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#1
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White Soil EP
Na Nich returns to Delsin following up his 2023 Black Soil EP. On White Soil the Ukrainian producer continues his queeste pushing the boundaries of deep immersive techno. Compared to the previous chapter, White Soil contains a significant lighter touch. Playing with subtle melodies and musing atmospheres to set an uplifting tone. Its still powerful and propulsive while this sparkle of brightness provides a strikingly fresh angle.
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#3
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NC4K0038
NC4K, the Kyoto-based label run by Stones Taro and Lomax, is pleased to announce its latest release. Were excited to welcome Lil Tozan to the NC4K roster. Based in Shizuoka, Japan, Lil Tozan delivers a four-track EP focused on his signature jungle sound. The EP showcases proper 90s jungle foundations, infused with modern elements. This release is a strong fit for NC4Ks core philosophy of House & Jungle.
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#5
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GOST ZVUK 10 YEARS
2025-07-04 Gost Zvuk
Flakes, Vtgnike, ffyyoo, Ivan Yerofeev, Latif, Ol, Batsqueak, Fama87, moevse, Valentin Fufaev, Flaty, Kuzma Palkin, Shinegrooves, Stas Karpenkov, Gamayun, Qulur Tadel, Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova, Ø, Nocow, Ewer, Ясень, Kedr Livanskiy, Piramyds of Ural, Муся Кроткова и Марк Есин, Atal, Bamma Gamma & Spurv, S A D, Ilya Vlasenko, Lapti, Hoavi, raremotherfucker, DJ designer, DX20V, Roma Zuckerman
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#10
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Aquator
Cosmin TRG returns to Fizic after five years with Aquator - a warped, atmospheric transmission of corroded vignettes informed by his recent foray into filmmaking. The title track pulses with negative space and decay, while Zwin Corala drifts through fragmented rhythms and shimmering heat haze. Diluare closes with ghostly traces of movement and memory, suspended in static and quicksand pads. Mastered by Kaan Bulak at Feral Note.
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#11
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Various Artists 001
In 2024, Dutch artist and producer Nadia Struiwigh founded Distorted Waves, a label devoted to releasing music untethered from the usual listening environments -not solely built for the club or the concert hall, but also for all spaces beyond. Following her first two releases, OXI 5 and Trees, Struiwigh now curates Distorted Waves VA 01. Its the labels first various artists compilation and its most collaborative project to date. A core part of the labels identity is a deep focus on the technological aspects of music creation. Each release on Distorted Waves explores a specific piece of gear or a particular tool. For this project, that tool was one that Nadia created herself: a custom Sci Fi Ambient sample pack. Nadia extended an invitation to a circle of 10 artists shes connected with creatively and personally. Each was given the same starting point: a bespoke ambient sample pack crafted by Nadia. But instead of prescribing direction, the pack served as a catalyst for play -encouraging open-ended exploration without genre constraints. What emerged is a wide-ranging collection of tracks that bends through power ambient, experimental contours, dubstep pressure, and more atmospheric oscillations. Each track was shaped from the same sonic source, yet arriving somewhere entirely distinct. These sounds traveled through many minds, many contexts, says Nadia. Its a kind of group storytelling, one set of frequencies reshaped into many perspectives. Rather than chase coherence, Distorted Waves VA 01 leans into divergence unified by source. This is one for the heads. Features tracks by 1 CONCEPTUAL 2 SURGEONS GIRL 3 A.FRUIT 4 ANNA Z 5 HOMEMADE WEAPONS 6 NADIA STRUIWIGH 7 BOXIA 8 ELIN PIEL 9 HUMAN SPACE MACHINE 10 TROVARSI 11 KAOSMOS ARTWORK: Nadia Struiwigh MASTERING: Maspaventi Mastering
CONCEPTUAL, Surgeons Girl, A.Fruit, ANNA Z, Homemade Weapons, Nadia Struiwigh, Boxia, Elin Piel, Human Space Machine, Trovarsi, Kaosmos
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#12
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Fragment 3
Tidy Kid, who counts Warp veteran Bibio among his fans, previously released Fragment 3, a gem of days gone by. Hauch Records label owner DJ Edelescort makes his release debut with a three-minute edit that offers a tight variation on the original.
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#13
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POOL JAMS
Hot summer rain hits the cracked pavement in uneven rhythms. A neon sign flickers above a café that never seems to close, its warm white light reflected in the wet ground like a fever dream. The air smells of summer and the world hums with an easy tone, as if the city itself is holding its breath. A light flooded film noir-ish scene, that needs a soundtrack like „POOL JAMS, the new album of INIT, the Berlin based duo, that already caused quite a stir with their albums for Hivern Discs and Optimo Music. This time, they bring their latest creations out on R.i.O. - a label, with whom they are deeply associated. Their fourth longplayer is a playful one. One that brings trip hopping feelings. That has rnb grace, without catering regular trademarks of the genre. Dub, trance, drone, is all there too. Yet, nothing is present in pure definition. Rather suggested, interwoven, or newly twisted in a songwriting style, that haunts and seduces. On top the voice of Nadia DAlò dances, steps and hums tempting to the grooves she created with her partner in crime Benedikt Frey. Together they fashioned a record, that, as INIT puts it, is „some kind of old photo from an old dry empty pool that got faded by sunlight . A dreamy, sunny piece of song art, made for endless smoky LA freeway drives, and other adventures that seek for infinite riddance. You can dream it. You can trance it. You cant escape it, as soon as it rotates in your dream device for sound and vision.
