Artist: Funktor
Title: Emitter EP
Track Title: Radiance
Label: Abstract Rhythm
Cat #: ABSTRCT RTM 002
Release date: 12.01.2024
Format: vinyl

@abstractrhythmrecords

We are glad to welcome talented producer Funktor with his debut EP "Emitter" for our 2nd release on Abstract Rhythm. His release contains 4 massive Electro tracks transforming electricity into machine funk heavy sound waves.

grab your 12"

Premiere | Funktor - Radiance (ABSTRCT RTM 002)

BANDCAMP: https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/valley-center-lp

Virginia’s Stimulator Jones channels all things jungle on ‘Valley Center’ for his debut album on Craigie Knowes. Sam Lunsford is multi-talented genre-spanning artist; from song writing to singing, programming drum machines to drumming, performing live to DJing. ‘Valley Center’ showcases Lunsford’s seamless genre-hopping skills with the outcome an LP packed with tracks that wouldn’t sound out of place on LTJ Bukem’s ‘Logical Progressions’ series or in the Metalheadz archives.

Releases June 24, 2024

Written & Produced by Samuel Lunsford Mastered & Cut by Marco @ Analogcut, Berlin Design by Cutwerk Distributed by One Eye Witness Released by Craigie Knowes, Perth (Scotland)

Support @ Bandcamp

CKNOWLP5 | Stimulator Jones - Valley Center LP

Taken from: Various Artists - Undercurrents Vol 1

We are proud to present ‘Undercurrents’, the third series of compilations featuring artists from the 3024 Mentoring Program.

Started in 2020, the Mentoring Program run by label owner Martyn has become a worldwide online and IRL community of artists sharing resources, ideas and inspiration. This compilation showcases the wide range of fresh and amazing music that is continuously surfacing from the program, unbound by strict genre definitions.

Besides a collection of new music, Undercurrents is also a consideration of what a record label can be in 2024. Whether it’s a platform for repurposing old material, providing daylight for new sounds, artists or even entire communities, or injecting new ideas about authenticity and sustainability into the current of the underground, rather than partaking in the unwinnable race over algorithm dominance. An understated approach for maximum impact.

“Undercurrents Vol 1” features the talents of Monibi, Ila Brugal, samwho, Tōph, Alberta Balsam, Kudeki, Annebel, Anna Bahow, Danny Goliger, Ross Lowder & 16 Faces.

Martyn & Jeroen Erosie @ 3024
releases September 27, 2024

Kudeki - Every Stitch (3024-MEN6)

d_roots returns to his Klakson homebase for part 3 of his project ‘shapes of the roots’! 5 beautiful grooving rhythm structures covered with deep, lush and melancholic pads. Essential dancefloor material for all lovers of the golden era of 90s intelligent techno, electro and IDM.

3 D_Roots - Zero Gravity

Wonky, bleepy and danceable electro is the flavour of the day on Adam Curtain’s debut EP for Alien Communications. All four tracks are bassline driven at heart, with many weird and intricate mechanical oddities scattered across them!

Slipped Disc

sampled from "this old tune -Hugo Kant". part. 2 of this session 

18 Aug 2025

code purple pt.2

The jungle was swamped with rogues and tyrants. Between the trees their warwhoops echoed, at least so his head indicated. Popping the pill he had entered a world of 2mg delirium, a chaotic blur of colours and mystical landscapes. What was real or make believe was now far beyond comprehension as his feet pedalled quickly beneath him. The forest floor was damp and moist beneath the pouring rain and his shoes squelched in the marshy ground. 

Reptant is set to release a new EP on Tomahawk Records in the form of "Night Time Creepin". Intelligent techno with a disorientated edge.

TMHK002 - Reptant - Night Time Creepin [Tomahawk]

PREMIERE: Reptant - 2mg Delirium [Tomahawk Records]

Prolific imprint Scuffed Recordings make their first foray into vinyl with a quartet of signature tracks from their back catalogue that have been already causing damage on the dancefloor. 
Detroit oddball Marshall Applewhite (@marshall-applewhite) opens proceedings with “Destroy The Silence”, a frenzied mass of stripped down electro-percussion that does exactly what its title says. Japanese producer Naco (@naco) counters this energy with his gritty slow building tech-house mutation, OIZB. On the flip, Glances’ (@glancesmusic) Bulwark combines ethereal vocals with glitchy, pulsating percussion and Chungo (@chungobristol) closes out the release with the tribal, UK techno channeling roller Shuka. 

