Taken from SBKT049: Osheyack - Intimate Publics
Release date: 8th June 2022

Intimate Publics, Osheyack’s second album, is an homage to Shanghai, the city he has called home since 2012. Over the past ten years the producer has evolved from an avid club-goer to a key member of the vital soundscape that emerged from ALL Club and its predecessor, the now defunct club The Shelter. As hinted by the title, which draws on American social theorist Michael Warner’s work on publics and counterpublics, the album expresses a commitment to mining the utopian potential of club music, forging new worlds and generating future social relations, just as the artist bids farewell to the city at a moment of uncertain transition. While tracks like 'Edging' and 'Thrall' continue to present his signature collage of harder club music, the rest of the record reveals a shift to synthetic approximations of acoustic instruments. 'Still', the central track of the album, is a piece composed almost entirely of samples found on Vocaloid (a vocal synthesizer developed by Yamaha, commonly used to give voice to Japanese virtual idols). While echoing themes explored in previous projects, like the nature of realism and authenticity in a techno-mediated landscape, Intimate Publics is charged with an unexpected emotional candor and vulnerability, unveiling a personal side Osheyack is only beginning to explore.

Words by Alvin Li
Artwork by Xiaofei Qiu
Design by Luke Griffiths
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Intimate Publics

Osheyack - Usually Never

Born in the US, Avernian grew up in a household that was a melting pot of cultures. With his mother being German and his step-dad being Peruvian, he was exposed to many different kinds of music from a young age. Cumbia, Afro-Peruvian and even Guaracha were constants in his life.

Fast forwarding to his late teens, Avernian moved to Germany to study and get in touch with his German heritage. By doing this, he discovered his love for electronic music and delved into producing. Over the years, he found that the UK sound resonated with him in ways that reminded him of his childhood and so he decided to move to the UK and immerse himself.

Avernian’s music pays homage to all of these influences that have played a part in his journey. Elements from these influences can be heard clearly in his output. A sound that cannot be pigeon holed or defined by a singular genre.

Now living in Manchester, he runs his own label and party series by the name of Lurch, regularly inviting down friends and artists he feels a personal connection with in their music.
On this debut album, Avernian wanted to showcase every different influence in his music; from Cumbia, Dancehall, UK Funky, Techno, UK Techno, Shaabi.

It’s an accumulation of 2 years work also features samples from family recordings & videos to show the connection between Avernian’s music and childhood.

Avernian - Brunk

Nuevo Prohibido es un artista mexicano-suizo que actualmente reside entre las vibrantes ciudades de Berlín y Zúrich. Como DJ, productor y co-fundador de @metarave, así como dueño de los sellos @philoxenia y @lustpoderosa, Nuevo Prohibido ha estado profundamente inmerso en diversos proyectos de música electrónica durante más de dos décadas.

La misión artística de Nuevo Prohibido gira en torno a combinar de manera fluida sus diversos antecedentes culturales y musicales. Fusionan hábilmente la nostalgia por la escena rave de los 90's y 00's con un agudo aprecio por las diferentes raíces de la música electrónica.

En colaboración con DJ LOUI FROM JUPITER4, curan Metarave, un espacio único diseñado para fomentar una comunidad rave multicultural. Su enfoque principal se centra en la música electrónica Latinx, con el objetivo de apoyar a artistas emergentes y concienciar sobre la diversidad dentro de la comunidad.

Una de sus últimas creaciones, 'Caguama y Tacha', se inspira en una legendaria noche de Año Nuevo en CDMX en 2022/23. Esta pista es una fascinante colisión de elementos trance, impulsada por una enérgica línea de bajo guaracha y acompañada por voces que capturan vívidamente el estado eufórico experimentado durante un rave sudoroso en Technotitlan.

'Caguama y Tacha' fue meticulosamente producida en el estudio de Nuevo Prohibido en Berlín en una noche melancólica en la que extrañaban profundamente la vibrante energía y ambiente de México. Esta pieza refleja su conexión profunda tanto con su viaje musical como con su tierra natal.

