from Noodles142
released on June 14th, 2024

cover art: Sylwia Szydełko
graphic support: Laura Linnik
mastering: @iambruce at Edgar Studios
w&p: @satl

buy here:
splot.bandcamp.com/album/noodles142

Noodles142 - Celestial

Beatrice M’s @baitlabel returns with a new system-shaking suite from Nantes-based Soa420 (@valesoa)

‘No Nerve’ is out 4th September – have an exclusive first listen to the corrosive title cut now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-soa420-no-nerve

Premiere: Soa420 ‘No Nerve’

Batomu

The final katharsis release of 2024 is the 26-track compilation “Physical Force” featuring a wide range of affiliated artists from both the international and local Copenhagen electronic music scene. As the title hints, Physical Force delves into the visceral, bodily aspects of music, inviting its contributors to explore the theme of movement as a central element in their compositions. Each artist was encouraged to focus on rhythm, groove, energy, and the physicality of sound, which resulted in drum-heavy release from start to finish. While there is a consistent emphasis on rhythm and a bodily connection to the music, the tracks vary widely in style and sonic texture, ranging from big melodic anthems, gritty experimental techno, heavy jungle bangers, and beyond.

released December 23, 2024

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

Gavnlig - Need U

Bottoni - Raster

Brussels-based imprint Maloca is proud to present percussive connoisseur Coen’s sophomore mini-album, Moshpit: an 8-track exploration where focus and intensity rules all. As the title suggests, the release marks a more abrasive turn after 2023’s Slop Drop & Roll.
 
Feeling like a new direction was needed for his second mini-album, Coen went back to his roots. There, the artist re-discovered a love for Slayer and the brutal, near out-of-control power found in thrash metal. Through this recapturing of his teenage years, he found his approach, developing methods for transposing the genre’s raw aesthetics into his stripped back, drum-forward sound.
 
The result is a listening experience dominated by double-time kicks, corroded walls of texture and a level of intensity not heard before in the London artist's work. Moshpit acts as an ode to Slayer and the brutal, relentless energy of thrash metal, taking the genre on a conceptual level and translating it into Coen’s universe. 

Despite this aesthetic turn, the album also stands as an evolution, rather than a revolution, from Coen. The orotund percussive tones and lethal high energy grooves of Headbanger and Roll Play are nods to 2023 standout Pressure Roll - weapon of choice for DJs across the spectrum including Bonobo, Bambounou, Ahadadream, Toumba & Lu Su.
 
Moshpit also sees Coen at his most concentrated, distilling what he does best down to its most vital and essential form. Each track bristles with a cinematic, metallic sheen and never feels too busy, with the artist getting the most from recordings of his studio’s collection of percussion instruments – with many of the textures on the album becoming distorted abstractions of drums found in it. 
 
The artwork, made by Coen himself, bristles with coarse texture, without becoming drowned in noise - an appropriate visual guide to the sonic landscape to be found in Moshpit. 

Coen - Slayer

OMOB (formerly Overthinker Mob) is rebooting—here to stay, and more committed than ever to probing and archiving the innovative fringes of culture.

“The Dance of All Creation” compiles a neo-Afrofuturist moodboard of music, visuals, and haptics. This release recruits a weighty international lineup of pioneering forces and sonic architects: Bloomfeld, DJ Lag, DJ Spit, Mafou, Mukuna, NVST, and State OFFF.

[As we further distract ourselves from our environment, we channel our collective intelligence into solving problems of our own design. Our intuition—once attuned to the endless cycle of transformation—fades, taking a backseat to progress. In our pursuit of control and dominance, we decrypt nature’s patterns, quantify its rhythm, mimic its choreography— all the while unlearning how to dance the dance ourselves. Figuratively and literally]

NVST - Backseat Queen (Boss Version)

@PoorJDarr - Power Strike - KAIZEN
2015

KZN015

Skooma Dealer – GQOM meets Club Constructions with a mix that’s tight, dry, and direct. A hypnotic, breath-heavy chant forms the rhythmic core, punctuated by sharp bursts of energy and a mischievous flute. A modern-day Pied Piper; Poor J’Darr’s seductive sound-design and playful aesthetics, tease us into the unknown with perilous re-percussions.

Power Strike

Poor J'Darr - Skooma Dealer (Clip)

OBSESSION

donde esta el bueno

NBC035 Neuro Breaks Collective presents its next release from REMENZ, who brings us his most personal and special work to date: IN HONOR OF YOU, is an album split into installments that promises to take us on a deep and emotional sonic journey.

The first installment of this saga opens with "Sacrifice," a Neurobreaks track in the purest style, full of enveloping atmospheres and special vocals that convey an intense and unique feeling.

It is followed by "Missing You," a song that immerses us in a style that could be described as Liquid Breaks, with hypnotic vocals and a clear, moving message.

REMENZ shows off his full artistic potential and his most emotional side, making it clear that this album will undoubtedly be one of the most important projects for both the artist and Neuro Breaks Collective.

NBC035-REMENZ - Missing You

Probing & archiving innovative fringes.

Bloomfeld, DJ Lag, DJ Spit, Mafou, Mukuna, NVST & State OFF: "The Dance of All Creation" is out now.