Hot wiring dancefloors with their immersive orchestration of uplifting sonic waves, Soft Crash sets out to soundtrack the unified, euphoric heartbeat of the crowds they foster with their mechanical yet fantastical, Italo Body Music. Presenting their highly anticipated EP ‘NRG’, the Berlin-based collaborative project of Berghain resident and BITE label head Hayden Payne (aka Phase Fatale) and French prolific producer Pablo Bozzi works to forge Soft Crash’s unique vocabulary of post-humanist production with the harmonic grandeur of their rhythmic, machine-made anthems.

Fresh off the back of their 2022 debut album ‘Your Last Everything’, Soft Crash present their latest 4 track EP ‘NRG’, chronicling their synonymous surrealist visuals infused with the contagious punch of Italo and Synth-wave. Geared towards the dancefloor from a fresh perspective, Bozzi and Payne pull from their respective wheelhouses to curate a sound additionally influenced by Wave-Pop, Acid House and Post-Punk sensibilities.

Procuring their cerebral yet zealous indentation of dance music, the EP features sanguine vocals from Kyiv-based singer and musician Ready in LED on the first single ‘Free Yourself’. She comments about the track “I became captivated instantly with the idea of the track that Hayden and Pablo sent me. At that moment, I was a bit tired of carefree disco and wanted to reveal my dark side in music. The demo sounded very daring. This track demands attention to itself from the first seconds. My sources of inspiration were glam rock and grunge. I had a blast in the studio, and I hope the people on the dance floors will feel that energy too.”

While full throttle vitality and booming grooves on the title track ‘NRG’ showcase Soft Crash’s take on 90’s sample-filled techno. Closing the extended play with an updated cut of the bewitching ‘Your Last Everything’, featuring Canadian musician and producer Marie Davidson, Soft Crash breathe a new life into the namesake track from their preceding album, concluding with an additional remix of the track by cult favourite producer Alen Skanner. The intrinsic dance floor vigour emulated in NRG further fleshes-out the pair’s recognisable DNA of nurturing a revitalised techno sound, cementing them as pioneers of the Italo Body genre.

Soft Crash - NRG (BITE031)

Phase Fatale - Love Is Destructive EP (BITE032)

An exercise in control of auditory limitations and possibilities, GAEL redefines techno production with their comprehension of cold atmospherics and meticulous world building. Exemplified in their first solo EP ‘Frozen White Horse’ released on BITE Records, fervent, hurtling drums are underpinned by hopeful euphorics and circulating, breathy cybernetics. A culmination of sophisticated sonic dialects reared from the intersections of soundscaping and electronic music, the berlin-based DJ/Producer from Dagestan (by-way-of Kyiv and Odesa) commits their practice to the inclusivity of borderless, capricious and emotive dance-floor synergy. This energy was previously captured on BITE last year with their appearances on the Shedding Skin VA and The Soft Moon’s Exister Remixed. GAEL’s harmonic and organic approach to techno production echoes the heartbeat of dancefloor resistance,captivating audiences across venues from Berlin’s Berghain to Kyiv’s ∄ as a resident at the queer event series XITb.

Delivering thunderous feeling through experimental sounds and masterful pacing, the 4-track-EP blurs the margins of moody techno exploration with remarkable attitude and a foreboding sense of uphill struggle. For the opening title track, a procession of stacked chords,synths and snares are met with a cyclone of galloping percussion building to maximum intensity until dispersing into echoey chimes. As the listener is able to catch their breath, the second track ‘prpttcxsstnc’ reignites - this time with trepidatious yet ethereal vibration, as the track continues to inject GAEL’s post-punk style of galvanised energy, rich layered drums maintain the undercurrent of resolute chaos into the following track ‘there is nothing left’. Sombre track titles are off-set by triumphant vigour for the third instalment, pushing through gale force drums and the clanging zaps and bleeps of electronic debris. Concluding with the final cacophony of collaged beats and drums, bellowing siren-like cold wails meld with GAEL’s calamity crescendo of crashing cymbals, the procession of rapturous drums slipping into a distant echo of warped hollow gleams.

