Monthly Supply - May

10 FAVOURITE RELEASES FROM THE PAST FEW WEEKS, SELECTED BY THE NOWADAYS MAGAZINE TEAM.

Klangkollektor - Dub Tapes Volume 1

This debut release from Klangkollektor has been developing for some time, liberated from Lars' hard drive and mastered by the Franconian Conny Plank - Frank Mollena (Bambi Davidson). Brought to vinyl by awesome Jason Boardman from Manchester/UK.

Sentena & DJ Spence - Smoke Barometer

Bent downtempo and no tempo half and whole things from a wide time span with noise in between.

Tony Price - Bail Bonds

Raw Chicago flavored house tracks from Tony Price -his first release since his album "IBM Contra on L.I.E.S. Onesided 12" 14 minutes of stone cold house music spread out over several tracks and interludes. Limited stock white label "test pressings" in paper sleeves. "Crude, rude, immediate and unrefined.

L.B.Dub Corp - Saturn To Home

After a five year hiatus Luke Slater reanimates his L.B. Dub Corp alias for a dynamic, vocal-led ode to the club featuring Robert Owens, Paul St. Hilaire, Miss Kittin and more. The LP is set to release on 24th of May 2024 on the Amsterdam based Dekmantel Records.

Since his first forays into DJing, Luke Slater has been pursuing different streams of inspiration to wind up with some of the most enduring electronic music of the past 30 years. From the grandiose ambient techno of The 7th Plain to the trailblazing machine funk of Planetary Assault Systems, he’s gifted a lot of music to the world. His L.B. Dub Corp alias first emerged in 2006, and has since been a vessel for a looser approach to club music compared to the steely big room energy of P.A.S. At times it’s housier, elsewhere dubbier, but still logically attached to Slater’s overall arc as an artist and music lover.

musclecars - Sugar Honey Iced Tea!

Sugar Honey Iced Tea! is the highly anticipated debut album from musclecars, set for a May 2024 release on BBE Music. Having already established their presence in the club scene, from the joyous atmosphere of their Coloring Lessons parties to their residency at Nowadays in NYC, and with genre-bending performances worldwide, musclecars are eager to unveil this new world they've intentionally crafted.

This forthcoming album comprises 13 tracks that sonically come together to offer a profound lens into the Afro-American experience. Themes range from joy, to loss, intimacy, helplessness, perseverance, and all the facets that lie in between. From the very first tune, musclecars set the tone with an exploration of afro-dystopia, carrying listeners through the entire album whilst creating imaginary futures born out of self-preservation and self-discovery.

REZZETT - Puddings

Some 8 years since they dropped ‘Rupez’ on Rz, the duo expand the dubplate-only pressing of its core cuts with a full course of wistfully wired, flavoursome audities.

The dubplate cuts are intact in the skewed, spongiform dub satellite ’Sticky Toffee’ and the percolated lo-fi bop ‘Spotted Dick’, which sounds like a particularly knackered Actress, and now come bookended by two exclusive new ones. The scrappy stepper ‘Plum Duff’ feels as though they’re pushing on the ear’s eyeballs until everything smudges to a pink/orange gauze, eventually resolving thru tumbling filtration to a gunky techno step, and ‘Treacle’ is just pure sublime noise vapour, groggy as fuck.

Tom Carruthers - Cold World EP

"Here he's in classic, vintage and authentic Chicago house mode, traversing various shades from deeper celestial moods to darker warehouse jackers and acid. Think classic Trax, DJ International, House Nation, Rockin' House, and Westside. For real!"

Ludwig A.F. - Halo

Beloved German producer Ludwig A.F. lands on Ghostly's Spectral Sound imprint for Halo, a five-track EP overflowing with playful, melodic dance and ambient music. Across coveted releases for Unknown To The Unknown and his own label Exo Recordings International, including the 2018 breakthrough EP Velocity, Ludwig has displayed "a penchant for dreamy '90s moods," writes Resident Advisor. While Ludwig eschews genre conventions, RA clocks traces of jungle, IDM, breakbeat, techno, early trance, and progressive house in his far-reaching sonic repertoire. For Halo, the first in a wave of forthcoming LAF releases, Ludwig evolves the signature sound — mystical pads, pizzicato strings, and catchy rhythms — keeping the energy high and bass-heavy, paying particular attention to breakbeat dynamics. A futuristic, parallel-universe take on the classic UK style, he explains: "It's present in the way the drums work, how the drums are programmed, and how they swing in my abstracted way."

Kyle Hall - Transmissions

Beloved German producer Ludwig A.F. lands on Ghostly's Spectral Sound imprint for Halo, a five-track EP overflowing with playful, melodic dance and ambient music. Across coveted releases for Unknown To The Unknown and his own label Exo Recordings International, including the 2018 breakthrough EP Velocity, Ludwig has displayed "a penchant for dreamy '90s moods," writes Resident Advisor. While Ludwig eschews genre conventions, RA clocks traces of jungle, IDM, breakbeat, techno, early trance, and progressive house in his far-reaching sonic repertoire. For Halo, the first in a wave of forthcoming LAF releases, Ludwig evolves the signature sound — mystical pads, pizzicato strings, and catchy rhythms — keeping the energy high and bass-heavy, paying particular attention to breakbeat dynamics. A futuristic, parallel-universe take on the classic UK style, he explains: "It's present in the way the drums work, how the drums are programmed, and how they swing in my abstracted way."

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DFD - DFD EP

Down Low Music returns with a catalog number reserved for over 20 years, dL-006. Circa 2002, after releasing music from artists such as Stinkworx, Plastic Sleeves, Convextion and Macho Cat Garage, the dL catalog skipped from dL-005 to dL-007. dL-006 was reserved for DFD aka Troy Anderson, a core part of the dL crew from Texas. Troy had previously released excellent records as Cityboy and Waverider (both recently re-issued on We're Going Back), and as DFD on the first Down Low Music compilation, 'Satellite Cities' in 2001. But a full EP was never finalized, until now...