Inverted Audio

1 week ago | inverted-audio.com | Mathias Chaboteaux

South African imprint Kulture Lab mark five years in the game by enlisting Dutch production duo Stellar Wave for their next transmission. ‘NEA‘ takes its name from a Near-Earth Asteroid – a nod to momentum, space and impact. Over the course of four tracks, Stellar Wave trace unstable orbits through disassembled breaks and molecular percussive scatter, feeling like a séance conducted via spaced-out oscillators and fragmented pulse systems. Our pick ‘Pepper X’, spirals out as the most untamed track.

1 week ago | inverted-audio.com | Mathias Chaboteaux

Since launching in 2020, London-based record label Alien Communications have carved out a wormhole within the ever-expanding multiverse of electro – part ancestral tribute, part forward-facing manifesto. Now, with the unveiling of their debut label compilation ‘Astral Projections‘, the imprint maps the liminal zones where machine funk, mutant breaks and galactic synaesthesia converge.

1 week ago | inverted-audio.com | Mathias Chaboteaux

Six years since their debut release, Cologne-based record label Minimood prepare to unveil their next extended player from French producer MMYYLO. Having previously etched his mark via Darlyn Vlys’ Polaris and Leipzig-based Jeahmon!, MMYYLO returns with ‘Queenside Knight‘ EP – an offering that reads like a clandestine cabaret under flickering strobes.

1 week ago | inverted-audio.com | Mathias Chaboteaux

Beat Machine Records return with a percussive missive titled ‘Bantu’ that pairs local producer Maxwell Simons with the magnetic cadence of South African vocalist Richi Rich. Simons and Richi Rich map out the borderlands of a club-centered cosmopolis, blurring any easy markers of geography or genre. Here, baile funk fractures get a Gqom glaze, footwork jitters flirt with low-end earthquakes and percussion whips around like a homemade carnival float losing control.

2 weeks ago | inverted-audio.com | Mathias Chaboteaux

Vienna-based record label Studio Bahöö return with the head-scrambling ‘Rug Rally‘ EP from elusive producer Rigby on the Run. Better known for navigating the shuffle-heavy grids of UK Garage via London-based record label Part Four, Rigy on the Run trades in jungle-friendly swagger and R&B, reassembling breaks into fast-lane flashbacks and caffeinated club assaults. ‘Rug Rally‘ displays the producer’s remarkable ability to captivate our minds. Our pick for the premiere is closing track ‘River Lea‘.