Hello there!

I have to say, it feels great to be back at the helm of the Waveform Transmitter. Some of you will know the name; it was originally published online between January 2017-March 2020. 

It is somewhat poignant, therefore, that we relaunch the website as a digestible weekly newsletter almost six years to the day that the OG Waveform shut shop (almost) for good.

For most of you, though, this will be a new experience. And a great one at that.

So, what can you expect? Well, we’re going to bring you the best new underground electronic music every week, along with an exclusive premiere, a weekly mix, and audio tech recommendations so you know what gear to pack for personal sonic pursuits.

Shall we crack on?

Let’s see what this issue has to say for itself then…

Its International Women’s Day today, so we want to celebrate five of our favourite female producers. Not gonna lie, it was VERY hard whittling the list down to just five, but this is a newsletter not a broadsheet, so real estate is on the limited side.

Anyway, I’ll stop wasting that real estate with my pontificating and get to it. Here in no particular order are our five favourite female producers. Get on them ASAPs.

We’ve been following Odette closely for over a decade at this point, and we have seen the Dutch producer flourish tremendously during that time.

Odette’s music delivers consistently, irrespective of the journey she wants to take us on. The consistency is in the emotion, which always leads her productions. They’re designed to make you feel, and you can tell that Odette pours her soul into every track she creates.

With her own VDK Records pumping out incredibly solid house sounds, Odette is definitely going to be on our playlist at all times! She has a major announcement coming soon, too… Check her out in the player above or over on SoundCloud.

Naiborg is definitely no stranger to the scene; the Argentine producer came hurtling out of Buenos Aires at light speed and has not stopped since. 

Musically debuting with indie rock outfit No Lo Soporto, Naiborg has landed on electronic music production. She may have swapped guitars out for synths, but those rock sensibilities still shine in her gritty, acid-drenched productions. She has collaborated with some other top names, too, including one of our favourites; DJ Hell.

Her latest EP on Computer Controlled earned our EP of the Week accolade for good reason (go and read the review). If you like your techno with a Detroit-y edge and a hypnotic acid bassline, the kind of techno that makes you pull “that face”, then get your ears around Naiborg’s groove.

Find her all over this article, or via Soundcloud.

Another longstanding Waveform top pick, Kristin Velvet knows how to fill a room with boundless energy, whether that is through her own productions or DJ sets.

This incredibly talented artist has forged quite the career, heading up the frankly brilliant Arms and Legs label with Daniel Steinberg from her base in Berlin, while also producing her own music spanning multiple labels, and playing around 200 gigs a day. Impressive to say the least.

Speaking of Kristin’s productions; her brand of electronic music straddles several genres and we have particularly been enjoying her forays into hip-house territory of late. Needless to say, though, it doesn’t really matter what territory Kristin’s music sits in, you have it on good authority that the ride will be electrifying.

Her latest productions are also available via Soundcloud.

Another Berlin resident, Ireland’s Sally C, AKA Big Saldo knows how to put what you’d absolutely decree a “house banger” together. Heading the Big Saldo’s Chunkers imprint, she knows how to curate them, too.

Sally’s style of production borrows elements from multiple genres, weaving them together expertly into breakbeat-infused early era house music that more than earns the chunker nomenclature. If you want people to dance, play some Sally C, basically.

Raw, funky, and always fun, Sally C produces tracks built to inject energy into any dancefloor. Her relentless drive to push independent dance music via her own productions, label, parties, and guest slots is testament to her commitment to the scene, and more than earns her your ears right now.

Lend her them over on her Soundcloud.

We’ve seen Kerrie playing out several times and her DJ sets are always an exercise in roof raising, much like her own music. Always the perfect accompaniment to a flashing strobe and rhythmical body movements of a repetitive nature.

Traversing the spectrum between electro and techno, Kerrie is an expert in delivering the sort of sonics that find their home in dark basements. Her productions are always on point, and she has seen her tracks signed to labels as esteemed as Tresor and Blueprint.

When she isn’t busy filling other people’s rosters, Kerrie runs her own tastemaker label, Dark Machine Funk. The labels taxonomy should give some sort of indication of what to expect. Dark machine funk, obviously.

Get some of that above, or on Kerrie’s Soundcloud.

Every week, we’ll review a single, EP, and an album, and tell you exactly where to go to listen and buy.

Open thine ears…

Detroit’s own DJ Godfather squares up with Waveform’s single of the week. The guy is a prolific producer, and his latest three-up is the usual killer affair.

The single kicks off with Algorythm; a fast paced electro stomp that brims with energy between the frenetic top end elements and that extra-squirmy acid bassline. Things get turnt as we jump on the footwork frenzy of That’s Right 313 (look out for those Speak and Spell vocal snips). 

The single rounds out with one of Godfather’s strongest genres: ghetto-tech. As you might expect, Shake That Booty absolutely slaps. Available now via Databass Records.

(Beatport)

Naiborg (great name BTW) absolutely rockets into the Peak Oscillations section with a very well-deserved EP of the week. Out now on Computer Controlled, Bora Bora delivers four utterly relentless takes on the acid sound, and we LOVE it.

Korot7b, named after a very angry planet in the distant cosmos, does a great job of synthesizing the sensation of being space-bound. The 303 bassline here undulates with a space-travel-esque verve while Naiborg’s drum programming jettisons us through flashes of discordant percussion and synth melody.

Next up Atlantida rears its head, delivering the type of unadulterated chaos that sends any self respecting raver absolutely apeshit. A true snarler that has some real 90s techno nostalgia coursing through its veins.

