Finally ! It's been quite a long time this release is in the pipelines and we're happy today to reveal the first track of comic sans's next release produced by Grenoble based @xliks

Mastering : Lorenzo Targhetta
A&R : GBoi & Jean Mi
3D : Jack Anderson
Design : Virgile Flores

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xl.iks - odomams2 (super-emo-saw)

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V.A. - Dys Functional Electronic Music X 
Format: 2 x 12"/DGTL
Cat#: REPITCH02LP
Release Date: 10 November 2022
Pre-order: https://repitch.bandcamp.com/album/dys-functional-electronic-music-x

Back in 2011, the REPITCH label debuted with "REPITCH 000", a brief compilation that featured tracks from the three originators: Pasquale Ascione (Ascion), Davide Carbone (D. Carbone), Nino Pedone (Shapednoise). Since then, the imprint has been a key player on techno's experimental fringes, pushing music that joins the dots between industrial, noise, bass, and hard dance. In ten years, they've released music from artists like Sote, Zenker Brothers, AnD, Sleeparchive, Regis, and VTSS, and to celebrate their anniversary, REPITCH has fittingly assembled another forward-thinking selection of tracks following on from 2017's acclaimed "Dys Functional Electronic Music."

"Dys Functional Electronic Music X" is a state of the union from Ascione, Carbone, and Pedone that highlights not only their label's scope but its intentions for the future. Ten years in, the trio are just as motivated by broadening club music's horizons as they are filling dancefloors, and that's never more obvious than on opening track 'Mastice Riddim (VIP Mix)' from Shapednoise and Gabber Eleganza. The two producers meet at the exact intersection of their styles, with Pedone splitting Alberto Guerrini's fictile trance arpeggios using his patented hi- definition sound design and trunk-rattling drill rhythms.

TSVI and Randomer excavate a similar mid-point on 'Overbite,' following on from 2021's "Reflex" EP with a booming, mindboggling fusion of warehouse techno and cybernetic dancehall. Pasquale Ascione's contribution 'Plugged (Heavy- Rotation Mix)' is a disarming future-retro cut, distorting vintage breaks with psychedelic bleep techno synths, while Carbone's 'Hypnotic Experimental Dance' does precisely what it promises, blotting grinding hardstyle kicks into dissonant waves of psychedelic electronics. Los Angeles ravers Baseck and Aura T-09 throw shades over the Cali sunshine on 'Angelz', losing gabber rhythms in tweaked DSP fizz but never dropping the crucial momentum.

On the flip side, Italian mainstay DJ Plant Texture turns in a breakbeat slow- burner that sounds like Sheffield via Rotterdam but never dips into empty nostalgia. Russia's versatile Buttechno, meanwhile, brings a weightless sensibility to progressive minimal, layering cauterized harmonics over driving warehouse kicks and dreaming gently of the big room. The compilation switches gears at this point, centering a pair of rave-ready hard dance constructions from fwd-thinking Greek producers DJ Loser and MarcelDune, before grinding to a halt on sci-fi-tinged closer 'Digital Hoarder' from Low Income $quad's Strahinja Arbutina.

Gabber Eleganza & Shapednoise - Mastice Riddim (VIP Mix)

IM099 - BOLT RUIN - EHKTA
Label: Infinite Machine
Release Date: September 30th, 2022
Format: 12" / Digital

Infinite Machine is proving again it’s a label that refuses to sonically sit still. Having released everything from code-based compositions to bass-heavy techno in 2022, the imprint is readying the release of the black metal-tinged Ehkta by BOLT RUIN later this month. A musician whose work has been described as ‘apocalyptic’ more than once, on this new mini-album, the Belgian producer blends field recordings, twisted samples and rave signifiers with an eerie tonality born out of his nocturnal production sessions and time spent absorbing the silence of his studio garden.

