Two premieres this week. Paul Prior and Linus Beatskip hand over the whole of The Grid EP on HARM Recordings, a not-for-profit label that sends every penny of its profit to mental health charities. Modeca follows with Complex Analysis, our first listen from the second volume of OMERTA Records' VA compilation series.

Plenty more too, though! Ignace Paepe takes the Waveform Sessions controls for ninety minutes, and Peak Oscillations brings DJ Godfather back to Databass, a Rotterdam debut from Hive Mind and Black Cadmium, and a new self-released record from mōshonsensu. Transmission #22 starts here.

Transmission #22 starts here. Have it.

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HARM stands for Healing And Recovery through Music, and the label takes that literally. It is a not-for-profit run entirely by volunteers, every release sends its profit to charities working on mental health in the creative community, and alongside the catalogue sits The Priory, its own review, mixing and mastering studio.

The imprint got going in June 2025 with The Dark and has since worked with G0Tick, Éadrom, River44, VOX, and miroshland, all under the umbrella of Beatskip Music Group.

Which brings us to the two names on this one. Paul Prior came up through classical piano and guitar before a chance meeting with Dave Seaman and Col Hamilton on a St Patrick's Day pushed him toward electronic music entirely.

He co-founded Collective-Music in the 2000s, worked alongside Oscar Mulero, James Holden, and Gabriel & Dresden, and put out early records on Surge, Ascension, Dublin Xpress, and Reticent before landing at Catamount and eventually founding HARM.

Linus Christiansson, working as Linus Beatskip, found techno at thirteen in southern Sweden and now runs Beatskip Records, the label he started in 2021, with support along the way from the likes of Maceo Plex and Joseph Capriati.

Here is the part we like. These two have been circling each other for years without ever sitting down together. Prior remixed Beatskip's Subliminal Hypnosis back in 2023; Beatskip returned the favour on Prior's Frequency and Running Scared. The Grid EP is the first time they have actually built something from scratch as a pair, and we have all three tracks, The Grid, The Problem, and The Rite.

Three techno tracks, one set builder courtesy of moody opener The Grid, two peak time roof-lifters courtesy The Problem and The Rite. One scintillating EP, premiering in its entirety for you to hear first.

Listen to our exclusive world premiere above, then pre-order it over at Beatport.

Modeca was last out in December with the Eyes On You EP on META MOTO, the London label run by Osvaldas that has spent years pulling coldwave, EBM, industrial, and new beat from a properly international roster; Poladroïd out of Belgium, Paris's Forbidden Desires, yutani from Yerevan, and plenty more besides.

OMERTA Records works much the same ground, though it splits the labour four ways: Gal runs the label, Ruksby curates, K.A.T.A. and V.D.M. handle A&R, and Snarexx masters everything that goes out. The first compilation arrived last October across seventeen tracks of industrial electro, EBM, new beat, and acid. Complex Analysis is our exclusive first listen from Vol. 2.

If EBM-leaning techno is your jam, then the hard edged slo-mo churn of Complex Analysis should really get your juices flowing. Modeca is well known for tracks that sit on the chuggier side of electronic music, and this track is a perfect example of his heaving, sweaty production style.

It might be on the lower end of the BPM spectrum (Weatherall fans take note), but that doesn’t mean it lacks attitude. Fuck, this track flips the bird and holds it right in front of your alarmed little face for its entire playthrough. Bone-grinding, hard electronics. Yours first…

Listen above; pre-orders on Bandcamp.

Regular readers will recognise the name from our recent exclusive premiere of Static Flux from his Static Bliss EP on Re-load Records Authentic. Ignace Paepe bought his first turntables in 1994, filling crates from Music Man in Ghent, BMC in Mechelen, and Blitz in Deurne, with Cherry Moon in Lokeren doing the rest.

Three decades of DJing and production across progressive house, trance, techno, and acid have followed. He returns this week with ninety minutes behind the controls, including two of his own unreleased IDs and a collaborative cut with Steve Laich.

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A Detroit institution returns to the label he built, two old friends finally get in a studio together, and a Welsh producer opens a new chapter on his own terms.

Brian Jeffries has been a fixture in these pages more than once, from our exclusive premiere of his remix of Orlando Voorn's Detroit Is The Name to That's Right taking our Single of the Week slot.

He co-owns Twilight 76 Records and its family of sublabels, Databass, Juke Trax, and D.E.T. Only, the imprints that carried ghettotech well beyond Detroit city limits. Get Back landed on Databass on July 31st, with a 1000 Musik EP and a collaborative record with Dastardly Kids already lined up behind it. Anyone who caught his recent Groove podcast will have heard it slipped into the mix.

This time, Godfather serves up a slice of hyperactive electro set to have the whole room jittin’ like wild animals. Hi-tempo percs rush from the off, accompanied by a steady acid bassline. Check out the Doctor Who-style synth in the upper mids before that first drop.

