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HF 002LP
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2012 repress, originally released in 2008. Decamping to Germany had a profound affect on Paul Rose aka Scuba. Running the prolific Hotflush and Scuba labels with a little help from Alex Incyde and a truly legendary international roster, this north London original has taken his imprint and sound undeniably global. Yet, while he has yet to adopt lederhosen and start making Euro trance, the techno/minimal core of Berlin has clearly opened up new possibilities for him. This album (in every sense -- the track segue continuously together) is an opulent yet serious digression from any standard dubstep template, and all the more brilliant for it. The expansion of classic Scuba industrial crunch and groove means his soundscapes have moved, with great fluidity, into further areas of electronica and techno embellishments, creating an album that ebbs and flows seductively, drawing the listener into its magnetic power. Complete and assured, A Mutual Antipathy is dubstep alternative; the perfect balance between Burial's rusty emo-garage and Benga's full-throttle techno.
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Gatefold double LP version with 9 out of 12 tracks from the CD. London DJ and producer James Shaw aka Sigha confidently returns to the label with his heavily-anticipated debut LP, Living With Ghosts. For this offering, he presents 12 impressive techno and ambient productions and fuses his love of classic UK techno with the contemporary sound that currently pulses through Berlin's Berghain. Since his 2009 debut on the label, Sigha has organically shifted further and further into the straight 4/4 realm of techno, embracing the subterranean, darker soundscapes of his new production home base, Berlin. However, hiding under all that bass, one can still hear the whisper of many long-forgotten shoegaze numbers: My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, and Slowdive, some of Sigha's heaviest influences, vibrate throughout. Years of playing guitar in London bands defined Sigha's musical start and gave him an ear for the emotive. He was able to merge both worlds after quite literally stumbling across techno by chance, igniting his love of electronic music. Ever since, he's expertly navigated the halls of UK garage and dub, releasing on Hotflush, Blueprint, and his own fledgling imprint, Our Circular Sound.
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London DJ and producer James Shaw aka Sigha confidently returns to the label with his heavily-anticipated debut LP, Living With Ghosts. For this offering, he presents 12 impressive techno and ambient productions and fuses his love of classic UK techno with the contemporary sound that currently pulses through Berlin's Berghain. Since his 2009 debut on the label, Sigha has organically shifted further and further into the straight 4/4 realm of techno, embracing the subterranean, darker soundscapes of his new production home base, Berlin. However, hiding under all that bass, one can still hear the whisper of many long-forgotten shoegaze numbers: My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, and Slowdive, some of Sigha's heaviest influences, vibrate throughout. Years of playing guitar in London bands defined Sigha's musical start and gave him an ear for the emotive. He was able to merge both worlds after quite literally stumbling across techno by chance, igniting his love of electronic music. Ever since, he's expertly navigated the halls of UK garage and dub, releasing on Hotflush, Blueprint, and his own fledgling imprint, Our Circular Sound.
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After a two-year break, Detroit producer Jimmy Edgar debuts on Scuba's Hotflush Recordings armed with an album full of futuristic sleaze. Known for his unique take on jacking house and electro funk, recently he's been splitting his time between the U.S. and Berlin, exploring transcendental meditation and the boundaries of the non-physical. This offering is an extension of that journey, bringing 11 tracks of erotic robo-pop to the table. Titled Majenta, this LP is a departure from his past sound, marking a shift in his own ever-expanding consciousness, as well as another exciting chapter of his musical career. Each track is an aural manifesto, giving well-deserved nods to his varied musical influences. Close encounters with Detroit legends Derrick May and Juan Atkins, Jimmy's 2004 signing to Warp Records, and his early exposure to Kraftwerk have all acted as lynchpins in the cultivation of his sound. With a number of releases on Glasstable, Semantica, Nonplus, and album releases on both Warp and !K7, Majenta reflects Jimmy's evolution as both artist and child of the cosmos.
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HF 035EP
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"Debut EP Forever For Now from 20 year-old duo Shelter Point. Through the use of field recordings, upright pianos, their own chopped and screwed vocals, and a varied palette of synths, the pair have created a lush and elegant four track love letter that's bound to make their contemporaries stand up and take note."
