SR012 Germinate [Imprint] Wilt [Stay] - Xenia Xamanek

A phone call with a past mentor who at age 95 is still teaching piano, a memory of giggling at her mother transfixed whilst photographing swans, a feeling of being floored whilst unearthing letters from her parents’ relationship. Exploring her most personal narratives to date, Laenz’s album ‘88 keys’ is suffused by the power of unwavering devotion - both towards others and towards lifelong study of music. Leaving behind the guilt of adolescent indignation and deviation from classical music towards fascination with leftfield dance music, the release circles back: a reverence to former piano teachers and the nurture they instilled in her.

Across ’88 keys’, loosely tethered memories and the intricate yet unpredictable sonic turns Laenz is known for are grounded through bass frequencies. On ’’11’ which samples recordings of Laenz’s last public performance of Bach’s ‘Chaconne in D minor’ arranged by Busoni, sustained solemnity is beset against misty, dubbed-out percussive explorations of piano acoustics. ’’24’ reminisces on lazy walks by Berlin canals, basslines ebbing hazily below spiralling hi-hats and caliginous melodies. ’9-30-91’ delicately re-casts one of the many love letters written by her father to her mother when they began dating, into a sonically distinct, tenderly stripped back vocal track. The lyrics read: ‘My dear, I miss you so much, I miss you deeply, from the bottom of my heart. Thoughts of you, occupy my whole heart, and every corner of my mind’.

Conversations, past performances, and archival recordings are run through iterations of radio transmission-reception, audio becoming irreversibly lost or altered into ambiguity. Each titled after a year, though not emotionally bound to it, the tracks are an aggregate of Laenz’s desire to calibrate them actively in her current memory—resisting any inevitable, obsolescent effects of time’s passing. In Laenz’s words ’88 keys’ ‘though a fraction of the appreciation I have for my parents, Carolyn Shaak, and Larry Graham, this project was from start to finish an ode to their impact. 

The singles ‘’11’ and ‘‘24’ are out on the 2nd and 9th May, ahead of the full album release on 16th May 2025.

Artist Bio:
Laenz is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY, working within radiophonic textures and caliginous dance music. Her work explores the sonification of indeterminate spaces, saturating abstract musical forms with intensely tender and personal observations. She uses vocals, radio equipment, and live processing in her performances, sonifying unknowable sounds into unsuspecting ears. She holds a Lot residency, and has released projects under Woozy, Early Reflex, Dance Data, and more.

88 keys - Laenz

'Scorpio Falling' album by Kelman Duran, out 12th September 2025

Scorpio Falling - Kelman Duran

An elegiac suspension through city landscapes in decay, weeds growing through vandalised ruins and fallen grandeur, BJ Holy’s debut album ‘Broken Horns’ offers an effusive take on endings, heartache and rebirth. Embracing solitude, rebuilding and the presence of what remains in the wake, euphoric beats tug below broody distillations of folkloric references and flugelhorn.

Opening with ‘Lowlanding’, a rework of sea shanty ballad ‘Lowlands’, the album blurs deeper and deeper into evocations of desire and ecstatic release. ‘Xo xo’ bids goodbye to broken hearts, whilst ‘Clean slate’ emerges as an airy counterpart to the subterranean emotional depths of ‘Earth sign’ (co-written with Virginia Waters). ‘DJ and I’m dancing’ is an angsty, industrial rumination on the alienating rotations of London’s side hustles. The album closes with ‘Anchored in love’, featuring Glasgow-based musician & choreographer, Magnus Westwell on strings. Returning again and again to a feeling of being fixed in romance through its cyclical, repetitive, looping composition, BJ Holy ushers in a hopeful glimpse of something new.

Written, performed, produced & mixed by BJ Holy
Mastered by Owen Pratt
'I said' vocals by GUIA
'Earth sign' backing vocals by Virginia Waters
'Hurt again' violin by Magnus Westwell
'Anchored in love' violin by Magnus Westwell
With support from Help Musicians

Broken Horns - BJ Holy

'Huiracchuro' is the first single taken from the EP 'Aviario', out on the 23rd February.

'Aviario' is a collaborative EP by Ecuadorian electronic music producers Entrañas and Ene Ese, alongside visual artist Destello. The release coalesces the unique sonic palette, textures and rhythms of Ecuadorian music with the darkness of Club and Bass music. Taking influence from bird species inhabiting the diverse ecosystems of Ecuador, Entrañas and Ene Ese seamlessly transmute delicately layered soundscapes and birdsong into cutting drum patterns, creating invigorating compositions that spotlight the rich musical heritage of Ecuador and its natural environment.

