Trigger·Response - curated by ergen101

Myth

Our 160 Edit of “Astra,” released last year on https://soundcloud.com/fixedabode, is out today on all DSPs.

Free download available via SoundCloud.

Mixing/Mastering by https://soundcloud.com/iamxato

Ice_Eyes & Locre - ASTRA (160 Edit)

Pho Beat Bazar Vol. 4

Chewlie - Ice Aching

www.instagram.com/cortical_fm ( @cortical_fm )
www.instagram.com/plasma__sources/

Plasma Sources marks its 5th release with Cortical’s debut EP, ‘Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes’. Pulling from both the extreme fringes of experimental music and the minimalistic tendencies of the UK bass continuum, the duo’s much-awaited first release acts as the locus point between dance floor sensibility and sonic exploration in its most immersive, visceral sense.

Cortical are world builders first and foremost. With backgrounds rooted as much in the visual arts as audio, the duo’s live AV show has already garnered critical acclaim after standout performances at Sónar and Lunchmeat. Coupling this with their list of past collaborators - which includes the likes of Holly Herndon, Arca and Skrillex - and it becomes easy to see why there’s so much hype around Cortical right now. Indeed, this EP is the culmination of months of building excitement amongst those in the know, as fragments of raw footage captured from Cortical’s shows begin to amass on social media.

‘Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes’ itself feels like the auditory equivalent of a fragmentary existence forming, fragmenting and reforming again. Noise and distortion act as integral threads throughout the EP, but on the first track, ‘Telúrica’, they take centre stage. Brittle percussive calls give way to a thick wall of bass-laden, cinematic viscerality which hits the listener almost as hard as the ensuing rhythmic carnage which erupts halfway through.

Mortar, immediately fires away into more rhythmic madness, as elements of dubstep, metal and grime coalesce into blasted kick patterns which sound like the contractions of an eldritch machine’s digestive tract. Noise-tainted bass tones kick in, tearing in and out of reality and slowly 
dominating the environment as Mortar progresses into deeper territory.

Up next, Shiny Surgery provides a respite, with electro-tinged drippings of lasers and wet gloops lifting the listener into a more sanitised and lighter space than its predecessors. Cortical’s extreme musical influences are still at play here with their signature eroded bass weight and splintered percussion on display, but in a more restrained sense. As the halfway point comes in, so too does the most introspective section of Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes, as cinematic floating pads de-sterilise the space.

Finishing things up is the namesake of the EP and arguably the most anthemic listen of the release. On Wretched Patterns And Terrible Mistakes, demented vocal chants call out across a disintegrating claustrophobic space, before grime kicks and fragmented breakbeat loops explode into existence, demanding full dance floor attention. This is pure-peak time energy, although still entirely in line with Cortical’s immersive approach to world-building and sonic exploration.

Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes operates equally as an enclosed, hermetic exploration of Cortical’s fragmented, low-end focused sonic landscapes and equally as an assortment of dangerously effective club tracks guaranteed to turn heads.

Written and Produced by Sevi Iko Dømochevsky & Daniel Benza 
Mixed by James Ginzburg 
Mastered by HYPNA 
Artwork designed by Cortical

© 2024 Plasma Sources.

Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes

Telúrica

Cortical - Telúrica

@cortical_fm
@plasmasourcesmusic

Ever since our first release back in 2023, we’ve always tried to push out electronic music which does one simple thing - takes our love of sci-fi aesthetics and melts it into sonic form, irrespective of genre, sound, mood or anything else. Now with this aesthetic cemented in our first 5 releases, we feel it is time to drop our first compilation.

We’re proud to present Multi-Source, a 14-track assemblage covering the whole helix of experimental electronic music. The result is a very wild ride through an array of styles and BPMs, and it does exactly what we’ve always tried to do - put aside genre or mood, and focus on extreme, sound-design forward explorations of sci-fi aesthetics. It’s a celebration of the insanely broad range of music we’ve managed to fit into the Plasma Sources sound so far, and an observance of all the potential the imprint has to come.

There’s offerings from the full label family - we welcome back Cortical, Beton Brut, unearth, NIQH, J-Shadow and label boss HYPNA, who each present their signature laser-guided takes on club music. We also welcome a slew of some of our favourite artists right now - Ziyiz, Stolen Velour, Prior Self, Klahrk and Atrice highlighting the light, skittering side of our aesthetic, whilst Guide, Galtier, Bonebrokk and Reinartz illuminate the dark, deep and noise-tinged aspect of Plasma Sources.

As we look forward to the rest of 2025 and our future as a label, we offer up Multi-Source as a confirmation of our key aesthetics - juxtaposing dark and light, balancing experimentalism and dance floor sensibilities and interweaving sci-fi and biologically infused sound design. 

releases March 27, 2025

Mastering by HYPNA
Cover Design by Joh000 // Jose Hernández

premiere: Cortical - Hammer

@yolek - FOR MY ANGELS ON ANGEL DUST (DAWN023)
50 limited copies
CD
Produced by Yolek
Mastered by Lastrack
Artwork & Design by Hajj
Dawn 2025

Yolek - Left Behind

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⚡ Stream / Download 'svawk & Fluid Matter - Archaeopteryx' → https://bit.ly/4kCq4OE

'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

https://soundcloud.com/craquages-collectifs
https://instagram.com/craquages.collectifs

