out now: Lomi | Dornen – A Sudden Burst Of Noise [Brutalism]

 

Artist:
Lomi | Dornen

 

Title:
A Sudden Burst Of Noise

 

Label:
Brutalism

 

Cat#:
BRUTALISM002

 

Release Date:
27th March 2026

 

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

 

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Dornen
Decay

A2.
Dornen & Lomi
Black Ice

A3.
Lomi
Pulsar Flow

A4.
Dornen
Primary Mirror

A5.
Dornen
Signal

A6.
Lomi
Change Of Horizon

B1.
Dornen & Lomi
Interlude

B2.
Lomi
Étude

B3.
Dornen
Azimuth Descent

B4.
Lomi
Pederzani Structure

B5.
Dornen
Axis

B6.
Dornen
Radiation

 

Tracklist Digital:
01.
Dornen
Decay

02.
Dornen & Lomi
Black Ice

03.
Lomi
Pulsar Flow

04.
Dornen
Primary Mirror

05.
Dornen
Signal

06.
Lomi
Change Of Horizon

07.
Dornen & Lomi
Interlude

08.
Lomi
Étude

09.
Dornen
Azimuth Descent

10.
Lomi
Pederzani Structure

11.
Dornen
Axis

12.
Dornen
Radiation

13.
Dornen
Axis
(Club)

 

Press Info:
A Sudden Burst of Noise is a study in equivalence between rotational frequency, material structure and sonic form. The album is based on sonified pulsar data and field recordings captured at a concrete radiotelescope located in the Eifel region of West Germany.

Following the core concept of BRUTALISM, architecture and infrastructure are not treated as backdrop but as structural agents. The radiotelescope – its reinforced concrete body, rotational mechanics and scientific function – serves as compositional framework. Rotational movement becomes rhythm. Structural tension becomes texture. Measured cosmic data becomes sound.

The source material consists of astronomical measurement data translated into sound, combined with field recordings from the site itself: interacting with exposed concrete, mechanical resonance and electromagnetic presence. Dornen and Lomi process these elements into compositions that oscillate between abstraction and physical density.

The result is not a documentary representation of the site but a sonic architecture derived from it. Each track reflects a structural component: axis, mirror, descent, radiation. The record unfolds as a sequence of material states – from reduction and erosion to rotation and amplification.

With A Sudden Burst of Noise, BRUTALISM continues its transformation of material, texture and structure into sonic forms. The vinyl format captures our site-specific research process as a physical object.

 

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Specials:
Dornen – “at Gewölbe | May 2023”

Lomi – “Syntop Audio 110”

 

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out now: BORGBORG – Loveletter [About Repetition]

 

Artist:
BORGBORG

 

Title:
Loveletter

 

Label:
About Repetition

 

Cat#:
AR002

 

Release Date:
20th March 2026

 

Format:
download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Photinia

02.
Photinia
(Fractal Void Remix)

03.
The Current

04.
Mercy

05.
Mercy
(LADA Remix)

06.
One, All

07.
Mercy
(Irakli Remix)

08.
An Enigma (Wrapped In A Puzzle)

09.
Aerial View At Night, Looking Northwest

 

Press Info:
Loveletter is a modal reflection of melted melodic shifts and inwards folded time signatures.

Shaped by an ever-fluctuating current of iterative waveform modulations, its polymetric harmonics expand perceptual depth to the hidden spaces of resonance. As its core, the cyclical permutations resolve into an ordered labyrinth of sound, reduced to its most fragile architecture.

With Loveletter, BORGBORG presents a work that privileges attentiveness over immediacy. It is an album of quiet intensity — introspective, textural, relentless and methodically reduced.
Marking BORGBORG’s first solo album release, Loveletter spans across nine carefully composed tracks. The album will be released on the label About Repetition, further situating the work within a context that values subtle repetition, focus, and textural depth.

Subtle rearticulated through micro-variations in tone, phase, and spectral weight, the tracks „Photinia“, „The Current“ and „One, All“ establish a slow-moving continuum. The music resists linear progression, instead favoring suspended motion and internal drift. „Mercy” functions as the album’s emotional anchor: restrained, lucid, and quietly expansive.

The extended pieces “An Enigma (Wrapped In A Puzzle)” and “Aerial View At Night, Looking Northwest” lean into ambient drone and long-form minimalism, unfolding like architectural studies of sound. Silence and decay are as significant as melody.

