Joe Roche - Excuse Me EP

With “Excuse Me” (DAYP:007), Joe Roche steps back in under the Do As You Please banner with a five-track EP that reads like a reset and a warning shot - sharp, confident, and very Manchester.

This one lands with extra weight. It’s not just another catalogue entry: it’s the full-circle label relaunch, soundtracked properly and celebrated with an invite-only members release party on May 16th at T.O.P.P, Renae (MCR) with resident artists Urbi, Zac Stanton and Joe Roche.

The title track “Excuse Me” is Roche in familiar form - fun, acid-tinged, and dialled into that sweet spot where cheeky becomes efficacious. The palette’s all warped edges and bright colours, like Dance Mania vocal energy with a Semi Delicious production levels.

“Look So Right” flips a vocal hook lifted from Toktok & Soffy O’s “The Lookalikes” - politely Shazamed off a sunrise set from Saoirse at Barbarellas Discotheque, Croatia - and pushes it into a more contemporary, ro-minimal lane. It’s clean, tight, airy and carries that little flick of swagger that makes it feel like it could really travel.

Then there’s “The Bass” - two years in the making and as literal as the name suggests. Big-room “The Vamp”-style stabs snap the track into attention before it drops back into a groove, landing on a lush, classic house lead line that keeps it playful even when it’s hitting hardest.

“The Bass (Zac Stanton Remix)” is the EP’s clearest DAYP handshake: Stanton toughens the frame, tilts it more rave, less smirk-more stomp-without losing the core idea. It’s what the label’s always done best: community as method, not marketing-friends trading tools and testing pressure levels.

The closer “Not My Thing” pulls the EP away from straight-line functionality. Hypnotic vocal hooks, slippery sound design, and an acid line that’s built for the later hours-still club-ready, but with that slightly glazed, post-peak focus. It seals the point: this isn’t just five bangers for the sake of it. There’s range, and it’s intentional.

Joe Roche — “Excuse Me” lands as DAYP:007 on Do As You Please: made in Manchester, tuned for dancefloors, and timed to relaunch a label that only really cares about one metric - does it work? 

Artist: Joe Roche

EP: Excuse Me

Cat No.: DAYP:007

Label: Do As You Please

Made in: Manchester

Tracklist:

Excuse Me

Look So Right

The Bass

The Bass (Zac Stanton Remix)

Not My Thing