Alyness - Bassement [snippet]

Addison Groove - 13 August 2025

@galtier returns to Plasma Sources with Mainframe Incantation, a five-track release marking the 7th position on the label’s roster. First appearing on the Multi Source compilation earlier this year, Galtier now moves beyond the mechanical, sci-fi focus toward a sound that fuses technology with the divine, inhabiting the liminal space between worlds. 

Rooted in the earliest traditions of percussive music as a vehicle for altered states, Mainframe Incantation channels ritual energy through synthesised and digitised means, closing a cultural loop from origin to present. The result is a tension between the spiritual and the mechanical — feverish, dissonant, and hypnotic. 

The journey begins with "Ausmisis States", a restrained, technical opener of squelchy basslines and coarse pads, setting the stage for contact. "Tincture Pump" bursts through next—erratic, bouncy, and high-velocity, with a swelling distortion lead that injects chaotic energy straight to the bloodstream. 

In "Tink Cycle", the pace slows into a groove-laden trance, its caustic bassline dragged forward by steady kicks and splintering snares. At the centre lies "Hex Crawler", a gurgling, otherworldly entity speaking in alien tones before breaking into a vast, unearthly climax. 

Closer "Phantom Tremors" hurls us back toward reality with hasty techno-inflected percussion, metallic strikes, and roaring sub-frequencies. Pulsing hardware bleeps push the final surge, sealing the ritual in a haze of digital energy. 

Tink Cycle

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Machine Woman - 16/08/2025

Doctor Jeep B2B Hedchef 06 August 2025

RAJA 26.8.25

Dual Monitor with Nak - 06 September 2025

Mumdance DJ Set @ The Ping Volume One Launch Party
12 September 2025
The Old Blue Last - London 
Check the full MD archive - www.mumdance.com

Mumdance @ Different Circles - Ping Launch Party - 12th September 2025

All kinds of bass music mixed by the resident DJ's of Bassin Records, Mentality & High'N'Irie Soundsystem.

Bassin Records @ Kiosk Radio 23.09.2025

PREORDER: https://bighandsbighands.bandcamp.com/album/anti-militarist-dubs

Upstairs Downstairs is a Naarm/Melbourne-based promoter "specialising in wubs & dubz in the club", but now for the first time bringing said wubz to life as a label. 'Anti Militarist Dubs' is a 4-track EP by London-based, Italian-born producer Big Hands, featuring a track by Naarm's own bass heavyweight Pugilist.

'Stolen Land', premiered here, is that very track. 

Undeniably club-focused, sitting between the edge of techno & bass music, 'Stolen Land' has a depth and space that has come to be one of Pugilist's many calling cards. Twisted polyrhythmic grooves and distorted percussion swirl across dubbed out vocals & low-end growls. 

'Anti Militarist Dubs' releases in full as both a limited vinyl & digitally via Upstairs Downstairs' Bandcamp on Friday, November 14.

PREMIERE: Big Hands 'Stolen Land (feat. Pugilist)' [Upstairs Downstairs]

Doctor Jeep B2B Vertigo - 6 November 2025

Moscow-based record label, booking and event agency operating since 2015

Alyness - Bassement [snippet]

System 108