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Scuba is the production and DJ alias of Paul Rose, the curator of Hotflush Recordings, a label which, having released some of the most important tracks of the formative period of dubstep, has grown into a leading player in the wider world of electronic music. A celebrated and influential DJ, Scuba was voted #25 in Resident Advisor's 2011 poll of the world's Top 100 DJs and has also been nominated for several categories in DJ Magazine's Best of British 2011 Awards. In 2011, Scuba released his Adrenalin EP, picking up radio plays from Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Rob Da Bank as well as Mistajam, illustrating how his sound has mutated into previously-unexplored areas. Alongside Adrenalin, Scuba also released his edition of K7!'s DJ Kicks series, which has made notable appearances on several "Best of 2011" lists. Scuba's third album through Hotflush, Personality, features 11 brand-new tracks and takes in a wealth of genres across contemporary dance music, proving once again Scuba's place at the cutting-edge of the electronic music scene. "Where he once used dubstep as the foundation for his distinctive productions, this time he's taking prog house, trance, big beat, rave, old techno, and synth pop, and packaging it up in something stylishly retro, all coated in a futuristic 2012 sheen... one of the gutsiest, risky things a pillar of the scene like Scuba could have done." --Pitchfork (8.1)
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HF 005CD
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With dubstep's big push into the mainstream, stirring up all manner of hybrids, variants and mutations, it's worth remembering that some have been creating fresh twists on the current generation of global bass music from its very inception. Paul Rose aka Scuba, and his Hotflush label have, since 2003, had experimentation and genre-collision etched into the very structures of everything they do. Putting out key tunes by the core pioneers of dubstep, but also by true outliers like Mount Kimbie, Joy Orbison and Sepalcure, Hotflush has created a sense of absolute consistence in diversity: multiple sounds united by true craftsmanship and high-tech expression of complex emotion. Joining the UK underground to the deep-rooted techno culture of Berlin, where Rose is now resident, the label is a vital nexus in the flow of musical information that is fuelling the current innovative climate. So next time you hear someone talking about "post-" this or "future-" that, consider that maybe the times are just catching up with Hotflush. Back And 4th features 10 brand-new exclusive tracks from bass music's most innovative producers including: dBridge, Roska, Boddika and FaltyDL as well as a collection of essentials from Hotflush's catalog with tracks and remixes from James Blake, Untold, Pangaea, 2562 and more. Other artists include: Boxcutter, Scuba, Sigha, George FitzGerald, Incyde, Jamie Vex'd and TRG & Dub U.
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HF 005LP
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3x12" version, containing tracks on CD1 of the double CD release (HF 005CD). Artists: Sepalcure, Boxcutter, Boddika, DBridge, Scuba, FaltyDL, Sigha, George FitzGerald, Incyde and Roska.
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After releasing their debut album Crooks & Lovers in 2010 to huge critical acclaim and racking up numerous end of year lists including the shortlist for The Guardian's (UK) First Album Award, plus sell-out tours in North America, Australia and Europe, London duo Mount Kimbie announce the news of their next EP, Carbonated. This EP follows the release of the Blind Night Errand EP and will be the final release from the album. "Carbonated," the lead track on the EP, is joined by two previously-unreleased tracks, the buoyant effervescence of "Flux" and "Bave's Chords., which showcase the lush, elegant percussive sound Mount Kimbie have become known for. "Bave's Chords" was recorded around their early EP Maybes and "Flux" was created during the album recordings. Airhead, who's shortly releasing his own album on Brainmath and is a member of James Blake's live band, subtly twists "Carbonated" with his remix, while Belgian producer & DJ Peter Van Hoesen creates a six-minute dark techno rework for the dancefloor. "Adriatic," also from Crooks & Lovers, is transformed completely by Klaus with his style of detailed production hitting the mark once more. Crooks & Lovers defined.
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Adding a percussive and experimental edge to the current class of post-dubstep pioneers, Mount Kimbie, the duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos -- release their highly anticipated debut album Crooks & Lovers on Hotflush. Mount Kimbie's first two EPs -- Maybes and Sketch On Glass -- seemed like explorations of spaces so private that all within earshot were instantly turned into voyeurs. The experience was less like listening to music and more like eavesdropping on the machinations of a lone mind -- albeit a lone mind surrounded by and retreating from millions of other minds. Difficult to categorize, the lush EPs caused a commotion with "Sketch On Glass" undergoing reworks from the likes of Falty DL, SCB (Scuba's darker techno alias) and their sometime collaborator James Blake. With their own remixes (Foals and The xx) becoming hot property, Mount Kimbie have been a core part of the growing scene in London often associated with labels like Hyperdub and Hessle Audio. Dom and Kai met while at Southbank University, pushed together in a student hall that was previously a mental asylum -- where the ceilings were still ridiculously high to stop patients hanging themselves: "a cold, joyless, concrete building -- the sort of building where you'd drop a pen and the sound would just go on and on in an echo." Armed with found sound snips and a siege mentality, Kai and Dom set about turning London's ambience into rhythm, its chaos into coherence. Traces of influence remain -- the hard-earned spaces of Burial and The Bug vie with the berserk melodrama of Xiu Xiu and Grouper's sad-eyed glow, D'Angelo's pervert soul gets cleansed in the intimacy of Phil Elvrum's Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti's swollen Twin Peaks atmospheres find a cradle in Madlib's lax lope. The band's sound and response to the dubstep moment is very much their own. Sceneless and untethered from etiquette and genre codes, Crooks & Lovers floats through dubstep and hip-hop, jazz, techno and ambient, post-rock, UK garage and film scores to startling effect.
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HFT 007EP
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"Hotflush Two presents the second release from the new London-based producer Sigha. Following up from his first EP on Hotflush earlier this year (HFT004 - January), 'Remembrance' and 'On The Strip' delve deeper into Sigha's lush, minimal, bass-infused soundscapes. His influences come from minimal house, dubstep and dub techno. He runs a night called Medium, at Plastic People in East London, and can also be found working behind the counter at the legendary BM-Soho record shop."
