Weighing in with more of the deadly payloads that make systems weep, Alan Johnson return to Sneaker Social Club to finish what they started on 2022’s The Stillness EP.
Gareth and Tom’s sharp instinct for the fundamentals of crushing half-step pressure remain undiminished on this latest EP. Their sound palette reaches across contrasting strands of music culture, and every bar is teeming with micro details of sound design which give the tracks a living, breathing quality.

Ten Year Tonnage splits the EP open in whipcrack snares, DMZ flutes and a thick bed of sub, constantly shifting and teasing roots drops before opening up the mids and letting the low end snarl.

The chord hook on ‘Shapeshifter’ nudges towards some bold rave shapes, but there’s restraint and poise in the way the sounds get deployed. The Johnson way is one of suffocating space and uneasy tension, which obviously creates the best kind of dancefloor drama. As ‘Muay Size’ ably demonstrates, the likely lads are happy to pare a tune back to a skeletal framework and keep dancers waiting. When the pay-off comes, it’s not what you might expect, and that’s precisely why their sound is fresher than yours.

‘People Of The World’ goes even further out as it staggers and stumbles through skewed jazz samples and snatches of drums being thrown across the room. For all the splaying angles, there’s still a rock solid weight to the tune which proves Alan Johnson are more than comfortable taking things out to a weird fringe without losing their swagger.

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excellent label follows up Jab Jab from Grenada and juke from Chicago with rough, ramped, Bristolian, new-school-old-school dubstep from the Pennine way.

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Tracklisting
A1 Sonic - intro
A2 Sonic - SQ1x2
A3 Sonic - voodoo magick
B1 Sonic - traffic
B2 Sonic - the holy breaks
B3 Sonic - manchester tramen
C1 Sonic - lighthouse psv
C2 Sonic - iceberg
C3 Sonic - anonymous
D1 Sonic - fatal crash test
D2 Sonic - formee
D3 Sonic - the shadow and the light

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With 30 copies only available (of 200 pressed), Sonic delivers a haunting and timeless body of work with seamless cohesion on the much-loved YUKU label.

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A1 Aroma Nice - containr
A2 Aroma Nice - bmw with blacked out windows and 2 subs in the back blasting michael bolton
A3 Aroma Nice - moan
B1 Aroma Nice - 15 thousand nutters
B2 Aroma Nice - An Ode To No One
B3 Aroma Nice - animosity funk

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40 copies available (of LTD pressing 200)
Transparent vinyl with splashes of colour
When conceptual art really kicked off in the mid twentieth century, many of its protagonists were so determined to purge art of its decorative frilliness, they turned more and more towards words, or rather, lack thereof. The likes of Duchamp, Dali, Breton, Reinhardt, each uncensored by the rational mind, made moves towards the absurd and the sublime, with varying
degrees of success and failure alike.

In this piece, what one finds is the artist attempting to convey a number of things, and asking a number of questions of us as the listener what do we seek in such art? In which ways are tobe intellectually, spiritually and sexually fulfilled by its visceral and confrontational abandonment of conventions? Is it incongruous
juxtaposition? Does it lead us as the audience to question
ourselves as living breathing beings, our hopes and truths, and our benign tastes so often dictating our choice and free will?

The piece is a natural extension of surrealism, dadaism and indulgence, themselves often strange bedfellows. Elaborate and provocative in its execution, displaying a signature of insatiable curiosity, and leaving no stone unturned, it portrays the artist as a provocateur of postmodernism, mysticism, and decadence.

It transgresses the elusive world of the subconscious more imaginatively than previous offerings. Its also a piece which stitches together the scraps of art and culture, politics and poetry, and science and exotica that could often be found in the Southport of the late noughties and beyond. An extremely clever conceit there could be any manner of things concealed within this record, but we as the listener will never know because as as soon as one opens the record, the art is destroyed, the value is lost, so we will never, ever find out.

Ones most overriding sensation is that the piece feels like a shit filled hand grenade which the artist has flung into our collective psyche. It is quite simply, a joke, and a very poor joke.

