Episode 16 | Antagonist | June 2023:
An eclectic selection of things I'm currently enjoying and brand new music of mine, with a few personals put together into a long play podcast.
120 - 170bpm & beyond!
Enjoy..

Contact @ antagonistbassmusic@gmail.com

Astral Mix Series   Episode 16 [@antagonistuk]

Sacred Order Mix

Donny & Katharsys - Snare Shower LP - Part Three
BARCODE049
Forthcoming on Barcode Recordings 20th September 2024.

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Snare Shower

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Donny & Katharsys - Dog Eat Dog

Samurai Music returns to the evocative sound world of Ancestral Voices for an album that splits the difference between cinematic sound design and deadly restraint at 170 BPM. Nemeton continues Liam Blackburn's exploration of ancient Celtic mysticism through snaking rhythms and snarling sound design, conjuring a high-definition sonic image of sacred groves and the druids practicing amongst them.  

Blackburn's Ancestral Voices project tracks back to 2015, when he debuted on Samurai Horo with the Night Of Visions album. In stark contrast to his celebrated 140 work as Indigo, this project leaned on the inspiration of pagan spirituality to charge his vivid, advanced production style with a rich and mysterious atmosphere. While he's channelled this approach into a variety of tempos and styles, on his 2016 EP Old Earth Voodoo on Samurai Music he applied the concept to a drum & bass framework, which he returns to on Nemeton with rigorous focus.

Far from a straightforward collection of breakbeat tracks, Blackburn uses negative space and pointillist production to carve out an immersive, tense sound world around the 170 grid. He takes a widescreen approach to percussion, running from pin-prick synthesised one-shots to tumbling, organic drums you'd more readily associate with a Hans Zimmer score. Scene-building is the foremost mission across Nemeton, casting otherworldly forces in sweeps of low-end friction and dramatic melodic blooms amidst tangible real-world field recordings of flora and fauna.  

Casting the mind back some 2000 years is an exercise in imagination as much as research, and Blackburn ably summons dark fantasy as he delves ever deeper into Welsh mythology with a studious zeal and avid fascination. It's that drive that makes Nemeton burst forth and take shape so powerfully, bristling with kinetic energy and a barely-concealed, strangely seductive menace that leaves a lasting impression long after the last snatch of bass has bared its teeth.


Nemeton - out on 2025-05-02 on 2x12" and Digital. Exclusive collector's Vinyl edition available only on Bandcamp and voidvinyl.eu


1. Ancestral Voices - Nemeton
2. Ancestral Voices - A Heart Of Oak
3. Ancestral Voices - Annwn
4. Ancestral Voices - Mist Of Avalon
5. Ancestral Voices - Arawn
6. Ancestral Voices - Stanzas Of The Graves
7. Ancestral Voices - Keltia

Full album previews - https://voidvinyl.eu/products/ancestral-voices-nemeton

Nemeton

Ancestral Voices - Annwn [SMDELP14]

Primal Tribes - Forlorn Descent

Available on Bandcamp: https://offishproductions.bandcamp.com/album/circling-the-drain

As well as these stores:

Redeye // https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/182173-oprv001-offish-circling-the-drain-ep
Juno // https://www.juno.co.uk/products/offish-circling-the-drain-ep-vinyl/1082797-01/
Deejay // https://www.deejay.de/Offish_Circling_The_Drain_EP_OPRV001_Vinyl__1141749
Suburban Trash // https://suburbantrash.com/drum-n-bass-jungle/5498-5464--pre-order-oprv001-offish-circling-the-drain-ep.html#/33-format-12_vinyl

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[OPRV001] Offish - Circling The Drain EP ♦ 12" RECORD OUT NOW!

01: Wottakku - Atmos
02: Fetus & Itti - Mystical Disc (The Untouchables Remix)	
03: Anku - Warpaint	
04: Wottakku - Wottakku
05: Anku - Cave	
06: Wottakku - Provocative Heating
07: Last Life - Purge	
08: Wottakku - Severe
09: Dailiv - Houngan	
10: Sam KDC - Mutilate	
11: Hoji - Purgatory	
12: Torn - Invisible Turmoil	
13: Last Life - Edena	
14: Rozzer - On The Tracks	
15: Dailiv - Call of the Deep	
16: Torn feat. Alice - There Is No Need for Names	
17: Rozzer - Lightrunner Dub	
18: M@shinist - Wedge	
19: Ruffhouse, Clarity - Aphasia
20: Acid Lab - Expel Our Demons	
21: Overlook feat. Ruffhouse, Gremlinz - Apparition
22: Xiua - 3 Body Problem	
23: 4 6 2 5 - Sedition
24: NABŪ & Elizar Mel - Silverstone	
25: NABŪ - Ur	
26: TNNL - The Vessel	
27: Akinsa - Rastafari (Offish Remix)

Vykhod Sily Podcast - Wottakku Guest Mix

Get full track here: https://offishproductions.bandcamp.com/album/circling-the-drain

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Akinsa & Offish - Gutterfunk (Akinsa VIP)

smyla - FLUIDITY [Prspct] clip

Sargy - ESP

Another preview from the tune featuring on Tunes From The Crypt 6 

Another Ghoul has escaped the Crypt! 

Artwork by Hangry’s own Jess Hangry Baker - JeBaArtist, want any artwork/logo/video or any other creative thingymagigs, hit her up! Willing to just trade art, or credited etc. can come to a very reasonable deal 😎

Mastering will be done by Jon Tetly

3/4 will be donated between Crisis, The Forward Trust and Hunt Saboteurs Association 💚

Sargy - ESP PREVIEW

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KP - 004
FORTITUDE - Hymn of Sins
Release date: 31.12.2k15

Artist links:
www.soundcloud.com/fortitude_dnb
www.facebook.com/fortitude.dnb
www.mixcloud.com/fortitude_

Label links:
www.soundcloud.com/krytikaproductions
www.facebook.com/krytikaproductions
www.mixcloud.com/krytikaproductions

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FORTITUDE - Hymn of Sins

Label for dark + experimental underground music
Est. 2014

FORTITUDE - Hymn of Sins

KRYTIKA Productions ™