Bax is back. First released in 2011, Mosca’s UKG homage, ‘Bax’, did big things when it landed. Almost 10 years on, it’s time for a repress.

Though Mosca missed the golden era of garage in the nineties, he caught on to darkside pioneers such as Horsepower Productions, Benny Ill and El-B later on. A blend of homegrown British styles lies at the core of his electronic music influences, early dubstep, jungle, minimal grime and bassline, which he’d experienced first-hand at Sheffield’s legendary Niche club. (Little known fact: The name Bax is a partial nod to Steve Baxendale, the man behind Niche).

All these elements coalesced in the studio and the two-tracker materialised in a couple of days. Both sides of the record do their thing on the floor; ‘Bax’ with its now infamous ‘My DJ is live in the place’ sample, that earworm melody and a ruffneck b-line.

On the flip ‘Done Me Wrong’ sees Mosca incorporate several key garage tropes; the bassline swinging alongside soulful vocals (which get sliced and diced), not forgetting that cheeky rewind.

My DJ is back in the place... More

Delving deep in to his dub chamber, Mosca delivers a pair of upfront rhythms for Livity Sound. 'Don't Take..' hits hard, it's whiplash groove fine tuned for maximum dance floor impact. By contrast 'Peyote Stitch' takes a deeper approach, it's hazy spectral visions sat atop low slung drums in trademark Mosca style.
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In Mosca's own words, this release embodies "melting Miami, Rio, a field just outside the M25 and The Bronx into modern-day London." More

‘I'd been thinking about starting a label for a few years but it never really seemed like it could work. Nowadays there's more coherence in my productions it seems like the right time. I'll be releasing music from other artists as well my own stuff - underground house, techno and the rest, stuff with darkness and sexiness. Hopefully it's music that will speak to (somebody's) heart as well as their feet. The first release is called No Splice No Playback and it's two tracks of house music. Vinny (Flamingo) is a basement thing, Suckle (Twenties) works in warehouses too. Thanks for reading. More

Mosca drops some killers on Ann Aimee!! Fine work!


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he next release on Hypercolour is a rather large one that has been pursued for a while: an EP from multi-genre explorer, 3024/Numbers alumni and all round badman Tom Reid aka Mosca. Across four tracks and one digital bonus, the pioneering producer offers up his own unique view of house music.
Somewhat appropriating his game to fit with the utterly modern club vibes of Hypercolour, opening track ?Eva Mendes? is a bouncy house track through and through. It?s a fulsome, cantering arrangement peppered with typically well designed hits, a subtle breakdown and plenty of neon colour come the second half? classy floor filling business, to be sure. Next track ?Accidentally? has legendary house vocalist Robert Owens contributing a sometimes
dark, sometimes more sensuous spoken word monologue to Mosca?s glitchy, warehouse styled beats and bubbling, scattered synth work: it?s muscular in make up but human in spirit and you also get a voiceless dub version on the digi release. More

llum Sphere employs a stellar cast from some the most prescient producers working today to remix a selection of his previously released material.Most of those on remix duty are long time friends of Illum Sphere's Hoya:Hoya, the highly respected Manchester based club & label. Remixes include a rare outing from the impeccable Dabrye, Hyperdub's Ikonika, Scumbag from the much hyped Seattle outfit Crime Killz, the recently prolific Om Unit & First Word Record's stalwart, Kidkanevil. More

The third part of our Producer#3 series. Following his recent release on the Manchester based Mind On Fire label, Danny Drive Thru provides two tracks for Producer#3. Eclipsemoonsun is a deeply burnt piece of atmospheric cimematica, smouldering & minimal. Crumbling drums merge with ethereal voices & weightless keys, its 3 minutes of disintegrating funk. Marcus Intalex under his new Trevino alias remixes. In line with his recent tracks for Martyn’s 3024 label & Scuba’s DJ Kicks mix he pushes the tempo to create a technoid stepper. Its a dusky production in the 130 bpm realm with a warm electro flourish and darker acidic undercurrent. After including his smash-up of the “death star theme” on Producer#2 and dropping his debut vinyl with the Cakeology E.P in 2010, the green llama aka Mr Dibiase returns once again to Fat City. Its classic Dibiase, all raw, chopped & loose around the lines, ripping apart some spaced soul parts in trademark wacked-out -cosmic fashion. Danny Drive Thru finishes off with his cover of MOP’s “Ante Up”. Included on the Producer#2 cd, the repsonse was so good we had to do vinyl. Virtual voices mix with lo-fi keys and beats. Tongue-in-cheek, clever, funny & addictive. More

Much hyped previously unreleased remix of Blackpocket ( Steve Spacek ) track from producer#1 album More