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Label Dives

Sessions

Our short-form digital releases — these are all about platforming new artists and giving established artists who we work with a faster route to listeners' ears.

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Vinyl—Digital

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

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

Vinyl & Digital: https://fanlink.to/woulgbubblegum

Release dates:
YUKRU: 07 — 04 — 21 (apply: forms.gle/YYJk2fYb6kr4tbSm9)
Worldwide:  07 — 10 — 21

"In this album I was trying to explore the idea of pop music on PCP. PCP has fantastic lore around it and I think the most fascinating thing about it is that it seems as if many people have had these experiences where they took PCP, it presented them with an alternative reality, and they accepted it without question. It's as if that umbilical cord of knowing that you're high is cut, and the person taking it is fully immersed in the trip. Not only that but from some of the accounts, the alternate reality seems quite twisted and perverse. There are reports of people disemboweling and eating each other, or deciding that the best course of action is self-mutilation or castration, and then emerging from the trip still convinced it was the right choice. Or even the accounts of people gaining superhuman strength and fighting off 5 or 6 cops at once. It seems like there's something quite dark on the other side of that door. So for this album I tried to write what I imagine the pop music of that alternate reality might sound like. What would happen to the sugary sweet, wet dream, corporate sponsored top 40 hits, if we dipped 'em in angel dust and got "wet". What would happen if we slopped all of those fun summer hits into the meat grinder of the PCP reality tunnel, and just pushed them through. I like to imagine an intersection under an overpass in a cyberpunk dystopian future. It's midnight and you can see the neon's from the storefronts on the other side through the thick smog. A modded AE86 Corolla  pulls a left turn and you can hear the music pounding from the sound system as the rubber peels underneath it. As it's drifting through the intersection, smoke pouring out of the tiny gap at the top of the tinted windows, the music pours out of the car like a thick syrup, engulfing us as we stand frozen for a moment as they pass. This is what they were playing."
— Woulg

Artwork by Soyoon Hia Cha (Soyomyoyo)
Follow Woulg: https://soundcloud.com/woulgmusic

Bubblegum

Woulg — Bubblegum

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)

Vinyl & Digital: https://fanlink.to/platinumscatter

Release dates
Worldwide (digital): Sept 15, 2022
Vinyl ships: January 2023

"Platinum Scatter is a trip along the fringes of music that could still be classified as drum and bass but without the obvious markings of the genre while meeting and merging with forms of techno or music from the wider bass spectrum. I designed this album to be something of a focused journey that should work equally as a cerebral listening experience as much as it should function in clubs. I consider this to be my most conceptual body of work to date, and I hope that you will enjoy its approach to multi-layered rhythms and minimal but striking forms."
— Current Value

Artwork by Hazem Talaat

Platinum Scatter

Current Value — Platinum Scatter

Reach for it: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/rescript
COIDO: https://soundcloud.com/coido

"Curiosity is what I miss the most from childhood years. By being constantly curious we keep discovering new things, we focus on the best ones and carry them forever during our life.
The more we discover the more we enrich our mind and shape our personality.
Through reading a book with a funny cover found on the street or listening to some cd’s stored in a dusty box we can start a passion that will last forever.
With 'Rescript', I try to get back that curiosity into my life: all the problems in life disappear, I am now free to use that cultural baggage that I carried with myself for long time but never truly opened.

These 4 tracks show where I culturally come from and where I am heading to: from clubbing and raving in Rome in the early 2000, exploring the London underground bass music scene during my 20’s till finally moving to Berlin and opening up to its techno state of mind.
The old script is now replaced with something that unties myself from a specific genre and makes me curious about what could happen if I mix all the sonic ingredients that are stored in my mind."
— COIDO

Rscript

Rescript

COIDO — Rescript

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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

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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

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

Get the full album on Bandcamp: https://chrizpychriz.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-and-the-unfound

Artwork by the amazing William Gouchie

The Lost and the Unfound

Yunglist

FREE DOWNLOAD

Chrizpy Chriz — Yunglist

Go get it: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/turbobang
And follow @coido
Artwork by Alex Jakimowicz (hood_is_)
!!!!!

