Label: XL Recordings - All

The Higher

The Core

Ravers..

• 1 The Core
• 2 Stick 3
• 3 Submarine 96
• 4 Submarine 99

Baba Stiltz

Showtime

This EP is a collection of songs that were recorded during the past couple of years,”says Baba.“They all represent things I’ve been going through, jus... more...

• 1 Showtime
• 2 Situation
• 3 Serve
• 4 Maze

Batu

Rebuilt

Recommended by: Hendrik van Boetzelaer (OPUSWERK) | Batu

Omar McCutcheon, operating under his Batu alias, has been on the frontline of Bristol’s innovative electronic music scene since 2013. In 2015 he found... more...

• 1 Rebuilt
• 2 Pillars
• 3 Flash React
• 4 Tuff Cookie

Jonny L

Piper (Remixes)

Recommended by: Martyn

At the tail-end of 2017, XL Recordings reissued Jonny L’s seminal D&B album ‘Sawtooth’ on vinyl for the first time. A move that further cemented the r... more...

• 1 Piper (Peverlist Remix)
• 2 Piper (Overmono Remix)
• 3 Piper (Powell Remix)
• 4 Piper (Zomby remix)

Smerz

Have Fun

Norwegian duo Smerz had a prolific 2017, which saw the Copenhagen-based Henriette and Catharina play the likes of Club 2 Club, MoMA PS1, sell out ‘Hal... more...

• 1 Half life
• 2 No Harm
• 3 Oh My My
• 4 Something

Overmono

Arla III

A representation of our memories - both real and false, of UK rave culture. These records have been informed as much by fantasy as they are real memor... more...

• 1 Inulin
• 2 Phase Magenta
• 3 Pom
• 4 Harp Open

Overmono

Arla II

Reaching the spaces between ambient, techno & UK hardcore dynamics that few current acts are capable of reaching. more...

• 1 O-Coast
• 2 Telephax
• 3 HR3
• 4 16 Steps

Special Request

Modern Warfare (remixes)

Special Request gets the banging treatment.

• 1 Reset It (Head High Dirt Mix)
• 2 Reset It (Head High Real Mix)
• 3 Damage (Detboi Pump-Action Remix)

Lapsley

Operator (DJ Koze 12inch Extended Disco Version)

Very limited, hand-stamped, one-sided 12'' vinyl of DJ Koze's Extended Disco Version of Låpsley's Operator. Be quick on this one.

• 1 Operator (DJ Koze's Extended Disco Version)

Various Artists

XL Chapter VI

Twenty years after the 5th Chapter, the story continues. Chapter VI celebrates the very best of today's UK underground. Twenty years is a long time.... more...

• 01 Amnesia - Special Request
• 02 Novelist x Mumdance - 1 Sec
• 03 rLr - I Am Paint (Centre Of The Earth Dub)
• 04 Zomby - Slime

Missingno

Fones ep

Crystalline hybrid of R&B, bass and rave.

• 1 Dead
• 2 Fones
• 3 Inta
• 4 Scope

Special Request

Modern Warfare ep 3

Presenting the Modern Warfare series: nine tracks that are influenced by, but never overly reverential to the sounds and first generation rave, jungle... more...

• 1 Tractor Beam
• 2 Elegy
• 3 Peak Dub

Special Request

Modern Warfare ep 2

Presenting the Modern Warfare series: nine tracks that are influenced by, but never overly reverential to the sounds and first generation rave, jungle... more...

• 1 Take Me
• 2 Damage
• 3 Simulation

Special Request

Modern Warfare ep 1

Presenting the Modern Warfare series: nine tracks that are influenced by, but never overly reverential to the sounds and first generation rave, jungle... more...

• 1 Amnesia
• 2 Reset It

Powell

Insomniac / Should've Been A Drummer

New Powell (Diagonal) single continues to blur the lines between contemporary club music, punk and forward-thinking computer acid. Describing the musi... more...

• 1 Insomniac
• 2 Should Have Been A Drummer

Gil Scott-Heron

Nothing New

''Nothing New'' by Gil Scott-Heron is an album of stripped down vocal and piano versions of songs from his back catalogue, recorded in New York with p... more...

• 01 Did You Hear What They Said
• 02 Better Days Ahead
• 03 Household Name (interlude)
• 04 Your Daddy Loves You

Gil Scott-Heron

I'm New Here

Recommended by: Clone

Final album of the late great Gil Scott Heron. And a wonderful genre-bending album it is for the American poet who has meant so much for spoken word a... more...

• 01 on coming from a broken home (part 1)
• 02 me and the devil
• 03 im new here
• 04 your soul and mine

Gil Scott-Heron

I'm New Here (10th Anniversary Expanded Edition)

10th Anniversary Expanded Edition on pink and green vinyl of the final album of the late great Gil Scott Heron. And a wonderful genre-bending album it... more...

• 01 On Coming From A Broken Home (part 1)
• 02 Me and The Devil
• 03 I'm New Here
• 04 Your Soul and Mine