Pandemonium Matrix

CRTTR is pleased to present their newest format for releasing music.

The CRTTR-CLB series carries the vision of exploring different ways of challenging the notion of club music. For each release we want to bring together four artists who have somehow given us a glitchy feeling on the dancefloor, while digging or in any other listening situation. We’ll be releasing a new track every friday.

So go ahead and listen to the third batch of freshly made tunes from the following lovely artists <3<3<3

> WEITH <
https://weith.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/weith

> NIAS <
https://niasfromalgethi.bandcamp.com/track/scorpio-x
https://soundcloud.com/niasrocket

> DATAFLEX <
https://crttrcollective.bandcamp.com/track/meshes
https://soundcloud.com/dataflegs

> ISABASSI <
https://isabassi.bandcamp.com/album/speaking-things
https://soundcloud.com/isabassi

credits
released May 31, 2024

Artwork by Julia Häller
Mastering by Yves Spiri
Text by Candid Rütter

Isabassi - Bitter

Track by @alecpace from LLC07 - V/A - Vuota Beatitudine

Format: 12" vinyl/ Digital
Cat. No: LLC07
Release Date: February 10th 2025

Pre-order at lowlifecartel.bandcamp.com
or
World distribution: One Eye Witness
UK: Rubadub

A polymathic affair spanning the broadest musical bandwidth, French outlet Lowlife Cartel resurface with ‘Vuota Beatitudine’ - a fresh 8-track VA extrapolating their eclectic approach to contagious effect. 

Draped in surreally murky cover art courtesy of Paris-based artist Léa Bouton alias Absolemabsoluxe / graphic design by Metaphore Collectif affiliate Nicolas Guillerminet, this new release features contributors from distinct mental and geographical regions alike: French-American chopped-and-screwed shock outfit HERNVNDEZ ft. MXSTVH, a hi-tech DnB / raging electro crossover from Mexican producer Jegsaha, BFDM & Tresor alum Jean Redondo on duty, junglistic jazz stunts by Chicago’s KSETDEX, German ambient voodooist Lorica, spectral post-indus from PRESENTE, Italian vibist Alec Pace up with a ragga-informed vengeance and Memphis-via-Mexico style slowed-’n-throwed madness from MVRKMVCHINX. 

Lovers of Southern lo-fi rap narratives will find in both HERNVNDEZ ft. MXSTVH 'Artes Oscuras' and MVRKMVCHINX ‘Shutter' the kind of lo-slung gangsta heat to wake up both grillz-teethed zombies and have these gold-felloed Cadillacs’ afterburners flaring. Hailing from the Mexican capital city, Jegsaha fires off a barrage of breaks-laden fire, processed vox menace and frantic bass onslaughts that go straight for the jugular. Fragmenting the groove down to molecular abstraction, Redondo treats us to a mischievous hybrid of ghetto-tech’y jack and discombobulated post-pop experiment with ‘You!’, whereas US producer KSETDEX welds a smokey jazz piano onto a muscular UK bass chassis on the addictive ‘Gemini’. 

Flip it over and there’s Frankfurt-based producer Lorica dishing out a hypnotic slice of atmospheric electronics, both immersively brooding and unimpeachably uplifting in equal measure. ‘Vuota Beatitudine’, the track that gives its title to the EP, works a distinctively paradoxical strain of rattling floor rhythms and zero-G escapology, in limbo betwixt heaven and hell. Conjuring up an infectious palette of ragga-infused maneuvers and packing massive bass and snare-heavy punch, Alec Pace’s fiery ‘Mantra Separation’ is prototypical dancehall arson rolled into a steely techno membrane. A wide-ranging display of explosively diverse, satisfyingly weird sounds to keep minds and bodies on the edge.

Artwork by Léa Bouton
Graphic design by Nicolas Guillerminet
Mastering by Luis Calderon

Buy 12"

Alec Pace - Mantra Separation

@galtier

After 5 standout releases, including debuts from many fresh faces to the left-of-field underground scene, Plasma Sources presents its inaugural compilation: Multi-Source. It brings together the current label family and a slew of other artists operating on the cutting- edge of dance floor electronics for a multi-genre, sound design heavy, wild ride. In turn, the label takes aim at establishing itself as one of the most exciting imprints in the experimental club scene.
From the 90BPM cinematic, Lorn-esque sludge of newcomer Guide’s ‘Gemological’ to the crisp staccato transients and negative space of Ziyiz’s ‘Plastic Sentiments’, each track adheres to one of the guiding principles that the label has employed so effectively to curate it’s platform, irrespective of tempo: a love for sci-fi aesthetics and a desire to transpose these into sonic equivalents.

Plasma Sources has always prided itself on delicately balancing dark and light, release to release. On Multi-Source, this broad spectrum is in full vision. Reinartz offers up dubbed- out, IDM-esque desolation on ‘Action Bias’, whilst Stolen Velour’s ‘Suigetsu’ brings a bright playfulness - high-pitched vocal cuts marry pulsating, organic beats which sound like if Untold’s Hemlock output got a 2024 facelift. Some tracks, like Prior Self’s brooding yet fidgety ‘Turn Out’ and Klahrk & Atrice’s flange-fuelled ‘You’ve Changed’ occupy the centre of this continuum with their takes on high-tempo techno-influenced mutations.

