Releases

20-23

Lila Tirando a Violeta - Desire Path

Arte: Asma - 'Alas, this flat image wins my love, as I behold it. But I cannot press my arms around the form I see' (2021) cortesía de Deli Gallery - N.A.A.F.I ® 2022 NF046

Desire Path

Tungsten Tears

NAAFI | PIRATA 5 - 2022
The fifth installment of our traditional bootleg compilation.
DL on naafi.bandcamp.com

OMAAR X KAROL G - PROVENZA (AMA EDIT)

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @ogkarin.

RRFM • Flippen Worldwide w/ OG Karin • 28-09-2022

MIST006 - Various Artists - My Own Mirror To Stay
Release Date: March 6, 2023 (12" & Digital)
Buy: https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com/album/my-own-mirror-to-stay

A1 Lukas Urban - A Glass of Empty Rooms
A2 Soreab - The Boy And The Beast
A3 Sanguine - Fake Leaves
B1 McGregor - Clean Lines
B2 ENA - Arkadia Blue
B3 Will Alfred - Pattern Static

With its first label compilation, "My Own Mirror To Stay," Sure Thing invites six new voices into the fold. Each provides an acutely personal reflection of the dance floor suspended in a singular crystalline moment, from wide-eyed to weightless, together seeking new horizons inward and out.

Mastered by Neel at Enisslab
Artwork by Nicola Tirabasso
Additional design by Nathaniel Young

MIST006 - V/A - My Own Mirror To Stay

@sanguinesanguine
@moonshoerecords

BC: https://roberthughes.bandcamp.com/album/twice-lived

"Twice Lived is a series of reactions. I’d like to say this album has meaning behind it, a purpose that once thought has now been achieved in this final form, but the truth is I had no intention with any of it. I would start with a sound I liked and use that as a base to create more as a response to the initial. This cycle could go on and on until the original sounds vanished into thin air. Why do I like some sounds and hate others? Why does this switch from day to day? Every element of every song has been some sort of subconscious answer to the former, to my external life, either by mimicking inspirations and emotions, or directly opposing them. Like a series of diary entries on the same page, written over the top of each other, this is a tangle of reactions morphed together over the course of 2 years."

Twice Lived

pi pi pi premiere: Sanguine - Jane's Rehabilitation (Moonshoe Records)

@sanguinesanguine
@lostproperties

https://lostproperties.bandcamp.com/album/sliding-doors

With ‘Sliding Doors’, Eora producer, Sanguine, greets Lost Properties with an elegant blend of ambient, dub and downtempo, full of skittering echoes and textural ear candy. 

‘Gone To Taste A Dream’ opens with lush pads and twinkly keys, before giving way to blissed out drums at 100bpm. Picking up the pace, ‘Push Not Pull’ postulates atmospheric breakbeat through tablas and congas, echoing out into the void. ‘Denture Venture’ casts its gaze to the stars, with a wide-eyed bass roller, replete with found sounds and smooth washes of noise. Opening with an eerie tone, ‘Ear Gum’ gives way to crunchy breaks and chirping synths.

Rich in detail and intricate in approach to rhythm, Sanguine delivers a love letter to dub, equally indebted to ambient voyagers like Purelink as it is to Skee Mask.

pi premiere: Sanguine - Push Not Pull (Lost Properties)

Daisy Records Volume Three

As we venture to foreign lands over the last two years, so too does our label and the artists that join us on this year's compilation. Presenting 'Volume Three', including twelve tracks from producers based in Naarm, Berlin, London, Boorloo, Barcelona, Eora & Leeds.

Across twelve pieces, forms a microcosmic diorama—introspective, expansive, and trickled with odes to 90s ambient, downtempo trance and dub. Aethereal pads glide over synthetic breaks, reflecting a tension between organic flow and artificial symmetry.

This compilation stands as a monument to the liminal—the space between digital and dream, pulsing like coded signals from distant outposts, a mosaic of futures imagined through bygone lenses.

@liseneuk - Earthshade
@beltrac - Cloud Level
@undergroundcityloop - Sunsoaked Strut
@wigssssss - Longing 
@pistaccio - Old Moon
@obeljx - Uncanny Valley
@lex_ex_ex - Diamonds Forever
@pascalsone - Chasse Patate
@sanguinesanguine - Pond Review
@newmembers - Echo259
@xavxavp - In Service
@nathan-sellin - Morphic Resonance (Dub Frequency Mix)

Mastered by The Herbalist aka Corey Kikos

Released digitally 5th of December 2024
https://daisyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/daisy-records-volume-three

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and live. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

DR003 - V/A - Daisy Records Volume Three (Snippets)

'Visions' marks a new release on the label featuring artists from around the globe and welcoming new faces. This new addition showcases a beautiful palette of sounds in the label's catalogue, spanning soothing ambient melodies, Dance-floor techno in its different variants and the intricacies of Halftime-Drum & bass sounds.

