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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

The Ping Report 2025 is built almost entirely from community-sourced selections and productions, drawn from the MD Discord and beyond.

If you know my discography, this mix sits alongside Shared Meanings, Twists and Turns, Pinch B2B Mumdance and FabricLive 80.

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 using a “ping”  as a temporal scaffold 

A lot of the early Different Circles tracks had ping sounds running through them. When I played them on the radio, the Discord chat would often react with a meme of Momotaros, a Japanese devil character.

Over time, I started playing more pingy tracks just to trigger the meme. In 2023, I broadcast a moodboard show called The Ping Report, and from there, producers began sending in purpose-made ping tracks. That eventually led to the Ping Volume One compilation.

This 2025 Report is the ping sound evolved, shaped through two years of incubation and dialogue between a community of artists and listeners.

Thank you to everyone involved, especially the Discord crew. It’s been a joy to watch this grow so organically from a single meme. 😂

Tracklist

Tracks with a 🏆 are community produced ping dubs
Tracks with a 😮 are forthcoming Different Circles

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01 - Ex Tynam - Mimeograph (Holywell Echolocation Dub) - 🏆
02 - Mumdance - It Was Summoned - 🏆
03 - 6amsunset - Should I Go v1 - 😮
04 - 6amsunset / Chevel - The Call Rmx NewV v2.1 - 😮
05 - Lillia Betz - Boomerang 😮
06 - Gaunt - Say What
07 - Airhead - Kazzt (Mumdance Remix)
08 - Little Snake - LS_PING_TRACK_V5 - 🏆
09 - Li Yilei - SAN / 散
10 - Outpost - Better Dad - 🏆
11 - Faulty DL - No Lock Ping V3 for Mumdance - 🏆
12 - Sleeparchive - MRI Scanner
13 - Faulty DL - TTB Ping 8_12_25 - 🏆
14 - Raymond Scott - IBM Probe
15 - 6am Sunset - Scroll Of Doom - 😮
16 - DJ Don’t - Key Realmer - 🏆
17 - BFTT - YDONT_RM_v3
18 - Nic As Well - Tickler
19 - LWS - Tar
20 - Beton Brut - Lime Bike - 😮
21 - Benoit - Kimono
22 - Surgeon - Optic
23 - Cortical - Grated - 😮
24 - YG-3 - Percy Pingle - 🏆
25 - EONE - TIME2GET - 🏆
26 - DJ Sinclair - Roll_Deep_Regular_Sinclair_ping_dub - 🏆
27 - Pinch - Tectonic Sound
28 - Kaotic Chemistry - L.S.D.
29 - Moscow Legend - Die Audio
30 - Guide - Ngng - 🏆
31 - Unearth - Stark Realisation - 😮
32 - 6amsunset - What Would My Future Self Do v2.0 - 😮
33 - Logos - Red October - 😮
34 - Dogpatrol - Moist Carpet (Demo v1) - 🏆
35 - Low End Activist - No Trace (P1ng) - 🏆
36 - Aspen Laws - Chintwin-Weightless-011 - 🏆
37 - Xen Chron - Q’omatose - 😮
38 - DJ Don’t – Plug Doubt - 🏆
39 - Joey - Rendr
40 - Rave Creator - Bleep Blaster
41 - Mumdance - Computer-Club (EMS Synthi-100) - 🏆
42 - Ryoji Ikeda - Data.Matrix
43 - DJ Rashad - I Don’t Give a Fuck
44 - Paad - Pseudomorphic Rotator
45 - SNKLS - Essence VII
46 - CORIN - Redux - 😮
47 - Unearth - Faulty Client - 😮
48 - upsammy - Relict
49 - AMIT - Dirt Doctor - 😮
50 - DJ Hidden - In My Blood
51 - Current Value - 2012
52 - Current Value - Interstellar
53 - The Panacea With Limewax - OMG Bleeps
54 - Machine Code - Solitude
55 - Lime68k - 2phive - 🏆
56 - Erasure - Chorus
57 - Raven - Jupiter

Radio Mumdance - The Ping Report 2025 - 20 August 2025

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.

AMIT - Dirt Doctor

Polarize marks Shai FM’s solo debut on Elicit with four cuts of rhythm-driven precision. You can pre-order the EP now on Bandcamp. Full release drops on September 30th.

Artwork by Deborah Mora

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Brodinski, Lara Sarkissian - ZULAL

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