Release Date: 15th January 2021

*1 per customer only - any multiple copies or orders will be cancelled and refunded*

The tracks 'Step Into Light' and 'Reflect + Heal' draw energy and inspiration from Jazz, Disco, Hiphop and House, culminating in clean, pensive but energizing beats with a message at their soul.

a1. Admin - Step Into Light

b1. Admin - Reflect + Heal

Release Date: 29th January 2021

Lenzman & Dan Stezo: two friends from way back when, connecting through a mutual love of music. Recording mixtapes became a tradition that has spanned decades. Through the years the music industry changed, technology changed and life circumstances changed... but the mixtapes remain.

Now the two friends present their most ambitious project yet: a continuation of this tradition, but with an official seal. Consisting solely of The North Quarter music - including 9 exclusives. This is NQ State of Mind, Vol 1.

28 tracks mixed with Lenzman's seamless fow, backed with Dan Stezo's introspective lyrics. This is a journey through The North Quarter's varied catalogue featuring all the artists that made the label the respected entity it is today. The 9 exclusive tracks will be released on a 2x12” gatefold EP to accompany the mix project.

a1. Satl - All My Life ft Steo (Tokyo Prose Remix)

a2. Redeyes - Late Night Jam ft Tyler Daley (Lenzman Remix)

b1. Anile - Juno's Position

b2. Sam Binary - Surface Tension

c1. Submorphics - Daydreaming ft Big Brooklyn Red (Echo Brown Remix) 

c2. Zero T & Unitsouled - Slightest Moment ft [ K S R ] (Remix)

c3. Lenzman - Walk On By (Satl Remix)

d1. Redeyes - Untitled Soul

d2. FD - Top2Bottom VIP

Repress Release Date: 25th June 2021

a1. Zahabi - 7th Seal

b1. Zahabi - Dance Of Obsidian

Release Date: 22nd January 2021

In The Joker EP, Biome shows why he is right at the very top of the game. 4 incredibly made pieces of Dubstep mastery, beautifully put together into the first Deep, Dark & Dangerous release of 2021.

Creepy intros, crunchy midbass, crisp and slick drumwork, quirky hooks and crushing sub all categorise this release. Each sample and sound meticulously positioned for maximum effect. Biome has always been the king of making sure everything is in it's right place, less is more, every piece of the puzzle has it's purpose and the whole release is a masterclass in this aesthetic.

We know you are going to love it as much as we do.

a1. Biome - The Joker

a2. Biome - Boxed

b1. Biome - Monster

b2. Biome - Never Listen

Release Date: 26th February 2021

a1. Proximity

b1. Proximity (ASC Remix)

Release Date: 12th February 2021

Two dub edits "Bad" and "Badder" deconstructed from the track "Badman" with DRS, from legendary Mark Ernestus and exclusively released via his Hardwax Record store on 29th January and via Bandcamp on Feb 12th. "Getting to work with Mark Ernestus is a real honour, I collected his and Maurizio Von Oswald's work for many years and still do," he remarks. "It's hard to avoid the influence of these guys in electronic music across genres and so it is a real pleasure to have Mark do his thing with the Badman tune which I think sounds closely related."

a1. Calibre & DRS vs. Mark Ernestus - Badman (Bad Mix)

b1. Calibre & DRS vs. Mark Ernestus - Badman (Badder Mix)

Release Date: 5th March 2021

Gil Evans to Miles Davis…. Holger Czukay to the ensemble known as Can….Jean Claude Vannier to Serge Gainsbourg on Histoire de Melody Nelson. That’s the only way to explain the specificity of Four Tet and Madlib’s collaboration, in this special album that showcases a two-decade long friendship that has resulted in an album that follows Madlib’s classics like Quasimoto’s The Unseen, Madvillainy and his Pinata and Bandana albums with Freddie Gibbs.
 
“A few months ago I completed work on an album with my friend Madlib that we’d been making for the last few years. He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to start to finish. I put this concept to him when we were hanging out eating some nice food one day and we decided to work on this together with him sending me tracks, loops, ideas and experiments that I would arrange, edit, manipulate and combine. I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision.” Kieren Hebden AKA Four Tet

a1. There Is No Time (Prelude)
a2. The Call
a3. Theme De Crabtree
a4. Road Of The Lonely Ones
a5. Loose Goose
a6. Dirtknock
a7. Hopprock
a8. Riddim Chant
b1. Sound Ancestors
b2. One For Quartabê/Right Now
b3. Hang Out (Phone Off)
b4. Two for 2 -For Dilla
b5. Latino Negro
b6. The New Normal
b7. Chino
b8. Duumbiyay

Release Date: 26th February 2021

*Copies purchased through the UE store will receive a free full-colour Octa4 sticker printed on PVC plastic with spot-varnish layers*

Following a stellar run of jungle and breakbeat-oriented releases including the foundational Foul Play Origins set and the visionary proto-retro styles of X-Altera, Sneaker Social Club welcome a true master of drum science. 

As Paradox and Alaska, Dev Pandya has been setting standards and breaking new ground in breakbeat hardcore, jungle and drum & bass since the dawn of the culture. He was right there at the start of Moving Shadow, has graced seminal labels like Reinforced, Good Looking and Metalheadz and steered his own Paradox Music, Esoteric and Arctic Music as vessels for a huge body of work. Still toting his Amiga for live gigs and putting out bonus 12”s loaded with samples for producers, Pandya’s passionate commitment to the culture is evident in everything he does. Nowhere does that shine through more than in his needlepoint flair for break editing and drum programming – the calling card of the Paradox sound. 

It’s a huge honour to host two original Paradox tracks on Sneaker. We’re treated to full-fat Paradox percussion alchemy on “Octa4” as he teases out the intensity around a salvo of dancehall toasting samples, trickling each progressive layer of rhythm into the mix with the patience and poise of a true master. “Proceed” leans on dub techno atmospherics and a taut funk break that occasionally cuts loose into a ride-splashing fill, but once again the message here is one of heads-down restraint. Across both tracks the emphasis is on the fine print – each composed drum hit and subtle shift of FX – while riding deep in a masterfully constructed groove. Proof, if ever it were needed, why Pandya is the king of understated D&B excellence.

a1. Paradox - Octa4

b1. Paradox - Proceed

Release Date: 12th February 2021

Lost City Archives is back with a massive 4 track EP from Japan’s own Stones Taro. Delivering a trifecta of quality Garage, Breaks and Jungle, certain to peak the interest of any serious underground aficionado.

a1. Stones Taro - Champion Stone

a2. Stones Taro - Quiet

b1. Stones Taro - Clockwork Dub

b2. Stones Taro - Mint

Release Date: 29th January 2021

a1. Desert Sound Colony - Two Rums Please

a2. Desert Sound Colony - Lokus

b1. Desert Sound Colony - ODA

b2. Desert Sound Colony - Synthetic Nixon