Browse by Label: 3024 (UK)

Artist:	MARTYN
Title:	Velvet/Twenty Four
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	3024 001EP

2009 repress of the 1st 3024 release. "We welcome you to 3024 -- a fresh new imprint combining the musical talents of Martyn and the graphic artistry of Erosie. After strong releases on labels such as Revolve:r, Soul:r Tempa and remix work for Hessle Audio and Offshore, Martyn has created his own musical playground where dubbed out sounds, Chicago & Detroit influenced melodies and lots of bass dwell freely. This first release brings you the sounds of 'Velvet,' a rugged beat, heavy sub-bassline with a playful melancholic melody progressing to an almost euphoric level. This track will stand out in any DJ set; it is the musical side of dubstep, or the dubby side of techno. The flip side 'Twenty Four' is a dark almost 2-step type roller, using looped chords and vocal snippets that are progressive in a creeping kind of way, and bringing back the funk of dubstep pioneers such as El-B and Horsepower in a 3024 fashion. As one of Europe's most rated and influential street artists Erosie brings his unique graphic styles to the world of 3024, making this first release a delight for the ear as well as the eye. Enjoy. 'Martyn is dealing with dubstep's groove deficiency with some of the slinkiest, lushest productions around. its clear that dubstep's epicenter is no longer just in South London.' -- (Kode9 - Hyperdub) 'Following on from the infectious 'everything about you' on Tempa, Martyn once again comes correct with this next level of deep and dubbed out visions. Good for the head and the dance floor. 5/5' -- (Rob Smith aka RSD) 'This release on Martyn's debut label is a proud way to introduce to the world the unique sound Martyn is bringing to the dubstep scene.' -- (Headhunter - Tempa) 'A huge talent. The Dennis Bergkamp of dance.' -- (Marcus Intalex - Soul:R)."

Artist:	MARTYN
Title:	Natural Selection
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	3024 002EP

"Martyn's 3024 mission continues with further explorations on the boundaries of dubstep and techno. Having made waves with remixes for Hessle Audio, Shut Up and Dance and Detroit techno producers Ican, Martyn brings two solo tracks which have received DJ support from all over the spectrum of dance music. If intergalactic robots discovered UK garage and decided to have a go at making their own version in 30th-century style, Natural Selection may well have been close to their output. On vocals, the illustrious Kid Drama (of Instra:Mental) opens a vein of soul over lush Detroit electro grooves reminiscent of Aux88 and Juan Atkins. 'Vancouver' on the flip side sees Martyn at a much darker point in time. Bleak, twisted stabs progress menacingly throughout the track, carried by a sunken, swollen bass line. Yet, it is the shards of jazz keys and broken samples of a joke half-heard and misunderstood that adds extra depth to the eerie ambience. As 3024 represents music for the ears as well as for the eyes, Erosie brings his unique graphic style to the table, making this release another collector's item. Enjoy."

Artist:	MARTYN
Title:	Natural Selection (Flying Lotus' Cleanse Mix)
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	3024 003EP

"Here it is, the one many of us have been waiting for. Martyn has employed the remix skills of two of the biggest names in underground music right now, 2562 & Flying Lotus, to remix the tunes from Martyn's release Natural Selection and Vancouver. 2562 takes his signature 2-step techno hybrid visions to a new level of depth on his remix of 'Vancouver,' a spiralling hypnotic rhythm and lush bass line that would naturally work great in a big club, while Flying Lotus uses his frantic glitch-hop skills to carve out a new way of viewing 'Natural Selection' with his 'Cleanse Mix.' This is a sublime release that will appeal to both the hip-hop community, the deep techno heads, and the dubsteppers alike. Totally fresh."

Artist:	2562
Title:	Embrace
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	3024 004EP

"00011001010100011000---> we welcome you to the fourth release on 3024 and our quest for numerologic beats for your body and soul continues with two tracks from the Dutch dubtechno hero 2562. Dave Huismans has treated us with a wonderful series of 12"s and his debut album Aerial (on Tectonic) this year which has gained him a well respected place in the dubstep and techno community. On this new release he strips the music to its bare essentials -- what is left is an extremely funky 2 step workout on Embrace, where crisp beats are setting the pace until soothing pads take over and take it to another level. 'Hijack' shows us the shadow side of 2562, also reminiscent of his work as A Made Up Sound on Shed's Soloaction label. 'Hijack' is a driving four to the floor track with shards of synth pads and sounds floating freely around a menacing bass line. The massive tension in this track is never really unleashed which leaves you yearning for another play; the 3024bots have had this on continuous repeat, and they hope you will enjoy this offering just as much. ---> 00011001010100011000 end of transmission. Enjoy."

