Pain Management presents the debut release of London based percussionist Pike.

Having provided rhythms from the shadows for a number of reputable labels and live outfits - 12th Isle, Scenic Route, Slow Dance - Fallen Angel sees the artist unveil a musical fluency and soloist instinct with his first independent effort under his own name. Flexing a previously unseen multi-instrumentalism on two emotive post-rock offerings.

An active participant in London’s underground music circuit, Pike’s performances play with textural, rhythmic and improvisational possibilities. He has developed a unique rhythmic fingerprint indebted as much to UK bass music as to rock, dub and avant-garde electronics. The steady evolution of his practice, alongside extensive behind the scenes collaboration with a wide roster of UK-alt artists - Charlie Osborne, Covco, The Fertile Crescent, Tiberius B - has laid the groundwork for this year’s striking introduction to a new era of the project.

His official debut release on Pain Management falls somewhere at the intersection of dub electronics and art-rock; a dynamic exploration of live instrumentation’s cathartic potential.

On the expansive opener Fallen Angel, a tangle of emotive guitar and basslines float above steady, hypnotic drums. In contrast with the record’s plosive closer, Fallen Angel shimmers with a central ephemerality. Threads of euphoria woven into the shadows of something less sweet. The sensation is one of temporality; a distant memory just out of reach. The presence of this melodic softness shrouding over the rougher elements instills an intimacy to the piece. A late night hymn of introspection; one for the wanderers.

The B-side’s Concrete Dub mirrors this format, putting some serious muscle into things. In keeping with the title, Pike masterfully deploys a hazy, dubbed out groove brimming with swung-drum attitude and bassline thickness. From the mycelium grunge bursts a raw, heartfelt guitar line, distorted power-riffs soaring upwards higher and higher. The result is an emotive and vulnerable sensation of uninhibited feeling - a serious pain management power ballad.

Out Feb 17th on all platforms.
Digital files available via Bandcamp.
Cover image by Yasmin Gordon.

Pike - Fallen Angel [PM003]

Out on Apr 18th, 2025 on Teenage Menopause Records
Distribution via Kuroneko

Zoe Heselton is a British-born poet and musician based in Strasbourg, France. 
Alone with her Telecaster guitar, she channels her multiple and influences into flamenco-folk-blues fingerpicking techniques, carrying her voice into the strings as she spits out rhymes about change and desire. 
For this first album, she gathered her beloved and talented friendships around her to sing from places of tenderness and anger, balancing melodies with the band’s arrangements and dissonance. Since her songs are stories, spells, poems and prayers, there additional personalities give a crafted power to regenerate from the limbs, surrounded by caretaking souls and generous love-spreading hearts. 
These musical gems are sea-shanties for sadness, litanies for survival, spoken word bangers for dancing our way through the darkness.

Zoe Heselton & Sister Outsider - 08 Breath By Breath [TMR051]

@transe_ar_gwez, le frère en rouge et noir revient sur LYL avec un mix fait pour danser, un soir de janvier, au milieu des inondations et du chaos ambient.

CHAOS w/ Transe Ar Gwez (25/02/25)

Em 10 dias fiz-me um cristo ao mar
Estendi os braços e deixei me voar
Tem chovido tanto
Rapidamente perdeu o encanto

Já não consigo andar na rua
Obrigaste-me a ver uma imagem tua
Em todos os caminhos que passo
Lembro-me do abraço

Não me afogaria na poça das tuas lágrimas
Era tão pouca água que evaporou logo
Sofrimento a fingir é só no teatro
Não vim para te ver actuar

Duas horas foram o suficiente para o anjo da morte
Olhar para nós e mandar-me à sorte
Tanto sentimento que mentes em ter sentido
Coitadinho é um passarinho ferido

Estragaste tudo o que gosto
Tou que não me posso
Levaste tudo 
e à cobarde disseste um adeus silencioso

Não me afogaria na poça das tuas lágrimas
Era tão pouca água que evaporou logo
Sofrimento a fingir é só no teatro
Não vim para te ver actuar
que gostavas de mim

Teatro

hopeful words and soothing sounds to rub away the night — from the South of France with love 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird/episodes/early-bird-june-28th-march-2025

The Early Bird Show w/ June 280325

Passe passe troubadour.

@fpneumonia
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Kontakt w/ Lieve Jongens @ Kiosk Radio 09.04.2025

H.D. Reliquary is the first eponymous release from Ben Shirken [a.k.a. Ex Wiish], and finds him returning home to 29 Speedway. The songs sparked during sessions with close collaborators - across 11 pieces, artists such as Pavel Milyakov, MIZU, Dorothy Carlos, Kevin Eichenberger and Muein breathe personality into the record. H.D.R. coaxes beauty from a serrated, raw, yet subdued palette drawn from improvised recordings of trumpet, violin, upright bass, cello, Max/MSP and modular synthesis.

The title references the hard drive as a sacred container for relics, contemplating how digitally archived fragments of one's existence can burn eternally after death. Archives, and in this case recordings, splinter and warp. Some distort what they contain. Some vanish, and others are eternally preserved, immune to deletion. Your information on these digital drives becomes archival shrapnel, the music that survives the remnants of collaboration.

Quick to note the dangers of creating music with ecologically intensive, mass marketed, and unethically trained AI software, Shirken employed bespoke, resource-light machine listening techniques for some of the compositional process. Pieces of recordings were fed into a series of proprietary neural networks, generating MIDI information and audio that reacted to on-the-fly soloing, imaginary sessions between players and algorithms invented posthumously (in post).

Shirken will release H.D. Reliquary alongside a sound installation on April 11. He has performed in spaces such as The New Museum, Pioneer Works, Public Records and Nowadays in New York City; Dripping Music And Arts Festival in New Jersey; La Station in Paris; and Cafe Oto in London. In recent years, he has also been a foundation of the elusive free jazz group Nu Jazz. Where his prior work was geared towards dissociation, H.D. Reliquary invites us to contemplate how our tools for understanding and containing the world fundamentally alter our relationship with it.

Written, recorded, & mixed by Ben Shirken
Greg's Thesis mixed by Jason Park
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu @ Schwebung Mastering
Art & Design by Brian Mark
29 Speedway 2025
29S07

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EDA BROWN_Yahn’s Elegy「ヤンの挽歌」 2025.08.29 Live at DELI

This mixtape is a motive introducing Octatanz River Ritual play - a closing act of "ausys stačios akys plačios" music event in Lithuania, August 2016.