Qant - Closed Eyes & Clenched Fists

Athens wonder-kid Poor J’Darr unleashes ‘Power Strike’ —a high-pressure, percussion-heavy transmission that carries the torch of the label’s legacy into a new era of rhythmic warfare. 

Passed down from the baton of Walton and Silas & Snare, the signature style of percussion and pressure is alive & well in Andreas Nikoloulias’ KAIZEN debut.

https://kaizenltd.bandcamp.com/album/power-strike

Poor J'Darr
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pleasegivemeyourskooma
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poorjdarr/

Kaizen
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PREMIERE: Poor J'Darr - Ballad (Kaizen)

@patarlab @vinerrrrr

Music Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-42QsmV8Ug
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Kindness is so scarce these days, it drives me mad.

A.Fruit flies off the hinges — and with her, Egor Konstantinov and Maria Poroshina — in Qurgōn’s third piece: a tribute to the rage that demands to be let out.

For our first release, we teamed up with Teen Film Lab, curated by Lena Vanina and Kirill Kulagin. They co-author with kids from post-Soviet countries to explore how they see the world. Through that lens, beauty sometimes emerges from the mundane; sometimes it zeroes in on what’s unnoticed or hard to put into words.
On this journey, you never know what you’ll find — so off we go.

text by Nastassja Popova
mixing & mastering by A.Fruit
cover by Timur Zima

Viner - Qurgōn (A.Fruit Remix)

"Claustrophobic, disorienting, uncomfortable - ‘Only Time Will Tell’ consists of 3 of my latest attempts to push functional club tools as far into the realms of dissonance and abstraction as possible whilst retaining their inherent purpose as body-moving dancefloor tracks.

I’m drawn to sounds that are insistent, deliberate, futuristic and unorthodox. YUKU have always shared a similar vision, so it was little surprise when the label picked the very first 3 tracks I sent over in a large vault of demos - the exact 3 that I quietly hoped that they would take, in the exact order I felt would be most effective.

‘Inertia Of The Real’ has been the closing track for many of my sets over the past few months - unhinged electrical zaps appear out of nowhere and rain down over a sparse grime rhythm to catch the crowd off-guard and cause as much chaos as possible.

‘Plated Brass Recursion Mechanism’ continues the theme of frantic digital laser assault, but this time with a locked breakbeat groove and unyielding low-end snarl - more conventional beat patterns for electro and techno lovers, but weird and unpredcitable nonetheless.

Lastly, ‘Fool’s Errand’ dials back the intensity just a touch, with eerie pads and disembodied vocal chops cutting through machine-gun hihats and start-stop call and response in the low end.

My attitude to production has always been a rejection of the nostalgic rehashing of sounds from the 90s and 00s that has come to dominate the dance music landscape in the current decade. If there isn’t at least one sound in a track that’s surprising or new to my ears, I’m not interested. As a statement of intent, I hope that ‘Only Time Will Tell’ will bring something exciting to the listener in that respect. Endless love to YUKU and everyone who gives the release a spin - getting the chance to share my music on such a perfect label is really such an honour."
- Hedchef 
credits
released April 10, 2025

Written & produced by Hedchef
Mastered by Sam at Precise
Artwork by Lex Cyril
Set free into the wild by YUKU

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Hedchef - Fool's Errand [YUKU]

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Chewlie, Weith - Chewlie vs Weith, BVS003
Buy: https://brainwavescrew.bandcamp.com/album/chewlie-vs-weith

@juicy_chewlie
@weith
@brainwaves_crew

[Premiere] Weith – Scindat (out on Brainwaves)

Brussels-based imprint Maloca is proud to present percussive connoisseur Coen’s sophomore mini-album, Moshpit: an 8-track exploration where focus and intensity rules all. As the title suggests, the release marks a more abrasive turn after 2023’s Slop Drop & Roll.
 
Feeling like a new direction was needed for his second mini-album, Coen went back to his roots. There, the artist re-discovered a love for Slayer and the brutal, near out-of-control power found in thrash metal. Through this recapturing of his teenage years, he found his approach, developing methods for transposing the genre’s raw aesthetics into his stripped back, drum-forward sound.
 
The result is a listening experience dominated by double-time kicks, corroded walls of texture and a level of intensity not heard before in the London artist's work. Moshpit acts as an ode to Slayer and the brutal, relentless energy of thrash metal, taking the genre on a conceptual level and translating it into Coen’s universe. 

Despite this aesthetic turn, the album also stands as an evolution, rather than a revolution, from Coen. The orotund percussive tones and lethal high energy grooves of Headbanger and Roll Play are nods to 2023 standout Pressure Roll - weapon of choice for DJs across the spectrum including Bonobo, Bambounou, Ahadadream, Toumba & Lu Su.
 
Moshpit also sees Coen at his most concentrated, distilling what he does best down to its most vital and essential form. Each track bristles with a cinematic, metallic sheen and never feels too busy, with the artist getting the most from recordings of his studio’s collection of percussion instruments – with many of the textures on the album becoming distorted abstractions of drums found in it. 
 
The artwork, made by Coen himself, bristles with coarse texture, without becoming drowned in noise - an appropriate visual guide to the sonic landscape to be found in Moshpit. 

Coen - Rottweiler

Lazarus - Bearing Load

Tectonic Sound lays down the gauntlet for the future direction of the label. The compilation comprises many producers making their Tectonic debut, including re:ni, Beatrice M., Yushh, Flora Yin Wong, and Sicaria, alongside stalwarts like 2562, Shed, and Distance. It’s an exhilarating 24-track journey through experimental, bass-heavy electronic music, with almost all tracks created by the artists specifically with Tectonic’s sound in mind - at an intersection where dubstep and techno meet.

Beatrice M. - Poison

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[Premiere] Weith – Scindat (out on Brainwaves)

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