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

✹ "Et bientôt, je suis entré dans un étincelant enfer." André Suares

Limited edition tape + A6 risograph print available on Bandcamp.

➣ Music written and produced by Louis Vial aka Eszaid.
➣ Recorded during his live in Marseille in July 2021 at META.
➣ Photograph by Theo Casazza.
➣ Risograph print by Mars Riso Club.
➣ Artworks by Nicolas Guillerminet.

BUY TAPE

ESZAID - LIVE IN MARSIHO (preview)

The Clapper

fall spiral remasterisé  2025

Thugluv.

Machinery Of Night

Machinery of night

Ayln  - They Don't Touch

https://bit.ly/2YPCDys

Peninsula by @flore, taken from @s-f-x-0101 compilation XquisiteForce​.​collection​/​01, out September 4, 2020.

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/32FjQa9

XquisiteForce.collection/01 features tracks by Aho Ssan, Bonebrokk, Ciarra Black, Désir d’enfant, ELLLL, Flore, Forces, Glass, Gramrcy, Holy Similaun, Hulubalang, John Object, Katie Gately, Klahrk & Ship Sket, KMRU, Luke Lund, Simon Grab & Zoë Mc Pherson feat. Dali de Saint Paul and ZULI.

All proceeds from sales of the compilation will go directly to two organisations in Beirut: Haven for Artists -who focus on supporting migrants, women and LGBTQI people- and Beit El Baraka. In the wake of the explosion on August 4th, which has compounded already-dire social and economic problems in the city, these two organisations are providing food and shelter and financial, medical and psychological assistance to those who need it most.

The compilation is a direct outcome of the open, collaborative audiovisual project XquisiteForce.AV that have been developing since March 2020 by SFX, and which is still ongoing as we speak.

More info and the project’s first AV release is available here: 
https://s-f-x.space/XquisiteForce-AV

Artwork by Nick Teeple

Graphic design by Alessandra Leone

Mastering by Ingrid Loftsgarden at Greenhouse studios, Reykjavík

Curation by Zoë Mc Pherson

Released by SFX

Premiere: Flore - Peninsula [SFX]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-yelzin-nostalgia/

Yelzin, one half of Copenhagen duo @LyraValenza, cuts out under his own solo alias for warp-drive EP 'Now That's What I Call Yelzin'.

Now that's what I call YELZIN

Yelzin - NOStalgia [Petrola 80]

Consequences

Yre Den - Bird Spiral

...ON THE TIDES THAT BROUGHT US HERE.

Junior loves 
Yantlet / Grain 10" 

OUT NOW 
https://5gatetemple.bandcamp.com/album/yantlet-grain

Shipping next week.

timestamps
0:00 - A1. Yantlet 
1:28 - A2. Yantlet (First Passage Version)
2:48 - B1. Grain
4:04 - B2. Grain (Return Version)

YANTLET / GRAIN

5GTJL10 - JUNIOR LOVES - YANTLET / GRAIN 10" (EXCERPTS) - OUT NOW.

Focus Please

Splash Pattern - Focus Please

beyond style. beyond space.

🆕💿 POL100 - Eyes V - out now
https://earlyreflex.bandcamp.com/album/eyes-v

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Splash Pattern - Focus Please

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