Releases

During May, we enjoyed the early signs of summer alongside much-needed showers that nurtured the surrounding fauna. The festival season began in full swing, bringing with it an impressive array of recent music releases. We saw the Perpen crew's Grabaciones Perpendiculares record label debut with its first outstanding release. Circular Limited introduced Martin Allin's ambient work, which includes excellent remixes by Polygonia and Warmth.

Keplrr made a strong debut on Midgar, and Aniara highlighted its co-founder Dorisburg's first White Label release, which also featured two standout tracks from fellow co-founder Arkajo. Caldera presented a solid four-track offering on Melifera, while ABSIS explored rhythmic intricacies for Hivern Discs. Priori unveiled his most ambitious project yet, and Sanguine continued to impress with his warm productions. dBridge and Forest Drive West created a broken beat paradise for Exit Records, and Significant Other launched the new Pain Management label with the "When it Rains" EP. 

May brought us a wealth of musical talent and creativity.

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Favorite Releases from May 2024

MIST006 - Various Artists - My Own Mirror To Stay
Release Date: March 6, 2023 (12" & Digital)
Buy: https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com/album/my-own-mirror-to-stay

A1 Lukas Urban - A Glass of Empty Rooms
A2 Soreab - The Boy And The Beast
A3 Sanguine - Fake Leaves
B1 McGregor - Clean Lines
B2 ENA - Arkadia Blue
B3 Will Alfred - Pattern Static

With its first label compilation, "My Own Mirror To Stay," Sure Thing invites six new voices into the fold. Each provides an acutely personal reflection of the dance floor suspended in a singular crystalline moment, from wide-eyed to weightless, together seeking new horizons inward and out.

Mastered by Neel at Enisslab
Artwork by Nicola Tirabasso
Additional design by Nathaniel Young

MIST006 - V/A - My Own Mirror To Stay

@sanguinesanguine
@moonshoerecords

BC: https://roberthughes.bandcamp.com/album/twice-lived

"Twice Lived is a series of reactions. I’d like to say this album has meaning behind it, a purpose that once thought has now been achieved in this final form, but the truth is I had no intention with any of it. I would start with a sound I liked and use that as a base to create more as a response to the initial. This cycle could go on and on until the original sounds vanished into thin air. Why do I like some sounds and hate others? Why does this switch from day to day? Every element of every song has been some sort of subconscious answer to the former, to my external life, either by mimicking inspirations and emotions, or directly opposing them. Like a series of diary entries on the same page, written over the top of each other, this is a tangle of reactions morphed together over the course of 2 years."

Twice Lived

pi pi pi premiere: Sanguine - Jane's Rehabilitation (Moonshoe Records)

Coming to a record shop near you this week: Aniara white label number four! And it brings exactly that to the floor. Two of Arkajo's most propulsive dance-floor tunes are combined on the A-side. Complemented by Dorisburg and Efraim Kent (a debut on Aniara) on the flip with the darker cut Data Smuggler.

A1. Arkajo - Surge
A2. Arkajo - Inari
B. Dorisburg and Efraim Kent - Data Smuggler

Out now on vinyl, digital to follow mid May. Bandcamp 🔗 in bio.

Buy/Stream

AniaraWL04: Arkajo / Efraim Kent & Dorisburg

@sanguinesanguine
@lostproperties

https://lostproperties.bandcamp.com/album/sliding-doors

With ‘Sliding Doors’, Eora producer, Sanguine, greets Lost Properties with an elegant blend of ambient, dub and downtempo, full of skittering echoes and textural ear candy. 

‘Gone To Taste A Dream’ opens with lush pads and twinkly keys, before giving way to blissed out drums at 100bpm. Picking up the pace, ‘Push Not Pull’ postulates atmospheric breakbeat through tablas and congas, echoing out into the void. ‘Denture Venture’ casts its gaze to the stars, with a wide-eyed bass roller, replete with found sounds and smooth washes of noise. Opening with an eerie tone, ‘Ear Gum’ gives way to crunchy breaks and chirping synths.

Rich in detail and intricate in approach to rhythm, Sanguine delivers a love letter to dub, equally indebted to ambient voyagers like Purelink as it is to Skee Mask.

pi premiere: Sanguine - Push Not Pull (Lost Properties)

@sanguinesanguine

With ‘Sliding Doors’, Eora producer, Sanguine, greets Lost Properties with an elegant blend of ambient, dub and downtempo, full of skittering echoes and textural ear candy.

