Julien Ash is a French composer, multi-instrumentalists and producer, combining neo-classical music with electronics and many different contemporary genres and collaborating with a wide diversity of artists, always delivering unique examples of good new modern music. He is mostly known with the project NLC (Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites), started in July 1989 as a duo with Angustère, then solo after 1990 until a halt in 2007. NLC was reactivated in 2021 as a duo of Julien Ash and Aloïs L., his oldest son. Since then Ash has recorded a lot of new music in a variety of styles, under the NLC project and as Julien Ash, on both with regular and always interesting collaborations, including some interesting ones on Mahorka.

Philippe Neau is a visual and sound artist living in France. He states that his paintings and videos show mental landscapes ("mental-scapes"). His music suggests this imaginary landscape made up of non-narrative sounds, atonal melodies, glitches, organic textures, hollow field-recordings, abstract notes, abyssal echoes and whispered distant voices. "Disturbing" atmosphere, tinged brightness and darkness, take shape and enfold "the listener / viewer" in a unique sound and spatial experience. He has been part of Mahorka for more than a decade, since his early Nobodisoundz days, both solo and in very interesting collaborations.

Released October 9, 2026, "Les allées tourbillonnaires" is a collaborative album of Julien Ash and Philippe Neau that is part of a trilogy.

The first release, the "Conjonction Astrale" EP was released in early September 2026 on Kalamine Records:
kalaminerecords.bandcamp.com/album/conjonction-astrale

The third release, again an EP, is planned on taâlem.

Music by Julien Ash & Philippe Neau
Mastering Julien Ash

Artwork by Philippe Neau

nouvelleslecturescosmopolites.bandcamp.com
philippeneau.bandcamp.com

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Released October 2, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

"Passenger of the Galaxy" is the latest third consecutive album of the Surbahar project of Pavel Stoychev - a long-time musician and composer, known to us from numerous Bulgarian and international projects.

This Surbahar debut on Mahorka features a variety of electronic beats, deep bass lines and experiments with sound. The combination of ethereal atmospheres with ethnic and classical instruments and vocals positions the listener as a traveller, floating through the endless currents of the universe...

Guest musicians:
Desislava Petrova - vocal
Nino Tiberius Gomes - vocal
Zornitsa Tsvetanova (OZ Project) - piano
Orlin Tsvetanov (OZ Project) - violin
Dimitar Bakardzhiev – flute
Roman Kurilenko - kaval
Yasen Mischuk - kaval

Special thanks of Maria Lukova for composing the violin theme for Complete Metamorphosis

Pavel Stoychev - programming, synths, guitar & percussion

Graphic design: Vtmn C - Brand Immunity Studio

All tracks are composed, arranged & recorded by Pavel Stoychev
Mix & mastering: Surbahar & Artmospheric studios

The track "The Genesis of Light" is not on the CD version - it is available only in the digital download version of the album.

More Surbahar: surbahar.bandcamp.com

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"Cold, hunger, pain, and fear are the fundamental drivers of human development. People try to escape them by building flourishing civilizations, nurturing the illusion of herd safety while cultivating the poisonous fruits of murder and violence for the sake of peace and prosperity. And within these fruits, the seeds have already ripened: cold, hunger, pain, and fear! It doesn't matter the age, continent, civilization, morality, or people - what goes around comes around! Without death, there is no life, and without darkness, there is no light.
45.45 minutes of a track, organically coherent and composed over six months, using dozens of synthesis, sampling, and sound processing techniques invented by humanity for art. Not a single second is repeated; there is no foundation, logic, or meaning, but there is a common, holistic structure and concept, just like in the history of humanity, from the earliest hominids to quantum physics. The thunder of war drums ends with a shepherd's flute, the blow of a club to the skull turns into a lullaby, the cries of widows into a radio picnic program, loud laughter in reels into the silence of the closed lips of a child's corpse in a concentration camp. The most important thing to remember when listening is that while the music plays, everything dies: from cold, hunger, pain, and fear, and soon your turn will surely come to become a new sacrifice for the light and the world, for the sake of new life and death! Prepare yourself, you chosen one!!! Die Geschichte kennt kein Wenn..."

Released September 25, 2026

All music by Churylau Leanid
band.link/lTVdw
www.facebook.com/AbellLeanid
Мastering by Churylau Leanid
www.facebook.com/AbellLeanid
Artwork by the jackson's arts
t.me/kolyadinos_arts
Cover by Churylau Leanid

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Released September 18, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

PASTORAL is a French-Belgian ambient music and visual arts duo associated with the Transcultures center, founded in 2010 by Christophe Bailleau (French musician and visual artist) and Philippe Franck (sound artist, critic, and founder of Transcultures). The duo's artistic style is a blend of ambient, post-folk electronica, and post-rock, combining ethereal or earthy sound textures, impressionistic melodies, video projections, and poetic texts. Their debut album "L’échappée belle" was released in 2019 by the Transonic label (produced by Transcultures) together with a book of diptychs pairing color photographs by Christophe Bailleau with poetic fragments by Philippe Franck.

The duo's final project "Suspended Night" was left unfinished before Philippe Franck's death in 2025. It was resumed and completed in 2026 by Christophe Bailleau in collaboration with Transonic and Mahorka.

"This is the last PASTORAL album. PASTORAL was a door to an open world. Philippe, my friend is dead. Life is different, life is still life, but... (Thanks for all Phiphi!)"

Composed and produced by Christophe Bailleau O'Farrell
and Philippe Franck (†)
Cover art by Christophe Bailleau O'Farrell

A Limb: programming for track 2
Kozik: hurdy gurdy on track 7
Isa Belle: tibetan bowls, bells and chimes on track 6
JJ Duerinckx: sax on track 8
Gauthier Keyaerts: bass on track 9

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Released September 14, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

Unterm Rad is the electronic music of media artist and producer Mike Slansky. His music is information-rich and crafted with painstaking detail, characterized by bold, complex percussion with deep layers of texture and atmosphere.

An early recruit of Tympanik Audio, Slansky went on to co-found the Point Source Electronic Arts record label and creative community. Alongside this work, he is a performer in the groups REKT, Mesaverde, and Tokataur, known for frequent collaborations and remixes with friends & fellow creators: Hecq (Ben Lukas Boysen), Ginormous, Anatoly Grinberg (Tokee), Mark Spybey (DVOA), Access to Arasaka, The Fellow Passenger, Room of Wires, among many more.

And now after a warm welcome to the roster, Mahorka presents Unterm Rad's latest album, "The Getaway". Composed entirely of short instrument clips & other sounds provided in Point Source's "Genome" sample kit, each carefully edited, processed and sequenced, evolving into something new. No synthesizers, AI or any other sound sources were employed in making this, in the spirit of the "Genome" open source project.

"The Getaway" is a series of rapid, erratic chases through tightly packed, dim narrow alleyways, with danger waiting around every jagged corner. But press on, the way out is through.

Now available from Mahorka: 13-track CD / digital album, featuring remixes by Access to Arasaka, Evaluation Copy, Vaag, Feederwire, Hexalyne, and Cole.

Written / produced / performed by Mike Slansky
Mastered by Alex Stilts at Orbit Room Audio
Illustration / Design by Mike Slansky

"Many Thanks to my friends and co-creators: Rob Lioy, Christopher Beeman, Mark Brinkerink, Alex Stilts, Sorin Paun, Greg Cole.

Great thanks to all contributors to the Genome sample kits and best wishes to all friends at Point Source Electronic Arts.

