Silent Partner - Fogmode

Released on 12" and Digital 28.03.2025
- https://tamen.bandcamp.com/album/onyx

We’re delighted to welcome these two Australia based producers to the Samurai family with Onyx - a 4 track EP that delivers a blend of tight edits, chest heavy bass, and intricate sound design. Pugilist & Tamen combine nostalgia with forward-thinking production and Onyx traverses a rich landscape of jungle-rooted moods. 

Onyx introduces a step forward in the duo's production, utilising sculpted distortion as an instrument. Seen on 3 of the 4 tunes, this approach adds a temperative tension as the tunes give the impression they have gone too far into the distortion no go zone but ultimately finding a balance that compliments and enhances the tunes overall sound pallette perfectly.

Raw and direct with rich layers and honed grooves that ultimately mark the tunes as memorable, Onyx is on a new level for Pugilist & Tamen.

https://www.instagram.com/pugilistmusic/
https://www.instagram.com/djtamen/

Onyx

Pugilist & Tamen - Onyx [SMDE48] *previews*

From upcoming same-titled album Flesh Reversal: https://acidicmale.bandcamp.com/album/flesh-reversal
mastering by @msc_MVQX

Flesh Reversal

NHKyx - Kasm04
10" Vinyl & Digital
Release Date: 2nd May 2025
Available in all good record shops

NHKyx >> Koyxen >> Kohei Matsunaga >> Returns to Skam Records to deliver KASM04 on the 10” Vinyl Series. A musician and illustrator born in Osaka in 1978, started drawing at an early age and went on to study architecture at university.  He has been actively making music since 1992, with notable releases on labels such as Raster-Noton, Wordsound, Mille Plateaux, PAN and Skam Records. Kohei has collaborated with many artists, including Mika Vainio, Sensational from the Jungle Brothers, Sean Booth from Autechre, Conrad Schnitzler, Merzbow, Asmus Tietchens and many more. Very proud to have four new tracks of Kohei’s heavy rhythmic electronic music….  
A1 Filled with Vacuum                                  A2 Ancient Behave
B1 Same Point Different Coordinate     B2 Formulated Rhythm 4s
 
Written & Produced: Kohei Matsunaga
Mastering: A1 B1 Tomokazu Orui // A2 B2 Joe Lambert

Artwork: @bhatoptics
C&P Skam Records 2025

NHKyx - Filled with vacuum

bad lsd trips - ultrafest (ENMB-17)
Excerpts below from the extended album description by Nick Klein, written February 10, 2025.

I. 

𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘴𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 is the collaborative duo of makers doris dana and domingo castillo flores. Respectively the two have fostered practices that have sprawled out through various approaches and, whether in the lanes of the musical or the contemporary arts, the phenomenology of the social and inclusive prevails. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵, this motif continues through the psychedelia of its eight time-defying recordings, welcoming the listener into an open temporal architecture of the stereo field as a signifier of environment. It is worth noting that the group began collaborating in Miami, Florida with longer form improvisations recorded to a stereo cassette deck. In these recordings, the paved geographical sprawl and oceanic view permeated the approach to amassing long swaths of sound material. Listening back on that work at the time of this writing, each track feels as though one is walking into an active space, arriving to an event already in full swing and finding your place inside of it. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 (this album) something different occurs. The space and events are built around you as you move through the record.

IV.

𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 mirrors the balance of the temporal interiority and exteriority of the previously referenced chemical compounds when applied to the body for recreational psychedelic experiences. The jubilation of the slack jawed festival attendee, the gallop of the horse upon the earthen ground, the stagnation of humidity on the body, the sprawl of unkempt concrete through Florida cities, the aroma of bleach in a bar bathroom. On this album, the band illustrates the territories when you almost have your grounding; the moment when you are on the pivot between the real and the intoxicated, or even the really intoxicated. These spaces are the softening and hardening of light on your eyes, they are the gripping of a porcelain sink between moments staring in the bathroom mirror.

In an era where so much tremendous creative energy is put into a softer, safer space through ambient music to respond (negligently) or (worse?) take shelter from the hellish global condition of late capitalism; 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘴𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 takes your hand into the murkier moments of reflection awarded to the listener in the genre. The resolution is not carved out for you, and what truly sits suspended in the ambiance of the now is an unfiltered view of where the world has come to through centuries of civilization. It’s a brutal landscape with an ill-determined end result. Where other practitioners of the sonic gesture of ambient are sheltering within a glistening plasticene blanket of clicks and rustlings with low pass filters of melancholic chord structures, this album burrows itself comfortably in the formless chaos of true psychedelia and reminds me 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 is truly what our unfortunate ambiance is today. The album reflects joy and terror, and it longs and leans towards finding something in the midst of sonic exploration. Passivity nullified, ambient beyond indulgence and evasion.

