After 2 years and multiple delays between my initial planned release date, I'm back with a new EP. Back when I wrote the bulk of my previous EP, I alluded to my mental state at that time, how I felt hopeless when it came to music back in 2019, and how in 2021 and 2022 I turned the "no future" name upside down, to make an ironic remark about how for the first time, I felt motivated to pursue my passion. This project goes even further back in time.

"this won't be my grave" were actually the words I wrote to myself, back in October 2018, on the ceiling of my room, right above my head where I slept. The squiggly lines written with a pencil, in the middle of a sleepless night, were a reminder to myself to not cease to exist, to keep moving forward, despite the despair I felt at the general state of my life at that point. 6 years later, I cannot be more glad to be alive and to show the world who I am and what I am about.

Even if at the end of the day, it's just 17 minutes of loud noises, this is a portrait of myself, my taste, my ideas, my core being. This marks a big milestone for me, and in my opinion, is by far my best material. I hope that people are able to enjoy these songs and maybe resonate with them. 10 years ago, I set my goal in life to make something worth listening to, to create something that may affect others in the way music affected me in those formative years. I'm still far away from that goal, but I feel like this project is the closest I've gotten there.

After this entire process, I feel even more motivated than when I started to keep pushing, to do more and more and then some, to keep going forward. This is only the beginning.

Thank you to Midas, Kai, Frey, Leo, Djeb, Sebastian, Alice, Constantin and all the Dubstep 2 crew for the help in making these songs come to life.

Special thanks to Fjsmu, Chocographix and Cl0wri for the art.

this won't be my grave

they're putting me in JAIL bro

These couple of tracks are two of my takes on dance music revolving heavily around borrowed musical ideas from other works. Music, like any other art, is part of a larger culture of people, and the interaction between all of these individuals shapes the final product. No musical expression comes from a vacuum, we all learn from each other and we all "steal" from each other, but usually we try to act coy about it in order to protect our identities and sense of uniqueness, despite the fact that none of us would exist and create without everybody that came before us. I don't think we should be reserved about who inspires us and who makes us enjoy what we are and what we do, and the theme of this release reflects this.

copyright infringement A/B

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Moe Shop - WWW (feat. EDOGA-SULLIVAN) [zeroth flip]

STREAM: https://fanlink.tv/MIDNIGHTBRAWL
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This song is born from my second serious attempt at doing tearout basses. I found a way in the end so I hope everybody is prepared for more donks and yoinks in the future. Also, remember to always respect each other and care for your homies and loved ones. Violence is never the answer. Well, kinda. Sometimes it happens.

MIDNIGHT BRAWL

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ORIGINAL CREDITS
Song: 駆けろ
Artist: hololive IDOL PROJECT

Hoshimachi Suisei - 駆けろ [zeroth remix]

This is my entry for the #DiscipleRemixComp2 !! 
October was a really intense month for me, that's the reason for my late entry but hey, we in here! Shoutouts @disciple for the remix competiton.

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Barely Alive & Nyptane - Electric Lady (ft. XO Eliza) [zeroth remix]

STREAM: https://fanlink.tv/_beyond 
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Guess what? Yet another song that started as a shitpost. This one dates back to around May 2021, I posted a clip called “cirno whatsapp” on Loudness Refuge, consisting of the first 8 bars of the drop into another drop, but with really shitty Tearout basses. I had a laugh and forgot about it, until a couple of months ago, when I was compiling songs for my 2022 Showcase. I extended the original clip from 8 to 32 bars, and because I had lots of fun doing that and people seemed to like it, I ended up making it into a full thing. Genres like these allow you to put so much cool harmony while still being aggressive and high energy. That blend of musicality and heaviness is my main goal with music as a whole, and I hope I can keep improving on it and pushing it forward.

This song would not exist without the music of Jayster (@jaystermusic) Tony Thai (@midiman10), Inverted Silence (@invertedsilence) and Mameyudoufu (@mameyudoufu). You can consider this song a kinda weird love letter to all four of them. Special thanks to Inverted Silence for all his help and for being a good lad in general.

Illustration, as always, by https://twitter.com/choroidplexus11

beyond

BUY THE COMPILATION: https://telemist.bandcamp.com/album/we-r-massive-vol-1-curated-by-telemist

This is my track for the jungle/retro Drum N Bass compilation organized by Telemist, with all proceeds going to charity. As you can image, im not exactly known for being a jungle producer, this is actually the first time i've attempted something like this. I wasn't thinking of participating, but after encouragement from telemist and some luck doing my own breaks from scratch, i decided to make it happen. This track showcases a more harmony-driven and songwriting first ethos that i hope to incorporate more regardless of whatever genre im doing at the moment. Hope you guys like it!