The full label family comes back to join in on the fun. HYPNA and NIQH team up on a collaboration which perfectly unites their sounds under a 4-bar bass-heavy roller laden with noise. NIQH offers up their own track, exploring crystalline club structures on ‘Pressure’. unearth’s cinematic, wasteland-ridden sound is in clear focus on ‘Safe Tread’ and Beton Brut’s signature grime-concrète comes through loud and clear on ‘WWW’.

Cortical offer up ‘Hammer’, a continuation of their relentless avant-techno manifesto established by their debut, whilst J-Shadow rounds things off with a space-age jungle- exploration on ‘X-38'.
The juxtaposition of dark and light. The delicate balancing of experimentalism and dance floor sensibilities. The interweaving of sci-fi and biologically-infused sound design. These are the key aesthetics with which Plasma Sources has approached its output ever since release no.1.
Multi-Source acts as a confirmation of this manifesto as it looks forward to 2025 and its future as a key player in the experimental club scene.

Multi-Source releases on 27 March 2025

Mastering by HYPNA 
Cover Design by Joh000 // Jose Hernández

plasmasources.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/plasma__sources

Multi-Source

Galtier - Particle Shifter

New EP from @kioskk—a Warsaw-based DJ, producer, and founder of the 00effort label.

Across three original cuts plus two remixes from fa:act and Le Frit, the EP merges bass, techno, eco-grime, and baile funk into an ever-shifting soundscape—somewhere between ritual futurism and peak-time club euphoria.

Mastering by Le Dom
Artwork by Studio Boulon

Stream/DL

k:i:o:s:k - Engine Memorial

@count2count

MR006 crashes in straight from Brno, carving out a sonic current mirroring the ever-mutating scene. COUNT’s latest EP, a playful yet razor-sharp exploration of sound, provides a pack of oddly satisfying rollers. Spanning a spectrum of 140+, this four-track offering blends three originals with a remix from HEDO HYDR8 

THIRD TAKE starts off with CONVULSE, a pacey breakbeat track created to shake the early (and quicker) hours of the morning. The project then takes a more introspective approach as FIREWALL BLOCK rolls into the #2 stop. With a similarly quick BPM register, FIREWALL BLOCK employs traces of dub and jungle along its varied storyboard. Coming up next is BLACKTAIL, a headbanger turned electro track suitable for a variety of people, places, and things. Bring up the caboose* is a remix from HEDO HYDR8. This time it's a fully pumped up techno remix of the aforementioned track.

*a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train (for our European listeners)  

www.instagram.com/markhamroadrec/

THIRD TAKE

THIRD TAKE [MR006]

BANDCAMP

COUNT - BLACKTAIL

Markham Road Records kicks off 2025 with a tasty new EP, THIRD TAKE. Spanning a spectrum of 140+, this four-track offering blends three originals with a remix from Hedo Hydr8. Opening the EP in style, the first track CONVULSE is a pacy breakbeat track with the perfect wormhole energy for the early morning crew. 

@markhamroad
@count2count

Premiere: COUNT - CONVULSE (Markham Road Records)

Amity kick off their year with ‘RICOCHET’, a precision-engineered various artists compilation that echoes across the underground bass continuum with unrelenting force. Following in the wake of their acclaimed debut V/A release ‘KILLS TWO BIRDS’, the UK label returns with another expertly curated selection of weighty percussive mutations, dubwise spectres, and low-end futurism. Gathering a rogues gallery of cutting-edge producers including Honeydrip, VVS1, Beaabea, Aaliyah Salem, Elpac, Kessler, Dom Carlo, Mulholland, Eyra & Yeye, the compilation locks in on Amity’s ethos of deep sonic exploration and fearless club experimentation.

From spectral dancehall shadows to heavy gravitational half-step, ‘RICOCHET’ operates on the fringes, where outsider sound system pressure and rhythmic dexterity collide. Each track strikes with intent, shifting, morphing, and rebounding off its surroundings in a percussive interplay of movement and tension. Dub sensibilities loom large, with ricocheting echoes and tactile sub-bass weaponry built for intimate spaces and cavernous halls alike. Yet, far from a scattershot affair, the compilation’s sequencing maintains a hypnotic flow, guiding listeners through surging rhythms and raw kinetic energy.

A masterclass in low-end propulsion, ‘RICOCHET’ proves Amity’s marksmanship in showcasing the most vital strains of contemporary underground club music.

EYRA
@eyra-dj
www.instagram.com/per.eyra/

Amity
@amityclub
www.instagram.com/amityclub/

Ricochet

Fade2

Premiere: EYRA - Fade2 | Amity

Nixuh - 1000 CUTS (G1BRALTAR FLIP)

Ammo for the setlist

Thanks for listening <3

NYTEMODE - NOT DISCUSSED [Direct DL]

look out for each other, we never know when the last time comes we get to speak to someone.

happy mens mental health month.

it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

Markham Road Records is an electronic music label exploring both the established and experimental sides of percussive music.
Based out of @infameradio / @vitaminxxx
Structured by @westdaledan