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]

Tadan https://soundcloud.com/tadan127 https://soundcloud.com/area127
vilnius, lithuania 
steeplejack 8.07

Closedown - Decryption
Heavenly Music Corp - Riding Windhorse (Buddhafields)
Brendon Moeller - Decomposition
Hagva - Marianne
Atoloi - Lenti Sistemi
Space Drum Meditation - Temple of Dusk
Von Schommer - Untitled
Brendon Moeller - Route
Aerae - Consilium
Floating Machine & Inerte - Ravina
Quantec - Yage
Tomo - Guidance4 (Feral Blind Remix)
K.O.P. 32 - Now
Innerworld - Vibrations (K.O.P. 32 Remix) 
Medlock & Phil Kylberg - Flummox
Aes Dana, Miktek - Alkaline
cv313 - Subtraktive (Luke Hess Mix)
ASC - Throughout The Years
MARMO - Hermaphrodite 
aupheus - Insectoid
Sindh - Galathea
Camboja - Chasing drinks and shadows (giesse remix) 
Altjira - Aligate
Erro - tudat ambient mix
Dima - Abyss / Dima 
xenia reaper - halo°°

Tadan

Buy link: obtuseswamp.bandcamp.com/music
Artists: @ilayruni + @arsene_martinet @caldera-caldera @o-utlier 

Obtuse Swamp's third ecosystem "Reef Stage” from Berlin based producer Ilayruni dives deep into polyrhythmic slow-mo-feeling spatial sound architectures. With a remarkable evolving narrative, the EP is a constant evolution of both rhythm and spatial soundscapes. This time french producer Arsene Martinet along with London based o.utlier and Caldera give us another perspective of the very bottom of our biome. Cannot end this ecosystem presentation with a huge mention to our beloved biome designer @fredonne delivering another 3D exploration of Obtuse Swamp.

Release date: September 30th
Catalogue nº: OS03
Original production/mixing by @ilayruni
Remix production/mixing by @arsene_martinet @caldera-caldera @o-utlier 
Artwork & Branding Design by @fredonne
Mastering by Marc Teixidó / @tetric__
Digital Distribution by EPM Music

© Obtuse Swamp 2025

Ilayruni - "Reef Stage" (Inc. Arsène Martinet, Caldera & o.utlier rmx) / OS03 Snippets

Emily Jeanne - Past Through Desire - QYN002

The fourth instalment of the cycle bender series on Optic Portal featuring the debut of Archypness and the powerful return by label mainstay Altjira

by @archypness @altjiramara

• cycle.bender ⌬

cycle.bender is the new digi only series on Optic Portal. Exploring forward thinking, experimental dance floor music.

Optic Portal 2025 - cycle bender series
Written and produced by Archypness, Altjira
Mastered by NJ at Soundstuff Studio
Artwork by Jacopo Tripodi

cycle0.4 - Archypness // Altjira

"Dsic" marks the return of Aa Sudd on Optic Portal, now with his debut album. Recorded between 2020 and 2024, this album brings together four years of sound research. Glitch fragments, stretched recordings, and physical modeling collide in tracks that resist fixed form. Each piece is distinct, yet tied together by a single process: resampling, reshaping audio until it becomes something unrecognizable, alive.

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

[OP006] Aa Sudd - Dsic

Aa Sudd's - "Sifter", a trancey, percussive cut from Aurora Records CD Beta compilation, crafted in support of global causes, out November 26.

Pre-order: https://aurorarec.bandcamp.com/album/beta
More: https://www.orbmag.com/music

@aurorarec
@aasudd

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Premiere: Aa Sudd - Sifter

OW13 Marco Maldarella - Silent Logic

What happens if you let some of the chips fall where they may? Does it mean giving up command, or is it a way to reclaim it? ‘Silent Logic’, Marco Maldarella’s second release on Omen Wapta, doesn’t try to pose this question, it just answers it. With transitional potency.

In a sincere and understated way, this is a project that demarcates life in flux. Not as a document, but by presenting music practice as a tool to catalyse transformation. It’s an esoteric glimpse into an alternate universe where personal development book charts are topped by the greats of automatic writing. Rhythms as sigils, timbre as gnosis; some elements seize control, others unleash the subliminal.

Over the span of an astounding twenty tracks, single-take synth excursions are combined with calculated rhythmic structuring. The patterns on Silent Logic start to live life on their own beyond the intentional accents in the grid. As a product of multiple manual drum phasings, different actors in the percussive section spindle around each other. The number of elements per track is restrained to an austere framework, but a rigorous eye for detail hands the compositions a level of depth that goes beyond immediate perception, nestling itself into the brain stem. Right in place for celestial expansion.

‘Silent Logic’ breaks microtraditions wide open, but it doesn’t break with them. Not only does it present a pivotal point in Marco Maldarella’s discography and practice with its mammoth length and thematic depth; it traverses a junction within the Omen Wapta continuum. From a large base of source material is born a tracklist that swells, accelerates and comes alive as we progress through it. The result is a first half that flips tradition into nowness, elegantly bringing more conventional tempos home to the imprint. It wields the second and third act into a rip-roaring conclusion that presents life as being cyclical beyond mere duplication.

This careful process ultimately leaves us with a very real artifact. On Silent Logic, the space between expressions prevents complete meaning from becoming unveiled. The impact of its sounds comes as the result of experience pursued to the end. The free-flowing mind is channeled into clarity. It’s a testament to the power of straws pulled at random.

Release date: January 13, 2026
Pre-order: https://omenwapta.bandcamp.com/album/silent-logic
Limited edition of 50

Written and produced by Marco Maldarella
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering
Design by Woody 's-Gravemade
Words by Kos van Erp

Distributed by Clone Records Rotterdam
Compact disc & digital format via Clone and Omen Wapta Bandcamp

© Omen Wapta
Delft, The Netherlands est. 2021

OW13 Marco Maldarella - Silent Logic [preview]

Music is light in the dark ✨️

Un rituel sonore pour traverser l’inconnu du lendemain. La tension est brute, l’intensité palpable… et lentement, la lumière trouve son chemin.
J’espère que la DA vous plaira.
112bpm
w/-elektron ar mkl->sherman filterbank
     -digitone ll
    -arrangement et boucle sur ableton

RITE OF ORIGIN

VRMИTØ - Sonical Trash

Forward.Energy.Schranz

Sonical Trash

Electronic music label and platform, est. 2018



Sub label: Optic Portal
cycle.bender series

[OP006] Aa Sudd - Dsic

MIRROR ZONE