Special gratitude to Ivo Petrov and Mahorka Records.

For Melissa and our girls, my loves."

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Released September 6, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

The Last Five Minutes (TL5M) are Alberto Carozzi (bass and guitar) and Matteo Uggeri (laptop) who have played together for over twenty years. Both are involved also in other projects: together in Sparkle in Grey, Matteo with Open to the Sea, Barnacles and Starlight Assembly (along with Dominic Appleton of Breathless and This Mortal Coil). They play a mixture of beat oriented experimental form of ambient music. When live, they perform "Not Indispensable Wonders", an audiovisual performance where every element is in dialogue: the space, the audience, the present moment, so the music is entirely improvised. They believe in sincronicity and in the beauty of everyday.

"Blind End Now" is their debut album on Mahorka, following Matteo's appearance on the label with Open to the Sea (reworking Stefan Christoff's piano pieces). For it Alberto recorded crackles from vinyl loops on his turntable. Then freely laid down bass tracks - with no BPM reference - in his home studio in Usmate Velate. He later sent them to Matteo. Who added rhythms and other sounds in Milan. It all took place in the spring of 2020. A time everyone remembers. Aged for about five years.

Mastered by Fabio Ricci in 2025
Artwork and photos by TL5M
Cover image: a Chinese carpet from the Mita Foundation in Brescia

"Thanks to everyone who hosted or attented our live performances"

www.tl5m.net

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Released August 29, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition.

Leonardo Pucci, also known as Pulsar, is an electronic musician, drummer and independent curator based in Foligno (Umbria, Italy). Demetrio Cecchitelli, who has already released two works on Mahorka (Ruins, 2021 and Combination with Andrea Marinelli, 2022), pursues a spontaneous exploration of deep listening and expressive freedom. The two musicians met in 2022 for the event series Sintesi Festival organised by Leonardo, and immediately hatched the idea of making a record together in the future. Here it is now “Fade In Brighter Age”, a space-ambient, mellow and liquid cassette released on the label run by Ivo Petrov.

Enriched by the trumpet contributions of close collaborator Jacopo Buda, the record unfolds across both sides with a 15-minute long-form track (Cosmic Dream) on the first side, and two instrumental joyous soundtrack with glossy hues on side B. An engaging blend of avant-garde and minimalist atmospheres, equally suspended in a playful and lively immateriality, as if simply enjoying making music in a small, yet well-equipped home studio.

Recorded + Artwork by Leonardo Pucci
Mastered by Nick Foglia

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SPTW (Some Pretend to Whisper) is the crossroad where sound collagists Perkin Warbek and Stakha meet.

"Delicately mistreated samples, warped instrumentations, repeated loops, liquefied vocals, scraps of arrangements here and there, abstract swarming, analog tape textures and a few minimalist beats cleverly distilled from hip-hop influences... these are some of the ingredients used by Some Pretend to Whisper to shape its strange daydreams"

EUTHYMIA is SPTW's long-lasting effort to overcome mental issues so as to reach peace and stability in a more and more fragile and inconsistent world. These 12 tracks should be viewed as a time-capsule reflecting the inner thoughts and feelings of its two members whilst keeping their heads above deep water.

EUTHYMIA is the long-anticipated follow up to their debut on Mahorka, At the Foot of the Ladder, from 2024.

Released August 21, 2026

All beats: SPTW a.k.a. Some Pretend to Whisper (Perkin Warbek and Stakha). NO AI generated. SP404 MKII + MPC 2000XL, tons of records, and pencils, desks and bottles as weapons of thought.

Programming and editing: Perkin Warbek
Keys / Bass by Stakha on tracks 5, 7, 9, 10
Vocals by Stakha on tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
Vocals by Misty on track 2
Track 10 edited and mastered by the grand wizard Asteroide Maravich
Guitar and vocals by Asteroide Maravich on track 10

sptw.bandcamp.com

Thank you: "SPTW would like to express their greatest love to our families, friends (The Schipper-Tournier family, Deborah, Naïs, Yasmine), our dear neighbours who put up with our sound making (!) and our beloved cat Misty. Special shout out to Ivo Petrov and Mahorka for believing in our project throughout the years, Asteroide Maravich for his constant help and emotional support, IVRO and True Flav."

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"Collected not lost" is a decade of Autonomaton's work, outside of LPs and EPs, collected. The music was released in the period from 2015 to the end of 2025. It's done mostly through dubbing and overdubbing sound approaches. Both computer and hardware were used. Programmed or live. The tracks included have been released mostly on VA collections of works, through various online labels from around the globe: Animal Breaks (BE); Ohm Resistance (USA); Treetrunk (USA); DIGITAL DIZZY (UK) - dismissed; EcoSci (BG); eden.deeply (AU); Linear Obsessional Recordings (UK); Petroglyph Music (NOR); Studio 4632 (USA) - dismissed; Cian Orbe (CL); We are all ghosts (UK); Cousin Silas Emporium (UK); Doomcore Records (DE); L.O.T.R (FR); Attenuation Circuit (DE); Mahorka (BG); and couple of self-released entities. Included are various (re)mixes, versions and rebuilds for different artists like Cousin Silas, Passenger of Shit, Mystfied, Emerge!, Protuberance, Teeth of Divine and couple others. These three albums will take you mostly through 3 aspects of Autonomatons sound - teknoiz, ambient drone and dub breakz, reflected also in the title of each volume. The music on the albums will follow this trajectory, starting with noises and drones, then turning to more fluffy ambient and in the final chapter entering the zone of dub and breakz.

Released August 14, 2026

All music couresty of Nikolay Stanchev a.k.a. Autonomaton

Track 11 - sounds by Orbital
Track 12 - samples by Thomas Park

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Released August 7, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

Neram Pularumbol (As The Dawn Breaks) is Sunken Cages’ long-awaited follow-up to his 2021 debut on On The Corner Records.

Over the past 5 years he has developed an idiosyncratic production style that blends South Indian folk instruments with electronic drums, dark synths, drones and industrial textures to create a freshly deconstructed global club music.

Evoking resynthesis - a processing method in electronic music that analyzes sounds to extract their fundamental component, as a guiding metaphor, he has produced tracks that confronted conservative views of culture as something frozen, solidified and sanctified, thus resistant to change.

For this collaborative album, he tapped genre-blurring music producers, vocalists and multi-instrumentalists from all over the globe. Rani Jambak, an Indigenous Indonesian composer, producer, instrument designer and vocalist, brought haunting vocals, chants to “Athiraavile.” Indo-Californian producer Kush Arora, known for fusing deconstructed Punjabi music with Industrial, Dancehall, reworked “Idakka” for a noisier and more propulsive narrative. Kuza, a Classically trained South African vocalist, bridged the gap between Gqom and a ghostly Aria.

Additionally, remixers Lila Tirando a Violeta (Uruguay), Masma Dream World (Gabon/US), and El Kontessa (Egypt), along with Mahorka staples Weldroid (Hungary/Sweden), and Moki McFly (Phillipines) brought their distinctive signature sounds to reinvent the original tracks.

All tracks written/arranged/produced by Sunken Cages (Lungees & Combat Boots Music, ASCAP), 2024-2026, Philadelphia, USA

Mastered by Weldroid (Tamas Zsiros), May 2026, Stockholm, Sweden

Graphic design by Angel Draganov

"Deep gratitude to Mahorka Records for believing in this project and to all the amazing guest collaborators - Rani Jambak, Kush Arora, Masma Dream World, Lila Tirando a Violeta, El Kontessa, Weldroid, Moki McFly & Kuza - for bringing the fire!"

