Conna Haraway

@genus-aix debuted on @indexrecords in 2023, and has since appeared on labels such as @charmlink and @second-end-rec. The artist's flow ranges from ambient soundscapes to intricate subtle textures, taking listeners on a dramatic storytelling that combines electroacoustic experimentations and cinematic recordings from noteworthy producers. With poems, Jost finds himself pushing Berlin's nightlife forward, engaging electronic music culture within a forward-thinking approach.

Ambicast #005 | Genus Aix

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/spatial-fix

Glasgow-based producer Conna Haraway returns to Theory Therapy with his first vinyl release, 'Spatial Fix'. Inspired in part by his 2024 tour of Japan and Korea, the album explores new dimensions of his evolving sound.

Since 'Lusidiq' – his debut on Theory Therapy – the co:clear owner has honed his ability to balance introspective atmospheres with crisp, meticulously crafted rhythms, imbuing his music with a physicality that’s as tactile as it is hypnotic.

'Spatial Fix' expands on this approach in every respect. Clocking in at just under 35 minutes, the record oscillates between ambient abstraction and rhythmic intensity, seamlessly weaving the two together. Tracks like “Freon” and “1702” are anchored by a propulsive low end, woven through with Haraway’s crackling textures and field recordings – including those captured across Asia last year. Even in these deeply immersive moments, there’s always something luminous lurking beneath the surface – snaps, clicks, and micro-shudders ripple throughout in strange and surprising ways. The result is an album that pulls you into a writhing, disorienting space, a psychedelic sonic world where beauty and unease pulse in equal measure.

@connaharaway
Mastered by @ikezwanikken

Conna Haraway - Spatial Fix (snippets)

XENIA REAPER returns to INDEX:Records with ‘Gambling’ – a requiem to noughties trance-euphoria, with a contemporary ambient twist. A collection of nine deep, emotionally-explosive tracks that wrench your heart, as much as your gut.

Exclusive to this edition is a made-to-order transparent 12” LP lathe, cut by Disc Archive in Berlin – super limited though, so get your pre-order in ASAP if you’d like a piece.

Written & Produced by XENIA REAPER
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Lucas Dupuy

XENIA REAPER – Gambling (previews) [INDEX019]

Artwork by Eva Marie Nelson
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken

Axine M - Bored Giant Engine Sputter

Appendix.files introduces Lint. with the release of their debut single No Time for Distance, a lush and disorienting collage of decaying textures and rhythmic detritus, out on May 2nd.

Pre-order: https://appendixfiles.bandcamp.com/album/appx-lint01-no-time-for-distance
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@appendixfiles
@kingsofty
@genus-aix

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Premiere: Lint. - No Time for Distance (Genus Aix Remix)

A synapse-popping electro-acoustic soundwalk around Western Europe's cathedrals, chapels and churches, 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔 skews recognizable sacred soundscapes, proposing a contemporary mythology that muddles the past, present and future. Following on from his critically-acclaimed 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 full-length, American sound artist Jake Muir familiarizes himself with German and British sonic architecture by studying some of the medieval shadows that still hang over Europe's streets, even as they continue to evolve. Manipulating environmental recordings captured in Germany and England, Muir presents an impressionistic juxtaposition of parallel cultures: the UK's distinctive "change ringing" technique, where a team of bell-ringers play long varied sequences on a set of tuned bells; and Germany's more sober style, with monotonous peals that add rhythm to daily life.

When Muir moved from Los Angeles to Berlin back in 2019, it wasn't just the German capital's damp weather and long, dark winters that came as a surprise. He was immediately struck by the city's anomalous acoustics, and one particular element stood out: the resonant church bells that echo around Berlin throughout the day to mark time, and for 10 minutes on Sundays as a call for mass. Gathering his field recording equipment, Muir acquainted himself with his new home by following the sonorous clangs, wandering from kiez to kiez to capture each church's distinct auditory flavor. And the more material he collected, the more engrossed he became in the history of bell ringing, prompting a deep dive that would shuttle him across Germany and into Italy, Belgium and the UK.

On 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔, Muir trains his focus on Berlin, where his journey began, and on England, where he encountered the most elaborate bell ringing practice. 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 is a hypnotic lattice of sounds recorded all over the German capital: at Parochialkirche, a reformed church in Mitte; at evangelical church St. Matthäus, at Sophienkirche, another Mitte landmark; and at St. Mathias, a Roman Catholic church just in front of the Potsdam Gate. By fusing the liturgical chimes with snippets of local ambiance - traffic, chattering tourists and birdsong, for example -  Muir takes a blurry snapshot of the city, queering its idiosyncratic color spectrum with his various digital processes. Using reverb to replicate the acoustic properties of both the streets and the church interiors, he subtly disturbs the timeline, stretching out brief peals into long, mesmerizing drones and turning garbled voices into ghostly babble.

The environment alters considerably on 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴; Muir uses the same technique and applies it to recordings made at the 1000-year-old St. Oswald church in Oswestry, St. Bartholomew's, Edgbaston and Holy Trinity in Stratford-Upon-Avon, home to Shakespeare’s final resting place. Here, Muir methodically untangles the change-ringing process, linking back to 𝘌𝘳𝘻𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨 with a single bell tone before moving inside the church itself and documenting the ringers' shouted instructions, blending the calls with the bells' mathematical cyclic patterns. Muir memorializes what in 2025 is a dying art-form - a community skill that's disappearing worryingly quickly as young Brits lose interest in the church and its rituals. Unsettling distortions bite into the undulating sequences and underneath the noise, Muir highlights the music's latent euphoria, drawing out its most celestial tonalities.

File under: devotional music.

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recorded by Jake Muir
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
photography by Jake Muir
design template by Joe Bastardo

Campana Sonans

Erzklang [Preview Clip] (ENM-14)

Oscilla Sound welcomes Infant to its Liminal catalogue. Drawn from the reflections of the Detroit-based producer, 'radial blur' weaves super-processed atmospherics with smudged and dubbed touches. Drifting between the swamp and the late night haze, the EP conjures intimate domestic scenes and transcendent, otherworldly ecosystems.

https://soundcloud.com/infaant
https://soundcloud.com/oscilla-sound

PREMIERE⚡️Infant - mote [Oscilla Sound]

@aliendan
@theory-therapy

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-early-hours-of-a-world-in-bloom

Premiere: Lint. - No Time for Distance (Genus Aix Remix)

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