TBH’s HONEST SELECTS

Hailing from Tokyo, Prettybwoy stands as an emblematic figure within Japan’s burgeoning experimental bass music scene. Following the success of his 2021 album released on the esteemed Chinese label SVBKVLT, Prettybwoy makes a triumphant return to POLAAR with a fresh EP featuring two original tracks and a pair of electrifying remixes.

The EP commences with “Purify,” a track characterized by its striking contrasts. Seamlessly fusing raw, overdriven kicks and beat structures with delicate kalimbas, the piece is enveloped by an array of otherworldly robotic sounds and textures. As Nobuto, the artist behind Prettybwoy, explains, “I think that when we purify something, clean and dirt are melting in the same result.” The track skillfully builds tension, maintaining a radiant and luminous aura throughout.

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Purify

2 Third (feat Dites Safran)

Rizla Ops joins the NHS orbit with his debut EP release 'Aphid' - An offering of functional, mechanical crawlers that hit disparate BPMs and creep into the territories of many genres of club music that predominantly hail from the shores of the UK. The brief collection highlights a generous dose of maximalism and pairs this with a microcosm of jittering, insectoid syncopation.

Rizla Ops emphasises the magnification of the world that lives in between the cracks of our existence through this collection; he examines the harshness as an inevitable aspect of nature with an scathing and uncompromising lens. The steady march throughout is definite; pacey, systematic rhythms are the focal point of the cohesive selection of tracks that make up this impressive foray into the world of collectivized, paired dance tracks.

https://soundcloud.com/rizlaops
https://soundcloud.com/elpacuk
https://soundcloud.com/mafouu

Artwork by Antidote 3000
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Aphid - EP

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Rizla Ops - Aphid [NHS026]

2 mixes recorded by me & @madikoptah for her show BASSKET; aired on @radiokapital on 14th March /24 

1st hour -> madikoptah
2nd hour -> TBH

BASSKET NO. 15 W/ TBH, MADIKOPTAH

1,5hrs of cool stuff i found in may2024 + testing ground of my recent productions

tracklist:
LOKANE - ONISM
SOLOTAPE - JBEAT
TRISTAN ARP - PANSPECIES RIGHTS
LAENZ - LEOPARD GATE
THOMAS RIDLEY - BABANN
TX4 - 20 Q VERTICAL (A2ICE & BO3 REMIX)
TBH - CONS
TIBIA - INTERLOPER
MARTINI - EYES ON ME
SETA LOTO - PIVOTAL ESCAPE
TOUMBA - IR7EB
KLAHRK - INTERFERENCE
TOOTH RUST - HAND DOLL
FA:ACT - HORNETS ESCAPE
COCKTAIL PARTY EFFECT - TC377
TOUMBA - BOUQUET OF KICKS
IKAVA PII - GROUP CHATS WITH HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO BECOME COOPS
CARRIER - FATHOM
ULTRASCOPE - NAGAR
FARRON - DYNAMO REDO
TORU IKEMOTO - DONT PLAY 153
LAKKER - SURFACE DRUMMER
DJ FUCCI - TRIBU
PLESK PARALLEL - SPIT FOUNTAIN
ATOM TM - CANIDROME
TIBIA - SEEK
TBH - SZA~LI

SELECTS052024

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New one straight from Poznań, straight from 𝗧𝗕𝗛 ♡˙ᵕ˙♡

Producer, selector, and founder of the independent club initiative @slinaslinaslina, as well as co-founder of the K8 collective, whose broad activities share one common goal: introducing the local community to new and unexplored areas of electronic music. His primary musical inspiration comes from texture, often found in percussion-driven sounds. In his latest mix TBH freely showcases his recent obsessions, with the central theme being what he calls “an attempt to control chaos.” The recording is full of diverse textures, sonic surprises, abrupt shifts, and a wide range of moods and tempos. Expect to hear leftfield bass, polyrhythmic techno, UK dubstep, and sounds from the global south.

It's massive. @tbhtbhtbhtbh, thanks boss.
@tbhtbhtbhtbh
@tbhtbhtbhtbh

#34 APPOINTMENT W/ TBH

"determined.
clubfocused.

this is about strength,
stating value.

translating empowerment.