Mastered by Tomas Gonzalez 
Artwork: Zach Chili

Various Artists - Visions (previews)

Artist: @galtier
Catalogue Number: IM079
Album: Dancing On Ruins
Release Date: July 31st, 2020
Format: Digital
Artwork by @benfikaa
Mastered by Kamil Sarcowicz

Making his return to the Infinite Machine catalog is Nostro Hood System boss Galtier with his 3 track EP ‘Dancing On Ruins’; a relentless slug of driving percussion and discordant atmospheres. Taking quite a step from his 2018 ‘Terran’ EP released on IM, Galtier abandons the hopeful, up-lifting, sometimes euphoric mood that has characterized much of his sound for the last few years and flexes his ability to handle anxious, hard-hitting techno-influenced material – a healthy departure from the purposeful, existential theme evident in earlier works.

‘Dancing On Ruins’ is characterized by its dusty, weather-beaten sound palette, as if such music was created and played in a desolate, lifeless world to provide solitude for the stoic beings that reside there. It is fast and aggressive, utilising techno-esque sonics as its base, yet it avoids being scary or oppressive or too stereotypical in nature.
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Scuffed Souls’ leads into the chaos with the pounding force of its 909 kick that thumps over the ever-evolving, fundamentally gothic sequence of melody. It is menacing and daunting to say the least, and gets straight to the point. Rhythmically it is reminiscent of classic rave-inclined techno but draws for quick transitions evident in contemporary club music. Crisp, pointed hi hats play gracefully amongst the angry soundscape and are quickly scared off by the growling Moog bassline that rumbles in to occupy the decrescendo.

The rhythm is broken and far more syncopated on ‘Precious Quartz (To Reave), which likewise increases in BPM from 140 to 148. Being the most stripped back, percussively oriented track on the whole release, Galtier flexes his capacity to execute myriad shifts in rhythm and pace as the majority of the track chugs along, the vessel made up of a its short but monstrous kick, sharp hi hat slashes, restrained 909 rides and a mutated bell call – warning others of its approach.

Finally the namesake of the EP, ‘Dancing On Ruins’, takes place, leaving the zenith of the release’s unnerving energy for last. Galtier combines elements of UK Techno rhythm with loose UK Funky instrumentation and meshes the two and speeds things up significantly. Though the rhythm returns to a more pulsing, simply structured state, the hollow lead is pulverising and raw throughout the whole track. This, accompanied by the blistering 150 BPM tempo, makes it a vicious, restless beast.

Tracklist:

1. Scuffed Souls
2. Precious Quartz (To Reave)
3. Dancing On Ruins

Dancing On Ruins

Galtier - Dancing On Ruins (IM079)

https://soundcloud.com/avernianofc

Joining the NHS team is Manchester’s own Avernian, whose presence amongst many other contemporary electronic music producers has shone brightly through a slew of releases on Daniel Haaksman’s Man Recordings, Scuffed Records, Row & Circular Jaw; a refined synergy of worldly instrumentation and modern mechanical sounds characterized by oblique rhythm structures defines his works. His foray into the NHS realm comes in the form of ‘Ripper’ – a battle-ready EP that encompasses the stages of conflict through rolling drum work and thunderous atmospheres.

We are called into battle with the title track ‘Ripper’ whose namesake suggests a sense of tearing and viciousness. Commencing with the ominous gong that swims through the emptiness at the beginning of the piece, we are immediately crushed by the monstrous kick drum sequence that dominates the mix of delicate distortion on the hats and mid frequency African percussion guiding it forward.

Following on is ‘Tornado’ taking a much more-fuller, bolder approach to the quality of the soundscape. Still carrying the same focus on rhythm primarily, Tornado chugs along as the 4x4 kick pattern carries the polyrhythmic force into the eye of the storm. Double time tabla keep the furious pace spinning around the outside of the intricate structure of this anarchic clash personified.

Taking the relentlessness of Tornado, Glacial Industries affiliate ELLLL expels the track into the nothingness of space with an exercise in low-end mastery. A distinct lack of high-end sounds, complex, rumbling sub bass hooks and its hammering rhythm help create the haunting mood on her reinterpretation of Tornado, an ideal soundtrack to the aftermath of the devastating storm.

Our last stand is not one that we take on alone; Avernian is joined by Cressida on ‘Canary’. Breathy risers maximise the forcefulness of the rhythmic madness on Canary. Rough, distorted smashes and crashes, much like that of the metal of swords and shields engaged in conflict, maintain the constant energy of the ensuing struggle. A powerful conclusion to the EP, though the war carries on. 

Artwork by Benfika
Mastering by Doug Shearer

Ripper - EP

Buy EP

Avernian - Tornado

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