Mickey Pearce is back in business with 'One Hundred Smiles', a new album of swaggering UK club music experimentations, and a new label Box Of Toys. His first album, 'Michael' (2016), saw him exploring new territory; crafting a strange and melancholic landscape of beatless textures and leftfield house and techno. Approached with a fresh perspective, 'One Hundred Smiles' slows the tempo and ups the collaboration. "The last record was a reflection of my situation around that time. This one is like stepping out from under a cloud. It's about the joy of collaboration; meeting and working with new people. It's also about the ambiguity of smiles, and the complicated relationships we form." The album features appearances from rising UK talent Poté, Taiwanese vocalist Meuko Meuko and Greek electronic pioneer Lena Platonos. "Poté is a crazy talent. We've done a bunch of sessions and made a load of tracks, two of which ended up here and one of which is going on his next record. Meuko Meuko is an artist from Taiwan. We communicate entirely via Instagram. She'd send me translations of the lyrics in Instagram messages, but I'm still not sure if I've chopped them into any sort of sense. The instrumental was called 'Slime', and she misread that intentionally or unintentionally to mean "smile" and sent me all these crazy lines about "your lovely smile" and it was just perfect. I love her. Lena Platonos is a legend, and someone I was honoured to work with. The day she told me she had been playing and enjoying the record around her friends was a good day." 'One Hundred Smiles' is the first release on his own label Box Of Toys. The label is named the same as his 2017-2018 radio show series, which featured the album's guests as well as Randomer, Machine Woman, Airhead, The Maghreban and Object Blue. 'One Hundred Smiles' is released on LP and digital via Box Of Toys on 2nd November 2018. More

Last summer, four years after Loefah first floated the idea of a Mickey Pearce album, Mickey sat down to write a mixtape of loops - a sequel to 2014's 'Up West' - but found himself in new, melancholic territory. Less than three months later 'Michael' was written. Ahead of the radio premiere of 'August', Mickey told Mary Anne Hobbs
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New 4 Track 12" release from Mickey Pearce for Swamp 81 sublabel, 81 More

Final volume in the ‘WALK.MAN’ mix series. A 4 track of burners and disco thuds.
‘CLOUD BREAK’ bolts out the blocks with deadly bongo drums and heady vocal whilst ‘DON’T YOU?' opens it out on the breakdown with xxxy. ‘MAGNOLIA' is looped up phaser disco distilled. Finished with the glacial ‘UR SALVATION’.
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Hot on the heels of both Save Me and the Robert Owens collab is the third instalment of the WALK.MAN series. Big wide-eyed club womper ‘Better Dayz’ on the A and the subtler soul rolla ‘Stay Away From Music’ on the flip. These go off. The WALK.MAN mixtape will be released in full on Cassette and Digital at the end of the Summer.
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Vol. 1 of Doc Daneeka’s Mixtape series ‘WALK.MAN’ This is the first in a series of 12”s dropping over the next few months, & will be compiled into a mixtape on Cassette and Digital at the end of the Summer. Before we announce the guest vocalists on the rest of the mix, get stuck into this summer soul burner.

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Mystic heaters from the one they call Deadboy. A debut on Yen and first output from his new Montreal HQ. Ten Of Cups ambient version is vinyl only.
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4 rather good arias by Manchester’s finest xo. More

Warm house heaters from label boss Doc Daneeka.

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housand Yen for these collection of rough and ready, yet soul burning dance floor bombs. These have been doing serious business in the clubs. I NEED YOU!

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Underground artists to emerge over the last few years. Combining a bruk shuffle with a natural flare for techno, Presk has been carving out his own subtle niche since 2011. Each track on this release stands tall alone, showcasing Presks natural leanings, from the raw broken funk hit of 'Saluki', the warped techno of 'Mod1 & Rais' to the deft touch of 'Vigor'. This is Presk at his very best, showing whats to come of this exciting producer and marking a very fitting return to the label. With support already from Gilles Peterson and a prime slot on Jackmaster’s soon-to-become- legendary Mastermix 4, Saluki is set to be around for a while. Don't sleep on this one.
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"I made another record for the lovely Welshmen at Ten Thousand Yen. The A side is an arpy thing with bass the flip is a vocally thing with bass. They both contain breakdowns - please don't hold this against me xoxo”

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We are extremely pleased to announce the return of one of our favourite Welsh producers back to Yen. Chesus (pronounced chay -zuss) is C from C.R.S.T., half of Darkhouse Fam and the one and only Metabeats fresh from his recent hip hop smash "Hookers" with Action Bronson. So apart from having a finger in just about every conceivable pie, Chesus is going back to his house roots on this solo project, which features the local talents, also making a fair name for themselves,The Organ Grinder and Didz. This is an E.P. of classic house smashers, harking back to the house heyday of the 90's but with a production twist from 2012. Throw ya hands up!

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"I was introduced to Abi at the end of 2010 through a mutual friend - Johnny Dub who co- runs the excellent Manchester night hoya:hoya. Instantly I was blown away by her voice. I sent her some stuff that was on a slightly different tip to my usual beats. She dug it, sent it back, I worked on it some more - Tobyjug was born and i'm glad to say it has been the start of a long working relationship and friendship. We worked together a lot last year on her solo material and the year culminated in Abi flying to Berlin to work with Benjamin Damage and I on our recent album They!Live. I love this song. Hope you do too x" Doc Daneeka Jan 2012 More

Ten Thousand Yen is proud to present our new signing: Presk. He weighs in with the sublime 4 track Love Again E.P. as the first ever 12" on TTY.
We first came across Presk in Eindhoven last year playing support for Doc Daneeka. He played a set of straight original material and tore the place down. ?Since then we've heckled and begged until he finally signed his life away to us, and now that we own his soul we plan on sharing it with you. This E.P. comes correct for 2011 - with Presk riding off the back off a cheeky Tyler remix that is messing up dancefloors and topping charts all over the shop. Sharp edged rhythmic dance music with a distinctly techno lean - we really love the tunes and are super excited about this release, hope you're feeling them too. Each vinyl order includes a download code for instant MP3 / FLAC / WAV format.

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