Featured on VA Compilation Steel Genesis ver​.​3C3C1D11940 [M​.​A027] out on Magdalena's Apathy https://soundcloud.com/regrets_regrets

Artwork direction and curation by DJ Loser https://soundcloud.com/loser111

Mastering by Astytekk https://soundcloud.com/astytekk

Ice_Eyes - DARK UNIT

IDENTITY SAMPLER II

Analyze, Reproduce

Made by Stolen Velour + Klahrk
Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound
Design by Ziyiz

Klahrk & Stolen Velour - Fight Me

ANSWERS

Digital Hundebiss is back, even though it's not Bandcamp Friday—because not even Bandcamp wants us rich. To be completely fair, it's not even Friday. 

This month, we have a special delivery from our friend Assyouti. 

https://assyouti.bandcamp.com/album/tough-choices-mister-blister

"Tough Choices" is a 167 BPM drumfunk-influenced percussive exercise, layered with Assyouti's signature distorted vocal samples and a roaring bassline. This high-impact combination of texture and rhythm is sure to feed hungry sound systems. 

Meanwhile, "Mister Blister" rolls in at a brisk 100 BPM, delivering a double-time momentum that drives the track forward with relentless force, exuding a sense of urgency and energy.

Assyouti - Mister Blister (DH009)

Our 160 Edit of “Astra,” released last year on https://soundcloud.com/fixedabode, is out today on all DSPs.

Free download available via SoundCloud.

Mixing/Mastering by https://soundcloud.com/iamxato

Ice_Eyes & Locre - ASTRA (160 Edit)

☨: Well what about this one?

Ϟ: We’ve cleaned it up as much as we could, but…

- - - - COMETH YONDER !#%’@ TWIXT YE SHOVEL - - - -

☨: O___O

Ϟ: As you can see, it hasn’t gone as planned.

Ϟ: The GSTMR_3000, codename: ‘AULIC_VEIL’, can spout off entire poems…

- - - - THE SEARING WAFFLE YONDER ^($$/” ROME TO THE BACON YUM - - - -

Ϟ: …but it’s almost like nineteenth-century English, and it doesn’t make any sense.

☨: …wot?

Ϟ: And it’s obsessed with breakfast food.

☨: …

- - - - TOAST MMM - - - -

☨: Why do they always send us the busted ones?

Out September 13, 2024

Made by Aulic Veil, Fayetteville, AR
Sneerer remixed by Freilichman, The Dead Sea
Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Kampala
Design by PLANETLUKE.COM aka Luca Lozano, Sheffield

Aulic Veil - Glory, Decline

Plasma Sources marks its 5th release with Cortical’s debut EP, Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes. Pulling from both the extreme fringes of experimental music and the minimalistic tendencies of the UK bass continuum, the duo’s much-awaited first release acts as the locus point between dance floor sensibility and sonic exploration in its most immersive, visceral sense. 

Cortical are world builders first and foremost. With backgrounds rooted as much in the visual arts as audio, the duo’s live AV show has already garnered critical acclaim after standout performances at Sonár and Lunchmeat. Coupling this with their list of past collaborators - which includes the likes of Holly Herndon, Arca and Skrillex - and it becomes easy to see why there’s so much hype around Cortical right now. Indeed, this EP is the culmination of months of building excitement amongst those in the know, as fragments of raw footage captured from Cortical’s shows begin to amass on social media. 

Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes itself feels like the auditory equivalent of a fragmentary existence forming, fragmenting and reforming again. Noise and distortion act as integral threads throughout the EP, but on Telúrica, they takes centre stage. Brittle percussive calls give way to a thick wall of bass-laden, cinematic viscerality which hits the listener almost as hard as the ensuing rhythmic carnage which erupts halfway through. 
Mortar, immediately fires away into more rhythmic madness, as elements of dubstep, metal and grime coalesce into blasted kick patterns which sound like the contractions of an eldritch machine’s digestive tract. Noise-tainted bass tones take over, tearing in and out of reality as Mortar progresses into deeper territory.

Up next, Shiny Surgery provides a respite, with electro-tinged drippings of lasers and wet gloops lifting the listener into a more sanitised and lighter space than its predecessors. Cortical’s extreme musical influences are still at play here with their signature eroded bass weight and splintered percussion on display, but in a more restrained sense. As the halfway point comes in, so too does the most introspective section of Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes, as cinematic floating pads de-sterilise the space. 

Finishing things up is the namesake of the EP and arguably the most anthemetic listen of the release. Demented vocal chants call out across a disintegrating claustrophobic space, before grime kicks and fragmented breakbeat loops explode into existence, demanding full dance floor attention.

Cortical - Mortar

LBRIPPEDOLYMPICS2 SEMIS

You land on a silent, alien world and set up camp. Minutes later, you spot fresh, human-like footprints trailing into the fog. But you came alone. And they’re walking away from your tent.

This is Annihilate, thank you for listening!

LEVALTI - Annihilate

sami baha — sato (estoc's battle in seattle edit)

s o m e t h i n g ' s ___g o n e___w r o n g

https://soundcloud.com/daniel-ruane-2 / https://soundcloud.com/carnelecarne / Vee

Demos and spare parts to failed.units.corp@gmail.com

Aulic Veil - Glory, Decline

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