Bokeh 2021

NOOD5 features contributions from six friends of the Noods family, consisting of Berlin based techno iconoclast Ossia, shadowy Bristol producer fresh from a highly acclaimed EP on Berceuse Heroique, Pessimist, Timedance affiliate Cleyra, Milanese sound experimentalist Katatonic Silentio, Rio underground lynchpin and RBMA graduate Valesuchi and a collaboration from Dekmantel’s Epsilove and the elusive Ployer Fower.

The record is a confident assertion of the station’s sonic ethos; filled with tense, dread-laden soundscapes that foreground the percussion and sub bass. Reverbs and delays are utilised in the true dub tradition, wringing out unconventional grooves from the negative space between the drums: it’s music for the head and the body.

Originally intended to be released on our fifth birthday hence the name, fuck it — the pandemic slowed much down so have it on our sixth birthday instead. 

Pre-order on the buy link above to be released in full 15th October.

NOOD5

NCM003: V/A - NOOD5 (Clips)

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-ikava-pii-the-end-of-the-end-of-history/

London-based musician @ikavapii is up next on @EarlyReflex with 'EPOS Digitale', a three-track EP that builds on the sonic concepts introduced to us throughout 2020's two-part album 'Post Capitalist Hyperwars', released through Pii's co-founded label Too Much Information.

EPOS Digital

Ikävä Pii - the end of the end of History [Early Reflex]

AM: Let’s start with your album! Had such a whirl listening to it, how long was it in the making? What was the the concept behind it & what does your set up look like?

G: Thank you for the kind words! The album was around a 2-year project in total from the inception of the concept to finally being put through production ready for release. The concept originated from the beginnings of a personal spiritual journey that started 2 years prior to when I first started writing it, where I began to delve into philosophy from various periods of time, mostly being the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Buddhism and 1920’s Existential Philosophy to name the most predominant things I explored, along with the incredible world of psychology. Through making attempts to understand myself I began to make a connection with something greater than me – a kind of unifying bond that brings all of us and everything together as one, which the album title ‘Pulchra Es Elementis’ alludes to, translating roughly to ‘Elements Are Beautiful’ in Latin, where the elements are essentially what makes us who we are and everything else around us. The general mood of the album is quite uplifting, almost melancholic, which I think reflects the way life is most of the time; an underlying pessimistic, realistic perspective that I have learnt has allowed me to truly understand how beautiful the world can really be. We all experience some form of suffering, and I think that this is an important thing to consider about the human race; we are all bound together by this fact I think, and in a way I feel a powerful beauty around this idea that enriches my experience with the world. The setup during the production of the album was incredibly simple – an Akai MIDI Keyboard, monitors, and interface, my ancient Macbook Pro and Ableton Live 9. A lot of the production techniques I used on the album were sample-heavy, but I did use a specific set of VSTs, including Massive and Zebralette.

AM: Tell us a little about the mix, how and where did you record it? Did ya enjoy it? 

I recorded the mix at home in my studio (my bedroom) using a MIDI Mixer given to me by some friends (Thanks Neil and Jodie!) using Traktor on a sunny afternoon. I absolutely love recording mixes and taking the listener on a journey so the experience was great! When I record mixes I try to make each one different to the last, and this mix was centred around the more slower tracks on the LP, which are all featured throughout. I am a huge fan of slower tempos between 90 and 120 BPM for their more hypnotic, flowing nature and so I drew for a selection of tracks that followed suit with this energy, as the tracks off the album are made to capture this same force. There are a mix of older and newer tracks inside and it is cool to hear how different periods of music history from the last 10 years meld together so brilliantly! It is chuggy, meditative, warped and full of dense low end.


AM: We’re big fans of your label NHS too, it’s quite varied and all the releases are great. Was there a specific idea with it to start with?

