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Slowfoam & Neilll -  Playing With Sublimity

ISLA38

Crespi Drum Syndicate is a collaboration between long-time friends and musical cohorts, Pablo Arrangoiz (El Gusano/Goiz) and Jonathan Trujillo (Jonny From Space). "Beats" developed from a desire to make music centered around rhythm and percussion, atonal sounds, inharmonic hooks, and a mutual agreement to refrain from melody and harmony as much as possible. The record is the result of their first sessions with this concept in mind. Inspired by the proto-techno of '60s and '70s Italian library music, motorik kraut grooves, Latin dance music, orchestral percussion pieces, dancehall riddims, and dub engineering.

Written, recorded, and mixed in Coral Gables, Florida, August to September 2022. 

Out September 6th, 2024. Edition of 100 CD-R's.

PRE ORDER:
https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/crespi-drum-syndicate-beats

ISLA38 - Crespi Drum Syndicate - Beats (Previews)

upsammy - Strange Meridians [topo2-001]

a centrifugal spin collapses inward
sucked into the ground
vibrating with the quake beneath the crust
the folding repeats itself in time
an echo amid the buildings of a primordial era

with closed eyes
the shapes begin to take form
in the debris
objects clump together into conglomerates

a scream
trapped in water-retaining cells
the moss that embeds itself after
a short passage of time
you talk back
but I can’t hear you

something springs forth
somewhere

a remnant that remains


—
Strange Meridians is an album by multidisciplinary artist @upsammy. It is released by adventurous electronic music label topo2 on November 21, 2024. The record is pressed on 180 grams of ICCS-certified bio-vinyl, housed in a heavy full-colour sleeve, and comes with a download-code to the full release. Mastering is done by Isabel Schröer at Scape Mastering and artwork by courtesy of Thessa Torsing and Kees de Klein. Poetry by Thessa Torsing with editing by Eelco Couvreur.

1. Lapis Manalis 
2. Edge of Sleep 
3. Cosmo 
4. Aqualizing
5. The Guest 
6. Spiral Biting Its Tail 
7. Mazing 
8. Centripetal Lense

Release date: 22 november 2024
Formats: limited bio-vinyl LP (300 copies), digital
Inquiries: topo2world@gmail.com
Physical Distribution: mark@rushhour.nl
Digital distribution: contact@nomorewords.net

www.upsammy.com
www.topo2.nl

Strange Meridians

upsammy - Strange Meridians [topo2-001]

Step into the heart of the mysterious Black Forest. Anchored by the deep, primal hum of the didgeridoo, this release blurs the lines between ancient traditions and modern soundscapes.

Featuring transformative remixes by Khey Mysterio, alkemia, and AJO’s enigmatic alter ego Kalocain, each track offers a unique journey through shadowy groves and luminous clearings.

https://soundcloud.com/kalocain

PREMIERE⚡️AJO - H02S4YThA9Ku [Electric Shapes]

Delicate Records delves into the swamp laden depths of heartbreak; inexplicable depth, darkness and twisted beauty with a 9 track full length debut from Saffron Bloom. The Iranian-American producer and performer; already prolific as Sepehr and known for his expertly raw and freaky sound, develops this alias to indulge the silver linings of agony. An illbient force of nature drawing on industrial atmospherics, trip hop flow and unbothered breakbeat influx. The record serves as an ode to the ever changing phases of lost love and grief, seasons of emotion weathering the passage of time each with their own ferocity and relation to the evolving cycle; one so personal yet universally understood.

Intro, the infrastructure of aura laced throughout the record, builds around an ominous and evocative piano soundscape bleeding with delay, intruding barely human vocal cries and percussive injections. Dripping into the DNA of Dirge of the Lonely and Jealous Desire, there comes a yearning, cries from beyond the grave; mourning relationships lost with an eerie familiarity. This sinister sanctuary bred through low slung stripped
back breaks, those that echo within the soul and tie themselves to an anchor of inconspicuous growling sub bass; a signature idiosyncrasy perfectly elevated with Saffron Bloom timbre.

Quelling the urge to disintegrate, with power through distortion and commanding drumwork, corners of the B side like Curtain Call and Apathetic Rose reiterate a primal and hypnotic sonic discourse. At the heart of the LP and the artist’s ethos, it resonates through the mind and body in a psychedelic manner while remaining powerfully minimal. Time’s Up (It’s Over) featuring. Sam Weinberg feels like a fever dream, saxophone drenched and echoing throughout your brain, while album closer Ultimate Acceptance is named perfectly. A melancholic realization, soft in nature yet rich in complexity and beauty, a bittersweet conclusion. 

releases February 28, 2025

Produced by Sepehr Alimagham
Design by Mauro Ventura
Copy by Katie Campbell
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino @ Analogcut Mastering
Distributed by One Eye Witness

Vinyl 12” 33RPM
Digital Bandcamp & Streaming

Saffron Bloom [DR007]

'She who loves silence’.

Founder of KUMP and Meth.O tapes, Lyon’s Marc-Étienne Guibert (AKA Gil.Barte) awakens his new Mert Seger moniker for a shadowy Plaque excursion. Nine slow burners strike from the murk with venomous precision.
credits
releases April 21, 2025

https://plaquebristol.bandcamp.com/album/empire-des-pulsions

All tracks written and produced by Marc-Étienne Guibert
Mastered by Austin Shepherd
Artwork by Hamish Trevis (Kin40k)

All tracks written and produced by Marc-Étienne Guibert
Mastered by Austin Shepherd
Artwork by Hamish Trevis (Kin40k)

Mert Seger – Shapiri

co:clear is overjoyed to welcome @jonnnah to its fold, with a new long-form 12” edition. Featuring Pavel Milyakov (aka @buttechno) right off the bat, ‘Me, With You’ is an album that grips its listener tight with gleaming electronica, off-kilter trip-hop and swampy bass.

With past offerings to Soleil Rouge and Second End Records – a label which he heads – there's a thread that laces all of Jonnnah’s work. Although never sticking to a definable bracket, the Lyon-dweller effortlessly floats through various tempers, peddling impeccable electronics as equally suited to colossal sound systems, as they are to solitary early morning walks in headphones. It's ambient for the foreground that surprises with flurries of two-step and amen breaks – present-day sonics that doff their cap to what’s come before.

Out on limited edition 12” vinyl & digital, 30th May 2025. Limited to 200 copies.

Written & Produced by Pierre Paumier
Featuring Pavel Milyakov
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Cut by Pitchcraft Mastering
Artwork by Conna Haraway
Distributed by Rubadub

Me, With You

pre-order

COCLEAR003: Jonnnah – Me, With You (previews)

Poorly Lit with @sleek-fata  invited by @notmass

Sleekfata, head of comicsansrecords and LYL Radio resident, moves fluidly across genres. Through his Cremation of Care show, he blends psychedelic electronics, jazz, punk, and trip-hop with a refined aesthetic. On the dancefloor, his sets dive into deep dubstep, sci-fi DnB, and psychedelic tribe, delivering hypnotic, dub-heavy energy."

Artwork by instagram.com/federica.aulenta

Originally streamed on www.fritto.fm

Poorly Lit with Sleek Fata 13.03.25

Electronic Moods for Dreamers and imaginary Moments

Rauhnacht

Soundtrack that takes me back to my first day in school and all the adventures and excitement, the friends I made and some nerves too - immersive track to chill out too and hopefully enjoy!

First Day

Peace in life

topo2 is an adventurous electronic music label run by Bert de Rooij. Its sole purpose is to be enthusiastic about the electronic music ecosystem, not limited to topo2 releases.

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