@cupocupo - Armor EP
[PAYNOMINDTOUS, PNMTU004, out Dec. 3rd, 2021]

CupoCupo is a duo of musicians hailing from Bergamo, Italy, presenting their second work after the debut ‘Hypermetabolism’ EP out earlier this year on the US label @wearetar. Coming with an album cover by the Italian visual artist eurasiandesert [https://instagram.com/eurasiandesert/] and an official two-sided A5 300 gr. cardboard artwork print, the 4-tracker release is a coherent, eventful episode of knife-edge post-club hybridization, a treasury of outstanding sound design skills, vicious bass handling, and rhythmical obsessivity.

The centerpiece of their work is extensive vocal manipulation, employing voice chops with the role of primary composition tools within the multi-faceted pieces rich in heavy kick drums, snappy percussions, and gurgling vibrations. Drawing influence from contemporary electronic genres as well as free-form experimental music, the EP is closed by a trancey, grandiose rework of the opening track Yerro curated by the influential artist @galentipton (she/they), and a somber, pitch-black remix by Italian-based composer and producer @shevsmachine (she/her).

With ‘Armor’, CupoCupo hand out explosions of shattered sounds cramming themselves in turbulent flows of energy, where self-perception is challenged, strength is tested, and certainties are dismantled. Sealed lips utter red-hot rants oscillating from burning outbursts of chaos to sudden clarity. Tragic voices sing penetrating ballads for wandering bodies, waiting for their destiny to manifest and vehemently start opposing it. Light comes with darkness, and anything can be worth struggling for. CupoCupo’s outings are nothing but heartfelt testimony that brighter times are yet to come. Or not. 

01-04: Produced and mixed by CupoCupo. 05-06 remixed by Galent Tipton and SHE/MACHINE, respectively. Mastering by @wimdehaen. Artwork and flyer design by eurasiandesert.

Armor

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CupoCupo - Dragonfly Backbone

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Inspired by the iconic tradition of the sample pack, the Source Folder series seeks to explore the diversity of interpretations, paths and offsprings that might emerge from a common resource. In each installment, a member of the Global URL Nation provides a sample pack from which other artists are invited to create a new track. 

To initiate the series, we are honored to welcome SNKLS, a French producer blending rich sound designs, intricate drum patterns and synthetic curiosities into unique entities at the crossroads of genres and labels. 

For his participation, he curated not one, but two packs of sounds, made from a selection of Eurorack modules such as Rings, Morphagene or DPO, providing a set of tools, materials and supplies for others to appropriate, upcycle, reuse and combine in order to create their own item. 

The 160 Pack edition gathers Ancestral Vision, Atrice, B E N N, DJ Body Double, dragongirl, El Murki, Lia Catreux, Orqualyzer, RougeHotel, SNKLS, Talita Otović, & VIBRISSE. Bass-heavy club cuts, broken drum patterns and sharp textures deliver a crushing discharge of energy, an eruption of invigorating fluids that seems to emerge from the darkest depths of the underground.

The two sample packs are available for anyone to create their own objects at this link : 
https://clublatemusic.com/resources


++ TRACKLIST ++

01. dragongirl - Note to Self
02. Ancestral Vision - Carbon Lizard Lodge
03. B E N N - Neurasthenia
04. RougeHotel - LAIN
05. El Murki - ~$ Sudo Apt Install Theory
06. DJ Body Double - Cold Blooded
07. Atrice - Thermal 
08. Lia Catreux & SNKLS - Stolen Quartz
09. Talita Otović - I Wonder if He’s Dead
10. VIBRISSE - Kerokerosene
11. Orqualyzer - Greedfall

++ CREDITS ++

Tracks produced by Ancestral Vision, Atrice, B E N N, DJ Body Double, dragongirl, El Murki, Lia Catreux, Orqualyzer, RougeHotel, SNKLS, Talita Otović, VIBRISSE

https://soundcloud.com/ancestralvision
https://soundcloud.com/atricemiras
https://soundcloud.com/bedoublensound
https://soundcloud.com/body2x
https://soundcloud.com/dragong1rl
https://soundcloud.com/el-murki
https://soundcloud.com/lia-catreux
https://soundcloud.com/orqualyzer
https://soundcloud.com/rougeh0tel
https://soundcloud.com/snakeleserpent
https://soundcloud.com/talitaotovic
https://soundcloud.com/vibrisseduo

