Within the span of a year, Tallinn-based club night series and creative collective Shelter has managed to rally dozens of electronic musicians from all corners of the world to an unexpected meeting point by the Baltic Sea. By curating club nights that showcase local talents aside some of the brightest minds in electronic music today, Shelter has undeniably played a significant role in revitalizing Tallinn’s club scene.

More importantly, Shelter uses its platform to shed light on some of the worst humanitarian crises currently plaguing our planet. Beyond covering event costs, ticket sales proceeds from Shelter Showcase events have been directed to organizations who provide resources to those in need, including the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition in Ukraine and the Rebuilding Alliance in Palestine.

To celebrate 1 year of building bridges between communities and incubating forward-thinking electronic music, Shelter presents Feyrûse: a compilation album featuring 17 tracks by an intercontinental melting pot of musicians, majority of whom have graced the dancefloors of Shelter.

Feyrûse aims to capture increasing unity within the global electronic music community. The musical styles represented on the album are as varied as its diverse cast of artists, ranging from purpose-built hybrid club to serene and blissful melodic rituals.

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Cover by:
ntby – www.instagram.com/notthebestyetbutworkingonit/
Magnus Harjak – www.instagram.com/sungam_crs/

Feyrûse

Shelter proudly presents: Mizgîn, a leviathan compilation of 18 tracks by 21 artists presiding on the cutting edge of electronic music. 

As we find ourselves in the eye of the storm during the most deteriorated epoch in modern history, Mizgîn, meaning "good news" in Kurdish, was motivated by the desire to offer respite from the horrors of the world. Shelter's ambition to unite different regional music scenes has once again brought together artists from nearly every continent, with contributions from legendary names.

This compilation is dedicated to everyone struggling towards the liberation of the oppressed.


Mastered by: 
TTAN – soundcloud.com/ttan-mastering 

Cover by: 
Magnus Harjak – www.instagram.com/sungam_crs/ 
Öil Nature – www.instagram.com/0ilnature/

Mizgîn

Shelter presents “Aveen” — the third installation in Shelter's genre-agnostic compilation series.

To follow up 2023’s “Feyrûse” and 2024’s “Mizgîn”, Shelter has curated an emotionally charged collection of 17 tracks that press against the debilitating realities of life in the mid-2020s. The title stems from a Kurish word meaning “pure” or “transparent” — signaling a search for unfiltered and sincere artistic expression in the midst of a social climate filled with smoke and mirrors.

“Aveen” features Shelter’s most international line-up to date, with music from 18 artists spread across 13 countries and 5 continents displaying their signature sounds shaped by their local scenes and cultures. 

Flowing through mutated shades of ambient, hypnagogic pop, trance, leftfield techno, neo-perreo, and GQOM — the compilation connects the myriad influences and mind-states of electronic musicians from nearly every corner of the world and tethers them together into a cathartic 17-track excursion.

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Aveen

Karl Martian is a vocalist and producer who has maintained an ubiquitous presence in Tallinn's underground. Martian's mutant-pop instrumentals and icy vocals have been soundtracking the capital's basements and warehouses for the past decade. With influences spanning from hardstyle to Chicago drill, he has solidified himself as one of the scene's most singular voices.  "Threads of Thaumaturgy" is Karl Martian's latest 5-track EP. A follow-up to 2021's "Purgatory", his latest offering displays his ear for curating production talent and intertwining collaborators' styles with his own patchwork soundscape.

Mastered by:
TTAN – soundcloud.com/ttan-mastering

Cover by:
Ando Naulainen – www.instagram.com/ando.src/
Model: Linda-Maria Varris

Threads of Thaumaturgy

Tallinn-based producer Dharma Doom has performed and released music under many aliases and groups, with each collaboration and side project revealing a different slice of the wide spectrum of styles and sounds in his arsenal. He is something of a shapeshifter, showing up one night as one half of Ost Euro to deliver floor-filling minimal techno improvisations and then reappearing on the next to perform a raw and emotional noise set with his other trio project Keetai. Through years of moving between various mediums and expressions of sound, he has developed a subtle yet distinct sonic language — one that is often menacing and gritty, but also intimate and meditative.

His new solo EP, “A Place Between Places”, feels like a 7-track guided meditation through ideas and influences absorbed from years of side projects, experimentations and collaborations — combined and refined into a rich collage of club music and textural ambient.

A Place Between Places

Safety Trance - Paraiso X

Exmantera - Nerve

Bible Club - Cuts From Life

Slikback x Dead Janitor - Wrap

White Gloss - Tactile Demons

Elvin Brandhi - Methodrone

Ytem - Vassal

Shelter proudly presents: Mizgîn, a leviathan compilation of 18 tracks by 21 artists presiding on the cutting edge of electronic music. 

As we find ourselves in the eye of the storm during the most deteriorated epoch in modern history, Mizgîn, meaning "good news" in Kurdish, was motivated by the desire to offer respite from the horrors of the world. Shelter's ambition to unite different regional music scenes has once again brought together artists from nearly every continent, with contributions from legendary names.