'Aviario' ranges sonically from moments of ambient textural exploration in 'Trogón', to dance floor ready tracks such as the single 'Huiracchuro' where overdriven melodies weave between sultry drums making heavy use of 6/8 polyrhythms found in Ecuadorian genres such as Albazo and Bomba. The third track 'Curiquingüe' features additional composition from producer Zunfo.

The EP is accompanied by six corresponding artworks by Destello, who reimagines the colours and forms of the birds into candescent abstractions.

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Entrañas & Ene Ese - Huiracchuro

Hollywood birders Harry and Tom deliver four DJ unfriendly tracks aimed squarely at the parish hall. Sonic forage-ables and contemporary barndance to storm cruck frames across the Tunbridge Wells - Pontypool connection.

‘Drum, Botany & the Brash’ is the product of six months of outings and studio sessions by Forest Casual, a collaborative project by Harry Murdoch and Thomas Morley. These songs assemble nocturnal field recordings, barely metric rhythms, the May Day dawn chorus, wilted bouzouki and wood-pigeon wub. Two heads colliding to create a third, completely distinct from its makers.The resulting four tracks are dub infused soundsystem folk for the funglist massive, just don’t call it Folktronica. Entrenched in the music are many musical tangents explored in Harry’s basement, anecdotes of work and play on the ropes, and memories of jumping fences and squinting at woodpeckers. 

Harry Murdoch makes music as hmurd and has released with TT Label, Gin & Platonic, All Centre and more. He co-runs the label Cherche Encore and is in the band Hard On Yarn Sourdonk Communion. Harry is chronically ill. He mostly makes music with code.
Thomas Morley is a free improviser currently exploring composition by experience and relationship. He is 1/2 of microband ‘mosspit’ and provides side-person duties for artists in need of pads and foley. Hailing from South Wales, Tom finds catharsis by abseiling on heritage buildings and playing 5-string banjo.

Written and Produced by Tom Morley and Harry Murdoch
Artwork by Sheonagh Baird

Forest Casual - Transients Cadw

Forest Casual - Crockerne Pill

Carlycore’s ‘Dissociative Thoughts’ EP is a sonic love letter centring raw emotion and identity exploration. The EP's title reflects a fractured reality, navigating joy and alienation as a trans woman in Lima, while the erratic genre-bending mirrors Carlycore's own dissociation and unfiltered self-expression.

Anchored by a fierce blend of Afro-peruvian rhythms , heavy perreo, and ambient transitions, ‘Dissociative Thoughts’ evokes the frenetic energy of “licuadora” music (blending machine music) of the Peruvian underground scene, where DJs switch through multiple genres and clashing rhythms within minutes. From the euphoric release of ‘Éxtasis en mi mente’  to existential reflections in ‘El tiempo pasa volando’, each track accelerates through percussive textures, blending reggaeton beats with industrial experimentation.  ‘Contacto 0’  embodies heartbreak and frustration, channeling unresolved tension into blistering, high-energy beats. Embracing a visceral, unpolished aesthetic, the EP serves as an intimate and unapologetic immersion into Carlycore’s fragmented but resilient world.

‘Dissociative Thoughts’ is out on the 22nd November 2024, released in collaboration by Doña Valentina and Scorpio Red. 


Éxtasis en mi mente - Carlycore

Percusión e Ilusión - Carlycore

El tiempo pasa volando - Carlycore

Contacto 0 - Carlycore

B-Dot - Honeymoon (ft. D3AD6OY)

Overture - Germinate

Recitative 1 - The House

Arie 1 - La Sucia

Ensemble 1 - Spiral of Absence

Recitative 2 - The Volcanoes

A phone call with a past mentor who at age 95 is still teaching piano, a memory of giggling at her transfixed mother photographing swans, a feeling of being floored whilst unearthing letters from her parents’ relationship. Exploring her most personal narratives to date, Laenz’s album ‘88 keys’ is suffused by the power of unwavering devotion - both towards others and towards lifelong study of music. Leaving behind the guilt of adolescent indignation and deviation from classical music towards fascination with leftfield dance music, the release circles back: a reverence to former piano teachers and the nurture they instilled in her.

Across ’88 keys’, loosely tethered memories and the intricate yet unpredictable sonic turns Laenz is known for are grounded through bass frequencies. On ’’11’ which samples recordings of Laenz’s last public performance of Bach’s ‘Chaconne in D minor’ arranged by Busoni, sustained solemnity is beset against misty, dubbed-out percussive explorations of piano acoustics. ’’24’ reminisces on lazy walks by Berlin canals, basslines ebbing hazily below spiralling hi-hats and caliginous melodies. ’9-30-91’ delicately re-casts one of the many love letters written by her father to her mother when they began dating, into a sonically distinct, tenderly stripped back vocal track. The lyrics read: ‘My dear, I miss you so much, I miss you deeply, from the bottom of my heart. Thoughts of you, occupy my whole heart, and every corner of my mind’.

