what resembles the grave but isn't

Following their contribution to Superclasico Vol 2., @tomsobolikmusic officially joins the Clasico family in a major way!

Five new tracks from one of the US underground’s most exciting voices, Heavy Eyes finds Sobolik refining their sound while reconnecting with their roots. Written over eight months between June 2024 and February 2025, the record came out of a moment of recalibration. After a run of dense, chaotic releases, Sobolik stripped things back and turned their focus to groove and percussion, gravitating towards techno, tribal house and dubstep for inspiration – but never long enough for any one genre to define them.

The result is a set of tracks that balance dissonance and playfulness, with a renewed emotional core. “I wanted to hone things down,” they explain. “None of them are straightforward bangers, but they’re all playful, charged, and connected to the deep reverence for pop music that’s always driven me.”

Musically, the EP takes influence from Trekkie Trax, 85 Acid and Yaleesa Hall, late-‘00s dubstep pioneers like Appleblim and Peverelist, and the DJ worldbuilding of CCL, Gigsta, Objekt, and Kiernan Laveaux. But at its heart, it’s rooted in Sobolik’s most formative experiences in the North American underground, channeling the unbridled spirit of DIY raves like Montreal’s Layer05 and STM, Philadelphia’s Chrysalis and Concréte, New York’s Groovy Groovy and TOSSD, and of course Sobolik’s own Antidote nights. “This music is for those floors,” they say. “The places that captured my heart.”

As their seventh EP, Heavy Eyes feels like a sure step forward. “It comes from me DJing more, deepening my knowledge of how dance music works on the body and on a crowd,” Sobolik reflects. “I feel more confident now, put less pressure on myself – and I think the tracks are cleaner, more distilled.” That maturity doesn’t come at the expense of personality, though: this is still music full of texture, humour, and an air of “why the fuck not?”

The EP closes with a remix from Swedish innovator Peder Mannerfelt – ‘business (techno) in the front, party in the back’ personified and one of Sobolik’s earliest inspirations. “He’s been flying the flag for freaky, fun, bassy techno for years,” Sobolik says. “His tracks set my gold standard for dancefloor music – I did not expect he’d be so immediately down to remix my material, and I’m really humbled by his support.”

With Heavy Eyes, Sobolik delivers their sharpest and most focused work yet: club tracks that are fierce and frenetic, but also deeply earnest.

Perc Loop Princess is the second single on the EP, before Heavy Eyes drops in full on October 2.

All tracks written and produced by Sobilik in Queens.
Mastered by Alex Gordon.
Remix mastered by Wordcolour.
Artwork by All Purpose Studio.
Cover photo by Thomas Sobolik Sr.
Released by Clasico Records | Catalog #: CCO011

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Heavy Eyes

Sobolik – Perc Loop Princess

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you're all I wanted

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Taken from SBKT073: ABADIR - Kitbashing
Release date: 15th October 2025

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Conceived as part of an A/V show with visual artist Nicolò Cervello, ‘Kitbashing’ marks ABADIR’s third album for SVBKVLT.

A growing number of people spend an extensive amount of time watching, scrolling, liking, commenting on and sharing content, whilst at the same time feeding a constant stream of personal data to social media platforms. Social media can be fun and informative, or draining and dark. Either way, their algorithms are purposefully designed to lock users in a continuous state of scrolling. The more time spent online, the more desires, interests and emotions are fed into the algorithm for consumerist ends and reality is reduced to a timeline of curated aesthetics.

Using audio snippets from reels, suggested posts, and sponsored ads, sound objects are cut, micro-edited and meshed together into a collage. Tension is built gradually before falling into a release. Rhythms keep expanding and contracting, simulating the pace of random scrolling on mobile devices. ‘Kitbashing’ is an attempt to break the algorithm: subverting the dynamics by feeding on the algorithm instead of only feeding it.

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Concept by Nicolò Cervello and Rami Abadir
Artwork by Nicolò Cervello
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

ABADIR - Swipe, Skip, Repeat

Basy Tropikalne 019 guest mix by @julioc0rd0va, a DJ, producent and designer based in Chicago where he founded an event series and music label @aguaderosas. The mix features tracks from his two latest releases - an EP on NAAFI and a collaborative effort created together with Please and Entrañas - plus unreleased goodies from Agua de Rosas and selection of relentless dancefloor-oriented songs.

Basy Tropikalne #019 guest mix: J. CÓRDOVA

WRACK w/ Galtier - 27/10/2025

Hakka Drums II continues B E N N’s exploration of ritualistic percussion and cultural resonance, weaving samples of Taiwanese temple music, Hakka drumming traditions, and electronic rhythmic structures into a dense, cinematic landscape.

Across three tracks, the EP oscillates between trance-like repetition and sonic disintegration—transforming traditional rhythmic motifs into fractured, breathing organisms. The project channels a primal, almost animistic energy, where each drum hit feels like an invocation, and each silence, a moment of reflection.

The Hakka Drums series serves as an ongoing dialogue between ancestral sound and modern rhythm—reimagining the Hakka cultural identity through contemporary electronic production.
In Hakka Drums II, B E N N deepens this dialogue, using sampled ritual sounds, percussive layering, and spatial manipulations to evoke notions of ceremony, procession, and decay.
Each composition unfolds like a ceremony: immersive, fragmented, yet profoundly physical.
credits
releases November 14, 2025

NÜ PREMIERE : B E N N -  Wind throng Pines (intro)

Marijn S - Earth Angel

SPLIT HEAD - LOCO LOCO

Siu Mata and Antoine 80 cooked together two dancefloor pastries with a zesty Psychedelism on top of it! Yummy !!!

Monster

The Dance of the mammoths

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EP1: Do you plan to end a siege? (TT, 2018)
EP2: REX (Let's Go Swimming, 2018)
EP3: FIGURE BESIDE ME (self-released, 2019)
EP4: Hyperaesthesia (co-produced with TSVI; Nervous Horizon, 2020)
EP5: Grotto (TT, 5 March 2021)

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