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* ZeroZero - Cramp (Samath Remix)

* FSHR, KNOTT - Concentrate

* Visages - Transhumanism Music

* Strategy, Visages - Lewis Capaldi

* q100 - Sloboda

* FLO, Oz, q100 - Vocal Dub

* Pinch, Lorem - Fall True

* Kaya - Tiki Heads

* Cesco, Sepia - Bulletin

* Pinch, Trim, Neffa-T - Wha Happen

* 11Th Hour - Confront

* Drone - New Take

* Kasra, Riko Dan - Talk Up (gyrofield’s Tooth & Nail Mix)

* Morning High - The Host

* Hypho - Left Lung

* gyrofield - Gossamer

* Ternion Sound - Verify Me (VIP)

* Apollo Brown - Break The Code (Feat. Supa Emcee, Kuniva, & Alexis Allon)

There is a claustrophobic discipline to this mix, a brutalist architecture constructed almost entirely of 140bpm concrete. It begins with ZeroZero’s Cramp, a track that feels less like an opening and more like a seizure in a server room. The early section is dominated by the Visages and Strategy axis—specifically Lewis Capaldi, a track title that functions as a grim aesthetic joke, welding the name of a pop balladeer to a chassis of grinding, subterranean menace.

The mid-section is where the paranoia sets in. Pinch and Neffa-T’s Wha Happen offers grime deconstructed to its skeletal remains—rhythm as a threat rather than a pulse. But the pivot point is undoubtedly gyrofield. Her remix of Talk Up and original Gossamer inject a hyper-modern, almost fluid dynamics simulation into the rigid dubstep grid. It’s the sound of the genre mutating in real-time.

By the time we reach Ternion Sound’s Verify Me, the listener is battered, conditioned to the loop. The sudden gear-shift into Apollo Brown’s Break The Code feels like walking out of a windowless nightclub into the grey light of a Michigan morning—a necessary, soulful decompression from an hour of high-pressure pneumatics.

Percival Drift, 2025



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