Sammy Bananas- High Top Fades - 12"

As one half of the DJ duo Certified Bananas, Sammy Bananas has been bringing his style-swapping dancefloor mania to crowds around the country for the past few years. Now, he's linked up with A-Trak & Catchdubs' Fool's Gold label and is branching out into producing club jams of his own. On High Top Fades, young Sammy melds the spirit of his DJ sets into four imaginative, uptempo reworks of 90s dancefloor classics. He transforms "Here Comes The Hotstepper" into a 126 BPM bassline monster ("Tha Stepper(1)") perfect for mixing with the likes of Diplo and Switch. Funny house hit "Funk Dat" is given the Bmore treatment as "Dat Funk(2)." K7's jock jam "Come Baby Come" gets doused in rocket fuel ("K7 Baby(3)"), and the Fresh Prince's perennial "Summertime" is turned into the off-kilter banger "Summer Bounce(4)." Sam proves here that creative production can still be infinitely crowd pleasing. These mixes are gonna be huge from now until the NEXT 90s revival. Limited edition.

Sensualists - Adaptations - 12"

a collaborative remix project includes new versions of songs from "the sensualists" debut album, plus three previously unreleased songs remixed. photograpy by mia lor houlberg. mastered by trevr holland. featuring remixes from e*rock, e vac, isan and more

Sharp Like Knives - We All Lie For A Living - 7"

Aggressive dance punk that will burn holes in your shoes and shake your skins! Think Gang of Four meets Refused, Sharp Like Knives blend punk attitude with drum heavy, keyboard driven, hand clapping rhythm. Featuring two unreleased tracks, yellow marble vinyl, double sided hand-screened covers that double as reflective vest and limited to 300 copies.

SHEARING PINX/MUTATORS - Split - 12"

Spastic thrash and deceptively chaotic freakout droolery from 2 bands that stand out in Vancouver's exploding neo-no wave and art-damaged hardcore scene with a degree of focus and aggression often aspired to but very rarely achieved. SHEARING PINX deliver one long, wailing psych-punk epic while the MUTATORS blaze through 5 shocks of discordant hardcore that come across like VOID meets NO NEW YORK.

Shit Disco - Kingdom of Fear - 12"

Parents, fear not: new rave is a pretty harmless phenomenon. That is, bar this group of gurning reprobates. Shitdisco are four blokes from northern towns who moved to Glasgow, took lots of drugs, didn't wash, had week-long house parties, and emerged with a manic rave-punk monster of an album. Kingdom of Fear takes Gang of Four's 1979 punk-funk template, and buries it beneath the two subsequent decades of substance abuse and programmed beats. The result is a wholly unsavoury, triumphantly debauched debut that's as danceable as it is addictive.

from the Guardian

Shit Disco- Ok - 7"

Nu-rave from Glasgow in the vein of Klaxons and LCD Soundsystem.

Shit Disco- Reactor Party - 7"

he Truth: SHITDISCO consist of Joel (vocals, bass, synth, guitar), Joe (vocals, guitar, bass), Jan (bass, keyboard, vocals) and Darren (drums). They come from various parts of the UK – Berwick, Newcastle and Leeds, to name but three – but have been the talk of the art-tastic dayglo-splattered Glasgow underground scene for nigh on two years now. ‘Reactor Party’ is the band’s second ever release following the mightily acclaimed - and indeed frequently played out - ‘Disco Blood’ / ‘I Know Kung-Fu’ double headed 12” release.

SHITDISCO - I Know Kung Fu - 12"

So Klaxons went and won the Mercury Prize, pretty much ensuring any energy and excitement surrounding what was called Nu-Rave all but disappeared. After all, once a scene is recognised at that level by bunch of industry types it begins to lose any relevance to those who love finding the next new thing.

Someone appears to have forgotten to tell Shitdisco, because they are still rocking the party just as hard as they did when they were throwing their legendary house parties back in 2003 at their drummer's flat.

Mind you, I Know Kung Fu has absolutely nothing to do with Nu-Rave. Shitdisco might break out the dance beats, and thundering basslines at will but everything you need to know about this band is right there at the start of the song. The rolling tom-toms and the unhinged vocals that introduce I Know Kung Fu and the taut guitar patterns that drive the song show that Shitdisco have more in common with New Wave than Nu-Rave.

