City 17

Overfiend

Twilight

NeuroTransmitter

Submarine

reActive Lab closes the year with a special project from Dragne, one of the artists who has grown alongside the label’s identity and vision. Reboot is a compact EP, yet full of intention, built around a clear concept: reset, re-enter, reconnect. Dragne once again captures the essence of the reActive sound with a clean, rhythmic style, subtly tense and perfectly calibrated, where minimalism meets controlled energy—the hallmark of his work.

The three tracks of the EP form a cohesive narrative that acts as a statement for the end of the year: an opening (Reboot), a transition (Entry), and a stabilization (System). Together, they create an organic, direct atmosphere that stays true to reActive Lab’s DNA. The material is honest, without unnecessary embellishments, letting the groove take center stage, while the sonic architecture remains precise, mature, and evolving.

Reboot marks the final release of the year, closing this chapter with elegance and intention. Yet it also sends a clear message to our audience: a new era is coming. In the next year, reActive Lab will launch its first vinyl release and unveil a new visual identity, a rebranding designed to bring the label to a stronger, more defined presence in the scene.

Dragne delivers the perfect soundtrack for this transition—an EP that closes the year while opening a new chapter.

Reboot EP

RCV020 Bancamp

Dragne - Reboot [RCV020]

Produced live on Twitch.tv/brickshell 2024-2025 with dirtywave m8 model 2, sp404-mkii and MPC ONE, mastered with dirtywave m8.
Brickshell is the improvised live music experiment of Caleb Shuler, Matthew Randak, and Kolton Thomas. Thank you to my friends and music community.
BRICKSHELL FREESTYLE INSTRUMENTALS VOLUME 4.20
-SDL
credits
released December 6, 2025

Art Direction by Caleb Shuler
Music production, mixing, and mastering by Caleb Shuler and Matthew Randak


rocKANDYmath

Like the tides of the oceans, human existence is in every way a cycle. There are ebbs and flows. Sometimes obstructions can cause eddies and redirection of that flow.  The morning drive to work on the freeway is like the incoming tide, while the drive home in the afternoon is the outgoing tide. We've all experienced the frustration of being stuck in traffic, our nerves frayed, sometimes tempers are short, the anxiety, the stress, the fear of being late for work compels us onward through the morning traffic jam. Our very livelihoods are at stake, we could have our pay docked for missing time, or we could face the stern admonishment of our boss, or . . .we could even be fired for tardiness. The drive home is no less hellish, for our daily labor has drained our spirits, our energy. All we want to do is to get home. This short musical adventure is an attempt to convey, in a happy and whimsical fashion, the feeling of being stuck in traffic.

Afternoon Highway Bustle

Robe rehearsal 181017

Excerpt taken from Clara de Asís -  Sans Nom Ni Forme
Pilgrim Talk 2020

Clara de Asís - De ce côté-ci (excerpt) [PT39]

Loop 34 (Bucles)

a quick test of the nlc dp filter (headphones recommended):

a bunch of chopped up noodles from a doepfer system stuck inside a squid salmple, the mix of which is randomly addressed, reduced, and crushed, then sent to the dpf, and plays alongside a main sine noodle from an a-143-9. the diode half of the dpf has a high-ish q setting (which is kinda tame compared to other filters) and a low cut off, and later is modulated by a low rate of digital noise from the a-117 and a sine lfo from a second a-143-9. the transistor side (which has no input and is internally fed by the diode side via photo-couplers) has a maxed out q  and an even lower cut off, and its cv2 is randomly assigned the 2 oscillators section from the a-117 808 source via a switch, which gives it that wild feedback sound. the output of the dpf is monitored from the sum output, and a tiny bit of reverb is added in ableton.

this filter is very  touchy, and depending on how its built, can have a very narrow range on control (as mine does,) and the transistor ladder only really gets fired up if the diode ladder is hot enough (mine uses MCT9001 photo-couplers,) so you can get all these really interesting 'edge of breakup' sounds, to use the dirt-pedal/guitar amp parlance of the day...and its quite nice if you can dial it in, but it does takes some patience.

it also gets *real* bonkers when you start swapping the q path and monitoring different outputs...but i haven't really figured out how to bend any of that to my will yet...

NeuroTransmitter

Mseq