PLACID ANGLES – 056 (THE LOTUS)

Posted on 2022-07-18

Detroit techno legend John Beltran dusts off his Placid Angels alias once again for a moody and genre-agnostic EP entitled 056 (The Lotus). Beltran’s debut on AD 93, 056 sees him use the always electric Placid Angels project to explore some contemporary sounds somewhat outside his usual frame with a potent curiosity. The neon synths, washed-out vocals, and peppy breaks of ‘Stormy Angel’ scan close to hyperpop alongside its running mate, the soaring hyperactive electronica cut ‘Moonlight Sunset’.

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MALL GRAB – PATIENCE FEAT. NIA ARCHIVES

Posted on 2022-07-18

2022 heralds a new era for Mall Grab with his debut album where he shows absolutely no signs of slowing down. Mall Grab made waves in the 2010s with his energetic DJ sets for the likes of Boiler Room and Rinse FM, and an overflowing wealth of singles and EPs that haven’t stopped coming since 2015.

What I Breathe is a personal, polished, and versatile debut, exploring “all influences, sounds and sides” of Mall Grab’s many excursions. With several tracks previously teased in live sets and mixes. The album centres on variety, progressing like a DJ set that starts in a sunlit grassy field with daytime festival energy and morphs into an explosive underground party. Mall Grab presents a grab bag of refreshing and adventurous dance tracks, ranging from uplifting house and techno to fiery drum and bass bangers to introspective electronica and a host of guest appearances taking his work into entirely new directions.

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ORBITAL – 30 (SOMETHING)

Posted on 2022-07-18

While the global lockdown kept UK rave gods Orbital off the road for their actual 30th anniversary, the time spent in quarantine proved to be inspirational for the long-running duo. Always a forward thinking project, Orbital schemed a way to connect their past with the future of electronic music by handing over stems from some of their most beloved tracks to a slew of producers currently at the cutting edge of dance. Compiled alongside reworks, edits, and remixes by Orbital themselves culled from the live show that never occurred, Logic1000, Shanti Celeste, John Tejada and others put their own spin on some certified rave classics. The results are otherworldly, as to be expected.

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K-LONE – SQUELCH

Posted on 2022-07-11

4 years after his last solo record on his Wych imprint “BB-8 / Barbarossa”, K-LONE returns for another 2 track EP of bleepy melodic 140, this time reminiscent of Bristolian Purple dubstep aesthetic. Saw waves, cheesy 80s chords and flute melodies continue the signature sound of Wych with “Squelch / With Luv”. Mastered by Beau at Ten Eight Seven. Artwork by Annie Foyster.

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DGOHN – UNDESIGNATED REMIXES

Posted on 2022-07-11

UK drum and bass producer dgoHn’s 2020 debut LP Undesignated Proximate was a certified smash, with tracks that perfectly filled the gap between cerebral sound design trickery and break-induced mania. Love Love Records was wise then to have gathered up remixes of each Undesignated track from their extended family for this loving companion package. With redos that range from blissed out dub to furious hardcore, Undesignated Remixes works like a defacto survey of everything cool in contemporary underground dance. While big names like Coco Bryce, Forest Drive West, and Skee Mask deliver with ease, it’s Scrase’s warehouse-ready take on ‘Conty’ that really hits the mark.

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INKIPAK – TEMPORAL FLUX

Posted on 2022-07-11

Distant Worlds continues its sonic missionary into 2022, going to places Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can barely dream about. Captaining the ship for this voyage is the inimitable Inkipak, a true renaissance man for the ages. Steeped in the 90s aesthetic, his palette of sound branches together everything that made the golden era so special. Across 4 tracks of interstellar wonder and emotion, elements of acid intermingle with deep bass, killer breaks, beats and ghosts of IDM wizardry.

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