Gentle beings, we are entering the world of the ambient, atmospheric, downtempo, and sublime. Transcend at your leisure. [cover Rachika Nayar]

Third State

~ LAAPS 048 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP48]

artist : Ensemble 0
album : L'Incroyable Femme Des Neiges
duration : 26.40 mn
date : November 12th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / white LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : October 23rd, 2025 / official release : November 12th, 2025
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Composition and arrangements: Joël Mérah, Stéphane Garin, Sylvain Chauveau

Performed by:
Jérôme Capdepont - trombone
Sylvain Chauveau - acoustic guitar
Vianney Desplantes - euphonium, tuba, flugabone
Tanguy Gallavardin - clarinets
Júlia Gállego Ronda - flutes
Stéphane Garin - percussion, piano, organ
Joël Mérah - acoustic guitar, piano, ukulele, organ, harmonium

Recording and mixing: Johannes Buff, Shorebreaker studio (Tarnos, France). 
Assistant: Xan Bidegain
Artistic director: Joël Mérah
Administration: Nicolas Michamblé

Thanks to Alexandre Maillet, Vanessa Pigot, Laurie Garcia Garin et Sébastien Betbeder.

Mastered by Simon Lancelot
Artwork by Jonathan Smith
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps.bandcamp.com/music
www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://www.ensemble0.com/
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Ensemble 0 - Les Grands Espaces

~ IIKKI 030 ~

music : Ethan Syann
artwork : Yorgos Yatromanolakis
album : Farewell To The Night
duration : 29.30 mn 
date : November 17th 2025

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Music by Ethan Syann
Composed and recorded between 2013 and 2015

Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork by Yorgos Yatromanolakis 
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition : 
• vinyl: limited to 200 copies /ultra clear LP / hand numbered  / selective UV varnish (front + back) / white inner 
• cd: limited to 150 CD / hand made, hand numbered /  digisleeve: white cardboard 300 gm. outside : adhesive glossy paper
• book: limited to 500 copies / hand numbered & hand stamped / hardcover book (15 cm x 21 cm) on Ora canvas / Silkscreen printing on covers / Swiss binding with visible stitching with purple thread / 80 pages, 30 photos on Arena Rough Natural 140g/m2 / logo and slot embossed (front and back cover) 

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pre-order : October 16th, 2025 / official release : November 17th, 2025

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Links : 
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.iikki-books.com/iikki-030-farewell-to-the-night
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/


Ethan Syann - VI

Muted Forms

Form 9

Chihei Hatakeyama, one of the most preeminent artists of the early drone ambient scene, has paired up with the progressive ambient star Jupi/ter, to create a lush, slow burn, two-part single.

Chihei’s mastery in the art of peace is met with Jupi/ter’s spaced-out breadth of production, widening the stereo field and introducing some of his trademark subtle synth-work.

Support on Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/3X862l4

Canopy / Idyll

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Chihei Hatakeyama & Jupi/ter - Idyll

Angel Wings

I Created The Universe So That Life Could Create a Language So Complex, Just To Say How Much I Love You

Y Tu Mamá Ambient

Come What May

WL//WH Premiere: VEELARGO "Starcase" (off of "Drealusions" LP) [Bricolage]

Busy, playful, and thrilling Electro-IDM number, "Starcase" thrives on harsh and clattering snappy beats, interlaced with scattered assertive kicks and deep plunging low ends, layered with catchy, rousing and obsessive swirls of spiraling bleeping motifs, alternating with burnished epic poignant synth flares, to harken back to the early Warp Records' heyday of perpetual bleepy reverberations peppered with a touch of distinctive emotional melodic flair.
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Glaswegian Bricolage label (@bricolage-g5) is proud to welcome Veelargo's electronic maverick with his new album, "Drealusions". The album sets its stall out from the very beginning and sets the tone for what lies ahead. A collection of organic musical landscapes. The experimental nature of the Spanish producer based in Krakow, Poland, Veelargo ( @veelargo ), is clear to hear throughout as we experience drifting panoramic ambient jostling with contorted motifs and incisive rhythms.
Opening track "Baalm" takes us on a melancholic sonic journey as it gently soars into a crescendo and back again. The pace then picks up as we traverse through realms of acid flecked electro, brisk and bustling beats, laser melodies, alien bass and futuristic sound design. The trip goes full circle, and we end on the probing and exploratory "Kalk". A dreamscape of a track that floats along and burrows into your psyche.
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Release: November 21st, 2025
Mastering: J.Gorecki
Artwork: Katarzyna Karpowicz

LP Preview @ youtu.be/BjVJQlWBnIM
BUY LINK: https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/drealusions-bc097
Artwork image is titled "Dream" by Katarzyna Karpowicz.
All rights of the image are property of Katarzyna Karpowicz.
katarzynakarpowicz.pl/
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Veelargo social links:
- SC: https://soundcloud.com/veelargo
- BC: https://veelargo.bandcamp.com/

Bricolage Social links:
- IG: www.instagram.com/bricolageg5
- X/Twitter: x.com/BricolageG5
- FB: www.facebook.com/BricolageG5
- Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/BricolageG5/
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Veelargo's upcoming album "Drealusions" is scheduled for release in Digital format on November 21, 2025, via the Bricolage Label Bandcamp. Pre-order comes with an instant two-track download.

