For their first release of 2025, Phase Group return to where they started with new music by label founders MR TC and Lo Kindre, under the moniker of TC LK. Their self-titled debut album marks the first collaborative recordings by the pair to see daylight since the release of the PHASE001 EP in 2019.

Their new album sees the pair reaching for darker and heavier territory, where modulation and delay enact mind-bending effect on warped bass lines, dubbed out breaks and mangled samples.

Album opener ‘Godmanchester’ ominously sets the tone with a distorted acid line floating over stuttering ambient pads as a drum machine struggles to find its way through a gnarled signal chain; the album’s centrepiece comes in the form of a nine-minute-plus epic, ‘TLPTK’, in which a stark dancehall rhythm is paired with a modulating bass drone and otherworldly oscillating arps, while tracks like ‘Aro’ and ‘Bouncy’ present the most club-engaged moments of the record; the former in the form of a glacial electro rhythm, subtly locking into a groove, and the latter through throbbing bass and echoed breakbeats shimmering over spectral drones.

With this new album TC LK offer up a deft manifesto for futuristic, hypnotic sound design that sits somewhere between the club, the afters and somewhere else completely.

TC LK is released in the form of a digital album alongside a very limited amount of 10” dubplates featuring ‘TLPTK’, ‘Aro’ and ‘Bouncy’, hand-cut by Henninspace at Copyshop Studio in Dresden, available exclusively via Bandcamp.

Phase Group will celebrate the release of PHASE008 with a TC LK live show alongside DJ peanut and Rick Shiver at Spanners in London on the 28th of March.

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https://soundcloud.com/lokindre
https://soundcloud.com/phasegroup

PREMIERE⚡️TC LK - Bouncy [Phase Group]

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Italian duo Future Island presents their first ‘Reflexionism’ EP, a 6-track gathering of ambient, downtempo, dub and psychedelic Fourth World music. Just like a vintage scientific audio report, which rusty tapes would have been submerged for too long in an hallucinogenic pond.

Out in cassette and digital on march 26 via brittany-based Estuary Tapes:
https://estuarytapes.bandcamp.com/album/reflexionism

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℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Future Island - Enza Owens [Estuary Tapes]

German electronic music producer Daniel Herrmann, better known as Flug 8, announces his fourth album on Ransom Note Records with new single, Biotech - a minimalist electronic meditation on societal contradictions created during the pandemic era.

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PREMIERE: Flug 8 - Biotech (Radio Edit] [Ransom Note Records]

The skies began to open up once more as the darkness began to shrink and fade away. It left behind a clear day, one in which they could gaze out upon the landscape which had been concealed and hidden beneath fog and despair for far too long.

The meadows were green once more, the radiance of the sunlight illuminating their emerald glaze with vigour and elegance.

There was something restorative about it all – as if some sort of strange magic had been cast to herald in the dawn of a new day in all its grace and might.

Wandering through the tall reeds, she watched as she took in a world which had been barren for far too long.

Mysterious duo Advent Children are remixed by another as Salamanda reimagine the sound of ‘Restoration Meadows’ creating an ethereal dreamy soundscape which offers promise for the birth of a new enlightened world.

PREMIERE: Advent Children - Restoration Meadows (Salamanda Remix) [Goddezz]

There was change in the air, some sort of strange shift.

The tone of the evening had become ominous and menacing as the lights flickered and flashed beneath the bridge. Cars went past oblivious to the crowd who had gathered upon the bridge to watch the race unfold. In the distance the sound of engines could be heard from up on the hillside.

Plastic egos were aplenty, fragile yet furious in equal measure.

Soon everything would be dark but for the headlights careering through the darkness. They'd watch from overhead as they drove strikingly beneath - onwards and into the black.

Trip The Light originated in Manchester but is now based in Berlin, the collective, come partym come label have been at the forefront of a new wave of bass music which challenges the preconceptions of the genre and this new release from one of their residents Akïi cements that.

PREMIERE: Akïi - shift [Trip the Light]

Pre-order: https://overthinkermob.bandcamp.com/album/the-dance-of-all-creation

Berlin-based label @overthinkermob (formerly Overthinker Mob) is rebooting with 'The Dance of All Creation', a compilation of neo-Afrofuturist music, visuals, and haptics.

Swiss-Congolese artist @mirco-mukuna infuses his contribution to the record, 'Nguya', with the pulse of his early percussion training and love for music exploration.

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Premiere: Mukuna 'Nguya'

Feloneezy slinks into the Appendix.files fold with Unlimited Peace—a glistening 5-track transmission, out June 4th.

Pre-order: https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-18-unlimited-peace
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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@felonyflats

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Copenhagen-based The Big Oil Recording Company prepare to unveil the first full length album from label founder Sebastian Zieler, better known as SATNAV...The standout self-titled track commands attention from the first kick-drum resonating like a lost signal in a submerged room. A relentless pulse of processed percussions crash through a thick layer of distorted signals, conjuring the feeling of diving into an infinite phantasmagoria. As the track builds, it morphs into a haunted soundtrack filled with tension-heavy synthesizers and deep-rooted basslines evoking a UFO transmission etched in after-hour surrealism.

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@thebigoilrecordingcompany

SATNAV - every•thing•a•part [The Big Oil Recording Company]

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