Bridging the gap from his previous record to this one, ‘Sktone’ is a cinematic opener that unfolds like a bad dream in slow motion. Warped samples of Bulgarian choirs glide over synths wired in closed-circuit loops which feed back on themselves, degrading for infinity. Texture and space is added via field recordings of waves crashing over the ruins of ​​Brighton West Pier. This track exemplifies the unexpected influence BOLT RUIN took from the wildlife he witnessed in the garden of his urban studio when working on Ehkta. Adapting to the material at their disposal, weasels and blackbirds create nests from organic waste and human trash - an astute metaphor for the Belgian producer’s compositional approach.

Next up, BOLT RUIN drives up the tempo with the rave-ready ‘Nehng’, where a frenzy of trance arpeggios and frantic drum programming builds and intensifies over its 5-minute duration. Inspired by Yves Klein’s ‘Leap Into a Void’, ‘Nehng’ definitely evokes that bodily rush of freefalling into the unknown. ‘Nehng’’s driving rhythm is switched out for the brooding ‘Tzarhk’ - an ode to the soundtracks of B-movies composed on a vintage Roland SH-2 (a prominent character of the Stranger Things soundtrack). BOLT RUIN runs thick, syrupy synth slabs and punishing drum patterns through a rain-soaked limiter the producer found lying on the street by chance.

Another master-class in self-destructive arrangements comes in the form of ‘Rfohmdrá’ as delicate pianos and synth tones atrophy through daisy chained pedals which erode the signal. Valgeir Sigurðsson’s mastering skills shines through here, taking BOLT RUIN’s sci-fi-meets-metal sonics and amping them up to a scale on par with the Björk or Ben Frost records he’s previously worked on.

Conceived of as the mirror reflection of the LP’s opener, ‘Maevr’ pushes the approach of ‘Sktone’ to an even more nightmarish extreme. Embracing chance, the clattering layers of beats are sampled of a knocked mic on a window as BOLT RUIN attempted to capture a recording of rain from his studio. A happy and very effective accident for the foreboding mood of the track!

BOLT RUIN rounds off Ehkta with ‘Ekztamnh’; an ode to that specific sensation of entering through a corridor to a rave and hearing the rumble of a soundsystem from afar. Snarling melodies are run through a reverse granular delay effect which fragments the signal, reverses it and plays them back in irregular order; much like the shattered memories of a late night in a warehouse.

A musical magpie who finds inspiration in the most unlikely of sources, Ehkta is a restless exploration of salvage-punk aesthetics where doom-laden black metal melodies, amen breaks and an experimental approach to sound design sit in an irregular and uneven musical apocalypse. For fans of Blanck Mass or Caterina Barbieri - this is a must-listen material from a fresh producer establishing himself with a singular musical voice.

Ehkta

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BOLT RUIN - Ekztamnh (IM099)

@design-default - Quartz Silica EP
Format: Digital
Release: December 2nd, 2022
Artwork by Benfika

Marking the 100th record of the imprint’s prolific history, Infinite Machine are proud to present the release of Quartz Silica EP by new-comer Design Default. A self-described ‘tone scientist’, the Parisian delivers a 5-track of uniquely textural compositions which map out a sonic world influenced by dystopian anime titles like Trigun & Neon Genesis Evangelion. Like many on the IM discography, Quartz Silica acts almost like a simulation or audio-film representation of an abstract space you’re invited to traverse.

The EP opens with ‘Between Wasteland and Sky’; percussive assault on your senses which clearly exemplifies Design Default’s meticulous approach to sound design. Every detail, every sample and every automation is carefully considered to add to the heightened affective theatrics heard here.

‘A.S.K’ follows things up on this release, a highly inventive composition with a loose structure that evolves from phrase-to-phrase, refusing to sit still. Design Default’s interest in jazz and free-form arrangements is married up with an angular sonic palette of industrial groans and splutters; generating the impression of hearing a glitch (or hiccup, even) in the machine. There’s something refreshingly playful about the maximalistic breakdown of ‘A.S.K’ akin to the wry smile found in some of AYA and her YCO label’s output.

After two highly frenetic tracks, Design Default turns the tempo down slightly with the groove-laden ‘S.E.E.D.S’. Layers of rich, fuzzy synapses phase in and out of prominence over a bed of complex drum programming. The producer deploys negative space here to great effect, with the absence of a drum hit or sample where you might expect one adding to the hypnotic rhythmic swing of ‘S.E.E.D.S’.

