Changing shape for their third outing, ZEROTHREE from Rome’s Black Shapes shifts away from the straight four-to-the-floor techno of the previous release m into something way deeper and more essentially elastic.
Tag: Bass
WONKS :: Shadow Tactics EP (Zoitrax)
Shadow Tactics maintains a focus on structure and texture—beats splinter, surfaces scrape, and each element is placed with intent. It’s a concise study in mechanical detail and broken rhythm, placing WONKS in conversation with artists like Richard Devine, Funckarma, Hecq, and Funkstörung.
Icky Reels :: DL Poisons (Self Released)
The downtempo chug is still there, but it’s been processed through decades of IDM evolution, filtered through the same sensibility that informed Beans’ abstract hip-hop work and Schematic’s experimental roster. DL Poisons’ unsettling in the way that the best experimental electronic music should be, familiar enough to feel grounded, strange enough to keep you off balance.
MQSA :: Enmity Voidance EP (Self Released)
UK live performance stalwart Si Brown as MQSA returns with the Enmity Voidance EP, a sleek five-tracker that feels both finely engineered, energetically sharp, and instinctively loose and juiced.
b0t23 + inoperative system :: Synonym EP (Science Cult) — [concise]
Synonym carves a sharp path through bruising low-end sound design, relentless electro fragments, and pixelated bleep modulations, never easing its grip across five kaleidoscopic cuts.
Cloutpics :: Switch Manual EP (Renraku)
Cloutpics come on strong and hard with some dirty, filthy, son-of-a-gun low-end theories. Four neatly distressed ricochets, none over three minutes.
Paperclip Minimiser :: II (peak oil)
Titleless tracks and stripped-back aesthetics conceal a deliberate complexity. By reducing to essentials, Paperclip Minimiser reveals mature, confident production—slicker than oil, hot with intent, and deeply, deliciously rooted in bass culture’s enduring swing.
Illektrolab :: Psyops 2026 EP (Self Released)
Both tracks featured on Psyops 2026 is a sampladelic exploration of archetypical sci-fi electro. Pummeling 808 beats thump with precision, bass bounces under sub-bass pressure, and staccato synths stutter and twist like robotic tendrils.
John Nap :: C.C.T. (Heterodox)
Across eight meticulously engineered cuts, John Nap’s C.C.T. fuses subterranean bass weight, corroded glitch textures, and restless breakbeat architecture into a sleek, nocturnal system of controlled sonic volatility.
Vivid Stars Forgotten :: Seven Light Rays (EQ)
Seven Light Rays drifts through eight weightless realms, where Vivid Stars Forgotten crafts a hushed, cosmic escape of slow-burn ambience, submerged bass, and dissolving light.
Nima :: Nima LP (PROGRAMM_LDN)
Forged in the pressure systems of London’s underground, Nima arrives not as a debut but as a bass-heavy declaration—channeling decades of inner-city innovation, sound-system lineage, and lived nocturnal experience into a record that pulses with survival, resistance, and resolve.
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