t/s: hessle audio vs hemlock vs hotflush vs hyperdub

So that Laurel Halo album is gonna be the best album of the year, right?

Is it able to be listened to anywhere?

is it? i don't know much about her, but i remember the couple tracks i've heard feeling a little too dense and busy.

i liked her ep last year. haven't heard anything from her album tho.

<3 that loefah interview and especially love his swamp81 tumblr

So that Laurel Halo album is gonna be the best album of the year, right?

Here's hoping!

I still haven't found any tracks off her 'Spring' EP that was supposed to be out a couple of days ago on Liberation Technologies under the name King Felix. Could maybe use a Laurel Halo thread tbh.

I didn't know there's a swamp81 tumblr! checking that out asap

i've enjoyed some of the boddika stuff i've heard on swamp 81

HEK002 a-side is called "discipline"

this immediately made me think of throbbing gristle. it doesn't really sound like throbbing gristle per se, but it does have a throbbing 23 skidoo-ish death-funk grind at the beginning and builds to a couple of screaming climaxes with all the intensity of my favorite postpunk tracks.

its like a mix of post-dubstep and PiL or something

amazing track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DodCDN6m9ZY

i think it sounds like late sabres of paradise or early two lone swordsmen

good pick, and i would agree. i was enjoying it for the chilling beginning and then once it settles into a groove it's really infectious

Can I just say that Fhloston Paradigm is pretty much the best name ever!

Am I willing to stomach fabric for another hessle audio night with insane lineup?

new Elgato is really good - fav hessle release

anyone heard Untold's newest on Hemlock? i'm not super familiar with most of this stuff, but i really dig it

So what's been the best stuff on these labels this year? The whole Change In A Dynamic Environment series from Untold is flat-out amazing, anything else around as good as that?

LV album (for FUN)
new Sigha album (for getting your face sanded off)

there have been some great Funkystepz things as well but I lose track of their titles tbh

New Pangaea 2xEP is really great. From earlier in the year, the Objekt 12" on Hessle is a monster, and the Bandshell & Elgato 12s are excellent, too, although the latter works best on a really good system - I bought the record but it didn't click until I heard it in a club. Rinse shows are consistently great.

(I'm a Hessle Stan, think they along with like LIES, Livity Sound, Pan and maybe Sex Tags are definite "Buy on sight" labels)

I really love Laurel Halo's album on Hyperdub - probably my favourite LP this year, and the Hyper Williams and Cooly G albums are also good. The Terror Danjah EP is pretty nice, too.

Joe's 12 on Hemlock is great.

Hotflush's releases the last 1-2 years have bored me, though I do like Sigha so I'm kind of looking forward to the album.

thought i would check out the new pangaea 12" after reading the jukebox piece on him in wire but i find viaduct weirdly half breaksy/half hard brainy-ish techno. i loved elgatos zone and pearson sounds clutch but i wished i liked this new post-uk bass techno more than i actually do. i know some people think theres a 'more brixton than berghain' angle to it but im not really seeing it (whether it actually needs to have a uk angle is another matter - why are we so obsessed with this?) unless were talking night slugs maybe. then again the flipside of that would be some of the recent keysound releases, which while i do quite like in principle, sound like theyre trying a bit too hard to sound like a uk/london thing.

It's a shame about the direction Untold's gone in. He used to be one of the best post-dubstep guys but now he's just another techno producer

Scuba used to be good too.

Hyperdub used to be buy on sight but I've not bought anything from them since the last Burial release

Hessle Audio are still very good but Pangaea has fallen off a bit. Last couple of releases from him haven't been up to much. Pearson Sound's last 12" on is own lable was quality

i gotta admit these labels bore me a bit these days

http://boomkat.com/downloads/886609-pangaea-fabriclive-73-pangaea

this is surprisingly... normal sounding.

yeah, disappointing

that new hyperdub 10.3 comp where everyone on the label turns in an ambient piece ('a soundtrack to a film never made' etc etc) might have been good, but it just seems so self aware and a bit silly really. the good thing about hyperdub is/was that they sound like they COULD be on a soundtrack (and they actually were on children of men, well kode 9 at least), but actually DOING that seems to ruin the idea. i need to hear it a few more times, and there are some good/interesting pieces on here, but i think most of these producers work better with/should stick to beats. i also wish hyperdub did more EPs than albums.

where everyone on the label turns in an ambient piece

Sounds like the old Metalheadz box set comp. Self-awareness as a criticism just feels like trying to stop people breaking out of their pigeonholes tho. Everybody said the same about DnB artists moving off DnB beats. Cobblers then cobblers now :)

not sure anyone on hyperdub (or any of these labels) is in a pigeonhole to be honest. not like its 2006 and its still thought of as a dubstep label...

Yeah, just picked up 10.3 and I'm absolutely loving it. Not sure what the criticisms are talking about (ILM is not the only place I've seen opinions about it being too whatever-ish).

I really liked the hyperdub 10.4 set

Also picked up that one, but have not played it yet.

heh, i like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsAhvNSyiyQ

in lieu of a Hyperdub 15 physical release it looks like we're getting a digital release/adult swim collaboration

HyperSwim is a 19 track digital-only compilation which will be streaming in its entirety this Friday, November 22nd, on @adultswim, then will be available on all digital platforms from Saturday November 23rd. pic.twitter.com/Bp5GnXjoAw

— Hyperdub (@Hyperdub) November 18, 2019

Is VERSION part of this axis? Them, if so.

Whities >>>>

Hyperdub has released some truly woeful music in the past five years, a roster of utter mediocrity coasting along on residual critical acclaim

yeah whities.

although I probably only enjoy about 1/3rd of it, I dare say the rest is still good, just not for me.

loraine james album on hyperdub is beautiful imo

xxxp harsh but fair

Hessle Audio still killing it though. Best UK dance music label since the glory days of dubstep for me.

Hessle Audio haven't released a single record in 2019.

Whities for the win.

Overmono's "iii's Front" on Whities was maybe my favourite club record of 2018.

my (maybe) fave of 2019 is also by Overmono. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvpyQQjahL8

Hyperdub is having a renaissance imo, they're doing what they should be doing signing the younger generation (Loraine James, DJ Haram, Nazar, Proc Fiskal)

DJ Haram record is VG++

Overmono's "iii's Front" on Whities was maybe my favourite club record of 2018.

Killer tune. Sick breaks. What more could you want...

Hyperdub is having a renaissance imo, they're doing what they should be doing signing the younger generation (Loraine James, DJ Haram, Nazar, Proc Fiskal)

They're not quite at the same level of quality as they used to be in the first ~5 years (you could probably easily argue first ~10 years even), but there's some good stuff as of late. The old guard (Kode9, Burial) aren't too interesting these days as much as I hate to say it, but I do love a lot of the new UK signees especially Haram and Proc as well as the Teklife producers.

http://www.adultswim.com/music/hyper-swim/

Burial has a synth now.

But for real, lotssss of good tracks on here so far.

I agree! It's good to see the old guard still going strong ie Ikonika, Cooly G, Scratcha and of course Burial

INTELLIGENT BASS

Ergh :(

I really don't get Proc Fiskal, at all. The Loraine James album is actually really good though, thanks to this thread for encouraging me to finally get around to it

proc fiskal is a funny name at least