Isabelline curator and label head Practitioner reveals a stunning selection of his own archival productions with 'Portobello Innocent', the third release on the mysterious and acclaimed Berlin-based imprint.

Recorded between 2016 - 2024, these five selected works offer a broad look into Practitioner’s sonic sphere. Introspective club reflections that cover a grand scope of machine-translated human emotions. The EP feels like a dug-up lost tape, timeless tracks untouched by current modes or trends, each composition progressively digging deeper into unknown chasms of the enigmatic producers' distinct sound.

Kala - Hazy and dreamlike, this track layers a wandering dub bassline under a steady house beat, glimmering jazz chords and ethereal textures surround the sonic sphere, evoking flickering memories and lingering mystery.

With 'Portobello Innocent', Practitioner offers a rare glimpse into his abstract realm, crafting magnetic spaces between memory and rhythm, the ancient and the future, the human and machine.


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PREMIERE : Practitioner - Kala

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LA-based record label StrataSonic tighten their grip on the underground with 'Everything Liquid', a shape-shifting EP from the eponymous duo that slides into the bloodstream like chrome in warm water...For the premiere, we select the dub version of ‘No Signal’ - a spectral, syncopated séance opening with airy vocal fragments and pillow-soft synth drift. Here, Everything Liquid peels back the skin of the original to expose a micro-funk nervous system: stuttering, glitched-out but elegantly alive. A ceremonial rinse of warm analog textures and bubbling synthetics, this one’s custom-built for those heady, between-time club moments where gravity loosens and limbs float.

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Everything Liquid - No Signal (Dub) [StrataSonic]

Impérieux debuts on Hessle Audio with the Fena EP, an immersive collection of 4 tracks defined by his unpredictable and varied sonic palette. Drawing on a heritage that threads through Turkey, Greece and his home city of Kırcaali in Bulgaria, Alper Durmush channels a turbulent year in which six months of creative stillness ignited unexpectedly into an explosive burst of musical ideas.

"Fena is a word my Mum used to call me as a kid" recounts Durmush on the title track. "The name comes from Turkish, but with a Balkan twist, it means a mischievous rascal - wild, unpredictable, a bit too much at times". This restless energy is perfectly captured with jittering interferance and snarling sawtooth synths bursting through the mix, threatening to overwhelm the speakers and sending sound engineers running for cover. 'Sickomode' encapsulates the push-pull emotional sensibility of the EP, with confidence and meloncholy rotating, shifting, and giving way to each other.

'Saat' is an attempt to recreate a track based solely on a surreal description, relayed by a veteran of the rave scene in his home town - "This guy told me about a festival in the woods back in the early 2000s, where someone played a track with dogs barking in the break - the volume rising constantly." The initial dissonance of its detuned lead releases into a euphoric rush of melody, a combination which is becoming something of a producer trademark. The EP closes with the quiet, unwavering warmth of 'Cawuso', a nickname for a person that the artist met last year. "This very special person showered me with kindness and purity. It almost felt unreal, so I decided to dedicate this track to them." 

Fena EP

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Impérieux - Fena EP [Snippets]

Everything Liquid - Everything Liquid EP
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Everything Liquid is a brand-new duo formed in LA. This is their first outing, and it speaks to a pair who have some serious studio chops. They have immediately cooked up a highly developed sound that showcases masterful drum programming, a range of organic and synthetic sound designs and great balance between dynamic grooves and musical synths that leave a lasting impression. 

The EP opens with 'No Signal' featuring Chicago's Jamaican-American singer-songwriter Jesse Boykins III who has previously featured alongside the likes of Hudson Mohawke, Tiga and Machinedrum. It's a thrilling broken beat cut with punchy rhythms oﬀset by the gorgeous falsetto vocals that bring smoky soul next to expressive synth lines and lush chords. The dub version is pared back to the kinetic beats and meticulous percussion for direct dancefloor action. 

The superb 'L A R P' is another masterfully programmed blend of warm, smeared chords and prickly broken beat patterns that sweep you oﬀ your feet and 'Time' then gets more deep and late night. Sultry spoken words bring a sense of intimacy to the organic grooves that rise and fall beneath lingering melancholic keys. Finally, 'Airbud' is an almost eight-minute synth symphony that takes you on a journey through widescreen worlds. Some pads flicker like a dodgy light build, some arc up in grandiose fashion and others twinkle like distant stars. It's a trippy place to get lost.

