We are happy to present another fine release from our beloved friends from Leipzig @Defrostatica Records. This time they are dropping the first stand alone Single from @DjBadshape aka Maria Schwind. Release date is the 14th of January 2022.

Buy the release on Bandcamp: https://djbadshape.bandcamp.com/album/hurrican-kick

@DjBadshape is a multi-talented artist from Leipzig,
Germany, working in the fields of design and music. The singer, producer and DJ debuted on Defrostatica Records in Summer 2021 on the various artist compilation Hybrid Hooks with “I See Red”. Her light-footed and open-minded approach to club music was premiered and reviewed with great praise by Leipzig’s electronic music magazine Frohfroh. In her first own release on the label though she puts a different emphasis. Influenced by gritty personal events @DjBadshape has written two tracks that are on the dark side of two different genres: drum and bass and techno.
Hurrican Kick is a minimal autonomic drum and bass tune carried by
instruction calls from London’s roller skater star Stormskater. Few
percussive elements are floating around a hypnotic kick pattern that soon elevates the dancer in the ‘zone’.

Hurrican Kick

[PREMIERE]  DjBadshape - Hurrican Kick feat. Stormskater (Defrostatica)

London-based Baroque Sunburst (@baroquesunburst) and Italian XCPT serve DJs and systems a zinger in this collabo. Four urgent tracks, uptempo and half-beat, fearless and immersive. Shades of techno pump linearity into bulging basslines, and amidst the echoes of 90s dub a whiff of industrial, post-punk shamelessness rears its head. Soundboys beware.


Tracklist:
A1 Nothus & Big Hands - Splugen Bass
A2 Soreab & KRSLD - Butoh
B1 Big Hands & Soreab - FC Ladub
B2 Delikwe - Fibra Cosmica

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Mastered & cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut Mastering
Distributed by Honest Jon's
Design by Linkin Bios

XBSUN001 | Baroque Sunburst x XCPT | Marmo

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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Yushh - Skiddadle (PDCOMP004)

Russell Krew
Dialect
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Artwork: ISHTLANT

https://soundcloud.com/russellkrew

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Russell Krew - Dialect (snippet)

Out November 4 on Risky Business vol. 2

Buy: https://egregorecollective.bandcamp.com/album/egru008-risky-business-vol-2

Artist: @dome-zero
Label: @egreg-re

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[Premiere] Dome Zero - Kettle of Fish (out on Egregore)

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Machine - DAMAGE002 - "Molten Drum" EP

Pre-order: https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/look-mum-no-hands

@pressuredome label-head @yushh lands on @wisdomteeth-uk with her long-anticipated debut EP, ‘Look Mum No Hands’ - an assured four-tracker that draws on Bristol bass, footwork, jungle and broken techno to create something fresh and upfront.

On the EP's penultimate track, ‘Close Fall’ squeezes darkside d’n’b sonics into a chugging 95 BPM beat template.

Look Mum No Hands

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Premiere: Yushh 'Close Fall'

First drop of the year from XCPT landing in March, introduces the 4th chapter of the Time Horizon saga, delivering six firm contributions courtesy of Pushlock, Eduardo, Marco Segato, Low End Activist and Cel, plus a re-mastered version of “FWD” by 2nd II None, previously released back in 2007.

Tracklist:
A1 Pushlock - Vertex
A2 Eduardo - Shift Toward
A3 Marco Segato & Eduardo - Comma 22
B1 Low End Activist - Gas
B2 2nd II None -  RWD (remaster)
B3 Cel - Jillybean

Mastered & cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut
Design by Linkin Bios

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**** Jah-Tek Premiere ****
Stefan Dubs - Saudrune Dub (EGV002)

Kicking off 2023, Egregore Collective are back with a second vinyl release on the main label. This time, they're diving deep, spiraling down in a sea of reverberated chords and soothing noises with a 5 track EP aptly named 'Tones and Echoes'.

Jah-Tek presents, track 4,  'Saudrune Dub' from the enigmatic Stefan Dubs. A sonic dive into the deep earthy textures of a rich dub collage, fortified with swirls, air and space, seamlessly dancing around an earthy call & response lead, encased in a rich coloured chamber. True soundsystem flavour and real earth music!

Big love to the Egregore Collective as always x

Follow Stefan Dubs:

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/folkloremusic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maquis.son.sistem/

Follow Egregore:

Soundcloud: @egreg-re
Instagram: www.instagram.com/egrego.re/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/EgregoreTeam/

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Youtube: www.youtube.com/c/JahTek
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