Name: XK027 | Maara - Spiral 2 the Other Side by X-Kalay
Duration: 8 min
Description: Maara drops her second EP of 2022 and debuts on X-Kalay with the seductive ‘Spiral 2 the Other Side’. Channeling divine feminine frequencies the Canadian delivers a hypnotic, ritual-ready 4-tracker dripping in dark room throb. We’re hyped to welcome her to the label, this one SLAPS! Pre order: https://bit.ly/3trKgu2 Available 01/07/2022 @maara

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PHYSICAL: https://one-eye-witness.com/release/1651667515/Byron-Yeates-Sweat-Ur-Prayers
DIGITAL: https://radiantlove.bandcamp.com/album/byron-yeates-sweat-ur-prayers

A1. Sweat Ur Prayers
A2. Waves

B1. Dreaming Is Essential -  Byron Yeates, Eoin DJ & Ruin
B2. Sweat Ur Prayers (Lawrence Lee Remix)


@byronyeates @eoindj @ruinxxx @lawrencelee

Sweat Ur Prayers, the next wavy addition to Radiant Love’s catalogue, is the first solo-EP of Byron Yeates. In their messaging, their timbres and grooves, the 4 tracks speak faithfully to Yeates’ inclinations as a DJ and label-head: the playfulness and buoyancy, a constant nod to the roots of rave, and a faith in dance music’s transformative power.

Opening the release is the title track, a bubbling and breakbeat-laden 8 minutes. Mantric repetition is a running theme throughout the EP, and we hear “Raindrops falling all around, freeing me from other sounds; trickling down my weary eyes, bringing me back, I’m ready to fly” as an opening salvo. Yeates’ is known for his vast, enduring DJ sets, inducing sheens of sweat from all involved – with these tracks, it’s clear he’s unafraid to take his time to build tension as a producer as well. The percussive conversation between hi-hat and snare complexifies until a clap enters near the 2 minute mark and suddenly we’re in the main, driving groove.

“Waves” is a dial-back to downtempo, floatation and introspection. The dancer and writer Gabrielle Roth is sampled, speaking on her 5 Rhythms movement meditation technique – the term “sweat your prayers” comes from her texts on ecstatic physicality. The track shimmers and sways in bright pads and delayed-out drum breaks, setting the reflective tone for “Dreaming is Essential”, co-produced by Eoin DJ. Opening with Radiant Love co-founder Ruin, her candid vocals are perfectly aligned for the dancefloor’s vulnerability: “What am I avoiding? I wish I could hold myself, like the dance holds me.” The track unfolds through layers of percussion and shadowy texture, taking a pivot to optimism halfway through, as a warm synth-line accompanies Ruin’s repetition: “Dreaming is essential.”

Lawrence Lee’s remix of “Sweat Ur Prayers” adapts the bounce of the original’s bassline to a classic, stabby rave synth. Again there is a percussive focus, but force and warmth are foregrounded, rather than polyrhythm – a shot, rather than a spritz. We hear again the opening mantra, and although “I’m ready to fly” may seem in opposition to Ruin’s “Let the dance hold me”, Sweat Ur Prayers seems to say they are one in the same movement.

BYRON YEATES
Title: SWEAT UR PRAYERS
Cat: RADIANTLOVE005
Format: 12”
Distributed: ONE EYE WITNESS
Mixed and Mastered: MARCO PELLEGRINO
Artwork: BYRON YEATES
Text: NAT MARCUS

BYRON YEATES - SWEAT UR PRAYERS

Pre-Order - https://fanlink.to/HHANDS021

Vinyl Release - 27th May 2022
Digital Release - 24th June 2022

We have rolled around to one of my favourite forms of Holding Hands releases. The various artists goodness that is Slam Jams, this being number 3.

I have drafted in bangers of the highest calibre from the likes of Ste Roberts, Bolam, Inner Zone and Yosh. They go high, they go low, they go fast and they go…slightly less fast. If you like slammers, and I’m guessing that you do, then this will be a veritable day out at the fair for your ears.

OK enough of my blather. Go and listen to the damn things yourself and decide if you like them, rather than trying to work it out from reading a bloody press release you weirdos. 

All four tracks are produced and sculpted for the club. They want big sound systems and dark rooms. Close your eyes, hold hands and experience transcendental space flight...

Slam Jams Vol. 3

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Various Artists - Slam Jams Vol. 3 (HHANDS021) [clips]

@d-tiffany & @roza-terenzi's euphoric debut album moves nimbly from downtempo, techno and progressive house into electro and d&b

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-d-tiffany-roza-terenzi-liqourice-skritch

Edge Of Innocence 

Premiere: D. Tiffany & Roza Terenzi ‘Liqourice Skritch’

ORDER: https://dualitytrax.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-replicant-ep

Re-imagining vintage club sounds through a contemporary lens, Tifra is no stranger to stretching the electronic music template into new forms and ideas. His left-field house and old-school breaks have found their way onto Gestalt Records and Rough Recordings, and here the producer turns in three cuts of blissed-out electronica, hedonistic progressive and jungle-run club with its sights firmly fixated front left, complete with a wicked remix from one of modern dance music's most reliable names - Roza Terenzi.

