Overmono - aka brothers Tom and Ed Russell - are deep into their biggest summer yet. From headline festival appearances at Glastonbury (West Holts) - featuring special live guests Kwengface and For Those I Love - to All Points East, Boomtown, and Love Saves The Day, the duo have further cemented themselves as one of the UK’s most vital live electronic acts.

Their reimagining of High Contrast’s legendary drum & bass anthem “If We Ever” has become the defining sound of summer. First unveiled during their headline Love Saves The Day show, the track became a viral highlight following their Glastonbury set, with clips racking up millions of views on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, and fans flooding comment sections demanding an official release. The groundswell of energy caught High Contrast’s attention, prompting him to reach out. Its latest huge moment came at Boomtown, where it confirmed its status not just as the festival anthem of 2025 but as a track destined to echo through clubs and dancefloors long into the autumn, winter, and beyond.

Now, after months of anticipation, Overmono & High Contrast’s If We Ever gets a global digital release via XL Recordings’ iconic housebag series. The single premiered Tuesday 26 August - as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record where Tom and Ed said on the track “High Contrast used to work in this record shop in Cardiff called Catapult Records. We lived on the other side of the city, but Tom would go and buy records from him there all the time. I’m pretty sure it was the first record shop I went to after I bought Tom a voucher for his birthday one year. ‘Tough Guys Can’t Dance’ was one of those records that was just everywhere, we were all battering it, and “If We Ever” was the anthem. Ahead of summer this year, we started working on our own version of If We Ever just for fun, but the reaction was so wild, we ended up playing it in every set.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: It's another one of those stupendously mega, limited run, one-sided 12" from the UK dance music demigods. After reinventing The Streets' "Turn The Page"; they now to turn their attention to High Contrast's epic 2007's dnb track. Updating it with new drum programming, a fiercer break, and a more rabid, breakout jungle energy; it's a brilliant update to this high watermark of the liquid genre.

TRACK LISTING

A: If We Ever (Extended)

Acclaimed electronic musicians, producers and sound architects Max Cooper and Rob Clouth team up for a new collaborative EP; a dark, playful four-track dive into ambient, breakbeat and techno’s subconscious flow, featuring a standout vocal performance from South London rapper FLOHIO.

Recorded over a series of spontaneous London sessions, “8 Billion Realities” channels years of creative exchange between two of the genre’s most quietly innovative artists and is a result of a decision between the longtime friends to refrain from conceptual overthinking in favour of instinct and joy.

As long-time admirers of each other’s audio/visual work, Cooper and Clouth collaborated in London together after both emerging from intense, idea-heavy album cycles. What followed was a series of exploratory sessions, half-improvised, half-built around half-formed thoughts.

The result is a club-ready EP that feels alive and human: imperfect and hypnotically rich.

“Rob Clouth has been one of my favourite electronic music producers since I first heard his work in 2011,” says Cooper. “His work is more full of ideas and structure than anyone else.” “We were both coming from extensive conceptual studio albums and both in the mood for simplifying things and having some fun with the music, so that’s what we did”.

For Clouth, no stranger to Max Coopers Mesh label having previously released an array of EP’s plus his 2020 debut album “Zero Point” this record marks a new chapter, both creatively and personally.“Something pretty new for me is collaborating,” he says. “You kind of have to when to stop, because if you develop an idea all the way to its endpoint, the other person has nowhere to jump in.”

The first “A Moment Set Aside” began as a break from another idea, a live, unplanned improvisation based around arps and ambience. “The track was written in about as long as it took to play it,” says Cooper. “It was pulled from a 1 hour recording session, more or less as you hear it… the energy and excitement grew as the unplanned moment bore some magic.”

“The lesson being that sometimes it’s helpful to set aside a moment without forcing results, and let the subconscious have something to say.” What followed was darker, heavier. “Asymptote” is detuned techno. Subversive and euphoric in its descent. “We found a sort of brain mangling, half consonant, half wandering detuned techno pulse, which we started chatting about being a sort of pit of spiralling body parts we were falling into,” says Cooper. “It was a lot of fun to work on and let loose with bigger kicks than I usually ever get to unleash.”

Then came “8 Billion Realities”, featuring a standout rap performance from FLOHIO; an emerging figure in the UK grime and rap scene. The track was inspired by conversations about algorithmic echo chambers and hyper-personalised online worlds. Frantic, direct, and South London to the core, FLOHIO brings this tension to life. Her sharp, intense flow cuts through distortion and rhythm, landing the track somewhere between chaos and control instantly making it one of the most striking moments in either artist’s catalogue. “A different reality for all 8 billion of us,” says Cooper. “We weren’t sure if it would work… but there was something about the energy of the percussive idea and the story which felt like it might fit.” “Then FLOHIO had a play with it and straight off the bat absolutely killed it, not just with the lyrics and energy, but the harmonising too, it was a beautiful process.”

