Umor Rex

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Body Language Vol. 23 is the much anticipated new compilation album from story-telling DJ and accomplished producer Cioz. 

The Body Language album series has been a flagship for the Get Physical label since the mid-noughties, with instalments taken over by Dixon, DJ Hell, Francesco Tristano, DJ T., and many more. Now the label welcomes the excellent Cioz into the hot set. 

Volume 23 is packed with Cioz remixes, collaborations, and standout singles from the well-regarded and self-taught artist. Some are brand new, some have been teased on EPs in the lead up to the full release, but each one proves he is an artist with an accomplished sound. Cioz hails from Bergamo in Italy and has established a fine reputation on labels like Monaberry and Stil vor Talent. 

Body Language Vol. 23 opens with 'Soul Fixer,' a slow-building, slow-burning synth-scape filled with drama and tension. Then comes his subtle yet superb remix of M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade's stone-cold classic 'Body Language' with its irresistible lead melody line. The first of many collabs is with Corpino on 'Kari Lampi,' a slick and supple minimal house track awash with gorgeous strings. Further collaborations include the bustling drums and fizzing synths of 'Hey Honey' with T.M.A, late-night headiness of 'Haunted' with Nairobi D, and organic grooves of punchy floor-filler 'Focus Pocus' with Boy Oh Boy. 

At the midpoint, there is depth and darkness to the turbulent synths of 'Imperfection' with &lez, and then beautiful tension between the tight bass and beautiful melodic breakdown of 'Warm Worm' with Sides. The fantastic 'Jodi Rush' with Super Flu is sure to twist heads on the dance floor with its complex synth patterns, and a Lucky Shot Extended Mix of 'Dancing in the Night' has a perfectly soulful vocal over rubbery house grooves. Much loved Cioz tunes 'Rain' and his Neapolis Remix of Patrice Bäumel's 'Clair' from earlier EPs make the cut and lend yet more depth and enchanting melody to this most thoughtful and atmospheric of electronic journeys. 

With Body Language Vol. 23, Cioz proves he is an artist with a wide range of different, equally emotive house styles in his arsenal. 

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Body Language, Vol. 23

Body Language (Cioz Remix)

M.A.N.D.Y. Vs Booka Shade - Body Language (Cioz Remix) (Snippet)

Moloko - Sing It Back (Boris Dlugosch Reprise Mix)

Title: Marcy Ave EP
Artist: M5K
Cat.No. VYG03
Release date vinyl: February 23, 2015
Sample Quality: 128kbps

M5K - Marcy Ave Parlay - VYG03

David Vendetta - Unidos Para La Musica (Dark Dream Remix)

Nicolás Melmann — Música Aperta

Umor Rex, catalog UR154
Vinyl LP, digital and streaming 
Release date: April 4, 2025

Nicolás Melmann (born in Buenos Aires and now based in Barcelona) explores sound's social and poetic dimensions through transdisciplinary projects. Drawing inspiration from Erik Satie's concept of "furniture music," Melmann's compositions transform the listening experience into havens of calm and contemplation.

Música Aperta is a fusion of acoustic and electronic sounds, rich in beautiful harmonies, where carefully soft elements interplay with delicate raspiness. Made up of three parts, the music unfolds slowly, immersing the listener in time. Música Aperta resonates with echoes of Satie, the meditative minimalism of Arvo Pärt, the roughness of Phill Niblock, and the nostalgic reflections of Richard Skelton.

Another way of listening to Música Aperta is through its digital encore – an extension of the album experience that brings the concept of open music to life – "a work that remains unfinished and open to transformation." The website features a reactive audiovisual interface where images dynamically respond to the music's behavior, translating electroacoustic frequencies into real-time cinematic landscapes. The album blends instrumental and electronic textures while allowing listeners to interact with different layers through a virtual mixer, enabling them to create unique sound combinations and personal sonic experiences.

All songs written and performed by Nicolás Melmann in Château Éphémère 
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY
Artwork by Daniel Castrejón

Project supported by: Asylum Arts / The Neighborhood (New York), and Château Éphémère - Fabrique Sonore et Numérique (Poissy).


