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Following his debut Dolere (2024) and a collaboration with Joachim Spieth and Markus Guentner on Arcadia (2025), zakè returns to Joachim's Affin imprint with an intensely captivating work that explores the resonance of low frequencies and subsonic vibrations. There are only three pieces on this 55-minute release (the first track runs for over 28 minutes!), and you get to preview one of them before the album is out. This is music shaped for your deep, immersive, and glacial listening sessions. Good headphones and a subwoofer (yes, at the same time) are recommended. Perfect for my slowly-waking, frazzled mind this morning!

"Low Harmonics builds upon the reflective world first introduced by Zach on Dolere, which explored how time stretches during periods of sorrow and how sound can create a brief shelter from that weight. The predecessor fluctuated between ache and relief, and now its follow-up dives further into the inward, existential space beneath those emotions. Here, the use of deep and subterranean tones feels both intimate and vast, pulling you deeper into the lower spectrum of sound, shaped by heavy bass ebbs, low-frequency flow, and slow-moving drift. This album echoes the textural gravity of artists like Thomas Köner and the cold Arctic brush of Geir Jenssen, while remaining rooted in Affin’s commitment to sound that lives outside the expected."

HEADPHONE COMMUNITY EXCLUSIVE: zakè - Low Harmonics, Part 3

Dear friends,

Hyboid is back with another banger straight outta NGC891! Enjoy this wild bunch of space-related pieces, some of which you might already have picked up on Soundcloud or Youtube. 

Digital version available on Bandcamp and various streaming services!

Sorry folks, no vinyl this time! It's become so expensive and tedious to make vinyl records that I'll pass for now. I'm not ruling it out in the future, but right now it's not happening.

So, have a great outro from 2025 and an even better intro to 2026!

Your cosmic courier
Hyboid

"Hyboid – The Pervert's Guide to Space Travel" Album Teaser [Astro Chicken 11]

Prisoners Round

Solo Suono is the first collaboration between saxophonist Filippo Ansaldi and electronic musician Simone Sims Longo, both based in Cuneo, Italy. Solo Suono is an album between acoustic gesture and electronic treatment, beyond the classical while starting from the classical. Breath, amplified mechanics, residual sounds, expressive freedom, and different forms that integrate electroacoustic composition. Passing through looped gestures, electronic processes, and concrete sound explorations, it investigates textures that blur the line between organic and synthetic, emphasizing subtle timbral shifts, evolving patterns, and the interaction between chance and structure. Fragile, immersive, and at times meditative, the music opens a space where the listener can inhabit both the immediacy of performance and the expanded sound world of electronic manipulation. 

Solo Suono is a phrase open to multiple interpretations, a naïve description of music.

Sax: Filippo Ansaldi
Electronics: Simone Sims Longo
Mastering: Anton Jechiel Kossjanenko
Artwork: Daniel Castrejón

cassette & digital

Dodici

Gaztween are Miguel Tenreiro and Tito Romão, two producers from Porto whose music orbits the kind of downtempo dub that seems made for late-night listening, when the city's gone quiet and you're left with just the hum of electronics. They've played Ferro, Maracujália, and even made it up to Malmö. Somewhere along the way they developed a sound that sits between the organic drift of Brazilian MPB and the more structured constructions of European electronic music. 

APPAREL PREMIERE: Gaztween - Peaceful Nights [Jazzego Records]

https://geinst.bandcamp.com/album/hiber-trace

Drawing a coherent link between various influences, @geinst joins Never Late with Hiber Trace where his analog-driven productions expand and contract time and space. The clear consideration for detail combined with an essence of tight timing and drawn delays, sets the groundwork for this EP. The accompanying artwork reflects not only the music but keeps a connection to the human element, which is a common thread throughout his work. Stark rhythms take us on twists and turns with abundant drops of surprises throughout. One is only left asking: where will he take us now?

Beyond Layers arrives with a purpose we are but to discover. All there is to do is let oneself be guided by the soundscape that Gëinst creates. From the first moment we hear the intention behind every current, every beat, every silence. It envelopes us, introducing a profound space wherein which we can land and take off from, guiding us deliberately with finely tuned clicks, hums and hisses. Murmurs opens with a mélange of calmness and suspense. Building on the soft syncopated rhythms, a muted voice reminds us we are not alone. This nicely preempts Hiber Trace, the EP namesake emerging as a crisp track with a steadily evolving groove. Muted hi-hats, snares, and kicks are balanced with strong drumbeats that travel through the body, activating muscles to contract with the same frequency. Euphoria introduces yet deeper elements as though now passing through an ancestral forest. Organic sounds, resembling digeridoos and croaks like those of frogs on the forest floor, are accompanied by a surge carrying us to the next destination – Mugen, where we are greeted by a focused drum ensemble to be overtaken by stretches of lasers whispering echoes of spatial descents – until finishing as brusquely as it began. Still within the same realm, we experience the power of Labyrinth. This may be the most intricate track of the EP, summing all the previous ones into a final, powerful crescendo. Delicious drone drops preempt a soft closing allowing us to find a moment to return with a gentle landing. Exquisite.

Written, produced and mixed by Nathan Genestier
Artwork design by Griff Fulton
Mastered by Sven Weisemann


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