SURKUL - Shush EP

The Highly anticipated Shush EP is the debut vinyl release for Surkul, San Francisco based DJ Producer rooted in left-field leaning breakbeat hardcore, jungle and drum & bass.

"Obvious descendant of jungle's past ancestral bass, hard nosed into the undeniable future" - Mophono

Limited Edition of 300. Emerging out of the fog, Hill 88 lands its second chapter with bay area's Surkul delivering the Shush EP. Raw and primitive, a diverse body of heavy bass and bouncing rhythms. Ambient bare bonesstripped and spaced out. Signally original production taking you off-grid. This EP pulls you out of the net and into the primordial. Following Surkul's 2019 cassette mixtape Northern Audacity, he continues to play left field with the Shush EP. Straying from his 20 year run as a drum and bass dj, some may be surprised how the Shush EP delivers. During a test run of this EP, some described the material falling in line with the Hyperdub catalogue and similar rawness to the African Head Charge releases by Adrian Sherwood (On-U Sound). Against the grain was the direction taken to create this EP. Once the needle drops you'll notice the target over heavy bass and lush electric synths attacking with arpeggiation. The soundtrack to an industrial desert.

Words from the artist "I constantly hear everyone else recreating a similar sound that already exists and having thoroughly explored the art form I wanted to build something new. The pressure to conform made it that much more important, I felt, for me to create something unique that eventually made perfect sense. The more I stripped back and tried new approaches, the more the tracks came to shape. Escaping stock genres helped open the path to create without boundaries. With this project, the focus was on absence rather than content. Other musicians I know always encouraged me to do something different, so when I started this project, their words were a great inspiration. The tracks are moody and kind of nostalgic."