Taken from the SDEM - Vortices - Album
Release Date July 28th 2023.
Audio mastering: Miles Whitaker
Artwork: SODA

Vinyl // CD // Cassette // Digital // Streaming 

Steeped in Northern England's post bleep+bass mutations the album expands & finesses SDEM's dynamic & forward-facing approach.

Vortices

SDEM - SKRUNGE

music from the pond, for the pond

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album: https://soundcloud.com/inner-most/sets/yaka-somewhere-in-that-water
buy: https://inner-most.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-in-that-water

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music: @yakayaka
mastering by @inner-most
art: insta: bugdumb

Somewhere In That Water

Gather

a leaf let be

XENIA REAPER - qx5136

Pool

Testo BC Mashup

What happens when dubby drum & bass meets Dischord’s post-punk colossus Black Eyes? “Break” is the new EP from NY’s Relaxer, the long running alias of Daniel Martin-McCormick (Black Eyes, Ital and co-founder of Dripping), and it signals a decisive shift in his music.

Prompted by friends to write a drum & bass live set just as Black Eyes was reuniting, the results didn’t quite fit the d&b genre. But it felt right. Quick, nimble, with room for the ferocity of his favorite post punk and some of the spaciousness of dub. Evergreen vibes, really, but seen from a fresh perspective.

Honed over a period of two years, the five tracks on “Break” fuse Relaxer’s careening, technoid sounds with free jazz-tinted drum programming, snarling sound design and spacious echo trails. It’s a perfect fit for 29 Speedway’s future-facing, exploratory anti-genre approach to electronics. The tape features two remixes by the singular DJ Marcelle and mastering by Dubplates & Mastering. Daniel tells his side of the story below:

“Two years ago my friends who run the drum ‘n’ bass party Headznite asked me to write a live set for a Ukraine fundraiser they were putting on. Right at the same time, my punk band Black Eyes was having our first practices in 20 years, which meant I was re-training my body to scream at top volume and high registers and to lay into my guitar at full force. In those same months, Dripping was forming and ideas were flying for crazy, boundary-pushing lineups. I had just finished writing the meditative composition suite “In Softening Air” and was feeling the call; it was time to let it rip.

Everything poured into that live set for Headznite, and a new style was born. Relaxer had begun as a decisively techno project, but pushing the BPMs and working in drum breaks tweaked the formula enough to cut any lingering ties with that ethos.

Over the next two years I kept on it, writing more, recording, pushing the technique and exploring the sound. “Break” is the first time any of this work has been made public. Sometimes a detour can hack your brain. My first dance 12” as Ital was supposed to be a one-off side project to my punk band and it ended up taking over my life. Now punk music is calling asking for the debt to be repaid. Fuck it.”

Written & recorded by Daniel Martin-McCormick, 2022-2024.
Mixed by Daniel Martin-McCormick & Sol León, with assistance from Sphente Shepherd.
Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering.
Art & design by Brian Mark.
Thanks to Headznite for the prompt.

Jackals

@jonnnah
The final katharsis release of 2024 is the 26-track compilation “Physical Force” featuring a wide range of affiliated artists from both the international and local Copenhagen electronic music scene. As the title hints, Physical Force delves into the visceral, bodily aspects of music, inviting its contributors to explore the theme of movement as a central element in their compositions. Each artist was encouraged to focus on rhythm, groove, energy, and the physicality of sound, which resulted in drum-heavy release from start to finish. While there is a consistent emphasis on rhythm and a bodily connection to the music, the tracks vary widely in style and sonic texture, ranging from big melodic anthems, gritty experimental techno, heavy jungle bangers, and beyond.

released December 23, 2024

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

Jonnnah - Too late, but thanks

STRIKE {LIL YACHTY}

2×20-ish minutes of ambient music, written, produced and performed by Warzou.

Pumpkin orange cassette tapes. Clear smokey grey cases with screen printed clear cases and boxed-corner cellophane wraps.

Produced in the U.K.
Surely limited to 30 copies.

Thanks to Aurélien, Easy Jet, Brave, BlackHole, Mayumi and Otto.
Recorded in 2024 at © Big Science Studio.

ZZZPH014 - A Side (snippet)

@wtnsmusic

WTNS announces the release of her new EP, vidéal, an experimental and bass-heavy exploration of the fluid boundary between ideals and perceived reality. Entirely self-produced, performed and designed by the Franco-Serbian artist, vidéal is a sonic journey travelling from neofolk, trip-hop, to ambient and club music that blends introspection, instinct, and technicalexperimentation.

production/performance: WTNS
mastering: Maximilien Dudemaine @ Sodasound

premiere: WTNS - myopic brain [self-release]

https://soundcloud.com/fetid_gruppe

www.retreatradio.net/fetid

Listen 24/7 at www.retreatradio.net

ZZZPH014 - A Side (snippet)

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