Hand stamped 140g vinyl.

Bandcamp: https://scuffedrecs.bandcamp.com/album/scuffed-recordings-sampler-001
Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/marshall-applewhite-naco-scuffed-recordings-sampler-001/739845-01/
Redeye: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/112903-scuffwax001-marshall-applewhite-naco-glances-chungo-scuffed-recordings-sampler-001
Decks.de: https://www.decks.de/track/various_artists-scuffed_recordings_sampler_001/cf8-jg
Deejay.de: https://www.deejay.de/Marshall_Applewhite_Naco_Glances_Chungo_VA_-_Scuffed_Recordings_Sampler_001_SCUFFWAX001_Vinyl__936925
Phonica:
https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/marshall-applewhite-naco-glances-chu-scuffed-recordings-sampler-001-pre-order-scuffed-recordings/162783

VA - Scuffed Vinyl Sampler 001 (Previews) (Vinyl/Digi Out Now)

BANDCAMP - https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/darkroom

A1 - Kord
A2 - Gyorgy
B1 - Gritti
B2 - At The End Of The World

James Shinra's whirlwind year is rounded off with some final words via our wee label. The Darkroom EP features Shinra's signature style of Techno and Electro across 4 varied cuts. From Aphex-style chords to choppy breaks, emotion-filled rises to gritty kicks and acid. A final chapter of a busy year for both artist and label, with a fairly sinister, wintery, touch.

Deejay - http://tiny.cc/4dzigz
Juno - http://tiny.cc/pmzigz
Redeye - http://tiny.cc/afzigz
Decks - http://tiny.cc/gfzigz
Clone - http://tiny.cc/wfzigz
Rekkids - http://tiny.cc/ggzigz
Bleep - http://tiny.cc/xgzigz
Rush Hour - http://tiny.cc/7gzigz
Technique (Japan) - http://tiny.cc/1hzigz
Horizons - http://tiny.cc/gizigz
HHV - http://tiny.cc/4izigz

Buy @ Bandcamp

CKNOWEP22 | James Shinra - Darkroom EP

Exertion VA II reaches far and wide to compile the forward thinking sounds of 6 great producers.

Touching on the experimental but functional pocket of electro, bass and breaks LKR see's the Return of Fingers Of God and Hymns as well as label debuts from A-Sim, Sputnik One, ANSV and Percy Silicon.

Released 10.01.2020

PRE-ORDER:
Bandcamp: tinyurl.com/LKR008-BC
Clone: tinyurl.com/LKR008-Clone
Redeye: tinyurl.com/LKR008-Redeye
Juno: tinyurl.com/LKR008-Juno
Lobster: tinyurl.com/LKR008-Lobster
Deejay: tinyurl.com/LKR008-Deejay
Decks: tinyurl.com/LKR008-Decks
(More to come)

Follow the artist's:
@fingersofgod @hymnshymns @a-sim1988 @sputnik_one @ANSV @percysilicon

Bandcamp

Exertion VA II // 12" Previews // LKR008

"Word is spreading fast that the powerful and long-feared Agamid lizard known by many as Reptilius has been sighted building a dangerous army on the outskirts of Squamata - exhausting the forest's natural resources and leaving previously thriving, culturally significant and beautiful areas decrepit and lifeless in a greedy, capitalistic move to gain control."

Suspected leader of the Lizard Tech Militia Reptant - AKA Further Electronix and X-Kalay affiliate Lou Karsh - is hurtling back to planet Earth for his first LP, Return To Planet X’trapolis, on his own LKR Records. Marking his first release on the label under this moniker, following EPs for the likes of Craigie Knowes, Salt Mines, Kalahari Oyster Cult and Planet Euphorique, the 10 tracks journey through the deep and divergent chasms of electro, working through squelchy acid lines, crisp drum patterns and reflective synths.

Return To Planet X'trapolis

PREMIERE: Reptant - Temple Of Reptilius [LKR Records]

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