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)

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

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-ONLY RELEASE

Our fourth vinyl-only white label on YUKU brings the mysterious Kliptown alias back for a solo release. Extremely fun and versatile 130–140 bpm broken beat weapons.

A1. Shifty Rhythms
A2. Stay
B1. Sunday Groove
B2. Maakul

Kliptown I

YUKUWHT004

Vinyl

YUKUWHT004 — Kliptown I

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

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Out now on all platforms
The best one is this one: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/track/hook-feat-blocklab

The first of a ferocious series of digital singles from our very ill graffiti and production crew homeboys, @traka-studio!

This one featuring @blocklab66

HOOK$

Digital

HOOK$ (feat. Blocklab)

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 it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/kernel-panic

"Hi there, I’m really happy to present my new EP « Kernel Panic » released on one of my favorite labels « Yuku ». I’ve been discovering a lot of great music and new artists thanks to Yuku and I’m really happy to join the family.

My first release ever was a footwork release 8 years ago, and I wanted to experiment with this 160 bpm vibe again and merge it with a lot of different personal influences. I’ve been experimenting a lot with crazy polyrhythm sequencers and Euclidean algorithms for this EP. It was a lot of fun but my laptop didn’t like it at all. During the whole process, I experimented a huge amount and experienced loads of bugs and laptop freezes, so I decided to dedicate this EP to "Kernel Panics".

It might be the most hybrid EP I've done. You can hear breaks, electro, footwork, grime, percussive, and dub ingredient within. I also had the pleasure to collaborate with the very talented Kenyan rapper, Nah Eeto, for Piga Makofi, and I can’t wait to play this one live with her.

I asked my friend Vica Pacheco to create the artwork and she built this psychedelic 3d world based on « the hypnotic and dynamic energy » of the EP.

Big thanks to Yuku for following me into these new areas of experimentation."
— @le-motel
Featuring @naheeto
Vica Pacheco

Kernel Panic

Le Motel — Kernel Panic (feat. Nah Eeto)

50 diverse and glorious pieces of music from the amazing artists we've been lucky enough to work with!

We're celebrating the 3rd Anniversary of our first release with a very special limited compilation that includes one track from almost every release that we've set free into the wild to date!

We hope you're enjoying the journey so far, and we have so much further to travel <3 Thank you so much for your support over the past 3 years — it has enabled us to keep exploring and working with exciting artists both established and fresh!

Featuring music released on YUKU from:
@annafruit @aagentah @tenebreaudio @balatron-1 @juicy_chewlie @chrizpychriz @coido @tim-e-aka-current-value @es-tereo @fearful @fiestasoundsystem @granul @ladame1 @hiddenelement @l-eese @mysticstate @panicman1993 @pruvancz @rooomusic @bamalot @sambot @shinraknives @sprocketmoss @sciencethe @subpyao @traka-studio @woulgmusic @yunis and more

Birthdizzle Compadoodle

Bandcamp

YUKU 3rd Birthdizzle Compadoodle

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

Vinyl & digital: https://hypeddit.com/sonic/embers

“When I drive through Longsight to pick up my daughter from school there’s this abandoned pub I used to meet friends in sometimes back in the late 90s. Looking at it, I remember all the energy that used to be inside and think that there still could be that light in the window if someone revived it…

Made me think of how embers can still be fire, given enough air. They’re never truly extinguished while a faint glow still exists.”
—@djsonicuk

Embers

Sonic — Embers

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

Buy / stream digital: https://hypeddit.com/aromanice/lostrealms

"I live in a small scene-less seaside town called Southport in the North West of England where there isn’t much to do other than wander beaches, parks and dunes and nab vinyl from the record and charity shops with intent to make tunes. Growing up I've been exposed to all types of music from Jazz to Jungle, Easy Listening to Hardcore, you name it. I like all kinds of music and try to incorporate elements from multiple genres fused with my favourite heartbeat - breakbeat Jungle. Here I present to you a collection of tunes I’ve produced using an combination of software and hardware. Themes include procrastination, disgruntlement, isolation, quarrels and boredom. Ladies and Gentleman I present to you Lost Realms."
— @aroma-nice

Artwork by the amazing Payo Sanf: https://www.instagram.com/payosanf

Lost Realms

Aroma Nice — Lost Realms

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

Free download: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/track/start-taking-note-feat-killa-p-rift-remix

Challenge winner: @riftdnb

We ran a remix challenge during the summer that gave producers a chance to show what they could do with TRAKA & Killa P's anthem 'Start Taking Note'. It was hard to choose a winner as there were so many interesting entries, and we want to thank everyone who took part <3

This is the winning entry, now available as a free download!