Naiborg turns the tempo down a touch for the EP’s title track. That isn’t to detract from the fact that it commands you jerk your entire body to its sublime acid line complete with swirling nightmare-circus synth hooks and rave stabs.

In case you didn’t feel satisfied, we round out on Devon. The tracks distorted kick hacks unforgivingly at your shins while an equally distorted bassline ushers in a blistering 303 melody.

Utterly brilliant.

(Bandcamp)

Scotland’s Fear-E delivers our album of the week via his own Posh End label. Our Glaswegian producer publicly states he recorded Descent Into Ascension during a testing time mentally, and that is evident from some of the darker techno sounds Fear-E explores here.

That said, album opener Loopy Fiasco is a disco-fied workout, complete with a hi-NRG clap and an unwavering house kick. Definitely one for your peak time house set, but it definitely serves to lull you into a false sense of security.

This lightness fades quickly as the dark, brooding Doom Merchants takes hold, its Detroit-styled rave stabs punctuating the mix.

Aces High buzzes into the headspace next heralded by waspish saw-wave synths as the rattling percussion pushes the momentum forward to a deliciously acidic breakdown. I really love this track; it reminds me a touch of Freak by LFO.

Next up is The OK Express, and another healthy dose of the little silver box. A heavy electro beat forges forward, carrying the discombobulating lead line perfectly while a vocal sample stutters relentlessly. A gritty techno workout is the order of the day next with McCarthy.

We’re back to Detroit again, this time with the hectic Escape Room. Unabating claps crisp the sizzling top end, underpinned by a pounding kick. I mouthed the words f***ing hell to myself on multiple occasions throughout this satisfyingly hyperactive interlude.

Ground Control, doesn’t show any sign of letting up, racing us on Otherworldly, which ensures the album closes with as much energy as it started. An excellent LP from one of the most accomplished electronic producers the UK has seen.

(Bandcamp)

Starting from next week, you’ll find an exclusive mix or live set sitting here waiting patiently for your eardrums to absorb it. In the meantime, you’ll just need to be patient yourself.

Why not take a listen to some of the existing mixes on the Waveform Transmitter SoundCloud page? There, you’ll find a veritable treasure trove of exclusive mixes from artists like Coldcut, GiGi FM, DJ Shufflemaster, DJ Spen, and more.

Our ethos is to bring you new music, and to bring you it before anyone else does. So, each week, our First Contact section will feature an exclusive premiere. It might be a track, it might be a single, it might even be a full album!

This week we’ve got a track from the enigmatic Besoliga.

Taken from their forthcoming album What’s Tomorrow Made Of? The long player wrangles some heavy electronics to deliver a cinematic journey through downtempo and ambient landscapes.

Our premiere track is the foreboding Make My Way. The third track on the album, it really dials the tension up a notch as Besoliga introduces a distorted, syncopated drum pattern to complement the epochal bass synth and echoing, anonymous whispers.

The album is available via the Bulletdodge imprint on Friday March 13th, 2026, and you can grab it from Juno, here. In the meantime, enjoy the premiere below, or over on our SoundCloud.

Every week, Waveform will recommend a handful of audio-aligned devices that we reckon you should take a look at. So, rather than faff about with an intro, lets get our hands on this gear…

IEMs (or in ear monitors) are an essential piece of equipment for any musician or producer. They also make excellent listening headphones thanks to their compact nature and honest sound reproduction.

Hidizs has just launched a very nice pair of IEMs with an equally nice sounding planar magnetic diaphragm. Planar diaphragms offer fantastic detail retrieval, so listening to music with IEMs often reveals elements your Airpods will never pick up.

The highly customizable MP145 Pro IEMs are available now on Kickstarter and the campaign has already blitzed past its minimum goal. They even come with interchangeable tuning filters so you can tailor the sound to your taste.

Hidizs gear comes recommended over here; we’ve got a couple of Hidizs devices and we rate them highly, and they’re easy on the wallet, too.

The Pocket Scion from Instrumo and Modern Biology is an absolutely fantastic little synth that takes the concept of truly organic sound-synthesis to a whole new level. If you’ve always wanted to listen to flora sing, then this is the gizmo for you.

It works by connecting to plants, fungi, and other organic, living materials, and is able to read the bioelectrical signals the organism in question generates. It does this via a pair of electrodes connected to the plant.

The bioelectrical feedback triggers the synth, which leads to incredibly natural cadences to the sound it produces. This is a MUST for any ambient producer out there.

You can grab your own Pocket Scion over at the dedicated site right now. It does beggar the question whether psilocybin mushrooms create a trippier soundtrack than your average Oyster mushroom…

The iconic Be@rbrick Audio speaker is back, and is in league with equally iconic audio brand Rinaro Isodynamics. Again, we’re on a planar magnetic tip, as the Be@rBrick speaker features such a driver in each of its ears!

Almost everyone recognises the Be@rbrick’s pop-culture design immediately. The two new ‘Core’ range speakers emulate the celebrated silhouette faithfully, and come in white and black colourways.

As a designer brand, Be@rbrick is obviously a real premium pick and it has the flashy price tag to match, but for the sheer novelty of a Bluetooth speaker, shaped like a brick bear, with audiophile hardware included, we just had to give it a mention in this week’s Hardware Signal.

Available now at Be@rbrick Audio.

Thanks for staying locked into the frequency. We’re cutting the power for now, but the signal returns next week.

This week’s hardware giveaway winner will be selected at random on Thursday. The signal will hit the winner’s comms node first. Check your inbox to coordinate the pickup. We will announce the winner in next week’s issue.

We’ve got more gear entering the chain in next week’s Friday Freebie. If you entered this week, you’ll automatically be entered into the next Friday Freebie.

End of signal…

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