Lifted - 1 
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 61
http://p-a-n.org/

PAN is pleased to announce the debut release from Lifted, an ongoing collaborative project initiated by Matt Papich (AKA Co La) and Beautiful Swimmers’ Max D.

Drawing on studio sessions recorded in their respective hometowns of Baltimore and Washington DC, the album sees the pair break free from the constrictions of the grid and exercise their versatility through improvised fusion. Working outside the framework that underlies their solo output, the eight tracks on offer showcase experiments in freeform techno, hyaline electronics, and ambient, with the duo reaching out to Motion Graphics, 1432 R co-founder Dawit Eklund, and Jeremy Hyman for additional synthesis, drumset and percussion.

The album also exhibits solo performances from Gigi Masin and Jordan GCZ (Juju & Jordash), who submitted overdubs from their bases in Venice and Amsterdam.

Lifted - Mint (PAN 61)

Diminishing Returns w/ deköm: 2nd June '25

https://soundcloud.com/hektttt & https://soundcloud.com/exilee591 for @fetid_gruppe

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Fetid #15 w/ Hekt & Exilee (13/06/25)

Ender

4. @loser111 Feat. @doesnt-matter-11 - Condition Zero

DJ Loser Feat. Penelope's Fiance - Condition Zero

This short mix of 14 tracks draws from Hiiro Issiki's latest EP ‘Tannins’, and includes mashup tracks.

"To transform the structured art of “music” into ambiguous particles of memory and space.
It is neither “story” nor “emotion”. It is the sensation of fragments, the memory of reverberations, the minute tremors of the unconscious. In other words, I want to present as a work of art the very sensation of “a faint blur in the silence. Time is not a line but a layer, melody is not will but an accidental stain, and “to listen” is not to enter into the sound but to be blurred by the sound."

Tracklist:

Hiiro Issiki - Out Of The Blue
Hiiro Issiki - Cage Homes
Hiiro Issiki - Lachrymose
Hiiro Issiki - No Place To Hide
Hiiro Issiki - Sabi
Hiiro Issiki - Still Reverbs Run Deep 
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About the artist:
Hiiro Issiki creates unique, immersive music that blends dynamic, emotional soundscapes with meditative stillness. Inspired by movie soundtracks, his work combines deep, sentimental tones and abrupt, intense noises to reflect modern society and human existence. His music explores our hopes for the future and raw impulses, inviting listeners to experience an existential journey, culminating in a dramatic, reflective album ending that captures life’ s struggles and joys.
Issiki has performed at the Austrian festival HYPERREALITY, the Shanghai club Antigen, the Tokyo clubs WWW and Forestlimit, and has recently held an ambient exhibition at the Koishikawa Botanical Garden in Tokyo.

https://soundcloud.com/hiiroissiki
Tannins via: https://sabsaniks.bandcamp.com/album/tannins


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Hiiro Issiki presents: Tannins

Artist: D. Towärds 
https://soundcloud.com/d-towards

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Invisible Structures

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

https://soundcloud.com/v_i_k_t_o_r_i_a

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PAWS #1 w/ Viktoria (18/09/25)

[EP060] Guest mix by Babak Ahteshamipour.

Aired via https://soundcloud.com/stegi-radio-athens.

Tracklist:

b.michaael - Fabel Jolt
Aethek - Polis
Andy Loebs - Scenic Overlook
Chad Mossholder - Slope
Fire-Toolz - A Moon In The Morning
Blood Incantation - Io: Second Movement
Debit - 1st Night
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Birth
Chihei Hatakeyama - Whiteland
Brian Eno - Under a Microscope
Rrose - Pleasure Vessels
Oranssi Pazuzu - Vierivä usva
Tim Hecker - You never were
James Rushford - Sonde Rosettes
Helm - Para
goo age - inner headset ⏑∙⏑ ⍜ beyond the skybox

Commissioned by Stegi Radio
Produced by Onassis Stegi

Stegi | evo-natura with Babak Ahteshamipour ― 23rd September 2025

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