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STUDIO LINKS

Email → info@wearestudio.fr
Website → https://wearestudio.fr
Instagram → https://instagram.com/_wearestudio
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Facebook → https://facebook.com/wearestudioofficial
TikTok → https://tiktok.com/@_wearestudio
Bluesky → https://bsky.app/profile/wearestudio.bsky.social
Twitter → https://twitter.com/_wearestudio
Bandcamp → https://studiosonics.bandcamp.com

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
𝕽𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖘 👉🏾 badtipsaudio@gmail.com


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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

🔴 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥
Dua Lity / https://www.instagram.com/dua___lity / https://soundcloud.com/duality6371209
The Boss / https://www.instagram.com/shlagga / https://soundcloud.com/shlagga

🔵 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕝
Craquages Collectifs / https://www.instagram.com/craquages.collectifs/ https://soundcloud.com/craquages-collectifs
ergen101 / https://soundcloud.com/ergen101 / https://www.instagram.com/ergen_101

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𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖊#386 📢 Dua Lity & The Boss - P.A.B. [Craquages Collectifs]

@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

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[PREMIERE] Vina Konda - p0g0

Taken from SBKT070: estoc - Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel?
Release date: 26th June 2025
Artwork & Design: Amber Jean
Mixing & Digital Master: Nori Kin
Vinyl Master: Raphael Valensi

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estoc presents the newest manifestation of her artistic practice: an attempt to make sense of a world seemingly hellbent on violence as its chief export. Art written as a direct response to the conditions felt both at home and watched across oceans through a phone. This album exists as an acknowledgement that our fates are inextricably intertwined, yet, our (temporary) comfort is extracted from the third world. Across 10 tracks the question is: Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel? Answers are posed and then brushed away, like dust from a shelf. By the end, nothing is settled and we are left with more questions than answers.

Collaborators and co-conspirators weave in and out of the compositions, their presence felt as both adornment, and as integral infrastructure. DJ Haram opens the album with ‘Heretic’. Her voice swims through crackling noise, throbbing basslines — a guided meditation as much as a late night conversation. ‘The Weight’ follows directly after. AZADI.mp3’s smoky chants hover in the air above a smouldering fire of trip hop drums and synths, devolving to a miasma of distortion and swirling screams. The next song, ‘Where Do We Go Now’, builds and swells with rumbling synths, arriving fully as breaks crash forward and Military Scientist’s voice cries out over a chaotic sea. The first solo composition of the album comes in the form of ‘The Poison of the Centre’. A solemn yet off-balance meditation of drums, cut over an uneven and shifting beat. This rhythmic fervor is multiplied tenfold on ‘No Glory’, a harsh bath of bass and drums, constantly fighting for space to breathe through the manufactured scarcity of the mix.

‘Scorched Earth’ lends us our first breath of fresh air. Mia Carucci sings a lullaby over growling instrumentation, Exploited Body’s co-production threatening to boil over at any moment. A momentary break in the clouds, a beam of sunlight shines through before being quickly swallowed back up by the storm; gone as quickly as it came. It is here that we plunge even deeper, as the heartbeat of ‘Heaven Defined for Another’ rattles through. Machinery and exasperated breathing become inexorable, both driven to their breaking point by a rolling wave of thunder. This mechanical terror roils forth on ‘Cradling’. Miedo Total sets clattering steam and cogs over crying strings that threaten to throw themselves to pieces. The penultimate entry sees Violence lend voice and production to ‘Bones Broken, Many Things Left Unsaid’ — a deep terror lurches, shuddering and crashing like ocean waves. A gentle chorus of strings ushers in the final piece, ‘Scratch a Liberal’ — a rare, but fleeting moment of tenderness on the album. Heavy towers of bass throw the composition into shadow, tension builds and grows before collapsing in on itself, revealing the fear and violence at the core of this project. At the end of it all, we are left alone to contemplate what is to be done.

estoc - Where Do We Go Now (ft. Military Scientist)

Taken from SBKT073: ABADIR - Kitbashing
Release date: 15th October 2025

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Conceived as part of an A/V show with visual artist Nicolò Cervello, ‘Kitbashing’ marks ABADIR’s third album for SVBKVLT.

A growing number of people spend an extensive amount of time watching, scrolling, liking, commenting on and sharing content, whilst at the same time feeding a constant stream of personal data to social media platforms. Social media can be fun and informative, or draining and dark. Either way, their algorithms are purposefully designed to lock users in a continuous state of scrolling. The more time spent online, the more desires, interests and emotions are fed into the algorithm for consumerist ends and reality is reduced to a timeline of curated aesthetics.

Using audio snippets from reels, suggested posts, and sponsored ads, sound objects are cut, micro-edited and meshed together into a collage. Tension is built gradually before falling into a release. Rhythms keep expanding and contracting, simulating the pace of random scrolling on mobile devices. ‘Kitbashing’ is an attempt to break the algorithm: subverting the dynamics by feeding on the algorithm instead of only feeding it.

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Concept by Nicolò Cervello and Rami Abadir
Artwork by Nicolò Cervello
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Kitbashing

ABADIR - Kicks and Clickbaits

The Full Version Will Come Very Soon — WARNING: LOUD

BRUTAL SKULL CRUSHER OF DESTRUCTIVE FLYING FORCES

@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] Vina Konda - p0g0

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