Bandcamp: https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/album/to-sit-quietly-where-everything-is-moving-fast

For his debut album To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, https://soundcloud.com/love-over-entropy used only one source: a Yamaha DX11 synthesizer. It’s a vintage machine from 1987 that was also used by early IDM and techno producers. “Working with an artificial constraint unleashed a different kind of creativity," says the The Hague-based musician, who normally does not shy away from elaborate productions.

Love over Entropy spent a lot of time working out the correct order of the tracks on the album. "I think it's important that the story also flows well on a higher level. It was a nice puzzle to solve."

Although the Covid pandemic is long behind us, much of the material on this album comes from the days when society was still largely in lockdown. "Which explains the title," says Love over Entropy. "But it also refers to my distancing myself from the hustle and bustle of the dancefloor. Up until then, I was primarily making dance music."

You won't find any kick drums or heavy bass lines on To Sit Quietly Where Everything Is Moving Fast. It is intimate, meditative and often very beautiful ambient music. But not the formless kind that seems to dominate chill-out playlists these days. Tracks like Finnkroken, Tidalene and Rotiriot have a story to tell, with a lot of effort put in to get it just right.

“To me, making music is mostly about the process. So I will spend many hours working on details that probably nobody will ever notice. Above all, the pastoral melodies stand out, undulating back and forth like foam on the surf. The harmonies are reminiscent of Isan, Boards of Canada and Murcof, while the album also pays homage to the Artificial Intelligence period on Warp Records.

According to the Dutch producer, a lot of current ambient music falls short of the original idea, as coined by Brian Eno. "Eno once described ambient as music that should be 'as ignorable as it is interesting', but nowadays it seems to have become 'as unignorable as it is uninteresting'," Love over Entropy says cheekily. "Ambient music really is everywhere, with modern production tools often doing the heavy lifting."

With To Sit Quietly Where Everything is Moving Fast, the producer hopes to make a difference, simply by raising the bar. It's a journey that can be taken both horizontally and vertically, and hopefully offers comfort. Or as the producer describes it: "music that offers a refuge."

Artwork by Spherical Waves (www.sphericalwaves.com)

Love Over Entropy - Echolon

Buy Link: https://crescentlondon.bandcamp.com/album/broken-horizon-crscnt28

Track name: Drifting
Release name: Broken Horizon VA
Artists: Alderaan
Catalog Code: [CRSCNT28]
Mastering: Mattias Fridell
Release Date: 9th October 2025

Alderaan:
▫️ SC: https://soundcloud.com/alderaan-music
▫️ IG: https://www.instagram.com/alderaan___

Crescent London:
▫️ https://linktr.ee/crescent.london

Full Tracklist:
A1. Alderaan - Drifting [CRSCNT28]
A2. Mod21 - Shadow on the wall [CRSCNT28]
B1. Michal Wolski - Spark [CRSCNT28]
B2. Magna Pia - Serpens [CRSCNT28]

Broken Horizon

A1. Alderaan - Drifting [CRSCNT28]

Upwellings returns to The Hague-based label spclnch with his Magnetic Steps EP, featuring a remix by Fingers In The Noise, out September 11th.

Pre-order: https://lnk.to/magnetic-steps
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@spclnch
@up-4
@fitn

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Premiere: Upwellings – Magnetic Steps (Fingers In The Noise Remix)

Our next premiere is a spacious trip from @mukherjeee, on their new release 'Glass'. 'Uddo' spans several depths of left field and delirious down tempo. A constant swirl of evolving tones  providing a brilliant balance of light and dark moods.

Glass, the new EP by Ishan Mukherjee, is a tribute to creative freedom and an intentional break from structure and rhythm. Letting go of beats and predictable patterns, Ishan dives deep into a world of meditative soundscapes that blur genre lines and focus on feeling over form. The EP was born during his time in Goa, where he travelled light with a portable analog setup, Korg Volca Keys, Artiphon Orba, an acoustic guitar, all patched into a Zoom H5 recorder. Improvisation was at the heart of the process. Without a DAW or metronome to guide him, Ishan captured raw, spontaneous ideas in real time.

Goa itself seeped into the music. Field recordings of monsoon rains, quiet forest walks, and hushed conversations became part of the sonic fabric, making the landscape an unseen collaborator. When Ishan returned to his studio in Hyderabad, those sessions began to evolve. The studio turned into a space of playful experimentation as sounds were stretched, reversed, granulated and the line between music and memory started to blur. Ishan describes the EP as “a map of contradictions… like watching the ocean swallow a storm.”


Mastered by - Ishan Gaur
Cover Art - Safar Collective

Purchase here:
https://safarwav.bandcamp.com/album/glass

Follow the artist here:
@mukherjeee 
https://www.instagram.com/ishanmukherjee

Follow the label here:
@safar_wav 
https://www.instagram.com/safar.collective/ 


AF Premiere: Ishan Mukherjee - Uddo [Safar Collective][OUT!!19.08.25]

Portal: What Lies Beyond.

