We wanted to celebrate the music of integral Samurai family member Last Life by revisiting his Samurai contributions with remixes from artists Mauro saw as best candidates for adding a new perception.

The second and final collection of remixes of tracks from Last Life's Samurai Music catalogue has now taken it's final form.

Label regulars Sam KDC, Ancestral Voices, Torn and Presha take their scalpels to Mauro's constructions and turn up the intensity, rebuilding them into 4 sinewy exercises in sinister force.

 Remixed: 2 - out on Limited 12" and Digital


1. Last Life - Offside (Ancestral Voices Remix)
2. Last Life - Troglodith (Sam KDC Remix)
3. Last Life - Elements (Presha Remix)
4. Last Life - Curse (Torn Remix)

Remixed: 2

Last Life - Elements - Presha Remix [SMDE49]

Samurai Music returns to the evocative sound world of Ancestral Voices for an album that splits the difference between cinematic sound design and deadly restraint at 170 BPM. Nemeton continues Liam Blackburn's exploration of ancient Celtic mysticism through snaking rhythms and snarling sound design, conjuring a high-definition sonic image of sacred groves and the druids practicing amongst them.  

Blackburn's Ancestral Voices project tracks back to 2015, when he debuted on Samurai Horo with the Night Of Visions album. In stark contrast to his celebrated 140 work as Indigo, this project leaned on the inspiration of pagan spirituality to charge his vivid, advanced production style with a rich and mysterious atmosphere. While he's channelled this approach into a variety of tempos and styles, on his 2016 EP Old Earth Voodoo on Samurai Music he applied the concept to a drum & bass framework, which he returns to on Nemeton with rigorous focus.

Far from a straightforward collection of breakbeat tracks, Blackburn uses negative space and pointillist production to carve out an immersive, tense sound world around the 170 grid. He takes a widescreen approach to percussion, running from pin-prick synthesised one-shots to tumbling, organic drums you'd more readily associate with a Hans Zimmer score. Scene-building is the foremost mission across Nemeton, casting otherworldly forces in sweeps of low-end friction and dramatic melodic blooms amidst tangible real-world field recordings of flora and fauna.  

Casting the mind back some 2000 years is an exercise in imagination as much as research, and Blackburn ably summons dark fantasy as he delves ever deeper into Welsh mythology with a studious zeal and avid fascination. It's that drive that makes Nemeton burst forth and take shape so powerfully, bristling with kinetic energy and a barely-concealed, strangely seductive menace that leaves a lasting impression long after the last snatch of bass has bared its teeth.


Nemeton - out now on 2x12" & Digital


1. Ancestral Voices - Nemeton
2. Ancestral Voices - A Heart Of Oak
3. Ancestral Voices - Annwn
4. Ancestral Voices - Mist Of Avalon
5. Ancestral Voices - Arawn
6. Ancestral Voices - Stanzas Of The Graves
7. Ancestral Voices - Keltia

Nemeton

Ancestral Voices - Arawn [SMDELP14]

Next up on The Moth Club label is Stockport's own Joe McBride aka Synkro with his new deep, dub-laced EP, Kings Chamber, out April 10th.

Pre-order: https://themothclub.bandcamp.com/album/tmc018-synkro-kings-chamber-ep
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Premiere: Synkro - Kings Chamber

Pessimist & Vega - 02 April 2025

A rework of Homemade Weapons "Traitors" track.

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Homemade Weapons - Traitors (RDG Remix)

Experimental sonic distortions hang thick on Prop Your Shattered Failing Engine, the latest EP from Berlin's Diasiva. The duo also known as Monolog and Swarm Intelligence have seen releases on a wide array of forward thinking IDM outlets such as Ad Noiseam, Bedouin, Hymen and Ohm Resistance. Their debut on Onset Audio marks another singular entry into their catalog of punishing sound design, a fusion of industrial noise, fractured breakcore, and halftime drum & bass that thrashes against the ruins of order. The EP is a monument to entropy, a brutal elegy carved in digital decay and distorted signal.

4. Diasiva - Bellow

GRANIE NA CZEKANIE #2
24/04/2025
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GRANIE NA CZEKANIE #2: Alegria

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TRACKLIST 

Sustance - Dark Dreams
Tweakz - Embrace (Wingz Remix)
Creatures - Foliage
OaT - Responsible
Quartz - Strike Anywhere
Monty - Random Conduct
Trail - Frames
Creatures - Something
Scurrow, GZY - Intrinsic
Rockwell - Full Circle
R3IDY - Sessions
Klinical - CLVELESS
Wagz - Back Burner
Goldie - Broken Man (Halogenix Remix)
Qua Rush - Thoughts Of You
Alix Perez - Dark Pulse
Subdue - Changes (Invadhertz Remix)
Monyu - Cold Heat
Qua Rush, Phog, Endorphine - Chasm
Natural Forces - Deadlock
Bredren - Magnetize
Dialective - Vault
Unwell - Blue Zone
Visages - FFO
Survey, inuff - Insert

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Underground Credentials w/ Syphon - 05/05/2025

With summer just around the corner, there's nothing like a hot DJ like DJ Booga to get you ready for summer.

Big boss of the very solid 160 Defrostatica label and a fervent player on the German scene, particularly in Leipzig, for many years, not to say decades, it's a mix as rich as his career that he offers us today for our 573rd podcast.

An opportunity, of course, to listen to (or discover) some of the label's releases among other productions. 

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SSS Podcast #573 :DJ Booga

01: INTRO - OLLY JUNGLIST 
02:  THE POWER - DJ FOX & MARTIANMAN
03:  CASPER’S TRAVELS - DUBLAW
04: PERSONAL JOURNEY - OLLY JUNGLIST 
05:  DMT - OLLY JUNGLIST 
06:  TRUE INDIVIDUAL - OLLY JUNGLIST 
07:  BRAINS - SIMPLY DREAD
08:  CHAMPION SOUND - LEAF
09:  SOUND BWOY KILLA - SECONDWAV
10:  MUSIC IS A MISSION - 16AJ
11:  OPPRESSION THRESHOLD - INDIDJINOUS
12:  TRIAL N’ ERROR - PROJECT 04 X GLIDELAS
13:  RUN THE BOARDER - VEX
14:  CHEMIST INA DIS - VEAK
15:  WATCH WHAT YOU SAY - DUBURBAN
16:  SUBCONSCIOUS JUNGLE - KODIAK
17:  QUANTUM - DJ E
18:  DANGER - SARIUO
19:  SPOOKY SUNDAYS - DBP
20:  SPECIAL DIDICATION - OMEN BREAKS & L3FT LUCA5
21:  FINEMERE CALLING - OMNIRHYTHM

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