Its central motif is reinterpreted in three remixes by Irakli, LADA (Dasha Rush & Lars Hemmerling) and Fractal Void — each exposing different layers of the original structure. One dissects the track into spatial abstraction, another emphasizes latent rhythmic impulses, while the third refracts the source material through fractured, textural modulation, expanding the album’s parameter without breaking its contemplative cohesion.

 

Snippets:
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“Mercy (LADA Remix)”

“Photinia”

“Aerial View At Night, Looking Northwest”

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“Chroma Series 01”

 

Recommendations:
Fractal Void’s “Presence Past Progressive” on Diffuse Reality Records
Fractal Void’s “Elemental Collection” on Intergalactic Research…
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out soon: Pan American – Fly The Ocean In A Silver Plane [Kranky]

 

Artist:
Pan American

 

Title:
Fly The Ocean In A Silver Plane

 

Label:
Kranky

 

Cat#:
KRANK251

 

Release Date:
27th March 2026

 

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Silver Plane, Now Boarding

02.
Death Cleaning

03.
Entrance To Afterlife

04.
Desert Under Bridge

05.
Heaven’s Waiting Room

06.
Silver Tramway (In Snow)

07.
Honeyman-Scott

08.
Taxi To The Terminal

09.
A Window In The Strings

10.
Golden Gate, Silver City

 

Press Info:
The music on this record is a reflection of journeys and travel. The real world kind and the metaphorical ones as well. Having experienced the arrival of my children, the decline and departure of my parents, and the many years of venturing out and returning home in my own life, travel feels like the perfect tropology to consider the mysteries we inhabit. Travel and Its impressions, rituals, superstitions-the possibilities and risk-all open up onto the landscape of our biggest questions, fear and wonder.

Two songs established the spine of this music. Songs I’ve always loved, it seems even before I’d heard them. The first one, and the source of the title is You Belong to Me by Jo Stafford. Colonial overtones unmissable to our modern ears aside, It’s also a beautiful mid century romance-and an ode to the threat of a shrinking world. The song represents the loneliness and the mystery of being alone and left behind. The singer is not asking their loved one to shut down horizons, merely reminding them to return when the traveling is done. To set aside The Silver Plane of transition, change and the in in-between for the intimacy of solid earth.

The second song is Promised Land by Chuck Berry. Also about a journey and another one that moves easily between allegory and narrative. The singer is on the move across segregated America trying to get to the promised land of California. The song is both a tall tale that evokes Mark Twain, and an American epic that can keep good company with Herman Melville. When the hero finally makes it to California, his first instinct is to call home and reassure the Old World that he’s safely arrived in the new one.

The songs on Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane were recorded at home over the last couple years. I played electric guitar, rubber bridge acoustic guitar, Ableton Live and an Electron Digitone synth. My friend Mallory Linnehan aka Chelsea Bridge contributed beautiful violin and vocals to a couple of the songs. We recorded those performances on a summer afternoon in Chicago at the Not Not space with the windows open.

The cover is a photo of my mom-one I never saw when she was alive. With the headscarf and that excited, nervous expression, she looks about to embark on a journey. Ready, finally, to cross the tarmac and board the Silver Plane.

Wishing safe travels to all. Mark N / Pan•American

 

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Special:
Pan American + DJ Lgcc + m50 – “@ Weird Era, The Cool Room 2024.07.13”

 

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Pan American’s “A Son” on Kranky
Pan American’s “360 Business / 360 Bypass” on Kranky | Blast First
Labradford’s “Fixed::Context” on Blast First | Kranky
Labradford’s “Prazision” on Kranky

 

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out now: Gareth Jones – ElectroGenetic 2 [Mortality Tables]

 

Artist:
Gareth Jones

 

Title:
ElectroGenetic 2 – Nos Da

 

Label:
Mortality Tables

 

Cat#:
tba

 

Release Date:
21st January 2026

 

Format:
CD, download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Ersprach

02.
Maths

03.
Qpas

04.
Suchislove

05.
Mphon

06.
Kath

07.
Wbug

08.
Pyotr

09.
Erofili

10.
Ludwig

11.
Ikaria

12.
Parting / Nosda

 

Press Info:
The Making of ElectroGenetic 2 – Nos Da: A Reflection on Memory, Sound, and Sonic Experimentation

Nos Da is both a personal document and an artistic gesture – an album that weaves together memory, family connection, and the creative potential of modular synthesis. At its core is my relationship with my father and the profound effect his record collection had on me. These records were never just sounds – they were portals: to feeling, to texture, to imagined places. I grew up listening to them. In fact, I like to think I started listening before I was even born.

