Written, produced, and mixed by @pianetisintetici.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Mastered by Mattias Fridell.

A1. Pianeti Sintetici - Satellite
A2. Pianeti Sintetici - Orbita 
B1. Pianeti Sintetici - Reptile
B2. Pianeti Sintetici - Georitmo

Shared in the light of the June full moon, 2023.

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Esplora II

Pianeti Sintetici - Esplora II

Samurai Music returns to the evocative sound world of Ancestral Voices for an album that splits the difference between cinematic sound design and deadly restraint at 170 BPM. Nemeton continues Liam Blackburn's exploration of ancient Celtic mysticism through snaking rhythms and snarling sound design, conjuring a high-definition sonic image of sacred groves and the druids practicing amongst them.  

Blackburn's Ancestral Voices project tracks back to 2015, when he debuted on Samurai Horo with the Night Of Visions album. In stark contrast to his celebrated 140 work as Indigo, this project leaned on the inspiration of pagan spirituality to charge his vivid, advanced production style with a rich and mysterious atmosphere. While he's channelled this approach into a variety of tempos and styles, on his 2016 EP Old Earth Voodoo on Samurai Music he applied the concept to a drum & bass framework, which he returns to on Nemeton with rigorous focus.

Far from a straightforward collection of breakbeat tracks, Blackburn uses negative space and pointillist production to carve out an immersive, tense sound world around the 170 grid. He takes a widescreen approach to percussion, running from pin-prick synthesised one-shots to tumbling, organic drums you'd more readily associate with a Hans Zimmer score. Scene-building is the foremost mission across Nemeton, casting otherworldly forces in sweeps of low-end friction and dramatic melodic blooms amidst tangible real-world field recordings of flora and fauna.  

Casting the mind back some 2000 years is an exercise in imagination as much as research, and Blackburn ably summons dark fantasy as he delves ever deeper into Welsh mythology with a studious zeal and avid fascination. It's that drive that makes Nemeton burst forth and take shape so powerfully, bristling with kinetic energy and a barely-concealed, strangely seductive menace that leaves a lasting impression long after the last snatch of bass has bared its teeth.


Nemeton - out on 2x12" & Digital


1. Ancestral Voices - Nemeton
2. Ancestral Voices - A Heart Of Oak
3. Ancestral Voices - Annwn
4. Ancestral Voices - Mist Of Avalon
5. Ancestral Voices - Arawn
6. Ancestral Voices - Stanzas Of The Graves
7. Ancestral Voices - Keltia

Nemeton

Ancestral Voices - A Heart Of Oak [SMDELP14]

Ancestral Voices - Mists Of Avalon [SMDELP14]

Samurai Music returns to the evocative sound world of Ancestral Voices for an album that splits the difference between cinematic sound design and deadly restraint at 170 BPM. Nemeton continues Liam Blackburn's exploration of ancient Celtic mysticism through snaking rhythms and snarling sound design, conjuring a high-definition sonic image of sacred groves and the druids practicing amongst them.  

Blackburn's Ancestral Voices project tracks back to 2015, when he debuted on Samurai Horo with the Night Of Visions album. In stark contrast to his celebrated 140 work as Indigo, this project leaned on the inspiration of pagan spirituality to charge his vivid, advanced production style with a rich and mysterious atmosphere. While he's channelled this approach into a variety of tempos and styles, on his 2016 EP Old Earth Voodoo on Samurai Music he applied the concept to a drum & bass framework, which he returns to on Nemeton with rigorous focus.

Far from a straightforward collection of breakbeat tracks, Blackburn uses negative space and pointillist production to carve out an immersive, tense sound world around the 170 grid. He takes a widescreen approach to percussion, running from pin-prick synthesised one-shots to tumbling, organic drums you'd more readily associate with a Hans Zimmer score. Scene-building is the foremost mission across Nemeton, casting otherworldly forces in sweeps of low-end friction and dramatic melodic blooms amidst tangible real-world field recordings of flora and fauna.  

Casting the mind back some 2000 years is an exercise in imagination as much as research, and Blackburn ably summons dark fantasy as he delves ever deeper into Welsh mythology with a studious zeal and avid fascination. It's that drive that makes Nemeton burst forth and take shape so powerfully, bristling with kinetic energy and a barely-concealed, strangely seductive menace that leaves a lasting impression long after the last snatch of bass has bared its teeth.


Nemeton - out on 2x12"/Digital


1. Ancestral Voices - Nemeton
2. Ancestral Voices - A Heart Of Oak
3. Ancestral Voices - Annwn
4. Ancestral Voices - Mist Of Avalon
5. Ancestral Voices - Arawn
6. Ancestral Voices - Stanzas Of The Graves
7. Ancestral Voices - Keltia

Ancestral Voices - Stanzas Of The Graves [SMDELP14]

Written, produced, and mixed by @feral_music.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Mastered by Mattias Fridell.

A1. Feral - Spell
A2. Feral - Blind Witness
B1. Feral - Zaman
B2. Feral - Sadhu


Shared under the July full moon, 2025.

Love and light

Feral - A Look Within

Taken from Aerae - Nefanda [SMDE51]

Released on 4 track 12" and Digital

Collector’s Special Edition Limited to 50 copies and exclusive to these outlets

Plying refracted rhythms with an exacting poise, Aerae arrives on Samurai Music with a fully formed sound that plumbs the depths between techno immersion and D&B beat science.

