Significant Other - Every Night A Dream Visits Us

A Nice Picnic Dub

Artist: @11pmraar / @user-107149288
Label: @second-end-rec
Release date: 06.12.2024
BUY: https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/ser002-va-collage

If it appeared right before you, just for a second, would you either walk this fleeting path or let it vanish in a blink, hidden forever beyond the fine lining of your eyelid? Taking the road to nowhere can be tempting, just as the urge to leave everything behind. Paradoxically, embracing the void feels so fulfilling - but isn’t acceptance part of the grief? We’re all searching for our own secret place, where inner peace could finally grow from its embryonic stasis.

Much like that uncertain trail, the present 'Collage' compilation charts a course through the soft, dreamy side of contemporary electronic music. Designed either for the club or a living room, this ethereal patchwork of 14 tracks is woven from silk-like sound design. ambient techno, experimental, IDM, atmospheric dub sonic - each genre highlights in turns ultra-stretched audio spectrums, smooth instrumental lines, introspective reverberations or digital breaks. 

Label’s musical ethos: cold yet heartwarming textures, celestial synths and volatile rhythms.

Artist Insta: https://instagram.com/whylie_a | https://instagram.com/raar_v
Label Insta: https://instagram.com/secondendrec

𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Whylie - Balm [SER002]

Glad to share our first release of the year, produced by Andrei Rusu and including a remix from Beatrice M. The Romanian and Berlin-based artist has been deeply involved in electronic music production, DJ-ing, and live performance as part of the duo Khidja. We discovered his music through his first solo EP, "I’ve Lost Control", released in 2024 on Berlin based label Malka Tuti, followed by the album "Met Him On A Wednesday", released under his alias Ed Rain and marked by its introspective tone and experimental approach. His weird electro sound is influenced by post punk, DIY and wave. Rusu’s music is organic, exploratory and unconventional.

Andrei: « This is my most cathartic to date, it’s quite haunting and feels a bit like screaming into a pillow. I imagine it as the perfect soundtrack to banging your head against a table. »

A key element throughout the EP’s sound and lively feeling is the use of Andrei’s favorite machines such as the Mort’s Barge module, the Microtonic or the Syncussion. He creates captivating soundscapes and deep evolutive atmospheres that inspired Beatrice M. to deliver a slow bassy belter that compliments this release perfectly.

Release date: February 6th, 2025

Produced and mixed by Andrei Rusu
"Left My Hand" remixed by Beatrice M.
Artwork by Olga B. / Gabriel Sauvageot
Mastering by Daga Audio

Socials Andrei Rusu:
SC: @andrei-rusu-748409088
IG: rusofkhidja

Socials Beatrice M.:
SC: @beatricemasters
IG: beatricem._bait

Left My Head (Beatrice M. Remix)

Swarms

Mert Seger - Empire des Pulsions LP 
PLAQUE - 21.04.2025
Tape & Digital release.

https://plaquebristol.bandcamp.com/album/empire-des-pulsions

'She who loves silence’. 

"Founder of KUMP and Meth.O tapes, Lyon’s Marc-Etienne Guibert (AKA Gil.Barte) awakens his new Mert Seger moniker for a shadowy Plaque excursion. Nine slow burners strike from the murk with venomous precision."

All tracks written and produced by Marc-Étienne Guibert 
Mastered by Austin Shepherd 
Artwork by Hamish Trevis (Kin40k)

Mert Seger - Parade - Plaque (Bristol)

Monochrome

Stung

“The Right Half”, the debut album by duo Davide Luciani and Jorge Quintela, is the trace left by a collision of noise, musique concrète, and drone music. Produced between 2020 and 2024 in Berlin and Porto, and marking the artists’ first musical collaboration after more than fifteen years of friendship, the album sweeps through sharp sonic punctures and dense sound images.

Born from a process of improvisation, collage, and overdubbing, this record finds the duo interweaving their sound sources through processes of cross-manipulation and feedback. Quintela’s crafting of rhythms and glitches is digested through Luciani’s sound sculpting processes, timbre juxtaposition, and spatial-feedback routing. Primarily recorded through guitar and bass amplifiers, cabinets and stereo PAs, the album absorbs multiple spatial identities, travelling across harsh cabinet acoustics and bleeding room resonances.

The music on “The Right Half” moves between sparse sketches and sustained, monolithic pieces. The tracks, titled in an assemblage of Italian, Portuguese, English and numerals, stage opaque narratives where spiritual, spatial and literary references meet without striving for clarity. The music pivots between soft and jagged shores, humid and dry climates, icescapes pulsing like hot-blooded veins. Never settling into a particular state, the listener is thrown into a maze of large acoustic spaces intertwined by narrow sonic ruptures.

The record draws on a lineage of experimental music, from the meticulous architecture of Bernard Parmegiani to the abrasive textures of Russell Haswell. Yet, it defies easy categorisation, existing instead as an exploration of the spaces where noise and ambience cross paths with structure and chaos. Like the mythic and literary references woven throughout, the album is a labyrinthine journey, inviting listeners to lose themselves in its unresolved halves. 
credits
released May 16, 2025

Music by Davide Luciani and Jorge Quintela.
Mixed by Davide Luciani
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Cut by Marta De Pascalis
Cover Design by Mote Studio
Released by Stray Signals and Mote Studio

STRAY017 / MOTE EDITIONS 003
© Davide Luciani, Jorge Quintela 2025

Thanks to José Vasco Carvalho, Lotties Sebes, Nic Krog, Notte Infinita, Mitchell Keaney, Tyler Friedman

Bandcamp

Andromeda Courtyard

https://xenoplex.bandcamp.com/album/xenoplex-06-loqt

vase & xenia reaper - loqt snippets °      x    e    n    o    p    l    e    x    0    6

This release is a journey, a weaving together of fleeting visions from parallel, yet intertwined sonic realms. It ventures boldly through a rich tapestry of sounds and textures, each track born not from rigid intention but from an unrelenting pursuit of the elusive, those shimmering, transient spaces in the soundscape, like the mysterious limbo of Vaalbara. The music unfolded live, forged in real-time with an arsenal of synthesizers. In these moments, delicate interactions gave way to sudden storms of chaotic experimentation, the machines pushed beyond their thresholds, revealing hidden voices at the edge of collapse. This album is more than a collection of tracks, it’s an open invitation. Step inside, and perhaps you’ll find yourself tapping into the same emotional landscapes that Ruben traversed while creating it: wonder, vulnerability, and the thrill of discovery in the unknown.

Music by Ruben Borgers
Mastering by Cell Van Lommel
Artwork by Mafalda Melim

CCA#042 

https://soundcloud.com/colectivo-casa-amarela
https://soundcloud.com/rbrgrs

https://www.instagram.com/ccasaamarela/
https://www.instagram.com/rborgers_maglim/