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PREMIERE : Everything Liquid - l a r p

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Transboundary Haze II is three heavyweight remixes of Diamond Haze tracks.

There once was a Diamond Haze quite sublime, Who danced on the Tapes Sublimating in time,
With a Source so profound, That it spun round and round,
While the CT Kidobó made a fabulous Remix divine!

“Oh, wonderful Source!” cried the Diamond Haze, “Your Remixing skills have me quite in a daze!
You sublimate tapes, Into curious shapes,
And transform all my nonsense to musical praise!”


 
They traveled to Crumbly-come-Tumble by sea, In a sieve that was leaky as leaky could be,
With a spoon for a sail, And a thimble for pail,
And a bottle of nothing to drink with their tea.

And this is the end of my nonsense today, About Diamond Haze Source in its remixing play,
With Tapes Sublimating, And CT Kidobó creating,
A rhythmical jumble in Lear’s silly way!

 

We’re premiering the CT Kidobó rework of The Source. A deep, dark bubbler… let’s go.

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PREMIERE: Diamond Haze - The Source (CT Kidobó Remix) [Tapes Sublimating]

Maltese producer Rebecca Theuma’s project That bb gets a makeover from Yetsuby Manda, one of half of salamanda’s solo project on Wrong Island communications.

There once was a creature called That BB, Who lived on the shores of Wrong Island, you see.
“I Wish I Had Something To Say But I Don’t,” Was the phrase that this creature would constantly flaunt.

The Yetsuby came with remixes so strange, While Wrong Island Communication deranged
All the messages sent by the creatures around,  Resulting in quite an peculiar sound.


 
“Oh fiddle-dee-fumble!” That BB would cry,  As it danced ‘neath the purple-green spots in the sky.
“My Communication is terribly wrong, I can’t seem to finish this nonsensical song!”

So they pranced and they prangled through dew-dabbled dawn, With Communication so curiously drawn.
That BB and Yetsuby on Wrong Island stayed, In gloriously gibberish games that they played.

We’re premiering Yetsuby’s remix of “I Wish I Had Something To Say But I Don’t” from Maltese producer Rebecca Theuma’s project That bb. The track comes from her upcoming EP “The Words Are Stuck In My Throat” on Wrong Island Communications, with Yetsuby (one half of Korean act Salamanda) maintaining the dreamlike original but transforming it into a skittering, drum-laden, handclap madness, wig out. One for the sunrise methinks, whether that’s the end of a very long night or the start of a beautiful new day.

“I wrote these songs while going through a prolonged writer’s block. I had moved to another country and found myself feeling very alone and lost,” explains Theuma. “At this particular point in my life, sounds were better at explaining my inner landscape than words.”

The EP will be released on the ACE Scottish-born, now Lisbon-based label Wrong Island, with artwork by Polish artist Jo Sekieta.

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That bb - I Wish I Had Something To Say But I Don't (Yetsuby Remix) - Wrong Island Communication

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Following the gentle yet adventurous spirit of WARM01, we continue our sonic journey with WARM02, the second installment in Warning’s ambient-leaning sub-project Warming. Curated with care and curiosity, the compilation dives deeper into the spectrum of ambient music and other warm sounds.

This time we welcome six distinct voices to the fold: Saphileaum, not even noticed, Klex, sleepdial, Ghadimi, and Toxido Mask. Each artist brings a unique take on atmosphere, rhythm, and introspection— serving distant melodies, celestial pads and submerged drones.

PREMIERE: Ghadimi - Aleph-Null

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Dublin-based producer Conor Reilly, better known as Conor CC, inaugurates his own imprnt Origin CC with a high-octane debut single titled ‘Hidden Allure’...Clocking in at a brisk 130 BPM, ‘Hidden Allure’ carefully layers gauzy pads over hyper-stratified percussion, threading polyrhythms through syncopated vocal phantoms and bass-heavy convulsions. 'Hidden Allure' sits between the heady euphoria of peak-hour memory and the introspective murk of pre-dawn reverie.

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Conor CC - Hidden Allure [Origin CC]

Euphoria

Compilation of tracks made from the past few months, enjoy!

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