🛒 syssistersounds.bandcamp.com/album/unity
@syssistersounds

Label SYS Sister Sounds (SSS) releases all Asian female and non-binary compilation ‘Unity,’ with all proceeds going to Palestine charity PARA Foundation.

The compilation houses production from 7 Asian music producers from all around the world including Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, China, Netherlands, Thailand and Canada, Uniting together to release a compilation that binds Asian diaspora together for a good cause.

With heartfelt storytelling and compelling sonic productions, genres include, dance, electronic, house, hip hop and ambient from producers Maggie Tra, nabii, Zeadala, masheen, ephemeral objects, DWAMS featuring earthangelbaby and Ambu Bambu.

On the compilation, SSS founder Maggie Tra said, “As Asian artists’ today, we feel so helpless with what’s going on. Music is what we know, so we wanted to connect together and release something that could go towards helping the people in need,”

“I feel so grateful to have these producers jump on board on this, this is what SSS is all about, and that’s the beauty of uniting together. We want to send a message of hope and togetherness,” she said.

This is the second compilation released by SSS, with the first compilation ‘Grounded’ released in 2023. SYS Sister Sounds Label is run by Maggie Tra and aims to release music from Asian women and NB people around the world.

The label has emerged as a trusted discovery platform, which promotes curiosity, diversity, inclusivity and connection. Profits from the compilation will go towards charity PARA Foundation, an organisation based in Australia. Palestine Australia Relief and Action (PARA) helps Palestinian migrants and refugees live safe, happy, and fulfilling lives in Australia.

Tracklist:
Zeadala - Solar Powered
ephemeral objects - Cloud Iridescence
Maggie Tra - Peaceful Dancer
masheen - FIBRE
Ambu Bambu - Soy Sauce And Eggs
nabii - u were my reason why </3
DWAMS (feat. earthangelbaby) - disconnected

Album artwork by ephemeral objects

Mixed by Laine Butler

Unity

ephemeral objects - Cloud Iridescence [SYS Sister Sounds]

here's the re-up of the guest mix i put together for modular systems, a long-running electronic music program on CKUT 90.3 FM hosted by cyan (@c-m-d), that broadcast in montréal this past sunday.

2025 has necessitated a lot of mental recalibration (to say the least) and it was really great to have an outlet to release some moods/explore tempos that i rarely get the chance to dig into.

many thanks to cyan for the invitation, and make sure you check out her other projects, as well as the modular systems show archives, at the links below:

https://traktion.com/cmd/
https://ckut.ca/playlists/SY2025

TRACK LIST:

Cousin - Pistol Shrimp [Nummer Music]
Aphex Twin - #15 (Shiny Metal Rods) [Warp Records]
Oro Azul - Eros [Mood Hut]
dBridge & Lewis James - Verloren [Air Texture]
Vitor Rua - Paisagem 8 [Holuzam]
Kimyan Law - Luba [Blu Mar Ten]
Fixate - Dawn Chorus [Exit Records]
Adam 2 - Dredge (Army of Speed edit) [PPRZ]
Forest Drive West - Terminus [R&S Records]
Plebeian - Star Anise [Pseudonym Records]
NTHR1 - Know Thyself [Ganzfeld Records] 
Jurango - Sink [Pseudonym Records]
Skee Mask - EZ Ryder [Self-Released]
Agonis - Pyrchid (Felix K Reinterpretation) [amenthia recordings] 
Forest Drive West - Persistence of Memory, Pt. 3 [Hidden Hawaii] 
Priori, Ex-Terrestrial - The Tower [naff] 
CCL - Drum On [3024] 
Underworld - Banstyle/Sappys Curry - [UMC]

modular systems 2025.02.23

A staple of the westcoast bass music scene and one of the cylinders behind the engine that is Lighta! Sound @self_evident has for us a slough of new originals that are just endless heat. Very hype in here. 


Tracklist:

Self Evident - Empty Together
Self Evident - All The Time
Self Evident - Dawns Corus
Self Evident - Mindmelt VIP
Kiesza - Hideaway (Self Evident Remix)
Everybody Dance Now (Self Evident Remix)
Self Evident - 0101101
Wizzbit - Jamhot 12"
Dark Sky - High Rise (Liquid Rewind Remix)
Self Evident & 2222 - Buzzardz 2025
Tessela - Hackney Parrot (Self Evident Special Edit)
Sir Spyro - Topper Top (Self Evident Refreak)
Bosstone x Nicki Minaj (Self Evident Did It Static Mix)
Impey - 4titude
Aaliyah - Are You Somebody (Self Evident Remix)
Self Evident - Greasy 2025
Self Evident - Resting Fuckface 2025
Self Evident - Like Always
Fire Hydrant x Riko (Evident Edit)
Fire Hydrant x Mr Vegas (Evident Mash)
P-Jam - Shanked 12"
Self Evident - Slitherin Effect
Sonique x Synkro (Self Evident Tribes Feels So Good Mix)
Self Evident - 3D
Self Evident - 2Yah
Folding City - Alexanadria
You No Ready (Self Evident Remix)
Dj Tubby - Whatever 12"

Self Evident - Sub Chakra Mix - 051

ISLA39 - LA FE - RURU/ CREER
From the collaborative project of Michael Red and Daniel Rincon; two pieces of idm forward dreambow. Originally composed over the summer of 2022 for a compilation which passed on the tracks, now released from the vault as its own release.

