FTUR is made of something different, more ambient, dreamscape, soundtrack style than previous releases.
FTUR could be your future or the one of the planet but, even if written, you cannot really understand and/or change it. It’s not tangible.
I’ve decided to make this journey without a plan and a destination and let the beat and the melody flow.
Echoes Of The Void, by the Portuguese project iCe303, is a deep journey through the realm of cinematic music and ambient, evoking soundscapes that resonate in the emptiness of space and soul.
With subtle textures and immersive atmospheres, the album echoes the legacy of Brian Eno, blending minimalism with restrained emotion. The tracks are not merely music, but echoes—fragments of sound adrift in a contemplative void.
A hypnotic, meditative, and exquisitely produced work.
With such emotional precision in his work, we hope to journey further into iCe303’s musical universe later this year.
The amphibian human gazes dreamily at the love of his life,
the petrified fossils grow patiently into the eons,
the water constantly granulates.
Let’s put our feet in the sand, the sea is calling! Net label musician Iliaque from the Normandy gives us a little, relaxed and artistic time-out, full of droning fluidity that invites us to imagine. Happy resurrection! Happy living on.
We can already find Iliaque’s music on the net labels Enough, Picpack, Bump Foot and Mahorka, among others. And soon two great songs by him on the Phonocake birthday compilation that will finally be released on June 1st, this one with only a two-year delay.
en: www.phonocake.org/ombelle
de: www.phonocake.org/ombelle_de
Keywords: drone, ambient, noise, introspective, melancholic, dreamy, microscopic, Europe, France, mp3, flac, wav, 2025, EP,
Japanese artist nosomoso delivers a work of ambient electronic music marked by subtlety and depth. Drawing from the click and cuts universe and structured around slow-paced rhythms, the album builds minimalist soundscapes where each sound seems to emerge organically and precisely. Rhythmic elements are discreet, almost imperceptible, yet essential to the flow of the compositions.
There are echoes of introspective IDM, with textured glitches and ethereal melodies blending naturally into the stillness. Rather than aiming for tension or climax, Rift embraces calmness as a driving force, allowing motion to unfold through the smallest details – clicks, noises, electronic breaths.
The result is a contemplative and sensitive album, where the natural movement of sounds arises from silence, revealing a mature and refined piece of work that values space and time as core sonic elements.
Compilation of past Humanfobia tracks related to Ju-On the movies.
/// some unreleased, totally exclusive for this compilation.
All music mixed, artwork by Sábila Orbe.
Vocals in tracks 2, 4, 5 & 9. Model in the artwork: Mist Spectra.-
PSYCHO-TRIBE unveils Tomoshibi, a four-track record blending drums, environmental textures, and acoustic instruments. Meaning “candlelight” in Japanese, Tomoshibi symbolizes a guiding light through darkness, reflecting catharsis and future messages through sound.
Fusing organic and digital elements, PSYCHO-TRIBE crafts Contemporary Groove Music, pushing sonic boundaries with Kyoto’s artistic essence. Tomoshibi offers a meditative yet intense journey into light and shadow.
Oberlin is the musical project of Alexander Holtz from Koblenz (Coblence), Germany. The centerpiece of his instruments is a modular eurorack synthesizer, which he often combines with guitar, piano and field-recordings. His music invites the listener to contemplate, it often is developing quite slowly, it never demands to be in a certain focus of attention, but it never tries to fulfil any ambient-clichees in the sense of creating just an aural wallpaper either. It is musical improvisation maybe in a more subtle kind of way. Oberlin has released music on Handstitched*, cosmic winnetou, Thirsty Leaves, Vaagner, Hibernate, Secret Press, AOsmosis, some tapes and downloads by himself and, notably two beautiful cassette albums on Mahorka.
Xu is Nicola Fornasari from Cremona, Italy. He began his musical career in 1995 as the bass player and singer for the hardcore band Entropia. Starting in 2007, he began exploring new musical projects, including Xu(e) (a duo with Andrea Poli), Xu (his solo project), La Petite Vague (a duo with Diego Balconi), and That Which is Not (a duo with Pier Giorgio Storti / Belaqua Shua) in 2020. His music has been released on a variety of labels, including Fluid, Whitelabrecs, Shimmering Moods, Slow Tone Collages, Krysalisound, Eilean, Flaming Pines, Rottenman Editions, Rohs! / Lontano, Twice Removed, Cathedral Transmissions, Triple Moon, Thirsty Leaves Music, Audio Gourmet, Tessellate, Haze, Many Feet Under, Subterranean Tide, and Laverna. He has collaborated with artists such as Darren Harper, Bill Seaman and Francis Gri.
