Unsure (Instrumental)

https://erfrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/burn-perf000

Burn is the second YS album and written as a direct follow-up album to Brutal Flowers. If their first album was an exercise in the incremental, a construction of poise and patience, Burn, should be taken way the fuck at it’s word: it quite literally finds catharsis in twisted reverse. Birthed out the malignant kick found in deconstruction and chaos. Evil twin, psychotic younger sibling, call it what the hell you like. It might take you a moment to get the lay of the land in this darkly mutated world. Like a bug eye’d native first confronted with a zippo, the hit is radical and instant: a new way for the world to go up in smoke.

Splice the Seattle slacker scene with the spliffhead soundsystem culture of the '90s Bristol trip-hop scene, then cross-breed that with the DIY optimism and glee in creation found in the cut-and-paste worlds of skate, graffiti and hiphop, now run that through the skitzo basement mind of John.T. Gast and you’re close to the kind of scorched earth and spiked suburbia that birthed Burn.

Dunno quite what YS have been ingesting of late, but this massively twisted LP touches on a host of gloriously fucked totemic underground sources while not sounding much like any of them. It has the ballsy swagger and hard flipping of the script as Massive Attack’s seminal Blue Lines. Indeed, the eponymous album tracks sound similar - the opener ‘Burn’ is like a hard-nosed, jammed-out redux of ‘Blue Lines’. Getting into a kind of slow-spinning overdubbed maximal euphoria ending with mumbled downer vocals, struggling to conceal their tongues in their cheeks, there’s an air of paranoia and proto-conspiracy theory. It’ll leave you scratching your head, feeling like you’ve stepped into a New World Order governed by a cacophony of dropouts, dope fiends, and apocalyptic stoners. A cracked-out world somewhere between Richard Linklater’s movie Slacker (1990) and Marc Singer’s Dark Days (2001).

The rest of the album parts like a tongue on a wine glass: Smith and Mighty, Bandulu, ambient Luke Slater records, Wah Wah Wino, Nurse with Wound, Land of the Loops, Placid Angels, Adrian Sherwood, Urban Tribe and DJ Shadow can all be heard in momentary splatters - but Burn like other works by YS, is its own ritual beast. ‘Moth’, a track that has been circulating the underground DJ circuit for many moons, is a raw, chopped, and screwed slice of stoner erotica that reeks of obsession and unrequited desire. Elsewhere, on tracks like ‘Switch’, ‘Trying’, and ‘Drift’, the throughline from Brutal Flowers can be heard. Underneath the driving heavy gravity, the trademark emotional intimacies of YS linger: eternal recurrence, ghosts of static and shortwave, worn memories of the playful and painful sort. The brief moments when flashes of orchestral ambience emerge from beneath the swagger are so pure, personal, and unguarded that, for a moment, they leave you completely alone. In the album’s closer ‘End’, you can hear the fleeting promise and DIY possibilities of an analogue world and embers of ash that flutter in its wake: where it seemed, for a brief moment, that collective of DJs, engineers, rappers, graffiti artists and skate crews were emerging from the streets, giving the middle fingers to the system, before just as quickly disappearing back to the doldrums of obscurity. ‘End’ is a bittersweet ode to early soundsystem culture, MCs and pirate radio - an out of step time where for a moment the underdogs and weirdos seemed to be kicking on the door of something bigger.

A veritable teenage doof suite dosed with desire, claustrophobia, and deviance. Burn is a good old howl at the moon: lonely, raw, and out for blood; basement style exegesis at its best. A thump to the gut, a stud through your blood. A dubbed-to-death classic straight out of the annals of nowhere. A perfect postcard from oblivion. A bleak, bold, and personally ferocious vision of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

PREMIERE | YS - Moth [PERF000]

Deetron presents Soulmate - Code

A1. Code
A2. The Visitor
B1. Cloud Woman
B2. Worlds Combine

Original Dat Funk Spears on 180g heavyweight vinyl.

Written & produced by Deetron
Mastered by Tangible Air
Artwork by Bettina Zenker

p&c Ilian Tape 2025

IT073 DEETRON PRESENTS SOULMATE - CODE

Best known for his cinematic jungle excursions, Seb Uncles returns to Livity Sound for a second extended release of introspective electronics with a strong influence from mystical sources. 

As Eusebeia, Uncles has developed a strong, independent presence in modern electronic music defined by a prolific run of deep-diving, breakbeat-driven albums and EPs. In 2022 he released Cosmos on Livity Sound, a mini-album that zoomed out to a more reflective strain of electronica shaped by atmospheric synth lines in the hauntological vein of Ghost Box, Pye Corner Audio et al. 