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#15
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xTractions 3
With xTractions, idntmttr crafts a sonic environment where perception sharpens and subtlety reigns. This ambient LP drifts in stochastic waves, echoing the natural rhythms and resonances of the world around us. It evokes a quiet familiarity - almost nostalgic - yet isnt afraid to slip into darker, more disquieting currents. The result is an immersive exploration of presence: serene, uneasy, and always alive with the tension of being. Written, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by idntmttr @ Belly Of The Beast, London. Photography & Artwork by idntmttr Label: Living Ornaments
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#21
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Harbour Arms (samb_rules remix)
The fourth of eight remixes created using Mr Beatnick and Richard Greenans Coasty record. C Sides features SidiRum, Object Agency, Galina Juritz, samb_rules, Brunnera, Basil Neptune, YOTO and Love Is Yes.
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#22
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2 Jahre Dazwischen EP
Ornaments proudly welcomes Lesterr with the 2 Jahre Dazwischen EP - a beautifully crafted journey through two distinct sonic perspectives. The A-side offers a deep and heartfelt dancefloor journey with subtle piano infusions, complemented by a mesmerizing, deep grooving remix from none other than Isolée. On the B-side, the mood shifts inward with four immersive cuts drifting from ambient landscapes to laid-back downbeats - perfect for your listening pleasure.
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#24
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R4
On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburgs hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records-their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback. Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isnt invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the albums breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK). Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electros danceability, acid houses corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk-a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection-a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing. In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together. That principle animates R4: The albums form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole. From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D its clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.
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#26
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Pre-Signal
This is not a track. Its a breath. A gate. A signal before signal. No voice, no rhythm. Only field. Youre not listening to music. Youre remembering something without words. Pre-Signal is the threshold. The sound that opens everything. Distributed by Label Engine - www.label-engine.com
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#27
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Fishnets / Distress Tolerance / Voyeur
The people united will never be defeated, heres Bbymutha and Sha-Ray throwing blows and raised middle fingers with a screwface to whoever needs it, over loose beats and a looping violin being dragged through the digital grime. A banger hitting as hard as we all need it to, with co-production from parallel producer August Fanon.
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#31
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Lucid Territories
Audyssey AVE, the visionary sound artist Gavin Lawson, presents Lucid Territoriesan evocative and deeply immersive journey through sound, perception, and self-exploration. This latest release is more than an EP; it is a sonic map that charts the terrain between states of being and becoming, inviting listeners to engage with music as a meditative experience. Opening with PANG (Present Authentic Nurture Grace), the EP establishes its conceptual foundation with a mantra-like structure, mirroring the flow of mindfulness traditions. This piece initiates listeners into Audysseys unique auditory spacean environment where sound becomes an active, participatory phenomenon. The journey continues with Wandering, a composition born from the revelation that profound artistic discoveries emerge not from rigid structure but through intuitive exploration. With layered electronic and organic textures, Wandering navigates the unpredictable pathways between intention and chance, reflecting the minds ability to draw coherence from seeming randomness. Wet Grains delves into the materiality of sound itself, dissecting how moments of awareness coalesce into immersive realities. Inspired by the way water transforms individual grains of sand into intricate mosaics, this composition parallels the fluid nature of consciousnesseach sonic fragment gilded by attention, each shift altering perception. Closing the EP, Charismatic stands as an expression of transcendence. Drawing from Platos allegory of the cave, this track embodies the movement beyond perceived illusions into a sharper, more intricate reality. Through complex auditory structures that shape resolution over resistance, Charismatic crafts a soundscape that both disrupts and reconstructs meaning. With Lucid Territories, Audyssey AVE offers more than just music; he provides an intellectual and emotional odyssey into the mechanics of self-awareness. This release challenges the boundaries of sonic meditation, positioning sound as both the method and the documentation of consciousness in motion.
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#32
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10 Years Of Shaw Cuts
It all began with “Have Sword, Will Travel“, an EP that started the „armed“ journey with its many different ups and downs. But the label is still here and celebrates its 10th anniversary today. Besides being pretty emotional about the fact that this journey is still continuing after so many years, I’m also looking back at an intense period of time full of doubts, disappointments and mistakes. Especially social media leads us to believe that every life is so exciting, spectacular and unique and that you are doing something wrong compared to all of this glamorous self-promotion. If you really start comparing to these blissful images, things feel miserable very fast. But instead, the healthiest things are to just be yourself, to follow your vision no matter how slow and complicated things evolve and to avoid doing things that feel wrong and factitious. And because of that, everything is right where it should be for Shaw Cuts and it’s still so much fun and exciting to run this project. I’m trying my best to keep things going and to keep things fresh & exciting - hopefully for another decade. Thank you all for the genuine appreciation and support of all the music that got released over the past 10 years, for having an open mind for all the different projects and for helping the label to grow and develop a certain brand recognition and identity. Without you none of that would have been possible. Have Sword, Will Travel.