Artist:	MARTYN
Title:	Great Lengths
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	3024 005CD

"I always like to think my stuff is 'music for a warm but rainy day.' You know, low frequencies do something to your muscles when you listen to them. There have been studies of low frequencies contracting your muscles, and because they contract certain muscles you have the urge to move, you know, to get rid of that itchy feeling in your arms and legs. So that would be a reason to dance. I grew up in Eindhoven, and lived in Rotterdam for five years, both cities are techno and drum & bass strongholds in Holland, so I am quite sure this has influenced me. Especially Eindhoven, which back in the day had ties with many Chicago and Detroit artists through labels such as Djax and Eevolute, and various clubs and DJs in the city. So, in the early/mid '90s I saw many of those people play and bought their records. I think what makes music interesting is when an artist incorporates his/her influences and translates it into a unique sounding style. Although it might sound a tad arrogant, I'd like to think of my music as 'Martyn music.' I try not to think of it as dubstep or techno, or house or drum & bass; it's not about genres, it's about music. This way I feel more freedom to make the music I want to make. If you make music and it sparks something, if it triggers a certain emotion, or even the motivation to get out there and express yourself in whichever way. That is just great. The position that I find myself in, both literally and mentally on the outskirts of the 'scenes' has done me good. Does that make sense?"

Artist:	MARTYN
Title:	Remixes 1/2
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	3024 006EP

"Ending the brief hiatus that followed the Great Lengths LP and accompanying world tour, Martyn and 3024 usher in the new decade with a brace of remixes from the deepest recesses of the quasi-house community. First out the gates is 3024-006, helmed by a pair of artists as unique as they are elusive: Zomby and Redshape. Easily one of the most talked about new producers of the last few years, Zomby continues to evolve upwards and out, never settling on a particular style and constantly twisting the technicolour DNA of his output. Those smeared neon fingerprints are all over his reworking of 'Hear Me,' which lights up clattering percussion and a black hole of a bass drop with layers of sparkling neon crystal SID chip melodies. Tackling 'Seventy Four' on the flip side is determinedly enigmatic techno classicist Redshape. Responsible for a string of unashamedly human releases since 2006, his rich, organic sound has recently caught the imagination of a 4x4 scene beginning to look beyond icy [and boring] minimalism for inspiration. A highlight of the Fabric 50 Martyn mix CD, the original's glowering pulse is carefully built on with walls of murky analogue warmth and hissing industrial ambience before reaching a monolithic climax. An integral part of every 3024 release, Erosie once again blesses this release with his inimitable visual style switching up to a monochrome design this time around."

Artist:	MARTYN
Title:	Remixes 2/2
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	3024 007EP

"The second half of the Great Lengths remixes package offers 3 more vividly contrasting interpretations of the album's tracks .Almost a year on from the release of his debut album One and with 'Saviour of Techno' plaudits still bouncing off concrete walls, Berghain lynchpin Ben Klock turns in a remix of 'Is This Insanity' that distills everything inspirational about both the club and city he calls home. Spaceape's cracked vocal is welded to a sort of cavernous piston driven groove while traces of the original's melody fractured into the briefest of shards fight their way to the surface only to sink back into the percussive smog. Located well outside of the heavily scrutinized UK hype centres, Manchester's rising star Illum Sphere continues to hone his already distinct sound on the flipside's 'Brilliant Orange' reworking. A clanking off kilter groove rubs up against an extended mutation of the original melody that pushes the track towards a poignant climax, evoking all the ache of reaching for the stars and landing squarely on one's face."

