Sepalcure - Love Pressure Remixed

If the orginal wasn't enough, check out this ludicrously good remix package of the duo's debut Hot Flush EP.

Since Sepalcure’s debut EP, Love Pressure dropped last summer, the New York based act otherwise known as Travis Stewart (Machinedrum) and Praveen Sharma (Braille) have made a lasting impression on the electronic sphere over the last year with unforgettable live performances across the USA and Europe, as well as a stunning follow-up EP, Fleur. Their unique chemistry as a duo is undeniable and has resulted in a soulful, emotive, and energetic style that is entirely their own.

On this remix EP, five of the USA’s most exciting dance music producers of late have offered their unique takes on the original tracks, all bringing their own signature elements into the fore: XI (Orca, Toronto), FaltyDL (Planet Mu, New York), Jimmy Edgar (!K7, Detroit), Daedelus (Ninja Tune, Los Angeles), and recent Hotflush signing Lando Kal (Lazer Sword, Berlin via San Francisco).

Buy: Hot Flush Store

Sepalcure - Love Pressure Remixed [HFRMX008] by Hotflush

Rustie - Glass Swords LP

It is upon us.

After taking shape in the studio over the course of the past two years, ‘Glass Swords’ arrives, and as the otherworldly landscape of the album artwork suggests, it is epic and alien.

Watch a short video clip for album opener and title track 'Glass Swords' below - if anything, this should keep you guessing.



Glasgow’s talent pool clearly runs deep, and if the city’s last few years of genre-busting electronic music have made anything remotely clear it’s that Rustie is one of the deep-fried kingdom’s crown jewels. Emerging with the rest of the multi-talented Numbers crew, and with only a handful of laser-guided releases to his name, his presence far outreaches his focused, evolving discography. Rightly mentioned in the same breath with many of the most innovative producers in the world, astute Pitchfork scribe Martin Clarke once described Rustie’s music “like a metaphor for living in intense digital excess” – something everyone should be able to relate to.

As is often the case, this digital excess also mirrors the excesses of the physical world, and so Rustie time travels for the cocaine-addled synthesizer washes and searing guitar tones of 1980’s pop, the cash-infused bombast of new-millennium R&B, the pit-of-your-stomach ecstasy high of the most classic rave memories and the bloodshot scowl of white-hot pirate radio broadcasts. In 2007, with a new generation of irreverent producers and artists seemingly simultaneously uploading their music to MySpace, Rustie’s ‘Jagz The Smack’ EP was a miniature revelation. In a swift five tracks, it managed to not only synthesize the tone of mid-decade electronic music, but also provided a danceable prediction for much of what would soon be called “UK bass music” (not to mention many other, far less eloquent, names).

It would take three more years to move through a string of now classic 12”s like ‘Zig-Zag’, ‘Bad Science’ and ‘Play Doe/Tempered’, his collaboration with Bristol’s mighty Joker. This unfettered run was capped by a string of essential remixes (or “Resmacks” in the parlance of Rustie) for the likes of Jamie Lidell, Kelis, The Big Pink and Nicki Minaj, leading into his debut EP for Warp, ‘Sunburst’. In another breathless five-track flash, ‘Sunburst’ amalgamated Rustie’s love for obscure Japanese prog-rock, 16-bit video game sonics and icy grime and Detroit techno heft into a fleeting vision of the future of rave music. Snare rolls ricocheted, synths undulated in hypercolor hues and the bass bubbled over, the stage was set.

Keep a keen eye out on and 'Like' Rustie's Facebook Page to keep up with music as we release it.

Rustie - Glass Swords
WARP217 - Double 12inch, CD & Download

01 - Glass Swords
02 - Flash Back
03 - Surph
04 - Hover Traps
05 - City Star
06 - Globes
07 - Ultra Thizz
08 - Death Mountain
09 - Cry Flames
10 - After Light
11 - Ice Tunnels
12 - All Nite
13 - Crystal Echo

Released 10/11 October 2011
Preorder Glass Swords at Bleep

Addison Groove - Live @ Glastonbury

If you wern't at Glastonbury then check the below and pretend you were. If you were actually there in body as well as spirit, then watch and re-live the magic...







There's 8 vids in total, check the rest at Mr Groove's Youtube channel...

George FitzGerald - Silhouette EP [Aus Music]

George FitzGerald is a man very much on an upward trajectory, with his recent 12" EP on Will Saul's Aus Music imprint a surefire sign of his meteoric rise through the ranks of dance music. Featuring two original GF cuts as well as a John Roberts remix, it confidently demonstrates many sides to his sound and production prowess. Essential purchase!

Buy: Boomkat // Bleep

Silhouette / Reset [AUS1134] by George FitzGerald

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Real Scenes: Bristol

Keeping on the Bristolian flex for the moment as Resident Advisor have just released the first part of their new video series examining various geographical locations around the world and their music scene. This first film features without doubt one of the most creative and influential cities for electronic music the world has ever known, Bristol. While so much focus is given on our capital city London, Bristol has cultivated a glowing reputation as the second, almost spiritual, home of Jungle, Drum & Bass, Dubstep and more, and there's even an interesting and exciting UK House revival happening there right now. The list of the cities famous sons is as long as your arm with names like Roni Size, Krust, DJ Die, Pinch, Rob Smith (RSD) and Joker all firmly implanted into the public conciousness while up and comers like Julio Bashmore, Kowton, Kidkut, Arkist and more look like ensuring the city's legacy and reputation remains for some time to come. Being the forward thinking, cutting edge agency we are, Surefire have a healthy representation too with Appleblim, Peverelist, October and Headhunter/Addison Groove of course all playing an integral part in the city's rich musical culture. Sit back, relax and see what Bristol is all about...

Kuedo - Videowave EP

Kuedo's latest is out now on the mighty Planet Mu featuring remixes from artists such as Warp Records stalwart Chris Clark and Hoya Hoya's Illum Sphere amongst others. Get it in the bag.

"The 'Videowave EP' is an 'end of phase one' sign-off for Kuedo, a.k.a. Jamie Teasdale.

After two well received and brilliant EPs, this is almost an addendum before a change in style with his forthcoming album.

Here, we collect together the best of his remaining original tracks from the first phase together with remixes by friends of three tracks from his last EP 'Dream Sequence'.

‘Take Off Remix’ was originally conceived in 2009 as a remix of Slugabed, but it doesn’t have much of the original left in it, so Slugabed has kindly let him use it for his own track. It’s a cosmic attack of spiralling, flickering arpeggios and aerial synth lines over crashing half-step drums.

Illum Sphere remakes ‘Starfox’ by laying it out with warm orchestral strings and soft bleeps, making an incredibly inviting and gentle version.

Chris Clark from Warp takes ‘Glow’ and turns it into a weightless symphony with long spaces, held together with gas-like drones in complex arrangements.

‘Shutter Light Girl’ is remixed by Heterotic and bathed in the washed out, gently pulsing and bending synths of the kind you might find accompanying the suggestive cut-aways of an 80s soft porn VHS.

Lastly ‘Oh’ is a mini anthem that mixes boom bap drums and claps with a lush upbeat synth melody that walks the fine line between melodic and abstract, previewing the forthcoming material, but also signing-off on his original hip hop sound and finishing the EP in triumphant form."

Buy: Boomkat // Bleep