Apple Bottom - Forget It/Your Touch (Forthcoming Night Tracks)

Big news at Night Tracks, as we have yet another release confirmed. This one's all happened a bit quickly, the tracks are completed, I'm just waiting to send the tracks off for mastering, artwork should be completed soon-ish, and then we're ready to go.

Out to Apple Bottom for this, because the tracks are absolutely huge. Expect a guest mix and interview to go with the release soon too! As always, I look to try and bring you something a little different, and this no, err, different. 'Forget It' brings big bass, shuffling percs and quality vocal sampling, while 'Your Touch' has an almost UKG feel to it (that he's probably far too young to remember!). Check out previews of the tracks below:

Apple Bottom - Forget It

Apple Bottom - Your Touch

Congratulations to eplp!

Congratulations to my buddy eplp for being picked as Soundclouder of the Day! It's another great day for the Night Shift Collective as Soundcloud choose to pick another member to represent, big up!

Check out a track from eplp's forthcoming release on Night Tracks, called Blue Evening feat. Alpenglow.



Check out more of his tracks over on his Soundcloud page. I've just noticed that his collaboration with Runamucker now goes under the name Fontaine, and with both artists producing sickness, you've got to keep an eye out for their EP forthcoming on Gradient Audio.



Anyway, a final big up to eplp.

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Kid Smpl - Float (Forthcoming Night Tracks)

You may have read Night Tracks' recent interview with Kid Smpl (if you didn't, read it here) and listened to his guest mix full of his own productions, both signed and unsigned. After listening to that mix on repeat for a stupidly long time, I decided to try and get him on board for a release. We settled on the following track, Float.



Cinematic, futuristic vibes for me on this one. I don't really like using this word (it's become massively over used), but the drums are epic. Really happy to have this one on Night Tracks.

The flipside to Float will be a remix of the track, so if you think you can put together something sick, throw Kid Smpl a message on Soundcloud, as he's currently looking for remixers.

No date on when to expect this yet, but will update you nearer to the time.

Free Venture Download & Forthcoming Night Tracks Stuff

You're in for a treat today goons and goblins. To celebrate nailing down what I consider to be his best work yet to Night Tracks, Venture has decided to give away one of his older tracks as a free download.

'A Special Kind Of Love' is an archetypal Venture tune, with lush pads fading in and out over shifting minimal drum patterns. It's a pretty old tune, but definitely worth a download, so click on the artwork below to download it or check out the preview below.

Now, onto the track that's forthcoming on Night Tracks. Called 'Together We Fall', Venture sent it over to me, and immediately I had to check that it wasn't scheduled for release by somebody else (he's a very in demand man), and as soon as I knew it was available, it had to happen, so yeah, at some point, there will be a Night Tracks release of Venture - Together We Fall/??? (I'm not being mysterious with the '???' there, we just don't know what the other track is going to be yet). Check the track out here:

A bit of news on the other forthcoming releases now. There's a release by London and Leeds based production duo Mosket planned, Tek Som/Knock Turn All, which you can check out below, but the tracks are currently being reworked, so who knows how it's going to sound when it's finished?

Also being worked on is a release by my man, eplp (who I interviewed before and he gave away a free tune), who is, quite confusingly, releasing an eplp EP through Night Tracks. I'd love to one day release an eplp LP, but who knows. Meanwhile, check out one of the tracks from the forthcoming release below, featuring Alpenglow, called 'Blue Evening'.

There's another track that's being kept on the down low for now, but I can assure you, it's quality stuff. I'm also getting sent some quality tracks too, have discussed releasing some of them with the artists, so hopefully that'll come off, because man, they are good. More on that in the future!

Few Forthcoming Releases

A quick heads up on a few releases that should be coming soon.

Hackman - Close EP

Hackman - Close (Greco Roman)

Heard the above tune some time ago on DSF, when it was (tongue-in-cheek) labelled as Hackman - Just Want Your Clothes, because of the "I just want you close" sample. This is a strong contender for my favourite track of the year, would definitely recommend it on the strength of the title track alone, but the other 2 aren't just filler either. The artwork just typifies Hackman. It was a bag on sight for me, and it should be for you too.

Horsepower Productions - The Lost Tapes EP

Horsepower Productions - What We Do (Remix) (Tempa)

No samples of the tracks on this release yet, but there are samples up on Redeye worth checking out. These are a collection of unreleased tracks from back in the day, including the original mix of "What We Do" so naturally, get your grubby paws on this as quickly as possible. Swinging 2-step/Proto-Dubstep at its best, come back to remind everyone that there was a groovy time before brostep.

Biome - Space

Biome - Space (Black Box)

People would have to be kidding themselves if they don't think Biome is going to be huge. I've been waiting for this track to drop for some time now, and Black Box has to be the natural home for it. Really powerful show of the fundamentals of dubstep, sub creating serious pressure and plenty of space to skank to. Grab it soon as part of the BLKBXXX series.

Radiohead - Give Up The Ghost (Thriller Remix) / Codex (Illum Sphere Remix) / Little By Little (Shed Remix)

Radiohead - Little By Little (XL Recordings)

No audio available of this yet, so I've just banged the original Little By Little in there from the King Of Limbs album. This is the 4th in the series of the Radiohead remix releases on Ticker Tape Ltd. and I'm really anticipating the Shed remix. Can't really think how he's going to work this one, but you know it's going to be impressive. These releases have been flying off the shelves, so get in there quick.