August has a reputation for being a quiet month. Festivals drain attention, artists vanish, and releases get pushed to September. But this year proved again that less can mean more. Quality over quantity. The few records that did arrive carried enough depth and character to linger.

Sciama’s debut on Samurai Music was a pure craft effort: halftime drum & bass dialed in with surgical focus, a match made in heaven. DYL and Tammo Hesselink found strange pockets of groove on Aura Sonora, flipping pace and rhythm without ever losing drive. Hong Kong’s Bionickle made its entrance with Insomnior, a four-track polyrhythmic workout that announced the label’s intent straight away.

Elsewhere, Jan Jelinek and Mads Emil Nielsen traded roles as remixers of each other’s work, turning in two abstract, inward-facing studies that feel more like sonic essays than tracks. Laima Adelaide delivered her most mature vision yet on Predawn Records, while Stone’s eclectic, trip hop–anchored album nods to the early ‘00s while sounding entirely timeless.
 
On the lighter side, Angel Hunt’s Short Span release danced between breakbeat and ambient with an easy hand. LFOkid’s Huinali outing paired deep-ambient sketches with remixes from familiar names close to our orbit. Skee Mask kept his streak alive with another self-released labyrinth that refuses categorization. And Aniara brought out heavy artillery, Skudge and Dorisburg together, for one of those records destined to stay in DJ bags for months to come.


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Favorite Releases from August 2025

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Insomnior - Metro

Artists: DYL & Tammo Hesselink
Title: Moiré Patterns EP
Label: Aura Sonora
Catalogue Number: AS002
Format: Vinyl & Digital.
Release Date: August 4, 2025

Tracklist
A1 DYL & Tammo Hesselink - Pattern 1 
A2 DYL & Tammo Hesselink - Pattern 2
B1 DYL & Tammo Hesselink - Pattern 3 
B2 DYL & Tammo Hesselink - Pattern 4

All tracks were produced by: DYL & Tammo Hesselink
All tracks mastered by: Seph
Artwork by: Archive B
Vinyl Distributed by: Juno
Manufactured in the UK.
Cat No: AS002 - Aura Sonora 2025.

Press Release: 
Aura Sonora returns with a second release to follow up the fantastic first one, this time it brings together two meticulous studio craftsmen, DYL & Tammo Hesselink. Their Moire Patterns EP kicks off with 'Pattern 1', a deep and rhythmic slice of rubbery techno that rides broken beats with atmospheric pulses up top. 'Pattern 2 slows down to a predatory crawl with icy pads making  a dystopian vibe then 'Pattern 3' brings a sense of mystic tribal ritual deep in some futuristic jungle and 'Pattern 4' closes down with more fantastically crafted, dubby, broken rhythms that are topped with organic percussion and almost impossible not to move to. Pure rhythm science brilliance.

Vinyl pre-order: www.juno.co.uk/products/dyl-tammo-hesselink-moire-patterns-ep-vinyl/1087965-01/

@dyl170 @tammohesselink

DYL & Tammo Hesselink - Moiré Patterns EP [AS002]

Sciama - Between Veils [SMDE52]

Released on 5 Track 12" and Digital

Collector’s Special Edition Limited to 50 copies and exclusive to voidvinyl.eu and Bandcamp

With a steely sound matching fathoms-deep echo chambers with metallic textures and precision drums, Sciama arrives on Samurai Music to press into the inspiring hinterland between techno and drum & bass.

Sciama is the production alias for Michael Watters, a producer who since 2019 has carved out a formidable reputation across a stellar run of releases on ASC’s Auxiliary label. While his music references UK bass, transcendental techno and industrial, the end result is a taut, focused journey through fractured, weighty rhythms and vast, ranging atmospherics tilted towards the darkness.

Between Veils is testament to Watters’ refined production, steeped in intensely detailed and layered sound design in constant fluid motion, whether locked to the grid or shifting across the surface of the track like grayscale snow drifts. Noise becomes a subtle tool in his hands, capable of delicacy as much as abrasion, and discord evokes a haunting beauty if you listen past the clangorous overtones he elicits from his pads.

Moving well beyond the boundaries of any specific genre, Between Veils winds up as a strong, independent statement on the meeting point between broad influences and clear intentions — a formidable addition to Samurai Music’s explorations beyond drum & bass and Sciama’s steadily evolving, singular style.

01. Figures in Mist
02. Ghost Trail
03. Anima Trace
04. Veil of Mirrors

All music W&P Michael Watters
- https://www.instagram.com/sciamamusic/
- https://soundcloud.com/sciamamusic

Art/Design - @rqnz
Master & Cut - @stardelta_mastering
Pressed at @intakt_vinyl
Global Distribution - @triplevisionrecorddistribution

Sciama - Between Veils [SMDE52] *previews*

The hand-stamped whitelabel series continues with a debut by Skudge: bringing a class high energy club workout. On the flip is mainstay Dorisburg with a deep tripper from the vault.


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AniaraWL05: Skudge / Dorisburg (previews)

What stays on the surface? And what passes through it? The surface here is not understood as a mere exterior, but as an active layer on which experiences, traces, touches, and transformations are inscribed.
credits
releases August 8, 2025

Written by Laima Adelaide
Artwork by Maris Prieditis
Mastered by Mattias Fridell

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Laima Adelaide - Surface as Memory

LFOkid - Steadiness [HNL028]

01 Schism
02 Lucid Dream 자각몽
03 Dust Collector
04 Divinorum
05 Affirm
06 Dot
07 Lucid Dream 자각몽 (Adhémar Rainforest Interpretation)
08 Divinorum (Javier Marimon Off Trip)
09 Affirm (Bumho Remix)
10 Dot (Zeze Wakamatsu Remix)

The boundary where anxiety and stability intersect,
The afterimage of a wavering horizon.

Faint memories and given sensations,
Countless interpretations of what they could mean.

불안과 안정이 교차하는 경계,
흔들리는 수평선의 잔상.

희미한 기억과 주어진 감각, 
무수히 해석할 수 있는 여러 의미.

Produced by Yumbi Park aka LFOkid
Additional Productions by Adhémar, Javier Marimon, Bumho, and Zeze Wakamatsu
Mastered by Motion Symmetry, UK
Artwork by Off T.
Released by Huinali Recordings from Jeju Island, South Korea
Release Date: August 22nd, 2025

LFOkid (Seoul, South Korea)
https://soundcloud.com/lfokid
https://www.instagram.com/ibuym
https://linktr.ee/lfokid

Oslated & Huinali Recordings.
http://www.oslated.com

Steadiness

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LFOkid - Steadiness [HNL028] (Snippets)

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