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Follow Culprate // https://soundcloud.com/culprate Book Culprate // Jef@methlab-agency.com CULPRATE is a creator who has cut a distinct and complex mark across the landscape of electronica. An artist dedicated to audio exploration, with a refusal to be nailed down to specific genres, he has laid down a complex and refined outlook to production through his work. Landmark releases on some of bass music's truly taste-defining labels such as OWSLA, INSPECTED, CRITICAL, RAM, NEOSIGNAL and DISCIPLE have established his remarkable presence as an artist, with an impressive trail of music that has led to his recognition as a unique talent and creative force. His desire to connect the dots across multiple genres and a diverse array of creators also led to him manifesting his own imprint OPEN OUTLETS, as well as self-released projects like the UNITY series - a meeting point of ideas and a melting pot of fresh concepts which has been met with widespread appreciation. The origins of his creativity sprouted from an early age through learning the guitar and developing his knowledge of practical music and theory. This developed into an interest for electronic music following extensive work with recording bands and using analogue gear throughout college, during which time he was introduced to computer based production. During these formative years he developed the basis of his sound, manifesting his sonic persona in the form of mind-blowing anthems that made their way into clubs, and later gained the attention of seminal artists such as KOAN Sound, Gemini and Skrillex with whom he has directly collaborated. His stream of releases to date have been poised and carefully timed, with his intent fully in only releasing music that has been carefully developed and refined. The results have spoken for themselves, with his more recent DAWN EP and FIVE STAR EP landing to heavy critical acclaim, and his last LP - DELIVERANCE - creating waves in the years after its release in 2014. Already a household name for those who know, word of a new EP incoming on INSPECTED and rumours of a new LP in development set the scene for Culprate to push things into more impressive territory in the coming years.

DO I opens within our standard auditory and temporal world, amongst a wistful, acoustic beat that echoes longingly of past musical eras, as though carefully considering its next move against a glittering nostalgia. As an ethereal vocal sample drifts through the background, a piano rises upwards in wistful aspiration, and the track begins to take on more elements of digital modernity, with its cello bassline becoming augmented by a rumbling sub bass in a mergence of past and future. JOIN THE INNER CORE // methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // @woulgmusic

OPERATE flutters almost chaotically with myriad arpeggios that drift in and out of time with the rest of the track, which seems to breath and rustle with the collective life of a full sonic ecosystem, not always synchronized but full of spontaneous moments of beautiful lucidity. As a dissonant, swarming synth sweeps its way through this sonic world, the result is not one of expected discomfort, but instead one of necessary tension which builds continuously until, in a single moment, time snaps back in on itself, suddenly closing the portal to this world, causing us to become lost. JOIN THE INNER CORE // methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // @woulgmusic

In the resulting chaos of that desynchronization, BLUE SHIFT tumbles into the umbral depths of an unknown destination, with thunderous kick drums pounding with powerful urgency. The drums seem to fall from nowhere out of a single tone, slowing and then quickening once more alongside a droning siren which imparts an atmosphere of near hopeless dystopia. As the journey continues, we find even in this strange and terrifying realm echoes of the previous ecosystem, in a melody that is retained from the strange pastoral land of OPERATE. It too is transformed by this strange sonic space, accelerating unnaturally and quickening the mind. JOIN THE INNER CORE // methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // @woulgmusic

TIME DILATION stretches and rebounds between both sonic and temporal extremes, with moments of slow, melodic contemplation, and anarchic, tumultuous distortion. Time and sound then stabilize for a moment, following the guiding influence of a comparatively simple beat that once again carries a familiar refrain in the melody of places already visited, though at its zenith this once more decays, tumbling onwards into a new space. JOIN THE INNER CORE // methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // @woulgmusic

DEPRESSURIZED seems at its outset restrained in comparison to its predecessors, with a structured drumbeat accompanied by a benign and complacent melody that serves to normalize our sonic environment. Yet even here time shifts obscurely, as the heaviest hit of a drum in each part of the beat walks slowly forwards, further into the pattern as if somehow moving of its own will. JOIN THE INNER CORE // methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // @woulgmusic

