An exclusive world premiere, a Waveform Sessions debut from a familiar face, and a Peak Oscillations section featuring new music from Echo System, Ammonite, and Helene Rickhard; transmission #10 is doing the business. Welcome back.

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This week's First Contact exclusive world premiere comes from producer Klanckman; the alias under which JØNAS relaunched his creative output in late 2024 alongside his own Klanck Records imprint.

Three EPs into that chapter, Commencing, Resilient, and Shedding Skin, he now steps outside his own label for a change of scenery with Basik, his debut on the Belgian Arkham XXX label, dropping May 12th 2026.

We’re premiering the title track leads the EP, which also features four original cuts alongside re-rubs from CYRK, Perc, HR-101, and Collapse-4000; a seriously well-respected selection of names to have on board.

Basik is an exhilarating composition from the off; synth stabs build with distorted intensity alongside bludgeoning kicks, before top-end percussion enters the fray and immediately floods the track with an irresistible groove. The kind we've come to expect from Cric Du Coer's Arkham Audio stable and its XXX offshoot.

Following a whiplash-inducing break that boasts one of the most electrifying drops we've heard in recent memory, we're catapulted into a swirling mass of funky percussion and deeply breathing pads. Sterling stuff. The track plays out with a feverish energy; definitely one to crank the sweat factor up in the room.

Listen to our exclusive world premiere above, and pre-order your copy over on Bandcamp.

Regular readers will need no introduction to Dominic Wagner. The Berlin-based producer has graced these pages twice already; first with Tronic in issue #6 and again with the Another Excess premiere just last week.

This week he trades the studio for the decks and makes his Waveform Sessions debut; our exclusive exposure to Dompe the DJ rather than Dompe the producer, and if the releases we’ve featured so far are anything to go by, it promises to be an absolute joy.

Jackfruit Recordings, the imprint he founded with his wife in 2017, recently celebrated its eighth year and a back catalogue of over twenty-five releases that has found favour with the likes of Carl Cox and Laurent Garnier. That's the kind of context you bring to a DJ booth.

No tracklist on this one; Dompe recorded this set at a recent club event he played. Get busy!

This week's Peak Oscillations ventures into some genuinely varied terrain; a double-header from one of London's most forward-thinking imprints, a dose of leftfield downtempo from a new Barcelona label, and a long player from a Norwegian producer making her most significant statement to date.

Echosystem is the collaborative alias of London-based duo Mak & Pasteman and their close associate Arkive; a project that channels the trio's collective roots in UK bass culture, breakbeat, dubstep, and techno into something genuinely special.

Mak & Pasteman spent the best part of a decade releasing on some of the underground's most respected imprints including Dirtybird, Digital Soundboy, Naked Naked, and their own Materials imprint among them, before stepping back in 2019, only to find the creative itch too persistent to ignore by 2024. The Echo System project sits alongside their own Midas label and a series of EPs in the pipeline for Terrorhythm.

Solar/Hallucinate lands on Dusky's 17 Steps imprint on May 8th 2026; a label that has spent over a decade championing forward-thinking electronic music from the likes of Avalon Emerson, Skream, Eris Drew, and Logic1000.

A-side Solar is an emotional ride that fans of latter-day Bicep and Burial will switch on to immediately. The track opens with a solid breakbeat before pulling in an achingly beautiful female vocal motif that dominates the first quarter.

This dissolves into a considerably darker segment, a distorted bass synth gnashing away at the bottom end, before a stunning final drop closes Solar out in emphatic fashion. Mark our words; this is destined to be a massive summer hit across club dancefloors and festival fields alike. We love it.

B-side Hallucinate serves up more garage-infused breakbeat goodness, its delectable rave tropes ushering in haunting, ethereal pads and a ghostly chorus before releasing into a glistening second quarter where synth plucks dance playfully around occasional vocal interjections.

A very shrewd signing for Dusky and 17 Steps; we are confident these tracks will be doing serious damage on dancefloors far and wide from hereon in.

Grab it on Bandcamp.

London-based Amy Spencer has been building the Ammonite project into something quietly remarkable since its debut.

Her 2024 mini-album Blueprints on R$N Records announced her as a producer of genuine distinction; a record that drew contributions from David Holmes, Salamanda, and Dot Never, and found its way onto the Christian Dior Haute Couture runway at Paris Fashion Week when lead single ARP was selected as the soundtrack.

Good Things marks her debut on Casa Nueve, a new Barcelona-based label operating in the Balearic and downtempo space, and arrives on May 8th 2026.

