Inspired by the iconic tradition of the sample pack, the Source Folder series seeks to explore the diversity of interpretations, paths and offsprings that might emerge from a common resource. In each installment, a member of the Global URL Nation provides a sample pack from which other artists are invited to create a new track. 

To initiate the series, we are honored to welcome SNKLS, a French producer blending rich sound designs, intricate drum patterns and synthetic curiosities into unique entities at the crossroads of genres and labels. 

For his participation, he curated not one, but two packs of sounds, made from a selection of Eurorack modules such as Rings, Morphagene or DPO, providing a set of tools, materials and supplies for others to appropriate, upcycle, reuse and combine in order to create their own item. 

The 160 Pack edition gathers Ancestral Vision, Atrice, B E N N, DJ Body Double, dragongirl, El Murki, Lia Catreux, Orqualyzer, RougeHotel, SNKLS, Talita Otović, & VIBRISSE. Bass-heavy club cuts, broken drum patterns and sharp textures deliver a crushing discharge of energy, an eruption of invigorating fluids that seems to emerge from the darkest depths of the underground.

The two sample packs are available for anyone to create their own objects at this link : 
https://clublatemusic.com/resources


++ TRACKLIST ++

01. dragongirl - Note to Self
02. Ancestral Vision - Carbon Lizard Lodge
03. B E N N - Neurasthenia
04. RougeHotel - LAIN
05. El Murki - ~$ Sudo Apt Install Theory
06. DJ Body Double - Cold Blooded
07. Atrice - Thermal 
08. Lia Catreux & SNKLS - Stolen Quartz
09. Talita Otović - I Wonder if He’s Dead
10. VIBRISSE - Kerokerosene
11. Orqualyzer - Greedfall

++ CREDITS ++

Tracks produced by Ancestral Vision, Atrice, B E N N, DJ Body Double, dragongirl, El Murki, Lia Catreux, Orqualyzer, RougeHotel, SNKLS, Talita Otović, VIBRISSE

https://soundcloud.com/ancestralvision
https://soundcloud.com/atricemiras
https://soundcloud.com/bedoublensound
https://soundcloud.com/body2x
https://soundcloud.com/dragong1rl
https://soundcloud.com/el-murki
https://soundcloud.com/lia-catreux
https://soundcloud.com/orqualyzer
https://soundcloud.com/rougeh0tel
https://soundcloud.com/snakeleserpent
https://soundcloud.com/talitaotovic
https://soundcloud.com/vibrisseduo

Cover & visual works by medieval_cortex 
https://www.instagram.com/medieval_cortex/

Mastering by Cédric iFa Oléon at IFL3Studios
ifl3studios@gmail.com

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B E N N - Neurasthenia

5. Jay Mitta - Dura (Hyph11E Bootleg)

Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023


In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

KIM KHAN - Verdoyant [digital only]

Ice_eyes and Sueuga have linked Athens and Mexico for a percussive and industrial EP labeled post-pandemic club music.

Read more on CxC 🔗 couvrexchefs.com/en/ice_eyes-sueuga-arboretum-records-superficie-ziur-remix

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PREMIERE: Ice_eyes x Sueuga - Superficie (Ziúr Remix) (Arboretum Records)

The first single from aircode's new album 'Surface Tension' (G&P025), out September 24, 2023 

Julia Svensson alias @aircode is a Swedish producer and sound designer based in London. In the past years Julia has been leisurely refining her signature out-there blend of gloomy yet elegant sound distinguished by an incorporation of slack piano tones and timid vocals intertwined with bleak samples and worn-out dub rhythm cameos. Since her first output via TT (fka Tobago Tracks) in 2019 she's been steadily releasing music via imprints like Alien Jams and Nostro Hood System, or just lowkey through her own bandcamp page. After helplessly drowning in her music since we first heard it, we are now more than honored to have the opportunity to present Julia's sophomore full-length album 'Surface Tension'.

