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Chromatic @ Fight The Future EP Launch (Planet Wax, 8th Feb'25)

Sonar's Ghost
Recorded live at the Fight The Future EP Launch (Planet Wax, 8th Feb'25)

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Sonar's Ghost @ Fight The Future EP Launch (Planet Wax, 8th Feb'25)

We're hurtling towards brain implants. Greet your future immortal self with this mix of halftime, autonomic, and atmospheric dnb tinged with synthwave, featuring tracks from Kraftwerk, Calibre, Timecop1983, Seba, and Boymerang.

Listen along with the book "New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention", which inspired this mix, and whose cover artist Melinda A. Smith designed this mix's artwork.

Track list is below. Enjoy!

00:00 Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine (Capitol, 1978)
03:35 Commix - Japanese Electronics (Instra:mental Remix) (Metalheadz, 2010)
07:21 Croms - Invisible Cities (Exit, 2011)
12:36 Calibre - Snoopers Dub (Samurai, 2018)
14:53 Mark Kloud - 52.30 (Biorhythm Remix) (Modern Conveniences, 2023)
16:46 Timecop1983 - Mirage (Self-released, 2024)
18:44 Antagonist - Outside of Time (Dispatch, 2023)
21:45 Law & Wheeler - Euclid (Dub)
24:00 Marcus Intalex - Wacky Races (Soul:r, 2014)
+++++ 25:08 Source Direct & Instra:mental - Yo Bitch (tease)
27:01 Seba - Berberian Sound (Secret Operations, 2015)
31:10 Deep Blue - Destroyer VIP (Over/Shadow, 2024)
32:20 Mirage - Bewildered (Andy Odysee Remix) (Odysee, 2018)
35:21 Antagonist - Basic View (Discipline, 2024)
37:58 Alegria, Tellus - Aurora Borealis (Locked Concept, 2024)
40:15 Seba - Physickl (Secret Operations, 2014)
43:15 Special Forces - The Bleeps Tune (Photek Productions, 1999)
46:15 Andy Skopes - Speechless (Metalheadz, 2017)
50:24 Jamie Myerson - Gesture without Motion (Modern Conveniences, 2023)
52:40 Mister Shifter - The Reach (Modern Conveniences, 2022)
55:41 Biorhythm - Chemical Comfort (Squares Music, 2024)
59:27 mintimperial - Rollerflute (Long Intro) (Dub)
1:02:27 Adred - Can Jam (Metalheadz, 2017)
1:05:28 Boymerang - Urban Space (Prototype, 1996)

Artwork by Melinda A. Smith

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Featuring tracks from:

@commix
@metalheadz
@calibresignature
@samuraimusicgroup
@biorhythm_uk
@modernconveniences
@timecop1983
@antagonistuk
@anttc1
@drumtrip
@marcusintalex
@source_direct_official
@secret-operations
@odyseerecordings
@alegriaabada
@tellusdnb
@locked-concept
@photek
@jamiemyerson
@mistershifter
@squareshq
@andyskopes
@mintimperial
@adambakeradred

New Year, New You | Futuristic dnb mix 1

A deep two step drum and bass groove for this introspective and melancholy piece. I was kind of thinking about people from the city wanting to escape to the country, and vice versa, how their paths cross and how they never really escape where they came from. I've always been sort of fascinated by the oppressive and ironically claustrophobic nature of the wide open prairie, and I'm quite an afficionado of intense gothic westerns. My musical influences are of course Bukem, Source Direct, PFM, Doc Scott, Ray Keith and all the 90s legends and true originators.

The main piano comes from Grandeur, a Kontakt instument, which is backed up with a pad called Whisps which is part of a Thought-Forms preset pack for Korg Wavestation. It's an E minor 9 if I remember correctly. Drums and sub via TAL Drum and TAL Sampler. Everything produced in Cubase in 2025.

There is a full length video to go with this track, on my YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/t79beQBVy48

Check out the channel for more videos and 21st century 90s jungle!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClmTnHdGYxiHG8wHMO8SPag




Journeys

It was an interview with the philosopher Karl Jung that kicked this one off really. He said something about the human psyche not being limited to space and time, which I thought was a pretty metaphysical thing to say. My own belief in a rational, tangible, three-dimensional universe ends where infinity begins. Ultimately, infinity simply cannot be explained or rationalized and never will be. In other words, all of creation is metaphysical.

Again I'm using TAL Drum and TAL Sampler as the driving forces in this track. I'm pretty sure the EP comes from the Wavestation. A few flute and odd samples in there as well. I use mainly vintage modelled VSTs as much as possible.

