Reframing the mundane

No Static / Automatic kick off their 2025 schedule with a new release from a lynch pin of Northern Spain’s electronic music community as Fanzine’s Roi joins the roster with a relentless EP of raw, rave-drenched Electro built for sweat-soaked warehouse floors. Giving us a real feel for how Roi channels the untamed spirit of A Coruña’s rugged landscape, Arise EP is powered by kicking and deep sub-bass and pure raw, untamed energy.

Out now on limited edition white vinyl & digital: ara-u.bandcamp.com/album/arise-ep

Roi - Starting Over [NSA011]

Ben Pest and ARA-U unite for the next release on No Static / Automatic. Kaos Sympatik EP started life with the pair recording jams of various vintage studio kit, including an EMS VCS3, Roland VP330 and an Orgon Systems prototype known only as the “Silver Box”, which developed into full tracks over subsequent sessions.

Ben Pest has been busy releasing high grade club tracks including collabs with Radioactive Man and Kursa for Asking For Trouble and Love Love Records last year, and with solo EPs dropping on Cultivated Electronics and Posh End music. Here he links with NS/A boss ARA-U, turning out some of their headiest material to date.

Pre-order: https://ara-u.bandcamp.com/album/kaos-sympatik-ep

ARA-U X Ben Pest - Err Hello [NSA012]

TL Premiere #1968 (2025.07.30) : ARA-U & Ben Pest - Slapback [No Static / Automatic]

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For this 127th Premiere of 2025, we have a track by ARA-U & Ben Pest titled ‘Slapback’ from their forthcoming EP "Kaos Sympatic" on the UK based Electro Record Label curated by ARA-U : No Static / Automatic.

The EP will be available from August 1, 2025 on limited edition 12" prince purple vinyl (100 copies) + digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://ara-u.bandcamp.com/album/kaos-sympatik-ep

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Release Info :

ARA-U & Ben Pest - Kaos Sympatic EP [No Static / Automatic // NSA012]

Ben Pest and ARA-U unite for the next release on No Static / Automatic. Kaos Sympatic EP started life with the pair recording jams of various vintage studio kit, including an EMS VCS3, Roland VP330 and an Orgon Systems prototype known only as the “Silver Box”, which developed into full tracks over subsequent sessions. Ben Pest has been busy releasing high grade club tracks including collabs with Radioactive Man and Kursa for Asking For Trouble and Love Love Records last year, and with solo EPs dropping on Cultivated Electronics and Posh End music. Here he links with NS/A boss ARA-U, turning out some of their headiest material to date.

The EP kicks off with ‘Err Hello’, it’s wholly discordant, lairy, and unapologetically weird. ‘‘Get A Grip’ drifts in with hallucinatory wafts of sound over a warped riff, building into a granular, distorted headfuck of a hoover-bass moment. This one will make the subs rattle on the right side of distortion. On the B Side title track ‘Kaos Sympatic’ gets stuck in with a big broken beat and guttural sub that transforms into a techno drop to drive this track home. Finishing up, ‘Slapback’ serves up a cut of high energy electro funk, coming off like classic ERP on heat.

Limited edition purple vinyl.

Tracklist :
1. Err Hello
2. Get A Grip
3. Kaos Sympatic
4. Slapback

releases August 1, 2025

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Kaos Sympatic EP

Slapback

TL PREMIERE : ARA-U & Ben Pest - Slapback [No Static / Automatic]

Tom Ravencroft - 17 July 2025

Co-Accused is the DJ duo of Raymond and Lindsay Green who are long established in Glasgow as label founders and party promoters of the same name. From their notorious basement raves in Club 69 they have played and hosted at most of the city’s best-loved party spots and have built a solid reputation in the Glasgow underground scene. Last year they held their debut takeover of Sub Club with a sell out night hosting Dave Clarke on his Archive One anniversary tour and at the end of 2024 they announced a quarterly residency at The Berkeley Suite. 

The pair know techno and electro inside out, their dynamic ethos and tack for driving up the energy levels as DJs has not only made them firm fixtures on local party line ups but has also taken them to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Liverpool and London. Fuelled by the pair’s devotion to underground club culture, Co-Accused Records is a hot bed of uncompromising club tracks, releasing sounds from the likes of Ben Pest, Luke’s Anger, Fear-E, Human Rebellion, ARA-U and Radioactive Man. To date, the label has been featured in DJ Mag and supported by some of the most respected heads in the game including Helena Hauff, Laurent Garnier, Dave Clarke and Slam. 

This year they continue to step out in Glasgow with their regular Berkeley Suite residency, guest spots and some extra special events in the pipeline - keep your eyes on them for more.

