@worst_rec is born during an obscure weekend in Italy a few years ago. Long-awaited, time to mature ideas with the hope of endless tomorrows.
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Worst Records

Worst Records opens up a new chapter of its musical odyssey with WORST LTD, the brand new sublabel dedicated to intriguing ambient explorations and abstract experiments released in small quantities on CD.

For this first opus, C. Coiffure is back among us with a deeply conscious concept-album. Born from the idea that mankind is the antithesis of harmony in its relation to nature, and considering that other lifeforms manage to create a balance between them and their environment that we often struggle to fully understand, C. Coiffure pays homage to the organic beauty of these biotopes. « Freefloat » is a sonic continuum where electronics and field recording melt in each other, without any real interruption, creating almost autonomous structures and symbiosis that siphonophores, bee hives and ant citadels can incarnate as well. 
Conceived as a whole, this first album of the new catalogue isn't limited by the illusion of an accomplished perfection and instead puts an awakening light on the nobility of happy accidents and the invisible harmony that surrounds us. An ode to life to start a new sonic saga. 

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Worst Records ouvre un nouveau chapitre de son épopée musicale avec WORST LTD, son premier sublabel qui sera consacré à recueillir d'intriguantes explorations ambient et autres expérimentations contemplatives et abstraites édités en petite quantité en CD. 

Pour ce premier opus, C. Coiffure est de retour parmi nous avec rien de moins qu'un concept-album tressé telle une fable écologique. Partant du constat que la vie à l'échelle humaine est l'antithèse de l'harmonie avec son environnement, et que d'autres formes de vie parviennent, elles, à évoluer avec une cohérence et un équilibre qui nous échappent, C. Coiffure a souhaité rendre hommage à la beauté organique de ces biotopes. « Freefloat » se présente ainsi comme un continuum sonore où électronique et field recording s'entrelacent sans interruption réelle, formant des structures et des symbioses presque autonomes, à l'image des ruches, des siphonophores, des colonies de fourmis. 
Conçu comme un tout, ce premier album du catalogue ne s'enferme pas pour autant dans la finitude d'une perfection artificielle, et donne à voir la noblesse de l'imprévu dans la création ainsi que la délicate et invisible cohésion qui règne autour de nous sans que nous n'en ayons le plus souvent conscience. Une ode à la vie qui inaugure une nouvelle saga sonore. 

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01 - Croissance Sauvage
02 - Ninefold Symmetry
03 - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn
04 - Cave Moss
05 - Siphonophores
06 - Increased Mutualism
07 - ALGII
08 - Worshipping Anthills
09 - Freefloat
10 - Dreamers At Work
11 - Weeping Willow’s Celestial Glow

Written and mixed by Lucas Marciniak 
Mastered by Guillaume Lespinasse 
Artwork by Fauxbits999 
Words by Alexandre Aelov

WORSTLTD001 - C. Coiffure - Freefloat (previews)

What makes a being ? What tends to be, always, and yet remains never achieved ? @jonnnah puts on this set of imagination many parts, many pieces, many elements. In this ninth release on Worst Records, the Lyon based musician gathers all the impressions defining this nebula. « Mental & Physical » is a collection above all things. We talk about a collection of influences. Industrialized trip-hop, dubstep for concrete spaces, new-age-infused ambient daydreams, links are hazy but incarnate. A constant rotation, between extasy and uneasy meditation, shapes this mass of artefacts that seems almost involuntary as they dig so deep into instinctiveness. At the root of this first magmatic opus lies a years long work in progress, a sonic research, the attempt to make live this body of vapour which is the music in becoming. It's a listening with no answer, but the pulse is vivid and vital.

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Qu'est ce qui fait un être ? Qu'est ce qui tend à l'être, toujours et pourtant jamais achevé ? @jonnnah pose sur la table de l'imaginaire des parties, des pièces, des éléments. Avec ce neuvième volet de Worst Records, le lyonnais liste toutes les impressions qui dessinent cette nébuleuse. « Mental & Physical » est avant tout une collection. Collection d'influences tout d'abord. Trip-hop industrialisante, dubstep pour tunnels de béton, ambient subtilement new-age, les ponts sont ténus mais réels et palpables. Collection de sens également. Une rotation permanente, entre extase et recueillement inquiet, sculpte cet amas incertain d'artefacts qu'on dirait presque involontaires tant ils creusent dans l'instinctif. A la génèse de ce premier opus magmatique se trouve un work in progress de plusieurs années, une recherche sonore, la tentative de faire vivre ce corps toujours vaporeux de la musique en devenir. Une écoute sans réponses, mais à la pulsation vitale intacte et organique.