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Tracklisting:
A1 Joaquín Cornejo - Immaterial
A2 Joaquín Cornejo - Ranas de Cristal
A3 Joaquín Cornejo - Rue
A4 Joaquín Cornejo - Murmuration
B1 Joaquín Cornejo - Mas Alla Que Aca
B2 Joaquín Cornejo - Buma II
B3 Joaquín Cornejo - Cuica
B4 Joaquín Cornejo - Borraja

Sales Note
"Creating this record took me around 2 years, I was moving quite a bit, without a steady working or living space, travelling and playing live again for the first time since the pandemic. At first there was creative insecurity and many abandoned ideas, I wanted to make something special for YUKU but everything felt dry and soulless. In my head this was supposed to be a dancefloor record, but this idea quickly became an obstruction in my creative flow.

During this time I started learning modular synthesis, and although there was definitely a learning curve this method of making music gave the record direction and refreshed my way to approach composition. It is also very fun to learn. What came out is a collage of sorts that is more honest and reflective of my emotions and those of the people and spaces that I have exchanged with. Thanks to YUKU and the amazing people that took part in this record and in my life in the past two years. Hope you all enjoy."

- Joaquin Cornejo

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Tracklisting:
A1 Lazarus - Elegy
A2 Lazarus - A44E
A3 Lazarus - Apnoe
B1 Lazarus - Infinite Trust
B2 Lazarus - Missile
B3 Lazarus - Taiko FM
C1 Lazarus - Combat Ego
C2 Lazarus - T.O.U
C3 Lazarus - Komazawa
D1 Lazarus - Welt Als Wille
D2 Lazarus - Deliverance
D3 Lazarus - Mimoto

Sales Note
"He spoke to the sand. It explained to him that the wind could take him and carry him across the desert and then he could become a stream again. He asked if he would then remain the same as before? The sand answered him that this was not possible, because his essence would be carried away and would again form a stream. He would be called what he is even today, because he did not know which part in him was the essential one."
- Lazarus

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Tracklisting:
A1 Small Export - Top Key
A2 Small Export - Ginz Reload
B1 Small Export - Hypertension
B2 Small Export - Ski Mask Techno

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A new name joins the array of anonymous white labels on YUKU that have been doing the rounds and generating a fair bit of hushed hype among the heads.


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Tracklisting:
A1 Henry Greenleaf - Dog Eared
A2 Henry Greenleaf - Ithaca Vox
A3 Henry Greenleaf - Bubble Trouble
B1 Henry Greenleaf - Dive
B2 Henry Greenleaf - From Window to Wall
B3 Henry Greenleaf & Delay Grounds - Calpohol

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"Dog Eared"! Named as such as it marks a turning point in my productions and releases. Made while moving from Bristol back to London this as a theme pops up throughout the EP.

"Ithaca Vox" is the name of my first ever favourite preset - a CMI-inspired pad from GarageBand which I've been using since I was 11 but never on a release. The track also samples the screeching of Victoria line on my way back from nights out.

"Bubble Trouble" caused many headaches to finish hence the addition of the word "Trouble". The track pops, floats and bursts into the space between simplistic cartoon sound sources and excessively over the top sound design and production.

"Dive" dives further into these production ideas swapping tight space tiny bubbles for wide grinning resonance. The twisting track cuts these resonances leaving a large valley of missing frequencies that gets suddenly filled by an unrelentingly simple bell centring the listeners balance.

"From Window to Wall" gives a not so subtle nod to one of my favourite excessive chart hits as well as a further nod to the source of some of the track samples (see if you spot them).

"Calpohol" is the first collaboration Ive released (another reason to Dog Ear this release). Made from an afternoon of recording with Delay Grounds on his custom Eurorack the track was shaped by us over the weeks that followed.

