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Croatian Amor - LA Hills Burn At The Peak Of Winter

Sophia AYA’s trio of distinct Neo-Classical tracks are like a sonic diving bell that unhesitatingly takes us deep into ourselves. Sophia guides us down to the level of whatever it is that we likely need to hear, face, or release, wether it is comfortable for us or not.
This singular listening experience is presented across three tracks:
“The Sea Of Almost’ : The complete main composition, featuring Kat Kikta’s evocative vocals.  https://on.soundcloud.com/XfEFaZcOTYlgQAf5cT
“The Sea Of Almost (Instrumental Resonance)”: A deeper more expansive ambient version, stripping away the central vocals to allow the listener to sink into the composition’s instrumental core. https://on.soundcloud.com/vdYD53HvJHjSKIdcGW
“The Sea Of Almost (Vocal Deepener)”: A sparse meditative track highlighting the layered  vocal harmonies and atmospheric elements, transforming the voice into a sacred, etherial instrument of sound healing. https://on.soundcloud.com/NbSPFy6lmZdr5VgT1N
In the depths of “The Sea Of Almost” are giant and gentle sea monsters waiting for us to pass by on our way to feel the unfelt things that remain even deeper below, perhaps in the sea of our conscious or subconscious mind.

The Sea Of Almost (Instrumental Resonance)

XENIA REAPER graces Oscilla Sound's Liminal catalogue with seven deft cuts, gently fusing the outer realms of spectral ambience and delicate breaks. The tracks glisten with subtle detail, blurring boundaries and drifting through territories on the fringes, traversing liminal spaces.

releases July 25, 2025

Artwork by Jelly Works Studio.
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken.

XENIA REAPER - never let go  [label: Liminal / Oscilla Sound]

Ambient ethereal soundscape celebrating Sci-Fi from the past, present and future.

NEXUS 18 THE RISE OF THE ROBOTS

7038634357 is the alias of Neo Gibson (b. 1995), a musician born and raised in Arlington, VA. They currently live in New York City. Previous releases include 2017's LYSE on Brooklyn's Pastel Voids, and 2017's MY VISION OF THE SUN, a self-released EP. More background and contact information can be found on their website ive-been-waiting-all-my.life.

XPETAL is a loosely narrative 5-track EP. It explores the inner soundtracks of suburban anxiety comedowns, and dreams for futures of radical justice.

Composed/mixed by @neo_petal
Mastered by James Xu @djdirtykkkk
Artwork by Tavi Lee @16666666

XPETAL

7038634357 - Sickle Sheen (Arms Open)

A Butterfly Deposit

Bandcamp

Angel Shaving (2: LASER)

Taken from my new LP 'Spirals Heaven Wide', out on Local Action this November 15th.

More info and pre-order here: http://localactionrecords.co.uk/spirals/

Fall Control

DJ Lostboi & Torus - The Flash

sitequeeste.bandcamp.com/album/the-flash
Available 24 January 2020 on LP and digital platforms.

Following 2019’s hibernation, Queeste reappears with the mnestic soundscapes of DJ Lostboi and Torus’ split album The Flash. Across eight gossamer evocations—four from each artist—the duo reflect on individual journeys from airport to sea during the blissful embers of fading summer. Their gaze expands and contracts naturally with passing locations but lingers on the titular flash, what the two artists describe as “the rare sight of the sun giving off a bright green lightburst into the horizon.”

Made up of sounds sourced and appropriated from these commutes—pop music heard on the radio, jumbled street recordings, and everyday technological objects—The Flash evokes the melancholic pull of such recollections without ever succumbing to nostalgia. The moments eked from these samples stretch into quiet eternity—still and suspended—while retaining their quotidian, terrestrial qualities.

DJ Lostboi successfully refines the warped atmospherics heard on his previous edits of pop, rap, and emo. First track ‘Open World’ welcomes listeners with lapping waves and plaintive wavering tones—like a glittering video game environment—until real life interrupts on ‘Ordinary People’ as an automated answer phone message: an unknown voice lets out a weary sigh. Its foggy pianos and soft vocals offer melody and buoyancy where ‘LB 100’ circles on moody, dream-like pads. We follow the artist’s oceanic voyage to its culminating trance-like shimmers which dissolve into cool water: reflective, endless, yet ultimately hopeful.

Netherlands-based Torus foregoes the dancefloor dynamics of 2016’s Engine Malfunction for a series of calmer, cloudless drifts. On ‘Enter The Sun’—a sparse, yearning composition—washes of noise and clipped auto-tuned vocals pulse over a haunting refrain until ‘Pier’ arrives with whirring engines, sweet birdsong, and decaying synths. The album’s lightest piece comes with the skipping ‘Radiate 540’—euphoric dance minus the kick—which rises from a muffled human interaction until slow motion cinematics signal the trip’s end: ‘Arrival’ collapses into the sea elegantly mirroring DJ Lostboi’s final track.