A1 - Friendly Tribute 
A2 - Binary Life
A3 - Whispering The Past
B1 - Insomnia Never Ends
B2 - Too Many Colors In The Wood

Written and mixed by Pierre Paumier
Mastered by Paul "Pilah" Kozmik at Paul's Boutique studio
Artwork by Andria
Words by Alexandre Aelov

WORST009 - Jonnnah - Mental & Physical (previews)

Greetings from the notorious suburbs of Europe.
Postcode - 11000

Tracklist
Andria - Bedroom
OG Tom - Turnt
Stevie Whisper - Obedial
Rusmir - Sestra
33.10.3402 - Stars Turned Fast

Release date - September 1, 2021.

All Tracks Mastered by:
Goran Simonoski at La Plant Studio
Obedial Mixed by: 
Goran Simonoski at La Plant Studio
Illustration by:
Dušan Rajić
Cover Layout by:
Stevie Whisper

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YES004 - V/A - Third World Capital (Preview)

If you read this, we have made contact.

You are not alone.

Life is present beyond your physical realm and senses.

Our quantum settings are incompatible with yours. 
Our physical form cannot be expressed in your dimension. 

By abducting a Human, and reshaping his senses to ours, we are able to reach Earth lifeforms and beyond.

 His name is Androne.

The following transmissions are made in the 5th Dimension to be deployed in Earth Realm (Dimension Z-67).

A1 - Contact
A2 - Abducted By Aliens
B1 - Abducted By Aliens (A Strange Wedding Hypergravity Remix)
B2 - Signs Of Life

Written and mixed by Jerome Boutin
Mastered at Enisslab by Neel
Artwork by Andria
Print by Gros Oeuvre

Signs Of Life

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WORST010 - Androne - Signs of Life (previews)

Years have passed. 
Several lifeforms digested and built symbiosis relationship with the Freefloat.

Landscape have changed.
Through adaptation and mutation, the life-swarm erased the scars at the surface of the Earth.

Climax has been reached.

Eternal love to the artists who accepted and took part in this adventure. 
Aa Sudd, BZMC, Glass, Jan Loup, Jonnnah, Jonquera, Katatonic Silentio, Myako, Plants Army Revolver, Space Drums Meditation, Varuna, Yushh.
They broadened the stylistic borders of the initial material and pushed further the ideas and what we expected for Freefloat to be.

01 - Increased Mutualism (Varuna Remix)
02 - Cave Moss (Space Drums Meditation Remix)
03 - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Yushh Remix)
04 - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Katatonic Silentio Remix)
05 - Weeping Willow's Celestial Glow (Jonnnah Remix)
06 - Cave Moss (Glass Remix)
07 - Weeping Willow’s Celestial Glow (Jonquera grattait sous le saule)
08 - Cave Moss (Jan Loup Natural Anarchy Remix)
09 - Dreamers At Work (Live Version)
10 - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Myako Remix)
11 - ALGII (Plants Army Revolver Remix)
12 - Cave Moss (Aa Sudd Liquid Bog Remix)
13 - Increased Free Dream (BZMC Remix)

Mastered by Guillaume Lespinasse
Artwork by Fauxbits999
Print by Gros Oeuvre

Freefloat Remixes

WORSTLTD002 - C. Coiffure - Freefloat Remixes (previews)

TL Premiere #836 (2022.02.11) : The Droid - Merge [Palms Out Sounds]

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For this 34th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by the Electro DJ/Producer originating from North Wales, Based in Leeds "The Droid" titled ‘Merge’ from the forthcoming Charity Compilation "End Broken Windows Vol​.​1" on the New York based label founded by Haldan Blecher in 2004 : Palms Out Sounds.

"End Broken Windows Vol​.​1" will be available from February 25, 2022 in Limited Editon Cassette (150 copies) + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://palmsout.bandcamp.com/album/end-broken-windows-vol-1

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Release Info :

Various Artists - End Broken Windows Vol​.​1

On February 25th, Palms Out will release the first in a series of compilations on cassette and digital. Titled plainly: "End Broken Windows", 100% of the proceeds of the series will go to charity in an effort to raise awareness about broken windows policing methods. Specifically, I hope this project contributes in some small way to spreading the word about the ways in which policing and prosecuting low-level offenses serves only as a way of terrorizing and traumatizing vulnerable populations, without achieving the intended goal of preventing violent crime. The theoretical premise of broken windows policing is fundamentally flawed, and woefully misguided -- there is no evidence that focusing police power on low level violations like sex work, loitering, minor vandalism, petit theft, minor drug offenses, etc. leads to any reduction in violent crime. The practice must end.

