MODERN COLLAPSE - USUAL CASE SCENARIO
(DAWN014)
100 limited copies
CD
@modern-collapse
Produced by Gabriel De Sercey & Hugo Fabry
Mastered by @lastrackqlf
Photos by Melchior Tersen
Design by Hajj
Dawn 2022

Modern Collapse - Rush

Blender

https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/blistering

Defanged

https://plasmasources.bandcamp.com/album/project-researcher

Hot on the heels of nosync’s ‘Soundsystem Music’, Plasma Sources is proud to present @betonbrutt ‘Project Researcher’, a 4-track offering of no nonsense, dancefloor-ready electronics which take influence from experimental club music, grime and musique concrète.

Having previously released standout EPs on CYTE Records, Beton Brut has built a reputation for delivering distinctively sparse and heavy-hitting productions which have garnered support from the likes of Mumdance, LCY and Walton. On ‘Project Researcher’, Beton Brut takes his sound and develops it even further.

In the producer’s own words, the EP is “about materials - raw, straight and to the point”. This approach is evident from the opening track ‘Tom Machine’, as ASMR-inducing squelches are bottled inside an environment which bubbles with molecular detail, and pitted against clinically arranged percussion sequences.

Up next, ’Lighter’ pulses with Beton Brut’s signature blend of grime-influenced bass-weight and snatches of pirate-radio MC chatter. ‘EMCA’ doubles down on this approach, with a more identifiable rhythm sure to keep heads bouncing at peak time.

‘LSTS’ rounds things off with an approach to bass programming which feels like listening to a biological entity undergoing a process of evolution and regression. The palette feels viscous and shifting here, with abstracted percussion and gunshots populating this sparse environment.

As an EP, ‘Project Researcher’ feels like the auditory equivalent of observing a chemical process inside a petri-dish. Beton Brut sets himself up as a scientist on this release, meticulously collecting individual samples from the deep corners of YouTube, introducing these into abstracted environments and observing the reaction.

Releases May 13, 2024

Written, Produced & Mixed by Zach Buckley 
Mastered by HYPNA 
Artwork by Joh000 // Jose Hernández

Tom Machine

We are very excited to welcome Klahrk to the fold on ACEN059. The London-based artist & founder of Ware Collective follows up releases with the likes of Activia Benz, Genot Centre and SFX. On the Z2 EP, he delivers four atmospheric slow-fast club cuts, exploring the lowest depths of the frequency spectrum.

Klahrk - Z2 [ACEN059]

Plasma Sources marks its 5th release with Cortical’s debut EP, Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes. Pulling from both the extreme fringes of experimental music and the minimalistic tendencies of the UK bass continuum, the duo’s much-awaited first release acts as the locus point between dance floor sensibility and sonic exploration in its most immersive, visceral sense. 

Cortical are world builders first and foremost. With backgrounds rooted as much in the visual arts as audio, the duo’s live AV show has already garnered critical acclaim after standout performances at Sonár and Lunchmeat. Coupling this with their list of past collaborators - which includes the likes of Holly Herndon, Arca and Skrillex - and it becomes easy to see why there’s so much hype around Cortical right now. Indeed, this EP is the culmination of months of building excitement amongst those in the know, as fragments of raw footage captured from Cortical’s shows begin to amass on social media. 

Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes itself feels like the auditory equivalent of a fragmentary existence forming, fragmenting and reforming again. Noise and distortion act as integral threads throughout the EP, but on Telúrica, they takes centre stage. Brittle percussive calls give way to a thick wall of bass-laden, cinematic viscerality which hits the listener almost as hard as the ensuing rhythmic carnage which erupts halfway through. 
Mortar, immediately fires away into more rhythmic madness, as elements of dubstep, metal and grime coalesce into blasted kick patterns which sound like the contractions of an eldritch machine’s digestive tract. Noise-tainted bass tones take over, tearing in and out of reality as Mortar progresses into deeper territory.

Up next, Shiny Surgery provides a respite, with electro-tinged drippings of lasers and wet gloops lifting the listener into a more sanitised and lighter space than its predecessors. Cortical’s extreme musical influences are still at play here with their signature eroded bass weight and splintered percussion on display, but in a more restrained sense. As the halfway point comes in, so too does the most introspective section of Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes, as cinematic floating pads de-sterilise the space. 

Finishing things up is the namesake of the EP and arguably the most anthemetic listen of the release. Demented vocal chants call out across a disintegrating claustrophobic space, before grime kicks and fragmented breakbeat loops explode into existence, demanding full dance floor attention.

Cortical - Mortar

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Cortical delves deeper into its sonic exploration with the 'Wretched Patterns and Terrible Mistakes' EP. Out on Plasma Sources.

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Max Dahlhaus – ONEIRIC [OMB015]

Berlin-based producer and audiovisual artist Max Dahlhaus returns on the label two year after his last Over My Body debut release with a dream in Sound.

A system of sound built from fragmented memories, shifting rhythms, and digital distortions. ONEIRIC exists in the space between the organic and the synthetic, between structure and collapse. Here, cello strings vibrate in artificial landscapes, field recordings blur into machine pulses, and AI-generated voices attempt—futilely—to replicate human emotion. It’s a record untethered from genre, operating instead as a dream-state where time signatures fracture, grooves morph, and textures breathe.

The title ONEIRIC—meaning “relating to dreams”—perfectly encapsulates the LP’s unstable logic. Like a lucid dream, the music moves with both intention and unpredictability. Each track is its own self-contained world, but together they form an evolving structure that reprograms itself as it plays.Max Dahlhaus builds this sonic architecture through an array of techniques: recording cello and breaking glass, capturing field sounds, feeding AI-generated elements into Ableton, and letting the collision of these methods shape the outcome. Vocalists CATNAPP and Ayu Okakita appear as ghostly presences—human touchpoints in a landscape that is constantly shifting. ONEIRIC is as much a soundtrack for the body as it is for the mind—cinematic in scope, but wired for the club, where rhythm dictates movement and sound overwhelms space.
credits
releases May 2, 2025

Written & Produced by Max Dahlhaus
Masterd by Max Dahlhaus
Artwork by Xtrux
https://overmybody.bandcamp.com/album/oneiric

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Dreams

Dux n Bass - Dreams (Coming Soon)

offline type beat

RYLLZ - Purgatory

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