this sounds like the music for a team of athletes practicing hard in a foreign country for the olympics

Following up on his Timedance debut in 2019, Sydney based wunderkind Air Max ’97 signs his return in style with a double dose of hi-detail club warpers. 

Without sacrificing any of his grimy and sub-loaded tendencies, the New-Zealand born producer expands his intricate and futuristic palette further with his most trance-inducing production to date.

Listen and preorder: 

Artwork by Harry Butt

Air Max '97 - Eat The Rich

Easy Mongo

Lithe - & Drop

"Vari-poto"
New series initiated by Dites Safran.
Shorts release dedicated to diversity and variations.
From our hearts for your knees...

First release is a collaboration with the parisian talented duo Amor satyr, Siu Mata & Dites Safran !

Siu Mata & Amor Satyr | Ne Résistez Pas | VARIPOTO 1

IM096 - @aroent - Say
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: May 27th,2022
Format: Digital
Artwork by Vojd

Following on from a release-packed 2021, Infinite Machine are back with a new 4-track offering from the relative newcomer, Aroent. Across 3 new original cuts (plus a rework by UK dance royalty, Ploy) the Berlin-based producer delivers some serious rollers crammed full of gnarly drumwork and a pervasive air of unease. Like the strange, abstract creature of the record artwork, the music of Say EP is an amorphous beast, mixing the dense arrangements/layering of 90s IDM records with the off-kilter and swung beats of UK Techno and Funky.

The EP opens with its title track; a whirl of snaps, claps and phantom samples all firmly underpinned by an acid-inflected bassline. Aroent embracing of chance and luck in his compositions is evident on this track, throwing in idiosyncratic automations and randomizers to grow and evolve the tune over its 5 minute duration. The vox samples (stolen from Breaking Bad) seem to decay and fall inwards on each other on ‘Say’, as if the song is soundtrack to a decaying and corrupted society (not dissimilar to Heisenberg’s).

On ‘Rolling Oddities’, Aroent’s love for the Bristol bass & techno scene really shines through clearly. A track that seems almost built for a spinny night that rolls on until the morning, the song really does what it says on the tin with its combination of driving, rhythmic elements and it’s smattering of pretty out-there decisions in terms of arrangement and sound processing. This is a definite must-listen tune for fans of Batu, Lurka or Hodge.

Next up, ‘Bobcat’ takes things in a slightly more buoyant and ecstatic direction with its ever-rising filters and muted percussion that seems like it’s dancing along on tip-toes. On this song especially, Aroent’s genre-agnostic approach to production is abundantly obvious with elements of techno and bass sitting alongside kick drums that wouldn’t feel out of place on some Jersey Club tracks.

Ploy brings up the rear on Say EP with a ferocious ‘Skeletal Tool remix’ of the releases’ title track. Taking a reductionist approach to his rework, the Timedance signee strips out some of the originals’ more hyperbolic or dramatic elements and reduces it to a polyrhythmic, semi-genreless heater. Seriously - you try and pin this edit down to a single ‘genre label’, I dare you!

Despite the small number of releases to his name, Say EP is a highly confident and well-realized offering from the Greek-born, Berlin-based producer. In a way, Aroent is already creating his own sonic signature that lifts and interpolates aspects across the UK Bass spectrum and turns it into something totally unique. This is music that lurks in the shadows of warehouse clubs.

Tracklist:

1. Say
2. Rolling Oddities
3. Bobcat
4. Say (Ploy's Skeletal Tool Remix)

Aroent - Say (IM096)

Here is my edit of 'Dot/Eyes' which comes from one of my favourite band Tortoise's 'It's All Around You' album from 2004. The original was begging to be made into a clubbier edit.

Artwork by Galtier

Dot / Eyes (Galtier Edit)

Tortoise - Dot/Eyes (Galtier Edit)

Oerchar

https://concretecabin.bandcamp.com/album/hamilton-scalpel

Covert transmission from the outskirts of Neurealm… two dark strangers operating from below the ash clouds with x4 chest rattling bass-scapes cut through with quickened breakbeat science. PSYWAR vets tryna get the hell outta hell. The tomb of “El Magnifico” is stalked by the spectre of OIR15A02aTC0008.  

Hamilton Scalpel / Concrete Cabin MMXIX

B2. Uprated Nite Zone

produced by: @laughingears
release date: February 21st, 2020
label: @decisionsrecords
link: https://laughingears.bandcamp.com/album/blue-dusk

Blue Dusk

Laughing Ears - Blue Dusk

Forced to pause the events in the spring, our restlessness has manifested itself in the form of a debut label release: a 21-track genre spanning compilation.

We chose to work closely with friends and family, artists that have an affiliation with AM, each expressing themselves in their freest forms from broken-techno, glitchy breakbeats and mutant dancehall, to IDM & electro.

@de_grandi

De Grandi - How Do You Know (Accidental Meetings)

Contemporary club sound of @atricemiras's 'FKX82000'. Forthcoming on @resourcesmusic.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/atrice-fkx82000/

FKX82000 EP

Premiere: ATRICE - FKX82000

The label / club night of @djcrud & @mothermark

B2. Uprated Nite Zone

Concrete Cabin

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