EXUVIA
by Artur Tokhtash
Release date: 20.04.2025 at 04:20 (worldwide stream)
Vinyl edition: Buy premium pressing

Each skin shed is a beacon.
Not of death — but of direction.
Steel remembers. The trail is lit.

https://elasticstage.com/tokhtash/releases/exuvia-album

Genres: Ritual Industrial, Neuro Trip-Hop, Post-Human Ambient, Sound Poetry
Tags: #EXUVIA #ArturTokhtash #RitualMusic #IndustrialAmbient #BodyInSound #Psychoacoustics #VinylRelease #ExperimentalElectronic #SoundRitual #Hauntology


“To shed is to leave your own ghost behind.”

EXUVIA is a body left in sound —
an EP of discarded forms, recorded wounds, and singing scars.
This is not music for listening.
This is music for abandoning.

Everything here is skin:
cut open, ripped off, forgotten —
but still singing
inside walls, inside dirt, inside broken bones.

This is not evolution.
This is instinct.


TRACKLIST + RITUAL GLOSSARY:

1. DERMIS – Warmth Still Clings
Your last surface. Still breathing. Still remembering.
A sound of soft loss — the outermost voice of memory.

2. EXUVIA I – Rupture Form
Tear while running. Break while hunting.
Blood left in roots. Forward through fracture.

3. EXUVIA II – Hollow Frameworks
Where flesh was — only empty structures humming.
The architecture of after.

4. NEOTENE – Young Shell, Old Cry
Too soft to survive. Too wild to die.
Descending laments like burning rain.

5. VELA SHEATH – Light Trapped in Skin
What sails away is not you —
but what once covered you.
A drifting echo-body.

6. CALYX BITE – The Final Mark
Not transcendence, but the wound that blooms.
A mouth of flowers, grown from violence.

“The flower blooms because something bit the earth before it.”


EXUVIA is:
	•	A trail of skins
	•	A line of ghosts
	•	A map of teeth

“I am gone — but the sound still gnaws.”



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日本語 (Japanese):
EXUVIA
アルトゥール・トクタシュによる、身体と音の境界線を捨てる儀式
リリース日：—
ジャンル：儀式インダストリアル、ニューロ・トリップホップ、ポストヒューマン・アンビエント、サウンド・ポエトリー
タグ：#EXUVIA #ArturTokhtash #儀式音楽 #インダストリアルアンビエント #音の中の身体 #サイコアコースティクス #ヴァイナルリリース #実験電子音楽 #音響儀式 #ハントロジー

概要：
「脱皮とは、自らの亡霊を置き去りにすること。」
EXUVIAは、音の中に残された身体。
捨てられた形、記録された傷、歌う傷痕のEP。
これは「聴く」ための音楽ではない——「捨てる」ための音楽。
ここにあるのは、剥がされ、忘れられた皮膚だけ。
それでも、土の中、骨の中で歌い続ける。
これは進化ではない。これは本能だ。

キーワード：
Artur Tokhtash EXUVIA、ポストインダストリアルEP、ヴァイナルアンビエントリリース、実験的儀式音楽、身体ベースの音響アート、サイコアコースティック作曲、ハントロジカルリリース、ニューロトリップホップ、ドローン＆ブレイクビート、音の中の詩、ソーマ・シンセサイザー、アナログ儀式エレクトロニカ、霊的インダストリアル。

中文 (Chinese):
EXUVIA
阿图尔·托克塔什 — 在声音中脱壳的仪式之作
发行日期：—
风格：仪式工业、神经式嘻哈、后人类氛围、声音诗歌
标签：#EXUVIA #ArturTokhtash #仪式音乐 #工业氛围 #身体之声 #心理声学 #黑胶发行 #实验电子 #声音仪式 #幽灵学

简介：
「脱壳，就是将自己的幽灵留在身后。」
EXUVIA是一具遗留在声音中的身体。
一张由弃置之形、记录之伤、歌唱之疤编织而成的EP。
这不是为聆听而作的音乐——而是为了放弃。
这里的一切，都是被剥离、遗忘，但仍在墙壁、泥土与断骨中歌唱的皮肤。
这不是进化，而是本能。

关键词：
Artur Tokhtash EXUVIA、后工业EP、黑胶氛围音乐、实验仪式电子、基于身体的声音艺术、心理声学作品、幽灵学发行、神经式嘻哈、无人声融合、声音中的诗、Soma合成器黑胶、模拟电子仪式、灵性工业音乐。

Exuvia is the trail.
Each skin: a signal cast.
Each signal: a beacon to Orion.
The hunter has become the flame.

