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Bitter End - No Title
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Bitter End - No Title
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Bitter End - No Title
Twelve releases in and Bitter End still continue to defy pigeonholes, or glory ones for that matter.
It's only fair - in terms of universal balance - that stratospheric pop success should be countered with some gutter realism.
Release No.12 then is the smudged mascara of the morning after, still in the club, but definitely not ready to leave.
'Imperfection Turns Me On' is the sound of Nile Rodgers sharing a bag of flake with the local bell-ringing society, while B & E upsets the curtain twitchers with an uplifting lude-a-thon of swirling synth riffing and those ever-present Crooked and pin sharp beats.
SLEEPWALK unashamedly hogs a whole side, gently imposing its dub-soaked 15 minute self directly into your hypothalamus, with some Basic Channelesque transcendentalism, but from Yorkshire.
Dependably unbendable !
As always, limited and LOUD More
It's only fair - in terms of universal balance - that stratospheric pop success should be countered with some gutter realism.
Release No.12 then is the smudged mascara of the morning after, still in the club, but definitely not ready to leave.
'Imperfection Turns Me On' is the sound of Nile Rodgers sharing a bag of flake with the local bell-ringing society, while B & E upsets the curtain twitchers with an uplifting lude-a-thon of swirling synth riffing and those ever-present Crooked and pin sharp beats.
SLEEPWALK unashamedly hogs a whole side, gently imposing its dub-soaked 15 minute self directly into your hypothalamus, with some Basic Channelesque transcendentalism, but from Yorkshire.
Dependably unbendable !
As always, limited and LOUD More
More records from Bitter End
1
Bitter End - Adjustment -> Love
2
Bitter End - Rivers
3
Bitter End - Maladjustment -> Love
4
Bitter End - Something Going Nowhere
It's fair to say this label, this producer has had more than their fair share of hits over the years.
Hitting you straight in the heart (and hips) sometimes and occasionally (and that's all your own fault) going over-your-head.
Regardless.
Whether rummaging around the sonic fringes or incanting pure dancefloor moments like this, Bitter End always, always deliver.
Adjustment->Love is the best thing we've heard this year.
The rest of the EP 'filler' is also better than anything else you're likely to encounter on a 12" this side of 2025.
Don't be an idiot - while everyone else if toeing the line, try your best to colour outside of it.
As always, limited and LOUD More
Hitting you straight in the heart (and hips) sometimes and occasionally (and that's all your own fault) going over-your-head.
Regardless.
Whether rummaging around the sonic fringes or incanting pure dancefloor moments like this, Bitter End always, always deliver.
Adjustment->Love is the best thing we've heard this year.
The rest of the EP 'filler' is also better than anything else you're likely to encounter on a 12" this side of 2025.
Don't be an idiot - while everyone else if toeing the line, try your best to colour outside of it.
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - U Up
2
Bitter End - U Dancin'
3
Bitter End - U Perfect
4
Bitter End - U Burnin'
A very welcome return to the Bitter Ends with an incendiary new 4 dimensional sonic assault !
Genre-wrecking, top spec modern funk as always !
As always, limited and LOUD More
Genre-wrecking, top spec modern funk as always !
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - The First Narcissus
2
Bitter End - Jealous Groove
It's only fair - in terms of universal balance - that stratospheric pop success should be countered with some gutter realism.
When you live round the Bitter Ends, a year of enforced curfew is the least of your worries.
That said, it speaks volumes that even the folder marked 'Alternative versions' is light years ahead of most of what passes for dance music in 2021.
Majestic, soaring, sonic sensations.
Dependably unbendable !
As always, limited and LOUD More
When you live round the Bitter Ends, a year of enforced curfew is the least of your worries.
That said, it speaks volumes that even the folder marked 'Alternative versions' is light years ahead of most of what passes for dance music in 2021.
Majestic, soaring, sonic sensations.
Dependably unbendable !
