Searching builds upon the scope of Showerhead releases to date, but takes a unique styling on the hallmarks on electro, ambient and breakbeat. As per the title, it could be typified as seeking something expressive, a somewhat tricky path to navigate in an IDM space more often than not characterised by an abiding coldness and austerity.

Perhaps one aspect of what has characterised Showerhead’s productions to this point is the layering of IDM, breakbeat and ambient sounds in a sonic space that retains depth and focus, even given the myriad details. And even though many of these gestures and ambiences bear nostalgic weight and nods to the past, there is still ample space and possibility for novel slants to be taken, if handled with dexterity and balance.

A truly neat miscellanea, every aspect of this remarkably spotless record bears the unmistakable aura of a Showerhead production. A thoroughly consistent continuation of Showerhead’s work til now and a vital extension to a growing catalogue, Searching is electronica at its most classically redolent: nostalgia-encoded and future-fixed, and glistening with detail and intrigue.

Produced by Alex Clayton
Words by Nico Callaghan
Photography by Pim Rinkes
Mastered by Loz Grover

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Following the release of 'Asmaa' from Leese last May, Lisbon-based record label Discos Extendes line up their next dispatch 'Paranoico' from label boss and producer Diogo...Our pick is Mandacaru‘s remix of ‘Bateu Bué‘, a weightless jungle reverie for shapeshifters adrift in zero gravity. Subaquatic echoes bleed into shimmering break patterns, while crystalline piano motifs hover like half-remembered dream fragments. The track opens with disorienting underwater echoes intertwined with a shimmering pulse of jungle workout and celestial piano chords. As it unfolds, Mandacaru unveils an intricate web of crisp percussion and vaporous vocals, gradually spiralling into a moment of hallucinatory resonance, a kind of astral jungle where physical weight dissolves.

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Diogo - Bateu Bué (Mandacaru Remix) [Discos Extendes]

Advertising transversality in his music, @giorgipipia's sets are purposefully multi-cultural - rich and catchy, the tracks he selects come from diverse horizons, from Arabic electro to Turkish beatmakers, and much more. Catch Giorgi Pipia every second Saturday at 15h [CET] on rinse.fr !

Giorgi Pipia with AROH DJ - 12 Juillet 2025

Mode Avion

STL-P adopte une approche singulière pour ce podcast d’écoute : elle sélectionne des disques techno et bass produits à l’origine entre 135 et 145 BPM, qu’elle dépitch lentement entre 90 et 100 BPM. Pour ce faire, elle joue ses vinyles en 33 tours au lieu de 45, offrant ainsi une nouvelle lecture rythmique et une densité inédite aux morceaux.

Sa sélection, mêlant vinyle et numérique, est entièrement tirée de sa collection personnelle, patiemment constituée au fil des années.

STL-P - 29 Juillet 2025

back and forth, this machine can take you places you've never been.
You can never stay, you can never decide when you are going there, it grabs you when u are the least attentive. 
Especially when you are the not attentive.
Once you've noticed it's already gone, you are back at fighting. 
Enjoy you're rest, I will summon it myself. 

FarWest FM @ Kiosk Radio 03.08.2025

My live set recorded straight from Mingle in the Dingle - a small festival in Wales with a huge vibe. I loved playing there last year and was so grateful to be asked to come back this year. It super cool to see it grow.

I had the pleasure of closing 3-4am on the Saturday so prepare for a power hour of acid breaks and techno.

Shout out to the crew at Mingle, you are all absolute legends for those who weren’t there luckily you can relive it!

LIVE SET @ Mingle in the Dingle 25 - Netil Radio

Words, further info and tracklisting : 
https://creakedrecords.com/radios/ground16-creaked-radio-26

Creaked Radio #26 - Ground16

Living Room n°88 ~ @user-195275547

q. pls introduce yourself…
Hello, we are forest.exe (Sven and Silvan). We run a label that focuses on ambient, avant-garde and experimental music. It is called Jurassic Ambient Records. The name is inspired by the Jura forests in Switzerland, where we live and grew up. We create our own mixes and also release guest mixes as well as music from friends and anyone interested. We started about four years ago. Over time, we gradually moved away from technoid sounds and club culture, and began experimenting and mixing together within the genres of ambient, experimental and drone, where we felt more at home. For us, it is essential to connect music with the wellbeing in nature, which is also the origin of everything.

q. is there a story behind the mix?
This time we created the mix with Ableton in Sven’s home studio, nestled near the Jurassic forest — not, as we usually do, in a rehearsal room with a Pioneer setup. It was a warm and luminous day at the very beginning of summer. Surrounded by nature, we let the atmosphere guide us, working spontaneously and intuitively. Instead of CDJs, we wanted to explore a new approach, giving ourselves more time and space to shape the flow. This allowed us to engage more deeply with each track and to sculpt the transitions with greater precision.
The result is a mix that feels reduced and calming, almost dreamlike, yet still carries a quiet strength. It mirrors the uncertainties and concerns we feel about the world, and the question of how we might navigate through them. We dedicated an entire day to the process, with pauses, a few beers, and long conversations about the value of music and the character we wanted this mix to embody.

q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?
Step into the forest, put on your headphones, leave the world behind and sink into natural, calming sounds. You might wander along the paths and lose yourself in the embrace of nature, or sit quietly on a tree stump, listening to the mix while observing the subtle life unfolding around you. This is, in essence, what our name forest.exe is meant to evoke.

q. describe a favourite object in your living room...
Silvan: My favourite object in my living room is a handmade ceramic piece with an organic, natural design. I discovered it in Krakow last year during my visit to the Unsound Festival.
Sven: Hehe… epic indeed. My favorite object in my living room is a triptych of three Japanese woodblock prints. In the first, several farmers brandishing katanas burst forth with fierce cries. In the second, a lone farmer leaps dramatically over a waterfall, sword in hand. And in the third, a bear flees from the oncoming attackers. The imagery is raw and powerful, yet strangely inspiring. I don’t know the artist or when the pieces were created — but stumbling upon them in an antique shop felt like a stroke of fortune, as if they had been waiting there for me.