FULL COMP

guiding light 【WE R MASSIVE VOL. 1】

STREAM: fanlink.tv/no-future
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/album/no-future

This song means a whole lot to me. Pretty much in all of my track descriptions I talk about how much I like harmony, how much I want to put it in my songs, yada yada. Well, it all started in this one. Back in June 2021, after a great trip with some of my friends, I had the initial idea for this song. Hearing two of my peers, Qwaston and Voljum, making incredible bass music in such an honest, personal and incredible way inspired me to go "Hey, I should do the same, I think it's time to make a statement track. Maybe it's bad, maybe it's good, but I'm gonna try to pull from as many things I love and craft what my vision for dubstep is". Fast forward many, many months later, and here we are. To be fair, this track didnt end up becoming what i initially hoped it would, but that's fine. This is just the start of my journey, and I will become better, as a musician and as a human being, in hopes that someday i can achieve what I've set myself to create. Maybe that never happens, but I'll certainly try. This is my first attempt.

Also, when i say "pulling from as many things I love", i mean it. I documented how many songs inspired me to make this one, and I counted 29 in total. Thats a lot! I should post the list some day.

no future

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back home

STREAM: fanlink.tv/no-future
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/album/no-future

I would be lying if i didn’t admit that the concept behind this song is "aight man im gonna take the stupidest decisions i can and somehow turn them into a coherent song". Funnily enough, this is probably the closest track to what the EP is supposed to sound like, at least stylistically speaking. Plus I had a lot of fun making it. Isn't that Nice? This one started as a shitpost around august 2021, but hearing slphr say "hey, this is actually cool" made me think hmm, maybe there's more to it. I decided to put it last minute on the 2022 showcase, and people seemed to like the idea too, so I decided to go with it.

Shoutouts @kaifuaudio on this one

direct stream

STREAM: fanlink.tv/no-future
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/album/no-future

This is the oldest song in here! I started it back in late 2020, and even though it’s the most straightforward and simple production-wise one of the bunch, it was the one I found most difficult to get right. Mixing the main bass was hell for more than a year and a half until I got it mostly good in the final versions. Hearing back the old demos makes me both wince but also realize how far I’ve come in this time span. I don’t think I need to explain what’s the theme on this one, I think the title and the vocals are self-explanatory.

no furture

knives

STREAM: fanlink.tv/no-future
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/album/no-future

This is probably my personal favorite in the EP. I don't listen to that much dubstep in my free time, I mostly listen to other genres, and these past 10-11 months I’ve been rinsing a shit ton of Summrs. At first starting as me adding a drop to one of his archived songs (that's how I’ve mostly played it in my URL sets), it began evolving until it became its own thing completely. 

I really like dubstep, but I don’t consider it my main genre. It just happens to be the one language I feel best at and I feel more confident in using, and so far it’s my most useful tool to convey musical ideas. This song (and back home) are prime examples of this: dubstep is the vehicle and main glue to hold all of the other stuff that I personally love about music, and while I would probably be shit at writing a full-on jazz song, or a hardcore punk song, or a trap song, or whatever it may be, I’m at least decent enough at doing this. In the end, It’s all about compromises. Or that’s what I tell myself to feel happy.

desire

DOWNLOAD ON BANDCAMP (For Free!): notzeroth.bandcamp.com/track/third-wind-remix

Originally written and performed by the Pat Metheny Group. Rights to them fr. RIP Lyle.

August and September have been really busy months for me: a ton of IRL work and lots of life changes, coupled with the release of my first EP a month ago. All of that brought me to pretty much not touch the DAW in a pretty long time. When I finally got a bit of free time, I all wanted to do was indulge... and turns out my idea of self-indulgence is grabbing a 1986 Jazz Fusion song, taking all the harmony and melody word for word bar for bar, and remixing it using the production style of an Inverted Silence flip. Double ripoff. Hell yeah! The indulgence gets even worse as the song progresses...

I had a ton of fun doing this, I hope you guys dig it!

third wind (remix)

STREAM: https://fanlink.tv/reencoded
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/album/no-future-reencoded

Exactly six months after the release of the EP, here's the VIP of Back Home! It's the first time I have organized a release like this and the first time I remix a track of mine.
I've been extremely fortunate to feature all the talented people involved here. Hope everybody enjoys everything we have to offer!

