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january 2021

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From its modest beginnings, the Swiss label Creaked has carved out a unique, colorful, adventurous and independent path of its own in the music world, appealing to both music fans and Djs with its eclectic sounds and textures. Growing international networks and community from Vevey to Manchester and Berlin to San Francisco, the imprint was first launched in Lausanne during the summer of 2004 before moving its office and headquarters to Biel/Bienne in 2018. Over two decades, surviving musical evolution and seismic industry shifts without losing its main position to support electronic music from experimental avant-pop to club sounds and beyond, the label keeps helping define the development of genres by unveiling records from newcomers to established artists. 

To mark its 20th anniversary, Creaked announces the release of "Music Falls into a Mysterious Void", a compilation bringing twenty new and exclusive gems, ten original cuts and ten remixes of emblematic tracks taken off its back-catalog that shaped the label's history with its artistry roster from the early days to the present. Freshly joined by the two brand new signings Nic as Well and Olive T, current artists such as Owelle and Inuit Pagoda rub shoulders with old pals like Larytta, Mochipet, Julien Aubert, My Panda Shall Fly and the late and greatly missed Bloodysnowman. 

With tracks including the dubby-slow-dance reinterpretation of Consor's ‘Monoski’ (2006) by Torchon & Ganj, the gorgeous IDM journey ‘Know Better, Do Better’ by Hrdvsion, the Me&Mobi’s post-electronica surgical cover of ‘Thot’ by Gaspard de La Montagne and the psychedelic-drone-ambient ‘Hamada’ by Al-Sarwib, this celebratory release encompasses a broad and stylistic range of the label's output. 

Highlights of the compilation contain Baltimore mastermind The Soft Pink Truth's rework of 2010’s ‘All Men Must Die’ by Sutekh, Bristol artist Galtier with his slamming remix of ‘Stride’ by Isolated Lines, ‘Who Took This Base Out?’ by Zürich geek minimal techno producer Cosili and pop wave hero Buvette's remix of ‘Clair de Lune’ by Los Orioles. 

While UK artists Ikonika appears with her infectious remix of Oy's ‘First Box Then Walk’ and Elsa Hewitt transforms Verveine's ‘Veine R #1’ into a subtle and delicate version, Parisian hybrid house genius Sunareht rounds off the ceremony with his majestic remix of Scarlett’s ‘Give Up’. 

Mastered by Samuel Vaney and art designed by Monokini, this selection of tracks is way more than just a compilation— this is 20 years of music activities, all packed together in one. Creaked’s tale is the slow rise of a real indie record label with multiple sounds and a wide roster from the ground up, learning through error and success, listening and always adapting without becoming jaded or losing its passion. With "Music Falls into a Mysterious Void", the label showcases its forward-thinking vitality through looking behind and braving into the future.

Isolated Lines - Stride (Galtier Remix)

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Embark on an exhilarating musical odyssey with Neida's latest "Can't Get Enough EP", a mesmerizing follow-up to his standout contribution on June 2023's "Good Vibes Vol. 1". 
Unveiling a sincere exploration of sound and emotion through three original tracks and four remixes, blending rhythm and intensity in a way that keeps hearts racing and dance floors alive.

The EP's title track, "Can't Get Enough," thrusts us into a realm of frenetic beats and palpable energy, creating an immersive experience that feels both sweaty and liberating, while "Hydro" delves into aquatic dreamscape intertwining distortion and trap influences. 
"Trainwreck" propels the listener forward at breakneck speed, capturing the essence of a high-speed locomotive leading us to four visionary remixes adding a kaleidoscope of perspectives to the EP. 

Miss Jay's daring reinvention of "Dirty" sets the tone, with an intense video game-inspired groove evolving into drum and bass, infused with neurofunk influences. Portway's remix of "Can't Get Enough" takes the original into uncharted territories, fusing elements of dnb and electro, creating a futuristic yet vintage sonic landscape.
Galtier's reimagining of "Hydro" paints a sonic picture of fluidity, with a pacey, liquid-esque roller vibe that elevates the track into a conscious, heightened state of mind. Subsism then takes the reins, delving into dub, grime, and trance influences in the remix of "Trainwreck."

The result is a genre-blending piece that adds an extra layer of depth to Bad Tips' exploratory commitment.

𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥

curated by gboi
designed by Johanna Burai
mastered by Perception Mastering

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Neida - Hydro (Galtier Remix)

The French deep-rave & tech-naturalist imprint Virtual Forest Records gives us a masterclass of synth-tailored mental bass & IDM from the Swiss producer Fels. Hear the EP’s title track getting a peak-time remix treatment by Nostro Hood’s boss Galtier.

