SPOTLIGHT: Silent Witness

We spoke with the one they call Silent Witness after featuring in Symmetry’s latest various artists LP, The Other Side.

Greetings Silent Witness. You’ve been affiliated with Ant TC1’s Dispatch Recordings for quite some time now… How has the … Read More

UE.9: thomas tms

Give it a few years and Thomas ‘tms’ Midgley will be a name on everybody’s lips. The Yorkshire born-and-bred beatsmith is currently one of the North’s best kept musical secrets. A record collector, producer and DJ known for the wizardry … Read More

SPOTLIGHT: Ruffhouse

Ahead of their back to back releases on Alignment and Ingredients, we caught up with Bristol’s latest fire collective in the form of Pessimist, Vega & Cooper… a.k.a. Ruffhouse.

Pessimist, Vega, Cooper… Tell us a little about yourselves. How did the Bristol connect … Read More

UE.8: Monika

Next up in our mix series is Maxwell Guise aka Monika, an exciting young producer of ambient 170bpm soundscapes that have had us beguiled ever since we first encountered them. We got Max in for a quick chat to find … Read More

Mindmapper & June Miller – Gaia EP

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The Netherlands’ very own Break-Fast Audio are fast becoming pioneers of a considered, musical simplicity, comfortable with immediate menace and subtle expanse alike. We’ve also been used to dealing with the double-edged sword that is June Miller, who in turn exhibit excellence in … Read More

SPOTLIGHT: Cuelock [Blueberry Musik]

Blueberry Musik’s head honcho Cuelock speaks to Urban Essence regarding production ethic and label ownership, and fills us in on this week’s release of the Audio Solution compilation LP featuring some of the finest cuts from minimal cadets Es.tereo, Dominic Ridgway, Marukomu and more.

We’re … Read More

Keosz – Incomer EP

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Offworld’s catalogue of kaleidoscopic, soundscape beats reads like a who’s-who of this decade’s foremost champions of the post-Autonomic minimal: label boss LM1, Method One, Oscillist, and Seathasky to name a few being regular contributors as champions of  off-centre liquid dissection. And as has been the case … Read More

Silent Dust – Population, Me Ft. Selfsays / Martyrs

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A few weeks ago we were met with the tantalising news that Silent Dust were re-emerging with the fourth instalment of None60, and what an exciting return it has turned out to be. We’re still reeling from their sublime self-titled debut LP: an … Read More

Fis – Duckdive EP

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We’ve been supporting Samurai’s vinyl-only offshoot Horo since the early days of HORO001 back in December and now, moving into the murky depths of Summer’s end, the sub-label has firmly established itself as a standalone bastion of intelligent creativity, perhaps even surpassing … Read More

UE.7: Dexta [Diffrent Music]

“Great minds don’t think alike. They think Diffrent.”

Diffrent Music is a d&b label that lives by the ethos of its name. Formed as the brainchild of two like-minded, London-based DJ-Producers (Hunchback and Dexta) back in early 2010, Diffrent has … Read More