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Time Is Now (UK)

As Bristol’s music scene continues to pioneer new sounds and styles across the world of music, the labels that house those sounds must be celebrated. When it comes to innovation, there aren’t many places with it in more of an abundance than Time Is Now (UK), a fantastic sub-label of the Shall Not Fade imprint. Since launching with two releases in April of 2020, they have been on a fantastic streak, welcoming artists such as Wilfy D, Soul Mass Transit System D Jason, Baby J, Interplanetary Criminal and more to showcase their unique approach to garage music. The experimental side of UKG can safely be described as their speciality zone, with their releases continuing to grow in popularity and allowing the Shall Not Fade team access to an outlet for the more “outside the box” styles of production they receive. The quality levels have continued to rise since the labels inception and we can’t see that pattern changing any time spoon.
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Show Me
Show Me - (5:36) 135 BPM
Principle - (5:20) 140 BPM
Point Blank - (5:06) 135 BPM
Take Down - (4:40) 134 BPM Hot
Review: As always with a new Time Is Now drop, it's time to crank up the system a couple of extra dials as the ever-ready Yosh touches down for another high-octane display, unloading four spicy new 2-step originals for us to enjoy. We begin with 'Show Me' a clicky combination of minimal percussive flicks and groovy drum rhythms, glued together a warm bassline below, with 'Principal' then delivering a more spacious, breaks-driven design to follow. Next up, another drifting sweep through bubbling UKG textures as 'Point Blank' delivers more catchy percussion and intricate bass manoeuvres, with the more organ-driven melodies and organic sounding drum taps of 'Take Down' then giving us a fiery closer. Awesome work!
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TIN 046
30 Jun 23
UK Garage
New Dawn
New Dawn - (5:22) 141 BPM
Modulate - (4:44) 134 BPM
Snapback - (6:14) 135 BPM Hot
Track 1 - (6:00) 135 BPM
Review: With the current run of releases we are seeing from Time Is Now, it's safe to say they have had possibly the brightest start to the year of any UK label, with this latest four-track collection from Yosh being another great example of why that is. We open up with the shuffling breaksy slices and warbling synthetic shimmers of 'New Dawn', which sets the tone nicely with some high-octane arrangement techniques. This is then followed by 'Modulate', which allows its synthesiser backdrop to do exactly what is says on the tin, topped with more groovy breaks-driven flavour, before 'Snapback' delivers a broken-beat epic, focussing in heavy LFO drones and shuffling 2-step backdrop. Finally, the minimal yet progressive displays of 'Track 1' give us a fiery outro, rounding off another solid drop from both Yosh & the Time Is Now team.
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TIN 032
06 May 22
UK Garage
The Warning
How We Roll - (5:02) 135 BPM
2 Times - (4:59) 135 BPM
It Goes - (5:22) 140 BPM Hot
Shape The Future - (6:11) 135 BPM
Pigments - (5:14) 135 BPM
Review: Just when we thought the year had already come to a close for the Time Is Now crew, we saw this fabulous new box of treats land in the store, seeing Yosh return once again for what we believe to now be a final 2021 showdown. Featuring five sizzlers, this new EP kicks off with the spacious drum arrangements and bulging sub pulses of 'How We Roll', taking nostalgic samples and unique percussion to create something very colourful indeed. Next, '2 Times' unleashes a shuffling array of scattered rhythmic designs atop sticky subs, before the swirling pads and choppy breaks of 'It Goes' send us down a different avenue altogether. From here, the syncopated rhythmic switches and continuously evolving bass drives of 'Shape The Future' give us a more stripped back approach to the UKG sound, slowly introducing old school LFO sweeps into the mix as it moves forward. We then finally take in the spacious atmospherics of 'Pigments', which is supported by a dazzling display of percussive precision below, rounding off this EP perfectly!
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TIN 026
31 Dec 21
UK Garage
It Goes
It Goes - (5:22) 140 BPM
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TIN 026S3
03 Dec 21
Breakbeat
Tactics
Strike Back - (4:49) 140 BPM
Just Like That - (5:53) 136 BPM
Drifted - (5:31) 140 BPM Hot
Hypnotise Me - (5:03) 140 BPM
Gen 1 - (5:31) 141 BPM
Review: Exploding onto the scene is DJ Yosh, a London-based producer that's made waves with a streak of releases that helped set up Constant Sound's sub-label, Vivid. Following a recent debut on the Holding Hands label furthermore, Tactics presents Yosh's third release already for 2021 - which the artist does so through the chilled out pads, dubbed-out vocals and chunks of slow motion jungle in"Drifted" to some slightly higher tempos and bleepy melodies in "Hypnotise Me". With an old school UK sound wrapped up in new production techniques, tracks like "Gen 1" and "Strike Back" sound like they've been pitched down to minus-8 on your turntable, next to or something way crispier and fresh in "Just Like That".
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TIN 016
23 Apr 21
UK Garage
One More Time
One Time - (5:46) 140 BPM Hot
On Your Own - (6:15) 140 BPM
OB1 - (6:14) 136 BPM
Spaced Out - (6:11) 135 BPM
It's The Way - (5:55) 135 BPM
Review: Time Is Now is definitely one of the labels to watch out for when looking for creative dance music, with this latest display from Yosh being a perfect example. We kick off with 'One Time', a smoothened breaksy epic, driven by hard hitting sublines and powerful drum processing, alongside the high energy rhythms and potent basslines of 'On Your Own'. Next, we dive down a more UKG-influenced avenue as 'OB1' unleashes some techy 2-step flavours, followed by the nostalgic bass-manoeuvres of 'Spaced Out' before rounding off the EP with 'It's The Way', a choppy throwback packed with original flavour. Overall, this EP treads the line perfectly between the new school and nostalgia with great results!
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TIN 012
18 Dec 20
UK Garage
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