The always-game-changing INDEX:Records feels like the ideal platform for Gi Gi. Over the last year or so, the Texas-based producer has been slowly cultivating his own style of introspective downtempo. Until August, he’d mainly done so by exploring the sound in mixes and teasing us with tracks on a handful of compilations (insert shameless plug of our label). That changed with the release of Sunchoke on Good Morning Tapes, an 8-track collection of blissful beat-based sounds reminiscent of Tranquilizer-era Terre Thaemlitz.

Lamella Pressed follows in the same rhythm-centric footsteps as his recent tape release. Any fan of early ‘00s downtempo labels like City Centre Offices, Elektrolux and theAgriculture will find so much to love here. The album sounds unlike almost anything else you’ll hear right now though, especially “Sinews (feat. Hysterical Love Project)”. Similar to Gi Gi, Brooklyn and Ike bring their own signature brand of 4AD-inspired soulfulness to the track. It’s got to be one of the collaborations of the year, in our very humble opinion.

Gi Gi - Lamella Pressed is out December 2nd on INDEX:Records. You can pre-order the album on Bandcamp.

https://indexrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lamella-pressed
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Gi Gi – Lamella Pressed

PREMIERE: Gi Gi - Sinews (feat. Hysterical Love Project)

Mini album out now. Grab your digital/vinyl copy at : e-unity.bandcamp.com/album/bbb-3-mini-album

Visual by Laurent Allard 
Art Direction by Unité Services & DR.ME 
Mastering par Krikor

‘BBB<3’ is an LP of club ballads that echo his influences, ranging from hyper-pop, Latin music, the hardcore continuum and post-dubstep stylings, featuring heavy bass mutations, spacey synths and hybrid rhythmic compositions.

E-Unity - One fm

We have been yearning to relieve ourselves and do so today with the release of our first single 'Kiss My Vibe', from the upcoming Downstairs People album 'DSP'.

Downstairs People – Kiss My Vibe [INDEX:016]

Lambda

Release +ϕ

Celebrating 5 years of Eastern Nurseries.

A communal release comprising 14 pieces of modern electronic music, “Diving Headfirst Into The Sun" marks yet another entry in an ever-growing series of Eastern Nurseries compilations, bringing together new and familiar faces to the label's roster.

Doesn't it amaze you, the way our paths crossed?

Mastered by Owen Pratt
Artwork by Tristán Alcover

Diving Headfirst Into The Sun

Conna Haraway - Drench

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 - Taurian Shade

Carrier

Belly Up

You Leave Me Breathless

Heith - Escape Lounge 
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 147
Release Date: 25 April 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/EscapeLounge

Heith's music has always been infused with sacred mystery, striking a delicate balance between lived experience and imagination.

On Escape Lounge, his second full-length release for PAN, Heith draws inspiration from contemporary digital spirituality and interpretations of experience that are crossing over from cultural niches into the mainstream – including internet-based conspiracy theories and psychological operations. The album presents a sonic diary recorded across Milan, Berlin, London, and Stockholm, crafting a post-informational folklore while exploring new territories in personal songwriting.

The title Escape Lounge, inspired by airport waiting areas, serves as a metaphorical waiting room of the mind. Its hidden passages can lead either to peril and loss or to enlightenment and kaleidoscopic mental landscapes. This liminal space echoes the mysterious realms of Twin Peaks or the viral "Backrooms" phenomenon. Within it, contributing musicians – including frequent collaborators Leonardo Rubboli, Aase Nielsen, and 33 drummer Alexander Iezzi – move like ethereal presences, creating intangible soundscapes that leave traces of post-hypnotic melancholia. Notably, the vocal contributions from Price and James K enhance the otherworldly atmosphere, their multifaceted timbres adding layers of intentional ambiguity.

Throughout the album, Heith masterfully blends acoustic instruments, human voices, and digital technology along an uncharted path that references the experimental pop of 90s trip-hop, 2000s indie-folk songwriting, and lush Mediterranean psychedelia. The sounds are meticulously crafted, combining synthesizers with guitar-based compositions in a computational songwriting approach that creates a collage across eras and landscapes. Each track unveils new dimensions of this delicate hallucinogenic narrative, delivering an immersive listening experience. As reality continuously shifts, Escape Lounge emerges as both sanctuary and confinement – a space of momentary connections and endless potential.

In 2025, Heith will debut a new live show and audiovisual collaboration titled 'The Talk' with James K and Günseli Yalcinkaya, commissioned and premiering at Sonar Festival, Terraforma, Nuit Sonores, and Reworks.

All tracks written and produced by Heith 2021-2024.
Mixed at TWS
Mastered by Amir Shoat
Artwork by Heith and Nicola Tirabasso
Vocals by Heith, Price, James K
Strings by Leonardo Rubboli, H, Renato Grieco, Fausto Cigarini Guitars by Heith, Leonardo Rubboli
Drums by Heith, Alexander Iezzi, Jacopo Battaglia, Leone Ciocchetti Flutes by Leonardo Rubboli
Saxophone by Aase Nielsen
Lyrics on track 4 by Cecile Believe, Price and Heith
Lyrics on track 10 by Alia Seror O'Neill and Heith

Heith ft. James K - Come, Sweet

Nu-Delhi

Miles Axlerod

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