• cycle.bender ⌬

cycle.bender will be our new digi only series on Optic Portal. Exploring forward thinking, experimental dance floor music.

by: @formant-value @aasudd

Optic Portal 2025 - cycle bender series
Written and produced by Lorenzo Zucchetti (Formant Value), Aa Sudd
Mastered by NJ at Soundstuff Studio
Artwork by Jacopo Tripodi

cycle0.3 - Formant Value // Aa Sudd

@gandpsyche invites you to step into a sonic jungle and feel the pulse of the organic rhythms and psychedelic swirls, guiding you on a mind-bending journey through soundscapes both primal and futuristic.

SC: @gandpsyche
iG: https://www.instagram.com/_gan_d/

Artwork c.elestyalthreads
iG: www.instagram.com/c.elestyalthreads/

NO BORDERS PODCAST 69 - GAN D

23 year old Australian based Kaisei debuts on Mirror Zone/Optic Portal with and extensive body of work named "Sketchbook". A well crafted look in the brain of the Sydney based artist going through genres such as techno, drum and bass, downtempo and other experimental forms over the course of 22 tracks packed as a 2xCD digipack physical and digital release.

releases July 1, 2025

Optic Portal 2025
Written and produced by @kaiseikitada
Mastered by NJ at Soundstuff Studio
Artwork by Jacopo Tripodi

[OP005] Kaisei - Sketchbook

With Sketchbook, https://soundcloud.com/kaiseikitada unveils a sprawling 22-track debut on Dutch-based Optic Portal, the https://soundcloud.com/mirrorzone sublabel. Our premiere, Tongues, offers a glimpse into a project that has been years in the making, opening up a space where the electronic music of tomorrow is shaped. 

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-kaisei---tongues

Sketchbook will be out on July 1st, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://mirrorzone.bandcamp.com/

Premiere: Kaisei - Tongues [OP005]

Next up on our label showcase: a one-hour descent into neofolk and DPBM.
Fucckkk no – Vienna-based artist Transki doesn’t bend his sound for fame and he sure as hell won’t chase algorithm-driven trends. “I can’t stand it when people try to flatten every subculture and niche into one,” he says. Staying true to his vision, Transki breaks away from the mainstream with a spiritual path mix of goa trance, progressive trance, Detroit electro-techno and ragga dancehall, all deeply rooted in raw ‘90s aesthetics.

@transki_mysticresearch

TERRA MAGICA #011 Mix Series – TRANSKI

Neotex’s upcoming album The Mind Is A Series Of Patterns sketches out a personal take on techno, loop-driven, percussive, and wide open in scope.

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-neotex---hidden-intentions

The Mind Is A Series Of Patterns will be out on August 22nd, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://natural-high1.bandcamp.com/ or https://www.deejay.de/Neotex_The_Mind_Is_A_Series_Of_Patterns_NH004_Vinyl__1171159

Premiere: Neotex - Hidden Intentions [NH004]

OW12 Loek Frey - Nayan

Some things simply need time to brew. Loek Frey returns to Omen Wapta with his third release on the label: Nayan. The Amsterdam-based artist shares a long-standing friendship with label head Woody92 – keeping each other in motion as artistic peers since the label’s inception. Over time, they’ve built a shared archive of material: sound sketches, tracks, and sonic touchpoints – an ever-evolving third space where their paths continue to meet as they move in parallel. Nayan emerges from this deep-rooted exchange: a distilled six-track release that fuses Frey’s cerebral intricacy with the label’s primordial uncanniness, reaffirming both as key voices in a yet-to-be-defined sonic realm.

Diving into the release, Frey’s signature remains intact – tactile, spatial, and rhythmically precise – but a subtle shift is at play. A paring down. A move toward something more reduced, maybe even more patient, yet no less absorbing. The A side leans inward: deep pressure, spectral traces, and an undercurrent of tension that never quite resolves. It’s music for staying with, not escaping from. Flip to the B side and the palette widens – kicks land heavier, patterns loosen, textures fill the full frequency field. Still deeply rooted in the Wapta world, but with an assertiveness that whispers rather than shouts. Somewhere between absence and force.

With Nayan, Loek Frey carries his Omen Wapta narrative into new territory – merging restless experimentation with dancefloor intention.

A1. Uvan
A2. Lesa
A3. Antagon

B1. Nayan
B2. Gyra
B3. Taira
Nanza (Digital bonus)

Release date: September 23, 2025
Pre-order Bandcamp: https://omenwapta.bandcamp.com/album/nayan-2
Pre-order Clone: https://clone.nl/item80588.html

Written and produced by Loek Frey
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering
Sleeve design by Woody 's-Gravemade
Words by Brent van den Elshout

Distributed by Clone Records Rotterdam
Vinyl 12" & digital format via Clone and Omen Wapta Bandcamp

© Omen Wapta
Delft, The Netherlands est. 2021

OW12 Loek Frey - Nayan [preview]

Siooqh Tales ༶ Jugulaire
@jugulaire32

In this third tale, inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, we enter a realm of transformation, where human existence dissolves into nature, fragility encounters spiritual power, and chaos entwines with unity.
Crafted by Jugulaire, a DJ and producer who sculpts sound as raw, emotional material, this mix unfolds like an instinctive journey through an inner forest. Embracing neurodivergence and invisible disabilities as sources of creative force, she turns heightened perception into visceral soundscapes.
Blending insect-like textures, deep earthy bass, and unsettling rhythms, her vision evokes a world both fragile and powerful: a metamorphic passage that disorients, grounds, and transforms.

Siooqh Tales ༶ Jugulaire

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Ambidextrous [FN10]

Free download
Released by PMG Recordings in 2018

02_Goran Kan - Skat

Extra strikes again with equal parts hunt and play. It's a jungle out there.

Label: @kihonido
Europe and Worldwide: https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1754035247/
Asia and Worldwide: https://kihonido.bandcamp.com/album/animal-kingdom

PREMIERE: Extra - Tiger Dance [Kihon Ido]

Electronic music label and platform, est. 2018



Sub label: Optic Portal
cycle.bender series

[OP005] Kaisei - Sketchbook

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