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Tracklisting:
A1 Whylie - All My Hopes
A2 Whylie - In The Sky
A3 Whylie feat. Softblade - We Follow
B1 Whylie - Against Them
B2 Whylie - The Stars
B3 Whylie - And Everything Else

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Tracklisting:
A1 Ikawa - Feel
A2 Ikawa - Dance
B1 Ikawa - Power
B2 Ikawa - Bounce

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Following up their sold-out split plate with Kliptown for the YUKU vinyl-only white label series, Ikawa returns with a plate of their own, laced with groove and style.


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Tracklisting:
A1 Granul - Aksayan
A2 Granul - Syncopated
A3 Granul - Improper
A4 Granul - Creative Block
A5 Granul - 3ajayeb
B1 Granul - New Proper
B2 Granul - Checksum
B3 Granul & Grup Ses - 6 Milyon
B4 Granul - Break C5

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Counting from one to ten is one of the first things we learn when we try to speak a new language. It's also a universal language we use in our beats. Numbers are the inspiration source of this album, and its roots are in the inherent rhythmical existence of numbers in music. There is a numerical theme in all the tracks. Every number matches with different grooves and rhythms, and it all comes together around a single "groove pallet".
- Granul

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Tracklisting:
A1 TRAKA - Yosai (Commodo remix)
A2 TRAKA feat. Killa P - Start Taking Note (Muqata'a remix)
B1 Granul - Deformity (Jtamul remix)
B2 Granul - Interconnected (ISKELETOR remix)


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Tracklisting:
A1 Fiesta Soundsystem - delphic scent
A2 Fiesta Soundsystem - weavewrithe
A3 Fiesta Soundsystem - first flourish (then die)
B1 Fiesta Soundsystem - residuae ls
B2 Fiesta Soundsystem - veil
B3 Fiesta Soundsystem - diaphphanousdiaphophresis
C1 Fiesta Soundsystem - e13 (x)elf-out
C2 Fiesta Soundsystem - IR cursive crud bible
C3 Fiesta Soundsystem - glistensoftt
D1 Fiesta Soundsystem - 2nd (x)-elfout
D2 Fiesta Soundsystem - Messy Tesselation
D3 Fiesta Soundsystem - 3rd aspect

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Fiesta Soundsystem arrives on the burgeoning YUKU imprint with a fiercely experimental and timeless album - "Sinking" - which simultaneously draws on the nostalgic complexity of IDM and breakcore while leaning heavily into the future on the artist's own unique terms.

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Tracklisting:
A1 Hidden Element - Offset Range1
A2 Hidden Element - The Wall
A3 Hidden Element - Runnin' Out
B1 Hidden Element - Vezhlivy Otkaz
B2 Hidden Element - 99
B3 Hidden Element - Offset Range (Tim Reaper remix)

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"Hello, my friends. It's a big honor for me to release this EP on YUKU because I sincerely love lots of releases of this label and follow them practically since the day they started. I've created 5 tracks specially for this release.

They turned out to be very diverse, quite different, but at the same time cohesive.
5 tracks - like 5 variations and 5 stairs of my life. The cover by my friend, Kyiv-based artist Bohdan Burenko, perfectly outlines the mood of this EP. It shows 5 faces, 5 characters, and 5 stories.

I should mention that some demos for these tracks I wrote back in 2018, when I lived in California. And the basis for 'The Wall' I wrote in the suburbs of Los Angeles in a small town Walnut. This explains the song title. Back then, I listened to a lot of old-school Metalheadz tracks, and I guess this music had a big impact on the atmosphere of this track. Same story with 'Runnin' Out' - I made the demo in US, then finished it when I was preparing the release for YUKU. 'Offset Range1' is my personal favorite. I wrote it in Kyiv, when I had Covid and was tweaking knobs on my sampler and automation on my synth. 99' is my nostalgia for good ol' breakbeat and 'Vezhlivy Otkaz' has the most unusual drop I have ever written. Of course, it's an honor for me to have a remix by Tim Reaper on board, because I'm his fan.

I'm writing this text now in Kyiv. Because of Russian invasion, I'm not sure what my future will be like, but I don't see any reason to postpone this release. All the profit from this EP I'd like to send for the charity & restoration of the infrastructure of Ukraine.