Rounding out the originals of Quartz Silica EP, ‘SILEX’ is a club-ready construction with a paint-shaking bassline which seems to slip downwards in pitch as if it can’t get steady footing. Again, Design Default’s tone science/alchemy shines through clearly here, with stutters of melodies, bursts of white noise and stacked drum patterns managing to sit cohesively in this dynamic expanse.

Fellow Parisian De Grandi jumps on remix duties for ‘S.E.E.D.S’ to finish off the EP. The Paradoxe Club signee adds further syncopation and strips the original’s elements down to its fundamental core. The results are a spectral creeper of a tune - built almost intentionally with dark, low ceiling environments in mind.

Design Default - Between Wasteland And Sky

Free Palestine (فلسطين حرة): Exploited Body - 17th January 2023

Tracklist:

111X - Dirge (Autolysis)
Show Me The Body - Animal In A Dream
Blanck Mass - Odd Scene
Objekt - Bad Apples
Peder Mannerfelt - This Machine Shares Memes
Exploited Body - Syrtis
SHXCXCHCXSH - Shumumumu
Objekt - Cactus
M.E.S.H. - Kritikal Thirst
M.E.S.H. - Festival Circuit
Busta Rhymes - Touch It (Ivy Lab's 20/20 Remix)
Esa - Blast
Bassment Jaxx - Where's Your Head At
Manni Dee - London Isn't England Anymore (Ansome Remix)
Cocktail Party Effect - The Police Took My Garden Away
SOPHIE - Whole New World
Pruvan - Beastwoman
Swordman Kitala - Heat Flexx (O'Flynn & Ekhe Remix)
TSVI - Black Dog (ft. Luru)
MC Kalzin - Medley Da Putarialização
Exploited Body - Collapsar
LSDXOXO - Death Rattle
ZULI - Trigger Finger
Aquarian - Insulin
Makornik - Violent Voltage
Trends & Boylan - Norman Bates
Goth-Trad - Sunbeam
Logos - Glass (Boylan Remix)
Capo Lee - Shell On Demand 2.0
Pessimist - Danger
Yves Tumor - Lifetime

Duration: 48:54

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Free Palestine: Exploited Body - 17th January 2023

Ahmed Alaa is a DJ and an upcoming producer from Egypt, caught up by the art and the sharpest edges of electronic music, delivering a fast-paced blend of varied ranges and complicated compositions from the hard dance spectrum.

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artwork @ancestralvision

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@afga06l - Of Failure And Its Essentiality
@exploitedbody - Artificial Proximity
Seven Orbits - Mantis (@zalivad Remix)
@boyang-guan - Incantation Punishment
@waltonmcr - Rush
@varg2tm & @exploitedbody - Bass2™ (Cease & Desist)
@rami-abadir - Kabbut (ft. @zulimusic & @3phaz)
@osheyack - Thrall
@cocktailpartyeffectmusic - Math
Klahrk - Send It!! (@ice_eyes Remix)
@sambot — Hesitate
@bladeblanc - Gain XP
@rozzersound - Abducticate
@jon-tetly - R & C
@vvonn - Dehiscence
@smog_0 - T/IV
@wrack90 - Pak
Veak - Bloodclort
@forexamplejohn - Thousand Yard Stare
@privategrief-music - Always Wrong (Ft. @chainsawplease)
@4prilb0urn3 - Crying In The Club

UNIZONE: AHMED ALAA [s04e08]

One of my fastest mixes. Due to political influences and the fiercest war, my former life has gone into oblivion and hasty attempts are now being made to find myself. This mix reflects my current mental state and an attempt to recreate the form of an environment filled with different types of emotions from impenetrable tragedy to the brightest euphoria.

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POSTWORLD: personalbrand w/ JmDasha - 17/04/2023

Taken from SBKT026: Various Artists - Cache 01

Release date: April 26th 2019

Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork by Kim Laughton

Cache 01

Tzusing & Hodge - Electrolytes

'CRx Aureal' is taken from the forthcoming Shapednoise album ‘Aesthesis’, released 8 November 2019 on Numbers.

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