If ‘Alma’s Cove’ was Yuuf’s invitation to drift into a dreamlike escape, ‘Mt. Sava’ is where the horizon opens wider - a panoramic journey that climbs through shifting grooves, textured atmospheres and cinematic sound. Formed of four international musicians based in London, Yuuf conjure a sound they call ‘Global Psychedelia’: interlocking handpan and percussion, rolling basslines, expansive guitar lines and meditative washes of ambience.

TRACK LISTING

1. Moon Dive
2. Night Aïr
3. Ørken Bloom
4. Calima
5. Mesa Pt.1
6. Mesa Mesa 

With their fourth studio album, 'CHOROPHOBIA', Weval faced their fears. When the pair stumbled across the phrase chorophobia - which means a fear of dancing - they decided to lean into the irony and get out of their comfort zones. “Until that point, we had always worked on records with a 'listening' mindset…we realised that we’ve been scared of making dance music for all of our journey as producers”.

The unrestricted, genre-crossing ethos of this record makes room for guilty pleasures, higher BPMs, big drops and an increased number of hi-hats.

TRACK LISTING

1. CHOROPHOBIA
2. MOVING ON
3. MOVEMENT
4. JUST FRIENDS
5. HEAD FIRST
6. DOPAMINE
7. THIS IS…
8. BETTER
9. OPEN UP THAT DOOR
10. MERCATOR
11. FREE

Ninja Tune imprint Technicolour are pleased to announce Weval’s new ‘Night Versions EP’.

Weval (Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers) are an Amsterdam-based duo who have established a solid reputation across the globe for crafting highly textured and sophisticated electronic music.

‘Night Versions’ are brand new, club-focused alternatives to key tracks from Weval’s recent critically acclaimed album, ‘Remember’.

Weval best describe the new versions here: “It was so much fun to return to the material and make some bold moves. Just to see how far we could push the tracks with the dancefloor in mind. We’ve been road-testing a few of these in our DJ sets lately, and it’s so rewarding to watch people dance and hear the tracks blasting on the dance floor. It’s addictively fun to experience and see the second life of the songs from the LP.”

For fans of Howling, Max Cooper, Kiasmos, Modeselektor, Apparat, David August, John Talabot, Dark Sky.

“The fully formed nature of their songwriting, sublime pacing and monolithically tasteful atmosphere is remarkable.” - Pitchfork

“An electronic force injecting a span of genres with thrill and clarity - Weval make the crossover that much more reachable.” - The Line of Best Fit

“A kaleidoscopic, gut-turning, jaw-dropping wondrous journey” - Popmatters

TRACK LISTING

Remember (Night Version)
How You Feel (Night Version)
I Saw You (Night Version)
Never Stay For Love (feat. Eefje De Visser) (Night Version)
Changed For The Better (Disco Version)

The Austrian producer has created a dynamic back catalogue, moving through RnB, dubstep, dance, hip-hop, even jazz and gospel. New EP "Shield" brings a once again elevated sound.

The EP is a cocktail of UK dance and electro-pop featuring Filipino born, London based artist No Rome, and the pensive yet euphoric closer “Feels Like My Hands Are On Fire”, with salute’s own vocals featuring on the track, co-produced by George Daniel of The 1975.

Recommended if you like… DJ Seinfeld, Interplanetary Criminal, Logic1000, TSHA, Sammy Virji, Daphni

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Feel good, high energy luminosity from Manchester-based, rising star salute. Pop sensibilities with high gloss, futuristic production. A future classic one feels...

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Run Away With You
2. Peach

SIDE B
1. Wait For It
2. Feels Like My Hands Are On Fire

O’Flynn and Frazer Ray - two much-celebrated UK producers and DJs - release their collaborative album, "Shimmer", on Ninja Tune imprint, Technicolour. The album arrives as a result of the duo’s love for the UK dance music scene, from garage to breaks, trance and hardcore. Frazer and O’Flynn’s vast knowledge and respect for underground cultures and genres shine through as a direct influence.

