https://echocentricrecords.bandcamp.com/album/accelerator-ep

ECR009

Glycol (ECR009)

The alarm rang with an intense scrutiny. It was urgent and rampant – echoing down the halls and piercing the eardrums. They filed out of each room, one by one, following the procedure.

Outside was dark, it was in the middle of the night, the noise had woken them from their sleep.

In the distance was a faint smell of smoke. He masked his face and looked around for the panic button. The switch which might save them all. In an emergency like this there was only one thing to be done.

Breaks…

Escape Artist is set to release a powerhouse of an EP on Craigie Knowes, think Shed meets hardgroove meets breaks and you’d be on the right lines. Euphoric and energetic for dark rooms and flashing lights.

Far Away Places

PREMIERE: Escape Artist - Breaks In Case Of Emergency [Craigie Knowes]

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* Listen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/sY-el8IoCvo
* Pre-order: https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/terra-incognita

What lies on the terrain for which no map exists? Tifra has volunteered to take the plunge and find out. For the 28th record on Haŵs, the Dutch DJ/producer steps up to the frontline with ‘Terra Incognita’ – a primitive force to be reckoned with that reveres the hypnotising, ominous unknown. Four investigational tracks unify the checkpoints, wandering through themes of 00s/90s leftfield house, prog, and continuous, undulating grooves. The EP sets sail with ‘Invoke Hysteria’, scavenging through malevolent, hostile waters and a caution of pad synths, drums and agitated melodies.

Relenting onwards, ‘Serpent’ slinks into a mellow respite, moving slowly and deliberately like a snake in the moonless dark. Deep, resonant synths coil around the percussive heartbeat of the track, weaving together velvet layers of bass, wind instruments and steady, surrendering exhalations of breath.

The titular ‘Terra Incognita’ hoists up the anchor and yields to the trance of the summoning liquid night. Repetitive melodies form the contours of its shifting course, moulding a ritualistic rhythm under the dissolving face of the sky. 

Admo steps up to the wheel for the remix, smoking out the initial perfume of the atmospherics into a new, tough brutality. Hauling the track out of its initial spacey orbit, he re-embellishes it with dour synths, drums and a primal, subterranean growl.

Some say that there is no worse poverty than that of connection, so why not be the first to take the risk, break the divide and find out what lies beyond the veil? Otherwise, make your own guesses, and then let them guess who you are.

PREMIERE: Tifra - Serpent

MAGIC022 - DJ Jacuzziy (@s-o-n-s) "Ghost Coral" EP in stores 07/02/2025

Our pause here, between one ocean and the next, may be only a moment in the history of the Universe.

A. Music Is....    
B1. Ghost Coral
B2. Underwater Journey

MAGIC022 - DJ Jacuzziy "Ghost Coral"

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* Pre-order: https://x-kalay.bandcamp.com/album/bring-the-beat-back

Keeping it widescreen throughout and the percussion pulls focus. At times slick and sultry, at others more ominous and ill-tempered, we’re dishing out high-velocity dynamics across four distinct trax. Constantly nudging towards the peak-time, but with plenty of breathy sensuality and dappled melody as he flexes a detailed, sound-sensitive approach.

Drums, drums and more drums. You know the deal by now: direct torque in full effect as we traverse the rugged, funked-out and percussive. Plenty of trippy flourish for good measure too, from humid fusions of rainforest FX and hallucinatory detail to light trail synths punching through inky abyss.

It all recalls Terry Francis and his Housey Doingz project at the peak of their powers - big stabs, big forward momentum. Think the golden era of their Wiggle parties circa 1999.

PREMIERE: DJ Life - To be Defined

BANDCAMP: https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/the-core

Olsvangèr joins Craigie Knowes for ‘The Core’ EP. 4 sophisticated club tracks spanning the spectrum of the Olsvangèr sound. From bumping house on the title track ‘The Core’ to darker club atmospherics on ‘Goldman’s Propeller’ and outright techno bounce on ‘Lunar Kiss Baby Whale’. The record is rounded out with the blissed-out breaks of ‘Lava Luva’. A truly spectacular and versatile record to cover all points in the night, get some! Released onday 19th May, 2025.

A1 - The Core
A2 - Goldman's Propeller
B1 - Luna Kiss Baby Whale
B2 - Lava Luva

Mastered and cut by Marco @ Analogcut, Berlin
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Design by Guillaume de Ubéda
Released by Craigie Knowes, Scotland
10 Years of Craigie Knowes: 2015-2025

Buy @ Bandcamp

CKNOWEP66 | Olsvangèr - The Core (EP)

Buckle up tight for a kayo showdown as @jaygadian, @maikeemusic, @datitalyy and @baumb unleash four clubby slabs of acid-bleep and garage-tech on the final Terrazzo instalment.

Buy: bit.ly/3XZpDFa

Various - Giddyup Buttercup (TERRAZZOO6)

https://spunoff.bandcamp.com/album/el-ritmo-del-alba-splove006

@bliss_inc
@spunoff

Premiere : SpunOff - N.O.C.H.E (Bliss Inc. Remix) (SPLOVE006)

Feel It Now is the second track from Spectral Shift.

Available on all streaming platforms October 10th, 2025 🎧

Spectral Shift

Feel It Now

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