Club music culture necessarily shifted gears in many ways during and after the course of the pandemic. Older participants found their way into other interests and younger participants took new reigns to orient spaces they felt good inside of. The agenda for the music, and the cultural industry surrounding it at large, took a more frivolous and “fun” turn. Clubs needed to recoup lost money, people needed more refreshing catharsis for their nightlife escape, and in some pockets scattered around the globe a newer and younger cadre of producers/promoters/DJ’s pulled optical cues from a scattering of “darker” influences to give an alternate aesthetic to the aforementioned “vibes” culture. In the midst of this, a large polarization of conceptual energy shifted within the compositional and utilitarian machinations of the club music culture leaving behind the brooding and cerebral placeholders for a different kind of enjoyable hedonism. Terrestrial Paradise’ “Artificial Hell” harkens to another prescient time before that shift occurred. “Artificial Hell’ might just be an illustration of what all of this fun escapism encapsulates.

Terrestrial Paradise is the latest moniker from Montreal come Los Angeles based producer Jaclyn Kendal. Having developed and cemented her sonic positionality with releases on North American labels like Ascetic House and Summer isle over the years, as well as a series of monolithic live sets, Bank is pleased to announce Kendal’s Terrestrial Paradise first full length album “Artificial Hell”. Over the course of nine recordings, “Artificial Hell” gives a master class in pressurized industrial techno of the slower variety. Fitting with the legacy of Bank’s output since it’s inception, Terrestrial Paradise’s aesthetic sensibilities sit within the canon of a certain tinge of club music imbued with a sense of natural grit, sans pretense.

“Artificial Hell” nods to artists like Scorn, Regis, and 400 PPM while maintaining it’s own territory in the landscape of cerebral and brooding rhythmic techno. Ominous, mechanistic drones sit above succinctly exacted percussion composition and sound design. Throughout “Artificial Hell”, Kendal shows her proficiency with the push and pull of building and releasing tension. On tracks like “Salvation” and “Relativity” she melds her synth wash wallscapes with driving percussion, serving as both a hint and counterpoint to the the entirety of the latter part of the album taking on spartan ambient compositions as a way to keep the listener in a subdued stasis. This album is a statement piece from a long time participant in the North American underground music sectors. It reminds the listener through perilous, considered rhythms and darker drone impositions to cement themselves back into a place where not everything is always a good time.

Terrestrial Paradise - Western Ave (BNK-042)

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Out of Step looks into industrial, mechanical sounds, some of which almost don’t qualify as “dance” music anymore. ex.sses, lloydfears, Ōtone, VCR and gillielove take you on a march where you feel like you keep tripping up.

The sound of glitchy, distorted things, being chopped up or smashed into pieces, this is what unites these 5 tracks in a various almost out of step with withthe rest of Bait’s releases.

pre-order link: https://baitdubstep.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-step-vep

pi premiere: gillielove - procession in dante's square (Bait)

TRACKS IN THE MUD – Retreat Radio's first-ever compilation of original music drops on April 20, 2025! Available as a double CD, on a wrench-shaped USB, digitally, and across multiple streaming platforms. Listen to the first 4 tracks and pre-order: retreatradio.bandcamp.com/album/tracks-in-the-mud

Tracklist:
SAATANS KVINNA - I have a lot to say (intro)
HOS - Jorn
Prins Emanuel & Rivet - Umarel
Klofink - Triple Tundric Vision
Goaty - Drear
Thomas Bush - Loneliness Remembers
DJ Sandylion - Look Out!
Moonilena - Solarna
Sofftronic - Metallic Dub
Oklo Gabon - The Theoretical
Jonte Prippz - Nomore
Digge Shim - Dawn 2 Dusk
East Moon - Soloflight (Ecover Version)
Miranda Magdalena - Polly Pocket (Rivet Scrub)
CYSP - Farever
tala drum corps - conc
Aircode - Came Back
Oblinof - KK2 Corp
Rumina - Rezillik
Ceqi - Fog Juice
tZimtZum - Re-Koil
towLie - taLk to me
Five o'clock Traffic - double refusal
2Lanes - Tadpole Prime

The online radio station Retreat Radio has acted as a unifying force on the underground scene in Malmö for close to a decade and now offers its first compilation of original music from its vast community.