Quiem, Lindenberg Support, Roger 23, Tom Dicicco, Formula Gone, Delta Division, Cressida, Nothus, Farron, Impurity, Kid Kun, Merino, twuan, Anybody Anytime, Placid One, Silent Era, Serenace, Regen
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#33
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Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel?
estoc presents the newest manifestation of her artistic practice: an attempt to make sense of a world seemingly hellbent on violence as its chief export. Art written as a direct response to the conditions felt both at home and watched across oceans through a phone. This album exists as an acknowledgement that our fates are inextricably intertwined, yet, our (temporary) comfort is extracted from the third world. Across 10 tracks the question is: Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel? Answers are posed and then brushed away, like dust from a shelf. By the end, nothing is settled and we are left with more questions than answers. Collaborators and co-conspirators weave in and out of the compositions, their presence felt as both adornment, and as integral infrastructure. DJ Haram opens the album with Heretic. Her voice swims through crackling noise, throbbing basslines — a guided meditation as much as a late night conversation. The Weight follows directly after. AZADI.mp3s smoky chants hover in the air above a smouldering fire of trip hop drums and synths, devolving to a miasma of distortion and swirling screams. The next song, Where Do We Go Now, builds and swells with rumbling synths, arriving fully as breaks crash forward and Military Scientists voice cries out over a chaotic sea. The first solo composition of the album comes in the form of The Poison of the Centre. A solemn yet off-balance meditation of drums, cut over an uneven and shifting beat. This rhythmic fervor is multiplied tenfold on No Glory, a harsh bath of bass and drums, constantly fighting for space to breathe through the manufactured scarcity of the mix. Scorched Earth lends us our first breath of fresh air. Mia Carucci sings a lullaby over growling instrumentation, Exploited Bodys co-production threatening to boil over at any moment. A momentary break in the clouds, a beam of sunlight shines through before being quickly swallowed back up by the storm; gone as quickly as it came. It is here that we plunge even deeper, as the heartbeat of Heaven Defined for Another rattles through. Machinery and exasperated breathing become inexorable, both driven to their breaking point by a rolling wave of thunder. This mechanical terror roils forth on Cradling. Miedo Total sets clattering steam and cogs over crying strings that threaten to throw themselves to pieces. The penultimate entry sees Violence lend voice and production to Bones Broken, Many Things Left Unsaid — a deep terror lurches, shuddering and crashing like ocean waves. A gentle chorus of strings ushers in the final piece, Scratch a Liberal — a rare, but fleeting moment of tenderness on the album. Heavy towers of bass throw the composition into shadow, tension builds and grows before collapsing in on itself, revealing the fear and violence at the core of this project. At the end of it all, we are left alone to contemplate what is to be done.
DJ Haram, Estoc, AZADI.mp3, Military Scientist, Exploited Body, Mia Carucci, Miedo Total, Violence
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#35
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Floridica EP
Rico found an old painting from his childhood and set it to music as he remembered the infantile feels behind those moments of painting over 30 years ago. While perfectly fitting the labels idea of presenting EXHIBITIONs, this interdisciplinary time travel truly grew into some unique and remarkable music...
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#36
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ex_libris 001
Wonderful Dave Huismans (A Made Up Sound) prod. deepest leftfield house / ambient collages, grooves & excursions. First of the initial two volumes in a small new 12 series - each ltd to 300 vinyl copies cut @ D&M, with stamped colored sleeves & labels designed by Bernie van Vlijmen. Part earthy, part swampy, 001s A-side Wetlands is an epic triptych; a shifting 120bpm groove with drips of percussion being the only somewhat constant factor throughout its 10 minutes of continuous movement and exploration, coming full circle near the very end. The B-side dials the pace further down, first on the introverted yet heartfelt Chapel (B1) with its intricate patchwork of sampled pads and warped, eroded loops over a driving 4/4 downbeat, then in the barely-there structure of deepest house remnants + ambient haze in Below Surface (B2), drifting even further off the grid. The visual concept for the ex_libris series comes courtesy of Bernie van Vlijmen, who translated the round and fluid character of the music into a palette of muted natural colors and stamped shapes emerging through a designed process balancing chance and intent, inspired by natures unpredictable rhythms and hydrostatics in particular: guided by its own quiet logic, no two outcomes alike, like waves crashing. Organic and alive, as if they surfaced on their own.
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#37
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GULP
Facta returns to Wisdom Teeth with GULP: a zippy, hi-def mini-album full of scrambled vocals, blown-out basslines, dripping synths and spring-loaded grooves that together map out his playfully psychedelic corner of contemporary club music. Written in a quick creative burst in late 2024, the record brings together a range of the producers distinct creative strands into a sharp, cohesive whole. Sitting snugly within the stylistic niche carved out by his A&Ring and DJ sets (alongside label co-founder K-LONE), we hear the influence of 00s minimal, tech house, UK soundsystem music, ambient electronica, dub and more rubbing shoulders in a way that feels effortless and personal. Many of the tracks began life as sketches penned on the road - dotting between festivals, European club shows, and on tour in Japan - and so the record carries with it a sense of movement and forward momentum, and feels populated by voices, memories, people and places. The Londoners characteristic approach to sound design and genre interplay are on full display here. Generative vocal hooks melt and warp into strange fluid forms, while synths stretch, detune, bend and dissolve into space before snapping back into shape again. Keyboards mirror human vocal formants, forming melodies that feel at once organic and alien. Basslines warp and distort, as if being re-moulded out of different synthetic properties. Across the record theres a commitment to expressing simple or familiar ideas in new and unexpected ways, whilst experimentations and innovations are presented clearly and intuitively. Cherished genre references are lovingly deployed as personal touchstones across the record - bleeping minimal- and tech-house; breakbeat dubstep and funky; Chicago house; dub techno - yet sounds and influences are combined and meshed in unexpected ways. Each track is tightly engineered and reduced down to its key elements, which are then manipulated, flipped, warped and pushed to breaking point. As is typical of Factas music, uncanny contrasts are worked throughout the music in unexpected ways. Warm, balmy moods come laced with seams of tension or uncertainty, whilst the records darker moments are handled with a light, playful touch. With 15 years experience writing, DJing and A&Ring under his belt, GULP is testament to Factas love of creation and curation - of seeking out, absorbing, experimenting, and channeling new sounds to create your own sonic world. A record borne of playful experimentation and happy accidents, GULP shines bright with a simple, pure energy - a testament to writing quickly and intuitively and, above all else, enjoying the process. The albums artwork features photography by award-winning Boston-based photographer, Pelle Cass, whose complex time-lapse composites present hyperreal yet impossible tableaus of seemingly simple everyday scenes - an approach that parallels the records blurring of the familiar and the unfamiliar. Casss work has been widely exhibited, collected, and published, including solo shows at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, the Photographic Resource Center, Boston, and the Houston Center for Photography, and in collections such as the Fogg Art Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was twice a Critical Mass Top 50 photographer and has received two fellowships from Yaddo and one from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation.
