New York's Ma Sha brings wigged-out rhythms to Nerve Collect with an explosive, future-facing new EP. The six tracks prove she is bound by no rules but knows exactly how to energise the club. Ma Sha deals in sounds that operate outside the usual boundaries and demand full-bodied, physical reactions. She has become a driving force in the New York underground with Kindergarten, which is both a much-loved party and a much hyped label. Though built on global techno foundations, Sha's grooves range from peak-time brain melters to more twisted and rugged, always at high tempo and with plenty of invention on labels like Steel City Dance Discs and Rhythm Section International. 'Salpa' opens with a clipped rhythm drenched in neon and psychedelic swirls as oversized bass cocoons from below with glitchy vocal fragments and hard but bouncy techno momentum. 'Gillz' swallows you in waves of bass and rubber kicks while screwy synths spray across the mix while a syncopated broken beat brings irresistible funk to a post-human world. 'Shots', a collab track with Hodge, works in overdrive with rising tones and liquid metal textures that trap you in a hall of mirrors. Intense club pressure builds with pristine percussion and hyperreal vocals. 'Spinmachine' is a freaky sound world of fuzzy synths, cantering drums and static electricity that is full of threat and never lets go. 'Total Energy' locks into rolling drums and hyping swing with descending leads and a sense of future rave chaos designed for sheer dance floor release. Ma Sha's sound designs feel beamed back from the future to rewire familiar rhythms that tickle the brain as they make their way through your entire body. credits license

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Identified Patient is back with more world-building on the Nerve Collect label he co-founded with Gamma Intel. His five-track Head Fuse EP is a sci-fi fantasy that reimagines bass, techno, dub and broken beat and nudges toward tranced-out altered states. The Dutchman's mutating sound is part machine-funk, part psychoactive haze, all wired to disorient the brain as much as move the body. Now, years after breaking through, he has evolved his sound into something entirely his own on the likes of Dekmantel's UFO sub-label as well as here. He once again taps into the subconscious with this new EP. 'Lost Noise Ceremony' is an ancient rhythmic summons from a forgotten underworld with ghostly vocal fragments draped over perfect drum syncopation. A growing sense of threat lurks in the shadows as warped lasers twist up the timeline. 'The thin line' pairs dubstep wobble with garage shuffle and dub techno tradition. Smudged melodies surface like forgotten memories and carry a nagging nostalgia for something you can't quite place. 'Truly Give Up' smears high-voltage lines and chrome-plated pads with UKG swagger and conscious mutterings. Obscured soul samples tug at the heart as playful vocal yelps cut through a sharp, expertly engineered party tool with real attitude. 'Late Calls' sweeps like a vast dub techno tide, heavy with reverb and pressure. Drums surface and recede, briefly opening space for fragments of melody before the current pulls you back under. 'Signs in the Dossier' drives with metallic, steel-struck percussion into infinite depths. It's an immersive structure that draws you into its centre and doesn't let go. The Head Fuse EP is a wildly imaginative soundtrack that brings new and unknown worlds to life.