For the next release on Early Reflex we welcome Frankfurt-based producer and composer Lorica (formerly known as Avbvrn), following his debut EP on Display and a split on Destitute.

Lorica filters a surgical attention to detail and sound design through a wide-scope approach to atmosphere and the spatial qualities of music. The resulting work conjures up dramatic, vivid, and tactile sonic landscapes that recall classical forms and techniques, while drawing upon contemporary textures and approaches to rhythm and memory.
Inspired by renaissance arts and their creative process ‘Adaptive Radiation’ [EYX005] stretches further Lorica’s experimental and oblique musical approach to the club-focused context of Early Reflex. The result is a 5-track EP blending cinematic sound design with traces of dubstep, drill, dancehall, trap, and more which is going to hit the listeners both physically and emotionally!

The opener ‘Baikal Rediscovered’ is a great example of Lorica’s production style where the composer blends together orchestral and atmospheric pads with incessant grimey beats and a deep bass-line making it a suitable tool for the club.
A storm of otherworldly sounds in contrast with its trapp inspired rhythmic session protrude in ‘Ochre Skeleton’ originating a surrealistic and peculiar atmosphere.
Approaching the end of the first half of the EP there is ‘Petrified Butterfly’, a dreamy and spooky interlude where synthesised flute melodies, fast-paced percussions and effected field recordings repeat and alternate themselves continuously while evolving every time differently in a never-ending loop until every sound dissolves in empty reverberated spaces.
Entering the second half of the release, listeners get hit by the drilling kick drum and the twisting sound design of ‘Sodiumglanz’, which lead to the closure of the EP.
In ‘Breccia’ Lorica explores further his blend of cinematic effects with the pronounced attitude for the club, delivering a track characterised by pitch-shifting electronic percussions and the harmonic progression of orchestrated instruments and strings.

‘Adaptive Radiation’ is available across all platforms starting from Friday 5th of November.

© & ℗ 2021 Early Reflex. All rights reserved. All tracks produced and mixed by Lorica § Mastering by Andrea Prato § Drawings by Giuseppe Cavuoto § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu.

Breccia

All Centre debutant soltura engages in transatlantic exchange with a hybrid fusion of trap and grime tropes.

'Compression' is out September 10th on All Centre.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3h39mt1

@solturamusic
@all-centre-504822953

Premiere: soltura - Compression [All Centre]

Maadi

Three Faced (feat. Oldyungmayn)

SHALT - Mirrorburst

Milan-based producer and multimedia artist Bladeblanc contributes to Early Reflex’s second birthday compilation Flex003 with a mutant bass club tool. 

Early Reflex is the Turin-based label run by Alec Pace. Over the last two years, the label has championed emerging artists from across the globe who are very much leaning within that experimental, club music realm. These artists include Sobolik, Lorica, Ikävä Pii, B E N N and more. Flex003 is a clear embodiment of the label’s ethos as Bladebanc is joined by Alec Pace himself as well as Hassan Abou Alam, Dies, AYLN, Honeydrip and more. 

‘Flex003’ by Various Artists will be released on the 3rd June via Early Reflex - pre-order here: https://earlyreflex.bandcamp.com/album/flex003 

@bladeblanc
@earlyreflex

Flex003

Premiere: Bladeblanc - Gain XP [Early Reflex]

On Refilling Automatic Mulch Tanks

Ah Mulch, such a curious thing
For a tank - dweller doth excitement bring.
Though I know not how it feels
To have Mulch in thine wheels
All I desire is [ERROR : REQUEST LINE DOES NOT EXIST]

Made by @txetext (Indonesia), @tcvbln (Germany), @sandystrace (Taipei), @sanmal307 (Japan)
Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Leeds
Design by Alypsedon

Out March 17th

Units Mulched w/ TXETEXT, TCV, Sandy's Trace, sanmal [PREVIEWS]

Starts heavy,and leads you to ceriberal darkness.

Time

My first album LOCKED IN PARADISE is out on @alpaka_muzik
This album was produced in the special land of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Mix&Mastered by @oddwave_studio
Artwork by @lileyloh @ekosystem.management

Second Skin

KITE

8ULENTINA - Break The Cycle

Tacit

REMADE is an imprint dedicated to the convergence of club dynamism and sound design intricacy.

SHALT - Mirrorburst

REMADE

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