Taken from EM + STAV's Endless EP on JoyLift, out November 20.

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Premiere: EM + STAV - Odd (Forest Drive West Remix)

We welcome Sub Basics to Modern Hypnosis. Offshore EP delivers four dub techno-inspired tracks at light speed with intricate percussion and immersive sub bass.

Humming around one hundred and forty beats per minute, Sub Basics crafts his signature minimalistic big room energy in tracks Offshore, E443, T441 while joining forces with the powerful duo Traces to finish off this long-awaited EP.

Mastered by Simon @ The Exchange
Image by Jovan Vučinić
Design by Henry Fullmer

Offshore EP

A2. Sub Basics - E443 (Out Now!!!)

1 Earwax - Alway Start Never Stop

purchase here:
https://yyard.bandcamp.com/track/prayer-feel-like-this

Prayer (Feel Like This)

Taken from Big Hands' ‘Bacchanalia’ EP, out January 24, 2025.
Pre-order: https://vargmalrecords.bandcamp.com/

A1. Bacchanalia I
A2. Bacchanalia II
B1. Bacchanalia III
B2. Bacchanalia I (Al Wootton Remix)

The EP will be available on black 180-gram 12” vinyl and digital formats.

Mastered by Neel at Enisslab Studio
Artwork by Niall Greaves

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Bacchanalia

Big Hands - Bacchanalia II

Mike Parker returns to Samurai Music to apply his steely, rigorous approach to another EP navigating the 170BPM zone. As a widely celebrated pioneer of ice-cold wormhole techno, Parker finds profound depth in alien textures and ruthless repetition which he ably twists to the drum & bass template.

The A side of Envenomations leaps forward with urgent jump-up grooves as the driver for lean, rolling workouts. With his minimalist tendencies, 'Voc-1 Robot' and 'Ee-Yo' strike a cool and deadly mood similar to classic mid-90s Krust, swapping jazzy samples for atonal synthesis.

Parker was last spotted experimenting with this techno-D&B crossover on 2023's Sabre-Tooth, but the keen-eared may have already detected his interest in half-time on the Stinging Insects / Stages Of Metal digital single he dropped on his own Geophone label back in 2020. Both tracks make a welcome arrival on wax to form the B side of this release, channelling Parker's signature palette into more spacious surroundings.

Backed up by an additional pair of digital-only tracks, Envenomations is another standout exercise in the fertile synergy between techno and drum & bass, delivered by a true auteur with an unmistakable sound.

https://www.instagram.com/mike_parker_geophone/

Envenomations

Mike Parker - Stages Of Metals [SMDE47]

Kalabash is a London-based electronic music collective sculpting a sound that’s raw and percussive, evolving and unpredictable. They draw from an eclectic range of influences - including UK rave culture, film scores, 2000s hip-hop and R&B, and science fiction.

Playing with contrast and tension, Kalabash pairs rugged, weighty percussion with ghostly atmospheres, locking into hypnotic grooves before shifting direction without warning. Their sound is physical and driving, while leaving space for something more intangible—flickers of surreal and soulful textures cutting through the grit.

This year Kalabash will present their biggest project to date - Decompression Tapes Vol. 1, a mixtape slated for release on Tropopause Records in late 2025. Rooted in the UK’s underground DNA, it bends and blurs genre lines, shifting fluidly between percussive club pressure, abstract textures, and cinematic soundscapes. The project embraces improvisation and unconventionality, while maintaining a cohesive flow. Each track is born from a moment of creative impulse, where instinct and experimentation can roam freely.

The first glimpse into Decompression Tapes Vol.1 arrives with two colossal club productions to kick off a year of planned single releases. Decompress & Concrete revel in unabashed bass maximalism, dancing joyfully between the spaces of the UK hardcore continuum. Decompress is a wild and sprawling rave maelstrom with an uninhibited rhythm crafted for peak club hysteria, elevated with moments of pure nostalgic euphoria. Concrete provides the perfect chaser, stripped-back but relentless, a low-slung 4x4 roller that simmers with tension, weight and submerged melody.

Kalabash lay down their blueprint with these two infectious, precision-engineered club creations, glimpses of a sound in motion. Keep your eyes on the horizon…

PREMIERE: Kalabash - Concrete [DCT001]

Channeling peak-era dark garage ambience and contemporary trance stomper technology in the same breath, on their debut collaboration Silhouette (AKA Vision of 1994) and Kobayashi Maru join forces on Amphibian Records for The Mission, a 4-track EP that airlifts the snarl and frayed temper of early dubstep into the psychedelic frontiers of modern dance music.

PREMIERE: Kobayashi Maru & Silhouette - Last Transmission

https://soundcloud.com/deangrenier’s upcoming View Source EP slips the listener into a liminal space, mediating between the elemental tensions of softness and density. Engaged with emotive encounters, the second release of Grenier’s https://soundcloud.com/handworksmusic label unfolds in a dialogue of serrated bellows and whispering roars.

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-dean-grenier---view-source

View Source EP will be out on May 2nd, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://deangrenier.bandcamp.com/album/view-source/.

Premiere: Dean Grenier - View Source [HW002]

47.3, the new EP by turan., is a scientific exploration of sound as a vehicle for sensory transport. Through a precise alchemy of hypnotic textures, gentle pulses, and spatial resonances, the Turkish artist crafts an auditory landscape where every frequency feels calculated to alter the perception of time and space.
Its lounge-like elegance and cosmic magnetism invite you to close your eyes and let the journey unfold on its own, because here, it’s not about wanting to move, but about surrendering until you are teleported.
With immaculate production, 47.3 is a sonic logbook for those who seek in music not only auditory pleasure, but also a portal to other dimensions.

Tracklist:

01 turan. - Faz.
03 turan. - Xone 142
05 turan. - Zaman

Artist: turan.
EP Title: 47.3
Label: The Acid Mind Recordings
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: Raw / Hypnotic

Zaman

XTRCT 001 / live - Celome

Record label focusing on dub-inspired music for clubs and sound systems. 

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