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

Furtive brings you a broad range of rave-related material with ambient tangents and excursions.

Listen live - 3rd Mondays, 6-8PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

Ashen Vanity w/ Furtive - 19May2025

Starfish Pool – Sampler
A1. Hydrogen
A2. Onday
B1. Low Memory
B2. Dead Acid Society

Out on 6th of July 2025
Produced by Koen Lybaert

Mastered & cut by @timxavier @ Manmade Mastering
Image is Koen Lybaert's untitled glazed sculpture from 2023
Text in Qazaq by Acell

Distributed through @clone-distribution

Starfish Pool – Sampler (Brutaż-17) [EP Preview]

1-hour monthly show with composer and musician Astrid Sonne. Sharing everything from rock to dub to classical to pop.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/astrid-sonne/episodes/astrid-sonne-25th-june-2025

ASTRID SONNE w/ Conrad Pack 250625

Out now: POOL JAMS – the new album by INIT 🌊🌀

A soundtrack for sun-soaked city streets and neon-lit dreams. INIT, the Berlin-based duo of Nadia D'Alò and Benedikt Frey, return with their fourth album — a hazy blend of trip hop, dub, trance, and R’n’B grace, all twisted into something uniquely their own. Released on R.i.O., POOL JAMS feels like a faded photo from an empty pool — nostalgic, seductive, and endlessly replayable.

You can dream it. You can trance it. But once it's on, you can’t escape it.
Now streaming everywhere.

#INIT #PoolJams #NewMusic #RIO #ElectronicMusic #DreamSoundtrack

INIT - Carrier

Legendary dub techno artist Paul St. Hilaire (AKA Tikiman) announces new collaborative album, marking 10 years of Kynant Records. 

Building on the success of Paul St. Hilaire’s landmark solo album for Kynant in 2023, w/ The Producers switches up the formula to pair St. Hilaire with a different producer on each track. Referencing fellow dub techno pioneers Mark Ernestus & Moritz von Oswald’s acclaimed album w/ The Artists as Rhythm & Sound, St. Hilaire flips the concept to feature as the lone vocalist.

Over the album’s nine tracks, St. Hilaire offers a range of conscious song-writing and headtop musings, such as the spoken-word dread of “What’s This” or the sparse call-to-action of “Send Them On”. w/ The Producers is yet another essential record in St. Hilaire’s unmatched discography.

The album marks 10 years of Kynant Records, with label owner Richard Akingbehin curating an eclectic but sonically connected group of producers. These include luminaries such as Digital Mystikz boss and dubstep trailblazer Mala, or the elusive Chain Reaction artist Shinichi Atobe. They sit alongside some of the most exciting names in recent electronic music - Batu, Gavsborg, Azu Tiwaline, Priori, Cousin, Russell E.L. Butler, Aurora Halal and DJ G - all of whom bring different elements of dub techno into their productions.

w/ The Producers finds Kynant Records bridging the original voice of dub techno with the genre’s new wave. It’s a statement of intent from the label, which began 10 years ago with deep, hypnotic techno and has veered gradually towards more dubwise sounds.

Mastered by Stefan Betke
Artwork by Grant Gibson
Distributed by N.E.W.S 

C1 Paul St. Hilaire & Batu - Free Your Mind

Here is Conna Haraway, label boss of Index Records, with an hour weaving dubbed-out abstract house, textured & melodic idm & ambient, a detailed and introspective show.

Conna Haraway @ Drift Radio 17-07-25

@kk_shucko and @fallenmatter present a haunting slow burn for the latest episode of EEL Automaton.

EEL Automaton 14: kk.Shucko & fallen matter

iarna opening for Akwardly Social at OHM Berlin, 01.02.2025

Tracklist:

dj lostboi - SPARKLES
Babyfather - Bluey Vuitton (feat. EVILGIANE)
Kelela - The High
LTJ Bukem - Coolin' Out
AceMo - Mind Element
Peshay - Jazz Lick
Jonny L - Tychonic Cycle
Djrum - Waters Rising
SKY H1 - Elysian Heights
Stenny - In A Distant Light
Origin Unknown - Valley Of The Shadows
Adam F - Metropolis
Everything but the Girl - Blame
ASC - The Morning After
LTJ Bukem - Horizons
Flying Lotus - Intro // A Cosmic Drama
Dark0 - Hardwire
Money Lang - What Now
Toma Kami - This Side Up
Eev Frances - Castrati
Zoë Mc Pherson - Potentials
Varg - (+46) Placing My IPhone X Facing Up To See When U Answer My Texts
L-VIS 1990 - Untitled 5 4 Track
Stenny - Stress Test 
AraabMUZIK - Streetz Tonight
Happa - Clip
Cocktail Party Effect - Safety Button
SALEM - Trapdoor
Kahn - Over Deh So
Erwan Sene - Tilt
SLIKBACK X BLACKHAINE - SLKBLKH FREESTYLE
LIL KEED - WALL 2 WALL (AUTOBOUNCER620 EDIT)
Steel Trax - Montezuma 
Why Be - Impossible Drops1
Atrice - Dialect 
KAVARI - skee (w/ klahrk)
TSVI & Seven Orbits - Compos Mentis
M.I.C & Nammy Wams - Naoki Urasawa Could Have Written This Shit
Hysteria Temple Foundation - Shyrokyu lu
Mssingno - HIGHLIKE2
Djrum - Watermark

iarna @ akwscl, OHM Berlin 01.02.2025

Recorded live at the OST x Conditioner event at Nowadays on Thursday 17th July, after a performance by Organ Tapes.

Love to Ian and Nathan and everyone inside :)

Tracklist:

Mammo - Drinks Straight From the Tape 2
Oren Ambarchi & Riccardo Villalobos - Hubris Variation
Kyma & Uberdog - Compactor
Alexander Skancke - You Get A Two
DJ W!LD - Le Mur (Baby Ford’s ‘Dogtown Remix’)
cv313 - Sailing Starts
Question - Untitled
Pendle Coven - Modern Mode
Deadbeat - The Double Bong Cloud (Denial I)
Pantytec - Elastobabe (Soul Capsule’s Cosmic Warrior Mix)
SnP 500 - Unrolled
Mion - Drop The Filter
Ricardo Villalobos - Heike (Mood Mix)
Afrojack - Math
Faithless - We Come 1 (Rocket vs. Jeno Remix)
DiSKOP - Night
Eddie Richards - Medown (Evil Eddie Richards Fractured Mix)
Truly - El Trick ft. EDC
A1 People - Do It (Metamatics Remix)
Klanggut - Sump (Klystron Remix)
Smerz - Feisty
Eddie Richards - Dark 1.3
Lil Keed - Wall 2 Wall (Autobouncer620 Edit)
Jawnino - 40net (Lewi Boome Remix)
Soduh - Freddy K
Geeneus - Congo
Tactics Of Bass - Tactics Of Bass
Slick & Flash - The Rogue
Janet Jackson - Empty
Hopper1000 - Cars That Go BOOM
The 2 - We Is 1
The Cardigans - Erase / Rewind

Live at Nowadays - 17th July 2025

Heavily compressed dubs, drones and Iranian/African library sequences.

Haxan Dub

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