Haunting yet grounded, Ashes to Matter unspools like a ritual in bass pressure. SIM crafts a slow-burning, low-end sculpture where distorted textures flicker beneath spacious delays. Industrial ambient meets soundsystem alchemy; this one isn’t built for the peak time, it’s for the reckoning after. The air between kicks is thick with memory, echoing something ancient in modern decay.

On Whipback, SIM flips the tempo with razor-sharp flair — a jagged, serpentine rhythm that snaps back with unsettling precision. Think bashment fed through a wormhole, landing somewhere between futuristic club workouts and warehouse hypnosis. The mix is raw, dynamic, and delightfully wrong-footing. You won’t know whether to wine or brace for impact — either way, resistance is futile.

Written and produced by Simon-Luc Laporte
Mixed and mastered at Mata Sound Studios, Lanaudière, QC
All rights reserved

SIM - Whipback

Irvi-Tower of Memories (wnt3r flip)

Pre-Order 10" http://store.houndstoothlabel.com/obelisk.html
Bandcamp:  https://akkord.bandcamp.com/album/obelisk
Akkord on Spotify: http://found.ee/AkkordSPO 

Akkord return with their first original music since June 2014’s ‘HTH020’ EP. ‘Obelisk’ is a study in rhythm and frequencies, suspended in space. 

On the minimalistic ‘Monolith’, a single element is moulded into a 3-dimensional sound sculpture, an aural illusion of a lead weight that floats away into the ether. 

In contrast, ‘Megalith’ has a pulsing gravity, drawing in laser-guided blasts of bass, broadsides of pitched-down jungle, and echoes of distant birdsong and telecommunications as it journeys through the static of space.

Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy.

Obelisk

Monolith

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From the new Ekoplekz LP 'Bioprodukt' out 16th June 2017

Ekoplekz returns with his fourth album for Planet Mu, in the shape of 10-tracker "Bioprodukt". The unique lo-fi, woozy sound of Bristol's Nick Edwards stays intact while he veers towards the nineties for inspiration: the bleep and bass sound of the north of England is one touchpoint and the acid gurgles of the 303 are another.

While the murky lo-fi production levels and evocative melodies remain, they are now bolstered by a more muscular rhythmic chassis. Snappier kicks and snares mingle with dense layers of percussion and deep undulating sub-basslines adding a funkier edge, as typified by opening track "Elevation" where playful beats interlock with breezy keyboard flourishes to create something uncharacteristically upbeat. Similarly, the gentle, fluid motion of "Slipstream" and "Calypzoid" represent some of the most appealingly chilled grooves in the Ekoplekz canon to date.

But the darker-edged material remains. "Expedition" has a pensive, percussion-heavy feel whilst "Acrid Acid" is a dirt-encrusted slow-mo techno meltdown. "Transcience" displays the Ekoplekz trademark dub-fx in full flight over a driving lo-end, before "Descent" leads down to the final section, where the beats fade out, replaced by rippling layers of spectral ferric ambience on the epic "Low-X Over", before finishing with the radiant looped stasis of "Denier Daze".

The albums shifting, imperfect patterns and muted colours are visually mirrored in the beautifully realised sleeve by the Print Project.

Bioprodukt

Ekoplekz - Acrid Acid (16th June)

'Erhu' - the first track from Walton's new album, 'Black Lotus'.
Released 6th July.
Pre-order now: https://tectonic.databeats.com/group/walton-black-lotus

Erhu

Walton - Erhu

https://www.residentadvisor.net/tracks/918675

PAR001 - Passed for Transmission Vol. 1

AGRIPPA - U C ME [RA PREMIERE]

Poison Arrow is the new endeavor of Colombian artist Natalia Escobar. She makes music that infuses Berlin decadence with Colombian Grit, reflecting her experience working with audio visual installations and Dj-ing in many places from Säule at Berghain to fashion events for the likes of Alyx. She is mixing her Colombian roots with hypnotic, provocative electronic music. Her first release ‘If You Don’t Love me (I’ll Cut Your Face)’ is inspired by the song ‘La Cuchilla’ by Las Hermanitas Calle, icons of Carrilera music a regional folk scene that emerged as a means of catharsis from broken hearts and as a respite from the hard-working and sometimes violent existence of the local coffee farmers life. Poison Arrow provides a modern interpretation of this unique cultural heritage; the results are bass heavy, intense tracks that are sexy, confrontational and refreshingly unexpected.

