On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

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Black Sites - C4

Coded Flesh (Kris Baha Remix)

PREMIERE COMME DES LARMES – CDL

PREMIERE CDL || Darren Alias - Hateful Helaing |Selfie Released| 2025

Artist » Darren Alias - https://soundcloud.com/darrenalias 

Ep Name » Ritual 

Label » Self Released

Toronto, Ontario

Format: DIGITAL ALBUM

Release Date: July, 2025

💲 BUY HERE 💲 >>> https://darrenalias.bandcamp.com/album/ritual

RECORDED IN THE JUNCTION BASEMENT THROUGHOUT 2025 WITH VARIOUS DUSTY OLD MACHINES.

MASTERED BY RUDE 66

FORGED IN ASHES. SHADOWS AND SIGILS. AN OFFERING.  

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Art/Designer CDL by Rennst

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Ritual

PREMIERE CDL || Darren Alias - Hateful Helaing |Selfie Released| 2025

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Conjured up on his arsenal of machines, French artist Lostsoundbytes provides six tracks of heavy, dubbed out rhythms combined with swirling textures and blood-curdling soundscapes. Also featured is a stellar remix by Warzou, preserving the track's dubby atmosphere whilst cranking it up to a more club-friendly pace. Limited to 100 copies.

Lostsoundbytes
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lostsoundbytes
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vasteben/

Warzou
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/warzouk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/warzou_bigscience/

Lifeforms
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lifeformsrec
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gavelman_lifeforms/

PREMIERE: Lostsoundbytes - Shadow Beat (Warzou remix) (Lifeforms)

We are wrapping up the first year of this project with a diverse mix of incredible music. We've got some underground discoveries, music from our contributors and some goth club hits. We also featured some highlights from our home province, Québec. Things are just getting started for TSR. Thank you all for your support. -Plague 94

You can purchase all of the music featured in this episode on the artists' bandcamps.

Watch on youtube and tracklist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFDRXTpLBE

REPORT 010: Year One Special

Tired of it all? Dreading your routine? Try the all new second set of ears by Hayter! Contains eight unique treatments against fatigue and low excitement disorder. Ranging from Electro Groove to bit-crushed Industrial. For side effects, consult your sound engineer.


Hayter
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hayter_cm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hayter_cm/

Clear Memory
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/clearmemory
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clear_memory/

PREMIERE: Hayter - Canton (Clear Memory)

Author -> @jg_outsider JG Outsider, is a Spanish DJ and producer from Alicante, with a passion for music that began in the mid-80s, influenced by EBM and gothic rock. He started producing in 1992 and has worked with numerous national and international labels, distributing his music worldwide. After a break, he returned to produce a darker, more personal style, focusing on live performances that reflect his roots. He collaborates with artists and labels across genres like EBM, Gothic Pop, Synth Wave, Electro, and Industrial Techno.

Special mix for @oberwave — label, parties and mixes about music with dark and erotic vibes: darkwave, coldwave, dark disco, body music, new beat and electro.

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Tracklist:
1 BELLA ETERNA - Inflatable
2 HAPAX - Game Of Devotion (JG Outsider Remix )
3 JENNIFER TOUCH - Wasted Time
4 Darkswoon - Eaten By Wolves
5 JG OUTSIDER-Dark album
6. ADAN & ILSE - Sin of Sin (JG Outsider remix)
7 A SHRINE TO FALIURE -Bleakware
8 MATTE BLVCK - Vows (My Shadow Mix)
9 D.O.F. -Newclear Rain
10 REPLICANT- Widowers
11 NEPHAST PROJECT - Pleasure Slaves (JG Outsider Remix)
12 UNCONS CIOUS- D¥RT¥ MON€¥$
13 NECRØ - Perfect World (Years Of Denial Remix)
14 Void Vision - Hidden Hand
15 BELLA ETERNA- Emperor ( Silente mix)

JG OUTSIDER - Oberwave mix 215

Nox Vipera is a DJ and producer based in Santiago, Chile, whose sonic approach navigates the dark and visceral terrain of Techno, Acid, EBM, Electroclash, Darkwave, and Synthpunk.

Active since 2019 as a DJ and since 2021 as a producer, his selection and production are characterized by raw energy, acidic lines, and hypnotic rhythms that evoke the most classic industrial underground, but with a contemporary vision.

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This mix is a harsh pulse, a metallic throb that awakens the flesh. Acidic, industrial rhythms collide with punk fury, sculpting spaces of bodily freedom with "Body Music." Each cut and resonance traces a poem of raw energy, a clandestine ceremony for the body that seeks to dance without constraints.

