@obelisksydney - Meta Bliss EP
[PAYNOMINDTOUS, PNMTU006, out Dec. 28th, 2022]
* featuring remixes by @ptwiggs and @sus1er *
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[paynomindtous.bandcamp.com/album/meta-bliss]

The Sydney-based DJ and producer Ryan O'Rourke aka Obelisk (he/him) is an emerging name in the Australian contemporary underground club scene as an organizer of the experimental dance event series Nexus (instagram.com/nexus.eora/) and as an artist, holding releases on local compilations (@deep-scan-radio and @meganesia), and showcasing performances as both a solo artist and with the Winged Mantis duo, alongside Sydney-based DJ @index-exe. The work of Obelisk focuses on the interaction between heavy laptop electronic music and jungle/breakcore influences, mediated by a taste for raw aggressiveness and emotional grandeur that have been arranged in his debut release “Meta Bliss”, out on December 28th on our platform.

Composed of three original tracks, the release collects sharp, crystalline, and bursting compositions that feature fast and broken rhythms brilliantly juxtaposed with disfigured synths. While often indulging in the belligerent fury of knife-sharp percussions and booming distortion, the EP often crosses into spacious, euphoric melodies accompanied by frantic but cathartic, tempo-shifting drum work. Obelisk’s goal has been to investigate various ways of experiencing ecstasy and euphoria, whether by means of extreme, overwhelming rhythmic aggression, or breathtaking melodic refrains. While going through the 20-minute EP, one is brought to witness a daring descent into rush. “Meta Bliss” is the heavily cinematic sound commentary to some fast-paced, epic-scale, high fantasy encounter with angel-shaped, all-powerful beings of light under an immaculate sky.

Meta Bliss EP is completed by two remixes by the Sydney-based musician, producer, and DJ Ptwiggs (she/her) @ptwiggs and the Perth-based producer and DJ SUS1ER (he/him) @sus1er. Ptwiggs provides additional tones of darkness to “Illidan Bass” by crafting a 170 BPM deep drum and bass rework rich with clangy breakbeats, and diving deep into the obscurity of the industrial bassline. On the other hand, SUS1ER delivers the perfect closure to the release by re-arranging the opening track “Echoburst” into a 178 BPM hardcore anthem that preserves the emotional impact of the original all the way through the rawstyle finale.

Tracks 1-3 produced and mixed by Obelisk. Track 4 produced, mixed, and mastered by Ptwiggs. Track 5 produced and mixed by Sus1er. Track 1-3, 5 mastered by @wimdehaen. Artwork by K095C [instagram.com/k095c/]

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Taken from SBKT054: Gorgonn - Six Paths
Release date: 31st January

Artwork and layout by Akihide Monna
Mastered by Raphael Valensi


In Japanese Buddhism, it's believed that when someone dies they are ushered down one of six paths depending on the karma accumulated during their previous lives. A being might end up in the world of humans, animals, demigods, or celestials, but it's also possible to end up reborn as a pitiable hungry ghost, doomed to an existence of insatiable desire, or even worse - be sent to hell, or jigoku. Ruled over by the Japanese lord of death Emma-ō, this hell isn't quite like the Christian hell, it's closer to purgatory, and cleansing the karma can take hundreds of millions of years of excruciating torture in extreme cold or immense fire. Japanese bass alchemist Gorgonn takes these themes as the basis of his debut album "Six Paths", assembling a spiritually weighty set of futurist dubs that consider the possibility that our mortal domain might be closer to hell than we realize.


Gorgonn describes himself as a Japalien exile. He left the country of his birth almost two decades ago, and since then has been working tirelessly to formulate Jamaican dub, noise, techno, and no-wave into a sound he calls "sci-fi steppas". If you've not come across his name before, there's a good chance you've heard his reverberations. An established sound tech who's worked with The Bug, Hype Williams, Seefeel and others, he's part of G36 with Kevin Martin, Dokkebi Q with Kiki Hitomi, and a former member of Devilman with DJ Scotch Egg and Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe. Just last year he released the acclaimed "Disentegration Dubs" full-length alongside JK Flesh, the veteran producer who's best known for masterminding Godflesh. All this experience blesses Gorgonn's productions with remarkable sonic force, and "Six Paths" is his most crushing display yet, smelting cannonball bass and osmium beats into sharp-edged soundsystem weapons.


