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Olympe4000 - 16 Mars 2023

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Newly minted label Psychic Relief poses up and flexes shamelessly with its inaugural release Muscles Hug Your Bones, a brawny EP of swirling technoid psychedelia, muscular bass-weight, and unabashed sentimentality by Philadelphia-based rave rascal Furtive. 

Bringing things into motion is Convoke, an impellant, rippling track opening with a stalwart kick and shifting, auroric sheets of harmonics. This densely textured wormhole slinker isn’t ostentatious, but its unrelenting progression and deliberate percussive maneuvers will command feet to move, summoning dancefloor supplicants toward pulsing speaker stacks.   

The EP’s title track punches in with a crunchy, energizing bounce - primed to bring packed rooms into full, rocking swing. The immediacy of its peppy, rambunctious groove and rolling, skittering percussion is bound to start frothing things up… and the acid line hasn’t even come in! Once that rippling squelch starts bubbling up, the frenzy of this sweaty, muscular weapon simply has to be felt - it’s a proper belter, while also perfectly arranged for slick and easy playback. Muscles has been play-tested in many packed rooms, and it always does the trick! 

Three digital tracks supplement the vinyl release. With Hedera, Furtive conjures another billowing textural wash of staggered, thumping psychedelic techno, steadily mounting into a cresting wave of rippling oscillations. Leafy Spinach is a salad of dreamy bouncing, of twinkling and winding bubbles, a track that would be outright goofy if it wasn’t for the seriousness of the bass punches. Wet Glass is a romantic, cinematic dreamscape - a warm, glowering collage of snippets of field recordings with uplifting, ghostly story-time synths and spectral piano plinking. 

Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer and relentless creative tinkerer, intractably committed to the rave as a producer, DJ, underground event organizer, and dancer. Furtive brings a scintillating and sentimental touch to their many polished and focused genre-spanning productions, informed by over a decade of experience in the studio and yielding a rich selection of self-released tracks, contributions to VA comps, and recent vinyl pressings.

A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they played a turnkey role in putting on some of the District’s zaniest techno parties. Furtive now co-runs an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philadelphia. As a DJ, Furtive has supported internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts and held court in dingy local watering holes with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics, regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums.

Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones EP

PREMIERE: Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones

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Gzardin - 31 Mai 2023

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At our latest event in Peckham, the one and only @roni_nza laid down a dynamic, heavy-hitting mix full of percussive goodness. From grooving basslines to hypnotic vocals, here is the full set complete with crowd noise.

Alongside the mix, we got the chance to ask the Parisian-Malaysian DJ about her influences and current outlook on the scene. Pushing up and coming talent is at the forefront of her approach running @nehzarecords and we can’t wait to see where her and the label go from here...

Meridian: There seems to be a UK influence in your sound, how did your attraction to the UK scene originate?
RONI: I visited London when I was 14 and fell in love with the music, the energy and the British accent. I discovered Garage, 2 step and some other styles. At that time, my dad introduced me to Gilles Peterson's show and I would listen every week. When I turned 18, I would book a train ticket if it was affordable and spend the whole day in London digging for music. So yeah, there’s definitely a huge UK influence for me.

Meridian: Which upcoming artist are you most excited about at the moment and why?
Mabel who just released on my record label Nehza Records. She is so young but all the tracks she writes are bombs! Also CRRDR, I love his energy and involvement in the Columbian scene. The French scene is also extremely rich, so many more deserve attention.

Meridian: What does up and coming mean to you?
Unfortunately, the industry is very much about ‘ticket seller’, but what I’m interested in is discovery. To me the best party is when I don’t know the person who’s playing and take a slap in the face musically. That’s the reason why I love pushing artists that are unknown and deserve success. I would love to create a night where we only book upcoming or unknown artists around this idea of discovery.

MRDN004: RONI [Live @ The Carpet Shop 15.07.23]

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Link to the event:
ra.co/events/1736633

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