Broken club, dubbed out sounds, experimental electronics and atonal drifts: Gio’s monthly broadcasts are high contrast assemblages that move at a slow pace. 



                             
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/skyapnea/episodes/skyapnea-7th-july-2025

SKYAPNEA w/ INDEX:Records 070725

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

@whatdotjp
@theory-therapy

Theory Therapy is pleased to present ‘we’re here all the time’ by jp (aka J.P Wright) – the New York producer behind one of last year’s shinetiac remixes on the OST label, and a member of Housecraft Recordings’ trip-bient group Ahem.

Compiling several years of well-worn material, the Brooklyn artist’s debut solo LP was the result of many hours of hardware jams and happy accidents, later meticulously edited down into these seven arrangements. Blending first-thought-best-thought spontaneity with extended DAW labouring, Wright delivers some of the most immediate music yet on Theory Therapy.

The album is reminiscent of ’90s and early-’00s IDM. Syncopated rhythms and atmosphere swirl into a mutable whole, as hardcore breakbeat, ambient trance and acidic electro bleed together into a liquid mélange. The sequencing drifts from gauzy, ethereal openings into tensile, club-ready pressure before swerving toward moments of stillness – like lingering in an emptied club hours after the crowd has gone.

There’s a distinct physicality to the music too. Kick patterns jitter like loose live wires, delays ripple through the fog-soaked air, yet the album’s finest moments lie in its more subtle textures and tonal shifts. This is proper braindance that keeps you suspended in its pulse, caught in non-linear time. Wright lets the music wander in unpredictable arcs, moments folding back on themselves, stretching in multiple directions at once – tracing and retracing a memory that refuses to settle. 

pi premiere: jp - perf (Theory Therapy)

INDEX:Records alum vase (aka Downstairs People; games) and label-head Conna Haraway team up as ‘Department’ to deliver a two-track mini-epic of sprawling brooding soundscapes and future-facing rhythms, via finely chiseled abstract outbursts and widescreen cinematic depth of field. (Additional live instrumentation comes courtesy of Glasgow-based staev, and INDEX:Rec affiliate MCRD supplies intuition suggestions.)

Starting off as a proper serene slice of beatless musing, 'Cogent' slowly hatches into a rhythmic shape-shifter combining the immersive power of elastic sound membranes with the incisiveness of post-industrial breaks, leaning towards IDM-oid fractals and signature UK bass menace.

All in vaporous piano chords (cue: staev), heavily dubbed-out layers and FX-coated emotion, 'Recovery' beckons us onto the path of soulful elation with its poignant melange of brittle stabs and skittish drum patterns gone astray. Dark and solar at once, the track blends cavernous entrancement with verbed-out RnB samples and percussive trenchant on a steely, broken techno tip.

Ethereal like a mirage yet daunting as the four elements boiling up a storm, Department's debut two-tracker is an elusive piece of sewn-together sketches exuding the sheer magnitude of a master painting in sound.
credits

A1 Cogent (7:16)
AA1 Recovery (10:09)

releases November 28, 2025

Written, Produced & Mixed by vase & Conna Haraway
Final Composition & Arrangement by vase
Drum Programming by usiq
Live Instrumentation and Additional Production by Alex Keogan
Intuition Suggestions by MCRD
Recorded in the Scottish Highlands, September 2025

Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Cut by Pitchcraft Mastering
Artwork by Conna Haraway
Words by Baptiste Girou

pre-order 12"

Department – Department (previews) [INDEX:021]

In Transit - In Transit (FELT 011 lp) - out now on clear vinyl and digital formats

Dave Huismans (ex_libris, A Made Up Sound) presents In Transit, a self-titled LP of arresting downtempo vignettes, with origins dating back to over a decade ago.

