@awo_ojiji debuts on Control Freak for the long awaited return of our White Label series with his ‘Solidify EP’ - four percussive, wonky & propulsive club cuts, complete with a remix from label heads Customer Service & Finnaman.

Based out of Graz, Austria, Awo Ojiji has been quietly carving out his own lane in the leftfield techno & bass music world. Distinct, detailed and fundamentally genre-fluid, his oddball productions cross a range of stylistic influences and tempos, purpose built for the explorative DJ.

Early support on this one from Laksa, re:ni, Gramrcy & more - very limited pressing of just 300 hand-stamped records - don’t miss your chance to grab one.

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Awo Ojiji - Solidify EP [WLFRK003] - Previews

Slaloming between stations since early 2022, @tra_verse is an Amsterdam–based radio series and a music platform led by @lolobatten. Now expanding into a label, traverse presents its debut compilation: traversée.

We are thrilled to premiere one of the VA's tracks by @phobhorecords’ honcho @matteocoffetti, a deconstructed digi–jumble landscape full of bubbling basslines, dizzy polymeters and twisted vocal chops.

traversée 01 is set to release on May 31.

Premiere: Matteo Coffetti — yoosa poly twist

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/felsss
Track: Bending
Label: @bongojoerecordshop
Format: Digital EP
Release date: 22/9/2023
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VNd2r6s_uo0

A self-described native in the netherrealm of “broken beats and emo pads”, Swiss fellow Fels delivers the fourth entry into our Crux singles series, here with two excursions into more minimalist, but equally detailed bassweight tension.
A garbled cluster of voices, jostling hi-hats and finally, a booming bass drum unfurl on the eponymous Odd Arches, a razor-sharp half-step work-out with a mean streak. Continuously ramping up, yet never resorting to cheap theatrics, the focus remains on its forward-creeping atmosphere and low-frequency pressure.
The flipside, Bending, ups the ante with twitching percussion, a salvo of breakbeats and laser lashes on top. The frenzy is grounded by a similar attention to drum dynamics and subterranean heaviness, but as it spins out the track knows when to take the bass off its hinges.

Crux IV: Odd Arches

PREMIERE | Fels - Bending [Crux Axul] 2023

@siumata
@nervoushorizon

BC: https://siumata.bandcamp.com/album/amasia-ep

Like tectonic plates, Siu Mata's music is in constant motion. Having made a name for himself across the global underground club scene for his exceptional versatility and genre-bending productions, in Amasia EP he turns the Earth’s kinetics into an ever-changing sound exploration which fuses psychedelic dub textures and compelling rhythms, forming a dynamic narrative universe.

Shifting, flowing, evolving, always on the move and in perpetual search of new forward-thinking sonic creations, each track is named after a period in the formation of continents, evoking the idea of never-ending fusion and evolution, both on the surface of the Earth and in music.

Amasia

pi pi pi premiere: Siu Mata - Nuna (Nervous Horizon)

@cool-undergroud-music

Cool Underground Music presents: the lazy deejay EP. four foggy joints, pressed on wax. rolling basslines, hypnotic rhythms, familiar echoes from our past. right on time, the deed is done. warm transmissions have begun. with CUM001...

BC: https://coolundergroundmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-self-titled-ep

the "self-titled" EP

pi pi pi premiere: lazy deejay - fastrack (C.U.M.)

@crudetapes

BC: https://crudetapes.bandcamp.com/album/stray-observations-volume-3

The cast of “Stray Observations” finds itself in a new, somehow even darker timeline.  Originally assembled during the early COVID pandemic, this new collection of tunes from the Ridgewood crew have expanded through refined ideas, tighter production techniques and acute empathy for an unprecedented world.  When everything feels so hopeless, where does art exist?  Is there a space for electronic music?  For raving?  The artists of “Stray Observations Volume 3” don’t necessarily answer these age-old queries directly but lend different moods, environments and places to ponder these thoughts.  From bouncing three-movement tech house to Aphex Twin downtempo worship, this compilation offers the spectrum of emotions and thoughts splintering out from the contemporary mind.

