OA301: Entire - Century of Sparks EP

1. Finest Lines
2. Fragment 101
3. Century Of Sparks
4. Coast Decay

Entire - Coast Decay (Original Mix)

OA302: Esthetic & Reac-Zo - Ethereal Echoes EP

Sonic technicians Esthetic and Reac-Zo return to Onset with a four track journey into liminal realms beyond the veil. The EP pulses with a haunting energy, blending mechanical rhythms with distant atmospheres. Spanning a variety of BPMs from sludgy industrial halftime to driving breaks, each track feels like a plunge into the unknown. Reverb hangs thick in the air, the music breathes with a ghostly presence. Ethereal Echoes is a sonic landscape that feels both vast and intimate, a weighty reflection of space and sound.

1. Limb
2. Outrun
3. Valhalla
4. Solitude

Esthetic & Reac-Zo - Solitude (Original Mix)

The title track and first single from @Quartz's stunning EP for play:musik. Trauma Response single is out everywhere this Friday, 7th March but you can grab it earlier - now! - from the p:m Bandcamp https://playmusik.bandcamp.com/music 

Whole release out 21st March 2025.

Trauma Response

Quartz - Trauma Response

Ainonow is back with a powerful new offering, unveiling the double-sided single “Break It” and “Lilt,” dropping March 21st via Onset Audio. Known for pushing the boundaries of experimental bass and drum & bass, Ainonow delivers a striking contrast between high-intensity energy and intricate, atmospheric sound design.
“Break It” is a raw, percussive-driven heater built to shake foundations, fusing industrial textures with relentless bass pressure. On the flip side, “Lilt” explores the deeper, more hypnotic side of Ainonow’s sonic arsenal—halftime layered with haunting melodies, intricate breaks, and immersive soundscapes. Together, these tracks showcase the emerging producer’s ability to traverse the full spectrum of underground electronic music.
With past releases already making waves in the bass and DnB communities, Ainonow continues to carve out a unique space in the scene, seamlessly blending innovation with raw intensity. Break It and Lilt mark the next chapter in a journey that refuses to be confined by genre.

Ainonow is an interdisciplinary and enigmatic artist focused on electronic music production. With his diverse background and range of influences, Ainonow's tracks traverse a broad spectrum of sonic landscapes. Combining elements of dark and heavy drum & bass, broken beat halftime and experimental bass music, he takes his listeners on a musical journey soaked in organic textures. As one of the most forward-thinking, rising artists in the world of underground electronic music, Ainonow’s music speaks to the power of experimentation and the limitless possibilities of creative expression.

On his debut two-track EP Exile Ainonow showcases his range in the genre of drum & bass starting out with the title track Exile, an industrial, raw, and ruthlessly rhythmic minimal drum & bass song with Jungle style breaks. The second track of the EP Triturate then launches into a meticulously layered, high energy neurofunk song that holds nothing back.

OA303: Ainonow - Lilt / Break It

1. Lilt
2. Break It

Out March 21st 2025

Follow Ainonow: https://soundcloud.com/ainonow

Ainonow - Lilt (Original Mix)

We wanted to celebrate the music of integral Samurai family member Last Life by revisiting his Samurai contributions with remixes from artists Mauro saw as best candidates for adding a new perception.

The second and final collection of remixes of tracks from Last Life's Samurai Music catalogue has now taken it's final form.

Label regulars Sam KDC, Ancestral Voices, Torn and Presha take their scalpels to Mauro's constructions and turn up the intensity, rebuilding them into 4 sinewy exercises in sinister force.

 Remixed: 2 - out on Limited 12" and Digital


1. Last Life - Offside (Ancestral Voices Remix)
2. Last Life - Troglodith (Sam KDC Remix)
3. Last Life - Elements (Presha Remix)
4. Last Life - Curse (Torn Remix)

Remixed: 2

Last Life - Troglodith - Sam KDC Remix [SMDE49]

Experimental sonic distortions hang thick on Prop Your Shattered Failing Engine, the latest EP from Berlin's Diasiva. The duo also known as Monolog and Swarm Intelligence have seen releases on a wide array of forward thinking IDM outlets such as Ad Noiseam, Bedouin, Hymen and Ohm Resistance. Their debut on Onset Audio marks another singular entry into their catalog of punishing sound design, a fusion of industrial noise, fractured breakcore, and halftime drum & bass that thrashes against the ruins of order. The EP is a monument to entropy, a brutal elegy carved in digital decay and distorted signal.

2, Diasiva - Galvanised

4. Diasiva - Bellow

Caspian, the emerging force from New Zealand, delivers his sophomore EP on Onset Audio- a relentless exploration into shadowy halftime jungle deconstructions with Insomnia. Furious amens skitter across droning atmospheres while bass pressure propels compositions into immersive haunted spaces. Out May 16th. 

OA307 - Caspian - Insomnia EP

1. Insomnia
2. Cryptic
3. Terminal
4. Kōauau


Caspian - Kōauau

OA310: robbyt - Night Squid / Fried

robbyt surfaces with a two-track single that drifts between darkness and light. Night Squid features shuffling halftime drums and ghostly pads that coil like tentacles in inky depths. On the flip, Fried ascends into minimal stepper territory carried by minor key melody shadowed by unease. Out July 18th. 

1. Night Squid
2. Fried

robbyt - Fried (Original Mix)

HDMIRROR is pushing club music into overload, colliding emotional and intense genres such as rave, trance, and gabber. Heavily influenced by the impact of the Internet on musical practice, their music blends many influences, utilising web aesthetics and a sense of humour to create frenetic audiovisual experiences. Associated with experimental labels such as Genot Centre and Jerome, they are at the forefront of new wave of avant-hardcore music. Here's a recording of their explosive live set from Unsound 2018 in Kraków, featuring many new tracks from the freshly released ABSTRACT URGENCY album. 

Tracklist:
DANCE NOW
THE CLIMB
NOT GONNA GET US 2
PITCH
TOTAL 
CLEARCUT
SPIKE
SPLASHY
MICRODOT
SPAWN
HOOVERKLUB
REVERSAL
TURMOIL
POINT BREAK
HAMMERHEAD
IN THERE
CURRENT
SICK TO DEATH
ABSTRACT URGENCY

carthage Mix 2020

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