releases February 25, 2025

all songs recorded and arranged between Miami and New York by doris dana and domingo castillo flores in 2023
audio finalized by Glyn Maier for PLEN Audio
artwork by Dominique Saiegh
short story by Natalia Zuluaga
design by Joe Bastardo
silkscreening by Mark Rice

https://soundcloud.com/enmossed
https://soundcloud.com/dorisdana
https://soundcloud.com/nick-klein


Digi still available

Premiere: bad lsd trips - steaming mescaline (extended mix) [enmossed]

Marguerite Records invites Autonoma Industriale with Unprofessional & Dj Warzone - 17 Mai 2025

@reptilianexpo
𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐨 - 𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕠 𝕞𝕦𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕤 & 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕤 - OUT JUNE 10
Order cassette / Download: https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/imago-mutatis-other-tales

_______VAI A CASA, SEI UBRIACO!
Bamboo Shows presents today the third opus of its 'vai a casa, sei ubriaco!' cassette series focusing on sunitty, an Italian reinterpretation of Fourth World Music through the prism of the world wide web.


_______ REPTILIAN EXPO – IMAGO MUTATIS & OTHER TALES
‘Imago Mutatis & Other Tales’ brings together two different works developed by Italian-born, Brussels-based producer Reptilian Expo, between 2022 and 2023.
 
The A-Side, Imago Mutatis, is a soundtrack composed for the live show ‘Imago Mutatis’, a performance stirring together music, dance, costumes and scenography; a fantastic tale about spiritual transformation, magical objects and enchanted places. This original soundtrack, divided into four acts, recounts the vicissitudes of Seiti’s search for the cosmic egg. Deceived by the witch Voiviy, Seiti must set out and face different creatures and difficulties in order to find what she seeks. Here, music sketches out the contours of a psychedelic quest, echoing the path and landscapes travelled by the characters.

The B-Side puts together some tracks played mainly live from 2022 to 2024.  The first one - ‘Sirena’, describes an encounter with fascinating volcanic water creatures. Then follows ‘passeggiare verrà’, a fast-paced but soft and elusive song that hosts Kaili’s vocals; the remaining tracks are resolutely weird-club oriented tracks designed to bewitch the dancefloor.

This third installment of the ‘vai a casa, sei ubriaco!’ series navigates through a wide sea of moods, from psychedelic ambient to glitchy noise, passing by intriguing synths and the signature leftfield bass of Reptilian Expo and his Pampsychia label, made of unbridled rhythms and unidentified bouncy sounds. For the first time, ‘vai a casa, sei ubriaco!’ comes up with dance-related materials, unveiling a wider spectrum of sunitty, to be further explored in the dedicated mini-zine.


_______ MORE INFOS ABOUT THE “IMAGO MUTATIS” LIVE PERFORMANCE
“In an indefinite time dissolved in the present, Anthropos, or being of light, is diffused and dispersed in matter. Seiti, a warrior of Anthropos, was charged with finding the Cosmic Egg, an ancestral object that holds the power to gather all fragments into one, thus freeing the deity from its condition”.
This performance has been written, staged and performed by Reptilian Expo (aka Riccardo Patrone) in collaboration with, in alphabetical order: Claudia Catanzaro, Carlotta Menozzi, Laurie Rinaldi, Livia Bertacca, Nemo, Sara Bè, Siet Phorae and Tómas Reverendo.
Watch here: https://www.ursss.com/2023/09/reptilian-expo-imago-mutatis/


Credits :
Music by Riccardo Patrone 
Mastering by Matteo Coffetti
Art generation by Sleek Fata
Cover and fanzine templates by Romain Guillo
Layout by Loïs Markarian

Order cassette / Download: https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/imago-mutatis-other-tales

Imago Mutatis & Other Tales

Bandcamp

Reptilian Expo - Imago Mutatis & Other Tales (Previews) [BSLP010]

Reissue of the 2016 record release with additional track Edges Unfold.

Written and produced by Stephan Richter. Mastering by LXC.

Bonus material includes video for Edges Unfold by visual artist Florian Schmuck and artwork sketches as well as final sleeve design for the original 12" record release by Lee Noble.

SPR - Edges Unfold

Captain America - The First Avenger [2025 Remix]

SERENE.

LOFI VAPORWAVE INSTRUMENTAL BEATS - FREEDL

Horizon

SPR (S. Richter) is an electronic music artist based in Hamburg. His releases on labels like V I S, JSMЁ, and Weevil Neighbourhood explore dense, abstract sound worlds shaped by texture, emotional weight, and off-kilter rhythm.