"The name says it all: these tunes are literally turbobangers.
150-160bpm was an uncharted territory for me, and after exploring the 135bpm zone for sometime I wanted to engage the second gear to go faster while keeping the previous imprint.
The result is something I’d describe as fast, raw and nervous.
Just like the old glorious 80’s Le Mans sport prototype cars that I’m obsessed with since forever.

But this ep is also the natural consequence of checking out what’s even deeper in the underground, and what I found is transposed into these 4 tracks: a journey between Hardgroove Techno, Ragga Jungle, Baltimore Shakeoff, Hardcore Rave, Favela funk and all their possible subgenres.

All this stuff that was waiting for me years is now part of my own music, my style, myself.
Finally discovered, blended and deployed with a (turbo)bang."
—COIDO

TURBOBANG

COIDO — TURBOBANG

Get it here: https://fearfulmusic.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-veil

"The concept of our second album was to continue the journey out of our comfort zone. We set foot in odd patterns and textures, letting ideas flow without setting ourselves any limitation. Beyond The Veil tells the story of an uncertain future, shaped by forces that are out of our control, like a voiceless menace acting as muse to humanities dark patterns. We want these tracks to make you feel like there’s no escape. We also explored working with vocals and were lucky to get Riko Dan on board. He really fits perfectly with the mood of the album.

This is perhaps our darkest and most agressive work to date. Let’s all dive deeper beyond the veil."
— Fearful x Mtwn

Beyond the Veil

Fearful & Mtwn — Beyond The Veil

'Glory Days' by
@alanjohnsonmusic
Is out now: https://airjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/glory-days

"The ‘Glory Days’ EP marks a new chapter in the Alan Johnson output. Following sporadic releases throughout the last decade owing to a separation across different continents for both of us, we take a step forward from last year's Stillness EP - with an EP that constitutes our first release of entirely new music, since our first record back in 2013.

We have a propensity to work and sit on music for long periods of time which has previously produced complex and challenging outcomes but the last 2 years has seen a growth in our abilities to focus on refinement in our creation process, and an attempt to tell a story through more simplistic means.

The record was assembled with a vision and purpose over the last 18 months for the YUKU label specifically. It represents a shift in our existing sound, consistent through our past outputs which can be identified on some of the tracks across the record, and delivers us to a place which is influenced by a wider variety of experimentation, centred around more danceable outcomes and an air of glossy playfulness. The EP is split into two easily identifiable moods, representing a nod to a sometimes chaotic and pastiched past and a suggestive view of where the future may lie.

It's been an honour to work on an EP for the infinitely attentive and carefully crafted series of records curated by Jef and Ilda at YUKU, along with our friends at dsplaced who helped create the visual aspects of the release with us. This record is for everyone."
—AJ

Glory Days

Alan Johnson - Many Faces Of Tutu

'End of Oz' taken from our latest record 'Glory Days' out now on YUKU (22/02/24). Physical copies due May 2024.

Alan Johnson - End Of Oz

Get it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/old-haunts

"When conceptual art really kicked off in the mid twentieth century, many of its protagonists were so determined to purge art of its decorative frilliness, they turned more and more towards words, or rather, lack thereof. The likes of Duchamp, Dalí, Breton, Reinhardt, each uncensored by the rational mind, made moves towards the absurd and the sublime, with varying degrees of success and failure alike.

In this piece, what one finds is the artist attempting to convey a number of things, and asking a number of questions of us as the listener; what do we seek in such art? In which ways are to be intellectually, spiritually and sexually fulfilled by its visceral and confrontational abandonment of conventions? Is it incongruous juxtaposition? Does it lead us as the audience to question ourselves as living breathing beings, our hopes and truths, and our benign tastes so often dictating our choice and free will?

The piece is a natural extension of surrealism, dadaism and indulgence, themselves often strange bedfellows. Elaborate and provocative in its execution, displaying a signature of insatiable curiosity, and leaving no stone unturned, it portrays the artist as a provocateur of postmodernism, mysticism, and decadence. It transgresses the elusive world of the subconscious more imaginatively than previous offerings. It's also a piece which stitches together the scraps of art and culture, politics and poetry, and science and exotica that could often be found in the Southport of the late-noughties and beyond. An extremely clever conceit; there could be any manner of things concealed within this record, but we as the listener will never know because as as soon as one opens the record, the art is destroyed, the value is lost, so we will never, ever find out.

