Bandcamp: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/music

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Label Dives

5 Years in the Wild

Vinyl—Digital: https://fanlink.to/yunisamber

Release dates:
YUKRU: 16 — 03 — 21 (apply: forms.gle/YYJk2fYb6kr4tbSm9)
Worldwide:  16 — 09 — 21

"The heart of 'Amber' is the evanescence of creativity — the fleeting nature of everything that surrounds us, everything that feels so permanent when we're growing up into adults, but that fades and disappears as we age. The spark and drive of creativity pushes artists to excel and constantly exceed their accomplishments, and with electronic music, this often pushes it into increasingly technical and concept-based areas. The material amber itself is said to clear the mind, to help develop patience and wisdom. My album, 'Amber', has acted much the same for me as a kind of reset with a focus on vibe, musicality, and patience. I mean it to be music for listening that can also work in clubs. I did not want to push or feel compelled into a particular direction, but rather each track to be a true reflection of my current creative state. This simplicity is reflected also in the bare artwork for the vinyl and album — a simple pen drawing burnt onto the cover, the last mark my grandfather committed to paper 1 week before he passed."
— yunis

https://soundcloud.com/yunis
https://soundcloud.com/submarine_music
https://soundcloud.com/julomusic
https://soundcloud.com/dayle_ooo
https://soundcloud.com/dj-shield

Amber

Vinyl—Digital

yunis — Amber (feat. Dayle, JuLo, Shield, SubMarine)

Digital out now — vinyl ships mid-June
Get it here: https://fanlink.to/drifterperception

Artwork: Simon Fowler
Es.tereo: https://soundcloud.com/es-tereo
Forest Drive West: https://soundcloud.com/forest-drive-west

Es.tereo — Perception

Vinyl—Digital—Stream

Es.tereo — Perception (Forest Drive West Remix) [YUKU]

Vinyl—Digital: https://fanlink.to/dispersionmeasures

"In statistics, dispersion (also called variability, scatter, or spread) is the extent to which a distribution is stretched or squeezed. Common examples of measures of statistical dispersion are the variance, standard deviation, and interquartile range."

Follow A.Fruit:
https://soundcloud.com/annafruit
https://www.instagram.com/fruitbass/

Follow Julia Marks:
https://soundcloud.com/juliamarks

Artwork by Mixtapes Are Spiritual Things

Measures of Dispersion

A.Fruit — Measures Of Dispersion (feat. Julia Marks)

Sign up to our new Bandcamp subscription to receive our music in 2023 as it hits: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/subscribe

This is the sound of YUKU in 2023 — dive into an hour of unreleased and forthcoming music on the label from: 

@granul @chrizpychriz @traka-studio @muqataa @pruvancz @commodo @le-motel @naheeto @joaquincornejomusic @hiddenelement @jamesbangura @blocklab66 @fiestasoundsystem @alanjohnsonmusic @qrtr @coffintexts @sambot @lazarus_nbg @aten-rays @henry-greenleaf @11pmraar @coido @tenebreaudio @dj-saint-pierre @fearful @mtwndnb @shinraknives

Artwork by Hazam Talaat
https://www.instagram.com/hazem_the.architect_talaat

Sewn together by @oolongbru

Label Dive III

Subscribe

Out now: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/zlobiv

"My creativity is constantly ebbing and flowing. I go through months of experimentation, learning new tools, banging my head up against the wall with endless versions of tunes I’m just not happy with. And then, if I’m lucky, I hit a patch of several tunes coming together quickly. This EP was exactly that: three tunes that came together completely unexpectedly in a relatively short period of time. All of the new techniques finally melded with my mindset after a long stint of frustration and unproductiveness. No v27c, no overthinking it, just pure vibes and pieces falling into place. I had so much fun making these and I wish I knew the secret sauce for hitting that sweet spot in the studio regularly. I guess you just gotta power through the muck until the inspiration ambushes you and enjoy it while it lasts."
—PRŮVAN

Artwork by Tom Tebby

Zlobivá

Digital

Průvan — Zlobivá

Vinyl & digital: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/yukurmx001

We present the first in a series of remix plates featuring some of our favourite artists from across the spectrum. Core label artists TRAKA and Granul are the first to have their work reimagined by Commodo, Muqata'a, Jtamul, and ISKELETOR!