Each volume of the series will benefit a different charity doing work to counteract the effects of broken windows policing; all it really does is criminalize being black, trans, queer, young, unhoused, etc. The first volume will benefit the SBB National Sex Worker Bail Fund (swopbehindbars.org/donate). Sex workers are often intersectionally and inordinately affected by broken windows policing, and should never be forced to spend a single night in jail merely for exercising agency over their own bodies.

Musically and conceptually, this record is inspired by a place where broken windows policing is disproportionately felt: the subway/metro. I gave all of the artists the vague prompt to write music inspired by the NYC subway system -- and the results were expectedly varying. For this volume, I pursued artists who have been generally exploring midtempo dance music without focus on 4 to the floor drum patterns. The result was a collection of largely breakbeat-oriented songs, some with direct classic NYC & Detroit electro references, others with more melodic and euphoric UK hardcore inspiration, and others still that kind of split the difference between modern bass and Baltimore club (for lack of better descriptors).

Featuring: Max Ulis( CA), Khari McClelland (US), Carli (SE), Disaffected (UK), Garneau (CA), Varum (NL), Martyn Bootyspoon (CA), Lobec (UK), A.dixen (DK), AVIVX (KZ), SUMORAI (SE), Ubahnrider (DE), The Droid (UK).

Cassette release out Feb 25th.

Tracklist :
01. A1. Disaffected - Sublimation
02. A2. Lobec - Timeless
03. A3. Max Ulis - Detroit Tale (ft. Khari McClelland)
04. A4. A.dixen - Broken Skin
05. A5. SUMORAI & AVIVX - Flooressence
06. B1. Carli - XP10
07. B2. M.Bootyspoon - Ghosted
08. B3. Garneau - Jupiter
09. B4. Varum - NHK
10. B5. Ubahnrider - Vehicular Inspection
11. B6. The Droid - Merge

Mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Deep. 

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Follow The Droid :
Bandcamp : www.thedroiduk.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/thedroiduk
Instagram : www.instagram.com/thedroiduk
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/thedroiduk

Follow Palms Out Sounds :
Bandcamp : www.palmsout.bandcamp.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/palmsout
Instagram : www.instagram.com/palmsoutsounds
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/palmsout
Twitter : www.twitter.com/palmsout
Website : www.palmsout.net

End Broken Windows Vol​.​1

Merge

TL PREMIERE : The Droid - Merge [Palms Out Sounds]

PGM-014 - Ultradyne

Seasoned heads may already be aware of dynArec. The project of one Chris Kalera, dynArec has been a force in the electro underground for more than two decades at this point, releasing numerous records and helming the Vaporwave label to boot. He has marked himself out as a purveyor of top-quality machine-funk during his career, a producer who runs with the spirit of Detroit to craft club traxx of wicked intensity.

After a period of relative quiet in the late 2010s, Kalera has roared back into action recently, with a run of releases emerging in 2021 and 2022 across labels including Cultivated Electronics, Superluminal and Umwelt’s New Flesh. Now the Vaporwave Records founder takes his Central Processing Unit bow with the Force In The Sum EP, and his hard-hitting electro style is immediately at home on the Sheffield imprint.

Force In The Sum commences with ‘A Dispatching Role’, a track where eerie vocal snippets and delay-drenched anti-melodies cluster around a volatile low-end wobble and crisp 808 snap. It’s equal-parts ominous and invigorating, kind of like the Thom Yorke of ‘Kid A’ times if he’d been granted an audience with Gerald Donald. ‘A Dispatching Role’ is prime slalom music, and the mood carries through to following cut ‘Stabilized’. After a stentorian opening of unerring kick drums and fizzing keys, ‘Stabilized’ soon blooms into a retro-futurist robo-electro joint which comes off like a more textured iteration of Unit Moebius.

