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Roel Funcken & EXM – Flyphel

Two IDM icons, Roel Funcken and exm come together on Science Cult for an LP that is nothing short of alchemy. Flyphel feels like a living, breathing entity — an intricate fusion of sound that shifts between the mechanical and the organic. Each track unfolds like a story told in textures and tones, with Funcken’s razor-sharp precision meeting exm’s ethereal abstractions. You’re not just invited to listen, you’re pulled into its world, where every detail reveals something new on repeat visits.

This stunning release arrives as a 2 x 12″ LP encased in a beautifully printed outer jacket with matching inner sleeves featuring paintings by Roel Funcken, making this as much a visual statement as an auditory one. With their combined expertise in sound design and their shared commitment to pushing boundaries, Roel Funcken and exm have created something that feels both timeless and ahead of its time.


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Don't Trust Mirrors

Lunar wave

»La Traversée« (»The Crossing«) is Matthias Puech’s second album for Hallow Ground and follows up on 2023’s »Mt. Hadamard National Park.« Profoundly inspired by re-reading »The Odyssey,« the French composer, instrument designer, and scholar used a Eurorack modular synthesizer to create four pieces that are by far the most intuitive and emotionally charged in his ever-expanding catalogue. Puech’s masterful command of sound comes to the forefront with even more urgency on this record. A wandering meditation on the human condition, »La Traversée« is an album that is constantly in motion—complex electronic music at its most gripping and evocative.

The foundation for »La Traversée« was laid when Puech prepared a live set for a tour organised in collaboration with Hallow Ground in support of »Mt. Hadamard National Park.« Before writing the first three pieces—»Ennosigaios,« »Polyphármakos,« »Nekuia«—the 18½-minute-long »Ithâké« was composed in near-total isolation in the South of France at the end of 2023. Puech performed the material live several times before taking a step black from it for a while. He revisited the pieces when preparing them for a release. »I was struck by how the technical process and the intention behind the music had completely vanished from my memory,« he says.

What remained intact, however, was Puech’s association of the material with one of the most influential texts of Western literature. Reading a graphic novel adaptation of »The Odyssey« with his two four-year-olds, he noticed the effect that it had on them and himself. »Its themes of longing, fear of and attraction to the unknown, unresolved quests, and the struggle for control felt topical,« he says. »I was completely taken. Every story ever told seemed contained in this ancient tale; every story I have ever tried to tell as a composer seemed inscribed in this framework.« This also extended to formal motifs such as the repetition of incidents, narrative developments, or dramatic effects that also mark »La Traversée.«

Puech says that he perceived Homer’s writing as musical, »like an old Delta blues or a Renaissance counterpoint,« which inspired his writing process. »With a couple of knobs on my Eurorack system, I could control the unfolding of a story,« he notes. »This made me pass through different emotional states and led to moments in which everything made sudden sense—when you as an artist get a glimpse at something essential, can touch upon something universal.« This shines through »La Traversée,« a wildly imaginative album that is deeply personal while also telling a story far more wide-reaching than that of its creator.

Composed, recorded and mixed by Matthias Puech
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Cover: excerpt from J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842)
Drawing by Matthias Puech

La Traversée

Ennosigaios

Widely regarded as one of the most uncompromising works in experimental noise, Kevin Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is once again available on vinyl. First released on CD in 2002 on the original Mego label, the album remains a landmark in extreme electronic sound and is an essential and ferocious document of Drumm at his most inventive.

The history of Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is one of resilience to the twists of underground trends that have come and gone since its initial release. Using guitar, tape manipulation, microphones, pedals, analog synthesizers, and subtle computer processing, Sheer Hellish Miasma is an overwhelming experience: a sonic onslaught of storming feedback, fractured textures and  an unrelenting energy. At once brutal and meticulously composed, the album offers a singular vision at the outermost edges of sound art.

For seasoned noise veterans, Sheer Hellish Miasma offers a bracing soundscape filled with exquisitely abrasive textures and more than enough hidden detail to warrant repeated listening – a distinct voice in the increasingly same-sounding world of abstract electronic noise. For everyone else, Drumm’s journey through the noisy underworld is likely to inspire fear or, in an optimistic case, fearful admiration. 

Drumm’s Sheer Hellish Miasma is an abstract noise classic with this 2LP reissue being an artefact of eternal power.

Sheer Hellish Miasma

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Kevin Drumm 'Cloudy' (EMEGO053)

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A sneak preview of Hideaway Studio's new SONICbytes 101 - an experimental and characterful battery powered "bare-bones" 8-bit Ring Modulator & Tremolo featuring a built in multi-wave oscillator with a level sensitive "flinch-mode" and 8-bit audio pass-thru mode with analog negative feedback regeneration.

Pre-production units are now going out to early adoptors.

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2025.

SONICbytes 101: Introducing Hideaway's Experimental New 8-Bit RingMod..

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From the album Solo Three, available January 23, 2026 on Western Vinyl
Pre-order / listen https://lnk.to/solothree

Erik Hall - "Music for a Large Ensemble" (Steve Reich)

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/

Purchase

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

kawaii thug (prod by me lolol)

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

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