We featured Cymbals in Tank last summer, they were recording the follow up to their debut 12" on a ship in the docklands, it was almost finished. Yet a while later the boat sank, recording was pushed back, they got a new member, and so it follows that now Cymbals second 12" is finally finished and getting released. It's a testament to how long we've all been waiting for it that already sold out a month before it's even been released.

'No Bad Decisions' is brilliantly built around a rhythm percussively strummed on a treble-laden guitar, and in true Cymbals fashion, it's an homage to revisiting the rose-tinted memories of youth.

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Elliphant appeared out of no where with 'In The Jungle' - a song that was brutally strange, and strangely infectious. A month later and they drop 'TeKKno Scene'. 'In The Jungle' sounded partly like it was actually recorded in a jungle, and 'TeKKno Scene' is Dancehall music made in a climate where you can't go outside because it's so cold. Elliphant are unique, and that's a rare thing.

Elliphant: TeKKno Scene feat. Adam Kanyama by ElliphantMusic

Laurel Halo, whose real name is Ina Cube, is now releasing an EP under the moniker of King Felix, which was the name of the last EP she released as Laurel Halo. All very confusing, but its shaping up to a wonderful record, full of pulsing ambient techno beats and thick textures. She's been described as a 'future cover star of The Wire' by The Guardian, and its hard to disagree. STRING02 is a heart-ripper of a track, just as it gets going, just as you immerse yourself in its groove, then it pulls the carpet from under your feet and disappears. Probably to accumulate another aliases.

SPRING02 by Liberation Technologies