For the next release on Early Reflex we welcome Frankfurt-based producer and composer Lorica (formerly known as Avbvrn), following his debut EP on Display and a split on Destitute.

Lorica filters a surgical attention to detail and sound design through a wide-scope approach to atmosphere and the spatial qualities of music. The resulting work conjures up dramatic, vivid, and tactile sonic landscapes that recall classical forms and techniques, while drawing upon contemporary textures and approaches to rhythm and memory.
Inspired by renaissance arts and their creative process ‘Adaptive Radiation’ [EYX005] stretches further Lorica’s experimental and oblique musical approach to the club-focused context of Early Reflex. The result is a 5-track EP blending cinematic sound design with traces of dubstep, drill, dancehall, trap, and more which is going to hit the listeners both physically and emotionally!

The opener ‘Baikal Rediscovered’ is a great example of Lorica’s production style where the composer blends together orchestral and atmospheric pads with incessant grimey beats and a deep bass-line making it a suitable tool for the club.
A storm of otherworldly sounds in contrast with its trapp inspired rhythmic session protrude in ‘Ochre Skeleton’ originating a surrealistic and peculiar atmosphere.
Approaching the end of the first half of the EP there is ‘Petrified Butterfly’, a dreamy and spooky interlude where synthesised flute melodies, fast-paced percussions and effected field recordings repeat and alternate themselves continuously while evolving every time differently in a never-ending loop until every sound dissolves in empty reverberated spaces.
Entering the second half of the release, listeners get hit by the drilling kick drum and the twisting sound design of ‘Sodiumglanz’, which lead to the closure of the EP.
In ‘Breccia’ Lorica explores further his blend of cinematic effects with the pronounced attitude for the club, delivering a track characterised by pitch-shifting electronic percussions and the harmonic progression of orchestrated instruments and strings.

‘Adaptive Radiation’ is available across all platforms starting from Friday 5th of November.

© & ℗ 2021 Early Reflex. All rights reserved. All tracks produced and mixed by Lorica § Mastering by Andrea Prato § Drawings by Giuseppe Cavuoto § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu.

Ochre Skeleton

Lorica - Ochre Skeleton

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Celebrated DJs @jon_k_mcr and Elle Andrews (@souveniruk) mint their hugely promising new label, @mal-recordings with proper dancefloor screwballs by @ausschuss; decimating UKG, dembow and industrial dancehall styles in a playfully mutable volley of devilish club ballistics.

Launching MAL as a reaction to the sorry state of global affairs, the ‘Cruise’ EP epitomises the maddening flux of the matter with a strong reminder to dance in the face of it all. In fractal not fractional moves, Berlin-based sound designer Linus Nicholson aka Ausschuss outlines the label’s divergent co-ordinates with seven tracks that bend sound designer tekkers to structures that step in the cracks between styles, zig-zagging between crafty permutations of classic and up-to-the moment UK club music, and a world of influence from Angolan Kuduro to Latin dembow and Afro-Caribbean dub, or what is commonly known as hard drum.

No mistake, this is rudely countercultural business, colouring outside the lines of convention in a way that defies categorisation, but will be recognised by dedicated DJs and dancers.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Ausschuss 'Bunny Crutch'

Taken from "Higher Reaction Sound" on SELCHP Recordings
Out 4th February 2022
Pre-order: https://selchprecordings.bandcamp.com/

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gula (the thing with the thing)

https://soundcloud.com/avernianofc
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🛒 https://rowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/row-various-part-ii
🔊 https://youtu.be/L3XOgYsCStk

Row Records comes around with a V.A. to show the range of the label sound with five artists who go different ways in different tempos and ultimately come together.
The opening track "Goose Father“ by Suh+Moon from New York embarks on a varied journey, followed by Manchester's Avernian, who taps along percussively with "Seivad". On the flip side comes Pressure Dome's Yushh from Bristol with her deep grooving "Smile & Scarper" and Row Records co-founder Kaep is collaborating with Bhed to let the woods do the talking.

