[Weekly Mix] 2022.04 (3)

Mastered by Rashad Becker. Vinyl due in 2022

Relics

Jungle X

Christos Chondropoulos - Jungle X [RAVE036]

Marcy, Pts. 1 & 2

Never Enuff

Matchstick

Lyra Valenza - Soft Shells

First single from the upcoming live album 'LIVE! LIVE! LIVE' (JSSR-008).
Cassette via Just Step Sideways Records, out 28th April 2022

Written, performed by Beige Banquet:

Tom Brierley
Joe Munsey
Danny Gillies
Blake Carlson-Joshua
Ian Crafter

Recorded live at Act Cool Records in January 2022
Engineered by Lollo Veronese
Mixed by Tom Brierley
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Joe Munsey
Photography by Bella Keery

Press Enquiries: juststepsidewaysrecords@gmail.com
Bookings: beigebanquetband@gmail.com

Export / Additive

Darkness Finds Home With U (GhostPhone008)

Digit0nica & Tufi - Nox-flamma [OMB0011]

Digitonica and Tufi embarked on a collaborative journey a year ago, exchanging sounds throughout the web. Their partnership resulted in a mesmerizing EP, weaving threads of connection through the storm. This vibrant collaboration traverses unseen dimensions, defying classification.

DIGITONICA - audiovisual artist, sound designer, singer, and electronic composer, based somewhere on the internet. Having worked in the past with a variety of genres, at the moment is engaged in post-electronics, post-internet, post-club, meta-punk, deconstructed music with an interweaving of academic and pop tradition and a lot of voice manipulation like alien processing. The music has a psychedelic and surrealistic tone, like a living voice coming from the digital environment. Hosts her own show "Lunar Prism '' on Ola radio. Published on such labels as Postworld, Hyperboloid, Mutants1000000, Internetghetto, Infinito Audio, Hyperlink, Exiles and more.

Argentinian DJ/producer and sound engineer based in Berlin.
His artistic output acknowledges the diversity of different musical genres and converges them through wild and experimental productions and DJ sets. While exploring the eclectic, deviant and niche subgenres of electronic music, Tufi likes to relentlessly hop between styles to enchant listeners with hard-hitting breakbeats on one hand and blissful sonic sensations on the other.

release date: July 19, 2024
All tracks produced by Digitonic & Tufi
Mixing & Mastering by Digitonic & Tufi
Cover artwork: Digitonica & Asdrúbal Gómez

NÜ PREMIERE : Digit0nica & Tufi - Swarm (OVER MY BODY)

www.instagram.com/cortical_fm ( @cortical_fm )
www.instagram.com/plasma__sources/

Plasma Sources marks its 5th release with Cortical’s debut EP, ‘Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes’. Pulling from both the extreme fringes of experimental music and the minimalistic tendencies of the UK bass continuum, the duo’s much-awaited first release acts as the locus point between dance floor sensibility and sonic exploration in its most immersive, visceral sense.

Cortical are world builders first and foremost. With backgrounds rooted as much in the visual arts as audio, the duo’s live AV show has already garnered critical acclaim after standout performances at Sónar and Lunchmeat. Coupling this with their list of past collaborators - which includes the likes of Holly Herndon, Arca and Skrillex - and it becomes easy to see why there’s so much hype around Cortical right now. Indeed, this EP is the culmination of months of building excitement amongst those in the know, as fragments of raw footage captured from Cortical’s shows begin to amass on social media.

‘Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes’ itself feels like the auditory equivalent of a fragmentary existence forming, fragmenting and reforming again. Noise and distortion act as integral threads throughout the EP, but on the first track, ‘Telúrica’, they take centre stage. Brittle percussive calls give way to a thick wall of bass-laden, cinematic viscerality which hits the listener almost as hard as the ensuing rhythmic carnage which erupts halfway through.

Mortar, immediately fires away into more rhythmic madness, as elements of dubstep, metal and grime coalesce into blasted kick patterns which sound like the contractions of an eldritch machine’s digestive tract. Noise-tainted bass tones kick in, tearing in and out of reality and slowly 
dominating the environment as Mortar progresses into deeper territory.

Up next, Shiny Surgery provides a respite, with electro-tinged drippings of lasers and wet gloops lifting the listener into a more sanitised and lighter space than its predecessors. Cortical’s extreme musical influences are still at play here with their signature eroded bass weight and splintered percussion on display, but in a more restrained sense. As the halfway point comes in, so too does the most introspective section of Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes, as cinematic floating pads de-sterilise the space.

Finishing things up is the namesake of the EP and arguably the most anthemic listen of the release. On Wretched Patterns And Terrible Mistakes, demented vocal chants call out across a disintegrating claustrophobic space, before grime kicks and fragmented breakbeat loops explode into existence, demanding full dance floor attention. This is pure-peak time energy, although still entirely in line with Cortical’s immersive approach to world-building and sonic exploration.

Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes operates equally as an enclosed, hermetic exploration of Cortical’s fragmented, low-end focused sonic landscapes and equally as an assortment of dangerously effective club tracks guaranteed to turn heads.

Written and Produced by Sevi Iko Dømochevsky & Daniel Benza 
Mixed by James Ginzburg 
Mastered by HYPNA 
Artwork designed by Cortical

© 2024 Plasma Sources.

Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes

Telúrica

Cortical - Telúrica

I forgot to upload these to soundcloud last year

artwork by cormac mcgoldrick (@nerv.mcg)

Grindhouse

7 Ram Navami Vibe

Nuclear Dookie

Made in Berlin with love by Heiko Trenkle ₍^. .^₎⟆

The Way (Tariq Edit)

Bougainville

Bougainville - Green Mamba (BLADEBLANC Remix)

Pre-order: https://petrola80.bandcamp.com/album/nightshade-edition

Taken from PET-008: Lyra Valenza - "Nightshade Edition"
Out June 19th on Petrola 80
@lyravalenza
@petrola-80

Danish duo @lyravalenza (aka Hjalte and Jens Konrad) operates on the outskirts of contemporary electronic dance music. Armed with a playful approach and a patchwork of digital and analogue equipment, Lyra Valenza carved their own space in the Copenhagen scene by genre-blending Jungle, UK Garage, and Footwork into a mix of forward-facing and euphoric dance music for 2020 and beyond. A testament to the duo's unique approach to sound design, they were selected for this year's SHAPE - a platform for innovative music and audiovisual art from Europe.

Lyra Valenza's latest EP, Nightshade Edition, is a package of sweet and dangerous cuts to the taste of dystopian romance. The prime dance floor material hits with metallic percussion and bursts of fluttering synths tuned with just the right amount of trance. From stepping UKG, to lush digital soundscapes, the four breaks heavy tracks are hyper-modern sonic experiments processed through a retrospective haze.

The Nightshade Edition EP is released on Lyra Valenza's own @petrola-80 label. It follows their 2018 debut EP "Scan Deliver" on UK imprint Opal Tapes and comes as a welcome return from the energetic producers.

Artist: Lyra Valenza
Title: ‘Nightshade Edition’
Label: Petrola 80
Catalogue no.: PET-008

Artwork: Laurits Hanak
Mastering: Joel Krozer (Sixbitdeep Studios)
Mix: Frederik Møller
Format: 12" vinyl, digital, longsleeve T-shirt
Release date: June 19th 2020

Blind Spot Monitor [Petrola 80]

BC : https://terra86.bandcamp.com/
IG : https://www.instagram.com/terra86music/
contact : terra86music@gmail.com

Lyra Valenza - Soft Shells

Terra 86

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