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On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

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Black Sites - BOXX

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from A-Tweed. "Out Of Gamut (Do It Wrong)" comes off the new LP, Spring Music, forthcoming on Valencia's Abstrakce. After several killer EPs and tracks on labels such as Tresor, Multi Culti, Hard Fist, or Playground Records, Antonio De Oto aka A-Tweed finally delivers "Spring Music" his first solo LP via Abstrakce Records, changing perspective on his music and way of producing.

A minimal approach, where echoes and reverbs become some of the main characters of the full journey, mixing up weird acid, experimental downbeat, electro, dub, and tribal vibes across a wide range of tempos.

Slow-motion beats pulse beneath swirling acid lines, while dubby echoes and reverberations sculpt a landscape that is both immersive and mysterious. A-Tweed’s meticulous production draws from the label’s tradition of organic textures and ambient vibes, yet carves a distinct path balancing deep bass, shimmering synths, and a subtle sense of psychedelia that lingers long after the needle lifts.

A cohesive journey, crafted for those who seek introspective voyages without giving up new forms of dancefloor communion. A manifesto about the power of slow rhythms, dub sensibilities, and acid-tinged experimentation, out of any hype and trend, aiming for a distinctive sound. An essential addition to the ever-evolving Abstrakce catalogue. The spring has just arrived.

Out June 13th on vinyl + digital. Pick it up at: https://abstrakce.bandcamp.com/album/spring-music-2

https://soundcloud.com/antakaatweed
https://a-tweed.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/atweed_
https://www.facebook.com/antakaatweed
https://ra.co/dj/a-tweed

PREMIERE: A-Tweed - Out Of Gamut (Do It Wrong) [ABST 042]

Today on Meta Moto Podcast, we welcome Tylusis Pankas – a Lithuanian DJ and visual artist based in Glasgow, and co-founder of the genre-fluid mix series SHöK. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, Tylusis brings a design-driven sensibility to his sonic work, weaving together diverse styles with precision and atmosphere.

His sets move freely across the electronic spectrum from electro and EBM to New Beat and beyond building emotional momentum through shifting moods, tempos, and textures. Whether in clubs, on local internet radio, or deep in rave territory, his selections are immersive, unexpected, and highly intentional.

This mix, recorded for Radio Vilnius and aired on June 9th, 2025, captures his signature sound: fluid, fearless, and rooted in the underground.

Follow him:
SC: https://soundcloud.com/tylusis
IG: https://www.instagram.com/marius.draws

SHöK: 
SC: https://soundcloud.com/shok_gla
IG: https://www.instagram.com/shok.gla

MMP140 - Tylusis Pankas - META MOTO PODCAST

premiere of "Entangled" by Carl Finlow 
taken from the EP "Entangled", released on Serenity In Keos

EP Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2025/06/10/carl-finlow-entangled-serenity-in-keos/ 

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Carl Finlow - Entangled [SKO003 | Premiere]

If there’s anyone who’s closer than anybody out of this world — it’s Jokios Kultūros. He’s not just a part of Electric Shapes — he is part of its DNA. From the very beginning, he’s been shaping the label visually and conceptually. That iconic flash logo? His creation. The idea to transform our podcast series into a full-fledged label? Also his.

Jokios Kultūros was the very first to release music with us. Since then, he’s been ever-present — constantly supporting, advising, and pushing boundaries with his unique perspective. He’s the kind of artist who isn’t afraid to break the rules. To bring in something new, unexpected, and sometimes downright strange. But of course he is — just look at the name. Jokios Kultūros means NO CULTURE in Lithuanian. And that’s the essence of it all. It’s a rebellion. A refusal to follow the norm. A space where weirdness is not just welcomed — it’s celebrated.

He didn’t just release music — he helped build the whole idea of Unreleased Territory, creating the concept and artwork for the very first edition. His name appears on a long list of EPs and a debut album on Electric Shapes. He’s taken part in nearly every step of the journey. And under the alias Tribalistic Junkies of Universe, he also released a separate EP that carved out its own raw, untamed space in the label’s catalog.

This isn’t just collaboration. It’s family.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/jokioskulturos_official

UT6⚡️Jokios Kultūros - Breax4break [Electric Shapes]

Release date: September 22, 2025
As usual, this is a limited 12" release, so pre-orders recommended.

Will be available via the following shops (more to come):

Clone: https://clone.nl/item80135.html
Juno Records: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/gauss-latent-space-ep-vinyl/1098290-01/
Deejay.de: https://www.deejay.de/Gauss_Latent_Space_EP_GAUSS06_Vinyl__1165036
Redeye: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/184771-gauss06-gauss-latent-space-ep
Wordandsound: https://wordandsound.net/release/161840-GAUSS06-Gauss-Latent-Space-EP

Distributed by Clone.

[GAUSS06] Latent Space EP (Out Soon!)

Recording of my set at Loone in Berlin.

Tracklist
01. Minimum syndicat - signal from vertrum-4
02. Jauzus the shining - Philanthrope [Bunker Records]
03. Boris Divider - genoma (recloned) [drive.com]
04. BFX - Alone (Exzakt rmx) 
05. Alex Norinh - rein of control [Bunker Records]
06. Infinite Machine - cenotaph corner
07. Univac - Tangra [moustache Records]
08. ELEKTROTECHNIK - A-B [CHP Recordings]
09. Code rising - 10 x Robot 
10. Client 03 - decommission me ( x Shinra)
11. Mero - processing 
12. Cyborg rhetoric - Saav
13. R21 - OPERATOR
14. Alex Gordiy - no future 
15. Merceas - Secuencias que vivimos en la calle
16. Synthetix - technological nightmare 
17. Industrial bass machine - more control 
18. Umwelt - parc expo hall 2
19. minimum syndicat - infrared poetry

Link to watch stream is on my page.

Loone Berlin LIVE W/ EKATA [03.07.25]

Leave The Spaceship

Nae:Tek, Moodeep - Destination Unknown [Superordinate Dub Waves]

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PREMIERE: A-Tweed - Out Of Gamut (Do It Wrong) [ABST 042]

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