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Fraxinus - Position [Displacement]
Label: Powerplant
Catalog #: POW1R
Format: 12” Vinyl & Digital Data
Release Date: 05/11/21

Fraxinus emerges from temporary suspension with a monolithic 6-track offering on his new self-release label Powerplant. This is his debut EP Position [Displacement], carved from a solid block of Devonian granite.

After a 4-year dormancy, the Amsterdam-based artist returns with a 30 minute transmission of earth-shaking kick drums, thunderous percussion and razor-sharp sound design. The label’s inaugural release simultaneously marks the first proper outing for the artist, following a run of compilation features & special edition vinyl excursions dating back to 2014.

Position [Displacement] is a journey of divergent moods & cadences, from the wistful flutes of opener 'Overland' to final track 'Laced'’s uncompromising arpeggios. Billowing melodies & piercing stabs run in tandem with a pummelling & steppy rhythm section; 'Source Code' builds steadily, paving the way for 'Pass One'’s warehouse-ready assault. The blooming, fluorescent synths of '115 (Kondo)' — named for the mythical Amsterdam club — create a mid-way moment of euphoria, before 'Larch' marches on with its clattering drums.

The tracks clearly contain DNA from Fraxinus’ foundations with the Her Records cohort — lean, direct & forward-thinking. This time around the aesthetic is more focused, transferred to techno schematics but veering away from 4/4 fare. The sonics have been compacted into dense slabs of energy, primed for soundsystem dispatch.

Wholly original, crafted with precision; Position [Displacement] serves as a powerful statement of intent for both artist & label.

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Recorded 2015 - 2018

Built by Fraxinus
Mastering: Saif Bari
Artwork: Richard Fox / Enrique Arce Gutierrez / Cameron Leaf

Position [Displacement]

Overland

Bristol’s @PressureDome’s kicks off its new 10” series with four cuts of colourful, off-kilter techno from Paris’ @design-default

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-design-default-kagura

PD10001

Premiere: Design Default ‘Kagura’

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest

Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Harvest (ABADIR Remix)

Amadeezy - Go Berserk ( EL PLVYBXY Remix) [Preview]

The Next Wave, Volume. 20 - Mixed By DJ Manny

finally elated to release the final installment of my sample pack version series, containing just under 200 sounds I have crafted myself over the past three years or so and since 5 years of my last sample pack release.

The demo reel contains all the sounds within this sample pack, and just a short insight and taste into what you can expect.

Now available to cop via Payhip: https://payhip.com/b/TV9EC
Now available to cop via Bandcamp: https://citytronix.bandcamp.com/album/sample-pack-v-13-2

Sample Pack V 1.3

CITYTRONIX PRESENTS: SAMPLE PACK V 1.3

lúnasa is a dublin-based dj/producer who has become a much-loved figure in the irish club and festival circuit in recent years.

renowned for her technical precision, lúnasa’s sets traverse the deep and bass heavy sounds to the bouncy and uplifting seamlessly. her drum-centric productions combine the bleeding ends of multiple uplifting and introspective club-focused sounds, striving towards synergistic body music. if you haven’t checked her bandcamp yet, you’re missing out.

this mix is both an insight into lúnasa's daily listening as well as a taster of the kind of thing you can expect her to play in clubs, with plenty of drums as well as some bits of punk and folk working their way through the club-centric sounds. 

thanks to pauline for sending this over!

030.radio presents: lúnasa

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄: Eastern Wizard - The Flow [Planet Ibiza Collective]

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𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄: Eastern Wizard - The Flow [Planet Ibiza Collective]

Ocean Pulse (Cinematic Trance) is a driving 4/4 heartbeat powers rolling basslines and storm-lit arpeggios as towering, wave-like pads crest and crash. Side-chained swells, flickering hats, and siren-tinged leads cut through the spray - the sea here is restless, urgent, and in motion.

Built for momentum, this works as a soundtrack bed for rhythmic, high-tension sequences—chases, underwater pursuits, kinetic montages - where energy must rise while staying clear and focused.

Stay to the very end: after the final break the weather clears and a pure, luminous choir emerges - an uplift that resolves the surge.

🐋 Message from the Composer
As part of the Sound52 project, I create ambient and soundtrack music inspired by nature and the ocean. The 52 Hz whale sings at a frequency few can hear; its story of hidden beauty and solitude became the pulse of this track.

📌 Follow & Connect
Follow Sound52 for more ocean-inspired ambient & trance music @ www.ezr-music.com 

🌊 If you enjoy this track, please share it or add it to your playlist - it helps more listeners discover the Sound52 journey..

⚖️ Disclaimer & Copyright
This music is designed for relaxation, meditation, and personal enjoyment. Not intended as medical treatment.

🎧 Produced by EZR ℗ 2025 Sound52 Studio. All rights reserved.

Ocean Pulse I Meditative Trance

This summer, Boiler Room & Native Instruments took Kode9 to Tokyo to explore the full spectrum of Japanese bass culture. A central focal point of our trip was an introduction to the ancient discipline of taiko: the enormous tree-hollowed drums used in Japanese culture for thousands of years. Originally used as fearful instruments in the theatre of war, it's only in the last half-century that they've been used for performance. As an academic in sonic warfare and the theoretics of bass, Kode9 was our ideal candidate to tackle their sheer magnitude.

Over the course of a few days, he set out sampling various taiko and took them into the studio with Osaka-based footwork producer DJ Fulltono. The result is "TKO", a heavy-duty 160BPM workout that brings the ancient drums right into the modern context of Tokyo's futurist footwork scene.

Cop the free download above.

Kode9 & DJ Fulltono "TKO"

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