BristolMusic Weekly

A Bristol collective project in the truest sense. Clown Army take FFLD and throw it open to their wider community on an enormous 22-track remix album, with 20 named artist reworks, a radio-edit remix and the original version bringing the package to a close.

The result stretches the same source material through drum & bass, breaks, house, techno and live electronics, with contributions from Surreal8Zero, Alien Probe, BadConduct, Blip Fortran, Dee Jay Prism, Gorgeous Roy, Hardware Sound, Le Kroak, Odd Sock, Ray the Binman, Sibby, WURM and more. Released on 6 September, it feels less like a conventional remix album and more like a snapshot of the sprawling Clown Army community around Bristol.

Bristol producer longman is back with YourNextMove, six compact cuts of stripped-back hip-hop and heavyweight beatmaking. The project moves quickly, with most tracks sitting around the two-minute mark and very little wasted space.

Predominantly instrumental, the record makes room for REX on Spoken/Slow and OuttaLuck on AroundTheGlobe, alongside LivingStones, I’m the ??, Interlude and SitEmOut. It’s a short, focused beat tape with sparse construction that lets the drums and samples do the talking.

Space Disco Wizard joins Bristol and Delhi-based label Paradia for Boogietron 2084, a four-track EP built around cosmic disco, electro and Italo influences.

Behind the alias is Marcello “Cello” Giunchi, an Italian DJ and producer whose involvement in electronic music stretches back to the early 1990s and who has spent the past two decades embedded in Bangkok’s nightlife. Across Trabasco, Corner Burner, dung beetles gotta roll and the title track, warm analogue textures meet machine-driven rhythms and melodic synth work designed firmly with the dancefloor in mind.

The Bristol connection runs deeper than the label: the EP was also mastered by Optimum Mastering Bristol, while its distinctive artwork comes from Joel Williams.

Dub Head lands on Bristol label Truth Hertz with Moonlight EP, a three-track release that deliberately moves into a different side of the producer’s sound.

Rather than simply doubling down on the harder underground D&B associated with his name, Midnight, Silent Rain and Forever With You lean into a more melodic and atmospheric feel. Truth Hertz describe the release as a turn into a new era for Dub Head’s production, with the whole project shaped around the tail end of summer.

Released on 10 September, it’s another strong addition to the catalogue of the Bristol label founded by Ill Truth.

Arriving right at the end of this week’s reporting window, Scuttle returns with LIGHTA/FUEGO. The paired release is one of this week’s newer Bandcamp-first finds, with no confirmed Spotify match currently surfaced through Bristol Music Weekly.

Lighta and Fuego move through deep dubstep, UK garage and 140 territory. Written and produced by Scuttle, mastered at Whitepeach Studios and released on 11 September, the project adds another club-focused independent release to this week’s Bristol selection.

B_Man adds Burning EP to this week’s selection as a Bandcamp-only pre-order discovered during the reporting window. The first track is available to stream now, with Bandcamp listing the complete three-track EP for release on 20 September.

Written and produced at StAR Studios in Bristol, the release moves between industrial breakbeat and trip-hop mixes. There’s no confirmed Spotify match at present, making this exactly the kind of independent Bandcamp discovery Bristol Music Weekly exists to surface.