Disorder Bass / Club

F.A.G.

Were stoked to welcome a new face to the imprint. For our next release, we invite the young Bristol based producer GLM who delivers a well rounded club centric record across various BPMs.

More Time Records Bass / Club

NAAFI Bass / Club

Renraku

GD4YA

Gutterfunk Bass / Club

Well Street Records Bass / Club

Entering NHS territories we have SHALT of London origin, Berlin-based, manager of his own fresh imprint REMADE and whose works have featured alongside Atrice; duo who have contributed to the NHS universe previously with their Accumulation Zone EP. His offering and debut on the Label is a blistering set of transmogrified aspects of electro, techno, UK Funky and leftfield, UK-oriented bass into abrasive, molten-like tracks that play on the fault line of mechanical and natural through rigid, tight rhythm and granular, time stretched and downright sinister sonics. Our artist reflects on the EPs title Mistral, its namesake being reference to a wind path that runs through Southern Europe, acting as a folkloric and simultaneously scientific form of purification for the terrain that it flows through. The aural quality of the release, a pairing of rigidity and organic flowing freedom, is personified acutely through this with clear intention; audio sweeps and rumbles steadily, shifting into flutters and jitters, much like the haphazard elegancy of wind as it moves where it likes. Equally, this sense of science and modernity that is evident through the use of digital technology is inadvertently juxtaposed against the ancient forms of geological understanding evident through folklore and druidry; SHALT feels they have used this as a means to invite the diminishing world of the ancients to cavort with the new world.

Pineapple Records (UK)

Shogun Artist Services Bass / Club

Time Is Now Records Bass / Club

Once, Ilya Gadaev, RLGN, and ANY ACT gathered in a bear den to watch Starship Troopers and try to create some dubstep under a straight kick. In the end, they ended up with a new order of bass house/bass techno. There are nods to uk funky here, bass there, midtempo and jungle terror somewhere else, and clearly mutant techno in certain parts. Its functional stuff. Similar things are being done, but not as often. Conformist resources would simply call it techno now. Its modern stuff about the here and now. Its already been tested on the dance floors.

Lapsus

Typeless Records Bass / Club

RAM Records Bass / Club

Dekmantel Ten is a mirror of Dekmantel Festival. The 7x12 boxset includes seven records that mirror the seven stages to be found at the 2024 event, their 10th edition since 2013. The tracklisting isnt rigid some of the musicians gathered here have in fact played at most of the available stages but like a Mobius strip looping round, or a cat-and-mouse game, its not hard to discern a symbiotic relationship. Split seven ways, DKMNTL100 is a testament to the art of curation and the importance of quality control. At artist level, Dekmantel Ten finds room for several artists including Karenn, Jeff Mills and Marcel Dettmann who played at the very first Dekmantel Festival in 2013, and are by now impossible to detach. The Loops disc contains names whose stories have dovetailed alongside the festival, concluding in memorable headline moments: Young Marco, Palms Trax and Alchemical Sisters, aka Eris Drew and Octo Octa. Widen the lens and youll find history from across the landscape: the laboratories of professorial techno (Dasha Rush, Steve Rachmad, DJ Nobu) and gilded halls of house (Steffi, Luca Lozano, Bufiman); varied soundsystem icons (Kode9, Adrian Sherwood, DVS1) meeting limelights of contemporary Amsterdam (upsammy, Identified Patient, Zohar); as well as the modern conduits channelling decades of outernational vibrations (Nick Leon, BADSISTA, Animistic Beliefs, Veracco and a great many more). All 44 artists presenting exclusive material are indispensable into the Dekmantel story to date, and no doubt make up future developments over the horizon. That goes for the areas, too: Because while the seven stages found at Dekmantel Festival are individually resonant enough that they could become splinter festivals in their own right, its that union which lends the core festival its strength.

Hassan Abou Alam is next to step up to the unconventional Nerve Collect label with six tracks of futuristic club-ready chaos. The finely crafted EP arrives in August and comes on 12 vinyl and via all digital platforms. Hassan Abou Alam has established himself as one of Egypts most innovative underground musicians over the last 10+ years. His music is a meeting of disparate worlds - organic and synthetic designs, digital and analogue tools, the traditional and the futuristic, and it has come on the likes of YUKU, Rhythm Section, Banoffee Pies and Casa Voyager. His versatile sound pulls apart existing genres and reconstructs them as something entirely new. Opener 3asabi is a stylish sonic assault with thumping rhythms and trippy oscillations that will get any dance floor bouncing. Its fun yet functional, serious yet seductive and Basha Ft. ZIAD ZAZA, Ismail Nosrat & Aly B is another kinetic fusion of hand claps and complex drum funk, Egyptian vocal gymnastics and punchy bass. Ghalat has lurching drums and plunging bass driving on beneath mangled synths, odd vocalisations and percussive splatters drawn from a unique sound palette. The drilling low ends of Khalsana Ft ZIAD ZAZA are offset by fluttering percussive details up top while spare but booming kicks shake every bone in your body and the bassline devastates. There is no let up on Mesh Mafhoom which is a ritualistic workout with moments of melancholic synth soul shining through the jumble of tin-pot percussion and crashing hits. Closer Zein is more body-popping brilliance that channels ancient spirits into warped synths and rhythms so complex they melt the mind. Hassan Abou Alams blurring of the lines between the real and the imagined is second to none on this EP. Its a sub-heavy mix of the human voice, machine-made sounds and inventive rhythms that make for something new, weird and wonderful.

RAM Records Bass / Club