Trigger·Response - curated by ergen101

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The final katharsis release of 2024 is the 26-track compilation “Physical Force” featuring a wide range of affiliated artists from both the international and local Copenhagen electronic music scene. As the title hints, Physical Force delves into the visceral, bodily aspects of music, inviting its contributors to explore the theme of movement as a central element in their compositions. Each artist was encouraged to focus on rhythm, groove, energy, and the physicality of sound, which resulted in drum-heavy release from start to finish. While there is a consistent emphasis on rhythm and a bodily connection to the music, the tracks vary widely in style and sonic texture, ranging from big melodic anthems, gritty experimental techno, heavy jungle bangers, and beyond.

releases December 23, 2024

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

Physical Force

Peace On The River

premiere: Renslink - Peace On The River

Markham Road Records kicks off 2025 with a tasty new EP, THIRD TAKE. Spanning a spectrum of 140+, this four-track offering blends three originals with a remix from Hedo Hydr8. Opening the EP in style, the first track CONVULSE is a pacy breakbeat track with the perfect wormhole energy for the early morning crew. 

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@count2count

Premiere: COUNT - CONVULSE (Markham Road Records)

Following the launch of the Eyes series, Early Reflex welcomes back Ikävä Pii for “Eyes II”, the second entry in this exploratory two-tracker format. 

Possibly the darkest tracks Ikävä Pii has produced to date, ‘False Binaries Fight for Primacy’ and ‘Permaweird’ are two detailed and twisted club tunes, encapsulating the perennial state of frustrated urgency of our times. 
Uneasy feelings are conveyed in both tracks, and refracted through the artist’s signature playful approach.
False Binaries Fight for Primacy is driven by the eerie ambiguity of its major/minor harmony, and a relentless rhythmic section that nods to post-punk as much as the track’s distorted, shouty vocals. The unsettling main theme of Permaweird is hinged on an alteration of the Locrian mode (often deemed the “weirdest” mode), and its timbre, albeit recalling familiar patches from the Process Fatigue era, here paints a much darker picture. 
Topical and heartfelt, these tracks update Ikävä Pii’s sound with an uncanny mutation, material for a standout moment in a club set. Already secret weapons in Ikävä Pii’s live show for nearly a year, they’ve left heads spinning on dancefloors in UK, Europe and beyond, and now find their proper home on Early Reflex.

Ikävä Pii said:
“What’s the purpose of club music in a climate where alienation is the norm and outdated narratives are collapsing?
We live in the permaweird: reality gets increasingly absurd, and yet we adapt to it every day.
Nothing to fight for: digital vs physical, liberal left vs authoritarian right, old vs young - just false binaries. There must be another way. 
In the meantime, activate punk mode, shout in the mic, use stranger scales. 
The only real binary is rich vs non-rich (and that’s what clubs should be about).
Thanks Venkatesh Rao and David Rudnick for the inspiration.”

‘Eyes II’ is available on all platforms starting from Friday 2nd May 2025.

© & ℗ 2025 Early Reflex. All rights reserved.

All tracks produced and mixed by Ikävä Pii at Niche Studio, London § Mastering at CB5 Studios § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu.

False Binaries Fight for Primacy

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Ikävä Pii - False Binaries Fight for Primacy

Shelter presents “Aveen” — the third installation in our genre-agnostic compilation series.

To follow up 2023’s “Feyrûse” and 2024’s “Mizgîn”, we have curated an emotionally charged collection of 17 tracks that press against the debilitating realities of life in the mid-2020s. The title stems from a Persian word meaning “pure” or “transparent” — signaling a search for unfiltered and sincere artistic expression in the midst of a social climate filled with smoke and mirrors.

“Aveen” features Shelter’s most international line-up to date, with music from 18 artists spread across 13 countries and 5 continents displaying their signature sounds shaped by their local scenes and cultures. 

Flowing through mutated shades of ambient, hypnagogic pop, trance, leftfield techno, neo-perreo, and GQOM — the compilation connects the myriad influences and mind-states of electronic musicians from nearly every corner of the world and tethers them together into a cathartic 17-track excursion.


Klahrk – Lets Keep This Moving

STRUMA+IODINE PREMIERE
KIN TEAL - "attention span" (2025)

To support the artist, buy it here
https://kinteal.bandcamp.com/album/circadian

Album-Title: Circadian
Year: 2025
Artist: Kin Teal
Label: EXILES
Album-release: 23.05.2025
music by Bálint Haller 
mastered by Fausto Mercier 
artwork by Márton Tóth 
words by Dávid Gerlei

Kin Teal (Bálint Haller) is a Budapest-based producer who makes organic and tactile music that’s rooted in club culture. So far, he has released two EPs (via London-based Tropopause Records and New York-based Human Pitch respectively), and his latest drop (‘Undercurrent’) was a single on Scuffed Recordings. The main aim of his project is to express the contrast and connection between nature and humanity through juxtaposing natural textures with machine-made ones, and this sensibility is ever so evident on ‘circadian’, his latest offering.  

