Taken from Failed Units (@failed-units) new compilation Mighty Morphin' Power Bangers, featuring:
DJ Pacifier (@dj-pacifier)
Daniel Ruane (@daniel-ruane-2)
smog (@smog_0)
Stolen Velour (@stolenvelour)

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Failed Units launch their first V.A. series titled Mighty Morphin’ Power Bangers. The series is dedicated to BPM tools, tracks that are designed specifically to jump between tempos and open up new ideas and directions in DJ sets. The first edition features DJ Pacifier with a full on hardcore to techno blast (180 > 140 bpm), Daniel Ruane with a sugar rush of kicks (127 > 200 bpm), smog with a sludged out industrial doom-groover (25 > 125 bpm) and Stolen Velour with an elastic electro via dnb hybrid (130 > 175 bpm).

For the first time, the digital release is accompanied by a physical release. The Mighty Morphin’ Power Bangers card game is the creation of recent Failed Units alumni Ziyiz in collaboration with Daniel Ruane and Carne. It is a fully playable dice/card game hybrid inspired by 1980’s Japanese toy commercials, 1 bit MS-DOS games and TTRPGs.

Art, game and concept by Ziyiz
https://www.instagram.com/ziyiziyiziyiz/

Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Leeds

Released by Failed Units

Mighty Morphin' Power Bangers

Premiere: Daniel Ruane - Oculus Headbutt [Failed Units]

Sunshine Vendetta - Darknet

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Budapest's @Exiles-Electronics label are a port of call for anyone who enjoys scuttling around in the back corners of Bandcamp, digging out undocumented artists and providing them with a home for their releases. Their latest EP, 'brain fog' from non-binary Hungarian producer @asvanyviz2, does exactly that.

brain fog

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Deconstructed World: AHMED ALAA w/ B E N N - 06/02/2023

Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

'Soft and Black'
Modular synthesizer & voice – KIM KHAN


In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

TRANCE BAND - Soft and Black

KRMA - PRESSURE WAVE


Max Postal has remixed the wonderful classic liquid drum and bass track "Can You Hear Me" by Crushpult. This remix reveals a deeper, yet no less energetic, side of drum and bass music. Vocals and synths taken from the original track are mixed with deep bass lines and drums. Depth and melody all rolled into one.

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Crushpult - Can You Hear Me (Max Postal Remix)

Clown Pt.5

Fresh off being crowned as one of our top labels of 2018, TT (@tobago-tracks) is continuing its industrious and impressive form into 2019 with a new EP from South London-based artist hmurd (@hmurdoch). 

The UK outlet has earned respected status for its dedication to pushing a vanguard of experimental producers making music on their own terms, and hmurd’s three-track outing ‘Boycott Ethical Consumption’ bolsters the imprint’s next-level repertoire. 

EP closer ‘Shepard’s Delight’ is an intense, compelling club concoction that places you in the swirling frenzy of 3am with a clarity of thought declaring: “this bangs”. Piercing tones are grounded in earth-shattering bass, raising adrenaline, before collapsing into a chaotic catharsis of clattering percussion and demented church chimes.

‘Boycott Ethical Consumption’ will be available from TT's Bandcamp on January 25: https://tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/

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Premere: hmurd 'Shepard's Delight'

Wav Gon X Plexøs (Sweet Rage blend)

#BKLA is my new project where I will release remixes, edits, and blends of classic #bakalao anthems.

Download available at https://blastto.bandcamp.com

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BKLA 1 - Strange (Blastto Breaks Remix)

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