Artwork by Simone Ling
Design by Eloise Leigh
Mastered by Conor Dalton
Special thanks to Jolly and Sergey Chernyshov

GAEL - Frozen White Horse EP (BITE033)

Characterised by a discernible signature of harmonious yet implicit tensions, DJ and producer Hayden Payne’s (aka Phase Fatale) contentious palette of both precise sonic and narrative elements shape his world of techno. Presenting his second EP of 2024, ‘Altars’, the BITE Label boss forecasts a confessional state looking onto a decomposing world through the perspective of frenetic energy, evolving polyrhythmic sequences and fleshy dancefloor vigour. 

Built on a trifecta of three original productions, as well as two featured remixes from Kangding Ray and Setaoc Mass, the extended play is a walk through of Phase Fatale’s cadence for dancing around the structural framework of his tracks with superlative control, entwining rhythms from contrasting metres of electronic composition. Altars’ production of electric reverberation follows a trajectory of cybernetic kicks, stabs of short circuit zaps and heartbeat style drum loops embellished by the serene textures of euphoric gleams and sensual chords, augmenting a sonic motif of dystopian salvation. 

The remixes fortify the body of works gritty soundscape with Kangding Ray’s complex sound aesthetics delivering a frantic buzz of sonic tachycardia and Setoac Mass’ experimental spliced shrapnel from the tracks origin creating murky, blizzard-like scatterings. Walking a fine line between themes of the divine and sacrilegious, Phase Fatale’s conscious composition of hedonistic, multi-layered techno and complex world-building narratives further emphasises his production's structure and geometry.

Phase Fatale - Altars EP [BITE034]

5 year anniversary of Phase Fatale's first album on Berghain's in-house label Ostgut Ton repressed in special pink marble vinyl on his label BITE. Out February 14th.

Scanning Backwards, Phase Fatale’s second full-length album following his 2017 debut album for Hospital Productions, is music about control. Using the connection between weaponized sound and psychological manipulation as a conceptual foundation, Hayden Payne explores the ways in which music – and sub frequencies in particular – are used to influence thinking and to synchronize emotions and behavior: from military technology to sound systems and the physicality and sexuality of queer techno culture. 

Known for his innovative post-punk takes of dance music as featured on EPs for unterton and Ostgut Ton, the Berghain resident draws on his background as both a guitarist and sound engineer to create a heady mix of broken rhythms, noise-, and shoegaze-inflected techno, often at slower tempos. The result is music with space and pace to expand, highlighting the intense rushes of frequencies found in both sonic warfare and functional dance music. Over eight tracks named after a combination of historical and fictional narratives from literature and science fiction, Payne’s rhythmic excursions explore different manifestations of sound as power – specifically within the context of seeing Berghain as an instrument itself. This is also reflected in the album artwork, taken from an early flyer for the SNAX party series and an obvious ode to the fetishization of power dynamics. 

In his own words: “All tracks on the album, no matter the style, were tailored to sound a certain way in Berghain – something I figured out through years of dancing in the middle of the floor, DJing as a resident and investigating what frequencies really penetrate the body. This includes speech and high-frequency, brain-penetrating instrumentation and drilling textures that I had not utilized so often before, but which I think also have an effect on thought and memory. It's especially true in a space where gay and fetish roots combine with music in unexpected ways, almost in a cultish manner. A musical and physical deprogramming and reprogramming, psychic driving and de-patterning, the erasing and replacing of memories.” 

Ultimately, Scanning Backwards surveys not only the manipulative properties of electronic music (mantras, loops, subliminal messages) but also how rhythm facilitates both moving and thinking in synchrony; a pulse of coordinated sound- and brainwaves.

Phase Fatale - Scanning Backwards Reissue (BITE035)

Digital bonus track of Soft Crash - Your Last Everything, Part II with vocals and lyrics by Marie Davidson. 

Soft Crash's debut album is out October 28th.

Soft Crash & Marie Davidson - Your Last Everything (Soft Crash Angel)

Track from Soft Crash's debut album Your Last Everything

Soft Crash - Count To Zero

BITE welcomes one of the most prominent talents from Georgia, Tbilisi’s fixture and KHIDI resident – OTHR.

The Georgian artist has already been making waves in Berlin by joining forces with Ancient Methods on occasions like their stellar b2b at the first BITE label night at Berghain last October.

