• cycle.bender ⌬

cycle.bender will be our new digi only series on Optic Portal. Exploring forward thinking, experimental dance floor music.

by: @formant-value @aasudd

Optic Portal 2025 - cycle bender series
Written and produced by Lorenzo Zucchetti (Formant Value), Aa Sudd
Mastered by NJ at Soundstuff Studio
Artwork by Jacopo Tripodi

cycle0.3 - Formant Value // Aa Sudd

Sawf - Livelos Mix

DJ and producer for Fictiv Records label, Jugulaire constantly improvises her sets, composing unique soundscapes like one would explore an inner forest: instinctively, without a map, guided by the invisible shapes of the living world. For her, music is a visual and tangible art, a raw material she sculpts live, unprepared, as close to the present moment as possible.

Keen to show that neurodivergence and invisible handicaps rejected by society shouldn’t be a shame but also seen as a gift to be carried and tamed. She turns it into a vital force, a creative engine, what she feels, she transforms it into textures, tensions, vibrations. Her sense of the world is sharp, saturated, full of details others might miss. She plays as she is: with an overflow of intensity, a way of perceiving reality differently, making it audible, visceral, and disorienting.

Raised on dub culture, Jugulaire draws from that heritage the power of collective vibration, and making a lot with a few. She holds onto the importance of the bass that grounds and connects, and the uncompromising freedom of expression. She refuses to conform to musical codes and instead cultivates a singular, non-conformist vision.

Her approach is incantatory, almost ritualistic: she summons organic and insectoid textures, makes telluric bass lines vibrate, and unleashes percussive rhythms that both disturb and ground. She navigates between tempos, intensities, and states, blending sharp hits, rhythmic complexities, and mental dives. Without aiming to please but rather to strike the mind, she turns every set into a space of rupture, a liberation from the cliché of perfection. 



"For this set I was just in the optic of practice for pleasure and testing new sounds and try linking moreother my love for the dub music which is where I come from by my oncle sound system (Dreadlyon Hifi) which is very important to me since I’m young and made me fell in love with music and (dub) meetings. Now I’ve grown and my vision of the world is more complicated and tough. So for the first time I explore a kind of mix of the calm and deep face of dub music and disturbed , organical, broken textures that I basically use to express how my mind would be as a soundscape. Tempos are also slower than every set I made before which gives a dimension more alleviate and tempered but keeping the cathartic incantatory identity."

https://soundcloud.com/jugulaire32

Covert Art : https://soundcloud.com/jugulaire32

Jail Echo Kontrol Order•Auxiliary Rave Endless Area

Jugulaire - AreaAudio 046

SIJIN's sound is built on intricate rhythms, raw textures, and immersive atmospheres, seamlessly shifting between hypnotic grooves, fractured beats, and pulsating intensity. Layering percussive complexity with deep, driving energy, he constructs fluid yet unpredictable sonic landscapes, guiding listeners through a dynamic and visceral experience.

www.operator-radio.com

SIJIN - 4th June 2025

Ex.Hale is the brainchild of Italian multi-disciplinary artist Francesco Presotto. 
Ex. Hale’s music is characterised by dark, atmospheric textures that is driven by a modern vision of club music. The project is focused on the deconstruction of common compositional standards with the addition of crushing rhythm structures that establishes the unusual framework of Ex.Hale’s subversive approach. 

With releases on Sonic Groove, Rudiment, and Voidance, in addition to soundtracks for fashion runways and design companies and to an increasing number of performances in clubs, museums and festivals around Europe, @exhaleelectronics has become a formidable force in electronic and experimental music.

TEMPLE OF JOY 124 - EX.HALE

SUPREME LOW - FOR THOSE WHO CARE MIX.

@supremelow
www.altaragency.com/artist#/supreme-low

NYX RITUAL LX - SUPREME LOW

Free Camping Sounds, for having fun with your friends at the beach!

Order

Cobra Spiritual - F.C.S. [AVO_018]

@eafhmlive x @ici-mtn

BUY: https://eafhm.bandcamp.com/album/slow-turquoise-ers11 

Eafhm Random Selections Number 11
Eafhm Random Selections is a series of sound designs releases for free download.

These releases are mixed sound publications as this project developed different styles and sound facets.

For this special occasion, we are launching a track in the original version by Eafhm, accompanied by three remixes by artist friends whom I greatly admire, who have contributed remixes focused on their characteristic styles.

Artist Insta: 
https://instagram.com/eafhm_unspeakablethings
https://instagram.com/ici_mtn


𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Eafhm - Slow Turquoise (ICI MTN Version) [ERS11]

Huge thanks to Karpan for the great song to remix AND for letting me release it to you all here :) @djkarpan <3 

Karpan - Endurance (Rayah Remix)

Silence

I’m gonna crash

Online community radio station and cultural platform based in Rotterdam.

We broadcast a variety of live shows, from music to science and sports, featuring international DJ's, artists and guest speakers weekly since 2017. We are committed to support emerging talents and to engage the local community and beyond. Our main goal is the overall cultural development through diverse initiatives.

www.operator-radio.com

SIJIN - 4th June 2025

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