Celebrating the start of the new year with the release of the second volume of Mind Disorder. A compilation that, like its precedent, brings together a series of relevant artists in the national electronic music scene, and stresses the authenticity and honesty of the work of each of them.

Mind Disorder: vol. II takes us back to the dancefloor ambient in what is an ambitious set of tracks. Distigguishing itself by the multiplicity and complexity of languages, this record shows well the richness of electronic music being produced today in our territory. This compilation actually celebrates not just the turn of the year - and what a year it was! -, but also the strength that keeps alive the spirit of the musicians who continue an artistic project in difficult and uncertain times. We therefore want to celebrate, with renewed joy, the participation of each one of them.

Mastered by Cláudio Oliveira

Comissioned by João Soares
Artwork by Diogo Oliveira 
Licensed and Distributed by Mera

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Mind Disorder Vol. II

Dust Devices is back and he brings us his new album SPINE MIRROR.

Deconstruction and manipulation of time is the concept behind the work he's been doing these past few months. Shaping the dominant elements of dance music like the kick drum, new layers and patterns are built towards a mutating pulsation.

Dense synth textures, huge atmospheres, mechanic and syncopated rhythms are just a few examples of what you are about to hear.

*Physical release contains two exclusive bonus tracks*
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Written & Produced by Dust Devices
Video & Artwork: Rui Pedro Almeida
Design: Diogo Oliveira

Mera Label, 2023

https://meralabel.bandcamp.com/album/spine-mirror

Dust Devices - Spine Mirror

Abrupt
by @dustdevices

The 17-track effort by Cláudio Oliveira is an exploratory journey traversing sound design and composition with a narrative-driven concept at its core.

Synthetic structures are confronted with the chaotic nature of a self-replicating environment. Atmospheres evolve and mutate, connecting the orchestrated movements.

The fragile relationship between human and machine is examined and experimented on.

Originally written as the soundtrack for a collaborative performance art project with colectivo berru, the album compiles and expands on the groundwork layed-out and tested from those sessions.

"organic", "grid" and "sculpture" are processed recordings of textures generated by the collective.

"Beguile" is a live version of Fomalhaut B, previously released on the album Interupt (2020) by Dust Devices.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Cláudio Oliveira
Cover art by berru

Cláudio Oliveira - ABRUPT

It would be hard to think about the story of our existence in this planet without referring to the tools created by our prehistoric ancestors. From the Quenian northeast to the most forgotten realms of the iberian peninsula, fellow humans were flaking stones, striking them in the search of the perfect tool. It would still take some million years to come up with different stone splintering techniques, but from the moment that finally grain was harvested, we had synthesizers and raves in the blink of an eye.

It was in the timing of this wink, opening his eyes, that 3 years ago Zancudo appeared in a northern portugal cave, amidst the mountains, channelled through the body of Henrique Apolinário. While humbly clashing frequencies in his modular, he was not still aware a new tech was about to emerge. Not like the tools of his ancestors that eventually brought us Work, Zancudo’s tech serves to free us from it, in dancing, movement, in the carnal dialogue of bodies. Splinters of sonic pressure that clash ferociously on the dance floor, in irregular velocities, in winding and unwinding unpredictable curves, repeatedly rooting our rhythm in planes beyond matter.

Like one old raver said, in the midst of one of Zancudo’s improvised sets, somewhere in the northern monoliths of Trás os Montes. "He's like a body chiseler” yes, chiseling us with sound until we are reduced to tools for dance, connecting us, not only to our ancestors, but to the old stones that were already around in their time, and will be long after our passing.

This is his first vinyl release, after his debut on Tesla Tapes. Trying here for the first time distilling his freeform live sets into club disrupting tracks, balancing intuitively digital composition and raw energic sound matter derived from hardware and body.