VINYL LP
A1  Música Aperta I  — (06:30)
A2  Música Aperta II  — (11:17)
B3  Música Aperta III — (18:36)

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Música Aperta

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Nicolás Melmann - Música Aperta II

This album, crafted entirely within a subharmonic framework and meticulously processed through tape manipulation, stands as Concepción Huerta’s sharpest work to date—undoubtedly her most abrasive, intense, and exhilarating. Her signature remains intact: a practice deeply rooted in drone, musique concrète, and hauntingly visceral textures—a kind of soundtrack that evokes powerful, image-driven narratives.

Conceptually, Huerta’s sonic vision evokes an image of open veins, not human veins, but those of the earth itself, the open veins of Latin America. These nervures are, in truth, rivers of lava; fury transmuted into fire coursing beneath the land until it erupts. The album is, in a way, a reflection on dispossession, resource extraction, and colonization. But beyond being a historical commentary—one that some might relegate to a forgotten past—it is also a reminder of the present, of how these practices persist in contemporary, postmodern guises.

It serves as both a tribute to the literary work of Eduardo Galeano, one of the most influential voices of Latin American leftist thought, and a howl from the Lacandon jungle in Mexico, resonating with the Zapatista struggle, the resistance of the Guaraní people in Paraguay and Argentina, and the voices of Indigenous communities across Latin America.

In the 16th century, a book titled Visión de los vencidos (The Broken Spears) was published in Mexico, compiling Nahuatl texts that presented the unofficial history, the account of the defeated. Concepción Huerta’s album El Sol de los Muertos (The Sun of the Dead) is not a call to action nor a reactionary manifesto, but an invitation to reflection, a historical reexamination. It urges us not to accept the official narrative at face value and serves as a warning, to remain vigilant and, within our capacities, resist the resurgence of fascism and colonialism in all its modern forms.

Recorded by Concepción Huerta in 2024 between Berlin, The Hague, and Mexico City. Volcano photography by Magaly Ugarte. Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, New York. The cover was risograph printed in Barcelona by Mateo Barbuzzi aka Club del Prado. Design by Daniel Castrejón in Mexico City.

El Sol de los Muertos

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Los Ecos de las Voces del Silencio

"Still Forms in Air" is the debut album by Italian composer Francesca Marongiu under her own name. It draws inspiration from mid-1980s Japanese ambient music — Hiroshi Yoshimura, Satoshi Ashikawa, Takashi Kokubo — and, more subtly, from Italian experimental echoes rooted in both personal and cultural memory.

The album unfolds like suspended time, like architecture that quietly bears witness to the shifts that have shaped our cities and the ways we live in them. These tracks reflect an emotional and urban landscape, shaped by a gaze cast upon the mid-1980s and early ’90s — a time of subtle yet lasting changes in the form and meaning of shared space. That period marked a delicate turning point, later described as les années d’hiver: the slow onset of fragmentation beneath a surface of creative openness.

"Still Forms in Air" doesn’t dwell in nostalgia (though it draws from it), but reimagines that duality through a contemporary lens. Its sound blends memory and presence, layering ambient textures with a refined spatial sensitivity. It is a dialogue across decades — clear-eyed, affectionate, and quietly luminous.


Written, arranged and recorded by Francesca Marongiu in Rome and Pistoia between May 2024 and March 2025. Francesca Marongiu: electronics, synthesizers, vocals, sound objects. Antonio Gallucci: wind arrangements on track 1 and 4, bass and sound objects on track 3, drums on track 3 and 4. Mixed by Francesca Marongiu and Antonio Gallucci. Mastered by Antonio Gallucci at Mercurial Mastering in Pistoia. Artist photo by Elisabetta Scarpini. Artwork by Daniel Castrejón




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A Dome Under The Pines

Phantom Horse - Different Forces

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go (Extended Mix) [feat. Jennifer Needles]

Evil Spell

Evil Spell (Original Mix)

Rafael Anton Irisarri from "The Shameless Years"
Available in LP & Digital
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Post-minimalist American composer Rafael Anton Irisarri makes his Umor Rex debut with bold new album, The Shameless Years. Inspired by a troubled socio-political climate, buried melodies punch their way through a bleak cover of noisy drones, periodically veering into some of Irisarri’s most eerily pertinent music to date.