The five-track EP is tightly packed with unformalized and unpredictable bass music – as per Kin Teal’s ars poetica, heavily digital sounds are carefully intertwined with natural elements. ‘circadian’ is a polished, if not totally pristine body of work: the playfully raw, broken beats carry artifacts of living organisms. The human voice is a central element here; whether chopped and scattered or looped and ethereal, these vocal samples are what make the material really breathe. ‘circadian’ is peak body clock music condensed into 18-minute cycles.


https://soundcloud.com/kin_teal
https://soundcloud.com/exiles-electronics

S+I PREMIERE: KIN TEAL - "attention span" [EXILES]

My mom told me to give them credits
original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbZDvjY_Erg

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Anycia - BRB (Taqueria Ramirez Atrice Edit)

My mom told me to give them credits
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BbyMutha - go! (Ooki vs. Derby Atrice Edit)

ixqzm (@ixqzm) is a Paris based sound artist, drawing inspiration from island culture and the mesmerizing power of nature. Deeply influenced by her love for Taiwan's mountainous forests, she reinterprets the complexity and chaos of urban sounds through field recordings and composition, transforming them into the rich diversity and vitality she experiences in nature. 

ɢʀɨɨɢɢ (@griigg) is a Paris-based artist exploring the interactions between space, image and sound and their ability to craft powerful narratives and imaginaries. From abrasive noises to ethereal pads, from otherwordly wonders to abstract bangers, vocal entities, organic textures and rhythmic hybrids coexist in a universe of their own, transporting listeners into vivid auditory realms.

They invite us to listen to their 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦 as is :
« POV: you're moss. The forest hums softly as morning light filters through the trees. Golden dew clings to your tiny fronds, sparkling like a thousand stars. Your mushroom friends push through the damp earth beside you, their caps unfurling slowly, reaching toward the sun’s tender caress. The air is rich with the scent of soil and pine, each breath a quiet celebration of the day to unfold. »

Now available on Bandcamp 🌳 

Mastering : Le Dom
Artwork : 1.5L
Press Officer : HI ROSIE

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[PREMIERE] ixqzm & ɢʀɨɨɢɢ - Moss Reverie

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'Trigger·Response' marks the third V/A from French collective Craquages and kicks off their new curation series, where residents showcase their personal artistic vision.

https://soundcloud.com/svawk
https://instagram.com/svawk_

https://soundcloud.com/fluidmatter
https://instagram.com/fluid.matter

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https://instagram.com/craquages.collectifs

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svawk & Fluid Matter - Archaeopteryx [Premiere]

Listen to "Screech" by Leah taken from VA "Trigger·Response - curated by ergen101" out on June 27th via Craquages Collectifs

Pre-order: https://craquages-collectifs.bandcamp.com/album/trigger-response-curated-by-ergen101

'Trigger·Response' is the third V/A released by Craquages and the first of their curation series, in which their residents share their own artistic vision.

ergen101 made this project a space where artists could freely explore the intrinsic contradictions and connexions of themes like oppression & freedom, softness & harshness or trauma & resilience, through an experimental, deconstructed club (or not club) & bass aesthetic.
It tells a story of humanity, of past experienced as present and how we can now act on it : Trigger & Response.

Links:
Leah
https://soundcloud.com/leahdj
https://www.instagram.com/leah__dj
Craquages Collectifs
https://soundcloud.com/craquages-collectifs
https://craquages-collectifs.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/craquages.collectifs
Mastering : Le Dom
Artwork : 1.5L
Press Officer : HI ROSIE

pre-order / bandcamp

Leah - Screech (Craquages Collectifs)

Send request : info.seeksicksound@gmail.com or join our discord : discord.com/invite/suVpRBStmu 
www.instagram.com/seeksicksound/

ergen101 - haunted self
Craquages Collectifs, 2025
Pre-order: https://craquages-collectifs.bandcamp.com/album/trigger-response-curated-by-ergen101

@ergen101
@craquages-collectifs

'Trigger·Response' is the third V/A released by Craquages and the first of their curation series, in which their residents share their own artistic vision. 
ergen101 made this project a space where artists could freely explore the intrinsic contradictions and connexions of themes like oppression & freedom, softness & harshness or trauma & resilience, through an experimental, deconstructed club (or not club) & bass aesthetic. It tells a story of humanity, of past experienced as present and how we can now act on it : Trigger & Response.

[Premiere] ergen101 - haunted self (out  on Craquages Collectifs)

𝕭𝖆𝖉 𝕿𝖎𝖕𝖘🔸https://linktr.ee/badtips
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Various - Trigger·Response - curated by ergen101
CRAQUAGES ou Craquages Collectifs, 2025
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://craquages-collectifs.bandcamp.com/album/trigger-response-curated-by-ergen101

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The Boss / https://www.instagram.com/shlagga / https://soundcloud.com/shlagga

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@vinakonda is a polymorphic identity in a Cli-Fi universe that writes a story of an adult living through the spectre of their teenagehood.
They try to open a portal between temporalities and slip through identities to let them coexist and to form hybrid sonic echoes: a distorted souvenir of their own teenage bedroom haunted by the ghosts incarnating their potential future selves.

p0g0 is the result of a spontaneous collision between a lie and a truth. It’s a brief, internal struggle against oneself that begins and ends almost in the same instant.

Now available on our Bandcamp 🕷  

Mastering : Le Dom
Cover : 1.5L
Press Officer : HI ROSIE

[PREMIERE] Vina Konda - p0g0

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DARK SHADOW

@bisoubi
@ergen101 

Craquages Collectifs sees itself as a place to meet and explore break and bass music, where the boundaries between genres are broken down to make way for the essence of the party. 

contact : craquage.collectif@gmail.com
IG : https://www.instagram.com/craquages.collectifs

[PREMIERE] ixqzm & ɢʀɨɨɢɢ - Moss Reverie

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