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Polarize marks Shai FM’s solo debut on Elicit with four cuts of rhythm-driven precision. You can pre-order the EP now on Bandcamp. Full release drops on September 30th.

Artwork by Deborah Mora

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ELCT07 | Shai FM - Polarize (Previews)

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Carré & Danny Goliger - Up Too Late (Konduku Remix) [FAW004]

After completing another whirlwind mission of fast-not-hard righteousness, the Fast At Work crew returned home to reunite around their first chosen matriarch, who arrived with a cherished friend of the family in tow. Ideating a standout and full circle return to the ethos contained in the original FAW alien disc, Carré embarked alongside Danny Goliger not with the intent to craft a particular “sound,” but driven by the pursuit of discovery. Navigating through textured atmospheres, rhythmic explorations, and immersive landscapes, they allowed their gospel to unfold naturally—an organic process shaped by curiosity and intuition.
Each track was born from sampling its predecessor, creating a recursive dialogue that guided the creative flow and speaks to the spirit of DIY collaboration always present in FAW mantra. A commitment to a tension-building groove in ‘Up Too Late’, the warped dub throughlines of ‘Tricky One’, the intricate, delicate uptempo delight that is ‘Exit Plan,’ and the bridge between all four tracks ‘Don’t Keep Me In Suspense’ — each reflect different moments in this heli-journey. An expert in textural exploration, Konduku brought out the true hypnotic potential of the title track. Their influences ripple outward, yet the sound remains inherently theirs—fluid, unbound by singular genre or label.

Written and Produced by Carré Orenstein & Danny Goliger
Mastered by Nikolaj Jakobsen
Vinyl production R.A.N.D. Muzik
Artwork & CD by Studio Balcony
Distributed by One Eye Witness

 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒓é
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/carreo
Bandcamp : https://carre-carre.bandcamp.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/carre__carre/

𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒚 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/dannygoliger
Bandcamp : https://dannygoliger.bandcamp.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/danny_goliger/

𝑲𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒌𝒖
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/kondukukonduku
Bandcamp : https://konduku.bandcamp.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/konduku/

𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒕 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/fastatwork
Bandcamp : https://fastatwork.bandcamp.com
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/fastatwork/

Up Too Late [FAW004]

Up Too Late (Konduku Remix)

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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Carré & Danny Goliger - Up Too Late (Konduku Remix) [FAW004]

Coco Bryce - Alaniara

Bassweight Nostalgia Vol. 3 continues Debba’s self-released series exploring the emotional weight of UK club music. Following the stripped, heavy focus of Volume 2, this instalment contrasts light and dark — two sides of the same late-night moment. The EP balances radiant melody and pressure-heavy low-end, tracing Debba’s evolving sound palette through chrome synths, vocal flickers and dense percussion.

Tracklist:

1. Debba ‘Flirting’

An upbeat, euphoric stepper built on shimmering pads and tightly wound drums. Flirting channels the warm rush of early-morning dancefloors — bright, playful and weighty in equal measure.

2. Debba ‘Blush’

A darker counterpoint to its A-side: Blush leans into moody bass pressure and processed male vocals, unfolding in smoky, half-lit tension. Heavy, minimal and hypnotic, it’s Debba at his most introspective and club-driven.

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Flirting

@ethosrecords @kletis

With “Over Empathy”, Kletis continues his exploration of the misty borderlands
between techno, bass music and dubs, delivering a dense, poetic and introspective EP
where sound itself seems to breathe under the rain. Born in the humid forests of northern
Czechia, his sonic world carries the mark of a half-lit realm, heavy with melancholy yet
vibrating with restrained strength.

Each track shapes a shifting landscape, both dark and hypnotic, from the
subterranean tension of Parametric to the organic pulse of RukaRuka, leading to the fragile
beauty of the title track Over Empathy, the true heartbeat of the release. Two remixes extend
this journey, Fallen Tape unveils a mystical and ethereal vision, like an echo from another
plane, while Sub Accent reveals a more vivid, dub-infused energy.