Artwork by TRAKA Studio

YUKURMX001

YUKURMX001 (Commodo, Muqata'a, Jtamul, ISKELETOR x Traka, Granul, Enslaved)

Out now: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/ii

"This is my second ep and the one that personally cements the relationship between me and the COIDO project, 1 year after its creation.
Many listening sessions through my favorites tunes, old personal classics and mixtapes made connect the dots inside my mind.
I am now able to recognize and follow a pattern that leads to limitless creativity, divergent thinking and pure enjoyment of beats making.
With these tunes especially I’m trying to repropose my 15 years of being into bass music in a fresh new vest. No technical fuss, just trying to express what I’d love to hear on the dancefloor."
— @coido

Artwork by oolongbru & Coido

Coido — II

From 'TRACES': https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/traces
By @coido

"The inspirations for this ep came from different moments I lived (or experienced?) during the past 6 months:
From a few but very interesting club nights out in Berlin, to my discovery of the post-dubstep movement that basically paved the way to modern genres that I'm producing now, till the tens of hours of Rinse FM (or "radio mixes" idk which better) mixes I listened to at my new workplace where I was spending most of the day alone in the gloomy winter of the city.

I usually like to put a little playful touch to my tunes, but this time I felt like I had to focus more on a darker progressive-techno sound. Maybe because my sound matured, or maybe its just a phase. I don't know, but I'll keep on following the traces that brought me here."
—COIDO

Traces

Pink Dragon

Get Me

COIDO - Pink Dragon

A taste of some forthcoming bits on YUKU in the next months
From: Endmodell — Maude Vos — Cleo AD — TRAKA — Imaginary Number — COIDO x TRAKA — Cocktail Party Effect — Aroma Nice

YUKU

MINIDIVE #1

From 'Gulper Eel Balloons'
Get it here: https://cocktailpartyeffectmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gulper-eel-balloons

Follow the artist: @cocktailpartyeffectmusic

"I’m not really good at writing anything personal about the music I make, mostly because I’m very dyslexic, so writing always makes my brain meltdown. But hopefully the music speaks for itself.

I want to thank Rhi and Mo Van Zandt for their amazing vocals, two artists I highly recommend you to check out and everyone else who stopped by and gave it a listen. Also, thanks to Yuku for putting this album out."
—Cocktail Party Effect

Gulper Eel Balloons

Reset

Cocktail Party Effect — Reset

Get it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/zuma-mokuba
By the amazing @traka-studio

TRAKA - Mokuba

Featuring forthcoming and recent music on YUKU from Muskila, Imaginary Number, Soreab, TRAKA, Coido, Hedchef, Muadeep, Esther, Pépe, 96 Back, I7HVN, Maude Voss, A.Fruit, Debba, Proc Fiskal, TÉNÈBRE, Aroma Nice, Cleo AD.

Mixed by @oolongbru

Label Dive IV

Join Us

Download for free here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/bom-klakk-yukus-supersick-sample-pack-free

The BOM KLAKK Supersick Sample Pack sees almost every artist who has released on YUKU come together as a community with an offering of sounds of all sorts for you to experiment with and flex your creativity. Deep thanks to everyone involved and for all the beautiful souls who make YUKU what it is <3 For all you special creators out there, we hope that this pack of blips, blops, and thwacks will give you hours of fun and experimentation, and we can't wait to hear what you do with the sounds!

We will be launching a special challenge open to all soon, so you'll have a chance to show us what you create!

Much love from all of us at YUKU to all of you wonderful folk out there x-x-x

Bom Klakk — YUKU's Supersick Sample Pack [FREE!]

