RETURN TO JUPITER

TRACKLIST A1. Return To Jupiter A2. Altered Chords B1. U Ain™t Really Down B2. I Love Juan INFO Today DMX Krew announces his return to Peggy Gou's Gudu Records with a new four-track EP, sharing the dreamy, Detroit-inspired title track, ˜Return to Jupiter™. The full EP - out 14th April 2023 - will be his second release for the label and Gudu™s first release of 2023, set to be the label™s busiest year yet. Ed DMX made his debut for Gudu with 2019™s Don™t You Wanna Play? EP, becoming the first artist to release on the label outside Peggy herself. Ed and Gudu have retained a regular working relationship ever since: he mastered Indonesian crate-digger Dea™s ˜Glazer Drum™ release for Gudu, contributed a pair of remixes to the reissue of Riff™s South African electro curio ˜Jacks Jive™, and now returns to the label with Return to Jupiter, a new original four-track EP. Ed has been one of electronic music™s most respected faces for over 25 years. Debuting in the mid-1990s, he released his first decade of music almost exclusively through Grant Wilson-Claridge and Aphex Twin™s Rephlex label and his own Breakin™ imprint, but recent years have seen him ply his trade across a who™s who of dance music™s most respected underground labels: including Hypercolour, Balkan Vinyl, Central Processing Unit and, of course, Gudu. Inspired by the futurist funk and vivid synthesiser epics of classic Detroit, ˜Return to Jupiter™ is dripping with richness and colour, driven by the sort of thick analogue basslines and distinctive melodies that have come to define Ed™s catalogue. The EP™s title track sets the tone for what™s to follow, introducing a language of sorts for the record - before ˜Altered Chords™ turns the funk up to 11, ˜U Ain™t Down™ aims its distorted kicks and wiggy, manipulated lead straight at peak time dancefloors, and ˜I Love Juan™ closes the EP on a star-gazing tip. Founded by Peggy Gou in 2019, Gudu releases music from a global roster of artists, including DMX Krew, Maurice Fulton, Hiver, Dea, Mogwaa, Brain de Palma, Dukwa, JRMS and Peggy herself (including the hits ˜Starry Night™, ˜I Go™ and ˜Nabi™). 2023 will see Gudu™s busiest year to date, with new releases scheduled from the current roster and some exciting new faces.