Icelandic collective Sweaty Records turn to exciting producer, live act, and visual artist jadzia for their sixth release as the core member makes her label debut with her four-track ‘Connection’ EP.

Showcasing a hidden corner of Iceland’s electronic scene with a mission to ‘shed light on music that has been lurking in the shadows of the Reykjavík underground’, Sweaty Records is a label helmed by some of the country’s most exciting DJs, producers and live acts. Spread between the capital and further afield in Berlin, the collective has made an immediate impact with music from Volruptus, Kuldaboli and more across their first six releases - with gifted talent Kolbrún Klara, aka jadzia, the next to showcase her sound.

Combining her love of sound design with striking visual projects and live performances as one half of duo Polar Attraction with Kosmodod, Klara has steadily crafted her identity after making her production debut under the alias in late 2019. Following material on International Chrome, Ganzfeld, none/such and Dancefloor Impact Research, with supporters including Helena Hauff, Dax J, Dave Clarke and Steffi, she makes her first outing on the label with a kaleidoscopic ride through expansive sonics on ‘Connection’.

Welcoming a quartet of robust electro offerings, ‘Connection’ is a thrilling journey into the mind of a talent on the rise, serving up no-nonsense dancefloor cuts drenched in subtle nuances and shadowy compositions. ‘Virtual Network’ harnesses skittering breaks and ominous synths with intermittent pockets of rest to push and pull listeners in multiple directions, before ‘Impact Event’ shows no rest-bite and launches into a cavalcade of warping bass, spiralling sci-fi electronics and eerie atmospheres, all guided by the track’s relentless and hypnotising melodies. On the flip, ‘Solar Cells’ draws from traditional influences for a slick trip balancing light and dark, with hazy textures and celestial melodies grounded by the production’s unrelenting and snaking low-ends, before closing the show in emphatic fashion with an off-kilter, glitchy and lacerating trip in the form of ‘Habitat’. More

Tracklisting
A1 Viikatory & Manao - LQS
A2 Viikatory & Manao - Target
B1 Viikatory & Manao - XOXO (Viika's cut)
B2 Viikatory & Manao - XOXO (Manao's cut)

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Pomegranate Skies is a new album from Sepehr exploring sonic themes of heaven and hell, dualities, split identities, and chaos. The music in this album is a reflection of the ever-constant existential chaos in his mind, reflecting a musical journey through all the different influences and inspirations of genres and electronic music eras throughout his life but also a nod to the amorphous weight of divine weirdness that inspires his music. Music that is reflecting a split identity, music in between cultures. Music that is both good and evil, both sensical and non sensical, both angelic and hellish, secular and divine. Music to give you visions of geographic wonders that don’t really exist. The absurdism of everything from Earth but also of Heaven. Music that doesn’t follow tropes but also sounds familiar. It makes you want to laugh and cry; the in betweenness of everything. Music that makes you want to reach up and taste the pomegranates growing in the skies. More

Chilean artist Magda Rot makes a head-turning debut here with some ice-cold electro rhythms on the Return To Disorder label which is now fast approaching a quarter century of releases. There is no messing with these sounds - they're built on tight, kinetic rhythms with fierce sound designs and stark futurism. 'Triads' is a mix of crisp hits and gurgling synths with dramatic background chords. 'Black Sense' is a slamming cut with a twisted bassline and hammering drum funk and 'Coincidences' brings the chilliness with its frosted lines and cold waves of synth. 'Unusual Theory' shuts down with a far sighted sense of electro-techno doom. More