Get JANKA x CRZKNY - YUKU046
https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/yuku046

Follow CRZKNY
@crzkny
https://www.instagram.com/crzkny_shitlife/?hl=en

CRZKNY - outrange / outside / outlaw - MIX (45min)
Tracklist
No / Name / Artist / Title
01: SENNINSHOU - HOODWORK (Beat by CRZKNY)
02: CRZKNY - D.I.E. (unreleased)
03: JANKA x CRZKNY - KURUMI
04: JANKA x CRZKNY - GUTAI
05: JANKA x CRZKNY - KAORI
06: CRZKNY - DRP45 2024 ver (unreleased)
07: CRZKNY - outrange 001 (unreleased)
08: THEATER 1 - Jake
09: CRZKNY - outrange 008 (unreleased)
10: CRZKNY - RVST 02 (unreleased)
11: CRZKNY - outside 007 (unreleased)
12: CRZKNY - outside 002 (unreleased)
13: CRZKNY - I Say Fuckoff You Say Goodbye
14: CRZKNY - NO(W AVE) Soundtrack Tr-02 (unreleased)
15: CRZKNY - hopelessly REMIX (unreleased)
16: CRZKNY - outlaw 002 REMIX (unreleased)
17: CRZKNY - PRGTRY
18: CRZKNY - I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE pt:3 (unreleased)
19: SUNNYDAY SERVICE - Machi Ha Hikari De Ippai (CRZKNY REMIX)
20: CRZKNY - VIOLENT STREETS DAY1
21: CRZKNY - Young Hamster Strikes Back
22: CRZKNY - outlaw 004 REMIX (unreleased)
23: CRZKNY - VIOLENT STREETS DAY4
24: CRZKNY - outlaw 010 REMIX (unreleased)
25: CRZKNY - Dragged Across Concrete -D.A.C- 2024ver (unreleased)
26: CRZKNY - outlaw 005 REMIX (unreleased)
27: CRZKNY - WWW10 (unreleased)
28: CRZKNY - Let Me Fist You (The Ring) 2022ver (unreleased)
29: CRZKNY - HA RYU 002 (unreleased)
30: THEATER 1 - Doc
31: CRZKNY - GROOOOOOOOOVE 003 TR-02
32: CRZKNY - outrange outside outlaw REMIX (unreleased)
33: CRZKNY - D.I.E. -Reprise- (unreleased)
34: CRZKNY - genocide

CRZKNY [outrange outside outlaw mix]

Make it yours here: https://herbalistekmusic.bandcamp.com/album/inner-surface

"We’re stoked to share Inner Surface: a collection of our favorite tracks that have sparked deep reactions on systems. Mostly rooted in our love for psychedelia, textured grooves, and that strange sense of hazy clarity, this EP draws from the subconscious forces that shape us such as ego, illusion, and desire: the tension between what lies within and what shows up on the surface.

These inner forces can loop in on themselves, like thought spirals you can dance to.
That idea guided this approach to both sound and structure.

We drew from a wide spectrum of psychedelic music, bass, techno and IDM - the sounds that have shaped our perspective and challenged our sense of form.

This project leans deep into the low end but pulls textures and feelings from all directions. A reflection of sound as sensation, instinct, and pattern.

We’re glad to put this out there and hope it finds you in the right headspace."
—Herbalistek

Inner Surface

Herbalistek – Ego [YUKU]

Pseudospiritual

Herbalistek – Pseudospiritual [YUKU]

Herbalistek – Avaricia (feat. Allen Mock) [YUKU]

Learn more about the NMFG movement here: https://nomusicforgenocide.org/

Radio Alhara – No Music for Genocide – oolongbru Mix

'Aorta' by I7HVN for Yuku's 5th Anniverary Compilation

Yuku 5th Anniversary

I7HVN - Aorta [YUKU 5TH ANNIVERSARY]

ArchiTECture [ YUKU 5TH ANNIVERSARY ]

We’re celebrating 5 years of YUKU!
So happy to be part of the VA with Tripstone — footwork-oriented and veeeery dubby, just how I love it.

Got inspired by many footwork tracks and wanted to interpret it in my own way. 
What came out is a trippy, 160 BPM, straight-forward power workout!

Enjoy <3

buy on bandcamp

Tripstone

my tune from the YUKU 5 Year Anniversary Compilation Album

BALATRON - YOU GOT KNOCKED TFO [YUKU 5TH ANNIVERSARY]

ION [YUKU]

Digital & Vinyl: https://djobeka-music.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-no-more
https://soundcloud.com/djobeka

The rhythmic dynamics and emotive attitudes of A World No More captures the density of soundsystem culture in Obeka’s ancestral roots. YUKU presents the Bermudians debut album capturing a Neo-Colonial dystopia, protest and Afro-Futurism hyperextended through decaying sonic structures of a dark past and its grievances which very much exist today.

