Aeternum

Iron - Aeternum

Samurai Music returns to the evocative sound world of Ancestral Voices for an album that splits the difference between cinematic sound design and deadly restraint at 170 BPM. Nemeton continues Liam Blackburn's exploration of ancient Celtic mysticism through snaking rhythms and snarling sound design, conjuring a high-definition sonic image of sacred groves and the druids practicing amongst them.  

Blackburn's Ancestral Voices project tracks back to 2015, when he debuted on Samurai Horo with the Night Of Visions album. In stark contrast to his celebrated 140 work as Indigo, this project leaned on the inspiration of pagan spirituality to charge his vivid, advanced production style with a rich and mysterious atmosphere. While he's channelled this approach into a variety of tempos and styles, on his 2016 EP Old Earth Voodoo on Samurai Music he applied the concept to a drum & bass framework, which he returns to on Nemeton with rigorous focus.

Far from a straightforward collection of breakbeat tracks, Blackburn uses negative space and pointillist production to carve out an immersive, tense sound world around the 170 grid. He takes a widescreen approach to percussion, running from pin-prick synthesised one-shots to tumbling, organic drums you'd more readily associate with a Hans Zimmer score. Scene-building is the foremost mission across Nemeton, casting otherworldly forces in sweeps of low-end friction and dramatic melodic blooms amidst tangible real-world field recordings of flora and fauna.  

Casting the mind back some 2000 years is an exercise in imagination as much as research, and Blackburn ably summons dark fantasy as he delves ever deeper into Welsh mythology with a studious zeal and avid fascination. It's that drive that makes Nemeton burst forth and take shape so powerfully, bristling with kinetic energy and a barely-concealed, strangely seductive menace that leaves a lasting impression long after the last snatch of bass has bared its teeth.


Nemeton - out on 2x12" and Digital


1. Ancestral Voices - Nemeton
2. Ancestral Voices - A Heart Of Oak
3. Ancestral Voices - Annwn
4. Ancestral Voices - Mist Of Avalon
5. Ancestral Voices - Arawn
6. Ancestral Voices - Stanzas Of The Graves
7. Ancestral Voices - Keltia

Nemeton

Ancestral Voices - Nemeton [SMDELP14]

Pixl arrives on The Runes with a gorgeous slice of atmospheric Drumfunk. Bandcamp: https://therunes1.bandcamp.com/album/004

RUNESUK004 - Pixl - Obliquity/Rhythmic Instinct

Neurotoxin - Digital Love[Squares Music]		
Forest Drive West - Masking (w/ T-Flex)[Ilian Tape]
DaRuff - Mist[Unreleased]
Neurotoxin - Untitled_(Dissident_Version)[Conveyor Music]			
Primal Tribes - Natural Born Killer[Enter the Void]	
Ahmad - Beneath[bandcamp]
Acid Lab - Expel Our Demons[Offish Productions]	
Xiûa - Photon[Third Foundation]
Primal Tribes - Digital Oblivion[Enter the Void]	
1Acid Lab - Creature (Evasion Techy Mix)[Offish Productions]	
Forgiven Soul - Endpoint[AGN7 Audio]	
Hoji - Thunderbolt[bandcamp]	
Ink & Sin - London Ting[Architecture Recordings]
DJ Sofa, ODJ Pirkka - Sinister Sound[Repertoire]	
Pixl - Obliquity[The Runes]	
Neurotoxin_feat._Incendiario - Camel_(Uneven_Rethink)[Conveyor Audio]
*** Guest Mix by PARASITE ***
01. NUSKU X NABŪ - SUMERIAN ECHOES - DUB
02. DUBTEK - RESPONSE - SOUNDCLOUD FREE DL
03. NABŪ X ELIZAR MEL - SILVERSTONE - ENTER THE VOID
04. FOKUS, BEN SOUNDSCAPE, ROY GREENE & PROTONE - FREQUENCIES - PARASITE RMX - DISPATCH RECORDINGS
05. PARASITE - MANACE - YIN YANG AUDIO RMX - SYHDA MUSIC
06. ID - ID - DUB
07. LAST LIFE - EDENA - SAMURAI MUSIC
08. ID - ID - DUB
09. XIÛA - THE BUNKER - PARASITE RMX - THIRD FOUNDATION
10. AKINSA X BOKOR - ARE YOU INFLUENCED - OFFISH RMX - THIRD FOUNDATION
11. ID - ID - DUB
12. AKINSA - INTO THE BLACK - THIRD FOUNDATION
13. PARASITE - HOSTILE - STRUCTURED MUSIC
14. AIKANÃ - THE BEAST - PARASITE RMX - THIRD FOUNDATION
15. AKINSA X OFFISH - HYBRID - OFFISH PRODUCTIONS
16. ID - ID - DUB
17. PARASITE - ABADDON - SYHDA MUSIC X MC FOKUS - PERCEPTION
18. AKINSA - STREET KNOWLEDGE - THIRD FOUNDATION
19. PARASITE - VEXED VIP - DUB
20. OFFISH - CHIMERA - ENTER THE VOID
21. ID - ID - DUB
22. PARASITE X REDLUM - ADRENALIN - ENTER THE VOID
23. PARASITE - PLASMA - SYHDA MUSIC
24. PRIMAL TRIBES - NATURAL BORN KILLER - ENTER THE VOID
*** www.soundcloud.com/parasite_dnb ***

