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Ross Lowder - Shred 
Voragine, 2024 
Buy: https://voragine-sadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shred

@ross_lowder 
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[Premiere] Ross Lowder - Shred 1 (out on Voragine)

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🛒 https://plasmasources.bandcamp.com/album/soundsystem-music
🔊 https://youtu.be/cQQv4yCvibA

Plasma Sources is proud to present nosync’s Soundsystem Music, an EP which provides a fresh perspective on the high-fidelity and sci-fi influenced electronic music the imprint is known for. 

nosync’s work sits in a truly unique space in the sound system/club music-o-sphere. This in large part is due to his heavy deployment of progressive metal instrumentation, from chugging walls of overdriven guitars to relentless double-time kick patterns. On paper, utilising this palette in a club-music context may seem like an impossible task. However, where others might see a chasm of disparity, nosync has deftly identified the bridge connecting these two genres, seeing in these two landscapes the same desired emotional state - despite the different methodologies used to achieve this. 

“This record attempts to make the case that the essence of what makes these sounds so obsessively loved are one and the same. Gripping dramatism and intensity are the overlapping themes that I have attempted to bring out here, through the record’s sound design and film-like structure.”

Indeed Soundsystem Music as a whole feels wildly cinematic and is as much an exercise in atmosphere creation as music for sound systems, with nosync citing the video game Dead Space and its sequel as key influences for this body of work. From the claustrophobic, elasticated wind chamber of ‘Traced’ to the broken choir voices and FiS-esque ambient abyss of ‘Dead Land’, nosync has expertly matched the pace and atmosphere of these hugely iconic and utterly terrifying video games and channeled them into a purely sonic experience. 

The metal influences nosync brings to the table slice through the entire corpus of Soundsystem Music, although the linkage is perhaps at its most clear on ‘Airlock’, which features a full-on death-metal guitar chugging through the first half. In perhaps the most surprising switch-up of the entire EP, things suddenly twist into a guttural underwater club track a third of the way through. 

nosync’s love for the vast ecosystem of club/soundsystem music also comes through loud and clear on this release, from the grime-inflected leads and hyper-detailed polyrhythmic noise workouts of ‘Unregistered Hypercam’ to the reverberated metal clangs of ‘Kauket’s Arena’ which feels like witch-house on steroids - the soundtrack to some final boss battle with some type of nightmare-demon-entity. 

nosync has achieved something unique with Soundsystem Music. By drawing together a hugely disparate corpus of influences and pummelling them into a noise-fuelled apocalyptic aberration, he has created a sound which feels consistent, fully his own, and in many places, utterly dread-inducing.

Tracklist: 

1. Aberrations
2. Traced
3. Unregistered Hypercam
4. Dead Land
5. Airlock
6. Kauket’s Arena

PREMIERE: nosync - Airlock [Plasma Sources]

NR Sound Premiere #6

Artist: Strict Face
Track: Casual Contact
Album: Thirst For Nerve EP
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Label: SLG International
Release date: 01.03.24

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Premiere: Strict Face - Casual Contact [Thirst For Nerve EP]

Eterna - the new label from Lisbon run by local mainstay @mariaamoramormaria - presents its first release 'Aerosol' by another of the city's most interesting electronic music artists, @bleiddd. A true sonic polymath, BLEID is known for their range as a music-maker and as a DJ: ambient, techno, reggaeton,
guitar-led jams are all an integral part of their musical lexicon. In this EP, though, all eyes are most definitely on the dancefloor.
Opener 'Rubber Band Land Calling' is an off-kilter percussive exercise held together by subby kicks that can't seem to stand still, punctuated with lush pad washes that breathe life and optimism into the otherwise defying atmosphere. Joyful resistance in a track. Drum experimentalism is also served
in 'Hellastic Fantastic', with snares taking center stage and the kick pattern zig zagging dynamically between broken motifs and four to the floor hypnotism. 
Things remain on an ever-changing drum-led tip - but get slightly darker - in 'New Age Waste', all sound design impact and perfectly executed leftfield drum programming that wants us to shake our hips, not just bang our heads, as we dance. 'Desce', homonymous to BLEID's party series, feels like
an homage to queer rave innovation by referencing iconic vocal and hoover hooks over a broken, genre-defying dance beat.
@boredlord steps in for the first remix of the record: the iconic American artist, part of the T4T LUV NRG family, picks up BLEID's opening track and turns it into an imaginative breakbeat-led groover where vibes reign supreme.
Local legend and a key part of the Príncipe family @nidiasukulbembe redefines cadency and swing with a complex but natural - and expertly sculped, watch out for the sound design on this one - reinterpretation of 'Hellastic Fantastic'. A hair-raising finale to an EP that screams fresh perspectives: the way we make music and dance is changing and Eterna is here to document it.

BLEID - Hellastic Fantastic

Despite the efforts of organizers around the world, and the overwhelming disapproval of the international community, Israel continues in their campaign to see the displacement, murder, occupation, and apartheid of Palestinians to its brutal end with the help of the USA and UK.

As artists operating in the West, we call unequivocally for an end to this violence, for justice in the Palestinian struggle, and for the US and UK’s divestment of political and financial capital from the genocidal Israeli state.

We gather this music to offer our solidarity, make our position clear, and encourage others to continue advocating and organizing for the Palestinian liberation struggle.

All proceeds for this compilation will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians (www.map.org.uk).

Mastered by Curve Pusher
Artwork by je_fous_le_camp

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@ziyiz

Various Artists - Fluo IV - For Palestine KINDER017 (Previews)

25% of label profits will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians www.map.org.uk

releases May 3, 2024

All music by BFTT
Artwork by www.missridd.biz
Mastered by Joker

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Hassan Abou Alam - I Think [Bandcamp Exclusive]

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"The nine-track compilation "Club Forms" is our manifest of club oriented sound. In mysticism the number 9 symbolises the completion and the transition to new opportunities, reminding the cyclical nature of life and the importance of spiritual development. The compilation represents a new phase for our community."

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