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - No Title
2
Bitter End - No Title
Bitter End continue to rip up the rule book with a genre defying output that's STILL far better than the rest
Release No.11 hits the ground running with a whiteboy Disco-Funk bomb on the A, a relentless gallop with soaring synth work and an unwavering commitment to uniting sweaty bodies.
BU BU YAM YAM on the AA is an equally irresistible Jazz-Funk looper which harks back to a time when spats and talc Jazz-dancers vied for space in the dark with saucer-eyed rave explorers.
Dependably incendiary !
As always, limited and LOUD More
Release No.11 hits the ground running with a whiteboy Disco-Funk bomb on the A, a relentless gallop with soaring synth work and an unwavering commitment to uniting sweaty bodies.
BU BU YAM YAM on the AA is an equally irresistible Jazz-Funk looper which harks back to a time when spats and talc Jazz-dancers vied for space in the dark with saucer-eyed rave explorers.
Dependably incendiary !
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - No Title
2
Bitter End - No Title
Ten releases in, and STILL far better than the rest
In a more raucous mood, it seems Bitter End have pre-empted the summer of debauchery ahead of us by unleashing their Sweetest exorcism yet...
ITCHICRICKITCH is the tweaking weirdo in the corner, the unsettling presence that invariably unites the room in the simplistic joy of judgement free release.
'PRINCESS' appeared on the flipside of a frankly far more regal diva originally on GALL005, here she's the smudged mascara version, much stroppier and not due home 'til way after sunrise.
As always, limited and LOUD More
In a more raucous mood, it seems Bitter End have pre-empted the summer of debauchery ahead of us by unleashing their Sweetest exorcism yet...
ITCHICRICKITCH is the tweaking weirdo in the corner, the unsettling presence that invariably unites the room in the simplistic joy of judgement free release.
'PRINCESS' appeared on the flipside of a frankly far more regal diva originally on GALL005, here she's the smudged mascara version, much stroppier and not due home 'til way after sunrise.
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - No Title
2
Bitter End - No Title
Nothing makes us jump up from the desk, shouting 'Whaaaaat ?' like a Bitter End new release ! The label continue to forge a path that's entirely their own, with another in the limited pre-release series...
'Kneel B4 Thelma' on side A, flips one of her biggest hits into an utterly futuristic cyborg-Soul anthem ! Almost as if we'd all forgotten how good one of Earth's greatest 20th century divas might sound over a filthy 21st century Klanken-banger !
On the flip 'Mast Song' transports us to a seaside tavern, where the old folks sit in the back, evoking (and imbibing) strong spirits, with traditional shanty's while the next generation find communion in the gentle throb of the 4/4 in the tap room next door
Light years ahead ! More
'Kneel B4 Thelma' on side A, flips one of her biggest hits into an utterly futuristic cyborg-Soul anthem ! Almost as if we'd all forgotten how good one of Earth's greatest 20th century divas might sound over a filthy 21st century Klanken-banger !
On the flip 'Mast Song' transports us to a seaside tavern, where the old folks sit in the back, evoking (and imbibing) strong spirits, with traditional shanty's while the next generation find communion in the gentle throb of the 4/4 in the tap room next door
Light years ahead ! More
1
bitter end - No Title
2
bitter end - No Title
3
bitter end - No Title
The Crooked Man returns to Bitter End with another in the limited pre-release series... 'Incapable' on side A, might just be the most uplifting hymn to emotional thick-skin you're ever likely to hear. On the flip we get the incendiary caribbean frug of 'Princess' paired with exceptional Jazz dancer 'Feeling You Feeling Me'
Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns
Light years ahead ! More
Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns
Light years ahead ! More
1
bitter end - No Title
2
bitter end - No Title
Bitter End continue to forge a path that's entirely their own, with another in the limited pre-release series...
