Intentional looseness.

Nokia Balistikz blends club-focused sound design with experimental structures, moving between broken rhythms, heavy bass, and textural detail. Rooted in the aesthetics of the Bern underground, the album reflects a DIY approach that values rawness, and sonic unpredictability.
The production relies on a combination of analog and digital techniques, using samplers, drum machines, and synthesizers, with a strong focus on 90s sample CDs and hardware as both sound sources and creative tools. It integrates elements from Rap, Drill, Baile Funk, and experimental electronic music. Field recordings, vocal fragments, and ambient noise are layered into the compositions, with intentional roughness and looseness playing a central role in the aesthetic.


DALF Socials
IG: https://www.instagram.com/dalfrecords/
SD: @danseaveclesfousrecords

METRONONE Socials
IG: https://www.instagram.com/metronone3000/
SD: @metro-none

SlowRolla Socials
IG: https://www.instagram.com/s_l_o_w_r_o_l_l_a/
SD: @slowrolla160

Art Direction: plasticpet
www.instagram.com/plastekpet/
Mastering: gston
www.instagram.com/ingston2o25/

Bandcamp

MEGA FRESH: METRONONE - TRAPOSSSS (SlowRolla remix) [DALF Records]

shamez

Next up on Modern Ruin is one of the most exciting artists to emerge in the past year.

Hailing from Leeds, we have Breaka with 'Express Your Groove'. 

We kick off with 'Pull and Release' - a tempered footwork jungle crossover expedition peppered with ethereal female vocal chops. 
A haunting mid range accompanies tuned 808s and melodies, pulling and releasing the listener into and from the track as and when intended.

Next up is 'The Mistake'. Breakbeats and a vicious stab set the tone for the rest of the track, but Breaka switches things up with a 
dutty half time groove. The classic hoover bass makes a return in the latter parts of this track and a melodic hook sees 'The Mistake' out to the end. 

Title track 'Express Your Groove' is next. Sampling Wish and Fonda Rae's 'Touch Me', one can be forgiven for thinking this is a tribute to Machinedrum's 'Heavy Weight',
where instead we're treated to a frenetic breakbeat expedition in what can only be described as an effective expression of groove - truly a standout.

Longtime Modern Ruin afictionado and conspirator Itoa returns with a remix of 'The Mistake', and in classic fashion, 'The Mistake' becomes a percussive 
and minimal experiment, which sees out Breaka's fantastic and comprehensive release to the end.

Words by Nikhil Ramakrishnan

Express Your Groove

Buy on Juno

Breaka - Express Your Groove

ALTRD001 B2 - Etch - Defunkt Logic

Galactic goodness from Austin-based @nikes89 and @sharawimusic

https://worstbehaviorrecs.bandcamp.com/album/worst-behavior-vol-2

Masters by Beau at Ten Eight Seven
Art by Catherine Villalonga (ig - ratoncitaa)

Nikes & Sharawi - ZOOP

Taken from the Rhythm Seeker EP. Ltd Splatter 12" and digital available now - https://artilect.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-seeker-ep

Manchester’s rising son Dylan Blythin aka Artilect affirms his status as one of Samurai’s most potent creators by following on from his Blurring The Line EP (2018 https://artilect.bandcamp.com/album/blurring-the-line) with 4 new tracks of precision futurism. Informed reverence for the genre’s golden years is baked deeply into the grooves of the Rhythm Seeker EP. Artilect collects the most timeless elements of DnB history and fuses them with modern day production techniques and a distinctive method of construction and sound.

Now working on his debut LP for the Samurai Music label, the Rhythm Seeker EP sets a course for what to expect from an artist assuredly working towards his creative peak.

Tracklist

01. In My Dark
02. Rhythm Seeker
03. Mefo
04. Impact Proxy

Limited Splatter 12” and 4 track digital

https://www.facebook.com/artilectmusic/
https://soundcloud.com/artilectmanchester
https://artilect.bandcamp.com/

Rhythm Seeker EP

Rhythm Seeker

Artilect - In My Dark [SMDE13 - Rhythm Seeker EP]

- > Rua Sound Winter Freebie 2019 < -
A wee Winter gift in the form of a Version by Rua Sound's own Welfare, reinterpreting the sublime "Xancubed" by Etch
Hit "BUY" to go to the FREE DOWNLOAD Link - 

This was due for release on the flip of an Etch record on a label which sadly folded before it got started, so rather than see it go to waste it's a lil Xmas gift to the Rua massive. Big shouts to Etch, badman producer.
"I was watching alot of Westerns at the time (summer 2017 in Cork) so went a bit wild with the movie sampling as well as extra breaks and synth work to extend Etch's lush sound palette..
Bigups all Rua massive, plenty of fresh heat incoming in 2020"
- Welfare

www.facebook.com/welfarebeats
www.soundcloud.com/welfare

Original composition by Etch
Archive Trax 2008​-​2017 Vol​.​1
tinyurl.com/etchxancubed
Released August 2, 2019

www.buy-etch-some-clothes.bandcamp.com
www.soundcloud.com/etchofficial

- Mastered by Fanu -
www.fanumusic.com/mastering/

Etch - Xancubed (Welfare Version)- Rua Winter Freebie -

HomeSick - Steam Track

Today we are excited to present your first listen to Noh Vae's forth coming Isolation EP! The new EP has 3 songs around 160 bpm, inspired by juke, gqom and halftime d'n'b. The Italian producer/DJ currently lives in London. His productions sit under the delicious, hard to define, genre-blurring ‘160’ umbrella. He's had a number of releases, including most recently his Look at U EP on 'Nice Up! Records'  which has been supported by the likes of SHERELLE and LCY on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, and by Simbad on Gilles Peterson's Worldwide FM.
Out everywhere April 30th!

Isolation EP

[PREMIERE] No Vae- ISLTN2020

DJ Jedah - Subtle - 02/10/2020

This one was made as a writing exercise, just for fun, so feel free to download for your own needs.

Isao Tomita - Clair de Lune was used for re-sampling purposes.

Cheers!

Clair de Lune (Leone's Dub Kickflip)

Vinyl label exploring the experimentalism of producer @Etchofficial with no boundaries within tempo and dancefloor conventions

ALTRD001 B2 - Etch - Defunkt Logic

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