XVIII returns with a third album: Quiet forms yield to impact. Ambient drift, fractured electro, and raw techno force converge.

The third full-length statement from XVIII arrives on his own imprint, extending the label’s austere vocabulary into new terrain. Across its duration, the record moves fluidly between studies in restraint and moments of visceral release — a body of work that folds ambient architectures, static propulsion, and fractured club matter into one continuum.

Pieces like You Carry Light Everywhere You Go, Vein Loop, and The Bird anchor the collection in hushed, weightless space. The latter opens toward a fragile, near-classical register, piano motifs dissolving into silence. Elsewhere, Oceano pulls downward into pressure: a submerged techno cut, sculpted from low-end mass and slow-moving resonance.

Corrode, Margiel and Ander inhabit the label’s core terrain — propulsive, textural techno carved from repetition and surface abrasion. Diapason dislocates into off-grid electro, while Anti pushes in the opposite direction: a stark, hammering cut that revisits a harder language XVIII has long left dormant.

The result is a record that moves between clarity and distortion, reflection and impact. A third chapter, but one that folds the weight of the previous two into something newly defined.

Release date: 3 October 2025
Format: Digital

Tracklisting:
1. You Carry Light Everywhere You Go
2. Oceano
3. Margiel
4. Corrode
5. Ander
6. Diapason
7. Anti
8. Vein Loop
9. The Bird

Written & Produced by Ardit Hoxha
Mastered by Pablo Sanchez (NAKANO BLU)
Artwork by Cxhetes

LXV034 - XVIII - Raw Archive

Techno & Experimental label based in Kosovo, curated by XVIII.

Contact: lxviii-label@hotmail.com

LXV034 - XVIII - Raw Archive

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