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YUKUWHT001
Imaginary Number
100 available for sale only (of 200 total pressed)

The first in a series of vinyl and streaming platform-only white label releases on YUKU, featuring known artists releasing under different new names. We introduce "Imaginary Number" with four deadly 130-bpm clubtrax. Tracks from this release have enjoyed radio support from Madam X, Tom Ravenscroft, Mary Anne Hobbs, Surgeon, and Breaka!

1x12" 180 gm black vinyl
45 rpm club-cut
Numbered (of 200)

Tracks:
A1 — Fruaki
A2 — Get
B1 — B Strange
B2 — FRS

Vinyl

Imaginary Number — Fruaki (Mary Anne Hobbs BBC6)

Our first vinyl-only white label (YUKUWHT001), featuring four tracks from the mysterious 'Imaginary Number'.

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YUKUWHT001

White Label

Imaginary Number — B Strange  [YUKU]

""Come By The River" and "Embryo" have a common denominator at their very basis - that is love, in its purest forms. In CBTR we tell a momentary love story between two people who stumble upon each other by the river and spend the afternoon diving into one another, just to separate and never meet again, but leave this beautiful mark in the form of a memory that defies time and space. In "Embryo" we look at love from a different perspective, the mother's. The type of love that has the power to defeat all insecurities, fears and teach/ask the most important questions.

The river doesn't pass, we just prefer to remain."
— The Science

Painting by Elizabeth Geisler

1 x 12" 180 gm coloured vinyl

Includes Bandcamp download code

Shipping is tracked

The Science - Come By The River (Om Unit Remix) (clip)

an ode to raves. finished in a couple of hours.

happy 2022.

Atonal Hallucinations

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

Digital

COIDO — Rescript

Order: https://www.yukumusic.com/products/item/731/yukuwht003-imaginary-number-ii

The third in our series of vinyl and streaming platform-only white label releases on YUKU featuring artists releasing under different aliases. Following his first appearance on the series which sold out superquick and is now highly sought after, Imaginary Number returns with another four ridiculously ill 130ish-bpm clubtrax. Tracks from this record have received support from Tom Ravenscroft, Flore, Otik, James Ruskin, dBridge, Giant Swan, Breaka, and many more. Don't miss this!

1x12" 180 gm black vinyl
45 rpm club-cut

Numbered (of 300 pressed)
No represses

YUKUWHT003

YUKUWHT003 — Imaginary Number II

Listen in full & buy on Bandcamp: https://leese.bandcamp.com/album/d-arm

"8 months ago, I released my first EP with YUKU.

Nomäa was intended to be hard-hitting, and was experienced as a daily outlet, both live and digital. Däarm continues an inner journey with new influences, deep and cathartic bass that will bring you back to your primal instincts.

I'm always carried by Afro/Arabic influenced percussion, it's my own style and it's going to follow me for a while. This kind of rhythm inspires me a lot, there's no doubt about it: it's like feeling each instrument through all the bodies, which are just moving.

A more ambient and low-key feel for Däarm came to me.
Nomäa was an opportunity to evolve and develop my drums. After that, it was natural for me to return to this more "melodic" side, more musical in a way. Some synths appear and I'm happy that this other part of me has emerged and merged with the percussive/groovy side of my tracks.
The bass is also more present. I wanted this time, that people make faces when listening to this new EP, the ones we make when it's too heavy inside and that it shows on the face (cfr "Vuil").

I had the idea to separate "Donker Dag" in two parts: the first one in Nomäa, and the second one here. During a live show I had transitioned Donker Dag with an old track "Az5". This transition seemed so obvious to me that I decided to make a second version, and I like the idea of two EP's finally being intertwined.

With Däarm we are still walking along this line, other new things just came on it."
— @l-eese

Artwork by Leslie Deboeur & Samson Michel

D​ä​arm

Leese — D​ä​arm

@shinraknives

Get it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/protect-me-from-what-i-want

"The phrase ‘Protect Me From What I Want’ comes from a Jenny Holzer piece that has resonated with me for a long time now. I can’t speak to her intent in conceptualizing it, but I always likened it to connecting to another person for safety: having someone who loves you to keep you alive. The idea that one could reach a level of indulgence into something so strong that they need help exercising restraint always frightened me. This ep is about falling in love with someone in that space, and losing yourself trying to fight their demons for them. Co-inhabiting a mutually destructive space alongside someone who’s navigating through a greater turmoil than you’re equipped to deal with, and not being strong enough to pull away when it damages you.

The last track on the ep, ‘I Can’t Live Like This’, is the moment of recognition that existing this way isn’t sustainable. It’s when you finally understand that you cannot heal alongside this person, but leaving their side feels like a betrayal; it’s dooming them to collapse under their own vices without you. Relinquishing that love and still being unable to let go. Within that moment of revelation, the hopelessness can feel infinite.

I don’t occupy that space presently, but I have multiple times in the past, and my lack of insight into how I ever left that space is terrifying to me, because it makes me feel like I don’t know how to avoid returning to it with someone new. It’s a disheartening cycle to be potentially caught in.

The cover and accompanying video were created utilizing both machine learning and Photoshop/After Effects."
— Shinra Knives

Protect Me From What I Want

Shinra Knives — Protect Me From What I Want

Releasing later this week!

Preorder to get the first 4 tracks immediately:
https://granul.bandcamp.com/album/groove-palette

Subscribe to the YUKU Bandcamp to get everything we release at a lower price:
https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Counting from one to ten is one of the first things we learn when we try to speak a new language. It's also a universal language we use in our beats. Numbers are the inspiration source of this album, and its roots are in the inherent rhythmical existence of numbers in music. There is a numerical theme in all the tracks. Every number matches with different grooves and rhythms, and it all comes together around a single “groove pallet”.
— @granul
Featuring: @grupsesbeats

Groove Palette

Vinyl—Digital

Granul — Groove Palette (feat Grup Ses)

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

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

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
For sync & licensing, contact: gavin@syncsmith.com

Imaginary Number — Fruaki (Mary Anne Hobbs BBC6)

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