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out now: Speedy J – Walkman [Stoor]

Artist:
Speedy J

Title:
Walkman

Label:
Stoor

Cat#:
S60

Release Date:
15th May 2026

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Arp Amp Chasm

A2.
Drift Vector

A3.
Modloop 138 Fragment

A4.
Foldsp4

A5.
Osc Hop (Slow Collapse)

A6.
Tweak 3 Driftmass

B1.
Blurform Dust

B2.
Wogglebug Remembered

B3.
Trippy135 Phase 0

B4.
Nachtgrain

B5.
Chronoroute Fank

B6.
Freeqwarp 2025 Redux

C1.
303 Template Refract

C2.
DLN – Soft Ruin

C3.
Cr78 Mesh

C4.
Volca Signal 06

D1.
Ctrssalms17 (Cold Render)

D2.
Oceans Past And Present

D3.
Jt33Unstable Core

D4.
Modern Birds (Origin Edit)

Press Info:
Contemplating the role of the album format in an attention-deficient society, Speedy J presents Walkman — a constantly shifting, 90-minute soundtrack to a journey of your choice. Jochem Paap’s first solo album in over 20 years is a freewheeling, 20-track testament to his decades-deep studio skill and sonic versatility, running from skewed rhythmic rabbit holes to exploratory tonal abandon.

For Paap, the traditional idea of the album had become obscured by listening habits and the non-stop information barrage of our digital lives. Having moved on from his breakthrough years releasing LPs and touring off the back of them, he was more inspired to develop his many-sided STOOR project and feed into a bigger artistic body of work than the temporary shelf-life of a single release. As is natural for any artist, his perspective shifted over time and he found himself drawn back to the idea of an album, realising he connected best with longer releases while he was on a walk, out for a run or generally in transit one way or another.

With an endearing call back to the humble Walkman, he selected an hour and a half of material created during studio sessions at the beginning of 2025, perfectly sized to fit on two 45-minute sides of a cassette tape. As has long been the case for his studio practice, there were no fixed intentions when sitting down in the STOOR lab to start making noise — just a wealth of experience and an expansive set of tools to start exploring with. From hours of jams Paap pulled together standout moments and moulded them into a mixtape-like narrative ranging from two-minute beat nuggets to full-tilt techno workouts and immersive ambient drops. Every sound is intentional, but the overall delivery is instinctive and curious, showing multiple new dimensions to Paap’s sound and offering unpredictability at every turn.

‘Arp Δmp Chasm’ opens the album up in a thick blanket of humming, harmonic waves with an electric emotional charge, while ‘Ctrssalms17 (Cold Render)’ journeys through evocative blooms of melancholic, gritty pads and rugged, half-submerged tech funk. ‘Modern Birds (Origin Edit)’ reaches skywards with grand sweeps of dynamic, brilliantly rendered synthesis. From the dexterous drum science of ‘Drift Vector’ to ‘Osc Hop (Slow Collapse)’s lurching, beatless swamp of synths, on Walkman even the briefest snapshots leave an impression that lasts beyond the quick-scan cycle of the modern music experience.

With his return to the album format, Paap’s message is clear —put your headphones on, get outside and lose yourself in the sound of an artist constantly committed to moving forwards.

Snippets:

Special:
“MUTEKLIVE 394”

Recommmendations:
Speedy J’s “Public Energy No. 1” on NovaMute | …
Speedy J’s “Ginger (Remastered 2021)” on Warp Records | Overlast Records
“Speedy & Steve” by Speedy & Steve on Mote-Evolver
Speedy J’s “Shoegaze EP” on Electric Deluxe
Collabs 3000’s “Metalism (20th Anniversary Edition)” on NovaMute
“Speedy & Steve” by Speedy J & Steve Rachmad on Mote-Evolver
all stuff on Stoor we featured

Buy Vinyl:
Speedy J @ Bandcamp
Deejay
Juno
Decks
Hardwax
Red Eye Records
Clone
iMusic
HHV
Bleep
more soon

Buy Download:
Speedy J @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
Hardwax
Clone Digital
Beatport
JunoDownload
Bleep
Boomkat
TraxSource
iTunes
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more soon

Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Qobuz
Anghami
Deezer
Apple Music
Spotify
Youtube Music

Booking:
Speedy J

Websites:
Speedy J
Speedy J @ Facebook
Speedy J @ Instagram
Stoor

[Track Premiere]: Stigmatique – Der Flug Der Feuervögel [Diffuse Reality Records]

Artist:
Stigmatique

Track:
“Der Flug Der Feuervögel”

Label:
Diffuse Reality Records

Related Release:
EP “1000 Backup’s”

