2023 marks the expansion of traverse as a label, with the first volume of series “traversée” and an 11-track opus from Qetsy. We’re now back with the second edition of traversée - a space for producers to explore their own versatility. A border-free home for artists to share personal ideas, wherever they are from.

For this second volume, we are welcoming nine artists who, altogether, shape the vision of traverse through its diversity of music and places.

Lia Catreux: "From pressure to insouciance, like from bone to flesh, Gone with the dawn is an ode to hidden nights, where hope, dread, love, pride and all kind of repressed feelings use to reveal themselves the most. There is no unique story in it, only characters acting like they want, amongst 6 shades of Bass, ear splitting fxs, moonstrucks synths and a bit of magic."

Lia Catreux - Gone With The Dawn [traverse]

https://fanlink.tv/btip001_tatyana-jane

Presenting 'Antagonist Remixes' first EP following the groundbreaking 'Good Vibes Vol. 1' compilation from Bad Tips. 
Hot on the heels of the boundary-defying collection that challenged the status quo, the label unleashes an exhilarating remix EP featuring five distinctive interpretations of Tatyana Jane's track from the June 2023 release.

Dive into the captivating reimaginations crafted by the likes of Raär, Christian Coiffure, Neida, Dylan Dylan, and PRIMIT, each weaving their own narrative into the essence of 'Antagonist'.

𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥

curated by gboi
designed by Johanna Burai
mastered by Perception Mastering

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𝖘𝖓𝖎𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖙𝖘 🏁 Tatyana Jane - Antagonist (Remixes) | Dec 14 / 2023

After diversifying with the release of a couple of tapes over the last few years, BFDM’s little sis — Homemade Soundsystem — returns to what it knows what to do best: a two-track bass-heavy dancehall 7 inch. This one is courtesy of Parisian producer Krikor, who was already behind the outfit’s first release back in 2019. The well named Captivation Riddim starts off as a slow-but-rough compelling tune with haunting and trippy vocal samples creating an adequately driving mood. On the flip, Liberation Riddim is a percussive chopped-up party starter, ideal for changing gears with multiple BPM shifts and breaks throughout the track.

CAPTIVATION RIDDIM FACE A

Having been part of the family for quite some time now, Lauren Bush aka re:ni joins the Timedance roster with an incredibly potent quartet of Techno infused bass-bin weaponry.

« BeautySick » sees re:ni plunging into a world of intoxicating serpentine grooves. Spectral vocal slabs chime like echoes of a distant hallucinatory trance, while industrial drumworks find a mesmerizing counterpoint in eerie dubwise atmospheres.

These four compositions not only showcase re:ni's evolution but also explore themes of confidence and feminine power, as well as the transient moments where darkness converges with light. They stand as a testament to the sonic prowess of one or favorite dancefloor sorceress.

Picture Hakime Sorayama’s ‘Sexy Robot’ in front of an unreasonably large stack of speakers at a dimly lit sound-system dance; this is the soundtrack.

BeautySick

Fa:act - Rolling like beez bzzz

Ascension is about moving our consciousness from one reality to another. Since reality is a dimension, what we are undertaking is essentially a full dimensional shift.

@cleamy
@dj-phiene
@toupaz
@lindenberg-support
@user_delusion
@jonny-megabyte
@jdotbalance

Huge thanks to the artists involved for their patience, trust and amazing trax and art that they have so generously contributed to make all this happen!

Tracks 2, 4 ,6 ,7 mastered by Dj Anunak.
Tracks 1, 3, 5, 8 mastered by Weightausend.

Artwork by Annex.

Nothing is random everithing is connected and ether is the nothing that connects everything...

released November 28, 2023

V/A - Ascension [8ther-001] Previews

CEE is a next generation artist collective bringing together musicians, designers, digital creators, researchers, theorists and thinkers to explore technology, art and nature as a framework for cultural transformation. CEE uses technology as a set of tools empowering creativity, critical thinking, research and independence for all its members. The aim is to create an environment that fosters collaboration in the real world and provides opportunities for shared exploration and learning enabling different groups of people and creators to drop work together effectively.

All releases, encompassing music, gadgets, events and audio essays, delve into the relationship between machines and nature—two elements that are part of an interconnected ecosystem symbolizing a bionical evolution in a world where technology reinterprets nature in an iterative effort to differentiate from it.