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Released July 31, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

Following the spectacular debut of the duo "Hybrid Rain and Liquid Paper" on Mahorka in 2024, the long-awaited second album from Hans Castrup and James Hill is here!

In contrast to "Hybrid Rain...", James Hill's trumpets are not done on the base of Hans Castrup's electronics - they were recorded as short takes by James Hill in his studio and then - in the way of remixing - re-edited, layered, stretched and tuned by Hans Castrup. This resulted in a new kind of industrial jazz orchestral sound. Additionally Hans Castrup plays with pianos, keyboards, xylophone, tapes and field recordings and, notably, he also makes extensive use of the studio itself as an instrument.

The recordings have been deliberately left ‘raw’ – in the style of jazz recordings, without extensive use of compressors or general volume enhancement. In that sense, the sound can be described as old-fashioned in a positive way.

PLAY LOUD!

"A powerful counterpoint to ‘Wagnerian’ pathos, delicate opulence – tender, multi-layered, courageous. And by ‘courageous’, I mean: Composing and releasing this kind of music is a political act, going in the correct/proper direction. A composition that brings world events to life in a powerful way. Synesthetic experiences that inspire profound reflection." --Sabine Castrup

"A massive orchestra, James Last’s Big Band – a brass ensemble that’s all about blaring away – and dark industrial/ambient elements (early Laibach, mid-period Lustmord) simply can’t agree on a thing. It creaks and crackles: all I can say is: incredible music! The new speakers have never been pushed to their limits like this before..." --Stephan Wolf

Hans Castrup - Electronics, Korg MS20, studio
James Hill - Trumpet
EMERGE - violin on tracks I and V

Images by Hans Castrup
Artwork design by Ivo Petrov and Angel Draganov

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Released July 24, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

Mastermind behind the veteran neoclassic dark ambient project Day Before Us is back on Mahorka with a new solo album whose conceptual background explores unsettling "liminal spaces", paramnesia and flowing affective memories. In this new release Philippe Blache teamed up with photographer and visual story teller objet-fantôme (Angela Caro). Liminal spaces are often marked with a sense of wander and vertigonous wonder to apprehend parapsychology and new possibilities of meaning with a subject trapped in unusual mental structures. The atmosphere of the pieces is based on meandering immersive textures and thrilling tones of high emotional value, depicting with sonorous analogies some imaginary territories, diving the listener in profound headscapes. All in all this new effort is a beautifully instrumental and carefully crafted musical excursion in melancholia and repetition. It is delivered in a nice package as limited physical edition (beautiful digisleeve CD), accompanied by the digital version.

Written, recorded and arranged in Dole by Philippe Blache (alias Day Before Us)
Original artwork and layout by Angela Caro (objet-fantôme)

Special thanks to Ivo Petrov, Angela Caro, Giuseppe Verticchio, to new and loyal listeners.

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released July 14, 2026

To celebrate a monumental historic milestone, Mahorka brings together a curated constellation of producers from its immediate family and close inner galaxy for its 500th release, dropping officially on Netlabel Day 2026.

"Re: Echo Mist Light" is a collective reinterpretation of Wahn's acclaimed full-length album "Echo Mist Light", an opus heavily validated by key tastemakers of the electronic scene - including icons like The Bug and Scanner - and proudly selected in the Bandcamp Monthly features. The original LP was widely lauded for its massive cinematic scope, shifting dub-infused techno pulses, and physically tangible sub-bass textures.

Rather than delivering a standard remix album, each contributing artist has remarkably captured the deep, tactile essence and introspective core of Wahn's original tracks, seamlessly transposing that energy into their own signature sound.

Across the tracklist, the album pieces together an explosive variety of sonic languages, ripping through fragmented IDM, hypnotic techno, scorched-earth glitch abstractions, industrial minimalism, and deep ambient drifts. "Re: Echo Mist Light" stands as a profound testament to underground electronic synergy - a celebration of community where Wahn’s narrative is brilliantly reborn through the diverse minds of the Mahorka galaxy.

Featuring remixes by:
Fluffy Inside · Nonima + Abdicant · Cognition Delay · Mas&Delayer · MEION · Substak · Signalstoerung · Dissolved · Mentome Moir · Valance Drakes · Méconium · Grosso Gadgetto · Genda · Captive Portal · Attaché · Flint Glass · Mitoma · Brainquake

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Released July 3, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

"Rare Moments ... There are times when a musician seems possessed by an extraordinary creative energy. Christophe Bailleau O'Farrell is undeniably going through one of these periods. His albums follow one another at a steady pace, yet this abundance is never accompanied by any loss of momentum: each new release enriches a constantly expanding universe.
With "Romantic, Visceral", Bailleau O'Farrell continues this inspired dynamic. A composer, programmer, pianist, guitarist, flutist, and soundscape artist, the musician from the Liège province also knows how to surround himself with the most relevant collaborators: Julien Ash, A Limb, Kozik, or Jordane Prestrot.

"My vision of Romantism: a quest of beauty and mystery, truth..." specifies Christophe.

"Romantic, Visceral" approaches its subject with a discreetly brilliant touch. Here, the displayed romanticism has nothing to do with outdated nostalgia. It is a permanent quest for mystery, infatuated with that murky, Baudelairean, exhilarating beauty!

Christophe Bailleau O'Farrell is a musician in a state of absolute grace!"
--Ilian Mirov, June 2026

"My friend, my mentor is dead. The universe has split in two, me in the middle.
How to find your way back to dreams, to yourself?
Romanticism (and the internal transformations it brings about) is a necessity in a world parched with age.
Fall into darkness. Get up. Recover, leave, hope, continue.
Romantism, visceral.
From the manure comes the rose."
--Christophe Bailleau O’Farrell, June 2026

Christophe Bailleau O’Farrell : production, programming, piano, guitar, flute, synths.

with
Julien Ash : sax, violin, synths on tracks 10 & 11
A Limb : sounds and madness on track 6
Kozik : charango on track 6
Jordane Prestrot : keyboards on track 4

Artwork : Christophe Bailleau (bummy style)
Mastering : Julien Ash

My vision of Romantism : a quest of beauty and mystery, truth, a way to calm down never found but approaching / too old to die.

PLEASE RESET THE WORLD

Thanks to Philippe Franck, my family, Ivo, Zorg...

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Released June 26, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

Composed, produced, mixed and mastered : Jawhinge
Cover artwork design and video : Georgi Durankiev

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released June 21, 2026

"The human mind is incapable of understanding its own nature, and I suppose we must thank nature for its mercy" (At the Mountains of Madness, 1931)

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released June 13, 2026

Carlos Vallecillos is the creative force behind Et Voilà, a project born at the crossroads of sound design and avant-garde aesthetic movements. With a background that includes two previous releases (Incendios que yo te Conté and Sensual Minds) - which explored the boundaries between ambient and techno - Carlos is now expanding his universe into more experimental and conceptual territories.
His sonic language draws from sound art, glitch aesthetics, and industrial raw textures, using drone as a foundation to build deeply cinematic atmospheres. Fascinated by architecture and the organization of space, his current work seeks to translate matter and form into sound, exploring the beauty of the austere and the monumental through digital synthesis and processing.

