@axine-m
@kwatakwata

remixes of USUSUSESESERERER to benefit Chaos Computer relocation and member housing:

www.gofundme.com/f/relocation-of-cc-and-housing-fund-qbipoc-members

https://axine.bandcamp.com/album/user-remixes

pi pi pi premiere: Axine M - avoid eclipsed memory (K Wata Remix)

https://jupiter4records.bandcamp.com/album/ardifaon

Cursed dubstep and stomping Half Time

1. Jan Loup - Kokona

Worldwide artist collective Plasma Sources pull together their first compilation featuring 14 artists who lean into their ethos of sci-fi aesthetics and crazy sound design - no matter the genre or mood - creating a wild excursion through varying soundscapes. 

With the full release due next week on the 27th March, we're premiering the skittering, breakneck track from Atrice & Klahrk.

@atricemiras
@klahrk

Premiere: Atrice & Klahrk - You’ve Changed (Plasma Sources)

@galtier

After 5 standout releases, including debuts from many fresh faces to the left-of-field underground scene, Plasma Sources presents its inaugural compilation: Multi-Source. It brings together the current label family and a slew of other artists operating on the cutting- edge of dance floor electronics for a multi-genre, sound design heavy, wild ride. In turn, the label takes aim at establishing itself as one of the most exciting imprints in the experimental club scene.
From the 90BPM cinematic, Lorn-esque sludge of newcomer Guide’s ‘Gemological’ to the crisp staccato transients and negative space of Ziyiz’s ‘Plastic Sentiments’, each track adheres to one of the guiding principles that the label has employed so effectively to curate it’s platform, irrespective of tempo: a love for sci-fi aesthetics and a desire to transpose these into sonic equivalents.

Plasma Sources has always prided itself on delicately balancing dark and light, release to release. On Multi-Source, this broad spectrum is in full vision. Reinartz offers up dubbed- out, IDM-esque desolation on ‘Action Bias’, whilst Stolen Velour’s ‘Suigetsu’ brings a bright playfulness - high-pitched vocal cuts marry pulsating, organic beats which sound like if Untold’s Hemlock output got a 2024 facelift. Some tracks, like Prior Self’s brooding yet fidgety ‘Turn Out’ and Klahrk & Atrice’s flange-fuelled ‘You’ve Changed’ occupy the centre of this continuum with their takes on high-tempo techno-influenced mutations.

The full label family comes back to join in on the fun. HYPNA and NIQH team up on a collaboration which perfectly unites their sounds under a 4-bar bass-heavy roller laden with noise. NIQH offers up their own track, exploring crystalline club structures on ‘Pressure’. unearth’s cinematic, wasteland-ridden sound is in clear focus on ‘Safe Tread’ and Beton Brut’s signature grime-concrète comes through loud and clear on ‘WWW’.

Cortical offer up ‘Hammer’, a continuation of their relentless avant-techno manifesto established by their debut, whilst J-Shadow rounds things off with a space-age jungle- exploration on ‘X-38'.
The juxtaposition of dark and light. The delicate balancing of experimentalism and dance floor sensibilities. The interweaving of sci-fi and biologically-infused sound design. These are the key aesthetics with which Plasma Sources has approached its output ever since release no.1.
Multi-Source acts as a confirmation of this manifesto as it looks forward to 2025 and its future as a key player in the experimental club scene.

Multi-Source releases on 27 March 2025

Mastering by HYPNA 
Cover Design by Joh000 // Jose Hernández

plasmasources.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/plasma__sources

Multi-Source

Galtier - Particle Shifter

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royalbrut is a shadowy duo from Bern, Switzerland, both of them involved in the art and music scene with various projects and pseudonyms. Under the moniker royalbrut they started out as a self-releasing duo, producing tracks that are blurry images of their daily and nightly routines.

Their sound is shaped by the many sides of their artistic world, from bass and dub to cold wave and punk, their music is rebel and raw.

royalbrut - wach für nüt 
traverse, 2025 
Buy: https://royalbrut.bandcamp.com/album/wach-f-r-n-t

@skyte0000
@trilliontapeman
@tra_verse

[Premiere] royalbrut - 1 oder > (out on traverse)

Following the launch of the Eyes series, Early Reflex welcomes back Ikävä Pii for “Eyes II”, the second entry in this exploratory two-tracker format. 

