LP/digital out August 13th 2021 on Pessimist Productions (PESS004). Written and produced by Kristian Jabs, featuring L, Jaustin K Broadrick, Taylor E Burch & Karim Maas

Press release:

Kristian Jabs is one of Bristol’s favourite sons in the modern era of electronic music. As Pessimist, Boreal Massif and Soft Boi, Jabs has solidified his position as a leader of a generation of artists. 

In his latest carnation Jabs presents ‘Too Long’, a new 7 track album project under a new artist moniker of Stigma. Enlisting a prolific cast of collaborators in the form of L, Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Napalm Death, JK Flesh), Taylor E Burch (Tropic Of Cancer, DVA Damas) and Karim Maas, Too Long clocks in at almost 40 minutes of personally reflective, intimately authentic cyber-noir-esque trip hop. 

Industrial anarcho breaks, syncopated sleaze, analogue call and response. Too long is a tale of texture, feel and tone. Unadulterated. Aiming to shine a light on the relationship between poverty and mental health issues in the UK, all proceeds from the album will be donated to Second Step Bristol, a charity dedicated to supporting people with mental health problems, gently acknowledging the possibilities for change.

purchase from bandcamp: https://pessimistproductions.bandcamp.com/album/pess004-stigma-too-long-lp

Tracklist:

1. Madureira
2. Acid Rain
3. Believe In Me Ft. L
4. Listening Now
5. No Garden Ft. Justin K Broadrick
6. Advertised Ft. Taylor E Burch
7. Society Ft. Karim Maas

PESS004 - STIGMA - TOO LONG - ALBUM PREVIEW - PESSIMIST PRODUCTIONS

Taken from Defiance [HOROEX38] 

Out now on Marbled 2x12" and Digital - https://horo.lnk.to/defiance

Defiance is a collection of tracks constructed while experimentation was underway in the ASC studio between 170BPM Techno and the creation of the Grey Area sound. Upon revision, the vitality and strength of these tunes as a collection became apparent. Leaving these unreleased would be a travesty in our mission to be part of documenting the evolution of the voluminous ASC production legacy. While heavy on effective floor tunes that ASC utilised in his last tour of Europe, Defiance is given an ethereal LP narrative with tunes like opener Exulansis, Tensile, and Sarif. Defiance helps to complete the story of the development of the ASC sound as we know it today.

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Defiance

ASC - Component [HOROEX38]

London-based Baroque Sunburst (@baroquesunburst) and Italian XCPT serve DJs and systems a zinger in this collabo. Four urgent tracks, uptempo and half-beat, fearless and immersive. Shades of techno pump linearity into bulging basslines, and amidst the echoes of 90s dub a whiff of industrial, post-punk shamelessness rears its head. Soundboys beware.


Tracklist:
A1 Nothus & Big Hands - Splugen Bass
A2 Soreab & KRSLD - Butoh
B1 Big Hands & Soreab - FC Ladub
B2 Delikwe - Fibra Cosmica

XBSUN001
Mastered & cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut Mastering
Distributed by Honest Jon's
Design by Linkin Bios

XBSUN001 | Baroque Sunburst x XCPT | Marmo

XM007 | Nothus - Angulo Angusto
@nothusworld

A1 Kerala Terror Squad
A2 KTS — Pushlock remix
B1 Street Life ft. Marco Segato
B2 ST00r1s
B3 Love Letter

w&p by Nothus in Milan, 2019 
Mastered and cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut, Berlin
Distributed by Honest Jon's
Design by Linkin Bios

one side screen printed 12”
— limited to 200 copies

Nothus — Angulo Angusto | XM007

Zohar – ZHR002 (5 Sep 2022)

As the shifting of storms, Zohar presents a mystical, thrill-seeking desire. After three years, the second entry in the highly personal ZHR series has arrived.

In Zohar’s renewed modus operandi analog and digital techniques interact with dissected and transformed sound experiments — an eclectic approach that honors the wide musical scope the artist seeks refined and surprising connections in. 

Consciously withholding energy, these seven percussive and pulsating tracks seek a balance between a near teasing attitude, and total transgression. In the end, Zohar’s volatile signature refuses to be contained.

A1. Osh
A2. Metal
A3. Broken (Sometimes, I dance)
A4. KO
B1. Warped
B2. Millie
B3. Pieces


Words: Luke Cohlen 
Master: Gert-Jan van Stiphout 
Artwork: Line Ven

ZHR002 Zohar - OBJECT LP

Razor-sharp drum 'n' bass, cutting-edge jungle and extraterrestrial machine sounds.

Kamikaze Space Programme and Cocktail Party Effect step in with four meticulously designed mind-bending tracks, offering unbelievable exhibits of their dexterity in crafting futuristic jungle and razor-sharp drum ‘n’ bass.