I am a big fan of triplets and polymeters, and this track contains both, sometimes both at the same time.

There is a full length video of this track on my YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/l2PqJfRd3o8

And more of my jungle tracks on the main channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClmTnHdGYxiHG8wHMO8SPag






Space And Time

OK I wanted to do something with much more of a break choppage feel to it. This one uses two breaks - Hot Pants and Amen. I've also added a yummy LFO wobble to the 808 which I like so much I might do it a lot now. It's an easy process to achieve in the TAL Sampler. Breaks were all chopped in TAL Drum and everything mashed up together in Cubase 12.

I love dissonant chords and off-kilter sounds, sort of toys in the attic stuff. Actually I might use that as a track title. Dissonant chords are surprisingly easy if you can't read music, as I have discovered.

There is a full-length video to go with this track, on my YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/jJrt4T3TFbE

And more jungle tracks on my main channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClmTnHdGYxiHG8wHMO8SPag

We The People

Bit of a strange one this. A solid two step drum and bass beat and an 808, but with odds and ends of jazzy guitar, dubby stabs and electric piano. I quite like the result though. Like nearly all of my tracks its at 165bpm. I found an old movie where an actress says she's hearing strange noises at night. That was enough to kick it off really. 

All produced in Cubase 12 in late 2024, with TAL Sampler and TAL Drum being my main weapons of choice. Keys and pads come from Kontakt, Wavestation, V Collection and various vintage modelled VSTs.

There is a very strange full-length video to go with this track on my YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/wh7TmTfutFM

And more tracks on my main YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClmTnHdGYxiHG8wHMO8SPag







Strange Noises

Atmospheric jungle vibe here with a break-based dnb tune referencing 1960s jazz... and all that jazz. I love the imagery of Los Angeles in the 1960s, and I also love the 60s US beat poets so it all came together in a bit of a jungle tune mashup. I've had the Simple And Good sample for years but never really worked out where to use it. It ended up here.

Jazzy pianos and guitars again, mashed up with a break (Hot Pants if I remember correctly) and an 808, or actually it may be a test tone sample from an Akai S950 sampler. Sounds about right. I produced the track in 2024 using Cubase 12, TAL Sampler, TAL Drum, Wavestation, Pigments, V Collection and sort of mixed it all up really.

There is a full length video to go with this track on my YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/fAJ0SBqLP40

And there are more tracks on my channel page:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClmTnHdGYxiHG8wHMO8SPag



Patterns

A 90s ambient jungle feel with this one. Got that intelligent drum and bass feel to it, lush pads, bits of electric piano and flute, with a spacey space sample, which led to the Apollo Nine name. This is a break choppage track, I suppose my tracks are 50/50 breaks and programmed. I use TAL Drum for both techniques and it really excels at slicing and chopping breaks. It sort of continues on where Amigo leaves off, although to be fair Amigo does have some superb features not seen on TAL Drum. 

I also use TAL Sampler (SOOOOO glad I ditched Kontakt for my day to day sampling) and a variety of vintage modelled VSTs like Blue Beast, Orbhits, V Collection, Wavestation and others.

There is a full length video to go with this track on my YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/zSbSthokNJc

And there are other tracks on my channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClmTnHdGYxiHG8wHMO8SPag





Apollo Nine

Noisia - Block Control [Moving Shadow]
Noisia - Concussion [Vision]
Calyx - Illusions [Moving Fusion]
Noisia & Mayhem - Lockjaw [Citrus]
Ed Rush & Optical - Bacteria (Pendulum Remix) [Virus]
Calyx - True Id [Metalheadz]
Drifter - She Gives Me Forever [Timewave]
Matrix & Fierce - Light Sleeper [C4C]
Noisia & Shanodin - Angel Eyes [Engine Music]
Noisia - Choke [Vision]
Noisia - The Tide [Vision]
Phace - Open Your Eyes [Subtitles]
Skynet - Carbon Shock (Noisia Remix) [Sudden Def]
Noisia & Mayhem - Moonway Renegade [RAM]
Black Sun Empire & Noisia - Hideous [Black Sun Empire]
Photek - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu (Teebee Remix) [Santuary]
Konflict - Messiah (Noisia Remix)[Renegade Hardware]
Noisia - Facade [RAM]
Noisia & Phace - Thrillseekers [Subtitles]

Remix: Noisia @ Renegade Hardware - 07/10/2005

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