@martyyna-1 - Written In The Scars
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM113
Format: Digital
Release Date: June 7th, 2024

Martyyna’s debut album Written In The Scars is an ironic play on the cliché that our destiny is written in the stars. More likely, our life’s stories are influenced by the scars we carry within us and by our coming to terms with them. Martyyna looks for such confidence on the single This Time, where a reverberating clock chime intertwines with her hazy vocals submerged in sampled water droplets, owl calls, or birdsong. Emerging at times only to repeat a hopeful wish: “This time... don’t make me cry.” A music video for the track, shot in the Canary Islands’ desolate and burned-out land, serves as an inspiration for the album's visual design and the future AV set with Igor Lorok presented at the Lunchmeat Festival in September 2023. The album cover views the body as a similar landscape, recording the imprints and bruises of past happenings and absorbing them into itself. The story of finding the strength to keep going continues on the second single, Distorted, inspired by data loss after Martyyna’s first live-set. Past feelings of anger and misery melt into a complex and stuttering production, her deepened vocals intertwine with jittering synth arrangements, slowly rising in pitch and gaining courage. Distant, muffled echoes are trying to break free, regressed traumas are coming to the surface, demanding attention.

After a process of healing, overcoming and getting lost in a dream, the voice of Martyyna fuses with that of the Czech producer Oliver Torr on Sunshine Girls and with the musician Portento’s on the closing track Invitation. The album ends with light, calming duets – two voices finding harmony at last, extending a euphoric invitation. An invitation to breathe in. To rest. To finally not be scared of one’s own self.

On Written In The Scars, Martyyna delves deeper into her work with vocals, first introduced on her EP AWAKEN, and perfects her layering of textures, tonal shifts, gradation of rhythms and deconstruction of string instruments. Rather than awaking, however, she’s now plunging into more atmospheric dreamscapes. Crafted with both chaos and care, Martyyna’s tracks are made of diverse building blocks reflecting her mood shifts and despairs as well as her meticulous craftswomanship gained working as an architect. Only here, forming physical structures in her waking life is interchanged with sonic worldbuilding of her dreams.

Martyyna Ft. Portento - Invitation

Official Video for Cryptid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWWNORoMufc

Following her recent explorations at the intersection of AI, club culture and visceral sound design, British electronic artist Aja returns with her new album ‘Cryptid’ via Infinite Machine due out on January 31st. A high-impact album steeped in themes of empowerment, resilience and mysticism. A vivid testament to the underground culture that shaped her, fusing blistering soundscapes, experimental lyrics, and club-ready energy to encapsulate Aja’s unique and confrontational artistry. Cryptide merges as a collection of sounds that are as unrestrained as they are intimate.

Cryptid is not just an album; it's a sonic archive of resilience, healing, and defiance—a club-ready collection that invites listeners to confront life’s complexities through Aja's unmistakable sound. With her unfiltered energy and uncompromising production, Aja's Cryptid marks her as a vanguard in electronic music, challenging her audience to not only listen but to feel with her.

Aja Ireland - Cryptid (IM116S)

knock knock … it’s a mixcast day and you better won’t miss cool and fresh tunes mixed by KAROLINDA - a Warsaw based member of DEKONSTRUKT collective, a music and visual artist, a fungal witch, and a music producer. Check out her mix with some unreleased pearls and well-known timeless bangers.

