A 30-track album from the producer will arrive on his own L.A. Club Resource label in August.
A double helping from PAN, killer house from Delroy Edwards, techno from Shifted and more featured in the week’s best releases.
Preview the LA-based pair’s new collaborative release for PPU under the RX name.
The producer indulges his love of hip hop with a free mixtape of chopped and screwed tracks.
Berceuse Heroique emerged from 2013 like a gladiator: Steely-eyed, sure-footed, and soaked in the blood of its competitors. Actually, no… wait. Such a metaphor surely wouldn’t suit BH’s founder, whose unique anti-nationalist album inserts and sleeves are bursting with barely-containable rage at the state of the world. Gladiator matches were a form of appeasing the public and keeping their mind off political issues; and although the eviscerating tracks from L’estasi Dell’oro or MGUN’s skeletal “Blunt Run” match the same brutality as an axe to the noggin, there’s not another techno label out there with the guts to print a sleeve calling London mayor Boris Johnson a “f*ckboy” for endorsing police use of water cannons on peaceful protestors.
The real mystery for me has not been the true nature of Delroy Edwards’ identity, but just why the producer would seemingly find inspiration in the name of a convicted killer and drug dealer for his production alias. Despite the gritty, saturated take on ghetto house, when Edwards first appeared on L.I.E.S. in 2012 with 4 Club Use Only, there was little to suggest where the dark moniker quite slotted into the producer’s mythos. Although the Delroy Edwards mystique might have slipped somewhat in the time that has since passed, the consistently sadistic streak that runs throughout the Teenage Tapes LP might go someway to filling in some of the gaps.
The L.I.E.S. and L.A. Club Resource artist will release his “debut mini-LP” on the Boomkat-affiliated label next week.
The Los Angeles-based L.I.E.S. affiliate will kick off his new label with a two-track solo 12-inch.
Stockholm nightclub Under Bron becomes the latest venue to expand into a record label with the launch of Under Bron Recordings – stream the debut release from WRD here.
The relentless march of the the L.I.E.S. titan looks nigh on unstoppable, as the label shares a taste of forthcoming releases from Steve Summers, Delroy Edwards and Svengalisghost.
Whilst we were all enjoying digging deep into the Quality Street reserves, L.I.E.S. were busy being L.I.E.S. and launched another sub label appropriately christened XMAS – hear the A Side track from Delroy Edwards here.
Consider Juno Plus Podcast 50 an early Christmas present from us to you, with Delroy Edwards at the helm for 40 minutes of Dance Mania ghetto house and basement techno.
L.I.E.S. bad boy Delroy Edwards has turned in the third Crème Organization podcast, with an hour-long selection veering excitedly from promiscuous Dance Mania anthems to rugged deep house classics.
Tuning into Hessle Audio’s Rinse FM show last Thursday, I was surprised to hear “Shut In”, a track from Austin Cesear’s recent (and excellent) album on Public Information. As it reached its end Ben UFO acknowledged the track (and his preceding selections) as “outsider dance”, and offering shoutouts not to the Swamp81 axis or the Hemlock family, but to Will Bankhead and The Trilogy Tapes crew, Bill Kouligas and the PAN massive, and anyone who had seen Hieroglyphic Being and Oneohtrix Point Never in London over the preceding weeks.
L.I.E.S. are going to step it up next year with a label compilation – get a sneak peek at what to expect with this crunchy Delroy Edwards number.