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#40
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Trars
Slikback releases Attrition – a densely detailed, cinematic exploration of sound packed with intricate rhythms and gleaming textures. Slikbacks Attrition marks his first full-length album for Planet Mu, delivering an immersive melding of cinema and game sound design with tough dance music. Its like a sci-fi film for the ears, exploring a chain of events with dark atmospheres and dramatic pacing; trapdoors and jump scares for your ears. These contrasts and the dense painterly colour of his sounds give it a beastly beauty. The album came to life during a period of transition, while waiting for a visa after recently moving to Poland from Kenya, where he grew up. With this unexpected pause in travel, Slikback found himself working at a slower, more deliberate pace. Writing for a label instead of self-releasing also introduced new dynamics, like feedback and structured release schedules. Rather than feeling restricted, he saw this process as a blessing. In a happy and reflective headspace—newly married and welcoming a newborn child—he was able to fully develop his compositions. I was finally able to explore ideas to a point where I didnt feel the need to change anything, he shares. Attrition is the result of that creative freedom. While Attrition nods to familiar genres, drawing on elements of Gqom, Dubstep, Tech-Step, and Hardcore Techno, it pushes them into new territory, shaping high-tech, intricate compositions. I worked on the tracks back and forth, drastically transforming some from their original sketches, Slikback explains. I wanted to create a journey within each track, like something alien emerging from emptiness—beauty from chaos. The album opens gently before diving into fast-paced 140bpm sounds, reminiscent of earlier Planet Mu releases. Midway through, Taped shifts the energy with a shimmering, 160bpm rolling bassline. As the album progresses, its intensity builds. The music grows darker, faster, and more unpredictable, culminating in a final track that bursts apart in a thrilling, chaotic climax. A standout moment in Slikbacks career, Attrition is a masterclass in sound design and vision. Strange yet beautiful, intense yet rewarding—its the most strikingly unique album youll hear all year.
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#46
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Frames II
Frames 2 is the second release by Sonobe, originally published in a limited cassette run by Per Musica Ad Astra in 2021. The musician continues his journey through the delicate interplay between feeling and memory, embracing an unfinished form that amplifies the concept of raw immediacy.
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#49
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A Desolate Hue
Hush Hush is honored to help present A Desolate Hue (HH164), the latest EP and Hush Hush debut from Beijing-based American musician Brad M. Seippel aka thruoutin. Born and raised in Louisiana before relocating to China in 2009, Brad balances his versatile talents as an electronic producer, multi-instrumentalist, and DJ to explore a wide range of genres, welcoming everything from the adventurous rhythms of footwork and gqom to the blissful vibrations of evocative ambient music into his expansive sonic world. A Desolate Hue taps into a mesmerizing, introspective zone to reveal a transportive instrumental vision that blends hypnotic beats, atmospheric field records, post-rock excursions, Fourth World flourishes, and traditional Chinese instrumentation. Each of the EPs four songs began in December 2019 when Brad was invited to a 5-day residency in Hebei province, China, at the Aranya seaside resort which serves as a popular tourist destination throughout the spring and summer seasons. With Brads residency taking place during the dead of winter, a vast emptiness pervaded his experience and creeped into his creative process in surprisingly beneficial ways. Equipped with only three changes of clothes, his laptop, an e-pipa, delay pedal, and field recorder upon his arrival, Brad was given access to the residencys recording studio, two practice rooms, a mixing console, and clearance to use some of the studios more expensive gear. While this setup allowed him to unlock new sonic possibilities, the sobering solitude that defined his stay also ushered new tones into his music. Brad shares: I had vast amounts of time to think, especially while on freezing walks in the evening post-recording. These walks had a significant impact on the music I was producing. Everything from that space had a desolate air and nocturnal hue. After five days, I returned to Beijing with a hard drive full of files. I put the project aside and would only work on it in the ensuing years when that feeling of nothingness surfaced again. The result is these four pieces of music. A Desolate Hue will be released on digital platforms on June 20th along with a limited-run of cassette tapes.
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Best New Ambient / Experimental: July 2025
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The 23 Enigma's Twenty Three
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May Top Ten
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May Chart
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Tết 41 Chart
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Early Spring Warmup
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Ambient Favourites
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I Am Ready To Depart Chart
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'Staggered Dominos' March Ambience
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#1
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White Soil EP
Na Nich returns to Delsin following up his 2023 Black Soil EP. On White Soil the Ukrainian producer continues his queeste pushing the boundaries of deep immersive techno. Compared to the previous chapter, White Soil contains a significant lighter touch. Playing with subtle melodies and musing atmospheres to set an uplifting tone. Its still powerful and propulsive while this sparkle of brightness provides a strikingly fresh angle.
