Record label and collective femme culture return after a year off the grid with a new look and a fresh new compilation in aid of U.N. Women’s Safe Spaces Now. HeForShe x femme culture Vol. 4 brings the label’s charity series into its fifth year and enlists a who’s who of
rising stars across the electronic spectrum.

Featuring artists from three continents and with sonics spanning across UK bass, euphoric vocal-driven banger and leftfield techno, HeForShe x femme culture Vol. 4 demonstrates the breadth of the London label’s uncompromising style.

Funds raised by HeForShe Vol. 4 will be donated to UN Women and will be split equally between their Safe Spaces Now programme (which looks to create safe public spaces for all women and girls) and their Ukrainian relief efforts - delivering on the ground for women and those at risk.

“'G Star RAWR' is the story of Hot Roy Summer™️
I’m feeling inspired by the sun and by feeling warm. Being close to people is the ultimate sense of warmth. Pick up those new jeans and treat y'self. Be kind to you & be kind to others :)” -Roy Mills

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@femmeculture

Buy:
https://femmeculture.bandcamp.com/album/heforshe-x-femme-culture-vol-4

HeForShe x femme culture Vol. 4 

PREMIERE: Roy Mills - G-Star RAWR [Femme Culture]

Sputnik One - Supa Natural (w/EMBY) / Grafters  [N-Face 001]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-awo-ojiji-glyph/

@Awo_Ojiji underground export from the @Disko404 crew in the Austrian city Graz, has been a quiet favourite since catching an emergent release early on in Ronan's Eternal Ocean label. A scattering of releases hence lead to his 'Solidify' white label for London's @ControlFreakRecordings.

Solidify EP

Awo Ojiji - Glyph [Control Freak Recordings]

Jossy Mitsu - Diatoms (Transaquæ) Nehza Records

Polyvers

@phillyholmes breakbeat, bass, ballroom and techno across five vibrant dancefloor slammers

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-sweet-philly-echo-location

Premiere: sweet philly ‘Echo Location’

There was a voice inside his head which he couldn’t help but try to let go. It continued to tease and tickle his sensibilities. If only he were able to just wake up and end the dream.

The sun was shining outside as he gazed longingly from the window, he watched as the airplanes passed by overhead. Where they were headed nobody knew but he did wish that he too could fly.

The ceiling fan echoed overhead, distilling some sort of fake, fantastic plastic air which was barely swallowable. Perhaps everything outside was just a mirage, maybe this was still the dream.

Wake up…

Derek V Bulcke is set to release a new record via La Bonne Musique, a collection of fast paced, highly energetic cuts which will work wonders on the dancefloor in high pressure moments. The sort of hypnotic heat we have become accustomed to as the world spins ever more quickly.

PREMIERE: Derek V Bulcke - WAKE UP [La Bonne Musique]

The clouds floated softly on by. It were as if the storm which had come before had simply never happened but for the chaos and wreckage which it had left in its wake.

It's funny how transient nature could be. One minute something was here, present and destructive. The next it was very much not, very much away.

The skies would be brighter soon, the rebuild down beneath would commence and everything would return to as it was. All that was left now of that night were the memories, for they too could not float and disappear like clouds.

Mattias De Craene is set to release an album comprised of tape loops, grainy textures and mesmerizing saxophone. It's deeply pensive, thoughtful and dramatic. Layers upon layers of textures and sound infusions create new landscapes which are reminiscent of places not yet visited.

The release is forthcoming on VIERNULVIER Records.

PREMIERE: Mattias De Craene - Away [VIERNULVIER Records]

Fiyahman - Gangster

No Signal lands like a deliberate blackout in the system — that split-second when all interference disappears and only raw impact remains. Driverufo makes his DNBB debut with the boldness of someone crossing into unknown territory armed with razor-sharp basslines and synthesizers that slice through the atmosphere like beams of concentrated light.

The title track, No Signal, brings a cosmic collision between Driverufo and Kvostax — a collaboration that feels like two satellites crashing in the void and generating a new orbit of sound. It’s tense, luminous, and charged with an explosive dancefloor energy, blending futuristic harmonies with a pulse that refuses to let go. Their chemistry is instant, becoming the gravitational center of the EP.

The three solo tracks that complete the release reveal Driverufo’s full power. Each one is a different portal, yet all carry the same signature: weight, precision engineering, shimmering atmospheres, and that touch of organized chaos only producers who think beyond the frequency spectrum can deliver. He builds and bends textures like an architect of alternate sonic worlds, shaping harmony inside the storm.

This debut doesn’t ask for permission — it arrives, takes form, and leaves a mark. No Signal is the kind of first release that not only introduces a new name to DNBB, but also presents a creative mind that’s finally broadcasting on the right channel.

If this is the “lost signal,” may more connection failures come. Driverufo turns every glitch into something that hits like a meteor streaking across the night.

Support them: https://bfan.link/driverufo-no-signal

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Driverufo - Drift Within

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