Tracks on. Brain off.

Massive Music is the new massive mixtape from MM. It’s Dumb Dance Music – DDM – don’t think too hard about it. The EP draws on tribal house, raptor house, Dutch bubbling sounds and heavy filter techno to create six tough ‘n hard drum tools.

Mastering: Fausto Mercier
Artwork: Rory King

Massive Music

MM - Floorfiller

https://usikuvo.bandcamp.com/album/topchop-ep

Topchop EP

Topchop

@nahm8

Bridging his last few years in Shanghai and his first couple in the U.S., the debut EP on Gully Riddim from the now New York-based Naaah leans into the sorts of bright, playful melodies that have become a characteristic of his music, all the while keeping in place harder-edged, percussive club sounds. Operating at and just above the 100bpm mark, the tracks channel post-Bala Club sonics as well as tuffer drum trax, but with a shifting mood across the EP. With its subtle nods to trap dancehall, opener "Environs" sounds like it would be equally at home in Portmore as it would a London basement rave, while "Ta Me Duck" is just pure exuberance. Hitmakerchinx-indebted "Thx Ross" then pays tribute to a Shanghai club scene stalwart, before "Pilipala" dives deep into a nimble dancefloor workout.

Joining from South Korea and Japan respectively, dBoi! and Keito both up the tempo for their remixes but take the originals in radically different directions, with the former offering an expansive take on "Environs" underpinned by lurching 808s. The TYO Gqom member, meanwhile, lives up to his party's ethos, adding drums worthy of a Durban taxi to "Ta Me Duck" but maintaining — and twisting — its ear-worm melody to create a fresh take on the South African genre. Gully Riddim co-boss Zean then rounds out the release with a crystalline interpretation of "Pilipala" primed for — initially at least — eyes-down club moments.

Words by Chris Russell

Artist: Naaah
Title: PAP
Label: GR Recordings
Cat No: GR003
Cover Design: anormalturtle300
Mastering: Zean
Release Date: 20th July
Format: Digital

Naaah - Environs

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)

“Seven tracks of primitive-futuristic percussive imbued with grotesque noise and whirling voices debut from BHKT.”

"Retaww" refers to BHKT's hunting and gathering era. An album that propels us into a vast land of chaos, brutality, ecstatic and blunt. It's obvious how BHKT pushes the boundaries of structure in his music, challenging the listener to think freely.

Retaww

BHKT - Retaww

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

Out February 15 on Ten Toes Turbo.


Label: @tentoesturbo
Artist: @crzkny

[Premiere] CRZKNY - PPPHHHOONK!! (out on Ten Toes Turbo)

... working in a huge factory that has a green rooftop terrace. You've gone for a break. A scattered assortment of rugged bushes and halfdry grasses zig zag through the terrace. The PA system must be decades old, its age given off by the torn up sound and the fine white noise escaping it. The heavy machinery down below occasionally snuffs the noise out. You don't know how that works, and you won't start questioning it - the play between the two is soothing. Your friend, the PA operator in the control room, is playing the tape over the system, a breaktime ritual. 

Despite the rumbly, pressed goings-on of the factory, years of practice taught you how to relax in this state of affairs. Letting go a deep breath, you stare out into the distance of the city, hypnotized by the overwhelming movement of man and machine. 

FREE DL: https://zaozvuk.bandcamp.com/track/meet-your-love-again-but-youre

Original composition by Josiah Steinbrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nEUAIM5dTs

Cover Art by Steve Ince: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/a8ngL (a view from the classic "Beneath a Steel Sky")

"Meet Your Love Again" by Josiah Steinbrick, but you're...

Sweettooth (VIP)

Enter the coded void.

Echelon.exe is a sonic possession — an exploration of corrupted bass // haunting halftime rhythms // cinematic distortion.
A digital awakening // coded by Slitface.

Genres: Drum & Bass | Halftime | Dark Electronic | Riddim
Produced by: Slitface

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Gorgonn - Without Beginning or End

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