1. Simstah - Fragmented 
Warm pads, subtle teases of piano and hearty vocals light up the sparse, but catchy intro from Berne homie Simstah, just to surprise on the drop when switching things to a a gritty bassline funk affair with irresistible groove. The classy track beautifully alternates between two poles, letting the dark contrast with the light and falling back from the leading heavyweight riff to its more emotional undertone again. 

2. OctaState - OMB
Our brother from St Gallen in the far East of Switzerland delivers his trademark simplistic, yet highly energetic style, starting off with vintage style synth samples and vocal chops, enough to build up great tension before unleashing a massive warping b-line sustained by an uberpowerful kick and snare rhythm - peak time tuneage guaranteed to shake the walls of any warehouse

3. OctaState - Trace Tech 
Upbeat minimalist Rave stomper laced with lovely dubbed-out bleeps and effects that is very much an updated hommage to the Tech Step sound dominating the international scene around the millennium years. Faceslapping snares, relentlessly driven forward by the poignant kickdrum and the chest-hitting Sub Bass with maximum impact on the drop, this is anthemic stuff made for the big sound rigs. 


4. Simstah - Memories
Laidback summertime flex for the sunlovers with fat slices of 90s headnod nostalgia to close off the EP with superpowered oldschool breakbeats, rumbling bass hits and musical swooshes of cut-up funk and soul bits, showing Simstahs deep roots in Hip Hop and its sampling culture. If you remember strolling home from La Cinta Beach in Sardinia, this would make the perfect soundtrack.

BBR001

Simstah - Fragmented (Preview)

30yr Producer/DJ/Radio Co-/Host of RaBass 95.6FM

Releases:
Turmalin (BOEY Audio) 2018
Gamma [FREE DL] 2017
Regular [FREE DL] 2017

Ryck from Berne, Switzerland plays different styles of D&B Jungle since '97, co-hosted the monthly D&B radioshow "RaBass 95.6 FM" from 2005 to 2018, co-launched the monthly https://soundcloud.com/bern-bass-podcast -series of episodes in 2014 and co-promoted the Liquid Session D&B-Eventseries at Dachstock Reitschule Berne until its demise in 2024. After co-releasing tracks with Konfront.Audio and FD on Soul Deep and Sunandbass Recordings, he launched the now dormant label https://bernbassrecords.bandcamp.com in 2020 that so far had three Bandcamp-only releases featuring Swiss artists exclusively. 
After many years playing at major events and venues all over Switzerland such as Mute, Bierhübeli or Rohstofflager, with highlights such as going b2b with LTJ Bukem in Basel or being featured in a Swiss D&B documentary, today Ryck is a regular DJ at DARKSIDE at Dachstock Berne, HOTBOX Zürich, REFLECTION Winterthur and VIVID Basel.

Events:
Sat, 20th of december 2025 @ TBA Berne
Sat, 27th of december 2025 w/UPK 165 & Deejay Xtra @ RETRO RAVE '88 - '93 Strictly Vinyl - Wohnzimmer Les Amis, Berne

Simstah from Bern, Switzerland is one half of Drum&Bass production outfit Konfront.Audio which is featured on a number of international labels such as Flexout, Demand, Fokuz, Syndrome, Soul Deep and Citrus to name a few. Simstah started out Djing at the very early age of ten. After being hooked on Drum&Bass in 1996 he branched out into production in 2008 and is currently working on several different studio projects. Simstahs musical taste encompasses the broad spectrum of Drum&Bass, but he likes to work on the more down-tempo side of things as well. He landed his first solo-release on Structured music in 2015 and has releases on Blendits Audio, Jazzsticks Recordings, Flight Pattern Rec., Dutty Audio, Syndrome Audio and Re:st Rec. . Apart from production Simstah is regularly playing at major Swiss Events such as Darkside at Dachstock Berne or Mute at Hive Zürich.

In 2021 Simstah started the Collision Sound Works project with his long time friend Chris Harmonics.  Sounds for Media. You can find the link below.

E-mail: simstahdnb@gmail.com

Releases on:

- Blendits Audio
- Jazzsticks Recordings
- Flight Pattern
- Midas Touch Recordings
- Soul Deep Recordings
- Dutty Audio
- Syndrome Audio
- Re:st
- Influenza Media
- Structured Music
- IN:DEEP Music
- T3K Recordings
- Drum Army
- Bern Bass Records
- Initiate Records

Forthcoming Releases on:

- Jazzsticks Recordings
- Drum Army
- Re:st

Drum&Bass made in Switzerland 
bernbassrecords.bandcamp.com

Bern Bass Records is the label continuation of Bern Bass Podcast and aims to feature Swiss Drum&Bass artists exclusively 
soundcloud.com/bern-bass-podcast

3rd release:
https://bernbassrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bbr003-collective-mind-ep

2nd release: https://bernbassrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bbr002-dayni-naked-ufo-ep

Initial release: 21.11.2020 by Simstah & OctaState
https://bernbassrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bbr001-simstah-octastate

Contact: bernbassrecords@gmx.ch