Outlines

04/02/2025

That's right, in the latest round-up of the best electronic releases on Bandcamp, Joe Muggs Writing has highlighted REIFSMA REMIXED. Thank you very much.

Our guide to the month’s crucial electronic LPs.

31/01/2025

When the "Gqom Oh! The Sound of Durban" compilation came out in 2016 I had the feeling of listening to something totally fresh, and I would compare the very experience that accompanied it to the moment of discovering Chicago footwork. Comparing gqom with footwork may not be entirely appropriate when it comes to tempo. Gqom situates itself around 128 bmp while footwork rushes along at 160. But what I think both genres have in common is the organization of the composition, the creation of space with the help of percussion elements. We can see a similar situation in dubstep.
From the moment I bought that legendary compilation introducing the world of gqom music, I was already thinking about trying to combine it with footwork. It's been 9 years since that moment, and I finally decided to see if it would be possible to accelerate gqom to the pace of footwork without losing those most important gqom elements. I think this experiment came out very interesting. I was helped by hybrid footwork productions set in the style I explore on my label. The tracklisting primarily included tracks from the GQOM OH label, founded by Nan Kolè, which made the music genre from Durban, Africa, famous.

28/01/2025

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22/01/2025

DJ Strawberry in the mix!

DJ Strawberry aka Emre Öztürk (he/him) is a producer/DJ from Istanbul & currently based in Berlin. His style bases in micro-grooves with considerable inspiration coming from Japanese footwork minimali

17/01/2025

A REIFSMA REMIXED release party will be held this Saturday at an atmospheric venue in Tokyo ヨムキクノム by musit, featuring artists whose remixes were featured on the compilation: Ace-up, Loopdrive and Polish import Hinode Tapes (Hatti Vatti and wh0wh0).

08/01/2025

Thank you Joe Muggs Writing for inluding IFS MA - Enshooritz (Petr Yac Redub). Link in comments.

07/01/2025

“Bedrooms and Cities” is an essential record in the catalog of Berlin's iconic Tresor label, which was an important reference point for me in discovering techno in the late 1990s. Here, Neil Landstrumm's record becomes the starting point for being filtered through Chicago's Juke, which provided an important foundation for footwork. Link in comments.

1. Neil Landstrumm - Tension in New York vs DJ Rashad I Don't Wanna Dance
2. Neil Landstrumm - Minneapolis Bass Treatment vs DJ Rashad - Midiman
3. Neil Landstrumm - Miami Vice vs ROBERT ARMANI - ROAD RUNNER (TRAXMAN Going Hard Re work)
4. Neil Landstrumm - Monaco Grand Prix vs ROBERT ARMANI - AMBULANCE (Traxman's Year 2020 Re work)
5. Neil Landstrumm - Leaving Edinburgh Humour vs DJ Rashad - Robotic Rythm
6. Neil Landstrumm - Gotham City (Football Club) vs Dubsknit - Repetivity
7. Neil Landstrumm - Stretch Copenhagen vs DJ Rashad - shake & drop
8. Neil Landstrumm - Brazilian Death Metal vs DJ Q and DJ Ken - POP
9. Neil Landstrumm - George Shoulders is Alive vs Kneco - Smooth Ghettotech

30/12/2024

In 2024, there were as many as 6 releases from outlines and guides. But beyond releasing music, it's mostly about discovering new artists, labels, and constantly being inspired. Here's a list of my discoveries and inspirations from this year. Thank you to all the artists and labels for this wonderful time spent with your music!

06/12/2024

The day of the premiere of the last release of the year has arrived. REIFSMA REMIXED is eight other versions of original tracks from one of the best cassettes of 2023.
A huge thank you goes to all the artists involved in this project. Big thanks also go to IFS and MA for your work and to Marta Sieczkowska for the wonderful cover design.
The double cassettes containing the original album and the remixes should be shipped in the first half of 2025.