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#3
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NC4K0038
NC4K, the Kyoto-based label run by Stones Taro and Lomax, is pleased to announce its latest release. Were excited to welcome Lil Tozan to the NC4K roster. Based in Shizuoka, Japan, Lil Tozan delivers a four-track EP focused on his signature jungle sound. The EP showcases proper 90s jungle foundations, infused with modern elements. This release is a strong fit for NC4Ks core philosophy of House & Jungle.
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#5
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GOST ZVUK 10 YEARS
2025-07-04 Gost Zvuk
Flakes, Vtgnike, ffyyoo, Ivan Yerofeev, Latif, Ol, Batsqueak, Fama87, moevse, Valentin Fufaev, Flaty, Kuzma Palkin, Shinegrooves, Stas Karpenkov, Gamayun, Qulur Tadel, Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova, Ø, Nocow, Ewer, Ясень, Kedr Livanskiy, Piramyds of Ural, Муся Кроткова и Марк Есин, Atal, Bamma Gamma & Spurv, S A D, Ilya Vlasenko, Lapti, Hoavi, raremotherfucker, DJ designer, DX20V, Roma Zuckerman
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Place: Ireland
2025-07-02 Air Texture
Soria, Flowers at Night, The Outside, Optmst, O-Pax, Ladrin, Stitch, Lighght, Brawni, Ultrapollen, Lúnasa, Sanguine Brother, Olive Hatake, Small Bear, TR ONE, Hello KT, Chaz Moloney, Mejmi, Polyp, Belacqua, Sad City
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#10
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Aquator
Cosmin TRG returns to Fizic after five years with Aquator - a warped, atmospheric transmission of corroded vignettes informed by his recent foray into filmmaking. The title track pulses with negative space and decay, while Zwin Corala drifts through fragmented rhythms and shimmering heat haze. Diluare closes with ghostly traces of movement and memory, suspended in static and quicksand pads. Mastered by Kaan Bulak at Feral Note.
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Various Artists 001
In 2024, Dutch artist and producer Nadia Struiwigh founded Distorted Waves, a label devoted to releasing music untethered from the usual listening environments -not solely built for the club or the concert hall, but also for all spaces beyond. Following her first two releases, OXI 5 and Trees, Struiwigh now curates Distorted Waves VA 01. Its the labels first various artists compilation and its most collaborative project to date. A core part of the labels identity is a deep focus on the technological aspects of music creation. Each release on Distorted Waves explores a specific piece of gear or a particular tool. For this project, that tool was one that Nadia created herself: a custom Sci Fi Ambient sample pack. Nadia extended an invitation to a circle of 10 artists shes connected with creatively and personally. Each was given the same starting point: a bespoke ambient sample pack crafted by Nadia. But instead of prescribing direction, the pack served as a catalyst for play -encouraging open-ended exploration without genre constraints. What emerged is a wide-ranging collection of tracks that bends through power ambient, experimental contours, dubstep pressure, and more atmospheric oscillations. Each track was shaped from the same sonic source, yet arriving somewhere entirely distinct. These sounds traveled through many minds, many contexts, says Nadia. Its a kind of group storytelling, one set of frequencies reshaped into many perspectives. Rather than chase coherence, Distorted Waves VA 01 leans into divergence unified by source. This is one for the heads. Features tracks by 1 CONCEPTUAL 2 SURGEONS GIRL 3 A.FRUIT 4 ANNA Z 5 HOMEMADE WEAPONS 6 NADIA STRUIWIGH 7 BOXIA 8 ELIN PIEL 9 HUMAN SPACE MACHINE 10 TROVARSI 11 KAOSMOS ARTWORK: Nadia Struiwigh MASTERING: Maspaventi Mastering
CONCEPTUAL, Surgeons Girl, A.Fruit, ANNA Z, Homemade Weapons, Nadia Struiwigh, Boxia, Elin Piel, Human Space Machine, Trovarsi, Kaosmos
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#12
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Fragment 3
Tidy Kid, who counts Warp veteran Bibio among his fans, previously released Fragment 3, a gem of days gone by. Hauch Records label owner DJ Edelescort makes his release debut with a three-minute edit that offers a tight variation on the original.
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Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
POOL JAMS
Hot summer rain hits the cracked pavement in uneven rhythms. A neon sign flickers above a café that never seems to close, its warm white light reflected in the wet ground like a fever dream. The air smells of summer and the world hums with an easy tone, as if the city itself is holding its breath. A light flooded film noir-ish scene, that needs a soundtrack like „POOL JAMS, the new album of INIT, the Berlin based duo, that already caused quite a stir with their albums for Hivern Discs and Optimo Music. This time, they bring their latest creations out on R.i.O. - a label, with whom they are deeply associated. Their fourth longplayer is a playful one. One that brings trip hopping feelings. That has rnb grace, without catering regular trademarks of the genre. Dub, trance, drone, is all there too. Yet, nothing is present in pure definition. Rather suggested, interwoven, or newly twisted in a songwriting style, that haunts and seduces. On top the voice of Nadia DAlò dances, steps and hums tempting to the grooves she created with her partner in crime Benedikt Frey. Together they fashioned a record, that, as INIT puts it, is „some kind of old photo from an old dry empty pool that got faded by sunlight . A dreamy, sunny piece of song art, made for endless smoky LA freeway drives, and other adventures that seek for infinite riddance. You can dream it. You can trance it. You cant escape it, as soon as it rotates in your dream device for sound and vision.