With a background as a guitarist for metal bands, OTHR’s post-punk upbringing is ever-present in his moody productions. His earlier output ranges through a wide variety of sound, from acclaimed ambient to noise releases, while OTHR’s present style is defined by industrial-oriented techno, mutated vocals, and groovy distorted baselines.

With his debut release on BITE – Scythe Of Vyse, OTHR is doing what he does best. The EP delivers five sharp and powerful industrial techno tracks that sound both harmonious and rough. Rhythmic and heavy-hitting, the record features a remix from Kris Baha and provides a variety of tools for dark, sweaty basements. In short, OTHR’s most recent work is certain to create a setting for a cathartic dancefloor experience.

Scythe Of Vyse

OTHR - Backpfeifengesicht (BITE024)

BITE is pleased to announce the solo debut of the label boss himself – Hayden Payne aka Phase Fatale – with his first EP in 5 years.

The New York native and Berlin-based BITE label founder has long made a name for himself as one of the main players on the heavy electronics arena. Berghain and Khidi resident with releases on labels like Jealous God, Ostgut Ton and unterton under his belt, Payne also is ½ of the Soft Crash duo with Pablo Bozzi.

‘Nailed To The Net’ is Phase Fatale’s first solo work on the label. The EP consists of five tracks canonical to Payne’s signature futuristic industrial style, including a remix by the interdisciplinary artist Rrose. Not deprived of romantic sensibility, and yet with punchy groove and heavy hitting arpeggiations, the record comes together as a flavourful mix of sci-fi-like electro, unsettling vocals, powerful industrial techno, and atmospheric guitar driven wave.

Nailed To The Net

Phase Fatale - Desecrating Vows (BITE025)

OTHR - False Promise

In honor of our 5th anniversary, we’re proud to present Shedding Skin - an 18 track compilation of BITE protagonists such as Pablo Bozzi, Phase Fatale, Unhuman, Reka, Silent Servant, and New Frames, as well as new and exciting artists like Nastya Vogan, Mind | Matter, Omon Breaker, Gael and more.

Shilling Skin

Phase Fatale & Silent Servant - Crashed Communion (BITE026)

In the 5th year of BITE we want to show you not only music created by our artists. We are happy to announce our BITECAST with our friend and family @othrmsc

BITECAST001 w/ OTHR

Our podcast series is continued by close friends of the label, talented and mysterious ladies - @neu_romancer & @zanias

BITECAST002 w/ Zanias b2b Neu-Romancer

Mind | Matter - Iconostasis

OTHR - Icarus Dive

REKA - Esta Noche

Unhuman & Petra Flurr is the collaborative synthpunk-technoid project of BITE label stalwart, Berlin-based Greek artist Unhuman and legendary queer wave figure Petra Flurr. ‘Mala Vida’ is their debut album on BITE that further evolves their sound beyond genre borders. 

The duo deliver an 8-track LP consisting of punk body music exhibiting the team’s mastery on production, their androgynous vision and diverse influences. Petra Flurr’s staggered, often effected, vocals cruise over pounding beats, bold iconic hooks and psychedelic atmospheres. His lyrics reference the seedy underbelly of Berlin’s sex underground. Meanwhile, Unhuman’s productions broadly range from the post-punk references of ‘Labyrinth’ to the new beat grooves of ‘Short Life’ featuring Ukrainian duo Garden Krist to the melodic orchestrations of ‘Rush’. All this is reinterpreted by techno duo New Frames on a digital remix of ‘Unzivilisiert’.

‘Mala Vida’ is a direct inspiration from their debut performance at Berghain for last year’s BITE label night. After which, they swiftly retreated to the studio to compose, still in their platform heels. The two paint a coat of neon red over their preexisting batcave of sound. While the artwork by Liam Noonan compliments the gender fluidness of the album, distorting and digitally manipulating images of the creators themselves. Using heavy rhythmics, wavy mandates, an androgynous stare and unavoidable sexuality, Unhuman & Petra Flurr introduce us to their culled brand of queer death techno. Always with a wink.

Unhuman & Petra Flurr - Unzivilisiert (New Frames Remix)

Omon Breaker aka Maksym Nazarov is a DJ and musician who grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine originally from Dnipro. Now he presents his first ever full EP, Compromat, that traverses from cyberpunk dancefloor techno to trance-like work outs and wave inflected anthems including a special appearance from labelhead Phase Fatale. 