Things open up a little more on first B-side ‘Canonical Form’ - at least, they do before the track’s pretty opening flushes are interrupted by a vicious blurting bassline reminiscent of, say, Jensen Interceptor. There are no broken beats here, the track’s unyielding four-on-the-floor thud pushing the joint a little more towards techno mode than the A-side jams. This straight beat remains on Force In The Sum closer ‘Classification Of Elements’, with sputtering hi-hats playing off the groovy pings of the synths to devilishly danceable effect. Slip-sliding saw sounds and spine-tingling, almost ‘X-Files’-esque lead lines enter to up the ante, but the mood shifts after dynArec starts to lace lush chordal stabs and delay-drenched modular runs through the track. All the while, a voice repeats the mantra “what matters is the sound” - and who could deny the truth in this statement?

dynArec’s prolific recent run continues with the four track Central Processing Unit debut Force In The Sum. Tense, expansive and worldbuilding, this is wickedly danceable electro done right. Truly, what matters is the sound.

RIYL: Jensen Interceptor, Cardopusher, Cygnus, Silicon Scally

dynArec - Force In The Sum

TL Premiere #1113 (2022.12.01) : Francois Dillinger - Overlapped [EC Underground]

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For this 311th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by the Detroit based Electro & Techno producer "Francois Dillinger" titled ‘Overlapped’ from his forthcoming EP "-40.715921" on the record label from South Florida : EC Underground.

The full release comes in 2 parts, with a limited edition of 200 black vinyls.
Release date : December 17, 2022
Delivery : end-March / mid-April, 2023

Pre-order : 
▶︎ https://ecunderground.bandcamp.com
▶︎ https://fdbeardd.bandcamp.com/album/40715921-ecu006

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Release Info :

-40.715921 [ECU006] by FRANCOIS DILLINGER

FRANCOIS DILLINGER uses subtlety and forcefulness in this release in order to create a cohesive aesthetic. "-40.715921" is experimental in its own right, with the sounds of delayed acoustic arrangements building slowly and interweaving to create an immersive atmosphere. The full EP is fast-paced, but not in an overly frenetic way, and nevertheless enjoyable.

"Overlapped" is a bold statement. It opens with a bass-heavy groove that is heavily syncopated and often delayed. The beat becomes heavy and raucous, with swaths of distorted synth roars that are somewhat dark. The music maintains its intensity of experimental noise as it moves from one side to the other. Don't let the silence fool you; this music is loud and packed with a punch!

Tracklist:

1. “A1 - The Pilgrimage” [Vinyl Only]
2. “A2 - Tangential” [Vinyl Only]
3. “B1 - Message Failed To Send” [Vinyl Only]
4. “B2 - When It Was Free” [Vinyl Only]

5. Overlapped [Digital Only]
6. Need I Say More? [Digital Only]
7. Francois Dillinger, Lord Jalapeños - Concrete Pyramid [Digital Only]

Written And Produced By Ben Worden, aka Francois Dillinger
Mastering by Brendan Zacharias, Cirrus Audio
Artwork by Ashely Worden

© ℗ EC Underground LLC 2022-2023, All rights reserved, ECU006-ECU111

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Follow Francois Dillinger :
Facebook : www.facebook.com/fdbeardd
Instagram : www.instagram.com/fdbeardd
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/fdbeardd

Follow EC Underground :
ECU Store & website : www.ecunderground.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/ecunderground
Instagram : www.instagram.com/ecundergroundlabel
Playlists & sets : www.soundcloud.com/moicflo/sets
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/ecunderground
WECU Broadcast channel : https://mixlr.com/wecu/events

-40.715921

Overlapped

TL PREMIERE : Francois Dillinger - Overlapped [EC Underground]

Dog Balls - Tell It To My Dog - Clear Memory 009

Strange Submissions from an extraterrestrial breed. Half Dog, Half Human, Half Racketeer. Hayter and Milium, the ones to first witness these outlandish sounds, present Dog Balls - Tell It To My Dog. A 6-track EP made by and for the shapeshifter in each of us. Dark and bittersweet hymns of loved ones long lost, robotic odes to fetching and synth-laden dialectics on shoplifting. A once in a lifetime offer. Be quick for their ship will come.

A1 - We Play Ball
A2 - Gelée Royale
A3 - Tell It To My Dog
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B1 - The Dog Of Men
B2 - Bonnetje
B3 - A Ship Will Come

@lakehayter | @milium
Release Date 10-02-2023
Artwork by Sara Dervan
Photo by Iwan P
Mastered by @edmx
Distributed by @bordellodistribution

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Dog Balls - Tell It To My Dog - Clear Memory 009

Premiere of the track "Aller Sans Retour" by the French artist Gustave Retour, taken from his upcoming release on Big Science Records.
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Artist: @gustave_retour
Track: "Aller Sans Retour"
Title: "Cérémonie En Vert"
Label: @bigscience
Format: Cassete + Digital
Mastering, Design by Warzou
Release date: September 6, 2023
Pre-order: https://bigsciencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-r-monie-en-vert