Embraced by the friends from MERA, this tools were chiseled, reassembled and fired into crystals by HHY, Lechuga Zafiro, 2rana3crana, and Tera Octe. 
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released May 17, 2025

Created by Zancudo Berraco
Artwork : Mariya Nesvyetaylo

Apoio: República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes

MERA 2025

Caribaria

Immediately after Caribaria, his debut on LP format, Zancudo Berraco isn’t done with maximizing echoes of kicks, cryptic shouts and voices, crisp and saturated percussions of his live body-modular organism into continuous explosive dance floor material.

Tomomi Kickashi stems from an everlasting relation with machinery and the dialogue between immediate improvisation and long term composition that Zancudo’s been refining in many different forms and spectres of audio.

Now accompanied by a tight, full throttle CRRDR boulder avalanche of a remix, this two track cross genre, saturated hypnagogic rhythm package is sure to make your synapses and legs stutter with flow on the most psykickally inclined dancefloors.

Music and Artwork by Zancudo Berraco
Released by MERA, 2025.

Apoio: República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
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released July 16, 2025

Tomomi Kickashi EP

First single from the upcoming album "Spine Mirror" from @dustdevices

Written & Produced by Dust Devices 
Video & Artwork: Rui Pedro Almeida
Design: Diogo Oliveira

Mera Label, 2022

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The 17-track effort by Cláudio Oliveira is an exploratory journey traversing sound design and composition with a narrative-driven concept at its core.

Synthetic structures are confronted with the chaotic nature of a self-replicating environment. Atmospheres evolve and mutate, connecting the orchestrated movements.

The fragile relationship between human and machine is examined and experimented on.

Originally written as the soundtrack for a collaborative performance art project with colectivo berru, the album compiles and expands on the groundwork layed-out and tested from those sessions.

"organic", "grid" and "sculpture" are processed recordings of textures generated by the collective.

"Beguile" is a live version of Fomalhaut B, previously released on the album Interupt (2020) by Dust Devices.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Cláudio Oliveira
Cover art by berru

Substrate

Animal Module

Cleave

Organic

Particulate

Element Of Antiquity

Receptor

DJ Career - Bichinhos Da Conta

DJ Carrer - Aquagym Afterparty

DJ Career - Techno - Trance Ibérico

Presunto Zancudo - 2rana 3crana Remix

Presunto Zancudo - Tera Octe Remix

Carnário - HHY Remix

Carnário

Carnário - Lechuga Zafiro Remix

Estimulantes

Presunto Zancudo

Tomomi Kickashi

Tomomi Kickashi - CRRDR Remix

Cláudio Oliveira, composer and sound designer based in Porto, is the main character behind the electronic music project Dust Devices. His journey is punctuated not only by the development of soundtracks and sonoplasty for cinema and videogames, but also by an artistic vein. From creating sound installations, to the participation in collective music projects such as RITES, PHLP and OLEC.

In this second EP, Dust Devices insists yet again on the exploration of the contrast between mechanical rhythms - inspired by 80’s industrial music and EBM -, and a liquid atmosphere, filled with textures that reclaim the hypnotic world of esotericism. This time, however, the experimental nature of it is a tool in calling to living the album on the dance floor.

For the ones who were present, know that the EP was only finished after its presentation - still in a very early stage - in Prolífera #1, whose received reactions inspired and determined its conclusion. May we introduce Dust Devices, contaminated of FM and granular synthesis, where a door is opened to a journey which starts introspective and explodes in a cosmic landscape.

All songs written and produced by Cláudio Oliveira

Comissioned by João Soares
Artwork by Raquel Peixoto
Licensed and Distributed by Mera

Also Available in Youtube and Spotify
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Dust Devices
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www.facebook.com/Dustdevices
www.facebook.com/ClaudioMirandaO

Mera
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https://meralabel.bandcamp.com/album/phenomena

DUST DEVICES
soundcloud.com/dustdevices
https://dustdevices.bandcamp.com

OTSOA
soundcloud.com/otsoares

WUSHTA
soundcloud.com/marcelo-augusto-graf-reis

Produced by Cláudio Oliveira, João Soares e Marcelo Reis
Mastered by Cláudio Oliveira

Comissioned by João Soares
Artwork by Rafael Silva e João Soares
Licensed and Distributed by Mera

Dust Devices - Waveguide

To celebrate the 1st anniversary of the label, we throw this compilation to you, made out of love, with 15 different artists, from all over the world, making you move as time never ends. Wait for the next volumes. Coming up when the wind blows.

