B1 – Rudolf C – Bugs Life [NEEDS010]

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The future of vinyl is here and behind the project is LDN label NEEDS (Pleasure Club), in collaboration with eco-friendly vinyl pressers Green Vinyl records. They’ve teamed-up once again after the success of their first 100% recyclable record to produce another wicked EP. Seeking to inspire a new generation of vinyl-pressing that harnesses an identical quality to the previous methods, but in-turn, will take better care of our planet.

Vinyl’s revival has been a stunning boost for the underground scene and with twelve consecutive years of sales growth, it’s showing no sign of slowing up. The art of pressing and physically owning a record is back in it’s purest form, and has revitalised a piece of the puzzle that had become lost in the digital age. The sad reality of this however, is the impact that vinyl-pressing is having on the environment. It’s also being amplified more in parallel with the ever-growing examples of how our worldly habitat is in an increasingly perilous state with each passing day.

NEEDS echo this in the EP preview: ‘Records are made of PVC, which comes from refined oil and can take up to 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. Traditional pressing machines are powered by steam boilers that require fossil fuels to generate heat and pressure; the water used is treated with anti-corrosive chemicals in order to prevent rusting, thus creating more wastewater. And that’s just the pressing procedure.’

The eco-friendly solution from Green Vinyl is a record that features the following key elements:

• Injection Moulding instead of steam pressing
• 93% less energy cost
• No PVC
• 100% recyclable product
• Wider frequency spectrum – sound is equal or better than traditional vinyl pressing
• Longer stamper life time – can be played more than 400 times (traditional vinyl starts to deteriorate after 100 plays)
• Rapid vinyl turnaround of 8 weeks (wait times are generally 12-16 weeks)
• No warping of records
• No paper labels

The future is here..

Volume 2 contains 4 heavy-hitters on the 12″ from Maara, Priori, Rudolf C and HearThug. With digital inclusives from Adam Curtain, Anastasia Zems, B.AI and Kepplr. It’s Oozing in mystifying sounds. Pulsing techno with trance-inducing elements, but there’s also a plethora of seductive, minimal sound-scapes that will transport you to another dimension.

The A1 kicks off with a signature pouncer from Montreal star Maara. ‘Lose Control’ (A1) exhibits her dangerous techno energy, chomping at the bit with junglistic frequencies and channelling a dark-edged pulse. Up next on A2 is a stunning ambient piece from Priori entitled ‘This Multiple’. A deep-sea diving escapade into the unknown. Exquisitely echoed down-tempo beats set the pace and slowly become encapsulated with glades of fluorescent pads and synths that are almost induced to sound like angelic voices.

We premiere the weighty B1 ‘Bugs Life’ from Berlin man Rudolf C. Emerging perfectly onto the flip in atmospheric style with it’s long-drawn intro, it’s not long before we delve back into peak-time territory as the Salt Mines founder amplifies his alien-sound onto the EP. A typical vault of outer-world bleeps, deft beats and sonic trajection. Causing one last piece of chaos on B2 is ‘KillAcidKill’, a menacing breakbeat encounter from Are You Alien founder Hearthug’. Projecting it’s wild intentions in the opening scene with an actual warning to scare you off. Organic breaks fill the intro and become infused with a searing acid-line that churns around every corner, but the second half is where KAK really boots off as dexterous hats and drum-fills come into play to exert a funky climax.

The first of the Digi tracks comes from Extra-Terrestrial co-founder Adam Curtain. ‘We Love You Ed’ channels the genre-pushing UK sound that he’s primed for exporting. It’s down-trodden, but busting with a strong breaks-energy in the bassline. The gloomily descending bass factors in a deep-steppin energy but with every low comes impulsive noises that rise the track up into spacey transcendences. Anastasia Zems exhibits a warmer notion with her seductive groover, ‘I Want You To Love Me’. Burning with a baking after-hours groove and desire that’s designed to shake hips, it’s suffusing a kinda’ Latin-esque energy and will be best enjoyed on the terrace.

One of the key ingredients of the EP is progression. Translucent build-ups and a sense of moving through space and time. That’s what you get with ‘Final Distance’ (3) from B.AI, a stunning slice of eclectic electro that will instantly transport you to the outer-realms. It’s got an immersive energy and that’s courtesy of some addictively lucid synth-work that imagines shooting-stars bursting like lasers. It’s undeniably still a club track and that low-eked bassline rumbles across the under-side to keep the embers burning.

The last track of the Digi tracks acts as a syncopated extension to it’s predessecer. ‘Everything Is OK’ from Keplrr feels like a time-period on an isolated planet, lost but curious, searching for any kind of life. The drums make sure of that with their building yet apprehensive energy; in the distance, a profusion of scattered voices can be heard making peculiar utterances to eachother. Keplrr expertly builds pressure and cosmic magic in the extended break-down, it almost threatens to overflow at it’s peak; but curtails back into a mystifying tension-steppin’ motion for it’s closing act.

Pre-order the EP: https://bit.ly/3yO90zR

Rudolf C: https://bit.ly/3O0UIQE

Needs: https://bit.ly/3IyFjG9

Full premiere of the B1 ‘Rudolf C- Bugs Life’ below:

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