Premiere: Gustave Retour - Aller Sans Retour [BGSC2310]

I.T.Z - Dfrnt
SIRDUBs005

releases April 18, 2024

Music by: I.T.Z
Artwork by: Zzaeln

Follow I.T.Z:
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/itznotme6?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
BANDCAMP ARTIST PAGE: itznotme.bandcamp.com
SOUNDCLOUD: on.soundcloud.com/aktVnQcykfaek6H66
MIXCLOUD: www.mixcloud.com/_iTz/

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linktr.ee/sirdubmuzik

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I.T.Z - Dfrnt - SIRDUBs005

Music for imaginary dancefloors that don't exist. Get out while you still can. Sell me all your 303's and 808's.

Buy the tape here:

https://djchupacabras.bandcamp.com/album/acid-freq-visions

Te Gusta Bailar?

Like a shadowplay for endtimes.

Tamburi Neri, a duo from Milan, joins Worst Records' strange catalogue with their debut LP. Soberly named « Ombre », it's an organic entity filled with worry. If we discover again with pleasure their signature scarce and elegant style which drew the tension of their first releases, everything here is sewn as a delicate echo chamber. Hiroko's voice responds to a relentless male spoken word, with invocations sometimes vaporous and sometimes lyrical. It's a poetic canvas suspended over the void and balanced by hypnotic rythms on one side and synthetic avant-garde minimalism on the other.
This eighth pannel of Worst's catalogue sets itself as a contemporanean piece far away from genre identifications and beautifully possessed in equal freshness and enlightening maturity.

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Comme un clair-obscur pour temps morts.

Tamburi Neri, duo milanais, rejoint le drôle de catalogue de Worst Records avec rien moins que leur premier LP. Le sobrement nommé « Ombre » est un objet aussi organique que pétri d'inquiétude. Si l'on retrouve ici leur style parfois minimaliste et décharné à l'élégance toute arty qui faisait le ferment de leurs premiers disques, c'est une chambre d'écho à l'incroyable finesse qu'ils déploient ici. Au spoken word tissant le canevas des tableaux de chaque track répond la voix de Hiroko, tantôt invocatrice tantôt fantomatique ou bien lyrique. Une trame poétique toujours portée par un équilibre ténu entre rythmes hypnotiques et minimalisme synthétique aux accents d'avant-garde des temps passés. Ce huitième volet du catalogue de Worst se pose ainsi comme une pièce contemporaine inclassable et habitée, dont la fraîcheur n'a décidément d'égale que la maturité lumineuse. 

A1 - Le Porte d'Incanto
A2 - Giochi d'Ombre
B1 - Ama
B2 - Sono Perfetto
C1 - Il Buio
C2 - Barritono
D1 - This is the End
D2 - Le Labbra

Recorded and mixed at Prisma Sonoro Studio in Milano
Mastered at Enisslab by Neel
Artwork by Lena Macka
Words by Alexandre Aelov

WORST008 - Tamburi Neri & Hiroko - Ombre (previews)

2020 was a year like no other. Thankfully, Shipwrec is slowly returning to normality. Not only is the label back to releasing form, but also the roster of artists is being expanded with the superb addition of Caron. Known for his releases on labels like 030303 and Brokntoys, Caron debuts on Shipwrec with a four tracker of sheer quality. Off-kilter percussion introduces the breathy pads and grandeur of “Ancestry,” a piece of dreamy chords and acid undertones. The haunting “Common Sense” follows. Drums stagger next spectral vocals in this chilling electro piece. A similar stalking note continues on the flip with the 303 soaked “Lost.” A steady kick offers a bedrock from which looming keys, bitter squawk and dancefloor paranoia take hold. Hopeful shades arrive with the brilliance of “Ruins.” From industrial percussion and metallic rinses, a deep and intricate finale forms to bring "Shattered" to a terrific close.

Release date vinyl: 8th of march 2021
Release date digital: 12th of march 2021
https://clone.nl/item63421.html

Cat# Ship067
Written & produced by Caron
Artwork by Studio Another Day
Distributed by Clone Distribution
© Shipwrec 2020

Caron - Shattered - Ship067

Run by @lesfilsdejacob

Worst Records is born during an obscure weekend in Italy a few years ago. Long-awaited, time to mature ideas with the hope of endless tomorrows.

contact : contact @ positiveeducation.fr

WORST009 - Jonnnah - Mental & Physical (previews)

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