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@Igaxx lands on Third Place :)

Based in Tokyo, the Narr Radio resident has released music on Altzmusica, Macadam Mambo, and his own excellent Ladybug label.

Since Ladybug’s inception in 2019, he’s worked with acts like Altz, Mayurashka, Eden Burns, and most recently, Third Place's own Will Hofbauer on a split 12".

“The "Floatin' EP” is defined by a floating sound, a common feature in my works. The psychedelic, floating sound has been one of the themes I’ve pursued for many years. I'm grateful that Will, who has always appreciated my work, made the production process smooth and effortless.” - Igaxx

TPDD012

releases March 28, 2025

Mastered by Rupert Clervaux

Artwork by echocatcher (Neubae Studio)

Igaxx - Floatin' EP [Clips] [TPDD012] 🦦

Pre-order: https://woozydublin.bandcamp.com/album/meltdown

@carreo debuts on @woozydublin with 'Meltdown', the label’s third instalment on wax. An exciting new iteration for the dubstep blueprint, three weighty and heady half steppers in the proudest one-forty tradition with a modern dub-club twist.

@dbridge_exitrecords restrings 'Meltdown' as a chromatic D&B roller, gliding taut within the original’s hook to the finest looping hoods-up, heads-down conclusion.

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Premiere: Carré 'Meltdown' (dBridge Remix)

Singapore-born, London-based producer yingtuitive introduces herself with Letters To Self 寫情書, a deeply personal debut LP arriving on Will Hofbauer’s Third Place.

A classically trained pianist whose musical identity draws from Southeast Asian traditions, electronic experimentation, and diasporic reflection, yingtuitive crafts soundscapes that feel both intimate and expansive. The project is accompanied by two stunning reworks from esteemed creators: South Korean ambient duo Salamanda, known for their lush, meditative textures, and US artist Tristan Arp, celebrated for his organic, shape-shifting productions.

“Every musical moment in this album is essentially a letter to my self in some form…” - yingtuitive

Across eight original compositions, Letters To Self 寫情書 unfolds as a sonic diary, a search inward, a series of tender emotional missives to the self. Gamelan-inspired textures glimmer alongside field recordings captured in Singapore and the UK, while delicate, improvised piano passages echo memories of home. These elements intertwine with fragments of film samples and experimental electronics, resulting in tracks that glide through ambient, ethereal, and blissful terrains. It’s music that floats and envelops, as though nature itself had grown into sound, serene and rich in emotional resonance.

Written during a period of deep reflection, the album meditates on identity, homesickness, belonging, and the overwhelming noise of the world outside. Each piece feels like a still moment within chaos, a soft conversation between past and present selves, where harmony emerges from internal conflict. From angelic piano melodies to glitchy bursts of experimentalism, yingtuitive bridges her Singaporean roots and UK influences with blissful grace. Letters To Self 寫情書 marks not just a debut release, but the formation of a unique musical voice, gliding between cultural languages with honesty, vulnerability, and quiet strength.

TP02

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yingtuitive - blue (Salamanda Remix) [TP02]

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🛒 https://controlfreakrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/unwind-dissolve-gently
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Toupaz returns to Control Freak with a 4 track EP of intricate club weapons.

‘Unwind & Dissolve Gently’ showcases the Graz-based artist’s distinctive production flair - one which has developed in style and sophistication since his last outing on CF in 2022 as Awo Ojiji with subsequent releases via Well Street, Grid and Danielle’s Soft Raw imprint.

This collection draws heavy influence from the rich history of the UK scene - from the dubstep-leaning lurch of ‘Ramshackle’ to the introspective electronica of closing track ‘Whats The Mass of Memory?’

Balancing a delicate and subtle sense of melody and restraint with blunt force moments of controlled aggression, Toupaz’s precision sound engineering is guaranteed to send any discerning dancefloor into a frenzy - perfect for those explosive mid-set left turns.

Tracklist:

Routine
Ramshackle
Schlieren
Unwind & Dissolve Gently

PREMIERE: Toupaz - Schlieren [Control Freak Recordings]

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Dublin-based producer Conor Reilly, better known as Conor CC, inaugurates his own imprnt Origin CC with a high-octane debut single titled ‘Hidden Allure’...Clocking in at a brisk 130 BPM, ‘Hidden Allure’ carefully layers gauzy pads over hyper-stratified percussion, threading polyrhythms through syncopated vocal phantoms and bass-heavy convulsions. 'Hidden Allure' sits between the heady euphoria of peak-hour memory and the introspective murk of pre-dawn reverie.

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Conor CC - Hidden Allure [Origin CC]

Of Paradise sublabel, Badlands, emerges from an extended slumber with a new offering from label co-founder Silent Era: Emerald Pool, a four-track EP of ambient and experimental soundscapes crafted entirely from field recordings gathered in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks during the autumn of 2024.

Stripped back and delicately nuanced, Silent Era’s sonic journey through California’s forests and mountains is both blissful and haunting – a meditative unfolding of nature’s rhythm that invites the listener to reflect on the planet and their connection to it.

Accompanied by a limited-edition photo zine with incense, Emerald Pool delivers a deeply immersive experience and signals the beginning of a new chapter of sonic experimentation from the artist.

1. Crescent Meadow
2. Mist Trail
3. Moro Rock
4. Alta

https://soundcloud.com/silent_era


Emerald Pool

BAD005 // Silent Era - Emerald Pool

Pre-order: https://thirdplacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/yingtuitive-letters-to-self

Singapore-born, London-based producer @yingtuitive introduces herself with 'Letters To Self 寫情書', a deeply personal debut LP arriving on Will Hofbauer’s @thirdplacerecords.

