Artist: https://soundcloud.com/hypna_52, https://soundcloud.com/j-shadow
Track: Motherboard
Label: https://soundcloud.com/plasmasourcesmusic
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 17/02/23
YouTube: https://youtu.be/rTH1wXyVJyQ

Hypna (Insert) and J-Shadow (Keysound, Sneaker Social Club) team up to drop their first ever collaborative EP, A2I (Access To Infinity). The work, a blistering 5-track odyssey, moves at hyper-speed through fragments of footwork, jungle, ambient and sci-fi sound design. Designed to please both listeners at home and ravers listening on club systems, the EP shows off the high-tech, low-end focused sound the two producers have been developing respectively.
A2I is a long time in the making - J and Hypna affectionately refer to each other as their “musical other”. Their relationship goes all the way back to 2018, when they hit each other up with a love for one another’s music. The more they talked, the more they realised they had a shared obsession with sci-fi movies & video games - at that point writing music together was an inevitability. Their aim for the EP was to explore new patterns and tempos, while blending all of their influences together into a shared universe.
The sci-fi influence is evident from the opening seconds of ‘Access To Infinity’, as a sustained drone gradually invites the listener inside the producers’ shared universe. Gradual flecks of glitched particles form, before things coalesce into a climax of weightless bass pulses and skittering hi-hats, reminiscent of Logos and Mumdance’s post-grime explorations.
‘Motherboard’ pulls us into the deep centre of A2I’s universe, a weightless soundscape of Reese basses and regal arpeggiated synth sequences.
What draws A2I together is a prioritisation of space and atmosphere above all else. These are club tracks, yes, guaranteed to turn heads, yes, but not in the conventional sense - it’s as if Hypna and J-Shadow have rewritten the rules for what constitutes club music, challenging and re-inventing the boundaries to suit the needs of their universe.

PREMIERE | Hypna & J-Shadow - Motherboard [Plasma Sources] 2023

Geotact co-runner https://soundcloud.com/xmtr returns for the label’s sixth release.

Built around the sounds of an old bass guitar the record skips across a spectrum of tempos, blending creaky synthetic textures with barbed percussive hits.

Releasing 11th May

Writing & Production by Jago Lynch
Mastering by Fiesta Soundsystem
Artwork by Diggory Lynch & Fiesta Soundsystem
©️GEOTACT 2023

XMTR - Insect Typist [Clips]

VARIOUS ARTISTS - HIGH MODES

1. PEDER MANNERFELT - THE LETTER
2. LUCKER - DEAF ASSEMBLY
3. MARTSMAN - PAPER CUT
4. GALTIER - ZMOKE FRONDS
5. KWARP - COCO

PEDER MANNERFELT, also known for his work with Swedish producer duo Aasthma, is a maverick producer of completely unconventional and original music, from dance music to experimental music, and also runs his own label, PMP. He has also produced music for Bjork and Fever Ray outside of his own productions. We look forward to seeing how you receive his letter, in what situations, and how you read and interpret it. LUCKER's participation on Nina Kraviz's trip recordings V.A. album in 2020 was followed the next year by the release of his mini-album "Sapiens" on the German label Molten Moods. This time around, he mixes his trademark hybrid-sound (Techno, House, IDM, Bass...) with unique elements and obvious melodies to create a new original worldview. MARTSMAN is the founder of the enigmatic German label Weevil Neighbourhood, and his solo works are truly timeless underground DnB. His special sound effects have made a big impact in unparalleled post dance music, such as "Lenses Dances LP" by the duo Bokeh with Katsunori Sawa. His signature style is sure to work well with the listener's senses on this release. GALTIER is a Bristol DJ/Producer and label founder of Nostro Hood System, a thematic label focused on the xenology. The fresh atmosphere characteristic of his music affects the listener's dynamic and creates the illusion of time travel. This song “Zmoke Fronds” is another dance track that is triggered by his system. KWARP, appearing for the first time on 10 Label's 10th release, has plunged a new song, "Coco," into this compilation. "Coco" intersects orthodox and experimental sounds based on the groove of dance music, leading the listener into a different space, dangerous and indulgently.

