After an extended stop over in London, B E N N returned to Taiwan, inspired, with a commitment to create percussion-heavy, hard drum tracks at a furious rate.
His style draws from genres on the bass continuum, merged with traditional Taiwanese sounds and his innate and unique sense of rhythm.

The EP “Synesthesia” using his own percussion-words expressing the inner conditions during past few months, featuring two tracks with personalbrand.
With the influences of hard drum, he attempted to reach out the diverse dimensions into the production, with natural sounds blending into different asian vibes with broken beats.

Experiments in rhythm that come into the exploration of nonspace in mind circle.

Artwork by Lucie
Mastered by Zarko Komar

B E N N - Synesthesya

Verde, Vert, Verde

@eks-6 'Easy Sampling' land on @a-flooded-need as a perfect hybrid between the world of slowed down/chop 'n' screw music from Houston and the universe of experimental abstract/glitch music.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/eks-fuck-accelerati

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Premiere: Eks - Fuck Accelerati

Cuban Chamber of Commerce is no desparate initiative of Fidel Castro‘s party but the alias of a true-to-the-bone character from the Balkan rave metropolis Belgrade. Born into the chaos and confusion of the Yugoslav war, Žarko concludes that the only good thing for him as a kid was listening to psy-trance even though he was profoundly disappointed by his first psy-trance rave: “I was like, NATO, please bomb me again, music was too god damn loud and place was smell like ass.”

mix @cubanchamberofcommerce011
artwork @ancestralvision

𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩

KMRU - Nuada
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Otra Vida (Unreleased)
Desir d'enfant - Je veux bien tu m'arretes
Jackie Dagger - New Born (Unreleased)
Tomas Urquieta - Sintesis de Friccion
RAPALA700 - BELIEVEINME
NKC - Comm Link
Ice_Eyes - Nuku X
Klahrk & Ship Sket - Digital Death Mask
DAVE N.A. - Atlanta
CASH FROM HASH - RADAR
Anz - Stepson
Anz - Stepper
? - ?
Walton - Smashed Crabs
B E N N - Rituals
Mosca - The Optics
Impey - DS Flips
Hanah - Switch To Softs
Xr Spool - Yblsky
Luke Vibert - DBC
Luke Vibert - Bass Kick
Percussive P - Man Dem Must Be Mad (Kid Lib Remix)
Medit8 - Dis One For Da Rudebwoy (BC Rydah Remix)
? - ?

UNIZONE: CUBAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE [s03e04]

Twitchy energetic 'reddit Against Wall Street' by @ikavapii. Forthcoming on @earlyreflex.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/ikava-pii-reddit-against-wall-street

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Premiere: Ikävä Pii - reddit Against Wall Street

For the next release on Early Reflex we welcome Frankfurt-based producer and composer Lorica (formerly known as Avbvrn), following his debut EP on Display and a split on Destitute.

Lorica filters a surgical attention to detail and sound design through a wide-scope approach to atmosphere and the spatial qualities of music. The resulting work conjures up dramatic, vivid, and tactile sonic landscapes that recall classical forms and techniques, while drawing upon contemporary textures and approaches to rhythm and memory.
Inspired by renaissance arts and their creative process ‘Adaptive Radiation’ [EYX005] stretches further Lorica’s experimental and oblique musical approach to the club-focused context of Early Reflex. The result is a 5-track EP blending cinematic sound design with traces of dubstep, drill, dancehall, trap, and more which is going to hit the listeners both physically and emotionally!

The opener ‘Baikal Rediscovered’ is a great example of Lorica’s production style where the composer blends together orchestral and atmospheric pads with incessant grimey beats and a deep bass-line making it a suitable tool for the club.
A storm of otherworldly sounds in contrast with its trapp inspired rhythmic session protrude in ‘Ochre Skeleton’ originating a surrealistic and peculiar atmosphere.
Approaching the end of the first half of the EP there is ‘Petrified Butterfly’, a dreamy and spooky interlude where synthesised flute melodies, fast-paced percussions and effected field recordings repeat and alternate themselves continuously while evolving every time differently in a never-ending loop until every sound dissolves in empty reverberated spaces.
Entering the second half of the release, listeners get hit by the drilling kick drum and the twisting sound design of ‘Sodiumglanz’, which lead to the closure of the EP.
In ‘Breccia’ Lorica explores further his blend of cinematic effects with the pronounced attitude for the club, delivering a track characterised by pitch-shifting electronic percussions and the harmonic progression of orchestrated instruments and strings.

