Broken

Breaks

so ugly that most keep good distance

actually, good angels that attack only the fake djs

DJs' Nightmares (mutant bass, alien beats, etc.)

Releases & trax

Heavy Russian Firepower lands on Body Musick courtesy of ZAAX. Sinister electronics throughout.

Number 6 in the Body catalogue is delivered by Boris Sacharow aka ZAAX. Having released on New York Haunted and Idlestates, his recordings are injected with raw and minimalistic tribal electronics that spark memories from rare 80s cassettes. This album sees a musical ride that is fit for both War and Dance. 

Release date: April 2nd 
Format: Digital 

Buy the release here: 
https://bodymusick.bandcamp.com/album/war-dance




PREMIERE • ZAAX - Folkcid Dance 1 [Body Musick]

Tripped-out, leisurely house and breaks comprises the next drop on Haŵs, and for the established Welsh imprint, number 13 is far from unlucky – in fact, it’s coming in as ecstatic. Perth producer Guy Contact takes the reigns for ‘Euphoria Simulator’, a 6-track EP radiating with all the charm and optimism of a liberated future. Opening the first of four house tracks, ‘Into The Blue’ makes light work of bass melodies and fresh kicks, bouncing skywards as though emerging from a thinning fog into a clear day. ‘Nice 2 B Free’ is imbued with touches of sentimentality, pouring outwards like the laissez-faire movements of a serene dancer entwined within a group of friends. The eccentric ‘Whip Crack Cowboy’ takes the camaraderie of country twang into a colourful new world, mediating psychedelic guitar strings into harmony with synths and a cathartic house beat. On the B-side, the titular ‘Euphoria Simulator’ doubles down on the bass but keeps its overall ride light and airy, dipping between piano, synths and rhythms warm enough to breathe emotion into a cold room. The final two tracks untether from their house confines: ‘Amphibian Pool’ dubs down into a hypnotic, marine-level drift, elongating croaky basslines alongside punchy breaks and acid lines during its descent. Finally, ‘Subaquatic Jungle’ hits the ocean floor, discovering an enigmatic world alive with a fauna of percussion and distortions that slope through dense, bassy undercurrents. For anyone looking to impart a kaleidoscope of blissful feelings onto dancefloors, ‘Euphoria Simulator’ sits patiently ready to heighten the senses.

PREMIERE : Guy Contact - Subaquatic Jungle

The latest offering from Glasgow based imprint Life Forms sees label head Gavelman drop a seriously strong EP of Acid-Electro. Hints of the Dutch West Coast throughout ☠

Release date: August 6th 
Format: 12" Vinyl + Digital 

Buy the release here:
https://lifeformsrec.bandcamp.com/album/future


PREMIERE • Gavelman - Future [Life Forms]

Call it female instinct, for the first time something didn't sit right. She had no reason to distrust him, he'd always been honest and open, but things felt different this time. She couldn't put her finger on exactly what; it wasn't necessarily his actions or his words, it was just a feeling. But was that enough to confront him over?  

Much like the main ethos behind multimedia platform South .Wav People's Party, their new VA compilation 'Static Snares' is built on collaboration. Partnering with Heresy's Brighton-based imprint Reptilian Establishment, South .Wav have assembled a line up of friends and family, from the UK and beyond, who have a deep connection with the platform. Sonically drawing from IDM, UKG, heavy rave antics and deconstructed breaks, the 18-track release features original contributions from the likes of DJ Fuckoff, Driaa, Osc Kins, Fidel and many more.

PREMIERE: Driaa - Whisper That (U Love Me) [South .Wav People’s Party / Reptilian Establishment]

Extended family functions were torturous. People you hadn't seen in years asking you the ins and outs of your not-so-successful love life and your work trajectory for the next 10 years. The only saving grace was that they didn't come around that often; it was nigh on impossible to get everybody to commit to one place and one time. There were a few ways of weathering these events and she'd perfected them all: smile through gritted teeth before excusing oneself; make up some fabricated stories; or simply ignore them and walk away — these were necessary hostilities.

Brought together by a shared love of groove-driven 90s house music, Melbourne duo Primitive Needs knuckled down in the studio during isolation; the fruits of which led to their debut EP at the beginning of the year for Dance All Day. They follow that up with their first 12" release, this time journeying across the pond to Leipzig's R.A.N.D Muzik. In typical R.A.N.D fashion the four tracks deliver a refined selection of electro, breaks and house with eyes fixed on the dance floor.