Buster presents Basspaths@SubFm 27.03.25 feat PARASITE

Available on Bandcamp: https://offishproductions.bandcamp.com/album/circling-the-drain

As well as these stores:

Redeye // https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/182173-oprv001-offish-circling-the-drain-ep
Juno // https://www.juno.co.uk/products/offish-circling-the-drain-ep-vinyl/1082797-01/
Deejay // https://www.deejay.de/Offish_Circling_The_Drain_EP_OPRV001_Vinyl__1141749
Suburban Trash // https://suburbantrash.com/drum-n-bass-jungle/5498-5464--pre-order-oprv001-offish-circling-the-drain-ep.html#/33-format-12_vinyl

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[OPRV001] Offish - Circling The Drain EP ♦ 12" RECORD OUT NOW!

Full set by @offishmusic . Played at Sikalafą Freaky Neon Bar in Wrocław, PL (https://www.instagram.com/sikalafabar).

0:00:00 Art Cuebik - Ease Up (Offish Rollout Mix)
0:02:05 Red Army - Double Dragon
0:04:22 Break & Survival - Your Time Will Come
0:06:11 Teebee - Bounce
0:07:39 Offish - Rain Season [UNRELEASED]
0:09:06 Offish & Attempt - The Faceless
0:10:33 Section 63 - Always U
0:12:22 SKC & Matt U - Monolith
0:14:34 Offish - Poachers (The Faraday Remix)
0:16:00 Current Value - Persuasion
0:17:28 Akinsa - Ghetto Blaster
0:18:55 Future Cut - Whiplash (Cern Remix)
0:22:13 Kublai & Minor Forms - Future Motion
0:23:39 Forgiven Soul & The Faraday - Cold Fusion [UNRELEASED]
0:25:07 Red Army - Yergacheffe VIP
0:26:12 88 Katanas - Dilution [UNRELEASED]
0:27:12 Tarek - Odderon [UNRELEASED]
0:28:44 Akinsa - Release Me
0:30:54 Rez - Guthma's Revenge (Tribal Warfare Mix)
0:33:06 Offish & Attempt - The Peripheral
0:34:34 Xiûa - Ruckus
0:36:01 Offish & Attempt - Signal Jammer [UNRELEASED]
0:37:50 Offish & Attempt - Rokle [UNRELEASED]
0:40:01 Donny & Katharsys - Timeline
0:41:07 Limewax - Straightest Heath
0:42:34 Holotype - Stomped Out
0:45:29 Break - Sonic Storm
0:47:40 Psidream - Cypher
0:49:29 Akinsa - Tesseract
0:50:57 Akinsa - Rastafari (Offish Remix)
0:53:07 Forgiven Soul - Imagine
0:55:18 Dom & Roland - Moulin Rouge (Dieselboy, Kaos and Karl K Remix)
0:56:24 Survey & PRTCL - Acid One
0:58:12 Dom & Roland - Just Loop It
1:00:02 Fierce & Zero T - See Through
1:01:28 Akinsa & Offish - Gutterfunk (Akinsa VIP) [UNRELEASED]
1:03:16 Gred Lvov & Kybel - Parallel (Offish Remix)
1:04:45 88 Katanas - Xenoshadowmorph (Extraterrestial Mix)
1:06:02 Total Science & Mako - Rathbone Strikes Again
1:08:24 Rawbreaker - Tephra [UNRELEASED]
1:09:29 Red Army - Hemlock
1:11:19 Gred Lvov - Anger (Offish Remix) [UNRELEASED]
1:12:46 Offish & Forgiven Soul - Sharpened Senses
1:15:19 Loxy & B-Key - Battle Scars
1:17:08 Red Army & Clima - Moonrock (Homemade Weapons Remix)
1:18:14 Genic - Ruff Them (Instrumental)
1:19:41 Yanai & Xiûa - Deadlights
1:21:08 Hydro & War - Film Noir
1:22:35 Leon Switch & Kryptic Minds - No Remorse
1:24:24 Hologroove - Tyresta
1:25:52 Offish & Forgiven Soul - Logic Gate

