In a relatively short space of time, @talik1 has built a reputation as one of the most distinctive of the new breed of UK electronic music innovators.

Brooding, richly textured, and intricately polyrhythmic, Talik’s unique style has caught attention from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs & Marie Montexier. She’s also been championed by Martyn, who’s become both a mentor and a friend - releasing her music on his label 3024 and remixing ‘Cold Silver’ from her debut EP on Intercept Records.

As a longstanding member of the CF family, Talik’s debut on the label feels long overdue, but this collection is well worth the wait. Deep, percussive and snarling, with a powerful low end emphasis, the release taps into a rich vein of bass music heritage with a fresh new take.

Rounding off this impressive 4 tracker, Intercept label mate @french_ii joins on remix duties, bringing the BPMs up for an explosive 160 rework of ‘Wood & Water’. Essential CF tackle!

Talik & French ii - Wood & Water (French ii Remix)

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French II & Bastian Benjamin - Hive

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Beatrice M. treating us to a XXXL V.I.P. version of Fortunately which came out earlier in the year on INTL.PDCOMP002 <3

Beatrice M. - Fortunately (V.I.P.) (INTL.PDS001)

[NOID002] Dave N.A. - Altura EP

A1. Dave N.A. - Escape
A2. Dave N.A. - Elevation
B1. Dave N.A. & freq444 - Pulse
B2. Dave N.A. & freq444 - Novox

Wanderings through Armenia brought us DJ and producer Dave N.A. The 4 tracks on his ‘Altura EP’ hover between jungle and deconstructed club. They are made up of unassuming, sharply cut breaks with a gently nostalgic feel. 

The Yerevan-based artist evokes a frantic, supple & glitchy attitude reminiscent of early jungle influences, and drenches it in a lush sound palette full of vivid sound effects.

For the occasion, 'Pulse' and 'Novox' were co-produced with no•id's own freq444. The DJ’s join forces around a sultry groove: it goes down smooth as cocoa on a freezing winter’s day.

released January 19, 2024

written and produced by Dave N.A. and freq444
mastered by tangible air
artwork by Y

Altura EP

Dave N.A. & freq444 - Novox

Amsterdam-based DJ, producer and biologist Teqmun is next up on Nerve Collect with Worms Still Have To Eat The Dirt, a six-track EP of blistering fusion sounds that come with remixes from Ma Sha and TSVI.

Tijmen Blokzijl's work is an involving eco-system of electronic collisions - IDM, breakbeat techno and bass are in constant mutation as he layers in deft melodies, cooks up punchy rhythms and screws about with synths. He has done so on the likes of Sann Odea, Traumgarten, Flippen Disks and on self-released EPs that have all constantly pushed at the fringes of sound design. Now he brings all that together again across four electrifying tracks for Gamma Intel and Identified Patient's Nerve Collect.

This EP finds Teqmun departing from the cute and colourful elements of previous releases and becoming inspired by the harsher phenomena in nature, such as a high speed escape of hopping desert rodents called Jerboa, deadly sea slugs and fluffy Echinopsis cactus. I am often inspired by nature and its images and quickly get real sounds or feelings of atmosphere in my head when I see images of natural processes. In this case, it’s grimmer natural processes that inspired me which is why these tracks are much wilder than previous releases, therefore they fit in perfectly with Nerve Collect.

'Hand Full of Fluff' kicks off with a playful rhythm and churning bass that is brought to life with prickly percussion. Shards of melody and scattered hits are fired like ray guns across the track. The EP title track is an impossibly kinetic rhythm with fizzing textures and thudding kick patterns that sound like techno made purely by malfunctioning AI. That same sense of futurism pervades ‘A Jerboa's Escape' which has tightly coiled and broken-up drum patterns looping below eerie, unsettling pads that glow brightly in the percussive chaos. 'Corn Has Ears' is another physical club rhythm made from millions of tiny fragments that all coalesce around a harrowing bassline and 'Slug No Escargot' brings dystopian raps to static-laced bass and harder drum patterns. Last of all is the bouncy and buoyant 'Optimistic' with its post-trap vocals and thrilling club rhythms.

First to remix is New York innovator Ma Sha. She flips 'Slug No Escargot' into a percussive workout with writhing bass and cyborg vocal shards that soundtrack an intergalactic meltdown. Next comes London-based Italian TSVI. His take on 'Optimistic Fly' is big, elastic techno with decaying synth leads and zippy pads pulling you in several directions at once.

Teqmun's Worms Still Have To Eat The Dirt EP manages to sound completely out of this world while also connecting on a deeply emotional level.

All tracks mixed and arranged by Teqmun
Artwork by Nina van der Berg
Mastering by Maspaventi Studio

NC005 // Teqmun - Worms Still Have To Eat The Dirt

The second single of Bastian Benjamin's forthcoming album "Elixir". 
A hard-hitting melancholic electro-banger that takes you on a journey.

Transitioning between realities becomes effortless. From dusky swamps to abandoned towns, from frozen lakes to lava plains. The landscape grows increasingly saturated, the sun intensifying its heat, while plants become withered. In the absence of sunlight, darkness envelops everything in pitch blackness. Surprisingly, this darkness provides a much-needed break. The transitions between dreamscapes keep accelerating relentlessly. You’re starting to yearn for peace of mind. The world has surpassed a threshold of which there’s nothing but infinity left.

Elixir

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Yas Reven takes charge of the next release on Nerve Collect with her Sudden Mist EP. It features five tracks of avant-garde club music and comes with a 3Phaz remix.

Italian-born innovator Yas Reven is based in Milan and has a love of architecture that inspires how she structures her sophisticated sounds. As a dynamic DJ, she traverses a full spectrum from techno and bass music to breakbeat and has recently put out her first productions on Bristol-based label Hardline. After that EP turned plenty of heads, she now backs it up with more thrilling and hard-to-define club cuts.

The EP opens up with 'Sudden Mist', Reven's knack for expert percussive designs shines through as tin pot hits, splintered wood and metal throngs all pepper a loopy techno rhythm. It's intense yet serene, physical yet meditative. 'Etoy' keeps the pressure on with more intriguing sound designs, thumping bass and lurching techno loops that never stop evolving and keep you utterly locked in. 'Mad Drop' is a futuristic blend of whirring loops and twanging synth sounds over hammering broken beats that lead to dance floor takeoff.

'Trapped' is another collision of unusual percussion layered over tightly stacked beats with a ritualistic and tribal edge...  more
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releases November 29, 2024

All tracks written and arranged by Yas Reven
Mixed by Mattia Scarano Montanaro
Artwork by Nina van den Berg
Mastering by Maspaventi Studio

NC008 // Yas Reven - Sudden Mist EP

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:
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