Weirdrum Records returns with a release that captures much of the identity the label has cultivated over the years. This time the focus shifts to Anal Plug, one of the aliases of the label’s founder, a creative outlet through which bass music, jungle, and breaks become fluid materials rather than fixed categories.
The result is Epsilon Trax, a seven-track collection that moves freely across different tempos, energies, and emotional registers while maintaining a remarkably coherent vision. Like much of the Weirdrum catalogue, the release shows little interest in following established routes. Its attention lies elsewhere, in exploring what these sonic languages can still become.
Within that journey, Tusply stands out as a particularly revealing moment. From the very beginning, the track unfolds through a persistent duality. Not as conflict, but as coexistence. It is built upon the possibility that seemingly opposite forces can inhabit the same space without cancelling one another out. Energy is present throughout. Broken rhythms move with purpose, low-end frequencies occupy the spectrum with carefully measured weight, and the structure maintains a constant sense of momentum. Yet beneath that surface runs another current altogether. Quieter. More introspective. Like a slow breath hidden inside the machinery.
What makes Tusply compelling is its refusal to surrender completely to either side. It never seeks total eruption, nor absolute stillness. Instead, it inhabits the territory between them, drawing strength from what remains latent before fully emerging. Aggression stays restrained. Calmness remains unsettled. Each quality amplifies the other. As the track develops, perception begins to shift between different temporal dimensions. From the immediacy of the present toward distant memory. From the physical impact of fractured rhythms toward more abstract emotional spaces. Noise and silence gradually stop functioning as opposites and become part of the same continuous movement.
At certain moments, atmospheric elements open subtle cavities within the rhythmic framework. Suspended spaces where the music seems to approach something that never fully reveals itself. A presence that remains difficult to define, yet impossible to ignore. As though the composition were circling an invisible centre whose absence becomes just as significant as anything we actually hear.
}This is where Tusply reaches its most intriguing dimension. In its pursuit of the ineffable. Not as an abstract idea, but as a listening experience. Every texture, every pause, and every shift in momentum seems directed toward that threshold where language loses precision and perception takes over.
By the end, the track leaves behind a lingering impression. A sense that power and tranquillity were never opposing forces at all, but different expressions of the same underlying energy. An energy that runs throughout Epsilon Trax, reinforcing why Weirdrum Records continues to operate from a vision of its own rather than within the boundaries of genre.
Artist: Anal Plug
Title: Epsilon Trax
Label: Weirdrum Records
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Release Date: June 26, 2026
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Tracklist
1. Sophtiefill
2. Oh Why So Dirty?
3. Dolly
4. The Hydrogel
5. Doomsday
6. Tusply
7. Vistflow
Credits
Written and produced by Arseniy Agapov
Vocals on Tusply courtesy of Trat
Mastered by Arseniy Motorin
Artwork by Daniil Chernov
Press by Mike Slam
Published by Weirdrum Records. All rights reserved.
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