Lockdown Listening

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

Recording of Loek Frey & Timnah's set at the UFO II stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Loek Frey & Timnah at UFO II - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Aurora CD compilation ´Beta´. 24 carefully selected sonic sculptures from artists across the globe, glimpsing through different realms and synergies, inviting the listener to a deep journey of imagination and self-discovery.

Release date: November 26, 2025
Pre-order Bandcamp: aurorarec.bandcamp.com/album/beta

Tracklist:

1. Hasvat Informant – Destined To Deform
2. Simone Bauer – Droide
3. ILAYRUNI – Hinun
4. Eyerate – Peeling The Skin
5. Caldera – Oceanic Volt
6. KennyKrazyWorld – Madcap
7. Philip Kylberg – Ytlig
8. Nigm – Nox
9. Medlock – Shān
10. TOMO – Atik
11. Property & si'nedd – Bansuri
12. Neurotrancer – Changeling
13. Aa Sudd – Sifter
14. Alessandro Baroncini – Menhir
15. Innersha – Hiisi
16. Radiation Pattern – Cellina
17. Dekalog – Human Resources
18. RXEX – Obsidian Ritual
19. Djx – Syntika
20. Homelander – Cyylind
21. Solma – The Last Day Of Serenity
22. Night Garden – Emanating Fragrant Mist
23. RBI – Liquid Shadow
24. Ocyra – Solar Flare

All profits from the release will be donated in equal parts to:
Palestine Child Relief Fund & Medical Aid for Palestines.
Save The Children Sudan.
Alzheimer research UK.
Ovarian cancer research UK.

CDs limited to 70 physical copies.

Mastering: CTRLS
Artwork: Elfy

Aurora CD 001 ~ Beta [Previews]

Previews from Zemög's ‘Owebimataeto’ EP, out October 17, 2025.
Order: https://vargmalrecords.bandcamp.com/

A1. Alai
A2. Biaba
B1. Beaxayo
B2. Wako

The EP is available on full sleeve 180-gram 12” vinyl and digital formats.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at Enisslab Studio
Artwork by Niall Greaves

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Zemög ‘Owebimataeto’ EP [VARGMAL004]

Ahead of their Netherlands debut tonight at PIP Den Haag, TSUNIMAN takes over Operator Radio with a one-hour exploration of tripped-out techno, moody trance, and atmospheric soundscapes.

www.operator-radio.com

TSUNIMAN - 4th October 2025

Introducing Solma - Fixx 

Paris-based artist Solma delivers Fiber Bundle, a nine-track album deeply rooted in minimalism and psychedelia.

Co-founder of Virtual Forest Records, a key platform within the French low-end psychedelia scene, Solma sharpens his distinctive sound — moving fluidly between deep techno, mental tribe and halftime rhythms to build a dense yet spacious world of sound.

Drawing from the hypnotic pulse of modern deep techno and the vibrant energy o0f UK bass music, Fiber Bundle explores a precise and immersive approach to production. Each track unfolds as a self-contained environment, where repetition, texture and motion intertwine to form a meditative, psychedelic continuum.



Artist SC: @solmadj
Label SC: @allianceclub
Artist IG instagram.com/solma.als/
Label IG: instagram.com/allianceclub_

HL Premiere: Solma - Fixx [Alliance]

Emma Rak (@emma_rak)
she / her
📍: Providence / US

https://www.instagram.com/_____verygood/

TM8 Q: What song describes your summer??
A: "DJ Richard - Waiting for the Green Flash. DJ Richard (@ioiooioooiooioi) is a Providence-based legend and one of the founders of White Materials records. I love his 2015 record Savage Coast, whose sounds and album art are inspired by Rhode Island’s rugged coastline. I spent a lot of time outdoors paddling and exploring on the water this summer, so I thought this tune was fitting." 

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Providence-based DJ and producer Emma Rak shares a multi-sensory mix for us, layered with rolling kickdrums, gauzy melodies and textured bass motifs. Blending techno, freetek, DnB, and many more genres across her sets and productions, Emma is a resident DJ on Hong Kong Community Radio and has released music on labels like @fluxcollective, @v23be, and @ninety-three-collective. Emma also runs anti-alias (@anti-alias-recs), a party series oriented around leftfield techno, embedded in Providence’s coastal, post-industrial landscape and its rich history of noise and DIY music.

♬: @hyperlili @ayim00 @qi_varder @beatricemasters @archypness @inndj @b1ju & more

Emma Rak • tm8#76

@marcomaldarella

Date: Thursday 10th April 2025
RSO, Berlin

𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿:

22:00 - sanguinica
00:00 - Scano
01:30 - Blume
03:15 - Marco Maldarella
05:00 - vSto

𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗛𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘅
Events: ra.co/promoters/128835
Instagram: www.instagram.com/heelix.berlin

Marco Maldarella ✧ HEELIX at RSO.Berlin [10.04.25]

For this month’s show, Bambi is teaming up with London-based DJ and long-running Deep Mind Music series @syberkid. Sybil is a true genre bending story teller, known across Europe and abroad for her psychedelic approach to mixing. Expect a hazy B2B through deep, glowing rhythms and shimmering psychedelia.

Bambi b2b Sybil - 23 Octobre 2025

Djunga

Archypness - Murmur

SUB:SYSTEM resident wing man Richard Gregory kicks off our series with a considered meld of early trance and proggy acid.  Enjoy.

S:S 001 Richard Gregory

Sorry for the sloppy mixing, I was hung over to the high heavens so that my excuse. Recorded live in the lovely Hidden Sounds basement xxx

Brainsurgery Radio W Carl H - 28 02 2020

First hour : Les Fils de Jacob
Second hour : @janefitz

We are very happy to welcome the legend Jane Fitz for the April show of our Rinse France residency.

We have been listening carefully to all of her sets for a while and to know that she loved Worst Records made us happy men.
It's an honor to have her with us for this show ❤️

Rinse France Residency - April 2020 with Jane Fitz

Second episode of WWM Podcast Serie
Carl H  @ M.O.B. VG#1 // A Virtual Gathering Activation
Animals On Psychedelics

@https://soundcloud.com/carl-haop

Enjoi it!!

WWM Podcast 02: Carl H @ M.O.B. VG#1

The Die Orakel Radio Séance was aired at Radio 80000 from 12:00 to 20:00 on Friday, 24 April 2020.

12:00–13:00	Benjamin Milz
13:00–14:00	Kassem Mosse
14:00–15:00	Gacha Bakradze
15:00–16:00 	Anna Hjalmarsson
16:00–17:00	Oliver Hafenbauer
17:00–18:00 	O-Wells
18:00–19:00	Koga
19:00–20:00	Jane Fitz

Jane Fitz – Die Orakel Radio Séance | Radio 80000

18-04-2020

Taxa's liveset during the MIRROR ZONE Virus stream in collaboration with @hetmagazijn

TAXA LIVE @ MIRROR ZONE VIRUS STREAM

Electronic music label and platform, est. 2018



Sub label: Optic Portal
cycle.bender series

SUB:SYSTEM Transmissions 

Transcendental waves from the outer planes ⌧

Mix Series & Party Collective  

@remove-me
@richardgregory
@jacques-adda
@auratekh
@wednesday_dj

TAXA LIVE @ MIRROR ZONE VIRUS STREAM

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