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TITLE:
• The Lightest Dark •
FORMAT: MP3/WAV
LABEL: KOSA RECORDS
CAT. No: KOSA184
RELEASE DATE: 01.08.2025
GENRE: Spiritual Deeptech/Downtempo/Organic/Acid
COVER DESIGN: Kosa.designs
BEATPORT : https://www.beatport.com/release/the-lightest-dark/5196576
BANDCAMP : kosamusica.bandcamp.com/album/the-lightest-dark

ABOUT EP : 
"The Lightest Dark" is a journey through contrast — a soft descent into shadow where even the heaviest moods carry grace.
Each track is a brushstroke on the grey canvas between dusk and dawn, where darkness doesn't suffocate, but teaches stillness.

Released under Kośa, this EP doesn’t chase light — it lets it flicker gently through the cracks.
A reminder that in silence, in tension, in night — something sacred listens back.

Get it!

BURCH KID • The Lightest Dark • AmuAmu Remix • kośa

Rhythmics

On ACEN010 Sydney based producer Hence Therefore steps out from releasing on his own 3BS imprint to deliver a two track single on All Centre.

A side ‘Waste Frontier’ utilises elastic percussion and torn samples drenched in his signature atmospheric reverbs as it Gradually building from a handful of carefully placed elements into a spacious dance floor excursion. The body of the track melodies and kick drum patterns against each other eventually giving way to an emotive lead melody supported by driving drums.

B side ‘Census Map Museum’ axis's around a chromatic melody which bobs around the stereo field as the frenetic percussion builds around it. As the track presses on supporting melodies grow from the main motif creating a web ear worms that carefully jostle amongst one another.

Waste Frontier is available across all platforms from the 18th of October.

Waste Frontier

Hence Therefore - Waste Frontier

Available now:
https://twinsystem.bandcamp.com/releases

"Twin System present “Victim Of The System”, a 28-track compilation with all profits donated to Brixton Soup Kitchen. Functional heaters alongside malfunctioning oddities for a good cause.

Brixton Soup Kitchen offers support to the homeless and in need, and relies heavily on donations to sustain their work. They provide invaluable relief to a community hugely impacted by the virus, as well as a homeless population forced back onto the streets since the temporary housing provided came to an end. As normality resumes, the chance of another wave of cases and another inadequate response from our government grows. This along with the huge number of people already suffering from the economic impact of the virus means organisations like B.S.K. are now more important than ever. "

L.U.R.P

Needs kicks off 2020 keeping our focus firmly locked on the environment. This time we are joined on our quest by Telephones, Ciel, Al Wootton and Eliphino.

In aid of climate change and deforestation. All profits donated to Cool Earth UK.

Pre-order/Buy:
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/telephones-ciel-al-needs-007-pulse-mix/756780-01/

EVERYBODY HAS NEEDS x

B1 Al Wootton - Raphael (Needs 007)

Introducing the Insert label. The first signing, a sequence of four precisely-calibrated works from one of Brussel’s most critical new producers, Hypna (pronounced ‘hip-nah’). Each sonic offering within the ‘Data Recovery’ EP is reserved for a particular time and space inside the club.

https://ins-rt.net/label/hypna-data-recovery-insert/

@weareinsert
@hypna_52

More exclusive music

Premiere: Hypna 'Motion Sensor'

There was a rumble beneath the city streets as the subway raced from station to station underground. Down in the tunnels below there was a whole other world, hidden out of sight from the glitz and glamour of the skyscrapers and towerblocks. People lived rough, danced rough and gathered together as a dusty cult with mythical ideologies and unusual identities. They were wild and free, not rule bound in the same way as those were by the daylight. They lived amidst a twisted kingdom of darkness and thick air but they were sure as hell better than what was up top. 

Blâme is set to release a new EP on [re]sources - a heady EP with elements of dancehall, dub, idm, breakbeat and beyond. It's rounded off by a wicked collection of remixes featuring contributions from Mr Mitch, Piezo and more.