Episode 08: Meridian.r

This eighth foray into the otherworld is helmed by another resident of the UK’s North - Sheffield based Meridian.r. Curator of the excellent Cycle podcast - formally an event series bringing some top tier deep techno talent to an intimate warehouse in the Steel City - it is currently a series of mixes that shines a light on the northern adjacent left-field electronics scene.

No stranger to helming the decks himself, having been pushing the deep grooves at the likes of the iconic Groundwork and Magnetic North as well as his own events, we had the fine selections of Meridian.r on showcase at one of our recent monthly gatherings - wandering through a delightful garden of sounds that fit very well with our own tastes here at Portal.

Another entry into the series composed entirely on a pair of 1210s, Meridian.r’s mix weaves from the depths of ambient oceans through dub techno infused breaks and chuggers, the energy building tacitly until equilibrium is found in a heady concoction of hypnotic techno that rides the interplay between drive and groove in style. See you on the other side. 

@meridian-r
@cycle0114

What Lies Beyond 08: Meridian.r

Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Edition 820

3netec - 061024

P3RCEPCIONES
[002 | Cinema Sonora]

Production | Jhon Esteban Jimenez aka 3netec
Mastering | Neel at Enisslab
Artwork | Alejandro Salazar

Released by Cinema Sonora from Manizales, Colombia
Release Date: November 15, 2025

3netec

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https://www.instagram.com/3netec

Cinema Sonora

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Dator was created during a music production challenge, where over 210 members of Aedi were invited to make a track using samples provided by artist alumni of The Memoir podcast.

All submissions were collected in an anonymous playlist and voted on by everyone in the community. The title and artwork underwent similar democratic processes.

A special thanks to Daniel[i], John Plaza, Launaea, Martyn Päsch, Michal Wolski, Orion, Pattrn, Svarog and Tiferet for contributing sounds to the Aedi collective.

1. @arsene_martinet - Foreshadowing
2. @jxnicoll - Ballast
3. @onyr_sounds - Circle Dance
4. @knay_b - Caustics
5. @i-am-rogi - Abstract Collage
6. @qitula - 35th Day Pending
7. @nawl_music - Singular Form

Released under the September full moon, 2025.

Mastering by @fridell.
Artwork by @justin-orvis-steimer.

Dator

Droneghost is the main project of Jaume Muntsant, also known as Nigul, DJ and Producer from Barcelona. He start making music as Droneghost in 2025, focusing his efforts to create a Dark and Hypnotic music, mixing Techno with ambient and drone elements. He has released his music in several labels such as Circular Limited or Systolic, as well as on his own on Bandcamp

Tracklist:

01. acaera - I
02. hypnotic black magic - ishigaki dragon flowers (solarhythm remix)
03. desh - seeping
04. naturalisten - against the tide
05: re:axis - ancient ways
06. big hands - bacchanalia II
07. alexskypirit - rainfalls
08. cauê - rubedo
09. fernie - invoke
10. ness - innterplanetary fugitives (hydrous remix)
11. Luigi tozzi - sentient
12. cauê - codex gigas
13. droneghost - magla
14. yukimasa - efforia (mod.1 remix)
15. CTAFAD - radundant
16. Claudio PRC - ebony feathers
17. Antonio ruscito & Luigi tozzi - closer
18. droneghost - anterior
19. acronym - getting closer
20. asllan - fate

Podcast Vision of the Future Episode 16 - Droneghost

Our next premiere is from the talented duo @@enka_music with a 'Caelum' of their new release for @spacetextures. An exquisite album of heady hypnotic , 'Caelum' is a mental trip through the cosmos, shifting through levels of atmospheric techno. Slightly touching on progressive notes seeming to melt from constant rolling production and smooth execution. 

EN.KA - Caelum
Constelatio EP
[ST039 | Space Textures]
Production | EN.KA
Mastering | Motion Symmetry
Artwork | Nibera

Released by Space Textures from Glasgow, United Kingdom
Release Date: September 26, 2025

Purchase here: 
https://spacetextures.bandcamp.com/album/constelatio-ep

Follow the artist here: 
@enka_music
www.instagram.com/en.ka_music


Follow the label here: 
@spacetextures
www.instagram.com/spacetextures

AF Premiere: En.ka - Caelum [Space Textures][OUT!!26.09.25]

Paroxysm Ltd, the new Albanian record label, presents its first vinyl EP, representing both local talents and international acts, out October 3rd.

Pre-order: https://deejay.de/Various_Like_Tears_In_The_Rain_PXSLTD001_Vinyl__1173493
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@vekhmusic

Premiere: Vekh - Like Tears

Harmony

It is the rhythmic synergy that emanates from each of the sounds that reach our ears and unifies our body, mind, and spirit.

Produced & Mixed by: Various Artists
Format: Digital WAV/MP3
Mastered by: Tómas Gonzalez aka Red Noise
Artwork by: 7 Times 7 Design
Release Date: October 24, 2025

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Something Happening Somewhere
OOSSHA / NOWHERE

http://www.sohaso.com
https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/

Something Happening Somewhere (SoHaSo). 
Founded by https://soundcloud.com/nunodossantos, residing in Utrecht, The Netherlands. "The name itself leaves a lot open for your own imagination."