PREMIERE: Primitive Needs - Necessary Hostility [R.A.N.D. Muzik]

Leck Meine Bahn - they are back! These two space cadets bring back home some heavy radiated elements from outer space. After a two year odyssey, they return back to mother earth with an insane Live Set (Backslash Festival 2022) and a Battery Point EP full of blasting fusion energy. Their musical capsule comes packed with new textures, mixed up with an unholy but tasty reduction of Jungle and Trance substances melting with a fusion of Bass Music and industrial space chugs.
This cosmologic sound match is leading to a new co-dependency between gravity and bass. Their enigmatic grooves are ponderous yet playful and every alien ear which listened to this intergalactic call so far, could not escape this quirky dance atmosphere. Brainwaves music commanders aka LMB are Estebahn and Yolek and this composition is their second EP which results to an extension of new boundaries in our further rave solar system. Including two massive remixes by Jan Loup and Nuevo Prohibido to beam up every sort of flesh to the the next bass portal. Space alert!
@janloup
@neuverboten

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PREMIERE : LMB - Battery Point

Handshaking

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Lord Jalapeños - Unitarity

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Lord Jalapeños - Amaryllis

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Lord Jalapeños - Terminal Ready

After his morning routine of yoga and meditation, Brian checks his ever-growing Revolut.Mars account before reads the intergalactic news on his phone while drinking his coffee. This morning, an article from Cydonia Daily catches his eye:

“42 thousand hectolitres of illegal Aqua Encelada seized by Martian Perimeter Forces (MPF)

In the early hours of the Martian morning, Extrapol have made the biggest seizure to date of undeclared Aqua Ence- lada in the vicinity of landing station MRS_3213. The finding of 42’00 hectolitres of high-purity Aqua Encelada on a cargo vessel entering supposedly carrying rare earths from the Centauri system marks a new record for the prolife- ration of illegal trade of this highly sought-out drinking water from Saturn’s ice-covered moon Enceladus.
Tests made on the chemical composition of the cargo reveal the water to have been extracted by the famously dan- gerous and highly illegal Aquabahn Method, which consists of high-speed capture of H20 particles ejected via cryo- volcanic eruption on Enceladus’s southern pole. This illicit method of extraction has become increasingly popular in recent years as mismanagement within AquaCorp Galactica coupled with unrelenting inflation on Mars have led to a surge in the price of luxury goods such as drinking water.
So far, no arrests have been made. A spokesperson from Extrapol told our journalists that the entire crew of the cargo vessel “internally combusted” immediately upon the discovery of the illegal cargo, leaving no survivors, but rumours that an escape pod managed to evade capture and jump to an unknown destination in hyperspace have been circulating. One Martian Perimeter Forces (MPF) official whose identity must be kept secret for obvious rea- sons told our investigative team that the cargo is believed to have been extracted by the Ultracephalic League and their mysterious amphibious leader Brian.
We strongly urge our readers to consume only the government-authorised synthesised Martian water, and to avoid luxury products whose dangerous extraction increases the influence of dangerous non-governmental groups such as the Ultracephalic League and their slug-like despot leader.“

Tandaerol

Please Don't (Dub)

The Aquabahn Method

Ultracephalic Acid

@undrwght 
Mastered by Imaabs
Artwork by Eric Hernandez

Undrwght - Calma

Hollywood birders Harry and Tom deliver four DJ unfriendly tracks aimed squarely at the parish hall. Sonic forage-ables and contemporary barndance to storm cruck frames across the Tunbridge Wells - Pontypool connection.

‘Drum, Botany & the Brash’ is the product of six months of outings and studio sessions by Forest Casual, a collaborative project by Harry Murdoch and Thomas Morley. These songs assemble nocturnal field recordings, barely metric rhythms, the May Day dawn chorus, wilted bouzouki and wood-pigeon wub. Two heads colliding to create a third, completely distinct from its makers.The resulting four tracks are dub infused soundsystem folk for the funglist massive, just don’t call it Folktronica. Entrenched in the music are many musical tangents explored in Harry’s basement, anecdotes of work and play on the ropes, and memories of jumping fences and squinting at woodpeckers. 

Harry Murdoch makes music as hmurd and has released with TT Label, Gin & Platonic, All Centre and more. He co-runs the label Cherche Encore and is in the band Hard On Yarn Sourdonk Communion. Harry is chronically ill. He mostly makes music with code.
Thomas Morley is a free improviser currently exploring composition by experience and relationship. He is 1/2 of microband ‘mosspit’ and provides side-person duties for artists in need of pads and foley. Hailing from South Wales, Tom finds catharsis by abseiling on heritage buildings and playing 5-string banjo.