Thank you! I had initially wanted to start a label when I still lived in Australia and cycled through a range of idea that didn’t stick. Nostro Hood System finally came to be when I considered my long-term love for Science Fiction and Fantasy. I imagined what it would be like to receive an audio artefact from an alternate galaxy; what would that music sound like? By this time I was deeply interested in the left-field realm of electronic music and it seemed fitting to take NHS down the thematic route. So Nostro Hood System is essentially the name of the alternate system much like our Solar System that occupies the universe and the records are the sounds that come from it. The team that interprets the sound files are Xenologists on earth who receive and transmit the audio into comprehensible sounds that our ears can comprehend.

AM Podcast #50 - Galtier

From RDL Shellah's debut Showcase EP, prod by @seekersinternational

https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/showcase-ep

RDL Shellah (the artist formerly known as RDL) follows up the long sold out pop-grade 2021 Streets 7” produced by Mexico’s riddim queen Smurphy with a full Showcase EP featuring Canadian collective Seekersinternational (SKRS) on the buttons once again.

Lead single ‘Bad Wine’ is pure silky-tongued summer heater with a dusty boom-bap soul like a Jamaican take on Anderson Paak and Knxwledge; while the video tells a classic ‘where is my boyfriend’ story that’s as old as time. RDL Shellah has been part of I Jahbar’s Roolingz Musik collective, recording under the name Providence and guesting on tracks like ‘Rock the Party’ before joining him in Duppy Gun operations. The Showcase EP marks his first big artistic statement as a solo vocalist before he embarks on another collaborative EP in 2022 with I Jahbar sharing vocal duties (also produced by Seekersinternational).

Hear More / Buy Now

RDL Shellah - Touch Road

Kush Arora recontextualises Robin Sukhadia's insistent tabla into an insistent, overdriven kuduro mutation.

'Only Now Presents: Indian Unclassical Volume 1' is out October 25th on Bokeh Versions.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2Z4ZpFw

@kusharora
@bokeh-versions

Only Now Presents: Indian Unclassical Vol. 1

Premiere: Only Now - Cavern Trance (feat. Robin Sukhadia) [Bokeh Versions]

Taken from "Entity Attachment"

https://bkvcadavre.bandcamp.com/album/vom-entity-attachment

Cos goth is just dub for people without enough vitamin D…..

The first release on Bokeh’s goth/industrio-horror sister label BKV Cadavre rises from cvlt Glasgow band VOM. Before now, they were already the best and most original zero-nostalgia goth band in Scotland since Twisted Nerve - as heard on 2013’s perfect Altered States LP.

But anyone lucky enough to witness their live workouts or the few tracks on At War With False Noise’s 2020 comp Votive Offerings know there’s a different trio lurking. Entity Attachment is the first album in this long evolution: 6 tracks of macabre steppas and dread-drenched drum tracks for paranoid late night DMT trippers and folk-horror-scifi soundtracks. Spaces between drum machine hits fill with billowing noise, vocals are now stripped back to distant yelps bouncing off stone walls, bass brought to the fore in dub-grade workouts.

To understand what’s aligning here: there’s snatches of vampiric Bauhaus dubpunk buried between touches of industrial darkwave acts like Black Funeral, Murderous Vision and Controlled Bleeding surgically grafted onto the new breed of dread n bass like our pal Ossia (check the closer Goetic Ritual for most proof).

Buy Now / Hear More

VOM - The Zone

SHE Spells Doom up next for the pod! 
They've served up an hour of rhythmic and warped club bits, a real power hour this one. Tis a groover n will make ya yearn for the club. 
Big honour to welcome SSD to the pod, we're big fans :) 
We also caught up with him for a lil chat, read below >

AM: Heyo! What have you been up to recently? 

Hey! Mostly been working on music, recording mixes and spending time with family.

AM: We loved your EP for All Centre this year so much! Could you tell us a bit about the inspiration for it and the set up for it? 

