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36 – 105.5 Wacky Fm

I’m biased of course I as pretty much love everything that 36 does, but I do think that even among a discography of almost pathological prolificness and quality, his latest album stands out as one of his very best.

Hardcore, Static: Pirate Transmissions From The North Of England, 1990-1994 is Dennis’s celebration of a unique period in the UK’s musical history, when primitive pirate stations run by enthusiastic kids delivered a continuous stream of experimental sounds to Bradford, Leeds, and the surrounding towns of West Yorkshire. Spread across four expansive tracks blending fragments of ambient, drone, jungle, uk hardcore and peppered with the spectral voices of long forgotten pirate DJs, the result is utterly compelling.

https://auxiliary.bandcamp.com/album/hardcore-static-pirate-transmissions-from-the-north-of-england-1990-1994

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Xylitol – Chromophoria

Xylitol aka producer and DJ Catherine Backhouse shifts up the refinement and musical breadth for her second album Blumenfantasie, which landed earlier this month on Planet Mu. Blumenfantasie draws heavily on the work of Sarajevo-born minimal synth composer Miaux, whom she recognises as “a kindred spirit in terms of her directness and melancholy, as well as her lightness of touch”, rolling through immersive jungle workouts with the occasional dip into beatless ambience.

https://xylitol.bandcamp.com/album/blumenfantasie

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Tim Reaper, Mantra & Decibella – Sage

After their first outing on Future Retro London, Tim Reaper, Mantra & Decibella return with Sage EP for FABRICLIVE. Across four tracks they balance toughness and detail. Stand-out Sage Sage drifts between dreamlike textures and hammering drums, deftly flipping between amens and four-to-the-floor.

https://timreaper.bandcamp.com/album/sage-ep

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747 – Sea To Sky

First Floor‘s Shawn Reynaldo described Canadian producer 747’s new LP Pacific Spirit as “if Tin Man made a jungle record”, and that’s pretty much all you need to know. Where his past work etched itself in acid techno, Pacific Spirit blooms with expansive, saturated colours and wears its vulnerable, optimistic heart very much on its sleeve.

https://aquaregiarec.bandcamp.com/album/pacific-spirit

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Maiya Blaney – And

Maiya Blaney describes her second album A Room With A Door That Closes as “a love letter to her blue,” an emotional state that she defines as “a kinetic, intense, and dark energy that needs to be expressed as soon as it is felt.” The eleven songs on the album span radioactive kiss offs, sorrowful meditations on yearning, and gossamer reveries about self image, with the stand-out And moving through pitch-shifted drone, majestic strings and soft guitar over the course of its 6+ minutes.

https://maiyablaney.bandcamp.com/album/a-room-with-a-door-that-closes

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Mia Koden – Inna Fear

Earlier this year, London-based Mia Koden put together a mix of unreleased material and let people vote what three tracks should be on her new EP 34U, which landed last month. Expect moody dubs and junglist movements with Inna Fear the clear standout.

https://miakoden.bandcamp.com/album/34u

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Nathan Fake – Bibled

Last week we had the creator of one of the all-time great remixes, and today we have the man he remixed, proving that they are completely incapable of doing anything too far away from one another. Taken from his new album Crystal Vision, Bibled is glorious, soaring, soft-focus breaks that Mixmag would doubtless describe as “tailor-made for the afters”.

https://nathanfake.com/album/crystal-vision

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µ-Ziq – Uncle Daddy

Just listen to those sad chords! Makes me want to cry, in a good way, obviously. This is taken from Planet Mu founder Mike Paradinas’s new album under his µ-Ziq monkier which came out last week. Jungle meets ambient meets hardcore in the prettiest way imaginable.

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com

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Ike – Inter

Well isn’t this a jaunty little slice of future junglism?

https://dieorakel.bandcamp.com/album/stone-diviner

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TWEAKS – Fusion Frenzy

The latest single from Jamaican-American artist TWEAKS is named after a series of parties they hosted over the summer, beginning with their debut Boiler Room appearance in Los Angeles. It’s hard-hitting but also haunting, its jungle rhythms and rave-evoking stabs countered by haunting synths and eerie vocals that lend it a more contemplative atmosphere than at first appears.

https://www.instagram.com/fka_tweaks