One's most overriding sensation is that the piece feels like a shit-filled hand grenade which the artist has flung into our collective psyche. It is quite simply, a joke, and a very poor joke."

Old Haunts

Aroma Nice — Bmw With Blacked Out Windows And 2 Subs In The Back Blasting Michael Bolton

Be sure to buy what you like on Bandcamp <3
You can check out the Haze Boys' shows here: https://hearthis.at/haze-boys/

Tracklist:

Tenebre - Aalp 
Alan Johnson - Hex23
Kombé - Batian
Aquarian - Before I Forget
Surusinghe - Bop
DJ bwin - Cell Phone
COIDO - Drats [YUKU DUB]
Lithe - Evva
Octoptic - Frontera
Le Motel - Helix
GRRL x Made Of Oak - Interference	
Lakker - Nomad
Lithe - Mainline
Djrum - Sex
Morayy - Snake Chalmers
Cold Quantum - Xemex
Maude Vos - Visceral Vessel [YUKU DUB]
Tinkah - Sudden Life [YUKU DUB]

oolongbru — Guest Mix for Lake Shore Dive (Threads)

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

Imagine a digital brutalist reinforced concrete structure interspersed with steep irregular stairs. They creak a little differently every time you step on them.

The tangle of stairs is connected by walkways that are lined with control panels with buttons, signal diodes and value indicators. This entire technology-laden structure is housed in a small garage on the outskirts of a large city in the UK.

Jef has the keys to the door.

Jef lives in Prague and calls himself oolongbru. Years ago he spray-painted a short sign on the garage. The sign looks like minimalist but sophisticated graffiti. It's reminiscent of Japan.

Y
U
K
U

Garage is stuffed with futuristic bass club music, the sound of dub, grime, dub step, techno, experimental and oolongbro has an access code from it all. He's curating an exhibition that hasn't had an opening yet.

It's a cool exhibition, but it might not be for everyone.

_____

tracklist:

The Future Sound of London - Time Passed The Sun
Material Things - No Direction (ft. Pike)
Muskila - Ok, Fatma
Disaffected - Raindrops
Toumba - Rashash
IMN - YUKU dub
Special Request - Killa Beez
Nouveau Monica - Nostalgia (Not Even Noticed Remix)
RHR - Y6Y9
Disaffected - Lagash
Hedchef - Sharp Relief
BFTT - Brian, lost Brian
RIOT CODE - Awakening
COIDO - 7th Moment
Rnbws - Concentrate
The Future Sound of London - Avoiding Mirrors

@oolongbru @yukumusic

Rosnička Pondcast 07 ~ oolongbru

Janjo - Pitanje
TRAKA - Four Five (feat. Symbiosa)
TRAKA - Dart Magic
TRAKA - Snow Glide (feat. Grim Sickers)
Wasta x Uncle Po - SDM
Jah Beer - Pon Di Line 
Blocklab - Panic Attack 
TRAKA - Sin Ayah
Symbiosa - Symbiote Dub
TRAKA - So (feat. Rider Shafique)
TRAKA - Champion
TRAKA - Golden Green
Cesco x Killa P Bootleg
TRAKA - Block Bureau (feat. MYTHM)
TRAKA - Objekt (feat. Censored The Audio)
Delta - Murky Water 
Underson - Bounce
TRAKA X ODDKUT - Punisher
TRAKA - Gundown (feat. Surrender!)
TRAKA - Kingston Sun (feat. Surrender!)
TRAKA - Tal
TRAKA - Shake Junt (feat. ODDKUT, Abstrakt Sonance Remix)
TRAKA - Go Fly (feat. ODDKUT)
TRAKA - Boss Ah Nero
TRAKA - Gyal Tune (feat. Grim Sickers)
TRAKA - Sting (feat. Janjo)
Janjo x Labia - Metak
Chrizpy Chris x Ankou - Forbidden 
TRAKA - System (feat. Blocklab)
TRAKA - Straight Wheel Up (feat. Killa P, VIP Edit)
Outro

'Raw Cuts' EP1 (Subtle Radio)

Shella Radio is an independent community-driven online radio streaming live from Ankali & Planeta Za in Prague, Czech Republic.