Smothered in a very crisp, very glossy, very now patina; high fidelity throughout and stylishly showing off what modern soundsystems are capable of. It's one of those albums that'll play right through on long, nocturnal night drives or soundtrack your afters whilst still in the spirit of the night before. Half the tracks can also be cherry picked by DJs to smash apart dancefloors as we transition into 2023. A highly functionally, dare-I-say accessible album which still pushes boundaries in terms of production and arrangements.

For fans of Overmono, Soundbwoy Killah, Ross From Friends,HAAi.. Two Shell etc. 

TRACK LISTING

Luna Bay
Call For Noise
Love Fading
Troopa
Holsten
Kolfax
Satyr
Rosetta Feat. Byulah And Ekhe
Tando
Katara
Light It Out
You Need Me

Second EP from emerging East London-based band, Folly Group. Once again they deliver their distinctive, electronic infused post-punk sound full of clattering percussion and angular guitars, which along with their furiously brilliant live shows landed coveted slots at Pitchfork Music Festival, in NME’s “100 Artists On The Rise” and a co-sign from IDLES’ singer Joe Talbot (speaking during a BBC 6 Music takeover - “Pound for pound, them and Wet Leg, every track is so good. They haven’t released anything that isn’t amazing... my favourite song of the year, Sand Fight”).

Cast from the tumultuous melting-pot of the London musical circuit, three of the Folly Group quartet moved in together (the house would eventually become their studio too). Sean Harper (Drums/Vocals), Louis Milburn (Guitar/Vocals) and Tom Doherty (Bass) inevitably found themselves experimenting. The addition of close friend Kai Akinde- Hummel (Drums/Percussion/Sampler), proved to be the missing piece of the puzzle.

STAFF COMMENTS

Laura says: Another killer from one of my favourite bands at the moment. Went to see them at Manchester Psych Fest on the strength of their debut EP and was blown away by their tight, percussive post-punk energy.

TRACK LISTING

1. Faint Of Hearts
2. I Raise You (The Price Of Your Head)
3. Paying The Price
4. The Tooth Of February
5. Human And Kind

London-based multi-faceted producer, label boss and DJ, Elkka returns to Technicolour with a new EP titled ‘Harmonic Frequencies’, a fitting follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘Euphoric Melodies’ released earlier this year. 

Elkka has garnered a wealth of great radio and tastemaker support from the likes of Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Jamz Supernova, Mary Anne Hobbs, Four Tet, Caribou, Floating Points, Ben UFO and George Fitzgerald to name a few. Critical press acclaim across two EPs with coverage from The Guardian, Crack, Billboard, NME, DJ Mag, Mixmag, Resident Advisor and many more. 

Written at a time of uncertainty during the last few months of 2020, ‘Harmonic Frequencies’ sees Elkka process the emotions she was feeling at the time, “the journey from being deprived of all those things back to feeling fulfilled once more.”

Elkka is also making waves within the electronic scene for founding record label femme culture - which stands for inclusivity amongst all genders, backgrounds and beliefs, and strives to champion voices of LGBTQI+ talent.

TRACK LISTING

1. Harmonic Frequencies
2. Music To Heal To
3. Voices
4. Escapism

London-based multi-faceted producer, label boss and DJ, Elkka will release her EP “Euphoric Melodies” on Ninja Tune’s Technicolor imprint in May 2021. Elkka has garnered a wealth of great industry/tastemakers support from the likes of Annie Mac, Spotify (picked as 1 of 4 “Rising Electronic Artists of 2020”), CRACK, RA, Four Tet, Floating Points, Caribou, Moxie, and George Fitzgerald and her recent lockdown inspired hit ‘I. Miss.Raving.’ was praised in a Resident Advisor review:

“Effervescent and rich with feeling, this is pop-focused house at its finest”.

She has gained further press coverage from Mixmag, FACT mag, Clash, Earmilk, Mixmag, DJ Mag, Sentric,This is Pop,Tsugi (FR), CMU and championed at radio for her last EP “Everybody Is Welcome”, picked as BBC 1Xtra’s #1 EP in the World in November 2019. Her forthcoming release “Euphoric Melodies” hones in on her effervescent, deep melodic sound and is a warm, nostalgic and euphoric exploration of what Elkka values most - the ability and freedom to believe in oneself.