'Dimension Extension' on side A, cooks up a sumptuously throbbing, cockle-warming Disco stew from the meagre ingredients of a sprouted wah wah guitar potato, brass carrots and a bouquet garni of dizzying strings. Yum
On the flip 'Be There Again' takes as inspiration a swirling Funk-Soul nugget from '77, augmented with some 21st century sonic sorcery and most welcome synth noodle in the 3rd act
Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns More
'Dimension Extension' on side A, cooks up a sumptuously throbbing, cockle-warming Disco stew from the meagre ingredients of a sprouted wah wah guitar potato, brass carrots and a bouquet garni of dizzying strings. Yum
On the flip 'Be There Again' takes as inspiration a swirling Funk-Soul nugget from '77, augmented with some 21st century sonic sorcery and most welcome synth noodle in the 3rd act
Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns More
1
bitter end - No Title
2
bitter end - No Title
The Crooked Man returns to Bitter End with an 'Emotional Copy Only' limited pre-release of powerful club pieces... Keen eyed aficionado's may spot the homage to Mel Cheron's classic US label West End Records here But while their motto may have been 'Where The Sun Sets & The Stars Rise' Bitter End Records embarks on a distinctly more 21st century path to dancefloor salvation...'Echo Loves Narcissus - Part 1' is the opening salvo in a sonic saga across four movements, marrying, as it does irresistibly uplifting chords and vocal ad-libs to a bass line so thick it'll rattle the windows right out of your ride and knock the tiles straight off the walls of your cerebral restroom.Once you've adequately composed yourselves, we invite you to the 11 minute MONSTER which is 'Get The Love' on the AA...This recalls the brief but genre defying 1990 jams from Mundo Muzique's 'Revelation' project: synth assisted house-nosis, buoyed by the mantric voice imploration to accept higher states of carnality atop an immersive blanket of propulsive rhythms.Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns
Light years ahead ! More
Light years ahead ! More
1
bitter end - Can't Stop
2
bitter end - Fat Of The Land
Bitter End emerge from the ashes of 2016 with a message of positivity and protest beamed from the near future Keen eyed aficionado's may spot the homage to Mel Cheron's classic US label West End Records here But while their motto may have been 'Where The Sun Sets & The Stars Rise' Bitter End Records embarks on a distinctly more 21st century path to dancefloor salvation... 003 sees a welcome return to utilising the full sonic reach of the 12" single, with these two 21st century power-dancers for strobe-lit moments of praise. 'Can't Stop' explores a Walter Gibbons approach to teasing a groove to within an inch of its life, and WHAT a groove. The Disco at the end of the universe may well be beaming this one up, such is its sheer intergalactic and unrelenting bad assery. We recently witnessed this unite a dancefloor in such wild abandon it should come with an age restriction ! Flip for Fat Of The Land A gorgeous and utterly absorbing, stripped back modern hymn The Bitter End - years ahead !
More
More records from Bitter End
1
Bitter End - Adjustment -> Love
2
Bitter End - Rivers
3
Bitter End - Maladjustment -> Love
4
Bitter End - Something Going Nowhere
It's fair to say this label, this producer has had more than their fair share of hits over the years.
Hitting you straight in the heart (and hips) sometimes and occasionally (and that's all your own fault) going over-your-head.
Regardless.
Whether rummaging around the sonic fringes or incanting pure dancefloor moments like this, Bitter End always, always deliver.
Adjustment->Love is the best thing we've heard this year.
The rest of the EP 'filler' is also better than anything else you're likely to encounter on a 12" this side of 2025.
Don't be an idiot - while everyone else if toeing the line, try your best to colour outside of it.
As always, limited and LOUD More
Hitting you straight in the heart (and hips) sometimes and occasionally (and that's all your own fault) going over-your-head.
Regardless.
Whether rummaging around the sonic fringes or incanting pure dancefloor moments like this, Bitter End always, always deliver.
Adjustment->Love is the best thing we've heard this year.
The rest of the EP 'filler' is also better than anything else you're likely to encounter on a 12" this side of 2025.
Don't be an idiot - while everyone else if toeing the line, try your best to colour outside of it.