Et Voilà debuts on Mahorka with "Architextures vol.1". "Architextures" is a study of sonic volumes that explores the intersection between human construction and industrial synthesis. In this first volume, the artist dives into the aesthetic of Brutalism, translating the raw honesty of concrete and the structural complexity of geometric forms into sound.
The EP is a journey through four "sonic spaces" where cold, digital textures collide with organic, processed recordings. From oppressive stillness to rhythmic pulses that evoke the heartbeat of a deserted mega-structure, "Architextures vol.1" captures the melancholic beauty of the gray scale.

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released June 5, 2026

"Mood Starters" brings together Pedro of BedouinDrone and Marc of Brainquake for a collaboration album on Mahorka that feels both unexpected and strangely inevitable. Although the two artists had never previously met in person, the album reveals a shared creative language shaped by similar emotional and sonic territories — abandoned spaces, psychological tension, industrial decay and the fragile remains of human connection.

For years, Pedro has been exploring the outer edges of dark ambient, illbient and ritualistic sound design through BedouinDrone. His work is characterized by dense atmospheres, layered drones and a cinematic sense of emotional storytelling. Rather than focusing purely on darkness as aesthetics, his compositions often carry an intensely human quality: loneliness, memory, spiritual exhaustion and the feeling of drifting through collapsing emotional landscapes. There is always movement beneath the surface of his music, as if every sound is part of a larger narrative hidden somewhere between dreams, ruins and subconscious tension.

Marc, operating as Brainquake, approaches sound from a more abrasive and industrial perspective. His work embraces mechanical repetition, distorted textures, fragmented rhythms and psychological pressure, drawing inspiration from classic industrial traditions while continuously pushing them into more emotionally unstable territory. Brainquake’s sonic world feels raw, confrontational and physical, yet never empty. Beneath the harsh surfaces lies a constant emotional friction — a sense of unrest that transforms noise and industrial structures into something deeply personal and unsettling.

What makes "Mood Starters" remarkable is how naturally these two worlds intertwine. Rather than alternating between styles, Pedro and Marc dissolve their individual approaches into a singular sonic identity. The album does not sound like two artists taking turns; it sounds like a shared subconscious unfolding across eleven interconnected compositions.

Across the album, illbient, old-school industrial, ambient and ethnic influences merge into a suffocating yet hypnotic atmosphere in which harsh mechanical structures coexist with moments of haunting vulnerability. The title itself carries a sense of irony: rather than uplifting moods, "Mood Starters" explores emotional collapse, inner unrest and the slow disintegration of meaning in an increasingly hostile world.

Opening track “Disarray” immediately sets the tone with a slow-burning descent into fragmented drones, decaying structures and looming tension. “Flood” and “Maelstrom” expand this oppressive atmosphere further, combining polluted ambient textures with rusted industrial pulsations and disorienting rhythmic movement. Tracks such as “Pressure” and “Tongue” intensify the claustrophobic atmosphere even more, balancing physical heaviness with psychological unease. “Tongue” is further accompanied by a visually intense video that amplifies the track’s disturbing emotional undercurrents.

The emotional center of the album emerges strongly through “Enmeshment,” “Unease” and “Cages,” where themes of isolation, psychological entrapment and emotional exhaustion become fully exposed. Here, industrial sound design transforms into something almost organic, as if the machines themselves are corroding from within. Ethnic influences appear throughout the album not as exotic decoration, but as fragmented echoes of lost rituals and fading humanity.

Towards its final chapters, "Mood Starters" sinks even deeper into exhaustion and collapse. “Fades” and “Conflicted” evoke the sensation of wandering through the final remnants of a dying civilization, balancing bleak atmospheres with fragile traces of melancholy. Closing track “Night Move” acts as a rhythmic final movement — hypnotic, repetitive and unresolved — offering no catharsis, only continuation through darkness.

What ultimately gives "Mood Starters" its impact is its cohesion. Every composition feels connected, as though the album documents one continuous descent through emotional erosion, psychological instability and urban decay. Industrial aggression, ambient depth, illbient abstraction and ethnic textures continuously overlap and evolve, creating an immersive listening experience that feels cinematic, oppressive and deeply emotional at once.

With "Mood Starters", Pedro and Marc have not simply created a collaborative industrial album. They have constructed a shared psychological landscape — one shaped by isolation, tension, decay and fragile humanity — where both artists amplify each other’s strengths while revealing entirely new dimensions within their sound.

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Released May 22, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in limited audio cassette edition.

In the quiet topography of contemporary drone music, a collaboration has formed across national borders that seems as logical as it is poetic: German ambient and drone musician rsn and Swedish sound artist Andreas Rönnquist present “with remoteness”, a joint album that explores the dialogue between two aesthetic styles in four extended pieces. The title says it all. “Remoteness” describes not only the geographical distance between the participants, but also the ethereal sphere in which their music moves.

The starting point was provided by initial sketches by Andreas Rönnquist, whose reduced, circular drone textures have for years been synonymous with Scandinavian coolness and vastness. He made these sonic seeds available to rsn, who not only supplemented them, but also developed them further, reshaped them, and ultimately transformed them into a new dramaturgy. rsn wrote his own parts, layered additional textures, condensed or lightened the material, and arranged the pieces into organically breathing soundscapes. The result was not an additive project, but a genuine intertwining of two perspectives, in which origin and continuation are almost impossible to separate.

The four tracks unfold slowly, with the patient persistence that characterizes the ambient/drone genre. Low-frequency drones lay a foundation over which delicate overtone spectra shimmer, while subtle modulations and barely perceptible shifts in the sound structure create a sense of movement without ever culminating in rhythm or melody in the classical sense. It is music that does not so much tell a story as create space – for concentration, contemplation, perhaps even for a productive loss of oneself in one's own inner world.

The fact that “within remoteness” develops a remarkable presence despite its restraint is due in no small part to the mix by Ghostloop, who is considered a fixture on the ambient scene. With a sure sense of depth and transparency, he balances the layers, gives the drones room to breathe, and lends even the quietest nuances a tangible physicality. The album thus becomes a finely balanced sound space in which distance and proximity, isolation and resonance meet. “within remoteness” is therefore not only a joint work by two artists, but also a study of how connection can arise from distance – quiet, concentrated, and with a meditative intensity that lingers long after listening.

Composer: Thomas Rosen, Andreas Rönnquist
Instruments: Bass, Guitar, Found sounds
Recording engineer: Thomas Rosen, Andreas Rönnquist
Mixing engineer: Ghostloop
Mastering engineer: Thomas Rosen
Photographer: Thomas Rosen
Layout designer: Thomas Rosen

rsn-entities.com | ronnquist.net

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Heavy Cloud is the primary recording project of Ryan Hooper, a Cornwall-based sound maker, artist and writer who creates mixed media work inspired by memory and landscapes.

Blurring the edges of presence and absence, "Archive in the Wind", his debut on Mahorka, drifts like forgotten signals across power lines – an elegy of memory stored, lost and reassembled.

Released May 16, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in limited audio cassette edition.

The album weaves a delicate lattice of sonic decay and reverie, where each fragment of sound clings like dust to the edges of memory, dissolving as soon as it's touched.

Tracks like "Vestige Horizon" and "Achilles in the Margin" stretch time into slow-burning expanse, while shorter pieces such as "Windflowers" flicker like fragile recollections.

Rooted in the windswept textures of Cornwall, this album is a haunting meditation on impermanence, memory and the spaces between.

Soft are the wounds
carried by wind

We vanish
in the spaces
between songs

"Archive in the Wind" was created with tapes, synths, field recordings, found sounds and objects in Cornwall, England 2025

Performed, recorded and mixed by Heavy Cloud
Artwork by Heavy Cloud

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Released May 9, 2026 on Mahorka as free digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition.

