WASTED by @xxxiiinnn — Out Oct 31st, 2025
Order here >> https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-xin01-wasted

xin’s WASTED lands on Appendix.files with nine pieces that drag the club through a compost heap of trash(ed) recordings, corroded basslines and scraps of rave memory, forming a porous archive of dance music’s residues – transfigured. Composed of field recordings of waste, the album doesn’t recycle so much as ferment, mulching the detritus of dance culture into something gurgling, volatile, and eerily alive.

Alongside the music WASTED expands into print and website: a zine and wasted.reluctant.promo hold xin’s texts ‘hospicing dance music’ and ‘unsustainability’, extending the artists reflections on exhaustion, precarity and the cultural afterlife.

There’s a sonic depth and mood here that sits somewhere between Raime’s shadowed tension, Carrier’s electro-acoustic sleight and the spacious dub mutations of T++, while its textural apparitions feel as though they’ve been dubbed over a battered Jon Hassell cassette — the otherworldly nostalgia burned away, replaced with a hard-won momentum, like flooring it toward the next gas station before Immortan Joe’s war party closes in. WASTED reads as dance music after the fire: glamour gone, structures wrecked, a stubborn pulse still smouldering underneath. 

opening drifts in on fizzing debris and low-end churn, like a bin bag caught on a breeze. trash dub assembles a crooked percussion grid; compost believes in life after death hovers between hymn and hiss before plunging into the jagged kicks of wasted anew. Mid-record, enough to exhaust and indoors in time stretch the remnants thin, teasing collapse. The last sweep — plastic legacy, no permanence, for now and apocalypse era (i dreamt i glimpsed eternity) — folds exhaustion and faint euphoria into a single long exhale.

Mastered by Ike Zwanikken, artwork and design by Amos Turner, WASTED is Appendix.files at its most thematically aligned: a porous document of cultural leftovers, decomposed into new sonic growths.

For media inquiries, review requests, or interviews, please contact:  info@appendixfiles.com
Tracklist:
01 – opening (03:54)
02 – trash dub (03:15)
03 – compost believes in life after death (4:38)
04 – wasted anew (04:55)
05 – enough to exhaust (03:47)
06 – indoors in time (04:19)
07 – plastic legacy (06:06)
08 – no permanence, for now (02:26)
09 – apocalypse era (i dreamt i glimpsed eternity) (03:53)

Music written & produced by xin
Hospicing & Unsustainability written by xin
Lines edited by geoffrey
Design by Amos Turner
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Zine Printed at Slow + Dirty Press, House of Annetta, London

Thanks to: queer-feminist teachers; Amos, Geoffrey & Ike for helping realise WASTED; Angus for the violin; Fran & Jay for the introduction to Hospicing; Nono for much fertilisier and early 'Hospicing' feedback; James for wisdom and advice; friends for laughing and dancing; Aya for ears, support, laughter and very much more.

APPX:XIN01 WASTED by xin

late night amb

Living Room n°85 ~ @living_roooom sleep set

8.5 hour hybrid set recorded on the 8th of February 2025, 23:30-08:00 at Oficina Municipal do Teatro in Coimbra, Portugal by @asiootus and @usofusofusofusof

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q. pls introduce yourself:
a. Hi we’re asio and usof from the Living Room crew


q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. We were invited to perform a sleep show by the Ouvido Absoluto crew in Coimbra. We were very excited because playing a sleep set was always something we wanted to do. We've been collecting tracks specifically for an occasion like this for many years. On top of the different tracks we were improvising with a variety of digital instruments, to create an organic canvas of sound that is always moving, but very slowly. The idea of influencing dreams with music is one aspect that we found particularly interesting. So for that reason the set is not always focused on creating comfort, but rather different, sometimes quite alien moods.


q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?
a. Sleeping and dreaming.


q. describe a favourite object in your living room…
a. Perhaps the red desk light in Cosmos (technically our living room:). it creates a very cozy atmosphere.


q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. The whole Living Room crew is soon set off to play at Waking Life. After that we’ll have a string of events in Lisbon, with the next one being on the 6th of July. 

Living Room n°85 ~ sleep set (usof & asio)

"Illuminotecnica is a slacker’s exploration of ecstatic techniques in sound, echoing the free-form drift of elemental flows across the motherboard. Celestial data streams. Mineral rhythms loop in cycles within cycles. A glitch pulses at the heart of the sun while the sky turns green.

What reveals itself through divergent, simultaneous patterns?
What do we hear when we let the aural flood loose?

Set it free—let it spiral inside out. From the cracked shell, new forms emerge: thought-forms, feel-forms, signal-forms shaped by frequencies we don’t yet know how to decode. Shapes that shimmer at the edge of language. Emotions without names. Visions that flicker in the periphery—half-seen, half-sensed—like memories from a future that hasn’t happened yet."

Music by Cortex of Light
Artwork by Francesco Tosini
Design by Nicolò Pellarin
Mastered at Tapewave Studio
Distributed by Boomkat

Wax: boomkat.com/products/illuminotecnica

Verde è Osiride

Xenia Reaper - Synthetic Tales - 24/07/25

3XL w/ Special Guest DJ 210725

f071 - DJ Furniture

A radio show turned into a movie club, where monthly guests share their favorite film sounds, personal movie memories and more — on Kiosk and Critikat Magazine. This show marks the very first episode of their Outsiders residency.

More info - https://www.critikat.com/panorama/podcast/the-scores-ep-1-liyo-gong/

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Guest mix from way back when, featuring our first international guest, Gi Gi. 

love, 

Mimi & Len

patina with galiba & lenna ft. Gi Gi (USA)

$HOTTA TAPES founder, dj and producer Tom Boogizm is on for one hour of hip-hop variations, with music from Gangsta Boo, La Chat, GMBFED, MoStack...

LYL Radio x BOXON @ MØ6B w/ Tom Boogizm (19.09.2025)

WASTED

APPX:XIN01 WASTED by xin (previews)

‘90s nostalgia recontextualised by New York’s J.P. Wright

"I think nostalgia sucks and can definitely be stupid and reactionary which is very much symptomatic of the times we’re living through right now, but just sort of reckoning with that contrasted with how beautiful I think a lot of that music is and so ahead of its time that it’s still super relevant and only starting to really be appreciated maybe."

Full Q+A: www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/jp

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P̷R̷E̷M̷I̷E̷R̷E̷ 🦛✨ xin - wasted anew [appendix.files]

xin’s “Plastic Legacy,” from the WASTED LP on Appendix.files, drifts through the decaying echoes of rave culture, out October 31.

Pre-order: appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-xin01-wasted
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Premiere: xin - plastic legacy

from 'WASTED' by @xxxiiinnn — Out Oct 31st, 2025
Order here >> appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-xin01-wasted

Music written & produced by xin
Hospicing & Unsustainability written by xin
Lines edited by geoffrey
Design by Amos Turner
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Zine Printed at Slow + Dirty Press, House of Annetta, London

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