BUY LINK: https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/drealusions-bc097

More info on the WL//WH blog: https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/wl-wh-premiere-wilks-ameliorate-off-of-a-soul-to-borrow-ep-bricolage/

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WL//WH Premiere: VEELARGO "Starcase" (off "Drealusions" LP) [Bricolage]

Following his debut Dolere (2024) and a collaboration with Joachim Spieth and Markus Guentner on Arcadia (2025), zakè returns to Joachim's Affin imprint with an intensely captivating work that explores the resonance of low frequencies and subsonic vibrations. There are only three pieces on this 55-minute release (the first track runs for over 28 minutes!), and you get to preview one of them before the album is out. This is music shaped for your deep, immersive, and glacial listening sessions. Good headphones and a subwoofer (yes, at the same time) are recommended. Perfect for my slowly-waking, frazzled mind this morning!

"Low Harmonics builds upon the reflective world first introduced by Zach on Dolere, which explored how time stretches during periods of sorrow and how sound can create a brief shelter from that weight. The predecessor fluctuated between ache and relief, and now its follow-up dives further into the inward, existential space beneath those emotions. Here, the use of deep and subterranean tones feels both intimate and vast, pulling you deeper into the lower spectrum of sound, shaped by heavy bass ebbs, low-frequency flow, and slow-moving drift. This album echoes the textural gravity of artists like Thomas Köner and the cold Arctic brush of Geir Jenssen, while remaining rooted in Affin’s commitment to sound that lives outside the expected."

HEADPHONE COMMUNITY EXCLUSIVE: zakè - Low Harmonics, Part 3

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You don’t have to read the press release for Rafael Anton Irisarri‘s latest opus, Points of Inaccessibility, to know all of its conveyed emotion. It’s already all there. That is the power of music when it’s delivered through the heart and mind by an amazing artist. Sure, there is an interesting background behind this work [and one which you can read on Bandcamp anyway], but for me, it doesn’t matter. When I listened to this album for the first time, I was immediately overwhelmed with its immersive poignant arc, and then I listened to it again, and again, and again… until the four pieces became not just the sounds for the story to be discovered later through these words, but they became the sounds for the story of my own, the one where words are not enough, the one that only speaks in music. This music touches something deeply personal, and then these words come out in abstract. But when you read them, you will know at least one thing: they have been written by a human. They have been triggered by a human. And when two humans speak without words, there is a true and genuine connection. One, which we can’t replace with a digital domain. And as we sink a little deeper every day into a world of artificial emotion, remember that you can return to music. Remember that this music is the key.


Points of Inaccessibility came from thinking about how disconnection feels in an age obsessed with connection. We are constantly online, constantly visible, yet we drift further apart. The real distance isn’t geographic anymore, it’s emotional. We mistake connectivity for community. The more we share, the less we seem to feel. This album is about that strange loneliness that hides inside constant communication, a loneliness that hums quietly beneath the surface of everything. The record isn’t nostalgic. It’s about the way the present is haunted by all the futures that never arrived. We live inside systems that promise connection but deliver repetition. Everything loops, nothing resolves.

— Rafael Anton Irisarri


The album is scheduled to be released on February 6th, 2026, via Irisarri’s own Black Knoll Editions. Preorder the beautifully mastered limited edition 12″ by Stephan Mathieu at his Schwebung Mastering, with a bleak yet stunning cover art by Jaco Schilp. Once again, you can grab the digital and vinyl versions directly from Irisarri’s Bandcamp. Don’t sleep on this one.

https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/points-of-inaccessibility

Points of Inaccessibility

Breaking the Unison

TRACK PREMIERE : Rafael Anton Irisarri - Breaking the Unison

Rafael Anton Irisarri presents his new album, Points of Inaccessibility, out on February 6th.

Pre-order: https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/points-of-inaccessibility
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@irisarri

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Premiere: Rafael Anton Irisarri - Breaking the Unison

Azimuth Divergence

Ask The Rain

drømmeren har intet ansigt

Strange Weather returns with a mix recorded between Singapore and Osaka. The first hour with A’alely gathers music by Miki Yui, Hiele, rashad becker, ENSEMBLE NIST NAH, Shasta Cults, Muslimgauze, Valentina Magaletti & YPY, KAKUHAN, Booker Stardrum, Tori Kudo, João Há?, and a track from Bani Haykal’s forthcoming Strange Weather release SWD003.

Midway through, everything dissolves into one long form from a friend and sweet human being, NAKAM of FunTricks Records — a continuous trip shaped by field recordings, lo-fi mutant wave sensibilities, new-age folk experimental tones, and the curious sounds he collects. Strange Weather returns quietly, but with intention.

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Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!

DROPOUT DISCO 
playlists + podcasts
a sound / a scene / a story

curation by Krystal Rodriguez & Zel McCarthy

TRACK PREMIERE : Rafael Anton Irisarri - Breaking the Unison

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