‘Plastic Replicant’ is a vocal-laced electro-house roller that takes inspiration from the golden-era of 90s electronic music and fuses it with the organic, multi-genre blends of the current gen. The ravey continuum is laced with high-frequency vocal stabs and deep basslines designed for a heads-down approach on the dancefloor, before ‘Entomology’ captures the playful side of the club with its shape-shifting acid-lines, trance-licked melodies and kaleidoscopic blend of colour, feeling and mood.

Out of the club and onto the beach, ‘International Waters’ is a trip-hop inspired, downtempo dub that will delight ambient and laid-back electronic-revelers with its chirpsing birds and aqua-like aesthetic, before Roza keeps the dualism alive with a stripped-back jungle flip of the original; the perfect score for the perfect daydream.

A1 Tifra - Plastic Replicant
A2 Tifra - Entomology
B1 Tifra - International Waters
B2 Tifra - International Waters (Roza Terenzi Remix)

@tifradj
@roza-terenzi

Physical Distro: @inchbyinchdistribution
Digi Distro: @epm-music
Pressed by Deepgrooves

DUALITY3 - Tifra - Plastic Replicant EP (ft Roza Terenzi Remix)

+++ Tapes 027 - @angeldite +++⁣
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Beyond stoked to have London’s finest Angel D’Lite joining forces tomorrow for our second NONESENSE, expect mayhem, fun & sweat❤️‍🔥 ⁣
Recorded on nothing but two turntables and a mixer, she is also blessing us with a juicy and powerful mini-mix to get into the depths of groove 🧿 Light it up & see y’all tomorrow - serotonin for days!! Link in bio. ⁣
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Cover by Kinsey Harvey (@cerebralfruit)

Tapes 027 - Angel D'lite

Here's the latest piece of our resident and co-founder DJ Normal. Bio Aggregation is a full force Trance belter driven by organic percussions as phat acid lines. Also pay some attention to the rest of this VA release on EYA Records as the tracks by Sohrab and Fasme are really fresh as well and as if it wouldn't be enough the labels rounds it up with a re-issue of a throbbing slow-burner from mid-90s Danish duo UFO.

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@eyarecords

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NEW HIT: DJ N4 - Bio Aggregation [EYA Records]

@tifradj
@dualitytrax

‘Plastic Replicant’ is a vocal-laced electro-house roller that takes inspiration from the golden-era of 90s electronic music and fuses it with the organic, multi-genre blends of the current gen. The ravey continuum is laced with high-frequency vocal stabs and deep basslines designed for a heads-down approach on the dancefloor.

Release date: June 17th, 2022
Buylink: https://inchbyinch.eu/release/19625957

pi pi pi premiere: Tifra - Plastic Replicant

Maara drops her second EP of 2022 and debuts on X-Kalay with the seductive ‘Spiral 2 the Other Side’. Channeling divine feminine frequencies the Canadian delivers a hypnotic, ritual-ready 4-tracker dripping in dark room throb. We’re hyped to welcome her to the label, this one SLAPS!

Pre order: https://bit.ly/3trKgu2

Available 01/07/2022

@maara

Pre order 12"

XK027 | Maara - Spiral 2 the Other Side

Our second release brings with it a plethora of talent. Canadians Maara & Unknown Mobile join local hero's Reflex Blue and Mabel for a 4 track record with naughty club heaters. Saddle up! 

Preorders available now at https://espacenoir.bandcamp.com/. 
Official release date in 12/09/22.  

Producers: @unknown-mobile, @maara, @reflex-blue-x and @mabelau
Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Art by Studio Balcony
Release Date: 12/09/2022
Espace Noir Label est. 2017
Distribution by @oneyewitness.

The Saddle Club

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EN02- The Saddle Club - Various Artists (Snippets)

Welcome the debut offering from Program Earth. 5 Wonky club tracks from label heads DJ Life & Reflex Blue that will send you spinning back in time. 'Tripped out resonance and turbulent bass push us into the danger zone as we scoot across our perilous surroundings. The lava thickens with various peak time moments as we slow our descent into safer grounds. Blissed out pads and soaring vocals guide us the way as we continue our journey into uncharted territories. With grazes, cuts and a few close calls, we finally reach the dig site.'

releases July 18, 2022

Mastering: Joseph Buchan
Art: Popdabadel

[PGE001] - DJ Life & Reflex Blue - Meganeura EP (Previews)

@abdulraeva

Order: https://echocentricrecords.bandcamp.com/album/protogen-ep

Four tracks of hypnotic no-nonsense club bliss. Best enjoyed at 4am on a sweaty dance floor - hands in the air, eyes closed.

A1 - Vapordisk
A2 - Acidflex
B1 - Vela
B2 - New Horizons

Releases August 19, 2022. 12" vinyl and digital.
Distributed by @inchbyinch

Written and produced by Steffan Todorovic & Joonas Arro 
Mastered by Nik Kozub 
Design by Phantasyman 

(C) & (P) Echocentric Records 2022

ECR013

Protogen EP

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Preview: Abdul Raeva - Protogen EP | ECR013

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