The final piece on the EP “Candeleda” originated from Clouth’s solo experiments with a live rig made entirely of vocals and keys, using his self-developed “cheatbox” system. “He put forward a beautiful stumbling melodic sequence which we bounced back and forth adding harmonies and synth layers,” says Cooper. “It rounds off a collection covering some of the breadth of music that we both love.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: The two electronica and AV vanguards present a fierce, heavy, and ultimately highly contemporary set, highlighting them as skilled at making club tracks as they are at deep listening experiences. Even the semi-ambient track seems as burdened as black matter. Stupendously adventurous sound design!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Asymptote
A2. 8 Billion Realities (feat. FLOHIO)
B1. Candeleda
B2. A Moment Set Aside

Following a breakout year that saw them torch the Sonora Stage at Coachella, storm Europe on the HONEYPAQQ TOUR, and rack up co-signs from Carl Craig, LSDXOXO, Jamie xx, Crystalmess, SHERELLE, TELFAR, Tinashe, Smino, Nia Archives, Earl Sweatshirt, and Denzel Curry, "HONEYPAQQ VOL. 1" captures HiTech at their most ambitious: unfiltered, explosive, and impossible to pin down.

Across a stacked track list, the trio bring together the raw DNA of Detroit techno, Chicago house, rap, and punk, honouring the roots of Black electronic music while taking the scene to new global heights. Features include boundary-pushing collaborators like George Riley, ZelooperZ, and Na-Kel Smith, adding warped soul, razor-edge bars, and unruly energy to the HiTech universe and demonstrating how HiTech are the only act straddling underground chaos and mainstage euphoria while unifying global scenes across electronic, rap, and rock in one breathless body of work.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Detroit new ghetto-tech super group HiTech come thru with their 3rd album. After woo'ing UK festival crowds with their unrivalled energy it seems the cat is out of the bag and these Motor City antiheroes are set for global domination! If you don't know - get to know!

TRACK LISTING

1. INTRO
2. TAKE YO PANTIES OFF Ft. George Riley
3 NORF COLD 304's
4. NEW JAZZ SCHMELL
5. DROP THE LOC Ft. DEBBY FRIDAY & Obie Iyoha
6. SPANK!
7. EMPTY BUS STOP Ft. LOVEFOXY
8. ADULTSWIM DOCTOR ETRANGE
9. QUEENBOOTYATHENAAPHRODITE Ft. Vayda, Na-kel Smith, Milifie, PlaNet KaiA
10. GIRL U SO FINE Ft. Rob Apollo
11. SHADOWREALM Ft Zelooperz
12 EAGER SAUCY BLACK MAN AT ZORBAS MEETS BUSTY UNINTERESTED LADY VIA PHONE CALL
13. REAK IN FULL EFFECK Ft. Obie Iyoha
14. AUDISHAWTY Ft. Milfie 

Numbers welcome New York’s Jubilee to the Glasgow based label - 'Main Character EP' features ‘Trippin’’, a collaboration with Jersey club Queen UNIIQU3. One of the most vital voices in American underground dance music for over a decade, Jubilee brings her South Florida rave roots and East Coast sensibilities to the imprint.

Born from the dizzying emotions of love and grief, the EP opens with the cheeky cackle of UNIIQU3 on ‘Trippin’’. Marking their hotly-anticipated first collaborative release, ‘Trippin’’ bridges Jubilee’s Miami bass heritage and UNIIQU3’s Jersey club sound to create a playful lead single featuring tantalizing vocals.

Starting to work on 'Main Character' in 2019, Jubilee revisited the project during an intense period of change and loss. Bringing in further influences from electro, Baltimore club, 90’s dance and techno to create her signature sound, Jubilee channels the fun, drama and chaos that comes hand in hand during challenging times. A deeply personal release, Jubilee looks to her friends and family for inspiration, including a sample of her parents on ‘Lucky’.

Jubilee’s debut on Numbers continues a stand-out year for the dynamic artist who released two stellar EPs earlier this year alongside celebrating 10 years of Magic City - her party series and record label which was awarded DJ Mag’s ‘Best Record Label’ in 2023 - with a run of records, merch and events across the States.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: More futureproof than a Swiss army knife, Jubilee brings the nightclub pressure for taste-makers Numbers. Imagine Confidence Man doing Baltimore club and you're halfway there!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Jubilee & UNIIQU3 - Trippin'
A2. Jubilee - Main Character
B1. Jubilee - Lucky
B2. Jubilee & UNIIQU3 - Trippin' Dub

Our next Toolroom vinyl instalment comes from Sara Parker and Eats Everything with his reebeef on an absolute classic! Originally released in 1995 on the Sharp Boys own ‘Sharp Recordings’, ‘My Love Is Deep’ went on to achieve national chart success on ‘Manifesto’. Championed by the late, great Tony De Vit on the legendary dancefloor of ‘Trade’, Tony was the first DJ to play the ‘Sharp Dub’, after being handed an acetate by the boys. Eats Everything, off the back of his debut album ‘We Lost Ourselves and Found A Family’, delivers a blistering new ‘Reebeef’. Listing the ‘Sharp Dub’ in his ‘10 Best Hardbag Tracks of All Time’, Eat’s admiration of the original, Tony De Vit and the nuances and essence of Dance Music culture is evident with this essential rework, guaranteed to be a genuine highlight of the year. The package features both this great new rework and the timeless original!

