14 Frontlines
PARADOX OF CHOICE SIDELINES
Lots of movement within the Paradox camp this DJ Wire has made a dubstep remix of Liquid’s
spring as the Alaska & Paradox’s ‘Isolationist LP’ ‘Liquid is Liquid’ and will be the first dubstep track
surfaces early May via Paradox Music on triple- on Dave Spoon’s Televizion House Label: www.
transparent vinyl and a ten-track CD with d&b, myspace.com/djwire1
downtempo and ‘Sample Me’ drum loops for
budding producers to sample. Alaska & Paradox Up next on Critical is Break’s remix of Spectraoul’s
will be touring America in May to promote the ‘Alibi’ with ‘Organiser’ on the flip. Following this is
album, any interested promoters should email a special limited edition release. Spectraoul come
bookings@dirtycity.com to enquire about dates. again with ‘Taken’ backed with Ramadanman’s refix
of ‘Organiser’. Then will come CRIT040, the first re-
Paradox’s ambient label Arctic Music drops its lease in the build up to the debut album from Sabre.
fifth chapter on snow-white vinyl in the shape of ‘Original Sin’ featuring the vocal talents of Tuere
‘Ataciara’ / ‘Araicata’. ‘ Araicata’ is even beat-less is on the A-side with ‘The Crest’ on the flip. Other
as it re-ignites atmospheric bliss back into today’s releases forthcoming include Serum Vs Vapour,
scene. Whilst the ‘Age of Outsider 2’ album is Break, Rockwell and a new label compilation album
doing the rounds Outsider Music focus’s on its featuring tracks from the likes of Calibre, Break,
next artist 12” with Toronto duo Gremlinz & Spectrasoul and Sabre.
Rumbelton’s debut with ‘Jaro 88’ / ‘Sometimes I
Get Depressed’. Expect the vinyl to surface Technique maintain their tenth anniversary pressure
in June. with Phetsta’s ‘The Key / Skank’ while on sister
label World-wide Audio look out for Technicolour
Esoteric Music’s eleventh episode ‘LSD Jazz’ / & Komatic’s ‘Preacher / Inner Vision’ & Tantrum
‘Rocksteady’ is out now and yet another 12” is just Desire’s ‘Ready To Go / Smile’ in May.
around the corner in the shape of ‘Esoterica’.
Nucleus & Paradox are on a ‘Keep Jungle Alive’ The Sci Wax family recently gave birth to a new sis-
mission Paradox informs us so we can’t wait to see ter label, Scientific Wax Retro. The first release sees
what the boys have install for us all. All the latest Equinox’s ‘Babylon’, originally made back in 1994,
releases can be heard on Paradox’s entertaining unleashed together with Nebula’s ‘Destiny’. On the
podcasts for his agency ESP: main label, watch for Dub-One’s ‘Murda Sound’.
Check www.scientificwax.com for more...
www.esp-international.co.uk
Watch out for Code 3’s (SP:MC, Jubei & Dakuan)
debut 12”, ‘Delta’ / ‘Escape Hatch’ on Shogun
Ltd. ‘Payload,’ also by Code 3, is also forthcom-
OFF THE HOOK
ing on Phobia’s new Coded Music imprint. SP:MC
has also been working on an EP for dubstep label
Tempa.
Things are changing at Offkey, we spoke to label owner Raiden
to find out more. “We believe we have taken the harder spectrum Dom & Roland’s latest single ‘Funk Hunt’ /
of techno d&b as far as it can go,” he begins, “we had a mission ‘Catscan’ is out now on DRP. This will be the last
to release the best of the genre by the best artists in the genre and 12” before his next album project, currently in pro-
we believe that we’ve achieved this. So it’s onto OKmk2 and we’re duction and due for release later this year.
going back the original blueprint: big bass and big drums - of
course the sound will still be techno influenced but this time it will D-Bridge and Instra:mental offer two collaborations
be rattle your ribcage as well as your brain.” on the forthcoming Darkestral EP and the Club
Autonomic podcast at www.club-autonomic.com.
Their next release is OK14, Raiden’s – ‘Hubble’ / ‘M82’ and both D-Bridge also has a joint venture with Martyn set for
of these tracks are good examples of where Offkey is heading. the ‘Great Lengths LP’, ‘Lost Shadow’ forthcoming
Meanwhile www.offkeymusic.eu is the label’s brand new website. on Shogun, ‘Inner Disbelief’ forthcoming on Exit,
The new site will have news, interviews, videos and information and ‘Wonder Where’ will be the first release on
not only about OffKey artists but also artists / labels that they feel Instra:mental’s new NonPlus label.
are adding something to the scene. On top of this there will also
be a regular podcast featuring artists from right across the d&b Kokeshi, Alley Cat’s brand new digital label,
spectrum alongside the OffKey artists. To kick things off they have launched late April featuring her tracks ‘Drumnlace’
interviews from Propaganda and Cern and getting the podcast / ‘Ice Box’. “After keeping Skunkrock on the back
started is Resound. burner for a few years I wanted to start something
new and fresh to showcase what I like, without
compromise, without asking for permission,” she
EYE FOR DESIGN
said. Go to http://iheartkokeshi.com for more.
Talking of Skunkrock, you can now find its back
catalogue digitally for the first time. Look out for big
From its birthplace of Manchester to the remixes by Konflict, Calibre, Klute, Dom & Roland
sunny shores of Ibiza, Gio-Goi has been at the plus some never before
forefront of fashion worn by the most influential released material.
musicians for over two decades. The new Gio-
Goi eyewear range is available exclusively at Look out for Serial Killaz rework of Rebel MC’s
Vision Express and like their clothing takes its classic ‘Code Red’ coming out on Congo Natty in
inspiration from youth culture. From Screamin’ late June.
to Sedated, Britannia to Milk Money each frame
has its own name and its own personality. This Total Science’s Advanced Recording offshoot has
is a range of individuals for individuals, a range a couple of big tunes by S.P.Y. coming late June in
that has been created not to fit in but stand out. the shape of ‘Obsession’ and ‘Keep Ya Head Up’.
If you don’t want a pair of specs that’ll get you
noticed then this range probably won’t be your Taxman & Heist have been busy in the studio to-
cup of tea, but if you want to be bold then what gether and their tracks ‘Ice’d’ and ‘Demolition Man’
better way to make a statement than fashion for are coming out on Frontline in late June.
the face? With over 52 frames in the range, a mix
of colourful retro and modern styles in plastic
and metal - there’s a frame for your every look.
www.visionexpress.com/irock
www.kmag.co.uk
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