Mahorka

10/07/2025

Video premiere for the track "Journey" off "Voices carry through history (Reincarnation and Topology)", the new album from Nuearz, coming out this July on Mahorka.

"Journey" and "New Context" — Two Worlds, the Same Voice

Both "Journey" and "New Context" (the recent first video premiere from the album) use the exact same vocal samples, and are arranged almost identically. Yet the resulting musical experiences are strikingly different. This is not just a remix, but an exploration of sonic and contextual reconstruction that goes beyond reworking traditional material.
Beyond tapping into the potential of the samples themselves, the two works reveal how the intersecting relationships between the same voices create new meanings and narrative dimensions, and parallel worlds emerge sonically.

Visual Language: Kaiber AI Expressions

The visual elements of both works were created with the generative AI tool Kaiber. Each video evolves in tandem with the sonic narrative, reflecting the emotional and contextual transformations of the music.
- "New Context" conjures up a strange and fantastical sound world, where medieval knights and monsters, painted in a style reminiscent of Modigliani, merge with samples in surreal deformations.
- Meanwhile, "Journey" is a meditation on an oriental pilgrimage, depicted through the structures of ukiyo-e and the fluid techniques of sumi-e. The bassline conveys the traveller's unwavering determination, while layered noise textures add depth and emotional complexity to the journey.

Same Voice - Different Stories

These two works boldly present the artistic possibilities of the same voice generating and speaking in different contexts. Through sound and image, "Journey" and "New Context" reveal the transformative power of the context itself.

07/07/2025

Video premiere for the track "New Context" off "Voices carry through history (Reincarnation and Topology)", the new album from Nuearz, coming out this July on Mahorka.

Nuearz is a solo project by Japanese artist Kazuhiro Okuda. He has released two albums, "Saturation Point" and "Face Lift," from the UK label Skam Records. Additionally, he has released two albums, "Last Straw" and "Funny Bone," from his own label Logica et Natura. He also participated in the compilation album "A Sign 2" by the new Osaka label Remodel. The CDs released by Skam Records are notable not only for their original music but also for the designs by two renowned artists, Chantal Michel and Fernando F. Fonseca.

Nuearz' composition style involves reinterpreting synthesizer preset sounds and music samples as pure sound movements, liberated from their historical and contextual backgrounds. By combining sounds that have never been heard before, he awakens hidden contexts and fragments of history within the music, leading to the creation of new contexts.

In his first album on Mahorka (July 2025), vocal samples are extensively used. These vocal samples are treated as instrumental sounds, ensuring that all parts of the composition are treated equally. The non-vocal parts are not merely accompaniment; all parts resonate together to create new sounds and grooves.

06/07/2025

Fletina new release on Mahorka reviewed @ Recent Music Heroes

Recent Music Heroes free downloadable music experimental noise indie psychedelic industrial post-punk drone ambient post-rock avant-garde dark ambient

04/07/2025

"Through unbridled access to the deep, genre-dissolving archive of Mahorka, a sonic collage that resists categorization. Mahorka stands as a global outpost for ambient, noise and experimental music that lives far beyond industry trends or commercial packaging. This is a label committed to sound as exploration as ritual where texture matters more than tempo and atmosphere becomes narrative. In this space, artists are unbound, able to move through drones, field recordings and fractured tones without compromise. Purposefully devoid of excess, for those who reflect and who resist."

Moki Mcfly is a music producer from Manila, Philippines, known for his atmospheric instrumental production, incorporating a lot of nature sounds, jazz, tagalog samples, keeping an ideological distance from the genres he usually falls into, while maintaining an organic appreciation for all music forms, guiding you through his train of thought, displacement and discourse.

Tracklist:
Tomosla – Stoc Below (00:00 – 02:11)
Wahn – Rashan's Wake (02:12 – 05:50)
Weldroid – Painted City (05:51 – 09:41)
Christophe Bailleau O'Farrell – ... ..... (09:45 – 12:23)
Fabien Robbe – Beg ar Raz (12:24 – 17:04)
Jeff Gburek – Crystal Cabinet (17:05 – 22:49)
Jeff Gburek – Ray Thani (22:50 – 25:51)
sai – I Am (25:52 – 30:37)
Wave Resistance – Delocalized (30:38 – 38:36)
Roberto Vodanović Čopor – The Night (38:39 – 40:40)

"Through unbridled access to the deep, genre-dissolving archive of Mahorka, a sonic collage that resists categorization. Mahorka stands as a global outpost for ambient, noise and experimental music that lives far beyond industry trends or commercial packaging. This is a label committed to sound as e...