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - U Up
2
Bitter End - U Dancin'
3
Bitter End - U Perfect
4
Bitter End - U Burnin'
A very welcome return to the Bitter Ends with an incendiary new 4 dimensional sonic assault !
Genre-wrecking, top spec modern funk as always !
As always, limited and LOUD More
Genre-wrecking, top spec modern funk as always !
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - The First Narcissus
2
Bitter End - Jealous Groove
It's only fair - in terms of universal balance - that stratospheric pop success should be countered with some gutter realism.
When you live round the Bitter Ends, a year of enforced curfew is the least of your worries.
That said, it speaks volumes that even the folder marked 'Alternative versions' is light years ahead of most of what passes for dance music in 2021.
Majestic, soaring, sonic sensations.
Dependably unbendable !
As always, limited and LOUD More
When you live round the Bitter Ends, a year of enforced curfew is the least of your worries.
That said, it speaks volumes that even the folder marked 'Alternative versions' is light years ahead of most of what passes for dance music in 2021.
Majestic, soaring, sonic sensations.
Dependably unbendable !
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - No Title
2
Bitter End - No Title
Bitter End continue to rip up the rule book with a genre defying output that's STILL far better than the rest
Release No.11 hits the ground running with a whiteboy Disco-Funk bomb on the A, a relentless gallop with soaring synth work and an unwavering commitment to uniting sweaty bodies.
BU BU YAM YAM on the AA is an equally irresistible Jazz-Funk looper which harks back to a time when spats and talc Jazz-dancers vied for space in the dark with saucer-eyed rave explorers.
Dependably incendiary !
As always, limited and LOUD More
Release No.11 hits the ground running with a whiteboy Disco-Funk bomb on the A, a relentless gallop with soaring synth work and an unwavering commitment to uniting sweaty bodies.
BU BU YAM YAM on the AA is an equally irresistible Jazz-Funk looper which harks back to a time when spats and talc Jazz-dancers vied for space in the dark with saucer-eyed rave explorers.
Dependably incendiary !
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - No Title
2
Bitter End - No Title
Ten releases in, and STILL far better than the rest
In a more raucous mood, it seems Bitter End have pre-empted the summer of debauchery ahead of us by unleashing their Sweetest exorcism yet...
ITCHICRICKITCH is the tweaking weirdo in the corner, the unsettling presence that invariably unites the room in the simplistic joy of judgement free release.
'PRINCESS' appeared on the flipside of a frankly far more regal diva originally on GALL005, here she's the smudged mascara version, much stroppier and not due home 'til way after sunrise.
As always, limited and LOUD More
In a more raucous mood, it seems Bitter End have pre-empted the summer of debauchery ahead of us by unleashing their Sweetest exorcism yet...
ITCHICRICKITCH is the tweaking weirdo in the corner, the unsettling presence that invariably unites the room in the simplistic joy of judgement free release.
'PRINCESS' appeared on the flipside of a frankly far more regal diva originally on GALL005, here she's the smudged mascara version, much stroppier and not due home 'til way after sunrise.
As always, limited and LOUD More
1
Bitter End - No Title
2
Bitter End - No Title
Nothing makes us jump up from the desk, shouting 'Whaaaaat ?' like a Bitter End new release ! The label continue to forge a path that's entirely their own, with another in the limited pre-release series...
'Kneel B4 Thelma' on side A, flips one of her biggest hits into an utterly futuristic cyborg-Soul anthem ! Almost as if we'd all forgotten how good one of Earth's greatest 20th century divas might sound over a filthy 21st century Klanken-banger !
On the flip 'Mast Song' transports us to a seaside tavern, where the old folks sit in the back, evoking (and imbibing) strong spirits, with traditional shanty's while the next generation find communion in the gentle throb of the 4/4 in the tap room next door
Light years ahead ! More
'Kneel B4 Thelma' on side A, flips one of her biggest hits into an utterly futuristic cyborg-Soul anthem ! Almost as if we'd all forgotten how good one of Earth's greatest 20th century divas might sound over a filthy 21st century Klanken-banger !