ARTIST : VARIOUS ARTISTS
TITLE : HIGH MODES
LABEL : 10 LABEL
CATALOG NO : TEN011
FORMAT : EP, DIGITAL
COUNTRY : JAPAN
RELEASE DATE : MAY 2023

℗ + © 2023 10 LABEL KYOTO JAPAN
MASTERED BY SAM JOHN AT PRECISE MASTERING 
ARTWORK BY FABIUS KOSSACK

Peder Mannerfelt - https://soundcloud.com/the-subliminal-kid
Lucker - https://soundcloud.com/luckerlucker
Martsman - https://www.weevilneighbourhood.com
Galtier - https://soundcloud.com/galtier
Kwarp - www.10-label.com
Fabius Kossack - http://www.fabiuskossack.de
Precise Mastering - www.precisemastering.com

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ZMOKE FRONDS

GALTIER - ZMOKE FRONDS

Me In Mono - Reflections
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM104
Format: Digital
Release: July 7th, 2023

Me In Mono has been making music under various guises for 15 years, and during that journey through sonic landscapes one thing has been a constant feature: raw energy. Coupled with a taste for the peculiar, it’s no surprise that he finds himself most at home in the darker, dingier parts of the dancefloor.

An homage of sorts to the music that led him to produce in the first place, this collection of tracks explores the beauty in the weird, and the starkness in simplicity. Created for optimal energy, percussive elements and de-tuned synth's feature heavily, underpinned by subs that help to make the tracks ready to take on the most hardened dancefloor audiences.

The music itself is relentless and loopy. While the sound design is futuristic, in structure the tracks are more progressive, content to fully explore a certain space before moving on, wringing every possible nuance from each groove. The melodies for the most part aim to generate tension, in insistent sixteenth notes that detune gradually, until we reach ‘Roo’, where some respite is provided by a sensitive Rhodes. Closer ‘Stop Harping On’ goes further into melodic explorations, featuring hyperreal scalar runs that could have come from Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual.

Reflections

Me In Mono - Patter Path

The release in 1995 of wipE'out'', a lightning-fast, razor-sharp, futuristic racing game that helped to launch the PlayStation in Europe and North America, changed video games industry. Equally striking was the game’s original music, which came from Welsh musician Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE, mixing the accelerated beats of drum & bass with the pure synth rush of trance to make music that sounded as breathlessly exciting as playing the game felt.
   
The first advancement of wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack comes with three powerful tracks: the original production 'Messij' –and indeed one of the most beloved tracks from the score– together with two stellar remixes by @hyperdub's head @kodenine and British producer Datassette (@datashat).

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General Blurb:

Back in the 1990s video games were still largely seen as nerdy: fun, sure, but basically a guilty pleasure that you’d soon grow out of. The release in 1995 of wipE'out'', a lightning-fast, razor-sharp, futuristic racing game that helped to launch the PlayStation in Europe and North America, changed all that. This was a game that looked and sounded both adult and cool, the kind of game you would put on display in your living room, rather than hide away under your bed. Key to this was the fact that wipE'out'' borrowed unashamedly from the clubbing experience and electronic music, in a way that put it at the heart of progressive mid 90s culture. It soon became a phenomenon.

wipE'out'' looked sensational, with Sheffield agency The Designers Republic - known for their work with Warp - creating the visuals, packaging and manual for the game, drawing heavily on the bright colours and excitable geometric shapes of the rave and club flyers of the early 90s.

wipE'out'' also sounded like a new rave dream. The European version of the game included music from The Chemical Brothers, Leftfield and Orbital, the kind of fashionable game syncs that were almost unheard of at the time. Equally striking was the game’s original music, which came from Welsh musician Tim Wright, aka @coldstorage, by this point already a veteran in the video games world, having worked on the music for Amiga titles such as Lemmings and Shadow of the Beast 2. His music for wipE'out'' was, if anything, even more extreme than the big-name syncs, mixing the accelerated beats of drum & bass with the pure synth rush of trance to make music that sounded as breathlessly exciting as playing the game felt.

These tracks were burned into the brains of millions of gamers; the soundtrack to a generation of late-night anti-gravity racing, as the sun gingerly rose beyond the curtains. But they haven’t, perhaps, quite got the respect they deserve, something that this release will address. In 2023, video game music is finally getting its dues; here, remastered and repackaged –and also remixed by cutting edge producers such as Kode9, μ-Ziq, Brainwaltzera, Simo Cell, Wordcolour, James Shinra, Surgeons Girl and Dattassette– are some of the most important, thrilling, innovative and most fun songs ever committed to game release.

wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack

Messij (Kode9 Remix) / wipE'out'' - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack [LPS-PS14]

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Elpac - Kills Two Birds
Amity Club, 2023
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://amity.bandcamp.com/album/kills-two-birds

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https://soundcloud.com/elpacuk

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KILLS TWO BIRDS

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pq - AE-09
Adepta Editions, 2023
Buy: https://adepta.bandcamp.com/merch

@adepta

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