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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Digital

Amrj

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

Get Me

Cocktail Party Effect — Reset

From DICA, out now on YUKU:
https://revtheacid.bandcamp.com/album/dica

"DICA" represents Rev's inaugural art project focused on sound design and collage, emerging from profound self-reflection. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, dermatological conditions, and acts of self-loathing, Rev delves into intimate emotional issues such as sensitivity, inferiority, and anxiety, centered around the theme of "how to give oneself unconditional love.”

DICA

TIDE

REV — TIDE^

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

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

Axes

Those Kinds of Friends EP out now on Yuku Music

Visualizer:
https://youtu.be/y5B4hvaHT5A?si=dYbEiG40iOPPvs1s

Those Kinds of Friends EP

Those Kinds of Friends

Download

Some Of Y'all Don't

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

Paraffin

„Start from yourself. From your organs, your whole body, then the social environment, streets, cities—everything your mind can understand, human-made or natural, constructive or destructive, working only for some’s benefit or aimlessly drifting—all are systems within systems.
Systems are made for their function, each important and valid while they serve change. Growth is inevitable; it’s not a system but greater than that. Its meaning cannot be understood by thought, and therefore any system, ultimately locked in its limitations, is destined to fail.
There is no system to hold on to! If you pursue this diligently enough, realizing with clear resistance that all concepts will dissolve only to mutate into the next one, you acknowledge that all systems fail.“

This EP is the fusion of poet Ulaş Ekim Toprak and electronic producer Julia Häller, aka Chewlie. Heavy on bass and poetry, this piece is a debut statement of our project. "All Systems Fail" is an elegy that illuminates the failure of all systems of separation, identity, exploitation, authority, and oppression!

STREIKTHROUGH is a collaborative sound and performance project by producer and DJ Chewlie and poet Ulaş Ekim Toprak, both based in Switzerland. Driven by a shared desire to blend bass-heavy, ethereal electronic music with thought-provoking poetry, the project transforms contemporary political phenomena into a sonic experience.

By blurring the boundaries between rhythm and atmosphere in electronica and club music, while evoking the power of spoken word, STREIKTROUGH ventures into unexplored territory, harnessing the strengths of both artistic disciplines.
Mitwirkende
released on 6th of December 2024

Written, produced, and voiced by Ulaş Ekim Toprak and Julia Häller
Mastered by Sam at PRECISE
Artwork by Julia Häller and Ulaş Ekim Toprak
Set free into the wild by YUKU

Bodies Unwanted

"Man’s search for his true inner self is hindered by anger, born from faith in a higher power that refuses to step in and guide the way." 

5. Words of a preacher

"determined.
clubfocused.

this is about strength,
stating value.

translating empowerment.

This is about sisterhood,
a call for union."
—Leese & Chewlie

We are standing for representation!
crédits
paru le 9 janvier 2025

Curated by Leese & Chewlie
Artwork by Julia Häller
Mastered by PRECISE
Set free into the wild by YUKU

01. Leese & Chewlie - Saamna [YUKU]

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⚡ Stream / Download 'A.Fruit - Somnambulism' → https://tinyurl.com/3w5tn2wj

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A.Fruit returns to YUKU, delving into the intricate depths of bass music with her Somnambulism EP.

https://soundcloud.com/annafruit
https://instagram.com/fruitbass

https://soundcloud.com/yukumusic
https://instagram.com/yukuwax

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A.Fruit - Somnambulism [Premiere]

Hail & Farewell

“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]

"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

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.

Buy on Bandcamp

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

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