This is about sisterhood,
a call for union."
—Leese & Chewlie

We are standing for representation!
crédits
paru le 9 janvier 2025

Curated by Leese & Chewlie
Artwork by Julia Häller
Mastered by PRECISE
Set free into the wild by YUKU

02. Maude Vôs - Thermal EQuinox [YUKU]

Track by @alecpace from LLC07 - V/A - Vuota Beatitudine

Format: 12" vinyl/ Digital
Cat. No: LLC07
Release Date: February 10th 2025

Pre-order at lowlifecartel.bandcamp.com
or
World distribution: One Eye Witness
UK: Rubadub

A polymathic affair spanning the broadest musical bandwidth, French outlet Lowlife Cartel resurface with ‘Vuota Beatitudine’ - a fresh 8-track VA extrapolating their eclectic approach to contagious effect. 

Draped in surreally murky cover art courtesy of Paris-based artist Léa Bouton alias Absolemabsoluxe / graphic design by Metaphore Collectif affiliate Nicolas Guillerminet, this new release features contributors from distinct mental and geographical regions alike: French-American chopped-and-screwed shock outfit HERNVNDEZ ft. MXSTVH, a hi-tech DnB / raging electro crossover from Mexican producer Jegsaha, BFDM & Tresor alum Jean Redondo on duty, junglistic jazz stunts by Chicago’s KSETDEX, German ambient voodooist Lorica, spectral post-indus from PRESENTE, Italian vibist Alec Pace up with a ragga-informed vengeance and Memphis-via-Mexico style slowed-’n-throwed madness from MVRKMVCHINX. 

Lovers of Southern lo-fi rap narratives will find in both HERNVNDEZ ft. MXSTVH 'Artes Oscuras' and MVRKMVCHINX ‘Shutter' the kind of lo-slung gangsta heat to wake up both grillz-teethed zombies and have these gold-felloed Cadillacs’ afterburners flaring. Hailing from the Mexican capital city, Jegsaha fires off a barrage of breaks-laden fire, processed vox menace and frantic bass onslaughts that go straight for the jugular. Fragmenting the groove down to molecular abstraction, Redondo treats us to a mischievous hybrid of ghetto-tech’y jack and discombobulated post-pop experiment with ‘You!’, whereas US producer KSETDEX welds a smokey jazz piano onto a muscular UK bass chassis on the addictive ‘Gemini’. 

Flip it over and there’s Frankfurt-based producer Lorica dishing out a hypnotic slice of atmospheric electronics, both immersively brooding and unimpeachably uplifting in equal measure. ‘Vuota Beatitudine’, the track that gives its title to the EP, works a distinctively paradoxical strain of rattling floor rhythms and zero-G escapology, in limbo betwixt heaven and hell. Conjuring up an infectious palette of ragga-infused maneuvers and packing massive bass and snare-heavy punch, Alec Pace’s fiery ‘Mantra Separation’ is prototypical dancehall arson rolled into a steely techno membrane. A wide-ranging display of explosively diverse, satisfyingly weird sounds to keep minds and bodies on the edge.

Artwork by Léa Bouton
Graphic design by Nicolas Guillerminet
Mastering by Luis Calderon

Buy 12"

Alec Pace - Mantra Separation

Galtier enters for his fifth instalment on his own label with ‘Opaque Envelopes’; an exploration of frequency and tilted sound processing across four slick, mid-tempo creations. Having leant heavily into hardware-focused productions, Galtier has refined his use of raw, one-take recordings and hand-crafted audio inflections, carving out a space dripping with feedback channels, aggressive modulation and dense, weighty sub bass, the collection makes for a set of highly functional, warehouse-ready rollers.

The EP carries itself along a subtle, evolutionary line, where Galtier hones in on transient, shifting soundscapes of rich, searing synthetics, all glued together with tight, syncopated rhythms that channel dubstep and electro. The intention is for each piece to sound alive; teeming with a life of its own, full of personality and vitality that breathes throughout. A significantly mature body of work that encapsulates the decade and a half journey into sound that he has embarked on.