Bells EP

PREMIERE: Blâme - Berçeuse [[re]sources]

BRUK is a new platform for fresh variations on the soundsystem ethic, in particular where high-end sound design intersects with formidable bassweight. It’s an artist-focused endeavour geared towards producers with range, depth and ingenuity in their sound.
 
The first transmission comes from FFT, the latest alias from accomplished producer Josh Thompson. Thompson established the Super Hexagon label with long time friends J. Wiltshire and Arthur Scott-Geddes and he’s also released on heritage label R&S (as Alma Construct) and the excellent offbeat techno upstarts Power Vacuum, and more recently developed the FFT moniker via essential drops on The Trilogy Tapes as well as Super Hexagon. Thompson helps launch BRUK with a two-pronged attack  that shows off the breadth of his artistic scope. The lead 12” is a dynamic club release that pivots between razor-sharp drum programming, hyphy synth acrobatics, breakbeat science and dub-loaded atmospheres. If there’s one constant that runs through all Thompson’s work, it’s a resounding confidence with melody, and that comes through even in the rowdy chops of “Month” – a track that exudes hope even in its gnarliest bars. From the dreadweight minimalism of “Fask” to the expansive electronica shock out of “Sacrifice (The Truth Mix)”, this is a head-twisting release that feeds into the vital new energy reverberating around the 150+ axis.
 
Accompanying that 12” is a cassette album which provides that polar opposite side to FFT – a collection of compelling beatless ruminations under the banner of Total Self-Fulfilment. Gliding from low frequency industrial textures to expressive synth modulation, this is far from static music, even as it moves without the aid of a traditional rhythm section.
 
It’s a strong first chapter for BRUK, with future releases lined up from artists similarly poking at the fabric of contemporary club music to find their own unique spaces for expression.

FFT — BRUK1.1 (Snippets)

Heritage - Cheat Code

"Is it linear, meaning it moves in only one direction, or is it cyclical, evolving around repeated cycles, such as seasons? "

Porter Brook steps up with a hard hitting uk techno, bass & jungle infused EP, remixed by Paradoxe Club's very own De Grandi.


EM002 - Porter Brook - Linear Entry to Cyclical Thought (+ De Grandi Remix)
Release Date - 02.04.20
Buy - electromngr.bandcamp.com/


01. Present Tense
02. Linear Entry to Cyclical Thought
03. Fwd
04. To Remain Undivided
05. Present Tense (De Grandi Remix)


@porterbrook
@de_grandi

Out Now - Buy

EM002 — "Linear Entry to Cyclical Thought" by Porter Brook

Vinyl & Digi out March 27th:
https://scuffedrecs.bandcamp.com/album/pineapple-ep

@chungo_uk returns to Scuffed Recordings for his second release on the label, showcasing his signature broken techno sound on the Pineapple EP.

On the A-side we open with the title track - as anthemic and melodic of a UK techno track as you’re likely to hear - followed by percussive bop Differ.  

On the flip we have subtle roller Don’t Bother, and closing out proceedings is one of the UK’s most exciting upcoming talents Breaka, who infuses Pineapple with jazzy chords and 808s.

Pineapple EP

Chungo - Pineapple

unperson - Caught In The Coils

From the EP 'Natural Phenomena'
Release date: November 06

Artist : @aye5ha
https://www.instagram.com/ayescold/
https://www.facebook.com/ayesha.chugh.3

Label: @kindergartenrecords
https://www.instagram.com/kindergarten_ny/
https://www.facebook.com/kindergartenny

Natural Phenomena

Premiere : Ayesha - Infinite Space [Kindergarten Records]

Equal parts cerebral and disorientating, ELLLL remixes Erosion Flow into some bass-heavy club.

'Affinity' is out December 11th on Caress.

Get it here: bit.ly/3qvAQeh

@ellll
@erosion-flow
@caressstudios

Premiere: Erosion Flow - Enhance (ELLLL Remix) [Caress]

Xmas is approaching so we decided to offer this special 120BPM VIP edit of Blâme's Bells track, released earlier this year. This is [re]sources Dubz004. Enjoy and happy Christmas!

Bandcamp

BLÂME - Bells VIP [Free DL]

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With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

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PREMIERE: Blâme - Berçeuse [[re]sources]

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