DOMESTIKA (DJ SALIVA+VOLSK)
VALODY https://soundcloud.com/val0dy
BENGALA https://soundcloud.com/bengalaa
SIMULATED SYSTEMS https://soundcloud.com/simulatedsystems
VOLSK https://soundcloud.com/volsk
DUST DEVICES https://soundcloud.com/dustdevices
ASSAFRÃO https://soundcloud.com/assafrao
MRND https://soundcloud.com/m_r_n_d
DJ FRANKIE https://soundcloud.com/djfrankie63
VSO	https://soundcloud.com/vso1
OTSOA https://soundcloud.com/otsoares
LUAR DOMATRIX https://soundcloud.com/luardomatrix
KARA KONCHAR https://soundcloud.com/karakonchar
HANGLOSER https://soundcloud.com/hangloser
WUSHTA https://soundcloud.com/marcelo-augusto-graf-reis

Dj Frankie - Portal

Dust Devices - Delta Cephei

Bengala - Canishh

soundcloud.com/hangloser

Hangloser presents the new EP on September 28th by MERA Label. After the launch on Januray 2019 of his de- but record, Proposition 1231 - first release of the music label Capital Decay, which he co-founded - Hangloser turns north and partners Porto’s label for the second part of a path that explores the ethereal relation between the machine and the ambient.

Olaias Chicane picks up, literally, where the previous release left off, and proceeds to explore the nocturnal soundscape of the local car racing scene. A record that places us dancing in front of headlights, lowered cars, custom gauges and really, really loud engines. Every track title refers to an imaginary car model, each of them corresponding to the ideal setting for listening to the track.

The record, born out of this tuning set, invites us to get the car and cruise the city in a ride that will be anything but peaceful.

Written and produced by José Quintino
Mastered by José Quintino

Comissioned by João Soares
Artwork by Raquel Peixoto
Licensed and Distributed by Mera

YANG - B

soundcloud.com/dustdevices
dustdevices.bandcamp.com
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you can purchase it in bandcamp.com/meralabel
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INTERUPT is Dust Devices’ debut album released by Porto’s label. Over the 12 tracks, aesthetics and distant memories of the dancefloor are explored, combining them with generative methods of sound design. A project that is born out of a futuristic gesture and with a lot of experimentation. The symbiosis between the organic and the synthetic is presented as the main foundation of this album, oscillating between electronic dance rhythms and synths, and dense and sensorial soundscapes. We underline HR Sequence, a cold track that meanders through the hot world of fury. Inspired by the 90s rave, and mixed with IDM and Soundscaping, HR Sequence reminds us of the essence of Dust Devices: a mystical symbol within electronic music.

Cláudio Oliveira - the character behind the project - has been surprising us since his debut with the introvert Resonant Remnants. Composer and sound designer based in Porto, he marked his path not only with the deve- lopment of soundtracks and sound design for cinema, but also for his artistic production, taking action from the creation of sound installations, to participating in collective music initiatives such as RITES, PHLP and OLEC. Inspired both by rhythmic influences - from Industrial, EBM, Techno and Electro - as well as by melodies and dense atmospheres - created using granular synthesis and FM -, the exploration of textures, linearity and visu- als, inevitably takes a prominent place.
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Written and Produced by Cláudio Oliveira
Mastered by Cláudio Oliveira
Design by Raquel Peixoto
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Listen carefully, enjoy and go grab yours.

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Liquid Feat Ghetthoven - Dis Potion

OTSOA - Caes Da Noite

Vitor Saguanza - Nem - Nem +

André Miranda - Queda

Foresight - Solid Face

Dust Devices - 6track

VSO - Opium Den

Rita Maomenos X Acidic Male - I Will Tear You Apart

COWShiftZ - DivorcefromReality

Acidic Male - Burning Hero

Kara Konchar - Débauche Guerrilla

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