Of My Mind is the first single from Belarusian producer Sasha Smirnova’s upcoming record Gone Stray, set for release on White Forest.

The track opens a door into the sonic and emotional landscape of the record—marked by nostalgia, exile, and a yearning for places one can no longer return to. Composed entirely from raw and processed vocals, Of My Mind was recorded in a single take. This instinctive process lends the piece a sense of immediacy and spontaneity. Echoes of Belarusian traditional singing emerged naturally, deepening the track’s haunting sense of longing.

The release also features two remixes, each offering a distinct interpretation of the track’s emotional core.

Track 1 – Composed, produced, and mixed by Sasha Smirnova
Track 2 – Original composition by Sasha Smirnova; remixed, produced, and mixed by Damiano Colosimo
Track 3 – Original composition by Sasha Smirnova; remixed, produced, and mixed by Francesco Cammarata

Mastered by Lorenzo Corsetti @ Coreless Collective Sound Studio
Photography by Gil Corujeira; edited by Uliana Velgosh

Of My Mind

Dedicated to the Vain and the people who held me down along the way

Lillith (feat. Blackhaine, Daemon & Orlandor, Prod. Mun Sing)

Urban Ambience (Space Afrika)

ansatz (unreleased tracks)

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al fin

Original Video: https://youtu.be/7C4-TAWg7QA

YAD Яд - English Version (slowed, reverb)

Black Gold

Black Gold (feat. Florence Sinclair)

Dedicated to the shattered </3 I hope you get some rest.

Thanks to everyone who listened & gave feedback in the creation of these edits

33% of money raised will be donated to Oliver.kgh's trans-affirmative surgery fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/f/mengw-olivers-top-surgery-fund

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Produced by Iceboy Violet
Mastered by 96 Back

Drown 2 Float

In The Bread & Butter (Gunna)

Of My Mind is the first single from Belarusian producer Sasha Smirnova’s upcoming record Gone Stray, set for release on White Forest.
Released on May 21, 2025, by White Forest Inc.

Composed, produced, and mixed by Sasha Smirnova
Mastered by Lorenzo Corsetti @ Coreless Collective Sound Studio
Photography by Gil Corujeira; edited by Uliana Velgosh

We are pleased to host multidisciplinary artist and Fixed Adobe label head Rainy Miller for the 13th episode of the Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency, unveiling ‘My Wings, Never Clipped / But They Began Semi-Broken’, an uplifting abstract soundscape not just to be listened to but, most of all, to be felt.

Rainy Miller, birth name Jack Bowes, was born in Longridge, a small market town eight miles from Preston. Subservient to the northern city in which he was born and raised, the region’s nearly forgotten underbelly is sewn into the fabric of Rainy Miller’s music and motif.
His passion for music and production can be traced back to the idiosyncratic grime sound that swept through his hometown in the early 2000s, a hyper-localised scene that paired grime beats with rapid-fire bars. After moving to Manchester, Rainy quickly became integral part of the North West experimental electronic scene alongside artists such as Iceboy Violet, Space Afrika, and Blackhaine. 

Integrating aesthetics from his childhood through a DIY approach, Miller’s own output is nothing if not strikingly unique. Rejecting any attempt to define ‘genre’, he shapes emotionally charged soundscapes intertwining cinematic autotune vocals around deconstructed drill and industrial ambient soundscapes.

His debut release ‘Limbs’ in 2019 already showed the signs of his very own approach: a soulful neo-R&B excursion throughout ten tracks of emoting autotune over smooth, moody melodic beats interspersed with dabbles of Preston chitter-chatter. 
In 2020, a long-time collaboration started with Blackhaine, whom Rainy shared the studio with. The same year, Blackhaine released his debut EP ‘Armour’ produced by Rainy on Fixed Abode, followed by the co-produced ‘And Salford Falls Apart’ (2021 via The White Hotel’s HEAD II label) and ‘Armour II’ (2022 via Fixed Abode).
Following his second solo project, ‘A Choreographed Interruption’ (2021 via Fixed Abode), in 2023 Rainy released ‘DESQUAMATION’ via HEAD II, his latest and most ambitious project to date. A full bloodied, emotionally visceral piece of work segueing and stretching across a sound world of contorted pop and laconic drill that will cement Miller’s position at the cutting edge of contemporary electronic music, pushing the culture to always move forward.

Rainy Miller will be teaming up with Emma DJ to perform at WE TRAVEL TO KNOW OUR OWN GEOGRAPHY, the two-day festival on April 18th and 19th presented and co-curated by Kuboraum together with Terraforma, in partnership with Combo, during the Opening of the 60th Venice Art Biennale.

Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency: www.kuboraum.com/digital-sound-residency/

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Rainy Miller - My Wings, Never Clipped / But They Began Semi-Broken

Drums - Oran Ray
Viola - Beatrix Cullen
Additional Production - Dmitra
Mixing/Recording Engineer - Mika Manke
Mastering Engineer - Enyang Ha

Art Direction - Saïx Dzhaparidze
Photography - Gil Corujeira

Girl Battery

Remix by Damiano Colosimo of the original track "Of My Mind" by Sasha Smirnova.
Released on May 21, 2025, by White Forest Inc.

Original composition by Sasha Smirnova
Remixed, produced, and mixed by Damiano Colosimo
Mastered by Lorenzo Corsetti @ Coreless Collective Sound Studio
Photography by Gil Corujeira; edited by Uliana Velgosh

Of My Mind (Cosimo Damiano Remix)

Remix by 42 Cent Hotline of the original track "Of My Mind" by Sasha Smirnova.
Released on May 21, 2025, by White Forest Inc.

Original composition by Sasha Smirnova
Remixed, produced, and mixed by Francesco Cammarata
Mastered by Lorenzo Corsetti @ Coreless Collective Sound Studio
Photography by Gil Corujeira; edited by Uliana Velgosh

Of My Mind (Cosimo Damiano Remix)

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