This new tape release on Mahorka brings together ambient artists Toni Dimitrov and Blanket Swimming, both with longstanding history with the label, in a restrained yet deeply textured collaboration. Moving through drifting drones, fragile harmonics, and slow-evolving soundscapes, the album explores states of suspension, intimacy, and quiet transformation. Field recordings and arrangements by Dimitrov intertwine with ambient passages by Blanket Swimming, forming a dialogue that is at once spacious and finely detailed. Each piece unfolds with deliberate patience, emphasizing tone, space, and subtle interaction, where presence is felt as much in what recedes as in what emerges.

There is a tactile sensibility running through the release, shaped by the constraints and warmth of the cassette format itself - subtle saturation, soft edges, and a sense of proximity that foregrounds listening as a physical act. Rather than building toward climactic resolution, the compositions sustain a delicate equilibrium, inviting immersion and attentive drift. The cover features photographs of textures from Dimitrov’s Microlandscape series, extending the album’s focus on surface, detail, and the quiet complexity of minimal forms.

All music by Toni Dimitrov and Thea Maloney
Photography by Toni Dimitrov
Mastering by Thea Maloney

[mhrk492]

Released May 1, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

"Our title Small Fires derives from the practice among certain Indigenous American people of making small fires periodically, often enough to prevent the build-up of fallen wood that could fuel large forest fires. It is also said that one makes a small fire to get close to, to get down to earth, keep warm, cook, and remain discreet, as opposed to the colonialist bonfire seen for miles off, done for show, to mark territory, frighten. These tracks were recorded at my (Jeff Gburek's) home studio in November, culled from two meetings a week apart. The online release is the workflow timeline of the second meeting with one twist: the final track was recorded during the first week. Deemed the only keeper, it became the subject of the remix (track 1) that I (Jeff) was working on when Eryk actually rang the door-bell (audible in the mix). Aside from level adjustments and some nip and tuck tail edits, this is the music that was played. The flow is unrushed, organic and felt very much then as an anticipation of Eryk's imminent departure for a month-long trip to India. I listened to the raw sessions on loop for hours in the first weeks before coming to the conclusion that I could not justify any edits and was very happy to dwell in the warm ambiance of this intimate recording session. Listening to, working on it, tending our Small Fires, helped to keep me in good spirits during that very difficult and harsh winter here in Poland. I hope it brings you half as much joy as it does to me."
--Jeff Gburek

Jeff Gburek: acoustic guitar, mandolin, modular synthesizers, prepared swarmandal, finger-snaps, hand-claps, jingle bells

Eryk Nowacki: saz, sitar, electronic tambour

Recorded and Mastered by Jeff Gburek
Front cover image: painting by John El Manahi
Other artwork images: paintings by Jeff Gburek
CD artwork design: Ivo Petrov

The CD version contains 12 tracks. Tracks 8, 10, 13, 15 are available only in the digital download version.

This is a co-release of Mahorka and Ramble Records.

[mhrk491] // [RAM-216CD]

released April 24, 2026

There are albums that announce themselves with genre, and others that quietly dismantle the idea of genre altogether. Ysplo belongs to the latter. Conceived in 2002 and never formally released in the past, this body of work stands as a singular artefact: an electronic album that drifts through soundscape, industriall, experimental, IDM, drone and ambient—yet somehow remains internally coherent, as if all these divergent languages were dialects of one private tongue.

Behind the name Sabrinde is Dirk Pauwels, a Master in Audio-Visual Arts, whose practice has always leaned toward the liminal zones between disciplines, technologies, and emotions. Ysplo does not attempt to “fit” anywhere. It resists shelving, refusing the neat taxonomy of electronic subgenres. Instead, it behaves like a weather system: mutable, layered, and often unpredictable, yet guided by an underlying climate that feels intentional and strangely intimate.

The album’s tone is marked by continual transformation. Moments of near-silence and suspended ambience give way to sudden pulses, fractured rhythms, or industrial surges. Beats appear, vanish, and reappear in altered forms: textures swell and recede like tides. Sentiment oscillates between austerity and warmth, tension and release, abstraction and a faint, human fragility. The listener is never allowed to settle into a single emotional posture. Each track seems to question the one before it, proposing a new atmosphere, a new logic of movement, a new way of inhabiting sound.

What makes Ysplo especially remarkable, however, is not only its aesthetic ambition but its technical austerity. The entire album was constructed from a single stereo track in Sound Forge. There were no loop or glitch tools, no automation curves, no undo lists—only manual editing, performed with patience and risk. Every cut, every transition, every layering of sound was a deliberate commitment, irreversible in its moment. This working method gives the album a tactile quality, as if each sonic gesture bears the imprint of the hand that shaped it.

In a medium often defined by infinite reproducibility and non-destructive editing, Ysplo insists on finitude and consequence. The soundscapes breathe with the tension of decisions that could not be undone. The ambient passages are not decorative but meditative, holding space for the listener to linger inside the architecture of sound itself.

To listen to Ysplo is to step into a shifting interior landscape. It is not an album that offers hooks or easy narratives. Instead, it invites slow attention, curiosity, and a willingness to drift without a map. Its coherence does not come from stylistic unity but from a deeper consistency of intent: a devotion to exploration, to texture, to the emotional resonance of abstract form.

Though unreleased, Ysplo remains a quietly radical work—an early-2000s artifact that feels curiously untethered from its time. It stands as a testament to what can emerge when technical limitation meets artistic stubbornness, and when genre boundaries are treated not as rules but as raw material.

In the end, Ysplo is less an album than a sonic terrain: difficult to define, impossible to reduce, and deeply rewarding for those willing to wander its contours.

Immerse yourself – headphones recommended!

All tracks composed, produced and mixed by Dirk Pauwels
Graphic Design: Johan Van Oeckel
Photography: Dirk Pauwels

Thanks to: Ivo Plamenov Petrov and Jan Indip Vossen

[mhrk490]

released April 19, 2026

Mantris first shared music with the world around three decades ago as the driving force, together with Christoph Waelkens, behind house outfits The Black Sun and Brown Hardware Inc. with early 90s releases on cult label Elektron. A productive music career was forecasted, but Mantris then vanished into thin air, until early 2020s when new solo studio productions by Mantris started to happen. "I’m So Many People", his masterpiece debut album on Mahorka, a journey, unfolding from darkness to hope, was remastered and released in 2024, although it was recorded 2-3 years earlier. Compared to his earlier albums, this new one was even more focused on sound progression, fused with melodies and chords.

"Echoes Of The Silver Screen" is his second album coming out on the label. Its story, although separate, is related to that of the first one and other Mantris works created in the same period after COVID hit in 2021 and his daily life totally changed without a job for a year. During that time, he poured himself into music and recorded 1 EP (which he is currently reworking) and 4 albums, including the two on Mahorka, of which "Echoes Of The Silver Screen" is the last to be completed.

That same year 2021 he was looking into the idea of writing music for motion picture productions. He cold-emailed an Indian director based in New York regarding possible collaboration who replied that he was shooting a thriller short film and needed proper background music for a scene. Mantris whipped something up, and he loved it. It was his first time doing anything like that. The short film's working title was "Hummingbird", and, notably the Mantris track for it also included hummingbird sounds. Although he never heard back from the director and, apparently, that film was never released, this work inspired him to explore further this musical direction. The end result is "Echoes Of The Silver Screen", where you can also recognize the reworked soundtrack by the hummingbird sounds still there.