Following the release of her debut EP If You Don’t Love Me (I’ll Cut Your Face), Poison Arrow presents the remixes; a two-track limited edition dubplate with additional productions of Casa Show from Heart Drive (dBridge and Kid Drama) and of “If You Don’t Love Me (ill Cut Your Face)” from Nathan Jonson.

Heart Drive’s long awaited reunion comes in the form of “Slow Bleed Mix”, a throbbing, rhythmic arousal, where you can hear dislocated seductive vocalizations that tease your mind until it burst into a sudden climax of red--evoking the spirit of the Colombian cantina for broken hearts that inspired the original title of “Casa Show”. 

“Some people love, others bleed. I'm lost since I found you.” - Heart Drive 


Nathan Jonson’s interpretation of “If You Don’t Love Me (ill Cut Your Face)” is like a fever dream of the original, drifting in and out of consciousness while presenting a series of hallucinatory revelations. “Falling In Love Even Though Is A Trap Mix”  tips its hat to the heyday of electro while boldly predicting its future.


”Poison Arrow sent me this song. As it played I forgot the plot. I forgot the scene. Suddenly lost in the plot, lost in the moment, I took in the world that she painted around me, and my fingers dropped down to the keys.... Doing my best at making some sense of what was to come. You are so beautiful. You are so fucking beautiful.”
–Nathan Jonson

Poison Arrow- Casa Show (Heart Drive's Slow Bleed Mix)

Forthcoming on Cold Recordings

12" Handstamped Vinyl and Digital

https://coldrecordings.databeats.com/vinyl/cold013

Pivot

READ MORE -- dummymag.com/new-music/premiere-hear-palemans-one-take-hardware-improvised-worm-field/

Initially emerging as a product of the nebulous post-dubstep scene, DJ, producer and jazz drummer Calum Lee aka @Paleman has contributed a huge amount to UK underground music over time, from his earlier Swamp 81 release to further explorations into more shadowy territory on labels like Zehnin and Nonplus, as well as his Rinse FM series 'Trenches'. More recently he's been dropping a string of vinyl and digital EPs via his personal PLMN label, exploring the more eyes-down side of warehouse techno that calls to mind the likes of Regis and Pinch. The third in the series, 'PLMN003', drops this month, and we're thrilled to premiere 'Worm Field' now. "With this record I wanted to create a patch on the modular then just hit record and improvise the whole track," he tells Dummy of the cut. "'Worm Field' was recorded this way in one take in my home studio. Then during my recent Canadian tour I was super lucky to be able to get a day mixing it with my friend and expert engineer Ryan Enockson in 'The Warehouse' studio in Vancouver. We spent hours tracking and and re-recording parts through a vintage SSL console and a whole host of other mouth-watering outboard gear. The result (I hope) is music that sounds tangible and alive and is rough around the edges. I'm happy to say that every element in the track has truly existed from the recording to the mixing process where it ran down wires and and became distorted by overloaded circuitry. I'm by no means an analogue purist, but I wanted to experiment with improvisation and one-take recordings on this record without compromise." Boasting hollow, moaning synths over red raw drums, it's a track primed for big room play.

Premiere: Paleman - 'Worm Field'

A little edit Mosca did of my track for his latest NTS show, possibly forthcoming soon ;)

Squane - Crossed Wires (Mosca Edit NTS RIP)

So here we are at part two in the series : "Grows Without Bound" on the A-side is a monster; a noisy analogue session ressurected from the burning embers of Industrial and Noise, harnessed into an unstable growl that slowly makes room for a barely-there percussive stumble - think somewhere between Vainio and Nate Young. Over on the flipside "Primitive Equations" takes for inspiration the bare-boned, hyper-tense production of Photek's still devastating "Ni - Ten - Ichi - Ryu",  slugging out feral, steely noise and 'ardcore torque forged by calloused hands and burning minds to cruel, propulsive effect.

Primitive Equations 1

UK record label based at fabric, East London. Run in part by Rob Booth (Electronic Explorations)

Akkord - Monolith

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