DECENNIUM26 - Stormfield (Combat Recordings)

The 26th edition of our DECENNIUM series comes courtesy of local mastermind; Stormfield. 

London based @stormfield is widely known for founding the reputable Electronica label; @combatrecordings in 2004. A formidable outfit in the London underground scene, with their distinguishable brand of fierce, bass heavy, glitchy electronics, Stormfield and Combat have had a long list of accomplishments since their inception. Their roster of artists includes some of the most elite artists in the world of IDM and Electronica such as Somatic Responses, Mick Harris (Scorn / Fret), Anodyne & more. Combat tracks have gained support from the likes of Surgeon and Rob Hall (Autechre) and have had consistent plays on established radio channels such as BBC Radio 1.

Stormfield started DJing in 1995, beginning his journey with Ambient and Electronica, then spending many years playing Jungle, before emerging with half-step and Electro, all the while avoiding typical 'four-to-the-floor' tracks. He has held radio residences on various stations such as Breaks FM, Sub FM, ill FM, Proton Radio, etc. and has done an array of bespoke DJ mixes for the likes of Electronic Explorations, Fabric (Houndstooth label mix), Boiler Room (Nothing New podcast series & Rob Booth’s Electronic Explorations), Rinse FM (Combat label showcase), Darkfloor, Subsekt blog, Null & Void, etc. 

As well as DJing, Stormfield performs live glitchy break-driven acid using a mixture of laptop and hardware, in a constantly changing setup. As a producer he has released on respected labels such as Section 27, Opal Tapes, Jarring Effects, etc. as well as his own Combat imprint. He has also remixed for the likes of Fret (Mick Harris), Mitoma & Weldroid and Killdren. Keep your eye out for his new double EP on the way this springtime, on Combat.

Stormfield is equally at home in the world of visuals, and has regularly performed live visuals for the likes of Mick Harris (Scorn / Fret), African Head Charge, UKAEA, Somatic Responses, Metalogue, Broken Note, Brainwash Glastonbury, Anodyne, Grave Miasma, Splice Festival London, Bangface Weekender, Katharsis festival (Amsterdam)and Crux (London).

His exclusive DECENNIUM mix is a snapshot of tunes currently in his head, typically taking broken, asymmetric audio fragments and piecing them into a strange yet cohesive whole. It bounces between moments of peak aggression to deep void to melancholic euphoria with tracks bass heavy, deeply syncopated, nodding at Acid, Autechre, Scorn and Jungle along the way.

DECENNIUM - Stormfield (Combat Recordings)

Rolling out the higher tempos, the half tempos and the no tempos.

Show downloadable.

Tracklisting:

1	Fiesta Soundsystem - Incantation I	
2	Brandon Juhans - Dead Weight Y	
3	Tara in Tibet - Mila Azul	
4	Batu - Tuff Cookie	
5	DONATO DOZZY - Mai	
6	Forest Drive West	 - Terminus	
7	CNDSD - Leitmotiv	
8	SWARMM - Liminality pt.2	
9	Homemade Weapons	Svalsat (Donato Dozzy Remix)
10	PESSIMIST and HOLSTEN - The Riot Tune - TYPE 2
11	A.Fruit - Polykarp	
12	Es.tereo - Temple Of Ra	
13	Flore - Coded Language (3Phaz Remix)	
14	The Duke of Juke	Jukin Bird	
15	 https://soundcloud.com/warlock/warlock-computer-madness (free download)
16	Hyph11e	 - Barnacles (Kode9 Remix)	
17	Slick Shoota - Mtl Hardcore	
18	Sonic - Volcan	
19	KODE9 X DJ FULLTONO - TKO (FINAL FINAL FINAL FINAL)
20	Atomu Shinzo -  Atomu Got It	
21	DONATO DOZZY - Dusty Bones	
22	Fiesta Soundsystem	ML185	
23	8Ball - Many Shapes 	
24	Brandon Juhans - Floating in Traffic	
25	Cleyra - Shafted	
26	Kanyon - Six Track 	
27	Low End Activist - Look Up	
28	No Nation & Sheba Q - Mother of Mars
29	Radioactive Man	Clap Ya Hands	
30   Charly Says - Good in My Soul (Decibella Remix)	
31	LMajor - Roll The Beeps 
32	Mani Festo - Titan - Ten Eight Seven Mastered	
33	ScanOne_Energize	
34	Itsu Uno - Shooter (Super Sharp B-Boy)	
35	Deadhand - Skitty ft. DJ Prime Cuts	
36	Blazer SoundSystem - Whatcomesup96	
37	Speedy J - Drainpipe

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Further Electronix with Anil Lal & Skanone - 07.05.2021

Parallel Action
1HR Vinyl DJ set
Parallel Action & Charlie Boy Manson EP Launch party at the Cause. 
N17. London
21 May 2021

This set is not monetised in anyway. It's for the love of sharing good music.

