Menzi - Impazamo - 12-INCH SINGLE [12 inch Vinyl Single]

As a Londoner, Scratchclart has always embraced the city's melting pot of influences that seep into the city from around the globe. And just as Detroit techno and Chicago house fused with Jamaican dancehall to splinter rave into a spectrum of microgenres in the 1980s and '90s, African sounds - from Afrobeats to gqom - are currently reprogramming the DNA of British dance music, whether it's drill, grime or breakbeat. This conversation is evident on Scratchclart's visionary InchDRMTRKInch series of EPs, and solidified more readily on last year's InchAfrotekInch, where he collaborated with South African producer Mxshi Mo and Baltimore beatmaker 3LON. On InchScratchclart & MenziInch, he progresses further, linking with one of Durban's most celebrated, and most outward looking dance music pioneers - Menzi Shabane. Cutting his teeth as part of early gqom duo Infamous Boiz, Menzi has produced for some of South Africa's most prominent stars, including Babes Wodumo, Moonchild Sanelly, Mahotella Queens, Zolani Mahola and Zakes Bantwini. His sound has always been hard to pinpoint, simmering between kinetic taxi techno and expertly engineered cinematic club music without pausing for breath.InchScratchclart & MenziInch is a fluid back-and-forth between these two musical vanguards that excavates commonalities in their approaches and exploits sonic loopholes, reworking their respective sounds into an energetic fusion of android diasporic bass pressure. First, Scratchclart strips Menzi's 'Shandis' down to it's bare bones, channeling the spirit of RnG into a syrupy and soulful cybergqom shiver of elegiac pads and rattling Durban toms. Menzi's deconstruction of InchDRMTRK EP IIIInch banger 'Drm Walk' is equally as mindbending, swinging Scratchclart's rhythm and submerging it in rainfall and siren blares, slowly reassembling it into a downtempo sub-heavy groan. The duo's head-to-head '

Limited twelve inch blue colored vinyl pressing. Album Tracks 1. E. Honda 2. Lone Ranger 3. Retail 4. Son of a Gun 5.

The EP by Bézier Negative Velocity sees the Californian artist (now for a few years a Berlin resident) initiate the launch of their new German-based record tag Körperspannung. Bézier, whose career (since the early 00's) spans close to two decades of focused, ground laying work from lighting up the Honey Soundsystem collective's bulbs to generating a steady pulse of releases on Josh Cheon's Dark Entries records, has built a dynamic repertoire weaving a mosaic of influences across cultures, generations and spaces. A lifelong learner of music from an early age Robert Yang has been under constant calling to deploy music in an artful, stylish and meaningful way. For 'Negative Velocity', Bézier collaborated with Bay Area drummer and avant-garde musician Dave Easlick taking live recordings of him on a drum kit warping and wrapping his parts into curves and ellipses that project mappings outward into the atmosphere. From Easlick's source material Bézier generates a technological, multi-dimensional landscape through mental manipulation of sound waves bending the fabric of time and space. For both the title track and on the B-side 'Diabolical Embroidery' the lattice work here involved sampling and resampling every hit and puncture from Easlick to atomize, pressurize, Polish and disintegrate into fine particulate matter while reassembling parts back together fortifying the sonic tapestry further and further and further... 'Deep Sea State' is an exercise showcasing the raw form of Easlick's drumming but laced with an adamantium frame. Melodies from Bézier's musical training past haunt the entire interlude. Album Tracks 1. Negative Velocity 08 17 2. Diabolical Embroidery 06 30 3. Deep Sea State 04 33