“Velvet Meadow Resonance Fragment” is the third collaborative album between Xu and Oberlin. For this project, Oberlin provided acoustic guitar sketches, asking Xu to process and transform them into the foundation of the tracks. The recordings were then manipulated through a modular Eurorack system or altered using the Samplr iPad app. Oberlin handled the final polishing and mastering. This work marks the first chapter of an ongoing experiment. In the next chapter, currently in progress, it will be Oberlin who develops everything, starting from the material provided by Xu. Stay tuned.
Released March 23, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited cassette edition.
Recorded in the Summer of 2023 in Koblenz, Germany and Cremona, Italy
Xu: electronics
Oberlin: guitar
Artwork photo taken and edited by Alexander Holtz
Artwork design by Angel Draganov
“Many thanks to Ivo Petrov and the Mahorka label for taking care of this release”
released March 20, 2025
please check artist bandcamp: vod123.bandcamp.com
released March 16, 2025
sevensy (aka Austin Brooks) creates music that directly facilitates imaginal sojourns, wherein the message is the sound itself. sevensy mixes electronic and natural sounds with processed guitars and acoustic instruments. His musical themes ‘unfold into an unusual landscape’ so that it is often impossible to tell where one ends and another begins. sevensy has released his music with Mahorka from the time of the label’s inception and was featured on the first “Music for Elevators” VA compilation in 2004. His debut full-length “Beacon” was released on the label in 2007.
“one2one” is his new, fifth, solo album on Mahorka, following the “Reckoning (Creation)” masterpiece from 2023. This release represents a change of direction in sevensy’s music. Subtle guitar melodies are once again interwoven with harmonic resonances, but this new work features more unitive orchestration in a denser than ever soundbath that leads the listener into a peaceful and introspective quietude.
“We are one, yet simultaneously we are individuated. “one2one” is a series of contemplative pieces that explore thoughts and feelings of oneness and duality, which comprise the paradoxical nature of being human.”
Cover artwork by Jan Brooks
Vocals / model in the cover: Mist Spectra
All music composed, artwork collage, vocals only in track 15:
Sábila Orbe – /
track1 collaboration with Innocent Darkness.
track4 collaboration with Innocent but Guilty
track6 collaboration with Black Market Brains
Collection of sound frequencies for chakra meditation, tuning and healing.
There are two versions of tunes available:
short 7 minutes versions for quick tuning of chakras or problem solutions,
and full 20 minutes versions for meditation for selected chakra or problem.
Japanese electronic and improvisational artist TaUYu DeShiI crafts an atmospheric soundscape inspired by a journey through Okinawa’s remote islands.
“MY MEMORY” was created mid-trip, the album blends ambient electronica with fluid improvisation, evoking a sense of movement and discovery.
Soft synth textures and organic sound elements mirror the islands’ mystique, capturing fleeting moments of travel. The music radiates exoticism, not as a concept but as a lived experience.
Fans of ambient and minimal electronic music will find this release immersive—an invitation to drift through sound, just as the artist drifted through the islands.
The Necrophile Humingbird Netlabel presents Spiriting Away by REfugEEs From Beyond.
“Naturecore for Postpunk Lovers”
Improvisation recorded live the 18th October 2024 at the Cave Heaven in Foucherans.
Members :
Master of Ceremony : Psyché Pelik
Guitar Hero : McClintic
Disc Jockey : Yoshiwaku Mushotoku
“European leaders can’t find money to avoid the climate change but they can find billions for the war defense ? Well, send them on the battlefield !” Mother Earth.
A few days after the session we went mushroom harvesting in the forest, McClintic found the antlers of a deer, which you can see on the cover. It felt symbolic to me, as here in Franche-Comté, hunters and nature lovers alike have been protesting against the National Forestry Office’s mandate to kill so many deer. The supposed reason for this mass culling is the price of oak wood; the deer damage young oak shoots, so the office aims to eradicate them.
This album is dedicated to activists like Paul Watson, who protect animal species against the cruelty of humankind.
Special thanks to someone who passed away this year for her everlasting kindness, we use her soundsystem for the voice.
Dormiens Vigila: Be vigilant while sleeping
On the threshold to falling asleep, we become aware of our self.
While focusing on the slowly evolving sounds, we get aware of something else within us, which in turn is listening to us.
The enables us to reflect on our outward character, while being presented with images of our inner personality.
Thus, the act of listening consciously also contains a creative, personal impulse, which can enrich our lives.
