Absolutely crazy for this track! on my 30th listen today probably 😆

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 - Exinfinite (PAN 153)

Hymnal

Rewild

Ghost Orchid

Le Diouck - Grace Joke 
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 159
Release Date: 27 June 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/GraceJoke

Le Diouck is a multidisciplinary Franco-Senegalese artist whose debut album “Grace Joke” was released on June 27, 2025, featuring collaborations with Bonnie Banane, Lala &ce, La Zowi, and Yves Tumor.

Born Magueye Diouck, the 30-year-old artist draws from his Senegalese roots and Parisian life to create work spanning music, illustration, and performance. Originally trained as an illustrator working on graphic novels, he transitioned into music and performs in Wolof, French, and English. He has also walked for Comme des Garçons and starred in Gucci campaigns.

His work exists “at the intersection of folktale, speculative fiction, and diasporic memory,” constructing worlds where mythology and identity intertwine. His “Fatéouma” performance at the Bourse de Commerce tells a medieval fantasy fable about Grace, a cyborg searching for memories, and Joke, a broken circus clown.

Joining labels PAN and &ce Reckless in 2021, Le Diouck collaborates across the French underground scene with producers like Modulaw, Low Jack, and Lewis Ofman. He represents a new generation of Franco-African artists blending cultural heritage with contemporary expression, using his platform to promote understanding that “embracing your ancestors’ culture shouldn’t be seen as a threat but a virtue.”

Le Diouck ft. Bonnie Banane - INTRO: Thé à la Menthe

Le Diouck ft. Yves Tumor - Onigashima

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)

Cherry-coloured Funk

Hajj - (Do U Remembr Bein Born ?) x Armin Van Buren (In and Out of Love) Edit

In and Out of Love (ambient remix)

PIKI

Venera - Asteroxylon
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 153S2
Release Date: 21 August 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Asteroxylon

Venera shares ‘Asteroxylon’, the second 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. They launch squelchy, decelerated techno into occult noise reflecting pools on the slithering ‘Asteroxylon’.

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 - Asteroxylon (PAN 153S2)

Charcoal

HP: 925 MP: 463 / @hp925mp463 

Modulaw / @modulaw - FAULT LINES
Pholo / @pholouk - Peroxide (Remix)
cenaceae / @cenaceae - born slippy
Kat Nzingha / @katnzingha - Heme
Benfika / @benfikaa - Latido
Hex Key Fantasy / @hexkeyfantasy - Uphill
ᵛᵃˡᵉᵗ / @valet_id - Be with you (valet edit)
LS-ORWELL-PARTICLE & KLINICAL-CULT PROCESS / @orwelldubs -BOOTLEG
Hamilton Scalpel / @concretecabin - B2. Uprated Nite Zone
𝔓𝔩𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔟4̸̦̪̝̓̈́̕𝔟𝔜 /@plushb4by - PAMELA1234
Richi - Eastside (Ship Sket  Ed1t) / @hdmurder 
DJ GÄP, Xiao Quan / @sheltertln – Slice me up
Varg²™ / @varg2tm - Illusions 1996
12roses / @twelvroses - dustinthewindowpane
Jetty / @mystictearz - I could die right now
AraabMUZIK /@araabmuzik - 3 AM
Exploited Body / @exploitedbody- Helix
KAVARI / @kavarimusic - Eclipse
Blood of Aza/ @bloodofaza - ANGELS
SLIKBACK X SHAPEDNOISE / @freddymn - OFF THE RAILS
heavensword x Raiika - COMPROMISED + hp000mp000

HP: 925 MP: 463 ~ Correspondence Nº 58

Venera ft. FKA twigs - Caroline

Venera ft. Dis Fig - End Uncovered

Venera - Flatline

Venera ft. Chelsea Wolfe - All Midnights

Emerging from the freezing sea, our souls feed each other. I will never leave you. Soft and tender, held by gravity, your feathers piercing my skin as we lay together.


marks of rust on the windows.
to jump off a cliff and find your wings on the way down.
an arrow aimed at your chest but protected from your armor.
an ultraviolet ray emerging from your core.
softly descending into comfort.
an endless ocean of grief.
lightning falling right into my chest, it does not hurt.
there's many things you can not see with your eyes open.
a corner to hide.
a tornado.
i can hear your whispers even though we are not close.

(42°27'58.6"N 72°05'20.5"W)

the sound of armor falling from your body

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

Venera ft. FKA twigs - Caroline

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