Start Taking Note

Rift Remix

Free DL

Free Download: TRAKA — Start Taking Note feat. Killa P (Rift Remix)

Follow @coido
https://www.instagram.com/coido__
Pick up the TURBOBANG EP: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/turbobang

Akkord - Typeface
Keplrr & Max Winter - SG34
Farsight - Tied Hands
Boddika & Joy Orbison - For What..... 
Djedjotronic Feat. Miss Kittin - Pleasure & Pain (Jensen Interceptor Remix)
2562 - his Is Hardcore
Phaeleh - The Cold In You (Djrum Remix)
Distant Roots & Hotcut - Wall Shaking
Thys - DoomTimelineTM
Roska - Peace
Arma - Work The Bass (Original Mix)
COIDO - Minimal Afrobeat
TSVI - Hossam
Atrice - FKX82000
COIDO - Wedge
COIDO - Regurge
Disclosure - Just Your Type
COIDO - Yes or No
HUMO - Traces
Thys, Nikki Nair - Break Through
David Scopes - Day One (Hodge Remix)
Sam Link - Uproar
Thunderbird Juicebox - Bassface
COIDO - Internet tune
Hustle Athletics - Lekker (Posij Remix)
Jammz - Fi Real
Mulholland -ION- 9
Mutant Joe - Static Effect
Stenny - Wipe Out
Skream - Konga
Skellytn - Disassociate (DIALYUP Remix)
False Persona & SAAH - Piped Up
COIDO - Time Tripper 
Aaron Spectre - Say More Fire
StacEmp - Closer
DAVE N.A. - FEELS GOOD
COIDO - Stupid Mix 
COIDO - Whipped Cream
Toma Kami - Ritmo Actual
Toni Moralez - Ghetto Techno
Průvan - Zlobivá
Thys, Nicholas Thayer - Go Again
Imanu - DTA
COIDO - Slunkk 
Sinistarr - Detroit
Coen - Tama
Icicle - Dominate 
Abstract Elements - Tenderness
Noisia - Purpose (Buunshin remix) feat. Phace
Latesleeper - Bushwa
Subp Yao - Backwitda (Yoofee Remix)
S.Murk - Shakey Legs
Rockwell - *)* [808]
Sleepnet - Angel Blade

Crew Session — Coido

Rinse UK kindly lent us their airwaves for a couple of hours to play a selection of released and forthcoming music.

Hosted by @oolongbru
Support the YUKU arts project on Bandcamp:
https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist:
Aroma Nice - Arcade Interlude
Traka - Kula Na Sisi feat. Nah Eeto
Chrizpy Chriz - Yunglist
Griffit Vigo - Amajungle
Le Motel - Piga Makofi feat. Nah Eeto
Fearful x Mtwn - Careful feat. Riko Dan
Traka - Straight Wheel Up feat. Killa P
Granul - Syncopated
Alan Johnson - End of Oz
Chrizpy Chriz x Traka - War Horn
Pruvan - The Stomper
Hassan Abou Alam - Shalfata
Leese x Capiuz - Skadu
Lazarus - T.O.U.
Oblaka - I-KOR
Endmodell - Instabil // Unsicher
Sam Link - Concerta
Prayer - Loss of Meaning
Lakker - Surface Drummer
Moxina - Hit the Wall
Traka x Masturbeator - Murky
Aroma Nice - Moan
Joaquin Cornejo - Cuica
Fiesta Soundsystem - Delphic Scent
Shinra Knives - I'll Talk
Aroma Nice - containr
Lakker - ImMute
Joaquin Cornejo - Borraja feat. Zosia & Wabi Sabi

YUKU

Rinse UK: YUKU (Hosted by oolongbru)

Get it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/kindred-mahdi-sweep

The fourth in a series of badass short-form digital releases from production gang TRAKA on YUKU.

Follow these heroes: @traka-studio

Kindred

TRAKA — Kindred

Out now on all platforms <3
@traka-studio and the amazing @naheeto have created something glorious

Get it here: https://hypeddit.com/trakafeatnaheeto/kulanasisi

Kula Na Sisi

Get Me

TRAKA - Kula Na Sisi (feat Nah Eeto)

Get it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/collapse

"I'm a Taiwanese-Kiwi producer, sound artist and event curator based in Taichung Taiwan. Much of my music is formed around found sounds, ad hoc percussion, irregular time signatures and atonality manifested in the layering of samples and field recordings.

