In the tradition of Critical, RAM, Vision and other label heavy hitters, Forbidden Society Recordings has started its 15-year anniversary celebration with a series of remix EPs, the first of which will be hiting platforms next Thursday, 25th of September. As FS Recs has mostly been a place for Forbidden Society’s oen brand of genre-and-beat-bending experimental work, fans can expect most of the remixes to also be of Forbidden Society’s own tracks, but there will likely be some surprises along the way.
FSRECSREMIX1 will have remixes from Vici, Hallucinator, Pandaemondium (Raido & Gexan), the Forbidden Recs remix contest winners, Seekraze & Bestial, and our premiere artist, Drumago. We’ll keep which tracks the others are mixing a secret for now, but that just gives us more time to get into the banger that is Drumago’s ‘Trashstar’ remix.
Drumago is a fairly new producer but has already racked up releases on the likes of Brainrave, Hanzom’s eponymous label Hanzom Music, UTM and Imagine Audio. The South Germany-based artist seems to have chosen 2024’s ‘Trashstar’ as a challenge, as the original is in an unusual tempo and has one of Forbidden Society’s unconventional beat strucures to tangle with, but Drumago has managed to make the track his own.
While Forbiden Soceity’s orignial was a sort of purposely sloppy gabber/jump up hybrid with a load of distortion and feedback all the way through, Drumago decided to take the ‘playing with beat structure’ concept and play even more, adding in splices of more obvious gabber with heavily-syncopated-and-fucked-with amens and other breaks to make a track that somehow sounds even more evil than the original (no mean feat on an FS tune). He also added a load of synths and samples, taking the concept of the track’s title ‘Trashstar’ and running with it, creating an echo and vibe in the track that makes the listener feel like they’re in a modern-day Thunderdome. Evil gabber and D&B would obviously be the theme music to such an event.
If tracks like Drumago’s ‘Trashstar’ remix are what fans can expect from the FS Recs remix series going forward, the anniversary will clearly be something celebrated by everyone who already knows and loves the imprint. Stay tuned for more wildness to come. The full FSRECSREMIX1 EP will be available on major platforms on 25th September. Click here to save or pre-order.