Portugal-based DJ/producer & all around music-head Fradinho is gearing up to release his next 12", the third release on the Eclectic Beats Music label he founded last year. With soulful vocals by Colonel Red and remixes by Inkswel, Born74 & Daz-I-Kue this is an instant sure-shot for broken beat aficionados!

Release date: July 30th
Full article: www.steppinintotomorrow.com

★ PREMIERE ★ Fradinho - 'Much We Have ft Colonel Red' (Daz-I-Kue Dub)

Colorado-based RUMTUM (aka John Hastings), an acclaimed visual artist and up-and-coming producer returns to Bastard Jazz with his first full-length offering: “Isles In Indigo.” Arriving after a slew of successful singles (many of which can be found on the album) and EPs, “Isles In Indigo” both stays true to his established sound, and expands on the artistic vision; a luscious combination of aquatic ambient, lo-fi hip-hop, and mellow, melodic electronic, the record traverses the depths of the ocean to the outer reaches of the cosmos.

New offerings on the album include “Lost My Heart In Space” - an ethereal, downtempo cut - “Half Set Valley,” which explores instrumental lo-fi replete with distant, chopped and edited spoken word samples, “Coastal Ruins” with nods to breakbeat, “Mystic Symbols,” a trippy minimal track, and the album closer, “Commit Way,” which journeys from washed-out ambient to spacey hip-hop. Of course the LP also includes many RUMTUM mainstay singles, including “Shade Fader,” “Tropic Air,” and “Borealis.” 

Electronic producer and instrumental enthusiast RUMTUM has a unique approach to crafting his melodic melodies. May it be his love for native spirits, mystic symbols or even sea life, sampling the natural world plays the biggest part in the dynamics of his writing. Ambient loops and saturated synth lines set the tone while the bass and drums do most of the story telling. 

“Isles In Indigo” is a stunning freshman release from a budding artist on the rise. Stay tuned for the physical LP arriving March 2022, complete with an original art insert.

RUMTUM - Lost My Heart In Space

CKTRL unleashed some freshness upon his Soundcloud last week. The longtime NTS staple and true production talent has some exciting projects in the pipeline.. but for the timebeing get acquainted with the rest of his 'Extended Play EP' in his SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/cktrl/sets/extendedplay

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CKTRL 'Pictvres' - Boiler Room Debuts

No You Extended Dance Mix Djloops (1983)

Collaborative mix I made with Staying Underground. 

*reposted from https://www.mixcloud.com/StayingUnderground/collaborator-020-vishuddha/*

Staying Underground prsnts,
COLLABORATOR 020: Vishuddha
w/ Mistah Rapsey on the B side.

I recommend reading this blog post from Vishuddha about the process of creation. http://gisellebuchanan.com/journal/2016/3/9/h3cmb5e0dw9s4yfasgjssj8k6dyzwe

Released on tumblr: http://stayingunderground.com/post/119859848137/staying-underground-prsnts-collaborator-020

A Side: Vishuddha
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B Side: Mistah Rapsey
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Collaborator 020:  Vishuddha

It's hard to believe a whopping six years have passed since Travis 'Machinedrum' Stewart and Praveen 'Braille' Sharma first locked heads under the Sepalcure moniker. Hotflush Recordings have been chronicling their tale each step of the way, with six EPs and now two feature length albums in the kitty. 

This album follows in the same broken beat footsteps of their self-titled LP of 2011. Being from such different worlds, the pair insisted on working together in person — hence why it's taken a little longer for their second extended piece of homework to emerge. Folding Time's 11 tracks consist of both brand new material, as well as older forgotten projects that have been revived over many bottles of whisky. They explain that the title comes from the fact that, "it felt like we were connecting the present with the past. Going through each session was like digging through old memories.”

The all-encompassing work found in Folding Time is the result of their musical differences – factoring in both field recordings to live instrumentation. Tracks are multilayered and full of intimate easter eggs that are the final product of "two homies hanging out and having fun; a meeting of our minds." Our top pick is "Not Gonna Make It", getting straight to the point with stuttering footwork-esque rhythms and fractured vox that are now a Sepalcure trademark.

Indulge in Folding Time in all its fullness on May 20th.

Sepalcure "Not Gonna Make It" - Boiler Room Debuts

Welsh duo Darkhouse Family graced London with their Boiler Room debut featuring brand new  beats from their latest EP, Solid Gold. You heard it hear first → blrrm.tv/darkhouse-family

Darkhouse Family Boiler Room London DJ Set

Ahead of their fifth album 'Season High,' https://soundcloud.com/littledragon's percussionist Erik Bodin lays down a mix spanning J Dilla to an Eritrean organ-song. Enjoy!

THUMP Mix: Little Dragon

Avant Garde by Ahu ( French House special ) Dinamo FM

Singapore and New York label and collective Darker Than Wax launches its new crackaud.io residency with a double-header from NY-based pairing Marco Weibel and Jitwam exploring house, disco, funk and Brazilian music.