Here're the extracts from our friend Vardae's second EP. 
This eighth release is called "Rust & Black" and is available now.

Listen & DL on Bandcamp : 
https://cosmicwaverecords.bandcamp.com/album/rust-black-cwr008

Artist : Vardae
Title : Rust & Black
Catalogue : CWR008
Format : Digital
Country : France
Genre : Electronic
Style :  Deep-Techno / Hypnotic Techno
Release date : June 23th, 2021
Mastering : Robert Elster 
Artwork : Noémie Besset

Supported by : A Thousand Details, Adhemar, Alderaan, Anders Hellberg, Border One, Condensed Utopia, Dax J, Doctrina Natura, Easy Morph, Enko, Justine Perry, Lewis Fautzi, Marnyc, Mechanist, Modular Phaze, MTD, NFEREE, Paula Koski, Salah, Saphileaum, Sam Paganini, Slam, Takaaki Itoh, Traversable Message, Unbalance, Vegim Hashimi, VBK ...

For our eighth release, we are glad to welcome back our dear friend Vardae for a second EP on the label. His first output on 2019 had been received really well, so he decides to took the things further with this new one, presenting a more textural techno approach while keeping his own signature of raw and minimalist precise techno.

This EP was mainly inspired by paintings of Pierre Soulage called “composition de rouge et de noir”. What we feel when listening to the release is the continuity between the tracks, especially the first three. We could consider them as different layers of the same composition. They feature the key elements of what we want to promote with the label, cycling alien atmospheres, granular textures and raw beats with a clearly identified sci-fi touch. The last track shows us a different sound palette from Vardae with a more melodic approach, dominated by gentle pads but still keeping some voices atmospheres in the background.

1. Vardae - Layer 1 (Original Mix)
2. Vardae - Layer 2 (Original Mix)
3. Vardae - Layer 3 (Original Mix)
4. Vardae - Layer 4 (Original Mix)

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Rust & Black

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Vardae - Rust & Black [CWR008]

A1. Negroni Nails - Slow Motion Drip

Baphomet

XOR Gate is the brainchild of Heinrich Mueller, one half of Drexciya and Dopplereffekt.

In linguistic or electronic logic, the XOR Gate designates a device, digital or grammatical, which outputs a value only when two differing inputs are fed into it. This can be summed up with the formula "one or the other but not neither, nor both."

A conic section is a shape created as a plane intersects a cone. This can result in different figures such as a circle, an ellipse, a parabola or a hyperbola. Conic Sections is here composed of eight themes, or shapes, over which waveform and synthesis entirely merge with human emotions. The line is blurred. These eight themes are intertwined, forming one long musical string. The line is forever blurred.

Conic Sections was commissioned by ArtCenter South Florida in Miami, for the AN IMAGE exhibit.

BANDCAMP

XOR Gate - Major Axis

MASA 006 delves deep into the sound of Leipzig resident HAL (@h0a0l)and includes two additional collaborations with his long-time friend & studio partner Perm (@perm-3). It's an elegant selection of tracks produced between 2018 and 2023, some of them recovered from long-lost hard drives and carefully remixed with the help of T I N's keen ears.

An always-present groove, magnetic synth-scapes, and saturated ambiance set the pace throughout the EP while the warm and fuzzy sound makes for timeless joy, blending throbbing techno with deep house and dubby nuances, giving every beat a distinct texture.

GRAB YOUR COPY HERE :
https://masaseries.bandcamp.com/album/masa-006

MASA 006 - HAL (& Perm) (Snippets)

recording of the vinyl only set i played for @liquidmemory on HÖR. I spent a lot of time preparing this set, trying to play a wider range of sounds I like playing in club settings currently. 

check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7V3lPCqoYw&t=1181s

picture: Anna Luisa Richter

Liquid Memory @ HÖR Takeover - OLIV

HAUNTED SOUNDS

My first speed garage track! High energy, deep dark and pumping bassline. ENJOY!

MAJOR RAVER

IT MUST BE UP 2 ME comes after Maison du Veyra — not as a reaction, but as a step forward.

Where Maison was about exploration and atmosphere, this project is about intention. Fewer ideas, clearer choices, and a stronger pull toward groove, movement, and restraint.

These tracks feel more focused — less proving, more trusting. Built from repetition, discipline, and learning when to hold back.
It’s not about being perfect.

It’s about knowing when you’re closer. --- VEYRA

Let It Go

Det Dryper

SSTROM - Drenched 5 (Rösten 8.2)

For the new Arma release Ena explores different, distinct facets of his sound across three productions. “Pale” distills his vision of techno as a minimalist, repetitive construct. Working around non-standard time signatures, he creates a densely woven lattice of percussive pulses, which cut a polyrhythmic path through nightmarish sheets of noise. “Secondary Color” uses a broader palette that opens the Ena sound up to the light,,, “Wired” heads further away from the grid in pursuit of sound design exploration, as a rack of pipes and chambers strike, boom and chime against artful distortion and cavernous reverb. While Ena has historically been hesitant about remixes of his material, he warmed to the idea of long-time Arma friend JASSS reworking “Wired”. Taking the track into her own fiercely individual sound world, she uses the harmonic tonality of the original as a jump-off point for an epic, emotionally forthright chiller loaded with coldwave bombast, trap hats and Silvia’ own voice.

Coming from entirely different angles of approach, Ena and JASSS are bound together by their fearless individuality. You can sense the slithers of pre-existing music somewhere in their constructions, but such familiarities are no more than faint echoes of places they passed through on their way to somewhere new.
Cover artwork by Judex Franju

A1. Ena - Pale

· Blithesome beats from a warm place.
· Curated by Ale M @jayr_masa & @pharmahplc

MASA 006 - HAL (& Perm) (Snippets)

Masa Series