FTR08 / Smooth Oscillator
"Summer Jams 2" EP

Released July 20, 2022

Smooth Oscillator is an alias for SomeJerk. As a child, naptimes often consisted of the soundtrack to the Weather Channel. In these dream states, infused with woozy smooth jazz and surreal visual surroundings, a separate voice was being raised from a distance.

At times leaning towards downtempo and triphop vibes, "Summer Jams 2" delivers Golden era 90's boom bap drums meet with booming basslines, trippy keyboards and sporadic chunks of rap lyrics scattered about like hiphop bacon bits.

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Produced, mixed and mastered by SomeJerk
Art and video by CHROMA13

FTR07 / SomeJerk
"Dark Rider"

Released March 14, 2023

A tribute to the old school, to the original 'Headz, when beats were rolling, basslines were pulsating and the only thing that mattered was finding more water. "Dark Rider" explodes with layers of chopped amen drums dissolving and reforming over a booming jungle bassline.

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Produced, mixed and mastered by SomeJerk
Art and video by CHROMA13

FTR06 / SomeJerk
"Drippy"

Released March 14, 2023

It does what it says - "Drippy" is a trippy and slippery goop of 140BPM bass music. Not quite dubstep, not quite dubstep, "Drippy" exists in it's own paradigm of existence.

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Produced, mixed and mastered by SomeJerk
Art and video by CHROMA13

FTR05 / SomeJerk
"Proceed"

Released May 6, 2022

SomeJerk returns to Futura with another retro futuristic jungle drum and bass banger.

"Proceed" attacks the dancefloor like a rabbit b-boy, with classic breaks chopped to bits and sprinkled across jungle basslines.

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Produced, mixed and mastered by @iamsomejerk

Art and video by @chroma13

FTR04 / SomeJerk
"Missing Consciousness"

Released January 5, 2022

Banging and clanging as always, SomJerk laces frantic breakbeats with booming 808 kick drums as a vocal sample asks the big questions.

What is life without consciousness? If you are asleep are you truly alive, or are you living in another world when you dream? There are many questions to be answered when it comes to consciousness and whether we have any control in a potentially pre-deterministic universe.

Available at drum and bass tempo with the vocal, or instrumental, as well as a 140BPM edition also with vocals or without.

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Produced, mixed and mastered by SomeJerk
Art and video by CHROMA13

FTR03 / SomeJerk
"Cool Flex"

Released July 30, 2020

Skittery plastic percussion bits dance with steel drums, chattering amens smash and convene with rubber 808 sub bass as the MC politely urges you to "cool down" the dance floor! What's a cool flex? Probably whatever moves you bust to this retro style jungle drum and bass tune.

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Stream and purchase:
https://futurabeat.bandcamp.com/track/cool-flex

Produced, mixed and mastered by SomeJerk
Cover design by http://instagram.com/chroma13
Photo used in design by https://unsplash.com/@sickle

FTR02 / SomeJerk
"Just Say Jungle"

Released March 1, 2020

Keeping the vibes moving in a future retro direction, SomeJerk presents "Just Say Jungle", a slower paced jungle drum and bass slammer hearkening back to the glory days of the mid 90s, when jungle was evolving in to what we know now as drum and bass music.

Shout to Konkrete Jungle, New York, for which the name of this tune is borrowed from.

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Produced, mixed and mastered by SomeJerk
Art and video by CHROMA13

FTR01 / SomeJerk
"Tomorrow Is Yesterday"

Released February 1, 2020

Kicking off Futura in January 2020, SomeJerk presents two 90's leaning drum and bass tracks.

Punchy drums and pulsating bass on "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" meet cascading pads and a sample from one of TV's greatest shows, warning that "this is a sign of things to come".

On the flip, more dusty old school drum and bass styles with "It Is What You Think It Is". Asking for more attention than the A side, the companion track winds through frantic cowbells and choppy breaks before finally releasing an onslaught of 808s and more breaks. Layering staccato rhythms with dub techno pads while the vocal tells you to just "roll with it".

Definitely a track for fans of cowbells and bass!

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Produced, mixed and mastered by SomeJerk
Art and video by CHROMA13

FTRX1 / SomeJerk
"Do You Remember?"

Released January 14, 2020

The first offering from Futura arrives as "Do You Remember?", a track asking a rhetorical question. Whatever populates as an answer, despite any real context, is the answer.

Ominous pads give way to beats that are so broken, they make you wonder if they were ever complete. The spaciousness is infected by a dark, growling reese bassline, pushing the limits of sub bass while reluctant drums bang on.

Produced, mixed and mastered by SomeJerk
Art and video by CHROMA13