Composed and produced by Mantris
Mastering by Mantris
Cover artwork by Mantris

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released April 10, 2026

Eric Latteux aka Internal Fusion is a dark ambient artist, born in 1964, based in Britany (France). He has been active since the early '90s and made a name with his unique sound, with notable releases on Staalplaat, Désaccord Majeur, Kokeshidisk, Taâlem, Oxidation and Attenuation Circuit, as well as series of exclusive releases at his Bandcamp page.

Internal Fusion debuted on Mahorka in 2022 with the highly acclaimed "IWWA" album. 4 years later, he is back with a blast - a fresh new album for the label, "Le conte de la pensée dernière", coming again as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited CD edition.

This album has been fully inspired by a book called "The story of the last thought" from Edgar Hilsenrath ("Le conte de la pensée dernière" in French). This is, actually, more a tale than a story.... Seven of the fourteen chapters have been illustrated/covered here.

Composed and produced by Eric Latteux
internalfusion.bandcamp.com

Cover images and design by Désaccord Majeur
www.desaccordmajeur.org

[mhrk488]

"Gramophonelemental" by WDX re‑imagines Wave Debb’s original field‑recording concept under the same name, released on Matt Atkins' Minimal Resource Manipulation label (mrmrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/gramophonelemental), through the lens of their signature aesthetic: raw industrial field recordings married to minimalist electronic sequencing. Where the original EP leaned into a lo‑fi, grunge‑inflected collage of earth, fire, metal, water and wood, the WDX version strips away the grunge veneer and foregrounds the mechanical ritual of the gramophone itself. WDX has taken the same source material but processed it with their characteristic granular synthesis, loop manipulation, and in your face sub‑bass drones.

The WDX Edition of "Gramophonelemental" stands as a compelling reinterpretation that honors the source material while injecting a distinct, kinetic energy characteristic of WDX’s oeuvre. It transforms the ritualistic act of playing a gramophone into a sonic meditation on decay, heat, and fluidity, inviting listeners to hear everyday objects in a new, almost ceremonial light.

For fans of experimental field‑recording, granular sound design, and minimalist industrial composition, this LP is a noteworthy addition to the canon of contemporary sound art.

Released April 3, 2026

Mastered by Jack Chuter

Everything else by Dave Webb

The Wave Debb Radio Show

[mhrk487]

Released March 27, 2026 as free digital download and in limited audio cassette edition.

Written, performed and produced by Sven Piayda in August 2025
'Brother Love' written, performed and produced by Mario Meyendriesch and Sven Piayda
Mastered by Michael Schreiber
Artwork by Michael Schreiber and Sven Piayda
Inside photography and handwriting by Sven Piayda
Thank You: Michaela, Mario, Michael and Ivo

Record Of Tides is the stage name of acclaimed German multidisciplinary media artist Sven Piayda. Within the project he blends different musical styles and production methods moving between electronica, post hip-hop, avant-garde and post rock into post-genre while live performances are usually accompanied by his visuals and video installations. Piayda looks back on releases and gigs over two and a half decades and continues to stand out with his diverse sound – remaining both distinctive and trailblazing.

The ‘Intercelestial’ album – the Record Of Tides debut on Mahorka – draws its primary inspiration from a summer trip to the Dutch North Sea, where Piayda took some time to enjoy albums of (mostly) German electronica artists. Back home he started working on new tracks which all ended up in the album. He was supported by long-time friend, musician and producer Michael Schreiber (Primal Scapes), who once again mastered the album and contributed visual material featured in the artwork.
The album includes a collaboration with IG-75, also known as Mario Meyendriesch, paying tribute to Piayda’s deep-rooted connection to the regional electronic music scene. Meyendriesch, Schreiber and Piayda are all part of the Electric Café Ruhr Collective – a vibrant network of electronic musicians from the Ruhr area known for jamming, producing and performing at festivals together.

The album is escorted by two music videos as directed by Sven Piayda: ‘Nice Try’ released parallelly to the album, ‘Filets’ a little time later.

‘Nice Try’ on YouTube: youtu.be/jVvHhH5gMjI
‘Filets’ on YouTube: youtu.be/BfUgxzolpmQ

On November 22, 2025 the Eunoia in Mülheim an der Ruhr hosted the Novembertronica Festival curated by Alex Kupsch featuring live sets Shunsoke Oshio, Thomas Machoczek and Record Of Tides. Within his set Sven Piayda teased numerous live versions of unreleased tracks like ‘Nice Try‘, ‘Superdusk‘, ‘Kitchen Spam‘ and ‘The Beach Crate‘ which turned out to be material from the ‘Intercelestial’ album.
A live recording if the gig is available from Bandcamp: Record Of Tides 'Live at Novembertronica 2025-22-11' documents the room ambience of the performance as recorded by Alex Kupsch and mastered by Michael Schreiber.

recordoftides.bandcamp.com/track/live-at-novembertronica-2025-11-22

‘Ivo was into the ‘On A Spectrum’ album, so I offered him a compilation EP back in spring 2025, instead he asked for new material to be released on Mahorka. To my own surprise, I finished the ‘Intercelestial’ album in August 2025 and we agreed on a release date in spring 2026, which left plenty of time to develop the tape artwork and music videos.
A big thank you to Ivo for giving me the opportunity to share my music on the Mahorka label and its audience, while being open minded, supportive, and patient throughout.’ – Sven Piayda

recordoftides.bandcamp.com
www.recordoftides.com
www.zany-music.com

[mhrk486]

Released March 22, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and Limited Edition Double Digisleeve CD.

Grosso Gadgetto is the alias of French electronic music producer Christian Gonzalez, known for his intricate blend of ambient, hip-hop, industrial and experimental sounds. With a background rooted in both traditional and modern electronic music, Gonzalez has carved out a niche for himself by creating immersive sonic landscapes that challenge the listener's perception of time and space. His work is marked by a deep sensitivity to sound texture, often using layered synths, field recordings and organic instruments to create evocative atmospheres. Over the years, Grosso Gadgetto has gained recognition for his contributions to the underground electronic music scene and his ability to cross genre boundaries with ease while retaining his distinct sound.

"For this album, Progressus, I wanted to do something different: very melodic tracks, sad but not aggressive, an easy-to-listen-to and soothing, yet deep, album. It addresses the urban planning of my city, which has grown from 120,000 to 170,000 inhabitants, while the political objective is 200,000. Vertical, horizontal, concrete has replaced greenery; each tower hides another, which in turn blocks the sun. My city is called Villeurbanne, also known as Villa Urbana, hence the album titles in Latin."

All music composed by Grosso Gadgetto (Christian Gonzalez),
Villeurbanne, France, December 2025
grossogadgetto.bandcamp.com

Mastering by Julien Ash
nouvelleslecturescosmopolites.bandcamp.com

Artwork by Timothée Mathelin
futurorg.com

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BlackHazr is a new solo project/alter-ego of Pedro Maras, exploring new territories and concepts with his unique approaches to sound and music.

"BlackHazr means black danger. This project originated in the mountains of Alentejo, Portugal. Spending months there, immersed in the silence, I noticed the sounds whenever I visited busier cities. I recorded these sounds and edited them into these compositions."

And just as the debut albums of his highly acclaimed BedouinDrone project ("The Border", 2018) and under his own name ("The Tipping Point", 2020), the BlackHazr debut also comes out on Mahorka, but unlike them (beautiful cassette editions), this album arrives in a special digipak CD + booklet edition with imagery aligned with each track.

