Hot summer rain hits the cracked pavement in uneven rhythms. A neon sign flickers above a café that never seems to close, its warm white light reflected in the wet ground like a fever dream. The air smells of summer and the world hums with an easy tone, as if the city itself is holding its breath. A light flooded film noir-ish scene, that needs a soundtrack like „POOL JAMS“, the new album of INIT, the Berlin based duo, that already caused quite a stir with their albums for Hivern Discs and Optimo Music. This time, they bring their latest creations out on R.i.O. - a label, with whom they are deeply associated. Their fourth longplayer is a playful one. One that brings trip hopping feelings. That has r’n’b grace, without catering regular trademarks of the genre. Dub, trance, drone, is all there too. Yet, nothing is present in pure definition. Rather suggested, interwoven, or newly twisted in a songwriting style, that haunts and
seduces. On top the voice of Nadia D'Alò dances, steps and hums tempting to the grooves she created with her partner in crime Benedikt Frey. Together they fashioned a record, that, as INIT puts it, is „some kind of old photo from an old dry empty pool that got faded by sunlight “. A dreamy, sunny piece of song art, made for endless smoky LA freeway drives, and other adventures that seek for infinite riddance. You can dream it. You can trance it. You can’t escape it, as soon as it rotates in your dream device for sound and vision.

Text ML

INIT - Vacumized

Deviate >>> https://kiyadama.bandcamp.com/album/deviate

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Release date: September 1, 2025
As usual, this is a limited 12" release, so pre-orders recommended.

Will be available via the following shops (more to come):

Clone: https://clone.nl/item80135.html
Juno Records: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/gauss-latent-space-ep-vinyl/1098290-01/
Deejay.de: https://www.deejay.de/Gauss_Latent_Space_EP_GAUSS06_Vinyl__1165036
Redeye: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/184771-gauss06-gauss-latent-space-ep

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[GAUSS06] Latent Space EP (Out Soon!)

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Nine years after the release of 'Stanza III', American musician Benoît Pioulard returns with 'Stanza IV' - the fourth and most expansive instalment in his long-evolving Stanza series. Pressed on splattered yellow pollen vinyl, it comprises four long-form ambient pieces that are deeply layered, hauntingly textured, and rich with emotion...Our pick from the album is the closing track, “Steeples Writhe.” Just over ten minutes in length, it unfurls with the ceremonial grace of a farewell. Built from degraded tape loops, decayed vocal fragments, and soft ambient hums, it avoids resolution—offering instead stillness, presence, and a sense of gentle release. It is, quite simply, a moment of peace.

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Stanza IV

Benoît Pioulard - Steeples Writhe [Disques d'Honoré]

Out now: POOL JAMS – the new album by INIT 🌊🌀

A soundtrack for sun-soaked city streets and neon-lit dreams. INIT, the Berlin-based duo of Nadia D'Alò and Benedikt Frey, return with their fourth album — a hazy blend of trip hop, dub, trance, and R’n’B grace, all twisted into something uniquely their own. Released on R.i.O., POOL JAMS feels like a faded photo from an empty pool — nostalgic, seductive, and endlessly replayable.

You can dream it. You can trance it. But once it's on, you can’t escape it.
Now streaming everywhere.

#INIT #PoolJams #NewMusic #RIO #ElectronicMusic #DreamSoundtrack

INIT - Carrier

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Marking its 10 Year Anniversary, NYC-based record label Black Knoll reissues 'A Fragile Geography', the landmark ambient album from American producer Rafael Anton Irisarri - a spectral cartography of loss and reconstruction forged in the aftermath of devastation...Among its six windswept movements, 'Reprisal' is our pick. Feeling like a monochrome drift of processed resonance, the piece unfolds like a ghostly transmission filtered through decaying tape. Celestial resonances blur into low-end rumbles, choirs flicker beneath distant bells, drifting away memories of a past life. This is ambient music at its most human, like a slow dissolve into psychology's dimmest corners, where geography is no longer a place, but a feeling.

@irisarri
@black-knoll-studio

Rafael Anton Irisarri - Reprisal [Black Knoll]

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INIT - Jaded

been a big fan of the band 'julie' for a very long time and recently discovered alex's defunct side project and fell in love. wanted to put my spin on it.

something to tide you guys over until my album comes out on august 1st.

xela fella - jellifish (station44's endless yearning & desire edit)

forgetful

The moment before the tears, the stillness before the change — “on the verge” by https://instagram.com/asterionsound is a beautiful piano piece that lingers in the in-between.

Asteriøn - on the verge - slowed + reverb

viathinkyourself - dear lord's servants' club ticket

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