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
We are both working on new music, though it often takes a lot of time — which can be challenging, since we both work more or less full-time as social workers, and Sven also has children. Still, we meet regularly to create ambient mixes, discuss musical developments, and continue shaping our vision for the label. Through it, we keep releasing new mixes as well as music (EPs) from ourselves and from other artists.
What we love is that this project has been with us for quite some time, and we can move at our own pace — deciding how much energy to put in, or when to slow things down. That way, it never becomes stressful, because we are not chasing success, but rather sharing our musical principles and offering others a fresh listening experience. We are also searching for a spot in the forest where we can record outdoor mixes, letting nature inspire our music even more directly.

Living Room n°88 ~ forest.exe

https://erfrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/burn-perf000

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. Evil twin, psychotic younger sibling, call it what the hell you like. It might take you a moment to get the lay of the land in this darkly mutated world. Like a bug eye’d native first confronted with a zippo, the hit is radical and instant: a new way for the world to go up in smoke.

Splice the Seattle slacker scene with the spliffhead soundsystem culture of the '90s Bristol trip-hop scene, then cross-breed that with the DIY optimism and glee in creation found in the cut-and-paste worlds of skate, graffiti and hiphop, now run that through the skitzo basement mind of John.T. Gast and you’re close to the kind of scorched earth and spiked suburbia that birthed Burn.

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. It has the ballsy swagger and hard flipping of the script as Massive Attack’s seminal Blue Lines. Indeed, the eponymous album tracks sound similar - the opener ‘Burn’ is like a hard-nosed, jammed-out redux of ‘Blue Lines’. Getting into a kind of slow-spinning overdubbed maximal euphoria ending with mumbled downer vocals, struggling to conceal their tongues in their cheeks, there’s an air of paranoia and proto-conspiracy theory. It’ll leave you scratching your head, feeling like you’ve stepped into a New World Order governed by a cacophony of dropouts, dope fiends, and apocalyptic stoners. A cracked-out world somewhere between Richard Linklater’s movie Slacker (1990) and Marc Singer’s Dark Days (2001).

The rest of the album parts like a tongue on a wine glass: Smith and Mighty, Bandulu, ambient Luke Slater records, Wah Wah Wino, Nurse with Wound, Land of the Loops, Placid Angels, Adrian Sherwood, Urban Tribe and DJ Shadow can all be heard in momentary splatters - but Burn like other works by YS, is its own ritual beast. ‘Moth’, a track that has been circulating the underground DJ circuit for many moons, is a raw, chopped, and screwed 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 when flashes of orchestral ambience emerge from beneath the swagger are so pure, personal, and unguarded that, for a moment, they leave you completely alone. In the album’s closer ‘End’, you can hear the fleeting promise and DIY possibilities of an analogue world and embers of ash that flutter in its wake: where it seemed, for a brief moment, that collective of DJs, engineers, rappers, graffiti artists and skate crews were emerging from the streets, giving the middle fingers to the system, before just as quickly disappearing back to the doldrums of obscurity. ‘End’ is a bittersweet ode to early soundsystem culture, MCs and pirate radio - an out of step time where for a moment the underdogs and weirdos seemed to be kicking on the door of something bigger.

A veritable teenage doof suite dosed with desire, claustrophobia, and deviance. Burn is a good old howl at the moon: lonely, raw, and out for blood; basement style exegesis at its best. A thump to the gut, a stud through your blood. 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.

PREMIERE | YS - Moth [PERF000]

Ekin Fil & Ella Zwietnig - The Reckoning
Echo Collective - The See Within
merope, Bert Cools, Indrė Jurgeleviçiūtė - Koumu Lil
Yaeji - I'll Remember For Me, I'll Remember For You
Suzanne Ciani - The Second Wave, Sirens
ML BUCH - I'm A Girl You Can Hold IRL
james K - Sokit to me Baby
Carrier - Light Candles, To Mark The Way
Moyen-Âge - Il y a des jours sexy magnifiques
Teresa Winter - Juniper
james K - Luv Me Too
The Knife - Pass This On
Ugne&Maria - Le Lieu Qui t'accueille
Skee Mask - Session Add
Gajek - Dig It All Up Again
Nova Varnrable - Storm
Salamanda - Bubble Bamboo Princess
Loopsel - Öga För Öga
Róisín Murphy - Ancora Tu
Moyen-Âge - I make cake for you
stravsky & pelè - change in you
Sofia Isella - Everybody Supports Women


Fan 2 toi : pulsatile & STL (29.10.25)

Supplying acid, breaks, electro & techno cocktails
Monthly Resident @netilradio

Been working ferociously in the studio the past 18 months and starting to release ;)

2025 highlights - Glastonbury, Boomtown & Nozstock festival, Boiler Room & BBC Introducing support. 
Naughty Girl played on BBC Introducing Stage at Glastonbury and aired on Radio 1.

LIVE SET @ Mingle in the Dingle 25 - Netil Radio

GABBY GUNN