Released March 15, 2026

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released March 7, 2026

Philippe Neau lives and works in France. His artistic practice circles around a single pursuit: the shaping of an imaginary landscape. Each work reaches toward a mental topography, a place that exists somewhere between perception and projection. His music summons these spaces through non-narrative form, built from muted field recordings, organic collages, abstract tonal fragments, rumbling glitches, atonal gestures, metallic textures and distant, half-remembered voices. The atmosphere often thickens into density. His palette is sharply contrasted, moving in the shifting interval where familiarity blurs into the uncanny. The sound swells, envelops, inhabits. These sonic terrains carry the listener into a state of immersion, an encounter with a place that is felt rather than described.

LR Friberg is a Swedish composer, mastering engineer and narrative artist whose work bridges sound and speculative fiction. Her music begins in mathematical processes - cellular automata generating evolving harmonic structures - and grows into immersive, emotionally driven ambient landscapes. Each piece functions as both music and world-building: sonic fragments of the ongoing fictional universe she writes, where light, place and connection shape atmosphere as much as melody. Her focus is precision, mood and storytelling through sound.

This collaboration emerged through a suggestion from Ivo Petrov at Mahorka for the "Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation", released in the summer of 2025. While their contribution to that compilation carried an ironic glint, this album moves in a different direction - principled, disciplined and fully aligned with their respective aesthetics. Philippe's textural density and shadowed abstraction meet LR's luminous ambiences and patient rhythmic pulses, coalescing into a sound world reminiscent of the early pioneers of drifting electronic landscapes: spacious, enveloping, deep-focus environments where harmonic movement unfolds slowly and soft pulses act less like beats and more like shifting tectonic plates beneath the surface. The result is an immersive sonic terrain where two distinct artistic languages converge into a shared, resonant place.

Philippe Neau: field recordings, ambiance, effects.
LR Friberg: synthesizers, ambiance, effects, production, mastering, artwork.
Sanna Nordin: Foldverse thematic inspiration.

philippeneau.bandcamp.com
aurora-mm.codeberg.page/Foldverse/
aurora-mm.codeberg.page/Aurora/
aurora-compilations.org

The light through the window was the color of boiled bone. Soft, grey-tinted, the kind that never truly warms a room but presses gently against every surface like damp linen. It was early, or late. Time blurred a little in Oxelbergen, especially this time of the year, when the sun arrived tired and left without drama.

Elin stood barefoot in the center of her apartment, motionless, the way you do when you're trying to decide if you've just gone mad or if the world has finally stopped pretending it makes sense.

Her flat was modest, first floor in a kind of pale brown apartment building that filled half of southeastern Norrköping. Slightly sun-faded, damp in the winter, always vaguely nostalgic without ever being beautiful. Outside, you could hear birds. Not city birds, but the crisp, unhurried calls from nearby trees. The wind filtered faintly through the open window, carrying a scent that was half wet soil, half municipal park. A distant dog barked. Somewhere beyond, a tram whispered past.

Inside: stillness.

Except that two men were standing in her flat.

Or not.

Elin raised one arm, carefully, precisely, and poked her index finger into the shoulder of the nearest one. He didn't vanish. He didn't blur, or phase, or flicker. He winced.

Solid.

Fabian, now looking mildly offended, reached out and touched the second man on the shoulder. His hand landed. Firm. Real.

Chris took a slow inhale and then wrinkled his nose.

"Smells stale in here," he said. "Books. Paper."

Elin opened her mouth to retort but didn't get the chance. Chris sneezed.

He looked sheepish. "Do you have a cat?"

"Iris," Elin said automatically, "and... wait. Wait. Hold on."

She raised both hands, not in fear, but in the universal gesture of a scientist halting an experiment.

"You're not here," she said slowly, as if trying to negotiate reality back into place. "I mean, you are here. But... how?"

Chris shrugged, as if that solved it. "We're all cuckoo now, I guess."

Fabian looked slightly ill. "I thought it was my meds," he muttered. "But no. I stopped. Tried others. No change."

Elin stared at both of them, then nodded, once. Tight. "I'm making coffee."

No one stopped her.

She moved to the kitchen, started her old drip machine. The sound of it was grounding. Coffee: real, tangible, logical.

Chris tilted his head. "Smells good."

Fabian sniffed once. "Egyptian coffee smells better."

Elin rolled her eyes in a way only Swedes could, half-disdain, half-amusement, and handed them each mismatched mugs from her open cabinet. One said "Liseberg" in flaking pink letters. The other had a cracked image of the Stockholm skyline.

They sat on her couch, Chris lounging like he was back in a bar somewhere, Fabian more upright, observant, the kind of person who memorizes where the exits are. Elin stayed standing, one hand resting lightly on her bookshelf, knuckles brushing the spines.

Chris sipped. "Nice."

Fabian frowned. "Missing the cardamom. The spices."

Elin didn't reply. She was staring at her own cup, the ceramic still warm in her palm.

"This can't be happening," she said. Not to them. Not really to herself either.

"Physics still works," she continued. "So unless I hallucinated that..." she gestured at their mugs, "...when you leave, I'll have two cold cups of coffee sitting on my table. Full. Untouched."

Then...

A tear in the air.

It was silent. Organic. Like the world cracked but not with violence, more like it birthed something, and Elin was pulled through it. Not falling, not flying. Slipping. Fast. Sliding through a membrane colored purple and pink and something like ash. Less than a second. No breath. No decision.

She landed on a rooftop.

Sun, brutal and omnipresent. The kind of heat that made her clothes feel too tight. She staggered forward, her mug still in hand. The world burned white and ochre. Not Sweden. Not even Europe.

The sky was endless and the buildings were unfamiliar. Cracked concrete, railings that glinted, the distant sound of Cairo alive and buzzing below.

Fabian and Chris were already seated in chairs, no mugs.

Fabian stood up without surprise. Slipped inside the adjoining flat and returned with a small tray, elegant cups balanced like an offering.

Fresh coffee. Thick. Dark. Fragrant.

Elin opened and closed her mouth. Then...

"My mugs are gone."

She turned the sentence over like a coin. "Okay. That makes sense. But how did you..." she gestured at the tray, at the cups, "how did you manage this?"

Fabian looked shy. Shrugged. "I had a feeling guests were coming."

Elin blinked. "That's extremely un-Dutch of you."

"I'm half Arab," Fabian said, smiling faintly. "Environment brings it out."

Chris opened his mouth to speak, paused, then sighed.

He took the cup from the tray. Held it in both hands. Sipped. His eyes closed.

"This is good," he said, the words stretching out like he was settling into them. "Actually... relaxing."

He glanced at the others. "I was in Dallas. Morning coffee. Then I was in your flat, Elin. Then here. So I guess I've had the same coffee three times today."

Elin didn't reply. Couldn't. She looked down at her cup, now lighter, now holding spice and sugar.

Chris turned toward the sun. "It's weird as hell," he said. "But kind of nice. I've been daydreaming about faraway places my whole life. Did it as a kid. Did it every day. So honestly? This just feels like one more."

He smiled. Not big. But real.

Elin nodded slowly. "Feels like a vacation," she admitted.

Fabian raised his cup.

Elin and Chris joined him.

No toast was spoken. No words needed.

Just three cups lifted to a sun.

[mhrk483]

released February 28, 2026

Born Vladimir Genadiev, MEION starts producing electronic music and DJing from early age. Common features of his works are industrial atmospheric elements and raw power.

