St. Petersburg collective (and monthly party five years running) Roots United will launch a new label effort in the coming weeks. In charge of delivering the imprint’s inaugural release is the crew’s own Nocow, a local producer who has served as one of St. Petersburg’s most consistently intriguing musical exports over the past few years—his excellent Ruins Tape album (which saw a proper vinyl re-release in 2012) solidifying his reputation as one of Russia’s most quality producers. Never one to remain entrenched in a single musical aesthetic, Nocow’s forthcoming Zathdax EP sees the artist moving towards the more rough and rugged ends of the techno spectrum, its title track (offered for download here) burying a series of sci-fi synth sequences and chopped syllables beneath a steady stream of static-laden, machine-made rhythms. Nowcow’s “Zathdax” production can be downloaded below before his EP of the same title (which is also streaming in full below) launches the label arm of St. Petersburg’s Roots United collective on February 2.

Zathdax