Huerco s. version of Subtle Bodies. Original is taken from upcoming album ' Only Love From Now On' - out Feb 25th via Smalltown Supersound. 

Pre-order here:
https://carmenvillain.bandcamp.com/album/only-love-from-now-on

Subtle Bodies (Huerco S. version)

Our sixth VA compilation continues in the collective spirit at the heart of Pressure Dome; here taking its fullest form. The first of its kind in the label catalogue, ‘Two [Is Greater Than] One’ sees a selection of PD regulars and friends of the label put their heads together across eight atmospheric tracks, equally as suited to the club as to solo listening. 

Those who have followed the label for a while will be no stranger to the comp’s first collaborator. Human Resources teams up with London dub techno specialist, Keplrr, on ‘Spring’: a mood-led composition where the impact is contained in atmosphere. Fragmented drum breaks are engulfed by airy synth pads and punctuated by a dancehall-indebted rhythm that marches at 90BPM. ‘Yuppel’ welcomes Noods Radio mainstay Sid Quirk aka Keppel into the mix. He is joined by label boss, Yushh, on a ruminative percussive tool, guided by cavernous drums that fabricate a vivid, immersive environment. With the guidance of Brighton’s Caldera, the journey continues with Süss Choc. The reverb-laden synth plucks on ‘evoke water droplets, and hallucinatory details echo around them to create the illusion of being in a mountainous cove.

Delay Grounds – an audiophile in the truest sense of the word – is next to take the baton. Together, he and Yushh take it up a notch on ‘Telomere’ – a full-bodied club-ready track packed with glitchy chords and giddy drums. A gnarly, Pariah-esque breakdown segues into the track’s second wind where pitched-up vocal chops accelerate it to the compilation’s energetic climax. With the help of London drum specialist, Syz, ‘Fuzbidun’ keeps our feet firmly on the dancefloor. Breakbeats are chopped and rearranged, flitting between double and half time whilst a distorted mid-bass roughens things round the edges, prepping the ground for the compilation’s move to a more inorganic feel.

Bristol don, Forever, joins Yushh next on ‘Passing Notes’ – a groove-driven club track where skittish percussion ricochets from side to side, so palpable it tempts the touch. ‘Crash Bash Party At BUFOs’ is no different. The link-up between Delay Grounds and dance music’s stalwart of musique concrète, Wordcolour, is completely idiosyncratic to both artists: the perfect combination of found-sound percussion and skillfully rehashed vocal samples. It’s up to two PD mainstays – Roy Mills and Human Resources – to close proceedings. A chugging rhythm bubbles under the surface of ‘Sycophantasy’, sending us on a dubbed-out trip before picking the pace back up again.

Copy – Annie Parker
Artwork – Jesse Webb
Mastering – Matthew Bentley

Süss Choc

Caldera X Yushh - Süss Choc (PDCOLLAB001)

collection two

we're back with a second wind ~ gently weaving between genres, across continents and over oceans. take a breath and immerse yourself in the journey.

featuring Tunnel Dancers (@secondcousins & Hugh B @outertimeinnerspace), @vicecitybeats, @opheliaxz, @ronan-music, @commandd & @gistrung, @space-biology, @maara, Radart (@papercutslimited), @duunscape, and @saphileaum

Mastered by P. Twigg (@ptwiggs)
Artwork by F. Andrinopoulos
With thanks to Arts Project Australia
Design by M. Davison

www.artsproject.org.au

Released digitally 5th July 2023
companion.bandcamp.com/album/collection-two

Companion operates on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri-Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and live. We pay our respects to their continuing cultures and connection to Country, community and music; and to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

CMPN005 - V/A - Collection Two [Snippets]

Pavel Milyakov & Yana Pavlova - Strong-Willed

They hung thick and ominous overhead, casting strange shapes and shadows upon the empty fields and plains which lay beneath. The barley could be seen blowing in the warmth of the summer breeze but it was a muggy, humid kind of heat. The kind which stuck to you and held on tight.

Heavy clouds often meant that the end was nigh, that summer was on its way out and soon the rain would fall and leave this land green and wondrous. Everything would be afloat once again, an aquatic paradise in which the wild things grew and the people danced.

For now, they simply watched as they passed overhead, moving ever more slowly, weighed down by world within them.

Pure Space are set to release a new EP from Command D. This record is titled 'New Devices' and features a collection of dubbed out ambient tones, amidst loosely dotted sporadic percussion in the ilk of Basic Channel or Deepchord etc.

PREMIERE: Command D - Heavy Clouds [Pure Space]

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]

@estuary-tapes

Italian duo Future Island presents their first ‘Reflexionism’ EP, a 6-track gathering of ambient, downtempo, dub and psychedelic Fourth World music. Just like a vintage scientific audio report, which rusty tapes would have been submerged for too long in an hallucinogenic pond.

Out in cassette and digital on march 26 via brittany-based Estuary Tapes:
https://estuarytapes.bandcamp.com/album/reflexionism

Support

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Future Island - Enza Owens [Estuary Tapes]

Carrier - Tender Spirits
Cat # CRRR003
Label : Carrier

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming 04/04/25

available now from Boomkat https://boomkat.com/products/tender-spirits

Carrier presents Tender Spirits, the third turn on his eponymous series that explores his abstractions at its most sparse and cerebral.

Space maintains great purpose for Guy Brewer, having experimented with this previously for multiple drum-focused missives as Carrier. On his latest release, he treads deeper into the furthest regions of dub deconstruction, with Tender Spirits offering a serene path to the inbetween.

Across 8+ minutes, Light Candles, To Mark The Way moves towards the muted sublime; a gentle half time’d bliss that ebbs and floats across the enveloping mist. Slow Punctures gradually returns to dusk, eerily surveying the hollowed-out remains of its dub architecture with an off-kilter lurch. Carpathian echoes further in stark reduction, a weightless atonal zone anchored by the abstracted pressure suspended within.

Tender Spirits tracks Carrier at exciting new parallels, unfurling his most ascendant and capacious music to date. 


Written & Produced by Guy Alexander Brewer
Mastered by Rashad Becker @ Clunk, Berlin
Iconography by MENSLIES
Photography by Benjamin Lehmann
Digital layout by Atack.uk
distribution via boomkat.com.

Carrier - Tender Spirits

Inspecting the ship

Melodies fill my mind

Ghostride The Drift - B1

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.