18/11/2024

Artists: V/A
Title: REIFSMA REMIXED
Format: Digital/Double Cassette Edition
Release date: 6.12.2024
Mastering: Mateusz Wysocki
Artwork: Marta Sieczkowska

In 2023, the guides label released the debut album resulting from a collaboration between Polish producers duo IFS (for which are responsible Fischerle and Krzysztof Freeze Ostrowski), and Japanese vocalist MA. This extremely spontaneous and fast-paced collaboration resulted in one of the most interesting hybrid productions combining footwork, 160 bpm tempo and voice with an avant-garde flair. The “REIFSMA” cassette was critically acclaimed, appearing in music highlights of 2023 on sites such as Bandcamp and The Quietus, and IFS and MA had the opportunity to present a live version of their album at the Unsound festival.

Released in 2024, “REIFSMA REMIXED” was created as a side project while IFS worked with MA on their new album. Something that was originally intended to be an EP containing new material along with three remixes of tracks from their debut album evolved into two separate pieces. That’s how the remix album of “REIFSMA” came to be, featuring a new version of each song from the debut release.

Eight producers create their own interpretations, taking the originals into genres such as dub and dub techno (Petr Yac, JANKA, Loopdrive), footwork techno (Fetus, Ace-up), energetic ambient (DJ Strawberry), bristol sound (Eurlica), electro (Otomoni).

13/11/2024

Three years after the last mix in the outlines series, label owner Pawel Paide Dunajko has prepared a new set filled with tracks from upcoming releases, music by artists affiliated with the label and those whose work inspires him. Including such producers as: CRZKNY, JANKA (Hatti Vatti & Daniel Drumz) Sun People, 1988 aka 2k88, DYL and many more.

Later this year, the guides label will release an album of remixes of one of the best electronic albums of 2023 according to the Bandcamp - IFS MA "REIFSMA:. The album will also be available as a physical medium, in a special two-cassette edition that will include the debut album.

18/10/2024

Artist: Bancal
Titile: Abruti
Label: guides
Format: digital / cassette (edition of 70)
Mastering: Mateusz Wysocki
Artwork: Marta Sieczkowska

Clément Decaudin, aka Bancal, is a French producer and sound artist. He has been active in the local french scene for over a decade, creating noise, abstract music, hip-hop and exploring the footwork tradition as a representative of the producers' collective Le French Work. The album „Abruti” attempts to bring all these fascinations together and set a new direction in Decaudin's work.

„Abruti” refers to Decaudin's first electronic project of the same name. It was as Abruti that he attempted to create music grounded in the sounds of digital noise, punk and hardcore, drawing inspiration from Minor Threat, Black Flag, Raster Noton. This resulted in the album „Mauvaises Définitions”, released in 2020, containing short and radical digital noise tracks. In 2022, Decaudin was invited to present his 'abruti' work at the Lille VJfest. It was the perfect moment to redefine his early work and make it more accessible and danceable.

„Abruti” is ten feisty tracks, filled with dense and razor-sharp sounds. Dirty, bubbling basses, raster-noton-like digital raw data and 8-bit synths are set on a footwork structure. A punk volte-face and a resounding sense of simple irony hovers over the whole album. An unusual sense of humour can be found not only in the titles of the individual tracks, but also in the sound of „Abruti” itself, which evokes similarities with the music of the famous electronic ironist Luke Vibert.

Bancal has succeeded in creating a remarkably coherent concept of music set on an expressive foundations. On the one hand, we hear the tradition of punk radicalism, and on the other we hear the hedonistic experience of dance electronica. These seemingly difficult to reconcile contradictions live in a perfect symbiosis on „Abruti” – poking, biting and scratching at the same time, they make you want to jump up and down on the dance floor.

11/10/2024

Check out the latest set from DBridge at Rinse FM. Among the tracks played was one from Sun People from his Joyful Discontent album released on guides.

Listen to dBridge - 7 October 2024 by Rinse FM on

09/10/2024

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02/10/2024

Artist: Bancal
Titile: Abruti
Label: guides
Release date: 18.10.2024
Format: digital / cassette (edition of 70)
Mastering: Mateusz Wysocki
Artwork: Marta Sieczkowska