In his early works, he delved into questions of electronic culture and its impact on his life. As a result of his musical development and his quest for forging his own sound image defined by breakbeats and grooves reminiscent of early 90s electronica combined with the edge of modern techno, he released his first vinyl split 12” with D.Dan on Standard Deviation - the label from the ∄ club in 2021. Meanwhile, he quickly established his DJ path in Ukraine as a skilled performer, even becoming a resident at Kyiv’s first LGBTQ+ friendly club Crest. 

Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Nazarov was forced to leave his home and relocate to Berlin. In this new city, he came under the wing of BITE where he debuted with his track ‘Stinger' from their recent VA and played the label showcase at Berghain in April 2023. While acclimatising and reflecting on his intense life experiences, Omon Breaker began work on his EP in which he seeks to express his emotions brought on by the tragic situations in his life: the loss of home, loved ones, and love itself. Compromat is Nazarov’s first solo vinyl release where he attempts to musically depict his inner world shaped by the tragedies in his life.

Omon Breaker - Augmentation (feat. Phase Fatale) (BITE029)

Soft Crash - Free Yourself ft. Ready In LED (Radio Edit)

Soft Crash - Free Yourself ft. Ready In LED (Extended Mix)

2nd single from Soft Crash's new EP 'NRG'

Soft Crash - NRG

Soft Crash - Your Last Everything (Soft Crash Angel 2024 Mix) ft. Marie Davidson

Soft Crash - Your Last Everything (Alen Skanner Remix) Ft. Marie Davidson

Bitecast Episode 11, featuring Ukrainian artist Lvcerate. 
Valera specializes in crafting brooding dance experiences with a pervasive acidic touch, EBM-inspired basslines, and haunting disco-infused drum sections. He hosts the monthly Cultivating Discipline show on Gasoline Radio.

Bitecast 011 w/ Lvcerate

Bitecast episode 12, presenting Öspiel, the French-Korean electronic music producer and DJ known for his rich sound design and conceptual techno productions. Featured on Sacred Court, n-PLEX, Mama told ya, and Void+1.

https://www.instagram.com/oe.spiel/

BITECAST 012 w/ Öspiel - Hybrid Live Set

Marking one year following Phase Fatale’s (aka Hayden Payne’s) last EP on his label BITE, ‘Love Is Destructive’ is a clear shift into true techno territories, integrated with his distinct curation of narrative and sonic framework, imprinted with a musical diet of sleek, synthesised storytelling.The 4-Track EP reflects the turbulent ebb-and-flow found with emotional conclusion - a genesis soundtracked by raw energy and driving undercurrents. The Berlin-based DJ, Producer and Label-owner’s propensity for creating a symbiotic harmony by blending seemingly divisive elements from his genre defying repertoire, demonstrates his masterful understanding and control of the listener’s borderless, auditory journey. Exemplified by his marathon closing sets at Berghain, as well as techno arenas such as Khidi in Tbilisi (both of which he is a resident), Phase Fatale’s recent DJ performances and production endeavours reflect his fresh approach to pure techno sensibilities. 

The title track sets the tone with imperative grooves, energetic vigour and intrepid attitude. Following a progression of techno propulsion in ‘Magma Driver’, infused metallic textures and trippy, headier elements add depth, whilst the body of work’s cutting edge sound design echoes spacey vivacity and purification in equal measures. Dichotomy comes forward with tracks ‘Ambivalence’ and ‘Introjection’, processed vocal samples with dub techno leanings and hints towards broken rhythms are sculpted by Payne’s focused approach, resonating a feeling of hopeful resolution akin to resurgence. These romantic sensibilities offset by cold mechanical nuances are reflected in the EP’s artwork, depicting roses against the backdrop of engine-like machinery.

‘Love Is Destructive’ is dedicated to Juan, Simone and Luis. Featuring artwork by Silent Editions.

