Jason Laidback returns with a glorious ode to the ravin’ days ‘Namechecka!’ which indeed through the means of a great vocal runs down a list of oldskool classics and even integrates little snatches of them into the tune itself. Coming in two huge breaks/garage version, one from the legend Leeroy Thornhill and one by Jason himself, we LOVE this!!!!

Buy: http://bit.ly/247sCp6

Jason Laidback Ft Simm- Namechecka! [Nightprowl]

This track represents a milestone in the history of Unique2Rhythm the label and sees a welcome return with new remixes by Lamont Dex who gives the original a smooth 2 step garage rerub that fuses the best of the old and the new of UK Garage. OskiDJ gives ‘Temperature Rising’ his funky reinterpretation and a marvelous one at that.

As much as we love these new versions, it’s the original featuring the vocals of Sheree Hicks that rocks our world. Its the combination of those rich soulful sounds and the wonderful vocals that has our temperatures rising. If you ever wanted proff that house in the modern era can be every bit as good as it was back then, this is it, amazing!!!

Click here to buy ‘Temperature Rising’

Unique2Rhythm- Temperature Rising [Unique2Rhythm-]

We’re big fans here at LSM of London based producer, Ettica. He makes the kind of House music that gives you that fuzzy feeling inside and makes you wistfully drift away to party times held in  sunlit spots, where many of your friends are out to play and the rest of the crowd are there for good times only. His new Tech House track ‘Moving Shapes’ embodies those words perfectly and with a hint of Donna Summer‘s ‘I Feel Love’ about it, it’s got some serious groove goin’ on! With the weekend just around the corner, this needs to be added to your party playlists.

Download ‘Moving Shapes’ here via Hypeddit.

Links for Ettica :

Soundcloud / Facebook / Beatport / Death Proof Recordings

Out now as part of Simma Blacks’ Ibiza 2016 compilation. Vanilla Ace & The Squatters drop the bass on us with ‘Bump Uglies’, a BIG bass house track equal parts melodic synths and slammin’ basslines and one of many great reasons to pick up the compilation

Click here to buy Vanilla Ace & The Squatters – Bump Uglies

Vanilla Ace & The Squatters – Bump Uglies

You can’t deny the fact that Shimi Sonic is a dude that thrives on Funk and he’s back on the ward with his jazzy little number ‘As Oppose To’. Horn stabs kick the track off which adds an instant brightness and are soon followed by the smokey beats and versatile vocal of, Talisman, who takes her vocal from sensual to feisty and back again, with total ease. It’s a great, late afternoon listen, so get involved and feel that Funk.

Download ‘As Oppose To’ here via The Artist Union.

Links for Shimi Sonic :

Soundcloud / Facebook

Monoman Ft Aimee Montague ‘More Than You Know’ a great love song wrapped in warm textures of chilled future bass. It comes with lovely remixes too. Lush late night mellow house vibes from Tom Luka and relaxing deep tech house from Ulex

Streaming Links below, click the ‘buy’ button in the soundcloud player to purchase a copy

Monoman Ft Aimee Montague- More Than You Know [Horizon Recordings]

Each 1500 sales of ‘Beating Heart – Malawi’ will mean the sustainable provision of food for a school of 500 children forever ‘An archive of original African music, the International Library of African Music (ILAM), has been made available for the first time ever to be remixed and released by current music artists. Special permission to access the archive was given to Beating Heart as money raised will go directly to help communities where the music was originally recorded’

From the people that brought you critically acclaimed label Black Butter comes a new project ‘Beating Heart’. For release No1 ‘Malawi’ a group of top artists rework field recordings by the ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey (1903-1977) who made 35,000 recordings across Africa between the 1920s & 70s.

Click here to pre order the album

Featured on this compilation are a broad range of musical luminaries such as Luke Vibert, Rudimental, With You and Jimi Needles to name just a few. The music is just as diverse and high quality as this incredible talent roster suggests and sales for every 1500 copies will go towards supporting the Love Support Unite Foundation in rolling out the ‘Garden to Mouth’ (G2M) food initiative that will introduce nutrition to schools in Malawi through the use of an “outside classroom” – linking garden, food, nutrition and education.

The G2M food initiative will:

• Sustainably feed students that attend the schools through organic irrigated gardens.

• Educate students with practical knowledge giving them the tools to be in charge of their own food security.

• Generate income, through sales of crops at local markets, that will be re-invested back into expanding the Gardens.

Further information on ‘G2M’ is available at www.beating-heart.co.uk

The ongoing Beating Heart strategy will make available the world’s largest archive of African music – over 6 decades’ worth of recordings from 18 African nations.

Beating Heart – Malawi
Released: 3 Jun 2016

Beating Heart – Malawi (Originals) Recorded by Hugh Tracey
Released: 1 Aug 2016

VA- Malawi [Beating Heart]

NexGen are doing an awesome competition where people submit their music and to win $250 and a release on the label. We caught with Dan, owner of NexGen for a chat about the label, read on for details of how you can enter the competition and what you can win…………

Hey Dan, can you tell us a little about how NexGen music started and how its progressed?

