recorded during live performance at Silent Green (22.5.2025), alongside upsammy's av show 'Strange Meridians'

Andriy K. live rec. Silent Green (22.5.2025)

@opheliek - 'Salty Skin' is part of Gravity Pleasure's inaugural release, Water Bodies: a rippling compilation of FLINTA* artists and collaborators that invites listeners into an aqueous paraworld.

Across 21 tracks, Water Bodies spans a post-genre miasma of ethereal mermaid music, cathartic flows, and glistening sibilants ~ each one an exquisite message-in-a-bottle of deep diving emotionality. Pulling from a wide-range of musical perspectives ~ field recording, lovesick ballads, shimmering downtempo, post-party comedown, and percolating ambient ~ the compilation contains multitudes yet maintains deep sentimental coherence. Like a wave crashing in slow motion, it sonifies possible ways of being, insisting on the porous, the interdependent, and the deep and unruly. Water Bodies reminds us that home is a body made of water, to which we all belong.

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Home is a body made of water.
Remember.

Close eyes.
Listen to drips; hear voices.
What do they tell you?
Make your body a grotto.
What does it hold?

Spider’s tapestry: flycatcher.
Roadmap: net of sinews.
Lost in night forest: seek breadcrumbs.
Remember?
Body is lighthouse: shine through cloud canopy.
Body is fish: wet is all you know.

Sink deep, fly high,
stretch your arpeggio from young to old.
Remember.

-Lou Croff Blake

ophélie - Salty Skin [GP01 - Water Bodies VA]

Blueprints in sounds, stones to sparks, lead to gold, with Hong-Kong-born, Utrecht-based electronic musician gyrofield.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/gyrofield/episodes/gyrofield-22nd-september-2025

Field Research w/ Gyrofield 220925

INDEX:Records is enamoured to present the accomplished debut record by New York City resident, Beau Mahadev – 8-parts of dreamy vocals and wet-textured IDM-pop.

To some extent, this album arriving at INDEX:Records has been over 3 years in the making: we were first introduced to Beau’s work at GLOB in Denver (during our USA tour in 2023), at an event hosted by a dear friend, filled with lovely peeps. We were totally blown away by Beau’s performance and knew within a few minutes of their set starting that we wanted to release an album with them someday. Now, here it is: Subterra. Featuring tasty collaborations with {iii}, Uza A'amo and Yau Hei ASJ.

Written & Produced by Beau Mahadev
Featuring {iii}, Uza A'amo & Yau Hei ASJ
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Cut by Pitchcraft Mastering
Sleeve Front Cover by Chiu
Design by Conna Haraway

Vinyl limited to 200 copies. Front sleeve by Chiu. Design by Conna Haraway

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Beau Mahadev – Subterra (previews) [INDEX:020]

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RIVERS

Nick Malkin hosts Post-Geography, featuring ambient and atmospheric selections, live from the NTS studio in L.A.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geography-2nd-october-2025

Post-Geography  021025

Crust – Fixed Impulse

Ghost Warrior - False memory

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Okgwa - Sikdang (Space Drum Meditation Remix) [PLN02]

Following the acclaimed self-released “Hwan Se 환세”, Korean composer Okgwa comes back on Polën with her most dense work yet : Hayan Kkot.

Drawing from the Korean spiritual concept of Han (a blend of deep grief and resentment, but not without hope), Okgwa weaves a subtle web that stretches across space and seasons, reflecting on death, life and on the fragile boundaries between humans, consistently shaping her unique sound through an intense ten-track album that follows directly on from her first album.

In Korea, the year is traditionally divided into 24 solar terms (절기), subtle seasonal points based on the movements of the sun and moon that guide farming and life rhythms.
In Okgwa’s previous album, the last track was Equinox (추분 or 춘분). The following solar term after the equinox is Hanro (Cold Dew): the moment when autumn deepens, the air turns sharp and clear, and cold dew gathers on the grass.

This new album, organized in three acts, closes with the track Hanro, which is also its release day: October 8th. A time when the earth itself exudes that cool, luminous breath.

The Space Drum Meditation remix enriches Okgwa’s sonic voyage, offering a striking and singular reinterpretation of the track Sikdang.

Composition, vocals, mixing and arrangement by Okgwa
Additional music by Space Drum Meditation
Mastering by Arthur Bohl at Melifera Blue Studio
Artwork by Oskimind

𝑶𝒌𝒈𝒘𝒂
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/hiokgwa
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hiokgwa/

𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑫𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/spacedrummeditation
Bandcamp : https://spacedrummeditation.bandcamp.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/spacedrummeditation/


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Bandcamp : https://polensound.bandcamp.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/polen_sound/

Hayan Kkot [PLN02]

Sikdang (Space Drum Meditation Ambient Remix)

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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Okgwa - Sikdang (Space Drum Meditation Remix) [PLN02]

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

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@theory-therapy

Theory Therapy is pleased to present ‘we’re here all the time’ by jp (aka J.P Wright) – the New York producer behind one of last year’s shinetiac remixes on the OST label, and a member of Housecraft Recordings’ trip-bient group Ahem.

Compiling several years of well-worn material, the Brooklyn artist’s debut solo LP was the result of many hours of hardware jams and happy accidents, later meticulously edited down into these seven arrangements. Blending first-thought-best-thought spontaneity with extended DAW labouring, Wright delivers some of the most immediate music yet on Theory Therapy.

The album is reminiscent of ’90s and early-’00s IDM. Syncopated rhythms and atmosphere swirl into a mutable whole, as hardcore breakbeat, ambient trance and acidic electro bleed together into a liquid mélange. The sequencing drifts from gauzy, ethereal openings into tensile, club-ready pressure before swerving toward moments of stillness – like lingering in an emptied club hours after the crowd has gone.

There’s a distinct physicality to the music too. Kick patterns jitter like loose live wires, delays ripple through the fog-soaked air, yet the album’s finest moments lie in its more subtle textures and tonal shifts. This is proper braindance that keeps you suspended in its pulse, caught in non-linear time. Wright lets the music wander in unpredictable arcs, moments folding back on themselves, stretching in multiple directions at once – tracing and retracing a memory that refuses to settle. 