Head Over Heels

take me by the hand (Aaron Hibell remix)

NZ & Australia tour with Ninajirachi starts this week!
→ https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/mix-up/umru-djset-2025/105619118

Tracklist:
Fatshaudi & umru — dreams (original demo)
Lovefear — Pa Gossamer
Lipstick Music — Run Right Back
Justin Bieber — ALL I CAN TAKE
Jim Legxacy — d.b.a.b.
Girl Tool — Circadian Rhythm
Chuquimamani-Condori — Parker w/ JCC E DJ edit
Nick Leon & Ela Minus — Ghost Orchid
Chino & Di Genius — clap it n drop it (Dj sowasop sowamix)
DJ Narciso — Não Quero
Cortisa Star — EVIL ASF (prod. umru & Matt Marvin)
hvxeem & Sidney Phillips — stalkers
Doss — ID
River Moon — ID (prod. umru, underscores, warpstr & Petal Supply)
biblemami — I'm Sorry (ft. Sidney Phillips)
umru & EQ — ID
GRRL — ID
VV Pete, Brodinski & Utility — GO DUMB
TAAHLIAH, Petal Supply & umru — ID
Stina Nordenstam — Dynamite (kmoe edit)
Dubbel Dutch — Heat Waves
d.silvestre — OQAMQ
Doss — ID
d.silvestre & MC Du Red — ELA TRAVA
Ninajirachi — London Song
umru & Ouri — ID
Charlie Shell — HITZ 4 THE HOOD (ELI B-LINE DUB)
bastiengoat — Liquor Store Lime
umru, bbafricka & warpstr — ID
Cortisa Star — Up (dudda bootleg)
GRRL — ID
Gabby Start — Blasé (umru edit)
XQZ ME — WERK
james K — Blinkmoth (July Mix) (Special Guest DJ VIP Remix)
Miss Jay & Girl Tool — WALK
Chuquimamani-Condori — Breathe Kullawada Caporal E DJ edit
Oklou — choke enough (jamesjamesjames remix)
Kim Dotcom — Party Electricity (ft. Amari)
umru & Jacques Greene — 1st Light (Ninajirachi edit)
umru & underscores — Poplife
Burna — Alarme
TNGHT — Goooo (Recluse Redrum)
Ninajirachi & MGNA Crrrta — Angel Music (umru remix)
leroy — LIKE WATCHING A ZOMBIE TURN
Sidney Phillips — IGET In My Pocket
daine — payphone (prod. Darcy Baylis, Lucy Blomkamp, Lonelyspeck & LAN Party)

umru on Mix Up, Triple J Radio, Aug 2025

boyfriend

PIKI

Flesh Mix

o•rbyss aims to help soothe the queer spectrum and focus on the well-being of the community. Queer DJs are invited to submit a mix to showcase an alternative side to their music library outside of a rave and take us on a meditative journey. ✨

Notes on the mix:

"This mix exists in orbyss as the liminal space between Dreamland and reality, my home on the dancefloor and the community it creates outside the club. It's a rare ANOP exploration of the softer sides of trance, hyperpop and ambient trance, tracks explored in recent sets, B2B at Leeds Ambient Trance Community w/ Princess Elf Bar, and at the All Night Takeover at Holding Patterns in Leeds. I find that when I play softer, my mind wanders and the music takes a more melancholic turn. Edits in this mix range from Alan Walker, Lana Del Rey and ZAYN weaving spells in broken, emotional, ambient form. Go for a midnight summer walk, play Final Fantasy, or drift off.  Allow it to carry you through, to somewhere truly magical... <3"

@an0p is a Manchester-based producer, promoter and DJ specialising in all things ethereal and euphoric. They're a frequent collaborator with queer and hard dance talent across the north, and many more artists are put on through their Leeds and Manchester-based club nights/label, @live_at_dreamland . Their tracks have been supported by the likes of Rebecca Black and Porter Robinson this year, so watch to see them continue pushing boundaries of club pop.

o•rbyss - ANOP

Venera - Exinfinite
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 153
Release Date: 12 September 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Exinfinite

Having defined a multi-dimensional sonic universe on their acclaimed eponymous debut album, composer/filmmaker Chris Hunt and Korn's James "Munky" Shaffer abandon the familiar and drift towards a kingdom of recursion on EXINFINITE, staring down a tangled mass of mirrored wormholes that hum with eldritch ambiguity. VENERA's sophomore full length is darker, heavier and more percussive than its predecessor, but there's something more intimate wired into its circuitry that's harder to define - something mystical, mysterious and melancholy. Songs materialize from the void only to be dissolved by acidic synths or pierced by Hunt's whetted beats, while Shaffer's dense, tortured riffs are offset by euphoric, time-dilated vocals from FKA twigs, Dis Fig and Chelsea Wolfe. Following their encounter with vastness, VENERA have peered inward, ruminating on the limits of existence and excavating their most deeply buried emotions.

VENERA emerged in 2022 when Hunt and Shaffer veered into their own musical territory after recording with Albanian artist Xhoana X. Improvising together and experimenting with cinematic, sci-fi-inspired sound design, the duo realized the collaboration had potential, so they began developing and evolving the sound further, bringing in assistance from former Mars Volta drummer Deantoni Parks, Queens of the Stone Age's Alain Johannes, post-punk duo VOWWS and LA noise rock legends HEALTH. And after their debut album appeared on Mike Patton's Ipecac imprint in 2023, VENERA kept deconstructing and rebuilding their approach to songwriting, swapping out ambient Eno-esque atmospheres for blown-
out beats and dense textures, and figuring out how to extend the narrative they'd opened up without retreading old ground.

On 'Tear', the duo's new direction can be heard clearly as Shaffer's primal guitar noises are reformed into eerie widescreen expositions that Hunt punctuates with pneumatic kick and snare cycles. Broken up by airlock hisses and luminous synths, the track proposes a backdrop that VENERA continuously transmute, reforging the concept as the album develops. Cult singer-songwriter Wolfe adds a gothic American flavor to the crepuscular 'All Midnights', crooning powerfully over VENERA's vacuum packed rhythms and gaseous synths, and Berlin-based noisemaker Dis Fig follows work with The Body and The Bug on 'End Uncovered' lending breathy, emotionally layered tones to Shaffer and Hunt's tape-damaged industrial pops and whirrs. They launch squelchy, decelerated techno into occult noise reflecting pools on the slithering 'Asteroxylon', and Hunt replies to Shaffer's reverberating plucks with foghorn groans on the ominous, pensive 'uuu773'.

'EXINFINITE' perpetually builds momentum until it hits 'Caroline', an intense collaboration with FKA twigs that isolates her most unearthly tones. Initially curling her words around ominous electrical distortions and mangled, ghostly voices, twigs launches into a charged operatic cry that Shaffer and Hunt meet with skittering cybernetic beats and dense walls of guitar noise. It's this track that fully cracks open VENERA's concept, merging the synthetic with the natural and prompting dysphoria, loss of self and infinite regress. So the blood-curdling noise and sinister ambiance of 'Decreation' acts like a dissociated coda. In the 'EXINFINITE', destruction and death are not overcome, they're intensified until they metamorphose completely.


Azimuth

Danny L Harle