Own the Ritual

EXUVIA

Nociva Project - Yesferatu

A God disappearing and reappearing in the darkness while managing space and time. 


Artwork by Ratpsko_xyz, NEKO


**Hardcore Help Foundation

You can find this track in the compilation:
Hardcore Help "More Than Music Vol.1" March 2023
100% of the compilation proceeds will be used for humanitarian aid.

https://hardcorehelp.bandcamp.com/album/more-than-music-volume-1


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Yesferatu

Post Scriptvm - Eisstoß LP Tesco Organisation out February 2024  [Tesco 158 LTD300 ICE-CLEAR VINYL+DOWNLOAD CODE]

Eissto

Nimbus

Taken from SBKT064: sideproject - sourcepond
Release date: 30th May 2024

Following up from work on Björk´s 'Fossora', Icelandic trio 'sideproject' debut on SVBKVLT with their new full-length album 'sourcepond'. Taking influence from the fog-covered wetlands of their native island, sideproject transfigure influences from the low-end frequencies of grime and bass music, and reshape it into a haze of transient-smeared beats accompanied by breathy synths that grow ever wetter till they slip beneath the surface tensions of their harmonic stratum. Compared to previous output, 'sourcepond' opts for a more concise approach to their music, stacking up their influences of experimental electronic, Icelandic punk and contemporary club music, and builds a sound that oscillates between melodic hooks and experimental rhythms. Each track carves through the sensuous material, pulling the listener into the dank sourcepond as though magnetic forces were guiding a bird's beak towards misty horizons.

Artwork by sideproject
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

sourcepond

sideproject - double zebra

Shadows

Taken from SBKT066: Prettybwoy - Tokyo Ice Age
Release date: 5th February 2025

Our first release for 2025 is ‘Tokyo Ice Age’, a new EP from Prettybwoy. 5 warped club tracks, packaged with remixes from aya and Proc Fiskal, artwork by Downstate and mastered by Raphael Valensi.

‘An ice age is a cycle of roughly 100,000 years that Earth has been undergoing for at least the past million years. I’ve been reflecting on these cycles and the way life resets or disappears over time. When my grandmother passed away, I found old photographs and handwritten documents—faded pieces of history that offered me a brief glimpse into my family’s past. Ways of living, even since my own birth, are changing rapidly, and many things are being lost or disappearing forever.

The term "Ice Age" also refers to Japan’s Employment Ice Age, a period between the mid-90s and early 2000s, following the collapse of the country's 'Bubble Economy.' During this time, many young graduates and displaced workers struggled to find stable employment. The generation impacted by this era, known as the "Lost Decades," is often referred to as the ‘Lost Generation’ or ‘Ice Age Generation.’ I belong to this generation.’

Artwork by Downstate
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Prettybwoy - Holocene

Much Unseen Is Also Here

Behold a Voice as Thunder

Concrete

EXUVIA I

“The first skin tears not clean — it shreds.”

This is the sound of rupture.
The hunt inside the bone.
EXUVIA I drags the listener through the sharp, rusted architecture of old selves — carcasses still twitching in residual instinct.

Roat scrapes like claws over stone.
Digitone bends metal into sinew.
Percussion is not rhythm here — it is pursuit.
It is breath accelerating through wet fangs.

Primal trip-hop deformed — hunting drums rising like heat hallucinations.
Every layer dirtied, unrefined, ritualized into movement.

EXUVIA I
It is about the violence required to leave.

“Leave teeth behind.”
“Leave skin behind.”
“Leave only the scar of your outline.”

Buy on Bandcamp

Exuvia I

“Where the skin once was — hollow frameworks hum.”

If EXUVIA I was tearing —
EXUVIA II is aftermath.

A skeletal procession.
Empty forms dragged by residual electricity.
This is the echo-chamber of what you used to be —
Resonating without flesh.

Digitone stretches itself into rusted bone-chimes.
Roat mutates into insectoid membranes, flickering between signal and silence.

Drums here are distant —
Fragments of lost command —
Like forgotten heartbeats wired into malfunctioning machines.

This is not music for movement.
This is music for shedding.

Cold. Hollow. Obsessed with what is no longer attached.

EXUVIA II spirals inward —
not collapsing —
but conserving
the imprint
of vanished skin.

“Empty things remember.”

Exuvia II

“The first layer remembers warmth.”

DERMIS is blood-close.
Still alive.
Still wet.
This is not yet the ghost-body of Exuvia.
This is touch. Flesh.
That which was nearest to the world.

