Friday November 19th, American cult hero 
DEV/NULL debuts on Trickfinger & Aura T-09’s EVAR Records with MICROJUNGLIZM, an 8-track album that explores the power and beauty of darkcore, jungle tekno and breakbeat rave. Chopped drums, hairpin turns and alluringly emotional pads open up a time portal between the past and the future, decorated with haunting samples and musical Easter eggs that show off Boston-based Dev/Null’s deep history as a rave historian and scholar. 

MICROJUNGLIZM’s fantasy suite was written over the last year, arranged and sequenced entirely without a computer. Dev/Null fell in love with Teenage Engineering’s PO-33 Pocket Operator – a portable, pocket-sized sequencer that he started using during his DJ sets to create special versions on the fly. The limitations of making entire tracks inside the PO-33 immediately suggested the sampling techniques and stylistic hallmarks of early jungle, already one of Pete’s longtime obsessions. 

“The PO-33 has some of the same low-fi sonic charm as retro gear used back in the day,” Pete explains. “8-bit samples, 11khz mono sound, kind of like an Amiga computer. It’s been really fun and exciting to have my own tracks to throw into sets – even if they’re raw, unfinished 3-minute things which get played once and never again. A few of these tunes were done for my sets at parties thrown by Aura T-09 in L.A., so I’m happy they’re coming out on her label.” 

While these tracks may seem maximal, they are minimal to Pete’s ear – a departure from the intricately sliced and information-dense breakcore for which he’s known. The album emotionally bottles the essence of a bygone era but an individual palette of influences, from UK grime anthems to Italian horror soundtracks. Pete is not merely trying to tap into the cultural zeitgeist for all things jungle and breakbeat rave – he’s already been here, stoking the fires of this scene since the early 2000s with his tastemaker blog (Blog to the Old Skool), his cult vinyl reissue label 8205 Recordings, and his deep dive radio shows: Demon Poetry on NTS and BTTO (with new-era jungle torchbearer Tim Reaper) on Jungletrain.net. MICROJUNGLIZM itself follows on from the momentum created by Pocket Selector, Dev/Null’s 2020 outing with the PO-33 on the Modern Urban Jazz label, run by veteran UK drum ‘n’ bass producer Justice. 

MICROJUNGLIZM’s first single, “Time 2 Rhyme” – a hyperspeed journey through footwork and junglisms with vibey nods to 1980s New York City funk and reggae – will debut on AUGUST 27 on Evar, accompanied by a psychedelic animated video from French illustrators Recsoverto and Julian Marmar. The entire album will follow on SEPTEMBER 10, available on EVAR Records Bandcamp via digital download and 12” vinyl. Check out these amazing breakbeat meditations from a modern master of the style.

Microjunglizm

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SPB12047 -Terrorrythmus - Dubcore Volume 24

A1 - 4AM
A2 - Boom
B1 - Readyl
B2 - FTB

Terrorrythmus is back on the dubcore series with four hyper kinetic slammers in his very own blend of hardcore, juke and bounce bass forest sound. starting up with 4am that crawls out of the fog into a hooked on piano footwork banger which later drops into amen workout. followed by wonk juke on locked vocals. flipside ‚ready‘ is a totaly locked on syncopse rythm work of a mayham. the end up is ‚feel the bass‘ with even more chopped up madness and rave stab moments.

release on 11.2.2023 on 300 copies on vinyl
mastering and cut by lxc

SPB12047 - Terrorrythmus - Dubcore - Vol. 24

RTR - XOR
WéMè Records  - WeMe077 
Vinyl 2 x LP
2023, Belgium

Vinyl :  https://wemerecords.com/shop/rtr-xor-black-vinyl-pre-order-copy/

Digital : https://rtrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/xor

xxxx - WeMe077

Will Fujiwara - Ruffneck

repress time! rewind! release date 5.5.2023

repress of the 2006 dubcore volume 5 by Kovert, refrequencyshifted by lxc in 2023 for digital pleasure and repressed from original metalheads in 150 copies in original sleaves (black label instead cooper as the original press). 

The Kovert project began in 1994 as a pirate radio show on Chillin' FM. Broadcast weekly from the heights of East London, the show offered a varied diet of dark electronics. 

Having djed for 4years prior to Chillin', and influenced by the harder detroit sounds (UR, Hardwax, Cybersonik), the early chicago house sound (Farley Jackmaster Funk, Sleazy D, Adonis etc), dark european hardcore (PCP, Praxis), the UK rave/early jungle scene and the broken electronics of the Italians (SNS, Leo Anibaldi, ASU), it was only a matter of time before some ideas were recorded. 

Experiments followed. 

In 2000, No Surrender was released as part of the Praxis USA comp. It was a response to the dark UK techstep and the emerging, faster european breaks around at the time. 

This was followed by the Shock Effect, released as Praxis 34. Conceived as anti-muzak, it asked: could distraction from the banal lead to increased participation in the everyday? 

By 2002 breakcore was considered a genre and many new artists were on the scene. However, there was a lack of playable heavy tracks around. Versioning attempted to redress the balance. This time more influenced by dancehall, dub and jungle; mixing a soundsystem aesthetic with heavy beats and even heavier basslines. Murderous style was subsequently remixed by the don and released as part of the Speedhall ep on Berlin's Koolpop records. 

Kovert released labels such as Sub/Version, SMB sublabel Vinyl Weaponry, Sonic Belligeranza, Peace Off.

SPB - 7013 - Kovert - Dubcore Vol. 5 - Repress

Benncart - Death Spa

The penultimate track 'Grey Goo' is the toughest of the foursome. Built with off-kilter, grainy kickdrums and cinematic pads that slink between rusty beats, it bridges hardcore motifs with delicate shades of grey, Minion-style.

Nite Lyfe

Minion - Grey Goo [Preview]

Followers

A1 - Pugilist - Siphon 
A2 - Pugilist - Regrowth 
B1 - Pugilist - Nightshade 
B2 - Pugilist - Siphon (Coco Bryce Remix) 

One of the UK's freshest emerging dance music labels, responsible for stalwart releases from Special Request and Nightwave, return for their 19th release.

The succinct beats of Pugilist have perked the ears of labels like Whities, 3024 and Trule to name but a few. And having previously featured on volume one of the label's new 'EleVAte' compilation series, among artists like Otik, Appleblim and Commix, he returns to the imprint for his first, full four-tracker; 'Siphon'.

The title track, Siphon, blasts through with authentic jungle chops, scattered together asymmetrically like a beautiful chaotic tapestry.

'Regrowth' is a swung garage stepper, jammed live on a 909 with earthquaking low-end frequencies that warmingly morph from underneath.

On remix duties of 'Siphon', is no other than Lobster Theremin alumni, Coco Bryce. With surreal, microprocessing of the heavyweight blows from the original, he also resamples time-stretched speech samples to devastating effect.

'Nightshade' closes out the record with its steadfast amen rinse-out and pokey 808 subs, concluding one of the most forward-thinking and new-school jungle records for the label, all the while serving as an exemplary ode to the old-school.

Pre Order

DEXT014_PUGILIST_COCO_BRYCE_SIPHON EP_(CLIPS)

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