Two different points of view, sharing the same narrative. Moving through different perspectives, connected by an abstract and fragmented sounds, glitches, textures and small shifts that connect both sides
Originally released as a tape in 2022 with the Comedy of Errors boxset. 11 songs 49 minutes. La Union Metalurgica untitled tape. Hailing from Barcelona, Spain. The new masters of true Spanish industrial. Following the now cult and under the radar L.I.E.S. LP, these new tracks solidify their standing in the world of bizzare machine music. Broken equipment and pig sounds included … this has it all MS-20 chirps, human voices being tortured, and jacked the fuck up rhythms.
MPU101 is an enigmatic artist who has been tied to the cult Munich label Illian Tape for a while. The latest from the Poland-born, Bavaria-based producer is a glassy-eyed ambient album that is not polite background music, but more a world-building soundtrack. There are gentle MPC beats on occasion, swirling chords and pixelated pads, and plenty of forlorn moods. There is a fragility and vulnerability to much of the sounds that makes it feel like they were made on battered old hardware and dusty keyboards pulled from a storage facility that hasn’t seen daylight in years. It’s beguiling and beautiful and a great way to mentally escape.
Anluminiu is the new project of Silent Strike, a Romanian electronic and film music composer.
Astral Industries presents a vinyl reissue of Robert Henke’s multifaceted concept album ‘Layering Buddha’. An erudite masterclass on sampling and composition, ‘Layering Buddha’ encapsulates the material process of metamorphosis and a well of nascent, ever-present potentialities. Originally released in 2006, ‘Layering Buddha’ began with a curious encounter with the ‘Buddha Machine’ – a pocket-sized, battery powered playback device that, over the past two decades, has quietly achieved a cult status around the world. Conceived by the Beijing-based group FM3 (Christiaan Virant, Zhang Jian), the machine takes inspiration from Tibetan Buddhist prayer boxes and consists of nine sound loop compositions of varying length, which can be toggled with a single switch. Due to low production cost and manufacturing imperfections, each Buddha Machine is unique, giving slight variations in sound, pitch and duration. Using a state of the art A/D converter Henke made high quality recordings from a single machine, providing the source material for the album. Through various processing and arrangement methods, new pieces emerged, most of them all deriving from a single source loop. The pieces were then set up on the computer as generative arrangements, living as continuously permutating structures that could theoretically go on forever – just as the loops do within the Buddha Machines…
IDO returns with the second chapter of Transcendental Movements – a series dedicated to active meditation and deep listening. Active meditation is a practice of fully inhabiting the movement of sound. Instead of seeking absolute silence, it invites you to dive into textures, to be carried by frequencies, to follow oscillations like a breath. Every vibration becomes an anchor point, every resonance a gateway inward. In a world saturated with noise and anxiety, this approach offers a space to refocus the body and calm the mind. Here, listening is not passive: it’s an awakened trance where tensions shift and dissolve, leaving only a pure sense of presence. For this second volume, Valentino Mora has gathered a new ensemble of artists exploring the frontier between intimate perception and sonic landscape. The compositions – slow and organic – unfold like micro-universes, at times ethereal, at times dense, designed to guide the listener on a sensory journey that transforms anxiety into movement, and movement into inner peace. Transcendental Movements Vol. 2 is an invitation to listen differently: not to escape, but to return to yourself.
Group Modular breaks the 3-year silence and launches a new series of 7inch releases, powered by Confused Machines and Delights labels. The first 45 features two familiar tunes, previously available only on short-run (and immediately sold-out) lathe-cut releases.
‘Opening Patterns’ comprises five compositions taken from Peter Van Hoesen’s live performances, purpose-built to shape the first moments of each set. These five immersive pieces serve as the sonic foundation of his recent live shows. Expansive and detailed, they explore rich harmonics and shifting frequencies, with each track carrying its own distinct identity. Functional yet expressive, they now offer a new starting point —not just for the Belgian producer, but for adventurous DJs and curious listeners alike.
Comprised of raw recordings, spontaneously conducted between 2012 to 2020 in Venice and later in Milan, Machinete are Marco Segato (La Serpiente) and Pietro Giubilato (TLXCO) executing and modulating rough post-industrial beats into pummeling electro structures with a brute sense of nocturnal acid in the air which strives to bring power to its knees.
All revenues from this album will be donated to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund (gascf.org). The fund provides medical assistance to children in critical need and supports the medical sector in Gaza and Lebanon.
