The words 'No Entry' always seemed to have the adverse effect. For as long as they'd inhabited this space, those words had been emblazoned over the cellar. No one dared ask what lay beyond the padlocked door, though they'd come close on several occasions, but they couldn't quite get the words out. Some said they'd heard muffled screams coming from beneath the floorboards, others swore they'd seen people come and go in the dead of night, but these were all rumours... What really happened down in the basement nobody knew. 

Kahter returns to Basilica for his first solo release since contributing a track to the label's inaugural VA compilation a few years back. With EPs under his belt on Circular Jaw, Manuka and Swamp 81, Kahter now takes care of Basilica's fourth release, building on his exploration into heavy bass frequencies. Over the four tracks on Polaris, he shares the more hard-hitting side of his production, which also includes a collaboration with Infinite Machine producer Yilan that matches polyrhythmic drums with crisp percussion and driving subs.

PREMIERE: Kahter & Yilan - Rugs [Basilica]

releases April 29, 2022

Overkill and Tidemill produced and mixed by Small Car NRG
Overkill remixed by Stolen Velour
Artwork by www.missridd.biz
Mastered by Joker

Road Legal

Small Car NRG - Tidemill

This was not one thing or another. The machine was baffled and confused by its perfect array of imperfections which meant it could not be neatly packaged or placed within the categories by which it knew.

See, here was the thing, humans were always wonky. They could not be paired to the constraints of societal brackets, for then there would be little left in the realm of imagination or creative freedom. I was not we - it never had been.

Sparks began to fly as the construct of reality was shattered beneath the weight of its own clumsy foolishness. How had they ever imagined they might get away with it? For they themselves, were wonky after all.

E-Talking is a producer we've followed for years, both independently and as one half of Nummer - the hardware duo who have released music on the likes of Going Good.

E-Talking has appeared independently on the likes of Going Good and AD93 fka Whities. This next EP enters new territories, targeting the club directly with foreboding cuts of electronic music built for the dancefloor.

PREMIERE: E-Talking - Wonky I

Flex004

Puzlz

Naco - Puzlz

Cabasa - Bird Tool (inc. Ayesha Remix)
BUY LINK: https://controlfreakrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/bird-tool-inc-ayesha-remix
Label: Control Freak Recordings (https://soundcloud.com/controlfreakrecordings)
https://www.instagram.com/controlfreakrecordings/
> Cabasa (https://soundcloud.com/cab_asa)

Cabasa makes his debut on Control Freak with 4 tracks of stripped back, percussive dance music, plus a remix from NYC/Kindergarten’s Ayesha.

Belgian producer Cabasa has carved a distinctive niche in the fertile Brussels club scene with his sleek & minimalistic productions, which reimagine UK soundsystem culture through a fresh, contemporary lens.

'Bird Tool' traverses a range of genre and BPM ranges in typical CF fashion, from the 140-influenced stylings of ‘Volume 3’, to the mutant halftime rhythms of title track ‘Bird Tool’ and ‘End Credits’ - exploring a tempo range that’s become a popular fixture of UK club music in recent years. Rounding off the release, Ayesha delivers a slick ‘Drums You Can Touch’ dub of 'Bird Tool', fresh off the back of her critically acclaimed LP ‘Rhythm Is Memory’.

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Cabasa - Circles

Written and produced by: @elbartomusikau
Mastered by: Ribes Audio (@ribesmastering)
Artwork by: Martin Portilla (@decardonade)
℗ & ©: 2024 Noise Pollution Recordings

oddone

elbarto - nanana

New producer Shortage storms onto the scene with a weighty three track EP.

Two original tracks, with a remix from label founder Phasmid out on August 2nd.

Shortage -
https://soundcloud.com/bigshortage
https://www.instagram.com/bigshortage

TAIPAN TRAX -
https://soundcloud.com/taipantrax
https://taipantrax.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/taipantraxuk

Bandcamp

PREMIERE: Shortage - Shadowban [TAIPAN TRAX]

TRAKA (@traka-studio)
YUKU (@yukumusic)
BUY: https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/maktub

TRAKA - Ruaumoko (The Lazy Jesus YUKU Remix Challenge Entry)

The CRTTR-CLB series carries the vision of exploring different ways of challenging the notion of club music. For each release we want to bring together four artists who have somehow given us a glitchy feeling on the dancefloor, while digging or in any other listening situation. We’ll be releasing a new track every friday.

So go ahead and listen to the fifth batch of freshly made tunes from the following lovely artists <3<3<3

> Baby Curls <

> RTK <
soundcloud.com/rtkcrttr

> Rhodia <
https://soundcloud.com/rhodiabe
https://kosmoskollektiv.bandcamp.com/album/fading-memories-of-times-we-had-ep

> Spirit Vortex Club <
soundcloud.com/spiritvortexclub
unptitcaf.bandcamp.com/track/amphibyakusa

Artwork by Julia Häller
Mastering by Yves Spiri
Text by Candid Rütter

Spirit Vortex Club - Toroidal Path

Ｂａｄ Ｔｉｐｓ🔸https://linktr.ee/badtips
𝕽𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖘 👉🏾 badtipsaudio@gmail.com


⏬𝐁𝐔𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒 & 𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐒⏬



Various - [tact003] - ilinx play
tactual, 2025
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://tactualrec.bandcamp.com/album/ilinx-play

🔴 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥
https://www.instagram.com/dominowe77/

🔵 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕝
https://www.instagram.com/tactual.rec/

𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖊#320 📢 Dominowe - Crazy Animal [tactual]

128 BPM Deep Funky Breaks, "Sitar Funk" Available on Bandcamp @ https://undergrounddancemusic.bandcamp.com/album/sitar-funk

Sitar Funk

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