Elkka is also making waves within the electronic scene for founding record label ‘femme culture’ - which stands for inclusivity amongst all genders, backgrounds and beliefs, and strives to champion voices of LGBTQI+ talent.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Burnt Orange
A2. Euphoric Melodies
A3. Flowers
B1. Alexandra
B2. Morning Fuzz 

Umfang makes her debut on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint with the album "Symbolic Use Of Light". Highly rated for her analogue-based rhythmic excursions previously released via videogamemusic, 1080p, Phinery and Allergy Season; the New Yorker is a co-founder of Brooklyn’s colossal Discwoman crew and resident at Bossa Nova Civic Club’s Technofeminism monthly. Here we get a collection of reduced analogue hypnopompic  excursions - drifting between the lucid and hallucinatory.

TRACK LISTING

Full 1
Weight
Symbolic Use Of Light
Where Is She
Path
Pop
Sweep
Wingless Victory
Full 2

Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being releases his definitive solo album of 2016 'The Disco’s Of Imhotep' via the Technicolour imprint.

He has built a sterling reputation both as a producer and live performer of deep, mesmeric experimental electronics and free jazz rooted in his native Chicago and his relationship with the city’s fertile underground club scene. Inspired by the likes of Ron Trent, DJ Rush (residents at The Reactor where he danced week in week out) and Ron Hardy, Moss was mentored by visionary producers Steve Pointdexter and Adonis, who showed him the drum machines that were the backbone of the Movement and whom encouraged his early forays into music production.

Releasing prolifically on his own Mathematics Recordings imprint and a clutch of other imprints including RVNG Intl. and Soul Jazz / SOTU; collaborating with Marshall Allen of Sun Ra’s Arkestra and Noleian Reusse (as Africans With Mainframes) – Moss has cemented his stature as a unique creative force. He balances his ancient heritage and musical DNA with a passion to experiment, create and channel music as a healing force, which has resulted in his art being tagged “Afrofuturist”. Moss, however, prefers to describe his output as Synth Expressionism / Rhythmic Cubism and would rather be viewed simply as a promoter of Nubian Rights.

Describing The Disco’s Of Imhotep he says:

“'The Disco's Of Imhotep' is about creating Frequencies and Vibrations for the Listener that are conducive for him or her to Heal The Mind and Body and Enrich the Soul by creating Hemi-Synced Harmonies and music that contains embedded Binaural Beats.

We have been made to believe that electronic sounds are just for Movement, Enlightenment, Primal Afflictions and Entertainment purposes, but it's much more… It's Sound Healing, but the ancestors would call it Frequency Medicine. Medicine is Healing and this project is dedicated to one of Earth's first Healers: High Priest Imhotep.

The One who comes in Peace, is with Peace."

STAFF COMMENTS

Philippa says: Easing off on the distortion and amping up the spiritual techno vibes Jamal Moss comes up with his most accessible Hieroglyphic Being album yet. Jazzy, driving, intense and uplifting.

Darren Cunningham (better known as Actress) arrives at Ninja Tune's singles offshoot Technicolour with the first new material under his Levantis moniker since 2013's "Believe EP" on Trilogy Tapes. Not only is this the first long player released under this alias, but it's also the first album in the Technicolour catalogue. Reportedly "about Nigredo and possession of the shadow", "Romantic Psychology 1" finds Cunningham in typically experimental form, dragging serrated metallic synths over distorted drums and hazy field recordings. Gloomy, dark and sludgey, the eleven compostitions on the LP see the prodcer drop deeper into the mordant melancholy of his "Hazyville" LP, reminding us why he's one of the most groundbreaking artists around. 

The black 180g vinyl LP is housed in an Inspira deep black sleeve with spot varnish type and includes an artwork insert by Eve Ackroyd printed on uncoated 300gsm art card. MP3 download code also enclosed.

TRACK LISTING

1. Exploding Boxes
2. Red Blocks
3. Yogurt
4. Pieris Rapae
5. Undr
6. Stained Glass
7. Altered Anthem
8. Colour
9. Whispering Sky
10. Jamaican Greek Style
11. Slow Electronic Beat With Colour