The story of “Inner | Outer” begins in 2015, when two members of Berlin bass combo X.A.Cute and Jerusalem’s psych grooves expert, Markey Funk, set up a spontaneous jam session in the basement of an ex-spring factory building. The outcome of that meeting – now known as “Aquasonic Research Society” (Som Recordings, 2020) – was so inspiring for the three that they determined to record again the next time Markey is in Berlin. Eventually, two more sessions took place in consecutive years at Oberbaumstübchen, overlooking river Spree, U-Bahn tracks and Universal Music headquarters. The change of location also led them to depart from the bubbling aquatic motives towards darker mesmerizing soundscapes that explore themes and mysteries of deep outer space and the human body (sometimes described as “inner space”).
Sunfear returns to Dark Entries with ‘All at Once’, her sophomore LP. Sunfear is the project of Turkish multidisciplinary artist Eylül Deniz. Her music blends intense guitar feedback with layers of noise, creating vast, textured compositions and vocals that evoke a sense of both chaos and beauty. Since 2017, Sunfear has carved out a niche in the experimental music scene, using her guitar and her voice to explore the boundaries of sound and emotion. Her work often feels like a journey through dark, expansive sonic landscapes, reflecting her deep connection to the power of sound. Her aim is self-expressive; these experimental tactics are her narrative and worldbuilding tools. ‘All at Once’ shows Deniz deepening her connection to the guitar, her voice, and the Sunfear project as whole. All at Once is a darker album than its predecessor Octopus. ‘All at Once’ reflects the dark times we live in, but it does not only live in hopelessness; it recognizes that while loss and trauma may change our forms, we must continue to move forward.
Space Drum Meditation unveils ‘Four Tusks’, their debut album and seventh release on the label. This 12-track journey blends tribal rhythms, atmospheric textures, and electronic elements, interweaving darkness and light. The album un- folds like a ritual, revealing a murky, immersive soundscape shaped by primal beats, ethereal ambience, rumbling thunder, and the whisper of rain, reminiscent of a primeval marshland and drawing one into its depths. Featuring a wide array of instruments including deep percussion, traditional flutes, throat singing, and field recordings – Four Tusks crafts a mysterious tapestry that feels both ancient and futuristic, resonating with nature’s elements.
Hoedus releases his first solo ep on non series with a brilliant pulsating 4 tracker deep ride.
For the fifth release called ”Sai Matika” Rambadu and Claudio PRC immersed themselves into an aquatic landscape and explored its properties. Sai, The natural occurrence of ebb and flow, a sacred dance of the earth and our moon. Matika, alluring hymns and the rhythmical sounds of air rising up from the deep.
Hypnus Records presents Yatras by Rambadu. “Yatras” embody an in and outward quest where we may meet ourselves and others. Listen carefully to visualize the paths it reveals. Subdued messages reach the mind’s eye.
Fans of the much-heralded Sandwell District are in for a real treat with this new compilation. This package collects in total 12 tracks that span the three producers’ respective individual careers. These tracks present some amazing moments in techno. Highlights include the amazingly haunting Regis edit of ‘Sampler 1’ as well as Function’s tribute to Icelandic minimal in ‘Reykjavik’. Also included is Kalon’s devastating techno pounder ‘Violencia’ by the recently departed Silent Servant aka Juan Mendez. Regis’s edit of Kalon’s ‘Haiku’ is downright wicked. This collection will not disappoint fans of the artists or the label Sandwell District.
Konduku returns for the fifth and final installment on his Nous’klaer Audio K-series. A diverse four tracker embodying Konduku’s signature style of poly grooves and vibrant euphonies. A flow from dark to light that marks the end of this special series of releases.
AI-36 comes from Ear to Ear – the debut collaboration between label regular Samuel van Dijk (VC-118A, Multicast Dynamics) and Ukrainian artist Yevgen Chebotarenko. Taken from a series of live recording sessions, the album explores in four parts a markedly darker realm of soundscape music. A cornucopia of abstract morphing scenes and heady synesthesia, the album brims with rich sonic detail and evocative gestures. Deftly blending organic sound textures with an experimental austerity, ‘Live Recordings’ displays potent and accomplished storytelling.
Absolutely killer darkside mutations from Tradecraft, aka Carrier aka Shifted, a stunning hour-long session of dank, highly atmospheric technoid alchemy that plays from the Pan Sonic/Vainio/T++/Actress songbook. Key technoid shapeshifter Guy Brewer chases a trio of aces under his Carrier alias with the murky arrival of his Tradecraft project, forging heaving downtempo slugs and vapours from a signature palette of iridescent electronics deployed somewhere along the line between Actress, Burial and Mika Vainio, on a cybergoth bent.
