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"The Fool" 12" out March 7th-
https://sa-pa.bandcamp.com/album/the-fool

Mastered by Miles.

Photography by Will Bankhead, layout by Bene Pooley.

Released March 14 on 12" and digital formats.

Distribution worldwide via Rubadub.

Sa Pa's trademark fantastical and thickly textured sound twisted in four new directions, closely treasured and finally released; some of his most delicate and hypnotic work, and fathoms deep. Switch on your sub or find one to borrow!

The first release on Short Span, a new label from Matthew Kent, co-runner of the label Mana before this, and who ran mix music platform Blowing Up The Workshop before that.

A series of longer, dubbed out, ambient and flowing tracks. techno, minimal, bass and groove. Chosen and cut to drop the needle on and just let play for a while. for warming up, coming down, or never leaving the house.

The Fool

Sa Pa - Captigon (Short 1)

"General Patterns" 2x12 out June 20th-
https://mammoworks.bandcamp.com/album/general-patterns

A double pack from Mammo, six tracks digging deep. General Patterns is the first time he’s released a record outside of his own constellation of labels and identities. Something new.

You can file this one under (dub) techno too if you like. Linked to the music he’s made as Puddlerunner last year in some ways, or the texture of tracks like Variable. It was compiled with Short Span following the completion of intense work on the ambient album Landmarks under his given name Fabiano, and quickly brought together an extended set of stripped back, patient, wonderfully rewarding sound. Really beautiful. Some mossy earthy texture, some starlit night skies.

Mastered by Miles.

Art by The Designers Republic.

Distributed by Rubadub.

Mammo - Traction (Short 2)

Mammo - Traversing A Raincloud (Short 2)

https://connaharaway.bandcamp.com/album/shifted

Three sanguine slices of dub techno from Glasgow-based wunder Conna Haraway. And featuring XENIA REAPER providing vibes and synths on the lush long elevation "Redirect" that sits on the record’s A side.

Shifted follows on from Spatial Fix; Conna’s first solo 12” in March ’25 that released on Theory Therapy. Where that EP was a dense and rich web of texture and atmosphere across the two long sides, this one focuses in on forms of propulsion and a patient, silvery endlessness.

A side track "Redirect" was cut from a longer Sunday night session with XENIA REAPER. Two laptops Ableton linked, chilling in the flat in Glasgow. The amazing synth line is all XENIA, everything else is Conna; looping the synth & bass for about an hour and bringing other elements in and out. The final tune is gorgeous, floating in the blissful ether before the sub and pulse kicks through. Eleven and a half minutes of enveloping pressure, refreshment and delight.

"Detach" and "Duration" both turn to a rediscovered love for 4x4 techno and an experiment in a more classic and subtle sound from the perspective of a producer who might be expected to take bigger emotive and experimental swings that follow the patterns of contemporary ambient and bass. The result is beautiful and delicate vectors of music, satisfyingly easy to slide into a set. Swung techno filled with detail and poise. Tunes that can scale and transform and sit in a sort of home listening club track zone. After hours nrg.
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releases September 12, 2025

Mastered by Miles.

Art by The Designers Republic.

Conna Haraway - Redirect ft. XENIA REAPER (Short 3)

https://sa-pa.bandcamp.com/album/ambeesh
2xLP & digital out July 21

Quickly following March’s The Fool - our label debut - Sa Pa reveals his new album Ambeesh on Short Span.

Coming five years after In A Landscape, and nearly a decade since his debut Fuubutsushi, Ambeesh pulls together a previously hidden body of work.

Written between 2014-2019 and long held in reserve awaiting the right moment for release, the album has often been grouped conceptually as a follow up to his FORUM debut. There’s a strong through line connecting the unique language and liveliness of ambient, layered field recordings, and dub techno found in those earlier records, as well as the seamless skydive through pressure formations found in the Enter Sa Pa production mix, which hinted at several of these tracks.

These pieces have taken time to surface and fully catch the light, but there’s still little else that compares. It’s a cache of some of his deepest and most texturally thrilling music, some of which have been rattling around in our ears and minds and conversation for years and have now found the right home and time. Forward thinking and singular in its combination of atmosphere; Ambeesh can press on the body at the right volume, and moves in thrust and riposte with the listener’s circadian rhythms. Sa Pa continues to dissolve the border between club-informed experimentation and intimate headphone listening.