The Wyrding Way finds Uncles delving even deeper into this area of his output, keeping drums to a bare minimum and focusing instead on powerful melodic lines. There are still considered soundsystem moments that connect with Livity's long-standing sonic focus, not least the subtle dub inflection of EP centrepiece 'By The Light Of The Moon'. Elsewhere Uncles leaves the melodic parts unaccompanied, letting the phrasing and emotional pull of the title track tell its own story. 

Balancing light and dark elements and drawing inspiration from personal experiences and perspectives, combined with spiritual and existential observations, Uncles capitalises on the evocative streak in his studio practice to deliver a timeless, immersive experience unlike anything else in his considerable back catalogue.

Eusebeia - By The Light of The Moon

Marguerite Records with Unpronounceable & The Spy - 20 Septembre 2025

https://darkheart.ampsuite.com/releases/links?id=429

Buy/Stream

FOME - Last Train Home (taken from the Absence EP)

Mind Games

New Palm's Spillman joins Surrealchemistry for dubbed-out and frazzled guest mix featuring some wondrous field recordings, original productions and tasty unreleased bits from the label!

Tracklist:
Spillman - Johnson Valley, Tree Crows (Field Recording)
DJ Trystero - Cantor’s Paradise [FELT]
? - ?
JdB - Come Over (Ian Ellison Rework) [unreleased New Palm]
Tetelepta - Sterknberg [ESHU]
Tetelepta - Nieuwe Nonnendaalseweg [ESHU]
DJ Trystero - Cantor’s Paradise [FELT]
JdB - Feels Good (Spillman’s ‘Bear’s Place at Night’ Rework) [unreleased New Palm]
Jocelyn & Yasin Engwer - Sticks & Stones [ESHU]
Sth - Dem1 [NVREC]
Pretty Sneaky - ? [Pretty Sneaky]
Ryo Murakami - Lunch of God [PAN]
Deadbeat - Public Inspiration [BLKRTZ]
Spillman - click38 [unreleased]
STL - ? [Something]
Weatherheads - msf13 [unreleased]

VPN Radio: Surrealchemistry 9/23/25 w/ Spillman

EBONMIX004 - Mutagenix @ Nowadays 02.01.25

What better way to kick off the 2nd season of the Ælthoran Architects series than the talented Christian Coiffure? 
As always, he delivers the perfect blend between Uk bass genres & hybrid Drum &  Bass.
CC releases on Comic Sans Records and Worst Records, alongside appearances on numerous compilations, including Silure Albinos Fishing Club, Bamboo Show Tapes, Krakzh, Electroménager, Metaphore Collectif, Vernacular Records, Brainwaves, Grid Records, Pressure Dome, Tsunami Recordings, La Mamie's, Seismic Wave, Feng Shit Records, Lurid Music, Bad Tips, Shaw Cuts, and Absorb Emit.

Souzo : Ælthoran Architects with Christian Coiffure - 08 Octobre 2025

https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/were-here-all-the-time

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@theory-therapy

Theory Therapy is pleased to present ‘we’re here all the time’ by jp (aka J.P Wright) – the New York producer behind one of last year’s shinetiac remixes on the OST label, and a member of Housecraft Recordings’ trip-bient group Ahem.

Compiling several years of well-worn material, the Brooklyn artist’s debut solo LP was the result of many hours of hardware jams and happy accidents, later meticulously edited down into these seven arrangements. Blending first-thought-best-thought spontaneity with extended DAW labouring, Wright delivers some of the most immediate music yet on Theory Therapy.

The album is reminiscent of ’90s and early-’00s IDM. Syncopated rhythms and atmosphere swirl into a mutable whole, as hardcore breakbeat, ambient trance and acidic electro bleed together into a liquid mélange. The sequencing drifts from gauzy, ethereal openings into tensile, club-ready pressure before swerving toward moments of stillness – like lingering in an emptied club hours after the crowd has gone.

There’s a distinct physicality to the music too. Kick patterns jitter like loose live wires, delays ripple through the fog-soaked air, yet the album’s finest moments lie in its more subtle textures and tonal shifts. This is proper braindance that keeps you suspended in its pulse, caught in non-linear time. Wright lets the music wander in unpredictable arcs, moments folding back on themselves, stretching in multiple directions at once – tracing and retracing a memory that refuses to settle. 

pi premiere: jp - perf (Theory Therapy)

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