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Suzanne Kraft: DJ Safety Track
Be it through soothing atmospheric panoramas or tight-strapped floor-apt beats, the inch-perfect adroitness of Herrera in both the arrangement layering and textural carving will sure leave a memorable mark.
Jun Kamoda: The Clay EP
This is by no means a shy debut and Kamoda has clearly sought to embody the friendly, funky and hedonistic fervour of a Mister Saturday/Sunday party with three full on bangers all at peak time tempos.
Premiere: Distorted Portrait – Raw Culture
Smashing a rough-hewn 4/4 over acid-dipped gurgles and polychromatic synth ripples, Distorted Portrait’s ’Raw Culture’ entwines a sleazy basement vibe with a finely iridescent Chicagoan feel. Straight to the core.
Premiere: Prins Emanuel – Archibald Coteau
Speeding up the retro-futuristic autobahn at full-throttle, Prins Emanuel delivers a serious churning groover with ‘Archibald Coteau’. ‘River Pass By Three’ is released on May 12th via Moscow-based Isaiah Tapes.
Farr Festival x Inverted Audio: Into The Woods with Frits Wentink
Ahead of his performance at Farr Festival this summer, we invited Heist Recordings regular Frits Wentink to give us a taste of his current musical inclinations in this hour-long mix. Expect deep-cut grooves and low-slung soul.
Leon Vynehall: Rojus (Designed To Dance)
The new double 12″ from Leon Vynehall is not an album. Great pains have been gone to ensure this point is chipped into stone, right up to the bracketed ‘Designed To Dance’ subtitle, yet here is Vynehall, levitating like a zen master.
Premiere: Photonz – Parque Da Liberdade (The Phantom Remix)
Fresh off the release of the excellent ‘Lotus Wheel On My Orion’ on Ali Renault’s Vivod, London-based producer Photonz returns with ‘Corroios Royalty’ EP – an ode to the suburb of Lisbon in which Rodrigues grew up.
Premiere: Giorgio Luceri – Along Came Ra
The opening track, ‘Along Came Ra’ which we’re glad to bring you in full-stream today, is a soulful twist of cheerful jazzy tones that slowly increase their rhythm to stumble on off-kilter broken beats and chopped-up vocals sneaking in and around the melody.
Farr Festival x Inverted Audio: Into The Woods with Park Ranger
Trouble Vision’s resident deejay ‘Park Ranger’ interlaces a broad range of lo-fi house music in this podcast for Farr Festival featuring tracks from Lauer, D.K., Medler, Betonkust & Palmbomen II and Avalon Emerson. Enjoy the trip!
Globex: Inversia 1
Getting out in the light for the release and release only, this is how Acting Press operates – each offering being delivered as an autonomous piece, existing in and for itself whilst driven by the immediacy of the consecrated in-club experience. A silent process crowned with massive impact.
Luca Lozano + Mr. Ho: Visions Of Rhythm
Similar in essence to its ‘Dobb Meep’ and ‘Drip Box’ predecessors, this new three-tracker from the Klasse Recordings pair goes straight for the jugular, dishing out a playful shifting of spacious harmonics and skittish drumwork gone wild.
Premiere: Peggy Gou – When Round, They Go
Following Peggy Gou’s debut on Radio Slave’s Rekids imprint, we’re proud to premiere the second part of the ‘Art Of War’ EP with “When Round, They Go” offering a window into her world of deep and chunky grooves.
Luca Lozano
Klasse Recordings label owner Luca Lozano found a gap in his busy timetable and laid down a belter of a fiery club-focused mix for us. We took the chance to find out more about all label-related ideas and process, current mood and projects as well as his epic label designs and personal street art backdrop.
In Conversation: Found Festival 2016
Ahead of Found Festival at Brockwell Park on June 11th, we caught up with the team behind Found (Karl Fuller and Yas Galletti) to discover more about the challenges and programming behind running a festival in London.
D.K.: Island Of Dreams
Whilst a major part of the current retro-driven house and electronica sometimes feels like losing itself in vain convolutions, D.K.’s sound certainly offers a way finer rethink of the well-tried recipes he gets to toy with.