For the debut digital EP on Viscera Transmissions, Komodo spreads his wings and takes his signature low slung psychedelica to the stars, to reap destruction on extraterrestrial dancefloors across the cosmos.

Title track Mirror Claws begins an ember in the desert, slowly stoked by guitar chord stabs and eerie screeches towards a slow yet inevitable psychedelic inferno.

For Night Crawler, the guitar steps back into co-pilot role as the acid bass takes the saddle, spurring the squelch dragon off into the void with a crack of the 303 whip.

Next up is Vanquished Angst with a dubby desert rock workout. Blazing guitar solos tear across the sky like thunderbolts whilst the hypnotic bassline and guitar progression burn through the dunes.

On the flip, Jonny Rock re-dubs the dub with his Vanquished Angst Dragon Remix. No slightly questionable guitar metaphors here, instead, a mind melting whirlpool of spiraling percussion, vocal quips, bass throbs and pads form a completely bonkers but brilliant piece.

Last but certainly not least, Chez de Milo arms Night Crawler with some serious ordnance. After changing up the beat pattern with a breaksy kick, electro warheads are ago, clearing the way for the original 303 line to cruise through. Heavy!

Credits: Thanks to Komodo for the amazing music in support of our new label, Jonny Rock & Chez de Milo for the delicious remixes, James Savage for the incredible masters, Kirsty Carrington for the gorgeous illustration and to Jessica Lau for digital design.

@komodo-jkt

PREMIERE | Komodo - Vanquished Angst [Viscera Transmissions]

Exclusive Tape Hiss - Scirocco

Italian boutique label Alzaya kickstarts its year with five fresh new takes on the label's first various artist EP ever and seemingly the beginning of a new series on the label. Known for their carefully chosen artists and tracks, Alzaya continues to walk this path with the their Various Artists 001 delivering music in the label's signature style, meaning Disco-esque moments meet Deep House to kiss the floor awake. Brooklyn-based producer Aaron Seth Vaslow, better known under his Tape Hiss moniker, delivers a dreamy, almost Balearic House track that's bubbling over with emotions sweeping over the floor like the track's name Scirocco, which could be both: a reference to the car or the wind coming from the Sahara. Whatever, it may be, the feel-good vibes on Tape Hiss track are inevitable, catchy and foremost an allegory of harmony.

Alzaya's VA 001 will be released on July 1st, 2022.

Buy the EP: https://alzaya.bandcamp.com/album/alzva01 

Artist & label information
Tape Hiss: https://facebook.com/tapehisss // @tape_hisss // https://instagram.com/sentient_state
Alzaya: facebook.com/alzayamusica // @alzaya // https://instagram.com/alzaya_milano

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Various Artists 001

Scirocco

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EXCLUSIVE: Tape Hiss - Scirocco [Alzaya]

Tushen Raï & Pedro Bertho - Les Camarades (Jonny Rock Remix)

“Frenzied” means “wildly excited or uncontrolled”, and it is the name of Ludviq’s debut EP on the untamed Kyma Komplex, a thrilling five-track release featuring two wildly excited originals and three uncontrolled remixes made with love by She Teiks, Undefined Pattern (SXDNS197), and Veltrán, the label big honcho himself.

Ludviq, who is the owner of a respected imprint himself, Bonkers the name, needs no introduction amid the so-called Indie Dance scene. With solid appearances on Controlla, Veneno, NEIN, Belly Dance Services, Side Up Works, Altered Rhythm, Kyma itself, and of course, Bonkers, the Mexican-now-lost-in-Barcelona virtuoso is one of the most interesting names of the new Latino underground electronic music generation.

The title track, premiere here, lives up to its name and comes packed with a rich concoction of elements which showcases Lud’s high-level technique and ingenuity. The result is a hard-to-pigeonhole cut (is it Techno, Electro, or something else?) brimming with complex percussive layers and arpeggiated synth leads.

And by the way, it was a rhetorical question: It is definitely something else.

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://kymakomplex.bandcamp.com/

Follow @ludviqmsc and @kymakomplex, peeps!

PREMIERE574 // Ludviq - Frenzied

Deep-space, trancecentral chugger rework of V Vertigo by the most excellent Mr TC...

Full details: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-v-vertigo-baal-mr-tc-remix-playground-records/

@mrtcmusic @virtuousvertigo 
@playgroundrecords

PREMIERE: V Vertigo - Baal (MR TC Remix) [Playground Records]

Dam Vera - Timo

You don't have to cross the oceans, you don't have to climb all the mountains and ford all the rivers, find the last bridges and cross the distant plains to reach the horizon. You just have to uncover the mantle of what you've been told. What all the elites tried to tell you, what the fools despised, what the companies tried to sell you without you needing it. Away from selfishness and proving your own importance. "Assembly Plant For Human Priorities" is an eleven-part mystical essence synth mosaic of the integral parts of our lives that don't seem to concern us, but only until we start going to them with tears in our eyes to lay wreaths by cemetery candlelight.

As many eyes as you want to keep open, that's how many you can have. That's how much you can give away around you. "Assembly Plant For Human Priorities" is a question mark in a sentence where there is often a period. An exclamation point where many hear a question mark.

https://soundcloud.com/goodbyemirage

Assembly Plant For Human Priorities

Martin Kuška - Eyes Like A Decaying Gem

A rare celestial visitor from beyond the void 🪐

3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed. Discovered on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, it’s up to about 28 km wide, traveling fast and will pass just inside Mars’ orbit in late October 2025. Likely an active comet, it may form a glowing coma and tail as it nears the Sun. 

Though hidden behind the Sun at closest approach, it should reappear by December 2025. Interstellar visitors like 3I/ATLAS carry material from distant planetary systems, offering a rare glimpse into worlds beyond our own and bringing significant changes into the energy grid of our solar system.

Buy on Bandcamp: https://medi-zijn.bandcamp.com/track/three-eye-atlas-original-mix
Stream: https://ffm.to/zijn-three-eye-atlas
With 🧡 by @medi-zijn
Published by @wintuwa-records

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