Matching vivid world-building with a full house of kinetic rhythms, Polygonia delivers her latest album to Dekmantel as an invitation to experience 12 different dream scenarios.

As Polygonia, Munich-based Lindsey Wang has established herself as a constantly inventive, omnipresent operator within the modern electronic landscape, exploring varying shades of ambient and deep techno while increasingly spreading into downtempo and leftfield electronica with a playful yet mysterious spirit.

Dream Horizons is an instructive title — Wang approached her new album as a collection of different dream scenarios, with all the creative freedom the concept implies. From oceanic calm to artful propulsion, she was free to shift gears from track to track while relishing the strange and beautiful atmospheres her inspiration pointed towards. A multi-instrumentalist as well as a producer, Wang recorded her own voice, saxophone, flute, violin and percussion to inject organic, human vibrancy into the surreal spaces she was shaping out, capturing the uncanny sensation of alien and familiar that hangs over the places we visit when we sleep.

There are pointedly direct techno workouts on the album, from deft beatdown 'Soul Reflections' to shimmering ear worm 'Set Me Free', and 'Twisted Colours' relishes shifting blocks of flute around a sprightly, footwork-tickled framework. Elsewhere, there's space for softer expressions on pearlescent opus 'Crystal Valley' while elastic rhythms and tactile textures slither around at a lower tempo on 'Flakes Flying Upwards'. In between, Wang plays with fractured beat patterns and sharply sculpted sonic matter with a staggering level of detail and intention. 'Gate To Amygdala' is the perfect example of the bold scope of her expression — the midpoint track thrives on nervous tension and a dislocated sense of momentum without anything like a conventional techno trope. 'Mindfunk' equally pushes and pulls at sensory perception with an off-kilter, awkwardly looped synth phrase that relishes the opportunity to skew dance music conventions within the flexible rules of the dream world.

For all the smart production and knowingly experimental approaches that form the basis of the album's sound, it's also a record charged with the full range of emotions you might expect to experience on a break away from consciousness. Whether it's the melancholic impressions that smudge into incidental pauses on 'Metaphysical Scribbles' or the mantra-like breath and sax combination of 'Essential Breath' that closes the record, Polygonia's heart bursts out of the album's vibrant form as brilliantly as her exacting, studio-synced mind. 

Written & produced by Lindsey Wang
Mastered by Niklas Bühler at Klangstellwerk
Artwork by Jan Tomson
Words by Oli Warwick

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Pensa Poetico

Dream Horizons

Flakes Flying Upwards

Metaphysical Scribbles

Crystal Valley

Soul Reflections

Set Me Free

Whirlwind Of Hearts

GiGi FM - Virgo Space Acid [SRN003] 

A1. Calibration
A2. Mercury
B1. Virgo Space Acid
B2. Floresta

Release date : 23rd May 2025
Pre-order : https://gigifm.bandcamp.com/album/virgo-space-acid-2

All tracks written, produced and performed by GiGi FM.
Mixed and mastered by Ahmet Altinbas.
℗ & © 2025 GiGi FM - Sea~rène.
All rights reserved. Made in the EU.
Photography by Yumiya Saiki.
Layout by Studio Phazed.

GiGi FM - Virgo Space Acid [SRN003]

Hanging In The Stars, Pt. 2

Pure Zero Drive

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

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Black Sites - FLIKK

Psyk New Release On Non Series. Three Intense, Blinding, Deep, Original Cuts Including A Remix Of The Talented Erik Luebs. 

Psyk - Scope Drift [non067]

This release includes a remix by Tenzia(IO records) https://soundcloud.com/tenziasounds, an artist based in Munich. His signature sound—deep, full of humor, and truly one of a kind—always offers something new with every listen. His music consistently takes you on a fresh and enjoyable sonic journey. The remix he contributed to this EP is also beautifully crafted, so I hope you’ll check it out.

As always, I’ve named my tracks after flowers and plants, but this time I focused on plants that bear fruit. The EP features three tracks inspired by this theme. Recently, I’ve been particularly focused on sampling live sounds, and whenever their original frequencies naturally blend well with other elements, I try to preserve them as they are. The track Strawberry is a minimal piece built using these carefully selected sounds.
Each track on this EP has a unique character, so I’d love for you to give them a listen. You can find the release on SoundCloud and Bandcamp via the link in my profile.

artist : TENO, Tenzia
title : Yuugao EP
catalog no. : MONOS03
order : Bandcamp
format : digital
release day : 28.June.2025
mastering & artwork : TENO

track list :
1. Yuugao
2. Strawberry
3. Pineapple
4. Grape
5. Grape (Tenzia Remix)

Yuugao EP - Monos03 / TENO, Tenzia

_to Me

Brøther - Intuition

X-Tempo - Oblivion

post-genre love ~ diversity in sound.

Label head at @qeone
Label head at @iorecs
Resident at @blitzclub
Part of @lyderlyderlyder
Part of @harmony-rec


Booking & General requests (Management):  laura@onboardmusic.net
Press contact: chanel@dawncreative.agency
Promo Gifts: promo [at] polygonia-creations.com

Amsterdam based DJs, events company and record label. - support@dekmantel.com for all your webshop and label enquiries.

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