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!
Queen Chubby’s Review:
“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.”