Your West Friends would like to welcome you to their new vinyl imprint. A label that hopes to fill your record bags (as well as your hearts) with that dope shit you yearn for.
 
     Up first are two friends and collaborators - Medlar & Ishmael - with four rhythm tracks that heavily utilise the cowbell, amongst other things, to get the juices flowing. Perfect for your next shubs. Look out for more records straight out of SE15 Peckham. Incubated in Rye Wax, pressed for you and yours. Have a good time, all the time.

Medalr & Ishamael - Bell, Everywhere 3

Medlar & Ishamel - Bell, Everywhere 2

Medlar & Ishmael - Bell, Everywhere 1

Tom Blip - More Vocal (WEST003)

Simply The West Vol.1 Out Now

WAVs Here - https://westfriends.bandcamp.com/album/simply-the-west-vol-01

A1) Full Take - You Got Me - WEST004

Simply The West Vol.1 Out Now

WAVs Here - westfriends.bandcamp.com/album/simply…-west-vol-01

B1) Harsh Mellow -  Return Of The Funky Jam  WEST004

A2)Steve Flîurs - PÜtron  WEST004

Out Now 12" and Digi

https://fyichris.bandcamp.com/album/snod-hill

Distributed By Rubadub Glasgow

FYI Chris - AD (WEST005)

Scram 2018!! Hellloooo 2019. 

Its been a good year for things all over the world but most importantly were all still here. 
As a token of appreciation we have a freebie for you. Thats right, 
Pay nothing now and not ever! 

FYI Chris & Medlar jumped in the studio and have cooked up something just right for your NYE warm up. Or maybe your rub down. Either way its free so why not take a chance. 

If you really like it and want to send us some money that also totally cool! 
We will give everything that we receive from the download and Dub-plates to southwark food bank. 

Little or big every bit you can donate will help. DL this jam - stick it on- and move those hips with confidence knowing you made a small positive difference in this far from perfect world.

https://westfriends.bandcamp.com/album/kool-tool-free-download

Link here for the DL and also a handful of 10" Dubplates

Medlar & FYI Chris - Kool Tool (FREE DL)

“When nothing else remained on this earth to mine, when there were no more fish or mollusks or plants, and little clean, nor temperate, air left to breathe … a mass migration of consciousness looked to cyberspace; neurological data uploaded for a chance of a new virtual existence within only screens. But the digital world, much like the world it was born from, is built upon the same biases which destroyed it in the first place. A world within a world is equally finite - and the utopian ideals of an ungoverned second life found old principles (or lack thereof), merely copied and pasted over from its irl predecessor. With the bandwidth exceeded; they banned those which offered less power, less good behaviour, less money. But upkeep the server of the elite, and you shall gain entry.”

The latest sonic output of artist-producer-dj-polymath Moonbow comes served in the form of a 12” vinyl on West Friends: the imprint spearheaded by South London’s Rye Wax & FYI Chris. After three years of quietly producing, Moonbow’s name is most familiar within the London nightlife scene, where — alongside their work within SIREN collective — they are known for their colourful DJ sets & mixtapes, leading to a mention in Crack Magazine’s “Top 10 Mixes of 2018”, guest mixing on Rinse FM and contributing to Honey Soundsystem’s mix series. These sonic tapestries are an exercise in storytelling that is at once euphoric and melancholic, whilst delving into both the old and new. Often known to make an appearance are chopped 'n' spliced vocals, silky psychedelic melodies, and bass vibrations so heavy that no nearby drinks are safe from spillage.

These characteristics can certainly be found on BNND WDTH, where the A-side is a tense build up of transcendental textures and rhythms that moves ever closer towards the dance floor compared to Moonbow’s earlier releases. On the side B, Discwoman affiliate and Toronto’s favourite one-to-watch Ciel takes the helm on a psychedelic breaks rework (one you may have seen many an “ID?” for in THAT Crack Magazine mix from SIREN DJs).

Moonbow - BNND WDTH (Ciel's Bali Sunrise Mix)

Moonbow - BNND WDTH

Peckham basement trax.  Our friends heard the call and delivered. Simply the West vol 1.2 

Copenhagen’s Percy Records affiliate and nom de plum factory DJ Pollen comes with a p-bar certified slammer (look out for more from him this year elsewhere wink wink) 

Medlar teams up with Tom Unlikely with the electro anthem (made entirely from the show) about nothing.

Also 4 u, blissed out breaks from The Soft, some 150 biz from the AKA Boys (Fyi...) And two delicate soundscapes from Sierra to end. Play at unnecessary volumes.

Tracklist:
A1) DJ Pollen - Blossom 
A2) The Soft - Beachy Drive
A3) Sierra - Breeze
B1) Medlar & Unlikley - Seinwave
B2) The AKA Boys - Don’t Taze Me Bro
B3) Sierra - Woven Message

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