Soft Centre present an hour of underground electronics, IDM experiments, and oddball rhythms from Melbourne locals Excited State!!! 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/soft-centre/episodes/soft-centre-excited-state-1st-august-2025

Soft Centre w/ Excited State!!! 010825

encrypted voicemail w/ Giugno - 02/10/2025

INDEX:Records alum vase (aka Downstairs People; games) and label-head Conna Haraway team up as ‘Department’ to deliver a two-track mini-epic of sprawling brooding soundscapes and future-facing rhythms, via finely chiseled abstract outbursts and widescreen cinematic depth of field. (Additional live instrumentation comes courtesy of Glasgow-based staev, and INDEX:Rec affiliate MCRD supplies intuition suggestions.)

Starting off as a proper serene slice of beatless musing, 'Cogent' slowly hatches into a rhythmic shape-shifter combining the immersive power of elastic sound membranes with the incisiveness of post-industrial breaks, leaning towards IDM-oid fractals and signature UK bass menace.

All in vaporous piano chords (cue: staev), heavily dubbed-out layers and FX-coated emotion, 'Recovery' beckons us onto the path of soulful elation with its poignant melange of brittle stabs and skittish drum patterns gone astray. Dark and solar at once, the track blends cavernous entrancement with verbed-out RnB samples and percussive trenchant on a steely, broken techno tip.

Ethereal like a mirage yet daunting as the four elements boiling up a storm, Department's debut two-tracker is an elusive piece of sewn-together sketches exuding the sheer magnitude of a master painting in sound.
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A1 Cogent (7:16)
AA1 Recovery (10:09)

releases November 28, 2025

Written, Produced & Mixed by vase & Conna Haraway
Final Composition & Arrangement by vase
Drum Programming by usiq
Live Instrumentation and Additional Production by Alex Keogan
Intuition Suggestions by MCRD
Recorded in the Scottish Highlands, September 2025

Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Cut by Pitchcraft Mastering
Artwork by Conna Haraway
Words by Baptiste Girou

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Department – Department (previews) [INDEX:021]

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Cyprien Gaillard - Retinal Rivalry
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 157
Release Date: 17 October 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/RetinalRivalry

Retinal Rivalry is the soundtrack to Cyprien Gaillard’s new stereoscopic film, Retinal Rivalry (2024). It is an entrancing journey through Germany’s urban landscape and its layers of historical and social significance. Building on his previous exploration of the sculptural qualities of three-dimensional moving images, the work extends beyond the confines of the screen. By harnessing cutting-edge technology to its full potential, Gaillard offers an expanded, sharpened and deeply affecting novel view of the world around us.

Retinal Rivalry is named after the visual perception phenomenon that occurs when the brain receives two conflicting images at the same time. Instead of blending into one 3D image, the neural system alternates between prioritising one image while suppressing the other, causing confusion and discomfort for the viewer.

Gaillard’s film engages with these complexities of visual processing and the limitations of technology, collating visual information through exceptional, often tongue-in-cheek, shots that intertwine the inside and outside, the contained and dispersed, and the natural and built.

His camera adopts unusual viewpoints, shifting from smooth aerial perspectives to a rodent’s low gaze to the dizzying darting in and out on the bulbous nose of a sculpture, or a long shot of a train moving through a landscape, drawing us into a layered experience that teeters between a bad trip and unexpected beauty providing solace.

The film’s score draws from diverse sonic elements, bolstering its exploration of dissonance and synchrony. Indonesian instrumental music is reworked and combined with field recordings of heavy machinery rumbling and strangely melodic retching. The soundtrack also incorporates the opening lines to Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), along with its accompanying overture by German band Popol Vuh. 

The soundscape of Retinal Rivalry contrasts its images—what we see is often at odds with what we hear. Only one section lets sound and image converge: a fractured leg pumps the pedal of an interactive organ to play a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach that repeatedly falters.

