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Start the year in the right way with OMMIX012, brought to you by Atlanta man Cc, aka C Powers, in house-ier stylings. Featuring Cc exclusives, new tracks and classic cuts.

Tracklisting –

Cc – Butterluv
Maurice Donovan – Call out My Name
Bok Bok & Tom Trago – Pom Clash
Will Azada – Lets Get Tight
Cc – Gryphon Perc
Guy Andrews – Shades
Cc – ? ? ?
Kowton – Looking At You
Presk – Headway
Time Wharp – Cuspcake (Cc’s Game Winning Plays Blu Ray DVD remix)
Cc – Chockin So Strong
Gerry Read – Untitled
Cc – Walk

Stuck for something to do this NYE? Come choose between both heavenly and apocalyptic scenes over two floors at Catch.

It’s an all-star line up of some of the best nights around London, featuring Hipsters don’t dance, Yo Mama! and naturally Nasty McQuaid & Mangno will be representing our corner.

Its also the cheapest party you’ll find in London…

Tickets are £8 in advance or £10 on the door and can be bought from Catch bar or We Got Tickets.

By the beginning of 2007 Vex’d had been disbanded for the duo to explore their own individual production routes with releases appearing over the years on both Tectonic and Planet Mu. However 2011 demonstrated the ultimate parallel expression of this bifurcation through the emergence of Porter’s vanguard Aftertime and Teasdales’s adept synth infused long player Severant, produced under his Kuedo pseudonym. Whilst both albums evidently occupy separate worlds, Aftertime stretching into shadowy orchestration and muscular sonics and Severant drawing on the emotional depths of synthesized sound, both albums nonetheless share a central duality. This manifests through the exploration of the primary contrasting of elegance and frailty with a toughened almost thugged out forcefulness. In Porter’s Aftertime the delicate tones of the Ondes Martinot, a rare electronic instrument employed by serialist composers Boulez and Messiaen, sits alongside raw bass tones, shards of noise and juddering snatches of Public Enemy vocals. Whilst simultaneously Severant adapts the deeply emotional synth tropes of Tangerine Dream and Vangelis and overlays them onto punchy MPC style beats inherent to low slung US hip-hop production. This tense contrasting approach, an almost beauty and the beast aesthetic, is ultimately what gives both of these albums their distinctly human core located amidst the encircling clouds of electronics. An atmosphere of exposed delicacy continually under threat, an inescapable truth engrained within the fundamental order of Nature.

It’s a rare occasion for a seminal project to disband and its key members to emerge in the same year with landmark albums, and it goes without saying that the emergence of Porter and Teasdale as fully realised singular voices is an area significantly worthy of investigation by anyone remotely interested in the evolution of British underground music.

Arcadia Missa launch second edition of HTSF. Details here