tracklist:
Gabber Modus Operandi – Calon Arang
BULMA – Jawbreaker
Simo Cell – leave me alone
Ziyiz – Entity Preferences
Kamixlo – Soulless
TSVI – Prana Riddim, Pt. 2
G Jones – Hysteria
anyoneID – Oya Faya
Stolen Velour – Nia
Fatima Al Qadiri – How Can I Resist U (Girl Unit Remix)
Slikback – KENEKI
Abelation & Saka – Elite
GЯEG – Dembow Tronico (Simo Cell Rhythm & Clicks Remix)
Constantine – Bring It
paszka – (unreleased)
HAMDI - SKANKA (Y3llO REMIX)
julek ploski – Martini, armani
Lotus Reaction & MOUNT TERROR - Wireless Fingers
Aardvarck – Monkey see…
Deech & MUNGUUGNUM – Robbery (Estoc Remix)
UNIIQU3 & Ase Manual – 2 THE FLOOR
bd hbt x KUREI x yojas – Hood
Seven Orbits – Mantis (Zaliva-D Remix)
Skrillex, Hamdi, TAICHU & OFFAIAH - Push (Dyzzy Remix)
Tzusing – Residual Stress
HANAH – Imprezzza
KAROLINDA – (unreleased)
David Löhlein – Cuando Vengas (Chloé Robinson & DJ ADHD Remix)
Klahrk – Sharp Set (KAVARI Remix)
georg-i – Strobe Fodder
Valentino Khan – Deep Down Low (LH4L Remix)
Eliminate & Peekaboo – Quickness

IG:
KAROLINDA: www.instagram.com/karo____linda/ 
DEKONSTRUKT: www.instagram.com/dek0nstrukt/

DESTITUTE Mixcast 047 / KAROLINDA

Aja Ireland - Cryptid
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM116
Format: Digital
Release Date: January 31, 2025

Artwork by Joey Holder

Experimental electronic sound and performance artist Aja Ireland presents her new album ‘Cryptid’ via Infinite Machine due out on January 31st. After the release of her ’Slug’ LP on Opal Tapes in 2021, Aja returns with a new release marking a first exploration into lyrical expression in years, diving into her personal journey through rejection, recovery and resilience, while drawing influences from Ice Spice, SOPHIE and Arca.

The album emerged from a deeply subconscious place and merges themes of personal survival and futuristic storytelling, drawing from experimental electronic, trap, and rap influences. It’s a sonic exploration of the ways we reclaim power, with tracks that also touch on themes of bodily autonomy, empowerment, and community. The album is an emotional and sonic rebellion against a system that often dismisses artists with unconventional sounds. 

With elements of empowering women and people in the queer community, experimental electronica, and AI-driven aesthetics, the record became a way for Aja in claiming back power—channeling rejection into innovation rather than defeat. By blending experimental sounds with deeply human themes, Aja aims to build a narrative that speaks not only to her own journey but also to the wider struggle for visibility and self-expression. This powerful project includes driving club tracks that offer both release and celebration, designed to bring people together on the dance floor.

Aja Ireland - If You Don't Exist

Aja Ireland - Death Drop

https://lilatirandoavioleta.bandcamp.com/album/dream-of-snakes


Additional Production Sin Maldita and @Pobvio. 
Artwork by Dario Alva
Mixing and Mastering by Sin Maldita

Full album out 25th of April.
Released by Unguarded, 2025

NEW FLESH

Taken from SBKT068: Swimful - Diecast
Release date: 26th March 2025

The long awaited follow-up to 2022’s ‘Rushlight’, ‘Diecast’ is a new 4 track club EP from Swimful, with remixes from Iceboy Violet, Grandmixxer and DJ Narciso.

Swimful - Xipei

Hello world <3
Here is an upcoming X-Ray LP with 13 tracks which has been written during the last 3 years. Its a big work for me and i'm very excited to present it to you.
Prolly its first ever deconstructed club literally edged on bones?
Forgotten and almost lost techic of cutting vinyls on x-rays films now is here to destruct the sounds of contemporary club.
First single "Selfie" is out now. Full release on 04.04.25.

Produced, composed and mastered by WULFFLUW XCIV.
Artworks and visuals by Sophie Nakonechnaia.

X-Ray Vinyl LP

Selfie

@patarlab @vinerrrrr

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ehGk52g3E
-----------------------------------------------------------
Death is certain, life is not. And both are available at our supermarket. 

With everything that’s happening in the world, one must wonder if there’s breaking free from it all or should they just stop trying to make sense of it. It’s a choice and it isn’t — depending on the circumstances one finds themselves in. What seemed senseless beginning to take form and what had always been solid shatters into pieces: home, family, plans, love, identity, freedom, sex, philosophy, technology, making-it, bank account, self, traumas, patterns, overcoming them, residence, conscience, morals, vodka, values, vulnerability — they have equal chances to serve as safe place or jail, wake or deliverance, life or death — go figure.