Growing into adulthood within the walls of British and European Colonial systems meant the disconnection and lostness in a new country hid me from the world at a young age. Unlike London’s vast and culturally engaging migrant communities, the industrial milling town of Stockport introduced a coldness towards people from other countries I experienced in my first year after relocating from Bermuda. I couldn’t understand why. Whether cold words thrown towards me or actions upon other people who look like me, it has shown to be a dooming societal virus with no cure. The most comfort was found through what was familiar - drums and rhythmic spirituality of my homeland. It was a safe-haven, a place to empty the anger and confusion. It’s been 15 years since relocating and as my sound evolved, it seems classism, racism, oppression and civil control of ethnic peoples has become worse - even now more legalised and normalised. Ogun (a powerful Yoruba deity associated with anger, justice and war) acts as the opening sequence of the record and its symbolism. Using distorted bass frequencies and dissected Regga-Dub immersed in live-sampled ghostly voices of the lost ones. This sonic exercising is also applied in Drillaman - a stampede of industrial framework and metallic instruments wielded over moody Dancehall MC’ing, magnifying two parallel worlds in cocooned evolution. The resurrection of Transatlantic African cultures and identity have never been silenced, rather carried elsewhere through trade routes of enslavement, which was pivotal when composing and completing the album upon returning home to the Caribbean for the first time ever. After reconnecting with my heritage my blurred vision of what's wrong in the world became so clear. Guidance in empty plains seek truth throughout the pain - A statement of finding oneself expressed on the poetic closing track A World No More.

On Fawohodie (A West African Adinkra symbol that represents independence, freedom, and emancipation stamped on the album cover) the motive and atmosphere begins to change. Afro-Caribbean idealism which refers to the philosophical concept that emphasizes the interconnectedness of individuals and the importance of community, often contrasting with Western individualism, begins to take shape in a new universe. We can co-exist. The track framework uses machine-led software forming frequencies we have no control over, then manipulated through decomposing soundscapes, scattered hand-drums and human-made weapons of control - exposing the hidden disparity that’s been carried over generations whilst balancing hopeful and musical foundations towards equality and peace. On Pressure and Kuduro! the writing direction attempts to wake people up. Not settling for a composed approach like in past projects, quite the opposite. A call for native sonic awareness, dismantled vocals of protests, eroded percussion using chains, gears and motorised harmonies sculpted in challenging abstract behaviors far outside my comfort zone. A direct abrasiveness and weight I want people to feel, whilst finding hope and solace through enchanting choirs and hypnotic basslines in complete synchrony.

“Purity in sound manifests when you least expect it. The smallest memory or feeling grows from a seed into a sonic language that you, and only you can interpret and release back into the world.”

09. Obeka - Kuduro! feat. Yemi Bolatiwa  [YUKU]

07. Obeka ft. Entrañas - Pressure [YUKU]

10. Obeka - Ubuntu [YUKU]

06. Obeka - Fawohodie [YUKU]

03. Obeka - Tundra [YUKU]

02. Obeka - Drillaman [YUKU]

05. Obeka - Ghost Rhythm [YUKU]

04. Obeka - Pon Ya Head [YUKU]

08. Obeka - Ready for the Soundman  [YUKU]

01. Obeka - Ogun [YUKU]

A taste of what's to come on YUKU in the next months...
Featuring: Battery Operated, Rotate, Mystic State, Dj Punx, Nuri, Bot1500, flywheel, A.Fruit, Artur M Puga, Freedjom

Label Dive V

Forthcoming music on YUKU from:

Aagentah - Alex Banks - Audeka feat. Monolog Rockstars - Balatron - Chrizpy Chriz - Current Value feat. MVRK - Machinecode - Malsum -  Mystic State - Missin - Rohaan - Subp Yao feat. Warrior Queen - Woulg - War - yunis

YUKU stands as a counterpoint to contemporary arts culture and the way that it is experienced and consumed. In an age where music has been devalued to the point of performers being a list of names intended to sell tickets, impatience on the dancefloor, music being just another track in a playlist, and the visual artwork that accompanies it relegated to being a thumbnail in the corner of a player—we stand for those artists and listeners who take joy in immersing themselves in the worlds and journeys that are created by those who create. YUKU is an open and accepting forum of ideas, expression, and creativity that allows for those who are willing to drink in the emotions and concepts being communicated—an island of experience and stimulation for the kinds of people who like to be surprised, those who aren’t satisfied to hear and experience the same things time and time again, an oasis in the never-ending sea of digital information and consumerism.

