“BrandNewTrumpets returns to Diffrent with the ‘You’ EP, four sublime cuts that journey between her expansive signature style and club-geared drum workouts, employing challenging techniques to push her production prowess to new heights.” Cat# DIFF002 Release date: 1st December 2023 Written by: Rebecca Porter Mastering: […]
Various Artists Revolution Of The Giraffe Diffrent Music roars back into action after an extended hiatus to raise a couple of young giraffes with the electrifying new compilation, ‘Revolution Of The Giraffe’ LP. BUY // DOWNLOAD Launched in 2010 with the aim of […]
No Nation & Sheba Q Breaking & Entering Following their stunning 2021 debut on GiraffeStep, No Nation and Sheba Q step up to Diffrent proper with two more tracks that blend raw breakbeat manipulation with a distinctive jazz flavour. Lead track ‘Breaking and […]
Lakeway 3 Years / Stamina Crew (f. Becca Jane Grey) Lakeway’s frenetic sound has been running jolts of youthful energy through the drum & bass underground for the best part of a decade. His bold, hyperpop-adjacent, rave-centric style envelopes everything from hardcore and […]
BrandNewTrumpets Smile & Disable / The Crossing From the tale of the Chinese empress erased from history to a dedication to the key workers who’ve been our lifeline for the past year, BrandNewTrumpets has quickly built a reputation for music rich with storytelling […]
Dexta Tenz / Dissolute (Conduct Remix) Originally a North London kid, Dexta’s new release is dedicated to the lands South of the River that have shaped his adult life. Brockley, Syndenham, Honor Oak, Deptford. The streets, buildings and sounds that have surrounded him […]
Fearful FKD / XINF Diffrent Music preps two juxtaposing cuts from label stalwart Fearful in ‘FKD’ / ‘XINF’. Summing up 2020 in name and sound — though actually produced prior to the current crisis — ’FKD’ brings darkness and danger via […]
Lakeway Wave Rider EP Diffrent Music x Lakeway present – WAVEMAN001 Water churning, time turning, sun burning Wave crashing, head bashing Ride, glide, collide High flying, fish frying Eye crossing, cookie tossing Snaking, quaking, booty shaking Scrolling, controlling, rock ’n’ rolling […]
BrandNewTrumpets The Workers EP BrandNewTrumpets lands back on Diffrent Music with her highly anticipated second release, ‘The Workers’ EP. BrandNewTrumpets lands back on Diffrent Music with her highly anticipated second release, ‘The Workers’ EP. Almost a full year since her refreshingly […]
Dexta Third Life EP Dexta comes with his most personal work to date: three Moog-fuelled tracks dubbed the ‘Third Life’ EP. Diverting away from his recent hypercharged club disruptors, the Diffrent Music founder instead opts for a more measured, and ultimately […]
Fearful & Mtwn Collisions EP Never a label to be pigeonholed, Diffrent Music returns with its first full downtempo release courtesy of label stalwarts Fearful and Mtwn. Having touched on UK techno, garage and ambient with his expansive 2017 album ‘Interference’, […]
Lakeway The Misadventures of Lakeway (Part 3) EP Lakeway officially returns to Diffrent Music with his new three-tracker ‘The Misadventures Of Lakeway (Part 3)’. The third instalment of the ‘Misadventures’ series he kicked off on Hospital’s now-defunct Med School offshoot, the […]
Mauoq Can Of Worms EP BACK with his first EP for Diffrent since 2017’s ‘Expat’, Mauoq opens up a can of psychedelic earworms ready to wriggle their way into your record box. Leading us down the wormhole is the undulating ‘Sheworm’ […]
BrandNewTrumpets ‘Ode To Olé’ EP DIFF038 THE DEBUT EP FROM BRANDNEWTRUMPETS! Next up on South London’s Diffrent Music comes the debut release from exclusive new signing, BrandNewTrumpets. It was tragic circumstances which brought about a chance meeting between BrandNewTrumpets and label […]
DEXTA DIFF037 // SOUTH LONDON SPICE VOL.1 SOUTH LONDON SPICE! Three years since his last solo release on Diffrent, the label boss returns with a spicy serving to match the summer heat! ‘Fajita’ starts off sparse on the drumwork, letting the […]
”As so many great schemes do, it started with a conversation in a pub. After several sporadic releases on Diffrent Music, including his renowned 2013 debut ‘Tongues’, label boss Dexta wanted more music from Fearful. One thing led to another, and suddenly an album was […]
Kolectiv & MEDIKA –Off The Grid EP The hard edged, experimental D&B Quartet are back to follow up their 2017 single – with four hard hitting, gritty bass, half-step cuts, formed into the ‘Off The Grid’ EP. This EP focuses on experimentation around […]
D’TCH ‘Portal EP’ We take great pleasure in bringing back Bristol based D’TCH for his second release on Diffrent Music. The ‘Portal’ EP is a full on artist project featuring new solo works and collaborations with the enigma that is Jekyll, and the […]