Ambeesh also marks the artist’s return to Australia and the beginning of a new phase. 
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releases July 21, 2025

Mastered by Miles.

Digital release of Lexanconical mastered by CGB @ Dubplates & Mastering.

Art by The Designers Republic.

Sa Pa - Slow Motion Falling (Recess) (Short 5)

From 'Globelight', forthcoming on Short Span.
YOU'VE BOUGHT: https://angelhunt.bandcamp.com/album/globelight

@angelhunt ❇️

They're beneath you. You know it. You've always known. It's a feeling, an innate sense of superiority, a given, a rule, as unshakeable as gravity or death or the necessity of a little parasol atop a piña colada. They are less than, you are more. Buy why? These ponderances are also beneath you, but, not that you asked, but, not that you cared, but here's why: it's Angel Hunt's 'Canopy', out on Short Span, premiered by Madjestic Kasual. It's the fact that you've listened, liked, reposted, shared widely. It's that. That's why you're better than they. You deserve it. They're beneath you.

you've bought

Angel Hunt - Canopy [MK PREMIERE]

Release date: 29/08/25

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

180g vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Wolfgang Voigt makes a return to Astral Industries, seeing the continuation of his long-running Rückverzauberung (Reverse Enchantment) series. In line with previous volumes, one may expect the unconventional, idiosyncratic sound Voigt is reputed for. ‘Im Tunnel’ however, takes a more concentrated viewpoint - a metaphysical transmutation that brings with it an experience of mind-melting drones and swelling intensity.

Entering the tunnel is like opening a portal, but as the fabric of time-space begins to collapse on itself, it feels more like a rude awakening. Pulsing undulations rise and fall like the turbines of a spacecraft, marked by dissonant chords and a simmering cloud of complex and ever-shifting textures. Pushing thresholds and expectations, the unearthly nature of the tunnel over time disintegrates any proposed state of completion.

A treacherous voyage, and possibly bewildering for some, the work is both unrelenting and uncompromising. Should one decide to step into the tunnel, be sure to take all necessary precautions and procedures.

Side B

Side A

’00s CD-inspired minimal and techno from Matthew Kent

"a few tracks [are] from ‘00s era CDs i’ve found forgotten about in a weird/cool CD only store in Sheffield that has that satisfying ex-HMV racking you can flip through at high speed. no greater feeling than leaving there after an hour with a little envelope sized brown paper bag containing a saint etienne cd, some terrible/great chillout compilation, and a ken ishii thing you’ve not heard before for all of £10."

@blowinguptheworkshop
@shortspanrecords

Interview + tracklist: https://www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/short-span

Theory Therapy 82: Short Span

https://eemer.bandcamp.com/album/fog

emer - Fog
Short 6
LP & Digital
releases October 31, 2025

Fog is Marija Rasa’s debut album on Short Span as emer, and her first cut to wax. It follows a single featuring Ugnė Uma for Stroom and a wonderful debut tape for the now cult (I hope!) incubator label Lilerne Tape Club.

It’s for dreamers. Very dub. Soul. Ambient too. A bit of Detroit-like post industrial imagining. You can read it is as a new and different version of a very classic dub technique from the producer in many ways - Marija at the mixing console and effects desk, conjuring a new versioned music through radical restructuring and an instinctive reshaping of space + melody + lyric in studio experimentation.

Tracks are pinned down by thick and enveloping bass while other elements float in and out, fleeting narcotic or hypnagogic notes of fantasy and song form bob in and out of focus. Scant colours and disorienting voice and melody sit suspended, occasionally coalescing and breaking out into moments of radiant beauty and slowly burning manifestations of warmth and presence shooting through the heart and gut.
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Mastered by Miles.

Art by Micah Giraudeau.

emer - Nobody Speaks (Short 6)

In a Landscape

Ripsketch

Mada Kokoni Iru Original Soundtrack Recomposed

Particle

F44 / DOUBT

Exploring the subtle dissonance and melody of modernist, futuristic music.

www.sapamusic.com.au

Ripsketch

Sa Pa

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