of confronting this format by channelling a raw electronic punk energy, showcasing his unique vocal signature, his strong minimalistic beats and the melancholic, romantic atmospheres he is known for.

But it’s also a tribute to his first loves and totems , electronic punk, industrial, sci-fi, ebm. It is a homage to where Tomas comes from, his musical origins.

It is a direct, simple,
forward, honest, powerful record and it feels like the beginning of a long series now that Tomas conjured these dark spirits.
This is only the debut.

Tracklist: 

1. Text Me When You Get Home
2. Always
3. Bottom Of The Food Chain
4. Years Ago I Would Have Said Yes Honey
5. Sunday 10.45pm
6. Je Sors Ce Soir
7. Double The Pain!
8. No Game
9. The Day Of The Hunter

Début

Bottom Of The Food Chain

PREMIERE: December - Bottom Of The Food Chain [Death & Leisure]

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/tripjag
Track: Acid Break
Label: https://soundcloud.com/randomcollectivecr
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 02/12/21
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VNYjGsbcVLE

Trippin Jaguar will guide you along with his sound that rides the line between lucid and transcendental.  The thoughtful layering of acoustic instrumentation and captured sounds over electronic foundations mean the intricacies tend to unfold with each listen, like a good trip should.   Acid Break is a credit to his uniqueness and willingness to push the artistic boundaries, with an unrivalled ability to bring seldom heard soundscapes to the dance floor.  Trippin Jaguar enlisted a group of equally experimental remixers. Canadian comrades Nathan Hall & Johnny Posh reworked "Glow" into a cosmic and spaced out number with equal amounts of tension and ease. Analog atmosphere master Oora is back on the label with his dreamy downtempo rendition of Acid Break while Japanese expat turned  Canadian live set specialist Tokiomi makes his debut on the label with a heavy and heady remix of Mar Sara.

PREMIERE | Trippin Jaguar - Acid Break [Random Collective] 2021

Sensuous, apocalyptic and forward-facing, experimental vocalist Grove refracts Jamaican and Bristolian traditions through a queer lens.

'SPICE' is out now on Bokeh Versions/Spinny Nights.

Buy: bit.ly/3D7a94q

@theyisgrove
@bokeh-versions
@spinnynights

SPICE

Premiere: Grove - Soft Cheeks [Bokeh Versions/Spinny Nights]

The earliest known recordings of thee great lost cosmic squatters / dub punks: Reducer.

reducer.bandcamp.com/album/nada-nuevo

"This cassette is a re release of a 2 track cassette Reducer gave away to the 1st 23 punters through the door at our 2nd gig in 1985. We have added 2 other tracks from the same recording session because we are lovely people who wish to share enlightenment"

Reducer - Force Of The Source [1985]

5 outstanding edits by the one and only auratekh, an internationally recognized purveyor of the finest trance-inducing sounds and images.

The Earth Question opens the EP and is an invitation for bodies to get in motion and minds to seek elevation. 

The Silence is an anthem that revisits an iconic 80's hit and a reminder of the deep links between new wave and Goa. 

Pan's Domain is one of those chuggers that might cause flashbacks of the highest order. 

Blue Pilot Light is a deep and trippy groover for all your abyss rave needs. 

Traveller is a forward-thinking number, fit for vertical ascent and celestial navigation. 

Per the artist's request, his proceeds from sales of this EP will be donated to IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs - a global human rights organisation that promotes recognition and implementation of the rights of Indigenous Peoples around the world.
credits
released May 29, 2020 

Edits by auratekh 
A&R by Ed Isar 
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta 
Artwork by João Ervedosa

3 - Auratekh - Pan's Domain - 110.2 BPM

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@noodsradio 3-4pm BST every 2nd Friday of the month

Premiere: Grove - Soft Cheeks [Bokeh Versions/Spinny Nights]

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