For the inaugural release of Psycho Bummer, we bring an EP from one of our label founders, DJ Scam (Brandon Ivers). Jungle and drum’n’bass was the starting point for us as DJs, friends, and collaborators, so it seemed fitting to begin the story here.

The EP’s opener, ‘Darkside Geezer’, is a tribute to the transition point right before hardcore morphed into jungle in 1993. Although producers worked with a small palette of sounds back then, the emotion and freshness they were able to pull out of their limitations remains unrivaled. ‘Darkside Geezer’ imagines an alternate reality of that period, drawing parallels between it and the seeds of transition that 2020 brought us.

‘Sodium Pentothal’ is the roughest tune on this release, adopting the sonics of modern drum’n’bass production, but channeled through the tropes of the music in its early stages. DJs like Sherelle, Tim Reaper, and Coco Bryce played a tremendous role in inspiring us (and keeping us sane) over the last year, so we wanted to stick to the tempo they helped rekindle.

The closer, ‘Black Swan’, focuses on the simplicity of early hardcore and jungle, but breaks away with glassy chimes and a folding, geometric structure. Made with old samplers and tracker software, ‘Black Swan’ was the first track Scam did for this release and it helped set the tone for what followed.

A1 - Sodium Pentothal

Sardinian events brand OBL/QUE steps into a new chapter this month with the launch of a new label in partnership with Samsara Beats, focusing on a variety bass music across styles and tempos. Their first release includes seven cuts from different producers on the island and we're hyped to have the premiere of UnoTurbo's contribution to the EP, I Can! Halftime D&B business with a serious drum groove and rapid-fire bassline hook - sick work from a producer still early in their journey. Hit up digital stores to grab this one from May 7th.

Buy → https://obliquemusik.bandcamp.com/album/hold-reset

UnoTurbo:
SoundCloud → https://soundcloud.com/unoturbo

OBL/QUE:
Facebook → https://facebook.com/OBL.QUE
Soundcloud → https://soundcloud.com/oblque

UnoTurbo - I Can [Premiere]

Stream/Digital/Vinyl:
https://fanlink.to/Exordium

https://soundcloud.com/mtwndnb

https://soundcloud.com/yukumusic

Exordium

Fearful & Mtwn - 8's & Nine's

Flux
Releases October 22nd 2021

Tracklist:

1. Process
2. Angles
3. Ramp
4. Rubberneck
5. Subway Track
6. Autumn Shadows

Om Unit steps up with yet another self-released adventure into uptempo sonics. This time slowing the pace slightly, exploring the 150+ realm, taking in influences from Broken Beat, Garage, Electro, Dub Techno and other signature ingredients.

This 6 track EP is the next chapter in a lengthy career-spanning narrative of exploring cross-pollinated grooves and picks up from the much celebrated 'Submerged' and 'Violet' EP's, both of a similar ilk and quite sought after by vinyl collectors to date.

Process

Buy On Bandcamp

Flux (Full Preview)

A new year begins and with it come two new adherents to the cult of AWRA, Esthetic & Reac-Zo.

The Russian duo offer up a pair of ritualistic cuts; electronic hymns built to put bleak winter dancefloors into a dance trance.

Propelled by a murderous low-end throb, ‘Innunaki’ is a masterclass in hypnotic halftime, its methodical stomp enlivened by the the clickety-clack of percussion gone feral.

‘Magen’ is equally ominous, dropping the tempo but delivering a barrage of kicks, mystic pads and a bleep that relentlessly bores away at the nerves — as if from a radar alerting to an unknown entity lurking dangerously close.

AWRA008

Vinyl & Download

Esthetic x Reac-Zo 'AWRA008'

Elektron Model:Sample , Elektron Model:Cycles

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CANT TOUCH THIS - ft MC Hammerman vocal chop

32, Ambient, Instr hip-hop, alternative, weird core, horror core and more 

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Pre Order 'Collisions' here: www.fearfulmusic.bandcamp.com/album/collisions-ep

Never a label to be pigeonholed, Diffrent Music returns with its first full downtempo release courtesy of label stalwarts Fearful and Mtwn.

Having touched on UK techno, garage and ambient with his expansive 2017 album 'Interference', London producer Fearful joins forces with the Belgian duo for four tracks further exploring these concepts.

From the deconstructed rave of opener 'Part 2', through sultry midnight viber 'Unknown', the sub-aquatic soundscape of 'Depths', right through to the eerie, jittering last track 'Verbunden', it's an EP that dives headfirst into that grey area of nostalgia-flecked progression once dubbed the hardcore continuum — and then pushes far beyond.

A milestone release coming in Diffrent's celebratory 10th year, 'Collisions' not only continues the ongoing stories of Fearful and Mtwn, but opens a new chapter in the chronicles of the South London imprint.

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Collisions EP

Unknown

Out Now

Fearful & Mtwn - Unknown

Suuri-Pieksä - Запах сырости (Fence' remix)

'Throb' by @AbstractElementz is out now on 'Lost Dubs 3' compilation.

Stream / buy: microfunk.fanlink.to/lostdubs3

The third edition of Microfunk Music’s coveted ‘Lost Dubs’ series is finally here. Featuring 10 rhythmic glitch patterns from the Russian labels usual suspects, you can expect compositions from Synkro, Oak, Hybris, Akuratyde, Dissident, Kharm, Jason oS and of course label boss Bop. The record will be available on all digital and streaming platforms after a week-long exclusive on Bandcamp and will be pressed to a limited run of 100 cassette tapes, which will not last long. With distinguished artwork courtesy of none other than the infamous Trickartt, this is truly a collectors item and not to be missed.

Many things slip through the sands of time, but thankfully these beautiful songs will know no such fate. The introductory ‘Time’ from Manchester's Synkro is laden with a hopeful sadness, as melancholic sonics reverberate beautifully from start to finish. You could be forgiven for thinking this may set the tone for the LP to come, but what follows is a compendium of beautifully crafted musical delights, as varied in character and constitution as the seasons themselves.

A frequent partner of Bop as both a performer and artist, Oak graces the imprint once more with a deep electro cut ‘The Bay’ and tells a down-tempo tale in ‘Airwalk’, which is available to download upon pre-ordering the full LP. Rampant in it’s sheer textural beauty, the likes of Elsewhere follow suit with an expansive and heart-fluttering take on the 170BPM tempo in the form of ‘Procession’. Things take a techy turn as Jason oS delivers an introspective stepper in his ‘Hidden State’, but not before Akuratyde and Kharm weave their own atmospheric wonder ‘Enamoured’.

Although never fearful of pushing the boundaries or confinements within the D&B universe, Microfunk Music remains true to the genre that inspired it with the likes of Hybris injecting his trademark sonics into a sublimely styled technoid roller. Abstract Elements keep things stepping in a similar vein with ‘Throb’, whilst St. Petersburg's very own Dissident enthralls the listener with their hypnotic addition ‘Bathyscaphe’.

Bop has the honour of bowing out the stunning album with a dub-techno pattern ‘In My Dreams’ that traverses the expansive audible palette that so often engulfs Microfunk Music. Incorporating a myriad of moods, the Lost Dubs compilation further cements Microfunk Music as one of the leading purveyors of electronic excellence.

Brace yourself for a profound journey outside the conventional D&B paradigm.

Buy / Stream

Abstract Elements - Throb

Nuage 'Gradient' LP:
https://microfunk.bandcamp.com/album/gradient-lp

Akuratyde 'Inviting Chaos' LP: https://microfunk.bandcamp.com/album/inviting-chaos

Microfunk Music is an independent click'n'bass label run by Bop.