BAUD-Y, carries the momentum of the previous track, adapting its basic structure to hold additional intensity, as the rhythmic, distorted pulse of a siren repeats in the background. Amongst this, a powerful bass punches into the foreground, forcing its way in of its own accord with little care for the last vestiges of convention the song still holds, and seemingly transfers this mentality to the rest of the track as it shifts into a new time signature, holding within it an extra beat. Here, the original drumbeat and melody return, morphed by this new temporal realm into something alien yet familiar. JOIN THE INNER CORE // methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // @woulgmusic

LOST TIME continues onwards, striding methodically with the pounding steps of a powerful kick drum. As before, arpeggios flutter through the atmosphere, ignorant of the time supposedly enforced by the drum, and yet somehow belonging. A soulful vocal drifts once more from obscurity, adding a human element to this strange landscape, but it too is morphed, crushed and distorted by the strange time within, as it descends once more to obscurity at the tracks closing. JOIN THE INNER CORE // methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // @woulgmusic

I DON’T begins apart from itself, with a lurching silence separating the moments of its stripped down instrumentation, once more made of largely acoustic components, calling back in response to DO I and wistfully closing a journey that has simultaneously gone everywhere and nowhere at once, as though its path of travel had been but one great circle. The return to a relative base elicits whether such a state is truly best, whether the comfort of complacency is truly worth the lack of exploration it requires, a question that is left hanging in the air as the final portal to these strange realms of time suddenly closes, this time without repercussion. JOIN THE INNER CORE // methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // @woulgmusic

Kailash - 0:00 Mindstream - 0:27 Artist // Allied Release // Kailash & Mindstream (First Single from the 'Kailash' LP) Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 21.06.18 Streaming - 07.08.18 Bandcamp - 14.08.18 Worldwide - 16.08.18 ALLIED unveils the lead single from his forthcoming KAILASH LP on METHLAB RECORDINGS. With title track 'Kailash' and 'Mindstream' the artist's unique take on the techno-infused depths of drum and bass are clearly illustrated, with these 2 tracks delivering organic journeys that oscillate between natural warmth and the stark coldness of the tech within. Available to Inner Core members imminently and set for worldwide release in August. Sign up to the core - https://www.methlab-agency.com/core FOLLOW ALLIED // Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/allied Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/alliedproductions/

Kailash - 0:00 Mindstream - 0:27 Artist // Allied Release // Kailash & Mindstream (First Single from the 'Kailash' LP) Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 21.06.18 Streaming - 07.08.18 Bandcamp - 14.08.18 Worldwide - 16.08.18 ALLIED unveils the lead single from his forthcoming KAILASH LP on METHLAB RECORDINGS. With title track 'Kailash' and 'Mindstream' the artist's unique take on the techno-infused depths of drum and bass are clearly illustrated, with these 2 tracks delivering organic journeys that oscillate between natural warmth and the stark coldness of the tech within. Available to Inner Core members imminently and set for worldwide release in August. Sign up to the core - https://www.methlab-agency.com/core FOLLOW ALLIED // Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/allied Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/alliedproductions/

Artist // Current Value Release // Consequences EP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core (OUT NOW) Bandcamp (OUTNOW) Worldwide - 14.06.18 Without a doubt, one of this generations most impressive sonic pioneers, CURRENT VALUE stands as one of the consistently undefinable and unique forces in the drum and bass landscape. Finding inspiration across a multitude of sub-genres and allocating his restless and adept production expertise to the pure pursuit of new audio possibilities. With the CONSEQUENCES EP the broad spread of his art is distinct and clear to see, 5 tracks that represent an absolute slice of an artist who makes his own definitions. FOLLOW CURRENT VALUE // Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/tim-e-aka-current-value

Artist // Current Value Release // Consequences EP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core (OUT NOW) Bandcamp (OUTNOW) Worldwide - 14.06.18 Without a doubt, one of this generations most impressive sonic pioneers, CURRENT VALUE stands as one of the consistently undefinable and unique forces in the drum and bass landscape. Finding inspiration across a multitude of sub-genres and allocating his restless and adept production expertise to the pure pursuit of new audio possibilities. With the CONSEQUENCES EP the broad spread of his art is distinct and clear to see, 5 tracks that represent an absolute slice of an artist who makes his own definitions. FOLLOW CURRENT VALUE // Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/tim-e-aka-current-value