Phase Fatale - Love Is Destructive (BITE032)

Buy here: https://biterecords.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-destructive 

Tracklist: 
A1. Love Is Destructive
A2. Magma Driver
B1. Ambivalence
B2. Introjection

Mastering by Conor Dalton
Artwork by Silent Editions
Design by Eloise Leigh
Special thanks to The Panacea
Cat. No. BITE032 – All rights reserved
℗ & © BITE 2024

Love Is Destructive

Premiere: Phase Fatale - Ambivalence [BITE032]

NR Sound Premiere #10

Artist: Phase Fatale
Track: Introjection
Label: BITE
Album: Love Is Destructive [BITE032]
Release date: 19.04.24
Order the digital album here: 
Discover the interview with Phase Fatale here: https://nr.world/nrsoundpremieres-track-etymology-phase-fatale/

Follow Phase Fatale on 
https://www.instagram.com/phasefatale/ 
https://soundcloud.com/phasefatale

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www.instagram.com/nrmagazine/ 
@nrmagazine 
ra.co/promoters/120647
https://nrmagazine.bandcamp.com/

Premiere: Phase Fatale - Introjection [BITE032]

HATE exclusive premiere.
Full streaming of the EP soon on our HATE Youtube channel

Support the label, buy it here:
https://biterecords.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-destructive

Artist: Phase Fatale
Title: Love Is Destructive
Label: BITE
Catalogue: BITE032
Format: 12" Vinyl / LP
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno | EBM
Release date: April 19, 2024

Mastering by Conor Dalton
Artwork by Silent Editions
Design by Eloise Leigh
Special thanks to The Panacea

Tracklist:
1. Love Is Destructive 
2. Magma Driver
3. Ambivalence
4. Introjection

Follow #PhaseFatale here:
https://soundcloud.com/phasefatale
https://www.instagram.com/phasefatale/
https://www.facebook.com/phasefatalemusic

Follow #BITE here:
https://soundcloud.com/bitelabel
https://biterecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/bite_records

Marking one year following Phase Fatale’s (aka Hayden Payne’s) last EP on his label BITE, ‘Love Is Destructive’ is a clear shift into true techno territories, integrated with his distinct curation of narrative and sonic framework, imprinted with a musical diet of sleek, synthesised storytelling. The 4-Track EP reflects the turbulent ebb-and-flow found with emotional conclusion - a genesis soundtracked by raw energy and driving undercurrents. The Berlin-based DJ, Producer and Label-owner’s propensity for creating a symbiotic harmony by blending seemingly divisive elements from his genre defying repertoire, demonstrates his masterful understanding and control of the listener’s borderless, auditory journey. Exemplified by his marathon closing sets at Berghain, as well as techno arenas such as Khidi in Tbilisi (both of which he is a resident), Phase Fatale’s recent DJ performances and production endeavours reflect his fresh approach to pure techno sensibilities.

The title track sets the tone with imperative grooves, energetic vigour and intrepid attitude. Following a progression of techno propulsion in ‘Magma Driver’, infused metallic textures and trippy, headier elements add depth, whilst the body of work’s cutting edge sound design echoes spacey vivacity and purification in equal measures. Dichotomy comes forward with tracks ‘Ambivalence’ and ‘Introjection’, processed vocal samples with dub techno leanings and hints towards broken rhythms are sculpted by Payne’s focused approach, resonating a feeling of hopeful resolution akin to resurgence. These romantic sensibilities offset by cold mechanical nuances are reflected in the EP’s artwork, depicting roses against the backdrop of engine-like machinery.

‘Love Is Destructive’ is dedicated to Juan, Simone and Luis. Featuring artwork by Silent Editions. 


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Magma Driver

Premiere: Phase Fatale - Magma Driver [BITE032]

Title track from the debut solo EP of Kyiv's GAEL @gaelabakarova

An exercise in control of auditory limitations and possibilities, GAEL redefines techno production with their comprehension of cold atmospherics and meticulous world building. Exemplified in their first solo EP ‘Frozen White Horse’ released on BITE Records, fervent, hurtling drums are underpinned by hopeful euphorics and circulating, breathy cybernetics. A culmination of sophisticated sonic dialects reared from the intersections of soundscaping and electronic music, the berlin-based DJ/Producer from Dagestan (by-way-of Kyiv and Odesa) commits their practice to the inclusivity of borderless, capricious and emotive dance-floor synergy. This energy was previously captured on BITE last year with their appearances on the Shedding Skin VA and The Soft Moon’s Exister Remixed. GAEL’s harmonic and organic approach to techno production echoes the heartbeat of dancefloor resistance,captivating audiences across venues from Berlin’s Berghain to Kyiv’s ∄ as a resident at the queer event series XITb.

