Sister Sledge
Pretty Baby

Once again exciting times for 2TUF4U Records as we experience many new forthcoming releases and digitally remastered re-releases from one of it's earliest signings GE, Mr Gary Esson. Not only will these be available at our official store, but also world wide at all good digital music stores.Label Owner and Executive Producer Karl Brown of Tuff Jam became aware of GE's production talents in the early 2000s. After this quickly became a working relationship with releases such as Nu Generation EP 2004 and The Return EP 2009 released on vinyl.

Buckle in as KETTAMA smashes through for Steel City Dance Discs Vol. 26! The G-Town heavyweight ticks all the boxes with a 5-track barrage of head-thumping House and Techno.

"Hold Tight" is a 1981 single by Change from the LP entitled Miracles. The single's vocals were sung by Diva Gray. Along with the songs "Paradise" and "Heaven of My Life", it became a number one single on the US dance chart for five weeks.[1] It was also the second single released from "Miracles," as "Hold Tight" peaked at number 40 on Billboard's Soul Chart, and number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100.

While super-producer Fred again..’s complex yet club-ready April debut album ‘Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020)’ was centred around lost connections and uncertainty — with the pandemic serving as an apt backdrop — its follow-up chronicles the death of a loved one.Fred Gibson, the Brian Eno protégé who has notably collaborated with the likes of Stormzy, Ed Sheeran and The xx‘s Romy, documents the many stages of grief on ‘Actual Life 2 (February 2 – October 15 2021)’, turning fragments of conversation into a personal music time capsule that aches with emotion and eventual catharsis.

Raised in Philadelphia but currently based in New York, Baltra has spent the last decade honing a sound that’s rich on romance and melancholy.Releasing his first music in parallel with the lo-fi house explosion of the mid-2010s — and racking up millions of plays on YouTube and other streaming services in the process — Baltra has always had a restless approach and attention to detail that’s set him apart from many of his peers, often using his own voice (or that of collaborators, including Park Hye Jin and his wife Angela) rather than relying on samples, and exploring both higher and lower tempos on his acclaimed 2019 debut album Ted. It’s fitting that his debut for Local Action — a five-track EP that marks some of Baltra’s most meticulously crafted but undeniably catchy work yet — is simply titled Ambition.Released on May 27, Ambition sees Baltra firmly cast his own vocals front and centre. Whether manipulated, such as on foggy opener ‘Make It B.I.G.’ and the down-tempo ‘Like a Butterfly’, or left comparatively bare on lead single ‘Baby’ and the EP’s closing track ‘Will You Be?’, Ambition showcases Baltra’s ability to write songs that are both effective in a dance music context but also transcend... more

The angelic figure behind GLRY001 is James Pepper. Leading the next generation of the Sydney scene, Pep has already swapped the headphones with Gerd Jansen, Denis Sulta, Coeo and has multiple collaborations with Berlin’s Black Loops. 2019 saw him spend a lengthy period in Europe, couch and studio hopping before returning home to wrap his best work to date. Matching attitude with beauty, For All My Wrongs is the perfect motif for Gallery’s debut release. Subby kicks are matched with rich and emotive chords, creating 8 minutes of distorted calmness, equally at home in the club as it is on your morning commute. Deep acid grooves come to the front for the second single All Star, a tried and tested live hit for the last six months in Pepper’s shows. Backed by a remix from Melbourne producer Cassettes For Kids. Rounding out the EP is Stampeded (Of The Elephants), a fast, bass line heavy cut with attitude.