Parallel Action_DJ Set_Live at The Cause_21 May 2021

Mix by @emission_1 (1/2 of @mindustries and @ghostinthemachine303)

tracklist:
Proem - Below Me Reds
Junq - Sync
Diamond Version - The Future of Memory
Tapage - Coriolis Effect
Subjected - Ambro
Junq - Abacus
Curve - Falling Free (Aphex Twin Mix)
Perc - Start Chopping (Tommy Four Seven Remix)
Autechre - Basscasdet (bcdtmx)
Rommek - Forbidden Planet
Adam X - Meridien Arc
Diamond Version - Operate At Your Optimum
Boards Of Canada - Chinook
Tapage & Meander - Plankton 
Phoenecia - Odd Job 
Tommy Four Seven - X-Threat (Stenny Remix)
Tapage & Meander - Tolopea

INDEx Mix #15 - Emission

Vajra, em sânscrito, significa diamante – símbolo de força indestrutível, clareza e poder de corte.
No Budismo Tibetano, o vajra representa a mente desperta: inabalável, pura e penetrante.

Assim é este EP: uma jornada sonora intensa e transcendental, com sons ancestrais, timbres rasgados, basslines furiosos ⚡ e passagens etéreas 🌬️ que invocam o espírito do xamanismo oriental 🌀.

Inspirado por Vajrapani, o Guardião do Diamante – aquele que protege o Dharma com coragem inabalável –, este trabalho mergulha nos desafios da mente, nos combates internos e na luz que brota da superação.

Cada faixa é uma etapa da jornada espiritual:
🌩️ explosiva, 🧘 meditativa, 🔥 instintiva.

O som busca a elevação do espírito ✨, transformando a realidade: uma fusão entre o místico e o brutal.

Cover Art: AbnerSimaoDesign
Mastering: Adrian

Vajrapani - Thunder of Awakening

ODEKOLON

The Omega Baryon - Controlling voices in my head (preview)

Acclaimed UK electronic musician Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug, King Midas Sound) releases a stunningly powerful rescore of Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal 1972 movie Solaris on Phantom Limb.

In May 2020, British musician Kevin Martin was invited by the Vooruit arts centre in Gent, Belgium to compose a new score for a film of his choice. Having been long inspired by pioneering Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, Martin tells us that his 1972 masterpiece Solaris was the “natural choice”. The film is an unattested giant, not only of science fiction and Soviet film, but also in the annals cinematic history. And its original score, composed by regular Tarkovsky collaborator and early Soviet electronic musician Eduard Artemyev, is a magnificent work of haunting majesty, a key element to the film’s brilliance. Martin’s challenge was great: “it was with a certain amount of trepidation I stepped into such large footprints,” he writes.

The results - an all new score entitled Return to Solaris - are breathtaking. The film is intense, psychologically devastating and bleakly compelling. Interweaving themes of love, horror, sorrow, nostalgia, memory and dystopia, Martin’s score expertly mirrors this expansive breadth of psychic weight, from existential dread to heartbreaking poignancy, with immense emotional gravity. Drawn to its “narrative struggle between organic, pastoral memories of a lost past, and the harsh, dystopian realities of a futuristic hell,” Martin employs atonal noise, simmering waves of distorted synthesis, undulating drones and otherworldly, astronomic sound-design to crushing effect. Subtly submerged recurring motifs - reflections of individual characters - rise and fall amidst the fog, occasionally illuminating the doom like motes of starlight, before settling back into the density of space.

Album opener “Theme for Kris'' begins with a shimmering, alien tone, mimicking a disembodied, metallic choralsong that creeps and snakes about an unsettling frequency range. Ghosts aboard a deserted space station. The hissing, technological dystopia of subsequent track “Solaris'' sends evaporating torrents of steam through bulging, clanging, echoing chords, while later on the record, “In Love With A Ghost” revisits these same passages of seething doom, but now refocused into billowing, droning clouds of noise.

Determined that his score should retain the eerie, dreamlike mood of the film and authenticity to its era and origin, Kevin mined his analogue lab for suitable instruments and recording equipment, favouring antiquated, hands-on hardware over computer-based production techniques. With Voorhuit’s help, he acquired an original Pulsar 23 drum machine, created by cult Russian synth builders SOMA Laboratory. Appropriately, much of his rescore is centred around its spectral, strung-out sounds.

The project represents many firsts for Kevin: his first commissioned soundtrack; his first composition to picture; his first work in his new Belgian home after a move from Berlin; his first live performance to film screening. On completion, he performed Return to Solaris to picture over sold out two nights in October 2020, in the beautiful Voorhuit concert theatre of Gent, Belgium. And, with huge personal significance, this was his first public performance of the Covid era. He performed to a socially distanced crowd, many of whom unaware of his existing profile, “which made the rapturous reception and incredible feedback to the performance all the more memorable,” he writes.

Tarkovsky’s Solaris won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival and was screened for an incredible fifteen years uninterrupted in the Soviet Union. It is placed highly in “greatest movies of all time” lists published by Empire and the BBC, among others. Steven Soderburgh directed a Hollywood remake in 2002, starring George Clooney, and scored by Cliff Martinez.

In Love With A Ghost

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Sunday 5/08/2025 
SONIC WAVES / The Grey Space, The Hague
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HYPERFOCUS / The Grey Space, The Hague
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INDEx Mix #15 - Emission

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