BLAWAN & ANALOGUE COPS START ‘PARASSELA’
Yorkshire, via Berlin, techno producer Blawan has recently teamed up with Marieu and Lucretio, aka the Analogue Cops, to form his latest label and associated live show, Parassela. Only six months or so after starting Works The Long Nights with London’s Pariah, Blawan is back with the first release on new label simply titled Parassela001....
ALEX COULTON ‘CANDY FLIP / BROOKLYN’
Bristol’s Idle Hands present their tenth release with a Techno Dub House 12″ of Alex Coulton. Both sides of this strong 12″ are club ready with some strong subs within a shifty Techno-House vibe. To start ‘Candy Flip’ pushes a deep bass-line and powerful pressure, rounded deep subs, whilst on the flip, ‘Brooklyn’ is on...
MO KOLOURS – ‘BANANA WINE’ EP2 FREE DOWNLOAD
Half-Mauritian singer-percussionist Mo Kolours returns with his second release: EP2: Banana Wine. Last year’s EP1: Drum Talking saw his blend of soul, dub and various electronic styles with the Sega music of his ancestral home celebrated far and wide. As the UK’s FACT Magazine remarked, “The wonderful Mo Kolours laces his loping, hashed-out Madlib-meets-Theo Parrish...
GERRY READ – ‘YEH COME DANCE’ EP
Mysterious 20 year old Gerry Read had quite the year in 2011. On Ramp sub-label Fourth Wave he unleashed a trilogy of EPs which toyed with a rough and ready house and techno template, sampling anything and everything and chucking it all together into sketchy yet essential tracks which made you feel, think and dance....
TECTONIC PLATES VOLUME 3
The mighty Tectonic Recordings drop the latest in their esteemed Plates series, compiling exclusive tracks from a selection of electronic music’s leading and breaking artists. Since starting low frequency operations in 2005, Bristol’s Tectonic Recordings has been a landmark for dubstep, bass and progressive electronic music fans; with artists releasing on the label including Skream,...
ADDISON GROOVE – TRANSISTOR RHYTHM LP
On the 30th of March, Antony Williams’s long-awaited debut album as Addison Groove drops on Modeselektor’s ’50Weapons’ imprint. The label have already made serious tracks in 2012 with, among others, the release of Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka’s masterpiece ‘They! (Live)’; heightening both excitement and expectation around Addison Groove’s forthcoming ‘Transistor Rhythm.’ Under his separate,...
DISTAL: ‘CIVILIZATION’
Distal will release his debut long-player Civilization on Tectonic in April. Atlanta’s Michael Rathbun emerged in 2010 on his own label Embassy Recordings, and by 2011 he was bringing an uptempo, footwork-infused sound to labels like Grizzly, 2nd Drop, Seclusiasis, Fortified Audio, and Pinch’s Tectonic label, which has tapped him for his first full-length...
PEARSON SOUND: UNTITLED / FOOTLOOSE
The latest two tracks from David Kennedy has been doing the rounds for a little while now, first heard on the Boiler Room. With support from Ben UFO, Jamie xx, Benji B, Jackmaster, Loefah and all the major DJ’s, this is another big dancefloor 12″. Seasoned Hessle Audio fans will have heard the track in...
MACHINEDRUM – NEW BEATS TEASER 2012
Pretty self-explanatory. A preview of what Machinedrum has in store for 2012, apparently its just ‘the tip of the iceberg’ too.