Tracklist

Lost Trax - Grib (Frustrated Funk)
Domenic Cappello - Niamh's Song (Cyphon Recordings)
Trevino - Indulge (Apple Pips)
The Hacker - Harmonia (Rekids)
Anthony Rother - Red Light District (Psi49net)
James Shinra - Gritti (Craigie Knowes)
Dexter - I Don't Care (Dektreks)
Pain Struck Stanley Dumb - Breakfast At Brian's (Asking For Trouble)
The Hacker - Turborave (Rekids)
Lectromagnetique - My Hell (Urban Kickz Recordings)
Anthony Rother - Do You Love Me (Psi49net)
Lewski - Artificial Beings (Patron Records)
Polyop - Electrop (Nudibranch Records)
Roi - Marg Fit (No Static/Automatic)
Ben Pest - Wobbly Eggs (Orson Records)
James Shinra - Turn It Up (Shinra Electro Company)
JSPRV35 - Cybotronik (Planet Rhythm)
Helga Neuer & Zeta Reticula - New School (Mechatronica)
PRZ & Ori - Be Scared Of Clowns (Mechatronica)
Skee Mask - TR Nautila (ILIAN TAPE)
ARA - U & Ben Pest - Slapback (No Static /Automatic)
The Advent & Zein Ferreira - Probe (Cultivated Electronics)
The Advent & Zein Ferreira - Space Surfer (Sync 24 Remix)
(Cultivated Electronics)
Mani Festo - Shape Cutter (Tectonic)
SOD-90 - Muzzle (Co-Accused Records) 'Unreleased'
Paul Blackford - Dance Yourself To Death (Breakin' Records)
StacEmp - Diz Is Why I'm Hot (Steel City Dance Discs)

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/coaccused
Instagram: @coaccused_
Bandcamp: https://co-accused.bandcamp.com
Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/promoters/81138

PULSAR 011 | CO-ACCUSED

Ben Pest and ARA-U unite for the next release on No Static / Automatic. Kaos Sympatic EP started life with the pair recording jams of various vintage studio kit, including an EMS VCS3, Roland VP330 and an Orgon Systems prototype known only as the “Silver Box”, which developed into full tracks over subsequent sessions. Ben Pest has been busy releasing high grade club tracks including collabs with Radioactive Man and Kursa for Asking For Trouble and Love Love Records last year, and with solo EPs dropping on Cultivated Electronics and Posh End music. Here he links with NS/A boss ARA-U, turning out some of their headiest material to date.

The EP kicks off with ‘Err Hello’, it’s wholly discordant, lairy, and unapologetically weird. ‘‘Get A Grip’ drifts in with hallucinatory wafts of sound over a warped riff, building into a granular, distorted headfuck of a hoover-bass moment. This one will make the subs rattle on the right side of distortion. On the B Side title track ‘Kaos Sympatic’ gets stuck in with a big broken beat and guttural sub that transforms into a techno drop to drive this track home. Finishing up, ‘Slapback’ serves up a cut of high energy electro funk, coming off like classic ERP on heat.

Limited edition purple vinyl

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Ara-u 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ara_u
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ara_u____/

Ben Pest
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/benpest
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benpest/

PREMIERE: ARA-U & Ben Pest - Get A Grip (No Static / Automatic)

Pain Struck Stanley Dumb - Breakfast At Brian's Paul Blackford Mix
Slit Observers - Regolith Dust
The Spy - Evil Wins - Privacy Remix
Client_03 & James Shinra - Decommission Me
Lake Haze - Particles Collision
Ekata - Ultra Sonic Mind Control
PRZ & Ori - Be Scared Of The Clowns
Zeta Reticula - Distress Signal
Kalcagni - Improv
/DL/MS/ - Regressive Behaviour
Ninechecker - Melting Down Edgelords
Delta Division - A Decade Of Cuts
Minimum Syndicat - Knowing That We Know Nothing
Luxus Varta - Gelatin 55
Unwonted - Electric Thrill
Roi - Araguaney
The Advent & Zein Ferreira - Probe
Mumdance - World Wide Web
Shun - Axes7Saigg - Gladiator
Sean Kosa - Term Demon
Ara-U & Ben Pest - Err Hello
Ninechecker - Cybertalk - Mark Starr Remix
Spectrums Data Force - Form 900
Elektrotechnik - E-Highway
Bass Junkie - Electron Spin Resonence
Gamadon - Cyborg Samba - Umwelt Remix

Computer Controlled Mix 49

Preorder now on Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/ara-u-ben-pest-kaos-sympatis-ep-vinyl/1099026-01/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=premiere&utm_campaign=soundcloud

East London's Ara-U joins forces with UK hardware hash key Ben Pest for 'Kaos Sympatik' EP, a four-track trowelling of various niche gear possibilities, be these the EMS VCS3, Roland VP330 or a one-off Orgon prototype dubbed the Silver Box. The result is a set of cogjammed, dark analogue acid and machine-fried club gear sounding out like mad scientists' cackles, wiling away and abreast gnarled electro. Pest's recent output moves from solo cuts on Cultivated Electronics and Posh End to pairings with Kursa and Radioactive Man, and has of late leaned into high-volt funk and rougher-edged drums, but here the connection with Ara-U (whose own catalogue now numbers sixteen NS/A releases) moves to twitchier, more sensitive sequencing.

More from the label: https://www.juno.co.uk/labels/No+Static%252FAutomatic/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=premiere&utm_campaign=soundcloud

PREORDER

PREMIERE: Ara-U & Ben Pest – Kaos Sympatik (No Static/Automatic)

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Reframing the mundane

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