On this kind of form Shitdisco would have sweat dripping off the walls even if you were listening to this on your own on headphones in an industrial freezer. Their mix of dance and punk is infectious and shot through with pure energy. This is no shit disco, it's a fucking festival.
- Sam Shepherd (from musicohm.com)

SIANspheric - I Wouldn't Expect You To Understand - 7"

Out of retirement and currently backing Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin, Toronto’s SIANspheric is still the post-shoegazer’s shoegazer band of choice, blowing in with a short, thick stain of a title track on this, their first-ever piece of vinyl. Also included are a tossed-off snippet called “Every Night” and an acoustic B-side, the gently rolling and atmospheric “Knowing Where You Are.” No faults here, though these all feel like parts of songs rather than songs themselves; if anything, this is the mark of a group just getting back on its feet after some apparently bumpy road, and it’d be chill to welcome them back. Edition of 300 on white vinyl in a very beautiful, psychedelic silkscreened sleeve (tho’ I wouldn’t exect anyone to understand why there’s an inky va-jay-jay on there). From Still Single, Dusted Magazine

Slow Down Tallahassee - So Much For Love - 7"

low Down Tallahassee are three girls and one boy (and a good,old-fashioned drum machine) who make sublime pop music. Their debut single "So Much For Love" is a triple whammy. This three track ep (the two other songs being "UR Grace UR" and "Candy") will delight you with the kind of fuzzy pop not heard this side of The Jesus & Marychain's Darklands. Topped with girl-group harmonies and more hooks than a fisherman's tacklebox, it's a joy to behold. And on limited edition 7" Lipstick Red vinyl, too. Get in!

A Selection of Reviews

"Breezy 80’s girl pop tinged with heart-tugging sadness, certain to be one of this year’s best releases." Robots & Electronic Brains

"Melancholy yet upbeat ‘80s girl-group lo-fi fuzz-pop" Drowned In Sound

"With verses and choruses that snake into one another and a laidback vocal delivery above lovely uncomplicated music, any pop-lover will have a smile on their face after the 3 minutes and 10 seconds of wry brilliance." Tasty Fanzine

"With fresh and funky keyboards, the vivacity they’re clearly capable of is exposed in a blinding flash of red lipstick and backcombing." High voltage

Smokers Die Young - The Kermit Song - 7"

Second single from Sheffield five piece specialising in indiepop-meets-post-rock glory: DJs Steve Lamacq and Marc Riley (aka Lard) are fans and Tasty Zine said "'Kermit Song builds up a strange kind of bastard grandeur which makes it rather glorious." Too right!

A Selection of Reviews

“Extremely endearing slice of minimalist yet strangely effective post-indie pop” Drowned In Sound

“Exciting, inspiring and ever so slightly scary, you should make their acquaintance pronto." SoundsXP

“If you have liked anything Pavement have ever done or Modest Mouse, you’ll love this.” Joyzine

So So modern - 'Friends and Fires' - 7"

Get out your 80's dancing shoes and get ready to party with these fun boys and gals from New Zealand. This is one part of a four part series of 7" that Trangressive is putting out..we'll get the others to keep you dancing. Yellow vinyl for those who care.

Sote- Wake Up - 12"

Following in the footsteps of the long hailed hardcore/drum and bass/brain dance Warp records release "Electric Deaf" , Sote brings you 3 tracks pulled from the vault to feed the rabid pre-breakcore fans out there. And yes this packaged in a limited edition custom made fabric pouch. Limited edition of 300. Turquoise and White vinyl.

STATUES -Same bodies, same faces 7" - 7"

The first DERANGED offering from Sudbury’s STATUES, but not the last. For those unaware, this trio has already released two excellent albums and is currently working on a third for later 2008. In the interim, these 4 tracks will need to hold those craving another album’s worth of STATUES’ infectious power punk. Same bodies, same faces features 3 new exclusive originals and a GG Allin cover of ‘Dead or Alive’.

STYLOFONE - Nighttime - 7"

Stylofone have one dynamite gimmick: doubled guitar leads on every hook, executed with joyous arena-rock everything-old-is-new. stylofone succeed because they're gentle and dangerous at the same time. they come across like a modern thin lizzy. a very different release for the young and lost club but another genuine winner. 2 track 7" - limited to 1000 copies.

Submarine Races - Talking Loud - 7"

SS-13 SUBMARINE RACES - "Talking Loud" b/w "Wire Taps" and "Party With Me Punker"

Ian Adams, Paul John Higgins, and Steve Denekas are SUBMARINE RACES. They've paid their dues (and then some) in some groups you might have heard of (The Ponys, Happy Supply, Entertainment, The Countdown). This is their second release, following their lauded debut album on In The Red. It's quirky, arty pop that draws upon all the best guitar-rock from the 60s through the 80s. You're gonna love this.