Purple Codes

Parcleys Arena

Brussels-based imprint Maloca is proud to present percussive connoisseur Coen’s sophomore mini-album, Moshpit: an 8-track exploration where focus and intensity rules all. As the title suggests, the release marks a more abrasive turn after 2023’s Slop Drop & Roll.
 
Feeling like a new direction was needed for his second mini-album, Coen went back to his roots. There, the artist re-discovered a love for Slayer and the brutal, near out-of-control power found in thrash metal. Through this recapturing of his teenage years, he found his approach, developing methods for transposing the genre’s raw aesthetics into his stripped back, drum-forward sound.
 
The result is a listening experience dominated by double-time kicks, corroded walls of texture and a level of intensity not heard before in the London artist's work. Moshpit acts as an ode to Slayer and the brutal, relentless energy of thrash metal, taking the genre on a conceptual level and translating it into Coen’s universe. 

Despite this aesthetic turn, the album also stands as an evolution, rather than a revolution, from Coen. The orotund percussive tones and lethal high energy grooves of Headbanger and Roll Play are nods to 2023 standout Pressure Roll - weapon of choice for DJs across the spectrum including Bonobo, Bambounou, Ahadadream, Toumba & Lu Su.
 
Moshpit also sees Coen at his most concentrated, distilling what he does best down to its most vital and essential form. Each track bristles with a cinematic, metallic sheen and never feels too busy, with the artist getting the most from recordings of his studio’s collection of percussion instruments – with many of the textures on the album becoming distorted abstractions of drums found in it. 
 
The artwork, made by Coen himself, bristles with coarse texture, without becoming drowned in noise - an appropriate visual guide to the sonic landscape to be found in Moshpit. 

Coen - さようなら

Testbed Assembly

You Are A Machine

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PARULE - OFF SHORE EP
29.08.2025

Parule taps in with a five-track EP that explores different tempos and ventures into new sonic territories while maintaining some of his signature elements.

Stoned Squirrel opens the EP with a slow, head-nodding groove driven by a filtered acid hook and rattling percussions.
Off Shore follows as a stripped-back roller, evoking a hypnotic, submerged atmosphere.
Chants nods to Parule’s earlier work—fast-paced electro that dances between breakbeats and squelching acid lines.
Laufbahn is stripped down, raw and agonizing. Like running in circles with a broken foot.
Fujiyama pushes into the 160 BPM realm, weaving in lyrics and vocal textures from ŽEN's "Lov na crne tipke", a track Parule obsessed over throughout the past year.

Mastered by Amir Buzubayev (aka KRITECHNO)
Mangled percussion samples mostly from Ondekoza.
Lyrics and Voices in "Fujiyama" by ŽEN.

Parule
@parule
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Vienna's Filthiest
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Parule - Stoned Squirrel [Vienna's Filthiest]

Decks Dark (True Self Flip)

Layers slide out of sync—parallaxed percussion against a relentless kick. The groove fractures and re-locks with machine precision.

Parallax Break

Ratios III

Rapture

CBA LIKE THAT

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folie in ibiza

Burgeoning Swiss duo QZB serve up a big bag of future for Critical’s Systems series, with a stunning debut video to boot. Get it here: https://criticalmusic.com/releases/critical-presents-systems-009-qzb/

Check the official video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_hxAkECF68

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Video / Animation by Luca Struchen
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Graphics / Typography by Thomas Steiner (Project Riot)
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