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Heith - Dero
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 119S2
Format: DL
Release Date: 06 September 2022
Purchase: https://PAN.lnk.to/Dero

Heith’s devout interest in the notion of reality started long before he recorded his latest album. The Italian musician, producer and artist probed the spiritual aspects of sound and its cosmogonic potential already in his previous works released on his own Haunter Records label.

Exploring the textures of consciousness through research into the ritual animism, he kept an omnivorous and universalist approach to cultural and sonic influence. This is central to X, wheel, Heith’s debut album and first release on PAN. It’s a deep dive into his creative and spiritual practice, one where art and life are inextricable.

Written and recorded across different studios in Milan, Rome and Florence between March 2019, and January 2020, eleven tracks cycle through a world of stylistic references—from psychedelia, psytrance and freak folk tostoner metal, noise and early electronic music—while remaining firmly a part of a singular vision.

Heith crafts a mesmerising and ritualistic subterranean soundscape, aresonant and eclectic collage of distinct sonic elements: from celestial percussion intertwined with jarring, mechanical oscillations to haunting vocals atop murky dubbed-out beats.

Produced and written by Heith
Mixed by Giovanni Ferliga and Daniele Guerrini
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Concept and video by DECLINO

X, wheel

Heith - Dero (PAN 119S2)

Heith - X, wheel
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 119 
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 07 October 2022
Purchase: https://pan.lnk.to/Xwheel

Heith’s devout interest in the notion of reality started long before he recorded his latest album. The Italian musician, producer and artist probed the spiritual aspects of sound and its cosmogonic potential already in his previous works released on his own Haunter Records label.
Exploring the textures of consciousness through research into the ritual animism, he kept an omnivorous and universalist approach to cultural and sonic influence. This is central to X, wheel, Heith’s debut album and first release on PAN. It’s a deep dive into his creative and spiritual practice, one where art and life are inextricable.

Written and recorded across different studios in Milan, Rome and Florence between March, 2019, and January, 2020, eleven tracks cycle through a world of stylistic references—from psychedelia, psytrance and freak folk to stoner metal, noise and early electronic music—while remaining firmly a part of a singular vision.

Album opener “Letter 4” staggers along collaborator Leonardo Rubboli’s winding guitar melody, while second track “Dero” cycles into layers of assorted sine wave lines and tonal systems outside of the Western diatonic scales. X, wheel sits calmly at the centre of its own vortex of dissonance and diversity, moving through a spectrum of ideas, moods, and emotional states with uncanny ease. A glimpse of contributor Jesse Osborne- Lanthier’s synth melody briefly surfaces from a cacophonous flood of reverb and distortion on “Stoned Witch”. Aase Nielsen’s lonely saxophone wanders around the nostalgic hypnagogic noir of “Ensemble For Somnambulists”.

Heith draws together an array of philosophies and fictions together into a sonic tableau that exists outside of linear time. As the titular wheel spins, it does not bring about repetition, rather constant change and movement, spiralling into infinity.

The hypnotic nature of the release is translated in the album’s liner notes. It’s a collage of sorts, constructed from Heith’s own diary entries using the non-phonetic alphabet and linguistic experiment called “Angel’s Hair” developed with artist Pietro Agostoni. Together with contributions from ZU drummer Jacopo Battaglia and didgeridoo player Fabio Goldaniga, X, wheel is an exercise in creating new forms of meaning through sound, turning spectral vibration into conscious awareness.

Heith - Lettera 4 (PAN 119)

Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.3

Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2.3 (feat. Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton)

mood

The information might be presented in a hipper than ideal manner. due to 2016, alone. like a Stone ally, vowing against discrimination. released a lot of affairs, seeing as how you're complaining. ecstatic cops that In is you. It works by preventing the impacts of future BABY, as seen by its idols' and performers' costs. focused ego maintains a masterpiece. Nothing changes in 2010. short depressing song from the album. Only this fluttering flesh attempt gets launched in the end. Father, wait—a star. and American politics. We raised the gun. Justice is massive.

pure (Justice Is Massive)

Hesaitix - Noctian Airgap (PAN 152)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 152
Release Date: 06 December 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/NoctianAirgap

Through the haze we could make out hardly anything. Just the black line of the horizon. And in the distance the faint glimmering of the sea.

