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Unleashing the Chaos: Disciples of Distortion Vol. 4

Stonx Music is proud to announce Disciples Of Distortion Volume 4, the latest chapter in our annual series dedicated to the darker, heavier realms of drum & bass. Dropping worldwide on September 19, 2025, this year’s compilation is set to storm all major streaming platforms with unrelenting energy and precision.
A Cult of Distortion Returns

For the fourth year running, Disciples Of Distortion brings together a global roster of artists bound by their devotion to distortion, chaos, and raw power. More than just a release, this compilation is a ritual, a yearly gathering where the underground unites to unleash a torrent of basslines, precision drums, and twisted atmospheres.
Since 2020, Stonx Music has grown from a small label into a global community, pushing the boundaries of neurofunk and heavy drum & bass. Volume 4 continues this legacy, showcasing a carefully curated blend of rising talent and established names, all with one mission: to distort, disrupt, and destroy.

The Journey Into Volume 4

This year’s edition delivers 13 crushing tracks, with returning heavyweights and fresh faces contributing their most devastating work yet. From the chaotic ferocity of Anizo’s “Near Deaf”, to the mechanical grit of Direct Shift’s “Mutants”, the industrial savagery of FauxRealz, Noisesmith & Dark Adaptation’s “Horrid”, and the relentless energy of Wintour’s “Turbulence”, every track is crafted to test the limits of sound systems and stamina alike.

Also featured are dark, atmospheric cuts from Dialective, Korax, and Stonx, Hkay & Sindicate, alongside the boundary-pushing intensity of Protoss, Skorpion, and Pish Posh. Closing in with a lethal dose of funk-driven distortion, MYGR’s “Cronus” proves the perfect finale to a compilation built on chaos and community.
Disciples of Distortion Vol. 4 is more than just an album, it’s a yearly statement. A testament to the global underground. A declaration of distortion.

Disciples Of Distortion Vol 4

I Feel Like

Stonx & Sindicate & Hkay - I Feel Like

This year’s edition delivers 13 crushing tracks, with returning heavyweights and fresh faces contributing their most devastating work yet. From the chaotic ferocity of Anizo’s “Near Deaf”, to the mechanical grit of Direct Shift’s “Mutants”, the industrial savagery of FauxRealz, Noisesmith & Dark Adaptation’s “Horrid”, and the relentless energy of Wintour’s “Turbulence”, every track is crafted to test the limits of sound systems and stamina alike.
Also featured are dark, atmospheric cuts from Dialective, Korax, and Stonx, Hkay & Sindicate, alongside the boundary-pushing intensity of Protoss, Skorpion, and Pish Posh. Closing in with a
lethal dose of funk-driven distortion, MYGR’s “Cronus” proves the perfect fi nale to a compilation built on chaos and community.
Disciples of Distortion Vol. 4 is more than just an album, it’s a yearly statement. A testament to the global underground. A declaration of distortion.

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Cat No: EVOC073
Artist: @ReceptorMusic x @engage
Title: ‘Surgeon’
Release Date: 10th October 2025
Record Label: Evolution Chamber

Few names carry the weight and innovation of Receptor, a producer long regarded as one of Drum & Bass’s most forward-thinking figures since his debut in 2008. As one of the founding members of Evolution Chamber, his influence has been cemented through ground-breaking solo works and collaborations that consistently raise the bar. Among those partnerships, his creative synergy with Engage has stood out for its intensity and precision, yielding tracks like Bio, Wi-Fi Waves, and Gothic. Now, a decade later, the pair return to the fold with their latest creation - “Surgeon.”

From its opening, Surgeon sets an unsettling tone with eerie pads and delicate hats, laying the groundwork for a sense of tension and intrigue. The track quickly develops with a phone-dial motif and thudding bass kicks, before dropping into an eruption of sharp snares and gritty, protruding bass stabs that cut through the mix with precision. Razor-edged FX and meticulous detail carry the momentum forward, making each bar bristle with energy.

