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06/09/2026

GOTHIC CUMBIA? Yes Please! “Panteón” is the lead single from Edgar’s debut album Pavor out July 10th.
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06/08/2026

Midnite Madness by K.A. Posse aka K. Alexi crackles with overdriven 808s and blazing sirens over loose-limbed breakbeats shaped for the famous Chicago club, Music Box floor. Recorded in the late ‘80s and lost until now, this the sound of Chicago’s underground at full tilt.

footage from Club LaRay in Chicago, opened in 1986, at a time when the city played a pivotal role in shaping house music history. Club LaRay was a sanctuary for the q***r and Black community. Dance, drag, comedy shows, and even performances took place in the early evening before the party took over until close. The 30 foot ceilings, triangle bar, and stairway to heaven made it a space unlike anything else in the city. Resident DJ Michael Ezebukwu recalls: “A lot of folks that used to go to the Music Box with Ron Hardy on Saturdays, would come down to Club LaRay on Tuesdays and Fridays.” Club LaRay closed its doors in 1989, but the footage that remains tells its own story.

06/05/2026

Out today At Last I’m Leaving the Earth LP + CD 💿
tape obscurity choice morsels of ’91-’93 industrial x dark ambient by Nagamatzu’s Stephen Jarvis as Pure Motorised Instinct, all swooning, grandiose gothic synths and doom-leaden drums akin to Coil’s Hellraiser score.

Original design by Vii Sins
Reissue design by Eloise Shir-Juen Leigh

06/01/2026

Black Meteoric Star returns with Wet, a new full-length arriving September 16 through Dark Entries Records and Ransom Note Records, reconnecting underground club music with the radical histories of q***r leather and B**M culture. Led by Gavilán Rayna Russom, the project channels decades of dancefloor experience into a raw, body-focused electronic language where acid pressure, industrial pulse, and ecstatic release operate as forms of resistance and communal survival.

Check the first single “Subwoofer Speaker Freaker,” featuring Scotia. Pre-order on bandcamp and our site

05/29/2026

Depths pulls elements of the Sahara Desert into some cloistered holodeck beyond time and space…transforming the otherwise mechanical techno and ambient pop into a spectral bazaar of clockwork beats and heavy vibes… constantly shifting beats; layered, intricate handclaps; prayer bells and ethereal incantations… more MIDI than Marrakesh, placing mother-of-pearl vaporwave synths over a moody, hypnotic backbeat.

Almost paradoxically, Depths‘….sounds like now — a North African emigre connecting with her roots and her surroundings, filtering Middle Eastern breakbeats and melodies through a prism of underground techno bunkers and early morning chillout rooms… Bergsonist remains one of the most innovative, idiosyncratic, artful producers currently in the game. Depths is a fascinating entry in a one-of-a-kind discography. - J SIMPSON

05/28/2026

pounding a cup before my show at noon today featuring songs by .canterel and more
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Tracklist:
Tori Amos - 23 Peaks (Instrumental)
Pure Motorised Instinct - Euphoria Bliss
Led Er Est - Scissors (demo)
Cabaret Voltaire - Landslide (live on the UK tour Oct-Nov 2025)
Martial Canterel - Autumn Flies
Eric Random - The Consequence
Evelyne / Masao - Bird Island
Xclusiv - Fools Are Friendly (7” Version)
Edgar - Otra Agua
DsorDNE - Il Senso Di Torpore
Ancient Methods - The House That Ideology Built
Millia - Spinwheel Glide
The Cure - Birdmad Girl (Garden / Eden Studios RS&AA Demo 12/83)

05/27/2026

Hackney Electronica ‘Synaptic Shadows: A Journey Through The Circuit’ back in stock now. “This reimagined night cruise through East London sits nicely with the label’s excavated and retro-engineered 1980s synthwave fantasies. “H E Nuestro Circuito” pulses along with some gentle car horns, trains in the distance and stoned vocoder gurglings. “Efecto Perfecto” is a jumpy breakbeat groove that could sync to the lightcycles from Tron zooming up the A10. “The One” hints at YMO; closer “Nueva Olo” is an Aphex Twin-inspired burst of mania.” - WIRE Magazine

05/26/2026

Pure Motorised Instinct. It’s all in that name really. Not in any sense considering himself a musician or technical mastermind, Stephen Jarvis let his instincts guide him through the demise of Nagamatzu to a different kind of musical endeavour. Recorded at his home studio in East London he set off to pursue that other darkness he loved.
His inner astronaut takes us on a flight, slowly spinning off into space past sparkling nebula and the glow of distant constellations. Circling currents of organs, strings and electronic choirs take us through that endlessly beautiful darkness above us. Too powerful and moving to be ambient, too quiet to be anything else, it’s not fast and filled with fury, but Pure Motorised Instinct definitely gives us a ride to remember.

He released two cassette albums on Motorcade; Between Intimacy & Elsewhere in 1991, followed by Everything is True in 1993. Stephen feels he has said all he has to say musically for now, but who knows…

Words by Carol written for the now defunct Motorcade Records website.

“It felt appropriate as a name for my solo work as I’ve absolutely no musical education, I can’t tell you what key anything is played in or which note is which or what rhythm something is following. Everything I’ve done has been by ear and based on instinct, so it just seemed right.” - Stephen Jarvis

Our reissue of PMI recordings is out June 5th on both vinyl and CD

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