James Whipple returns from a long period of musical dormancy with his first full length LP for PAN since 2017.

As M.E.S.H., he honed a singular and unpredictable sonic identity on his debut album Piteous Gate. Re-emerging as Hesaitix, the now-familiar motifs have become streamlined, the sound palette both more refined and more elaborate. Even at its most abstract, there is an uncanny presence permeating the record, a convincing emotional reality with its own narrative and spatial logic.

Opener ‘Cusp of Unknowing’ announces itself with crushing low end synths feathered with delicate chimes before dissolving into the oceanic din of a data center. Rolling, engine-like subs mark the start of ‘Taurian Shade,’ a low- tempo percussive drive past iced-over chords and angular synth lines. ‘Geflatnet’ and ‘Volunteer’ dip into grooves bordering on nostalgic, referencing a misremembered golden era of electronica long-players. On ‘Santarosae (Black Dolphin),’ a sense of primordial awe comes to the fore, while ‘Black Line,’ originally presented as an audio installation in 2022, uses the human voice to explore a narrative approach to sound. ‘Noctian Airgap’ and ‘Anticrime’ return to syncopation and its complex moods, while ‘Subdermal’ and ‘Hypersea’ embrace repetition in service to atmosphere.

Hesaitix - Santarosae (Black Dolphin)

'a downtempo centric self-inquiry quest by means of binge-shiftin'

https://ab-u.bandcamp.com/album/binge-shiftin

released March 7, 2025

artwork by Mery Khugashvili & Arsen Iy
composed & mixed by @ab_y
mastered by @yeyomf & @qwqwqwqwa

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Robbery

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в небе он нас ждёт

In addition to two earlier collaborative EPs as one half of Solid Void (Realia002) and as a member of Hyter (Realia003), Noumeno’s (Realia/Haunter Records/Portals Editions) first solo contribution to Realia’s catalogue is a track entitled: “Oh, Play This, and I’ll Come to You”. 
Combining the artist’s distinctive forward-thinking production style with more recent sample-based/reggaeton-leanining experimentations, “Oh, Play This, and I’ll Come to You” conveys themes of eschatological hope, natural sublime, simultaneity and corporeality.
In this context, the organising principle of identity is no longer presence vs. absence, but pattern/randomness – namely, the sudden recognition of meaningful information against the backdrop of noise and chaos. The pattern/randomness dialectic reveals a situation where two seemingly antagonistic concepts are mutually constitutive: randomness is not the absence of pattern, but the productive ground from which pattern emerges.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Noumeno.
Artwork by Lidia Ginga Cozzupoli.

Noumeno – Oh, Play This, and I'll Come to You

on 31.07.2020 during dutch sunset (10PM CEST) NTS Radio premiered the first edition of Pavillion, a series of audio compositions that are spatially placed within a 60 minute field recording of a specific location or sonic landscape.

Pavillion (52.1040377, 4.2560042) captures the commute from the front door of my apartment in The Hague to the furthest reaches of the northern pier in Scheveningen, the exact same commute I did to shoot the sunrise footage for These Cars Do Not Exist on may 11th at 5AM

Tracklist:
RMB - Redemption
echo+seashell - When A Girl Wants (Instrumental)
Elysia Crampton - Abolition
Ancient Slavic Battle Music Youtube
echo+seashell - When A Girl Wants (Acapella)
Torus - Hypehouse
Torus - Radiate 625
Dark Souls - Menu Theme
Embaci - Walk on May 5th
Lee Gamble - Rufige
Basic Channel - Radiance II
Gas - Königsforst 6
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - Verwacht Geen Zachtzinnigheid
Torus - Prop 2
Steve Hauschildt - Subtractive Skies
Basic Channel - Q1.2
Torus - Circles
Gorillaz - Hong Kong

Pavillion (52.1040377, 4.2560042)

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org

The electronic underground, from minimal beats to ambient and everything in between. Curated by SoundCloud.

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