@galtier

Artwork by Jiah Wells
Mastering by iFL3 Studios

Opaque Envelopes - EP

Opaque Envelopes

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Galtier - Augment Thud [NHS032]

recorded at FUZZ 07/03/2025
no traklist

mainly stuff that recently inspired my to get out of my leftfield bubble, onehundred-twenty-something

spring time digs, aka soundcloud forces me to use max 100 characters in the title

@count2count

MR006 crashes in straight from Brno, carving out a sonic current mirroring the ever-mutating scene. COUNT’s latest EP, a playful yet razor-sharp exploration of sound, provides a pack of oddly satisfying rollers. Spanning a spectrum of 140+, this four-track offering blends three originals with a remix from HEDO HYDR8 

THIRD TAKE starts off with CONVULSE, a pacey breakbeat track created to shake the early (and quicker) hours of the morning. The project then takes a more introspective approach as FIREWALL BLOCK rolls into the #2 stop. With a similarly quick BPM register, FIREWALL BLOCK employs traces of dub and jungle along its varied storyboard. Coming up next is BLACKTAIL, a headbanger turned electro track suitable for a variety of people, places, and things. Bring up the caboose* is a remix from HEDO HYDR8. This time it's a fully pumped up techno remix of the aforementioned track.

*a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train (for our European listeners)  

www.instagram.com/markhamroadrec/

THIRD TAKE

THIRD TAKE [MR006]

BANDCAMP

COUNT - BLACKTAIL

Following the launch of the Eyes series, Early Reflex welcomes back Ikävä Pii for “Eyes II”, the second entry in this exploratory two-tracker format. 

Possibly the darkest tracks Ikävä Pii has produced to date, ‘False Binaries Fight for Primacy’ and ‘Permaweird’ are two detailed and twisted club tunes, encapsulating the perennial state of frustrated urgency of our times. 
Uneasy feelings are conveyed in both tracks, and refracted through the artist’s signature playful approach.
False Binaries Fight for Primacy is driven by the eerie ambiguity of its major/minor harmony, and a relentless rhythmic section that nods to post-punk as much as the track’s distorted, shouty vocals. The unsettling main theme of Permaweird is hinged on an alteration of the Locrian mode (often deemed the “weirdest” mode), and its timbre, albeit recalling familiar patches from the Process Fatigue era, here paints a much darker picture. 
Topical and heartfelt, these tracks update Ikävä Pii’s sound with an uncanny mutation, material for a standout moment in a club set. Already secret weapons in Ikävä Pii’s live show for nearly a year, they’ve left heads spinning on dancefloors in UK, Europe and beyond, and now find their proper home on Early Reflex.

Ikävä Pii said:
“What’s the purpose of club music in a climate where alienation is the norm and outdated narratives are collapsing?
We live in the permaweird: reality gets increasingly absurd, and yet we adapt to it every day.
Nothing to fight for: digital vs physical, liberal left vs authoritarian right, old vs young - just false binaries. There must be another way. 
In the meantime, activate punk mode, shout in the mic, use stranger scales. 
The only real binary is rich vs non-rich (and that’s what clubs should be about).
Thanks Venkatesh Rao and David Rudnick for the inspiration.”

‘Eyes II’ is available on all platforms starting from Friday 2nd May 2025.

© & ℗ 2025 Early Reflex. All rights reserved.

All tracks produced and mixed by Ikävä Pii at Niche Studio, London § Mastering at CB5 Studios § Artwork by Alessandro Scanu.

Eyes II

Permaweird

OUT NOW

Ikävä Pii - Permaweird

⇛ SWINE PREMIERE ⇚ We present the new track "Reese Otto (@dnza Remix)" by a Mexico City-based artist @rodmanmx via @clustertraxx label

✚ After contributing to some of Cluster Traxx compilations, RodMan (Rodrigo Gutiérrez) is back with a special release called "Birds of Paradise", an EP that marks his return to the label. This new work features three original tracks, crafted especially for the club with RodMan's signature energetic and immersive imaginative sound.

Check out our interview here ➜ https://swinedaily.com/swine-premiere-rodman/

✚ Filled with unusual bird sounds, organic textures and natural soundscapes that intertwine seamlessly with hand-played percussion, overdriven synthesizers, and deep, resonant basslines. The three original tracks set the stage for an electrifying atmosphere, while reinterpretations by Mambo Kahn, 26 Degrees, and fellow compatriot DNZA inject new dimensions and fresh perspectives into the sonic narrative.

Birds of Paradise

[Swine Premiere] RodMan - Reese Otto (DNZA Remix) (Cluster Traxx)

Giggles freestyle edit

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