Alien D. - Smoker’s Choice - Theory Therapy
Daniel Creahan, aka Alien D., returns with another LP on Sydney’s Theory Therapy label. His second album on the imprint in two years is once again packed with stunning, soothing, and laid-back jams—signature characteristics for both his own work and the label’s output.
Struktur - Levitation - Maloca
Frieder Blume, known among other monikers as Struktur, steps outside his usual Berlin territory with a new album on the Belgian Maloca label, run by Le Motel since 2020. Nonetheless, Levitation seamlessly continues his previous work, embracing a genre-fluid scope deeply shaped by his artistic signature sound.
Ghost Dubs - Oblique - Pressure
For true supersoft heads, Ghost Dubs will be a familiar name, as his and The Bug’s collaboration Implosion was featured in the very first article on this page. Now, Martin is happy to have the Swabian dub don back on his imprint Pressure for his first solo album since the breakthrough release Damaged, which made huge waves in 2024.
HIA & Biosphere - Birmingham Frequencies - High Intelligence Agency
Two ambient heavyweights joined forces in the late 90s to experiment and discover a shared soundscape. This collaboration resulted in two albums that are now considered classics of the golden era of ambient electronica. Now, the second chapter, Birmingham Frequencies, is being reissued and is available on vinyl for the very first time.
Carmen Villain- Memoria / Carrier - Thresholds
This week features a double header, and what an incredible one it is: Carmen Villain returns with a new LP Memoria on her go-to imprint Smalltown Supersound, while Carrier continues his self-titled series with a new three-tracker, Thresholds. These are two exceptional, immersive releases by masters of their craft.
Erik M. - Shell Songs - Kora
Norwegian musician and photographer Erik M. returns to the Oslo-based Kora imprint with his second LP, once again exploring the realm of mesmerizing ambient and trippy experimental music.
Various Artists - American Dub Electronics - Kino Disk
Chicago’s mysterious Kino Disk has become a reliable insider tip for fans of heavily dub-infused sounds. Since its debut release in 2024, the label has connected the dots between the tradition of dub music—in the true fashion of acts like Gas or Echospace—and new perspectives from artists such as Huerco S. or Carmen Villain, exploring dub territory from ambient to experimental and techno.
This Various Artists compilation already marks its twentieth release.
Djrum - I Wander - Houndstooth
Felix Manuel has been pushing the boundaries of electronic dance music for years under his DJrum alias. Now, his first release since the impressive album Under Tangled Silence sees the light of day, once again on London-based Fabric sublabel Houndstooth.
emer feat. Ugnė Uma - you and me - STROOM
STROOM label, run by Belgian producer and DJ Ziggy Devriendt aka Nosedrip, became a true tastemaker since its founding in 2016. Over the last ten years the label has unearthed music from the 80s, 90s and 00s across all genres from sweet R&B (Keysha “Stop it!”), to heartmelting Synthwave (Saskia’s “Eeuwig Op Reis”), or timeless Trance anthems (CJ Bolland’s “Camargue”). But beyond that, the imprint has provided a platform for exciting new artists and their projects, such as Florian T M Zeisig, Oko DJs live project, or the incredible Voice Actor. Now a collaboration between two artists, that previously have released on the label return for their debut album.
Topdown Dialectic - FALSE LP A - False Aralia
Emerging from the orbit of the Los Angeles-based Peak Oil label, False Aralia has become a truly unique gem of electronic music since its founding in 2024.
Batu & Donato Dozzy - Exhale - !K7 Music
When two masters from two different generations record an album together, the result can only be (at the very least) great. On first view, some might think Donato Dozzy and Batu move in different fields of sound but in their productions and their approach in DJing they share quiet a lot.
Monolake - Interstate - Field Recordings
There are many names that have shaped electronic music in the way we know it today, but Robert Henke is definitely among the most important ones. Besides his “side-project” Ableton, which he started alongside Gerhard Behles and Bernd Roggendorf in 1999, his musical output still influences artists around the globe after thirty years.
Tara Clerkin Trio - Somewhere Good - World Of Echo
Tara Clerkin, her partner Sunny Joe Paradisos, and his brother Patrick Benjamin have been making waves under the name Tara Clerkin Trio since their self-titled debut album back in 2019. Since then, their unique mix of electronically infused Jazz/Kraut hybrids and classic Bristol Trip-Hop influences has reached a much wider audience.
Beatrice M. - Sinking - Tectonic Recordings
Beatrice M. has become one of the most promising talents in modern electronic club music over the past few years. They stand for a new era of club music, one that brings a vast knowledge and sensibility for the roots and blueprints of several genres into the present day by mixing them with fresh influences and perspectives.
Sub Basics - Maneuver 01 + 02 MANEUVER
This marks the first double feature on this blog, but it would have been a shame to miss out on this double release by Sub Basics. UK-based Tom Wood, aka Sub Basics and head of the Temple of Sound label, has been strongly influenced by sound system culture since his very first release in 2014.
Gintė Preisaitė - Instruments Of Forgetting And The Singing Bone - FELT
Fergus Jones’ (aka Perko) FELT label has become an exciting new go-to place for fans of experimental music in the realm of electronic sounds. Besides releases by established artists like Carrier, Civilistjävel!, DJ Trystero, or Dave Huisman’s latest alias In Transit, Jones uses his label as a platform for young, talented artists. This holds true for FELT’s newest release by Lithuanian-born, Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalist Gintė Preisaitė.
Lavurn - Baby It Cold Outside - Motion Ward
For over a decade, the Los Angeles-based label Motion Ward label has connected the dots between electronic and organic forms of meditative music—be it ambient, folk, rock, lo-fi, or trip-hop. Their recent release, “Baby It Cold Outside” by Lavurn, perfectly strikes the right balance between these worlds.
Phil Struck - Kiliae I - Cosima Pitz
The ominous label Cosima Pitz expands its catalogue with a wonderful new release by Phil Struck. After several tapes on labels such as Mondoj or Quiet Time Tapes and an impressive debut LP on Séance Centre, Kiliae I marks the second LP by the Berlin-based sonic artist. As with his previous releases, there is a strong influence of field recordings.