Conversations, past performances, and archival recordings are run through iterations of radio transmission-reception, audio becoming irreversibly lost or altered into ambiguity. Each titled after a year, though not emotionally bound to it, the tracks are an aggregate of Laenz’s desire to calibrate them actively in her current memory—resisting any inevitable, obsolescent effects of time’s passing. In Laenz’s words ’88 keys’ ‘though a fraction of the appreciation I have for my parents, Carolyn Shaak, and Larry Graham, this project was from start to finish an ode to their impact. 

The singles ‘’11’ and ‘‘24’ are out on the 2nd and 9th May, ahead of the full album release on 16th May 2025.

Artist Bio:
Laenz is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY, working within radiophonic textures and caliginous dance music. Her work explores the sonification of indeterminate spaces, saturating abstract musical forms with intensely tender and personal observations. She uses vocals, radio equipment, and live processing in her performances, sonifying unknowable sounds into unsuspecting ears. She holds a Lot residency, and has released projects under Woozy, Early Reflex, Dance Data, and more.


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Mackandal - Kelman Duran

'Scorpio Falling' is the forthcoming album by Kelman Duran, out on 12th September.

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Loko 4 Eva - Kelman Duran and Princess Loko

Equinox - Kelman Duran and Frankie

Mystery System - Kelman Duran

Memphis - Kelman Duran

Negative Confessions - Kelman Duran & K Roosevelt

Six Days Clean - Kelman Duran and BLURER

1 Million Haitians and Africans - Kelman Duran, (ft. Bamba Pana, Makaveli)

An elegiac suspension through city landscapes in decay, weeds growing through vandalised ruins and fallen grandeur, BJ Holy’s debut album ‘Broken Horns’ offers an effusive take on endings, heartache and rebirth. Embracing solitude, rebuilding and the presence of what remains in the wake, euphoric beats tug below broody distillations of folkloric references and flugelhorn.

Opening with ‘Lowlanding’, a rework of 17th century sea shanty ballad ‘Lowlands’, the album blurs deeper and deeper into evocations of desire and ecstatic release. ‘Xo xo’ bids goodbye to broken hearts, whilst ‘Clean slate’ emerges as an airy counterpart to the subterranean emotional depths of ‘Earth sign’ (co-written with Virginia Waters). ‘DJ and I’m dancing’ is an angsty, industrial rumination on the alienating rotations of London’s side hustles. The album closes with ‘Anchored in love’, featuring Glasgow-based musician & choreographer, Magnus Westwell on strings. Returning again and again to a feeling of being fixed in romance through its cyclical, repetitive, looping composition, BJ Holy ushers in a hopeful glimpse of something new.

releases November 7, 2025

Written, performed, produced & mixed by BJ Holy
Mastered by Owen Pratt
'Hurt again' violin by Magnus Westwell

Hurt again (feat. Magnus Westwell)

Xo xo

Anchored in love

Clean slate

Earth sign intro

Lowlanding

Words/kisses

Earth sign

An elegiac suspension through city landscapes in decay, weeds growing through vandalised ruins and fallen grandeur, BJ Holy’s debut album ‘Broken Horns’ offers an effusive take on endings, heartache and rebirth. Embracing solitude, rebuilding and the presence of what remains in the wake, euphoric beats tug below broody distillations of folkloric references and flugelhorn.

Opening with ‘Lowlanding’, a rework of 17th century sea shanty ballad ‘Lowlands’, the album blurs deeper and deeper into evocations of desire and ecstatic release. ‘Xo xo’ bids goodbye to broken hearts, whilst ‘Clean slate’ emerges as an airy counterpart to the subterranean emotional depths of ‘Earth sign’ (co-written with Virginia Waters). ‘DJ and I’m dancing’ is an angsty, industrial rumination on the alienating rotations of London’s side hustles. The album closes with ‘Anchored in love’, featuring Glasgow-based musician & choreographer, Magnus Westwell on strings. Returning again and again to a feeling of being fixed in romance through its cyclical, repetitive, looping composition, BJ Holy ushers in a hopeful glimpse of something new.

releases November 7, 2025

Written, performed, produced & mixed by BJ Holy
Mastered by Owen Pratt

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