Well, like most aspiring DJ/producers it all started in my bedroom studio back in ’95. My underground musical influences started in early Dance, Rave, Hardcore, Breakbeat, and later Jungle/Drum & Bass, which when I started producing.

I first started dabbling with music management when I set up a mini-audio production company on a local college campus in London, where I went on to be quite successful at producing TV commercial/advertising jingles for a few recognized British brands. One jingle I produced in 1997 ending up being used by the #1 washing detergent company in the UK at that time, which ended up running for nearly 8 years!!

In the late 90’s I really started getting into the new sounds of Downtempo and Deep/Chill-House which essentially inspired me to expand the audio production company into a record label that would eventually include the wide array of style and genres that NexGen Music represents today. In 2001, I re-branded the audio production company to NexGen Music, and in 2003 I moved the company across the pond to Brooklyn, NY where I officially incorporated as a record label in 2004.

It’s now been 13 years since that happened, and I have to say today the label is stronger than ever musically. We have 3 labels under NexGen: NexGen Records, Migration Recordings, and Affectionate Grooves – which all have and serve very different and distinct sounds in underground music. We are still very much doing projects closer to our roots in film, TV, and interactive, however our focus today is very much on evolving our artists, brand, and blend of sound.
Who are the core artists on the label that people should look out for?

I would say our “core” artists today are Earth Leakage Trip, Rob Sparx, Kachina, Neveready, Wigz, and myself — representing all three of our imprints.
You have released some massive EP’s in the last 6 months from the likes of Digital, Rob Sparx & Kachina across the label group. There is obviously a strong focus on quality. What are you looking for in the competition entries?

I’m REALLY looking for music that pushes the boundaries of sound… And, I’m not talking in a “who can make the gnarliest bass” type of way. Today, underground music genres are so intricately divided — yet still very connected — that for me the platform of these genre are really just defined by the tempo. What I hear all day long in most new music is producers that are simply following the ‘blueprint’ of the genre in terms of its typical sounds, samples and arrangement. I’m looking for producers that are striving to create NEW blueprints. So, in other words we are seeking music that is out-of-the-box, non-formulaic, envelope pushing, but yet still groovy and melodic.
How do people enter the competition?

It’s super simple. We are looking for 3 to 4 original tracks in one of the following genres: Drum & Bass, UK Garage, Bass Music, and Downtempo. All we are asking from entrants is a follow on our Soundcloud.

What can the entrants win?

The lucky winners will have their release backed by a strong PR and social media campaign, and also receive $250 in cash! On top of this, the submission that we are feeling the MOST out the four winners will receive an extra $250 cash. The total package is worth a couple of of thousand dollars per entrant as well as place on our growing roster!

Finally, what does the next 12 months look like for NexGen Music?

Its an understatement to say that we have got so much good music lined up its ridiculous. I mean it really is. Even though we’ve been around for a while now our sound never stops evolving. We’re always challenging each other to push those boundaries that I was referring to earlier, so we still consider ourselves in “build” mode right now and through to around this time 2017. By the summer of 2017 we will be looking to take the labels on the road making some festival appearances and getting some tours going by locally in the US & UK, and internationally.

Soundcloud W/Fangate:­ ­

Competition Links­ ­https://www.nexgenmusicgroup.com/new-arti­st-competition-june-2016

T&C’s:­ ­https://www.nexgenmusicgroup.com/new-arti­st-competition-terms-conditions ­

YouTube Video:­ ­https://youtu.be/BfRyGZKfA4w

NexGen Music Competition

Russian outfit, ALL OUT, are here to prove that the sound of Big Beat is on the march towards our sound-systems once again and to be honest, why the hell not!? It may have got some bad press back in the day, but as far as we’re concerned, we bloody love it! Nothing quite beats the raw, raucous, acid tinged sound Big Beat provides and thanks to ALL OUT, we now have 12 more superbly crafted monsters to go absolutely wild too! The album is only $7 from Bandcamp and as we’ve said before, at any exchange rate, you’re definitely getting plenty of bang for your bucks!

Buy ‘Psycho Breaks’ here via Bandcamp.

Links for ALL OUT :

Soundcloud / Website / Bandcamp / YouTube / Twitter / Instagram

Throughout the month of May, Phibes have been dropping D n B bombs! One a week in fact as they get themselves and us warmed up the summer of festival action ahead. If you’re lucky enough to catch them playing in field somewhere in the UK this year, you’re bound to catch these four remixes of theirs and there will be doubts that when you do, you and the rest of the crowd will be bouncing around because of the energy, singing along because of the familiarity of the originals chosen to be remixed and feeling like you’re having the best time ever because the tunes are that damn good! Total party starters, the lot of em!

Download ‘Good Luck’ here via Hypeddit.

Download ‘No Diggity’ here via Hypeddit.

Download ‘Paper Planes’ here via Hypeddit.

Download ‘Lean Back’ here via Hypeddit.

Links for Phibes :

Soundcloud / Phibes D n B / Facebook / Beatport / YouTube / Twitter