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Nylon Hood EP out now: 
https://hypnamusic.bandcamp.com/album/nylon-hood

BEAM REFLECTOR (Phrixus Remix)

Listen to "Ziplock Weaponry" by NIQH taken from "Familiar Rift" out digitally and on limited compact disc via Plasma Sources on 29th September

Bandcamp: https://plasmasources.bandcamp.com/album/familiar-rift

Following on from J-Shadow and Hypna’s A2I, Plasma Sources offers up Familiar Rift, the debut EP from NIQH (pronounced ‘NEE-KEEH’). Weaving together grains of garage, ambient and club, the release places a heavy emphasis on sound design like its predecessor to create an immersive world-building experience. 

The EP is a sharp juxtaposition to the label debut - where A2I was dark and heavy, Familiar Rift feels light and skittering. What links these two releases together is an emphasis on sci-fi, world building and high-fideilty, laser sharp sonics. Through these shared aesthetics, Plasma Sources intends to fully cement itself as an imprint which will not simply be tied to one sound or genre. 

NIQH’s process is determined by chaotic serendipity - Familiar Rift was fashioned into shape from a colliding together of captured sounds and experiences, before being assembled into new, mutated forms. Heavily inspired by the work of Moebius and the visual style present in Aeon Flux and many 80s/90s anime, the body of work here represents a dynamic, ever-shifting environment of sonic contortion. 

Despite the chaos at play, the release still feels focused to NIQH. “I finally feel like I’ve got to a point with my music making where ideas feel aligned, concentrated, focused, in a way they didn’t before. Each of the tracks here fuses the chaotic serendipity I love with the notion of keeping the core musical ideas and patterns simple. I’m trying to marry these two pretty disparate notions into a concentrated, highly detailed style of music-making which feels more like a flowing environment than a series of musical actions.” 

Links:
NIQH
https://soundcloud.com/niqhniqhniqh
https://www.instagram.com/niqhniqhniqh
Plasma Sources
https://soundcloud.com/plasmasourcesmusic
https://plasmasources.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/plasma__sources

Familiar Rift

bandcamp

[Premiere] NIQH - Ziplock Weaponry (Plasma Sources)

https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/blistering

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Klahrk - Blistering
SFX, 2024
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/blistering

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

🔵 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕝
https://s-f-x.space/
https://www.instagram.com/sfx_space/
https://soundcloud.com/s-f-x-0101

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𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖊#182 📢 Klahrk - &3&4 [SFX]

I’ve made a track and AGENDA⋮ has made a song out of it.

“Paradigms” out in 3 versions.

Ikävä Pii - Paradigms -++
Ikävä Pii - Paradigms --
AGENDA⋮ - Paradigms +-

A fancy press release text here. A big concept. The usual tags, buzzwords, adjectives. Post-facto meaning, retroactive motives. Tropes for easy consumption, categories for easy detection. Some big DJ played it out! It's forward-thinking - yet the usual.
Or, left turns, fuckups, new experiments, old loves.
Lyrics, words, good ideas, desires, tea, fears, memes, questions, wrong answers, bad ideas.
No interesting sound was ever made by playing it safe.
Have fun you coward :)

҉p҉҉a҉҉r҉҉a҉҉d҉҉i҉҉g҉҉m҉҉s҉ ҉l҉҉o҉҉r҉҉e҉҉c҉҉o҉҉r҉҉e҉ ҉d҉҉e҉҉e҉҉p҉҉f҉҉a҉҉k҉҉e҉҉s҉ ҉s҉҉t҉҉e҉҉r҉҉e҉҉o҉҉t҉҉y҉҉p҉҉e҉҉s҉ ҉c҉҉l҉҉i҉҉c҉҉h҉҉e҉҉s҉ ҉c҉҉o҉҉s҉҉p҉҉l҉҉a҉҉y҉҉s҉ ҉d҉҉r҉҉a҉҉w҉ ҉t҉҉h҉҉e҉ ҉l҉҉i҉҉n҉҉e҉ ҉f҉҉u҉҉c҉҉k҉ ҉u҉҉p҉ ҉b҉҉u҉҉t҉ ҉w҉҉i҉҉t҉҉h҉ ҉g҉҉r҉҉a҉҉c҉҉e҉

Ikävä Pii - Paradigms --

Ikävä Pii - Paradigms -++

https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/speleogenesis

Wisconsin-based producer and drummer Chants (The Trilogy Tapes, Maximum Airtime, Astral Plane Recordings) meets master drummer Dave Schoepke on this all-drums LP for Brussels-based Maloca Records. ‘Speleogenesis’ blends live drumming with dub techniques and dancefloor-informed production, guided by imagery of a subterranean world. It’s a full-circle moment, as the two met when Chants (aka Jordan Cohen) took drum lessons from Schoepke during his teenage years.

The recording process began with Chants creating skeletal demos for Dave Schoepke to improvise on. Schoepke recorded many layers of drums and percussion, running some of them through his hardware synthesizers. Chants then shaped these recordings, resulting in the cavernous dub techno track ‘Pressure Slide’, the Brazilian-influenced ‘Ritmo Crudo’ and ‘Ritmo Puro’, and the uptempo, slippery dancehall dub of ‘The Quickstepper’.

Chants then assembled a new palette of samples from this core and constructed dancefloor-focused bangers like the hyperactive ‘Cyclone Rhythm’ and minimal 170 bpm ‘Rafter’, adding his own homegrown breakbeats. As the album took shape, the music kept evoking mental images of caves, tunnels, and underwater caverns that in turn influenced the final pieces. ‘Notes from Underground’ and ‘Speleogenesis’ present a more unfiltered view of Schoepke’s nuanced drumming. ‘Airbell Dub’ was also created using material from one of Schoepke’s meditative solo performances. Finally, ‘Cavernicole’ features both drummers in full duet mode, trading phrases over an insistent kick drum pulse.  

Credits :
released October 11, 2024
2024, Maloca

Music by Chants & Dave Schoepke
Artwork by Rémi Volclair
Mastered by Hypna

Speleogenesis

Chants & Dave Schoepke - Rafter

@bonebrokk
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

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