It's finally here. The single most requested thing, the one that turns up in my inbox more than anything else: the full Spotify playlist, every label release pick, all in one place.
The playlist updates every week. Friday you get the drops, Sunday the playlist lands ready for the week ahead. It'll always be the label picks only, so the free downloads, the Bandcamp exclusives and the Set of the Week stay here in the newsletter.
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Record of the Week: Oscar Farrell - Greyhound
Two of London's most exciting artists come together, pairing Oscar's tight production and atmospheric basslines with one of rap's most distinctive voices. I've been a fan of Oscar for a while now and his productions speak for themselves. Recent collabs with Braga Circuit and an upcoming remix for Maribou State show just how in demand he is.
Cotto brings us a spacey garage number, slightly introspective in nature. The aptly named “Chasing The Dragon” is a proper one to get you mincing on the festival field or warehouse dancefloors.
After something a bit more experimental? Tempa have just dropped D1 - Enigma. The label's run by Neil Jolliffe, the man loosely credited with naming dubstep back in 2002, so they know what they're doing. Deeper dubstep at its finest, with samples that hark back to the 90s hip-hop era. It's minimal. It's bass. It's a corker.
Plenty more to get your ears around.
Tom (japanese.knotweed)


CAPES - Let's Jack (CAPES Dub)
UKG
Jackin' garage dub.
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ROBUSTT - Nobody Else Dub
UKG
Proper bouncer.
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Plasm - The Incredible
UKG
Incredible by name.
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Dr Dubplate @ The Set Records, Nijmegen: Admittedly I had to Google where Nijmegen is. It's in the Netherlands, and the ec2a boss has dropped by to spin his collection of dubplates. As one commenter put it, “the dubbiest of plates”. Proper garage sets from start to finish are what most of my listening consists of, and there's no better man to blend UKG new and old.
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