Our (sometime) annual compilation marking the Solstice returns for a 2023 edition - bringing with it new artists amongst familiar faces from the hive.

Making their debut on the label we welcome Andrew Nolan, Brawny, CARTHAGE, Fret (Mick Harris), In Darkness There Is Light, and Whirling Hall of Knives. They join returning artists Interjector, MSQ, Stacie-Anne Churchman, and Warcrimes.

All monies from the sale of this compilation will be donated to UK charity Mind (https://mind.org.uk).

Have a wonderful Solstice.

Whirling Hall of Knives - Skwirmische

Fret - F THREE

Interjector - AKSMTSM REV

In Darkness There Is Light - Resonates From Within

Brawny - Fog Core

Andrew Nolan - The Fool Reversed

Stacie-Anne Churchman - Rhuid

CARTHAGE - Tbilisi (Warcrimes remix)

MSQ - A Step Further

Monrella - Shank [TRM007] 

A1. Monrella - Shank 
B1. Monrella - Shank (Force Reaction Remix) 
B2. Monrella - Shank (Tensal Remix) 
X1. Monrella – Shank (Tensal Remix 2) Digital Only

Release date: 15/03/2024 
Formats: 12’’ Vinyl & Digital 

Birmingham Techno paragon Monrella (Mick Harris) doesn't mess about, returning to Trauma Collective with 'Shank', a no-nonsense cut of heads down 909 techno. His analog production strikes a fine balance between solid groove and industrial rumble as the characteristically dry precussion crunches around a relentless synth stab. 

Alongside Regis and Surgeon, Harris was an architect of the dark Birmingham sound that blossomed out of club night House of God. He played a key role in the genesis of grindcore in the late 80s as the former drummer of Napalm Death and went on to translate his taste for raw, analog distortion into rugged 4x4 club tools with productions for Regis' ZET label in the mid 90s as Monrella. Several alias projects followed, the broken techno explorations of Fret, beatless dark ambient with Lull and the dub inflected trip-hop / illbient of Scorn. 

'Shank' is remixed on the flip by the Berlin-based Force Reaction, a collaborative project from Kwartz and Kaiser, two purveyors of a particularly muscular strain of techno igniting dances across Europe. They last released together on Kaiser's K S R imprint back in 2021 but this is Kwartz's second outing on Trauma Collective after a link up with Monrella on TRM003. Their version introduces reverb and echo to the mix while firmly retaining dancefloor utlity. 

Rounding up the B-side is a polyrhythmic and densley textured remix from Héctor Sandoval as Tensal. Sandoval is one half of pioneering Spanish techno duo Exium, and he also contributed to ZET back in 2001. Tensal doubles up on this release, dispatching a second remix in the form of a peak-time thumper available as a digital only bonus track.

(preview) [TRM007] Monrella - Shank

Trauma Collective
Madrid, London

Releases:
[TRM001] Monrella - Buid Time EP (2019)
[TRMC1] Makunaimadamä - Katavai (2020)
[TRM002] ASC - Loop Research (2020)
[TRM003] Kwartz - Reinforced Control (2021)
[TRM004] Geistform - Antena (2022)
[TRM005] Sciahri - Plastic Rain (2022)
[TRM006] Groof - Staca (2022)
[TRM007] Monrella - Shank (2024)
[TRM008] Codex Empire - Rotten Fodder (2024)

Past dates:
Trauma #01:  @shxcxchcxsh live 30.05.2015
Trauma #02: @cassegrain live 18.07.2015
Trauma #03: Kareem live 24.10.2015
Trauma #04 @ascion live 18.12.2015
Trauma #05:  @stanislavtolkachev live 06.02.2016
Trauma #06:  @talkersound live 02.04.2016
AAMM: Trauma Crew 21.5.2016
Trauma #07: @zosima live 23.7.2016
Trauma #08: @codexempire live  15.10.2016
Trauma Collective @ Synth 20.11.16 
Trauma #09: @blush-response live 10.12.16
Trauma #10: @sstromsound live, @Lofthaus live 03.02.17
Trauma #11: @OAKE live, @Zosima live, @domenicocrisci 25.02.17
Trauma #12: @soesgunverryberg live 18.03.17
Trauma #13: @ballistic_delusions live + @noparfum live 06.05.2017
Trauma #14: residents night, 01.07.2017
Trauma #15: @samkdc live, 02.12.2017
Trauma #16: @mick-harris-390132372 as Fret live 27.01.2018
Trauma #17:  @ntogn 17.03.2018
Trauma #18 @kwartz - @sabinogonzalez 14.04.18
Trauma #19: @svreca 05.05.18
Trauma #20 @the-wire-alliance live 02.06.18
Trauma #21: @swarmintelligence live 24.11.2018
Trauma #22: @desroi live 02.02.2019
Trauma #23: @nigh-t-mare live 13.04.2019
Trauma #24: @restiveplaggona live, 08.06.2019
Trauma #25:  Sawf live 12.10.2019
Trauma #26: @sam kdc dj set + @q3s710n live 03.01.2020

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