When I originally sketched back home, I didn't have much experience making tearout, so while the final version has a ton of layers of polish, the early versions... sucked. A LOT. So this time, with way more knowledge under my belt, I decided to revisit the track, and who would've guessed? Turns out it hits way harder now. I traded some of the original's storytelling for sheer girth (and tons of self-indulgence, especially toward the end...) 
I'm positive that if you liked the original, this one will give you another flavor of the same idea!

back home (VIP)

STREAM: fanlink.tv/bias-engine
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/track/bias-engine

"bro, im telling you, the biased engine in ableton live is waaaay better than any crap in FL studio im talking Warmth dude there's something about it dunno but it makes my mixes so much punchier and grittier thanks to that i got into spinnin records, did you get into spinnin records? dont think so though guy, with your "eff ell sthudiouh" and your "harmours" like give me a fucking break dude, i be telling you this shit is way better and like unlimited channels and FX per channel thats just the icing on the cake, all in all get fucking lost kiddo we run this EDM shit fr"

-Sonny "Skrillex" Moore, i think.

bias engine

MRX-134 TECHCORE ESSENCE
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I'm back!
For the first time ever, I'm part of a label release on a solo track, and to make this debut even better, it's on one of my favorite labels of all time, Megarex! 
It feels surreal sharing the stage with so many cool artists. I'm extremely thankful to have been offered this opportunity, in this track I'm fusing my all my inspirations and sounds in genre that I've never released in before. 

I hope people enjoy my track and everybody else's too! 

I'm also very excited to report that I'm releasing a bunch more music before the end of the year, and beginning of next one. Get ready for hear more from me!

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TECHCORE ESSENCE

FULL ALBUM

limitless 【TECHCORE ESSENCE】

STREAM: fanlink.tv/tkalook
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/track/takealook

UK Garage is hot again, isn't it? for the past 3 years or so there's been this explosion of bringing the 2-step sound back, and it's now all over the place now. That's cool and all, but you know what it's missing: dubstep. lol

A bunch of months ago I had this idea in my head that it would be cool to have some kind of four on the floor tune with garage-y rhythm, but with tearout sound design. I didn't see anybody doing that so I had to do it to em.
This combination is already a bit off kilter anyway so I decided to keep it simple and not go too extreme on the sparkly harmony bullshit. This is a Proper dance chune fr.

takealook!

STREAM: fanlink.tv/griplimitminus1
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/album/grip-limit-minus1

grip limit

minus1

MRX-147 HiTECH ALLiON
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We're so back, as they say.

I'm back on Megarex and this time I'm fully on my element. My previous song on the label was an opportunity to do a genre that I never did before so now I'm glad that I'm doing it again but in a territory that I'm much more comfortable. Along with Beyond, Third Wind Remix and another upcoming song, I think I've covered all the possible Mega-Drive/Genesis-esque type FM Basses. Is this the end? 
Regardless, I think the end result came out awesome, it's one of my favorite tracks I've done In a good while. Hope you guys like it!

This is the first out of 10+ tracks I will be releasing this spring and summer. 2024 is the year of Many Things, I will try to make it a little bit mine too. Stay Tuned!

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HiTECH ALLiON

FULL TILT【HiTECH ALLiON】

STREAM: fanlink.tv/STRIKEFIRST
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/track/strike-first

This is a very rare case of a song that I first had an idea for the artwork, rather than the track itself. Kicking is cool. Many have said this. So i thought that it would be appropriate to make something loud as all hell. Remember what I said on the description of Midnight Brawl, about violence not being the answer, etc etc. Same deal here. This makes the second song about fighting people in the street. Ironic, considering I've never been a real fight, nor I want to be in one. I guess this is all musical role play?

STRIKE FIRST

STREAM: https://exobo.lt/011

dubstep is back on the menu...
big shoutouts to Exobolt for the opportunity and for the great artists that I'm sharing a spot in this compilation!

Exobolt 011

my computer is going to FLY【Exobolt 011】

STREAM: fanlink.tv/pistonpressure
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/track/piston-pressure

out on @interval-audio , part of Interim 7

This is one of my favorite things I've ever done. Despite starting my music journey doing metal music, somehow it didn't really appear in any of my songs in a meaningful way, until now. Regardless, fusing metal with bass music is a formula that has been executed a lot of times, so I decided not to hold myself and go completely all out on everything. For a dubstep song, this one is a real weird one, but I hope people like it as much as I do.