Written and Produced by Tom Morley and Harry Murdoch
Artwork by Sheonagh Baird

Forest Casual - Transients Cadw

Out on 18.10.2024

https://artisjokrecords.bandcamp.com/album/footnotes-player

Hyas - Level

Liverpool based artist All Trades takes from the Hardcore Rave
continuum and filters Fading through his own experimental lens. The Interlock label co-founder uses hardware and Eurorack synthesisers to create a glitched out, IDM - Techno behemoth! An absolute pumper of epic proportions, All Trades is firing on all cylinders here. Hold onto your hats!

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Fading: Remixed EP

Timothy Clerkin - Fading (All Trades Reconfigure) [ITII#24R]

Various Artists - Undercurrents Vol 2

We are proud to present ‘Undercurrents’, the third series of compilations featuring artists from the 3024 Mentoring Program.

Started in 2020, the Mentoring Program run by label owner Martyn has become a worldwide online and IRL community of artists sharing resources, ideas and inspiration. This compilation showcases the wide range of fresh and amazing music that is continuously surfacing from the program, unbound by strict genre definitions.

Besides a collection of new music, Undercurrents is also a consideration of what a record label can be in 2024. Whether it’s a platform for repurposing old material, providing daylight for new sounds, artists or even entire communities, or injecting new ideas about authenticity and sustainability into the current of the underground, rather than partaking in the unwinnable race over algorithm dominance. An understated approach for maximum impact.

“Undercurrents Vol 2” features the talents of Noise Casino, suade, Young Muscle, DR MYSTERY, a7k8, Lady Tracy, Elias Jarzombek, Pressing, R. Mohr, Joe Taylor and 3ASIC & Chuan.

Martyn & Jeroen Erosie @ 3024

releases October 25, 2024

Undercurrents Vol 2

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Noise Casino - Quiet Quitters (3024-MEN7)

In roughly two thousand years from now, when civilization has been devastated by human insatiability, few people remain. Their life is elementary and rough. They dearly miss lost knowledge. Vaguely they sense that their language is somewhat twisted. Its meaning must be painfully guessed. All their attempts to capture the true facts of their existence are in vain: The world is just secrets and enemies. The past feels like a grim, reverberant echo of loose imaginations.

Riddley Walker (1980) is an experimental science fiction novel by Russell Hoban. It inspired “Riddleyspeak”, the eighth release of Comfortnoise, written and produced by new-dot-com. five not entirely familiar club and sound system tracks: breakbeat influenced, techno leaning, and bass-heavy.


new-dot-com/Comfortnoise
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/comfortnoise
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nwdtcm/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newdubcom/

Riddleyspeak 

PREMIERE: new-dot-com - Eckowit (Comfortnoise)

Electroliners - Loose Caboose (Bassbin Twins Rmx)

Estebahn c'est : 12 kilos de breakbeat UK hachés menu sur une salade jungle, EBM et poulet frit. Faites revenir dans une cuillère à soupe de 90’s hardcore et saupoudrez d'acid house ou de new beat selon la saison. Dégustez dans un club sombre ou le dimanche en famille.

Mais Estebahn c’est aussi un enculé, aussi à l’aise dans la haute société genevoise qu’avec d’obscurs producteurs allemands, qui défend les couleurs criardes de sa famille, le label et collectif Brainwaves. Producteur, DJ, programmateur, secrétaire, guide touristique et traître à sa patrie, il mange sans vergogne à tous les râteliers. Son dernier EP “Circular System” est correct mais pas ouf.

Rhuba

Bandcamp

Estebahn - Launch Loop (VA - Rhuba - Diffract Records)

http://brainwaves.ltd/
https://soundcloud.com/brainwaves_crew

Contact: brainwavescrew@gmail.com

Enceladus EP:
https://brainwavescrew.bandcamp.com/album/enceladus

LMB - Battery Point EP:
https://estebahn.bandcamp.com/album/lpdr014-lmb-battery-point-ep-incl-jan-loup-nuevo-prohibido-remix

LMB - Leck Meine Bahn:
https://brainwavescrew.bandcamp.com/album/leck-meine-bahn

Circular System EP:
https://brainwavescrew.bandcamp.com/album/circular-system

Aquatic Intervention EP:
https://brainwavescrew.bandcamp.com/album/aquatic-intervention