Older Brother and Iceboy Violet steer by stars to navigate to AIOA.

georg-i takes the coordinate, Metrist moves the dial.

Twice bitten, undone, and weighed. 

@olderbrotherolderbrother
@iceboy_violet
@georg-i

☺︎ Art direction from Joshua Costar
☺︎ Mastered by Beau at Ten Eight Seven

⟢ SOSOSO ⟣

AIOA

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Older Brother Ft. Iceboy Violet - AIOA (Metrist Retrace)

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

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Alec Pace - Mantra Separation

POLAARIZED is a 6-track LP where the label’s core artists collaborate with some of the most daring and influential creatives shaping today’s music. Polarization—a scientific phenomenon that aligns forces in a shared direction—becomes a metaphor for the collective power of collaboration, where contrasting voices converge into something greater.

POLAARIZED reimagines the club as more than just a dancefloor—it’s a space for radical expression, a meeting point where boundaries blur, and communities thrive. This release is a sonic manifesto for those who live at the edge of the underground, where music becomes a force of connection and change.

To celebrate POLAARIZED, we’ve created a limited-edition sticker pack inspired by iconic Panini collections. Each pack includes 12 unique designs inspired by the concept of light polarization. Limited to 100 copies, these packs come with the digital album.

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Animistic Beliefs x Flore - Mercurated Rivers

Youth Remixes

Cyber Suit Suna (De Grandi Remix)

Between Milan and New York, biased signed a first EP on the Early Reflex label, synthesising his club experiments.

Read more on CxC 🔗 https://couvrexchefs.com/en/biased-63n3rd-winded-early-reflex

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CxC PREMIERE: biased - Winded (Early Reflex)

Galtier enters for his fifth instalment on his own label with ‘Opaque Envelopes’; an exploration of frequency and tilted sound processing across four slick, mid-tempo creations. Having leant heavily into hardware-focused productions, Galtier has refined his use of raw, one-take recordings and hand-crafted audio inflections, carving out a space dripping with feedback channels, aggressive modulation and dense, weighty sub bass, the collection makes for a set of highly functional, warehouse-ready rollers.

The EP carries itself along a subtle, evolutionary line, where Galtier hones in on transient, shifting soundscapes of rich, searing synthetics, all glued together with tight, syncopated rhythms that channel dubstep and electro. The intention is for each piece to sound alive; teeming with a life of its own, full of personality and vitality that breathes throughout. A significantly mature body of work that encapsulates the decade and a half journey into sound that he has embarked on.


Galtier
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/GALTIER
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/galtier/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/galtiermusic

Nostro Hood System
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nostrohoodsystem/
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PREMIERE: Galtier - Tektite (Gas Core) (Nostro Hood System)

Bristol's @georg-i flings wide the gates with a three tracker of DnB adjacent theatre.

Split, storm, surge.

✐ SOSOSO ✐

☺︎ Art direction by Nicole Domhoff
☺︎ Mastered by Beau at Ten Eight Seven


Nightlife Under The Arclight

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)

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Devilish Tactics

GUKGUK - MONK -

Roll (2025/00 Etix Édition/Sample8Mix/Android-MMJ)

SOSOSO / @rinsefm / @timedance

futurisma

Nightlife Under The Arclight

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