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VARS 010EP
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A beguiling two-tracker from the Various label, Space Girl are two producers and a singer called Floella, all from London. A recent review: "a quirky and light-hearted set of vocals are underpinned by a subdued pop/folk/ electronica production backdrop expertly crafted. Love this." --DJ magazine, May 2013 (9/10). Already getting airplay from Rob Da Bank (Radio 1), Gideon Coe, Mary Anne Hobbs (Radio 6) and John Kennedy (Xfm). This 7" is a start of things to come. Space Girl brings a tune for the jetpack and future technology sneaker world.
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VARS 009EP
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Various releases the first offering from new signing Hardware, already getting airplay from Rob Da Bank (Radio 1), Mary Anne Hobbs (Radio 6) and John Kennedy (Xfm). "Checking One" features future-proofed tech-jungle beat droplets fighting their way through a corridor of synths. Vocal stabs drift from locked rooms, each containing their own distinctive drum pattern. In 1996, drum 'n' bass label Liss Fuzion put out its final release "Your Move" by owner and producer Pager B-TZ. Taking inspiration from this little-heard classic, Hardware have re-worked and re-chopped it, softening all the edges of the jittery beats and using drum and bass sounds that float in and out.
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VARS 008EP
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Anthemic, rolling bass and keys, dueling with soulful, dubby vocals. "Rush" feels like '80s Michael Mann neon cityscapes filtered through a soundsystem in a battered Land Rover. A classic Various Production release that will floor-fill and put the beat in a Jeep. Side B is devoted to the sweet, binary truth. Not murky, more a dark digital crevice found inside a field of ones and zeros. Taking inspiration from the classic Hungarian soundtracks of Panta Zorán.
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VARS 007EP
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Impossible to define, beautifully ambiguous and never one to disappoint, for over ten years Various Production have been gently tugging at the electronic earlobe. "12seven" has already had exclusive plays by Gilles Peterson, Rob Da Bank, Mary Anne Hobbs, and John Kennedy. Part Chicago, part Detroit, and part a warehouse during the early hours somewhere in our collective memory. "Key" continues the house vein and is everything that Various are about -- haunting, deep soundtracks that trigger rhythmic memory clicks.
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VARS 006EP
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Limited, warehouse find of this 2005 release from mysterious production crew Various Production, unknown geniuses of UK bass music.
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VARS VA5-EP
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Bass-wise electronic soul carved in the Various studio. "Learn Faster" steps to a flexible, minimalist riddim flecked with deft electro stabs and flush with warm pads, and of course, Asher's honeyed croon, all arranged with the razor-sharp pop instinct they're loved for. "Air" is darker, skating on iced-out synth surfaces between darting hi-hat triplets and sparse but dirty bass hits -- Asher Dust pitched slightly higher for a tense, slow/fast dip with shades of S-X's "Wooo!" riddim.
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VARS 019EP
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Very limited pressing EP featuring two of Various Production's remix treatments, one on vinyl for the first time, and the other never heard anywhere else before. One of the highlights of last year's Various Versus CD collection (VARS 021CD), the VP renovation of Foals' "Red Sox" puts Yannis Philippakis' dubbed-out vocals into a distressed setting, with big analog synths. The flipside is a typically extreme Various restructuring of a distinctive, radio-friendly vocalist, brutally edited into waves of sound.
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VARS 020EP
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Very limited EP pressing, featuring two original tracks from Various Production remixed by producers Rustie and Actress. On the re-rub of "In This," Rustie takes the frantic emceeing of Various' resident versifier V.E.X. and sends it through a punchy freeform melody with massive drum kicks. Actress turns "Lost" into a smooth piece of heads-down deep techno that would fit on Chain Reaction, were it not so tight and well-paced, combining deep melody and vocals with rough, high-end sounds.
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VARS 021CD
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The UK's Various Production present their second full-length. Various Versus is a 14-track collection in which Various Production's shapeshifting renovations of Ian Brown, Foals, Virus Syndicate, Sugarbabes, SIA, Emma Pollock, MIA, and Adele rub shoulders with bespoke remixes of their own tunes by a carefully-assembled cabal of some of the freshest faces in electronic music, namely Zomby, Rustie, Milanese, Zan Lyons, and Actress. All VP remixes of other artists are officially sanctioned, several of which have to date been digital-only or previously unavailable releases, while the new readings of their own original material have been specially commissioned for this project. Archiving some of their very finest mixes, fixes and version excursions, Various Versus continues to establish VP's credentials as one of the most unhindered and effortlessly creative studio units operating anywhere today, and will further consolidate their position among the global elite of relentlessly inventive sonic re-stylers. Presented in the latest in a long line of beautifully designed covers by in-house designer Bonesy, Various Versus is a unique summary not only of the innovative and unexpected music this prodigious team habitually and effortlessly draw from the most unlikely sources, but also of the way they inspire the same creative heights in others.
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