Websites:
Stigmatique
Stigmatique @ Instagram
Diffuse Reality Records
Diffuse Reality Records @ Instagram

out soon: Munsinger – The Year Is One EP [Mutant Modality]

Artist:
Munsinger

Title:
The Year Is One EP

Label:
Mutant Modality

Cat#:
MMM004

Release Date:
18th June 2026

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Esoteric Dream

02.
The Hidden Room

03.
The Year Is One

04.
Esoteric Dream
(Ottoman Grüw ‘Lust Nightmare’ Remix)

05.
The Hidden Room
(Carmilla Sioux Remix)

06.
The Year Is One
(Damascus Knives Cut)

Press Info:
After a previous release focused on collapsing worlds, we’re back at it once again. In true Mutant Modality fashion, we dive straight into the dystopian discotheque — this time with Paris-based MUNSINGER, a DJ, producer, and live performer primarily inspired by machines and desire. With a sound mutating between old school mixtures of techno and EBM, dreamy New Beat atmospheres, and the glamorous allure of Electroclash: we are honored to welcome to the label a resident of the esteemed Forensics event series and one of the staples of the French underground club scene.

The EP draws inspiration from esoteric and underground films of the ’70s, with media detritus sampled from movie dialogues, unfolding through rolling four-on-the-floor rhythms and dreamlike, mysterious soundscapes — contrasted with analog drum patterns and industrial undertones. All original tracks were fully recorded on hardware and have been performed repeatedly by MUNSINGER in his live sets over the past few years — and have already spread havoc around Europe.

To top things off, we’re more than happy to welcome electronic veteran David Christian, aka Damascus Knives (also known for his industrial techno moniker Cervello Elettronico, affiliated with the pioneering German label HANDS), whom we encountered last summer in Brooklyn during a sweaty July night. We’re also ecstatic to showcase a remix from Carmilla Sioux, fresh off a vinyl release on her excellent platform “FROM HELL TO DISCO,” bringing Barcelona’s gritty underground sound. To close the chapter, label boss OTTOMAN GRÜW spreads his venom with a personal take combining destructive synth work and reverberated vocals coiling beneath layers of noise.

Snippets:
soon

Full Track Streaming:
soon

Special:
“Horror Show #88”

Recommendations:
single “Take Me” by Munsinger on Groove2000
compilation “5 Years Crave Tapes Compilation” w/ Munsinger on Crave Tapes
compilation “Body To Body 001” w/ Sina XX & Munsinger on Body To Body
“Control & Collapse” by 6SISS | Elaina Vierce on Mutant Modality

Buy Download:
Mutant Modality @ Bandcamp
more soon

Commercial Streaming Services:
soon

Websites:
Munsinger
Munsinger @ Instagram
Mutant Modality

out for a while: Lost – Ten Commandments / Peace [NovaMute]

Artist:
Lost

Title:
Ten Commandments / Peace

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
12NOMU1

Release Date:
26th May 1992

Format:
vinyl

Tracklist:
A.
Ten Commandments

AA.
Peace

Info:
The first release on Mute’s sublabel NovaMute…

Lost were Nigel Fairman and Steve Bicknell.

Excerpt from early an NovaMute Bio
Prone to the flights of fashion, the music industry goes through more changes than a pantomime dame. From punk to easy listening it seems major corporations have tried to embrace the latest youth phenomena with a blinkered greed and slavering pursuit of the easy buck. The explosion of dance music in the late 1980’s caused a mass A&R; exodus out of dank gig venues and into the pulsating heat of smoky clubland. In the eyes of many labels dance music equalled mucho money, yet few labels possessed the history and capability to handle and understand this new musical form which survived outside the traditional confines of the music industry.

With hindsight it seemed inevitable that Mute Records would be one of the first labels to truly expand its focus and successfully embrace the burgeoning dance culture. A true maverick that had over the years built up a strong reputation for unleashing a barrage of idiosyncratic, electronically based experimental bands, Mute provided an ideal nest from which they could develop an interest in the dance scene. After all, it was their forward thinking attitude that led to the development of a relationship with Detroit’s techno renegades Underground Resistance, resulting in the X101 project; the UK’s first exposure to UR. So in 1992 NovaMute was born with a view to capturing the spirit and sound of the harder end of the fractured electronic dance sound. A true relative of Mute Records in all senses.

With a limited budget and a new born’s caution, the initial agenda differed considerably from its current purpose of artist development. The first batch of releases, including Unity 3’s ‘Age Of Love Suite’ and an offering from Steve Bicknell’s Lost, were licensing deals aiming to provide a wider UK audience base for white label and the more obscure European acts. Constantly scouring the globe for pioneering sounds, label founders Seth Hodder and Pepe Jansz secured such deals through their love of club culture, and, in doing so, strengthened NovaMute’s reputation.

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