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 2x12"/Digital


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

Nemeton

Ancestral Voices - Stanzas Of The Graves [SMDELP14]

Om Unit & Soreab to release their first joint record, Pressure 3D, featuring Al Wooton and Ottomani Parker remixes via Baroque Sunburst, out on March 28th. 

Pre-order: https://baroquesunburst.bandcamp.com/album/pressure-3d-bsun013
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@baroquesunburst
@soreabuk
@omunit

Pressure 3D

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Premiere: Om Unit & Soreab - Last Breath

With the release of our third annual Various Artists Compilation, we’re celebrating three years of LAPS Recordings. Time to enter more experimental territories: known LAPS-Members since day one, Kid Kun and Van Kost are back with two groovy breakbeat tunes! Kid Kun’s "1 4 The System" is dark, driving and a pleasure for every sounddesign enthusiast. Van Kost follows with "Liquid Black" which is more chill and dub-influenced. Last but not least we welcome "Timo Haege" from Hamburg, a good friend of our crew with his raw, minimalistic and experimental tune "WFSP"

Kid Kun - 1 4 The System

Taken from Vardae - Flaming As A Cloud [SMDE50]

Available on Limited 12" and Digital
https://vardae.bandcamp.com/album/fla...
https://voidvinyl.eu/products/vardae-...

The latest transmission on Samurai tunes into half-time intensity with a psychedelic edge courtesy of leading French practitioner Vardae. Applying techno hypnotism and cinematic atmospheres to his snaking beat constructions, the Lyon-based artist delivers a pitch-perfect exercise in mystical meditation that follows a natural path from the Ancestral Voices LP.

Since first emerging around 2017, Vardae has been determined to establish a sound unbound by genre restrictions. To date he's successfully moved between cult labels such as Non Series and Ooda while pivoting from linear 4/4 to crooked broken beat without disrupting his immersive, finely sculpted production style.

Alongside his releases, Vardae is also responsible for the ouroboros festival that takes place every year in central France. Last summer, after the dancefloor closed on the final night of the the event, fabled Dutch transcendental ambient group Son Of Chi made an acoustic concert around the campfire that cast a spell over everyone present. This experience formed the inspirational basis for Vardae's new EP, drawing on the instinctive power of insistent rhythm and the spiritual intrigue that lies behind subtly dissonant tones — shadows cast by refined, restrained synthesis flickering in the imagined light of the flames.

From the rattle of timbale on 'The Light Motion' to the laser-focused ripples that charge through 'Voices Of Dispossession', Vardae bends and shapes his drum work with exacting intention across this EP. Treading the line between 85 and 170BPM, he approaches fierce peaks in his tracks with an exacting patience, building to the arp-soaked climax of 'Flaming As A Cloud' and its ecstatic, melodic crescendo.

Proudly individual and drawing from the deepest of musical experiences, Vardae's latest statement promises similarly profound moments when these pieces come into contact with the right souls and the right sound in the right setting.

www.instagram.com/vardae__/

Flaming As A Cloud

Vardae - The Light Motion [SMDE50]

Vardae - Charming Your Soul [SMDE50]

Podcast •• 25 🌀

Neuron No. 3 (@neuron_no3) est DJ et fondateur du Gateway, un micro-festival qui cherche à conjuguer une expression artistique pointue avec une expérience festivalière complète. Il nous invite aujourd’hui à explorer ses influences issues de la bass music.

Une heure d’exploration, entre lignes de basses profondes et conflits de textures. Une composition entre dub, downtempo et dubstep, dans laquelle les motifs rythmiques semblent cadencés pour réguler le chaos.

Gems incoming ⛏️

TRACKLIST:

Skee Mask - Session Add
Bex, Mantissa - Ridiculous
Sub Basics - Splinter
Leon Switch, Kwizma - Buddha
AshSparrow - Track D044
Unkey, Mythm - Charge
11th Hour - Deep Dive
Kercha - Witness
Herbalistek - Sentium
RM Estali - Reboot
Smogo - Interzone
Herbalistek, Symbiosa - Suborbital
Widow - Dark Selecta
Dublink - Interconnected
Kunas - Bedroom Prayers
Kwizma - Macaw
Hellacopta - Use of Weapons
ENiGMA Dubz - Week 1
mac.dubz - Wobhetti
AshSparrow - Track D057
Buena Tarde - Zubadub (VIP)
Kercha - Hold the Breath
Mia Koden - 10easy
Kairo - Gernika
Pugilist - After8

Neuron No. 3 | Combine Podcast 25

12” vinyl and digital out on the 25th of July 2025 across your favourite stores

Purchase directly: dnorecords.bandcamp.com

DNO019 - Torn - Taiga EP

A1 - Wreak Havoc
A2 - Whalebone
B1 - Taiga
B2 - Stay

Written, produced & mixed by I. Karasev aka @torn170

Limited edition of 300 copies

Taiga EP

DNO019 - Torn - Taiga EP [OUT NOW]

@hevlaran returns to Fever AM after last year’s Model To Excite EP, this time with a strong focus on melody, effortlessly weaving it into his signature modular intricacy. There's a sense of playful energy across the EP, all five tracks packed full of character.


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TL Premiere #1978 (2025.08.22) : Hylian Fields - Path Of Guilt [Metal Disorder]

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For this 137th Premiere of 2025, we have a track by Hylian Fields titled ‘Path Of Guilt’ from his forthcoming EP "No Techno Shit" on Armen Crew's sub-label : Metal Disorder.

▶︎ The EP will be available from September 5, 2025 in digital only on Bandcamp  : https://armencrewmusic.bandcamp.com/album/no-techno-shit-metal-disorder

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Release Info :

Hylian Fields - No Techno Shit [Metal Disorder // MD001]

Tracklist :
1. Path Of Guilt
2. No Techno Shit
3. Ghetto Encounterz
4. Freaks
5. No Techno Shit (@arnaudisdancing remix)
6. No Techno Shit (@reallyraw remix)

releases September 5, 2025

Informations:
Digital Only
Mastering : @ HDN Mastering
Illustration : Nelson Kane
Art : FormaNoire

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Follow Hylian Fields :
Instagram : www.instagram.com/hylianfields_hot_tracks
SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/hylian_fields

Follow Metal Disorder :
Bandcamp : https://armencrewmusic.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/metaldsrdr
Instagram : www.instagram.com/metal_dsrdr
YouTube : www.youtube.com/channel/UCmwVza2Z_BGYPGlk9yGb4Ug

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No Techno Shit

Path Of Guilt

TL PREMIERE : Hylian Fields - Path Of Guilt [Metal Disorder]

Haunting synths, deep basslines & neon-soaked club energy – a cinematic soundscape by NTFM Music.

Static Lullaby (Digital Club Ghost)

makin it up

🚨LAPS034[OUT NOW!] Herbrido - Hot Hips Anthem https://fanlink.tv/laps034

Demo & Podcast submission: 
promo@laps-recordings.de

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Techno is colourful.

We are LAPS Recordings, a young, growing Techno Label from Germany! The name "LAPS" is an acronym containing the initials of our 4 founding members. At the same time it highlights the concept of time, which is a topic all our productions will revolve around! 

Coming from very different musical backgrounds, the core substance of our label sound revolves around dark, energetic and emotional melodies, forceful kickdrums and driving basslines. Those main topics reappear in all of our productions, but so do the individual tastes of all founding members.

If you have any questions contact us via DM or via Mail: contact@laps-recordings.de