Sun n Sigs

leftfield bass

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

Amphibious Centurions

Out on YOUTH: https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/track/emma-dj-toma-kami-julia-bashmore

@emmadeejayy
@yyyooouuuttthhh

Emma DJ & Toma Kami - Julia Bashmore

End of Line

French II - Grooverider

https://soundcloud.com/el-piel-dorada

🚬 E̾l̾ ̾P̾i̾e̾l̾ ̾D̾o̾r̾a̾d̾a̾ - 𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔡𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔲𝔡𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔰 𝔳𝔞𝔠í𝔬 🚬 
E͓̽P͓̽ DISPONIBLE en Soundcloud / Bandcamp / YouTube

 A Alejandro Valentín Rubio. 
 Amigo profundo y poeta incomparable. Gracias por regalarnos la palabra "oro".

El Piel Dorada - Camión De Caudales Vacío

Agradecidos de poder sacar este EP de Selvagia!! Desde Perú para el mundo.

Selvagia, productor y dj peruano, trasciende los límites de la música electrónica latinoamericana, creando un paisaje sonoro único, repleto de polirritmos cautivadores, texturas vívidas, alta energía, con influencias del bass, latin club, techno, y experimental. Su música ha sido mencionada en Pitchfork y cuenta con lanzamientos en Tratratrax, Angels Gun Club, ZZK, Majia, Eck Echo, Terror Negro, entre otros. También, co-dirige @lararaperu, colectivo, plataforma musical, produciendo eventos en la ciudad de Lima.

jaijiu:
El Lechu me mostro su musica y me volo la cabeza, le tuvimos que pedir musica para Rebote. Tiene en su soundcloud varios edits y temas propios que me siguen descolocando, ritmos nuevos y densos. Le preguntamos si queria algun remix para sus temas y decidio por Precolumbian y yo (cara ruborisada).

Precolumbian es otra artista que me vuela la cabeza, basada en Philadelphia tiene temas iconicos y eternamente agradecidos por su remix.

Esperamos que les guste el lanzamiento!

Selvagia - LATENTE (Jaijiu Remix)

@dnza x @undrwght - Anfibio (taken from 'Anifbio' EP, out on the 30th of May)

A collaboration between DNZA and Undrwght, two Mexican producers, dates back years with their joint releases always characterized by heavy bass, extensive use of baile funk samples and influences ranging from hard drum to UK's club music. Their upcoming EP, however, focuses on South Africa and the raw energy of gqom which will be presented in the highly danceable hybrid form drawing from all their previous inspirations that took their music to the catalogues of such labels as WVWV, POSTWORLD, Cuntry Club, Ofensa and more.

[PREMIERE] DNZA x Undrwght - Anfibio

La Trakatera

Mega Perreo Verano Escoces

Zapote es parte de Anfibio un EP collab con @dnza 

Anfibio plasmado en una estela que refleja la metamorfosis y el diálogo entre las culturas afro y bass, ambas vidas.

Arte por: Cesar Chirinos 
https://www.instagram.com/corruptedxta/

Disponible en Bandcamp:
https://dnza.bandcamp.com/album/anfibio

Anfibio

Zapote

THE DEVIL'S DANCE FACE B

[PNL004]

Sydney based duo, JV & Palf, join the Panel Audio family with their latest record ‘T4’. 

With four club-ready tracks, the Australians expose the listener to high energy driven drumlines. The label have pressed the EP to 180gr heavyweight vinyl, witha very limited run of 100 which is ready for pre-order.

Support has already come in from Re:ni / Laksa, Mr. Mitch, DJ Plead, Yak, LCY and many more.