PRIMARY FOREST 01 is CEE's first music compilation, featuring seven original tracks from Ma Sha, Pépe, AFM, Dj Fucci, Delay Grounds, Toupaz and An Avrin, driving us on a frenetic journey through the densest and wildest forests, delivering avantgarde deconstructed club sounds via bass music and avant- techno, powered by hyper-accelerated BPMs that reverberate on a geological time scale.

PRIMARY FOREST 01

Ma Sha - Are They Back

Vina Konda steps up on the Turin-label Pho Bho Records with five track EP 'The Exit Screen Leads Nowhere'. The work "tries to bring you in the complex contradiction of the screen attraction. Between loss & profit, the dilated time now allows you to explore a world between reality and virtuality. Like an open gate between somewhere and nowhere."

Vina Konda
@vinakonda
www.instagram.com/vina_konda

Pho Bho Records
@phobhorecords
www.instagram.com/pho_bho_records/

Burning Leaf

Premiere: Vina Konda - Burning Leaf | Pho Bho Records

https://soundcloud.com/user-775234683
https://soundcloud.com/plasmasourcesmusic
🛒 https://plasmasources.bandcamp.com/album/soundsystem-music
🔊 https://youtu.be/cQQv4yCvibA

Plasma Sources is proud to present nosync’s Soundsystem Music, an EP which provides a fresh perspective on the high-fidelity and sci-fi influenced electronic music the imprint is known for. 

nosync’s work sits in a truly unique space in the sound system/club music-o-sphere. This in large part is due to his heavy deployment of progressive metal instrumentation, from chugging walls of overdriven guitars to relentless double-time kick patterns. On paper, utilising this palette in a club-music context may seem like an impossible task. However, where others might see a chasm of disparity, nosync has deftly identified the bridge connecting these two genres, seeing in these two landscapes the same desired emotional state - despite the different methodologies used to achieve this. 

“This record attempts to make the case that the essence of what makes these sounds so obsessively loved are one and the same. Gripping dramatism and intensity are the overlapping themes that I have attempted to bring out here, through the record’s sound design and film-like structure.”

Indeed Soundsystem Music as a whole feels wildly cinematic and is as much an exercise in atmosphere creation as music for sound systems, with nosync citing the video game Dead Space and its sequel as key influences for this body of work. From the claustrophobic, elasticated wind chamber of ‘Traced’ to the broken choir voices and FiS-esque ambient abyss of ‘Dead Land’, nosync has expertly matched the pace and atmosphere of these hugely iconic and utterly terrifying video games and channeled them into a purely sonic experience. 

The metal influences nosync brings to the table slice through the entire corpus of Soundsystem Music, although the linkage is perhaps at its most clear on ‘Airlock’, which features a full-on death-metal guitar chugging through the first half. In perhaps the most surprising switch-up of the entire EP, things suddenly twist into a guttural underwater club track a third of the way through. 

nosync’s love for the vast ecosystem of club/soundsystem music also comes through loud and clear on this release, from the grime-inflected leads and hyper-detailed polyrhythmic noise workouts of ‘Unregistered Hypercam’ to the reverberated metal clangs of ‘Kauket’s Arena’ which feels like witch-house on steroids - the soundtrack to some final boss battle with some type of nightmare-demon-entity. 

nosync has achieved something unique with Soundsystem Music. By drawing together a hugely disparate corpus of influences and pummelling them into a noise-fuelled apocalyptic aberration, he has created a sound which feels consistent, fully his own, and in many places, utterly dread-inducing.

Tracklist: 

1. Aberrations
2. Traced
3. Unregistered Hypercam
4. Dead Land
5. Airlock
6. Kauket’s Arena

PREMIERE: nosync - Airlock [Plasma Sources]

Live Life Like There's No Mañana (BFDM 030)

Vincente De La Makina

130 Bpm Skank-up with a dark Wii waiting room vibe.

NU-NU

Angsty Skanker

Amsterdam-based music platform, artist agency, record label and event organization representing music culture since 2016.

Artist roster:
AliA (@aliamusicc)
askmelater (@akaaskmelater)
King Kami (@kiingkami)
Lieke TR (@lieke-tr)
Lolo Batten (@lolobatten)
Low End Activist (@lowendactivist)
Max Abysmal (@maxabysmal)
Narathip (@narathip-ams)
Nathan Kofi (@nathankofi)
NPLGNN (@nplgnn)
ojoo (@ojoogyal)
Photonz (@photonz)

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Premiere: Vina Konda - Burning Leaf | Pho Bho Records

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