Release Date: 1st January 2026
Catalogue: WOBVIP001
Starting the year with a big drop of these intense re-works of ‘Anti-fascist Workshop’ and ‘Hooha’. These variations sure pack a punch!
Available exclusively through WOB40 on Bandcamp.
Release Date: 12th December 2025
Catalogue: Yonder Loft 022L
Variety of 140bpm bass music styles from hard dubstep, to melodic, buzzy, mysterious, dreamy, ska-like, slow jungle, to wobbly dubstep. ‘Hooha’ doesn’t take itself so seriously while ‘Anti-Fascist Workshop’ sounds like it’s blasting enemies away. ‘Siren’ draws the listener in with its haunting tones and waves of noise, dropping into a full dark sounding colour bass, if that’s even possible, it must be. ‘Antennae’ is a buzzy, uplifting, floor stomping rocker with a mighty drum roll. ‘Let Your Body Move’ has original lyrics from Terrapastel transposed into a higher key to match the energy of the ska like rhythm.
In October of 2024, Masteratt, mastermind of our WOB40 collective, suggested we should put on another 140 / dubstep night in Wrexham. We wanted to build on the success of the previous event. This immediately gave me the inspiration and a 5 month target deadline to write a bunch of new dancefloor music with only one rule, it should all be made at 140 beats-per-minute.
When 1st of March came, the event was a success with WOB40 DJs playing alongside headliners Lotu, Chad Dubz and Fearless Dread. It was a great place to hang out and meet fellow lovers of bass music.
That night, my early versions of the same tunes on this LP were tried and tested and while half the attendees were outside having a catch up they seemed to go down well inside. The energy, vibe, how the room and the soundsystem reacted for the tracks appeared to be well and good.
By the summer the tracks were almost ready for release after more tweaking and mixing. I decided not to rush and specially commission some concept artwork relating to the first two tracks, especially ‘Siren’. I left Gilly Knicks with the task of painting a depiction of the mythological siren with a few extra features in there.
By the time this artwork came back finished my mastering engineer, who happened to be on the same line-up as me at Wob40, Lotu, also running Temperance Mastering, returned the masters of the 7 tracks you hear on this EP. The moment they came back I could hear how balanced she’d made them. After going for a spin in the car with them at high volume, enough to hear the bass distorting the actual speakers, I could tell they were done really well, much better than my attempts, which had missed a few issues. They sound silky!
“Anti-Facist Workshop: The title alone speaks levels. Excitement rising for the new direction Terrapastel has been exploring.
SIREN: The drama of the jilted “siren”. Planet caravan-esque intro. Nauseating sway of a ship on stormy seas. Shift in surrounding environment.
Antennae: 80s retro dub, 8-bit horns, begs to be blended with Kamer’s Hadouken! Expertly balanced high end, plenty of high end but no harshness.
LYBM: Dark transition from antennae bouncing into some donkish ska with a CLEANLY TRANSPOSED vocal hook catchier than Daft Punks “Technologic”. Morphing creatures hidden in the mid-range synth breaching the surface of our dimension. Mungo’s HiFi goes to space. TERRAPASTEL IS DUBBING!!!
HOOHA: Dark, muffled and disgusting distortion on the bass paired with a ruthless ride on the reverb in the realm of the snare and wobbles up the walls and out onto the roof, there’s no standing still when this one womps in.
Trouble: Intro reminiscent of earlier ambient Terrapastel “Music for Spaceheads and Headspaces” until that drop which defines the new sound being explored in this new album. Watch out for the robots. Thrown between the portals in space, swallowed by a black hole and spat out the other side.
Suggestion: 140 for junglists and dubbists alike. 90s rave/early hardcore meets modern downtempo dubstep. Needs to be appreciated on a soundsystem, a must have for any modern dub selector. Ambient and bass-y with breaks floating about the gaff.”
Release Date: 9th July 2025
Catalogue: Yonder Loft 021L
Compared to making a new single each month, working on this album resulted in the art, quality and emotions being allowed to flourish. It’s a mix of projects spanning three years.
What & Wonder LP is available today as a free download.
Release Date: 20th April 2025
Terrapastel and three of the other artist in the Wob40 collective are releasing two tracks each on Wob40 label’s first release: DUB FROM THE DEPTHS 001.
There are eight tracks on the LP and each is a 140 / dubstep track. Pre-orders for some of the tracks are available now.
Before the year 2024 began I had an idea, a plan, a project, a challenge, to release one track each month for the entire year 2024.
It was going quite well, reaching July and only missing one month. I thought I could catch up. The last track I release was in September 2024. Again, hopeful that I could still catch up, the work and deadlines were mounting up and became too much.
Still wanting to release 12 tunes in 2024, I could still succeed, maybe. Realistically to finish and release the final 5 tracks to bring the releases up to 12, I thought maybe I should release an EP early in 2025. Great idea right?
Well, you know what a better idea is? Starting a completely new side-quest that could maybe help me finish the original challenge, even though it might be late. MUCH later.
In October I got word from our Maya who founded our Wob40 collective that we would be doing a second Wob40 annual event on 28th February of 2025. SUDDENLY a new target transpired before me. An opportunity.
Why not make everything from now until the event at 140bpm. What if I make that the only rule for making all my productions. Plus, I didn’t really have enough of my own dubstep or material at 140bpm to play for an hour long DJ set. Sure I can play other producers stuff but this was a golden opportunity to make a load of new music.
Around this time I began live streaming almost all of my production sessions on TikTok and YouTube. Anyone could drop in on TikTok and watch my journey to making 140 beats and music to play at the 2nd Wob40 event.
4.5 months later, I arrived at Saith Seren, with more heads there than last year, to the same chill vibes, great producers, great DJs and music they played. I was happy with my set and got to play eleven of my tunes that were finished or close to being.
Since October I had begun over 40 tracks. The remaining 11 survived the discover and testing parts of the process.
TWO of the tracks are already signed and due for release on the 20th April 2025 on the Wob40 label. The other 9? That we will see. A lot of TikTok users are anticipating their release at some point. I don’t want to make them wait so will trickle them out over 2025.
But Terrapastel, what about those 5 tracks to finish the 2024 project?
The music I made from October to the end of 2024 is what will be coming out in 2025. Take your pick!
Seriously though, I learned a lot about that project. Like:
Catch me on TikTok lives under Terrapastel or same on YouTube if you want to follow these music making sessions and chat.
Released: 20th September 2024
Catalogue: YONDER LOFT 020
Through 2024 I have been releasing one track per month. How is that going you ask?
Well, so far there is a release missing for August and March.
How did that happen?
Having 3 kids keeps one occupied almost every waking hour.
What will you do?
I will either somehow squeeze an extra 2 in before 2025, or reach 2025 and consider the project finished, or carry on into 2025 until there are 12 releases in total. What do you think I should do? I love a message in my inboxes.
Thank you for listening. Your support is appreciated very much.
John (Terrapastel)
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Released: 30th July 2024
Catalogue: Yonder Loft 019
Happy July!
I am releasing one track each month through 2024.
This marks the 5th release of the year.
Stay locked on my journey to see if I can do all 12 before the year end.
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Released: 18th April 2024
Catalogue: Yonder Loft 016
Out of the almost random trying of ideas keyed into existence in the Terrapastel studio, only a small number of these ideas are lucky enough to get finished. This one was exciting enough to see through to the finish. It’s called ‘On Tap’ and is based on a half-speed drum and bass tempo but with similar rapid bass elements for super skeletal shakes near a speaker stack.
This is the third instalment of a series featuring artworks from Jimmy Sommer.
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