Bleep

When Spaces released his debut EP One on Bleep, very little was known about the producer. Since then he has released the 4-track Potential EP and picked up wide support, most notably from Björk, who had Spaces co-produce the final track on her Vulnicura album.

Spaces returns with Two, the second in a trilogy of releases, hitting straight back with his unique blend of puncturing percussions and weird, compressed textures. To finish, this EP has the added bonus of a remix from Mark Fell (SND/Sensate Focus), an early supporter of Spaces' work.

With the opening track 'Make The Switch', Spaces reveals his most dancefloor-friendly cut to date. Although be warned, with its unexpected piercing distortions and glassy siren hits, this is not for a faint-hearted dancefloor. Chase Back follows up with a 4/4 groove built around a loud, cacophonous build, which crescendos to a new plateau bound to please more adventurous DJs looking for a segue tool.

On the other side 'Noon To' creates a feeling of claustrophobia, an ever-approaching drum pattern closes in on your senses then distortions make way for an eerie multi-coloured calm in the storm making this the standout song of the EP. For the final track, Mark Fell re-imagines 'Make The Switch' as an intricate plethora of percussion rolling and tumbling its way through a playful logic that is distinctive and can only be his own.

Bleep are proud to release the debut EP of a mysterious producer named Zap Francis. These beats first aired on Black Milk’s Boiler Room set about a year ago but other than that, not much is known about Zap Francis.

When Black Milk (rapper and producer from Detroit) was questioned on where the tracks came from, he answered: “Zap Francis gave them to me”.

With this debut E.P., Zap delivers 6 tracks of instrumental hip-hop that soundtracks journeys across intergalactic realms.

From the opening hi-hat of shuffle and bass and synth-line drops of ‘Scuffer’, you know what you are dealing with here. The soothing tones of ‘Spirit Felt’ shows a more delicate side to the mysterious producer. From the neck-snapping snares of ‘Chime End’ to the frenetic closing track of ‘Age Of’, the self-titled marks a new era of Zap…

On a cold rainy day in London, Tessela met up with Nozinja in a East London pub for a quick pint. They got on like a house on fire, swapping production techniques and notes from their drastically different approach to making electronic music. They ended up going back to Tessela’s studio down the road for an impromptu recording session.

Two very different takes on the same song. ‘Wa Chacha’; produced by two artists at the top of their game with a mere distance of 8,000 miles separating their respective hometowns.

Nozinja, of Shangaan Electro fame – who is currently prepping for his forthcoming full length album on Warp Records, wrote the original song and was asked by Bleep to collaborate with Tessela for this special one-off 12" release.

Tessela – the UK based producer gaining attention through skilfully blurring the boundaries between techno, jungle and fractured rhythmical structures through his incredible releases on R&S Records, Punch Drunk and of course his incredible break-out self-released track ‘Hackney Parrot’, jumped at the opportunity to work with the genre-pioneering South African producer.