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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

Snippets:

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

Recommendations:
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

Buy CD:
Pan American @ Bandcamp
Juno
Rough Trade
iMusic
Bleep
Boomkat
Norman Records
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Buy Vinyl:
Pan American @ Bandcamp
Juno
Rough Trade
iMusic
Deejay
HHV
Bleep
Boomkat
Norman Records
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Buy Download:
Pan American @ Bandcamp
JunoDownload
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Booking:
Pan American

Websites:
Pan American
Kranky

out for a while: Bad Stream – It Breaks You EP [Antime]

Artist:
Bad Stream

Title:
It Breaks You EP

Label:
Antime

Cat#:
tba

Release Date:
28th April 2023

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
It Breaks You

07.
It Breaks You
(^L_ Remix)

Press Info:
»It Breaks You« is the second single from Bad Stream’s forthcoming third album »Doom ∞ Bloom,« developed in close collaboration with transdisciplinary artist Arash Akbari. After the first single was heavily influenced by post-minimal music, »It Breaks You« stages its core themes of alienation in the face of digital overload, questions of technology and climatic emergency on a highly energetic electronic rock sound that recalls the aesthetics of the Berlin-based artist Martin Steer’s 2018 debut album under the Bad Stream guise. Once again, the song is accompanied by a video that Akbari created with the help of AI, a tool that he has been working with for years. Much like for the video of the previous single, the album’s title track »Doom ∞ Bloom«, Akbari works with dichotomies and dualisms in order to visualise »how meaning, values, and our environment have been shaped and changed by Anthropocene,« as he says himself.

»It breaks you / It breaks me / I don’t want to live / I don’t want to die,« Steer greets the listener, his voice filtered through a vocoder. While the manipulation of the voice aesthetically reflects the predicament that the lyrics express—everything happens too much, everywhere and all at once while everybody seems to be thoroughly petrified—the music creates a sharp contrast. Both upbeat and driving, highly atmospheric and ominous, it epitomises the core theme of the song and the interdisciplinary »Doom ∞ Bloom« project at large: feelings such as anxiety, depression, and sheer shock in face of fast-paced technological disruption and a climate crisis slouching towards catastrophe are juxtaposed with the artistic and liberating possibilities technology offers this world. This ambiguity is further highlighted through samples of children from the 1960s, talking about how they imagined life in the year 2000. Visions of utopia and dystopia are presented in sound and vision as not entirely detached from, but instead inextricably linked with each other.

»It Breaks You« is part of the »Doom ∞ Bloom« project which grew out of the remote collaboration between the Berlin-based Steer and Akbari, who lives in Tehran. The music will be made available as a stand-alone album on Steer’s ANTIME label in the near future, but its release will also be preceded and complemented by the publication of a number of music videos and various live presentations of the material as well as exhibitions of the project in both physical and virtual spaces. Across different media, »Doom ∞ Bloom« musically and visually explores speculative dystopian and utopian models of a future shaped by the on-going climate crisis as well as processes of technological automation. Rather than just asking questions about how the world may look like after the catastrophe, it dares to imagine possible answers.

Full Track Streaming:

Video:
“It Breaks You”

Special:
“@ FM4 La Boum Deluxe – Interview & Mixtape”

Recommendations:
Bad Stream’s “Sonic Healing” on Antime
“Postbrutalism EP” by Bad Stream & ^L_ on Antime
Bad Stream’s “Black Weed” on Antime
Bad Stream’s album “Bad Stream” on Antime
Bad Stream’s EP “Sex Cries” on Antime
Bad Stream’s EP “Already Dark” on Antime
compilation “Antime v04 Compilation” on Antime
Spur’s “Nowhereland” on Antime
AAAA’s “Shiva Watts” on Antime
Kalipo’s “Yaruto” on Antime

Buy Download:
Antime @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
iTunes
7Digital
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Qobuz
Deezer
Apple Music
Anghami
Spotify
Youtube Music

Websites:
Bad Stream
Antime

15th May 2026: Crave Tapes presents The Violent Youth & Psyche @ Urban Spree, Berlin (Germany)

Event:
Crave Tapes presents The Violent Youth & Psyche

Date & Time:
15th May 2026 at 09:00 pm CET

Line-up:
Psyche live
The Violent Youth live
Desolate Discotheque hybrid
Charlie Vaux
Lush Lab
Electric Visionary

Location:
Urban Spree, Berlin (Germany)

Press Info:
Back at the Gate of Urban Spree, Crave Tapes presents another stellar line up of live acts and DJs.

We are honored to welcome back the mighty Belarusian post-punk and darkwave band The Violent Youth for their new album release “Tsvety”, out March 20, 2026—celebrating a new chapter in the band’s uncompromising sonic journey.

Known for cold synth textures, driving drum machines, and emotionally charged vocals, The Violent Youth blends melancholic atmospheres with club-focused energy—cementing their place in the contemporary Eastern European underground scene.
The band released their latest album “Na Igle” in 2024 via Atroffact Records, followed by tours across Europe and Mexico. Now they return with a new album, ready to present it live on stage.

Crave Tapes is also very proud to host the iconic PSYCHE band – bringing a true piece of electronic music history to the stage. Formed in 1982 by Darrin Huss and Stephen Huss, Psyche is a legendary 80s electronic band blending darkwave, EBM, and synthpop. With haunting vocals and driving sequences, they have shaped the underground scene for over four decades.

