Out now across all streaming platforms, Cascades is the first single from the forthcoming album, Inherent — Available 13 June 2025 on vinyl, CD and digital through n5MD.

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Written and produced by Jason van Wyk
Mastered by Ian Hawgood, Mokoshi Mastering
Cover photography by Gean Burrell

Cascades

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South African Jason van Wyk is quickly becoming a favourite and prominent artist on these pages. You may even think I’m biased, because I asked Jason to rework one of my tracks. But this relationship is indeed in reverse – I only requested his participation because I admire his sound, and am indeed inspired by his music when I choose to work on my own. There’s something ethereal, delicate, and dreamlike in how his cinematic pads swirl in a cocktail spatial ambience and pulsating rhythm that takes over my heart and bewitches my soul. Stunning harmonic progressions show off true musicianship, while the layered textures keep me occupied with intelligent sound design. This is the culmination of elements that I highly respect in my music. This is why I keep listening to Jason’s music and try to share it with the world. This is why, I’m sure, Mike Cadoo continues to invite him on his label. We last heard from Jason nearly three years ago [time is always speeding up], when in October of 2022, he released Descendants, which inevitably landed on my Best of the Year list in the most coveted category, Music For The Film Behind Closed Eyelids. This is a sacred space, often occupied by the likes of Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds, and, of course, Jóhann Jóhannsson. With his latest sixth full-length album, Inherent, Jason is back on n5MD, pushing his boundaries forward, featuring even more expansive soundscapes of warm ambiance, haunting piano melodies, and trance-inducing beats. Enjoy this exclusive track, and who knows, maybe Jason will show up on Headphone Community (wink, wink).

TRACK PREMIERE : Jason van Wyk - Remnants

With Horizon, South African composer Jason van Wyk returns to his Inherent material in a new light. Three tracks, Inner, Shine, and Cascades, are transformed through an ambient lens, trading rhythmic momentum for expansiveness and contemplation. The result is a companion piece that spotlights the latent tranquility and emotional resonance of the originals, reframing familiar melodies as immersive sonic landscapes. Horizon confirms van Wyk’s evolving artistry and his uncanny ability to deconstruct and reassemble his work into something renewed, introspective, and deeply felt.

Inner (Horizon)

On her fourth full-length album as Shedir, Sardinian sound artist Martina Betti offers a profound meditation on what it means to be human on the threshold of uncertainty. We Are All Strangers is a series of ambient tapestries shaped by duality and introspection, where sound becomes a space to explore the tension between identity and ambiguity, presence and disappearance, connection and solitude. Inspired by the idea that we are all strangers, however, first and foremost to ourselves, Betti crafts seven fluid, slow-burn compositions that inhabit a sociological liminal zone—what she comments as an “inner elsewhere.” These aren’t songs in the traditional sense, but evolving sonic environments that feel like emotional states made audible. Environmental textures, submerged electronics, and deep low-end pulses coalesce into a dreamlike architecture of sound: immersive, fragile, and quietly transformative.

Rather than offering answers or closure, the album invites us to live in radical openness—to stop trying to define everything we see and feel, and instead bathe in what remains unnamed. In this sense, We Are All Strangers is an invitation: to sit with uncertainty, to embrace the unfinished, and to find resonance even in our collective disconnection.

For listeners drawn to the introspective frequencies of Rafael Anton Irisarri, Félicia Atkinson, or Lawrence English, Betti’s music offers a similarly haunting and immersive experience—one where strangeness is not a flaw, but a starting point. In her hands, ambient music becomes a kind of reflective shelter: a place to brush against each other in the dark and begin to learn, as she puts it, “the difficult art of closeness.”

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2025年10月26日（日）、 M3秋2025【M-17b】にて、頒布開始！

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CD版は、70分のノンストップミックス（ダウンロードコード付き）。


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WUUUN	- "	mashpotato-mashhead	"
古町MOI	- "	クッピーワルツ	"
Ca5	- "	Mr. Carat Age	"
Crewtapes	- "	Partake	"
trash panda qc	- "	nutella mochi	"
omae03	- "	chocolate box	"
tak8u	- "	More Fat! More Vegetable!	"
ksd6700	- "	MTN DEW IT URSELF	"
oven	- "	hot sauce	"
firedrill	- "	hamburger underground	"
Gassyoh	- "	Potato Fryer (コバルト爆弾αΩ Remix)	"
DERTHXY	- "	The 麵 feat.MC Shadow	"
Kamaida	- "	Kitchen	"
Mitaka Sound	- "	Acid Sunomono	"
FQTQ 	- "	Midnight Snack	"
芳川ヨシノ	- "	Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!	"
jackson from online	- "	best shawarma	"
R-04	- "	Digital Sidecar	"
Purplefield a.k.a. 偶然寺	- "	RED chillies	"
赤帯	- "	Zero Cookies	"

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