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

New releases and current inspirations from your hosts Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/htrk/episodes/htrk-25th-june-2025

HTRK 250625

Post Ambient Lux by @igordyachenko

Pre-order digital & special edition 12" lathe cuts: https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-lp01-post-ambient-lux

Tracklist:
01 – Melted Reality (4:17)
02 – Spectral Tracing (feat. Corell) (3:55)
03 – Emitting (4:34)
04 – Receiver (feat. mu tate) (2:40)
05 – Deviate (4:09)
06 – Sensors (3:52)
07 – Soft Liminal (3:07)
08 – Involved (feat. Nick Malkin) (3:45)
09 – Submerge (4:04)
10 – Sign (4:08)

A LP from experimental sound artist Igor Dyachenko. Featuring contributions from Corell, mu tate, and Nick Malkin the album is a masterclass in textural precision and sonic exploration. With artwork by Yaro Svyatykh and design by Amos Turner, Post Ambient Lux unfolds as one of the most appendix.files-coded releases to date—a record equally concerned with process, perception, and the emotional charge of deep listening.

The album finds focus in its opening track, Melted Reality—a trickling digital stream that gives way to a tidal swell of noise. It's followed by Spectral Tracing, featuring Corell, where this momentum disintegrates and reforms—sonic matter in flux, with molecular fragments melting, colliding, and dissolving again. On Emitting, shimmering vistas seem to generate in real time, like catching up to the edge of the universe and witnessing the raw formation of particles, dust, and energy—enormous and infinitesimal at once. Tangible references dissolve in an instant a million years long. This is an album for the deep thinker and deep listener—as much philosophical as it is sonic. If science fiction were rewritten with the restraint of contemporary minimalism, and stitched into a Craig Green silhouette, this is what it would sound like. On Deviate, the machinery of this imagined space clicks into motion—a dimensional garment assembled in precise layers, operating in intricate order to maintain equilibrium in a liminal zone.

Flipping the disc, we first hear Sensors—where rhythmic consistency hints at orientation, and a sense of direction begins to emerge. Though distractions abound, the path remains porous. Enter Soft Liminal—a moment of surrender where you begin to trust the chaos, and even find nourishment in it. That state of perpetual near-emergence begins to feel less like tension, more like clarity. Involved, featuring Nick Malkin, introduces a familiar tone breaking through the fog—an anchor within the blur—offering reality not as imposition, but as option. Then comes Submerge, inviting a full descent into liquid data, vast fields of signal moving through the nervous system. The closing piece, Sign, gathers these moments with a sense of quiet coherence. This is the wisdom of ambience—a kind of Tao for experimental sound—philosophy rendered as aesthetic, as method, as both catalyst and control.

Post Ambient Lux

Digi + Special 12"

APPX:LP01 Igor Dyachenko – Post Ambient Lux (previews)

SHAPE+, previously known as SHAPE, is a European platform for innovative music and art. It is artist-oriented, and, every year, it creates a selection of  exceptional emerging talent via open call and curatorial voting, to then foster their careers with performance invitations, collaborative residencies, commissions, seminars and networking events. SHAPE+ consists of 18 non-profit venues and festivals, including Unsound, CTM, Construction and Intonal, and is co-funded by the European Union, and, as of middle of 2024, also Pro Helvetia.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/shape/episodes/shape-lamina-5th-july-2025

SHAPE+: Lamina 050725

Weightless ambient, assertive techno, or various genres of broken rhythms in between.

Daydreaming w/ Shorlax @ Kiosk Radio 08.07.2025

exploring w/ Andriy K

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

2025年8月11日 21:00-22:30 JST 

yolabmi 
Madpia
VAAGNER DJ

https://instagram.com/yolabmi
https://instagram.com/madpia_____
https://instagram.com/vaagner.archive

#ambient #leftfield #experimental

ヨラビミとヴァーグナーの関係は、約8年前に始まりました。年月を経て、ヨラビミはヴァーグナーを通じて数多くの作品をリリースしてきました。そして、このつながりが今もなお堅固であることを嬉しく思っています。

The relationship between yolabmi and VAAGNER began around 8years ago. Over the years, yolabmi has released numerous works through VAAGNER, and we’re happy to say that the connection is still going strong. 

Room 303 ・三○三号室 
https://instagram.com/room303radio

@ WPÜ HOTEL SHINJUKU 
https://www.instagram.com/wpu_shinjuku

MADPIA w/ Vaagner DJ｜2025年8月11日｜#ambient #leftfield #experimental

Open Your Mind

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music and inquiries: nicoloexp@gmail.com
exploring show and expanding mixes series monthly on Radio Raheem

exploring w/ Andriy K

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