recording of my first ever live set during Fata Morgana Festival 2025 on Forest stage

artwork by Zakaya (@lyaeus2 on insta)

Kick21 (live) @ Fata Morgana Festival 2025

𝕍𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 - 𝔻𝕚𝕡𝕝𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒 [𝕍𝔽𝕆.𝟙𝟜]

⊹⊹ https://virtualforestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/diplopia
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Strange autumn rains are falling, revealing hidden pathways.
Time for 𝕍𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝 𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥 ℝ𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤 to bear a new twin fruit.

𝔻𝕚𝕡𝕝𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒 is a celebration - of our beloved corner of the underground, of community beyond geographical borders, of creative interconnection. Thirteen masterful collaborative tracks from all corners of the world, by spearheads of the underwater avant-garde, ranging from the darkest dubstep to the most abyssal tribe. The soul and essence of tomorrow's hybrid deep-end scene, condensed into a timeless gemstone.

𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘: 
@1tauceti ✢ @natural_limit
@paul-revee ✢ @solarythm_deeptech_side
@formant-value ✢ @simonebauer 
@bluhol ✢ @eastern-distributor
@umanyazar ✢ @nawl_music
@sentientsound ✢ @paracusia77
@sharu ✢ @c_coiffure
@loiflan ✢ @rm_estali
@kick_21 ✢ @troisquartstaxisystem
@yotahh ✢ @voicheck
@maelitaa ✢ @qqantt
@fluidmatter ✢ @solmadj
@javrsalazar

⊹⊹ Out on November 26, 2025 

artwork -- hypereikon
mastering -- AES Dana at @ultimae studios
distribution -- Underscope

© 2025 Virtual Forest Records, France
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Diplopia

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VFO.14 Various Artists -- Diplopia [Previews]

𝑷𝑹𝑬𝑴𝑰𝑬𝑹𝑬: Costélus - Dark Matter [ABT-VA010]

Art Bei Ton presents “Some Casual Vortex,” a showcase of cerebral textures and precise sound design from artists across the globe. Costélus’s “Dark Matter” transforms broken beat architecture into radiant harmonies, a lucid and dreamlike pull.


Release Date: 16th November 2025
Label: Art Bei Ton
Mastering: Tomás González
Distribution: Triple Vision
Artwork: Apo.G

Follow the artist:

SC: @costelus_music
IG: www.instagram.com/costelus__/

Follow the label: Art Bei Ton

SC: @art-bei-ton
IG: www.instagram.com/art_bei_ton/
FB: www.facebook.com/artbeiton/

𝑷𝑹𝑬𝑴𝑰𝑬𝑹𝑬: Costélus -  Dark Matter [ABT-VA010]

From the Metallic Initiation VA on Sensory Cells, “Layers Dissolve by Konalgad” explores texture and form a refined debut statement from the new label. Out November 19.

Pre-order: https://sensorycells.bandcamp.com/album/metallic-initiation
More: https://www.orbmag.com/music

@sensory-cells
@konalgad

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Premiere: Konalgad - Layers Dissolve

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Kletis - Over Emphaty (Sub Accent remix) [ER012]

With “Over Empathy”, Kletis continues his exploration of the misty borderlands between techno, bass music and dubs, delivering a dense, poetic and introspective EP where sound itself seems to breathe under the rain. Born in the humid forests of northern Czechia, his sonic world carries the mark of a half-lit realm, heavy with melancholy yet vibrating with restrained strength.

Each track shapes a shifting landscape, both dark and hypnotic, from the subterranean tension of Parametric to the organic pulse of RukaRuka, leading to the fragile beauty of the title track Over Empathy, the true heartbeat of the release. Two remixes extend this journey, Fallen Tape unveils a mystical and ethereal vision, like an echo from another plane, while Sub Accent reveals a more vivid, dub-infused energy.

Balancing inner fog and ritual depth, Kletis sculpts music that seeks not to belong but to feel, a language of textures, shadows and light, where every frequency turns into vibration and empathy becomes sound.

Digital distribution by Underscope
Mastering : Simon Hamelin @ Human Disease Network Mastering
Artwork : nav.illus

𝑲𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒔
Soundcloud : https://www.soundcloud.com/kletis
Bandcamp : https://kletis.bandcamp.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/kletis___dolec/

𝑺𝒖𝒃 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/sub-accent
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/sub_accent/

𝑬𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/ethosrecords
Bandcamp : https://ethosrecords.bandcamp.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/ethos_records/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ethosrecords

Over Empathy [ER012]

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Kletis - Over Emphaty (Sub Accent remix) [ER012]

Manchester-based https://soundcloud.com/aurorarec presents a 24-track compilation album featuring many familiar faces - a treasure trove for anyone drawn to fast and swampy sound explorations. 

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-rbi---liquid-shadow

Beta will be out on November 26th, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://aurorarec.bandcamp.com/album/beta

Premiere: RBI - Liquid Shadow [CD001]

Formant Value & Simone Bauer deliver "Eos" for the Diplopia compilation on Virtual Forest Records, shaping percussive precision into a fluid, evolving form, out November 26.

Pre-order: https://virtualforestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/diplopia
More: https://www.orbmag.com/music

@virtualforestrecords
@formant-value
@simonebauer

Premiere: Formant Value & Simone Bauer - Eos

With What They Left, Lyon-based artist https://soundcloud.com/jonnnah delivers the third release on his label https://soundcloud.com/second-end-rec. The 13-track album is arranged as two distinct sides, a sequence of interconnected pieces that trace an emotional shift. As a ‘document of transformation’, it sharpens his blend of atmospheric dub textures and trip-hop asymmetry.

Find the full read here:  https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-jonnnah---a-decade

A Decade will be out on December 12th, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/jonnnah-what-they-left-lp-ser003

Premiere: Formant Value & Simone Bauer - Eos

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