The film Retinal Rivalry will be on view at Haus der Kunst in Munich from October 17, 2025, to March 8, 2026.

Cyprien Gaillard - Retinal Rivalry (PAN 157)

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DOOMCAKE est la nouvelle émission de Dua Lity. Elle explore les ruines du dub et les cendres de l’Illbient, à travers des morceaux de Godflesh, Muslimgauze, Recoil, et d’autres figures marquantes de la scène expérimentale et industrielle des années 1990, en y intégrant des influences plus contemporaines comme The Bug ou Sightless Pit. L’émission s’adresse à celles et ceux qui perçoivent la beauté dans le bruit et trouvent la paix dans la saturation.

Tracklist:

Muslimgauze – Muslims Die India
Pedigree, Khost – Zen Agony (Assassins Remix) (Khost Remix)
Buena Tarde – Zubadub
Nothing Has Changed – Martyr’s Death
Scorn – Ends
W.A.S.T.E. – Someone To Spoil
W.A.S.T.E. – Empty, Broken, and Struggling
Pedigree, FAAM – Zen Agony (Funeral Dub) (FAAM Remix)
Warcrimes – Flock Of Dead Stars (feat. Delta Kane)
Intensive Care – Reaching Towards Heaven
Warcrimes – Desolate
Warcrimes – The Land (feat. God Is War)
Intensive Care, The Body – The Riderless Mount
Aelk Minsur, Haemic Mire – FCKMDI
Intensive Care – You Cannot Make Me Clean
Warcrimes – Worship (feat. W.A.S.T.E.)
Second Spectre – Before It Disappears
Scorn – Running Rig
Mogano – Scattered Horizon
Godflesh – Dead Ending
Intensive Care, The Body – Unwanted
Hellacopta – Rogue Automation <3
L’ogre fantôme – Dub 2
Godflesh – Post Self
Vlastur – Ganjaman Dub

DOOMCAKE ep01 — Dua Lity

In anticipation of their eerie forthcoming album “Songs for Nothing”, Olan Monk provides a mix of plaintive folk, Irish traditional music and dreamy ambient cuts.

Tracklist:
Hilary Woods - In Heaven
Brighde Chaimbeul - Dùsgadh/Waking
Caitlín Maude - Currachaí Na Trá Báine
Sinéad O'Connor - Troy
Alpha Maid - On Smoke
Earth - Seven Angels
Festy Conlan - Banish Misfortune
Spresso - they made a run for it they took the car and headed south
Sematary & Ghost Mountain - World's A F**k
Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve - 7 Magnificat-Antiphons, No.4 (by Arvo Pärt)
Joanne Robertson - Why Me
Spellcaster - flickering with the flash beings
Mason Lindahl - Joshua Underwater
Roger Doyle (feat. Sarah Ghriallais) - Amhran Mhuighinnse
Mark Lanegan - Wild Flowers
Elizabeth Cronin (Recorded by Alan Lomax) - Uncle Rat
The Corrs - What Can I Do? (Live)
Sinéad O'Connor - All Apologies

TANK Mix: Olan Monk

WRACK w/ Galtier - 27/10/2025

Born out of a Moscow Kurs radio show and shaped in Tokyo’s underground, Moomba-Tsoomba presents its debut compilation — a cross-continental drift between Japan and Russia’s experimental scenes.
Ambient layers, hazy dub rhythms, and obscure collages — it’s all here.
The stoned celebration features long-time psycho-dub heroes Call Weirdo (Konstantin Spiridonov) and DJ HeadSick (Nikolay Dolgov), joined by new friends raremotherfucker (Nihat), Perfect Skin (Andrew), DZA (Sasha), and yolabmi, bringing a new vision to the Moomba sound.

MT002 - Call Weirdo - Never Know

From July 2021. Was going to make some changes but project file is corrupted. This was the latest export I had available

MT002 - Call Weirdo - Never Know

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