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After a year dominated with collaborations (the Great Lengths remix double pack), fresh blood and inveterate genre renegades (Illum Sphere’s Titan EP & Altered Natives ‘The Bitch/Crop Duster’ respectively) We at 3024 came to the conclusion a new Martyn release was perhaps overdue. Not so much an album preview as a standalone document of a year spent expanding dance floor horizons over (a great many) seas.

3024’s milestone 10th release arrives in November with 2 brand new Martyn tracks as ‘Lefthander’ clatters in on heavily filtered drums, flickering high hats & garbled radio transmissions before a carousel synth melody breaks through the percussive murk accompanied by a roaming bass line that prioritises restraint over bludgeon. Dubbed out ambience rapidly takes root in the gaps between concrete snares & dissonant brass stabs as bass and synths elevate themselves for one last round of call & response sparring before dissolving back into barely audible dialogue.

Steam age industrial monolith ‘Shook Up’ swaps slink for haunted metronomic brutality, snapping quickly into focus first with relentless kicks before bass akin to an Atari2600 playing Berghain looms over the clouded horizon. Offsetting the claustrophobia is the first hints of melody as an impossibly slight piano phrase creeps in, countering rhythmical pummelling with ghost in the machine delicacy. Classically spastic 808 tendrils are underpinned by soaring synth strings as proceedings draw to a juddering close.

Capturing 3024’s musical progress with typical accuracy Erosie’s latest sleeve design is perhaps his best yet, echoing the back to basics theme with beautifully austere monochrome geometry curdling into something altogether more volatile at the edges.

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Martyn
a) Left Hander
aa) Shook Up

Released 29th November on 12″ Vinyl / Digital.

Left Hander by 3024world

Laurent Garnier:  “More and more towards techno …. I am bound to love this of course – Deep musical greatness – Lovin it!”

DJ Deep: “Dopeness! Left Hander is the one for me!”

Mary Anne Hobbs: “Love it!”

DJ support from Jackmaster, Claude VonStroke, Appleblim, Roska, Pangea, Patrick Pulsinger, Ramadanman, Bok Bok, Untold, Surgeon, DJ Dex & T++ to name but a few…

www.3024world.com

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Bristol based Dubstep label Punch Drunk Records are on a heater at the moment, having recently released the RSD LP compilation (“Good Energy. A Singles Compilation”) they are shortly due to release a debut album from label boss Peverelist entitled “Jarvik Mindstate”.

This collection follows up a succession of 12” releases over the past two years for Skull Disco, Tectonic and Punch Drunk and remixes for Shackleton, Pole and Shed. These tracks have seen rotation from dj’s as diverse as Hot Chip & Modeselektor, DJ Pete & Laurent Garnier, Kode 9, Appleblim & Pinch.

DRUNKCD002
Peverelist
Jarvik Mindstate

01. Esperanto *

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02. Revival *
03. Bluez *

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04. Jarvik Mindstate *
05. Yesterday I Saw The Future *
06. Infinity Is Now
07. Not Yet Further Than *
08. Valves
09. Clunk Click Every Trip

* – Tracks also feature on the 3×12″ Vinyl Version – DRUNK014.

CD / Digital release date is confirmed for 30th November 2009.

Pitchfork 2009 : ‘In the last few years, nobody has done dark, moody, emotive dubstep better than Bristol’s Peverelist. His sense of space and percussion and his ear for melody has proven peerless– and he’s kept a headstrong sense of direction when so much is changing’.

http://pitchfork.com/features/grime-dubstep/7717-grime-dubstep/

Resident Advisor 2009 : ‘Ten singles on, Punch Drunk has steadily forged a reputation for putting out some of the most forward-thinking bass-oriented music around today’.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1011

Links:
www.myspace.com/punchdrunkrecords
www.rootedrecords.co.uk

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