This compilation is dedicated to everyone struggling towards the liberation of the oppressed.

Mizgîn releases on 17.05.2024 on all streaming platforms.

x/o - Ragnarok

st.grimes - Endless

Swan Meat - Waltz For Reanimated Stuffed Fawn

Oldyungmayn - AI Generated Darkroom

Landscape & Tufi - Dry Mouth

Emma dj - Way Off Alone

Dj Darling & Digidaria - Peace and Perfection

Shelter proudly presents: Mizgîn, a leviathan compilation of 18 tracks by 21 artists presiding on the cutting edge of electronic music. 

As we find ourselves in the eye of the storm during the most deteriorated epoch in modern history, Mizgîn, meaning "good news" in Kurdish, was motivated by the desire to offer respite from the horrors of the world. Shelter's ambition to unite different regional music scenes has once again brought together artists from nearly every continent, with contributions from legendary names.

This compilation is dedicated to everyone struggling towards the liberation of the oppressed.

Brodinski - Thirty Two

Shelter presents “Aveen” — the third installation in our genre-agnostic compilation series.

To follow up 2023’s “Feyrûse” and 2024’s “Mizgîn”, we have curated an emotionally charged collection of 17 tracks that press against the debilitating realities of life in the mid-2020s. The title stems from a Persian word meaning “pure” or “transparent” — signaling a search for unfiltered and sincere artistic expression in the midst of a social climate filled with smoke and mirrors.

“Aveen” features Shelter’s most international line-up to date, with music from 18 artists spread across 13 countries and 5 continents displaying their signature sounds shaped by their local scenes and cultures. 

Flowing through mutated shades of ambient, hypnagogic pop, trance, leftfield techno, neo-perreo, and GQOM — the compilation connects the myriad influences and mind-states of electronic musicians from nearly every corner of the world and tethers them together into a cathartic 17-track excursion.


Klahrk – Lets Keep This Moving

Wanton Witch – Anitya

Miss Jay – Surge

Beachie – Drifting Deeper

estoc – Learn Your Place

Wondering O – Human in Human

Anh Phi –  ị ị ị ị ị

HOSTILE – Catapult

Music For Your Plants – When Landscape Painting Was Protest Art

DJ GÄP, Xiao Quan – Slice me up

Amantra – Ojo de Vidrio

Assyouti – Rorschack

Samuel Barbier-Ficat – Presence

Weaver (prod. Exmantera, Karl Martian)

Nails (prod. Muskin, Beachie, Karl Martian)

Sunburst (prod. Muskin, Beachie, Karl Martian)

Hanging On by a Thread (prod. Ytem)

✤ SWINE PREMIERE ✤ Check out the single "Train" from the upcoming EP “Threads of Thaumaturgy” by @karlmartian via Talinn-based @sheltertln

☛ Karl Martian is a vocalist and producer who has maintained an ubiquitous presence in Tallinn's underground. Martian's mutant-pop & avantgarde trap instrumentals and icy vocals have been soundtracking the capital's basements and warehouses for the past decade ✜

☛ With influences spanning from hardstyle to Chicago drill, he has solidified himself as one of the scene's most singular voices. "Threads of Thaumaturgy" is Karl Martian's latest 5-track EP. A follow-up to 2021's "Purgatory", his latest offering displays his ear for curating production talent and intertwining collaborators' styles with his own patchwork soundscape. Listen our Swine Premiere of the song "Train" exclusively produced by @brodinskiofficial ✜


[Swine Premiere] Karl Martian - Train (prod. Brodinski) (Shelter)

∎ SWINE PREMIERE: @dharma-doom new EP via @sheltertln ∎

In "A Place Between Places", Dharma Doom composes seven shadowy soundscapes, each poised in the fragile space between what is and what is yet to be. The full EP will be out on October 29 via the Talinn-based label and collective Shelter.

Get ready for a heavy dose of bass madness filled with metal hi-hats and mechanical industrial sounds. "Choke On Your Own Pride" sounds like it was made by a trap producer in a post-apocalyptic scrapyard. And we like it.

[Swine Premiere] Dharma Doom – Choke On Your Own Pride (Shelter)

Tallinn-based producer Dharma Doom has performed and released music under many aliases and groups, with each collaboration and side project revealing a different slice of the wide spectrum of styles and sounds in his arsenal. He is something of a shapeshifter, showing up one night as one half of Ost Euro to deliver floor-filling minimal techno improvisations and then reappearing on the next to perform a raw and emotional noise set with his other trio project Keetai. Through years of moving between various mediums and expressions of sound, he has developed a subtle yet distinct sonic language — one that is often menacing and gritty, but also intimate and meditative.

His new solo EP, “A Place Between Places”, feels like a 7-track guided meditation through ideas and influences absorbed from years of side projects, experimentations and collaborations — combined and refined into a rich collage of club music and textural ambient.
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Never Found (w/ Kofu)

Crystalline (w/ Neiracoil)

Voidtemplars

Speaking Quality

Poison (w/ kraaa)

Perfection of Peace (w/ digidaria) [swamp edit]

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