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HFT 002EP
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2008 release. "The second release on Hotflush offshoot label HF2 comes in the shape of collaboration between the prolific Romanian producer, TRG, and a new name from across the pond, Dub U, plus a remix from one of the most exciting talents to emerge in bass music recently, 2562. The original is a 3:2 reducer, drenched in delays, crunching percussion and floating effects. This is the sound of two producers experimenting with contrasting influences, as sub-bass collides with techno sensibilities to create something a bit different. On the flip, 2562 produces another stormer to add to his already impressive discography. Adding his trademark garage influence to the minimized vision of the original, the result is a dubbed-out dancefloor killer which has been shaking out clubs from Bristol to Berlin."
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HF 018EP
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Warehouse find, 2007 release; last copies. "Boxcutter makes the kind of weighty productions that share the broad appeal of Burial or Vex'd, while keeping one foot firmly planted in the more melodic, electro-centered margins of the genre. Packed with gritty bass, glitched-up beats and all manner of multi-layered furies, he first roused the dubstep community's appetite in 2005 with 12"s on Hotflush and Planet Mu. A true heavyweight of the scene, the incredibly inventive and original Boxcutter sound continues to defy expectations. For the latest Hotflush 12", Boxcutter delivers yet again two fantastic tracks from his array of sounds. On the A-side is 'Philly,' a jazzier number with a syncopated assault of crisp drums, as featured on Hotflush's compilation CD Space and Time. It is backed with 'Endothermic,' a tune drifting more on the laid-back side, with dazzling warm synths and a deep bass line."
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HFT 001EP
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"Rising from the ashes of Hotflush's now discontinued side label Scuba, comes the first release on a renewed imprint, Hotflush Two. It presents two new tracks produced by Nyabingi, aka Vicious MC of London's Slaughter Mob. Rough, metallic synths permeate through 'Bionicle,' while in 'Shamanu (Japanese Wolf)' the sharply sequenced drum patterns remain, yet with a deeper bass line and strangely wonky scratch samples, more reminiscent of his previous Hotflush release, Belgium Chocolate/Cannibal Run."
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HF 001CD
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"Hotflush Recordings is a label that from the beginning has pushed the musical boundaries of dubstep. Over the last four years the label has released more than 25 innovative 12" singles, launching some of the biggest names in the scene and introducing more new talent than anyone else. Space and Time is a compilation of exclusive, unreleased, ground-breaking tracks that illustrates the other side of dubstep in 2007. The compilation features the debut from the incredibly exciting live act Jazzsteppa, along with appearances from the first female dubstep producer of note, Vaccine, established names such as Boxcutter and Scuba, and remixes by the legendary Si Begg and distortion dub kings Vex'd. Space and Time is the sound of the future and the sound of now."
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HFRMX 002EP
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"The second Hot Flush Remix release presents killer rubs of two of the most ground-breaking tracks on the label to date. The first side holds some extremely exciting work from techno/experimental/electronic legend Si Begg, a minimal nu-dub interpretation of the Hot Flush classic 'Angel' by the enigmatic Toasty (originally released on HF009 in 2005). On the flip, the mercurial talent that is Boxcutter gets busy with a deep and dark remix of Elemental's 'Sparkle.'"
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"The second part of HF015 features two U.S.-based producers making big waves in the world of dubstep. Vaccine follows up her debut on the Scuba label, combining sledge hammer drums, crushing bass and the lightest of fluttering melodies for exactly what you'd expect from the most exciting new producer on the scene. On the flip, British-born Intex Systems comes with the darkness. Pounding drums and bass mix with sweeping pads announcing the arrival of another big talent on Hot Flush. Both tracks have been hammered by Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio 1."
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HF 016EP
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"Paul Rose should be he awarded an OBE for how much he's on it with Hot Flush. Nyabingi is a new name, but a old dubstep soldier. Both tracks weld Detroit electroid computerized funk. Tugging you back underground with its careful arrangement if frequencies at the lowest end of the spectrum."
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HF 005EP
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2007 repress of this early Hot Flush label release, originally released in 2004.
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HFRMX 001EP
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"Two of the biggest releases on Hot Flush to date get the remix treatment from what are arguably the underground's hottest artists. The rub of Toasty's 'The Knowledge' (HF006) by Vex'd takes the vein of their massively acclaimed album Degenerate (Planet Mu). Having just been named Guest of the Year on Radio 1's Breezeblock show, Vex'd are turning heads around the world at the moment with their slick production and mind-bending distorted bass. This track has been smashed on dubplate by everyone from Plasticman to Mary Anne Hobbes, cementing their global reputation. Fans of the now-legendary DMZ label will be familiar with Loefah, sometime collaborator with the Digital Mystikz. Famed for his minimal-yet-crushing style, he's taken the silky 'Rhodes of Candyfloss' (HF003) and moulded it into an LFO-driven monster. This is dubstep at it's purest."
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