An accomplished, palpable tension runs throughout Nefanda, Aerae’s second solo release. Following up on the meditative pulse of her debut album on Annulled Music last year, the Paris-based artist digs deeper into ominous atmospheres filled with evocative reverb decays and taut, dynamic drum work — tools she wields to render tracks with specific meaning, coded by the Latin framing that runs through all aspects of her musical output. Contemplating the ancient language as an inescapable part of her European roots, on Nefanda Aerae ruminates on external trials and inner impulses, and conjures a jaw-clenching soundtrack to match.

Finding her own language within the dialogue between techno, D&B and dark ambient, Aerae’s music makes a vivid impression thanks to the ideas and intention that drive her in the studio. Nefanda confirms her status as a leading light in deep, psychedelic dance music, making something extremely personal that also reaches out beyond notions of the self like all the best transcendental music.

01. Mons
02. Nefanda
03. Fovea
04. Phrenesis

https://www.instagram.com/_aerae__/
https://soundcloud.com/aeraemusic

All tracks W&P - Claire Breilly
Art/Design - @rqnz
Master & Cut - @stardelta_mastering
Pressed at @intakt_vinyl
Global Distribution - @triplevisionrecorddistribution

Nefanda

Aerae - Phrenesis [SMDE51]

Sciama - Between Veils [SMDE52]

Released on 5 Track 12" and Digital

Collector’s Special Edition Limited to 50 copies and exclusive to voidvinyl.eu and Bandcamp

With a steely sound matching fathoms-deep echo chambers with metallic textures and precision drums, Sciama arrives on Samurai Music to press into the inspiring hinterland between techno and drum & bass.

Sciama is the production alias for Michael Watters, a producer who since 2019 has carved out a formidable reputation across a stellar run of releases on ASC’s Auxiliary label. While his music references UK bass, transcendental techno and industrial, the end result is a taut, focused journey through fractured, weighty rhythms and vast, ranging atmospherics tilted towards the darkness.

Between Veils is testament to Watters’ refined production, steeped in intensely detailed and layered sound design in constant fluid motion, whether locked to the grid or shifting across the surface of the track like grayscale snow drifts. Noise becomes a subtle tool in his hands, capable of delicacy as much as abrasion, and discord evokes a haunting beauty if you listen past the clangorous overtones he elicits from his pads.

Moving well beyond the boundaries of any specific genre, Between Veils winds up as a strong, independent statement on the meeting point between broad influences and clear intentions — a formidable addition to Samurai Music’s explorations beyond drum & bass and Sciama’s steadily evolving, singular style.

01. Figures in Mist
02. Ghost Trail
03. Anima Trace
04. Veil of Mirrors

All music W&P Michael Watters
- https://www.instagram.com/sciamamusic/
- https://soundcloud.com/sciamamusic

Art/Design - @rqnz
Master & Cut - @stardelta_mastering
Pressed at @intakt_vinyl
Global Distribution - @triplevisionrecorddistribution

Sciama - Figures In Mist [SMDE52]

The Untouchables – The Hidden Files [SMDE53]

Released on Limited Edition Marbled 12" and Digital 
https://theuntouchables.bandcamp.com/album/the-hidden-files

A vault of deep pressure unlocked – The Hidden Files collects a set of heavyweight VIPs from The Untouchables, each a reimagined version of past dread-infused cuts. Typically crafted for — and reserved within — their own DJ sets, these alternate versions are now unearthed for wider transmission. 

Stripped back, rebuilt, and submerged in new layers of sub-weight, they explore a more introspective energy. Tension, restraint, and meditative pressure — the Brussels duo reveals hidden forms with signature finesse.

https://soundcloud.com/the-untouchables
https://www.instagram.com/untouchablekay/
https://www.instagram.com/untouchablenitrox/

The Untouchables - Temporal Rift VIP [SMDE53]

The Untouchables  - Lost Knowledge [SMDELP16]
3xLP/Digital
Marbled LP Edition Limited to 100
https://theuntouchables.bandcamp.com/album/lost-knowledge

Four years on from their landmark Grassroots, visionary half-time heavyweights The Untouchables return with their third album, Lost Knowledge. The duo of Kate McGill and Ajit ‘Nitrox’ Steyns have carved out a space in modern D&B all their own, building on a legacy that reaches back to the late 00s to keep pushing into unexplored terrain with an assured and deadly line in rhythmic intrigue and atmospheric immersion. 
 
Lost Knowledge launches into action instantly with the high-pressure drum science and dubby splashes of ‘Drunken Bells’, capturing the loopy techno propulsion and rolling intensity that drives so much of the output on Samurai Music. Where The Untouchables excel is in finding variety and nuance in their relatively forbidding, pared down sound.  

Nothing happens by accident or feels out of place — McGill and Steyns are in total control, and they demonstrate incredible range and inventive approaches within their focused style. The accent of the grooves shifts, and individual sounds carry all kinds of artefacts, yet everything gets folded into the exacting Untouchables sound with a liberal dubwise sensibility. Brimming with inspiration and immaculately produced, on Lost Knowledge their one-of-a-kind sound is stronger than ever.  

https://www.instagram.com/untouchablenitrox/
https://www.instagram.com/untouchablekay/

The Untouchables - Four Eared Demon [SMDELP16]

Written, produced, and mixed by @rambadu.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström and Rambadu.
Mastered by Mattias Fridell.

	
A1. Rambadu - Om
A2. Rambadu - Bron
B1. Rambadu - 432
B2. Rambadu - Sri
C. Rambadu - Realiën
D1. Rambadu - Fractaal
D2. Rambadu - Anan

Shared under the December full moon, 2025.

Love and light

Rambadu - Energy Systems

"The Border"
2017.07.09
at studio tissue★box

倉持健吾
篠原篤一
I'm P.U.N.K
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荒川淳
丹野美紀

"The Border" 荒川淳×LAP (2017.07.09)

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