Spiced up with a devastating array of extraterrestrial machine sounds and wicked sinister ambience, Food for Thought is for all those who continue to feed their minds with criticisms, refusing to adhere to a system that wants us technological adults but spiritual and emotional infants.

“...But you survived!” Cit.

Food For Thought

Betamax (With Cocktail Party Effect)

Shiver

Notions Of Causality

Exhausted Modern - Noosphere (Overlook Remix)

Nerve Collect is a new label co-founded by Dutch collaborators Identified Patient and Gamma Intel. The first release is Identified Patient's Elevator Music for Headbangers EP and it comes digitally with two bonus cuts, or as a six-track 12". It's a freaky journey into exactly the sort of leftfield electronics to expect going forwards complete with AI artwork by Nina van den Berg and Design by Sander Molenaar.

The first EP features music written between 2019 and 2022 and takes you deep into the netherworld. It feels both dystopian yet inviting, with hefty bass and twitchy acid that will make both brain and body dance. There's a taughtness right from the off when 'Walk With Me' marries cavernous and booming kicks with bright flashes of acid. 'You Are the Loop' is an AI hallucination with mangled synths, while 'The Fun Never Stops' is psyched-out mutant jungle. The b-side keeps on building with the dark and pressurised energy of 'Dead Demo' and screw-face swagger of 'The Devil is Blue' leading into the final cut 'Second-Hand Nostalgia' which is an industrial take on trip-hop. The bonus cuts spin out yet further into intergalactic electro-techno warfare and controlled rhythmic chaos.

The mind-melting sonics of this first release proves Nerve Collect is here to do things differently.

NC001 // Identified Patient - A1. Walk With Me

Phace - Caged (Trinidat & Estewes Remix) - Patreon Remix Competition Entry

Up in the clouds, they found themselves very comfortable. They sat looking down upon planet earth watching as it ran itself in circles. Who had ever known heaven could be as sweet as this? Up here they lived a happy, peaceful, contented life in which they were not bothered by the woes and troubles of a wild and wonderful world below. They live, they breathe, they dance...

Forest Drive West recently released an EP on German record label, Midgar. It was titled "They Live" and was a stellar showcase of the deep, pensive, thoughtful electronics that he has become best known for. Now the label have announced a new remix package which features some hugely talented producers in what is a tastefully  curated affair.

PREMIERE: Forest Drive West - They Live (Pessimist Remix)[Midgar Records]

If there’s an artist to successfully traverse the treacherous divide between drum and bass, breakbeat and techno it’s Christopher Jarman’s prevailing alias, Kamikaze Space Programme. With roots indebted to the music he released on labels like Renegade Hardware under his Raiden alias, his abstract, field recorded, industrial and broken admission into the annals of electronica has seen his music backed, supported and released by the heaviest of renowned labels - namely Luke Slater's Mote Evolver, Mord to Osiris Music, Mord and Mote Evolver, WNCL, to the freshly minted Eomac’s Eotrax and further afield on Trust via Kamikaze Space Programme’s electro-minded wares. 

Having proved himself a razor-sharp edge of meticulous drum and bass production when rising up through the ranks of the genre’s definitive platforms, Kamikaze Space Programme’s hybrid sound, has joined the dots through a constellation of labels inhibiting a grey zone between UK club music and steely brutalist industrial textures. 

An accomplished session musician and avid field recording artist, Jarman’s music by and large is made up of foley sound design and sonic experimentation using bespoke apparatus and homemade microphones. Capturing internal resonances and electromagnetic radiation of objects, re-amplified or organic, classic hardware dub mixing completes the Kamikaze Space Programme aesthetic. Having worked with BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Rotterdam’s Re:Vive initiative too, there’s no denying Jarman of his credentials, with his repute as a formidable DJ and live act backed by his place in heavy weight line ups across the globe, be they at Berghain, Kompass Klub or Dommune to performing at festivals like Atonal, Krake and Kiev’s Next Sound.

Other collaborative projects, furthermore, have found their way through Simon Shreeve (aka Mønic, of Downwards and Kryptic Minds fame) to his Osiris Musik collaboration with Adam Winchester (Appleblips) under the moniker, Dot Product. He’s also proved a deft hand in the remix by taking on productions by Planetary Assault Systems, Emika and The Exaltics to NY’s The Horrorist.

Encompassing the most brutal of industrial sound design alongside intrinsic field recordings and the sleeker, low tempos and frenetic energy of jungle, breakbeats and drum and bass, Jarman’s ability to maneuver between genre and style sees the music of Kamikaze Space Programme defy classification while spiralling from one nether-spectrum of sound to the next.

Betamax (With Cocktail Party Effect)

Kamikaze Space Programme

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