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Bass Clef's long player 'Reeling Skullways' was met with a wave of critical acclaim when it arrived on Punch Drunk back in early Summer 2012, demonstrating his vision, passion and skill for electronic music as an artist and producer. The record captured the attention of director Steven McInerney who has previously directed videos for Circle Traps and Vessels as well as edited videos for Bloc Party, Jon Hopkins, Tim Exile, , PVT, Wagon Christ, Vladislav Delay and many more, inspiring a collaboration between the two artists. Now ready to be unveiled in all it's techni-colour glory, Punch Drunk will be releasing a 'Stenaline Metranil Solar Flare' EP to accompany the video featuring three new mixes from Bass Clef, Coseph Jonrad & Peverelist alongside the original mix. Bass Clef's remix comes all guns blazing, drawing on the influence and legacy of his East London surroundings, delivering a grime laden, juggernaut proportioned reworking of the original, racheting up the pressure a Bar every bar. The Peverelist mix draws on his Bristol influences with a system testing, psychedelic steppers version excursion. Finally, Bass Clef's Coseph Jonrad alias brings the EP to a luminescent finale of fractured sound and hypnagogic vocals



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Following a busy year of stylistically varied releases under various guises on his own Magic + Dreams label, Ralph Cumbers delivers his first long-player for Punch Drunk. With a title lifted from the lysergic prose of a Brian Aldiss novel and grooves informed by the loopier, more Martian aspects of Chi-town jack and Detroit techno-soul, "Reeling Skullways" marks a subtle, but highly alluring development in the evolution of Cumbers' primary recording project.
Long-term Bass Clef fans may be surprised by the lack of samples on this album, and in many ways it follows a similar creative process to his recent work as Some Truths, with most rhythms and textures sculpted from the raw, elemental waveforms of modular analogue synthesis. But with tighter editing, contagious melodies and perfectly positioned drum patterns, the end results reveal Bass Clef simultaneously at his most stripped-back, focused, playful, complicated, emotional and irresistibly groovy. Unfettered by fashionable production tricks, imbued with a timeless machine-soul heart, "Reeling Skullways" is one of those albums you'll be reaching for again and again. More

Fresh from the release of his stunning third album, ‘Inner Space Break Free’ on the Magic + Dreams label, the unique and acclaimed live performer, Bass Clef delivers an anthemic summer 12” for the Punch Drunk label. An integral piece of Bristol’s musical jigsaw, Bass Clef’s live shows and dj sets have wowed the city for years. His Punch Drunk 12” debut is long over due. Rollercoasters of the Heart’s euphoria fuelled piano refrain combines with dub echoed beats and rolling, ground shaking bass before delving deep into acid bliss, juxtaposing the darker, melancholic yet tough and club ready So Cruel on the other side. If you get a chance to catch Bass Clef live, you won’t regret it!
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For release number ten, Happy Skull have come full circle with the return of original label alumni Adjowa. The UK based producer and musician has fired up his orchestra of rusty, defunct machines to deliver three highly melodic, unashamedly oddball disco jams. Inspired by low budget, private press boogie, italo and electro records, the tracks were recorded to tape in one take with no post-production and dubbed live on a crackly old desk.


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With three contrasting cuts, Creta Kano's Skyway Motel EP, released earlier this year seemed ripe for remixing. Thus, the idea of Creta Kano Versions was born. Label bosses the Kelly Twins looked close to home for inspiration, handing over the parts to a trio of Bristol acts, each renowned for carving out their own niche in the increasingly homogenized world of electronic music.
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Cologne based acid maverick Andreas Gehm dons his Elec Pt1 guise for his debut 12" on Bristol's Happy Skull. Following a string of releases for acclaimed labels such as Jamal Moss's Mathematics Recordings, Creme Jak, Chiwax, Bunker and Solar One, Gehm is fast emerging as one of the most prolific and distinctive producers bubbling up from the European underground... More

Having previously impressed with vivid blends of cosmic R&B, skewed space-pop, glistening post-ambient soundscapes and mangled, synth-laden grime, rising star Throwing Shade (AKA producer Nabihan Iqbal) demonstrates her dancefloor side with a killer 12" on Happy Skull. "Chancer" and "Blanx" both retain Iqbal's uniquely intergalactic aesthetic,whilst flitting between jacking, Chicago-influenced house rhythms and jazzy, off-kilter dancefloor grooves. Synths sparkle, while vocal snippets drift in and out of the mix. The 12" is completed by a riotous, predictably heavyweight remix from Kowton, whose guttural techno grooves are peppered with cut-up samples of Iqbal's distinctive, dreamy vocals More

After years sound tracking the dancehalls of Bristol via their considered selections as DJs, brotherly pair The Kelly Twins add label bosses to their CVs with the establishment of Happy Skull. The label kick offs in illustrious fashion with a collaborative release between two of Bristol's most interesting producers, Kowton and Hyetal. Adopting the name Systems Of Desire, the pair worked on a track together, before going off to produce their own individual versions entitled "Control" and "Consumption"; the results are exactly the intriguing cross between Kowton's raw, crunchy, grime influenced techno and Hyetal's glistening synth work you would imagine.
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