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YE 004EP
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Jabu re-works from the extended family: SKRS and Jay Glass Dubs at the controls. Pressed to 12" with two remixed cuts from Jabu's Sleep Heavy album on Blackest Ever Black (BLACKEST 016CD/LP, 2017). Each approach the originals with their own take on skewed and stretched dubwise styles -- letting the vocals swerve and sway over hypnotic rhythms, off-kilter atmospherics and big belly bassline.
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YE 003LP
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Manonmars' self-titled album is the third release on Young Echo Records. 14 cuts, laced with 'mars lyrics, scored by O$VMV$M. This one has been the talk of the town for some time now, and Young Echo is pleased to be able to offer upfront copies of this masterful piece. "I don't fuck with fake tan, so please remove yourself from the reflection in my ray bans" Step aside, kid; Manonmars is the bo$$ now. Produced by O$VMV$M, mastered and cut by Lewis at Stardelta. 180 gram vinyl, in reverse board printed sleeve.
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YE 002LP
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"Spread across two 180g discs, spanning 24 cuts and served in a gatefold sleeve designed by members and affiliates, the Young Echo LP is a capsule intended for cementation through time. It's been almost five years since their last album. As a group, extended radio submissions, prolonged studio sessions and notorious club nights make up the cogs of time. Over the course of these years, the network has grown continually, both as one, and with singular, multi-directional paths from each of the 11 artists that make up the Young Echo collective, counting Jabu, Vessel, Kahn, Neek, Ishan Sound, Ossia, Manonmars, Bogues, Rider Shafique, Chester Giles and Jasmine towards the crew, with projects such as Bandulu, FuckPunk, O$VMV$M, Gorgon Sound and ASDA adding to the table in their individual ways. However, this record aims not to be judged on any single producer or vocalist. It is most effective as a whole, simply titled Young Echo. Of course each of the artists has an important part to play, but it is very much about the act of balance, accepting individualism to form a greater whole. A good example is the welcome addition of new energy coming from Jasmine (1/3 of Jabu) who injects endless space with her vocals, perfectly answered by the cool-killin' wordplay of Manonmars -- who makes his long awaited debut here -- sharing stage with the immediate poetry of ASDA's very own Chester Giles, along the mighty sound of Rider Shafique, and Bogues' versatile style that can flit between rap & song within seconds. Five very different vocalists that could've tried to find a compromise, but instead choose to connect in different ways, finding their niche in the equal range of rhythms and sounds that sprawl in this shared space, the juxtaposition. Detuned soundsystem stylings, love songs swaying in hacked up ambience, skeletal dancehall, microphone technique, dread electronics, outsider pop, this record manifests the outcome of the shapeshifting anarchy which rears its head when no one idea can rule, embracing the diversities when one path must be made up of many."
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YE 001EP
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"The terrific opening salvo of this thrilling prospect of a label, imprint of the eleven-strong, Bristol-based collective. Intensely intimate, dread ruminations about racism, being and the UK -- rooted in the dub poetry of LKJ and Mutubaruka -- in tense, widescreen settings by Amos Childs, out of Jabu and O$VMV$M, and Sam Kidel, moonlighting from The Death Of Rave. Hotly recommended."
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