RELEASES + MIXES

 Introducing : CÅARL OHOHOHOH (Genome Records)

We’re beyond excited to introduce you to an absolute force in the making—CÅARL, an extraordinary talent emerging from the USA, but trust us, it’s about to shake the entire Drum & Bass scene.

Who is CÅARL?

CÅARL is a sound designer from Utah , and his music is nothing short of a revelation. A fusion of high-energy, futuristic vibes, and technical precision, his production is like the collision of two asteroids—full of raw power, intensity, and unstoppable momentum carving out his own distinct sonic identity.

Why This Release is Different

This isn’t just another record. CÅARL’s music pushes boundaries, and we’re proud to present a sound that feels genuinely fresh and disruptive in today’s landscape. His technical prowess in sound design, with intricately crafted basslines, surgically precise drum patterns, and cinematic atmospheres, places him miles ahead of the curve. Picture the depth of sci-fi movie soundtracks mixed with the hard-hitting intensity of a club anthem.

Understanding Through Annihilation: CÅARL's Approach to Sound Design

At the heart of CÅARL's music is a radical concept: understanding through annihilation. In every track, he dismantles the very foundations of Drum & Bass as we know it, obliterating traditional structures and rebuilding them from the ground up. This isn’t just sound design it’s a sonic deconstruction, where he tears apart the familiar to extract new meanings and forms.

CÅARL's process is one of breaking down complex soundscapes, frequencies, and rhythms to their rawest elements, only to reassemble them into something more powerful and evolved. By disregarding many standard conventions of the genre, he forces listeners to confront the unknown, creating a space where discovery thrives.

Follow CÅARL : @https://soundcloud.com/c-a-a-r-l

CÅARL. OH OH OH OH

Taxonomy is a kind of killing things. So how go about formalizing something as amorphous as the music of @c-a-a-r-l | You could practice apophatic musicology. This isn’t jump-up, because it goes beyond puckish hyperreality. This isn’t deconstructed club, it being so entirely stripped of referentiality. Rattle off sub-genres as impossibilities. And perhaps it is only drum & bass by the exceptionality it embodies. Of a category’s weightlessness when every technique and decision overbounds its associable formulae and expectations.

The only way I’ve come to understand CÅARL‘s music is in indefinite times. There is a mythic time to the music of this producer racking up releases on Barcelona’s @genome-records-1 | Of a music that does not seem to describe humanity, that in its combination of contorted, choral voices, palatial orchestration and infernal low-end appears to visualize each a mountainous past and the afterlives of apocalypse. So there is herein an eschatological time and a geological one. A music of tectonics and cataclysm. There is the time too conjured by CÅARL‘s aesthetic of petroleum and mud. The musical equivalent of banked sunlight and generative mires. Synonyms to the history of extreme and experimental electronics and a generic footprint. Thus a music best understood in terms of divergence, of the annihilation of stasis and priority in the making of something we have not yet a vocabulary to articulate.

With a bagful of IDs from CÅARL‘s own upcoming torrent of releases & those of their circle, this mercurial producer links up with Realist Alive.

Tracklist -

CÅARL - LOST IT (136 VIP)
@xx_deltav_xx - Treachery
CÅARL - LEECH (ft. Nikki Simmons)
Noisia & Phace - Purpose (@buunshin remix)
CÅARL - ID
@vulturesy - GIVE ME
@ceptre - Rhythm
@jorodudovski - ID
@fifthdnb - ID
@thezaiaku - ID
@malixemusic - Break
@finalfix & @omneum Omnieum - Resonance (Audio Remix)
CÅARL - ID
@billain - Nubium Slap
@misanthropnsgnl - Turbine VIP
@signdnb & @soesei - Always Late
CÅARL - ID

art by https://www.instagram.com/grinnallll/

Realist Alive Radio 026: CÅARL

Persisting in the face of extinction, CÅARL debuts "Extant" on Sound Museum - bringing his signature, fresh new take on Neurofunk. Combining Industrial, dystopian tropes with raw, old school tech-step tendencies all brought aggressively forward in modern form. 

As one of the artists to graduate our Artist Development Program, CÅARL has transcended beyond our wildest expectations and it is an honour to have him as our last release of 2025.

⚔️ CÅARL

⚔️ linktree: https://linktr.ee/c_a_a_r_l
⚔️ soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/c-a-a-r-l
⚔️ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/c_a_a_r_l/

🏛️ art by: https://www.instagram.com/ov3rdrivebass
🏛️ patreon: https://patreon.com/SATURATE