This debut EP release is a culmination of ideas I have had for over the last 5 years after moving towards producing electronic music as a solo artist. Prior to this I was writing contemporary classical compositions, studying gamelan, playing in a punk and improv bands, and listening to way too much metal. Attempting to amalgamate all these experiences and sound textures is a forever growing process and one of discipline to stick to developing this one project. I feel this release demonstrates what I have gathered thus far.

Sonically, a large part of me is drawn to non-western timbres, rhythm and tonality. It’s not really to consciously infuse my cultural identity into the music but rather an impression left by the cacophonic soundscape of Taiwan which all became very hazy after immigrating to New Zealand. And simply I just think they sound cool. Lots of the percussive sounds in this EP were made through beating on a bunch of pots and pans.

I am really grateful to work with long time friends and amazing artists Mong Tong and 晟 ⏆ SHENG for the remixes in this EP.

Thanks to Yuku for granting visibility to my debut release."
—MOXINA 
credits
released January 4, 2024

Written & produced by Immanuel Dannenbring
Mixed by Yan Sheng-Wen
Remixes by: Hung Chun-Yu 洪郡御 and Yan Sheng-Wen 顏晟文
Artwork by Kenji Kuroda
Mastered by Precise, except for SHENG's remix which is mastered by the remixer
Set free into the wild by YUKU

Collapse

Moxina — Collapse (feat. Mong Tong & SHENG Remixes)

Taken from @prayerproduction 's beautiful new album — Now I Know Paradise

Listen in full: https://prayerproduction.bandcamp.com/album/now-i-know-paradise

"This release is probably my most personal to date. I wanted to create something which flows freely whilst interconnected, that is perhaps not possible in Shorter form works. It is a story in eleven parts that focuses on exploring emotional depth; I’ve always been interested in emotion in music, which for anyone reading at a glance could sound self explanatory, but here the focus is really how an story can be told over the course of an hour and how this can then create a longer lasting impact for the listener. The tracks presented weave between a variety of different styles I’ve explored over the years, but are connected via their exploration of ecstatic sorrow and search for catharsis."
—Prayer

Now I Know Paradise

If I Can Feel

Prayer — If I Can Feel

From @griffitvigo — EGM
Get it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/egm

"In EGM, I've created a subgenre of the GQOM genre that resembles the original sound but differs in specific ways. This new era showcases my creativity, incorporating different forms of House music with African sounds.

As a contemporary artist, it's crucial to have a unique signature or sound that accurately represents your true self, and EGM is that for me.

I find GQOM to be one of the most powerful and spiritual genres ever created, and it's gaining popularity as the years go by. I've also noticed that other genres are slowly entering the GQOM style, creating 'broken beats' that are a testament to its power and influence.

Late jazz/African A-frolic artist, Fela Kuti, emphasized the spiritual significance of music and the importance of using it well to live a life of purpose. When he said “Music is a spiritual thing. You don’t play with music. If you play with music, you’ll die young. When the higher forces give you a gift of music, musicianship it must be well used…”

As I've said in the past: It’s a culture thing—it’s a Zulu genre. It’s dark and dreary, but it depends on what kind of creativity you bring."
—Griffit Vigo

GRIFFIT VIGO — Felicia [YUKU]

From 'Gateway' by @lakker
Get it here: https://lakker.bandcamp.com/album/gateway

"With these tracks we were simply doing what we love doing - no concept, no overriding idea, no overthinking, just approaching each track based on what we felt and letting the sounds guide us. The music tells us where to go. Like most of our releases it's heavily influenced by club and dance styles with our love of metal shining through too. Techno is present but we've also explored faster styles like jungle and even gabber. We had fun on this one. Big ups to Yuku for putting this out."
—Lakker

Gateway

Punctureproof

Lakker - Punctureproof

Get it here: https://juicychewlie.bandcamp.com/album/transforming-matter
@juicy_chewlie — Transforming Matter

I'm running back to me feeling homesick
soon I might recall the savory flavor
of what will ease me until I'm mellow
I move so the floor beneath me transforms into a flow
does it really matter if I'm loved beloved unloved
if I submerged deep in dirt and died slow
-li al

