Name: Cold Case by d.Control / ghost
Duration: 3 min 18 s
Description: Streamed music competition entry for Revision 2025. Mainly sample based, dark, gritty vibes. First time exploring that musical style.

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Taken from VA - INFOHAZARD. Full compilation out September 16.

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INVADERZ EP

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Painful Reminder was born from my natural urge to make "one of those" - a mid-2000s Tearout Amen epic with vocals. A niche subgenre i've very much been into for years and years now. I started that track using some sort of generic acapella, but knew I'd approach Vlada about doing vocals, and she happily agreed. I've known and talked to Vlada for years and since we worked together on "My Only Night Alive" in 2014 or so, we always wanted to do more stuff but somehow never got around to it until this tune came around. She visited me last year and recorded a demo version of this in my room with a first draft of lyrics she had written for it and i immediately loved it. With the final vocal tracks especially i feel like she makes that song basically entirely on her own.
Production wise, i spent the most amount of time iterating through different amens and trying to get them to sound "just right". Of course as it often goes i never managed to hit that sweet spot I was aiming for but i think the end result is at the very least good enough. The final amen in this tune is a weird frankenstein hybrid of 3 different breaks with a ton of back and forth processing. I couldn't recount the chain from memory if you held a gun to my head. A stupid amount of work went into that break and i am glad i don't have to think about it anymore from now on.

Painful Reminder EP

GADE SYSTEM - PAINFUL REMINDER (FEAT VESNÁ) (JSD027) OUT NOW!!!

I made the majority of Vertigo in a week. Definitely the worst week of this entire year for me, which almost definitely had a huge impact on how the track sounded. I was experimenting with sine harmonics for that lead synth and i made quite a mournful little arp melody and then built the entire track around that. I have a strong dislike for simple ABAB structures in tunes (most of the time), so my compulsion was to just let it end in a drawn out, epic pad section. So yea that's why that is in there.
I don't really tend to put any personal meaning into songs so i can't really write something cool along the lines of:
"It's an evening in autumn. Your standing at a train station and it's time to move on. You're scared of letting go but you have to move on. This is the soundtrack for that."
That sounds cool and all but it's just not what it is. I ended up with a sad melody and because i was sad i made a sad track. Then i needed some ambience and found a field recording of a train station so I layered that over the end. That's it. Sorry for that peek behind the curtain.
What i can say though is that this track deserves a big thanks to Wally Coman Dante who graciously provided me with some amazing reese basses, one of which is the basis for the bassline in this song. Absolute legend.

GADE SYSTEM - VERTIGO (JSD027) OUT NOW!!!

Gremlinz | Cern
DROOGS011

A. Gremlinz – Ratchet
AA. Cern – Second Thoughts

Release Date: December 2nd 2022 (Vinyl)/December 9th 2022(Digital)

Label co-founder, Gremlinz, returns to his imprint with the kind of spine-tingling B-Boy darkness that only he can ply. ‘Ratchet’ sees cascading amens, deft break chops, amazon drum taps, tumbling 808, and an omnipresent dread inducing atmosphere, saturating the entire affair. Heads down, elbows up!

On the flip, Cern, successfully harness the emulator, squelchy funk of the brothers Quinn for ‘Second Thoughts’ with taut beats and bass, evoking late 90’s Fortan and pre-Wormhole tech noir futurism.

DROOGS011  Gremlinz - Ratchet

Quick mix to showcase some bits of mine from the last year or two alongside a few tracks i've been enjoying playing out recently. Quite a bit of unreleased/forthcoming stuff inside. Big respect to all the artists pushing the real underground sound!

Tracklist:
Peeb & Duburban – Visions [Unreleased]
Dodz – Sometimes [Unreleased]
Krugah – Worries Deh Ya (Pixl Remix) [Unreleased]
Use-I – Why?? [Unreleased]
Equinox – Unity [Bassbin]
Pixl – Elysian Tide [AKO Beatz]
Krugah – Numb Tha Pain [Forthcoming Gunns Road Music]
Pixl & Peeb – Holographic Projection [Unreleased]
Dub One – Unceasing Violence [Bandcamp Self Release]
Pixl – Break Out [Unreleased]
Pixl – Depth Charge (Version One) [Jungle Syndicate]
Rumbleton – Unlocked [Forthcoming Gunns Road Music]
Pixl & Polarity – Single Mind [Jungle Syndicate]
Nebula – The Darkness Behind You [Bandcamp Self Release]
Champa B – Frozen In Time [Unreleased]

Pixl 2023 Mix

Overlook
DROOGS014

A. Tarot / AA. Detour

Release Date: June 30th 2023

DROOGS is back with more unfettered darkness from chief crew member Overlook. First up, we have ‘Tarot’; harnessing echoes of the St Albans’ amigos and laser pointing their unsettling dread into a burning sink hole of riddim.

Flip over for a metallic stepping lash out, ‘Detour’, with holes punched through the omnipresent fog by staccato bursts of jazz stabs penetrating the Jungle canopy from above.

Lights out.

DROOGS014 Overlook - Tarot

Dyl is Joined by Vega for this episode of Echo.

For those who are not familiar with Vega's work, he is one of the founding members of UVB-76 Music, Ruffhouse and 4 6 2 5 and 
one of the people thanks to whom visionary artists have the possibility to have their music heard.

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Echo w/ DYL & Vega - 28th July 2023

Dissected Culture presents: DCL033. DC followers this is our 33rd release....! We are giving back for the love with this high quality 4 track EP. FREE On K Mag! Free on Dissected Culture Ltd Soundcloud & free on DrumNBass  EDM.com . 

This is one cut from the actual release. Though we are not a free label, again we felt that giving this entire EP up for the LOVE of DnB was the way to show people we care about our scene and that there are always rewards. Thanks!

Titles are below as follows.

1. Planet 11 - Inward Phase ft. Biloo
2. Division - Inward Phase
3. Terraforming Machines - Mastif  Inward Phase remix 
4. The Game - Inward Phase

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2. Division - Inward Phase [ Unknown Waveforms Ep ] DCL033 Free in Kmag

Streamed music competition entry for Revision 2025. Mainly sample based, dark, gritty vibes. First time exploring that musical style.

Cold Case

Hobby musician, software developer, demoscener

Cold Case

d.Control / ghost

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