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.

Short Span Ambient / Experimental

Deep, deep stuff on the debut album from K Wata. Long and dubwise, dark and detailed. With bass that fills and warms a space. All noir. Cast shadows against the wall. Weight being shifted and distributed with singularly delicate poise, like a knife being balanced on the end of a finger. Theres a silvery, loose flow state to this record that maybe reveals the way some tracks were first written to be deployed live at Sustain Release 2025. Then taken back to the lab and tightened up further into the albums final form, with beautiful mixing work between Kenzo and Chris Botta. With that in mind, Give U Space unfolds slowly and fluidly, giving the listener the chance to access and open up to the deepness of the sound, being led down a path. It rolls and builds momentum and groove, and ratchets tensions up toward peaks of energy "Whisper Dub" and "There Will Be Love". The tunes feel architectural. Rooms to be in and settle into. Simultaneously stripped back and then etched with neat little details and characterful or atmospheric sound choices. The silhouette of slo mo Memphis and Houston trap is a leading influence, especially with the drums. Mixing with bits of clickncut sampling and psychoacoustic tricks, the penumbra of dub techno and drowsier dubstep, and SGs soft vocals rising in the ether. The presence and inspiration of the sound system is obvious in all of Kenzos work, the music can rattle when spun up louder or blended into the club. But K Watas uniqueness and signature comes from an often equally inward facing quality, touched by distance and longing and a sort of chiaroscuro incandescent light set up.

Mr. YT returns! The cult deep house alias of Yuji Takenouchi was last seen on Brand New Day in 2017, which compiled a series of soft scenes and deepest soulful house for the ambient techno predator R&S and its Apollo, Generations and Global Cuts sub-labels across the mid-to-late 90s. Quietly and confidently some of the most beautiful house music ever made. So it's a thrill to announce the Universo EP today on Short Span, and to say that hes still making incredible new dance music in his studio. This is the first Mr. YT record of brand new material in twenty eight years. The lushness springs forth as delightfully as ever. The inspirations of Detroit chords floating and interacting with a certain kind of Japanese plasticity and futurism. Crystal clear blue skies, sweet perfume and space race optimism, touched with a gentle wistfulness. The four tracks are each as beautiful and intricately deep musically as they are colourful and buoyed by energy. Ready to delight you. Universo has some new purpose and drive up front, designed and deployed as his most propulsive dance music as Mr. YT. The tempo is taken up, and tracks frequently break out into virtuosic melody that dances across the pieces. Yujis talent for composition that hits as hard as it effortlessly glides hasnt lost its edge in the quarter century plus break. The kick of Acuario and Escorpio are finely balanced with the influences of jazz and something a little more padded and cosmic. You could mix these into something by Los Hermanos or Ian OBrien. The EP bubbles down to a more yearning, sunsetting ambient house on the B side. The instantly recognisable language of classic Mr. YT, a warm and tender place. Mr. YT has been absent a while, but Yujis busy. Hes established a long career as a musician and sound designer within the Japanese videogame industry, having his hand in games including FromSoftwares Dark Souls series surely adds something widescreen and sharply emotionally focused to the direction of his dance music. His Missing Project alias also got some shine from the stellar Music From Memory Virtual Dreams II compilation in 2024, which once again pinned down his enduring importance within the ambient techno movement of Japan. Hes also regularly working with Tokyos FORM@ Records and regularly self-publishing interesting work and studio versions. And his Missingsoul alias is still some of the most beautiful deep jazz-house committed to wax on Ron Trents Future Vision label. Check it all out!

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.