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#15
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
xTractions 3
With xTractions, idntmttr crafts a sonic environment where perception sharpens and subtlety reigns. This ambient LP drifts in stochastic waves, echoing the natural rhythms and resonances of the world around us. It evokes a quiet familiarity - almost nostalgic - yet isnt afraid to slip into darker, more disquieting currents. The result is an immersive exploration of presence: serene, uneasy, and always alive with the tension of being. Written, Produced, Mixed & Mastered by idntmttr @ Belly Of The Beast, London. Photography & Artwork by idntmttr Label: Living Ornaments
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#21
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
Harbour Arms (samb_rules remix)
The fourth of eight remixes created using Mr Beatnick and Richard Greenans Coasty record. C Sides features SidiRum, Object Agency, Galina Juritz, samb_rules, Brunnera, Basil Neptune, YOTO and Love Is Yes.
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#22
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
2 Jahre Dazwischen EP
Ornaments proudly welcomes Lesterr with the 2 Jahre Dazwischen EP - a beautifully crafted journey through two distinct sonic perspectives. The A-side offers a deep and heartfelt dancefloor journey with subtle piano infusions, complemented by a mesmerizing, deep grooving remix from none other than Isolée. On the B-side, the mood shifts inward with four immersive cuts drifting from ambient landscapes to laid-back downbeats - perfect for your listening pleasure.
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#24
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
R4
On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburgs hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records-their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback. Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isnt invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the albums breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK). Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electros danceability, acid houses corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk-a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection-a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing. In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together. That principle animates R4: The albums form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole. From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D its clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.
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#26
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
Pre-Signal
This is not a track. Its a breath. A gate. A signal before signal. No voice, no rhythm. Only field. Youre not listening to music. Youre remembering something without words. Pre-Signal is the threshold. The sound that opens everything. Distributed by Label Engine - www.label-engine.com
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#27
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
Fishnets / Distress Tolerance / Voyeur
The people united will never be defeated, heres Bbymutha and Sha-Ray throwing blows and raised middle fingers with a screwface to whoever needs it, over loose beats and a looping violin being dragged through the digital grime. A banger hitting as hard as we all need it to, with co-production from parallel producer August Fanon.
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#31
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
Lucid Territories
Audyssey AVE, the visionary sound artist Gavin Lawson, presents Lucid Territoriesan evocative and deeply immersive journey through sound, perception, and self-exploration. This latest release is more than an EP; it is a sonic map that charts the terrain between states of being and becoming, inviting listeners to engage with music as a meditative experience. Opening with PANG (Present Authentic Nurture Grace), the EP establishes its conceptual foundation with a mantra-like structure, mirroring the flow of mindfulness traditions. This piece initiates listeners into Audysseys unique auditory spacean environment where sound becomes an active, participatory phenomenon. The journey continues with Wandering, a composition born from the revelation that profound artistic discoveries emerge not from rigid structure but through intuitive exploration. With layered electronic and organic textures, Wandering navigates the unpredictable pathways between intention and chance, reflecting the minds ability to draw coherence from seeming randomness. Wet Grains delves into the materiality of sound itself, dissecting how moments of awareness coalesce into immersive realities. Inspired by the way water transforms individual grains of sand into intricate mosaics, this composition parallels the fluid nature of consciousnesseach sonic fragment gilded by attention, each shift altering perception. Closing the EP, Charismatic stands as an expression of transcendence. Drawing from Platos allegory of the cave, this track embodies the movement beyond perceived illusions into a sharper, more intricate reality. Through complex auditory structures that shape resolution over resistance, Charismatic crafts a soundscape that both disrupts and reconstructs meaning. With Lucid Territories, Audyssey AVE offers more than just music; he provides an intellectual and emotional odyssey into the mechanics of self-awareness. This release challenges the boundaries of sonic meditation, positioning sound as both the method and the documentation of consciousness in motion.
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#32
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
10 Years Of Shaw Cuts
It all began with “Have Sword, Will Travel“, an EP that started the „armed“ journey with its many different ups and downs. But the label is still here and celebrates its 10th anniversary today. Besides being pretty emotional about the fact that this journey is still continuing after so many years, I’m also looking back at an intense period of time full of doubts, disappointments and mistakes. Especially social media leads us to believe that every life is so exciting, spectacular and unique and that you are doing something wrong compared to all of this glamorous self-promotion. If you really start comparing to these blissful images, things feel miserable very fast. But instead, the healthiest things are to just be yourself, to follow your vision no matter how slow and complicated things evolve and to avoid doing things that feel wrong and factitious. And because of that, everything is right where it should be for Shaw Cuts and it’s still so much fun and exciting to run this project. I’m trying my best to keep things going and to keep things fresh & exciting - hopefully for another decade. Thank you all for the genuine appreciation and support of all the music that got released over the past 10 years, for having an open mind for all the different projects and for helping the label to grow and develop a certain brand recognition and identity. Without you none of that would have been possible. Have Sword, Will Travel.
