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Hot on the heels of releases from Tom Shorterz, Bodhi and DJ Haus, Rinse continue to roll them out and present their latest from a label favourite - Rupert Taylor a.k.a xxxy. With a back catalogue that's touched Ten Thousand Yen, Pollen, Well Rounded and Orca, xxxy is an artist who has astutely touched on many bases and evinced a serious knack for turning his hand to the variety of styles that build the broad genre of Bass music. This: his latest 'Regrets' EP stands to illustrate this knack perfectly and is a vibrant blend of analogue drums, swooning synths and thick, warm bass tones. The title track kicks things off with sharp hats galloping atop brooding chord changes before filters open up and build a thick and tense tone. Tense, jarring stabs push progress forwards before 12049 drives a rubbery and reverberated kick under softly warped synth tones and stripped but purposeful percussion. Over Peover then sits a panned synth string circling atop tough, crunching percussion and a propulsive synth riff. A rich, heart-rending bass tone is driven in beneath ahead of a rapturous, elongated breakdown that wraps up another coup for Rinse and a solid addition to the catalogue.
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The next release on Rinse is the second in a series of three EPs of gorgeous, punch-drunk house music from label regular Rupert Taylor, aka Xxxy. The follow-up to last year's acclaimed 18 Hours, it's a further spiral inwards for the tripped-out, wistful style he's increasingly come to make distinctly his own, with clouds of arpeggiated synth notes and vapourised voice rolling atop pillow-soft, droning bass. melody and disembodied vocals. Yet listen closer - or at peak time - and it's deceptively tough, building to a mesmerising blur of colour amid body-shuddering kickdrums. In contrast, 'Lately' is one of the brightest and most upfront Xxxy tracks to date, with its major key melody, synthetic chord stabs and spiralling momentum channeling both the spirit of electro pop and the futurist impulses of early Detroit techno - a heady cocktail. EP closer 'Close The Door Behind You' occupies a perfect middle point between the two; an eerie, noise-scratched slow-build leads to a sudden explosion of energy, with a barrage of bass swoops and hi-hats abruptly sweeping the dancefloor upward as it goes.




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The next release on Rinse is the 18 Hours EP, the latest missive of stargazing, spaced-out house from label regular Rupert Taylor, aka XXXY. Over the last few years Taylor's music has formed a launch pad for his explorations of the styles that fascinate him, from the heartbeat swing of UK garage to lysergic experimentation and the heady pulse of peak-time house. The 18 Hours EP follows up this year's deliriously catchy Rinse single 'Never Enough' and the arrow-sharp 'Goldfish' on Ten Thousand Yen. Each of its three tracks captures the XXXY sound from a distinctly different angle, but they're united by his music's long-running personality traits: a devilish ear for space and melody, which bubbles through even its starkest moments. '18 Hours' itself is a gorgeous, limpid whirlpool of a club track. Rolling out over nearly six minutes, it emerges from shimmery beginnings into a wave-like rush of drums and synthlines that seethes forward and repeatedly crests in eddies of harmonic activity. The EP's other two tracks are among XXXY's hardest-hitting floor burners to date: 'Tool (Satire Mix)' is a tough, bristling mass of acidic bleeps and steely percussion custom honed for maximum impact in the early hours. 'Clap Pitch' is harder still: perhaps the freakiest XXXY track to date, it razes the dancefloor in salvos of static, distortion and wild electronic shrieks.

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London-based producer and Rinse FM associate Rupert Taylor, aka XXXY, has announced his second release for the Rinse label, featuring a pair of characteristically melody soaked, 'floor ready house tracks. It's the follow up to 2013?s incendiary club hit 'Got Me So', and is the latest in a series of releases from Taylor exploring ghostly house and garage for labels including Infrasonics, Ten Thousand Yen and Orca. Once again, what marks out XXXY's style is his deft way with synthesised melody: alongside sampled voices, everything is drenched in shimmering, spiralling lead lines that bubble with energy. 'Never Enough' builds from a minimalist, dubbed-out opening into a streamlined, acid-flecked house rhythm, whose central bass motif springs wildly around the mix like a rubber ball. 'No More' drops listeners and DJs right into the action from the beginning, coasting upward upon a deliriously catchy three-note organ motif that feels like being thrust into the middle of a peak-time club set. It crescendos with a huge, reverberant breakdown, before a shower of melodic fragments rain down like shards of shattered glass, sending the track into joyful overdrive.
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"I made another record for the lovely Welshmen at Ten Thousand Yen. The A side is an arpy thing with bass the flip is a vocally thing with bass. They both contain breakdowns - please don't hold this against me xoxo”