Thanks to @interval-audio for supporting my music. Check out Interim 7 fr

piston pressure

Demo title: ballistic
Started: 18/11/2023
Finished: 24/01/2024
This is the last song I wrote for the EP, and paradoxically, the first one that I finished, so it ended up shaping the sound of the entire project. This song came to me in a flash at 3am while trying to sleep, and I rushed to my phone's notes app to somehow transcribe in terms I would understand the notes and sounds I had in my head. The final result is somehow very close to that initial spark, something pretty rare for me, as I'm usually very transformative of my original ideas, and a definite rarity in this project, as it's the only song with no heavy modifications since it was originally sketched. I'm happy about how it came out and the statement it displays. Shoutouts Must Die for liking the chords on the bridge. Also shoutouts Oshino Ougi.


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Demo title: nuke
Started: 07/07/2023
Finished: 14/06/2024
Crazy! First time ever my "vocals" are present on a song. I have a very strange relationship with my voice and my singing, but after a few months of listening to a particular subset of weird rappers, I felt inspired to do something in that vein. This is another one of the Ship of Theseus songs, as everything besides the first verse was scrapped and worked anew. The end result is something that is both my hardest hitting song, but also feels... enveloping, somehow? It's a pretty personal song for me, and I'm glad I went as intensely as I did.
Lyrics: go figure them out lol

zeroth - limbo

STREAM: https://fanlink.tv/vYPE
BANDCAMP: https://notzeroth.bandcamp.com/album/this-wont-be-my-grave

Demo title: sleep stat
Started: 25/05/2023
Finished: 03/08/2024
In a similar vein to my previous EP, the first song is always a big statement and some kind of "flex track" to showcase everything I have going on. After some jazz-fusion inspired shenanigans in the previous project, now it's time for an entire orchestra. You know, just because. I was inspired by a performance I saw of my city's orchestra playing the second Shéhérazade by Ravel, and that inspired me deeply to make an orchestral arrangement. Like almost everything about this EP, I ended up changing most of the drop if not all of it, and now it actually sounds great. All in all I'm very happy I'm even able to achieve this. Special thanks to Inverted Silence for the invaluable help shaping the orchestra's sounds.

sleep state

STREAM: fanlink.tv/thiswontbemygrave
BANDCAMP: notzeroth.bandcamp.com/album/this-wont-be-my-grave

Demo title: Trinity Site
Started: 28/12/2021
Finished: 21/07/2024
Now this one is funny! I originally made this track as a rip-off of an Akeos tune all the way back in 2021, and ended up featuring it on my 2022 showcase. This was the last song from there that was left to release, but it suffered a complete metamorphosis. Two years later, after the insistence of my friend and fellow artist Chocographix, and Akeos herself liking it, I resumed work, and I scrapped the original intro to make a newer, better one. And after a while... I decided to also scrap the drop, and make a newer, better one. So between the original song and the actual final one. There's literally nothing in common, besides both being in 135BPM. You've ever heard of the Ship of Theseus?

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no path forward

MRX-153 BeyondCORE ESSENCE
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Crazy how they've made rave tools but no rave forks or rave spoons yet. A bit of a shame, if you ask me.

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BeyondCORE ESSENCE

rave utensil【BeyondCORE ESSENCE】

STREAM: https://fanlink.tv/copyrightAB
BANDCAMP: https://notzeroth.bandcamp.com/album/copyright-infringement-a-b

This song was actually inspired by a conversation I had with Voljum around when minus1 was released a year or so ago. He suggested me I should try to do a song purely by sampling other songs, not even adding drums no nothing. I didn't go fully in that direction (there's people like O-Prime Delta who kill it in that style) but regardless i tried to push my chopping style into the extreme, and this is the result

sample away the world

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What's this, the 4th or 5th time a song starts as a joke but I end up liking it so I turn it into an actual thing? I initially made 30 seconds of it purely as joke to put on twitter, but the clip of it went crazy and I'm pretty aware that a lot of people enjoyed takealook! , so I decided to do another song in this vein. During this year I've been very fortunate to meet and hang out with a bunch of extremely talented producers from the Vocaloid scene, and this song samples them substantially. I guess this as a very convoluted way of showing appreciation.

