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At the end of 2023, family, friends and the global electronic music community experienced a profound loss through the untimely passing of Vano Chikladze, known as composer/producer Sonic Junkie. It is with deep reverence that we present, "Boundless", a commemorative tribute compilation album honoring his life, creative work and the mark he left. 

Featuring tracks by Rob Clouth, Kilowatts, Aligning Minds, and many more, this project serves as a collective expression of love and admiration for a visionary artist gone too soon. Weaving together eclectic sonic specimens of IDM, techno, downtempo, future garage, dnb, juke, psybass, spoken word, and no-holds barred experimentalism, this compilation is an homage to Vano’s eclectic taste and fearless experimentation.

All proceeds and donations generated by the album will go directly toward funding the Sonic Junkie Studio, located in Brooklyn, NY. This physical space has been built to host Vano’s music studio just as he left it -  making it available to the community and his collaborators, keeping his creative spirit alive and well.

Boundless

Into The Beyond

@iimamusic

From the inception of The Rust Music as an official operation through to now, we’re fortunate to have fostered friendships with a cast of adjacent and connected creatives in our hometown of New York, New York. Amongst that extended crew, AMAWALK has been a frequent flier both on the stage and throughout our release roster. After several quiet years, he’s taking a step back out of the lab into the light with a new project and eponymous release; iima.

The two-track EP feels at home within this producer’s traditional wheelhouse of sound, having been matured and sharpened at the edges. It’s distinctly melodious and in line with pocketed IDM influences and arrangement, bringing synthesis to the forefront for a succinct dance between harmony and rhythm. For fans from any end of The Rust Music spectrum, be sure to check out both iima and the legacy AMAWALK project to round out your listening plate for the day.

iima

iima - ...to see you again

Common Factor

Biome (feat. Hoopla)

Time Code (feat. Noom)

Crystalline (feat. Wickers Portal)

Stupor (feat. Tye.)

@faelow 

Purchase / Stream → https://listen.therustmusic.net/faelow-lumivora

We’ve been keeping a close eye on Faelow since the premiere of his debut Floating Underground EP, and in the five years since then, he’s shown remarkable artistic growth and vision. Having stayed the course of downtempo, scintillating electronic music throughout that time, there’s a certain polish that’s evident in both sound design and composition across his maturing catalog. To that end, The Rust is incredibly excited to host the first full length Faelow LP, Lumivora, as our 91st release.

In the wake of his widely lauded ambient set at The Rendezvous in 2024, Faelow had the ingredients for this album already in the works. Pushing these arrangements over the compositional finish line, he’s turned out 8 tracks with meandering and tempered gaits. There’s no explosive resolutions or high-energy rollers, leaving behind kinetics in favor of aqueous instrumentation and reverberant, subsurface percussion. Dialed in for both the stage and the home, Lumivora is a stand-out release that sets a bar standard for 2025’s potential additions in the landscape of melodically-rich electronic productions.

~ More from Faelow ~
 https://soundcloud.com/faelow
https://www.facebook.com/FaelowArt
https://www.instagram.com/faelowart/

Lumivora

Buy / Stream / Presave

Faelow - Bloom Again

lula keys ><

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Abseil

Snilk x Tipper - Tip Hop2 Circles (Full Version)

1st Single off the upcoming "Gel Sequence" LP
Full Album On All Platforms 07.24.25
Art by Ufflex // Node Flourish

Gel Sequence

Skulkbuffer

Released via https://soundcloud.com/timewheel !

"In 2014, I was an F–18 Foxtrot pilot in the Navy Fighter Attack
Squadron 11, the Red Rippers, and I was stationed at NAS Oceana
in Virginia Beach. After upgrades were made to our jet’s radar systems, we began detecting unknown objects operating in our airspace. At first, we assumed they were radar errors but soon we began to correlate the radar tracks with multiple onboard sensors, including infrared systems, eventually through visual ID. During a training mission in Warning Area W–72, 10 miles off
the coast of Virginia Beach, two F–18 Super Hornets were split by a UAP. The object, described as a dark gray or a black cube inside of a clear sphere, came within 50 feet of the lead aircraft and was estimated to be five to 15 feet in diameter." 

- Ryan Graves, Under Oath in front of the U.S. Congress in 2023.

link to full hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgoul4vyDM&t=370s&ab_channel=CBSNews

Tangible

Don’t L3ave

Parallax est une traversée en huit mouvements, du souffle ambient aux pulsations tribe/psytrance. L’axe: changer de point de vue — ciel/terre, carte/territoire, silence/impulsion. Textures cosmiques, percussions organiques, basses rondes et arps miroitants se répondent comme des mirages qui se décalent. Écoute casque conseillée: profondeur stéréo, détails granulaires, dynamiques.

Ambiance: cinématique, hypnotique, organique + synthétique  
Genres: ambient · psybient · tribe · psytrance  
Pour: nuits en extérieur, warm‑ups/afters, voyages intérieurs

Aether

APARTMENT 96.

Purchase 'Flubbed' here:
https://therustmusic.bandcamp.com/album/flubbed

@amawalk
FB: https://www.facebook.com/amawalkmusic/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/amawalkmusic

AMAWALK cultivates reverberant atmospheres and intuitive arrangements with his dual-track release, Flubbed, taking full advantage of stereo space and musical modalities. It’s his second release through The Rust Music, and a potent expansion of his immersive, genre-blending style. 

The one-two punch packaged up in Flubbed is a duality of rhythm and sensuality. Ambient pads and stereophonic echoes combine with world-fusion percussion to create a primal listening experience. The phrasing is simple and elaborate at the same time, showcasing strong songwriting evolution paired with bold sound design choices and a sense of note relationships. Both tunes build on powerful root melodies and syncopated harmonies, so there’s a distinct alliteration to the EP. Open to close, Flubbed is an emotive wave of choice engineering and crisp compositions that aptly displays the ongoing growth of AMAWALK’s musical vision.

Flubbed

STAY CHOONED.

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