For the next release on Early Reflex we welcome Frankfurt-based producer and composer Lorica (formerly known as Avbvrn), following his debut EP on Display and a split on Destitute.

Lorica filters a surgical attention to detail and sound design through a wide-scope approach to atmosphere and the spatial qualities of music. The resulting work conjures up dramatic, vivid, and tactile sonic landscapes that recall classical forms and techniques, while drawing upon contemporary textures and approaches to rhythm and memory.
Inspired by renaissance arts and their creative process ‘Adaptive Radiation’ [EYX005] stretches further Lorica’s experimental and oblique musical approach to the club-focused context of Early Reflex. The result is a 5-track EP blending cinematic sound design with traces of dubstep, drill, dancehall, trap, and more which is going to hit the listeners both physically and emotionally!

The opener ‘Baikal Rediscovered’ is a great example of Lorica’s production style where the composer blends together orchestral and atmospheric pads with incessant grimey beats and a deep bass-line making it a suitable tool for the club.
A storm of otherworldly sounds in contrast with its trapp inspired rhythmic session protrude in ‘Ochre Skeleton’ originating a surrealistic and peculiar atmosphere.
Approaching the end of the first half of the EP there is ‘Petrified Butterfly’, a dreamy and spooky interlude where synthesised flute melodies, fast-paced percussions and effected field recordings repeat and alternate themselves continuously while evolving every time differently in a never-ending loop until every sound dissolves in empty reverberated spaces.
Entering the second half of the release, listeners get hit by the drilling kick drum and the twisting sound design of ‘Sodiumglanz’, which lead to the closure of the EP.
In ‘Breccia’ Lorica explores further his blend of cinematic effects with the pronounced attitude for the club, delivering a track characterised by pitch-shifting electronic percussions and the harmonic progression of orchestrated instruments and strings.

‘Adaptive Radiation’ is available across all platforms starting from Friday 5th of November.

© & ℗ 2021 Early Reflex. All rights reserved. All tracks produced and mixed by Lorica § Mastering by Andrea Prato § Drawings by Giuseppe Cavuoto § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu.

Breccia

Authentically Plastic - RAW SPACE

"RAW SPACE" is rooted in chaos and chance, sensuality and intensity - it's an album that's able to sound alarmingly freeform and tightly controlled simultaneously. Already established as a genre-disrupting DJ, and even dubbed "demon of the Nile" by Ugandan politicians after an exuberant performance at Nyege Nyege festival in September 2019, Kampala-based sonic hypnotist Authentically Plastic brings a digger's literacy, an activist's intent, and an artist's playfulness to their jagged debut album.

As both a DJ and a producer, Authentically Plastic is drawn to the idea of chance as a creative tool - to push against the idea of the all-knowing genius, and approach artistry instead as a facilitator, unraveling parallel mismatched rhythmic events. Their musical process is to start with chaos, then attempt to mold those fleshy structures into polyrhythmic mutations, pulling influence from East Africa's innovative musical landscape and augmenting it with an exploratory sense of surrealism.

On opening track 'Aesthetic Terrorism', rough-hewn industrial rhythms chug mechanically against course, dissonant synth blasts and acidic arpeggios. There's a faint sparkle of Detroit's chrome-plated Afro-futurism, but bathed in neon light, reflecting Africa's contemporary electronic revolution. Authentically Plastic's productions have a sense of thematic coherence, but their myriad influences are torched into cinders, leaving inverse impressions and ghost rhythms: the tuned overdriven clatter of 'Anti-Fun' echoes Ugandan kadodi modes, yet simultaneously mirrors the rugged out-zone grit of Container or Speaker Music; standout centerpiece 'Buul Okyelo' meanwhile is as rhythmically cross-eyed as Slikback or Nazar, but juxtaposes kinetic dancefloor thumps with chaotic microtonal ritual cycles.

Writing "RAW SPACE", Authentically Plastic found themselves fascinated by sonic flatness. They realized that in Western art, there's an obsession with depth of field that carries into music, robbing it of intensity. The album is an example of the power that can be reclaimed when you let go of depth, letting sounds rub together carnally and spawn something fresh and unexpected

Anti - Fun

Suicide Astronauts

Operation Slammer

https://bit.ly/305FaVR

Taken from @cubanchamberofcommerce011 new remixes compilation Ping 900, out October 10, 2020, via @kepasaparadoks.

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2Eu926F

As one of the spearheads of the new wave of dance music in the Yugosphere, Warrego Valles have been an intense and consistent, albeit underrated presence on the global postclub waterfront throughout the last couple of years. Employing their trademark hi-def drum ballistics and digital trance stabs, their newest piece is a restless rework of the original: ravenous beats and quirky melodic motifs colliding into each other within a glued framework of jerky dynamics, with a cranked-up treatment of the vocal sample and an added hint of emotion lacking from Cuban’s original to underscore their idiosyncratic hardcore sentiments.

Artwork by Vuk Rokvić

Mastering by Žarko Komar
@felonyflats

Released by kepasaparadoks.

Premiere: Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Ping 900 (Warrego Valles Remix)[kepasaparadoks.]

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Premiere: Lithe - Kutta

Ren’s ‘Just Stop Talking’. Taken from @syn12uk's brand new compilation.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/ren-just-stop-talking

Premiere: Ren - Just Stop Talking

Taken from SBKT038: Various Artist - Cache 02
Release date: 4th December
Artwork by Kim Laughton
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Cache 02

Gooooose - Cows

SHALT - Swelter

Benbo's 'W for W' implores shimmering vocals and proper low end with dizzying effect, creating brace-for-impact moments without ever losing its groove. Forthcoming on @looseemusic.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/benbo-w-for-w

Premiere: Benbo - W for W

Focus Please

Splash Pattern - Focus Please

beyond style. beyond space.

🆕💿 Sobolik - Eyes III - out now
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