Across eight original compositions, 'Letters To Self 寫情書 'unfolds as a sonic diary, a search inward, a series of tender emotional missives to the self. "Every musical moment in this album is essentially a letter to my self in some form," she explains.

Premiere: yingtuitive 'blue'

Hi all,

Heart Somersault Radio is a new personal mix series from me ft unreleased music, club tracks, new productions, and DJ sets I’ve recorded live at shows.   I’ve been in more of a dance floor headspace for a while, so decided to do something with that energy.

Enjoy,

Tom

Heart Somersault Radio 01 (Tom VR)

With a mix of warehouse-ready techno and warped percussive curveballs, @valesuchi lights up the Recognise series. 

In conversation with April Clare Welsh, the Rio De Janeiro-based Chilean DJ, producer and live artist explains how grief, and a symbiotic bond with her hardware set-up, informed the creation of her new album ‘Futuro Cercano’, and how putting on a good party is a craft based on trust, connection and skill 

Interview:  https://djmag.com/features/recognise-90-valesuchi

Interview

Recognise 90: Valesuchi

Martha is a DJ and broadcaster from South London with roots in community radio and documentary making. Each of Martha’s thoughtfully curated radio shows navigate the fringes of electronic music, with a clear narrative that is grounded in community and storytelling.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/martha/episodes/martha-29th-august-2025

MARTHA 290825

Uman Therma is a DJ and electronic music producer based in Seoul, also known as one half of the leftfield ambient duo Salamanda.  

Drawing from ambient and experimental electronics, she molds sound not into statements, but into atmospheres — quiet, resonant, and alive.  

Once known for navigating breakneck BPMs and unruly rhythms, she now slows the pace; tracing delicate textures in the dark, letting sound flicker like light through fractured surfaces.

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Uman Therma threads together hazy ambient washes, glistening field-recording textures, and spiritual jazz improvisations with fractured club rhythms and deconstructed beats. Voices slip in like echoes, sometimes spectral, sometimes commanding, while synths ripple between warmth and dissonance. The mix drifts from intimate, almost meditative passages into moments of jagged percussion and heavy low-end, always carrying a sense of movement through shifting moods. It feels like water, light, and distortion layered together; a weave of serenity and tension that never settles fully into either.

Tracklist:
cheese homework - Perila and Ulla [Paralaxe Editions]
A Band That Swims Together - Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño [Leaving Records]
Eye Am - Jlin [Planet Mu]
BEEEEEEAT - SSRI [Pointless Geometry]
Heterodina - Nicolas Jaar [Other People]
25.12.1892 - Stormy Vacation - Georgia + Dove [EM Records]
Equation - jjjacob
Koumu Lil - Merope [Stroom]
Night - Hearn Gadbois [Abstrakce Records]
Transformation Ritual - Dustin Wong & Gregory Uhlmann [Otherly Love]
Return to the Faerie Village - Darken Wood
Igor Dyachenko – Saccade [radio.syg.ma]
An Echo A Stain - Bjork [One Little Indian]
Ether 2 - BNJMN & Best Available Technology [Tiercel Records]
Metazoo - Vina Konda [PHO BHO]
Needle in the Pocket (ABOPF Remix) - Arexibo, ABOPF [The Internatiiional]
Big Science (Arca Remix) - Laurie Anderson, Arca [Nonesuch]

If you would like to donate directly to Uman Therma for their musical offerings to our community, please feel free to send to:
PayPal: @umantherma

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Japan’s Sakura Tsuruta appears for the first time on Will Hofbauer’s Third Place with the ‘What Are You Drinking?’ EP, landing 26th September 2025.

"The question, "what are you drinking?" for me is a soft invitation - something I find myself asking when the bass is thumping, and I’m feeling a little social. It’s a way to start a conversation, to learn something about the person standing next to you in the crowd, to feel connected in a space where words are usually second to sound. This EP is a toast to that moment - the buzz, the curiosity, the clinking glasses, and spontaneous laughter. A sonic nightcap for the dance floor." - Sakura Tsuruta

Sakura Tsuruta is a Tokyo-based artist who mixes up dreamy melodies with potent, experimental grooves. Her 2019 debut on Bardo Records broke into Beatport’s Top 100, and since then, she has dropped her acclaimed ‘Made of Air’ EP and two well-received full-lengths on Mule Musiq and all my thoughts. Tsuruta is also an educator who works with international universities and conservatories and an activist who champions gender equality and nurtures young artists globally.
credits

releases September 26, 2025

Mastered by Rupert Clervaux

Artwork by echocatcher (Neubae Studio)

Sakura Tsuruta - Euphorique [TPDD013]

Pre-order: https://thirdplacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/what-are-you-drinking-ep

Japan’s @sakuratsuruta appears for the first time on Will Hofbauer’s @thirdplacerecords with a new EP, ‘What Are You Drinking?’, a dreamscape of soothing synths, rubbery basslines, and playful, unrelenting grooves.

"The question, "what are you drinking?" for me is a soft invitation - something I find myself asking when the bass is thumping, and I’m feeling a little social. This EP is a toast to that moment - the buzz, the curiosity, the clinking glasses, and spontaneous laughter. A sonic nightcap for the dancefloor," she says.

Premiere: Sakura Tsuruta 'What Are You Drinking'

A sonic meditation on family, heritage, and the continuum of generational memory.

This EP carries forward the themes and textures of ShaktiMan, released on Chitra Records in March 2025

Produced and mixed by Alexander Bin (BinJa)
Mastered by Alexander Bin
Cover picture by Alexander Bin
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev

Premiere: yingtuitive 'blue'

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