Tehbis : Luckdaw EP [GRV004]

“Following releases from LA’s Depakote, Manchester’s Kuartz and the well-received Groovement // Volume One compilation featuring a plethora of beatmakers, LabelGroovement is extremely proud to present music from Tehbis as our fourth digital release.

London-based Tristan Williams, aka Tehbis, first came to wider attention with the inclusion of his track Higher on Kutmah’s 2012 Brownswood compilation, Worldwide Family Volume 2 – and Kutmah is a man of impeccable taste when it comes to beats. This led to Tehbis joining the big K on the much lauded Boiler Room twice: initially in April 2013 with Slugabed and Mo Kolours and again in June 2013 with fellow underground producers/DJs Esgar, Jo Def and Tim Parker. To top this off, in September FACT magazine named him as one of ten breaking producers to watch in 2014.

The Luckdaw EP (for in this day and age, 3 tracks doth indeed constitute an EP) sees Tehbis in full on stomper mode, with a little introspection thrown in for good measure. Opener Deww straight up slaps you in the face with a variety of sonic implements in its brief two minutes. With Saturday Cartoons Tehbis teams up with the don Kidkanevil to deliver a collaborative magic carpet ride smacker, while closer Bristol Way quickly builds up into a ridiculous riff that should mash up the club / living room with ease. All tracks are layered with Tehbis’ trademark offworld chords and carefully-unfettered drum snaps, with just a hint of sublime vocals to ground the sounds.”

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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 16 Oct 2013
Style: Hip Hop, Broken Beat

Various Artists: New Website Compilation [Tru Thoughts]

“To celebrate the launch of the new Tru Thoughts website, we’ve put together a 15 track compilation featuring some of our favourite tracks we’ve released feat. Bonobo // Alice Russell // Kinny // Quantic // Hidden Orchestra // Anchorsong // Zed Bias // Wrongtom + more.”

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Format: 15 x File, Compilation, MP3/320 kbps
Released: 4 Oct 2013
Style: Funk, Soul, Trip Hop, Jazz, Minimal, Dubstep, Raggea, Downtempo

Sin Amigos : Monoroestono EP [micromod]

“Marco and André from Mexico give us a very special experimental techno, special remixes by Quazee and Alexender Nedelenko!”

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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 1 Oct 2013
Style: Tech House, Minimal, Experimental

Matt & Mark Thibideau : Modular [Obsolete Components]

“Our concept for this project was simply to produce fluid analog mixes completely in a realtime environment where modular step sequencers would trigger off many sounds that were all crafted by cross patching a eurorack modular synthesizer together with the Arp 2600, Roland System 100m, and Oberheim SEM. A few poly synths were also used but also triggered and filtered from the step sequencers. There was no Midi used to make this music. The mixing stage of this project was a hands on experience with no automation or multitracking involved.”

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Format: 12 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 16 Sep 2013
Style: Dub Techno, Deep House, Tech House, Ambient

Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens : Los Angeles Mescal Buttons [WR044]

“The setting is Los Angeles, the scene is a dusty abandoned street, sometime during a sweltering hot summer in the mid-1980’s. Morriconez, appearing in this title using the clever FBI-dodging moniker Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens, exits a baby blue Dodge Charger wearing a silver-studded brown leather jacket, bell bottom Levis and some blood-spattered cowboy boots. He stamps out a cigarette and removes his pilot shades. Five o’clock shadow defines a chiseled scar-covered jaw. Wasting no time, he pops the trunk and removes a black guitar case with a single letter, M, emblazoned in the center. A vague hum appears behind him, followed by a visible cloud of dust. Along the wavering horizon line, a black helicopter emerges and steadily draws closer to our debonair hero. He unfastens the three clasps on the guitar case, gently and seductively opening it to reveal not a guitar, but a rocket launcher. The camera zooms in fast on the helicopter pilot’s face, ripe with silent terror as he faces the Morriconez surprise assault. Our man pulls the trigger, instantly reducing the minigun-fronted copter to an epic explosion of metal and burning human remains. Throwing the spent launcher to the dirt, he reaches inside his jacket, pulls out a smoke, lights it, and puts his shades back on. Before he can get back into the car, the passenger door opens and a buxom girl wearing a tight red dress appears. ‘Honey, you said you were just stopping to say hello to an old friend?’ she asks. Morriconez saltily replies ‘No, I had to say goodbye. Get back in the car.’ With that, she rolls her mascara-covered eyes and our hero speeds off into the lopsided Los Angeles sunset, leaving a trail of tire tracks and droning guitars in his wake.”

