Bristol’s @PressureDome’s kicks off its new 10” series with four cuts of colourful, off-kilter techno from Paris’ @design-default

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-design-default-kagura

PD10001

Premiere: Design Default ‘Kagura’

@awo_ojiji debuts on Control Freak for the long awaited return of our White Label series with his ‘Solidify EP’ - four percussive, wonky & propulsive club cuts, complete with a remix from label heads Customer Service & Finnaman.

Based out of Graz, Austria, Awo Ojiji has been quietly carving out his own lane in the leftfield techno & bass music world. Distinct, detailed and fundamentally genre-fluid, his oddball productions cross a range of stylistic influences and tempos, purpose built for the explorative DJ.

Early support on this one from Laksa, re:ni, Gramrcy & more - very limited pressing of just 300 hand-stamped records - don’t miss your chance to grab one.

Pre-Order

Awo Ojiji - Solidify EP [WLFRK003] - Previews

‘Speaking Things’, the new album from Isabassi, is a collection of highly detailed industrial music examining her singular perspective on rhythm and texture. Through brittle percussion, supernatural atmospheres and astonishing bass power, the Brazilian composer and artist explores a conversational narrative on the first full length Super Hexagon release."

https://isabassi.bandcamp.com/album/speaking-things

Isabassi
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isabassi
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/isabbassi
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isabbassi/

Super Hexagon Records
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/super-hexagon
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superhexagonrecords
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superhexagonrecords/

PREMIERE: Isabassi - Janus (Super Hexagon Records)

@crudetapes

BC: https://crudetapes.bandcamp.com/album/stray-observations-volume-3

The cast of “Stray Observations” finds itself in a new, somehow even darker timeline.  Originally assembled during the early COVID pandemic, this new collection of tunes from the Ridgewood crew have expanded through refined ideas, tighter production techniques and acute empathy for an unprecedented world.  When everything feels so hopeless, where does art exist?  Is there a space for electronic music?  For raving?  The artists of “Stray Observations Volume 3” don’t necessarily answer these age-old queries directly but lend different moods, environments and places to ponder these thoughts.  From bouncing three-movement tech house to Aphex Twin downtempo worship, this compilation offers the spectrum of emotions and thoughts splintering out from the contemporary mind.

All proceeds to Go Fund Me: Help Two Families Evacuate Gaza

https://www.gofundme.com/f/3dh3p-help-two-families-evacuate-gaza?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

All tracks mastered by Shy
Crude Tapes 2024
CRT-023

pi pi pi premiere: Maniac Krypta - Melting Walrus (Crude Tapes)

@laenzzz
@woozydublin

BC: https://woozydublin.bandcamp.com/album/wzy004-after-sunset

Laenz joins EMA’s beloved Woozy family with After Sunset; an extended player of haunted dub architecture, set out within a found-sound planetarium of deconstructed rhythms and textural deviancy. Seminal UK producer and Hemlock Recordings’ founder Untold also features with his first remix in 9 years.

Brooklyn-based Laenz reimagines the expansive structures of her native city as aural scaffolding, reconstructing indeterminate spaces via an emotional rendering process of world building. It’s music that explores the duality of shape and unform, immersed in traditions of sound design and latter-day UK broken beat techno binded by a tender hauntology that’s sublimely immersive as it is intimately personal. After Sunset is her debut for EMA’s boundary-pushing Woozy imprint, following releases for Early Reflex, Rhizome and Eastern Margins, a project detailing elongated processes of varying intensities evoking a rawness which she described as a “war on the heart”. It’s a body of music that’s a direct portal into Laenz’ singular vision, and highlights her inimitable talent amongst the milieu of bass-leaning producers of New York and beyond.

Ballad Before The Break intros us with a garbled chug of out-of-body proportions, before Choices marches in with an uncanny half time of tense textures and After Sunset follows with trip-hop adjacent psychedelia gorged in subs. B-side opens with Echoes Until, a lurching wormhole of disorientating skank while wiL offers a gorgeous ambient epic circled by a percussion-heavy concrète of breakcore abstraction. Untold sees us out with a remix of Choices, a trip into his unrivalled sound world, buoyant by throbbing modulation and rolling kicks of pure surreality. 
credits

After Sunset

pi pi pi premiere: Laenz - Echoes Until (WZY004)

Bwoy, it’s dark in here.
New name, who dis? Austrian genre bender Toupaz, fka Awo Ojiji, delivers four polyrhythmic steppers that weave blissful moments
into a threatening aura. Is it half-speed, is it double? Is it both?
Either way, there's loads going on.
~
Music by Timothy Burglar
Master & Cut by Beau Thomas
Design by Studio Taquin
Liner notes by Hirsto
Manufactured by RAND Muzik
Distribution by Rubadub
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100x12" + Digital // Ltd. fanzine also available!

Frantic Gestures EP

Support

06ET - Toupaz - Frantic Gestures (Out 6/6!)

https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/speleogenesis

Wisconsin-based producer and drummer Chants (The Trilogy Tapes, Maximum Airtime, Astral Plane Recordings) meets master drummer Dave Schoepke on this all-drums LP for Brussels-based Maloca Records. ‘Speleogenesis’ blends live drumming with dub techniques and dancefloor-informed production, guided by imagery of a subterranean world. It’s a full-circle moment, as the two met when Chants (aka Jordan Cohen) took drum lessons from Schoepke during his teenage years.

The recording process began with Chants creating skeletal demos for Dave Schoepke to improvise on. Schoepke recorded many layers of drums and percussion, running some of them through his hardware synthesizers. Chants then shaped these recordings, resulting in the cavernous dub techno track ‘Pressure Slide’, the Brazilian-influenced ‘Ritmo Crudo’ and ‘Ritmo Puro’, and the uptempo, slippery dancehall dub of ‘The Quickstepper’.

Chants then assembled a new palette of samples from this core and constructed dancefloor-focused bangers like the hyperactive ‘Cyclone Rhythm’ and minimal 170 bpm ‘Rafter’, adding his own homegrown breakbeats. As the album took shape, the music kept evoking mental images of caves, tunnels, and underwater caverns that in turn influenced the final pieces. ‘Notes from Underground’ and ‘Speleogenesis’ present a more unfiltered view of Schoepke’s nuanced drumming. ‘Airbell Dub’ was also created using material from one of Schoepke’s meditative solo performances. Finally, ‘Cavernicole’ features both drummers in full duet mode, trading phrases over an insistent kick drum pulse.  

Credits :
released October 11, 2024
2024, Maloca

Music by Chants & Dave Schoepke
Artwork by Rémi Volclair
Mastered by Hypna

Speleogenesis

Chants & Dave Schoepke - Airbell Dub

Invoking The Ancients

Sticks

over the bamboo grove

Remix of "Barbajia" by Seagit Arc, available on Antimateria Sonora
https://antimateriasonora.bandcamp.com/album/seagit-arc-half-emotion-remixes-as008

Barbajia (Tristan Arp Remix)

1/3 of @asa-tone
cofounder @humanpitch 
bookings & inquiries: hello@tristanarp.com