New music on our radar this week: Grimes and Sub Focus, Mura Masa, DJ Fuckoff

Welcome to Mixmag’s round-up of upcoming music releases that you should take note of

Bakey drops debut album on Warehouse Project Records, ‘Tribute’

London’s Bakey has unveiled his first-ever album after two years in the making, ‘Tribute’, a nine-track record out now via Warehouse Project Records.

The release spans emotional highs with tracks influenced by 2-step and jungle, to more melodic works dabbling in broken beat and dubstep – all with inspiration from club soundsystems and pirate radio.

“The title ‘Tribute’ reflects my connection to an era of UK dance music I never experienced first-hand, but that continues to inspire me,” he says, “Late ’90s to early ’00s pirate radio, raves, club nights and soundsystem scenes.”

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Mura Masa releases new EP ‘CURVE+1’ on his Pond Recordings imprint

Mura Masa has released a new four-track EP – ‘Curve+1’ – on his own imprint Pond Recordings, a follow-up to last year’s ‘Curve 1’.

Lead track ‘Handsup’ landed earlier this month alongside a visualiser depicting the intimacy of the dancefloor and the pulsating rhythms that run through it.

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Alejandra Cárdenas (AKA Ale Hop) drops new album ‘A Body Like a Home’

Peru’s Alejandra Cárdenas (AKA Ale Hop) has announced her next album, ‘A Body Like a Home’ on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People imprint, comprising 13 tracks and 15 poems.

The record is centered around her youth, music on “the inevitable loop between private wounds – addiction, domestic violence, fractured intimacy”.

“I grew up under Alberto Fujimori’s dictatorship, when a veil of hopelessness seemed to settle over everything,” she says. “This is the backdrop of the album.”

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Egyptrixx returns after seven years with new 16-track album ‘How Tidal’

Canadian producer Egyptrixx is back after seven years with his first full-length project, this time in the form of a 16-track album ‘How Tidal’, following 2017’s ‘Pure, Beyond Reproach’.

The album is due to land on his own Halocline Trance label on November 14, featuring both reworks of “highlights” from his discography as well as newly produced tracks.

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DJ Fuckoff makes no apologies on new single, 'Party Rock' 

Berlin-by-way-of-New-Zealand producer DJ Fuckoff has just released her full-throttle new single, 'Party Rock' — her debut release on LA-based imprint, HARD Recs.

Described by the artist as a "peak summertime party rock and panty-dropping energy," the track combines rowdy Berlin techno with New Zealand doof, witholding nods to her ‘Fucktopia’ universe concept.

The single is being released alongside a limited edition PARTY HARD thong. 

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Knucks releases sophmore album 'A Fine African Man' 

Released on Friday (October 31) via ADA, Knucks shared his sophmore album and follow-up to his crtically acclaimed debut, 'Alpha Place'. 

'A Fine African Man' charts his youth in Nigeria alongside his life in London as part of the African diaspora, covering themes of masculinity, identity and duality. 

Alongside the release of the album, Knucks has also shared the visualiser for single 'Masquerade', which features scenes from both London and Lagos.

"A Fine African Man, or AFAM. The Igbo name given to me by my family. Afamefuna: ‘May my name not be forgotten.’ This project is two years in the making," says Knucks. 

"Two years of writing, thinking, living. Long nights in studios from London, to Jamaica to Nigeria. I see this one as a continuation of Alpha Place—another side of who I am. I’m born and raised in London, but so much of who I am is because of my Nigerian heritage and the time I spent there during one of the most pivotal years of my life."

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Sub Focus teams up with Grimes for Sci-fi-inspired new single, 'Entwined'

The latest unlikely duo to hit the world of dance music, Sub Focus and Grimes have just released their new collaborative single 'Entwined', which landed on Casablanca Records on Friday (October 31).

Pairing experimental sonics with full-throttle drum 'n' bass, the new track features the Canadian artist's pitched-up, ethereal vocals with pumping jump up. 

“I literally could not be more hyped on Sub Focus. Dance music has felt bizarrely sterile and increasingly so over time,” shared Grimes this past summer via her social media. 

“Working on some stuff for his record and it's literally hitting like the autistic sci fi shit in all the right places like it rly feels like cinematic, like I'm right in Neuromancer. But also it's genuinely euphoric. It has been so long since I've felt euphoric about dance music.”

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NOTION collaborates with Willow Kayne on new single ‘Waiting’ 

NOTION and Willow Kayne have joined forces on a new collaborative single ‘Waiting’, an atmospheric dancefloor anthem which dropped via Chaos Records.

A pop-up party celebrating the release will took place at Unlocked in Shoreditch on Thursday, October 30, with Notion set to tour across Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand across the next few months. 

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Omagoqa drop double-single via More Time Records

Omagoqa have released a new double-single via More Time Records, ‘Gqom Qhwasha / Kyashuba’.

There’s guest vocals from Dezzodigo & Killer Dee on each track of the hard-hitting release, which precedes a full EP ‘S4TW’ coming next.

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MssingNo’s first new music in fove years is out this month

MssingNo is set to release new music for the first time in five years on November 7, following on from his 2020 EP ‘GUIDERS’. 

He teased the new track ‘Think Of Me’ on Instagram this week, alongside the message “New single out Nov 7”. 

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Baltra announces new EP 'In The Afterglow'

New York-based producer Baltra has shared details of his new EP, 'In the Afterglow, which is set for release via his imprint 96 & Forever Records on December 9. 

Alongside the project's announcement, Baltra has shared the first single from the forthcoming record, 'Lost' — a UKG-inspired, rolling bass banger which covers "post-club romanticism", according to a press release.

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