All proceeds to Go Fund Me: Help Two Families Evacuate Gaza

https://www.gofundme.com/f/3dh3p-help-two-families-evacuate-gaza?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

All tracks mastered by Shy
Crude Tapes 2024
CRT-023

pi pi pi premiere: Maniac Krypta - Melting Walrus (Crude Tapes)

@laenzzz
@woozydublin

BC: https://woozydublin.bandcamp.com/album/wzy004-after-sunset

Laenz joins EMA’s beloved Woozy family with After Sunset; an extended player of haunted dub architecture, set out within a found-sound planetarium of deconstructed rhythms and textural deviancy. Seminal UK producer and Hemlock Recordings’ founder Untold also features with his first remix in 9 years.

Brooklyn-based Laenz reimagines the expansive structures of her native city as aural scaffolding, reconstructing indeterminate spaces via an emotional rendering process of world building. It’s music that explores the duality of shape and unform, immersed in traditions of sound design and latter-day UK broken beat techno binded by a tender hauntology that’s sublimely immersive as it is intimately personal. After Sunset is her debut for EMA’s boundary-pushing Woozy imprint, following releases for Early Reflex, Rhizome and Eastern Margins, a project detailing elongated processes of varying intensities evoking a rawness which she described as a “war on the heart”. It’s a body of music that’s a direct portal into Laenz’ singular vision, and highlights her inimitable talent amongst the milieu of bass-leaning producers of New York and beyond.

Ballad Before The Break intros us with a garbled chug of out-of-body proportions, before Choices marches in with an uncanny half time of tense textures and After Sunset follows with trip-hop adjacent psychedelia gorged in subs. B-side opens with Echoes Until, a lurching wormhole of disorientating skank while wiL offers a gorgeous ambient epic circled by a percussion-heavy concrète of breakcore abstraction. Untold sees us out with a remix of Choices, a trip into his unrivalled sound world, buoyant by throbbing modulation and rolling kicks of pure surreality. 
credits

After Sunset

pi pi pi premiere: Laenz - Echoes Until (WZY004)

greetings crafters, 

tonight marks the first curse of this series. 

brought to you by cauldron curator, Rilou, and the following ingredients: 

basalt rock, acraea caterpillar, black pepper 

until the next moon, 

@rilou3
artwork: @sophiareedijk 

tracklist: 
Martyna Basta - Speechless Lately
Vādin - Calliope 
Katatonic Silentio - Brexit 
Saša Delimar - There it Goes 
gi - Drag 
Seta Loto - Partial Pressure (Aerae Remix) 
or+be - Raison 
Aerae - Exsilio 
Varuna - Out Beyond The Settlements 
Solma - Hypocycloid 
Minù Jr - Cure 
Lemont - Open Floodgates 
Sciama - Phasing Out 
Hypnotic Black Magic - Give Me Joy 
Floid - Skudd 
Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Modal 
Dreaker - Reverse Waves 
RM Estali - 32gr 
Nullstaat - Worse Than Nothing 
Cocktail Party Effect - Lobster Stone

episode I: basalt - Rilou

Premiere of Gaunt's 'Neeueee'. Taken from the forthcoming collaborative 'Untitled' EP via GlassTalk Records.

Read article: https://weareinsert.com/audio/premiere-gaunt-neeueee-glasstalk-records

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Premiere: Gaunt - Neeueee [GlassTalk Records]

Remix of "Barbajia" by Seagit Arc, available on Antimateria Sonora
https://antimateriasonora.bandcamp.com/album/seagit-arc-half-emotion-remixes-as008

Barbajia (Tristan Arp Remix)

mix series and label by @deep_creep

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label ~ https://pi-pi-pi.bandcamp.com

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