Dive in: www.shella.radio

YUKU: Oolong Bru | Shella Radio 11.6.24

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 - Zuma

TRAKA - Mokuba

Get it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/innate-needs

"‘Innate Needs’ marks my first extended release as an artist, following the release of my debut album. I've leveraged similarities to create a juxtaposing, almost severe, experience with "Innate Needs." It delves more into the concept of wants, the forces that shape a being's needs, and far more. The release marks an investigation of darker musical experiences with undercurrents of burdened grief and reminiscence. The broken beat selection is halfway between listening and dancing. This six-track compilation, which began with a storytelling notion, pays homage to the grunge and gore epoch of human history."
—I7HVN

@i7hvnmusic
www.instagram.com/i7hvn/

Innate Needs

I7HVN – Hyenas

Get it here: https://yunis.bandcamp.com/album/reverie

Taken from the 'Reverie' EP

"“Reverie” is a nuanced exploration of the multifaceted nature of daydreaming. This collection of tracks invites listeners into a soundscape where the light and dark coexist, capturing the ethereal beauty of good daydreams alongside the haunting allure of their darker counterparts.

Drawing from an eclectic mix of influences, “Reverie” seamlessly blends elements of club music with the soulful grooves of old school R&B and the raw, rhythmic pulse of boom bap. It’s a sonic journey that transcends the confines of the dancefloor, offering a deeply personal and reflective listening experience. Through its intricate melodies and evocative beats, “Reverie” paints a vivid picture of the daydreams that shape our lives, from the blissful to the melancholic, making it a truly immersive artistic statement."

yunis — Can't Get No Sleep

From Hungry Claws
Get it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/hungry-claws

"To die of boredom or to live in a state of distraction, music is often a powerful balancing tool, and ‘Hungry Claws’is no exception. Just as if there were a time for everything, this EP plays with silences and counterpoints.
All because a constitutionally tenacious turn of phrase requires inspiration, breath, pauses, and a life pulse.

And like life, expected events rarely occur as we imagine them.
Constructed in this way on a thread, the sound universe that emerges from this flirts between the science of mixing
and the exercise of counterpoint, like a pendulum that oscillates between noise and silence, mildness and tension. Polarised by the desire to stave off established genres and to distance itself from them, this work constantly touches on compromise without ever giving in to it.

Looking for accidents, chasing after uniqueness, accepting boredom, keeping the urge to ramble in check:
to do, to escape, to dance? Why not. ‘Hungry Claws’ recalls a verbal echo distilled many years ago, ‘croche et tiens, or nourishes the desire to cling it close, to remain hungry, with sharpened claws."
—ESTHER

ESTHER — Complainte

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!]

Following their highly sought-after series of white label vinyl on YUKU, the mysterious Imaginary Number release their first record on general platforms for the world to enjoy.

IMN - Pocket [YUKU]

“Boss Bish” channels the energy I’ve been manifesting lately. The boss bish energy is about being chill af, unbothered, collected and strong, going about life from a place of power, while fighting the patriarchy like a boss.
out now on @yukumusic

Monibi – Boss Bish [YUKU]

"YUKU & Delusional Records unite to present Maude Vôs', 5th Generation Angel Remix Compilation. With 7 reinterpretations of the originals, we celebrate the reach & impact this record has made with femme & nonbinary artists from across the globe. Mindfully curated, these reimagined remixes fuse the essence of the originals, bringing experimental breaks & bass to new biomes.

The release opens up with Montreals laced, toting the title track 5th Generation Angel into a lush utopia of textural breaks & harmony heaven. Milan's Katatonic Silentio, carries the meditative qualities of Luminous Dawn into an incandescent soundscape of polymathic beats, entangled with the rich vocals of alice.km. Berlin's unparalleled rRoxymore, grounds the EP with a progressive deep dub cut of the super star track Hunnï. New York's iconic Sister Zo, energizes the release with her dynamic club groover of Hunnï, the perfect take for a late nighter. Jan Loup from Toulouse, captures the tension of Vis-à-vis with a deluge of textural bass elements immersed in a swamp of circulating synths. Seattle's, Enereph lifts off with a genre blazing remix forging footwork & braindance, cultivating a magical elixir of Dance of the 7th Veil. Brooklyn's, Martini taps the bodily flow state of Visceral Vessel, bringing the track into a meditative whirlpool closing out the EP flawlessly.