A community grown exponentially like a virus, with Retreat Radio as the source of infection, comprised of artists in various stages of despair revelling in hazy ambient, angular industrial rhythms and post-dub influences. Now bringing you 24 tracks of frog-induced head music made for a sad generation that wanted to be club kids but had no club to go to.

Many - if not all - of the names behind this mammoth of a compilation are Retreat residents with current or past monthly shows on the programme. Many of whom have walked the stark lit street at the outskirts of town at night to climb a spiral staircase above a carwash to play their shows.

Loosely centered around the interpretation of dub as a genre, the compilation hand-picks a curation of tracks which nonetheless point to a coherent vision: that of dub as a vital cornerstone in the development of new music reflecting on an urban post-capitalist environment.

releases April 20, 2025

Mastered by: Martin Blomberg & Jonatan Bergsman
Artwork by: Oda Haugerud
Design by: FETIDGRUPPE©
Words by: Simon Eliasson

TRACKS IN THE MUD

premiere: Ceqi - Fog Juice

A slow current, weightless, mist settling over an unmapped field, drifts within, folding into the air, where it has never been known - a melody that fades into a hum and creates stillness in its wake.

Anastasïa, formerly known by his alias Anasisana, is a Tunisian artist blending ambient, noise, and experimental music, combining intense emotional waves with tense electronics. Additionally, the Buried Alive project, focusing on presenting a raw, immersive experience - an  interplay of agony, rapture, and sensitivity with a backdrop of contemplative introspection.

Amulet of Tears 058: Anastasïa

Music: @anasisana

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 058: Anastasïa

An exploration in organic textural bass, breaks and techno.

Tracklist:

SOREAB, A - untitled
Atoloi, In Urban Camo
Andrei Rusu, Left My Head
Aedon, Butterload
Lostsoundbytes, Spectral Vision
RÖM, Domaine des Eveils
LOIF, Psycode (with bluhol)
Solma, Rolling Silk
Nerve, Psycho Mafia
Egregore x Jolly, Engaging in E-motion
Gent1e Soul, 4TC Boom
R.Rebeiro, PE_3
phil in a maze, Skid
DJ BIG GUNS, wind choir
Emily Jeane, Wet Skin
Dagga x Manao, Desaparecido
Cwtch, Rust
cusoon dj, nich
Conrad Pack, Redlight
Slow83, Subterranean
Sainte-Marie-Des-Chazes, Officium (Beatrice M. Remix)
Gillielove, Pf1

Gillielove - 18 Avril 2025

All tracks written and produced by Sasha Zakrevska in between 2013 and 2024
Mastering: @benpest
AV Collaboration @SophiaBulgakova
PR: @fomopr
Distribution: www.musicdeli.nl

(c) Lightronics 2025

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Chuffed w/ David Lunch - 25/04/2025

TIGERCAST stands as an engaging monthly podcast series, curated by Tiger Weeds Records. Its primary mission is to provide a platform for a wide-ranging spectrum of artists, each contributing to the elaborate and diverse landscape that defines the immersive realm of Electro sound.

Grid User (real name Artem Kres) is a Ukrainian producer and DJ, founder of the new label Connectome Records. He produces electro. It all started when he took the DNA of the old spirit of electro and transformed it into a new sound. Artem entered the media field with a release on Tiger Weeds, then continued with self-releases and music on labels like Mystictrax. Now he's preparing many new releases and developing his own label.

This mix was recorded especially for Tiger Weeds and Fade Radio, with love.
Electro don't stop.

https://www.instagram.com/grid_user_/ https://soundcloud.com/artem-kres

TIGERCAST 015 w/ Grid User (27.04.25)

I Get There

This Album focuses on the intersection between rhythmic Breakbeats, Electro, Acid, Melodic, Psychedelic feels and analog warmth, performed and recorded live using hardware synthesizers and Eurorack systems.

ALLbion - Genotron

Strange noises and more strange noises, and some strange voices.

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12. Poly Chain - Get Home Before Curfew

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