Balancing inner fog and ritual depth, Kletis sculpts music that seeks not to belong but
to feel, a language of textures, shadows and light, where every frequency turns into vibration
and empathy becomes sound.

[PREMIERE] Over Emphaty - Kletis | Ethos Records [2025]

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@msmkulturegalerie

https://kulturegalerie.bandcamp.com/album/mediterranean-blue

pi premiere: Alien D - Celestial [Kulture Galerie]

Digital & Vinyl: https://djobeka-music.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-no-more
https://soundcloud.com/djobeka

The rhythmic dynamics and emotive attitudes of A World No More captures the density of soundsystem culture in Obeka’s ancestral roots. YUKU presents the Bermudians debut album capturing a Neo-Colonial dystopia, protest and Afro-Futurism hyperextended through decaying sonic structures of a dark past and its grievances which very much exist today.

Growing into adulthood within the walls of British and European Colonial systems meant the disconnection and lostness in a new country hid me from the world at a young age. Unlike London’s vast and culturally engaging migrant communities, the industrial milling town of Stockport introduced a coldness towards people from other countries I experienced in my first year after relocating from Bermuda. I couldn’t understand why. Whether cold words thrown towards me or actions upon other people who look like me, it has shown to be a dooming societal virus with no cure. The most comfort was found through what was familiar - drums and rhythmic spirituality of my homeland. It was a safe-haven, a place to empty the anger and confusion. It’s been 15 years since relocating and as my sound evolved, it seems classism, racism, oppression and civil control of ethnic peoples has become worse - even now more legalised and normalised. Ogun (a powerful Yoruba deity associated with anger, justice and war) acts as the opening sequence of the record and its symbolism. Using distorted bass frequencies and dissected Regga-Dub immersed in live-sampled ghostly voices of the lost ones. This sonic exercising is also applied in Drillaman - a stampede of industrial framework and metallic instruments wielded over moody Dancehall MC’ing, magnifying two parallel worlds in cocooned evolution. The resurrection of Transatlantic African cultures and identity have never been silenced, rather carried elsewhere through trade routes of enslavement, which was pivotal when composing and completing the album upon returning home to the Caribbean for the first time ever. After reconnecting with my heritage my blurred vision of what's wrong in the world became so clear. Guidance in empty plains seek truth throughout the pain - A statement of finding oneself expressed on the poetic closing track A World No More.

On Fawohodie (A West African Adinkra symbol that represents independence, freedom, and emancipation stamped on the album cover) the motive and atmosphere begins to change. Afro-Caribbean idealism which refers to the philosophical concept that emphasizes the interconnectedness of individuals and the importance of community, often contrasting with Western individualism, begins to take shape in a new universe. We can co-exist. The track framework uses machine-led software forming frequencies we have no control over, then manipulated through decomposing soundscapes, scattered hand-drums and human-made weapons of control - exposing the hidden disparity that’s been carried over generations whilst balancing hopeful and musical foundations towards equality and peace. On Pressure and Kuduro! the writing direction attempts to wake people up. Not settling for a composed approach like in past projects, quite the opposite. A call for native sonic awareness, dismantled vocals of protests, eroded percussion using chains, gears and motorised harmonies sculpted in challenging abstract behaviors far outside my comfort zone. A direct abrasiveness and weight I want people to feel, whilst finding hope and solace through enchanting choirs and hypnotic basslines in complete synchrony.

“Purity in sound manifests when you least expect it. The smallest memory or feeling grows from a seed into a sonic language that you, and only you can interpret and release back into the world.”

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08. Obeka - Ready for the Soundman  [YUKU]

Appendix.files announces its second LP, Irradiated, an eight-track release from Berlin artist Reinartz, out January 26.

Pre-order: https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-lp02-irradiated
More: https://www.orbmag.com/music

@appendixfiles
@rreinartz

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Premiere: Reinartz - Empty Time (A Flowing Out)

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