Delivering thunderous feeling through experimental sounds and masterful pacing, the 4-track-EP blurs the margins of moody techno exploration with remarkable attitude and a foreboding sense of uphill struggle. For the opening title track, a procession of stacked chords,synths and snares are met with a cyclone of galloping percussion building to maximum intensity until dispersing into echoey chimes. As the listener is able to catch their breath, the second track ‘prpttcxsstnc’ reignites - this time with trepidatious yet ethereal vibration, as the track continues to inject GAEL’s post-punk style of galvanised energy, rich layered drums maintain the undercurrent of resolute chaos into the following track ‘there is nothing left’. Sombre track titles are off-set by triumphant vigour for the third instalment, pushing through gale force drums and the clanging zaps and bleeps of electronic debris. Concluding with the final cacophony of collaged beats and drums, bellowing siren-like cold wails meld with GAEL’s calamity crescendo of crashing cymbals, the procession of rapturous drums slipping into a distant echo of warped hollow gleams. 

Artwork by Simone Ling
Design by Eloise Leigh
Mastered by Conor Dalton
Special thanks to Jolly and Sergey Chernyshov

GAEL Frozen White Horse (BITE033)

💿 Прем'єра треку Cut Into Cubes з дебютного EP української артистки з дагестанcьким корінням GAEL @gaelabakarova – «Frozen White Horse», який вийде 5 липня на берлінському лейблі BITE @bitelabel

💬 «Меседж у мене завжди один: любіть та слухайте уважно. І музику, і один одного» – каже GAEL про емоції, які переважають в релізі.

🔗 Читайте більше на сайті: https://mixmagukraine.com/feature/gael-cut-into-cubes-bite

Frozen White Horse

PREMIERE: GAEL - Cut Into Cubes [BITE]

HATE exclusive premiere.
Full streaming of the EP soon on our HATE Youtube channel

Support the label, buy it here:
https://biterecords.bandcamp.com/album/frozen-white-horse

Artist: GAEL
Title: Frozen White Horse
Label: BITE
Catalogue: BITE033
Format: 12" Vinyl 
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno | EBM
Release date: July 5, 2024

Artwork by Simone Ling
Design by Eloise Leigh
Mastered by Conor Dalton
Special thanks to Jolly and Sergey Chernyshov

Tracklist:
1. Frozen White Horse 
2. PRPTTCXSSTNC
3. There Is Nothing Left
4. Cut Into Cubes

Follow #GAEL here:
https://linktr.ee/shemovesshe
https://soundcloud.com/gaelabakarova
https://www.instagram.com/gael_shemovesshe/

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https://soundcloud.com/bitelabel
https://biterecords.bandcamp.com
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An exercise in control of auditory limitations and possibilities, GAEL redefines techno production with their comprehension of cold atmospherics and meticulous world building. Exemplified in their first solo EP ‘Frozen White Horse’ released on BITE Records, fervent, hurtling drums are underpinned by hopeful euphorics and circulating, breathy cybernetics. A culmination of sophisticated sonic dialects reared from the intersections of soundscaping and electronic music, the berlin-based DJ/Producer from Dagestan (by-way-of Kyiv and Odesa) commits their practice to the inclusivity of borderless, capricious and emotive dance-floor synergy. This energy was previously captured on BITE last year with their appearances on the Shedding Skin VA and The Soft Moon’s Exister Remixed. GAEL’s harmonic and organic approach to techno production echoes the heartbeat of dancefloor resistance,captivating audiences across venues from Berlin’s Berghain to Kyiv’s ∄ as a resident at the queer event series XITb.

Delivering thunderous feeling through experimental sounds and masterful pacing, the 4-track-EP blurs the margins of moody techno exploration with remarkable attitude and a foreboding sense of uphill struggle. For the opening title track, a procession of stacked chords,synths and snares are met with a cyclone of galloping percussion building to maximum intensity until dispersing into echoey chimes. As the listener is able to catch their breath, the second track ‘prpttcxsstnc’ reignites - this time with trepidatious yet ethereal vibration, as the track continues to inject GAEL’s post-punk style of galvanised energy, rich layered drums maintain the undercurrent of resolute chaos into the following track ‘there is nothing left’. Sombre track titles are off-set by triumphant vigour for the third instalment, pushing through gale force drums and the clanging zaps and bleeps of electronic debris. Concluding with the final cacophony of collaged beats and drums, bellowing siren-like cold wails meld with GAEL’s calamity crescendo of crashing cymbals, the procession of rapturous drums slipping into a distant echo of warped hollow gleams. 