Possibly the darkest tracks Ikävä Pii has produced to date, ‘False Binaries Fight for Primacy’ and ‘Permaweird’ are two detailed and twisted club tunes, encapsulating the perennial state of frustrated urgency of our times. 
Uneasy feelings are conveyed in both tracks, and refracted through the artist’s signature playful approach.
False Binaries Fight for Primacy is driven by the eerie ambiguity of its major/minor harmony, and a relentless rhythmic section that nods to post-punk as much as the track’s distorted, shouty vocals. The unsettling main theme of Permaweird is hinged on an alteration of the Locrian mode (often deemed the “weirdest” mode), and its timbre, albeit recalling familiar patches from the Process Fatigue era, here paints a much darker picture. 
Topical and heartfelt, these tracks update Ikävä Pii’s sound with an uncanny mutation, material for a standout moment in a club set. Already secret weapons in Ikävä Pii’s live show for nearly a year, they’ve left heads spinning on dancefloors in UK, Europe and beyond, and now find their proper home on Early Reflex.

Ikävä Pii said:
“What’s the purpose of club music in a climate where alienation is the norm and outdated narratives are collapsing?
We live in the permaweird: reality gets increasingly absurd, and yet we adapt to it every day.
Nothing to fight for: digital vs physical, liberal left vs authoritarian right, old vs young - just false binaries. There must be another way. 
In the meantime, activate punk mode, shout in the mic, use stranger scales. 
The only real binary is rich vs non-rich (and that’s what clubs should be about).
Thanks Venkatesh Rao and David Rudnick for the inspiration.”

‘Eyes II’ is available on all platforms starting from Friday 2nd May 2025.

© & ℗ 2025 Early Reflex. All rights reserved.

All tracks produced and mixed by Ikävä Pii at Niche Studio, London § Mastering at CB5 Studios § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu.

False Binaries Fight for Primacy

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Ikävä Pii - False Binaries Fight for Primacy

traverse is proud to announce the release of its first record - a compilation of six tracks from various artists, inspired by Pembroke King’s poem moving silhouettes, written for this occasion.

As the fourth volume of the compilation series “traversée”, moving silhouettes encourages artists to explore all corners of listening music and creative avenues that aren’t tied to any one convention.

Pembroke King’s poem sheds light on the mood of the compilation, and even though each artist brings its own interpretation of it, there is a beautiful harmony of it all - from Kate Miller’s atmospheric sounds to Teqmun’s drums-made-of-rain-drop-recordings or Ghjuliú’s nostalgic melodies, the listener travels around Pembroke’s words with each track.

As our first physical release, we feel honoured to collaborate with artists who have been involved in a way or another on traverse before such as Officium, Mika Oki and Alohn, but Kate Miller, Teqmun, and Ghjuliú, that we’ve been keeping close to our heart for a long time already.

artwork: Gabriel Sauvageot
tracks produced and mixed by (in order of appearance): Alexis Tytelman, Tijmen Blokzijl, Alban Mercier and Yolek, Kate Miller, Ghjuliú, Mika Oki
mastered & cut: Marco Pellegrini at Analogcut
digital master: Umvral
distribution: Kuroneko

Preorder record

Teqmun - Waddling on Wet Stones (traversée04)

An unreleased track from last year, now mastered and presented to you.  Hope you all enjoy. :) 

JWM - The Sultry Mistress

In this life, I feel lost for you,
But in your eyes I see the sadness.
If there is love in you,
Then why don't you take me far away?

In this life, I feel lost for you,
But in your eyes I see the sadness.
If there is love in you,
Then why don't you take me far away?

Now my angel, sing to the sadness,
As we fade beneath the pale moonlight,
Forever bound in the cold where love falls apart.

The Sadness in Your Eyes

Inspiriert von der SWR Sendung Nachtstreife

Nachtstreife

A1. Silicate - Box 5ive (WSR VA2)

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SSS Crew: @backgroundsounds / @pasci-hi / @idris-ght / @fluidmatter / @drazel / @clemseg  / @marco-kabbale

[Premiere] royalbrut - 1 oder > (out on traverse)

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