In 2024, Japanese vocalist @ultrama00 recorded an album together with producers duo @ifs_raps . “REIFSMA” was a meshing of MA's spontaneity with IFS' production machinery. Extended vocal techniques, multi-layered narratives and original expression gave IFS's tracks a disturbed and hypnotic feel. After the critically and audience acclaimed “REIFSMA ”, MA returns to the Guides label with the solo album “VWV”.

“VWV” is MA's second solo album, the first, “AMA,” was released on Morphine Records. The two albums are closely related, complementing each other. “VWV” is a reverse transcription of the word “AMA,” which means, in turn, heaven or universe. But visual and semantic connections are not the only thing at stake. “VWV” and “AMA” both focus on the elemental, unpredictable, risky and sometimes wild. The narrative in the works is not chronological, concentrating rather on what is simplest in language, expression and the body. MA lets his thoughts flow without assigning them to anything or giving them any specific direction. His verbal and vocal practices are close to stream-of-consciousness, MA often refers to word games.

On the musical level, we get extremely spare material, in which the voice dominates. However, MA does not shy away from the sonic layer either, enriching the tracks with rough, dirty, industrial sounds. The nature of these recordings evokes associations with the plunderphonic tradition and the “borrowing” of new contexts. “I used recordings of vocals and sound ideas that came to me, which I'd recorded as rough drafts, and edited them.” - MA naturally expands the semantic field of plunderphonics, treating his ideas as something potentially strange, not-yet-mine, which is instinctively processed when he gives it a voice. In his practice, MA is careful to note the nature of the spontaneous self-alienation and what comes in its place. He is like a sound poet who responds with his voice to every slightest impulse of narrative and potential atoms of meaning ready to be externalized.

“VWV” resembles the universe after the Big Bang - it is spreading radially in all directions, trying to encompass and express “everything” at every moment, simultaneously.

MA - VWV

Furtive brings you a broad range of rave-related material with ambient tangents and excursions.

Listen live - 3rd Mondays, 6-8PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

Ashen Vanity w/ Furtive - 19May2025

A fabric of ambient, experimental, idm, and glitch.


Life as Collage w/ yusk: 22nd June '25

1-hour monthly show with composer and musician Astrid Sonne. Sharing everything from rock to dub to classical to pop.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/astrid-sonne/episodes/astrid-sonne-25th-june-2025

ASTRID SONNE w/ Conrad Pack 250625

SIDE A
A1-MA
A2-TAMAMONO
A3-IKU
A4-HUQSEN
A5-FULUELL
A6-HILAC
A7-XJOVYA
A8-WARABE
A9-NCEPHZB
A10-IZRE
A11-SUGATA

MA - VWV Side A (preview)

SIDE B
B1-JA
B2-SHILL
B3-REI
B4-OHW
B5-RERU
B6-SOLEKARA
B7-ENE

MA - VWV Side B (preview)

Legendary dub techno artist Paul St. Hilaire (AKA Tikiman) announces new collaborative album, marking 10 years of Kynant Records. 

Building on the success of Paul St. Hilaire’s landmark solo album for Kynant in 2023, w/ The Producers switches up the formula to pair St. Hilaire with a different producer on each track. Referencing fellow dub techno pioneers Mark Ernestus & Moritz von Oswald’s acclaimed album w/ The Artists as Rhythm & Sound, St. Hilaire flips the concept to feature as the lone vocalist.

Over the album’s nine tracks, St. Hilaire offers a range of conscious song-writing and headtop musings, such as the spoken-word dread of “What’s This” or the sparse call-to-action of “Send Them On”. w/ The Producers is yet another essential record in St. Hilaire’s unmatched discography.

The album marks 10 years of Kynant Records, with label owner Richard Akingbehin curating an eclectic but sonically connected group of producers. These include luminaries such as Digital Mystikz boss and dubstep trailblazer Mala, or the elusive Chain Reaction artist Shinichi Atobe. They sit alongside some of the most exciting names in recent electronic music - Batu, Gavsborg, Azu Tiwaline, Priori, Cousin, Russell E.L. Butler, Aurora Halal and DJ G - all of whom bring different elements of dub techno into their productions.

w/ The Producers finds Kynant Records bridging the original voice of dub techno with the genre’s new wave. It’s a statement of intent from the label, which began 10 years ago with deep, hypnotic techno and has veered gradually towards more dubwise sounds.

