Perpetual Now

At the Crest

Salt Mines welcomes newcomer @zaraolsen to the family with an EP inspired by the sounds, colours and textures of festivals in the Australian bush. With this record Zara debuts a musical style that is defined in its identity yet defies categorisation. Backed up with a stellar trance remix from rising Canadian star @maara.

Digital: https://bit.ly/3Q7NlZb
InchByInch: https://bit.ly/3Sfzt0S
Deejay: https://bit.ly/3Q0gLbQ
Juno: https://bit.ly/3zIMoRP
HHV: https://bit.ly/3cKObwE
Decks: https://bit.ly/3oHVecg

Mastered by Brendan Zacharias at Cirrus Audio

SALT019 Zara - Di Plastica EP

After another long hiatus, BEAM is excited to present the vinyl debut from rising star and nebulous neurocranker, al dente. Over 4 tracks, ‘Running and Falling Over’ captures the stylistic fluidity we have come to know and love from Naarm/Melbourne. Ever present traces of Dozzy refract through millennium-bug tech-house, summoning atmospheres of deep yet ever playful psychedelia. Opening the A-side on ‘Ripple Effect’, pulsating drones and echoes of organic percussion slither through the undergrowth. ‘Soft Steps’ explores fractal resonance amid expansive, evolving textures. Flipping to the B-side, ‘Unfold’ melds paranoiac psy with a wiggly tek swagger. Slow-burner ‘Blue Trial’ closes out the EP – a proggy roller for worshippers of the eternal sunrise. 

A1. Ripple Effect
A2. Soft Steps
B1. Unfold
B2. Blue Trial
Subductress (digi bonus)

Mixed by Declan Vadasz
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino @ AnalogCut
Artwork by Rudi Schmidt
Type by Studio Joel

al dente – Running and Falling Over (BEAM-06)

The machines had been turned off. It had been many years since anyone had ventured into the old warehouse, there was only some slim hope that it might still even work. Once upon a time this place had been a paradise, a kingdom and a place in which revellers came to let loose and be free.

This was back in the old days, back when the dance was all innocent and little did we know about what might lurk around the corner. The bans, the trouble, the crime, the chaos.

Yet after all this time, the machinery was still here. The speakers, the towers, the noise. He wondered for a moment, dreamt even, whether they might still have the unction to function.

DJ ojo is back with another release, following on from the well received outing on Blank Mind, things get deep and introspective on a new EP which features odd electronics and dusty, moody sounds.

oneirec001

PREMIERE: DJ ojo - Unction To Function [oneirec]

mixed by Dirk Leyers

Moisk – Tetris Life 12''
Cat.-Nr. TERRAM009
Mastering by MaSpaventi Studio
Artwork by Al White
Distribution by Bordello A Parigi
Press by Record Industry

Tetris Life

Moisk – Tetris Life (Listensport x Tom Sprenger Remix)

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* Pre-order: https://birdsnake.bandcamp.com/album/birdsnake-begins-remixed

Melbourne synth-groove act, Birdsnake are back with a colourful and eclectic album of reimagined tracks from their debut EP release earlier this year.

The album features a handful of international producers as well as a glut of local artists from Naarms electronic scene. The release offers a varied scope of styles that breathe new life into Birdsnake's hypnotic soundscapes

Through meticulous mastering and a marriage of digital and organic elements, "Birdsnake Begins Remixed" promises to captivate both seasoned listeners and newcomers alike.

This bouncy and hypnotic body of work is a digital extension of cosmic-groove exploration within the Bathtub Music universe.

PREMIERE: Birdsnake - The Redeemer (Jon Jones In Space Version)

Align Align by Jamida is the first version of HARMONY-X, a new emerging EP series by Harmony, dedicated to limitless musical exploration, out March 7th.

Pre-order: https://harmonyrec.bandcamp.com/album/align-align
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@harmony-rec
@ja-mida

Align Align

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Premiere: Jamida - Align Align

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.

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

PREMIERE⚡️TC LK - Bouncy [Phase Group]

This but More

Thick Air (Loidis Reconfiguration)

@denial-d2e
@d2e_world

https://denial-d2e.bandcamp.com/album/low-orbit-experimentation

pi premiere: denial - spiral anomaly [down2earth]

"Reptant returns to X'trapolis unaware of the danger manifesting on the outskirts of Squamata. With the Lizard Tech Militia stranded on Earth - all remaining hope lies with the primordial Gecko Force.

Will Reptant and The Gecko Force's extensive knowledge of X'trapolis be enough to save the delicate and precious lifeforms that call this planet in turmoil their home?"

@reptant_the_lizard
Mastered by Alden Tyrell (@aldentyrell)
Cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut. (@marco-pellegrino)
Pressed at Record Industry.
Distributed by One Eye Witness.

LKR Records, 2020, Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.

“Dedicated to all the Lacertilia in the galaxy, May your forests remain untouched and liberated”

Vinyl Out Now!
Bandcamp: tinyurl.com/LKR010-PreOrder
One Eye Witness (Distributor): tinyurl.com/LKR010-OneEyeWitness

Return To Planet X'trapolis

D2 // Reptant 'Gecko Force' [LKR010]

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