"Uniflex Gaba Crux" by Sebastian Maria is the reversed & inversed dream of a collected club night mosaic where the brain processes the lucid gunk of groove immemorial.  The fabric of the mix is an unwound audio intarsia where colors of genre smatter & spatter in an abstract expressionist manner, like cotton candy, the tantrums of an aphasic droid, the electronic music landscape of the last 30 years as a watercolor being washed out & dripped down the drain. I consider it a veritable suite through touches & smears of jazz, jungle, drum & bass, chillout, acid, trap, dub & minimal techno, ambient, rave, noise, power electronics, industrial, trance, & of course, gabber. It reminds me of all the power & wanderlust of I:Cube’s 2012 “M: Megamix” in half the time, deliciously tripped out. 

See if you can spot the following: A seagull becomes a trumpet, a clap gurgles for dear life at the bottom of the mix, a DJ shouts provocations into the void, an amen break tumbles down a hill as a ball of steel wool, & a young Michael Jackson & Diana Ross, long time friends, are reunited by an acapella rapport, almost algorithmically & those are just selected happenings from Side A of this Crude Tapes release. Seamlessly, it flows into its dovetail counterpart Side B. 

An 808 becomes a Timex, bass becomes a heart’s arrythmia, the indigenous ancestor of Future Sound of London’s “Papua New Guinea” makes an appearance via the comedown of an ayahuasca trip, a pick-up truck fails to start amidst a lush reverberating of a forest, & a sample of the Notorious B.I.G. becomes tile-work tessellated in the tunnel of a k-hole. Gabber, slang for friend in the UK, is you, listener, who is vicariously experiencing a pal’s consciousness warping. All this & more persist along the ~30 minutes. That is just scratching the surface of all the elemental happenings embedded in “Crux’s” runtime. You would have to hear it yourself to get the essential experience. 

The Cuban neo-baroque writer Jose Lezama Lima, in his essay “Coronation of Formlessness,” ponders a quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “That which is most elevated, most excellent, in man is formless & one must avoid configuring it in anyway other than a noble feat.” Lezama Lima, in response, says that “Quality in man comes to us from whatever sacrificial dose of mystery and formlessness he can endure…Form can no longer be defined as the final stage of matter, but rather as the most efficacious instant for movement to be grasp without being halted.” This is a project with no skips, no pause. It is fleeting as it is vertiginous as it is addictive. It is pure flow, where the goal of astounding the listener consistently with new corroded frontiers of sound transcended from the ossified remains of category is achieved easily. 

Go into the dark of this release by Maria, wet, dripping, cold, don’t be scared, & see all the new colors that it offers.

-  Aristilde Kirby 2021

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Sebastian Maria - Uniflex Gaba Crux - CRT-010

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A2 open window aurora

A1 breaths for goldy

ONE HONEY ISLAND (TF SCRAPE) TOXE n TOKYO

Next up on Exodus Records we present a jungle / dnb fusion 4 track EP from Charlie Power! 

Including a wicked free download 'Mantra' to come with the package - big ups to Charlie Power on this great work of art

https://soundcloud.com/charliepoweryenotha

Catharsis EP

Mantra

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Charlie Power - Mantra [Free Download]

DJ Frog (@djfrogunit) is a producer and DJ based in Montreal who releases music on Doo Records and also hosts a monthly show on CKUT.

Sparkling 02 | DJ Frog

Junction Forest introduces the first record of the night series, because mushrooms at night, glow differently.

Artist: Alvar @ekkeltype
Title: Moon Ritual

Vinyl only, release March 2025
Distirbution: Small Back Dots

Thank you for your continuous support, it means a lot!

Alvar - Moon Ritual [NIGHT001]

Indian-born, Brooklyn-based duo Baalti chart a path from UK-inspired club sounds to the vibrant musical traditions of West Bengal and Delhi, shining a light on the vivid and explosive rhythms of Indian soundsystem culture and it's impact on contemporary club sounds. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/baalti-19th-february-2025

BAALTI 190225

Pureblast invite Kiernan Laveaux - 27 Mars 2025

capsule 2-8-2025 (vinyl set)

From 'waverider', out on Crude Tapes.

YOU'RE RIGHT TO BUY: https://crudetapes.bandcamp.com/album/waverider

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Morals are hard. What is good? And, on the contrary, what is bad? What? What is what fundamentally? In essence? Foundationally? The mind of a moron might ponder. Not you. You know what is: Pamela_ and her sons' 'Joywave', out on Crude Tapes, premiered by Madjestic Kasual. You know. You understand. It's a matter of listening, liking, reposting, engaging widely, sharing, and all such matters. It's all so easy.

you're right to buy

Pamela_ and her sons - Joywave [MK PREMIERE]

A clinic in minimal from the elusive Acting Press boss. 

Why do certain sounds cultivate a cult following? Simply put, it's often because they resist easy consumption. PLO Man and his imprint Acting Press lean into this. 

Searching for the Berlin-based DJ and producer, you won’t find much online presence, interviews or conventional PR. What you will find, if you look hard enough, is a catalogue of records and mixes with a kind of tape hiss charm (a spiritual successor to Basic Channel and Chain Reaction, but scuzzier and lighter on its feet).

Founded in 2015, Acting Press once seemed to belong to the short-lived "outsider house" trend, but is now synonymous with a certain strain of modern minimal, one that is analogue, spacious and pointedly opaque. PLO Man's output is equally sparse by design: this week, he joins the RA Podcast with a characteristically elusive style, accompanying the near two-hour mix is a one-answer Q&A that gives almost nothing away.

Stripped-back, ever-so-slightly sleazy and coated in dust, PLO Man's RA Podcast continues that lineage in style. Opening with the featherlight microhouse of Margaret Dygas, RA.988 unfolds into a carefully curated spectrum of minimal, dub and deep techno. Among familiar names—look out for the blinding Rhythm & Sound and Moodymann blend—are deep cuts and left turns alongside the odd outlier, like lovers' rock pioneer Gregory Isaacs.

Like the best of his forebears, PLO Man wants RA.988 to take time for you to settle in. But once you do, you won’t want to leave. 

@p_el_oh

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/988

RA.988 PLO Man

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Terry Francis Presents Architecture

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270 - Terry Francis ‎presents 'Architecture' (1998)

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