Big thanks to YUKU team for understanding, professionalism and support."
Igor (Hidden Element)

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red vinyl / printed outer sleeve + inner sleeve / 180 grams

Tracklisting:
A1 Current Value - Focus Point
A2 Current Value - Weight
A3 Current Value - Greed
A4 Current Value - Reverendous
B1 Current Value - Platinum Scatter
B2 Current Value - Anchor
B3 Current Value - TNM
C1 Current Value - Miles to Go
C2 Current Value - Eternal Recurrence
C3 Current Value - Running State
C4 Current Value - Deep Mind
D1 Current Value - Transscript
D2 Current Value - Fallout
D3 Current Value - Procedure

Sales Note
"Platinum Scatter is a trip along the fringes of music that could still be classified as drum and bass but without the obvious markings of the genre while meeting and merging with forms of techno or music from the wider bass spectrum. I designed this album to be something of a focused journey that should work equally as a cerebral listening experience as much as it should function in clubs. I consider this to be my most conceptual body of work to date, and I hope that you will enjoy its approach to multi-layered rhythms and minimal but striking forms."
- Current Value

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Tracklisting:
A1 Kliptown - Shifty Rhythms
A2 Kliptown - Stay
B1 Kliptown - Sunday Groove
B2 Kliptown - Maakul

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YUKU's fourth record in what's becoming a increasingly sought after vinyl-only series of anonymous white labels brings the mysterious Kliptown alias back for a solo release. Extremely fun and versatile 130-140 bpm broken beat weapons.


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full colour sleeve / clear vinyl /180 grams

Tracklisting:
A1 TRAKA - The Score
A2 TRAKA - Vodja
A3 TRAKA feat. Riko dan - Lead Splitter
A4 TRAKA - Straight Wheel Up
A5 TRAKA - Stay In Your Lane
B1 TRAKA - Tame the Beast
B2 TRAKA feat. Warrior Queen - Monstas
B3 TRAKA - Deviant
B4 TRAKA - Conquistador

Release Note:
"Monstas brings out our street and theatrical sides to a fiasco, combining Grime/Dub MC's and tunes to make a Soundtrack-like experience. The release also marks an end of a Trilogy - which allows us to wrap up our sonic architect skills, and to start from scratch, to dive deep in the unknown - audio and visually."
- TRAKA


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Tracklisting:
A1 Imaginary Number - Push
A2 Imaginary Number - Grv
B1 Imaginary Number - Somebody
B2 Imaginary Number - Fools



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full colour sleeve / dark marbled vinyl / 180 grams

Tracklisting:
A1 Chrizpy Chriz - Mongolian Death Worm
A2 Chrizpy Chriz - Straight Beat
A3 Chrizpy Chriz - A Genre
A4 Chrizpy Chriz - Plunge
A5 Chrizpy Chriz - He Who Speaks
A6 Chrizpy Chriz - Atargatis
B1 Chrizpy Chriz - China Town
B2 Chrizpy Chriz - Human Ears
B3 Chrizpy Chriz - Purified Stress
B4 Chrizpy Chriz feat. Subp Yao - Ballast Tank
B5 Chrizpy Chriz - Her Eyes

Release Note
"This album is intended to be a journey through every genre of music that I love the most. It was inspired through the use of a vast number of tools and foley recordings. As an artist I force myself to be versatile while keeping my own touch on the music I create. Much of the creative ideas behind this album were inspired by the feeling of loss, a loss of attachment to any of the restraints and walls I had created within my art. I am never pushing for a specific sound, I go with my subconscious flow. Once again my grandpa has continued to inspire me through his art. Every time I get to work with him I feel grateful. I am so lucky to have the chance to pair his art with mine."
--Chrizpy Chriz



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full colour sleeve / light blue vinyl / 180 grams

Tracklisting:
A1 The Science - Come by the River
A2 The Science - Embryo
A3 The Science - Embryo (Azaleh remix)
B1 The Science - Come by the River (Om Unit remix)
B2 The Science - Embryo (Subp Yao remix)



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