Renowned for some of this century’s most notorious rhythmic advances, the work of Dave Huismans (fka A Made Up Sound and 2562) continues to provide a blueprint for new generations of innovation-obsessives. After a long hiatus from releasing original material, he returned in 2025 with two beloved EP’s as ex_libris. Now he returns to FELT as In Transit, following up on his remix of Civilistjävel! from 2023.

Borrowing its name from the closing dialogue of a novel by Dutch author Hella S. Haasse, In Transit was written in just two weeks in the summer of 2013 on a Korg ESX sampler. Since then, he has patiently refined its constituent parts.

Over the course of 38 minutes across six tracks, In Transit maps out an absorbing vista. The music shimmers with a celestial quality, underpinned by rhythmic stamina and creeping intensity. Tangential to Huismans’ previous work, the beats here are decentred and further scattered, acting as buoys to the constantly evolving and intricate narratives of layered textures.

In Transit marks a fascinating new addition to Huismans’ sprawling catalogue, a truly remarkable racket to be crafted with such humble means, finding a suitable context within FELT’s continued venture into parallel sounds. 


Written, produced and mixed by Dave Huismans
Mastered by Miles Whittaker
Photos by Dave Huismans
Design and layout by Fergus Jones 

Vinyl distributed by Rubadub 
Product photo by Boomkat


Buy @ Bandcamp

In Transit - 02/A2 - A.2829

Material Things / Pike - Drums For Menelik (ISLE020)

Xenia Reaper - Nept Polarisation - Delsin Records - dsr-e16

buy vinyl https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/9294/xenia-reaper/nept-polarisation
buy digital https://xenoplex.bandcamp.com/album/nept-polarisation

a1. Drift__
a2. ( ´ ∀ `)ノ～ ♡
a3. Nept Polarisation
a4. Decay.fold
a5. Pulsing
b1. Envmod369
b2. Green Pulse
b3. Fabrik_Rtn
b4. Static Kiss (Ft. Cybermission)

Delsin invites you to submerge into the prismatic electronica of Xenia Reaper @xeniareaper. Across nine tracks of exquisitely rendered sonics, the shadowy producer engages in the time-honoured craft of introspective sound manipulation, folding gaseous pads into dissected breaks and running heavyweight machine pulses through achingly beautiful synthesis.

Xenia's work makes a striking impression, and they've left a breadcrumb trail of self-released transmissions on their own Xenoplex platform alongside a more forthright appearance in 2024 on the always-essential INDEX:Records. The sound is sharply realised, modernist music that revels in the finegrain detail afforded by technology, but never at the expense of warmth and charm. It's nuanced electronica for deep listening, but it also hits on an instinctive, physical level.

For Nept Polarisation, an exacting selection process took place to comb through the prolific swathes of material coming out of the Xenoplex studio. It was primarily written in their Eurorack system and Max For Live between 2020 and 2025. You can hear the shifting, expressive flair of modular manipulation and the advanced acrobatics of Max sound design throughout, with needlepoint rhythmic interference puncturing through blissful cloud blooms of melodic ambience.

Bending and folding through non-linear structures according to their internal logic, Xenia Reaper offers up a three-dimensional sound world with more than enough presence to hint suggestively at the soundsystem.

Buy @ Delsin Shop

Xenia Reaper - Nept Polarisation (dsr-e16)

NTS 17.11.2025

CLOUD RAP INSTRUMENTAL BEATS | FREE BEATS | FREE DOWNLOAD

Weightless Archive - Cloud Rap Instrumental Beat - FreeDL CCBY

@bio-rthm in the basement on on November 21st, 2025.

DJ Nicely Kismet Nov 2025

Here Before (Blackbird Blackbird Remix)

frog

ex_libris 001 / 002 out now (june 25)
In Transit - In Transit (FELT 011) out now (oct 25)
fka a made up sound, 2562
Insta: amadeupsound2562
Bookings: nevan@klsbookings.com

Utrecht, NL

In Transit - 02/A2 - A.2829

Dave Huismans

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