So much gratitude to these incredible artists for being a part of this heavenly ascension of 5th Generation Angel. In awe of the creativity & connection these 2 records continue to bring into my life. Biggest luv to Ida & Jef, as they have been beyond supportive & believed in my angelic vision since day one."
xx -Maude

Maude Vôs - Dance of the 7th Veil (Enereph Remix) [PRECISE MASTER]

Maude Vôs - Hunnï (Sister Zo In Your Dreams Mix) [YUKU]

"It feels like at the moment, we're lost in the long dark tunnel. Plenty of dance music seems to operate in a revivalist form, within a regression cycle, it's hard to pinpoint the exact sound of "now" without it referencing other points in history.

"We're trapped in 20th century culture on higher definition screens", poses Mark Fisher in a seminal lecture, and thus, exposes Berardi's concept of the Slow Cancellation of the Future. "Nothing ever really dies, but that's not good". In 1992 it was impossible to imagine the shape of music 6 months into the future, so why are we now constantly going back to these genres?

My aim with this release was to try and participate in the legacy of the Hardcore Continuum within the sonic context of the current world. A hyper-online, overstimulated landscape where our attention is constantly invaded by notification after notification, stimulus after stimulus. I try to materialise this by reshaping sharp noise into pulse, genre staples like the breakbeat get torn apart and forced into a brand new skeleton, and riot-invoking grime chants are repurposed into music set for a bleak now. Jungle, Dub, Grime, Garage, they are all present here, but the heavy gravitational pull of their legacies presents to me as a black hole I've tried to encapsulate in this EP.

Why is the future vanishing?"
—Pépe

Grane Drum [YUKU]

"Claustrophobic, disorienting, uncomfortable - ‘Only Time Will Tell’ consists of 3 of my latest attempts to push functional club tools as far into the realms of dissonance and abstraction as possible whilst retaining their inherent purpose as body-moving dancefloor tracks.

I’m drawn to sounds that are insistent, deliberate, futuristic and unorthodox. YUKU have always shared a similar vision, so it was little surprise when the label picked the very first 3 tracks I sent over in a large vault of demos - the exact 3 that I quietly hoped that they would take, in the exact order I felt would be most effective.

‘Inertia Of The Real’ has been the closing track for many of my sets over the past few months - unhinged electrical zaps appear out of nowhere and rain down over a sparse grime rhythm to catch the crowd off-guard and cause as much chaos as possible.

‘Plated Brass Recursion Mechanism’ continues the theme of frantic digital laser assault, but this time with a locked breakbeat groove and unyielding low-end snarl - more conventional beat patterns for electro and techno lovers, but weird and unpredcitable nonetheless.

Lastly, ‘Fool’s Errand’ dials back the intensity just a touch, with eerie pads and disembodied vocal chops cutting through machine-gun hihats and start-stop call and response in the low end.

My attitude to production has always been a rejection of the nostalgic rehashing of sounds from the 90s and 00s that has come to dominate the dance music landscape in the current decade. If there isn’t at least one sound in a track that’s surprising or new to my ears, I’m not interested. As a statement of intent, I hope that ‘Only Time Will Tell’ will bring something exciting to the listener in that respect. Endless love to YUKU and everyone who gives the release a spin - getting the chance to share my music on such a perfect label is really such an honour."

- Hedchef 

Written & produced by Hedchef
Mastered by Sam at Precise
Artwork by Lex Cyril
Set free into the wild by YUKU

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Hedchef - Plated Brass Recursion Mechanism [YUKU]

With her EP „LAZY“, PRIMETIMEGABI puts the focus on her roots and presents her musical debut on YUKU in an unexpected way with halftime and doubletime beats that are underpinned by a journey through dreamy nature. 
Produced with machines, the sound of the L A Z Y EP is dominated by bass-heavy kicks, authentic percussions with drive and a laid back coolness.