Dexta & Crypticz – Together 12″ “Dexta and Crypticz are delighted to announce their long awaited 12” single, ‘Together’, featuring two remixes from Munich-based Danny Scrilla. Two years in the making, the project will finally see the light of day on 10th November 2017 […]
Crypticz – Access You EP “Diffrent Music take great pleasure in announcing the stunning new ‘Access You EP’ from rising star, Crypticz. Following up the Somerset producer’s 2015 ‘Contact EP’, the new six track record is set for release on 27th October 2017. The […]
Fybe:one – New Soul Music EP “Two years in the making, we’re glad to announce the long awaited EP from multi-talented Greg Haynes aka Fybe:one, featuring Hyroglifics, Lakeway & Sense MC. ‘New Soul Music EP’ was crafted over two years following a couple of […]
“No stranger to the Diffrent family, Mauoq, who’s released quite a few collaborations on the label already and played at various label parties, finally comes through with his debut solo release, the “Expat EP”. Four solid tunes that display the Italian producer’s trademark sounds and […]
”It only took just under four years to complete, but the collaboration between D&B’s wordsmith Sense MC and London based record label Different Music is finally completed. #BuyTheAlbum has been the hashtag for the last three years, via random outbursts on the GiraffeCast, and since […]
“Lakeway drop’s his first release on Diffrent Music in two years after recently signing to the camp. “OXT EP” built up of music written during a particular time in his life. To sum up the record up in short, it’s full of moody atmospheres, energetic […]
“Greazus Loves You! Don’t you forget! The Canadian duo ‘Greazus’ based in Vancouver are the first to fly their flag for Diffrent Music. They’ve recently dropped bombs with Critical Music & Hospital Records and in the meantime have been cooking up some heaters for us! […]
“This debut artist EP for Dexta sees a variety of sounds and styles, made up with music that has been in production for the past couple of years along with fresh tracks that were nailed over the last few months and even this year. “Flaming0” […]
“Mtwn, two brothers from a small town in east Belgium, made a mark with several high quality releases between 2012-2014 on labels such as Break-Fast Audio, Dispatch Limited, Proximity Recordings, Samurai Music and of course Diffrent Music. After a short bit of quiet time, the […]
“Fearful’s long awaited extended player. Two years after ‘Tongues’ was released, we’re more than excited to unleash the ‘Mechanism EP’. Four tracks that have been in construction over the 48 months have been pieced together, ready to rattle bass bins and shake neck bones. Watch […]
“Diffrent Music, So Far.. Speaks for itself really, this brand new vinyl series brings together a handful of carefully selected tracks that until now have been available only as digital downloads. This is the first offering, and a whole lot of love has gone into […]
“Kolectiv come with their first individual release for Diffrent Music after their track “Slow” which featured on the ‘Evolution Of The Giraffe’ LP last year. This EP shows off the London based trio’s versatility in sound, with two new solo pieces which are both worlds […]
“M-Zine & Scepticz come with their debut single, following their track ‘Choices’ which was their contribution to the ‘Evolution Of The Giraffe LP’ project back in December. In true diffrent giraffe culture, the lads have teamed up with three different artists of their own choice, […]
“Keeping the collective family vibe more than alive, Arkaik has rounded his troops up and put together his third EP for release on his homeland Diffrent Music. Paving the way forward for future releases on the label, we see a record that show’s off Arkaik’s […]
“Following the ‘Evolution Of The Giraffe LP’, Diffrent Music shows early signs of evolution. The first release of 2014, a ‘Fusion Single’ format release where Dexta & Hyroglifics come together, each with a solo offering and a joint effort for the title track. ‘Boxgroove’ is […]
“The 20th release from Diffrent Music is a label album featuring artists from the past, the present and the future all carefully put together onto an 8 track album with a CD with an extra 2 bonus tracks and a 12″ pink vinyl sampler. ” […]
“Dominic Ridgway is no new-comer to Diffrent, with several plays from the label crew on the GiraffeCast, mix-tapes and DJ sets. Dominic has entered a new unchartered territory this year bringing his top quality production together with some outrageous groove’s and drum swings and generally […]
