Conceived as an ecotonal space where the multiple sonic reinterpretations of the composition can converge, we are pleased to present the first compilation of EKŌ, a platform inspired by the essence of the spatial and acoustic propagation of rhythmic and experimental phenomena. Which seeks to share through this selection different ideas and creative sensibilities around experimental dancefloor. Where it is sought that, through the value of sharing in equitable and diverse ways, it is motivated to generate changing, thinking and sensitive spaces from, to and with what happens in the world and on the dance floor.

EKŌ baste together and puts in dialogue the personal universes of each creator in this compilation, also as a presentation of what EKŌ is and intends to generate, allowing us to access those meeting points that occur beyond the physical.

Enjoy, dance, share love and music.

Chapel - Melatonina

DECONSTRUCT

HTS is very proud to welcome back Tokyo-based DJ and producer WRACK (@wrack90) after his appearance on our latest compilation "Seven Seas".

For his first full release on the label, WRACK continues to expand his palette of rough club cuts & sci-fi inspired bangers with a 4-track EP titled « Yozakura » (a word describing cherry blossoms at night, as commonly seen in Tokyo). A proof that despite the certain hardness of his sound, it doesn’t lack any emotions and beauty. 

On the first track named as the EP, we find an atmosphere of scientists technologies dismantled by vocal gimmicks and sharp rhythms, giving the feeling of a take-off at maximum speed aboard a spaceship jostled by tumultuous gusts of wind, desperately seeking to find some air and stability. Once calmed on board, we go through « Pak », a fresh isle infused by elements of Reggaeton & Dembow causing jerky breathing due to temperature changes. 

On « Tribell », the scenery changes as we’re thrown into the middle of a heat wave, loaded with UK Funky drums, screams and fever-inducing bell sounds. After recovering, « Ai » (meaning simply « Love ») closes the trip with some sort of R&B vocals cutted by grimey techniques in a Ruff Sqwad manner, finishing in a 4x4 section rhythm as tough and sincere as the feelings revealed in this whole EP.

Credits :

Artwork by Louise Primel. 
Mastering by WRACK.

YOZAKURA EP

WRACK - Tribell

Premiere of one track from https://soundcloud.com/mafubabe's debut mixtape. Rest of release here - https://soundcloud.com/hi_nrg/mhn010mv

Pre-order the 14-tracker-banger https://hi-nrg.bandcamp.com/album/mafu (special price of £4.99 for a week or two)

Produced and Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/mafubabe
Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/morair
Artwork by https://soundcloud.com/2styles2furious

Enjoy

ryan / Hi-NRG

mafu

mafu - i feel sad [Hi-NRG 010]

Failed Units kick off their new 'Fusion Tank' series with Montreal's DJ Pacifier and New Yorker Folded Voices, allowing the artists to explore the idea of collaboration in which ever way they see fit.

DJ Pacifier's 'Prograsm' travels through the unhinged glitched out techno sound that the Canadian has become sought after for in recent times. Their ventures into the the depths of hard dance has seen them feature recently on the Boiler Room mix series as well as taking on a tour of Europe and the UK.

The EP arrives in full on December 14th. 

Pre-order here: https://failedunits.bandcamp.com/album/fusion-tank-dj-pacifier-folded-voices

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PREMIERE: DJ Pacifier - Prograsm (Failed Units)

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.

Six Paths

Gorgonn - Without Beginning or End

On Refilling Automatic Mulch Tanks

Ah Mulch, such a curious thing
For a tank - dweller doth excitement bring.
Though I know not how it feels
To have Mulch in thine wheels
All I desire is [ERROR : REQUEST LINE DOES NOT EXIST]

Made by @txetext (Indonesia), @tcvbln (Germany), @sandystrace (Taipei), @sanmal307 (Japan)
Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Leeds
Design by Alypsedon

Out March 17th

Units Mulched w/ TXETEXT, TCV, Sandy's Trace, sanmal [PREVIEWS]

Some nice dance tracks at a low tempo :)

https://lighghtmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-witness-ep

Miracle Room

Memories

This Is Just a Pure Horror

Fear in Space

NEUROSTATIC is a 7-track EP by VynX, blending the raw energy of Dubstep with the haunting atmosphere of Future Garage and industrial sound design.

Gorgonn - Without Beginning or End

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