On the flip 'Mast Song' transports us to a seaside tavern, where the old folks sit in the back, evoking (and imbibing) strong spirits, with traditional shanty's while the next generation find communion in the gentle throb of the 4/4 in the tap room next door
Light years ahead ! More
1
bitter end - No Title
2
bitter end - No Title
3
bitter end - No Title
The Crooked Man returns to Bitter End with another in the limited pre-release series... 'Incapable' on side A, might just be the most uplifting hymn to emotional thick-skin you're ever likely to hear. On the flip we get the incendiary caribbean frug of 'Princess' paired with exceptional Jazz dancer 'Feeling You Feeling Me'
Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns
Light years ahead ! More
Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns
Light years ahead ! More
1
bitter end - No Title
2
bitter end - No Title
Bitter End continue to forge a path that's entirely their own, with another in the limited pre-release series...
'Dimension Extension' on side A, cooks up a sumptuously throbbing, cockle-warming Disco stew from the meagre ingredients of a sprouted wah wah guitar potato, brass carrots and a bouquet garni of dizzying strings. Yum
On the flip 'Be There Again' takes as inspiration a swirling Funk-Soul nugget from '77, augmented with some 21st century sonic sorcery and most welcome synth noodle in the 3rd act
Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns More
'Dimension Extension' on side A, cooks up a sumptuously throbbing, cockle-warming Disco stew from the meagre ingredients of a sprouted wah wah guitar potato, brass carrots and a bouquet garni of dizzying strings. Yum
On the flip 'Be There Again' takes as inspiration a swirling Funk-Soul nugget from '77, augmented with some 21st century sonic sorcery and most welcome synth noodle in the 3rd act
Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns More
1
bitter end - No Title
2
bitter end - No Title
The Crooked Man returns to Bitter End with an 'Emotional Copy Only' limited pre-release of powerful club pieces... Keen eyed aficionado's may spot the homage to Mel Cheron's classic US label West End Records here But while their motto may have been 'Where The Sun Sets & The Stars Rise' Bitter End Records embarks on a distinctly more 21st century path to dancefloor salvation...'Echo Loves Narcissus - Part 1' is the opening salvo in a sonic saga across four movements, marrying, as it does irresistibly uplifting chords and vocal ad-libs to a bass line so thick it'll rattle the windows right out of your ride and knock the tiles straight off the walls of your cerebral restroom.Once you've adequately composed yourselves, we invite you to the 11 minute MONSTER which is 'Get The Love' on the AA...This recalls the brief but genre defying 1990 jams from Mundo Muzique's 'Revelation' project: synth assisted house-nosis, buoyed by the mantric voice imploration to accept higher states of carnality atop an immersive blanket of propulsive rhythms.Once again Bitter End rips up the rule book, and crafts a whole set of new, better ones in which freedom reigns
Light years ahead ! More
Light years ahead ! More
1
bitter end - Can't Stop
2
bitter end - Fat Of The Land
Bitter End emerge from the ashes of 2016 with a message of positivity and protest beamed from the near future Keen eyed aficionado's may spot the homage to Mel Cheron's classic US label West End Records here But while their motto may have been 'Where The Sun Sets & The Stars Rise' Bitter End Records embarks on a distinctly more 21st century path to dancefloor salvation... 003 sees a welcome return to utilising the full sonic reach of the 12" single, with these two 21st century power-dancers for strobe-lit moments of praise. 'Can't Stop' explores a Walter Gibbons approach to teasing a groove to within an inch of its life, and WHAT a groove. The Disco at the end of the universe may well be beaming this one up, such is its sheer intergalactic and unrelenting bad assery. We recently witnessed this unite a dancefloor in such wild abandon it should come with an age restriction ! Flip for Fat Of The Land A gorgeous and utterly absorbing, stripped back modern hymn The Bitter End - years ahead !
More