The Bitter Taste Of Pleasant

BUY AND TAPE PRE-ORDER: https://purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/album/far-west-synthetic
 
Second full-length from St. Petersburg-based producer jhg. Far West Synthetic plays like a third-generation VHS dream dubbed to cassette — warped, smudged, and barely holding together. It hums with interference, flickers with half-memories, and carries a narcotic glow, as if recorded deep in a dead zone where no signal gets through. Collaborations with dfyan, Silbad, and FMSAO act like pulses of distant warmth and rhythm, guiding the listener through the fog. Somewhere between outsider house, techno abstraction, and corroded ambient, the album drifts with the feeling of synthetic wind passing through leaded glass. Glitchy, unstable, but still quietly radiant — music that remembers it’s being listened to, even from far away.

Links:
jhg
@jhgproduction
johanhavenstain.bandcamp.com
Pure Life
@purelifetapes
purelifetapes.bandcamp.com

Far West Synthetic

Unstable Roamer [Pure Life, 2025]

https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/code-915913
https://soundcloud.com/spurv
cover: https://soundcloud.com/f476

Твоя Песня (с Прохор Спурв)

FUSE041 Silbad - Sincerity

Bandcamp: https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/sincerity
Stream: https://band.link/silbadsincerity

Silbad is the artist from St. Petersburg, he has been making music for over 10 years.
He focuses on making minimalistic, but at the same time detailed sound, to create a musical universe of many small references and details, recycled and buried among other sounds. 

Silbad said:
"What I love most is when music takes you somewhere far away, creates a unique mood where it seems as if time doesn't exist."

The album was recorded in the fall and winter of 2023/24, and contains both very recent and fading memories that over time begin to feel like dreams. 

"Personally, my music helps me both not to forget and to forget at the same time.
The last phrase of course probably sounds too pathetic, but I meant that over the years my own dreams and motifs from my youth are erased, and only a few things like music help me to remember them. And forgetting = dissolving into creativity."

Links:
Silbad
https://soundcloud.com/silbad
https://silbad.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/shapeless.dreams
Fuselab
https://soundcloud.com/fuselab
https://fuselab.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/fuselabrecords

Sincerity

bandcamp

Silbad, jhg - Dead Trees

Astrokid Mega Pack – Fantasy Ambient & Exploration Bundle

Shadow Legion Battle Themes - Track 22

A portrait of Earth before anyone was there to remember it.

ELON-EAR-0067 - Fjord

B in MINE  (Free Download)

Buy 12": http://www.juno.co.uk/products/al-90-cheremushki-groove/633306-01/
Hailing from the Russian city of Murmansk, AL-90 brings an all embracing dance sound perfectly in keeping with the Tape Throb Records ethos of distort, layer and rework. Littered with ghostly vocals and the blurred flush of multi layered beats, infectious bass moves the whole in rhythmic brilliance. The A sides, Cheremushki Groove and Fluid, will bring on dream of 90's VHS house with warm broken beats layered with lush vocal samples. The B side Cataract flies higher with a jungle storm waist deep in ambience and the EP closes with a distorted stomping rework of the title track by label founder The Cyclist.

B1 - Cataract

http://www.beerontherug.com/post/162090273060/al90dx2ov