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w1b0

Our seventh release is here and we are pleased to present a four track bomba EP by another dutch artist: w1b0. Wibo Lammerts is well known for his killer tracks released on labels such as Bass Agenda, Blind Allies or Hilltown Disco and also as a member of the Electro collective Transhumanism.

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w1b0 - HereToFore EP [OUT NOW DiscosAtonicos]-[DATO07]

Machine Music. 

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PumpJack Vol. 2

[PumpMe JackMe BuyMe]

PumpJack Four [Bass Agenda BA-086]

About a year ago, we were all sitting around wondering what ever happened to the jackin bassy house sound we were all fond of, and whining about the lack of fun but quality bassline music to smash at the rave. Well, AC Slater went and did something about it.

The title says it all on this new EP from Slates, a return to form from the producer who brought you “Jack Got Jacked,” “Take You” and “Banger." On Return of the Underground, Slater explores the punchy and wobbly bass sounds that he pioneered, pairing them with twists and turns and gunshots influenced by speed garage and those infectious classic UK bass anthems by Switch and Sinden.

This EP is four tracks of epic quality with not a sleeper in sight. The underground is back. Long live the underground.

AC Slater - Donkey Shake

“Probably my first attempt to create a different sound, something that would eventually lead to tracks like "Utopia Planitia" and "Zero Meridian". Named after a scene in the movie "Cloverfield".

Heretofore EP

A1 Hammer Down Protocol

Maelstrom
Adversarial Design
Release date: 20 October 2014
Release/catalogue number: ZONE18

1) Adversarial Design
2) Introduction to Entropy
3) Species
4) Genome

2014 is shaping up to be a big year from French producer Maelstrom, his collaboration with Louisahhh!!! was named Mixmag’s ‘Electro Track of the Month’ in February, whilst the ‘Discord’ EP found it’s way into the record bags of DJs from DFA’s Gavin Russon to Ed Banger’s Busy P. Now to cap a triumphant year he returns to The Hacker & Gesaffelstein’s ZONE Records with a new 4 track EP, ‘Adversarial Design’.

Pulsing with menace the title track ‘Adversarial Design’ transports us to the dark and grimy warehouses of Maelstrom’s misspent youth where he first discovered the joy of techno. ‘Introduction to Entropy’ meanwhile leads us away from the dancefloor, but this is chill out music only in the sense that its icey ambience is likely to send shivers down your spine as it’s synths glisten like frosted spiders’ webs in the morning light.

Pulling us back to the dark heart of clubland, ‘Species’ ups the ante with its driving beats, overdriven bassline and echoing synths that bounce around the track, disorientating and disarming the listener in equal measure. Finally ‘Genome’ propels us into the cold extremity of outer space, its sparse and desolate electro beat adorned by just the barest of accompaniments, the final death rattle of a sentient AI system frozen in orbit around Jupiter.

ZONE Records: www.zone-music.fr 
ZONE Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/ZONE/222770611121258 
Maelstrom: www.facebook.com/maelstrom.fr

Maelstrom - Genome (preview)

"Not so much an electro track; I would classify this as a more off-beat affair. Named after something James Hetfield of Metallica says in their documentary "Some Kind Of Monster", after their visit to St Quentin prison."

A2 Same Size Soul

Hailing from the ancient Russian city of Tambov, on the banks of the Tsna River, the youngest member of the трип family Vladimir Dubyshkin emerges for a potent debut solo EP. cheerful pessimist is an engaging package of highly anticipated deep, swirling techno tracks that many will recognise from label head Nina Kraviz’s DJ sets.

Diving straight into the core of a peak time set, Vladimir unleashes five formidable doses of unrestrained energy. Swollen sub bass and thumping percussion forge an unmistakable sense of physicality, whilst spiralling, amelodic leads run circles around the listener.

cheerful pessimist wastes no time warming up, plunging head first into the belly of the beast. A thrilling debut and an essential release for lovers of vibrant techno.

Out 17th December - vinyl & digital

cheerful pessimist

vladimir dubyshkin - I decided to fly

трип presents an optimistic rebirth in their ongoing series of concept albums. happy new year! we wish you happiness! is the theme for this double 12’’ of carefully curated breakneck techno and IDM. The eight-track package is a fantastical celebration of the new - with three new artists joining трип and a fresh new visual outlook for the label - dropping early in the New Year.

Continuing their mission to explore the inhospitable extremities of electronic music, happy new year! we wish you happiness! offers an otherworldly selection of rare sounds and abnormal structures from artists both familiar and unknown.

Buttechno opens the album with a concise but disorienting measure of mutating acid for his first appearance on трип, followed by ‘u ludei est pravo!’, a distorted swirl of uncanny acoustics from label boss Nina Kraviz and Snazzy, aka Dan Snazzelle of Nina’s favourite New York module makers Snazzy FX.

трип regulars PTU grace the B-side with a sparse techno cut full of layered details and animated leads, whilst absolute newcomer Carlota fuses mind bending cross-rhythms and sonic oddities on ‘your destination’. Then for her second track, ‘noise psychosis’ follows malfunctioning computers as they scatter through an abandoned landscape. Closing off the C-side, the youngest addition to the трип family Vladimir Dubyshkin marches with intent on glitching stomper ‘soviet film’.

Buttechno’s second entry ‘dubstepping progression fast’ is a mass of high speed drums, groaning sonic inflections and unnerving distortions. For the closing, Marc Acardipane as The Mover returns to the label with ‘track 1’. Eerie, conceptual and demanding, it’s everything трип stands for.

трип 23 ushers in a new visual era for the label. In Russia, New Year is the most anticipated celebration, with lots of snow, joy and dreams. The intricate crystalline hexagonal snow-like drawings are actually detailed 60s soviet era architectural plans for a school that was never built. The drawings were shown to Nina by the creators grandson. The futuristic look of these “industrial snow flakes” are the perfect visual compliment to the musical theme of the album.

happy new year! we wish you happiness! opens a welcome portal into further specimens of atypical electronic music and its multiplicitous manifestations, strange and sparkling in the darkness, like a dusting of snow over the city on the eve of the New Year.

happy new year! we wish you happiness!

nina kraviz vs snazzy - u ludei est pravo!

"An attempt to squeeze in classic Loleatta Holloway-esque NY House vocal stabs in an electro groove. Don't know if it works, but I am happy how it turned out."

Digital bonustrack - Oddball

"I like my electro groovy. Groovy, easy to mix, easy to blend. My sounds isn't very purist. Yeah I do like Drexciya, but I do not try to sound like them. The emphasis of my music making is always to create a nice base-groove, and go from there. I am particularly fond of this track, and very happy and grateful that it's getting a home on this record."

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B1 Fear Tactics

"A laid back and lush affair. With added stringsection courstesy of TFHats. Also from Utrecht."

B2 A.C.R.O.N.Y.M

MTVARE - KHIDI G2

PumpJack One. Original Mix.

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PumpJack Vol. 1

PumpJack One [Bass Agenda BA-083]

After contributions to 2019’s ‘locus error’ and 2018’s ‘happy new year! we wish you happiness!’ Carlota presents her debut EP on трип.

On ‘the bow’ EP Carlota exposes the subtleties of emotion, memory and time through various aural explorations.

Carlota - cool in the pool

Machine Music. 

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PumpJack Three [Bass Agenda BA-086]