Async Figure is the ultimate alliance of UK based artists MM & Suda. The project was first unveiled with a live show at 2018’s Unsound Festival, inside a gutted industrial kitchen in Krakow. Their debut release Figure I features three high-intensity, melody-first club statements and marks the first in a trifecta of releases for Sea Cucumber.

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

Photo by xiaopeng_yuan

Figure I

Async Figure - Harsh Realm

10_r3n - larvae first vibrations 蛰虫始振

Exile Data 2024

artwork by Chris Austin (@opherings)

logo by Frankie Shaw (@192hotwi.re)

youtu.be/TJVQf1AF43w

Optimist Reset

https://lilatirandoavioleta.bandcamp.com/album/accelarated   

"All Day I Hear The Noise of Waters" a signature high tempo hot-blooded, percussion-heavy but slick touch, switching between rhythms and upping the energy on each switch.

@verraco - @sinmaldita - @lilatirandoavioleta

Hyperdub Records 2024

ACCELARATED

All Day I Hear The Noise Of Waters - Lila & SIn Maldita (Verraco Remix)

AKA HEX - Do The Rite Thing / Hex On Fire
Cat. Nr: DN033
Format: Digital
Release Date: November 22, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/AkaHex

AKA HEX is a brand new collaboration between Aïsha Devi and Slikback.

Devi has always used her music to look outward, beyond the confines of club music and the avant garde towards a space that's less predictable and far more mysterious. She was born in Switzerland with Nepali Indigenous heritage, and her transversal identity has helped her navigate the underground as not just a producer and vocalist, but as a curator. Co-founding the Danse Noire imprint in 2013, she used that platform to launch her breakout EP 'Hakken Dub / Throat Dub', following it up with the labyrinthine 'Of Matter and Spirit' album in 2015. Devi's interest in sonic alchemy and multi-dimensional expression was further developed on 2018's 'DNA Feelings', coming to an overflowing head with last year's enigmatic 'Death Is Home', which featured a collaboration with none other than Slikback.

Born and raised in Nairobi, Slikback is one of the world's most adventurous producers, taking elements from the wide spectrum of club, noise, ambient and rap musics and forming them into a psychedelic lattice of high intensity sounds and emotions. He's spent
the last few years prolifically contributing to his canon via his Bandcamp stream, this year compiling the highlights into the frenetic double-LP 'SLIKBACK' – 22 tracks of future-facing, soundsystem-ready experimental club sounds that define his journey so far.

Together, they synthesize their artistry as AKA HEX, welding kinetic, bass-heavy rhythms to zig-zagging, sci-fi tinged soundscapes and mutant vocals. It's Devi's most dancefloor-focused material in years, and Slikback's most alien to date, bridging the chasm between avant-pop, experimental club and hallucinogenic ambience.

Mastered by Raphael Valensi
Artwork by nmr.cc

AKA HEX - Hex On Fire (Club Version)

The Shapeshift Spaceship universe is transfuturistic. Being at the boundary of states is not an anomaly in this universe, but a starting point.

Shapeshifting is a method of applied radical imagination that, in the manner of afro- and other emancipatory -futurisms, uses the spatiotemporal immensity of the future and intergalactic distances to declare a transfuturistic universe free from conventional gender and taxonomic reasoning.

The central motif of the Shapeshift Spaceship project – emancipation through the transformation of one's own shape – has an age-old parallel in music: it too uses the principle of constant ephemeral change, rhythmed by repetition, to create its own elusively passing beauty with the extraordinary capacity to transform human emotions along with its own change. The possible maximum of this intoxication with music is a state of ecstatic rapture, a transformation directly experienced through the moving body, accompanied with the awareness of the expanded nature of existence as an indivisible continuum of all its interconnected parts.

With the participation of following shapeshifters, queer, FLINTA, enby and LGBTQQIP2SAA artists: Anthr0morph & Oliver Torr, El Pelele, Evil M, Hihelga, Pope Sangreta, IDKLANG, Technopagan, HrrHrrHrrr, Dj Würm

The compilation is released as an editorial selection curated by Šimon Kadlčák in collaboration with MeetFactory and speedcoretrew.

The project was supported by the Prague City Hall, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague 5 and the State Culture Fund.

Link of the whole project Shapeshift Spaceship meetfactory.cz/cs/program/detail/shapeshift-spaceship

released by MeetFactory and speedcoretrew in January 2025.

mastered by KōNcHi

track n. 6, El Pelele - NO QUERER PERDONAR
produced by El Pelele and Astrosuka
mixed and mastered by Astrosuka
previously released by TRRUENO (2019)

cover design by Veronika Žilinská

IDKLANG - Dagger

Exploited Body - Helix / Unravel

Exploited Body takes it back to the club with their latest two-track offering 'Helix / Unravel' - a pairing, that meshes the intensity you've come to expect, with newfound high-speed break experimentations.

'Helix' is a spiralling fever dream, with drums of tungsten skitter through the blaring sirens and posessed screeches, showing no signs of slowing down. 'Unravel' is deliverance, release. Incorporeal voices echo through the cracks of the ferocious drums, eventually submitting to the soaring, euphoric synths signalling the escape from the cycle.

’Helix / Unravel’ is out now via Changeless!

Written, produced, mixed & mastered by Nori Kin.
Artwork by Jesse Draxler & Nori Kin.

@exploitedbody


Exploited Body -  Unravel

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Brand new track from OKTAVIA - EMBRACE THE CHAOS
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Oktavia - Embrace The Chaos

Uncompromising, stripped-down, and electrifying. 
“Get Up” by @encoded_data channels the underground spirit of techno at its hardest and most visceral !

Sans compromis, épuré et électrisant. 
« Get Up » de @encoded_data canalise l'esprit underground de la techno dans ce qu'il a de plus dur et de plus viscéral !


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@swanmeat and @dj-heroin are house of suns.

pre-order our debut ep:
http://houseofsuns.bandcamp.com

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