We breathe in oxygen, transform it into carbon dioxide and breathe out. One simple witness of transforming matter. With this album I became aware of this inevitable movement and my deeply rooted need to live that. So I could not restrict myself any longer not to surrender to it, to the creative flow.
Very new and important to me was to collaborate with such immensely talented artists. It has elevated and transformed my production skills & process. I feel very honored to connect, learn and transform matter - together.
-Chewlie
credits
releases February 16, 2024

credits:
„Run“ features a piano recording of Rahelle Fischer
„Beloved feat. Synkro“ features a voice sampled from „Księżyc - Zakopana“
„Home“ features vocals from li al

composed & mixed by Julia Häller
remixed by Leese
features with Tinkah, Synkro & Fiesta Soundsystem
mastered by Precise Master
released by @yukumusic
Poem written by li al
cover art by Julia Häller

Transforming Matter

Savory

Chewlie - Savory feat. Fiesta Soundsystem

'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

We present a fresh crew session from a special new artist: @endmodell

Get his debut release - AV1 - on YUKU:
https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/av1

TRACKLIST -----> ///

Gesture - YM HO (Guau Remix)
RNBWS - Concentrate (Original Mix)
Gav, D3U5E - Went Back (Original Mix)
Versalife - Nova Prospekt (Stenny Remix)
Cortese - One Day (Original Mix)
Toma Kami - Blades (Original Mix)
DL/MS - IC-1101 (Original Mix)
Breeza, D.Knight, Dj Airmax - Calm (Original Mix)
Hassan Abou Alam, Granul - Aksayan (Hassan Abou Alam Remix)
Joy Orbison, Overmono, Kwengface - Freedom 2 (Original Mix)
LB aka LABAT - Speed of Love (Original Mix)
Cesco, Hamdi - Swing King (Original Mix)
Effy - Yours Aye (Original Mix)
Client 03 - Principal Excitation Conduit (Original Mix)
MPH, Royal-T - Flatline (Original Mix)
Dusky - Eros (Interplanetary Criminal Remix)

Crew Session — Endmodell

From 'Pits' by @fiestasoundsystem
Get it here: https://fiestasoundsystem.bandcamp.com/album/pits

"I love watching bodies of water. Ripples in the swan’s wake make the image of the willow above shimmer and play; the swirl of the algae reveals the complexity of these currents; even crashing waves on the coast begin with a single drop, if you listen closely. Last year’s Sinking was all about the action, the warp and weft, the striated emerging from the smooth emerging from the striated, and so on. It was a toil, well aware of its own futility. With this album I wanted to stop squeezing the life out of the moment, but still to capture its richness. In more direct terms, I avoided meticulous editing and instead built up a hodgepodge of custom sequencing software over the course of about 18 months, recording things as I went. These tracks all came out rather effortlessly from a damp and dreary two-week span in the height of summer, after which the systems that created them collapsed into an overwrought mess."
—Fiesta Soundsystem

Pits

Fiesta Soundsystem - Dewy Slate

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

Get it here: https://cocktailpartyeffectmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bleep-test

"I'm terrible when it comes to writing anything about the music I make, but I hope you enjoy the tunes as much as I enjoyed making them. Thanks to my dog Berry for reminding me to get out of the studio and take him for long walks and to my partner for supporting me by making gun fingers every time she entered the room"
—Cocktail Party Effect

Bleep Test

Plex

Cocktail Party Effect – Plex

Get it here: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/track/bright-spots

As Dim Fumes, bass duo Thrived and score composer No Bloom Now come together to create an exquisite blend of club sound and pop-influenced storytelling.
With numerous releases on Voitax, Club Qu and others, Thrived have proven their ability to produce fresh yet seasoned tunes, making them an integral part of Berlin's underground scene for years. No Bloom Now's work as a composer for film, theatre and games over the past few years has given him experience in writing strong themes and emotionally complex melodies.

As a band, Dim Fumes bring together the vocal points of both projects to create danceable, melancholic melodies full of euphoria. No Bloom Now's intimate vocals take centre stage,
Thrived's dense drum aesthetic builds the fundament in which the three create a melange best described as ambient bass-pop.

Their very first single, Bright Spots, can be seen as a North Star for the sonic direction the three are heading. The gnarled yet clear drum work and angelic lead vocal feel like they are embedded in a sea of lush, warm pads and atmospheres, pulling you into deep excitement. The grip and pull of this poppy but underground track won't let you go until the very end, leaving you wanting to dive right back in. With bright spots, the trio prove their ability to grab attention in private, club and/or festival contexts, presenting a combination we'll hopefully see out and about soon. Keep an eye out: Dim Fumes!

Dim Fumes — Bright Spots

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