TRACK LISTING

A1. My Love Is Deep (Eats Everything Extended Reebeef)
B1. My Love Is Deep (Sharp Boys Remastered Dub Mix)

“sitting in the terminal at Barcelona airport, health safety warnings echo through empty architecture. feeling slow, and fast, out of sync with rituals and routines. structure and rhythm disintegrate into micro gestures appearing in random order, a daily psychedelia... amid all of the chaos and distraction in the last few years, it’s only through letting go that I've found solid ground to stand on.”

These are some of the experiences and reflections that gave shape to Slipstream, a hallucinatory mini-album by the artist PVAS and the fourth release on Objekt's label, Kapsela. Slipstream is an aural document of PVAS's interior life, conceived not as a grab-bag of DJ-friendly tracks (although it’s clearly inspired by the club) but as a single, delicately crafted artistic statement. The entire record is shrouded in a flickering haze, worn through by smudged breakbeats and wiry drum machines. “Wetland”, with its swampy percussion and crystalline arps, echoes T++ and Kraftwerk. The radiant incandescence of “Gathering Drift” recalls GAS or Monolake's “Hong Kong.” Sampled breakbeats dip and swerve asymmetrically through “Boba” and “Terminal”. Across the record, textures and voices are reshaped by PVAS's homemade algo-software, UMT, which, in PVAS’ own words, “reconstructs one audio file by sampling another, resulting in output that merges their aesthetic qualities, creating rhythm with non-rhythmic sound files and abusing the stereo field.” But the most striking union of technology and poetic self-exploration comes at the end of the record, in the title track, from words murmured through a classic vocoder:

“when i stop framing myself as a boundaried stone
immovable, and powerful, and heavy
when i stop figuring my deepest space as my own
something which i am solely responsible
i surrender, i surrender”

PVAS is Jordan Juras, a Berlin-based artist who grew up outside of Windsor, Ontario. He has released solo EPs on Isla and xpq?, and is half the duo NUG (3XL, West Mineral Ltd.). In addition to developing music software professionally, he has used his UMT software on records by Lyra Pramuk and Dylan Kerr. Slipstream was recorded from 2022 to 2025.

Written and produced by PVAS
Mixed by TJ Hertz
Mastered by Anne Taegert at D&M
Artwork and design by Brodie Kaman

TRACK LISTING

A1. Gathering Drift (Lattice Edit)
A2. Terminal
A3. Wetland
B1. Ripped
B2. Boba
B3. Slipstream

**PART 1**

The legacy continues… Pure Garage is back with an exclusive 25th Anniversary Special Edition, created for the true heads, collectors, and DJs who know the value of vinyl.

Unlike the landmark CD series, this anniversary edition digs deep into the underground, unearthing rarities and iconic tunes that captured the essence of UKG. Many of these cuts change hands for hundreds of pounds on the resale market; now they’re finally available again, newly remastered.

Each edition is pressed with only two tracks per side, giving maximum groove depth and unbeatable audio fidelity. Designed with vinyl DJs in mind, these are records built to be worked into the mix, not just left on the shelf.

This isn’t just another compilation, it’s a celebration of 25 years of Pure Garage, pressed with care and purpose. Expect limited availability, high demand, and guaranteed collectability!!!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Zed Bias - Been Here Before
A2. Ed Case & Carl H - Similar Games
B1. DJ Passion - Hypnotised
B2. Industry Standard - Let's Start Love Over
C1. Anthill Mob - Listen
C2. Ray Hurley & Sovereign - Vicious
D1. DJ Deller Vs Krome & Time - Sound For The Underground 2K
D2. Cutmaster Ace - Escape 

**PART 2**

The legacy continues… Pure Garage is back with an exclusive 25th Anniversary Special Edition, created for the true heads, collectors, and DJs who know the value of vinyl.

Unlike the landmark CD series, this anniversary edition digs deep into the underground, unearthing rarities and iconic tunes that captured the essence of UKG. Many of these cuts change hands for hundreds of pounds on the resale market; now they’re finally available again, newly remastered.

Each edition is pressed with only two tracks per side, giving maximum groove depth and unbeatable audio fidelity. Designed with vinyl DJs in mind, these are records built to be worked into the mix, not just left on the shelf.

This isn’t just another compilation, it’s a celebration of 25 years of Pure Garage, pressed with care and purpose. Expect limited availability, high demand, and guaranteed collectability!!!

TRACK LISTING

A1. DJ Deller - My Love
A2. Underground Solution - Tonight (The Only One)
B1. Zed Bias - Time Out (Instrumental)
B2. Partners In Crime - Deeper Groove
C1. Anthill Mob Aka T Juice - My Feeling
C2. Ed Case - Take Control
D1. Ordinary People - Bubblin Sound
D2. Cutmaster Ace - London Vibes