03/07/2025

NEW RELEASE: Eardrops - nightfall over concrete [mhrk450]

https://mahorka.org/release/450
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/nightfall-over-concrete

eardrops started on a sunny sunday evening in Augsburg with Claus Poulsen (Blind Man's Band / solo) and Sascha Stadlmeier (Emerge / Bu.d.d.A.) improvising together, using zither, violin, electronics and field recordings. They concentrate on melodic and minimal soundscapes that classify as ambient, but with a droney, experimental edge, setting eardrops apart from the members' other musical projects. eardrops builds images for the inner mind, taking the listener away from daily life into unknown territories. Although the music has a peaceful atmosphere at first glance, delicate layers in the deep evoke feelings of something dark and unsettling.

Claus Poulsen: zither, effects, editing, mastering, cover image
Emerge: violin, effects, field-recordings, manipulations, design

29/06/2025

Christophe Bailleau on the Indiedrome!

What We Don’t See

29/06/2025

Iliaque is a project of one of the co-founders of Ziklibrenbib (a French project to promote Creative Commons (CC) music in library) from Normandy (France). After having played in different noisy pop, industrial, electro and math rock groups, fascinated by netlabels and musicians working under CC, he decided to try his hand at an electronic music project based on CC material. The Iliaque project, that has matured for several years now, seeks to exploit the potentialities of CC music and explores this world through choice of sources and samples.

"This new mix is ​​the volume two taken from the archives of Ziklibrenbib selections. An electronic stroll through 18 adventurous and essential titles."

Tracklist:
00:00:00 Edgardo Moreno - Lament
00:03:35 Andreas Florin - Hiking (Zimmer records)
00:12:09 ANTETHIC - Cheliuskin
00:20:47 Cutside - Shivering Shadows Featuring Viktor Van River (blocSonic)
00:23:54 Potential DifferenSe - Cascade (phonocake.org)
00:29:50 K.I.R.K. - 512 Spittin
00:32:45 Reverend Big O - This Street Is Connected To Other Streets (23 SECONDS NETLABEL)
00:39:31 Henrik Jose - Rich And Timeless (23 SECONDS NETLABEL)
00:40:45 Очень Длинный Кот / Very Long Cat - Travel Around the World (MNMN Records)
00:44:19 Nic Bommarito - Once A Freak Always A Freak (12Rec)
00:47:33 Jack in a mouth - To The North (MNMN Records)
00:50:50 Shelter - We like falling feat. Balance (Test Tube)
00:54:37 Artur Bax - Magnetic (MNMN Records)
00:59:01 Eaters - Devils Wristwatch (Black Lantern Music)
01:02:40 SCD - Holiday (twin) (MNMN Records)
01:05:38 Dizja - SoS (MNMN Records)
01:10:34 Everlone - Peeks (Bad Panda)
01:14:54 V - First Morning (Mahorka)
01:17:11 Iliaque - Ashes of light se 29.1 remix (Enough Records)

Iliaque is a project of one of the co-founders of Ziklibrenbib (a French project to promote Creative Commons (CC) music in library) from Normandy (France). After having played in different noisy pop, industrial, electro and math rock groups, fascinated by netlabels and musicians working under CC, he...

27/06/2025

NEW RELEASE: Fletina - Environments & Mechanisms [mhrk449]

Released June 27, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition.

https://mahorka.org/release/449
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/environments-mechanisms

Fletina is a Scottish sound artist & field recordist who creates raw abstract audio collages using found objects, room sounds, environmental noises, household items, mechanical devices and various electronic manipulation techniques.

All recordings by Fletina.

24/06/2025

A rapturous convergence of glitch-laced dissonance, fractured beats, and entrancing rhythmic assaults, WAYVES reshapes downtempo cadence into a restless cascade of fragmented sonics on BOT.

23/06/2025

Fletina prepared a Planck Tone mix of non-musical sound art from around the globe, including some Mahorka artists.

Opening with a track off 'Environments & Mechanisms', the new Fletina album, to be released digitally and as limited cassette on 27.06 via Mahorka.

Tracklist:
1. Fletina - Ground Floor / Elevator [0:00]
2. seah - hypogean [6:50]
3. Wohnen - concrete [12:40]
4. Mountain Laurel - Windless [20:36]
5. Substak & Signalstoerung - L6 [24:17]
6. Makhun - Check Gauge [27:45]
7. Quantum Sufficit - Tournament [29:49]
8. Wohnen - Interference [32:24]
9. black_ops - Think With The Bood [32:25]
10. Mountain Laurel - Antiphone [38:30]
11. Ian Wellman - Sidewalk Grates [43:34]
12. nd Dentico - Coast of Fire [46:55]
13. Philippe Neau - vents, souffles [51:46]
14. Fletina - Network of Pipes [55:25]

'Environments & Mechanisms' is the new album from Fletina, which is being released on June 27th via Mahorka. It will be available digitally and on limited edition cassette tape. Fletina is a Scottish sound artist & field recordist who creates abstract audio collages using found objects, room sounds,...