Building on her past work, Surface Tension is an especially electrifying creation. Higher density sounds are gliding on an unfolded surface without ever being fully submerged, complementing each other into an enticing and immersive listen. With Julia's music, the long-depleted term 'sonic landscape' suddenly makes much of a sense. Captivating with it's well-measured approach, it draws an attentive listener into a world of intricate and finely nuanced compositions in which an unrushed precision and intuitive approach to writing can be clearly sensed.
“Surface tension tends to make a drop spherical, gravity tends to flatten a sessile drop and elongate a pendant drop, and the electric field typically elongates a drop along the direction of the field” - says science. Similar to the dichotomy of a liquid dripping process, Surface Tension inherently shifts into two distinct mood opposites. Straight from the beginning of the record a palpable tension can be felt, hinting at a series of inevitable plot twists that keep the listener submerging in its enthralling waves. While most of the tracks start with a calm before a storm, halfway through 'Slow Burn' or 'Dissimilar Liquids' Julia delves into the very depths of dank dubstep bass. Surface Tension weaves a vibrant narrative - at times a confluence of serene comprehension other times bordering on a pleasure of suffocating in its intensity.

Written & produced by Julia Svensson
aircode.codes

Mastered by Charles Verni
charlesverni.com

Artwork by Jiri Macku
instagram.com/jiri_macku

G&P025 💧

Surface Tension

Digital & Cassette

aircode - Dissimilar Liquids

Producer TOGO explores the ancestral music of his Mongolian roots on his hybrid debut EP, forthcoming on HTS.

Read more on CxC 🔗 couvrexchefs.com/en/togo-urtica-embryo-hts

PREMIERE: TOGO - EMBRYO (HTS)

Reforged. Reimagined. Elements tamed and wielded. Distilled frequencies sent back through to the world. Re-focused and reconstructed. A transmutation of will, etched to disc. The long journey’s end. A signal sent between worlds and back again, a vision realized and now, delivered.

Original music by VR Chads.
Remix by Klahrk (@klahrk).
Mastered by SIM.
Album cover by LCL Stream.

C U On Da Flipside Remixes

L.I.T.E.

VR Chads - L.I.T.E (Klahrk Remix)

Cull [Caninal - VA01]

Taken from SBKT060: ABADIR - Ison
Release date: 28th September 2023

Limited edition vinyl + digital

Artwork: Luke Griffiths
Photography: Omar Elkafrawy
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Special thanks to Amira Elmasry

For our 60th release, we are very excited to present ‘Ison’, a new album by ABADIR.

Growing up in Heliopolis, Cairo, I used to visit different churches with my parents for Sunday mass and on Christian holidays. Fascinated with the choir and chants by various sects, I absorbed all these different sounds into one hybrid memory, which was the main inspiration for ‘Ison’. Using segments and field recordings from Coptic, Syriac, Maronite, Greek Orthodox and Catholic choirs, I present my own vision of what can be described as fresh hymns, fictional chants, or parts of a contemporary Sunday mass.

This is not representational. This is not a cultural relic for the exoticizing gaze. This is purely personal; a fictional sound rooted in the present.

While ‘Ison’ is clearly different from my last album, ‘Mutate’, it follows the same approach of revisiting cultural surroundings for potential mutation. If Mutate’s clubby vibe was made “to make the floor burn”, Ison is intended to cure last night’s hangover.

Ison

ABADIR - Agios O Theos

˚₊‧꒰ა “This Is How We Break Your Toxic Positivity” ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

Second compilation of a “This Is How We Break…” series focused on breaks and bass music to enlighten our emerging electronic scene from France and abroad.

Based on the free interpretation of the ‘breakbeat’ genre, the breadcrumb trail of this second compilation is the theme “from happy to dark” (or the other way) to celebrate the fluctuation of emotions whether positive or negative. Over-cultivated positivism implies the rejection and the covering up of negative emotions… This compilation is here to reminds you to live fully your emotions and only think about what’s best for you. It’s OK not to always look on the bright side of things. Be gentle to yourself.

૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡ ૮₍•᷄ ࡇ •᷅₎ა

Curation by Djina, Elrob and Emo Kitty.

Thanks again to all our talented friends and artists for their trust and amazing contribution to this project.

Artwork by Miel Divin
Graphic design by Elrob
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Zulu - Kill Them With Success

I've been working on this space themed EP for years so any support and shares are appreciated. It's a mix of different Drum & Bass styles with my unique sound.

[Free Download]

Elliot Leach - Engage [Free Download]

label run by @djinaa, @el_rob and @leila-am

06.04.24 - 15 15 Saplin Club @ Point Éphémère
30.03.24 - Log Out @ Café de Paris
18.02.23 - 1 year birthday + ACORP001 release party @ La Caboteuse, Romainville (sold-out)


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Zulu - Kill Them With Success

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