Quiem, Lindenberg Support, Roger 23, Tom Dicicco, Formula Gone, Delta Division, Cressida, Nothus, Farron, Impurity, Kid Kun, Merino, twuan, Anybody Anytime, Placid One, Silent Era, Serenace, Regen
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#33
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel?
estoc presents the newest manifestation of her artistic practice: an attempt to make sense of a world seemingly hellbent on violence as its chief export. Art written as a direct response to the conditions felt both at home and watched across oceans through a phone. This album exists as an acknowledgement that our fates are inextricably intertwined, yet, our (temporary) comfort is extracted from the third world. Across 10 tracks the question is: Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel? Answers are posed and then brushed away, like dust from a shelf. By the end, nothing is settled and we are left with more questions than answers. Collaborators and co-conspirators weave in and out of the compositions, their presence felt as both adornment, and as integral infrastructure. DJ Haram opens the album with Heretic. Her voice swims through crackling noise, throbbing basslines — a guided meditation as much as a late night conversation. The Weight follows directly after. AZADI.mp3s smoky chants hover in the air above a smouldering fire of trip hop drums and synths, devolving to a miasma of distortion and swirling screams. The next song, Where Do We Go Now, builds and swells with rumbling synths, arriving fully as breaks crash forward and Military Scientists voice cries out over a chaotic sea. The first solo composition of the album comes in the form of The Poison of the Centre. A solemn yet off-balance meditation of drums, cut over an uneven and shifting beat. This rhythmic fervor is multiplied tenfold on No Glory, a harsh bath of bass and drums, constantly fighting for space to breathe through the manufactured scarcity of the mix. Scorched Earth lends us our first breath of fresh air. Mia Carucci sings a lullaby over growling instrumentation, Exploited Bodys co-production threatening to boil over at any moment. A momentary break in the clouds, a beam of sunlight shines through before being quickly swallowed back up by the storm; gone as quickly as it came. It is here that we plunge even deeper, as the heartbeat of Heaven Defined for Another rattles through. Machinery and exasperated breathing become inexorable, both driven to their breaking point by a rolling wave of thunder. This mechanical terror roils forth on Cradling. Miedo Total sets clattering steam and cogs over crying strings that threaten to throw themselves to pieces. The penultimate entry sees Violence lend voice and production to Bones Broken, Many Things Left Unsaid — a deep terror lurches, shuddering and crashing like ocean waves. A gentle chorus of strings ushers in the final piece, Scratch a Liberal — a rare, but fleeting moment of tenderness on the album. Heavy towers of bass throw the composition into shadow, tension builds and grows before collapsing in on itself, revealing the fear and violence at the core of this project. At the end of it all, we are left alone to contemplate what is to be done.
DJ Haram, Estoc, AZADI.mp3, Military Scientist, Exploited Body, Mia Carucci, Miedo Total, Violence
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#35
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
Floridica EP
Rico found an old painting from his childhood and set it to music as he remembered the infantile feels behind those moments of painting over 30 years ago. While perfectly fitting the labels idea of presenting EXHIBITIONs, this interdisciplinary time travel truly grew into some unique and remarkable music...
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#36
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
ex_libris 001
Wonderful Dave Huismans (A Made Up Sound) prod. deepest leftfield house / ambient collages, grooves & excursions. First of the initial two volumes in a small new 12 series - each ltd to 300 vinyl copies cut @ D&M, with stamped colored sleeves & labels designed by Bernie van Vlijmen. Part earthy, part swampy, 001s A-side Wetlands is an epic triptych; a shifting 120bpm groove with drips of percussion being the only somewhat constant factor throughout its 10 minutes of continuous movement and exploration, coming full circle near the very end. The B-side dials the pace further down, first on the introverted yet heartfelt Chapel (B1) with its intricate patchwork of sampled pads and warped, eroded loops over a driving 4/4 downbeat, then in the barely-there structure of deepest house remnants + ambient haze in Below Surface (B2), drifting even further off the grid. The visual concept for the ex_libris series comes courtesy of Bernie van Vlijmen, who translated the round and fluid character of the music into a palette of muted natural colors and stamped shapes emerging through a designed process balancing chance and intent, inspired by natures unpredictable rhythms and hydrostatics in particular: guided by its own quiet logic, no two outcomes alike, like waves crashing. Organic and alive, as if they surfaced on their own.
