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Gremlinz & jesta

DROOGS015 : Drain Clog / Hellion

A. Drain Clog
AA. Hellion

Gremlinz & Jesta continue their reign of tyranny back on DROOGS with two cuts of spine chilling blacked out Jungalism.

“Drain Clog” floats lunar hums and distant transmissions above stuttered rufige hardstep, as seething reeces slither into a coil around the beats, saturating the atmosphere in menace.

“Helion” sees clattering breaks, beastly knocks and cascading snares tumbling down into a machine gun tribal march, punctuating the sustained frigid dread.

DROOGS015 : Gremlinz & Jesta - A. Drain Clog / AA. Hellion

Violence of Positivity

It Takes Time

The Untouchables – The Hidden Files [SMDE53]

Rerleased on Limited Edition (Marbled 12" and Digital
Pr-order - https://theuntouchables.bandcamp.com/album/the-hidden-files


A vault of deep pressure unlocked – The Hidden Files collects a set of heavyweight VIPs from The Untouchables, each a reimagined version of past dread-infused cuts. Typically crafted for — and reserved within — their own DJ sets, these alternate versions are now unearthed for wider transmission. 

Stripped back, rebuilt, and submerged in new layers of sub-weight, they explore a more introspective energy. Tension, restraint, and meditative pressure — the Brussels duo reveals hidden forms with signature finesse.

https://soundcloud.com/the-untouchables

The Hidden Files

The Untouchables - The Hidden Files [SMDE53] *previews

Two more reworks of early tracks originally produced under the Cloaking Device moniker. The menacing synth-driven tornado of Original Inhabitant with its pounding breakbeats, cone-blowing subs and twittering electro is perfectly complimented by the rolling ambient beauty of the aptly-titled Eden Calling. Super deep Breaks & Bass focused D&B with a fresh twist for 2005. 

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"'All That Glitters' complements with a precise, downtrodden counterfoil, one that doesn't stray too far from the A-side. Thoroughly satisfying, future-cyber drum & bass, bringing high intellect and gleaming, dreaming textures." Juno Records 2025

NARRATIVES017 AA - BLOCKS & ESCHER - ALL THAT GLITTERS - 1087 Mastered (1)

AN ATLAS OF LOSS

Do minerals dream of becoming semiconductors? Do they yearn to carry charges, amplify, switch, and convert energy into emotions comprehensible to humans? And what if, from the darkness of the underground, they had been listening to us sing in caves before the emergence of the first flute? Could they have guided us, through the course of history, to find them, extract them, and create new sounds through sinusoidal waves, to form valves and bend circuits?


If so, minerals would transition from what philosopher Eugene Thacker defines as the ‘planet’—that virginal and unreachable realm for humans that we study through geology, paleontology, and environmental sciences—to the ‘world,’ the space we inhabit, interpret, and synthesise in our daily lives. Sadly, we only remember the world when it erupts violently, through climate catastrophes or when a new virus emerges. Sometimes a tsunami collides with a nuclear plant, or viruses are cultivated as biological weapons in high-security laboratories, provoking a deep biological anxiety, hard to quell, which we all feel beneath our skin.

There exists a third realm, disconnected from both the world and the planet: the ‘earth’, an immense, dense rock floating in space alongside other planets, situated in the cosmological dimension. Relating to the earth is so complex that we only do so through theoretical speculations of a scientific nature or through science fiction, interweaving until one becomes the prophecy of the other, in an infinite, pendular dance. Beyond the darkness of space and Lovecraft’s cosmic horror, the fantasy of human extinction is the most recurrent: to reach a collapse so devastating that we do not survive it, even though the earth does, without us.

In a world where we quantify everything through body sensors, financial algorithms, nanometre-scale robots, and surveillance drones—a world in which everything that can be domesticated and controlled can also be commodified—a superior artificial intelligence would survive the collapse of the species (some speculate it might even cause it) and learn from our mistakes, thanks to our obsessive gathering of data.

Long after our voices fade, minerals will persist in the darkness of screens, in the silicon of chips, and in their pure form, still unexploited underground. Over the millennia, this intelligence might piece together fragments of our reasoning, as if an alien civilization finally connected with one of our spacecrafts loaded with messages cast into the void. It would sort through endless streams of data, unable to grasp the depths of emotion behind what it quantified, recreating simulations of our past, stripped of the nuance that once defined us and conducting experiments in sandboxes.

Some remnants of our existence—faint echoes of forgotten beauty—would be pieced together in an atlas of loss, buried beneath layers of numbers, decayed bots, and corroded hard drives. What will follow? Perhaps bison will once again roam—trotting to the strange pulse of techno, their ancient forms framed by the ruins of our cities. Buildings will crumble, slowly dissolving under the soft touch of ambient music, and a thousand flowers will bloom with that ancient music created through electrical signals and computation.

7 songs for a future both improbable and inevitable—a final message from a world lost to itself, from planet Earth to planet Earth.
A1 by Alex Dickson, Joe Baker.
A2 by Olivier van der Lugt.
A3 by Andre Lira.
B1 by Flore Morfin.
B2 by Jdotbalance.
B3 by Charlie “Eric” Baldwin.
B4 by J. Coles, P. Tipler.


Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Artwork by Aleix Font.
CEEXYZ05.
©️ & ℗ 2025 Lapsus Records.
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Air Max '97 - Marginalia [CEEXYZ05]

The Untouchables  - Lost Knowledge [SMDELP16]
3xLP/Digital
Marbled LP Edition Limited to 100
https://theuntouchables.bandcamp.com/album/lost-knowledge

Four years on from their landmark Grassroots, visionary half-time heavyweights The Untouchables return with their third album, Lost Knowledge. The duo of Kate McGill and Ajit ‘Nitrox’ Steyns have carved out a space in modern D&B all their own, building on a legacy that reaches back to the late 00s to keep pushing into unexplored terrain with an assured and deadly line in rhythmic intrigue and atmospheric immersion. 
 
Lost Knowledge launches into action instantly with the high-pressure drum science and dubby splashes of ‘Drunken Bells’, capturing the loopy techno propulsion and rolling intensity that drives so much of the output on Samurai Music. Where The Untouchables excel is in finding variety and nuance in their relatively forbidding, pared down sound.  

Nothing happens by accident or feels out of place — McGill and Steyns are in total control, and they demonstrate incredible range and inventive approaches within their focused style. The accent of the grooves shifts, and individual sounds carry all kinds of artefacts, yet everything gets folded into the exacting Untouchables sound with a liberal dubwise sensibility. Brimming with inspiration and immaculately produced, on Lost Knowledge their one-of-a-kind sound is stronger than ever.  

https://www.instagram.com/untouchablenitrox/
https://www.instagram.com/untouchablekay/

The Untouchables - Drunken Bells [SMDELP16]

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GRIMMTEK - Turning Back

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🌊 Blue Horizons – 90s Liquid Drum & Bass Vibes

Blue Horizons takes you back to the golden age of 90s liquid drum & bass, where rhythm meets emotion and atmosphere flows like water. 💿🔥 Smooth rolling basslines, airy pads, and crisp percussion glide effortlessly through each track, capturing that classic blend of energy and introspection.

Nostalgic yet timeless, Blue Horizons pays homage to the era of underground clubs, smoky dancefloors, and sunrise afterparties — a liquid journey that’s both soulful and electrifying. 🌅🎧

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Miles DeVoe - Scratch

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Air Max '97 - Marginalia [CEEXYZ05]

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