@galtier returns to Plasma Sources with Mainframe Incantation, a five-track release marking the 7th position on the label’s roster. First appearing on the Multi Source compilation earlier this year, Galtier now moves beyond the mechanical, sci-fi focus toward a sound that fuses technology with the divine, inhabiting the liminal space between worlds. 

Rooted in the earliest traditions of percussive music as a vehicle for altered states, Mainframe Incantation channels ritual energy through synthesised and digitised means, closing a cultural loop from origin to present. The result is a tension between the spiritual and the mechanical — feverish, dissonant, and hypnotic. 

The journey begins with "Ausmisis States", a restrained, technical opener of squelchy basslines and coarse pads, setting the stage for contact. "Tincture Pump" bursts through next—erratic, bouncy, and high-velocity, with a swelling distortion lead that injects chaotic energy straight to the bloodstream. 

In "Tink Cycle", the pace slows into a groove-laden trance, its caustic bassline dragged forward by steady kicks and splintering snares. At the centre lies "Hex Crawler", a gurgling, otherworldly entity speaking in alien tones before breaking into a vast, unearthly climax. 

Closer "Phantom Tremors" hurls us back toward reality with hasty techno-inflected percussion, metallic strikes, and roaring sub-frequencies. Pulsing hardware bleeps push the final surge, sealing the ritual in a haze of digital energy. 

Mainframe Incantation

Hex Crawler

Ausmisis States

Out now - 12 tracks: double vinyl and digital 

In 2013, Different Circles launched with Weightless Volume One, a compilation that helped define a new minimalist aesthetic in electronic music. 

Twelve years later and after a six-year pause, the label returns with its tenth release: Ping Volume One.

Like weightless, ping isn’t a genre. It's an approach to anchoring and propelling sound without relying on the steady pulse of a kick drum.

Instead, a single percussive hit — the ping — holds the centre. Dry and high in the mix, or echoing distantly through space, it becomes a temporal anchor. Around it, the rest of the track can undulate, bend, float or collapse.

The term first appeared on Mumdance’s radio show, where playing “the pingy ones” from the Different Circles back catalogue became a running joke. In the Discord community, it evolved into a shared language, with memes, lore and a mascot known as the Ping Devil.

In 2023, Mumdance aired The “Ping Report” a radio show that gathered everything into a coherent moodboard. It included original tracks made by Discord members for the show and set the foundations. From there, more producers began making ping intentionally, and over time, Ping Volume One took shape.

As the idea came into focus, Logos and Mumdance noticed that much of the Different Circles back catalogue, if not explicitly weightless, could now be understood through the lens of ping. It was a sound they had been drawn to long before they had a language to describe it.

Ping Volume One is a document of shared instinct. A collection of tracks connected by feel rather than formula, shaped by years of dialogue between a community of artists and listeners who were drawn to the same sounds & ideas before they had a name.

Lillia Betz - Boomerang

unearth - Faulty Client

Beton Brut - Lime Bike

SFX 5 YRS, a collective release and sample pack for Palestine

Each purchase on Bandcamp also unlocks an exclusive pack of 30+ samples rendered directly from the tracks — fragments of the compilation ready to play with.

From experimental bass music, lush sound design that will throw you on the wall, irreplaceable warm ghetto house energy, nerdy syncopated additive synth sounds, intimate analog dub sounds, holistic and dreamy footwork, downtempo hip hop jams made with four hands on a mobile phone in Armenia, and beatbox vocals encountering rollercoaster club-ready slammer. Here's a large panel of styles by producers from all around the world.

50% of proceeds will go towards Network for Palestine, a grassroots network of Cairo mothers helping displaced Gazan families.

Mastered by Nima Aghiani
Artwork by Ludwig Wandinger
Curated by Zoë Mc Pherson

Buy
https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/sfx-5-yrs-comp-sample-pack-sfx11
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Klahrk – One Step Followed By Another

@klahrk B2B @turbomiffy
@differentcircles Ping Launch Party Closing Set

NATHAN HO - TRICKSTER DEITY
COCKTAIL PARTY EFFECT - BLEEP TEST
TRAIN TO ELTANIN - F.B.N.
96 BACK - NOW NOW
DJ EARL - BUBBLE
COEN - RIPPER
FLORE - COME UP
LDS - ZIPP PROMPT
RAVL - SMART FELLA
GEORG-I - SPLICED FROM MEMORY
HDMIRROR - LSDNO1
COCKTAIL PARTY EFFECT - RESET
LAST LIFE - OMEGA
ANCESTRAL VOICES - STANZAS OF THE GRAVES
LIGHGHT - GETTIN JIGGY WITH IT 
ES.TEREO - FLYING DISC
ZOE MC PHERSON - WAIT (AYA DUB)
THE ORB & £$P - GO DOWN EVIL (REMIX)
TRNGS - TEEETH
SLEEPNET - LAPSE
TCV - ECLIPSE (XATO REMIX)
KLAHRK - NAUSEA
SCJ - SPELLCASTER (2019)

Catch Klahrk B2B Turbo Miffy round 2 at "Berserk X Local Void - Fundraiser for Gaza" in North London, 01/11/25 - Info: https://ra.co/events/2274358

Klahrk B2B Turbo Miffy @Different Circles Ping Launch Party, London, 12/09/25

Listen to "Resonator Statements" by Zero Crossing Point taken from "Rebound" out on November 17th via katharsis

Pre-order: https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/rebound

"Rebound" is the new EP from Zero Crossing Points coming out on katharsis on November 17th, a work that feels both intimate and expansive, drifting between reflection and release. Drawing elements from several genres, the EP ranges from quiet and discrete soundscapes, to vivid blasts of raw emotions. Fragments of voice appear throughout, human yet often transformed, woven together with sweeping synths, bowed strings, digital manipulations, and textures that feel at once fragile and grounded. The result is a sound world that blurs the line between the synthetic and the organic, the remembered and the reimagined. Japanese video game music dances together with musique concrete elements, echoes of sacred music meet screaming metal drones. There is a sense of searching that runs through Rebound - it is music that lingers in the in-between, where distortion becomes tender and introspection turns into motion.

Links:
Zero Crossing Point
https://soundcloud.com/zerocrossingpoint
https://zerocrossingpoint.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/zerocrossing.point
katharsis
https://soundcloud.com/katharsislabel
https://katharsis-label.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/katharsislabel

pre-order / bandcamp

Zero Crossing Point - Resonator Statements (katharsis)

LUW - Tides

Wet Streets

quiet high

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