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London's XXXY goes ALL CITY with these two dope cuts...2 track 12 from Manchester born, London based producer XXXY. Combining an intense work-rate with a fusion of classic and new styles this is another fine 12 to add to his burgeoning discography. Brimming with energy the A side Kerpow is a dense cocktail of detailed arrangement and mutated bass styles with the flip side slowly building to a booming climax around an infectious vocal hook! Full colour hand drawn Pop Art cover... More

Final volume in the ‘WALK.MAN’ mix series. A 4 track of burners and disco thuds.
‘CLOUD BREAK’ bolts out the blocks with deadly bongo drums and heady vocal whilst ‘DON’T YOU?' opens it out on the breakdown with xxxy. ‘MAGNOLIA' is looped up phaser disco distilled. Finished with the glacial ‘UR SALVATION’.
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Hot on the heels of both Save Me and the Robert Owens collab is the third instalment of the WALK.MAN series. Big wide-eyed club womper ‘Better Dayz’ on the A and the subtler soul rolla ‘Stay Away From Music’ on the flip. These go off. The WALK.MAN mixtape will be released in full on Cassette and Digital at the end of the Summer.
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Vol. 1 of Doc Daneeka’s Mixtape series ‘WALK.MAN’ This is the first in a series of 12”s dropping over the next few months, & will be compiled into a mixtape on Cassette and Digital at the end of the Summer. Before we announce the guest vocalists on the rest of the mix, get stuck into this summer soul burner.

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The boy, Mickey Pearce, back on Yen after dropping a beauty of an album on Swamp 81 this year. Banging, rapscallion beats.
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Mystic heaters from the one they call Deadboy. A debut on Yen and first output from his new Montreal HQ. Ten Of Cups ambient version is vinyl only.
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4 rather good arias by Manchester’s finest xo. More

Warm house heaters from label boss Doc Daneeka.

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Underground artists to emerge over the last few years. Combining a bruk shuffle with a natural flare for techno, Presk has been carving out his own subtle niche since 2011. Each track on this release stands tall alone, showcasing Presks natural leanings, from the raw broken funk hit of 'Saluki', the warped techno of 'Mod1 & Rais' to the deft touch of 'Vigor'. This is Presk at his very best, showing whats to come of this exciting producer and marking a very fitting return to the label. With support already from Gilles Peterson and a prime slot on Jackmaster’s soon-to-become- legendary Mastermix 4, Saluki is set to be around for a while. Don't sleep on this one.
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"I made another record for the lovely Welshmen at Ten Thousand Yen. The A side is an arpy thing with bass the flip is a vocally thing with bass. They both contain breakdowns - please don't hold this against me xoxo”

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We are extremely pleased to announce the return of one of our favourite Welsh producers back to Yen. Chesus (pronounced chay -zuss) is C from C.R.S.T., half of Darkhouse Fam and the one and only Metabeats fresh from his recent hip hop smash "Hookers" with Action Bronson. So apart from having a finger in just about every conceivable pie, Chesus is going back to his house roots on this solo project, which features the local talents, also making a fair name for themselves,The Organ Grinder and Didz. This is an E.P. of classic house smashers, harking back to the house heyday of the 90's but with a production twist from 2012. Throw ya hands up!

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"I was introduced to Abi at the end of 2010 through a mutual friend - Johnny Dub who co- runs the excellent Manchester night hoya:hoya. Instantly I was blown away by her voice. I sent her some stuff that was on a slightly different tip to my usual beats. She dug it, sent it back, I worked on it some more - Tobyjug was born and i'm glad to say it has been the start of a long working relationship and friendship. We worked together a lot last year on her solo material and the year culminated in Abi flying to Berlin to work with Benjamin Damage and I on our recent album They!Live. I love this song. Hope you do too x" Doc Daneeka Jan 2012 More

Ten Thousand Yen is proud to present our new signing: Presk. He weighs in with the sublime 4 track Love Again E.P. as the first ever 12" on TTY.
We first came across Presk in Eindhoven last year playing support for Doc Daneeka. He played a set of straight original material and tore the place down. ?Since then we've heckled and begged until he finally signed his life away to us, and now that we own his soul we plan on sharing it with you. This E.P. comes correct for 2011 - with Presk riding off the back off a cheeky Tyler remix that is messing up dancefloors and topping charts all over the shop. Sharp edged rhythmic dance music with a distinctly techno lean - we really love the tunes and are super excited about this release, hope you're feeling them too. Each vinyl order includes a download code for instant MP3 / FLAC / WAV format.

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