Tracklist: 

Suh+Moon - Goose Father
Avernian - Seivad
Yushh - Smile & Scarper
Kaep & Bhed - Talking Woods

PREMIERE: Avernian - Seivad [Row Records]

Taken from SBKT050: ABADIR - Mutate
Release date: 22nd July 2022

Marking the 50th release-proper on SVBKVLT, we are excited to present ‘Mutate’, a new album by ABADIR.

‘Mutate’ started when I was trying out Maqsoum loops at high bpm blended with Jungle tracks during one of my DJ sets. I noticed that the Maqsoum rhythm complements the Amen break in a refreshing way. The first time I actually tried integrating both in my productions using “call and response” was when Ice_Eyes asked me to remix one of their tracks. The result was the closest to what I had always imagined to be my own club sound.

I set out to make an album using the same technique with some of my favorite club genres. My aim was to mutate those genres, collecting different types of Arabic rhythms and cooking them with Jungle, Jersey Club, Reggaeton, Footwork, etc. It’s an irreversible equation, like a chemical reaction, where the output is a melted piece which cannot be broken down into its separate inputs. Instead of ‘deconstructing’ or generally looking beyond club music, I made some fatty, straight up dance floor music.’ – ABADIR

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AِBADIR (Rami Abadir) is a music producer and sound designer born in Cairo, Egypt. His work focuses on experimental, club, glitch and ambient music, and he’s one half of the duo 0N4B. .

Artwork: Luke Griffiths
Photograph: Omar Elkafrawy
Mastering: Raphael Valensi
Special thanks to Amira Elmasry

Mutate

ABADIR - Ya Nasim

Chichi Draving returns to Allergy Season with On My Mind, the first EP under their new alias UwuQi. Redoubling on the playful, outré club sensibility of their past releases, On My Mind is an expansive 4-tracker slinking through the many moods of heady dance music.

Setting the tone, “On It” is a mischievous groover that weaves a giggling web of haunted MIDI harps and mutated vocal chops. “Crush the Piper” reverberates with piano and sawtooths synths slicing through a dubwise beatscape.

“Your World On A Grain Of Salt” ups the tempo and delivers a raving rollick through UwuQi’s world of ecstatic breaks. Exhaling, the EP bubbles to a close with the syncopated drum work and resonant reverence of “Prayers Prayers.”

On My Mind

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UwuQi - On It

Urgency

Freezeframe

Clemency presents References - her debut EP for Finn’s 2 B REAL. Three deceptively simple percussive pieces, both awkward and elegant.

Each track on the EP feels almost living and breathing; sparse, dissonant synths meet intricate drums and juddering basslines, effortlessly creating momentum and motion across the record.

‘References’ is Bethany Clements Patrick’s first EP under the Clemency alias. She’s a regular behind the decks at Partisan, Soup Kitchen & The White Hotel, and co-runs Manchester’s Mutualism club night, label & NTS show.

Using causality and repetition as a conceptual framework, the release comes with a selection of Clemency’s own references for the record, which includes poetry, literature, geographic coordinates, music and cosmetics - presented at clemencyreferenc.es

References

Testimony

written/produced by: @simisea
label: @slinknyc
release date: October 16th, 2020 
mastered by: Chris Botta 
link: https://slinknyc.bandcamp.com/album/slink-volume-1

SLINK Volume 1

Simisea - Cotorra

Take Away Jazz Records excited to present this elegant yet melancholic downtempo experimental house single from @SidQuirk E.P Ginnel Talk which is out on the 4th of December on @MachineWoman label @TakeAwayJazzRecords

"Imagine James Blake had a younger brother who just had their heart broken and James would tell him to write a song about it. 
Sid would be that brother who deconstructed the heartache to the next level of downbeat electronics, asmr textures and laced it with melancholic cut up vocals of Sid himself saying Out of Love, Out of Luck, Out of Nothing....." - Machine Woman
 

© 2020, @SidQuirk
℗ 2020, @SidQuirk under exclusive license to @TakeAwayJazzRecords
Mastering Joshua Eustis

Ginnel Talk

Out of...

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Sid Quirk Out of...

Vox Nihili [SELN 008] **OUT NOW**:
https://selnrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/vox-nihili

Record label run by @gonz_bcn and @conradpack
Contact: info@selnrecordings.com

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