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Offish live @ Polisz DnB Vol. 2 hosted by DJ Bessus (21.03.2025)

Our first podcast by Meodic.

Tracklist:

1. Beak - Rustle
2. No Rules & Itti — Shoom
3. Uneven - Cold Tones Of Despair
4. Anderdog - You Are History
5. Dominic Ridgway - Levitate
6. TNNL - Pony
7. Spinnet - Prime Seven
8. Elizar Mel - Ungle
9. Inhumane - Lenivetz
10. Ital X Akinsa - You're Something Else
11. Itti - Feedback
12. Asygen - Scintillation
13. Rinat K - 3h
14. Hellacopta - Tactics

Shoom Podcast Mix 001 by Meodic

Seeker Delusion

01: Wottakku - Atmos
02: Fetus & Itti - Mystical Disc (The Untouchables Remix)	
03: Anku - Warpaint	
04: Wottakku - Wottakku
05: Anku - Cave	
06: Wottakku - Provocative Heating
07: Last Life - Purge	
08: Wottakku - Severe
09: Dailiv - Houngan	
10: Sam KDC - Mutilate	
11: Hoji - Purgatory	
12: Torn - Invisible Turmoil	
13: Last Life - Edena	
14: Rozzer - On The Tracks	
15: Dailiv - Call of the Deep	
16: Torn feat. Alice - There Is No Need for Names	
17: Rozzer - Lightrunner Dub	
18: M@shinist - Wedge	
19: Ruffhouse, Clarity - Aphasia
20: Acid Lab - Expel Our Demons	
21: Overlook feat. Ruffhouse, Gremlinz - Apparition
22: Xiua - 3 Body Problem	
23: 4 6 2 5 - Sedition
24: NABŪ & Elizar Mel - Silverstone	
25: NABŪ - Ur	
26: TNNL - The Vessel	
27: Akinsa - Rastafari (Offish Remix)

Vykhod Sily Podcast - Wottakku Guest Mix

Jaskin & Uneven's 'Last Transmission' is a beautiful collection of music, which is an ideal case study on how music and its timeless universal message can transcend both time a space, and reach generations to come.

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Caspian, the emerging force from New Zealand, delivers his sophomore EP on Onset Audio- a relentless exploration into shadowy halftime jungle deconstructions with Insomnia. Furious amens skitter across droning atmospheres while bass pressure propels compositions into immersive haunted spaces. Out May 16th. 

OA307 - Caspian - Insomnia EP

1. Insomnia
2. Cryptic
3. Terminal
4. Kōauau


Caspian - Kōauau

Madrid-based electronic music label. 
Dark broken beats from the unknown.

Demos/Contact: darkhorsemusiclabel@gmail.com

Darkhorse: 

A. a usually little known contender (such as a racehorse) that makes an unexpectedly good showing
B. a person who keeps their interests and ideas secret, especially someone who has a surprising ability or skill

Iron - Aeternum

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