Grecco Romank and producer Body Beat Ritual unveil their collaborative EP Bootlicker, a visceral reimagining of Grecco Romank’s scathing critique of power structures into a clubland juggernaut (a clubber-naught if you will). The release merges Grecco’s “brutalist sewer pop” with Body Beat Ritual’s stripped-back EBM, delivering a track equally suited for warehouse raves and nihilistic catharsis.

Bootlicker describes the world through Grecco eyes: an infinite recursion of sycophantic masochistic impulses that keeps the ruling class’s boot firmly on the planet’s neck. Bootlicker asks ‘What mysterious appeal does the boot hold?’ Perhaps its particularly leathery taste fulfills a humiliation kink of the self-loathing middle class who see themselves as ‘temporarily embarrassed millionaires’.

The track’s lyrics — “Bootlicker / Lick the dust” — dissect authoritarian absurdity with the band’s signature dark humor, while distorted Eurodance hooks collide with sewer-pop grotesquery. A contemptuous anthem for Auckland’s underground, where decayed opulence meets bogan-techno rebellion. A brutalist fusion of EBM rigidity and darkwave melodrama, Bootlicker traps Fee and Sperring’s serrated snarls in a maze of corroded synths and jackhammer rhythms. The chorus — “This room has no room” — metastasizes into a claustrophobic mantra, its industrial beats mirroring the dehumanising grind of systemic control. Grecco Romank’s “sewer pop” ethos has never felt more urgent, or more venomous.


The Bootlicker EP features Grecco Romank’s titular track and a radio edit remix of by Body Beat Ritual.

Body Beat Ritual — whose work has garnered support from DVS1, VTSS, and Ancient Methods — dissected Grecco Romank’s original vocal takes to craft what he calls “a DJ’s tool for total dancefloor control.” He goes on to say:

The vocal demanded authority. I built the track around that tension between submission and rebellion — the kind you feel in a room where the DJ holds the crowd like a puppeteer.

A misanthropical slab of darkwave-infused EBM, Bootlicker traps Grecco Romank’s dueling vocals in Body Beat Ritual’s labyrinth of crisp synths and militaristic 909 percussion. The track unfolds like a seance in a black-market nightclub, its hypnotic repetitions (“This room has no room”) echoing the futility of dissent. Every ricocheting snare and warped bassline conjures the S&M tension between DJ and dancer, authority and bootlicker. Industrial music for a world rotting at the seams.

“The original version of Bootlicker was perfect so I focused on the vocal and built a track from scratch around what I thought a club audience would want to feel when they heard those words coming out of the sound system. There’s a lot of S&M influence in the dark corners of clubland. In some ways dancers come to the club to submit. “ 
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Grecco Romank - Bootlicker (Body Beat Ritual Radio Edit)

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 - II

Genre: Electronic 

Release Date: 03.06.2025 

Format: Digital

Mastering: @__nuwanda 

Artwork: @irwinlouis

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PREMIERE CDL || Harlem Electronics - Versausage |KRI| 2025

Artist » Harlem Electronics - https://soundcloud.com/harlemelectronics

Ep Name »  No Hope, No Fear EP  

Label » KRI Records - https://soundcloud.com/kri-records

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Format: Vinyl and Digital

Release date: June 18, 2025 

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No Hope, No Fear is a new vinyl series in our catalogue combining 4 artists and a nod to the legendary Slovenian band Borghesia and our apocalyptic times.

Swedish duo Harlem Electronics is responsible for the meaty opening track Versausage, where minimal wave meets industrial funk. Fear side is rounded by American Kri family member Ole Mic Odd, returning with his signature haunting electro gloom.

Hope side doesn't necessarily offer hope but sure does help with escapism. Slovenian partner in crime 198319831983 gives an apt comment while twisting electro and EBM on Trustno1. The record finishes on a "high" note with the legendary Cute Heels ft. Duke MC Herton for peak-time club decadence. No Hope, No Fear!

Published by KRI
Ljubljana, 2025
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Photo: @najlepsemestonasvetu
Mastering: @Zarkoff
A&R: @malalavka & @Schrauff

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Rotterdam-based record label Feed The Void line up 'Space Transmissions', the latest transmission from label founder and producer Birds...Our pick 'Wicked Games', opens like a scrambled transmission from deep space oscillating between slow motion dubstep and hypnotic percussion loops. Greasy acid lines snake their way through thick clouds of vaporous drone. Birds’ voice hovers like a ghost in the signal, suspended in the collapse of human civilisation.

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Birds - Wicked Games [Feed The Void]

Spring/2025 (Ryan James Ford Tbilisi Sunrise Remix)

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Marscapone, forthcoming on French label Meteors. Trigger is a 3-track digital EP where the artist blends raw electro, EBM energy, and more introspective moments. From high-tension club cuts to deeper, textured explorations, each track reveals a different side of a bold and uncompromising sound. Today we premiere the title track Trigger. 

Out July 11th. Get it at: https://meteors-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/trigger

PREMIERE: Marscapone - Trigger [METEORS}

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track from Italo Brutalo. "Memory Sync (Defex Remix)" is a fresh take on the original single out on Bungalo Disco. Transforming the track into an electrifying indie dance bomb, Defex infuses pulsating bass lines, harsh percussions and emotional synthesizer swells with dark elegance on the dance floor. This remix maintains the retro-futuristic DNA of the original while giving it a sharper edge, perfect for peak times and neon-lit nights. Defex brings his signature energy and precision, taking Memory Sync into bold new territory.

Memory Sync is out July 18th. Pick it up at: https://italobrutalo.bandcamp.com/album/memory-sync

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PREMIERE: Italo Brutalo - Memory Sync (Defex Remix)[BD019]

Some times you just don`t want to go in school...

Vishuddha

Tongues of Concrete is a cinematic industrial techno journey through rusted ruins, decaying systems, and mechanical sorrow. Each track pulses like a broken signal from a forgotten future, echoing with melodic tension and haunting beauty.

Blending raw industrial textures, deep rhythmic drive, and epic ambient atmospheres, this EP tells the story of a post-human world where machines remember more than we’d dare.

For lovers of dystopian soundscapes, cold emotions, and techno that breathes like iron lungs.

All tracks written in rust.



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