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Woozy’s annual WZY.5 compilation summit gathers for its fourth instalment, celebrating 9 artists of dubwise disposition that maintains the label and its founder EMA’s spellbinding tradition in futurist soundsystem music. No Sir, Maude Vôs, Jossy Mitsu, Chewlie, Beaabea, Mantra, Introspekt, Ila Brugal and Honeydrip all feature for another bumper showcase of ambitious club sounds.

WZY4.5’s welcoming address looks to No Sir’s Dilate, an elastic-shock of icy swagger that rudely snaps under the serious sub pressure. Maude Vôs’ Faerie Ring gurgles with psy-eye wonder amidst its half-time hypnosis, before the chromatic piston-breaks of Arena bounce around Jossy Mitsu’s irresistible kinetics. Chewlie’s Blaze Of Sobriety is a crooked stepper of wide-eyed abstraction that swivels on an addictive head-nod lurch, while Pixelate’s taut trip through Beaabea’s stern kick-drum ballistics offers some dastardly club drama. Mantra then signals the rave siren, meditating on a percussive half step before igniting the jungle (dub) tekno fervour of Bedrock. Introspekt’s naughty 2-stepper Digital throbs in a see-saw of LFO menace and crisp swung-drum mechanics, before Moth’s blunted dancefloor haze illuminates Ila Brugal’s effortlessly rolling groove. On closing remarks is Honeydrip with Aspire, a zooted stepper of heavenly breakbeat joy that skanks sub-heavy style to its and WZY4.5’s glorious conclusion.

WZY4.5 Compilation

PREMIERE: Mantra - Bedrock

Kalimotxo

Selva

from Bluf
releases on February 18th, 2025

cover art: Sylwia Szydełko
graphic support: Henryk Mamica-Hüsken
mastering: @iambruce at Edgar Studios
w&p: @blu_terra

pre-order here:
splot.bandcamp.com/album/bluf

Blu Terra - Fix

Title: VA-1
Label: Fear of Silence
Cat No: FOSVA-1
Release Date: 27 Feb 2025
Pre-Order now: https://fearofsilence-fos.bandcamp.com/album/va-1

We’re excited to present our first Various Artists release on Fear Of Silence!

With this fourth installment, immerse yourself in a masterclass of textured, deep, and evolving bass music from artists we deeply admire.

This compilation takes you on a sonic journey through a diverse spectrum of moods, genres, and styles.

Come to celebrate our first VA installment at OHM the 27 Feb.
Early arrivals get a special surprise—stay tuned for more!

it.ra.co/events/2088773

Fear Of Silence VA-1

sept7 'Résilience' is a colossal 5-track EP featuring a remix by Kessler. This collection of pure peak-time bangers is stamped with the  producers signature sassy rave aesthetic. The artist's ability to seamlessly weave various genres brings a dynamic range of elements to the table, showcasing a production style that defies classification.
'Rush' kicks off the EP with an insanely catchy stripped-back bassline, hop-scotching percussion, and elegant discordant synths peppered with dope vocals. 'Future Step' fuses techno, bass, and breakbeat, veering into madness with its revving engine sound effects and slick dub samples. It's a Lewis Hamilton-approved banger. 'Resilience' shines with warmth from the start, featuring beautiful vocal samples that give way to a world-class heavy bass track. The oxymoronic tension between soft and big is a standout feature.'Check One' showcases tripped-out vocal samples and a clipped bassline, forming a dance-heavy groove with its 4/4 floor beat and subtle background breaks. 

Kessler's remix of 'Resilience' is a mind-altering, transcendental masterpiece. The Northern Ireland producer displays his insane drum and percussive capabilities, fusing modern dubstep head-banging sounds with UK Bass influences.
Out February 21st, 2025

Pre-order link - https://dionysian-mysteries.bandcamp.com/album/future-step

Dionysian Mysteries Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/dionysian-mysteries

Dionysian Mysteries Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dionysianmysteries/

PREMIERE: Sept7 - Resilience (Kessler Remix) [DMC028]

With In Filtration and Paradigm I wanted to explore aspects of 4x4 Grime and Techno, touching ground on the dubstep-meets-techno sound that's been making rounds these recent years. The result is an honest approach to these worlds, attempting to pick up the fundamentals while incorporating my own sense of merging grime, 2-step, techno and dubstep.

https://soundcloud.com/mod-sens

Buy:
https://modsens.bandcamp.com/album/in-filtration-paradigm



PREMIERE: Mod Sens - Paradigm

Athens wonder-kid Poor J’Darr unleashes ‘Power Strike’ —a high-pressure, percussion-heavy transmission that carries the torch of the label’s legacy into a new era of rhythmic warfare. 

Passed down from the baton of Walton and Silas & Snare, the signature style of percussion and pressure is alive & well in Andreas Nikoloulias’ KAIZEN debut.

https://kaizenltd.bandcamp.com/album/power-strike

Poor J'Darr
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pleasegivemeyourskooma
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poorjdarr/

Kaizen
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kaizenltd
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaizenltd
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaizenltd

PREMIERE: Poor J'Darr - Ballad (Kaizen)

"It feels like at the moment, we're lost in the long dark tunnel. Plenty of dance music seems to operate in a revivalist form, within a regression cycle, it's hard to pinpoint the exact sound of "now" without it referencing other points in history.

"We're trapped in 20th century culture on higher definition screens", poses Mark Fisher in a seminal lecture, and thus, exposes Berardi's concept of the Slow Cancellation of the Future. "Nothing ever really dies, but that's not good". In 1992 it was impossible to imagine the shape of music 6 months into the future, so why are we now constantly going back to these genres?

My aim with this release was to try and participate in the legacy of the Hardcore Continuum within the sonic context of the current world. A hyper-online, overstimulated landscape where our attention is constantly invaded by notification after notification, stimulus after stimulus. I try to materialise this by reshaping sharp noise into pulse, genre staples like the breakbeat get torn apart and forced into a brand new skeleton, and riot-invoking grime chants are repurposed into music set for a bleak now. Jungle, Dub, Grime, Garage, they are all present here, but the heavy gravitational pull of their legacies presents to me as a black hole I've tried to encapsulate in this EP.

Why is the future vanishing?"
—Pépe

Grane Drum [YUKU]

Acidobasic, NOMICON - Pushy Pushy

Peace Portal is pleased to premiere Should Be Looking by @arinakrondeva forthcoming on @maudevos @delusional_records

Full release available here:

https://arinakrondeva.bandcamp.com/album/scattered-2

Influenced by her current Florida home, Arina straddles the long stamped history of Florida breaks and modern day experimental club music. With this body of work, Arina carves her own path of zany eccentricities, emotive solitude & club kinship, while paying homage to the influential club scene that shaped the breakbeats we know today. 

The sounding of Scattered materialized during a time Arina was fuzing the old and new elements of self. She funneled the overwhelm of feeling "scattered" & torn into this EP. We feel the energetic push and pull throughout this body of work in her quest for clarity & connection.

Hear more from Arina via our interview on the Peace Portal website:

www.pnwpeaceportal.com/blog/premiere-arina-krondeva