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#37
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
GULP
Facta returns to Wisdom Teeth with GULP: a zippy, hi-def mini-album full of scrambled vocals, blown-out basslines, dripping synths and spring-loaded grooves that together map out his playfully psychedelic corner of contemporary club music. Written in a quick creative burst in late 2024, the record brings together a range of the producers distinct creative strands into a sharp, cohesive whole. Sitting snugly within the stylistic niche carved out by his A&Ring and DJ sets (alongside label co-founder K-LONE), we hear the influence of 00s minimal, tech house, UK soundsystem music, ambient electronica, dub and more rubbing shoulders in a way that feels effortless and personal. Many of the tracks began life as sketches penned on the road - dotting between festivals, European club shows, and on tour in Japan - and so the record carries with it a sense of movement and forward momentum, and feels populated by voices, memories, people and places. The Londoners characteristic approach to sound design and genre interplay are on full display here. Generative vocal hooks melt and warp into strange fluid forms, while synths stretch, detune, bend and dissolve into space before snapping back into shape again. Keyboards mirror human vocal formants, forming melodies that feel at once organic and alien. Basslines warp and distort, as if being re-moulded out of different synthetic properties. Across the record theres a commitment to expressing simple or familiar ideas in new and unexpected ways, whilst experimentations and innovations are presented clearly and intuitively. Cherished genre references are lovingly deployed as personal touchstones across the record - bleeping minimal- and tech-house; breakbeat dubstep and funky; Chicago house; dub techno - yet sounds and influences are combined and meshed in unexpected ways. Each track is tightly engineered and reduced down to its key elements, which are then manipulated, flipped, warped and pushed to breaking point. As is typical of Factas music, uncanny contrasts are worked throughout the music in unexpected ways. Warm, balmy moods come laced with seams of tension or uncertainty, whilst the records darker moments are handled with a light, playful touch. With 15 years experience writing, DJing and A&Ring under his belt, GULP is testament to Factas love of creation and curation - of seeking out, absorbing, experimenting, and channeling new sounds to create your own sonic world. A record borne of playful experimentation and happy accidents, GULP shines bright with a simple, pure energy - a testament to writing quickly and intuitively and, above all else, enjoying the process. The albums artwork features photography by award-winning Boston-based photographer, Pelle Cass, whose complex time-lapse composites present hyperreal yet impossible tableaus of seemingly simple everyday scenes - an approach that parallels the records blurring of the familiar and the unfamiliar. Casss work has been widely exhibited, collected, and published, including solo shows at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, the Photographic Resource Center, Boston, and the Houston Center for Photography, and in collections such as the Fogg Art Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He was twice a Critical Mass Top 50 photographer and has received two fellowships from Yaddo and one from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation.
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#40
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
Trars
Slikback releases Attrition – a densely detailed, cinematic exploration of sound packed with intricate rhythms and gleaming textures. Slikbacks Attrition marks his first full-length album for Planet Mu, delivering an immersive melding of cinema and game sound design with tough dance music. Its like a sci-fi film for the ears, exploring a chain of events with dark atmospheres and dramatic pacing; trapdoors and jump scares for your ears. These contrasts and the dense painterly colour of his sounds give it a beastly beauty. The album came to life during a period of transition, while waiting for a visa after recently moving to Poland from Kenya, where he grew up. With this unexpected pause in travel, Slikback found himself working at a slower, more deliberate pace. Writing for a label instead of self-releasing also introduced new dynamics, like feedback and structured release schedules. Rather than feeling restricted, he saw this process as a blessing. In a happy and reflective headspace—newly married and welcoming a newborn child—he was able to fully develop his compositions. I was finally able to explore ideas to a point where I didnt feel the need to change anything, he shares. Attrition is the result of that creative freedom. While Attrition nods to familiar genres, drawing on elements of Gqom, Dubstep, Tech-Step, and Hardcore Techno, it pushes them into new territory, shaping high-tech, intricate compositions. I worked on the tracks back and forth, drastically transforming some from their original sketches, Slikback explains. I wanted to create a journey within each track, like something alien emerging from emptiness—beauty from chaos. The album opens gently before diving into fast-paced 140bpm sounds, reminiscent of earlier Planet Mu releases. Midway through, Taped shifts the energy with a shimmering, 160bpm rolling bassline. As the album progresses, its intensity builds. The music grows darker, faster, and more unpredictable, culminating in a final track that bursts apart in a thrilling, chaotic climax. A standout moment in Slikbacks career, Attrition is a masterclass in sound design and vision. Strange yet beautiful, intense yet rewarding—its the most strikingly unique album youll hear all year.
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#46
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
Frames II
Frames 2 is the second release by Sonobe, originally published in a limited cassette run by Per Musica Ad Astra in 2021. The musician continues his journey through the delicate interplay between feeling and memory, embracing an unfinished form that amplifies the concept of raw immediacy.
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#49
Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental
A Desolate Hue
Hush Hush is honored to help present A Desolate Hue (HH164), the latest EP and Hush Hush debut from Beijing-based American musician Brad M. Seippel aka thruoutin. Born and raised in Louisiana before relocating to China in 2009, Brad balances his versatile talents as an electronic producer, multi-instrumentalist, and DJ to explore a wide range of genres, welcoming everything from the adventurous rhythms of footwork and gqom to the blissful vibrations of evocative ambient music into his expansive sonic world. A Desolate Hue taps into a mesmerizing, introspective zone to reveal a transportive instrumental vision that blends hypnotic beats, atmospheric field records, post-rock excursions, Fourth World flourishes, and traditional Chinese instrumentation. Each of the EPs four songs began in December 2019 when Brad was invited to a 5-day residency in Hebei province, China, at the Aranya seaside resort which serves as a popular tourist destination throughout the spring and summer seasons. With Brads residency taking place during the dead of winter, a vast emptiness pervaded his experience and creeped into his creative process in surprisingly beneficial ways. Equipped with only three changes of clothes, his laptop, an e-pipa, delay pedal, and field recorder upon his arrival, Brad was given access to the residencys recording studio, two practice rooms, a mixing console, and clearance to use some of the studios more expensive gear. While this setup allowed him to unlock new sonic possibilities, the sobering solitude that defined his stay also ushered new tones into his music. Brad shares: I had vast amounts of time to think, especially while on freezing walks in the evening post-recording. These walks had a significant impact on the music I was producing. Everything from that space had a desolate air and nocturnal hue. After five days, I returned to Beijing with a hard drive full of files. I put the project aside and would only work on it in the ensuing years when that feeling of nothingness surfaced again. The result is these four pieces of music. A Desolate Hue will be released on digital platforms on June 20th along with a limited-run of cassette tapes.