 ___
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There Is Nothing Left

Premiere: GAEL - There Is Nothing Left [BITE033]

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from GAEL. Journeying from Kiev to Odesa to Berlin, the multitalented artist originally from Dagestan is known for their remarkable energy, distinctive style, and bold attitude, seamlessly blending elements of techno and experimental electronic music. Their unique approach has captivated audiences at renowned venues like Berghain and prominent festivals such as CTM. They're also a resident at Kyiv’s ∄  at the queer event series XITb.

With previous contributions to BITE with their appearances on the Shedding Skin VA and The Soft Moon’s Exister Remixed, they come back strong with their first solo EP ‘Frozen White Horse’. The 4-track-EP blurs the margins of moody techno exploration with remarkable attitude and a foreboding sense of uphill struggle with fervent, hurtling drum underpinned by hopeful euphorics and circulating, breathy cybernetics. A culmination of sophisticated sonic dialects reared from the intersections of soundscaping and electronic music. Today we premiere the post-punk infused banger "PRPTTCXSSTNC".

Out July 5th digitally + vinyl: https://biterecords.bandcamp.com/album/frozen-white-horse

@gaelabakarova
@bitelabel

PREMIERE: GAEL - PRPTTCXSSTNC [BITE033]

For our 17th edition, we invite KHIDI resident NEUX. From Tbilisi, based in Berlin, she skillfully blends different shades of techno, marking her as an adaptable and innovative artist @neuxx

BITECAST 017 w/ NEUX

We are excited to present the 19th episode of our podcast series, featuring label boss Phase Fatale. Since 2014, Hayden Payne has redefined techno with his fusion of heavy basslines, hypnotic rhythms, and dark, immersive soundscapes. A resident of Berlin’s Berghain and Tbilisi’s KHIDI, Payne’s productions and DJ sets embody the raw energy and innovation of contemporary techno. With releases on Ostgut Ton, Jealous God, and his own label BITE, Payne continues to push the genre’s boundaries.

BITECAST019 - Phase Fatale

Characterised by a discernible signature of harmonious yet implicit tensions, DJ and producer Hayden Payne’s (aka @phasefatale ) contentious palette of both precise sonic and narrative elements shape his world of techno. Presenting his second EP of 2024, ‘Altars’, the BITE Label boss forecasts a confessional state looking onto a decomposing world through the perspective of frenetic energy, evolving polyrhythmic sequences and fleshy dancefloor vigour. 

Built on a trifecta of three original productions, as well as two featured remixes from Kangding Ray and Setaoc Mass, the extended play is a walk through of Phase Fatale’s cadence for dancing around the structural framework of his tracks with superlative control, entwining rhythms from contrasting metres of electronic composition. Altars’ production of electric reverberation follows a trajectory of cybernetic kicks, stabs of short circuit zaps and heartbeat style drum loops embellished by the serene textures of euphoric gleams and sensual chords, augmenting a sonic motif of dystopian salvation. 

The remixes fortify the body of works gritty soundscape with Kangding Ray’s complex sound aesthetics delivering a frantic buzz of sonic tachycardia and Setoac Mass’ experimental spliced shrapnel from the tracks origin creating murky, blizzard-like scatterings. Walking a fine line between themes of the divine and sacrilegious, Phase Fatale’s conscious composition of hedonistic, multi-layered techno and complex world-building narratives further emphasises his production's structure and geometry. 

