Massimo Magee | Late summer (Excerpt)

After releasing several EPs and singles via Berlin-based labels Mannequin Records and aufnahme + wiedergabe, 2025 finds Joshua Strachan releasing two full length records as Desolation Colony. The first, A Rapture of Blooming Revenge, was released on Phage Tapes in May and sketched a post-extinction far future of expansive and disturbing proportions. The Impossibility Of Haunting A Barren World for Throne Heap finds the project putting aside its aggressive beat-driven sound for a more abstract, textural approach. Mixed by Kris Lapke (Alberich), mastered by Grant Richardson, and featuring contributions from Thomas Boettner (Straight Panic, Secret Historian) and auxiliary statics from Tom Moore, The Impossibility Of Haunting A Barren World presents yet another stark vision of impending collapse. It's a ruthless exploration of the psychologies and technologies of modern necropolitics conducted with grinding analog electronics and abrasive collaged samples. Death is not a dramatic spectre in these proceedings, but an unassuming footsoldier of inevitable consequence: "Everything ends at my feet, nothing as it began."

Desolation Colony - The Impossibility Of Haunting A Barren World C30 (excerpts)

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 - Escape Lounge

Venera - Tear
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 153S1
Release Date: 10 July 2025
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tear

Venera shares ‘Tear’, the first single of the upcoming album ‘Exinfinite’ out via PAN on September 12th, 2025.

Having defined a multi-dimensional sonic universe on their acclaimed eponymous debut album, composer/filmmaker Chris Hunt and Korn’s James “Munky” Shaffer abandon the familiar and drift towards a kingdom of recursion on EXINFINITE, staring down a tangled mass of mirrored wormholes that hum with eldritch ambiguity.

On ‘Tear’, the duo’s new direction can be heard clearly as Shaffer’s primal guitar noises are reformed into eerie widescreen expositions that Hunt punctuates with pneumatic kick and snare cycles. Broken up by airlock hisses and luminous synths, the track proposes a backdrop that VENERA continuously transmute, reforging the concept as the album develops.

Recorded in Downtown Los Angeles, CA and Atlanta, GA
Mixed by Chris Pawlusek in London, UK
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis, London, UK
Art by EFFIXX with Samanta García

Venera - Tear (PAN 153S1)

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