We invite you to join us there...

www.yuku.io
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yukumedia/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YUKUMUSIC

Label Dive 001

Experience YUKU

Label Dive I

JOIN THE YUKRU: forms.gle/YYJk2fYb6kr4tbSm9
YUKU STORE: yukumusic.bandcamp.com/merch

YUKU LABEL DIVE 002 features exclusively forthcoming music on YUKU from:

Bamalotion — Azaleh — Granul — Om Unit — The Science — Anmon — Aagentah — Fearful — Mtwn — yunis — Submarine — A.Fruit feat. Julia Marks — Tenebre — Valance Drakes — Woulg — Current Value — Chrizpy Chriz — Subp Yao — Crossed Swords — Missin — Machinecode

YUKU is an open and accepting forum of ideas, expression, and creativity that allows those who are willing to drink in the emotions and concepts being communicated—an island of experience and stimulation for the kinds of people who like to be surprised, who aren’t satisfied to hear and experience the same things time and time again, it is an oasis in the never-ending sea of digital information and consumerism.

YUKU stands as a counterpoint to contemporary arts culture and the way that it is experienced and consumed. In an age where music has been devalued to the point of performers being a list of names intended to sell tickets, impatience on the dancefloor, music being just another track in a playlist, and the visual artwork that accompanies it relegated to being a thumbnail in the corner of a player—we stand for those artists and listeners who take joy in immersing themselves in the worlds and journeys that are created by those who create.

We invite you to join us there...

www.yuku.io
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yukumedia/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YUKUMUSIC

Artwork by Hazem Talaat (hazemtalaat.com)

LABEL DIVE 002

BECOME YUKRU

Label Dive II

Get it here: https://currentvalue1.bandcamp.com/album/the-all-attracting

Also featuring Amon Tobin and MVRK
Artwork: Boris Tellegen

"The All Attracting circumscribes the source of all being, the atma (soul), god in everyone and everything... It's used in hinduism to describe Krishna, but it’s really not about religion. It’s about the diversity and complexity of the god entity — "the indivisible force"

Music to a point is directly associative and always carries stereotypic and archaic values. In opposition to real life physical sounds electronically created sounds and music throw you back to the beginning of sound - the sine wave. To go from there is a welcome challenge and a lot of fun which both expresses well in the Album."
— Current Value

Current Value: https://soundcloud.com/tim-e-aka-current-value
Amon Tobin: https://soundcloud.com/amon-tobin
MVRK: https://soundcloud.com/thisismvrk

The All Attracting

Current Value — The All Attracting (feat. Amon Tobin & MVRK)

Preorder vinyl: https://www.yukumusic.com/products/item/291/cypher

Granul — Cypher [YUKU]
feat. Enslaved plus a deeply good remix from Gantz
Artwork by Granul (and his machines)

Release dates:
YUKRU Subscribers — 14/01/2021
Worldwide release (digital & vinyl) — 22/07/2021

"Artificial Intelligence has been a fascinating area for me since 2017, and Cypher is a body of my work, an album, that draws heavily on it for inspiration. I tried to combine classical elements and modern techniques as much as possible when creating it, so that it has both a sense of the familiar and the new. I created the artwork by programming a GAN algorithm using face-transfer concept in combination with a street-art dataset from Istanbul."
— GRANUL

Granul — https://soundcloud.com/granulmusic
Enslaved — https://soundcloud.com/enslavediam
Gantz — https://soundcloud.com/gantz

Cypher

Preorder Vinyl

Granul — Cypher (feat. Enslaved & Gantz)

We only upload mixes and previews here.
Bandcamp is the place: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/follow_me

Est. 2020
YUKU is an open and accepting forum of ideas for people who seek surprise — a listening oasis in the endless sea of digital information.

Curated by @oolongbru and @kumquat-tang
Contact us: music@yuku.io

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