Surreal reflections from Lyon’s Jonnnah

"Sharing these mixes allows me to step out of introspection and connect with people who are far away, sharing a moment together through sound."

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

@jonnnah

Theory Therapy 80: Jonnnah

“Recently, I’ve been really inspired by bass music in the 80-85 (or 160-70) BPM range that shifts between slow and fast registers, opening up space for a deep interior journey and for a driving, percussive dancefloor experience alike. Much music in this space that I’m drawn to has a visceral, haptic, and earthy quality -- body music for mental landscapes. 

The mix is conceived as a journey into a densely foliated forest of ever-shifting dimensions, drawing you deeper and deeper into its cavernous shadows and spectral pockets of light. Dewdrops shiver on pillowy moss ,flanked by the hungry mouths of carnivorous plants; burly vines dangle low and heavy under velvet leaves. Mysterious and heretofore unknown flora abound, beguiling you with their sensuous textures, suffusing the humid air with smells both luxuriant and noxious. Finally you emerge into a softly-hued meadow, your journey into the darkness having brought you closer to a sense of calm.”

@papayaofficial
IG: @papaya.official

DJ Papaya's approach to mixing draws upon downtempo, ambient, leftfield electronics, and bass music to craft surreal and emotionally complex narratives, rich in texture and rooted in the sensibilities of dub. They are a co-founder of the ambient/experimental series Spindrift, with Pontiac Streator and Opheliaxz, as well as the bass music party Chrysalis, with Amylia.

Tracklist:
Carrier - Slow Punctures
Blue - Slow Wave
Officium - Heartlapse ft Yolek
Gi & Trois Quarts Taxi System - Swarm
Chewlie x Fiesta Soundsystem - Savory
Proc Fiskal - A Fragrance
Anta Doma - Temples
Ancestral Voices - Mist of Avalon
Furtive - I Always Try to be This Gentle
Commix - Japanese Electronics (Instra:Mental Moog Remix)
Es.Tereo - Ancestral Path
K Wata - In A Mug on a Rug (Ronan’s Ecophilia Mix)
Trois Quarts Taxi System - Clef
Itoa - Diceman
Mike Parker - Spaceship Galliot
georg-i - Nightlife under the Arclight
Kobayashi Maru - Aesthetics of a Wormhole
traverse - Turpitude
Forest on Stasys - Sideral
Khey Mysterio & Stacktrace - Low Heat
felt. - Life Formed
Jonnnah - U Made Me
Ghjuliu - Sheila

Distant Signals 082: DJ Papaya

Practitioner - Male to Female
Aleksandra Zakharenko - baked goods
lam - cy c/u
Opheliaxz - Halo4K2DJ
expired - breath
Patros15 - Chapter Zero
Zach Christ - Peepshow Republic of Fuckall
dummy tree - (soundcheck)			
online threat - A march between miracles
0N4B - Soothing Memories
Radart - 301
slowfoam - proof
Elon Katz & Michael Vallera - Silver Knot
sanguis - 7k.am2
Vivian Raine - Final Is? Exit Final Is? Edit Is?
Hanno Leichtmann - Alondra
earl grey - fibrillations
Andrea Burns - Periodic
julek ploski - 1H Of Shame -Loop,
yeyo - miss you
fdrko - _rec
bod[包家巷] - Gustave Boucard remaxxed
witchcell - voidmusic

music for sundowning

https://soundcloud.com/producedbyflaty

Flaty «A Baleful D.R.E.A.M.» [PROTO—08]
60-min grind of raw black synths, AI-shredded ballads, pagan hiss & crunch of trees. 

mixed & edit — Flaty
artwork — Kaymeera
shout out to MorganRPG

PROTOMETAL 2025

vol.8_Flaty «A Baleful D.R.E.A.M.»

Clara is a multidisciplinary artist, always in motion—experimenting, experiencing, and creating. While her primary medium is painting, her work often blurs the lines between graphic color and sound.

Under her moniker Clarodactyl, she offers a journey through her psychedelic influences and the raw energy of 80s post-punk.

🌐 "Outsiders" is our daily show hosted by labels, collectives, agencies, venues, clubs, ... worldwide
📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
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Outsiders: Teenage Menopause w/ Clarodactyl @ Kiosk Radio 18.08.2025

Sticking a dirty thumb in the eye of fate, our third collaboration sees our marrow deep family malarky turn official as Pace Yourself teams up with YS’s own imprint Erf Records for a split release.

Burn is the second YS album and written as a direct follow-up album to Brutal Flowers. If their first album was an exercise in the incremental, a construction of poise and patience, Burn, should be taken way the fuck at it’s word: it quite literally finds catharsis in twisted reverse. Birthed out the malignant kick found in deconstruction and chaos. The hit is radical and instant: a new way for the world to go up in smoke. Cauterising infected suburban minds world over.

Dunno quite what YS have been ingesting of late but this massively twisted LP touches on a host of gloriously fucked totemic underground sources while not sounding much like any of them. Struggling to conceal their tongues in their cheeks there’s an air of paranoia and proto-conspiracy theory. Leaving you feeling like you’ve stepped into a New World Order.

Burn like other works by YS, is its own ritual beast. ‘Moth’, a track which has been knocking about the underground deejai circuit for many moons, is a real raw slice of stoner erotica that reeks of obsession and unrequited desire. Elsewhere, on tracks like ‘Switch’, ‘Trying’ and ‘Drift’ the throughline from Brutal Flowers can be heard. Underneath the driving heavy gravity the trademark emotional intimacies of YS linger: eternal recurrence, ghosts of static and shortwave, worn memories of the playful and painful sort. The brief moments where flashes of orchestral ambience get out from underneath the swagger are so pure, personal and unguarded that for a moment they leave you completely lonesome.

A dubbed to death classic straight out of the annals of nowhere. A perfect postcard from oblivion. A bleak, bold and personally ferocious vision of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - 

Words by Jack Anderson -@jankinc.

Preorder link in Bio.

Music - Leon Wan & Nipuna Jayasekera - @ysystem
Design - Nipuna Jayasekera 
Distribution - Rubadub 
Photography - Disc_Archive 

BANDCAMP: YS - BURN

YS - BURN (PERFOOO)

Situated in the pulsating center of Brussels' Marolles district, GIMIC is a radio station and a space/bar committed to fostering the lively electronic music culture of the city.
Transmitting sound waves from the heart of Brussels.

soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/janloup
instagram : https://www.instagram.com/janloup999/

Jan Loup @ GIMIC - 12 September 2025

Taken from: Xenia Reaper - Nept Polarisation - Delsin Records - dsr-e16

New album by @xeniareaper to be released on Delsin Records on November 7th 2025.

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

Delsin invites you to submerge into the prismatic electronica of Xenia Reaper. 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 - Green Pulse (taken from 'Nept Polarisation' dsr-e16)

This air born episode drifts through ambient, dubby and textured sounds, a soundtrack to the rainy days in NL.

www.operator-radio.com

air born w/ dirtydms and Moss M - 18th September 2025

@stone_xo, producer and DJ from South London, has been turning heads with a style that slips between dreamy downtempo and sharp-edged club energy. A mainstay on Berlin’s @triplexlarge, his recent release hit hard and showed why his sound keeps sparking attention in the community, alongside work on Goddezz, Theory Therapy and Kontext. For us, he delivers a mix diving deep into darkside downtempo and illbient - raw, textured and with his distinct touch

Kontext mix w/ Stone

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