Just when the pressure becomes overwhelming, the breakdown offers a brief reprieve before the track surges forward again into a second drop, this time with an even sharper bite. Clear-cut drums, rigorous low-end weight, and driving rhythms give Surgeon a raw and uncompromising edge, all while keeping an underlying sense of unpredictability that keeps the energy alive until the very end.

What makes this release stand out is how both Receptor and Engage take centre stage, and effortlessly combine their unique approaches: Receptor’s reputation for forward-thinking production and Engage’s trademark grit and precision. Together, they have created a track that reinforces Evolution Chamber’s reputation as a label committed to originality, creativity, and artistry within the Drum & Bass sphere.

Surgeon

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Receptor x Engage - Surgeon

Heavy neurofunk vibes on High Resistance ⚡️ Deadfussion delivers dark atmospheres, sharp drums, and pure energy. Supported worldwide — turn it up loud! 🔥

Deadfussion - Sacrifice

Dark circles

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Paradox Shift
That night, the city stood like an unfinished mechanism: the clock hands moved, but time did not. Two sound-network technicians, known at the console as System Wide, noticed a strange kind of glitch: signals arrived before they were sent. As if the echo were outrunning the voice.

To measure the shift, they sent a low impulse through the cables—dry as the snap of a breaker. The music didn’t “kick in,” but the sidewalks felt for a common beat: in the metro, footsteps began to snake; the traffic lights blinked like a metronome; and a rollerblader along the embankment carved arcs between passersby. A couple at a kiosk, mid-sentence, turned at the same moment—a precise pivot at the corner, as if a choreographer had pinned a cue in the air. No flash mob—just the city starting to dance by itself: couriers with short glides at crosswalks, children with fine footwork by the shop windows, the elderly tracing clear geometry with their hands. At times the silence tightened like an anti-drop, and the whole intersection froze on the “and-one,” only to flare a moment later into a new figure.

By dawn, people’s knees hummed pleasantly, and it was easier to meet each other’s eyes. System Wide wrote in the log: “Shift accepted. The world didn’t speed up—it found a count.” That’s how System Wide’s release Paradox Shift on Paperfunk Recordings was born: not an escape from the system, but a live reflash of it. Every time the city grows tight again, they send a short impulse—and reality takes half a step to the side, just enough for there to be room to dance again.

System Wide - Paradox Shift

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Skulking through the shadows underneath the city streets was a horrendous beast, an amalgamation of once human flesh that had been absorbed from those discarded and forgotten on the streets above. In time, the last vestiges of these individuals vengeful will had sought each other out, infusing in their rotten remains a revenant power that sought revenge on those by whom they had been slain. With each corpse that their combined form came across the monster grew in might, and with each killer that they slew in vengeance they found within themselves a spark of arcane power restored to their being.

It was thus that they now held in thrall before their combined visage one who had slain many of their ilk, a prolific killer in his own right now paralysed in their grasp. From within their many-toothed maw shone a pale red light, hypnotic and enwrapturing for any to whom it shone. The light’s allure drew them in, unsuspecting, before the beast’s horrific embrace consumed them in a furious feast vengeful rage. Thus it was known that for all those who drew blood on the streets of the city above, the DEADLIGHT lurking below was to be their destined end.

DROPSET returns to EATBRAIN with his debut EP, DEADLIGHTS, and unveils four hypnotically horrifying tracks for the ears of the EATBRAIN horde.

Writen by Gwen Kubik

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Dropset & ESYM - Tryrants Falls

We are thrilled to debut our mix competition winner, featuring a guest mix by Mary Brooks, aka Conductor, representing 1200 Hustle, and our first Bass Attack Atl representative. Welcome to our team. That being said, please turn this mix up to the maximum volume!

Bass Attack Atl Comp winner mix featuring Conductor

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Francesco Skip - Breathworks EP
Grid, 2025
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