‘Adaptive Radiation’ is available across all platforms starting from Friday 5th of November.

© & ℗ 2021 Early Reflex. All rights reserved. All tracks produced and mixed by Lorica § Mastering by Andrea Prato § Drawings by Giuseppe Cavuoto § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu.

Sodiumglanz

After an extended stop over in London, B E N N returned to Taiwan, inspired, with a commitment to create percussion-heavy, hard drum tracks at a furious rate.
His style draws from genres on the bass continuum, merged with traditional Taiwanese sounds and his innate and unique sense of rhythm. 

The EP “Synesthesia” using his own percussion-words expressing the inner conditions during past few months, featuring two tracks with personalbrand.
With the influences of hard drum, he attempted to reach out the diverse dimensions into the production, with natural sounds blending into different asian vibes with broken beats.

Experiments in rhythm that come into the exploration of nonspace in mind circle.

Out on October 1st. on @kepasaparadoks.

@bedoublensound
@personalbrand
@kepasaparadoks

Premiere: B E N N - DKHD (feat. Personalbrand) [kepasaparadoks]

>< CRUDE Premiere ><

Artist: B E N N, personalbrand
Title:  Havana Syndrome 
Label​: kepasaparadoks // Synesthesya EP
Release date: 1st October 2021

Support the artist & label:
>>https://kepasaparadoks.bandcamp.com/album/b-e-n-n-synesthesya


After an extended stop over in London, B E N N returned to Taiwan, inspired, with a commitment to create percussion-heavy, hard drum tracks at a furious rate. 
His style draws from genres on the bass continuum, merged with traditional Taiwanese sounds and his innate and unique sense of rhythm. 

The EP “Synesthesia” using his own percussion-words expressing the inner conditions during past few months, featuring two tracks with personalbrand. 
With the influences of hard drum, he attempted to reach out the diverse dimensions into the production, with natural sounds blending into different asian vibes with broken beats. 

Experiments in rhythm that come into the exploration of nonspace in mind circle.


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@personalbrand
@kepasaparadoks

CRUDE Premiere: B E N N - Havana Syndrome (feat. personalbrand) [kepasaparadoks]

Taken from B E N N (@bedoublensound) new EP Synesthesya, out October 1, 2021, via kepasaparadoks. (@kepasaparadoks)

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After an extended stop over in London, B E N N returned to Taiwan, inspired, with a commitment to create percussion-heavy, hard drum tracks at a furious rate.
His style draws from genres on the bass continuum, merged with traditional Taiwanese sounds and his innate and unique sense of rhythm.

The EP “Synesthesia” using his own percussion-words expressing the inner conditions during past few months, featuring two tracks with personalbrand.
With the influences of hard drum, he attempted to reach out the diverse dimensions into the production, with natural sounds blending into different asian vibes with broken beats.

Experiments in rhythm that come into the exploration of nonspace in mind circle.

Artwork by LunePerse
https://www.instagram.com/luneperse/

Mastered by Zarko Komar

Released by kepasaparadoks.

Premiere: B E N N - Ima [kepasaparadoks.]