Artist // Current Value Release // Consequences EP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core (OUT NOW) Bandcamp (OUTNOW) Worldwide - 14.06.18 Without a doubt, one of this generations most impressive sonic pioneers, CURRENT VALUE stands as one of the consistently undefinable and unique forces in the drum and bass landscape. Finding inspiration across a multitude of sub-genres and allocating his restless and adept production expertise to the pure pursuit of new audio possibilities. With the CONSEQUENCES EP the broad spread of his art is distinct and clear to see, 5 tracks that represent an absolute slice of an artist who makes his own definitions. FOLLOW CURRENT VALUE // Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/tim-e-aka-current-value

Artist // Current Value Release // Consequences EP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core (OUT NOW) Bandcamp (OUTNOW) Worldwide - 14.06.18 Without a doubt, one of this generations most impressive sonic pioneers, CURRENT VALUE stands as one of the consistently undefinable and unique forces in the drum and bass landscape. Finding inspiration across a multitude of sub-genres and allocating his restless and adept production expertise to the pure pursuit of new audio possibilities. With the CONSEQUENCES EP the broad spread of his art is distinct and clear to see, 5 tracks that represent an absolute slice of an artist who makes his own definitions. FOLLOW CURRENT VALUE // Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/tim-e-aka-current-value

Artist // Current Value Release // Consequences EP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core (OUT NOW) Bandcamp (OUTNOW) Worldwide - 14.06.18 Without a doubt, one of this generations most impressive sonic pioneers, CURRENT VALUE stands as one of the consistently undefinable and unique forces in the drum and bass landscape. Finding inspiration across a multitude of sub-genres and allocating his restless and adept production expertise to the pure pursuit of new audio possibilities. With the CONSEQUENCES EP the broad spread of his art is distinct and clear to see, 5 tracks that represent an absolute slice of an artist who makes his own definitions. FOLLOW CURRENT VALUE // Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/tim-e-aka-current-value

Artist // Current Value Release // Consequences EP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core (OUT NOW) - 01.05.18 Bandcamp - 12.06.18 Worldwide - 14.06.18 Without a doubt, one of this generations most impressive sonic pioneers, CURRENT VALUE stands as one of the consistently undefinable and unique forces in the drum and bass landscape. Finding inspiration across a multitude of sub-genres and allocating his restless and adept production expertise to the pure pursuit of new audio possibilities. With the CONSEQUENCES EP the broad spread of his art is distinct and clear to see, 5 tracks that represent an absolute slice of an artist who makes his own definitions. Acquire the release - http://methlab-agency.com/core FOLLOW CURRENT VALUE // Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/tim-e-aka-current-value

JOIN THE INNER CORE // http://methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // https://soundcloud.com/woulgmusic

Artist // Exept feat. Joanna Syze Release // Stronger EP Label // BNKR - MethLab Recordings BUY LINK // https://methlabagency.bandcamp.com/album/stronger-ep Fresh production outfit EXEPT take a sure-footed step with their first full debut EP for the seventh release of MethLab's BNKR concept - a series that acts as the Occam's razor of deeper dwelling tracks. With the 'STRONGER' EP, 4 tracks of lean drum and bass roll onto the dancefloor, with each carrying a unique audio shard, led by the sublime melancholic vocals of JOANNA SYZE for the title track. Exept's refined production and cutting minimalist approach carve an intricate tech niche in the series progression. Acquire the release - https://methlabagency.bandcamp.com/album/stronger-ep FOLLOW EXEPT // Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/exept

JOIN THE INNER CORE // http://methlab-agency.com/core Woulg presents the dynamic and beautifully crafted ‘Last Time’ LP, an exploration of time and space through sonic exploration. The dynamic of the journey (and it really is a journey) sees movements that experiment with time dilation, phasing, minimalism, polyrhythms, unusual time signatures and ultimately, the relativity and space between notes. It’s a journey that demands the listener’s attention, with real beauty to be found in the details. Woulg has delivered a manifesto that’s both delicate and poised, whilst laced with razor sharp intelligence. Artist // Woulg Release // Last Time LP Label // MethLab Recordings Release Dates // Inner Core - 15.05.18 Streaming - 03.07.18 Bandcamp - 10.07.18 Worldwide - 12.07.18 FOLLOW WOULG // https://soundcloud.com/woulgmusic