newdotcom – steeldough- com12

release date: november 26, 2026 >>> bandcamp 

breaking free from the dictates of four-to-the-floor techno, newdotcom returns to comfortnoise with pure, club-driven kinetic energy. this is heavy bass music carried by deep, vibrating basslines, off-kilter kicks, slashing hi-hats and unmistakable echoes of south african amapiano tunes. steeldough is a multi-dimensional collaborative project designed to collide audio, visuals and community into a pulsating, timeless centre.


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new.com – powder blue – com03

Powder Blue by new.com

>>> see oli warwick‘s review on international orange on may 3, 2021
>>> listen to om unit (cosmic bridge; bristol) playing “milan”: swu fm june 2021 (w special guest pugilist)
>>> listen to orson (version; berlin) playing “cessation”: callshop radio 26.8.2021
>>> listen to bmo (bristol) playing “milan”: planet smorgasbord
>>> listen to junior playing “decoy”: accidental meetings podcast #54


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new.com – the unity is submarine – com02

The Unity Is Submarine by new.com

>>> see the review on juno daily on march 18, 2021.

Ever since it was founded in 2003, Comfortnoise has featured events, podcasts, and texts rotating around mighty basslines in Techno and Dub. Now, NEW.COM («new-dot-com»), head of Comfortnoise, emerges with four of his own productions exploring the depths of dancefloor, even soundsystem-oriented music:


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comfortnoise ploy – three strands – com01

Three Strands by Comfortnoise Ploy

Comfortnoise Ploy offers three heavily dubbed out tunes complemented by an ingenious, kind of shoegazing remix by Gaspard de La Montagne. Similar to what Comfortnoise Ploy play in their comprehensive live performances, these tracks are loose, lost-in-thought sonic patterns that do not quite obey any style or genre. They rather freely lean against Donald W. Winnicott’s conceptualization of three strands of communication available to an individual: The first is explicit, indirect and pleasurable, the second is intermediate by sliding out of the child’s playing into cultural experience of every kind, and finally and


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