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Berlin-based label Post Hoc presents their eighth release, “Summer’s End Vol. 3”, featuring 8 young artists from various musical backgrounds. Forming the third edition of a soundtrack as the summer comes to a close, the compilation explores the combination of various sentiments: Of nostalgia, passion, and melancholy, a visceral passage traversing morning breezes and hazy nights. “Summer’s End Vol. 3” recollects a memory, paying tribute to a feeling that is no more, but is sure to return once again.

Buy via: https://post-hoc.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-summers-end-vol-3-ph008

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Premiere: Evitceles - I Want To Be Eternal [Post Hoc]

APEAK 'Serenity Before The World'

After a hiatus from his solo project Paavo Piekkari returns to Changeless as APEAK with his latest club forward offering ’Serenity Before The World’.

The four track EP explores what it’s like to exist in the world filled with distractions, love, hate, guestlists at various clubs and magick. Metros run at tight intervals in every part of the world, and people desire closeness after every afterparty. Perception of one’s reality can be altered with rituals or small bags of powders. If our goal is wakefulness, do we still fear the dreamless sleep after?

’Serenity Before The World’ opens with ‘Terminus’, a hard-hitting, noisy and colossal intro in the realm of the EP. ‘Terminus’ if followed by a collaboration with the legendary Northern Electronics and Posh Isolation affiliate Varg²™; their track ’Humid Air (上環)’ was born after two days of frenzy in Hong Kong together. The city seemed to breathe in and spit out everything that it inhaled, from the Rolex storefronts to the bright lights of the skyscrapers. While the first tracks of the EP showcase a more familiar sound from APEAK, the ecstatic ‘Dreamless Sleep’ unveils an entirely new, more euphoric side to his sonic palette. The EP’s closing track ’Stillness (TOMEANGLS)’ is an optimistic lullaby, that features guitars from fellow Hollowland band member Jonathan Engeldahl.

Recorded in Helsinki, Hong Kong & Leuven in 2022-2024

Produced by Paavo Piekkari
Production (Track 2) by Jonas Rönnberg
Guitars (Track 4) by Jonathan Engeldahl
Mixing, Mastering & Additional Production by Nori Kin

Artwork by Markus Watkins

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Serenity Before The World

APEAK - Dreamless Sleep

"one by one these desires are wiped away"

"wanting less" out 27th of september
mu-tate.bandcamp.com/album/wanting-less

Produced and mixed by mu tate
Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval

Cover photo by panddr
Center labels by Art Crime
Design by mu tate

one by one these desires are wiped away

"some days felt like home"

"wanting less" out 27th of september
mu-tate.bandcamp.com/album/wanting-less

Produced and mixed by mu tate
Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval

Cover photo by panddr
Center labels by Art Crime
Design by mu tate

wanting less

some days felt like home

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 - Hypersea

DJ DIE SOON ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND SHARES ‘UNFINISHED’ FT. KIKI HITOMI & FRANCO FRANCO
‘MY BROTHEL THE WIND’ IS SET FOR RELEASE ON 25TH JULY

DJ DIE SOON is the apocalyptic alter-ego Daisuke Imamura, whose performances of masked malice have been a fixture in the Berlin underground for the past decade. Announced today alongside its first single, upcoming record 'My Brothel The Wind' takes inspiration from Sun Ra at his most grotesque, conjuring a distorted phantasmagoria with an eclectic crew of compatriots like Rully Shabara, Sara Persico, and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi.

Out today, first single ‘Unfinished' is a pulsating chimera featuring animalistic vocals from Kiki Hitomi of Ninja Tune bass explorers King Midas Sound, with Italian MC Franco Franco’s verses snaking underneath the noisy onslaught:

"I instantly knew that the song would be the first on the album. Raw, heavy and noisy - these elements are crucial for my art and Kiki and Franco boosted them even more with their voices.” DJ DIE SOON

'My Brothel The Wind' shows DJ DIE SOON as an alchemist of distortion, transmuting the club-forward beats of his 2020 debut Kappa Slap and the seething horrorscapes of DIEMAJIN, his 2022 collaboration with Tokyo vocalist MA. Imamura’s obsession with noise stems from his upbringing in Tokyo, where he grew up hearing the deafening roar of trains every day. “The buildings were really tall, so the sounds reflected so much and it was so loud that you couldn’t even have a conversation on the phone. Hearing this noise every minute when living in this flat, it became a normal thing,” he says. While most would content themselves with avoiding loudness, DJ DIE SOON seeks to unpack its visceral potential.

While Sun Ra’s intergalactic Moog reached for the stars, DJ DIE SOON plunges into the depths of hell. Rather than a vision of the future, 'My Brothel The Wind' is a laugh-cry of despair in the face of a Hadean present. DJ DIE SOON confronts the world with a new hand-made mask, reborn in the ashes. Film director Hiroo Tanaka’s visual contributions in the album art, poster, and music video complete the album’s narrative, telling a story not of villainy but of phantom caprice in a dying world.  

Mixed by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum Studio, Berlin (except B2, B3)
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin

Cover photography by Hiroo Tanaka/DOGGYTASTES
Photography assistant Joana Schurr
Font by Daisuke Imamura

For Tina,Miyu,Kaito

© + ℗ Drowned By Locals 2025 
DBL36LP

DJ DIE SOON - Unfinished ft. Kiki Hitomi, Franco Franco

Jeremy Shaw, There In Spirit, Konrad Black - Phase Shifting Index (PAN 146)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 146
Release Date: 28 March 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/PSI

Phase Shifting Index is a time capsule record of Jeremy Shaw’s vast original artwork that includes audio excerpts, voiceover passages and music composed by There in Spirit and Konrad Black. Shaw’s seven-channel video, sound and light installation–that premiered at Centre Pompidou in 2020–uses science fiction, documentary, visual effects and synchronisation to induce an ecstatic experience in narrative temporality. Each video details the belief systems of one of seven fictional subcultural groups spread across time that aspire to induce parallel realities that could redirect the evolution of the human species through embodied forms of ritual, ideology and movement. 

"Cross-Temporal Sync" written and produced by There In Spirit. All other titles written and produced by Konrad Black.
Mixed by Konrad Black at Blackprint Studios.
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk, Berlin
Design by Information Office, Vancouver.

Phase Shifting Index premiered at Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2020 and has since been exhibited in nine international venues including ARoS, Denmark, MONA, Tasmania, MAC, Montreal and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Jeremy Shaw, There In Spirit, Konrad Black - Ramping

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