Crave Tapes founder Desolate Discotheque will play a special hybrid set with live vocals and drums right after the concerts. The aftershow party will feature DJ sets by Crave Tapes regulars Charlie Vaux and Lush Lab. K3LLR hoster Electric Visionary will take care of the first hours before the concerts.

Ticket Presale on Resident Advisor and regular tickets at the door.
See you on the dark side!

“Tsvety” details

Event @ Facebook
Event @ Resident Advisor

Mixes/DJ Sets:
Desolate Discotheque – “@ Kicks & Hugs X Renate March 2nd '24”

Charlie Vaux – “@ Acide Theknotheka x Genesis 08.11.2025”

Lush Lab – “@ Hör Berlin – 31.03.2025”

Electric Visionary – “Ego Riot Podcast #10”

Recommendations:
The Violent Youth’s “Tsvety” on Artoffact
The Violent Youth’s “Herz / Der letzte Tanz / Zwanziger” on Artoffact
The Violent Youth’s “Na Igle” on Artoffact Records
The Violent Youth’s “Distant” on Young & Cold Records | Artoffact Records
all stuff on Crave Tapes we featured

Tickets:
@ Resident Advisor

Websites:
Crave Tapes
Crave Tapes @ Instagram
Urban Spree

out now: The Violent Youth – Tsvety [PaulaPaulPlatten | Artoffact Records]

Artist:
The Violent Youth

Title:
Tsvety

Label:
PaulaPaulPlatten | Artoffact Records

Cat#:
PPP06 | AOF488

Release Date:
20th March 2026

Format:
vinyl, cassette, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Tsvety

02.
Sledy

03.
Zvezdy

04.
Horosho

05.
Potselui

06.
Ne Naiti

07.
Luna

08.
Otpusti

09.
Noch

10.
Do Utra

Press Info:
The Violent Youth’s new album, tsvety, continues the German-based Belarussian duo’s exploration of modern new wave and post-punk, cementing their sound within the darkwave and synth-pop revival popularized by bands like Molchat Doma. Following the darker direction of their previous work, tsvety is a blend of danceable rhythms and vulnerable, emotive lyrics that tackle universal themes of distance, loss, and hope, all while maintaining the band’s signature 80s-inspired synthetic atmosphere and compelling vocals. Released on March 20th via Artoffact Records, we invite you into the world of the captivating sound of contemporary Slavic-laced dark pop.

Full Track Streaming:

Videos:
“Sledy”

“Tsvety”

Recommendations:
The Violent Youth’s “Herz / Der letzte Tanz / Zwanziger” on Artoffact
The Violent Youth’s “Na Igle” on Artoffact Records
The Violent Youth’s “Distant” on Young & Cold Records | Artoffact Records
Apoptygma Berzerk’s “SDGXXV” on Artoffact Records
all stuff on Artoffact Records we featured

Buy Vinyl:
The Violent Youth @ Bandcamp
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Buy Cassette:
The Violent Youth @ Bandcamp
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Buy Download:
The Violent Youth @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
7Digital
iTunes
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Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Qobuz
Deezer
Apple Music
Spotify
Youtube Music
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Websites:
The Violent Youth
The Violent Youth @ Instagram
PaulaPaulPlatten
Artoffact Records

out soon: Pierce – Blind Witness EP [Token Records]

Artist:
Pierce

Title:
Blind Witness EP

Label:
Token Records

Cat#:
TOKEN138

Release Date:
13th March 2026

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Blind Witness

A2.
There Is No Self

B1.
Vulnus

B2.
Secret Patterns

Press Info:
Debuting on Token with his ‘Blind Witness’ EP, Pierce serves high-intensity cuts produced with finesse and flare. An architect of wide dimension, the producer works meticulously not only on the bite of his elements but the textures that glue everything together. Diving into immersion, Pierce executes four surgically precise tracks that burst at the seams and onto the dancefloor.

Beginning with ambient work, a haunting kick/bass combination follows shortly with metallic motion in the stereo field. Patient in its structure, the title track ‘Blind Witness’ takes its time to develop into a full capacity thriller by its midpoint. It’s a dense product, but nothing oversteps its boundaries – a tip of the hat to question/answer techno that characterizes the most efficient records in the genre. Continuing in the spirit of demonic low-end, ‘There is No Self’ takes its turn. With a hand on the resonance, the bassline cuts through an eye twitchingly saturated rumble to later add a layer of bright plucks, filling up the spectrum to insure a firm grip on the dancefloor. Classic in construction yet cutting edge in technique, Pierce imposes the weight of the A side through the constant evolution of stark elements. ‘Vulnus’ follows to appropriately push depth into the EP, subtracting channels for a more intimate experience that remains anything but light. Shaking the lead throughout the track, the roundness of his bass meets perfectly with the punch of his percussion, swaying the hats in pitch to add a touch of psychosis. ‘Secret Patterns’ ends the EP on a slightly more vintage note. Increasingly playful on the drum machine, the lead and pad take a good amount of space occupying the mid range. Bubbly textures rise from the depths to pop at the surface in the second half and although Pierce’s sound design on the project is usually very sharp, his dosage of rounder sounds like these make his tracks sound very complete and complimentary. This balance of design to compliment each element is a tough feat, but Pierce funnels his expertise into very precise intention, making ‘Blind Witness’ a force to be reckoned with already so early in the year.

Snippets: