Touching Bass Vinyl, CD & Tape 9 Items

Introducing a new addition to Touching Bass" 12" dancefloor series. The series highlights mostly new artists who showcase the sounds of the Touching Bass dancefloor; packaged in their house sleeve." Shine" is an innovative case-in-point ofmachine funk turned soulful. Across six tracks, D"Monk - the London-based multi-instrumentalist, producer and selector - makes a strong claim for debut EP of the year, falling somewhere between warm-n-fuzzy electro, LDN broken beat, beatdown and the drunken, undefinable soul-dance of Detroit.

Last Nubian — one of South London’s most electrifying producer/DJ talents — partners with Geneva’s Sweet Fruity Brunch to debut on Errol and Alex Rita’s Touching Bass. Six tracks oozing the grit and groove of inner city LDN with deep house, broken beat and dub at its core.

From the wiggling, jazz-tinged house of the title track and anthemic singalong bruk of “in da morning” (both featuring the honeyed vocals of Achanté) to “unformidable/call it out”’s moody steadiness and the dub that bookends the EP — this is music with soul firmly in its veins.

Fresh from stellar releases on kinship labels, Tiff’s Joints and Ben Hauke’s Woop Records, the Balamii Radio resident has been steadily making moves for the past few years as part of an exciting scene of local producers and DJs. He’s now ready to take things to a new level, developing a live/DJ-hybrid performance (which premiered spectacularly to a hot-footed audience at Gilles Peterson’s We Out Here Festival).

‘Babylon Shuffle’ marks the first of Touching Bass’ 12” riddim packages, bottling the eclectic sounds of their much-loved South London-based dance on wax; custom built for dancefloor damage and beautifully presented in the soon-to-be customary, crimson red house sleeve.

Previous support from Moxie, Shy One, Secretsundaze, Aqwea, Pete Tong, Jamz Supernova, Alexander Nut and more.

Blvck Spvde and Stefan Ringer - two underground heroes of innovative heart music - merge slippery four-to-the-floor, sample-based life lessons and voicemail-infused soul to sweet effect on this debut collaboration. One for those that like their music with plenty of imaginative spice, and the next edition within Touching Bass" dependable 12" series celebrating the eclectic, forward-thinking sounds of their dancefloor.

Touching Bass Continue To Prise Open A Distinct, Exciting Lane For Themselves As A Label Home For Forward-Thinking, Soulful Music With The Incredible Debut Project From London's Demae (Aka Bubblerap And ? Of Hawk House) Entitled "Life Works Out...Usually" - "Life Works Out...Usually" Is A Soothing Antidote To These Turbulent Times; A Soulful Coming-Of-Age Story Celebrating Black Joy, Self-Empowerment And Life Learnings Centred Around An Integral Two Year Period Of Growth And Featuring Appearances From Fatima (Eglo Records), Joe Armon-Jones, Ego Ella May And Nala Sinephro - All Part Of Our Close-Knit, London-Based Musical Community. Sonically, It Draws A Unique Line Between The Grit Of Inner-City London Soul, Interstellar Flying Lotus Electronic Rushes And New-Age Dilla-Isms Mixed With Flecks Of London's Exciting Jazz-Influenced Sounds. Production Comes From Rising Producers Like Eun (Ego Ella May, Denzel Himself), Jake Milliner (Slum Village, Yazmin Lacey, Lord Apex), 104.Rog (Liv.E, Theesatisfaction) And Wu-Lu (Ego Ella May). For Those Not Yet Accustomed, Demae's Work Stretches Beyond Her Solo Project. She Has Been A Fundamental Part Of Fatima's Touring Band As A Backing Vocalist Since The Release Of Her Much Loved Second Album And Yet It's All Love. Prior To That, She Was One-Third Of Hip-Hop Adventurists, Hawk House, Whose Introspective, Eclectic Style Was Reshuffling The Rule Book For Uk-Based Rap, Quickly Making Them One Of The Uk's Most Exciting Emerging Sounds And Earning Fans From Mac Miller And Ghostpoet To Wretch 32 And Jill Scott.

With a shared ethos of elevating and amplifying left-field Black music, SouthLondon/Jamaica"s, cktrl shares his most ambitious work yet, partnering with Erroland Alex Rita"s Touching Bass to present" Robyn".

South Carolina-based multi-hyphenate, Contour, arrives on Errol and Alex Rita’s Touching Bass with Onwards! — an evocative, twelve-track journey through black art past and contemporary with soul, electronics and archival material at its core. “The record exists as a bridge in conversation between today’s artists and art of the past which offered potential ways to navigate the world that we’re in; personally or on a larger scale” says Contour. Shared today is “Hearing Voices'', the first single which “explores the relationship between our conditions of living and working and how we process or fail to process them”. Contour directed the accompanying music video, a filmic performance seemingly set in a work study. The single is about how work can sever “our connection to intuition”. Khari Lucas describes himself as multifaceted, including musician, score composer, film and radio programmer within his universe of practice. Contour — the musical alias he started in 2014 — is the vessel for his musical research, songwriting and production. Onwards! arrives in October 2022, following on from Weight (2020) and Love Suite (2021). Both previous records were impressive calling cards for the now 27-year-old, diving deep into a rich and incredibly vivid imagination set to a soul, hip-hop and psychedelic rock-influenced blueprint. This third body of work serves as an expansion of his songwriting ability, both lyrically and thematically, through and beyond autobiographical expression. During 2020, Khari spent a lot of time reading works from poets, writers, and theorists involved in the black arts movement. Films, including many from the L.A Rebellion movement of the 80s, became a recurring source of inspiration. As did a recently purchased Roland Sp-404 originally intended for organising samples, which turned into his personal audio diary populated by a multitude of sound bites. Using this vast pool as a foundation, alongside additional samples and select co-production from collaborators Swarvy and 10.4 ROG, Onwards! blossomed into Khari’s most accomplished synthesis of sample-based production and the direction his songwriting skills were already moving in. This project comes from the emotional exploration and metabolization of the media he consumed during this time. It encapsulates his digestion of the intersection of political and emotional realities. Via soundbites and references, he places art ancestors and influences in conversation with his work. Outside of this latest offering, Khari has collaborated with visionary black fashion house, Telfar, to launch their Black Camo line, co-directed/edited (Fresh Rain, 2021) and scored (Half-Day, 2022; One Magenta Afternoon, 2022) film, and is a seasoned resident artist. Most recently for New York’s non-profit cultural centre Pioneer Works, NTS Radio’s WIP programme and as a guest curator for the New York-based art publisher and performance space, Montez Press Radio. As Contour, he has supported contemporary musicians including Mndsgn and keiyaA. His monthly hosted radio show on dublab is a curatorial exercise called Footprints in the Dark. A two-hour exploration of a single black artist and a means for making one part of his research practice public. He has also guested on London’s NTS Radio and New York’s The Lot among others.

With Robyn, South London's Cktrl Shares His Most Ambitious Work Yet, Collaborating With The Likes Of Duval Timothy, Coby Sey (Micachu, Tirzah, Dean Blunt) And Purple Ferdinand To Create A Vital Exploration Of Contemporary-Classical From The Black Perspective; Out Via Errol And Alex Rita's Touching Bass. Spurred On By The Overpowering Feelings Of Heartbreak, Robyn Impressively Creates Emotive And Heartfelt Clarinet And Saxophone-Led Soundscapes About The All-Consuming Power Of Love. On The Project, Cktrl Says: "'Robyn' At Its Core Is Heartbreak And Is Just Really Sentimental. It's A Journey Of Losing A Love But It Ends With Optimism As You Find Strength To Love Again." Born And Bred In Lewisham, Cktrl Aka Bradley Miller Is An Integral Part Of London's Pioneering Musical Underground. One Of The Only Remaining Original DJs On Nts, Cktrl Has Previously Worked With And Played Alongside The Likes Of Sampha, Sango, Kelela And Dean Blunt. Throughout His Career To Date, Cktrl Has Also Been Recognised And Heralded By Fashion And Film Vips Including Virgil Abloh, Bianca Saunders, Tremaine Emory, Nicholas Daley And Jenn Nkiru Who Recently Secured Him A Cameo In Beyonce's Heralded 'Black Is King'. With A Shared Ethos Of Elevating And Amplifying Leftfield Black Music, He Partners With London Based Label, Touching Bass, Themselves A Key Cog Within The City's Bubbling Musical Underbelly.

Errol and Alex Rita"s Touching Bass are proud to present the highly anticipated repress of Soon Come; a landmark compilation celebrating the talents of their now intercontinental musical community and an introduction to the wide-spanning sound and feeling of their growing label. Soon Come is 22 original tracks spread across double 12" vinyl and split between "day" and "night", creating exciting connections between music for both the home and the eclectic sounds of their much-loved dancefloor.

Still shrink wrapped but opened. Record with just a few paper scuffs.