Losing your mind in the brainforest at night. Scratching out ancient signs in the undergrowth. Hitting panic mode in an old railway tunnel. Running topless through the trees with camo-dirt smeared on your face. This is what it sounds like.

Beams

NKC - Bootlicker

Taken from NAJIB (@najibmusic) debut The Voluntary Prisoners, out October 29, 2021, via HUMAN (@human_le)

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Multidisciplinary Moroccan artist NAJIB ب ي ج ن , currently based in Brussels is interested in genres that bring "chaos" - by using a variety of rhythms permeating different cultures and confronting them with each other. In his music, he aims to formate a stability in chaos and creates a dystopic vision of his world, allowing a continuous questioning of himself. Glitchy, multi-textured sounds and deconstructed music elements are always present in NAJIB's compositions.

Cover Art by Yung Poltergeist 2

Mastered by Tinkah

Released by HUMAN

Premiere: NAJIB - Dictionary Of Imaginary Places [HUMAN]

Club-ready music from Klahrk.

Starting a new series of singles coming out on WARE from residents & affiliates alike.

Ready / Inside

Purchase on Bandcamp ⬎

Klahrk - Inside

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 (https://soundcloud.com/user-775234683) 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. 
credits
releases February 13, 2024 

Written, Produced & Mixed by Nikolas Babić 
Mastered by Hypna 
Artwork by Joh000 // Jose Hernández 


© & ℗ 2023 Plasma Sources.

Soundsystem Music

unearth - Aberrations

Following the release of the single 𝘔𝘢𝘲𝘭𝘢𝘣, the Marseille-based duo Caïn و Muchi presents their debut full-length album 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘢. This takes listeners on a journey through a rich tapestry of industrial gloom woven of dubstep, grime, and contemporary hip-hop. In this album, these 'labels' matter as much as they don't, given the heavy mutations they undergo, in a That’s Hara Kiri fashion (RIP Sd Laika).

At the heart of this record lies a dense yet harmonious sound palette, featuring meticulous vocal processing of lead singer Vanda’s voice, which engages reflection on their shared and individual lives.

As the album progresses, the lyrics reveal layers of stress and trauma linked to colonial experience, intertwined with multiple references to North African ghost stories and legends. The result is a resonant experience, where the wraithlike and glacial instrumentals crafted by the duo encapsulates the introspective act of witnessing the turmoil of our current world.

Releases October 8, 2024

Written, Mixed & Composed - Caïn و Muchi
Sinclair Ringenbach & Vanda Forte
Mastering - Victor Malvoti
Artwork - Akakir Studio
Words - M. Fellah
Photo & Executive Production - Vincent Mare
©2024 Gros:Œuvre Records (GOE009)

GECKO REC (FT. ASSYOUTI)

Soothing yet hyperfast. Here is a triptych of tracks that Zoë has been playing and recorded at their live shows lately, notably at Quebec's Mutek, France's Nuits Sonores, Austria's Elevate Festival. All at 185 BPM, from nostalgic breaks melodies, to speedcore, you name it!
An early listener and friend ZULI described these as “Intelligent Club Heaterz”, our beloved mastering engineer Joker as “Techjunglehno head bop jazz blue ocean light”... ;P Tell us your thoughts! :))

Music by Zoë Mc Pherson
Mastering by Joker
Artwork by Alessandra Leone

Buy https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/chaos-30-live

Chaos 3.0 Live EP

Confusecore

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@claws2 @cartelmusiccollective

flaws

4. peace

Crafty

Buy: circadian-rhythms.com/releases/cr004/

Anchored in the spirit of not only collaboration but also repurposing – through a multi-artist cassette album tracing the lineage of jungle and rave, to physical products and clothing made with both used and upcycled materials – ‘Partisan’ represents the labels most ambitious project to date.

Enlisting a crew of close-knit artists and label affiliates including Impey, Sully, PAN’s Flora Yin-Wong, Leicester’s Grade 10 label, Abime label boss YTEM, Acre, Filter Dread and lots more, the ‘Partisan’ cassette tape pack – to be released on November 15th - has been designed from military surplus and will also function as a sewing kit, to encourage buyers to repair and repurpose.

CR004: Partisan

Ausschuss - Def Recco

Lighyer - Awakpo

Sea Cucumber is a label founded in 2021 by @Tzusing 
Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide.