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Venera - Tear
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 153S1
Release Date: 10 July 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tear

Venera shares ‘Tear’, the first single of the upcoming album ‘Exinfinite’ out via PAN on September 12th, 2025.

Having defined a multi-dimensional sonic universe on their acclaimed eponymous debut album, composer/filmmaker Chris Hunt and Korn’s James “Munky” Shaffer abandon the familiar and drift towards a kingdom of recursion on EXINFINITE, staring down a tangled mass of mirrored wormholes that hum with eldritch ambiguity.

On ‘Tear’, the duo’s new direction can be heard clearly as Shaffer’s primal guitar noises are reformed into eerie widescreen expositions that Hunt punctuates with pneumatic kick and snare cycles. Broken up by airlock hisses and luminous synths, the track proposes a backdrop that VENERA continuously transmute, reforging the concept as the album develops.

Recorded in Downtown Los Angeles, CA and Atlanta, GA
Mixed by Chris Pawlusek in London, UK
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis, London, UK
Art by EFFIXX with Samanta García

Venera - Tear (PAN 153S1)

Kuboraum is pleased to present the latest chapter of the Digital Sound Residency with 'Fluffy' by Mun Sing, the alias of Bristol-based producer, songwriter, visual artist and DJ, Harry Wright.

Mun Sing has carved out a reputation for exhilarating live performances and theatrical, complex club productions where irony, skewed rhythms and warped vocals collide into unpredictable sonic landscapes. After his acclaimed debut album 'Inflatable Gravestone' (Planet Mu, 2023), hailed by critics and listed among Resident Advisor’s best albums of the year, and his recent chaotic dancefloor EP 'Frolic' (Illegal Data, 2025), Fluffy offers a condensed yet powerful immersion into his most eccentric and vulnerable language.

In 'Fluffy', lightness and dissonance coexist: playful, camp gestures dissolve into fractured, distorted bursts, turning the very notion of “softness” into a sonic experience of excess, fragility, and confrontation.
A short preview video accompanies the release, offering a glimpse into Mun Sing’s visual universe - saturated, surreal, and deliberately unstable - expanding the ways in which the piece can be perceived.

‘Fluffy’ will be available to download by subscribing to Kuboraum Berlin News via link in bio.

Mastering by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab.

Mun Sing - Fluffy

Control/Damage

Elevator Metaverse

Venera - Exinfinite
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 153
Release Date: 12 September 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Exinfinite

Having defined a multi-dimensional sonic universe on their acclaimed eponymous debut album, composer/filmmaker Chris Hunt and Korn's James "Munky" Shaffer abandon the familiar and drift towards a kingdom of recursion on EXINFINITE, staring down a tangled mass of mirrored wormholes that hum with eldritch ambiguity. VENERA's sophomore full length is darker, heavier and more percussive than its predecessor, but there's something more intimate wired into its circuitry that's harder to define - something mystical, mysterious and melancholy. Songs materialize from the void only to be dissolved by acidic synths or pierced by Hunt's whetted beats, while Shaffer's dense, tortured riffs are offset by euphoric, time-dilated vocals from FKA twigs, Dis Fig and Chelsea Wolfe. Following their encounter with vastness, VENERA have peered inward, ruminating on the limits of existence and excavating their most deeply buried emotions.

VENERA emerged in 2022 when Hunt and Shaffer veered into their own musical territory after recording with Albanian artist Xhoana X. Improvising together and experimenting with cinematic, sci-fi-inspired sound design, the duo realized the collaboration had potential, so they began developing and evolving the sound further, bringing in assistance from former Mars Volta drummer Deantoni Parks, Queens of the Stone Age's Alain Johannes, post-punk duo VOWWS and LA noise rock legends HEALTH. And after their debut album appeared on Mike Patton's Ipecac imprint in 2023, VENERA kept deconstructing and rebuilding their approach to songwriting, swapping out ambient Eno-esque atmospheres for blown-
out beats and dense textures, and figuring out how to extend the narrative they'd opened up without retreading old ground.

On 'Tear', the duo's new direction can be heard clearly as Shaffer's primal guitar noises are reformed into eerie widescreen expositions that Hunt punctuates with pneumatic kick and snare cycles. Broken up by airlock hisses and luminous synths, the track proposes a backdrop that VENERA continuously transmute, reforging the concept as the album develops. Cult singer-songwriter Wolfe adds a gothic American flavor to the crepuscular 'All Midnights', crooning powerfully over VENERA's vacuum packed rhythms and gaseous synths, and Berlin-based noisemaker Dis Fig follows work with The Body and The Bug on 'End Uncovered' lending breathy, emotionally layered tones to Shaffer and Hunt's tape-damaged industrial pops and whirrs. They launch squelchy, decelerated techno into occult noise reflecting pools on the slithering 'Asteroxylon', and Hunt replies to Shaffer's reverberating plucks with foghorn groans on the ominous, pensive 'uuu773'.

'EXINFINITE' perpetually builds momentum until it hits 'Caroline', an intense collaboration with FKA twigs that isolates her most unearthly tones. Initially curling her words around ominous electrical distortions and mangled, ghostly voices, twigs launches into a charged operatic cry that Shaffer and Hunt meet with skittering cybernetic beats and dense walls of guitar noise. It's this track that fully cracks open VENERA's concept, merging the synthetic with the natural and prompting dysphoria, loss of self and infinite regress. So the blood-curdling noise and sinister ambiance of 'Decreation' acts like a dissociated coda. In the 'EXINFINITE', destruction and death are not overcome, they're intensified until they metamorphose completely.


Venera ft. Dis Fig - End Uncovered

Venera ft. Chelsea Wolfe - All Midnights

Venera - uuu773

@cratje
@00effort

[album]

“Softer hands” introduces a reality where art-electronics emerge from familiar club language. Sentimental melodies spray delicate feelings over metallic, hypnotising backgrounds. Distant, angelic choirs are softly moulded and shaped by whirring mechanical sounds, hisses and swooshes. Over time, the music leads inward, letting light through densely packed soundscapes. The result is touching, otherworldly, at times uncanny or post-apocalyptic, like an ensemble of machines learning to feel. The circle of three remixers perfectly understands the language cratje operates in, adding to the universe created within four original tracks. 

downtempo / ambient / industrial / melodic / art-electronics

[artist]

cratje is a co-runner of MONTAGE, a Brussels-based trans-medial output, and host of "Stoute Muziek," a radio show on KIOSK. 
instagram.com/crat_j
soundcloud.com/cratje

[label]

00effort label encourages diversity and promotes genre-bending electronic music, created by emerging producers from Poland and beyond.

instagram.com/00effort
00effort.bandcamp.com

[additional credits]

Remixers: Guenter Råler, épong, ehh hahah
Cover art: Marta Tworkiewicz
Mastering: ultrascope

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premiere: cratje - hass périf [label: 00effort]

Beatrice Dillon and N1L remixes of HELM’s Olympic Mess for the dancefloor. Hand-stamped limited edition of 300 copies.

order: 
http://p-a-n.org/product/helm-olympic-mess-n1l-beatrice-dillon-remixes-pan-70/
https://p-a-n.bandcamp.com/

Olympic Mess Remix

HELM — Olympic Mess (Beatrice Dillon Remix) PAN 70

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