Despite its hushed ambience, The Flash is an album committed to forward momentum. Each composition reveals a discrete chapter of DJ Lostboi and Torus’ journey building to a moment of bittersweet ascension. The results of such heartfelt wandering recall the spatial dynamics of The KLF’s zoned post-rave landscapes but these works flicker with thoroughly modern paraphernalia and emotions.

The Flash

DJ Lostboi - Open World

MALIBU - PALACES OF PITY
https://www.ofluxo.net/malibu-presents-palaces-of-pity/

Phoenix Chorale - Sunrise Mass: The Spheres, "Kyrie eleison"
Ecco 2k - Peroxide
Mix Factory - Take me away
Boards of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden
James Newton Howard - Swimming scene Waterworld
Soundlift - Maharaj
Tilt ft. Maria Nayler - Angry Skies (Quivver mix)

MIX & ART: https://soundcloud.com/mmmmalibu
O Fluxo, 2020

PALACES OF PITY

MALIBU - PALACES OF PITY

Purchase: bit.ly/35jLaxx
Catalog #: GN63
October 1, 2020
2xCASS+DIGI

The midnight hour crept unto thee with hasty caution, revealing 'A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North', our third putrid prowl into Halloween-inspired sounds to torment and tantalize throughout the season. For this bout of distinguished dementia, we culled 31 brand new tracks of haunted hysteria conjured by some of the most alluring ambientists and outer auteurs from around the world. 

Spanning over two hours across two cassettes, 'A Little Night Music…’ unfurls itself in a literary horror structure, appearing and disappearing through a stirring Prologue and Epilogue by London-based cellist Oliver Coates, with each side of the cassettes introducing its Chapter with a chilling dirge courtesy of the inscrutable Geographic North House Band.  

What fills the ensuing pages is a mirthful tale concocted by an assembly exploring a realm all at once mournful and fatalist at its core. Entries from Clarice Jensen, Malibu, and the collaboration of Like a Villain and Christina Vantzou bring about endless glacial landscapes accented by pitch-grey skies. Conversely, transmissions from Michael Valentine West, M. Sage, Gregg Kowalsky, and Austrian ambient stalwart Fennesz explore richly textured mines of foreboding glee. 

Suspicion is the word when considering Zelienople’s eerie horse-carriage clip-clop, Nick Malkin’s neon-lit noir-jazz, or Carmen Villain’s gripping dub excursion. Elsewhere Ki Oni, Takagi Masakatsu, and Mary Lattimore (joined here by Paul Sukeena) provide glimmers of warmth amidst a tortured chill. 

Notable is the resurrection of Lotus Plaza and his solemnly hopeful piano composition, while barren hallucinations courtesy of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Ilyas Ahmed, and Danny Paul Grody set the stage for a third act confrontation from Atlantans Fit of Body and Algiers, providing a one-two serving of sensual unrest and cautionary homily.  

With hope and resolve shimmering through the final moments of our journey, know that all proceeds from the digital and cassette editions go directly toward Feminist Women's Health Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit providing safe, accessible, and compassionate abortion and gynecological care to all those who need it without judgement.

feministcenter.org

Malibu - "Isle Of Us"

Perko “Galerie” CS / Digital 

Posh Isolation is proud to present ”Galerie” by the Copenhagen based Scotsman Perko. While being mostly recognized for his organic blend of club music arrangements, “Galerie” emphasises a focus on field recordings, textures and striped-down abstraction. Over the course of 8 tracks Perko builds small worlds of tangible ambience and horizons of amiable beauty. The sense of ebb and flow throughout “Galerie” gives it a sense of contemplative weightlessness and the perception of mild sun glittering blindness.

Posh Isolation 248 

Tracklist 

Swirral Edge 06:02
Galerie 03:49
Interlude 01:08
Edie 04:54
Striding Edge 04:54
Scramble 01:20
Marri 05:21
Oak 05:35

Galerie

Perko - Swirral Edge

Taken from Gi Gi - Lumino Pleco (QTT22) 
Full album out now on: https://quiettimetapes.bandcamp.com/album/lumino-pleco

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Cinematic and spiritual sounds from Gi Gi, conjuring a quasi-religious trance and made entirely from samples - ncluding Prince, Vangelis, Erykah Badu, and Miles Davis - warped, blended and smoothed over beyond recognition.

At times melancholic and at times hopeful, these lush textural soundscapes are worthy of an introspective listen; lights off, candle lit and somewhere comfortable.

Limited Cassette

Gi Gi - Montjuïc ft. Mi Mi

"It was then, floating in the passivity of induced consumption, in which it became clear that this functional mechanism of time was but a codified drift. With our particular indifference to an imposed rationality, all semblance of alterity had been lost".

@thodenmcr

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As we take a step back from what we knew as "club" music; Thodén's debut album, This Codified Drift, takes us on an emotional sonic journey through ambient experimentation and refined electronic sound design.

Music composed & produced by Thodén
Additional voice-over by Lise Perrier
Voice-over text written by Aurélie Vivarié
Sculpture by Thomas Viers & Maxence Alfandare (Niveau Zéro Atelier)
Photo by Olly Geary
Art direction & cover design by Yanni Caloghiris

DJ Lostboi - Open World

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