DISPATCH: Winter 2025

Tilt
by Sorcery on Void+1 Recordings

Another excellent release from Sorcery on long-time favorites Void+1.

Punchy, distorted dance music. Urgent, soaring, hypnotic, driving industrial techno. Infused with energy and momentum.

Featured tracks:

• Track 1, “Cusp (Original Mix)” – Urgent industrial techno. Thumping club music.
• Track 4, Eidolon (Original Mix) – Another uplifting, skyward composition from Sorcery. Bright synths with punchy industrial techno running through it. A hypnotic ascent.

Deluxe Tool EP
by ADB on RAW

Just what it says on the tin: this EP is 20 minutes of pumped up, RAW tech trance.

Featured tracks:

• Track 1, “Deluxe Tool” – Rave keys and maximal techno. These basslines are straight out of a PS2 video game. Club track samples in the breakdowns.
• Track 2, “Feel Me Baby” – Tech-trance, big rave builds. Pumped up party music.

Smack Is The Message
by Lauer on Italo Moderni

I’ve been digging into Italo Moderni‘s catalogue, and I was excited when this release hit my inbox. The yellow label makes me think of lemon candy, and the sound delivers on that vibe.

This EP is a blast of classic italo disco and electro. Bright and fun rave, with progressive disco. Plus, a killer dark electro track to close it all out.

Featured tracks:

• Track 3, “Visit Dove” – Peak time anywhere. Italo disco, rave. Healing vibrations.

Echoes of a Broken Future EP
by Umwelt on New Flesh Records

Buzzy, dark acid, techno breaks. This whole EP rips. Spooky, heavy duty. Rave and electro.

Featured tracks:

• Track 3, “Synthetic Nightfall” – Swirling, spiraling, dark acid electro. Driving club track.
• Track 1, “Echoes Of A Broken Future” – Dynamic, rolling bass. Dark acid, electro breaks.

COLLABS 4 E.P.
by D.A.V.E. The Drummer & A.P. on Hydraulix Records

A bangin’ hard techno EP. This collaboration between D.A.V.E. The Drummer and A.P. is maxed out Hydraulix techno.

Featured tracks:

• Track 1, “COLLAB 1” – Absolute rager. Hard techno, acid, rave. Hype samples. High energy peak time loop techno.

Soft Launch EP
by Perc on Perc Trax

Rough and raw industrial techno. Pulsing rave and pounding hard techno. Heavy, experimental.

Featured tracks:

• Track 1, “Soft Launch” – Aggro industrial techno.

Tabula Rasa
by Wick, Self-Released

New from Wick, this four-track EP features a couple selections with heavy-duty dark industrial techno and thumpy percussion.

Featured tracks:

• Track 4, “My Own Damnation” – Great mid-tempo club track. Thumping dark industrial techno.
• Track 1, “Exoskelet” – Astral. Twisting and soaring synth leads. Energizing industrial techno.

Macabre
by Olēka on Mindcut Music

Heavy duty, dark industrial techno from Olēka. Dense, reinforced rhythms, and a driving, mechanical atmosphere.

Featured tracks:

• Track 3, “Lethe” – Hypnotic, heavy, and progressive. Dark, mechanical, swirling.
• Track 2, “Bed of Nails” – Heavy, dark industrial techno.

First Session EP
by Trudge on Molekül

A slammed club music EP. Driving hard techno, and raw dark acid.

Featured tracks:

• Track 3, “I’m Not Doing That” – Raw, minimal, hard techno.
• Track 1, “I Miss You” – Spaced out, heavy. Hypnotic dark acid, hardgroove.

Impel Down EP
by Noctam on Persephonic Sirens

Featured tracks:

• Track 4, “Dopamine Rush” – Dark electro drug track, techno body music.

Fluidum EP
by Meijer on Caedite Eos

Featured tracks:

• Track 1, “Mouth Full of Code” – Peak time, raw rave techno. Driving hardgroove, hypnotic hard techno and punchy industrial.

Solid Snake Series 01
V/A on BITE

Featured tracks:

• Track 4, “Nørbak – Lobo” is a tense, mid-tempo industrial roller. With doubled-up breakbeat percussion and a pensive atmosphere.

Aurifex Rex
by Scalameriya on Perc Trax

Featured tracks:

• Track 4, “Scalameriya – It Stared Back (Perc Remix)” – Thumpy. Heavy industrial bass with a shrapnel snare.

Midnight Tenants EP
by Ombrar on Askorn Records

Featured tracks:

• Track 3, WoodWorm – Gritty, graveyard synth. dusted-up, industrial techno. spooky, cinematic breakdowns.

Intenzioni Belliche
by Cranya on Brutal Forms

Featured tracks:

• Track 1, Annibale – Urgent, dark industrial techno.
• Track 4, Atto Finale – Relentless. Heavy, hardcore industrial techno.