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Bright morning. To noon and into afternoon. To dusk and the inky night. A major new exhibition of Mammos music spread across a triple disc, twelve track album. Call it a compendium or summary, a network of sparking neurons and painted landscapes in techno. It folds in all the aspects of his other identities (self-)released over the last few years into an ultimate package ~ Heaven Smile, Ax, CoA-A, E35, Puddlerunner; really any other project Fabiano has assumed an identity under. It all finds its way into the code and format of Lateral in some way or another. Here the ground is given for the listener to hear just how much range and individual language there is in the music hes been making. Fully immersive, inventive and detailed while also elegant and light of touch. Its quite a package from one of the most talented techno producers right now, gesturing towards different genres and novel ideas in beautiful and intuitive fashion. Break the pack down for your preferred disc of the day if you like. Its designed with that modularity in mind. Disc one sparkles with vitality and a buoyancy. The middle disc has more drive and harder bites that you may want to amplify and split out to slot in a DJ bag. Sides five and six move into deeper, dreamier and more emotional techno in twilight. Each one is a little distinct and has its own orbit. But give it your full attention on the turntable platter too. A listen from beginning to end. Theres lovely dynamics and interplays in the narrative, and its a remarkable new body of work to let your time dilate to.
Striking out in a new creative direction while retaining her trademark dimensionality and shapeshifter styles, Yu Sus first singles for Short Span set the pace for whats to come in 2026. Folding together certain elements of minimal, the warm shade of downtempo, and the momentum and horsepower of techno, Foundry and Bonita highlight the producer and DJs keen ear for detail and textural variety, carrying the depth and sensitivity which has always made her music so alluring and kaleidoscopic as it twists between genres. But these are also club tracks and the most dance-forward release from Yu in a minute.The two tunes were engineered as exclamation points and decentered grooves when built for live sets throughout 2025 at festivals like Mutek, and serve as a taste of the bossier, growling end of her forthcoming albums full range. In the interim Yu Sus practice has continued to push boundaries. Her Polyphonic Eating series, begun in 2022, has evolved into a transformative approach experimenting with modern culinary environments, applying concepts of Oliveros-inspired deep listening and the heightening of perception through a theatrical marriage of multisensory elements, set in intimate venues. Her relocation from Vancouver to London and immersion in a new location also contributed towards developing perspectives on sounds and sonic inputs that ultimately shaped the direction of these tracks.
Bright morning. To noon and into afternoon. To dusk and the inky night. A major new exhibition of Mammos music spread across a triple disc, twelve track album. Call it a compendium or summary, a network of sparking neurons and painted landscapes in techno. It folds in all the aspects of his other identities (self-)released over the last few years into an ultimate package ~ Heaven Smile, Ax, CoA-A, E35, Puddlerunner; really any other project Fabiano has assumed an identity under. It all finds its way into the code and format of Lateral in some way or another. Here the ground is given for the listener to hear just how much range and individual language there is in the music hes been making. Fully immersive, inventive and detailed while also elegant and light of touch. Its quite a package from one of the most talented techno producers right now, gesturing towards different genres and novel ideas in beautiful and intuitive fashion. Break the pack down for your preferred disc of the day if you like. Its designed with that modularity in mind. Disc one sparkles with vitality and a buoyancy. The middle disc has more drive and harder bites that you may want to amplify and split out to slot in a DJ bag. Sides five and six move into deeper, dreamier and more emotional techno in twilight. Each one is a little distinct and has its own orbit. But give it your full attention on the turntable platter too. A listen from beginning to end. Theres lovely dynamics and interplays in the narrative, and its a remarkable new body of work to let your time dilate to.
Fog is Marija Rasas debut album on Short Span as emer, and her first cut to wax. It follows a single featuring Ugne Umer for Stroom and a wonderful debut tape for the now cult (I hope!) incubator label Lilerne Tape Club. Its for dreamers. Very dub. Soul. Ambient too. A bit of Detroit-like post industrial imagining. You can read it is as a new and different version of a very classic dub technique from the producer in many ways - Marija at the mixing console and effects desk, conjuring a new versioned music through radical restructuring and an instinctive reshaping of space + melody + lyric in studio experimentation. Tracks are pinned down by thick and enveloping bass while other elements float in and out, fleeting narcotic or hypnagogic notes of fantasy and song form bob in and out of focus. Scant colours and disorienting voice and melody sit suspended, occasionally coalescing and breaking out into moments of radiant beauty and slowly burning manifestations of warmth and presence shooting through the heart and gut.