Sterling stuff from the 313’s certified ghettotech don. Grab it on Bandcamp.

Some collaborations take a while to arrive. Joginda and Daniel, working as Black Cadmium and Hive Mind, have known each other for the best part of their lives and have been circling the same music the whole time.

Joginda runs GLXY Recs and has already put out Hive Mind material on it, including God Particle and a cut on 2023's Deindividuation EP, but the two had never actually produced together until they booked a studio session and found out what happened. Emergence EP is the result, arriving on Rotterdam's P-RT-L Music.

Now, the EP might well be on a Rotterdam imprint, but it definitely has a touch of the motor city to it. That futuristic, sci-fi sound courses through the veins of this EP, all four tracks adopting that familiar Detroit sonic signature.

The collection launches with the bubbly spree that is Anamnesis. Definition-wise, this means ‘to recall a previous existence’, which perhaps lends itself to sound representing the journey through dimensions that our mind makes as it moves between the present and the past.

Rhythms align with surgical precision in Entrainment, next. Those chilling string pads really set the atmosphere, while minimal percussive elements and a frantic acid line layer on top of one another in perfect synchronicity.

We become one with the techno superorganism next as Noosphere whisks us off our feet. This is a high NRG production with a fantastic, acid swilled drop at the midpoint, primed for peak dancefloor meltdown at the rave.

We round out on the minimal techno of Volition. While it may be skeletal in terms of its sonic components, one thing about minimal techno is its ability to prove that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. An energetic, yet refined end to proceedings.

Obviously you can get it on Bandcamp.

Daryl Robinson has built a considerable reputation in IDM and ambient circles without ever making much fuss about it (perhaps a characteristic bestowed upon all IDM producers, given their seemingly universal unassuming nature).

Since debuting with the Solemn Grandeur EP on Abstrakt Reflections in 2021, he has released A Strange Dystopian Tundra through Rednetic Recordings, Even Keel on Touched Music, and the self-released Izanagi & Izanami, alongside compilation appearances for Neo Ouija and Neo Tantra and a steady run of coverage in Igloo Magazine.

Disjointed Personalities arrived on July 27th, five tracks self-released and billed as the opening instalment of a longer sequence. The concept is an interesting one, as Robinson uses random, anonymous vocal sound recordings to give each recording a sense of personality, albeit removed somewhat from its owner (hence the title).

The first track is also pretty much two thirds of the whole album. Clocking in at a solid 40 minutes, Rest in Peace Mikey Menace, an epic ode to the social media personality of the same name. The opening track contains vocal snippets of the title’s subject. So we know who the personality is, despite its… disjointedness.

Anyway, nit-picking or our missing the point aside, this is an excellent opener and one that rewards those staying the full forty minutes. Fans of ambient IDM producers like Autechre and Amon Tobin will find themselves equally at home within the first composition as fans of breakcore’s iconic Venetian Snares and the hauntological Burial.

The track constantly evolves, twisting and turning not just in terms of its sonic elements, which glitch in and out at random junctures throughout the composition, but equally in terms of its time signatures, and thirdly the mood it evokes. This makes sense, considering the number of influences or likenesses we can pick out here.

The entire first track reminded us once again why we love this style of music, and how it exists unfettered by the boundaries of normalcy or a need to fit in or be popular. It is both itself free while at the same time freeing others.

If length is the extreme within which we’re operating, all 67 seconds of Do Not Assemble is a befitting follow-up. Freakout percs whirligig around the soundstage amidst a distorted and somewhat sweary monologue, interrupted halfway by a most discourteous vinyl spinback, before the drumming picks up again albeit not at the same speed or with the same pattern. A wonderfully confusing minute of life awaits the listener.

Next, we have Lamented, and the tempo comes right down to a SKAM-esque, glitchy hip-hop swagger; the kind of track you’d expect Rob Hall to be dropping into his mixes. A dreamy haze envelopes us while the bottom end delivers vibrations you’ll feel in your vagus.

This low-slung braindance-y BOC vibe continues with Penumbra, where choppy percussion bustles around luscious, silken string pad swells and loads of swearing and shouting from the supplier of the track’s vocals. The minor key that runs throughout gives an air of melancholy.

We finish on another magnum opus (although not quite as long as the first; only 15 minutes this time). Running Man’s Benthic bass drones dominate the bottom end of the track. The vocal chatter becomes less decipherable and more frequent and intense, as Blade-Runner atmosphere’s are built on noirish strings and ghoulish synth growls.

You can find it on Bandcamp. It is brilliant. So… you should.

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That is transmission #22 done. Thank you, as always, for being here, and a proper nod to HARM Recordings for putting their money where it counts.

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