Coen

A nocturnal spark of inspiration, Ripper emerged with the idea of focusing on a single, fundamental driving sound and having it transform over time. Carried by near out- of-control percussion, caustic textures and eroded claps, the track is dominated by a kick which evolves through cycles of speed into a colossal, inescapable tone - before translating into a relentless, double-time pattern. « Ripper » is out now everywhere. « Moshpit » out 30/04/25 on @maloca.records https://maloca.lnk.to/Moshpit Music, artwork, blood, sweat and tears by Coen @coenofficial Font by Kazuhiro Aihara @kazuhiro_aihara Mastering by Hypna @hypna__ Promo text : NIQH @niqhniqhniqh

Next in our artist highlight: @coenofficial . Since debuting on 7Wallace in 2016, Coen has built a serious rep for percussion-led club weapons, championed by globally renowned artists and clubs all around the world. With recent releases on Maloca Records, Coen’s sound is raw, playful, and built for the dancefloor, hand-recorded percussion, zero BPM rules, all energy. Swipe for a preview of what to expect at our next event @mot.ldn Don’t miss this one🪘 Tickets are live in bio, grab yours before they’re gone.

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Huge thanks to @djmagofficial for the premiere 🥁 Coen - « Moshpit » is out now on @maloca.records - Digital available on Bandcamp & all other platforms (link in bio). https://maloca.lnk.to/Moshpit Brussels-based imprint Maloca proudly presents Moshpit, the sophomore mini-album from percussive connoisseur Coen—an eight-track exploration where focus and intensity reign supreme. Inspired by his teenage love for Slayer and the brutal energy of thrash metal, Coen transposes the genre’s raw aesthetics into his stripped-back, drum-forward sound, resulting in a release dominated by double-time kicks, corroded textures, and relentless energy. Tracks like Headbanger and Roll Play nod to his 2023 standout Pressure Roll, a DJ favorite, while the album as a whole distills his craft to its most vital and essential form. Moshpit’s artwork is designed by Coen himself - bristling with coarse texture, it feels like an appropriate visual guide to the sonic landscape to be found in Moshpit.

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Coen - "Moshpit" is out now on @maloca.records - Digital available on Bandcamp & all other platforms (link in bio). https://maloca.lnk.to/Moshpit Tracklist: 1. Slayer 2. Headbanger 3. Rottweiler 4. Roll Play 5. Poppers 6. Ripper 7. Yokozuna * さようなら Brussels-based imprint Maloca proudly presents Moshpit, the sophomore mini-album from percussive connoisseur Coen—an eight-track exploration where focus and intensity reign supreme. Inspired by his teenage love for Slayer and the brutal energy of thrash metal, Coen transposes the genre’s raw aesthetics into his stripped-back, drum-forward sound, resulting in a release dominated by double-time kicks, corroded textures, and relentless energy. Tracks like Headbanger and Roll Play nod to his 2023 standout Pressure Roll, a DJ favorite, while the album as a whole distills his craft to its most vital and essential form. Moshpit’s artwork is designed by Coen himself - bristling with coarse texture, it feels like an appropriate visual guide to the sonic landscape to be found in Moshpit. Music, artwork, blood, sweat and tears by Coen @coenofficial Font by Kazuhiro Aihara @kazuhiro_aihara Mastering by Hypna @hypna__ Promo text by NIQH @niqhniqhniqh

To celebrate his second release on @maloca.records , we asked @coenofficial to give us some insight on how Metal and Slayer inspired and shaped his musical approach on his forthcoming project "Moshpit". Follow the link in bio for the full newsletter on Substack. "Moshpit" will be available on April 30th on Bandcamp & all others platforms.

Slayer, which takes its namesake from the band which inspired Coen to make Moshpit, shows the artist at his most stripped back. Opening into a dense, dramatic environment of corrosive guitar distortion and thunder overhead, the track resolves into a no-nonsense exercise in bass-heavy simplicity as Coen plays with transplanting the relentless kick-drum patterns of thrash metal into his own sound, and mutating sequences over time. « Slayer » is out now everywhere. « Moshpit » out 30/04/25 on @maloca.records Music, artwork, blood, sweat and tears by Coen @coenofficial Font by Kazuhiro Aihara @kazuhiro_aihara Mastering by Hypna @hypna__ Promo text : NIQH @niqhniqhniqh

Coen - Moshpit The first single "Ripper" is out now everywhere. Full LP out 30/04/25 on @maloca.records Music, artwork, blood, sweat and tears by Coen @coenofficial Font by Kazuhiro Aihara @kazuhiro_aihara Mastering by Hypna @hypna__ Promo text by NIQH @niqhniqhniqh Brussels-based imprint Maloca is proud to present percussive connoisseur Coen’s sophomore mini-album, Moshpit: an 8-track exploration where focus and intensity rules all. As the title suggests, the release marks a more abrasive turn after 2023’s Slop Drop & Roll.   Feeling like a new direction was needed for his second mini-album, Coen went back to his roots. There, the artist re-discovered a love for Slayer and the brutal, near out-of-control power found in thrash metal. Through this recapturing of his teenage years, he found his approach, developing methods for transposing the genre’s raw aesthetics into his stripped back, drum-forward sound.   The result is a listening experience dominated by double-time kicks, corroded walls of texture and a level of intensity not heard before in the London artist’s work. Moshpit acts as an ode to Slayer and the brutal, relentless energy of thrash metal, taking the genre on a conceptual level and translating it into Coen’s universe.  Despite this aesthetic turn, the album also stands as an evolution, rather than a revolution, from Coen. The orotund percussive tones and lethal high energy grooves of Headbanger and Roll Play are nods to 2023 standout Pressure Roll - weapon of choice for DJs across the spectrum including Bonobo, Bambounou, Ahadadream, Toumba & Lu Su.   Moshpit also sees Coen at his most concentrated, distilling what he does best down to its most vital and essential form. Each track bristles with a cinematic, metallic sheen and never feels too busy, with the artist getting the most from recordings of his studio’s collection of percussion instruments – with many of the textures on the album becoming distorted abstractions of drums found in it.    The artwork, made by Coen himself, bristles with coarse texture, without becoming drowned in noise - an appropriate visual guide to the sonic landscape to be found in Moshpit.

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