Bristol's @georg-i flings wide the gates with a three tracker of DnB adjacent theatre.

Split, storm, surge.

✐ SOSOSO ✐

☺︎ Art direction by Nicole Domhoff
☺︎ Mastered by Beau at Ten Eight Seven


Fades Away

@un_earth
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.

Mastering by HYPNA 
Cover Design by Joh000 // Jose Hernández

plasmasources.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/plasma__sources

Safe Tread

Following the launch of the Eyes series, Early Reflex welcomes back Ikävä Pii for “Eyes II”, the second entry in this exploratory two-tracker format. 

Possibly the darkest tracks Ikävä Pii has produced to date, ‘False Binaries Fight for Primacy’ and ‘Permaweird’ are two detailed and twisted club tunes, encapsulating the perennial state of frustrated urgency of our times. 
Uneasy feelings are conveyed in both tracks, and refracted through the artist’s signature playful approach.
False Binaries Fight for Primacy is driven by the eerie ambiguity of its major/minor harmony, and a relentless rhythmic section that nods to post-punk as much as the track’s distorted, shouty vocals. The unsettling main theme of Permaweird is hinged on an alteration of the Locrian mode (often deemed the “weirdest” mode), and its timbre, albeit recalling familiar patches from the Process Fatigue era, here paints a much darker picture. 
Topical and heartfelt, these tracks update Ikävä Pii’s sound with an uncanny mutation, material for a standout moment in a club set. Already secret weapons in Ikävä Pii’s live show for nearly a year, they’ve left heads spinning on dancefloors in UK, Europe and beyond, and now find their proper home on Early Reflex.

Ikävä Pii said:
“What’s the purpose of club music in a climate where alienation is the norm and outdated narratives are collapsing?
We live in the permaweird: reality gets increasingly absurd, and yet we adapt to it every day.
Nothing to fight for: digital vs physical, liberal left vs authoritarian right, old vs young - just false binaries. There must be another way. 
In the meantime, activate punk mode, shout in the mic, use stranger scales. 
The only real binary is rich vs non-rich (and that’s what clubs should be about).
Thanks Venkatesh Rao and David Rudnick for the inspiration.”

‘Eyes II’ is available on all platforms starting from Friday 2nd May 2025.

© & ℗ 2025 Early Reflex. All rights reserved.

All tracks produced and mixed by Ikävä Pii at Niche Studio, London § Mastering at CB5 Studios § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu.

False Binaries Fight for Primacy

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Ikävä Pii - False Binaries Fight for Primacy

✤ SWINE PREMIERE ✤ @exhausted-modern from his upcoming album S.O.O.S. | Shores of Old Sentiments for @YUKUMUSIC

➲ Ladislav Zensor (Oblaka, Exhausted Modern) returns to YUKU with S.O.O.S |
Shores of Old Sentiments, a deeply personal journey through memory and time. Following his previous EP, Petrichor Memories, and his 2022 debut album, HACE, this record is both a continuation and a return. While Petrichor Memories reflects childhood moments in a city housing estate, S.O.O.S. flows into the Czech countryside.

➲ The album takes its name from SOOS, a volcanic region in western Bohemia. Once alive with bubbling streams and the sharp scent of sulfur, it now stands largely still, a fitting parallel to the shifting textures and disintegrating structures within these tracks. Flickering synths, arrhythmic percussion, and echoes of the past weave together, blurring the edges of time and place.

➲ Closing the album are two special collaborations: Baryt with Moroccan sound designer Disektor and Temporal Echoes with Egyptian/Prague-based
multidisciplinary artist Qow.

RD: May 8, 2025

Written & produced: Ladislav Zensor
Additional production: Mhamed Mansouri, Omar El-Sadek
Mastered: Gargle & Expel
Cover photo: Kristína Opálková
Support: Alaa El-Shaarawi
Dedicated to Bubli

Bandcamp

[Swine Premiere] Oblaka - Reflections | Where Edges Blur (YUKU)

Send request : info.seeksicksound@gmail.com or join our discord : discord.com/invite/suVpRBStmu 
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ergen101 - haunted self
Craquages Collectifs, 2025
Pre-order: https://craquages-collectifs.bandcamp.com/album/trigger-response-curated-by-ergen101

@ergen101
@craquages-collectifs

'Trigger·Response' is the third V/A released by Craquages and the first of their curation series, in which their residents share their own artistic vision. 
ergen101 made this project a space where artists could freely explore the intrinsic contradictions and connexions of themes like oppression & freedom, softness & harshness or trauma & resilience, through an experimental, deconstructed club (or not club) & bass aesthetic. It tells a story of humanity, of past experienced as present and how we can now act on it : Trigger & Response.

