Jayson Wynters
The Affect Heuristic

Studio Carbonell is a new label and party series from the seekers collective. For the first release Italian Filippo Bologna takes charge of the Studio Carbonell control room.

"Synchronicity" being the label's first EP, it had to convey its DNA. Musically, it's a record that combines both dancefloor and mental elements, with one side oriented towards Electro and the other being deeper and more minimal. Its predominant color is red, like the first chakra, representing beginnings, vital force, and materialization. The overall result creates an intense, vibrant, and profound debut record.

Cock your ears and warm up those dancing legs! Malugi’s "Body Bounce" EP is waiting in the wings to spreadecstatic joy. For the energetic Berlin-based DJ and producer Malugi, who has shaken up the club scene with pulsating, 90s-reminiscent yet original, genre-crossing vibes, it is the second record release on SNC after “Stay the Night” (2021), following several self-released bangers and his first EP on Selected in 2022. All four tracks on the record serve sophisticated peak-time tools, providing Malugi energy for crowds around the globe. The fact that Malugi truly puts his heart and soul into his musical creations is not only confirmed by the EP’s correspondingly titled B1 track, which brings the familiar to new life and appears here for the first time as an instrumental version without vocals. With a BPM rate that gets even the most sluggish body off its worn-out sofa and onto the dance floor, and compositions that are as hypnotic as they are catchy, the founder and resident of Club Heart Broken knows how to convince. With “Body Bounce”, Malugi cements his status as one of the most innovative, colourful and unique rising starsby casually underlining his versatility and artistry once again.

Over the years veteran producer Mark Ambrose wrote some of the most unique, energetic house / techno tracks. Those found their place in sets of many leading underground djs, Ricardo Villalobos, Sonja Moonear and Marcel Dettmann to name a few. The Journey is an essential and timeless compilation that collect his most rare and hard to find classics. Must have!!

This record is a momentous occasion for me as it is the first release that I have signed from a member of my production tutorial website. This is something I was quietly hoping would come to pass when I started the project but I never knew if it would actually happen. Liebus was sending me tracks to critique as part of a feature on the site and after a batch of them came in that I not only didn’t have any critique for but actually I wanted to ask him how he made them instead, I knew I was onto a winner.I can’t quite believe this is his first release as the tracks sound so mature and incredibly produced but I was never going to think twice about putting them out.All five tracks are subby, drummy, mind bending workouts from start to finish. Proper cavernous vibes with a dose of potentially too strong an LSD trip mixed in for good measure.Not for the faint hearted...OK enough of my blather. Go and listen to the damn things yourself and decide if you like them, rather than trying to work it out from reading a bloody press release you weirdos.All four tracks are produced and sculpted for the club. They want big sound systems and dark rooms.Close your eyes, hold hands and experience transcendental space flight...

As a self-described “sponge for club music”, London-based Bristol transplant Ian DPM has cut a singular figure in both the West Country and the capital in just a handful of years. Already situated as the tastemaker behind music curation platform Definite Party Material, co-owner of Scuffed Recordings, and Noods Radio and Rinse FM resident, Ian DPM’s emergence as a producer has marked him as an expansively curious, bass-forward figure at the bleeding edge of genre boundaries. After retreating to his hometown of Portsmouth during lockdown to absorb the blueprints of ‘90s techno, Ian emerged with a new phase of experimentation: techno-inspired and indebted, yet eschewing loops and grids for a loose-limbed, open minded engagement of the form. Taking inspiration from the iconic carnival rides that are inseparable from their high-octane happy hardcore soundtrack, “One For The Waltzers” begins with a distant rumble of muffled breakbeats that inch ever closer. But rather than dizzying lights and in-the-red maximalism, “One For The Waltzers” gradually reveals its knowingly deep shimmy and groove. It is a drum-heavy and rhythmic production, masterfully using negative space to showcase every contour of its slowed-down rave horns and acid house synth lines. “KE01” inhabits the flipside of the same sonic world “One For The Waltzers”. Here, feverish percussive energy contrasts against pensive melodic synth chords. It’s a heady warehouse affair, familiar and complex, referential yet contemporary, and only adds to the momentum that Ian DPM is gathering.