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'Morphers' is a rattling 3 tunes split that was forged between French producer Flore and San Francisco’s Only Now. The release represents the unwritten language shared between both friends over the past 7 years, with their affinity for propulsive percussion workouts and livewire bass music. After releasing on the POLAAR label for years, Only Now and Flore finally met in person for a collab long awaited.

“Collaborating with someone on the production side is not something I’m used to “- says Flore. “It is like a non-verbal communication and its interplay of perspectives. But I think that Kush and I share a same sonic language and this new experience pushed us to embrace the unpredictability and subjectivity inherent in this new creative process.”

The story began in Paris when Flore invited Only Now to come play at her POLAAR night at la Station. A couple of days later they met again at Tim Karbon’s studio, and sketched out ideas. It shaped into a tune made by their 4 hands (« Morphers ») and « Cut & Run », a tune revisited in 2 versions, with their own slant, but trying to keep an even balance between each producer.

Flore’s take on « Cut & Run » encapsulates the essence of big sound system influence. Dub-infused rhythms morph seamlessly into widescreen sound design elements, creating a unique dialect that invites you to decipher its ethereal symbols.

https://soundcloud.com/flore
https://www.instagram.com/FloreMusic/

Morphers

Premiere: Flore - Cut and Run (Flore version)

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Plasma Sources is proud to present nosync’s Soundsystem Music, an EP which provides a fresh perspective on the high-fidelity and sci-fi influenced electronic music the imprint is known for. 

nosync’s work sits in a truly unique space in the sound system/club music-o-sphere. This in large part is due to his heavy deployment of progressive metal instrumentation, from chugging walls of overdriven guitars to relentless double-time kick patterns. On paper, utilising this palette in a club-music context may seem like an impossible task. However, where others might see a chasm of disparity, nosync has deftly identified the bridge connecting these two genres, seeing in these two landscapes the same desired emotional state - despite the different methodologies used to achieve this. 

“This record attempts to make the case that the essence of what makes these sounds so obsessively loved are one and the same. Gripping dramatism and intensity are the overlapping themes that I have attempted to bring out here, through the record’s sound design and film-like structure.”

Indeed Soundsystem Music as a whole feels wildly cinematic and is as much an exercise in atmosphere creation as music for sound systems, with nosync citing the video game Dead Space and its sequel as key influences for this body of work. From the claustrophobic, elasticated wind chamber of ‘Traced’ to the broken choir voices and FiS-esque ambient abyss of ‘Dead Land’, nosync has expertly matched the pace and atmosphere of these hugely iconic and utterly terrifying video games and channeled them into a purely sonic experience. 

The metal influences nosync brings to the table slice through the entire corpus of Soundsystem Music, although the linkage is perhaps at its most clear on ‘Airlock’, which features a full-on death-metal guitar chugging through the first half. In perhaps the most surprising switch-up of the entire EP, things suddenly twist into a guttural underwater club track a third of the way through. 

nosync’s love for the vast ecosystem of club/soundsystem music also comes through loud and clear on this release, from the grime-inflected leads and hyper-detailed polyrhythmic noise workouts of ‘Unregistered Hypercam’ to the reverberated metal clangs of ‘Kauket’s Arena’ which feels like witch-house on steroids - the soundtrack to some final boss battle with some type of nightmare-demon-entity. 

nosync has achieved something unique with Soundsystem Music. By drawing together a hugely disparate corpus of influences and pummelling them into a noise-fuelled apocalyptic aberration, he has created a sound which feels consistent, fully his own, and in many places, utterly dread-inducing.

Tracklist: 

1. Aberrations
2. Traced
3. Unregistered Hypercam
4. Dead Land
5. Airlock
6. Kauket’s Arena

PREMIERE: nosync - Airlock [Plasma Sources]

Tapping into the influences of Japan's thriving scene, Tokyo-based artist Hirotaka Umetani, AKA Albino Sound, continues the LEFT series with 3 tracks, each exploring a distinct strain of techno.

Albino Sound’s unique synthetic production veers heavily into peak time energies on this EP, injecting a charged electricity into his archetypal spacious, metallic sound design & upping the tempos - intricately weaving sharp, resonant highs through heavy, sound-system rattling lows for striking, high contrast effect

https://worshipbristol.bandcamp.com/album/worshipleft002

Artist Social Links
https://www.instagram.com/albinosound/
https://albinosoundtokyo.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/hirotaka-umetani

Label Socials
https://soundcloud.com/worship_worship
https://www.instagram.com/worship_bristol/

PREMIERE: Albino Sound - Geyser [WORSHIP]

NR Sound Premiere #6

Artist: Strict Face
Track: Casual Contact
Album: Thirst For Nerve EP
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Label: SLG International
Release date: 01.03.24

Buy the digital album here: 

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Premiere: Strict Face - Casual Contact [Thirst For Nerve EP]

Live Life Like There's No Mañana (BFDM 030)

Vincente De La Makina

25% of label profits will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians www.map.org.uk

releases May 3, 2024

All music by BFTT
Artwork by www.missridd.biz
Mastered by Joker

Horsin' Around!

BFTT - Brian, lost Brian

Hassan Abou Alam - I Think [Bandcamp Exclusive]

The Nantes-based collective Hidden Rhythms launches its label activities with a first compilation introducing the most challenging sounds of French nowadays bass culture.

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PREMIERE: Soa420 - Made Of Silver (Hidden Rhythms)

We are very excited to welcome Klahrk to the fold on ACEN059. The London-based artist & founder of Ware Collective follows up releases with the likes of Activia Benz, Genot Centre and SFX. On the Z2 EP, he delivers four atmospheric slow-fast club cuts, exploring the lowest depths of the frequency spectrum.

1. Z2 
2. Interference 
3. Got2Be
4. On The Circuit (ft. Kattie) 

Z2 is available across all digital platforms from May 3rd.

Klahrk - Z2 [ACEN059] (PREVIEWS)

from 'Reading Steiner' EP by Oyubi

out May 24th: https://mbstudio.bandcamp.com/album/reading-steiner

Oyubi - wrkhall

How to submit music: http://bit.ly/How2SubmitMusic

My name is Moskalus and i run a YouTube channel and upload music regularly.
Booking/Contact/Promo/Submissions
moskalusxoxo@gmail.com

PREMIERE: Albino Sound - Geyser [WORSHIP]

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