True to the track’s title, Sydney-based Arky Waters comes correct with this huge chunk of high-adrenaline jungle. If you’re playing at or around 160bpm, I can’t imagine this wouldn’t work a charm on your floor. Big big energy here from the jump, and on both sides of an appropriately celestial breakdown to allow folks to rest their hearts for a few seconds. This is from Arky Waters’ forthcoming debut long player. No bandcamp, I’m afraid, but he sent over the mp3 for me to share here, and you can find this for streaming all over.

Arky Waters – “UGETME?” (mp3)

Keeping the tempo high comes a nice slice of frenetic 170bpm IDM-breakcore-electro crossover from Sheffield-based 64e2, who I can’t find any more information about online. This track is mostly instrumental, but includes a synthetic vocal sample that periodically repeats the refrain–new ideas in cybernetics–the kind of phrase that’s almost obligatory in a lot of electro music, a genre that has long been obsessed with tech-noir, biopunk, and sci-fi futures that imagine continued competition and collaboration between man and machine. Sometimes these sorts of references can feel a little retro, but given the current state of technology, it seems to me there has never been an historical moment that more urgently calls for remaining focused on the specter of–and risk inherent with–combining or replacing humanity with machinery. This is available for streaming, or pay-what-you-wish on bandcamp as part of the Forensic Pathology EP. The artist was also kind enough to let me share with you the mp3 below.

64e2 – “Cybernetics” (mp3)

Moving further into the frenetic, a bit of transcendent breakcore from another cryptically named artist, Denver-based S79r3n7. I’m not always a fan of straight breakcore tracks, but when an artist manages to balance the chaos and intensity of the breakbeat programming with the serenity of big cloudy pads, I can definitely be won over. Here, S79r3n7’s sample-based pad design is gorgeous, and they succeed in taking the breakbeat chops just to the brink of incoherence without ever quite crossing the line. No bandcamp here, unfortunately, and seemingly no streaming either–except via soundcloud.

S79r3n7 – “732A5729” (sc)