Making their debut appearance on Steel City Dance Discs, Clouds, an irrefutable powerhouse of sound consisting of Liam Robertson and Calum Macleod, exercise their intensely unapologetic musical personality with their latest venture with Mass Hysteria, for SCDD040. The Scottish duo have become recognised for their heavenly balance of euphoric soundscapes, ladened with break-neck percussion, ecstasy-induced melodies and rupturing drum patterns. All of these highly characteristic elements are found in Mass Hysteria; an EP that highlights the hard-edged nature of Clouds’ ever-evolving style. Mass Hysteria is a five-piece project that is nothing short of atomic. Typically energy-fuelled, the duo coordinate a masterful blend of hard-hitting, four-to-the-floor basslines: a seemingly perfect marriage for an EP that sets the listener deep into a cosmic whirlwind of electronic emotions. More

Tracklisting:
A1 Clouds - Ravesight
A2 Clouds - NRG-Density
B1 Clouds - Liquid Tank
B2 Clouds - Corestyle

Sales Note
Scotland's hardest of the hardcore Clouds make a surprise return to Perc Trax with Clubmatter, their first appearance on the label since they remixed Perc's 'Dumpster' back in 2014 with Perc returning the favour to remix Clouds' Dread Networks' on Perc Trax in the same year.

Since then they have been busy performing across the globe, collaborating with Randomer on their uncompromising Headstrong project, founding their own Maxiboy imprint and pairing up with Speedy J for a release on his Stoor label.

Across these four tracks Clouds find a perfect balance between rave energy and sleek techno futurism. The rave sounds we all know well are there, but this isn't the same old vocal samples, hoovers and breakbeats we've heard a million times. Instead Cloud resynthesise the spirit of rave and hardcore, fuse it with their techno background and deliver something fresh and new but still fitting into the lineage of hardcore that goes back to the 1990's.

As ever with a Clouds release the visual side is as sharp as the music and the Raf Rennie designed sleeve of Clubmatter keeps this tradition going with a sharp monochrome interpretation of Cloud's musical vision. More

Clouds are back with the first Headstrong release of 2020 with the rave infected Opera 2001 More

(3LP embossed gatefold cover with printed inner sleeves) Ravaged and warped breakbeats haunted by wailing euphoric noise, vivid and graphic reflections of fractured post-industrial hardcore, moments of poetry flashing within a thick impending fog. This is our soundtrack. A unique and visionary achievement; a wholly origina future of beauty and despair: brutal, gritty, alive and urgent, blooming in the ruins, spiralling and raw, howling with life.
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Limited 250 copies worldwide. As was the case with ‘Timeslip Roadmender’ and follow-up ‘An Outrageous Fate Type’, ‘HTID’ is a chomping, foaming, kinda nutty set of industrial techno-jungle halfbreeds.
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Early support from Lucy, Perc, Paula Temple, Ben Klock, Answer Code Request, Ancient Methods. Scottish duo Clouds debut on Electric Deluxe with Timeslip Roadmender.
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Young Scottish Techno Gods Return with part three of Tannhauser Acid Works. Hardcore hooligan anthems. Fear-inducing, awe-inspiring, warehouse acid. Limited vinyl.
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Wicked Analord-style acid breaks from Scotland’s new young hope for techno. Following recent releases for Soma and Fifth Wall, Clouds continue their TANNHAUSER ACID WORKS series on Turbo in radical fashion. ‘Two Dimensional Horror Acid’ puts the SH-101 through it’s paces in a futuristic digital-analog gang bang of apocalyptic proportions. ‘World Systems, Cornall Coliseum’ nods confidently to the one true lord. Finally, ‘Dread Networks’ cyberpunks to the finish line with a brooding hypnotic romp. High-grade, head-shredding hardcore for warehouse or headphone tripping alike.
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Double vinyl also including free digital download. This record should put CLOUDS in the ranks of the elite UK techno vanguard. "One of the best techno full-lengths of the year" - Resident Advisor. "9/10 Album of the month" - Mixmag

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Remixes taken from Clouds’ USB Islands, featuring reworks from LHF’s Amen Ra, Tomutonttu, and a very twisted house version from Gerry Read
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Clouds return to RAMP after a long hiatus in the studio to deliver their upcoming USB Islands mini-album. From the orchestral opener Cannibal Generals, to the tapped auto-tuned euphoria of I'll Be Broke, to the loose and rattling dubstep of You Go To My Head, Finland’s Clouds are very much back on form.
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If you've seen Tiga play a festival set over the past few months, then you saw him play at least three to five Clouds tracks, with at least one of them being "Optic", "Future Blaster", or "Vaults". More