In its first release, Patar flips the table — and the cards, and the chips with it. No stake is too high to even mention it. One track and 7 versions of it, as an attempt to transgress from confusion to clarity — or maybe the other way around. Here’s an artistic experiment for you: do not brief, do not declare, do not obey, and do not fight — or do. And see what comes out of it. 

Qurgōn is a pit grave. There are dead horses in it, dead people, dead weapons, and vessels. It stinks and it’s scary. It’s a place where nothing will ever be born, or will it? It requires nothing, silently craving admiration. It only ever serves a collective memory of all the heroes and the blood-thirsty freaks alike. They are one, after all. It only is to be unbothered, looked at in awe and disgust; to be a break out on the smooth surface of the steppe’s ass.  

One artist made a call, seven responded — to dig to the bottom of that pit or touch upon its stony texture.

In order of appearance:

Viner [France, Marseille]
Şüräle [Kazakhstan, Almaty] 
Wulffluw XCIV [Moldova, Chișinău]
yutani [Armenia, Yerevan]
Sha Gen [Tajikistan, Dushanbe]
Aunt Zazà [Spain, Barcelona]
Hayk Karoyi [Armenia, Yerevan]
A.Fruit  [Spain, Barcelona]

Here’s another experiment for you: renounce all styles and genres and go with it. Who cares, anyway? Gloomy and epic, repetitive and bass-y — oh, always bass-y. Percussion-thick, yelling, obnoxious, rich. The sound of dying, finding peace, losing it again, and returning back to the hassle. The all-penetrating sound of a baby’s cry and the last exhale of a fighter knocked out for good. Ferocious sirens needling through the layers and layers of dead horses and weapons, clanking, squelching — resonating. With the horrors and hope. With memories and fantasies. With clinging to what seems to be it — and letting go. 

Nothing is certain anymore, yet everything is clear. 

p.s. The locations are mentioned to help gig providers locate the artists and, maybe, give an idea of their background and current state of mind, but not really and not necessarily.

* Qurgōn [Uzbek], commonly unknown as Kurgan [Turkic] or Курган [Russian]  a circular burial mound constructed over a mass burial site of warriors; originally in use in the Russian Steppes, Caucasus, and Central Asia, but later spreading into eastern, central, and northern Europe in the third millennium b.c.

text by Nastassja Popova
mixing & mastering by A.Fruit
cover by Timur Zima

Qurgōn (WULFFLUW XCIV Remix)

Shelter presents “Aveen” — the third installation in our genre-agnostic compilation series.

To follow up 2023’s “Feyrûse” and 2024’s “Mizgîn”, we have curated an emotionally charged collection of 17 tracks that press against the debilitating realities of life in the mid-2020s. The title stems from a Persian word meaning “pure” or “transparent” — signaling a search for unfiltered and sincere artistic expression in the midst of a social climate filled with smoke and mirrors.

“Aveen” features Shelter’s most international line-up to date, with music from 18 artists spread across 13 countries and 5 continents displaying their signature sounds shaped by their local scenes and cultures. 

Flowing through mutated shades of ambient, hypnagogic pop, trance, leftfield techno, neo-perreo, and GQOM — the compilation connects the myriad influences and mind-states of electronic musicians from nearly every corner of the world and tethers them together into a cathartic 17-track excursion.


Miss Jay – Surge

I HAD A DREAM IN A NIGHTMARE, WHICH MADE ME SCARED, BECAUSE F O R ONCE I W A S  PREPARED...

Kill the poison

Record Label based in Mexico City.
Founded in Montréal, Est. 2011 by @xwolfcultx.

for sync & licensing - gavin@syncsmith.com

Bookings: allen@awesome-agency.com
Temporary Contact: iinfinitemachinee@gmail.com

Martyyna Ft. Portento - Invitation

Infinite Machine

Related tracks