Entire - Explore / Exploit EP
Release Date: 6th of January 2025
Buy: https://entire.bandcamp.com/album/explore-exploit

Various experiments around drum and bass and beyond. With the whole 2024 being a year of narrative/storytelling releases from me, I still find myself branch out in multiple different directions when working with the drum and bass tempos and rhythms.

"The exploration-exploitation dilemma, also known as the explore-exploit tradeoff, is a fundamental concept in decision-making that arises in many domains. It is depicted as the balancing act between two opposing strategies. Exploitation involves choosing the best option based on current knowledge of the system (which may be incomplete or misleading), while exploration involves trying out new options that may lead to better outcomes in the future at the expense of an exploitation opportunity. Finding the optimal balance between these two strategies is a crucial challenge in many decision-making problems whose goal is to maximize long-term benefits."

Track 7 is a bonus lost project, a small tribute to the CX Digital record label:
https://www.discogs.com/label/250402-CX-Digital

Written by Filip Olszewski
Artwork by Filip Olszewski
Mastering: Adam Jade Mastering

Explore / Exploit

Explore / Exploit EP (entire.bandcamp.com)

1st ep of the year.
Resistance
out 1/12/2025

resistance ep

After a short hiatus the RC:Podcast series is back, kicking off with two curated mixes by Brussels' Mika Oki. The Untouchables is a collaboration of Belgium-based Kay & Nitrox that started at the dawn of the new Millenium. The duo specialises in the dark and tribal dub side of drum and bass and has an impressive catalogue of releases on genre-defining labels such as Samurai Music, Rupture and Mutable Beats.

Mika Oki: "The Untouchables are simply masters of bass music. Kay and Nitrox have been rumbling up the Belgian scene for some time now & deserve far more spotlight. Their signature style is unmistakable and remains 'untouchable', delivering heavy-hitting, dark, and percussive energy that resonates deep within your core. Get ready for a masterclass of drum & bass and dubstep."

The Untouchables
@the-untouchables
www.instagram.com/untouchablenitrox/
www.instagram.com/untouchablekay/

RC:146 The Untouchables

Samurai Music returns to the evocative sound world of Ancestral Voices for an album that splits the difference between cinematic sound design and deadly restraint at 170 BPM. Nemeton continues Liam Blackburn's exploration of ancient Celtic mysticism through snaking rhythms and snarling sound design, conjuring a high-definition sonic image of sacred groves and the druids practicing amongst them.  

Blackburn's Ancestral Voices project tracks back to 2015, when he debuted on Samurai Horo with the Night Of Visions album. In stark contrast to his celebrated 140 work as Indigo, this project leaned on the inspiration of pagan spirituality to charge his vivid, advanced production style with a rich and mysterious atmosphere. While he's channelled this approach into a variety of tempos and styles, on his 2016 EP Old Earth Voodoo on Samurai Music he applied the concept to a drum & bass framework, which he returns to on Nemeton with rigorous focus.

Far from a straightforward collection of breakbeat tracks, Blackburn uses negative space and pointillist production to carve out an immersive, tense sound world around the 170 grid. He takes a widescreen approach to percussion, running from pin-prick synthesised one-shots to tumbling, organic drums you'd more readily associate with a Hans Zimmer score. Scene-building is the foremost mission across Nemeton, casting otherworldly forces in sweeps of low-end friction and dramatic melodic blooms amidst tangible real-world field recordings of flora and fauna.  

Casting the mind back some 2000 years is an exercise in imagination as much as research, and Blackburn ably summons dark fantasy as he delves ever deeper into Welsh mythology with a studious zeal and avid fascination. It's that drive that makes Nemeton burst forth and take shape so powerfully, bristling with kinetic energy and a barely-concealed, strangely seductive menace that leaves a lasting impression long after the last snatch of bass has bared its teeth.


Nemeton - out on 2025-05-02 


1. Ancestral Voices - Nemeton
2. Ancestral Voices - A Heart Of Oak
3. Ancestral Voices - Annwn
4. Ancestral Voices - Mist Of Avalon
5. Ancestral Voices - Arawn
6. Ancestral Voices - Stanzas Of The Graves
7. Ancestral Voices - Keltia

Nemeton

Ancestral Voices - Keltia [SMDELP14]

Om Unit & Soreab to release their first joint record, Pressure 3D, featuring Al Wooton and Ottomani Parker remixes via Baroque Sunburst, out on March 28th. 

Pre-order: https://baroquesunburst.bandcamp.com/album/pressure-3d-bsun013
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@baroquesunburst
@soreabuk
@omunit

Pressure 3D

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[BSUN013] Om Unit & Soreab - Pressure 3D EP

Experimental sonic distortions hang thick on Prop Your Shattered Failing Engine, the latest EP from Berlin's Diasiva. The duo also known as Monolog and Swarm Intelligence have seen releases on a wide array of forward thinking IDM outlets such as Ad Noiseam, Bedouin, Hymen and Ohm Resistance. Their debut on Onset Audio marks another singular entry into their catalog of punishing sound design, a fusion of industrial noise, fractured breakcore, and halftime drum & bass that thrashes against the ruins of order. The EP is a monument to entropy, a brutal elegy carved in digital decay and distorted signal.

3. Diasiva - Veilmaker

12” vinyl and digital out on the 25th of July 2025 across your favourite stores

Purchase directly: dnorecords.bandcamp.com

DNO019 - Torn - Taiga EP

A1 - Wreak Havoc
A2 - Whalebone
B1 - Taiga
B2 - Stay

Written, produced & mixed by I. Karasev aka @torn170

Limited edition of 300 copies

Taiga EP

DNO019 - Torn - Taiga EP [OUT NOW]

lifeless Planet!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥2/8/25

Indecent Exposure ( MDJ's No Supply Mix)

From the depths of underground grit to the heights of sonic finesse, Emphaseas Music returns with its second celebration of community-crafted chaos Family Compilation Vol. 2. A love letter to the extended Emphaseas family, this powerhouse release brings together a diverse lineup of artists who push the boundaries of Drum & Bass, Bass music, and everything in between.

Artists Featured: Eastcolors, d_Ivy, Probel, Graviteka, User C, Torsman feat. Krukei, Mewtflow, Max Postal, Drillcut, ViRex, Rough Wave, SND, Driveufo

From Neurofunk madness to Liquid dreamscapes Expect jungle roots, tech-driven textures, experimental grooves, and jump-up energy—all masterfully distilled into one relentless volume

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Spirit

@come-meditate
https://entire.bandcamp.com/

cosmic - tribal - minimal - abstract - mantric - experimental - decayed

ambient - dance - drone - dub - techno - dnb - leftfield - noise

Previous releases on SPLOT / UVB-76 Music / Onset Audio / Groundwork / Din Is Noise / Two Hungry Ghosts / One.Seventy / Vykhod Sily / Dungeon Beats & some more.

I'm a soundcloud head since 10+ years and still digging and exploring it daily - dive into my Likes section if you need some inspirations.

In case you want to use my (Bandcamp released) music for game development, I will be happy to share it as-is royalty free.

Explore / Exploit EP (entire.bandcamp.com)

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