Thank you - Super kind of you! For the EP, I didn’t really set out with a particular thing in mind. I guess late nights watching movies is the common thread - Rudnick was inspired by and named after a villain from the movie, Heavy Metal (1981) and Earthly Pleasures was inspired by the movie, Hellraiser (1987). Jet Black was me trying to make a song that sounded like falling into void and enjoying every minute of it. LOL. Setup wise, Love to All Centre who reached out to me and asked if I’d be down to do an EP for the label after featuring on their 2nd Anniversary compilation. Enjoyed working with them the first time so it made sense to do it again.


AM: The mix is wicked! Where and how did you record the mix & was there an idea or theme behind it?

Thanks and I’m glad you like it. The mix was recorded in my apartment in Lusaka (the capital city of Zambia). I recorded the mix using my old Numark controller and Serato. The idea behind it was to still do something focused on rhythm and the club but a warped/broken version of that.


AM: What have ay been listening to & digging recently?

Strict Face - Pulsers (EP), Money Lang - Trevino Mare Mixtape, Míchell Cuartas - Delicate & Strong (EP), the recent Don Toliver album and lots of The Time (I’m a huge fan of the Minneapolis Sound).


AM: Whats next for ya?

Got more mixes coming and I’m currently working on demos for a couple of labels so hopefully you’ll be hearing from me a bit from me in the New Year. Keeping my fingers crossed for a couple of shows as well.

AM Podcast #56 - SHE Spells Doom

Sensuous, apocalyptic and forward-facing, experimental vocalist Grove refracts Jamaican and Bristolian traditions through a queer lens.

'SPICE' is out now on Bokeh Versions/Spinny Nights.

Buy: bit.ly/3D7a94q

@theyisgrove
@bokeh-versions
@spinnynights

SPICE

Premiere: Grove - Soft Cheeks [Bokeh Versions/Spinny Nights]

The earliest known recordings of thee great lost cosmic squatters / dub punks: Reducer.

reducer.bandcamp.com/album/nada-nuevo

"This cassette is a re release of a 2 track cassette Reducer gave away to the 1st 23 punters through the door at our 2nd gig in 1985. We have added 2 other tracks from the same recording session because we are lovely people who wish to share enlightenment"

Reducer - Force Of The Source [1985]

Dubby and hypnotic, @soreabuk puts rhythm-driven inclinations on a forward tilt for @a_m_radio.

'Perspectives' is out February 25th on Accidental Meetings.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3uIxTLC

Premiere: Soreab - Maranza Percussion Ensemble [Accidental Meetings]

1h30 of drums explorations, dancehall, dubbed tracks, uk funky & more / 90 to 140 bpm

Tracklist here : www.instagram.com/remikaval

Lost Drums Show - Kaval (Avril 2022)

The Slug Farm's 4th outing on Noods saw another 2 hour special with 2 special guests on the show :O 

Was gassed to have a super hot guest mix from Barca's @eyra-dj air in the 2nd hour of the show. If you don't know, get to know! Been a big fan of EYRA's music for a while now, some super sick music released on labels like Accidental Meetings, Egregore & Related Articles to name a few! He also hosts a residency with the Egregore Collective radio station, be sure to check that out too 🥵:)

Myself and the Zoggs studio gatekeeper yung Shmael ran tunes for the 1st hour 8) 

Expect downtempo trance, trip-hop, bass, hybrid dancehall, reggaeton & dembow styles 🐌🐌🐌 Enjoyyyy

Tracklist: 

MISH b2b Shmael

Mistareez	 - Seedling
Ben Bondy - Trauma Bonding
Purelink - One For The Angels
E-Unity - Not For Me
aircode - Reverse 
Ricco - Leyla 
Christian Coiffure - Weeping Willow's Celestial Glow (Jonnnah Remix)
Genotype	 - Further Searching
Dj Double Oh! - Cuerpo
PMA	- Ceiling
LOIF	- Psy-Sexual
Ricco - Seraphin
JPEGMAFIA - Baby I'm Bleeding
DJ Python - Juntos
03 Greedo - Sweet Lady
The Fear Ratio - The Invisible Girl
Warzou - Joint Metallique
Hodge & Simo Cell - Ah Bon
Mortimer Dubaton - C U M B I A T R A N C E 2 0 2 0
Strapontin - But The Nice One!
Lil Wayne - Comfortable
Neil Landstrumn - Dip It And Whip It (Original Mix)

