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Premiere: Listen to RINSED’s “No Remorse” from Snakes & Ladders EP on The Umbrella

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RINSED – a party, a collective, an institution built by the voices of the ravers who wanted just a little bit more to their hedonistic Brooklyn adventures. Two individuals – Dan Wender and Blacky II – came together one night in Brooklyn seven years ago and decided to do their own thing on small-but-sexy scale. The whispers got louder, the party got larger and all of a sudden it’s three years later and the boys have an anniversary party to play in the back of a pizza joint in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The party was an all-live performance, seven-hour rave and they had no tracks to work with, so they gave themselves a challenge – they had a weekend to make their live show work and not fall on their faces and meet the standard that they upheld years back from the very first RINSED event.

Turns out — after an extensive weekend session with a bevy of hardware and illicit substances — the boys made it work. It resulted in an hour-long set of kaleidoscopic house and garage cuts that’s equal parts evocative, fresh and multi-sensory. The initial thoughts behind this set was to be a one-and-done event, but after much consideration, the duo couldn’t let these tracks not see the light of the day.

Enter Snakes & Ladders on The Umbrella, a release of the live set; remastered and revamped for your audible pleasure – to be made available in conjunction with their seventh year anniversary. The set will see three versions — as a four-track EP, an eleven-track bootleg LP, and as a continuous mix which will be accompanied by a live performance of the duo’s oh-so-tantalizing live show.

Fair warning — things tend to get more slippery the higher one gets.

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Premiere: Listen to Ariel Black’s “Fragile Android” on The Umbrella New Double A-Side “Electric Official”

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Our world is an electric one, digital signals dictate our emotional impulses. Electronic music is now all music.

Can you feel the electricity?

Electric Official, the brand-new double A-Side from The Umbrella, is a celebration of this transition. Featuring two tracks composed of the most euphoric of bleeps and contagious of bloops.

Beginning with Ariel Black‘s breakbeat stomper, “Fragile Android”, the release is optimized to forgo any boot time, or login, and instead starts smashing buttons right from initiation. We are happy to be premiering this one exclusively for you today.

The process concludes with Man 2.0’s “Crack Talking”, the hypnotic and relentless anthem, conjuring the familiarity of a hacked Game Boy harboring a fatal virus, and the infectious vocal chanting of a artificially intelligent demented being.

The result is a short and sweet, and will cause your system to terminally overheat. You can find the release for purchase on Traxsource.

Track Listing:

A1 – Ariel Black – Fragile Android
A2 – Man2.0 – Crack Talking

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Premiere: Luka Tacon Drops “Who’s Style?” on Endless Reflection EP Compilation

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Endless Reflection is part of an ongoing series of micro-compilations from The Umbrella, intended to assemble distinct vantage points around a singular concept.

To reflect has multiple meanings. Reflection can be taken literally, to mean the throwing of an object back towards it’s direction of origin. Or figuratively, to consider and evaluate oneself candidly. Endless Reflection expresses both meanings simultaneously and infinitely.

In the figurative sense, the EP features a collection of artists in contemplation. The contributors have spent a lifetime in the club, complete with all it’s glories and darkest moments. In a culture that so many experience peripherally, these producers have established a personal relationship, and embrace the nightclub as their home and sanctuary. The listener can instantly identify the contemplative nature of the tracks which induce an inner reflection of ones self.

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Premiere: Listen to Lust Fund’s ‘Split’ EP out on The Umbrella

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Williamsburg. A landscape in constant transition. What was once a derelict wasteland shared by starving artists and the Hasidim, is now a luxury playground for the inherently rich. In a land of limitless trust funds, where everyone’s a DJ and nobody pays their rent, two men stand alone, dripping not in gold, but in sex.

The Lust Fund is flush, and whether bull or bear, it grows steadily. The passion project of Tom Snares and Ariel Black, Lust Fund came about not of desire, but of necessity. After months of laborious nights and steamy rendezvouses, the first physical manifestation of their love has come to fruition…

This Split EP is the first release of Lust Fund on The Umbrella. Although a group effort, it contains two solo tracks from each member.

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