And of course, big shoutouts to @invertedsilence because right when I thought I had the song finished, he quite literally saved it. Thank you man.

new ID, let me know

ASAHI CREW: INTERSECT
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First zeroth release of 2025, and it's part of the first @asahi-crew release, ever!
These guys really believe in what I do and Im so stoked to be working with them.

This song is pretty meaningful for me, and it's kind of a rare one. I'm very used to putting things out the moment I finish them, usually waiting a month or two at the most. This time tho, this song has been in the vault for almost two years. 

Around August 2023, i put out a small clip of this song on Twitter that, by sheer chance, got me noticed by Megarex, and that led to me releasing on them and becoming one of their "usual suspects", so to speak, and because of that, I was able to build more of an audience in Japan and eventually in 2024, I was able to play shows there. So now this song being released on Asahi is the perfect full circle moment. Usually something this "old" would make me wince when looking back at it, but surprisingly, I think this song sounds equally good now as it did then, and it's still one of my most favorite things I've done to date. I hope you guys like it!

PS: I named the track "interleaved" because i thought it was a cool word to signify two people being united by love, with its binding force "interleaving" them... but the reality is, I used this word because that's what Pro Tools calls stereo files when you export something. Yes, this song is a Pro Tools reference. Sue me.

interleaved 【ASAHI CREW: INTERSECT】

MRX-164 SPD GAR 004
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SPD GAR IS BACK!! It's an incredible honor to be part of it

This song is probably the most important one I've done in a good while. Maybe ever? It marks the first time I've actually done a song fully centered around lead vocals, with a melody I wrote myself. I've been a fan of Kanata.N for a good good while, so having her sing and write lyrics for it was amazing. I mean c'mon man are you hearing her? she went crazy on the beat.

If you enjoy my sound with vocals on it, rest assured you will enjoy some of the next songs I have for this year. I'm very passionate about a lot of types of music and I hope I can bring all the different sounds and emotions under the same umbrella. Stay tuned!

LYRICS:

Hollow Note
頬なぞる冷たい風
白い息 空へ消えて
その場で立ち尽くしたまま
言葉が出てこないんだ

またね、なんて笑う君は
もう二度と来ないくせに
去っていく君の背中
ただ見つめた

霞む空 滲んでいく
見慣れていた景色
君の跡だけ残して

さよならさえ言えないまま
これが結末なら
明日なんていらないよ
何もいらない

降りしきる雪はそっと
音もなく心に
そして春を忘れるんだ

まだ微かに指先 残る温度
思い出は風に揺れる
移る季節の中 君は
もういないんだ

伝えたい言葉も 忘れられない気持ちも
胸の奥でずっと疼いてる

目を閉じて 浮かぶ君が
色褪せたときに
本当の終わりが来る

行き場のない最後の手紙
過ぎていく時間
届かないと知っていても
捨てられない

いつの日か この涙も
乾いていくんだろう
そのときはまた前を見て
光を探せるように

降りしきる雪はいつか
溶けて消えていく
そしてすべて忘れるんだ

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hollow note (feat. Kanata.N)【SPD GAR 004】

STREAM: https://hypeddit.com/asahicrew/catchmeifyoucan
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Back at Asahi Crew with a doozy one! I was very able to meet Hylen in person last year, when he attended one of the shows I played in Tokyo. We are both fans of each other, so the thought of collabing came pretty naturally. As most of you are aware, I've barely collabed with people before (KAIFU being the big exception), so I'm excited that going forward I will be releasing a collection of tracks that I've been working on alongside some of my friends. Super excited for it!

This song was a blast to do, I really felt like neither of the two had any limits or any restraint when it came to the ideas we decided to present here. It feelt very liberating! but somehow I think it all comes together, and a banger emerged from it. I hope you guys like it!

STREAM

CATCHMEIFYOUCAN (with Hylen)

STREAM: https://fanlink.tv/puspa
BANDCAMP: https://notzeroth.bandcamp.com/track/puspa

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djeb and I first met over four years ago in this weird quasi-mythical place called Loudness Refuge. We became friends almost instantly and, since then, we have been around each other's music and art, have traveled to different countries together, and even worked together alongside other people on songs like Dubstep 2 - Emotional clap or SHADOW GOVERNMENT INC - CLEAN JOBS. Despite this, we never formally collabed, until now. I'm super happy to put this one out because it both sounds awesome and oozes both of our personalities at the same time.

puspa (w/ djeb)

dubstep 2
all possibilities all at once


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