Resonator EP (GAUSS05) Out Now!

More than ten years since he first emerged on Skull Disco, Appleblim presents his debut album. The label he co-founded with Shackleton was the first the world heard of his productions, but Laurie Osborne’s innate relationship with electronic music culture reaches back much further than those groundbreaking early days of dubstep. Early days spent soaking up hardcore, jungle, techno and plenty more besides were fundamental foundations from which to spring into the then-unknown realms of sub-low half-step club music. At that time FWD>> and DMZ were the church for this ritualistic sound, and Appleblim was a regular fixture at both.

As dubstep matured, magnified, mutated and meandered, so Appleblim moved beyond Skull Disco to explore different avenues of expression in the new many-layered club music landscape. His own Apple Pips imprint was a natural vessel on which to explore the emergent fusions of hardcore-derived sounds and the US-born house, techno and electro, while labels such as Aus Music equally provided a home for his work (often alongside Komonazmuk). Meanwhile long-standing collaborations with Alec Storey (Al Tourettes / Second Storey) finally manifested in the hyper-modern mind-twist of ALSO, captured as an album on legendary rave label R&S.

More recently it’s been possible to hear Appleblim delve into electro-acoustic and ambient production alongside bassweight sounds on Tempa, one of the original bastions of dubstep culture. As the existing boundaries between genres, cultures, eras and scenes continue to dissolve, on his debut album Appleblim offers up a fresh approach that brings some of the foundational sound ethics of rave culture into a modern framework.

Hardcore breaks are still a regular sound source in contemporary club tracks, but on Life In A Laser it’s instantly apparent that Appleblim has moved beyond choosing popular drum samples to truly tap into the elusive feeling engendered by the music of the era. It’s a tricky feat to manage, but in the pie-eyed chords of “Ignite”, the subby 808 tom basslines on “NCI” or the Mr. Fingers synth flex on “Manta Key” the sonic finish sports the same understated grit and grime that made those early records so timeless. There’s still space for modernism, not least on snaking 2-step killer “I Think We'll Let The Gas Sort This One Out”, but it’s offset by a layer of dust, not to mention an inherent moodiness that can’t be faked.

This fine balance of rave romanticism and future-minded approaches binds together in a cohesive conceptual statement. First and foremost it’s Appleblim’s personal reflection on the music that has moved him on countless dancefloors since his first flirtations with soundsystem culture. At the same time the canny influx of modern ideas into the soundworld of the 90s genuinely results in a new proposition, making for a perfect fit on the modern-day ‘ardcore fetishists label of choice, Sneaker Social Club. Many may claim to draw on old-skool influences in their modern trax, but take one listen to “Flows From Within” and you’ll feel the same time-slipping surge of future-shock as the ravers at Lost, Dreamscape, The Dungeons, Clink Street, Blue Note and all those other iconic spots.

Appleblim - NCI

We welcome you @infinitytraxrecords coordinator @djpanthr out of the Pacific Northwest hittin' you with the 3rd mixxx. Here Panthr brings you a frantic mix to the table spanning from boot knocking acid & electro to deep, dreamy leftfield and breakbeat house. Club heavy jams on this one. Will definitely keep you listening. Don't make plans for an hour and give this a spin! 

Check out his recently released 4 tracker with @gestaltlabel .

003 / DJ Panthr

SJ Tequilla folds Fourth World and Japanese ambient tropes into the closer from his Craigie Knowes debut.

'Sanya' is out now on Craigie Knowes.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2q2a8in

@sjtequilla
@craigie-knowes

Sanya

Premiere: SJ Tequilla - The Day After [Craigie Knowes]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-benoit-b-cruising

Bearing witness of his unparalleled knack for building mad psy-tech jams, blurring the line betwixt monstrous abstraction and volatile machine funk, @benoitb's newest for @firecracker-recordings offshoot Unthank shall find its place amongst his most accomplished numbers to date.

Benoit B - Cruising [Unthank]

From the EP 'NAIVE009/JKTN070'
Release date: January 10

Jacktone Records and Naive have combined forces to bring you a split EP featuring the jagged punk techno of San Francisco's gayphextwin and the melodic breaks and bass of Valencia's Pépe.

Artist: @odi_me
https://www.facebook.com/gayphextwin/
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/gayphextwin

Label: @naivetrax
https://naivetrax.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/naivetrax/

Label: @jacktonerecords
https://www.facebook.com/JacktoneRecords
https://www.residentadvisor.net/record-label.aspx?id=12980

Premiere : Gayphextwin - Saunter [Naive / Jacktone]

founded by Gacha, Ash and Serga, Tbilisi, 2015

Worldwide Distribution:  Kompakt / kompakt.fm

contact : transfiguredtime@gmail.com

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