"Unethical behavior within organizations is not rare. Peev & Realitycheck investigate experimentally the role of status-seeking behavior in sabotage and cheating activities aiming at improving one's performance ranking in a flat-wage environment. They find that average effort is higher when individuals are informed about their relative performance. However, ranking feedback also favors disreputable behavior. Some individuals do not hesitate to incur a cost to improve their rank by sabotaging others' work or by increasing artificially their own performance. Introducing sabotage opportunities has a strong detrimental effect on performance. Therefore, ranking incentives should be used with care. Inducing group identity discourages sabotage among peers but increases in-group rivalry."

Beginning life in February of this year, French label Music For Commercials' mission is focused on environmental preservation, recycling old materials like floppy discs and VHS cassette tapes to house the music. After a compilation featuring around 14 artists, they're returning with their sophomore release, an EP from Realitycheck and Peev, which will be available on VHS. The two French producers—the former known for his releases on Unknown To The Unknown and Renascence and the latter for his ambient productions and Rinse FM residency–come together for three original tracks that match their tastes for mysterious atmospheres and tight drum work.

PREMIERE: Realitycheck & Peev - Demand Generation [Music For Commercials]

Apparently putting out records is just as addictive as putting on parties. Naturally, we are itching for more and it’s about time that we announce our next release. It’s one that we’re particularly looking forward to as for the first time we have the pleasure of curating a various artists EP - and we believe it turns out to be one that we have plenty of reasons to be excited about!

From J.Wiltshire’s cinematic ambience to Yushh’s floating wobbles, from Pugilist’s sinister stepper to Lårry’s ghostly glitches, every artist on this EP brings their distinct style and adds to the general vibe and overall great harmony of this record.

@awkscl

Buy:
https://awkwardlysocial.bandcamp.com/album/awk003

AWK003 

PREMIERE: Lårry - Latz End [Orf] [Awkwardly Social]

A1. A Collage For Jake And Emilie

DJ JM - Squash - Out on Maloca Records https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/squash

Following on from Le Motel’s knockout release in February, Brussel-based producer DJ JM lands on Maloca Records with a new EP ‘Squash’. The prolific producer is known for his impressive output of production-only mixes and releases on labels such as Nervous Horizon, Goon Club Allstars, and Even The Strong.

The DJ JM project was first established in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2015, becoming quickly known for off-kilter club records. Heavily driven by percussion, DJ JM continues his powerful stride, this time providing six weird and wonky dancefloor anthems. With the Maloca Records ethos built upon global collaborations, on this record DJ JM teams up with Ugandan MC Swordman Kitala on ‘Funicular’.

Launching Maloca Records in 2020, Le Motel aims to bring together an international network of makers which was highlighted on the label’s first compilation, Maloca Vol. 1. The release focused on a terrestrial and borderless percussive sound that has been bubbling in clubs and Le Motel’s orbit, featuring tracks from Nick León, OMAAR, DJ JM, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Coen, DJ N.K. and Tsongo. Maloca has also released solo EPs from Howie Lee, Farsight and Griffit Vigo.

MUSIC BY DJ JM
MASTERED BY ELVIN VANZEEBROECK
DISTRIBUTED BY CREVETTE DISTRIBUTION
ARTWORK BY APPEAR OFFLINE

Squash

DJ JM - Squash

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

Warn Twice - In The Distance (Malcolm Remix)

Pino Peña launches his new label W133. The label combines analog photography by Freya Gerz with diverse styles of electronic music.
For the first release he has gathered 5 great tracks from artists all over the world.
The first track "Voices from the Dawn" is a smooth intro with elegant pads and a lush beat by Timo Rinker from southern Germany.
Right afterwards "Anorak" by Valdemar from Stockholm hits slightly harder with precise percussions in a cool bass 4/4 techno hybrid.
Pino Peña kicks off the B Side with the deep and fast rhytmic banger "Officer Rumba", building on dembow infused grooves. As a 4th track CucaRafa from Lisbon delivers 90s influenced groovy techno in "Deves Achar Que Eu Nasci Ontem".
As a closer for the EP, No Sir delivers a bass and break heavy beast called "Unknown Entities" fresh outta Brooklyn.

The release will be available digitally and as a very limited 12" dubplate edition with the analog photos printed.

Join us for the releaseparty in Berlin at Backsteinboot! Tickets and info here: ra.co/events/1634181
www.instagram.com/w133.records/

BUY on BANDCAMP

PREMIERE : No Sir - Unknown Entities

The restaurant was full, brimming with the creme de la creme of society - anyone who was anyone could be found lurking in this dimly lit establishment. Amongst the clusters of suited up business men and their trophy wives, she propped herself at the bar, waiting anxiously to meet the woman who could potentially change her life. If all went well, she'd be rubbing shoulders with this clientele regularly, dressed in the most designer of garments, sipping on the most expensive of champagnes. It's what she'd always wanted, a real in to the high society, but really she knew that, underneath the facade, she'd still always feel like an outsider. 

Amsterdam's Flippen Disks are launching a brand new offshoot, Flippen Bits. In contrast to the main label which highlights artists exploring borderless music that can be listened to at home or played on the dance floor, the sub-label will focus more on functional club music, starting with an EP from Welsh-born, Amsterdam-based producer Maroki. Best served late at night, the future-facing tracks that make up Coldred are full of bass weight and dense percussion, layered over frenetic breakbeats.

Coldred EP

PREMIERE: Maroki - Coldred [Flippen Bits]

A2 of 'Marymont' EP by Blu Terra

Vinyl: https://de.juno.co.uk/products/blu-terra-marymont/739892-01/

Digital: https://ceadcead.bandcamp.com/

Blu Terra - 20,000

The Plebeian is out to immerse your soul in a 4-round mind chess game. No matter if you win or lose, you definitely gain. The NYC based artist puts you down in the middle of a bubbling and billowing thicket and trains you in listening to his surreal palette of twittering birds and chirping crickets. Ethereal bass. Shaman rave. Whatever you wanna call it - this outstanding body of work truly is a world and experience of its own. Andrew Nerviano co-founded “NYC`s Most Extreme Record Label” Sweat Equity, which is home to artists like Deli Girls, Overland or Ben Ritz. We celebrate his transcendent first Molten Moods release with a fancy T-shirt available via moltenmoods.de and bandcamp. Mastered by Beni Brachtel aka Bartellow. Artwork by Paul Bernhard.

Plebeian - Chess
Catalogue Number: Molten 10
Out August 6, 2020 on .wav and garment.
T-Shirt + DL Code: www.moltenmoods.de
Digital: moltenmoods.bandcamp.com/album/chess

1: Chess
2: MSG
3: Entry Plug
4: Split Personality

@plebeiann

Plebeian - Chess

033 - Bambounou
Release Date - 30th Oct 2020
Buy - https://bambounouofficial.bandcamp.com/album/033

A - TFTT
B - Hale

Mastered and cut by Neel at Enisslab
Sleeve Design: Alex McCullough & Noah Baker

033 - Bambounou

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DJ JM - Squash

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