Listen to 'Morganite' by Clever Tribe taken from 'Morganite' EP out on June 26th via Kulture Lab

Clever Tribe’s Morganite is upcoming on Kulture Lab Records (South Africa). Something about it feels known and brand new at the same time, like a melody you swear you’ve heard before but couldn’t tell you where.

LINKS:

Clever Tribe: SC / BC / IG

Kulture Lab: SC / BC / IG

Listen to 'Future Dial (manao Remix) ' by key asc taken from 'Totally Re-Wired' out on June 19th via 10.60 Hz

For this remix EP, five artists have set out to reshape the key asc ecosystem. Gillielove, manao, Steel Traxx, TTristana and Current Bias take the original material and transform it shifting the spectrum towards their own distinct dimensions : aquatic dub, deconstructed bass, high-tension breaks, corrosive dance and textural ambient. What the original EP presented as a hybridisation to the club becomes here a land for a reinterpretation, built on the same architecture but with a different philosophy.

LINKS:

key asc: SC / IG

manao: SC / IG

10.60 Hz: SC / BC / IG

Mastering by HDN Mastering
Cover art by Darius Zoltan

Listen to 'Brèche' by ATOMK7 taken from 'The Ambiant Lonely Path' out on June 18th via Human Disease Network

Following Movements and Movements Remixes, ATOMK7 returns to Human Disease Network with The Ambient Lonely Path, a contemplative album exploring different stages of life. Moving through darker moments, hopeful passages and brighter horizons, the record unfolds organically, blending introspection, resilience and acceptance. Each track reveals a new emotional landscape shaped by immersive atmospheres and sensitive songwriting.

A personal and sincere work that embraces a dreamlike identity while remaining grounded in the present.

LINKS:

Buy 'The Ambiant Lonely Path' on bandcamp

ATOMK7: SC / IG

Human Disease Network: SC / BC / IG

Listen to 'nike's day at the ppooll by saltwater taken from 'saltwater' out now via oramica

saltwater has created something genuinely refreshing: an album that feels like an open invitation to play.Instead of traditional tracks, the record offers ten distinct “levels”- an arcade-like playground with no fixed ending, only pure process.

From the very first piece, bamboo dreams, the listener is thrown into a warm, surreal headspace. One person hears the final dream of a dying PS2 console; another floats through bouncy clouds that morph into crossbows. The beauty lies in how differently the same music can land.

Every track sparks its own vivid imagery. Sonically, the album is held together by a delicate, grainy texture - a thin veil that binds everything into one cohesive world. Underneath it, saltwater fluidly moves between underwater digi-dub, German microhouse, and subtle trap influences without ever feeling forced. There are no strict narratives or classic song structures. Instead, the music creates atmosphere, hands you the controls, and steps back.

This is true open-world ambient: an RPG where the player’s imagination does most of the work. One of the most playful and immersive atmospheric releases in recent memory. If you’re tired of music that tries to lead you by the hand and want something that invites you to explore and invent, this album is a gem.

LINKS:

oramica: SC / IG / TG

Listen to 'anything ii [+ Mmmusic] ' by 22stain taken from 'isolationship' out on June 22nd via katharsis

After years of mutation, rewrites, and abandoned versions, 22stain’s debut album “isolationship” finally arrives on June 22 on the Copenhagen-based label katharsis. Moving through fragile ambient songwriting, stripped electronic textures and emotionally dissolved pop structures, the album unfolds like a strangely private world of sound slowly leaking into physical space.

Across the album, intimacy, paranoia, devotion, chemical comfort, boredom and private fantasy continuously melt together. Moments of emotional heaviness suddenly give way to strange innocence or euphoric warmth before collapsing back into exhaustion again. Some passages feel almost childlike in their openness, while others resemble fragmented late-night monologues drifting somewhere between prayer, intrusive thought and hallucination.

Much of the music feels almost unnervingly close, with subtle hints to ASMR-culture. Vocals sit directly against the listener’s ear, breaths catching, saliva shifting in the mouth, vocal cords straining against the microphone, while distant knocks, creaking doors and tiny spatial details appear with enough realism to briefly make you question whether the sounds are part of the album or coming from somewhere else in the room - hence, the isolation of the record is not only lyrical, but architectural. Entire songs seem to take place inside sealed emotional interiors where thoughts loop endlessly against the walls.

