Jam City 'The Courts'

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Dropping tomorrow on Night Slugs. Been waiting on this one for a hot second. Hyper-tense club music built of skids, dribbles, passes, big Jersey kicks, and permeated by an ostentatious slap bass. On the flip is a cut with Oakland's Main Attrakionz. A very special collaboration called “The Nite Life”. Squadda B and MondreM.A.N. drop mesmerizing other wordly verses over Jam’s low-slung beat. The atmosphere is dense, hazy with purple smoke and submerged in the smoggy Californian marine layer.

Jam City "Waterworx EP"

Twenty year old London based producer Jack Latham, or better know to the world as Jam City just dropped his long awaited second EP on Night Slugs this week. Coming of the strength of his last outing for the label on his 'Magic Drops' EP, this release is no less amazing. Aqua Box' is in the title: imagine a pumping Chicago box jam torpedoed down to the ocean floor and souped up with some South London subs and you're in business. 'Countess' is the kind of grime influenced house at which JC so excels; militant, broken drum syncopations, stop-start electro arpeggios to bone-crushing effect. Island' has been knocking around on dubplate for the best part of two years; butch 808 drums jolting and jabbing around airy, just killer. 'Barely A Trak' takes the formula of combining UKF syncopations and bending Moomin synths, but caresses it into something properly unique with the help of some nifty edits and an 'ardkore-style vocal loop. 'Waterfalls' gestures towards Chicago again, with its Virgo-esque tom hits and starlit synths, but breaks down into something altogether more mutant and LDN-flavoured. Peep it down below. Standard.


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Nguzunguzu's 'Times Up' EP

A while back I posted L.A. based producers Nguzunguzu's mixtape 'The Perfect Lullabye'. I must have listened that mix at least thirty times by now and it still isn't getting worn out. Pure class. Next up to bat for the duo is an EP entitled 'Times Up' which will be the first release on Kingdom's new American wing of Night Slugs, the Fade To Mind imprint. Stream the new EP down below and DL their new mixtape they've crafted for XLR8R to celebrate the release. Boom Ditty.


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Nguzunguzu XLR8R Podcast 205

01 AraabMuzik "Free Spirit (feat. Beyonce)" (Duke)
02 Nguzunguzu "Wake Sleep (Total Freedom Winter Park Homicide Edition)" (Fade to Mind)
03 Nguzunguzu "Wake Sleep" (Fade to Mind)
04 Jodie "Moments in Heartbreak (LOL Boys Edit)"
05 Jhene Aiko "Club Stranger (Nguzunguzu Remix)"
06 Nguzunguzu "Timesup" (Fade to Mind)
07 Nguzunguzu "Timesup (Kingdom Remix)" (Fade to Mind)
08 DJ Deeon "Everyday"
09 Yoshi "Deep Inside Me Groove"
10 Nguzunguzu "Water Bass Power" (Fade to Mind)
11 DJ Daycard & Djorsen Beats "Mal Konjo!"
12 Bok Bok "Hyperpass" (Night Slugs)
13 Nguzunguzu "Vision of Completion"
14 Jam City "Aquabox" (Night Slugs)
15 Kingdom "Take Me"
16 Rizzla "Bandmind HA"
17 Nguzunguzu "Brass Touch"
18 Dubbel Dutch "B Leave (Nguzunguzu Remix)" (UTTU)
19 Ripperman "Bulldog"
20 Ironsoul "Shut the Door"