Read more on CxC 🔗 couvrexchefs.com/en/fels-sirens-virtual-forest-records-galtier-remix

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PREMIERE: Fels - Sirens (Galtier Remix) (Virtual Forest Records)

@galtier

After 5 standout releases, including debuts from many fresh faces to the left-of-field underground scene, Plasma Sources presents its inaugural compilation: Multi-Source. It brings together the current label family and a slew of other artists operating on the cutting- edge of dance floor electronics for a multi-genre, sound design heavy, wild ride. In turn, the label takes aim at establishing itself as one of the most exciting imprints in the experimental club scene.
From the 90BPM cinematic, Lorn-esque sludge of newcomer Guide’s ‘Gemological’ to the crisp staccato transients and negative space of Ziyiz’s ‘Plastic Sentiments’, each track adheres to one of the guiding principles that the label has employed so effectively to curate it’s platform, irrespective of tempo: a love for sci-fi aesthetics and a desire to transpose these into sonic equivalents.

Plasma Sources has always prided itself on delicately balancing dark and light, release to release. On Multi-Source, this broad spectrum is in full vision. Reinartz offers up dubbed- out, IDM-esque desolation on ‘Action Bias’, whilst Stolen Velour’s ‘Suigetsu’ brings a bright playfulness - high-pitched vocal cuts marry pulsating, organic beats which sound like if Untold’s Hemlock output got a 2024 facelift. Some tracks, like Prior Self’s brooding yet fidgety ‘Turn Out’ and Klahrk & Atrice’s flange-fuelled ‘You’ve Changed’ occupy the centre of this continuum with their takes on high-tempo techno-influenced mutations.

The full label family comes back to join in on the fun. HYPNA and NIQH team up on a collaboration which perfectly unites their sounds under a 4-bar bass-heavy roller laden with noise. NIQH offers up their own track, exploring crystalline club structures on ‘Pressure’. unearth’s cinematic, wasteland-ridden sound is in clear focus on ‘Safe Tread’ and Beton Brut’s signature grime-concrète comes through loud and clear on ‘WWW’.

Cortical offer up ‘Hammer’, a continuation of their relentless avant-techno manifesto established by their debut, whilst J-Shadow rounds things off with a space-age jungle- exploration on ‘X-38'.
The juxtaposition of dark and light. The delicate balancing of experimentalism and dance floor sensibilities. The interweaving of sci-fi and biologically-infused sound design. These are the key aesthetics with which Plasma Sources has approached its output ever since release no.1.
Multi-Source acts as a confirmation of this manifesto as it looks forward to 2025 and its future as a key player in the experimental club scene.

Multi-Source releases on 27 March 2025

Mastering by HYPNA 
Cover Design by Joh000 // Jose Hernández

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www.instagram.com/plasma__sources

Multi-Source

Galtier - Particle Shifter

Buy/ Pre-order here: https://smt3x.bandcamp.com/album/godspeed-remix

SMT3X invites a collection of avant-garde artists to reimagine the tracks from their Godspeed EP, exploring a wide range of sonic landscapes from deconstructed bass music to fragmented rhythms and experimental textures.

Our featured premiere sees Galtier reinterpret the SMT3X x Slikback collab hit 'DESPOTE/FROST' with a murky hybrid approach, while Tufi fuses jersey club and hyperpop, while Rumina brings her signature tribal style, amplifying the sacred energy of the track. Max Dahlhaus infuses a 90s industrial and drum and bass vibe, ENDGAME simplifies the structures into a tribal dj tool reworking, K1RA delivers a melancholic, pop-infused dembow, and Prophän concludes the project with an ambient, doom-laden sound, evoking a cinematic score.

Each remix deepens SMT3X's sonic universe, propelling their exploration into new frontiers of contemporary post-club music.

PREMIERE: SMT3X feat. Slikback - DESPOTE/FROST (Galtier Remix)

Berlin’s Swarm Intelligence joins NEW YORK TRAX Imports to release four fierce, off-beat techno and electro cuts. Tense atmospherics, uncompromising levels of distortion and stark, astute beats constitute a distinctive sound that Swarm Intelligence has been honing for more than a decade seeing him release on labels such as VOITAX, Ad Noiseam, Earwiggle and many more. The Dublin-born, Berlin-based producer is certainly no stranger to the techno world and his reputation of performing menacing live sets and deploying emphatic productions will leave an enduring impression on any listener. ‘NEW YORK TRAX Imports 04’ sees Swarm Intelligence join the New York Trax sub-label following the likes of Drvg Cvltvre, Endlec, Dawid Dahl and Another Alias. ‘Bury’ begins proceedings with powerful, syncopated drums fused with growling oscillations and haunting leads before intense vibrations scattered around resilient percussion and machine-like synth swirls take the focus in ‘Extraction’. On the flip, ‘Verloren’ maintains the sinister atmospherics through distorted kicks, eerie modulations and alarming feels until ‘Reach’ which recorded live, rounds things off with shooting, laser zaps, dramatic soundscapes and broken rhythms emphatically closing this fiery four track EP.

