Animalia mainstay Sam Brickel returns with the Pulse of Life LP. A diverse, dreamy & lighthearted embodiment of Animalia's signature style. Genre spanning, deep, cinematic & playful, the LP dips between bass-driven grooves, bouncy tech-house & jungle inspired euphoric rollers. A listening adventure for various contexts... a moment for every hour on a dance-floor, choose your own adventure through the free spirited world of Animalia.

Bandcamp Pre-order: https://sambrickel.bandcamp.com/album/the-pulse-of-life?label=761510570&tab=music

pi pi pi premiere: Sam Brickel - Ansible (Animalia)

Maailma. Ethereal, hypnotic, entrancing - emkay's (@emkaybymk) release, the third on Espace Noir, is all of the above and more. Gated vocals, deep pads and shimmering stabs, Maailma feels like a memory from another time, a cloudy dream, or a place you’ve never quite been. It’s familiar but foreign, comforting yet thought provoking. And to top it all off? Maailma includes a remix from Finnish partner in crime (and Espace Noir favourite), Sansibar (@sunnysibar).

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EN03- Maailma - emkay (Snippets)

Arkajo is back on his own label with two originals and two remixes by kindred spirits, Polygonia and Konduku. Starting with the warm Entwine, stepped-out beats laced with swirly stabs. Polygonia's finishes off the A-side with an organic and atmospheric rework; saturated in deep, trippy, rattling tonally percussive flows.
Arkajo's Signature leads the B-side: broken drum patterns with whispers from the realm between where Sweden and the UK meet. Konduku settles the score with his dark and eerie 4x4 techno take. A diverse record to keep in the bag for both hazy basements and the upcoming summer season.

Arkajo05 - Arkajo - Entwine   Signature (Polygonia And Konduku Remixes)

Louis Marlo - Blue Lights Over Manila

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Australian based imprint Paper-Cuts returns to physical in 2025 for their 10th release on the label. Celebrating the debut feature-length album from ‘Radart’ aka Dylan Batelic (Paper-Cuts, Sunflower Aquarium). Featuring an 8-track collection of ambient, downtempo, breaks and more, taken from selected works between 2022-2024.

PREMIERE: Radart - Trip Planet

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Interwoven and driving rhythms, dreamy melodies, and deep, tribal atmospheres—this is the sound that immediately drew us to the artist Robotalco. His album, Yaxche, will be released on 19 April on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.

Yaxche is the ancient and mysterious tree of birth, life, and knowledge in Mayan culture, from which the world's energy and wisdom flow.

The idea behind this album was born from an endless archive of layered tracks stored on Robotalco’s hard drive over the years, spanning from 2017 to 2024. This selection process reflects a clear eclecticism in the exploration of sounds and arrangements, seamlessly transitioning from classic house tracks to jazzy ambient, downtempo, Latin influences, dub techno inspirations, and beyond.

The album opens with a dreamy interlude titled DAILY OVERSIGHT, a captivating introduction that leads us into 5 AM ACTION DUB, a perfect after-hours track with dubby, immersive rhythms that take us on a true sonic journey.

PREMIERE: Robotalco - 5AM Action Dub

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tactual’s fourth release, Love As Consequence, comes from co-founder inesse, the uk-born, now copenhagen-based producer & DJ. alongside remixes from Jurango and LFL, the EP explores the producer’s commitment to broken and driving uktechno.

playing with dusty, scattered rhythmic structures, the tracks seek to add to the continuum of percussive, dynamic and forward-reaching dance music.

stripping the original tracks down, Jurango delivers a pulsing, low-end driven remix of Poltergeist, while tactual co-founder LFL morphs Towards Language into a sleazy, rolling club-tool.

it’s an EP about action, consequence, and fighting for the things that you love.

PREMIERE: inesse - Poltergeist

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A progressive winter journey through pulsing rhythms and shimmering synths. Inspired by snow-draped landscapes and icy city nights, the album blends analog warmth with trance-driven energy. Ten instrumental tracks flow seamlessly, mixing deep basslines, lush ambiences, and evolving melodies. Perfect for late-night drives, chill sessions, or getting lost in glacial grooves.

Subzero Flow

X’trapolis is under threat... 

Word is spreading fast that the powerful and long-feared Agamid lizard known by many as Reptilius has been sighted building a dangerous army on the outskirts of Squamata, exhausting the forests natural resources and leaving previously thriving, culturally significant and beautiful areas decrepit and lifeless in a greedy, capitalistic move to gain control. 

Completely unaware of this, Reptant returns home to X’trapolis after spending 5 years conducting extensive research on Earth’s unique analogue technology. 

With his esteemed Lizard Tech Militia stuck back on Earth, Reptant finds himself alone and must seek help from the infamous Gecko Force if he wishes to succeed in protecting his home. 

The Gecko Force are a lounge of superior prehistoric native Gecko’s rumoured to have been some of the only survivors from the brutal Agamid colonisation of X’trapolis which occurred many generations ago. 

With their power and extensive knowledge of X’trapolis, the planet and all of its delicate and precious lifeforms just might stand a chance... 

Return To Planet X’trapolis was written, recorded and mixed by Reppi T. Lizrd AKA Reptant at Squamata Studios, X’trapolis 2019-2020. 

@reptant_the_lizard
Mastered by Alden Tyrell (@aldentyrell)
Cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut. (@marco-pellegrino)
Pressed at Record Industry.
Distributed by One Eye Witness. 

LKR Records, 2020, Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. 

“Dedicated to all the Lacertilia in the galaxy, May your forests remain untouched and liberated”

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