Pain Management welcomes London cult favourite DJ ojo, who arrives on the label with a hazy three tracker of trademark nether zone system music. On his most dubbed out full length to date, ojo span’s the full emotive spectrum of dub sonics with a range of both the eerie and more tender expansions of low end atmospherics, the resulting 12” equally suited for the club and the journey home alike.

‘Tongue Tied’ opens the record, a lysergic offering from the darker edges of dub music. A slippery fugue-state hit of narco-ambience built around a crooning, intelligible vocal refrain and chest shot sub weight. A real nightfall system pusher built to simmer in the early hours. It kicks off the EP on an amorphous, hypnotic note that sustains throughout.‘Oil Dub’ sinks deeper into the fog, melodic kinesis and expansive delays upholding an underworld of feedbacked percussion and tongue in cheek sub motion; a seven minute sound bath of ambiguous dub ASMR.

The B-side balances out the darker strains found on its counterpart with an overtly tender digidub closer. Clocking in at almost ten minutes long ‘Cloud Suck’ is a nebulous bliss of perpetually ascending late-summer warmth. The kind of liminal dream-state embrace that you wish would never end. True to the name, it evokes tender, dusk and dawn hued moments, a quiet ride-home flash of introspection on the way to or from some pursuit of meaning. Pain Management essential right here.

Limited run of 200 hand-stamped 12” records available now.

DJ Ojo - Cloud Suck

Recording taken from my opening set from EXO x Lost Domain @ The White Hotel, 23.11.24

Tamus @ EXO x Lost Domain - The White Hotel [23.11.24]

For slyn, music is a natural extension of her life as a marine biologist. " Water. Hydrofeminism. Sea snails. Water flows through us all and connects us all. And unconsciously, that comes out a lot in my sets. The flow of water. How it connects body to nature, nature to body. I like the concept of us not being individual beings, but connected through the water that flows through us, our rivers, our seas. I want that flow in my sets, or try to create that flow. I am always thinking about the layering and connectivity of the songs. Rarely will you hear one song on its own. I tend to be more attracted to natural-sounding music than heavily synthetic, probably for this reason.”

This mix carries a more introspective tone than usual. "In the last months, I have been healing from heartbreak and the loss of someone important from my life." While slyn’s ambient sets are typically light, bubbly and textured, this one takes on a moody depth, balancing sorrow with acceptance. Returning to Glasgow from a 3 week trip to Berlin, slyn channeled a newfound clarity into the set. An emotional release reflecting the persistence of life beyond loss.

Looking ahead, https://soundcloud.com/s_l_y_n has several exciting projects and shows in motion. She is increasingly focused on hydrophone and field recordings and hopes to start releasing tracks incorporating these sounds in the near future. She is deeply involved with the label and event series https://soundcloud.com/coclear , a long-time source of inspiration, and recently co-founded @ skinny.dipping__, a Glasgow-based event series that highlights women, non-binary, and trans artists inhabiting the off-kilter grey space between club/dance, experimental, and ambient music. 

Be sure to follow slyn__, there are many exciting projects on the horizon! And keep an eye on her agenda, you might spot her nearby soon!

SC: https://soundcloud.com/s_l_y_n
IG: https://www.instagram.com/_slyn___/

Artwork: Nathalie Valenta

SKIN #033 slyn

hazy trip-hop, fragile idm and emo post-rock echoes trace the veins of sorrow, broken dreams, and the kind of love that leaves a mark; fragments, hidden in your dusken heart… 

recorded 17/03/25

artwork by Ella Bliss Walker

in your dusken heart ❦

We are so excited to welcome @opheliek to our mix series. The French, Berlin-based DJ and producer has an affinity for low frequencies, intricate percussions and bass-heavy music in all its forms. As an early lover of dub music, UK techno, IDM, and illegal raves, their sound often finds itself at the intersection between dubstep, techno, IDM, with hints of psychedelic music and trance.

“I had quite a different idea originally for this mix, but ended up being quite ill and super tired the last few days, so the recording had to be much more spontaneous and less planned than what I usually like to do for a podcast. It's more of a feverish dream, and showed me I may have some bottled up feelings and a bit of anger inside (who doesn't, seeing the world we live in now)! It felt good to express it through this mix which ended up being quite intense and psychedelic, but also softer and more introspective in parts.”

