Mark Broom has announced details of his latest EP, Touch, which is set to be released on Rekids on 8 May.
The four-track EP is Broom’s 14th release on the Radio Slave-owned imprint, following on from the 2024 release of the Showtime EP. His first release on the label dates back to 2019, while he’s also released the five-part Mutated Battle Breaks EP series on sister label RSPX.
Broom has been active since the late 1980s, and has released on labels such as Warp Records, M-Plant, Hardgroove, as well as his own Pure Plastic and Beardman, and collaborated with the likes of Riva Starr, Baby Ford, and James Ruskin.
As a press release noted, the Touch EP features four tracks that vary between different styles – the title track pairs ‘a nostalgic vocal with a disco-house hybrid feel and jackin’ edge’, while Eyes uses filtering techniques and looping samples to build progression, and the third track, MXM, is described as ‘a robust, driving groove marked by a machine-like swirl that steadily pushes the pressure’.
The rawest track on the EP is the closer, Don’t, which rounds things out with a hard-hitting drumline and ‘tough, strobe-lit stab work’.
Rekids recently expanded to include sublabels focused on different strands of electronic music, such as its latest sublabel, REK’D, launched in 2024.
Mark Broom – Touch is released on Rekids on 8 May. Check it out here.
Tracklist
A1 – Touch
A2 – Eyes
B1 – MXM
B2 – Don’t