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V/A :: The Third Mind. A Sonic Tribute to the Dreamachine (Unexplained Sounds Group) Guided by Brion Gysin’s radical perceptual legacy, The Third Mind. A Sonic Tribute to the Dreamachine charts a hypnotic journey through ritual, abstraction, and experimental electronics—where sensory ...

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Atlea :: Optics EP (Katabatik) A shadowed pulse circles Optics, as Atlea folds primal electronic textures, finely etched vocals, and dark techno motion into a hushed yet magnetic release that lingers at the edges of perception.

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Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2025 Across 2025, hundreds of releases surfaced, with December granted space to settle. From that sweep emerged a carefully shaped collection of favorites, each paired with links to Igloo reviews and relea...

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Hexalyne :: Xetercyneaal (Evel) Operating under his long-standing Hexalyne guise, Sorin Paun delivers a tightly engineered glitch-IDM statement via Xetercyneaal that prioritizes rhythmic evolution, textural precision, and sustained ...

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Parallel Action :: KEPLER186 EP (C7NEMA 100 / Furthur Electronix) A quiet contender for understatement of 2025, Jude Greenaway’s three-track KEPLER186 EP (April 2025) distills downtempo, dark, space-bound progressive forms into a tense, cinematic statement of total ...

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James Shinra :: Shinra Electro Company Vol 2 (Shinra Electro Company) James Shinra stands with one foot deep in electro’s 45-year lineage and the other stepping boldly forward, delivering a fiercely physical yet future-facing EP that treats tradition as fuel, not refuge...

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µ-Ziq :: 1979 (Balmat) Mike Paradinas’ 1979 is a transportive ambient-IDM memoir, mapping Madrid’s outskirts and his own musical past into a quietly radiant double LP for Lapsus’ Balmat imprint.

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Deeper Than Space :: Animal Ghosts (Silent) Blending ritual electronics with field-recorded mysticism, Animal Ghosts reframes the rave as a portal linking Neolithic spirituality, industrial culture, and a future-memory of ecstatic release.

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Patricia Wolf :: Hrafnamynd (Balmat) Patricia Wolf’s Hrafnamynd—her second LP for Balmat—melds ambient composition, field recordings, and empathic melody into a haunting, memory-soaked soundtrack whose warm synths, birdsong, and tape-wor...

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Containment :: The Rotating Boy EP (Condition Human) — [concise] A visceral debut from Chang Terhune’s new alias Containment, The Rotating Boy is a feral four-track assault where broken jungle, corroded synths, and hyper-pressurized breakbeats fuse into a volatile ...

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V/A :: ZEROTWO (Black Shapes) ZEROTWO is Black Shapes’ second statement—a tightly engineered techno EP where four distinct voices sculpt smoke-drenched, late-night architectures of tension and release, balancing ferocity and contr...

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Dirk Serries :: Infinite and Unbound (Projekt) Dirk Serries (formerly vidnaObmana) marked a new year with Infinite and Unbound, five long-form works wrought in real time with simple guitar+FX. A veteran's touch The Ambient DroneMeister carries on the torch undimmed, vidnaObmana long retired, 30+ titles the last two years alone solo an

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Sematic4 :: Different Sky (Bass Agenda) Channelling frozen tundra, sci-fi vastness and disciplined electro power, Sematic4 returns to Bass Agenda Recordings with Different Sky—a glacial, body-locking long player of pure-form machine funk. ...

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KMFDM :: ENEMY (Metropolis) With ENEMY, KMFDM prove—42 years into their own brutalist continuum—that the beats still slam, the identity is unmissable, and while the grooves and craft hit exactly as promised, the righteous anger ...

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Patricia Wolf :: Hrafnamynd (Balmat) Patricia Wolf’s Hrafnamynd—her second LP for Balmat—melds ambient composition, field recordings, and empathic melody into a haunting, memory-soaked soundtrack whose warm synths, birdsong, and tape-wor...

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Florian Förster :: Tyche (Pulse State) From its opening seconds, Tyche establishes Florian Förster as a producer of rare fluency and restraint, delivering deeply crafted funk and machine soul with a calm, assured authority that never reach...

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pdqb :: Mutations, Modifications, and Other Alterations (Synaptic Cliffs) Berlin’s pdqb unveils a double-pack of remixes, mapping the mechanics of robotic grooves across a hand-picked roster of producers.

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Hellacopta :: Collapse EP (Onset Audio) Hellacopta’s Collapse EP on Onset Audio is a ferocious 118 BPM industrial punk-funk statement—half-time, machine-tooled techno that balances surgical control with explosive, rib-rattling chaos.

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HITORI TORI :: Conflated Narratives (Evel) — [concise] HITORI TORI’s Conflated Narratives channels tranquilized glitch and elongated electroacoustic drift into a meticulous, otherworldly suite where fractured rhythms and microscopic detail reward deep, re...

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Acid Kult :: Silent Mantra EP (Perimeter Junk) Oliver Dodd’s debut Silent Mantra EP for Perimeter Junk is a taut, club-ready statement of intent: three lean acid tools that prioritize pressure, discipline, and groove over spectacle, letting contro...

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Deeper Than Space :: Animal Ghosts (Silent) Blending ritual electronics with field-recorded mysticism, Animal Ghosts reframes the rave as a portal linking Neolithic spirituality, industrial culture, and a future-memory of ecstatic release.

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HITORI TORI :: Conflated Narratives (Evel) — [concise] HITORI TORI’s Conflated Narratives channels tranquilized glitch and elongated electroacoustic drift into a meticulous, otherworldly suite where fractured rhythms and microscopic detail reward deep, re...

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Hellacopta :: Collapse EP (Onset Audio) Hellacopta’s Collapse EP on Onset Audio is a ferocious 118 BPM industrial punk-funk statement—half-time, machine-tooled techno that balances surgical control with explosive, rib-rattling chaos.

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µ-Ziq :: 1979 (Balmat) Mike Paradinas’ 1979 is a transportive ambient-IDM memoir, mapping Madrid’s outskirts and his own musical past into a quietly radiant double LP for Lapsus’ Balmat imprint.

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Single Cell Orchestra :: Shining Star EP (Self Released) — [concise] Synth spackle spreads generously across Shining Star EP, as Miguel Angelo Fierro’s Single Cell Orchestra distills decades of experimental electronic fluency into four lean, glowing techno transmission...

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shizukesa :: destroy//destroy (Self Released) shizukesa’s destroy//destroy reframes lo-fi as a disciplined study in motion and restraint, where stuttering rhythms, minimal structures, and carefully rationed momentum turn negative space into the r...

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James Shinra :: Shinra Electro Company Vol 2 (Shinra Electro Company) James Shinra stands with one foot deep in electro’s 45-year lineage and the other stepping boldly forward, delivering a fiercely physical yet future-facing EP that treats tradition as fuel, not refuge...

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Reinartz :: Irradiated (appendix.files) — [concise] Kurt Reinartz Salgado’s Irradiated is an eight-part, dub-tinged journey where finely tuned percussion, ambient shadow, and rugged techno contours interlock into a surreal, slowly warming electronic co...

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pdqb :: Mutations, Modifications, and Other Alterations (Synaptic Cliffs) Berlin’s pdqb unveils a double-pack of remixes, mapping the mechanics of robotic grooves across a hand-picked roster of producers.

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Meat Beat Manifesto :: Opaque Couché (Flexidisc) There’s an air of doom around us. A certain darkness, an indiscernible color, a feeling of revulsion and repelling forces. The mind begs to understand what exactly it is beholding without being able t...

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