A1 - Swarm Intelligence - Bury [NEW YORK TRAX Imports 04]

Bristol techno punks Giant Swan deliver a fierce, clattering rework of The Horror’s ‘Machine’ for a new ‘V’ remix LP, also featuring HAAi, Manni Dee, Cleric, more…

More info: https://dj-m.ag/2JQDc3X

Premiere: The Horrors 'Machine (Giant Swan Remix)'

Buy it, play it, rub it: https://soundcloud.com/bas-mooy/mord-004-lag-misfit-ep-incl
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The term ‘tourbillon’ has two meanings - it is the French word for “whirlwind” and also a device used in watchmaking to improve the accuracy of a timepiece. Both definitions feel apt when listening to Tourbillon, the latest release on Central Processing Unit from Australian producer Tim Koch. Following on from Koch’s CPU debut Spinifex back in 2018 - an album that initially emerged via minidisc - Tourbillon is a four-track EP which dazzles with its perpetual-motion post-IDM productions.

These tracks draw you into their webs by forming dense interlocking sonic patterns over the course of several minutes. While the rhythmic programming and lattice of alien percussion tones can appear discombobulating at first, Koch also bewitches the listener with the slyly melodic synth work that he laces throughout Tourbillon.

Opening track ‘Estranger’ is a fine example of this combination. The first section here is a blend of blown-out drum sounds which comes off like an industrial electro tune run through a meat grinder. However, the track soon blossoms with the introduction of some amazingly atmospheric synth pads, and the two contrasting elements come together for a strange and rather beautiful whole.

‘Estranger’ finds a mirror-image in Tourbillon’s final cut ‘Hankert’, a track in which more of those gurgling percussive tones play off the rich chord progressions that chirrup away in the background. Between ‘Estranger’ and ‘Hankert’ we get two propulsive grooves in the form of ‘Disfugue’ and ‘Dreitark’.

How, then, to contextualize such unique material? Calum Gunn’s recent outing for CPU is a good point of comparison, and the electronics here bang and whirr in a manner which nods to the post-IDM innovations of artists like μ-Ziq. One can also see Tourbillon as descended from acts like Cabaret Voltaire, the industrial electronics innovators from CPU’s home city of Sheffield. However, Tourbillon is ultimately an EP which exists in its own lane, an open-minded and open-hearted set which runs with the futurist spirit of CPU and Koch’s previous home of Merck Records.

Australian producer Tim Koch returns to Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit with Tourbillon, an EP of otherworldly post-IDM productions.

RIYL: μ-Ziq, Calum Gunn, Proswell, Modeselektor

Tourbillon

Tim Koch - Tourbillon

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A final parting gift to close off the year that changed the lives of so many. This is for you. Well done for making it through. You are still upright, still powering on, still here. 

Use the skills you have learnt this year to move forward with great strides. You've been through tough times now. You know that you are stronger than you think. You can do this.

Mastering by Fausto Mercier
Photo taken by Galtier

Soem1 (Ode 2 U)

@nemerov

Budapest-based Nemerov returns to EXILES, pushing forward his experiments and explorations on codependent structures, atonal harmonics and vibrant movements. ‘Automated Dances’ presents fragmented, sorrowful beats, constantly redefined by human intentions, system limitations, underlying errors and logical conditions.

Focusing heavily on FM synthesis and highly percussive patterns, ‘Automated Dances’ presents sonic tensions, struggles and Nemerov’s ambiguous approach towards conventional electronic dance music. Following his previous release ‘Six Recital Pieces’ on Czaszka Rec., AD features deep dives into an ever-mutating stream of digital patterns that sound like pieces of glass falling on a metal cube.

music by Gábor Gyulai
artwork by Hargi Csík
mastered by Roland Nagy

www.instagram.com/hellohargi/
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Nemerov - AD02

https://soundcloud.com/amorsatyr
https://soundcloud.com/siumata

Hailing from Paris, duo Amor Satyr & Siu Mata make their debut on NHS with two mutated dance hall inspired cuts laden with manic energy and seriously hard drum work. Following up their debut collaboration on Hiedrah Club de Baile comprised of two tracks focused on the 150bpm range, the pair slow down things to around the 100bpm mark. This has no effect on the frantic energy however, as both releases maintain a level of madness through the double time percussion programming and warped melodic aesthetics; an offering of truly innovative club tracks from these two fine producers.

Mastering by Doug Shearer
Artwork by Hamza Robati

Nahash - EP

Amor Satyr & Siu Mata - Ash

Enshrouded in high-pitched static and elusive fumelike oscillators come "Sundowning", a new mini-album signed by Preston Weippert's most prolific alias, aka Volunteer Coroner. Co-founder of the Colorado-based Trust Collective label, Weippert's music vectors a collection of desolate murals often painted with industrial-grade fuel. A low-resolution picture of oil fields burning from your window seat. Closed eyelids against the sun, into the red.

“Loss as gain- forever in blood”

EN17

Recorded during the Summer of 2020
Volunteer Coroner is P.W.

Sundowning

Volunteer Coroner - A Token Saved From A Previous Life

@nostro-hood-system

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