ZEROTWO is Black Shapes’ second statement—a tightly engineered techno EP where four distinct voices sculpt smoke-drenched, late-night architectures of tension and release, balancing ferocity and control inside a fully immersive, hallucinatory soundspace.
Author: Will Wonks
Sematic4 :: Different Sky (Bass Agenda)
Channelling frozen tundra, sci-fi vastness and disciplined electro power, Sematic4 returns to Bass Agenda Recordings with Different Sky—a glacial, body-locking long player of pure-form machine […]
Acid Kult :: Silent Mantra EP (Perimeter Junk)
Oliver Dodd’s debut Silent Mantra EP for Perimeter Junk is a taut, club-ready statement of intent: three lean acid tools that prioritize pressure, discipline, and groove over spectacle, letting controlled tension and physical rhythm speak louder than excess.
Hellacopta :: Collapse EP (Onset Audio)
Hellacopta’s Collapse EP on Onset Audio is a ferocious 118 BPM industrial punk-funk statement—half-time, machine-tooled techno that balances surgical control with explosive, rib-rattling chaos.
James Shinra :: Shinra Electro Company Vol 2 (Shinra Electro Company)
James Shinra stands with one foot deep in electro’s 45-year lineage and the other stepping boldly forward, delivering a fiercely physical yet future-facing EP that treats tradition as fuel, not refuge.
shizukesa :: destroy//destroy (Self Released)
shizukesa’s destroy//destroy reframes lo-fi as a disciplined study in motion and restraint, where stuttering rhythms, minimal structures, and carefully rationed momentum turn negative space into the record’s primary expressive force.
Florian Förster :: Tyche (Pulse State)
From its opening seconds, Tyche establishes Florian Förster as a producer of rare fluency and restraint, delivering deeply crafted funk and machine soul with a calm, assured authority that never reaches for effect, only precision.
Melisa Aller :: DESTRUKTION (Clara / Blattklang)
Melisa Aller’s DESTRUKTION manifests as a hostile, future-ruined sonic environment where precision sound design becomes a vessel for aftermath, endurance, and the quiet violence of consequence.
Joachim Spieth :: Blended (Affin)
Joachim Spieth’s Blended is a slow-burn study in restraint, where cavernous low-end, suspended atmospheres, and negative space converge into a deeply immersive, late-night listening experience.
Simona Zamboli :: Requiem (Detroit Underground)
Requiem is Simona Zamboli’s unflinching musical meditation on suffering and creativity, transforming grief, resilience, and radical acceptance into a starkly beautiful electronic passage through life’s darker seasons.
pdqb :: Mutations, Modifications, and Other Alterations (Synaptic Cliffs)
Berlin’s pdqb unveils a double-pack of remixes, mapping the mechanics of robotic grooves across a hand-picked roster of producers.

