Mastered by Nik Kozub.
Art by Shy aka Special Guest DJ.

Digital:
https://isla.bandcamp.com/edit_album?id=2899849581

ISLA39 - LA FE - RURU/ CREER

Photo credit Rory Hooper <3

Heyanatah - Ayaharmony, Equanimous
promise (saturna remix) - huck.jorris, Saturna
Poison - Mantra Sounds x Delgira x Entangled Mind
Soul Ties - SWOMP
Static (feat. xii) [Mystic State Remix] - 9 Theory & Torii Wolf
Hey Lucy - An-ten-nae
Morning Haze - Atebaki
Something For Your Mind - An-ten-nae
This - Dillard & Subtle Mind
Footprints - ASHEZ, Gallium
NITEWALK - ESCPE
Ebb - Silk Static
Parallel Lives - To the Tide
Mfinity - Sugarcreek X Mac Miller - Diablo
Rewind - Saturna
It Could Happen - 9 Theory & Torii Wolf
go steady - Tender
CØNTRA x Saturna - What I Can Do (Savej Remix)
Mfinity & Mauka - Sunsets X Glass Animals - Gooey
False Light - Savej, Deca
Bad Karma (ATYYA Remix) - Axel Thesleff
G Jones - Perpetual Bloom (Mfinity Edit) X Mac Miller - Best Day Ever
In Your Head - LabRat
Everything (Sarah's Song) - deemster
Message to Bears - Wake Me (Mfinity Edit)


Pachena Bay Music Festival 2025

xlbb - Loosejaw / Melonboat [OMM018]


Ommaya Records
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www.instagram.com/ommayarecords


xlbb, the new project from Vancouver’s IHA and Captivate, comes ashore on Ommaya for a two-track excursion that distills the evolving textures of the Pacific Northwest. The A-side, “Loosejaw,” moves like a deep tide, heady and pressure-locked, threaded with the boundary-pushing bass style the West coast loves. Flip to the B-side and “Melonboat” splashes in as a rigid, mossy weapon, its patterns shifting and sliding until they find perfect lock.

Together, the tracks feel like a map of the region’s sound, damp and expansive and restless, a perfect A/B for the basements, forest raves, and shadowed coasts that give the Pacific Northwest its rain-soaked pulse.

xlbb - Loosejaw

IHA | NSR 21

6 hour back to back with
https://soundcloud.com/agimat_iha
https://soundcloud.com/captivatebeats
https://soundcloud.com/ephemeral_objects

Nov 15, 2025 @ The Deli in Vancouver

Buddy System 7

ISLA19 - @souns-3 (re). The last track from just under 100 minutes of deep meditative ambient textures, tones and slow morphings. Working with themes and methods of healing sound and sacred frequencies. Almost the entire ‘lights’ album combined with half of the ‘scenarios for the real self’ album - all re-edited and refined and re-mastered, in some cases to such a degree that a lot of it sounds like brand new work. the title “(re)” is partially short for “(revisted)”. 

Edition of 100 C92 cassettes. Available June 23rd through:
www.isla.site
www.isla.bandcamp

Souns - Frozen Ocean4

off the cuff / unplanned mix. very much leaning into some heavy handed fx and monotron dub siren and mic mutterings. more noisey and intense than is my norm, cuz that's how i was feeling in the moment. dunno when this aesthetic would apply in an actual dj set i play out, but it captured a feeling and moment that was very real and pure for me, so sharing it now.

photo is one i took in bogota's museum of gold. statue of the jaguar man.

**will post up a tracklist if this is mix ends up sticking around.

impromtu edge [mred freedom in the studio mix]

Ambient Parks, Vol. 3

Quiet Love

vancouver-based music producer, collaborator, DJ & Live

releases with: mood hut, hotham sound, isla, xpq?, new kanada, modern math, mutek_rec, subtempo, debacle, beacon sound, babel, dsms, south fork sound, king deluxe, low indigo, chapel sound, ..

label & events & studio lead for: @low-indigo
active project w/ @ultimaesuna : Oro Azul
active project w/ @napmusick : LA FE
active collaboration w/ @tsimka
active collaboration w/ @donna-dada
ambient alias: @souns-3
@bass-c0ast music festival resident
boilerroom 2019: https://youtu.be/6KGQi6NBxJ8

founder of @lightasound
project w/ gabrial saloman: @chambers-theta
+10 years former collaborator w/ @tanya-tagaq
+10 years former curator for @newformsfestival

major influences include: dub music, soundsystem culture & origins, all nature & the natural world, water, bird songs, the unseen world, transcendence, evolution, movements towards balance & harmony, resonance, collaboration, transformation