Marlboro City Puglia Circa 1999

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Ikävä Pii - Marlboro City Puglia Circa 1999

Ping Devil Meme

Red October

@yukumusic
 https://yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/bom-klakk-yukus-supersick-sample-pack-free

YUKU – Bom Klakk Creative Challenge (Circular Square entry)

@hevlaran returns to Fever AM after last year’s Model To Excite EP, this time with a strong focus on melody, effortlessly weaving it into his signature modular intricacy. There's a sense of playful energy across the EP, all five tracks packed full of character.


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@galtier returns to Plasma Sources with Mainframe Incantation, a five-track release marking the 7th position on the label’s roster. First appearing on the Multi Source compilation earlier this year, Galtier now moves beyond the mechanical, sci-fi focus toward a sound that fuses technology with the divine, inhabiting the liminal space between worlds. 

Rooted in the earliest traditions of percussive music as a vehicle for altered states, Mainframe Incantation channels ritual energy through synthesised and digitised means, closing a cultural loop from origin to present. The result is a tension between the spiritual and the mechanical — feverish, dissonant, and hypnotic. 

The journey begins with "Ausmisis States", a restrained, technical opener of squelchy basslines and coarse pads, setting the stage for contact. "Tincture Pump" bursts through next—erratic, bouncy, and high-velocity, with a swelling distortion lead that injects chaotic energy straight to the bloodstream. 

In "Tink Cycle", the pace slows into a groove-laden trance, its caustic bassline dragged forward by steady kicks and splintering snares. At the centre lies "Hex Crawler", a gurgling, otherworldly entity speaking in alien tones before breaking into a vast, unearthly climax. 

Closer "Phantom Tremors" hurls us back toward reality with hasty techno-inflected percussion, metallic strikes, and roaring sub-frequencies. Pulsing hardware bleeps push the final surge, sealing the ritual in a haze of digital energy. 

Mainframe Incantation

Hex Crawler

[Photo by Avi Loud]
Live recording DJ set at  The Broad Museum | Los Angeles, CA 8-16-2025 w/ JLIN ft Glen Begay and Bearspring, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Black Belt Eagle Scout

DJ NOIR - LIVE AT THE BROAD | LOS ANGELES 8-16-2025

Polytope’s first EP welcomes two rising stars from the European bass music scene: Brussels-based fa:act and Parisian artist Meli Mena. The duo has crafted a six-track, club-ready opus featuring a special collaboration and a remix by Maoupa Mazzocchetti.

"COUGH TWICE IF YOU CARE" dives into the depths of the hardcore continuum with the distinctive styles of both artists on full display.

fa:act contributes two dancehall-inspired bangers with his signature touch: “Wizard Bubble” and “Breeze and Riddim.”

Meli Mena delivers two high-energy club tracks infused with breakbeat influences and IDM resonances: “Hot Girls Get Sad” and “SideQuest Nap.”

Together, the pair released the now-renowned 140 bpm club anthem “Dust Drip,” a track that has lit up dancefloors around the globe.

Each piece receives the unique analog treatment of Maoupa Mazzocchetti, who also contributes a powerful remix of Meli Mena’s “SideQuest Nap.”

fa:act
@faact
www.instagram.com/im.faact/

Polytope
@polytopebxl
www.instagram.com/polytope.bxl/ 

COUGH TWICE IF YOU CARE

Wizard Bubble

Premiere: fa:act - Wizard Bubble | Polytope

Italian producer and DJ POL100 delivers the fifth installment of Early Reflex’s Eyes Series with Eyes V, a two-track EP that blends spontaneous experimentation with a cinematic sense of space. Rooted in jungle and bass influences, the release moves fluidly between tribal pulse and mechanical tension, creating immersive soundscapes that unfold over broken rhythms and layered textures.
The opening track,“Machine Decay” layers mechanical, metallic textures over ethereal sounds, starting from a breakbeat foundation and gradually evolving into a more intricate sonic landscape.
“TRIBE”, is a tribal journey in a futuristic sense, built on broken rhythms and grooves that nod to UK sounds while maintaining emotional depth.

POL100 said:
“After my latest releases on YUKU, which often explored specific rhythmic territories through focused production sessions, this new EP for Early Reflex comes from a more spontaneous and time-dilated process,” says POL100. “TRIBE and Machine Decay represent two sides of my current approach: continuous sonic exploration rooted in jungle and bass influences, shaped by cinematic sensibility.”

© & ℗ 2025 Early Reflex. All rights reserved.

All tracks produced and mixed by POL100
§ Mastering by Andrea Prato
§ Artwork by Alessandro Scanu. 

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TRIBE

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POL100 - TRIBE

Out now - 12 tracks: double vinyl and digital 

In 2013, Different Circles launched with Weightless Volume One, a compilation that helped define a new minimalist aesthetic in electronic music. 

Twelve years later and after a six-year pause, the label returns with its tenth release: Ping Volume One.

Like weightless, ping isn’t a genre. It's an approach to anchoring and propelling sound without relying on the steady pulse of a kick drum.

Instead, a single percussive hit — the ping — holds the centre. Dry and high in the mix, or echoing distantly through space, it becomes a temporal anchor. Around it, the rest of the track can undulate, bend, float or collapse.

The term first appeared on Mumdance’s radio show, where playing “the pingy ones” from the Different Circles back catalogue became a running joke. In the Discord community, it evolved into a shared language, with memes, lore and a mascot known as the Ping Devil.

In 2023, Mumdance aired The “Ping Report” a radio show that gathered everything into a coherent moodboard. It included original tracks made by Discord members for the show and set the foundations. From there, more producers began making ping intentionally, and over time, Ping Volume One took shape.

As the idea came into focus, Logos and Mumdance noticed that much of the Different Circles back catalogue, if not explicitly weightless, could now be understood through the lens of ping. It was a sound they had been drawn to long before they had a language to describe it.

Ping Volume One is a document of shared instinct. A collection of tracks connected by feel rather than formula, shaped by years of dialogue between a community of artists and listeners who were drawn to the same sounds & ideas before they had a name.

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UK techno label Timedance releases its second record of the year courtesy of Lurka, fresh off the back of a collaboration record with label owner Batu last month. It is undoubtedly some of his finest and most experimental work yet.

The A-side Beater brings a meticulous blend of clever sound design and one of the most thunderous kick/snare patterns you'll hear. Seriously tough. Density introduces a sea of rippling arps, set to a back drop of deep sub bass. It is probably Lurka's most melodic and introspective track yet, whilst still keeping his trademark percussion work.

Lurka - Density

contact - timedancemusic@gmail.com (sorry, not currently accepting demos)

Lurka - Density

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