An earlier version of the project carried the title divorce drugs, a phrase that still quietly frames much of the album’s emotional logic with its double entendre. References to intoxication and dependency appear constantly throughout the record, though rarely as straightforward confession. Instead, they move through the songs like atmosphere: rituals of escape, compulsive repetition, artificial closeness, self-mythologising, bodies dissolving into symbols. Fiction and autobiography remain impossible to separate fully.

Built over several years and numerous alternate versions, the album gradually evolved through different emotional and sonic states before arriving in its final form. Earlier iterations occasionally leaned further into heavier rhythmic structures and denser disorienting productions, but the album ultimately settled into something far more exposed and emotionally porous. While deeply solitary in atmosphere, the album also features contributions from Alexander Le Ciel, Bloszum, skategoat, sweetdreams&RGB, Mmmusic and faithinself, whose appearances feel less like traditional guest spots than fleeting presences drifting through the album's emotional landscape.

LINKS:

Buy 'isolationship' on bandcamp

22stain: SC / IG

katharsis: SC / BC / IG

Mastering: Joel Krozer @ Six Bit Deep
Album Artwork: karl uni

Artwork for anything ii: olgee

Listen to 'augmented ceremony by ttyole taken from 'Augmented Ceremony' EP out now via Run Level

ttyole's first solo EP moves from the unknown toward convocation — industrial ambient through broken club music and trance pulses into ritualistic dubstep. Modular soundscapes and micro-sampled textures build an environment where kicks are simultaneously piercing and comforting

LINKS:

Buy 'Augmented Ceremony' EP on bandcamp

ttyole: SC / IG

Run Level: SC / BC / IG

Listen to 'Традиции фараонских просчетов' ('The Tradition of Pharaonic Missteps') taken from 'Без Вести Пропавший' ('Missing') out on June 12th via Fuselab

NWIII presents a new album.

It’s a mirror that reflects everything that feels cozy only in the dark. The tracks came to life on their own - slowly, painfully, and honestly. The standout track, “Monster,” pieced together from samples of a game about singing monsters, has become a personal anthem.

Here lies chaos, catastrophe, and painful squalor, yet it is unexpectedly warm and peaceful. Just like behind Tolyan’s closet.

If the philosophies of Linkin Simpson and Hoffman resonate with you - this album is already yours.

LINKS:

Buy 'Традиции фараонских просчетов' on bandcamp

NWIII: SC / YOUTUBE / IG

Fuselab: SC / BC / IG

Listen to 'WITH ME by ELANNT taken from 'ERROR BIAS' out on June 26th via FFS Collective

Maxim ELANNT makes his debut on the label with ERROR BIAS, a three-track exploration of fractured electro and broken rhythms. His sound sits at the intersection of raw, unpolished textures and intricate synth work, heavy and futuristic, but never losing sight of atmosphere. Think gritty drum breaks wrapped in lush, hypnotic layers.

LINKS:

Buy 'ERROR BIAS' on bandcamp

ELANNT: SC / IG

FFS Collective: SC / BC / IG

Listen to 'Dancing Together' by Unstable Tone taken from VA 'Tripalium Fucked-Up Squad vol. 6' out on June 12th via Tripalium Corp

'15 summer hits for the fucked-up dancefloors : this is the Tripalium Corp summer comp ! The fucked-up squad will heat up your sunny afters with these 15 sick tunes made by producers from all over the world. Future electronica, glitchy braindance, ghetto bass, vicious elektro, freaky techno, deconstructed jungle, ravy breaks - welcome to our summer party, weirdos !'

LINKS:

Buy 'Tripalium Fucked-Up Squad vol. 6' on bandcamp

Unstable Tone: SC / BC / IG

Tripalium Corp: SC / BC / IG

Listen to 'Wip the Time' by Bromic taken from VA 'STAY FAST 4' out now via LAMBRATECH

'THE HEBI' s ERA:

Acceleration brought them here. What began as a breach left a mark.

Lambrate is no longer a crossing point; it has become Lambratech.

In Stay Fast 4, movement slows down and takes shape.
What once moved through the city now settles within it.

A coiled presence emerges: a serpent tracing its own path, folding back on itself.
Not expansion, but consolidation. Not noise, but direction.

All the artists converge in this final chapter; not as individuals, but as a shared structure taking its final form.'

LINKS:

Buy 'STAY FAST 4' on bandcamp

Bromic: SC / BC / IG

LAMBRATECH: SC / BC / IG