Tracks on. Brain off.

Massive Music is the new massive mixtape from MM. It’s Dumb Dance Music – DDM – don’t think too hard about it. The EP draws on tribal house, raptor house, Dutch bubbling sounds and heavy filter techno to create six tough ‘n hard drum tools.

Mastering: Fausto Mercier
Artwork: Rory King

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MM - QBT20

After releasing the very tense and politically charged Flowers Of The Revolution album on SVBKVLT, Nahash returns home to France for an EP on POLAAR.

Tides talk about ebb and flow. It is also a symbol for what is taken. When the tide is high on the shore of Western Europe it is low in Haiti. When nations are impoverished in western Africa, wealth is created on the east coast of the USA. Tides continues with Nahash's brand of anti-imperialist electronic destruction, taking tempos faster as we come closer to extinction-level events.

The sounds of this EP works in contrast between heavy drum sound and airy pads and synths sounds mashing together into a sort of mutant Jungle music built from recycled drum loops and 2nd hand Trance CD samplers.

Nahash is joined on two tracks by a prominent French player of the 160-game, SNKLS, who blends his supple modular textures and abstract vision into the nostalgic rave atmosphere of the EP.

Mastering Cedric Ifa
Artwork by Zeynep Aǧcabay & Luke Griffiths

releases February 22, 2022

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Contraction

Congolese Hakuna Kulala affiliate Chrisman brings pummelling, menacing gqom to Nervous Horizon.

'Nervous Horizon Vol. 4' is out April 8th.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3JlTcHj

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@nervoushorizon

Nervous Horizon Vol. 4

Premiere: Chrisman - Mediocre [Nervous Horizon]

@galtier

Galtier makes his second return to his own label with a 5-track offering of off-kilter, obscure electronic madness aptly titled 'Imitation Plantae'. Inspired by the idea of man-made imitations attempting to capture the essence of natural beauty. Galtier's take on this very concept manifests itself through the ever-present sense of unease that is evident across all five tracks. The melodies drift in and out of tune, ever so slightly, ultimately sounding pleasing but always fleeting in their general aura of pleasantness. A showcase of Galtier's breadth of confidence across a huge span of BPMs and rhythmic influences that is showcased on his sophomore NHS release, reflecting the sense of uncertainty conveyed through the Intentionally awry mood throughout.

The EP itself is a distinct shift, once again, in gears off the back of his debut LP on Infinite Machine, which encapsulated the journey into one's own existence and presence in a vast world that is, to this viewer, connected on an atomic and deeply spiritual level. This decidedly stark difference in output originated as an attempt to play contrarian to his own 'style' of productions - Setting out to prove that he is capable of branching out once again into a new, confused realm that steers away from theatrics and hones in on sharp, digitized and overtly computer-programmed aesthetics.

Imitation Plantae EP

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Disorientating mutant dembow pressure from All Centre debutant Dome Zero.

'Chewing The Scenery' is out June 3rd on All Centre.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3N4xkSN

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@all-centre-504822953

Premiere: Dome Zero - Somewhere Between A Yard And A Country Mile [All Centre]

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Amazondotcom - Glances

[TNE004] bonebrokk - Howl

Following the curation of the expansive compilation 'Athens UHD', Trial & Error founder Bonebrokk is back with the frenetic 5-tracker 'Howl'.

Including a Mosca remix, [TNE004] 'Howl' is a potent return which introduces Bonebrokk's brand new 'ExoPunk' sound.
Equally raw and meticulously crafted, 'Howl' is a polydimensional world of profound directness expressed through unrestrained sound design, turbulent beats and cathartic hooks.

Track 1 - Exo's immersive dubbed-out grime introduces us to the Howl world, while Forsaken blends out there breaks with blurred voices and weighty subs.
Io Chant is a social prayer of another civilization built on blocks of percussion and the title track Howl takes the role of total catharsis through stepping rhythms and a creature's howl sound.
Mosca's Exo Shaolin Version finishes off the EP in perfect deconstruction fashion.

In the creator's words:
''Howl is a reaction, an act of liberation from reality, from the constant advertisements, from entrepreneurs, from my fascist country, from capitalism.
It's a world I created to heal myself, to escape and to lose myself into a sonic bath. Devaluation and 15 second memories rule this age and i need more, i want things to matter.''
credits
releases October 16, 2020

Written, produced and mixed by Marios Naris at Arkestry.