‘Gone To Taste A Dream’ opens with lush pads and twinkly keys, before giving way to blissed out drums at 100bpm. Picking up the pace, ‘Push Not Pull’ postulates atmospheric breakbeat through tablas and congas, echoing out into the void. ‘Denture Venture’ casts its gaze to the stars, with a wide-eyed bass roller, replete with found sounds and smooth washes of noise. Opening with an eerie tone, ‘Ear Gum’ gives way to crunchy breaks and chirping synths.

Rich in detail and intricate in approach to rhythm, Sanguine delivers a love letter to dub, equally indebted to ambient voyagers like Purelink as it is to Skee Mask.
credits
releases May 3, 2024

Artwork - Liam Richards
Mastering - Joseph Buchan

Sanguine - Sliding Doors Preview

Today we introduce the single 'Plumes' extracted from the upcoming release by the same title, from the London producer https://soundcloud.com/keplrr

Known for his productions on trendsetting outlets like Control Freak Recordings and Pressure Dome where he showed his excellent take on forward thinking broken techno music.

Keplrr's creative process delves into the profound, seeking to encapsulate the sensation of falling or morphing, blurring the lines between reality and reverie. His aim is to transport listeners to a state somewhere between a dream and a trip, where the boundaries of perception dissolve, and the subconscious takes flight. This EP embodies that quest, each track a sonic voyage into the depths of consciousness.

The record will be out at the end of May!
Watch out for surprises, on the day the full Ep it will released ;)

Plumes

Buy 12"

Keplrr - Plumes

VA01 - Grabaciones perpendiculares [GP01] - SNIPPETS

The first output from Grabaciones Perpendiculares compiles a selection of artists and friends surrounding the self-managed event held since 2021.
This release is a glimpse and homage into the musical expertise by various of the projects experienced there and the range of sounds during the 3 days event.
Larga Vida al Perpen.


A1 - Pajaro Dune - Cerro Tololo
A2 - Estrato Aurora - Tone Breaker
B1 - STBL - Empty Circle 
B2 - Ilektrismos - La Chasca Te Mira 

https://grabacionesperpendiculares.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-01-gpva01

Written & Produced by Pajaro Dune, Estrato Aurora, STBL and Ilektrismos
Master by Eternal Midnight and Estrato Aurora.
Design by Off T / Artwork by Off T + Fran Holguín
Curation by Perpendicular.

VA01 - Grabaciones Perpendiculares [GP01] - SNIPPETS

Daisy Records Volume Three

As we venture to foreign lands over the last two years, so too does our label and the artists that join us on this year's compilation. Presenting 'Volume Three', including twelve tracks from producers based in Naarm, Berlin, London, Boorloo, Barcelona, Eora & Leeds.

Across twelve pieces, forms a microcosmic diorama—introspective, expansive, and trickled with odes to 90s ambient, downtempo trance and dub. Aethereal pads glide over synthetic breaks, reflecting a tension between organic flow and artificial symmetry.

This compilation stands as a monument to the liminal—the space between digital and dream, pulsing like coded signals from distant outposts, a mosaic of futures imagined through bygone lenses.

@liseneuk - Earthshade
@beltrac - Cloud Level
@undergroundcityloop - Sunsoaked Strut
@wigssssss - Longing 
@pistaccio - Old Moon
@obeljx - Uncanny Valley
@lex_ex_ex - Diamonds Forever
@pascalsone - Chasse Patate
@sanguinesanguine - Pond Review
@newmembers - Echo259
@xavxavp - In Service
@nathan-sellin - Morphic Resonance (Dub Frequency Mix)

Mastered by The Herbalist aka Corey Kikos

Released digitally 5th of December 2024
https://daisyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/daisy-records-volume-three

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and live. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

DR003 - V/A - Daisy Records Volume Three (Snippets)

'Visions' marks a new release on the label featuring artists from around the globe and welcoming new faces. This new addition showcases a beautiful palette of sounds in the label's catalogue, spanning soothing ambient melodies, Dance-floor techno in its different variants and the intricacies of Halftime-Drum & bass sounds.

Mastered by Tomas Gonzalez 
Artwork: Zach Chili