In keeping with her way of not taking herself too seriously, she plays with rhythms, breaks & melodies that don't lose any energy even though they are partly half-time.

The energy is real - keep it simple.

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DANDELION

Lucika (they/them) is an artist based in Brussels, Belgium. After years of composing music for others in theaters, they finally did something for themselves : a first solo release with Yuku. Coming from live sound design on & off stage, their field work consistently combines both a reflexive and an experimental practice with a variety of colours, from acoustic to electronic, introspective to adventurous, always focused on a precise rhythmic work. The outcome of this research is often a constructed deconstruction which slides aesthetically between the genres of bass, postclub and breaks.

Earth Memory Colander is a four-track tense and fragmented project that combines organic sounds, sharp rhythms and swarming noises to shape the backdrop of a peculiar story : the tale of Fruglub : a termite who has been chased away from home by their Queen, the termite Queen. Fruglub’s internal journey of confusion, introspection, and potential revenge mirrors the chaotic yet cohesive nature of the compositions.

“From above, all exists yet elsewhere persists,
Impact nails and luck saps
Beyond drought.
Will later exist
A mechanical solution
A fold of memory colander where my wince swarm
An Earth plunge
Fruglub incorporates.” 


All tracks produced and mixed by Lucika
Mastered by Sam at Precise
Artwork by Queenie F. Charles
Set free into the wild by YUKU

Earth Memory Colander

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

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@crzkny
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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]

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...

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Label Dive 001

Experience YUKU

Label Dive I

Out now — https://fanlink.to/yunisamygdala

yunis — Amygdala EP
Featuring Rohaan & SRP

"I see myself as a receiving unit—sensing my surroundings, processing the emotions of others and myself, never knowing what's true or untrue, never knowing if I have processed things in the right or wrong way, because somehow, one's decisions will always be influenced by something or someone else. The emotional and physical contortions that society puppeteers us into manifesting."

— yunis

yunis: https://soundcloud.com/yunis
ROHAAN: https://soundcloud.com/rohaanofficial
SRP: https://soundcloud.com/fabiansrp

Artwork: W. Opiéla (*1921-†2016)

Amygdala

Amygdala Preview Mix

yunis — Amygdala (feat. Rohaan & SRP)

Vinyl & Digital: https://yuku.fanlink.to/leisurelands

Audeka — Leisure Lands EP
Featuring Monolog Rockstars

Release dates:
Worldwide release (digital & vinyl) — 22/10/2020

"The Leisure Lands EP is a collection of tracks that we feel could live in the same painting. In one corner, there are morning tones, calmness outside, and a little blue hint in the sky that the sun is coming out but isn’t here yet. In another corner, there are psychedelic rituals and ceremonies taking place. Over the past year, we selected projects that fit the image of this painting. We have been using some exciting new software and instruments to add new audio to our productions. Lately, primarily Kiloheartz Multipass, field recordings, our new cello, other oddities that one might find in their home, and digital synthesis."

- Audeka

Artwork by Audeka

Leisure Lands

Vinyl — Digital

Audeka — Leisure Lands (feat. Monolog Rockstars)

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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

Vinyl & Digital: https://fanlink.to/warpcrawler

"This is a true representation of what I crave as an artist. My intention is to invite you to explore the unknown, hear the unheard, and feel the the unfelt.

As an artist, at some point art begins to create itself, this is how it works for me. The creation of this album was less of a choice and more of a subconscious action that lead to result.

These are my surroundings, feelings, and visions in a body of work.
Influenced by an enveloping darkness, distortion, and warped reality.

A special thank you to my biggest inspiration—my grandpa."
Chrizpy Chriz

Follow Chrizpy Chriz — https://soundcloud.com/chrizpychriz
Follow yunis — https://soundcloud.com/yunis
Follow Smol — https://soundcloud.com/smolbeats

Warp Crawler

Chrizpy Chriz — Warp Crawler (feat. Smol & yunis)

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

Est. 2020
YUKU is an open and accepting forum of ideas, expression, and creativity for listeners who enjoy diving into the emotions and concepts of those create; we are an island of experience and stimulation for the kinds of people who like to be surprised — a listening oasis in the endless sea of digital information.

We invite you to join us there

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

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