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We'd like to thank the Kaleidosky team and every single person who showed up last night to support the event last night. The vibes were magical, the crowd was wonderful and the Built on Love team made sure everything went great. Kaleidosky will always have a special place in our hearts.

Valley of the Shadows by Origin Unknown is a much loved DnB classic. The track is made up of a variety of unexpected samples which are key to making it such a recognisable track. The duo, made up of Andy C and Ant Miles created the track in just 4 hours.

Very limited whitelabel (80 copies for the world) from Lost Domain - Kiran Sande’s successor to Blackest Ever Black and Low Company - running ruffshod on a brace of UKF and tekno edits, heavily tipped to admirers of DJ Valentime$, Apple, Nkisi…!!! boomkat.com/products/doo...

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CARMEN VILLAIN - Holding a Shape (Limited Blacklabel)

Carmen Villain’s abstract vector into weathered post-dub techno yields textured treats for the ear on a preparatory white label heralding a new album on the horizon = highest possible grade syrup FFO early Pole, Porter Ricks, Rhythm & Sound, Torsten Pröfrock, vintage Vladislav Delay, Carrier, Al Wooton. It's easy to dismiss so much contemporary dub techno, mostly because it almost inevitably follows the same hackneyed template, teasing a structure that Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald figured out almost four decades ago and rarely, if ever, painting outside those lines. But occasionally, those envelopes are given a nudge - something Carmen Villain does exceptionally well on this strong new blacklabel. The Norwegian-Mexican artist’s fascinating transition to spirited greyscale noise over the past 15 years has included recent jams with Huerco S. & Actress, but she here plumbs new depths on a trio of richly impressionistic scapes edging on territory previously mined by Zoviet*France, Jim Haynes, or Porter Ricks. Squinted ears may be able to limn the shape of knackered machinery, ancient hydraulic pumps or a ghostly shipyard, clanking and executing its function in the wilds, as muffled thumps defuse into faintest choral traces on the A1, and slosh somewhere between Porter Ricks disembodied techno and Thomas Köner’s subaquatic ambient in A2, before congealing into a gungier flow of haunting, post-dub techno substance on the B1. In a way it takes us back to the first time we heard Stefan Betke's broken Waldorf 4-Pole filter in action, music that forced us to pick out the remnants of dub from a hazed mess of chopped up tape saturations and analog vapour trails. Here, villain plays a similar trick, but with more abstracted rhythmic shards painting vague outlines of what once might have been a Burial-esque woodblock special, splintered to oblivion. Coaxed from living, breathing circuitry: hot valves, rusted 1/2" jack sockets and freshly greased potentiometers; the atmosphere she manages to conjure is familiar without being overly reverent; more eccentric than its reference points, and almost a hair's breadth from one of Aaron Dilloway's zonked tape experiments. Villain reins it in at the right point, using crushing subs and the bare outline of a rhythm to bring us from industrial abstraction to rhythmic precision - basically electroacoustic concrète as dub. Bravo.

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Carmen Villain is back with a v limited black-label heralding a new album on the horizon = highest possible grade dub syrup tipped FFO early Pole, Porter Ricks, Rhythm & Sound, Torsten Pröfrock, vintage Vladislav Delay, Carrier, Al Wooton…. boomkat.com/products/hol...