“Mtwn (in our vocabulary pronounced Mutwun, but known to others by the name Motown) are a pair of brothers that reside way out near the eastern border of Belgium. They’ve been releasing amazing quality music on several high profile D&B labels lately and we are […]
“Olly (Direct Motion) is an artist that has been supplying music to Diffrent for quite some time. These two tracks presented in this here single marked a change in direction and style for Olly in Diffrent Music’s opinion & immediately switched the giraffe radar into […]
“After two months of solid skanking, Leonard decided it was time for a little intermission and marched on down to Victoria where he jumped on the 15:32 to Brighton. While taking 5 from the slot machines he bumped into a pair of bullies who stuck […]
“The messy remains from the glass explosion was pretty brutal leaving a lot of sharp, ‘Serrated’, knife edge style pieces, Our cake (Arkaik) managed to find himself ‘Lost’ and caught up in the rubble one day and decided to resolve the situation in the form […]
“Billy & Matt had always been big fans of the big pink giraffestep movement, and Leonard the pink giraffe has always had love for Billy & Matt + their numerous projects. One such project which had the Fathom-Audio-Time-Travel unit head back to the early days […]
“A month or so passed, and the golden mauve curly-wurly drainpipe system had seen the last of its good days, and dried up with a terrible stench of pink giraffe dirt. Thomas-the-bass-engine had performed many sound instillations with the drainpipe, pumping all sorts of ridiculous […]
“While the whole world were stuck in a frantic moment of trauma, the late ‘Sigmund Freud’ had been conducting experiments alongside Stanza down in the west end, while people generally passed by eating their subway and looking out for cracks in the floor. A long […]
“Leonard was kinda flat out for almost most of the winter of 2011, but for some reason the neck kept twitching. Meanwhile, back over in the UK, that sticky bass creator, Peter Arkaik was in the studio letting out his bad moods and stress relief […]
“Debut single from Frederic Robinson. Somewhere over western Europe, an un-identified falling object crashed landed causing a massive bang, and a ginormous Banana shaped smoke cloud. Frederic, a local artistic young chap was so inspired by this hilariously funny giant cloud that covered the whole […]
“One day, Daniel the eager Martian decided to visit planet earth. He jumped into his pink, giraffe shaped moon-lander, when suddenly the ships “perpetual motion powered ghetto blaster” tuned into the giraffe cast. After a couple minutes of jibba jabba from the hosts in-came a […]
“The power and sheer force of this single will causes shock waves, and who else to deliver it but the boys from Diffrent, DIFF008 sees the return of ‘Whu’ with two tracks of simply genius music! ‘Packrat’ just keeps giving you the urge to head […]
“If you are looking for something that is a cut above the rest, then have a slice of this single brought to you by ‘Shaded’. This masterful creation of intellectual and creative drum and bass will set a new standard of production through out all […]
“This single should come with a warning, “may cause insane movements through out your body” and thats just the start. The boys at ‘Diffrent’ have certainly discovered what is set to be one of the biggest releases of 2011, manufactured and hand crafted by Dakosa. […]
“Diffrent’s first extended player is packed to the brim with tight polished grooves and low end perfection, brought to you by the geniuses that are ‘Hunchbak’ and ‘Jekyll’. The disturbing vocals and eerie atmos of ‘End of The World’ instantly set the tone, followed up […]
“Two bits of deep sticky bass heavy stompers from newcomer Arkaik. This debut single release contains ‘Stress Relief’ that blew a hole in the Diffrent HQ back in the first quarter of the year, and a Bass-heavy ‘Second Base’ which is guaranteed to make your […]
“The third offering from the giraffe-squad, is a double A side single release from the up-and-coming Joe Syntax. Two tracks, exploring two very different areas of his soundscape desires. ‘White Light’, a very steppy electro-groove dancefloor destroyer, and backed with the warming summer style ‘Libra’, […]
“Our second release is from a marvellous young chap named Cuelock and showcases the sticky bass that we love here so much @ diffrent HQ. Departed and Ghost Sound are both guaranteed to get your heads nodding, and your feet shuffling. Both tracks are on […]
“First up we have two new names fresh to the scene in Tightrope and Chills. We think there’s big things to come from both parties and are sure you will agree once you’ve peep’d Peace and Everyone’s mad. Peace has received a load of love […]
