Take, Release
Scotia

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“I believe in paying my dues,” an off-the-cuff remark from rising New York State star DJ Scotia that could just as easily serve as the battle cry of Take Release, her debut EP for The Bunker New York. The record delivers assertive dance floor rattlers that honor the forebears while lunging acid into the now. These are the sounds of a lifelong student of electronic dance music, with an almost monastic reverence for 303 squelching, 909 swing, and the monophonic glory of an SH-101. Drum programming as spell, sequencer as incantation. Techno as ideal, a euphoria we momentarily inhabit when everything is just so: the system tuned, the party safely removed at the edge of polite society, held and caressed by texture and hypnosis.

“Take it, release it,” Scotia coos through heavily processed vocals. Is it a command from the booth, or a suggestion from one of your own? Either way, we’re already in its grip. On “More Work,” a track that churns nastily over a morphing, glorpy bass line, Scotia channels the lineage directly, sampling Sweet Pussy Pauline, aka Hateful Head Helen, the iconic diva of countless “bitch track” classics. Nasty, naughty, and undeniably feminine. Work this pussy, indeed.

The remixes extend the EP’s reach across The Bunker New York’s sonic continuum. Sister Zo builds almost nauseatingly toward a diabolical, overloaded low end, while Lauren Flax reshapes “Work” into a melodic, 90s-leaning camp burner. Undeniable, joyful, kinetic, yet shot through with ambient unease in a moment of hostility toward trans lives. Can the magick of techno still push back the dark? In Scotia's world, perhaps it is so.

released April 30, 2026

Mastered by Kevin McHugh at Valence Studios Artwork by Andrew Charles Edman Liner Notes by Ben Seretan

Take, Release Scotia

Take, Release
Scotia