Avsluta - Black Mamba
Sebastian Russell - Flow
Toki Fuko - Recognize Your Limitations
Atoloi - 75025 Steppers
Glass - Jim & Caroline Were Bad Omens (Christian Coiffure remix)
Altjira - Overnal
Herbalistek - Exuvia
Carrier - Slow Punctures
Silent Era - Pattern Recognition
Anta Doma - Biocore
Andrae Durden - Estoa
WAPAQ - Bythal Portal Dub
Yogg - Mainstay
TOMO - Takoro
Ancestral Voices - Arawn
St Amp - Cave (Wordcolour Remix)
Peter Van Hoesen - Waving Not Drowning
Priori - Pareidolia (Notte Infinita Hi-Tech Roller)
Kontinum - Arctic Crystal
Aedon - Butterload
Polygonia - Twisted Colors
Biocym - Swamp Creatures
Mown - Reaching The Peak
Smogo - Sauvage
Fluid Matter - Ice Cave
Biosphere - Black Mesa
Shifted - Moving Towards The Exits
Rene Wise - Silo Cybin (Original Mix)
Vardae - The Red Citadel
Björk - Pagan Poetry
R-010 - Thermoplastics Skins (Toxido Mask Remix)
Simone Bauer - Driade
Talik - Brainspace

Osmura w/ ophélie 26

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No distance without presence. No melancholy without warmth. On Me, With You, @jonnnah – aka Lyon-based producer Pierre Paumier – unspools seven textured sketches of memory, perception, and desire. Drawing from the bubbling undercurrents of trip-hop revival, he crafts grooves that don’t demand attention but earn it slowly – through rhythmic asymmetry, warm bass blooms, and momentary flashes of clarity.

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-jonnnah---40yrs

Me, With You is out on May 30th, 2025. Order a copy via co:clear’s Bandcamp:
coclear.bandcamp.com/album/me-with-you

Premiere: Jonnnah - 40yrs [COCLEAR003]

Post Ambient Lux by @igordyachenko

Pre-order digital & special edition 12" lathe cuts: https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-lp01-post-ambient-lux

Tracklist:
01 – Melted Reality (4:17)
02 – Spectral Tracing (feat. Corell) (3:55)
03 – Emitting (4:34)
04 – Receiver (feat. mu tate) (2:40)
05 – Deviate (4:09)
06 – Sensors (3:52)
07 – Soft Liminal (3:07)
08 – Involved (feat. Nick Malkin) (3:45)
09 – Submerge (4:04)
10 – Sign (4:08)

A LP from experimental sound artist Igor Dyachenko. Featuring contributions from Corell, mu tate, and Nick Malkin the album is a masterclass in textural precision and sonic exploration. With artwork by Yaro Svyatykh and design by Amos Turner, Post Ambient Lux unfolds as one of the most appendix.files-coded releases to date—a record equally concerned with process, perception, and the emotional charge of deep listening.

The album finds focus in its opening track, Melted Reality—a trickling digital stream that gives way to a tidal swell of noise. It's followed by Spectral Tracing, featuring Corell, where this momentum disintegrates and reforms—sonic matter in flux, with molecular fragments melting, colliding, and dissolving again. On Emitting, shimmering vistas seem to generate in real time, like catching up to the edge of the universe and witnessing the raw formation of particles, dust, and energy—enormous and infinitesimal at once. Tangible references dissolve in an instant a million years long. This is an album for the deep thinker and deep listener—as much philosophical as it is sonic. If science fiction were rewritten with the restraint of contemporary minimalism, and stitched into a Craig Green silhouette, this is what it would sound like. On Deviate, the machinery of this imagined space clicks into motion—a dimensional garment assembled in precise layers, operating in intricate order to maintain equilibrium in a liminal zone.

Flipping the disc, we first hear Sensors—where rhythmic consistency hints at orientation, and a sense of direction begins to emerge. Though distractions abound, the path remains porous. Enter Soft Liminal—a moment of surrender where you begin to trust the chaos, and even find nourishment in it. That state of perpetual near-emergence begins to feel less like tension, more like clarity. Involved, featuring Nick Malkin, introduces a familiar tone breaking through the fog—an anchor within the blur—offering reality not as imposition, but as option. Then comes Submerge, inviting a full descent into liquid data, vast fields of signal moving through the nervous system. The closing piece, Sign, gathers these moments with a sense of quiet coherence. This is the wisdom of ambience—a kind of Tao for experimental sound—philosophy rendered as aesthetic, as method, as both catalyst and control.

Post Ambient Lux

Digi + Special 12"

APPX:LP01 Igor Dyachenko – Post Ambient Lux (previews)

MOTE OF DUST

by 

GSSG
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01
Abandoned Meridian

02
Remnants Of Eden

03
Code

04
Gravitational Drift

05
Event Horizon

06
Transient Passage

07
On A Mote Of Dust

08
Abandoned Meridian
(Fernie Remix)

09
Event Horizon
(Claudio PRC Remix)

10
On a Mote Of Dust
(Acaera Remix)
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This digital release is cut from the 24bit Master Source.

Produced by Aleksander Gjessing aka GSSG

Remixes by
Acaera, Claudio Porceddu aka Claudio PRC, John Fernie aka Fernie

Mastered by Brice Deloose at Incidence Studio (https://www.incidence.studio)
Photography by NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft
Image Processing and Layout by Mark Wagner

Distributed by Triple Vision

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