[Premiere] ergen101 - haunted self (out  on Craquages Collectifs)

@yukumusic
 https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/bom-klakk-yukus-supersick-sample-pack-free

YUKU – Bom Klakk Creative Challenge (Circular Square entry)

@viiaan - Aleatory (taken from 'Erre', out on the 25th of July via @rutamp3)

Viiaan is a Mexican producer whose immersive polyrhythmic style manifested by carefully-crafted percussive tracks has secured her a place in the catalogues of respected labels worldwide like Woozy, WVWV or DJ Plead's SUMAC. Her latest output will, in turn, grace the upcoming compilation by Germany-based Colombian label RUTA where her deep track 'Aleatory' that intertwines processed vocals with bird songs will sit between other goodies produced by 	
Entrañas or Ranma Entero.

[PREMIERE] Viiaan - Aleatory (RUTA)

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𝕽𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖘 👉🏾 badtipsaudio@gmail.com


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Fleksor - Arroyo De Mercurio
Vief Records, 2025
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://viefrecords.bandcamp.com/album/arroyo-de-mercurio

🔴 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥
https://www.instagram.com/fleksor/ https://soundcloud.com/fleksor

🔵 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕝
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P̷R̷E̷M̷I̷E̷R̷E̷ 🦛✨ Fleksor - Arroyo De Mercurio [Vief Records]

@galtier returns to Plasma Sources with Mainframe Incantation, a five-track release marking the 7th position on the label’s roster. First appearing on the Multi Source compilation earlier this year, Galtier now moves beyond the mechanical, sci-fi focus toward a sound that fuses technology with the divine, inhabiting the liminal space between worlds. 

Rooted in the earliest traditions of percussive music as a vehicle for altered states, Mainframe Incantation channels ritual energy through synthesised and digitised means, closing a cultural loop from origin to present. The result is a tension between the spiritual and the mechanical — feverish, dissonant, and hypnotic. 

The journey begins with "Ausmisis States", a restrained, technical opener of squelchy basslines and coarse pads, setting the stage for contact. "Tincture Pump" bursts through next—erratic, bouncy, and high-velocity, with a swelling distortion lead that injects chaotic energy straight to the bloodstream. 

In "Tink Cycle", the pace slows into a groove-laden trance, its caustic bassline dragged forward by steady kicks and splintering snares. At the centre lies "Hex Crawler", a gurgling, otherworldly entity speaking in alien tones before breaking into a vast, unearthly climax. 

Closer "Phantom Tremors" hurls us back toward reality with hasty techno-inflected percussion, metallic strikes, and roaring sub-frequencies. Pulsing hardware bleeps push the final surge, sealing the ritual in a haze of digital energy. 

Mainframe Incantation

Hex Crawler

This sample pack was created to spark ideas, inspire your workflow, and help you take your music further. Inside you’ll find [drums/bass/sfx/melodies], all crafted to give you fresh sounds you can drop straight into your projects.

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Ñ$₽ -C45-3 (Demo)

Hassan Abou Alam is one of Egypt’s musical exports, steadily publishing his work since 2008 on diverse labels such as Naive, Banoffee Pies, Rhythm Section, Casa Voyager and more.

Since 2008, Hassan has been playing around with his gear, forging multiple live performances. A hard to pin down sound that utilizes analog and digital instruments, a form of organized chaos that he portrays with extreme finesse—his Boiler Room set last year is testament to his genre bending capabilities. Through Red Bull’s RBMA Abou Alam was given a chance to mingle musically with the ancient people of Luxor. The result? A phenomenal live performance in Cairo two years ago fusing traditional folklore with electronica, successfully pinning him as one of Egypt’s most versatile musicians.

His sound as a DJ is constantly evolving, springing to life through the crevices of house, breaks, noise, bass, grime, techno and more.