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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 6 Sep 2013
Style: Psychedelic Rock

Koré : Transacids [BC23]

Koré debuts at Recycled Plastics with a fantastic EP of rubbery organic electronics, perfect for putting the ‘plastic’ in RP! Transacids subjects drum machines and synths to a real Acid Summer workout, complete with crisp 808s punching holes in your ears and weirdo acid lines that float and settle over bass notes that have clearly been staying up too late. Koré has a very unique sound that would appeal to all of you braindance maniacs out there, so take it from us – this is some of the freshest acid fried electro zoning we’ve heard in a long time. Additionally, the good news is that Koré will be following Transacids with a full-length cassette at the loveable WR label in Portland soon. Keep your eyes and ears peeled!”

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Format: 9 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 20 Aug 2013
Style: Acid, Electro

Overcast Sound Feat. Jenny Mayhem : Settle [WR043]

Overcast Sound make an impressive debut at WR with Settle, a new single featuring the sultry vocal talents of Jenny Mayhem, backed by five deep remixes from Chord, Liquid Transmitter, OVC, Giriu Dvasios and Coppice Halifax. With an already superb back catalog of releases at labels around the world (Entropy, Silent Season, Basic_Sounds and ROHS!, just to name a few) it comes as no surprise at all that Overcast Sound still have new territories to explore. Settle is less of the deep techno OS is known for, and more smoky downtempo with a distinct trip-hop influence, casting a dark, slow shadow over the room, leaving only subdued hints of cool blue chords and electric green bass visible in the haze. The remixes rewrite, rebuild and reduce Settle in ways one might not expect. Chord configures it into a minimal house groove, the vocals a distant memory of the original. Giriu Dvasios treats it with punctuated dub stabs and a deep soundfield, offering a different viewing angle on Jenny Mayhem’s vocal nuances. Liquid Transmitter completely obliterates it into a wash of echoes and ebbing synth tides, with certain recognizable elements occasionally burbling through to the surface. OVC’s version bounces with the chilly urgency of a late night drive through an abandoned city, and Mayhem’s vocals provide a human counterpoint to the minimal escape. Coppice Halifax distills Settle into a Rhythm & Sound-influenced reggae dub smoke-out, dissecting the vocals and recycling them as melodic percussion over a low and slow black coffee meditation. Following this expansive single is a full-length album, All We Know Fades, which is sure to deliver even more tantalizing audio forms from the talented Overcast Sound.”

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Format: 6 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 22 Aug 2013
Style: Dub Techno, Ambient

Agent J : Groovement – Volume One

Groovement // Volume One compiles music from some of the best underground beatmakers in the UK (and a few raps too), plus contributions from Santiago de Chile, California and Toronto. Compiled by Groovement’s Agent J (aka Jamie Groovement) and released as a free download on the fledgling LabelGroovement, it’s the first in an ongoing series.

Groovement is a website incorporating podcasts and interviews plus links to brand new music from independent artists. Past contributors to the Groovement podcast include the likes of Daedelus, Fingathing, Kutmah, Hoya Hoya and Scrimshire, plus Agent J has interviewed everyone from Ghostface Killah, Chali 2na and Angie Stone to Sharon Jones, Cody Chesnutt and Lee Fields for the site. Have a dig.”

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Format: 22 x File, Compilation, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 1 Aug 2013
Style: Hip Hop

Andrea Porcu : We Will Live Again [​.​ROHS​!​02RAW​:​NET]

“The ‘RAW:NET’ release series is back again!”

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Format: 4 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 14 Aug 2013
Style: Dub Techno, Ambient

Deef : Moist Autobiography [FSCC004]

“So this time our free gold series is represented by Dimitrij Deef from Vienna (BTW originally from Russia). This is a real trippy shroom-melt pack of glitchy ambient, wisely manipulated noises, multy-layered patterns and so on – all to reach one of those high states of sonic delight. We’d say it’s just a “hacked silence”. So 5 real psychedelic and out-of-this-world tunes to continue the summer hole. Cover made by Deef himself and yes it perfectly shows what’s going on there in this humble ‘Autobiography’. And what’s more this time we drop it in 24 bits for all those who want to capture all the tiny details of which ‘Moist Autobiography’ is toughly loaded. Keep it zen.”

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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 29 Jul 2013
Style: Abstract, IDM, Techno, Rhythmic Noise