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‘Where is Agartha? What is the specific region in which it lies? Along what road, through what civilizations, must one walk in order to reach it?.’ Saint-Yves d’Alveydre in 1886

Agartha, the debut full-length album by Japanese producer Wata Igarashi, is a mysterious, divine thing. Named for the mythical secret kingdom, understood as a complex maze of underground tunnels, perhaps designed by Martians who colonised the Earth tens of thousands of years ago, it’s a similarly mystical, perhaps even cosmic trip – but this time, exploring an inner, deeply personal cosmos. Beautifully detailed and bustling with rich incident, it takes Igarashi’s music to new places, which still retaining his unique sonic imprimatur; in this respect, it’s perfectly at home with Kompakt, a label that’s always encouraged artists to make the visionary music they need to create, to take risks and make sideways steps into uncharted territory.

An eloquent producer and DJ, Igarashi has been releasing techno for eleven years now, appearing on such imprints as The Bunker NY, Delsin, Midgar, and Time To Express; he has also self-released his productions via his WIP net label. Throughout, Igarashi has consistently explored his unique approach to techno and electronic music, one that’s eloquent and poised, even when it shifts into more psychedelic terrain; he’s a master at balancing the sensual and the functional, and he has an unerring ear for the right texture, the right tone, at the right time. He brings all of this into Agartha, his most thorough-going expression of self to date.

For Agartha, Igarashi had a strong concept he wanted to explore. Visualising specific scenes from an imaginary film based on the titular secret kingdom, he created soundtracks for those scenes, spending time during the pandemic in his studio, working away carefully at the ten tracks here. Given his background in creating music for television and advertisements, Igarashi is well-placed to explore the marriage of the sonic and the visual in such intimate ways, but freed from commercial concerns, he let his imagination run riot. He also drew on a rich palette of musical influences – techno is in there, of course, but you can also hear the smoky, improvised jazz of the likes of Miles Davis (to whom the album’s title is an indirect nod), and the minimalism and systems music of Steve Reich.

The latter is particularly pronounced on the gorgeous, beatless drift of “Floating Against Time”, where an arpeggiated sequence lingers, lovingly, around your ears for nine blissful minutes, coasting across swooning drones and waves of ambient noise. “Ceremony Of The Dead”, originally composed as part of a Sony 360 Reality Audio spatial sound concert, is a deep pass into systems composition, with various patterns overlaid and interlocking, before a wordless vocal rises from the depths, a gorgeous counterpoint to the swarming textures that gather across the track. On the other hand, tracks like “Burning” and “Subterranean Life” nudge toward Fourth World territory, painting deluxe dreamscapes of uncertain provenance; the title cut is an abstract drift-world, Igarashi painting an alien tableau dotted by shape-shifting creatures.

Agartha’s conceptual framework means that everything on the album sits perfectly together; listening to it in one sitting is a dizzying, lush experience. Its imaginings of inner landscapes recall, in some respects, the nautical, aqueous mythologies of the Drexciyan universe, though from different perspectives. But the result is Igarashi’s own creation, a deluxe, enchanting trip through the visionary Agartha of this unique producer’s cinematic mind’s-eye.

Agartha

Wata Igarashi - Floating Against Time

09.Sail Away To Her

Echoes of the Void is a personal project born from the urge to explore a different dimension of sound.
It sits somewhere between ambient, dub techno and cinematic textures — where music stops being linear and turns into atmosphere.

Each piece unfolds like a scene: minimal layers repeating and dissolving, resonances stretching into silence, tension that feels as present as the notes themselves. Between the analog and the digital, the brutalist and the ethereal, a universe emerges that shifts constantly — sometimes evoking the earth, sometimes the depths of the ocean, sometimes the vastness of space.

Echoes of the Void doesn’t try to provide answers. It offers a place to inhabit — an invitation to lose yourself in the echo, and discover within it a different way of listening.

12_Tension

14_Echoes of the void

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[PIRANHA SIBERIA DUB] is proud to present its 89th release — the long-awaited collaborative album by Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer x Chain Selector: Russian Space.

This 18-track album, created across Novosibirsk, Moscow, and a circle of outstanding Russian musicians, transforms the country’s cosmic heritage into a living sonic universe. Each composition is named after a celestial body discovered by Russian scientists — turning dub techno into a language of astronomy reimagined through live instruments, voice, and improvisation. Real bass, live guitars, percussion, saxophone, and vocals turn dub techno into a research mission aimed at exploring the very objects Russian astronomers once revealed to the world.

Every track here is a celestial body marked on the map thanks to Russian researchers. Russian Space becomes a sonic catalogue of national discoveries — not in the form of a textbook, but as a pulsating odyssey where deep rhythm intertwines with live improvisation, and digital precision coexists with human breath. This is not just dub techno — it is a study in motion, where each composition bears the name of a celestial object found by Russian scientists. The result is a sonic atlas of domestic discoveries, rendered in a deep, fluid, and organically cosmic sound.

II. Bass as gravity. Saxophone as the breath of the void.
:::A powerful presence emerges with Real Bassist (@dmitry-maximov-909072505), whose live bass fills 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and 10711/Pskov with a grounded, bodily depth — turning dub textures into gravitational fields. His tone is dense, flexible, unmistakably “earth-like”, as if holding the listener in the orbital layer of each track.

“Russian Space” is an album where dub techno, live vocals, and acoustic instruments transform Russia’s scientific heritage into an emotional stellar trajectory.

Yours in sound and spirit,
The [PIRANHA SIBERIA DUB] Crew.


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Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer x Chain Selector - Russian Space
1. Chain Selector x Nebula Alchemists x Mikhail Medvedev - Ad Astra (Intro)
2. Chain Selector x Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer x PashtetGuitar - 1648/Shajna
3. Chain Selector x Real Bassist - 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
4. Chain Selector x Real Bassist - 10711/Pskov
5. Chain Selector x Andrew Krasilnikov x Real Bassist -  26087/Zhuravleva
6. Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer x Chain Selector x Kostya Grim - 951/Gaspra
7. Chain Selector x Simba Vibration - C'est La Danse Cosmique
8. Chain Selector x Simba Vibration - Dub Poetry
9. Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer x Chain Selector x Tenor Love - I Need Your Company 
10. Chain Selector x An.drums - 2388/Gase
11. Chain Selector x An.drums - 74P/Smirnova–Chernykh
12. Chain Selector x Feodor Dosumov x Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer - 2720/Pyotr Pervyj
13. Chain Selector x TIMONIN - 3063/Μαχάων
14. Chain Selector x Kostya Grim - 2374/Vladvysotskij
15. Chain Selector x Anton Davidyants - 7320/Potter
16. Chain Selector x Anton Davidyants - 3036/Krat
17. Chain Selector - 3054/Strugatskia 
18. Chain Selector x Nebula Alchemists x Mikhail Medvedev - 1855/Korolev (Outro)
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Label: [PIRANHA SIBERIA DUB] – [PSD089]
Format: Digital
Country: Russia
Release date: 19.12.2025
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub Techno, Deep Techno, Techno, Dub, Ambient


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Proton: https://go.protonradio.com/r/rlhGEwhWc3vdM
Bandcamp: https://piranhasiberiadub.bandcamp.com/album/oldschool-dubtechno-producer-x-chain-selector-russian-space
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/russian-space/5659588

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