Artwork by Duranite
Design by Eloise Leigh
Mastering by Conor Dalton

Phase Fatale - Neon Innocence (BITE034)

Buy link: https://biterecords.bandcamp.com/album/altars

Release Name: Altars
Track Title: Neon Innocence (Kangding Ray Remix)
Artist: Phase Fatale
Label: BITE
Catalog: BITE034
Release Date: November 1st, 2024
Format: Vinyl / Digital
Mastering: Conor Dalton
Artwork: Duranite
Tracklist: 
A1. Altars
A2. Neon Innocence
A3. Lament Configuration
B1. Neon Innocence (Kangding Ray Remix)
B2. Lament Configuration (Setaoc Mass Remix)

Artist SC/IG: https://soundcloud.com/phasefatale / https://www.instagram.com/phasefatale / https://www.instagram.com/kangding_ray/ / https://soundcloud.com/kangding-ray
Label SC/IG: https://soundcloud.com/bitelabel / https://www.instagram.com/bite_records/

Premiere: Phase Fatale - Neon Innocence (Kangding Ray Rmx)[BITE034]

Buy link: https://biterecords.bandcamp.com/album/altars

Release Name: Altars
Track Title: Altars
Artist: Phase Fatale
Label: BITE
Catalog: BITE034
Release Date: November 1st, 2024
Format: Vinyl / Digital
Mastering: Conor Dalton
Artwork: Duranite
Tracklist: 
A1. Altars
A2. Neon Innocence
A3. Lament Configuration
B1. Neon Innocence (Kangding Ray Remix)
B2. Lament Configuration (Setaoc Mass Remix)

Phase Fatale
https://soundcloud.com/phasefatale https://www.instagram.com/phasefatale

BITE
https://soundcloud.com/bitelabel https://www.instagram.com/bite_records/
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Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/label/raw/89186
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Premiere: Phase Fatale - Altars [BITE034]

Altars

Lament Configuration

Support here: https://biterecords.bandcamp.com/album/altars

Characterised by a discernible signature of harmonious yet implicit tensions, DJ and producer Hayden Payne’s (aka Phase Fatale) contentious palette of both precise sonic and narrative elements shape his world of techno. Presenting his second EP of 2024, ‘Altars’, the BITE Label boss forecasts a confessional state looking onto a decomposing world through the perspective of frenetic energy, evolving polyrhythmic sequences and fleshy dancefloor vigour. 

Built on a trifecta of three original productions, as well as two featured remixes from Kangding Ray and Setaoc Mass, the extended play is a walk through of Phase Fatale’s cadence for dancing around the structural framework of his tracks with superlative control, entwining rhythms from contrasting metres of electronic composition. Altars’ production of electric reverberation follows a trajectory of cybernetic kicks, stabs of short circuit zaps and heartbeat style drum loops embellished by the serene textures of euphoric gleams and sensual chords, augmenting a sonic motif of dystopian salvation. 

The remixes fortify the body of works gritty soundscape with Kangding Ray’s complex sound aesthetics delivering a frantic buzz of sonic tachycardia and Setoac Mass’ experimental spliced shrapnel from the tracks origin creating murky, blizzard-like scatterings. Walking a fine line between themes of the divine and sacrilegious, Phase Fatale’s conscious composition of hedonistic, multi-layered techno and complex world-building narratives further emphasises his production's structure and geometry. 
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PREMIERE: Phase Fatale - Lament Configuration (Setaoc Mass Remix) [BITE034]

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BITE is the Berlin-based techno label co-founded by Hayden Payne (aka Phase Fatale) in 2018. Beginning with the debut collaborative EP by Silent Servant & Phase Fatale, the label aims to platform artists who operate outside the conventional preconceptions of techno and are united by an ambition to push the boundaries of electronic music. This drive is further exemplified by regular showcases at renowned institutions Berghain, Basement, and Tbilisi’s KHIDI as well as a multitude of clubs throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

With a vast artist roster from stalwarts such as Ron Morelli and Teste to contemporary talent from the likes of Pablo Bozzi and Gael, the eclectic variety of releases touches upon a range of styles along the moodier fringes of electronic music. BITE has proved itself as the imprint to watch. Fresh off the heels of their 5 year anniversary in 2023 culminating in the acclaimed triple LP compilation ‘Shedding Skin,’ BITE moves into more dancefloor territory with their next releases by label head Phase Fatale and remixes by Rrose. The display of the music is also represented in its visual prowess with cutting designs and colorways intended to take the sound into another dimension. From proper techno to synthpunk and to sparse minimalist industrial, BITE never fails to deliver fresh and razor-sharp sounds tying together the narrative of dance music.

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