The album’s title, Nos Da, comes from a childhood misunderstanding. Each night, as he tucked me into bed, my father would say “Nos Da” – Welsh for “Good night.” But I misheard it as “no star.” Even so, those words wrapped me in safety. Revisiting that phrase now, I understand what he was really saying. This album is my way of saying it back to him: “Good night, and thank you.”

The final track, ‘Parting’, carries that intention most clearly. After his death, I discovered a vinyl recording he had made in a booth, years before I was born. It was a spoken message for my mother before she left on a long journey. In it, he speaks of love and distance, and of being strong in parting. Hearing his voice again in that moment was deeply moving – and I knew I wanted to bring it into this album. I’ve reframed it – not to interfere with his message to her, but to honour our own relationship. In ‘Parting’, the piece becomes a quiet posthumous conversation between father and son.

Much of this album was made away from my usual studio. Four pieces were composed in a countryside hotel in England, using Eurorack modules like Maths, Mimeophon, Wogglebug, and QPAS. These weren’t being used as conventional sound sources—they were collaborators in sonic unpredictability. I let them speak, and followed where they led.

Six more pieces came to life on a hotel terrace overlooking the Aegean Sea in Greece. I was working with a tiny modular case, just enough to sketch and build. The peaceful, expansive atmosphere shaped the tone and texture of those tracks. A year later, I returned to the same place and created the final two pieces on an iPad – no cables, no patching, just immediacy and flow.

In sum, Nos Da is a record shaped by listening, by remembering, and by a desire to transmit meaning through sound. It is at once intimate and exploratory, fusing modular synthesis with archival audio, analog warmth with digital immediacy. It stands as a sonic farewell, a form of time travel, and a quietly radical act of reconnection across generations.

— Gareth Jones

 

Snippets:

 

Special:
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Recommendations:
Gareth Jones’s “Electrogenetic” on Calm + Collect
Sunroof’s “Electronic Music Improvisations Vol 3” on Mute
Sunroof’s “Electronic Music Improvisations (Live)” on Mute
Sunroof’s “Electronic Music Improvisations Vol 2” on Mute
Sunroof’s “Electronic Music Improvisations Vol 1” on Mute

 

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out now: Exc – Seductive Supervision [About Repetition]

 

Artist:
Exc

 

Title:
Seductive Supervision

 

Label:
About Repetition

 

Cat#:
AR001

 

Release Date:
19th January 2026

 

Format:
download & streaming

 

Tracklist:
01.
Excite

02.
Exclude

03.
Exclusive

04.
Excoriate

05.
Excellent

06.
Excruciate

07.
Excelsior

08.
Exceed

09.
Exclosure

 

Press Info:
Between surveillance and seduction, control and self-optimization, Seductive Supervision unfolds, the first chapter of the long-term project exc.directory. Under the collective alias exc, nine ghost producers merge into a dense audiovisual essay on the subtle mechanisms of power.

The tracks move between kinetic rigor, fragmented breaks, and atmospheric abstraction—music as a mirror of a control society that is no longer structured by walls but by permanent self-observation. “excite” opens the album with filtered excitement: electrostatic artifacts that merge into almost incorporeal sequences. ‘exclude’ and “excoriate” take the concept further – hard, mechanical textures meet digital screams that remind us of the excluded and injured in this order.

But Seductive Supervision is not pure dystopia. In “exclusive” and “excellent,” a shimmering space of technoid elegance emerges, as if the temptation of perfection were briefly captured in sound. The final “exclosure”—an almost sacred ambient sequence—ultimately eludes the logic of control and at the same time closes the circle: surveillance as aesthetic seduction, power as a mirror of our own longing for order.

Seductive Supervision is less an album than a system of impulses, an acoustic diagram that translates Deleuze’s idea of the control society into sound. What remains is a feeling between ecstasy and confinement—and the realization that the most beautiful cage is the one we design ourselves.

 

Video:
“Excite”

 

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