La otra pista, 'Tentacion', es una mezcla entre Footwork, Baltimore Club y Reguetón. Una pista para elevarse en espiral.

Ambas pistas fueron producidas en el estudio de Nuevo en Berlín en 2023 entre el verano y el otoño.

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releases February 9, 2024

Composed, performed & produced by NUEVO PROHIBIDO
Art by Uinaina
Mastering By @Imaabs in Modos Studio, México City.

NUEVO PROHIBIDO - Tentación (TRdrop 007)

Written by Dylane Dav
Produced by Cardozo
Mixed by Cardozo
Artwork by Queenparamount

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Following up on a cracker split single last year, Overload Liverpool jumps into 2024 firing on all cylinders with a 5 shooter of freaked-out electro, warm house, deep dub cuts, and gorgeous ambient.

Firstly, Liverpool-based label boss Morrison highlights two of his distinct and dissociative styles. On the front end of the A-side, his The Motorist alias provides us with a freaked-out formant-filtered electro that’s bursting at the lips. On the back end, a deep yet bright house cut from his The Cyclist alias, with warm warbling synths layered over his Wurlitzer electric piano and suitably grooved and jaunty beats.

To kick off the deeper B-side of the 12”, Wax Tek, a founder of the Liverpool Soundsystem crew Polyone Audio, hits us right in the chest with his dubbed-out breakbeat wonder, Get Set, which diverges through Balearic, bass music, a delirious breakdown, and hard-hitting breakbeats.

Deeper still, the second B-side from Puncta, another Liverpool-based artist, who last year came to light with their release on Sputnik One’s N-Face, dives into the deep Arctic seas with Snow Crab, an exercise in dubbed-out electro-style bass music.

Finally, Belfast-based Aaron Thomas brings the 12” EP to a fitting closure with Concert², which, washing over the listener, dances like opulent drapes with its ethereal synths that crash to and fro.

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Your Planet Is Next - URBAN MAN XL
⚪️ Available now on Bandcamp: https://yourplanetisnext.bandcamp.com/album/urban-man-xl

We're proud to present URBAN MAN XL, the new alias from @yourplanetisnext , on Terminal. This project captures the essence of genres like happy hardcore, breakbeat, and early grime. URBAN MAN XL takes us to a distorted reality where early 2000s London and 90s Rotterdam converge in a high-energy, technically explorative sonic narrative, throwing us back to those dark, sweaty clubs where euphoria and chaos were the common tongue.

With production marked by wild downsampling and time-stretching, this EP channels the raw, visceral energy of hardcore and breakbeat into an unfiltered sound. Each track is an explosive piece, full of broken rhythms and saturated basslines, reminiscent of early rave experiences, but with a contemporary edge that makes it unmistakably his own. The narrative is further enhanced by an intergalactic war story between the "Frogtronic" resistance and "the free world" — a nod to DIY aesthetics and the sharp, acidic humor that defines the project.

The visual art for URBAN MAN XL, developed by Triss, draws from 90s graffiti, connecting with the jungle, hardcore, and rave culture. This retro aesthetic is combined with Dennis Vera's low-res DIY animations, evoking the spirit of those early colorful and minimalist raves. This EP is more than just music: it's a sonic manifesto exploring the limits between analog and digital, nostalgia and futurism.

Terminal once again proves to be the natural home for projects that refuse to conform, seeking to challenge the codes of clubbing. URBAN MAN XL embodies that attitude: frenetic rhythms, low frequencies, and a twisted nostalgia that just wants to tear up the dancefloor.

Track list:
01. 6666
02. Frogtronic Malware
03. Buff
04. Artic Mega Server
05. Hits From The...

Video by Dennis Vera @umbermindset
Character design by YPIN
Cover art by Triss, BST
Mastering by Matthew Styles

Your Planet Is Next - Arctic Mega Server

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Tape Throb Records has been reborn as Overload Liverpool and will look to continue to release music which stems from the same nonconformity and desire to distort, blend, warp and innovate in the world of dance music from a new locale.
Watch this space.