Losing your mind in the brainforest at night. Scratching out ancient signs in the undergrowth. Hitting panic mode in an old railway tunnel. Running topless through the trees with camo-dirt smeared on your face. This is what it sounds like.

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NKC - Strak

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For our debut release, Permahigh record’s very own Mike Drones traverses the world of multi-dimensional sonics and sines with a mesmerising three track EP, whilst raising some important questions:

Is Bernard a robot? How Gully is the girl? And will we really blend till the end?

The answers aren’t important, but the journey through the elasticated synthesis and belly-bound frequencies make the intrigue in thought all the more enveloping.
Constantly slinging you forward and pulling you back in, the landscapes Mike paints over the course of the EP are filled with serotonin inducing feats of aural science, leaving you with no choice to be fully submerged in the world he has created.

Video: https://youtu.be/AEjV5ngvYoU

Mike Drones - Bernards A Robot

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

Plasma Sources is proud to present nosync’s Soundsystem Music, an EP which provides a fresh perspective on the high-fidelity and sci-fi influenced electronic music the imprint is known for.  

nosync’s (https://soundcloud.com/user-775234683) work sits in a truly unique space in the sound system/club music-o-sphere. This in large part is due to his heavy deployment of progressive metal instrumentation, from chugging walls of overdriven guitars to relentless double-time kick patterns. On paper, utilising this palette in a club-music context may seem like an impossible task. However, where others might see a chasm of disparity, nosync has deftly identified the bridge connecting these two genres, seeing in these two landscapes the same desired emotional state - despite the different methodologies used to achieve this.  

“This record attempts to make the case that the essence of what makes these sounds so obsessively loved are one and the same. Gripping dramatism and intensity are the overlapping themes that I have attempted to bring out here, through the record’s sound design and film-like structure.” 

Indeed Soundsystem Music as a whole feels wildly cinematic and is as much an exercise in atmosphere creation as music for sound systems, with nosync citing the video game Dead Space and its sequel as key influences for this body of work. From the claustrophobic, elasticated wind chamber of ‘Traced’ to the broken choir voices and FiS-esque ambient abyss of ‘Dead Land’, nosync has expertly matched the pace and atmosphere of these hugely iconic and utterly terrifying video games and channeled them into a purely sonic experience.  

The metal influences nosync brings to the table slice through the entire corpus of Soundsystem Music, although the linkage is perhaps at its most clear on ‘Airlock’, which features a full-on death-metal guitar chugging through the first half. In perhaps the most surprising switch-up of the entire EP, things suddenly twist into a guttural underwater club track a third of the way through.  

nosync’s love for the vast ecosystem of club/soundsystem music also comes through loud and clear on this release, from the grime-inflected leads and hyper-detailed polyrhythmic noise workouts of ‘Unregistered Hypercam’ to the reverberated metal clangs of ‘Kauket’s Arena’ which feels like witch-house on steroids - the soundtrack to some final boss battle with some type of nightmare-demon-entity.  

nosync has achieved something unique with Soundsystem Music. By drawing together a hugely disparate corpus of influences and pummelling them into a noise-fuelled apocalyptic aberration, he has created a sound which feels consistent, fully his own, and in many places, utterly dread-inducing. 
credits
releases February 13, 2024 

Written, Produced & Mixed by Nikolas Babić 
Mastered by Hypna 
Artwork by Joh000 // Jose Hernández 


© & ℗ 2023 Plasma Sources.

Soundsystem Music

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https://lilatirandoavioleta.bandcamp.com/album/accelarated   

"All Day I Hear The Noise of Waters" a signature high tempo hot-blooded, percussion-heavy but slick touch, switching between rhythms and upping the energy on each switch.

@verraco - @sinmaldita - @lilatirandoavioleta

Hyperdub Records 2024

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All Day I Hear The Noise Of Waters - Lila & SIn Maldita (Verraco Remix)

From 'Erupting Color', out May 31st on All Centre.

YOU BUY NOW: https://despina1.bandcamp.com/album/erupting-color

Where do you get the gall? The gumption and the stones? The arrogant force of je-ne-sais-quoi to operate the way you do? With reckless abandon? Nary a care? Perhaps from 'City in Plastic', the Despina song from the forthcoming All Centre EP 'Erupting Color'. Where do you listen to and engage and share widely and also cop the release? Link above? Ok.

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Despina - City in Plastic [MK PREMIERE]

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