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From the album "What Stays In Vegas" out 22 November.

A chance meeting in Bucharest two summers ago saw Ratty Slay Johnson and Soopie reunite. It has been a much discussed topic amongst art and music circles as to how and why Rat Section abruptly fell into obscurity in the late 90s and up to this point their sudden disappearance remains a mystery.

Their sparse back catalogue seems inaccessible now. A dedicated collecting community known as ‘Club Rodentia’ sought to preserve their tape and vinyl output, amassing releases from Ratty Slay Johnnie’s sophomore release ‘Tails from Estonia’ to Soopi and Slay John’s last known excursion ‘Tashkent Knights’.

An unfortunate occurrence led to the destruction of this archive in 2005. Member of Club Rodentia Carlos Moscato was quoted in an article of NME magazine saying “In the dark of night, a fire emerged, I was responsible at the time for the care of the archive, as standard Rodentia protocol we would move the collection every 3 months, for both preservation and for local access to Rat Sections catalogue. On the final night of my duty I heard footsteps, a crash, and before my eyes years of hard work erupted in flames. Since this incident I haven’t found even a crumb of Rat Sections body of work and people say we will never see them again." Carlos Moscato was correct, until now.

Rat Section have been active for the last two years with appearances in London, Berlin, Malmö, Melbourne, Paris and Los Angeles, it looks like we are finally going to hear Rat Section again. They have found a home for their debut album on Halcyon Veil.

Rat Section are back in the spotlight.

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What Stays In Vegas

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Rat Section - Rat Lifestyle

The man on the street grinned showing no dentures
I am no fiction he said I am unmoved
There is no part of me remotely touched by your modern distress

Music: Escha + Ytem
Additional Vocals: Ned Green
Mastering: Enyang Urbiks
Artwork: Loren Erdrich

Escha & Ytem - Norfolk Pertex Aquarium

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Shelter presents “Aveen” — the third installation in our genre-agnostic compilation series.

To follow up 2023’s “Feyrûse” and 2024’s “Mizgîn”, we have curated an emotionally charged collection of 17 tracks that press against the debilitating realities of life in the mid-2020s. The title stems from a Persian word meaning “pure” or “transparent” — signaling a search for unfiltered and sincere artistic expression in the midst of a social climate filled with smoke and mirrors.

“Aveen” features Shelter’s most international line-up to date, with music from 18 artists spread across 13 countries and 5 continents displaying their signature sounds shaped by their local scenes and cultures. 

Flowing through mutated shades of ambient, hypnagogic pop, trance, leftfield techno, neo-perreo, and GQOM — the compilation connects the myriad influences and mind-states of electronic musicians from nearly every corner of the world and tethers them together into a cathartic 17-track excursion.


B E N N – "1+-8"

Beachie – Drifting Deeper

HOSTILE – Catapult

Track by TEMPOT @tempot_fl X RAMKKA @ramkka 
Remix by Evarcrow @evarcrow
Mastering by Evarcrow @evarcrow

Buy link:
https://asylummoscow.bandcamp.com/album/ramkka-x-tempot-psychodynamic-aslm071

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TEMPOT X RAMKKA - HIERARCHY OF NEEDS [Evarcrow Remix]

Exploited Body - Helix / Unravel

Exploited Body takes it back to the club with their latest two-track offering 'Helix / Unravel' - a pairing, that meshes the intensity you've come to expect, with newfound high-speed break experimentations.

'Helix' is a spiralling fever dream, with drums of tungsten skitter through the blaring sirens and posessed screeches, showing no signs of slowing down. 'Unravel' is deliverance, release. Incorporeal voices echo through the cracks of the ferocious drums, eventually submitting to the soaring, euphoric synths signalling the escape from the cycle.

’Helix / Unravel’ is out now via Changeless!

Written, produced, mixed & mastered by Nori Kin.
Artwork by Jesse Draxler & Nori Kin.

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Exploited Body -  Helix

Track 2 from our new album "A GHETTO SPACE EXPEDITION".

A GHETTO SPACE EXPEDITION

GHETTO GRINCH

ЗАДНЯЯ ПЛОЩАДКА(prod. by unknownginzzu)

Original song by Linea 77.
Additional production and fuckedupness by noumeno
Artwork by Nemo (@nemoblazarr) and noumeno

Linea 77 - Fantasma (noumeno's little haunting)

160 bpm rodent anthem. This one is for my rats, beavers, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, gophers, chinchillas, muskrats, capybaras, and many many more. Truly the best type of animal. 

Cover by mania.archive

Rodentia

Embrace the Darkness - Bravo Protocol

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No Light, No Mercy

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Artist: @ramkka
Album: Loveless Husk
Cat: [DRIP019]
Label: Dripping Traxx

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