Artist:	ILLUM SPHERE
Title:	Titan
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	3024 008EP

"Sometimes titles are just perfect, aren't they? It's a huge, sprawling beast that seems to inhale every mutant strain of bass music it can and exhales it in one exhilarating 4:20 blast. It opens with ominous rumbling and 8-bit bleeps (and crickets?) before ambient chords ascend out of the depths, dragging a twisting electro synth with them. That pulsating, spiraling synth slinks its way through the gossamer membranes of the track, contracting and expanding as needed, its bulbous, serrated ends emanating industrial howls like ghosts of rave sirens. Clinking percussion desperately tries to keep the track in line, but it bursts from its foundations for split seconds, causing little blips and beeps, interruptions, skitters, grasping feverishly at its surroundings; eventually the percussion splinters into fragments and things open out for a few moments, but a synthline this big can't stay dormant for long, returning with hymnal chords in behind it, hovering, until the percussion comes back in, lockstep in with the riff as if resigned to the fact that it can never overcome something this massive. On previous releases, Illum Sphere's fallen more into the post-Dilla FlyLo camp (what are we calling this stuff these days anyway?). His two EPs on Fat City have been impressive, but this new three track release on Martyn's 3024 label sees him moving into slightly more dance-oriented waters, appropriating techno into his repertoire of subtly stomping tunes. 'Go Killum' acts as a brief interlude, two minutes of mangled synth strewn about a deserted battlefield, canned, distorted gunshots taking the place of drums. The track takes neon brightness and submerges it in murky waters, the distorted beat only letting up for a few seconds of melodic prettiness before it stomps back in and chokes the life out of it all over again, until the blue turns to grey. It feels a little bit like a palate cleanser, a little morsel of whirling synths to clear out your tastebuds for the next psychedelic main dish. 'Technopolis' is just that, its tumbling piano keys hoisted aloft on a pulsing techno beat and misty-eyed chords. He even finds time to set bass notes off like depth charges, overbalancing the track and scattering silvered notes onto the breeze. It wafts along like a classic techno track, gentle drums and glossy synths, as gentle strings pluck a nearly inaudible melody deep beneath the surface, in the sewers and slums of the technopolis, the unheard masses keeping the tune afloat. It's an evocative track, dipping its toes into the past but never falling deep into the whirlpool of nostalgia, and even if it did, the indefatigable energy of 'Titan' would pull it out right away, like a crazed dog on a leash."

Artist:	ALTERED NATIVES
Title:	The Bitch/Crop Duster
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	3024 009EP

"A north London born producer and DJ who's been expressing himself through drum abuse and perverting genres. Altered Natives is establishing himself as one of the most forward thinking producers around right now, with his unique blend of broken/tech/dub/house-inspired productions... Danny has been cooking up beats and productions for a number of years, releasing his first works through the Goya music affiliated People records, Broadcite and London broken beat institution COOPR8. His 'Rass Out' firmly put him on the map as a buy-on-sight producer. DJs supporting such as Laurent Garnier, Benji B, Kode 9, Sinbad, DVA."

Artist:	MARTYN
Title:	Left Hander/Shook Up
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	3024 010EP

"After a year dominated with collaborations (the Great Lengths remix double pack), fresh blood and inveterate genre renegades (Illum Sphere's Titan EP & Altered Natives The Bitch/Crop Duster respectively) we at 3024 came to the conclusion a new Martyn release was perhaps overdue. Not so much an album preview as a standalone document of a year spent expanding dance floor horizons over (a great many) seas. 3024's milestone 10th release arrives with 2 brand new Martyn tracks as 'Lefthander' clatters in on heavily filtered drums, flickering high hats & garbled radio transmissions before a carousel synth melody breaks through the percussive murk accompanied by a roaming bass line that prioritizes restraint over bludgeon. Dubbed out ambience rapidly takes root in the gaps between concrete snares & dissonant brass stabs as bass and synths elevate themselves for one last round of call & response sparring before dissolving back into barely audible dialogue. Steam age industrial monolith 'Shook Up' swaps slink for haunted metronomic brutality, snapping quickly into focus first with relentless kicks before bass akin to an Atari2600 playing Berghain looms over the clouded horizon. Offsetting the claustrophobia is the first hints of melody as an impossibly slight piano phrase creeps in, countering rhythmical pummeling with ghost in the machine delicacy. Classically spastic 808 tendrils are underpinned by soaring synth strings as proceedings draw to a juddering close. Capturing 3024's musical progress with typical accuracy Erosie's latest sleeve design is perhaps his best yet, echoing the back to basics theme with beautifully austere monochrome geometry curdling into something altogether more volatile at the edges."

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Artist:	BASHMORE, JULIO
Title:	Batty Knee Dance/Ribble To Amazon
Label:	3024 (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	3024 011EP