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Support the artist:

WEB: 
https://noxxvipera.carrd.co/

SOUNDCLOUD: 
https://soundcloud.com/noxxvipera

BANDCAMP: 
https://noxvipera.bandcamp.com/

YOUTUBE: 
https://www.youtube.com/@noxxvipera

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4mKhXy0283gAt3Mxa0zopK?si=LKe4heUuSoGanlFUjTHRyg&nd=1

INSTAGRAM:
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Tracklist:

1. Fragance - Crisis (Kris Baha Remix) [Self Released]
2. Hungry Boys - Nightloop (Mufti Remix) [Worn Pop]
3. Maman Küsters - Happy Meal [Oráculo Records]
4. Pablo Bozzi - Le Quai Des Brumes [Pinkman]
5. Sp@sms - Pathos (Bloody Mary Remix) [U-TRAX]
6. Flux - Flatmate (feat. Isobelxxx) [D.RIVE75]
7. 80BAUL - Es Martes y Te Vas a Líar [Lanzador de cuchillos]
8. Black Light Smoke - Machines Don’t Love (Alessandro Adriani Remix) [Zone Music]
9. Karolina Bnv - Mouth Work [Slowmotion Records]
10. Kovyazin D - Minimum for Maximum [Craigie Knowes]
11. RLGN & Locked Club - Betrunkener Hund [Lone Romantic]
12. Rhys Fulber - Pyrrhic Act (feat. Qual) (Qual Remix) [Self Released]
13. V Vertigo - Baal (Zaatar Remix) [Playground Records]
14. Berlin Bunny - Maneki Neko (Dave Inox Remix) [I-TRAXX]
15. DJ Dennis, Max Paparella - Deep Selekta Swing (The Wue’s Dance with the Devil Mix) [Selekta Recordings]
16. Ludviq - Vicium (Aurum Miles Remix) [Bonkers Records]
17. Marc Satseg - Volta (TC80 Remix) [Spaceless Records]
18. Selofan - Vrachikikloma (Jokasti Remix) [Prodigal Son]
19. Black Light Smoke - Deface [Death Decay Magic]
20. The Ghost Aura - Ecos (Spoken Raw) [Self Released]

From Hell to Disco - #041 - Nox Vipera

Following the debut album Only Skies Stay Eternal, the Remixes EP takes a bold step forward. These reinterpretations reshape Fille’s introspective sound into more club-oriented territories, signaling a new phase in her sonic evolution. 

Rico Casazza opens the release with a standout electro remix - fluid rhythms, a wavy bassline, and catchy vocal hooks push Fille’s sound into elevated, high-energy territory. 



BUY on BANDCAMP

PREMIERE : Fille - Reach the Nucleus (Rico Casazza Remix)

Obscura Rift

Buy: http://mannequinrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mnq-063-monuments-from-the-future-the-1982-1983-tapes-lp

MNQ 063 Monuments - From The Future: The 1982-1983 Tapes LP

Mannequin Records escavation into the archives of the Italian minimal synth of the early 80’s continues. This time we are deeply honored to present the 1982-1983 demos tapes of Turin’s Monuments, who released in 1984 their only official mini-LP “Age”, comprising six incredibly fantastic electro-pop tracks, which was already reissued by Mannequin back in 2013.

The Monuments came into being in January 1981 in Turin when Mauro Tavella (keyboards, programming) and Andrea Costa (keyboards, voice) pooled their artistic experiences. From the outset, they produced exclusively synthesized music, following the natural evolution in electronic music from the early days with monophonic synthesizers to the latest virtual sounds generated with the aid of computers.

Most of the tracks have been composed between the summer and autumn of 1982 in their own private recording studio TKS in Turin. Some they were made at the beginning of 1983 but only a song, “Clock's room”, was later arranged and entered fully into the mini-lp “Age”. 

Tracklist

a1 Eyes 
a2 Boundless Desert 
a3 Monuments From The Future 
a4 Waves 
a5 Urban Landscapes 
a6 12'' Inch 

b1 Instants 
b2 End 
b3 Clock’s Room 
b4 Violet Lady 
b5 Grey Cat 
b6 Ask The Dust 

Mastering by Rude 66.
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani.

Limited edition of 300 copies. 

Monuments - Clock's Room (Demo Tape 1983 Version)

No demos

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Monuments - Clock's Room (Demo Tape 1983 Version)

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