EYRA Guest Mix:

Bitstream - Ice Core Laboratory
Echo Canyon - Soap
Borametz	 - Me puse a sonar un tambor
333 Boyz	 - Devil
Vhoor - Norte
NAR	- GUAVA JELLY (ANNA MORGAN REMIX)
BODYNET - ULTRASONIC REPELLENT
VIRUSMOTO - ROKR
NAR	- HONEY STRAW
DJ Guari - Bregatón Do Nicky
EYRA - ???
King Doudou - LSDLNG
Kelman Duran - TOMA
El irreal Veintiuno - NU.
Sylvere - Twenty Four Seven
Soreab - Drunken Ballad
Muslimgauze - Marseille III
EYRA - ???
Doctor Jeep - Press F
DON PELIGRO	 - EN LA DISCO AFINCAO (RAKATAKA)
DJ Guari - Rasteirinha Do Munchi
OVSICORI - Coris (Animazules Remix)
??? - ???
Syntrovert - Cortejo
EYRA - ???

Noods Radio | The Slug Farm w/ EYRA & MISH b2b Shmael | 08.04.22

Visions

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This track is a tonal exploration of understanding and compassion that combines Sasha's signature blend of captivating melodies and atmospheric production. "Empathy" is more than just a song - it is an invitation to pause, feel and connect with the emotions of others. The gentle but haunting sounds and carefully chosen harmonies create an immersive experience that puts the listener in a state of reflection. Sasha, known for his ability to tell stories through music, has created a work with "Empathy" that addresses current issues such as cohesion and mutual understanding. The track is now available and promises to be a highlight for all those who are looking for music with heart and soul.

Stream & Buy: 
https://social.tunecore.com/linkShare?linkid=blypQht1LJuw3M_3IQJ8sA

YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/k5N9iCV61tU?si=3wyqA8ydCWV5kNda

Lyrics: 

I just want to go where you go tonight.
Baby, hold my hand. Take me one more
time. I don't want to be without you
again. I want you to stay cuz it feels
okay. It feels okay. Feels feels okay.

I just want to go by you tonight. Let me
hold my hand. Take me one more time. I
don't want to be without you again. I
want you to say cuz it doesn't break.
See you.

I think about you. I want to know if you
think of me too. Baby, come over.
Yeah.

Don't need to don't need to baby me.
Baby, tell me how. Don't need to. I
don't need to. Baby, tell me. Baby, tell
me tell me tell me tell me.

I just want to go by you tonight. Let me
hold you hand. Take me one more time. I don't
want to be with you again. on your side
cuz it doesn't break
by see youI think about you know
don't need to tell me
Tell me how don't need to. I don't need
to. Baby, tell me.

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Empathy

 “TWISTED” is a single from the EP"404 Error State" streaming on all platforms in the coming weeks. This descent into the corrupted core of the human psyche — a dark dubstep album born from glitch, grief, and raw adrenaline.

Blending warped basslines, metallic textures, and brutal sound design, this project captures the chaos of a mind disconnected — lost in the static between reality and collapse. It's not just music; it’s a digital exorcism.

From cold cinematic intros to devastating drops, every track explores themes of inner conflict, substance withdrawal, urban isolation, and emotional overload. Voices glitch, rhythms fracture, and the sub-bass never lets go.

Influenced by UK bass, industrial textures, and screamo’s emotional edge, “404 ERROR STATE” is both a warning and a weapon.

This is the soundtrack for those living on the edge of the system — broken, searching, and still dancing in the dark.

watch out for the Dubstep EP: "404 error state" and the drum and bass album landing on 01.09.25 


#dubstep #bass #heavy 



TWISTED

Outopia Thru Sound // BKV Industrial + BKV Cadavre + Bokeh Thought Programme // Avon Terror Corps // I serve Duppy Gun // Pheasantry Life ⚔

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