Comparisons to Björk, Hannah Peel, and Georgia Angiuli feel entirely apt here, and are immediately apparent from the EP's opening title track. Good Things is the kind of piece that, after several minutes of intense brain-wracking, we eventually placed as reminiscent of the video version of Björk's All Is Full of Love; stripped of its beat and left to breathe in all its raw, exposed beauty.

Otherside genuinely evokes the sensation of slipping through some sort of veil; whether physically or metaphysically is up to the listener. Synth sounds crafted entirely from Spencer's own voice, heavily treated in places, drape themselves over staccato stuttering and an angelic vocal refrain that beckons you toward something just beyond reach.

Feb 13 follows, its choral qualities and deep, organ-like bass underpinning vocal harmonies that evoke a frosted bliss; the kind that spreads through the veins like Mandelbrotian ice patterns creeping across a winter window.

In the penultimate Tell Me, Spencer explores themes of reassurance and a longing for familiarity, safety, and comfort. Beautiful and haunting in equal measure; the kind of piece that locates something universally human and holds it gently up to the light.

By the time we reach the emotional finale All Good Things Come to an End (a most fitting closing title for an EP of this magnitude), Ammonite is ready to set us free; lowering us back to the ground softly, amidst a bright, shimmering celestial light.

The emotional reach of this EP is something else entirely; by the final track, it feels as though Ammonite has located something deep within your nervous system and decided to take up residence there. A sensation that stems, we suspect, from the deeply human touch that permeates every waveform. Every instrument and every vocal on this record originates from Amy's own voice; a creative constraint that gives Good Things an intimacy that is almost impossible to manufacture.

Head to Bandcamp and get it now.

Helene Rickhard is one of those genuinely rare artists who arrived fully formed. A beloved DJ and producer within Norway's underground electronic community for years before the outside world caught on, the Agder-based artist spent that time accumulating an extraordinary record collection and developing a production sensibility that draws equally from kosmische, krautrock, ambient, and techno.

Her debut long player Unpredictable Express on Snick Snack Music landed in November 2025 and was her formal introduction to the wider world; Everlasting High follows just six months later as its counterpart, and arrives on May 8th 2026 via the same Oslo-based imprint, which has also recently released music from the likes of Ost & Kjex and Trulz & Robin.

The album opens amidst waves of thunderous cosmic distortion that crash into the listener, submerging them in an ambient swill before a marching kick drum takes hold in Galaxy Chords. Sustained static stabs, harmonic synth voices, and the sludgiest of acid basslines accompany a narrator recounting the journey from Mars to Earth; an opening statement that immediately establishes the record's restless, intergalactic ambition.

Mad Girl follows with a distinctly dreamy synth-pop lilt; and even in these poppier moments, Rickhard refuses to fully vacate her left-of-field sensibilities. Shades of Björk surface here too, and given the company that puts her in, we are absolutely not complaining.

Dubby undertones take hold with Lion's Eye, which features a rocksteady bassline and muted guitar strums while Helene's echoing vocal shimmers like the glittering fragments of a broken mirror frozen in time.

Techno funk seizes the controls on Einsteinbrain; a simple electro beat underpinning a deeply disconcerting vocal that haunts the mix like spirits of the ether. Faint wisps of barely perceivable speech permeate the static at irregular intervals, never quite offering comfort amidst the synaptic zaps of long-forgotten memories.

Deluge continues the electro adventure, propelling the listener at frightening velocity toward what feels like an ever-encroaching doom. 303 belches sit alongside a gloopy bassline for an incredibly emotive acid jam that culminates, unexpectedly and perfectly, in a burst of digital dolphin chirps.

Don't Bother carries a gritty, spectral quality that fans of Fatima Al Qadiri will revel in. A solid drum break rolls throughout the composition as hauntological samples and refrains drift in and out of the space, reminding you of everything and nothing quite simultaneously.

The album closes on the dream state delivered by Everlasting. Deep human breaths encourage the listener to relent to the final track, static panning directly through the brain from ear to ear while barely perceivable vocals glimpse through the foggy atmosphere, until Rickhard finally disappears into the auditory mist amidst a most fitting piano crescendo.

An incredible journey and one truly worth giving your full time and attention to. Grab it on Bandcamp.

That's transmission #10 wrapped up. Thank you as always for being here; we genuinely couldn't do this without you.

Next week ProOne79 returns to Waveform for an exclusive world premiere; the Italian producer earned our EP of the Week back in issue #4 alongside MAGNVM! on Rekids, so expectations are understandably high. We also have a Waveform Sessions mix in the works that we think you're going to love. Keep an eye out.

Until then, take care of each other on the dancefloor.

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