The sound here is thick.
Oil and sweat in the cracks of drums.
Roat murmurs like a pulse under skin.
Digitone glows like veins catching stray light.

The rhythm is not perfect —
it breathes — it stretches like muscles waking from sleep.

DERMIS is the moment before rupture.
The weight of the body as it prepares to leave itself.

Nothing is discarded yet.
Everything is here.

“Leave this imprint in the earth.”
“Leave this sound in the blood.”

 Buy on Bandcamp

Dermis

bolero combined with 6-8ths drumming is a vibe

Tigre de Papel (feat King Klavé)

“A newborn with old eyes. The soft body strikes first.”

NEOTENE doesn’t evolve —
It remembers forward.
A child-form that carries the wrath of ancestors.

Lyra-8 sings in descending laments —
piercing intervals falling by seconds, pulled downward by gravity and grief.
Roat slashes through the silence with metallic screams.
Everything rises, then breaks —
then rises again.

The beat doesn’t wait.
It charges.
Forward, through sorrow.
Forward, despite collapse.

There’s beauty here — but it burns.
Like rain on cauterized skin.
Like a scream too pure to be human.

NEOTENE is the final surge before detachment.
A being that shouldn’t exist —
still fighting, still singing.

“The youngest sound is the oldest cry.”

Neotene

“Light does not escape clean. It wraps around absence.”

VELA SHEATH is the shimmer of skin long gone.
The afterimage of movement.
The pulse still trapped in abandoned muscle memory.

This track drifts —
but not gently.
It is dragged like a torn sail through slow wind.
Chords stretch like veins of fading light.
The ROAT stirs — distant —
like teeth scraping glass from another world.

This is post-body music.
A skeleton of rhythm barely holding together.
A melody dissolved in salt.

Here — Lyra-8 can cry without restraint.
Let the laments descend.
Let the pitch fall until it fractures.

VELA SHEATH is not rebirth.
It is containment.
A vessel of sound carrying everything that could not stay behind.

“We are what we leave. We are what sails away.”

Vela Sheath

"Caught In Time (live edit)", live in The Amersham Arms, London, 11.07.2016

Another Green Mile

In the Streets, in the Rain (feat. Mickes, Tobias Becker & Wolfgang Tiepold)

Official composer and audio director for Wargaming titles: Steel Hunters, World of Warships.
Creator of ritual audio systems fully adaptive to battle events.
A core voice in a new sonic movement — fusing esoteric techniques with cutting-edge sound architecture.

His music has resonated across trailers, games, video art, and open air — where even birds paused to listen.
Acting as a medium, he channels ancient signals through jaw harps, throat singing, and field synthesizers.

Releases include: Mene Tekel Upharsin, Chrysolux EP, The Wheel Remains, Voces Exilii, EXUVIA, Signal from Isidis and more.
Each work is a document of ritual passage, inner mutation, and sonic exorcism.

Recommended by Spotify algorithms to listeners of Planet Supreme, Hainbach, Lustmord, Steve Bicknell, Luke Sanger.
#1 City: Singapore.
Works with SOMA, Teenage Engineering, Elektron, and hand-crafted audio relics as tools of alchemy.

You don’t hear him with ears. You hear him with scars.

「音は記憶であり、音は儀式である。世界が崩壊してもなお響き続ける火種。アトゥール・トフタシュ（Artur Tokhtash）の音の世界へようこそ。」

🎧 阿图尔·托赫塔什（Artur Tokhtash）

官方作曲家与音频总监，代表作品包括《钢铁猎人》（Steel Hunters）与《战舰世界》（World of Warships）。

他创造了完整自适应的战斗音频系统，将仪式性声音与尖端音频架构融合。

他的音乐跨越预告片、游戏、视频艺术与户外空间，甚至让鸟儿驻足聆听。

通过口弦琴、喉音唱法与实地合成器，他作为媒介传递古老信号。

代表作品包括：《Mene Tekel Upharsin》、《Chrysolux EP》、《The Wheel Remains》、《Voces Exilii》、《EXUVIA》、《Signal from Isidis》等。

每一部作品都是仪式通道、内在变异与声音驱魔的记录。

Spotify算法推荐给Planet Supreme、Hainbach、Lustmord、Steve Bicknell、Luke Sanger的听众。

#1城市：新加坡。 ￼

合作设备包括SOMA、Teenage Engineering、Elektron及手工音频遗器，作为炼金工具。

你不是用耳朵听他，而是用伤痕感受他。

Dermis

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