PRESSURE (PART I), by Various Artists

PRESSURE (PART I)

by Various Artists

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	1.	Bobby Blackbird - Shanique is 5 mins away 03:49
	2.	Joe Cotch - Psalm 666 05:02
	3.	The Sigil Oblique - Night Ascent 03:40
	4.	Herron - Reducer 03:10
	5.	Grischerr feat. Jules - Jettison 04:35
	6.	Dj ojo - Grape Stomping 04:14
	7.	Malvern Brume - Ebb 05:17
	8.	Duster Valentine - Cloonies 00:38

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It was always in our minds to donate the label profits from this record (& Part II) to help people struggling with the cost of living crisis but due to the recent spiralling costs involved in record production the break even got a little silly, however ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE DIGITAL RELEASE WILL GO TO CRISIS UK.
With that in mind we decided to not sell tracks separately but offer the whole release at a slightly reduced price.
More info on Crisis UK here - www.crisis.org.uk
That said, we know most people are feeling the pinch right now so if you want a plan B, hit up boomkat.com/products/pressure-i

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Elle Andrews & Jon K’s MAL imprint racks up a heavy cross-section of dancehall and downbeat-adjacent styles and patterns by friends and fam, clad in artwork by Yoshi Yubai of the legendary Re Search publications and featuring exclusive cuts from Equiknoxx’ Bobby Blackbird, Joe Cotch, Herron, DJ Ojo, Malvern Brume and more. First of two parts!

’Pressure’ is MAL’s rude resistance to an increasingly tense socio-political climate. Finding strength in collaboration, it organises a phalanx of contemporary club pioneers, programmers, dynamos and disruptors under a clarion call to dance away our worries. Shoulder-to-shoulder, Equiknoxx’s Bobby Blackbird does aerobic mystic dancehall beside the dread tang of London ringleader Joe Cotch, and Manchester g Herron squashes beatdown into acid dub squirm next to Malvern Brume’s haunted warehouse steppers, each intersecting a mutual, autonomous zone of interest oblivious to borders.

Bobby Blackbird’s ‘Shanique is 5 Mins Away’ firmly roots the session in naturally mutant Jamaican disciplines key to the label, which delineates most explicitly between the darkside 2-step echo chamber ricochet of DJ Ojo’s ‘Grape Storming’ and Grischerr & Jules’ cranky heave in ‘Jettison’, and the more abstract dubwise suspension of ‘Night Ascent’ by Zaheer Gulamhusein (Xvarr/Waswaas) as The Sigil Oblique.

Crudely distorted echoes of nyabinghi and talking drum rituals feature in Malvern Brume’s ‘Ebb’, a brilliantly unexpected follow-up to the supine grog of his ‘Body Traffic’ LP, while closer to the label’s spiritual home in Manchester, Herron keeps it strictly stripped on the brittle, dread acid dub of ‘Reducer’, and Greek/Manc hero Duster Valentine supplies the dadaist antidote to an intensifying hypernormality of logic with the sardonic vignette ‘Cloonies’ that keeps the session open-ended and all of us on tenterhooks for Vol.2.

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released May 26, 2023

Ltd Edition of 300 copies
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Photography by Yoshi Yubai
Sleeve design by Jon K

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MAL Recordings London, UK

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Tape 1

Mar 2024
PRESSURE (PART II)

Jul 2023
PRESSURE (PART I)

May 2023
BODY TRAFFIC

Dec 2022
WEHIKUŁ

Sep 2022
Writings Ov Tomato

May 2022
Cruise

Nov 2021

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