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words: belch
Hereford based Synthetic Epiphany (a.k.a. Marcus Levy-Chance) is certainly one of the relatively few emerging ‘future garage’ creators who manages to cut through the vast wash of Burial tribute acts who dominate endless soundcloud pages. His slick production style and well-crafted percussion particularly caught my attention at first, and recent collaborations with CoMa, the beautifully dark and unique female vocal talent from Kent, certainly bode well for things to come. With a debut EP on Edinburgh-based label Seeking Blue in the pipeline (entitled ‘Beauty In Errors’) - we have this track to give you, a remix which features on Coma’s ‘May All The Bridges I Burn Light My Way’ EP. Listen and download after the jump.
words: belch | label: text records
Always keen for anything new from long time favourite London experimentalist Four Tet (known to his mum as Kieran Hebden) - and especially after ‘Nova’ a few months back, his latest collaboration with fellow boundary-breaker Burial - this new offering, the A side to the new 12” on his Text Records imprint entitled “Jupiters/Ocoras”, most certainly does not disappoint. Continue reading for more thoughts and a listen.
words: belch | photography: TheArtificialAsylum
In the past few months, following the news of Cab Vol’s ‘rennovation’ and the imminent forced relocation of the Bongo Club, many of Edinburgh’s staunch night time music lovers undoubtedly began to feel a little disarmed by the prospect of our coveted scene’s potential downfall.
However things are looking decidedly positive, while the former’s relaunch is going ahead this week (kicking off a surprisingly exciting and varied month of acts - Alex Metric and Blawan being particular highlights), and the city’s more discerning club-goers are beginning to discover a new hidden gem of a venue to pop up - in the form of The Annexe. And discover it they certainly did last night at the second 49hz party, where BB favourite Mosca tore the roof off in true style.
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The second über exclusive and limited vinyl only offering from the pair’s SunkLo imprint - brings yet more driving percussive textures, continuing to mould their own distinct mark on ever emerging UK techno scene.
Following the immediate success of their debut release on this imprint “Froth / Mercy” back in February (not to mention one of the top tracks of this year - the brilliant Swims on Swamp 81) ”Dun Dun / Prone” should be in shops by the end of the week. No doubt it’ll get snapped up very quickly, so keep your eyes peeled - you certainly don’t want to sleep on this one.
words: belch | label: love fever
A big slinky deep house tune from Bicep, which I very nearly slept on. Managed to cop one of the very limited vinyl only pressings which almost instantly topped the Juno chart upon release. Love fever seems like an interesting new label which has been running some very sexy underground parties around London for a while now - if this release is anything to go by, I’m very much looking forward to more good things to come. Have a listen after the jump.
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Although our last post was a TreeFNGR tune from a couple of weeks back (it’s been sat in the outbox whilst studies have taken over) - here is the brand new tune dropped on the soundcloud today. Known to me as ‘Klut (1st Demo)’ since I’ve been playing it in my sets - but apparently rebranded as ‘I’m TreeFNGR’ - this one, with it’s hypnotic vocal samples and more gully vibes on the beat, certainly provides a solid introduction into the mind of the anonymous producer (or producers?).
Download it, get it in your life yeh.
download: TreeFNGR - I’m TreeFNGR mediafire, 320kbps
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Elusive and anonymous producer TreeFNGR has offered up a second free tune, titled ‘Five Ticks’. Carefully chopped vocals and burial-esque vinyl crackles placed alongside atmospheric synthesis, leading to an unexpectedly phat bassline - we’re not particularly keen on futile permutations of genre names, and this is certainly a prime example of why - drawing heavily on dubstep and UKG, but underlaid with a decisive house beat.
Listen and download below - and keep an eye on TreeFNGR - big tings a gwaan.
download: TreeFNGR - Five Ticks mediafire, 320kbps
words: belch | label: night slugs
With Club Constructions Vol. 1 only just released by label executive L-Vis 1990, and Classical Curves, the much anticipated debut full length LP from Jam City finally being set to drop May 26 - Night Slugs would appear to have a more than satisfactory amount on their plate at the moment. But of course, in the vein of their cracking form thus far in 2012, they aren’t prepared to stop there. Bok Bok (known to his mum as Alex Sushon) - the other head honcho down at Night Slugs (and the one in charge of the design) - has brought the first in a new line of free mixtapes put together by members of the Slugs crew. More details, download and tracklist after the jump.
words: belch | label: diamond & raw
Edinburgh based label Diamond & Raw first caught our attention when we boogied down to their showcase at Coalition back in early March. Equipped with a high calibre soundcloud, carefully chosen roster and a couple of banging showcase mixes - there were no surprises when head honcho Adam Rowley smashed it at Sneaky Petes. Now, their debut release from Bristol based trio, Forget Me Not, is set to drop at the end of this month - and you can have a listen to the whole thing and see what we have to say about it after the jump.
Sexy little video for Mosca - Eva Mendes, which is being prepped for release in early May on Hypercolour.