Mastering by Stefan Konstantinidis at Fabrika.
www.fabrikamusic.gr

3D design by Benfika.
www.instagram.com/reflejodeperro

Typography by Niko Dervisis. www.instagram.com/nikosdervisis_design

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Artist: @laughingears
Catalogue Number: IM086
Album: Blood
Release Date: February 26th, 2021
Format: Digital

Laughing Ears is poised to release her second LP this January via club music vanguards, Infinite Machine. Her lengthiest offering to date, Blood consists of 10 tracks that highlight Laughing Ears’s knack for building otherworldly atmospherics within club-ready, dance music structures. Taking the tale of Fenrir as it’s starting point, (a giant wolf in Norse mythology who spent much of his life bound and chained to a rock in captivity), the album conceptually deals with family ties and the melancholic beauty that can be found in the darkness of loss.

Blood opens with the airy, gliding synths and heavy drumwork of Flickering Shadows. The track has a unique sense of space due its wide stereo-imaging as well as Laughing Ears’ haunting melodies and driving rhythms. A 100bpm creeper fit for exploring uncharted virtual lands. On the following track, Loki, things are stripped back to their functional essentials. Tabla hits, bass pluses and strange whistles brush up against each other in a head-spinning assemblage before surging towards a climactic resolution.

The serene Untouched Places showcases Laughing Ears’ unique approach to melody and harmony. With a background in singing herself, her synths lines here seem to tonally intertwine, like vocal DNA, veering from harmonious and dissonant phases. Compared to the tranquility of Untouched Places, LP title-track, Blood, moves the record in a more intense direction. A brick wall of compressed percussion and humanoid-sung samples seem to battle it out for the listener’s attention in an enthralling sonic confrontation.

On Blood’s mid-point, Night Whisps, the producer’s love for the thrilling soundtracks of Satoshi Kon’s anime movies definitely comes through clearly. Bass drones claustrophobically reverberate around the mix - acting as a musical backbone that a wide array of staccato samples are stitched onto. Next up, Murderous Means, as its blood-thirsty title suggests, is a brutal and hard-hitting club track that’ll keep listeners guessing as the composition twists and turns. The song’s furious, ever-evolving drum patterns create mesmerizing rhythms you can’t help but bob your head to.

The polyrhythms continue on the following piece, Buona Fortuna. Like footwork, a genre she looks to for inspiration, on Buona Fortuna, the main groove is built out of a disparate family of drum samples which work in tandem - much like how individual dots of an Impressionist painting cooperate to form a single, concrete image. Laughing Ears then slows things down slightly with Glimmer, which sees the producer mix the low end stylings of UK Funky with strung out horns and gong hits.

On Potcheen, the longest of the record, Laughing Ears ambitiously constructs a track that starts from curious, ambient beginnings before morphing into a ferocious footwork-infused banger. Rounding off the release, Warm as A Lizard is a groove-laided drum freakout, crammed full of dense textures which build into a tonal fever pitch.

Artwork by Nic Symbios
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Blood

Laughing Ears - Loki (IM086)

Artist: @yilanmusic
Catalogue Number: IM085
Album: Suddenly I Am Falling
Release Date: January 29th, 2021
Format: Digital

Emerging for his second release on Infinite Machine following his highly acclaimed 'Regression' EP with Amazondotcom and Superfície, Leeds - based producer Yilan returns for 'Suddenly I Am Falling'.

The title track opens with polyrhythmic kicks, electric hats and cataclysmic atmospheres that are set to send the dancefloor into a frenzy.

'Static Void' is an authentic Techno Dancehall masterclass with a sharp snare dancing around the syncopated pulse of the track.

Collaborating with Ren for third track, 'Niffler', sees the duo lurking into 90BPM territory for an unstoppable groove with razor-sharp percussive brutality and a masterclass in futuristic sound-design that expands across the entire audio spectrum.

Track four, 'Underwater Construction', is a halftime roller with ramped up distorted hits that emanate from an abandoned warehouse, like machinery exhaling.

'AFADS', featuring collaborator Ebb, launches things back into a rolling abyss like a ticking time bomb of kick drums that poke and play around paranoid lazer stabs and an astounding middle section that will leave you gulping in shock.

Closing the record out with an ambient work 'Lost Signals' portrays softer timbres of birdsong and synthesised windchimes, allowing time to reflect on what is one of the most inspiring talents to come out of the UK underground.

Tracklist:

1. Suddenly I Am Falling
2. Static Void
3. Niffler (with Ren)
4. Underwater Construction
5. AFADS (with Ebb)
6. Lost Signals

Mastered by Fausto Mercier
Artwork by Benfika

Suddenly I Am Falling

Yilan - Underwater Construction

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