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A promising track of EP2, plays around with a catchy and naive vocal phrase, insisting that ‘Sometimes It’s Hard’. The statement, sung by a soft but mechanical female voice, is underlined by a glitchy and relentless breakbeat layered with visceral subs. The track’s weltschmerz disposition is equally seductive and destructive, which makes ‘Sometimes It’s Hard’ an unusual tune that will satisfy both seasoned ravers and a wider festival crowd.

EP2’s mesmerising cover art, a piece created for affected called ‘Crinoid Scanner’, was made by local 3D artist Caroline Vang. The work is inspired by the alien yet familiar look of crinoid fossils. Finding her inspiration in the most alien and quirky parts of nature, Vang specializes in an experimental and surreal play of texture and shape, to challenge the line between fiction and hyper-reality.

Sometimes It's Hard is mastered by SUGAR aka. Nikolaj Jakobsen in Copenhagen.

Hedo Hydr8 - Sometimes Its Hard

Club-ready music from Klahrk.

Starting a new series of singles coming out on WARE from residents & affiliates alike.

Ready / Inside

Purchase on Bandcamp ⬎

Klahrk - Inside

Ziyiz - Predation Cadenza

We are very excited to welcome Klahrk to the fold on ACEN059. The London-based artist & founder of Ware Collective follows up releases with the likes of Activia Benz, Genot Centre and SFX. On the Z2 EP, he delivers four atmospheric slow-fast club cuts, exploring the lowest depths of the frequency spectrum.

Klahrk - Z2 [ACEN059]

『 𝓢𝓦𝓘𝓝𝓔 𝓟𝓡𝓔𝓜𝓘𝓔𝓡𝓔 』@j_moy via Amsterdam-based label @sann-odea

Justin studied architecture at TU Delft and graduated from MSc Arch in 2022. During his graduation project, he explored the architecture of nightclubs and the cultural importance of these spaces as places for imagining alternative worlds. 

jmoy applies these theories into his work. The music resulting from this is a sonic journey traveling through a sequence of imagined space, transitioning between interiors, exteriors, and the thresholds between them.

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Bandcamp

[Swine Premiere] jmoy - Sentia (Sann Odea)

☨: Well what about this one?

Ϟ: We’ve cleaned it up as much as we could, but…

- - - - COMETH YONDER !#%’@ TWIXT YE SHOVEL - - - -

☨: O___O

Ϟ: As you can see, it hasn’t gone as planned.

Ϟ: The GSTMR_3000, codename: ‘AULIC_VEIL’, can spout off entire poems…

- - - - THE SEARING WAFFLE YONDER ^($$/” ROME TO THE BACON YUM - - - -

Ϟ: …but it’s almost like nineteenth-century English, and it doesn’t make any sense.

☨: …wot?

Ϟ: And it’s obsessed with breakfast food.

☨: …

- - - - TOAST MMM - - - -

☨: Why do they always send us the busted ones?

Out September 13, 2024

Made by Aulic Veil, Fayetteville, AR
Sneerer remixed by Freilichman, The Dead Sea
Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Kampala
Design by PLANETLUKE.COM aka Luca Lozano, Sheffield

Aulic Veil - Glory, Decline

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 Sonár 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 Telúrica, they takes 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 take over, tearing in and out of reality 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 anthemetic listen of the release. 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.

Cortical - Mortar

CONCRETE JUNGLE - Grimey London Streets UK Hip-Hop Beats Mega Pack

Dark Bass - UK Hip Hop Instrumental Beat

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BEAST

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London July 19 @ Ormside Projects - https://ra.co/events/2198026

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