Mastered by Stefan Betke
Artwork by Grant Gibson
Distributed by N.E.W.S 

C1 Paul St. Hilaire & Batu - Free Your Mind

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

iarna opening for Akwardly Social at OHM Berlin, 01.02.2025

Tracklist:

dj lostboi - SPARKLES
Babyfather - Bluey Vuitton (feat. EVILGIANE)
Kelela - The High
LTJ Bukem - Coolin' Out
AceMo - Mind Element
Peshay - Jazz Lick
Jonny L - Tychonic Cycle
Djrum - Waters Rising
SKY H1 - Elysian Heights
Stenny - In A Distant Light
Origin Unknown - Valley Of The Shadows
Adam F - Metropolis
Everything but the Girl - Blame
ASC - The Morning After
LTJ Bukem - Horizons
Flying Lotus - Intro // A Cosmic Drama
Dark0 - Hardwire
Money Lang - What Now
Toma Kami - This Side Up
Eev Frances - Castrati
Zoë Mc Pherson - Potentials
Varg - (+46) Placing My IPhone X Facing Up To See When U Answer My Texts
L-VIS 1990 - Untitled 5 4 Track
Stenny - Stress Test 
AraabMUZIK - Streetz Tonight
Happa - Clip
Cocktail Party Effect - Safety Button
SALEM - Trapdoor
Kahn - Over Deh So
Erwan Sene - Tilt
SLIKBACK X BLACKHAINE - SLKBLKH FREESTYLE
LIL KEED - WALL 2 WALL (AUTOBOUNCER620 EDIT)
Steel Trax - Montezuma 
Why Be - Impossible Drops1
Atrice - Dialect 
KAVARI - skee (w/ klahrk)
TSVI & Seven Orbits - Compos Mentis
M.I.C & Nammy Wams - Naoki Urasawa Could Have Written This Shit
Hysteria Temple Foundation - Shyrokyu lu
Mssingno - HIGHLIKE2
Djrum - Watermark

iarna @ akwscl, OHM Berlin 01.02.2025

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

Spacious bass from a sunny afternoon at Giri by Berlin-based Elke, Open Ground Resident and Radio host, recorded at Breakfast Club x Tendersesh.

Tendersesh - hosted by DJ Flounce, is an experience dedicated to sober raving and building a more inclusive nightlife space for the sober, sober-curious and 
sober-leaning community in Berlin. Born from the desire to address the rarity of sober-friendly spaces, Tendersesh offers a day steeped in music and connection. Our ambition is to reshape the narrative around sobriety, infusing it with lightness and joy, while providing an authentic rave atmosphere

250726 - Tendersesh - Elke

Recorded live at the OST x Conditioner event at Nowadays on Thursday 17th July, after a performance by Organ Tapes.

Love to Ian and Nathan and everyone inside :)

Tracklist:

Mammo - Drinks Straight From the Tape 2
Oren Ambarchi & Riccardo Villalobos - Hubris Variation
Kyma & Uberdog - Compactor
Alexander Skancke - You Get A Two
DJ W!LD - Le Mur (Baby Ford’s ‘Dogtown Remix’)
cv313 - Sailing Starts
Question - Untitled
Pendle Coven - Modern Mode
Deadbeat - The Double Bong Cloud (Denial I)
Pantytec - Elastobabe (Soul Capsule’s Cosmic Warrior Mix)
SnP 500 - Unrolled
Mion - Drop The Filter
Ricardo Villalobos - Heike (Mood Mix)
Afrojack - Math
Faithless - We Come 1 (Rocket vs. Jeno Remix)
DiSKOP - Night
Eddie Richards - Medown (Evil Eddie Richards Fractured Mix)
Truly - El Trick ft. EDC
A1 People - Do It (Metamatics Remix)
Klanggut - Sump (Klystron Remix)
Smerz - Feisty
Eddie Richards - Dark 1.3
Lil Keed - Wall 2 Wall (Autobouncer620 Edit)
Jawnino - 40net (Lewi Boome Remix)
Soduh - Freddy K
Geeneus - Congo
Tactics Of Bass - Tactics Of Bass
Slick & Flash - The Rogue
Janet Jackson - Empty
Hopper1000 - Cars That Go BOOM
The 2 - We Is 1
The Cardigans - Erase / Rewind

Live at Nowadays - 17th July 2025

complex structures | rhythmic grooves | minimalism
label owner @paide

MA - VWV Side A (preview)

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