One of Rafael Anton Irisarri’s most thematically and sonically cohesive records to date The Shameless Years came together in a relatively short burst of creativity starting at the end of 2016. Rediscovering some relatively older tools - namely Native Instruments’ Reaktor, Absynth, and Kontakt software - Irisarri combined them with his collection of guitars, pedals, amps, and analogue processing gear, turning his Black Knoll Studio north of NYC into a powerful writing tool. Completed quickly by Irisarri’s standards, let alone during a period of social upheaval in American society, the record faces down several key personal themes. The title, suggests Irisarri, could in fact be seen as a reflection of the era of shamelessness we’re currently living in; a time of fake news and alternative facts.

Two tracks were completely remotely between Irisarri in New York and Umor Rex veteran Siavash Amini from his home in Tehran, Iran. This music came together at the peak of all the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric happening in the USA, not to mention the banning of Iranians from entering the country, explains Irisarri. The diptych with Amini, ‘Karma Krama’ and ‘The Faithless’, seems bathed in additional waves of sorrow and dread. The wash of symphonic stormclouds of synth drones and processed notes on the latter gradually appears and disappears over the course of thirteen mournful minutes.

‘Rh Negative’ marches gigantic guitars through towering valleys of scarred ambient noise dealing with Irisarri’s own heritage, many of his ancestors having come to America to escape poverty and oppression. The refusal of modern America to extend similar sanctuary to refugees escaping turmoil weighs heavily on the composer. Elsewhere an emotional onslaught of notes buried in mounds of greyscale noise on ‘Sky Burial’ aims to deal with Irisarri’s very own mortality – something he was recently confronted with following health scares, an accident, and a near-death experience in 2016. Pushing 40 as this album was being made, the composer is constantly aware that he’s already outlived his own father, who died at the age of 32. Facing down both intolerance and the void, the epic soundscapes of The Shameless Years are a vast cry of emotion from Irisarri. The clock is ticking - gotta make the most out of it while you still can.

All songs written and performed by Rafael Anton Irisarri, except #5 & #6 written and performed with Siavash Amini. Design by Daniel Castrejón, photos by Camilo Christen. Mastered by James Plotkin.

The Shameless Years

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Rafael Anton Irisarri — RH Negative

here are some faster notes, also in stereo (stereo location od each note picked random). one osc is "sine folded sine" with the amount of fold modulated and the other is "braids WMAP" again

Poly synth Blippitybloop

Om Records is celebrating twenty-five years in the game! The little San Francisco label has grown into a breeding ground for underground talent, producing some of the greatest in the electronic, house, downtempo and hip-hop world. ‘Om Records – 25 Years’ features new and unreleased music from past, present and future artists followed by a retrospective representing a quarter century of independent music. 

Stream / Download / Vinyl: https://smarturl.it/OmRecords25years

Colette – Feelin’ Hypnotized (Kaskade Mix)
Colette’s first album Hypnotized joined a long list of female artists on the label (including Terra Deva, Eighty Mile Beach, Soulstice and Samantha James) and it’s also from an era when Colette and Kaskade did multiple national tours together.
- Originally released on ‘Hypnotized’ in 2005

Lyrics:
So whatchu gonna do
When it comes to you
Can you pretend
You don't feel it too?
You're seeing it now
Almost every night
Hopeless days...
Till that breaking light
We're feelin' hypnotized
Whatchu gonna do
Feelin Hypnotized
It's come to you
Feelin Hypnotized
Now every night
Feelin hypnotized
This isn't right
He promises love
And then walks away
Still comes back
Almost every day
Now do you believe
That his words are true?
What does he say?
When it comes to you
He never told you so
Love shouldn't feel like this
There's just too many lies
He's got you hypnotized
(X2)
He never told you so
Love shouldn't feel like this
There's just too many lies
He's got you hypnotized
(X2)
He never told you so
Love shouldn't feel like this
There's just too many lies
He's got you hypnotized
(X2)
Now say that he loves you
But look then what he does to you
Feelin' like you're hypnotized
Will you ever recognize
Real love x4

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Om Records - 25 Years

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Colette - Feelin' Hypnotized (Kaskade Mix)

Foog Germanium Ragnarok Edition

Remix of Signal II from Signals to a Habitable Zone

Album $6.00

Steve Moore "Signal II" Remix [GLIESE TRANSLATIONS // Fin Records]

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