Timedance is incredibly excited to be presenting this new project from Bruce. After releases on Hessle Audio, Hemlock, Dnuos Ytivil and more, as well as collaborations with Bambounou and Lurka, Bruce takes a compelling turn, showcasing a new venture into future-sounding-electronic vocal pop.

This twist in the Bristol producer’s career embraces his incredible talent in constructing labyrinthine yet captivating melodic narratives and stories. Bruce’s newly unveiled vocals take the reign on a journey of masterfully crafted layers of production, tying the knot between years of club-focused, forward thinking artistry and an exhilarating new way to push boundaries within his music.

The five songs that almost feel like a debut are inhabited by love, found and lost, intimacy, exploration of the self and the following transformation that inevitably follows. Both the approach to emotional heights, nuanced story telling within re-invited pop music structures, and a taste for experimentalism, harks back to the great David Sylvian or icon-iconoclast Scott Walker; Bruce’s work feels animated by the same desire to find comfort in risk, sitting at the edge of both darkness and light.

His efforts are in tow of all things otherworldly about mutagen electronic dance music. From anthemic to intimate moments, this EP stands as the perfect way to once again, enter the world of Bruce. This time much closer to the bone, soaked in a dappled light, of a shade we have not yet encountered.

Bruce - In The Pines

Following up on his much acclaimed debut album ‘Opal’ released in 2022, Batu heads into a new year introducing A Long Strange Dream : a new imprint dedicated to his spontaneous musical explorations, conceived with the aim to follow curiosities and share his own music in a back-to-basics and spontaneous fashion.

The inaugural release « For Spirits » is packed with some of the Bristol based producer’s most psychedelic dancefloor studies to date. Flowing seamlessly as a whole piece, this long-form EP showcases Batu’s versatile and deep personal sound, as well as a riveting talent for electronic experiments ranging from trance-inducing ambient to peak-time techno wreckage.
credits
releases May 26, 2023

Written & produced by Batu.
Artwork by Laurie Herman.

Mastered by Rhys Crouch at Optimum Mastering

Traverse

Pre-order vinyl

B2. Fifth Wall

A1. 88

KW - ALTGR

A1. Mignight Run
A2. Paste
B1. Copy
B2. Lastmin_Res

Alluring Stripped Down Dribblers on 180g heavyweight vinyl.

Mastered by Tangible Air.
Artwork by Bettina Zenker.

IT056 KW - ALTGR

nimu - Picture In Picture

A1. At Dawn
A2. Room Of Mirrors
A3. Little Break

B1. Ultramarine
B2. Headache Pill
B3. Picture In Picture
B4. Deja Vu

Mushroom Tea Garden Ceremony on 180g heavyweight vinyl.
Mastered by Tangible Air.

ITX028 nimu - PICTURE IN PICTURE

Four new deep, rhythmic works from Lyon producer Vardae inaugurate new London imprint OODA, co-curated by Forest Drive West and localhost.  The Kaipos EP drifts from ritualistic half tempo drums into deep warping techno and tripped out drones, illustrating Vardae’s unique genre-breaking approach to crafting powerful percussive entrancers for headphones and dancefloor.

A fitting prelude to the OODA project, conceived to explore polyrhythmic techno, bass and ambient experiments in all forms.

Observe-Orient-Decide-Act.

https://ooda.bandcamp.com/

Vardae - The Kaipos EP

Amsterdam based molecular biologist, producer and rising talent Teqmun debuts on Flippen Bits with five bits of his warm and uncannily organic sound. 

Organic Oscillations EP is a fresh blend of melancholic IDM, dreamy vocal chops, punchy rhythms and playful break-beat techno. The perfect representation of Teqmun’s approach to music: Energetic, highly emotional and musically wide-open, willing to take inspiration from all realms of contemporary music.
To complete the pack Pariah joins the party and delivers an excellent wobbling roller remix.

The nature inspired track titles of the EP establish a connection between the tracks and the organic world. 
The term - oscillations - refers to the rhythmic, wave-like patterns found in various biological processes such as the beating of a heart or the swaying of plants in the wind. Organic Oscillations suggests that the music captures the essence of these natural patterns, creating a sonic experience that resonates with the organic world.

While Aphid Walk refers to the infrastructural challenges and solutions of the insect world, Parachute Kernel is a seed that has developed a specific structure that allows for it to be carried by the wind. Balsa parallels the sounds of the track with the features of a kind of wood that goes by the same name: it’s one of the lightest woods we know yet incredibly solid. Blossom reminisces the different stages of a flower while developing (just like the track) and And Nettle Dweller, well, you have to be really brave to want to live on stinging nettles, rather appropriate to the stingy track that it is.


Music written, produced and mixed by https://soundcloud.com/teqmun-tijmen-b
Nettle Dweller remixed by https://soundcloud.com/pariah_uk
Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/traceymusic
Artwork by Pablo Perez

Organic Oscillations EP

FLIPPEN BITS 004 Teqmun - Organic Oscillations EP SNIPPETS

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BC: https://paceyourself.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-flowers

Putting a pigeon amongst the cats we are back with that good shit. An out of step, incidental artefact of peaceful sophistry: YS - Brutal Flower (2 x “12 LP). A no airs and graces piece of cool future-proof ambience. A modern ballad for brave young clubbers, local pubbers, slipstream warriors, and emotional doggers.

The distinctive aesthetic hallmarks of YS are all here: slabs of urban flavour from emotional interior; raw data straight from the interface. ‘Untethered’ and ‘Down’ are chopped-up cuts of searching R’n’B - jaded jams of lustful erasure. On the flipside, blunted desire lingers in ‘Fading
Memory’. Both hopeful and mourning: this is the lay of the land in Brutal Flowers sharing that rare strain of underground synesthesia best located in dark undercurrents of early Mo Wax.

The orchestral ambience of ‘Autumn OST’ is a potent stupor of end credit cinematics. Coming up for air. It feels young in an ancient sort of way: pure as first snow. And from here in the album unfolds with the patience, tranquility and the expansive poise of a work that is for now and always. Pulsating gently to assured ending with ‘Be Together’ - a flickering skyline, swarming with warm memories. In between there’s flashes of heartbreak reminiscent of Beltran's Ten Days of Blue and Blunt’s Stone Island (‘Look Up’ feels like a sort of spiritual successor to ‘Wake up’), that being said, when push comes to shove it only it ever flirts with its own reality.

An aesthetic reflection of a creative process that is delicate and restless. Created in the edges, where long distances, fast cities and global melancholia are wrought large. Burning the midnight oil Berlin-Singapore style: from real to reel. A sentimental exercise of modern faith by old
friends. With a nudge and a wink, Brutal Flowers is a (de)coded map of memories wavering with familiar intrigue. Patient listeners and the already initiated will be rewarded on re-visits - as playful & profound as you please, as deep as the heart.

The scathe that cuts is clean and deep. There are no sleight of hands to be found in this opus, only hearts are worn on the sleeve here.

A hill we’d gladly die on

pi pi pi premiere: YS - Pilgrimage (Pace Yourself)

Full stream of Low End Activist's "Gossip Is The Devil's Radio," taken from his new EP on ESP Institute, out September 1.

Pre-order: https://lowendactivist.bandcamp.com/album/gossip-is-the-devils-radio
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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