Cover & visual works by medieval_cortex 
https://www.instagram.com/medieval_cortex/

Mastering by Cédric iFa Oléon at IFL3Studios
ifl3studios@gmail.com

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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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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
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@forexamplejohn - Thousand Yard Stare
@privategrief-music - Always Wrong (Ft. @chainsawplease)
@4prilb0urn3 - Crying In The Club

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Taken from SBKT054: Gorgonn - Six Paths
Release date: 31st January

Artwork and layout by Akihide Monna
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

In Japanese Buddhism, it's believed that when someone dies they are ushered down one of six paths depending on the karma accumulated during their previous lives. A being might end up in the world of humans, animals, demigods, or celestials, but it's also possible to end up reborn as a pitiable hungry ghost, doomed to an existence of insatiable desire, or even worse - be sent to hell, or jigoku. Ruled over by the Japanese lord of death Emma-ō, this hell isn't quite like the Christian hell, it's closer to purgatory, and cleansing the karma can take hundreds of millions of years of excruciating torture in extreme cold or immense fire. Japanese bass alchemist Gorgonn takes these themes as the basis of his debut album "Six Paths", assembling a spiritually weighty set of futurist dubs that consider the possibility that our mortal domain might be closer to hell than we realize.

Gorgonn describes himself as a Japalien exile. He left the country of his birth almost two decades ago, and since then has been working tirelessly to formulate Jamaican dub, noise, techno, and no-wave into a sound he calls "sci-fi steppas". If you've not come across his name before, there's a good chance you've heard his reverberations. An established sound tech who's worked with The Bug, Hype Williams, Seefeel and others, he's part of G36 with Kevin Martin, Dokkebi Q with Kiki Hitomi, and a former member of Devilman with DJ Scotch Egg and Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe. Just last year he released the acclaimed "Disentegration Dubs" full-length alongside JK Flesh, the veteran producer who's best known for masterminding Godflesh. All this experience blesses Gorgonn's productions with remarkable sonic force, and "Six Paths" is his most crushing display yet, smelting cannonball bass and osmium beats into sharp-edged soundsystem weapons.

Look no further than opener 'Abyss' for evidence of this: psychedelic synths draw the mind away from the mortal realm, while tangled, distorted beats push us back down to earth, our faces crushed into the grit and gravel. Using tweaked sub bass and unsettling drones, Gorgonn lays out a cinematic backdrop for the album, drawing us into a world that's terrifying, viscous, and nauseatingly familiar. There's a militaristic roll to 'Without Beginning and End', a track that juxtaposes spacey halfstep thrusts with death metal distortion, footwork polyrhythms, and unearthly pads that addresses the crushing endlessness of jigoku. On 'Invisible' meanwhile, Gorgonn torches the skeletal remains of D&B, abstracting familiar rhythmic patterns into fuzzy, ritualistic cycles that sound both ancient and humming with prospective technology. But on the closing track 'Life as a Beast', it sounds as if Gorgonn has come to a conclusion, and in a flurry of acid squelches and doomy foghorn bass blasts, he seems to have accepted that being reincarnated as an animal might be the best anyone can hope for. Who knows, you might end up as a cat.

Six Paths

Gorgonn - When Can I Come Back?

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Turn it up and feel the impact.
Hit The Low End is pure rave energy — packed with heavy wobblers, punchy drums, and explosive drops designed to shake the floor and light up the crowd. This album captures the raw excitement of Jump Up Drum & Bass at full throttle, built for sound systems, late nights, and non-stop skanking.

From Rave Alert.wav to Rave Control.wav, every track delivers high-energy pressure, underground attitude, and that unmistakable Jump Up bounce. If you live for bass, reloads, and hands-in-the-air moments, this one’s for you.

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