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在FINAL有你從來沒有聽過的音樂，也有你耳熟能詳的音樂，充滿實驗性但又不失趣味。 

At Final, there is the familiar and the unexpected; the entertaining and the experimental. 

這裡是每一個躁動不安靈魂的歸屬。 

At Final, there is a home for all the restless. 

在音樂上我們嘗試不同的可能性，試著打破類型限制與規則，很多時候我們會搞砸，但每當我們完美抓到平衡的時候，是世上最美的事情之一。 

At Final, we strive to create new possibilities. While we screw up sometimes, when we get it right, it's pure magic. 

它帶給了我們希望與絕望，賦予痛苦與喜樂，但能因此碰到很多志同道合的朋友，人生本不就如此？ 

This pursuit brings us a lot of hope, pain, and joy. But in this struggle, we are able to meet many like-minded friends and build a community. 

張合輯收錄了五位跟我們有著緊密關係的音樂人，代表FINAL的聲音，獻給台北。 

This compilation is dedicated to Taipei. Inside is the work of five artists who are very dear to us, and who represent the sound of Final. 

「這裡是我們的故鄉，活得沒法不自在，祖祖輩輩根就扎在這片土地上，用不著你遠道再來尋找」—高行健。 

"This is our hometown, it's impossible to live uncomfortably here. Our ancestors have been rooted in this land for generations, you don't need to come all the way to find home." - Gao Xingjian.

Mastering: Enyang Urbiks 
Cover: Tea Strazicic 
Rebels of the Neon God mixed by jondu

03 Lujiachi - Flames

02 Jondu - Cleft Broker

Tzusing and Taipei’s FINAL club curate a five-track compilation of local experimental electronic talent on @seacucumberlabel. Hear @sandystrace's ‘Beholden’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-sandys-trace-beholden

Premiere: Sandy’s Trace ‘Beholden’

Paris-based producer @ahossan pushes the stark poetry of Richie Culver’s track to a heart-shatteringly distorted peak

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-richie-culver-love-abscess-aho-ssan-remix

I was born by the sea (The Remixes)

Premiere: Richie Culver ‘Love Like An Abscess (Aho Ssan Remix)

@jamesk_1 tugs hard on the heart strings for @tobago-tracks' new guitar-focused compilation.

Achingly beautiful stuff from a comp bowing at the altar of the axe. From fret-burners and dive-bombers to billowing introspection, ‘Through the Fire and Flames’ is a homage to guitar music in the broadest sense.

Poised between romantic allure and forlorn abstraction, the multidisciplinary pop fantasist turns out some sublime, heart-on-sleeve shoegaze.

‘Through the Fire and Flames’ is out June 9th on TT.

Pre-order: https://tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-fire-and-flames

Discover More

Premiere: James K - Destroying Angel [TT]

Intersections

Tokyo post-trance collective Minna-no-kimochi (みんなのきもち) launch the inaugural NTS Rush broadcast. Archived in full via [NTS YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmqKuYoZCI7D6FQzDv5nKNw).  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/nts-rush/episodes/nts-rush-minna-no-kimochi-3rd-july-2024

NTS RUSH: Minna-No-Kimochi 030724

The man on the street grinned showing no dentures
I am no fiction he said I am unmoved
There is no part of me remotely touched by your modern distress

Music: Escha + Ytem
Additional Vocals: Ned Green
Mastering: Enyang Urbiks
Artwork: Loren Erdrich

Escha & Ytem - Knightsbridge Lady Soup

Escha & Ytem - Norfolk Pertex Aquarium

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Minnna no Kimochi @kwia  ambient set

Minna No Kimochi @kwia

AESTUM - STELLAE
Label : Mizuha 罔象
Release date : May 25th 2025
Cover Art : Matyáš Maláč
Mastering : Victor Muñoz
https://mizuhamizuha.bandcamp.com/album/stellae

Tracklist
01. Infinis
02. Confinis
03. Siderevm
04. Cassyth
05. Duna (feat. pools)
06. Lyramm
07. Axxs
08. Liquides (feat. pools)
09. Persei
10. Zetaphoria

Premiere: Aestum - Infinis

Heith - Escape Lounge 
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 147
Release Date: 25 April 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/EscapeLounge

Heith's music has always been infused with sacred mystery, striking a delicate balance between lived experience and imagination.

On Escape Lounge, his second full-length release for PAN, Heith draws inspiration from contemporary digital spirituality and interpretations of experience that are crossing over from cultural niches into the mainstream – including internet-based conspiracy theories and psychological operations. The album presents a sonic diary recorded across Milan, Berlin, London, and Stockholm, crafting a post-informational folklore while exploring new territories in personal songwriting.

The title Escape Lounge, inspired by airport waiting areas, serves as a metaphorical waiting room of the mind. Its hidden passages can lead either to peril and loss or to enlightenment and kaleidoscopic mental landscapes. This liminal space echoes the mysterious realms of Twin Peaks or the viral "Backrooms" phenomenon. Within it, contributing musicians – including frequent collaborators Leonardo Rubboli, Aase Nielsen, and 33 drummer Alexander Iezzi – move like ethereal presences, creating intangible soundscapes that leave traces of post-hypnotic melancholia. Notably, the vocal contributions from Price and James K enhance the otherworldly atmosphere, their multifaceted timbres adding layers of intentional ambiguity.

Throughout the album, Heith masterfully blends acoustic instruments, human voices, and digital technology along an uncharted path that references the experimental pop of 90s trip-hop, 2000s indie-folk songwriting, and lush Mediterranean psychedelia. The sounds are meticulously crafted, combining synthesizers with guitar-based compositions in a computational songwriting approach that creates a collage across eras and landscapes. Each track unveils new dimensions of this delicate hallucinogenic narrative, delivering an immersive listening experience. As reality continuously shifts, Escape Lounge emerges as both sanctuary and confinement – a space of momentary connections and endless potential.

In 2025, Heith will debut a new live show and audiovisual collaboration titled 'The Talk' with James K and Günseli Yalcinkaya, commissioned and premiering at Sonar Festival, Terraforma, Nuit Sonores, and Reworks.

All tracks written and produced by Heith 2021-2024.
Mixed at TWS
Mastered by Amir Shoat
Artwork by Heith and Nicola Tirabasso
Vocals by Heith, Price, James K
Strings by Leonardo Rubboli, H, Renato Grieco, Fausto Cigarini Guitars by Heith, Leonardo Rubboli
Drums by Heith, Alexander Iezzi, Jacopo Battaglia, Leone Ciocchetti Flutes by Leonardo Rubboli
Saxophone by Aase Nielsen
Lyrics on track 4 by Cecile Believe, Price and Heith
Lyrics on track 10 by Alia Seror O'Neill and Heith

Heith ft. James K - Come, Sweet

Heith - Escape Lounge

Minna-no-Kimochi @ Le Sucre Lyon 05.10.2025

Sea Cucumber is a label founded in 2021 by @Tzusing 
Sea cucumbers are found on the sea floor worldwide.

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