Synesthesya

B E N N - Eco Algorithm

B E N N - Phantasm

B E N N - Rapid March

IM089 - @galtier - Pulchra Es Elementis
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: September 24th,2021
Format: 12" / Digital

With 10 years in the ‘biz’ firmly under his belt, Jiah Wells is poised to release the first full-length LP of his Galtier project, Pulchra Es Elementis. Whilst Galtier is arguably one of the originators of the percussive style that would eventually fall under the Hard Drum label, the heightened theatrics of his recent output have seen him channel Blade Runner-styled sonics and move further away from absolute club functionality. Whilst Galtier’s output often seems to soundtrack hypothetical, off-planet words, Pulchra Es Elementis turns the focus inwards: towards Wells’ own emotional constellation, his evolving spirituality and his attempts to tap into planes of existence beyond the tangible. The album’s Latin title translates to ‘Elements are Beautiful’ and encapsulates the artist’s belief that there is grace in all of life’s aspects; pushing past what we deem as good or bad, minuscule or massive.

Pulchra Es Elementis begins with Crystalised Larva, a brooding opener of breathy pad synths and expansive kick drums which reverberate through the mix as if the hits originate from the bottom of a valley. There’s an indistinct sense of tension on this track, in part due to a central melody, which never resolves but only descends lower in pitch. This tension turns to explorative wonder on Wilfull Saviour, where a mirage of musical ideas come in and out of focus. Although the sonic worlds Galtier explores are internal to him, Wilfull Saviour still possesses that sense of a cosmic journey we’ve come to expect from Wells; an ardent fan of dystopian films and literature.

Continuing this emotional odyssey, Bruised, But Not Broken sees the artist push deeper into the psychological undergrowth; its murky tonality juxtaposes crisp, Reggaeton-inspired drum patterns with a heavily compressed one-note synth line that modulates wildly - cutting through the mix like a nagging thought that won’t leave your mind. Next up is U Were, U Are & What U Will Be, one of the more club-ready tracks of the LP, which gets us moving with a snarling bassline and layers upon layers of percussive hits and inflections.

At Pulchra Es Elementis’ mid-point is the LP’s title track, a drumless interlude where blissful, shimmering synths create a patchwork of intensities. Galtier’s approach to songwriting shines through here; ignoring musical pragmatics, he opts to feel his way through his compositions without knowing where they might end up. Following on from that weightless breather, Phantasiai turns up the freneticism with its head-spinning mix of drum programming and a glitched-out synth line that yo-yos up and down octaves. Things get even more furious on the Superficie-featuring Cavernam, a hollow Hard Drum banger inspired by Eskibeat sensibilities and designed to create a sense of self-implosion.

The album’s penultimate track, (U Are) Beautiful, is a tale of two halves: beginning with a moment of serenity as synthesizers swell like an ocean tide before evolving into a marching crescendo of raw energy. Rounding off the album, Shine Forth hurtles through pacey drum work and all manner of strange zaps and klaxons before giving way to a final dose of nebulous ambience.

A musical journey unlike any other ‘club music’ albums, Pulchra Es Elementis is an LP that demands to be consumed in one sitting. Reflecting on his place within the universe and the musical landscape, the album could be viewed as a musical exorcism which sees Galtier working through and shedding huge chunks of his ego that stuck to him out of fear of the unknown. Pulchra Es Elementis begins on an insecure, overwhelming or, even, existential note before rounding off with a related sense of vastness seen with new, more positive eyes. It’s a voyage we hope you will join him on.

Galtier - Pulchra Es Elementis

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Bane:9 est batteur, il produit une musique essentiellement rythmique imbibée d’énergie stoner. À la croisée de l’indus et du dub, il génère des textures denses et saturées. Un nouvel album aux rythmes lourds où il convoque une foule de sonorités aux cliquetis cybernétiques crasseux et tenaces. Les tracks transpirent le live, des salves breakées et organiques qui nous invitent à participer aux grondements qui soulèvent la terre. Un album qui nous parle d’un monde qui se fait taper sur la gueule mais qui persiste.

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Bane:9 is a drummer who produces music that is essentially rhythmic and imbued with stoner energy. At the crossroads of industrial and dub, he generates dense, saturated textures. A new album with heavy rhythms where he summons a crowd of sounds with dirty and tenacious cybernetic clatters. The tracks exude live energy, with broken and organic bursts that invite us to participate in the rumblings that shake the earth. An album that tells us about a world that is being beaten up but persists.

B E N N - Rapid March

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