Charles Hayward
Smell Of Metal

Butter Sessions: ...Naarm (Melbourne) based collective Butter Sessions celebrate over a decade in business with an extensive glossary of talented friends and affiliates pressed on a three-part compilation series. The label has always held the community closest, as exemplified by the 20+ artists featured over the three releases. Each 12” presents a grand soundscape anchored into the tenebrous energy of the dancefloor, with its inquisitive electronics and fierce pulse. If there was a definition for the Butter Sessions sound of ten years in the making, the answer lies here.The first installment opens with To Be Continued, an erratic composition from Aotearoa’s Vanessa Worm, charged with robotic bass and incessant hi-hats. Perth's upper shelf producers Guy Contact and Ewan Jansen respectively insert their own flavour with Kickflip Bouquet, a mid-tempo trance tinged number, and Back to Blood, a distorted percolating experiment. Meanwhile, Barcelona based Ivy Barkakati contributes Descarga; a gnawing improvisation piece. Sleep D offers up a brooding atmospheric piece of techno with 041111, whilst Japan’s Haruka follows suit with the elastic Ishinoko. Albrecht La'Brooy drifts into more tranquil terrain with the flickering Butter Soft before Low Flung & DJ Mind Leaf & The Herbalist wrap up volume one with the dub-induced Take Out.

We Jazz Records is delighted to share the first edition of our new series of reworks with you . Our aim is to invite some of our favourite artists to take a fresh look at our album releases with the interval of 10 full length album releases. In other words, the invited artist has complete freedom to choose (or not to choose) any sample material from their allocated range of ten We Jazz Records albums, and there are no artistic boundaries of what they should do with the material. Each artist will then create a new musical piece based on the sample material and whatever instrumentation they wish to add to it. Fun, eh?

POLITY: ...Fresh off the heels of minting the YCO imprint with Aya, BFTT debuts on Polity Records with the Intrusive / Obtrusive EP, which sees BFTT continue to develop his precise, hyper-futuristic take on UK sound-system music. Using technology and humanity’s evolving (and not always benevolent) co-dependence with it as a conceptual jumping-off point, he infuses a noisier but still tightly controlled sound palette with the fixed-point rhythmic precision and mutative structures that made his previous work stand out.
BFTT joined Manchester’s Mutualism collective in 2017, an experimental label and events series, as well as running Leftovers in Leeds and most recently founding YCO alongside Aya in July of this year. The release follows acclaimed records for Whities and Gobstopper, as well as a pair of s t u n n i n g remixes of Loraine James’ +44 - Thinking - Of - You.