Look no further than opener 'Abyss' for evidence of this: psychedelic synths draw the mind away from the mortal realm, while tangled, distorted beats push us back down to earth, our faces crushed into the grit and gravel. Using tweaked sub bass and unsettling drones, Gorgonn lays out a cinematic backdrop for the album, drawing us into a world that's terrifying, viscous, and nauseatingly familiar. There's a militaristic roll to 'Without Beginning and End', a track that juxtaposes spacey halfstep thrusts with death metal distortion, footwork polyrhythms, and unearthly pads that addresses the crushing endlessness of jigoku. On 'Invisible' meanwhile, Gorgonn torches the skeletal remains of D&B, abstracting familiar rhythmic patterns into fuzzy, ritualistic cycles that sound both ancient and humming with prospective technology. But on the closing track 'Life as a Beast', it sounds as if Gorgonn has come to a conclusion, and in a flurry of acid squelches and doomy foghorn bass blasts, he seems to have accepted that being reincarnated as an animal might be the best anyone can hope for. Who knows, you might end up as a cat.

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Six Paths

Gorgonn - Greed

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Julien Andreas & Céilí - Whiplash

Hey you.
I'm really happy to introduce you to a new series of double singles that will be out on my beloved @lonelylifeloversclub.
First up are Requesting Backup / MF. Hustler, two tracks heavily in the bass music domain with distorted breakbeats, vocals from the hardcore continuum and transcendentals atmospheres.

I got a lot of tracks I've been sitting on, some tailored for the club, some  not so much, which will be coming in this new format pretty soon, so keep an ear here  :)

We did the mix of the tracks together with my good friend Simon Nicolas, mastering duty was made by the ever-skilled Paulie Jan and the artwork is a collab between my dear Elvire Menetrier and myself.

Hope you enjoy it !
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Seul Ensemble - MF Hustler

L. Salicis - Infant

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DIGITONICA, DEAD XICE - Umbra (29.11.2024)

Taking African gqom motifs, DEAD XICE and DIGITONICA have built on it with their own vision of the genre, starting with moderate rhythmic patterns, playing with broad soundscapes and sci-fi sound design, and ramping up to heavy, aggressive percussion parts that fill the cramped space of dark club rooms.

STREAM: band.link/umbradigixice

DIGITONICA, DEAD XICE - Umbra

Quand je dors, des murmures célestes me hantent. Voici une heure de musique pour en rendre l’essence.

Dormir Debout : Qui tombe d'épuisement mais ne peut s'arrêter de danser Étymologiquement c'est une référence aux histoires très longues dans lesquelles les auditeur·rices finissent par s’endormir d’ennui.

Naviguant entre rêves et réalité, Dormir Debout est une déclaration à la nuit, à ses histoires, ses contes, ses murmures. Comme les murs des clubs, les corps se rappellent de sensations, de visions cauchemardesques ou des des grandes peines de coeur, que l'on exprime lorsque personne n'entend. Chaque premier mardi du mois, plongez dans l'histoire d'une énième nuit ou d'un énième écho.

Tracklist : 
● Keiska - silhouettes edit
● RougeHotel - CCHRYSAL (Endgame Remix)
● Money Lang - Formula
● Hajj - like a flame burning away the darkness
● Modern Collapse - Gateway To Nihilism
● Anta Doma - Mn25
● R/8 - 93 Gangstérisme
● CITYSPROBLEM - Through Time (Princess Elf Bar Remix)
● truthspeaker - Apophysis Black Star
● Katie Fash - Poser
● Overkissed - Яitual
● Know V.A. - Drifter
● Pavel Milyakov - eternal break (feat. Torus)
● mensik - Exodia
● Cotton Mouth - Suchness
● E_DEATH - I Think I Love U
● KAVARI - Ingesting Poison
● matryoshka - lluvia erótica
● Alda Vain - Bite Rotation
● Disto - Distorted Glamour
● estoc - A Cold Wind Passes Over The Sand
● Eisebelle - how to disappear completely
● ETM - Find Ur Way (Hudson Mohawke Cover)
● Lanark Artefax - Metallur
● Cynthoni - Even Further Down The Drain
● MICHAELBRAILEY - i wanna know what it feels like [Caroline Polachek, Slick Shoota,
dj lostboi]

Mariad : DORMIR DEBOUT INVITE ESILE - 04 Mars 2025

“The Bends” follows with a deeper, more physical energy, flexing low-end pressure and off-kilter rhythm shifts that keep the listener locked without ever resorting to excess. It’s a track that balances tension and flow with impressive control.

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