MEION is persuing to bring fresh energy and innovations in bass music and has developed a unique and distinctive signature sound featuring specific heavy basslines, variety of colorful yet deep cinamatic textures and technically intricate yet powerfully kicking drum sounds and patterns.

"Drowned memory", MEION's debut on Mahorka, is a mini-album showcasing a more abstract side of his music. Dark, fractured beats and deep, rumbling bass, hollowed by heavy grooves, cinematic industrial atmospheres and raw electronic power, simultaneously induce head‑nodding and submerge the listener in a state of tension where memories clearly hold sway...

[mhrk482]

released February 20, 2026

Wahn is an electronic music producer based in Rennes, France, whose work explores the blurred edges between techno, ambient, and bass-driven sound design. His music is built around texture, weight, and duration - where rhythm exists as pressure rather than propulsion, and sound unfolds in slow, immersive layers.

The Drifted series marked a defining phase in his work: a body of releases rooted in rhythmless and slow-motion ambient music, shaped by heavy sub-bass, grain, and cinematic restraint. Each volume is released on a different label and in a different country, turning the series into an ongoing journey beyond comfort zones and algorithmic habits.

Across his releases, Wahn develops a deeply physical approach to sound. Sub-bass is central - not as impact, but as presence - while drones, echoes, and organic textures shape spaces that feel both intimate and unsettled. Melodic elements, often sparse and fragile, offer moments of breath and quiet clarity within darker emotional landscapes.

Whether working in ambient forms or moving toward more rhythmic territories - techno, dub-inflected structures, or hypnotic repetition - his music remains introspective and tactile. Wahn’s sound is less about narrative than sensation: a suspended state where tension, melancholy, and faint light coexist, resonating long after the music fades.

Echo Mist Light unfolds as a dense, inward form of techno - heavy, blurred, and suspended in echo. The music moves through foggy territories where rhythm is present but never dominant, shaped by pressure, repetition, and the slow accumulation of texture. Dub-inflected delays stretch time, while ambient drones linger beneath the surface, anchoring the listener in a space that feels both physical and psychological.

There is a constant tension throughout the album: unease without collapse, weight without aggression. Sub-bass plays a central role - not only as sound, but as sensation - pressing against the body, grounding the mind, reinforcing a feeling of persistence rather than momentum. The tracks seem to circle their own gravity, caught in loops, phases, and residual motion.

Yet Echo Mist Light is not closed or entirely dark. Within the mist, moments of clarity appear. Melodic fragments and restrained harmonies surface quietly, carrying a fragile sense of openness and release. Light does not arrive as resolution, but as something that holds - brief, subtle, and necessary. A glow rather than a breakthrough.

Balancing techno, ambient, and dub aesthetics, the album inhabits a liminal space where repetition becomes introspective and intensity turns inward. Echo Mist Light is music for suspended states - where pressure, doubt, and calm coexist, and where something continues to resonate long after the sound fades.

Composed, produced and mastered by Wahn
Artwork by Erwan Charier

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Released February 14, 2026 as free digital download and in limited audio cassette edition.

Long before her work was fully seen, Leonora Carrington lived in the margins of Surrealism.
First eclipsed by the figure of Max Ernst, then displaced - geographically, symbolically - to Mexico, where her world finally began to unfold.
A world shared with other insurgent imaginations, among them Remedios Varo. A world stubborn, occult, fiercely lucid.

The Acoustic Cornet takes its title from Carrington’s dark, delirious novel.
A book that asks a dangerous question:
Do “disturbed” women disturb because they are mad or because they hear too much?

The story follows Marion Leatherby. Ninety-nine years old. Almost deaf. Living quietly in Mexico, knitting cat hair, listening to the world fade.
Until a gift arrives: an acoustic cornet.
A ridiculous object.
A revelation.

Through it, Marion overhears what was never meant to be heard.
Her family plotting her disappearance.
Her future sealed inside a retirement home where nothing is what it claims to be.

From there, reality fractures.

Women inhabit houses shaped like igloos, cakes, fantasies.
A false doctor presides like a guru.
A libidinous abbess watches from the shadows.
Architecture bends. Time slips. Staircases multiply.
The institution reveals itself as a cosmological trap.

This album does not retell the story.
It listens to it.

Philippe Petit approaches Carrington’s text as one would approach a signal coming from another frequency.
Fragments. Resonances. Distorted transmissions.
The acoustic cornet becomes a metaphor for listening itself: an instrument that amplifies what society prefers to keep inaudible.

Here, sound behaves like Carrington’s prose.
Absurd, ominous, playful, cruel.
A black farce. An initiation.
An Alice in Wonderland whose mirror opens onto the occult.

The music wanders through hidden corridors, riddles, vertiginous descents. It inhabits the space between lucidity and delirium, between laughter and menace. Nothing settles. Everything listens.

The Acoustic Cornet is not a tribute cast in bronze.
It is a continuation.
An echo.

An invitation to lean closer.
To hear what was always there.

And to accept that once you listen this way, there is no going back.

Composed and produced by Philippe Petit

Cover artwork by Iglika Kodjakova

[mhrk480]

Love Sea Sick is a noise sound incubator and collective that finds its ground in the sonic paths run by the founders David and Nino.

The journey leverages on capturing memory exploitation instincts and emotional streamlining shivers, honouring the jazz improvisation best traditions applied to musical a broad vocubalry of musical fields, spacing between ambient, noise, math and whatever life brings them through.

David has a deep and long involvement in the ambient and electroacoustic scene under monickers such as Tropic of Coldness, Drawing virtual Gardens and Cernichov (including on Mahorka with the album "We are all deaf" in 2024) while Nino made himself on the road from the early 00’, touring extensively US and Europe with different punk/no wave projects such as Dada Swing and Elvis Trauma Center.

"Sciócaz" is the Love Sea Sick debut on Mahorka. Released February 6, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition.

All music by:
David Gutman - guitar, electronics
Nino Pazzino - baritone guitar

Recorded @ La Dyle by David Gutman, spring 2025
Mastered by Anacleto Vitolo
Artwork by Marco Mazzucchelli

[mhrk479]

Released February 1, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition.

A. Stefan Christoff - Demand the Impossible

1. A sky entrance
   
2. Arc
   
3. Turning in the Bosphorus
   
4. Demand the Impossible

An album recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria one late evening in October 2023
Recorded and mixed by Yoncho Pavlov at AD 57, Sofia, Bulgaria
All piano compositions are original improvisations by Stefan Christoff

B. Open to the Sea - The Sofia Intuition

1. Please stop loving me
   
2. I will not wake you up
   
3. I recognise you
   
4. Bodies in contact

Reworks of Stefan Christoff's original piano recordings with:
Saverio Rosi - OP-1 with wind instruments, double bass, synths
Matteo Uggeri - laptop, samples, random drumming
Enrico Coniglio - guitars

Mastered by Ryan Morey
Original artwork by Catalina Villegas-Burgos
Layout by Angel Draganov

Síntesis boreal

Esta pieza surgió como una experimentación con la idea de los triángulos, sus búsquedas de balance y de síntesis. Me sentía atraída por la energía del sol y los eventos cósmicos como eclipses y auroras boreales, así que los puse a danzar y a atravesarse. Cuando escuché el álbum de Stefan ‘’Demand the Impossible’’ sentí que mi experimentación le venía perfectamente por el juego de voces entre el bajo y las notas un poco más agudas e insistentes de esta obra. De algún modo, veía también los triángulos en su música y los tonos ‘boreales’ sobre fondo oscuro. En ambas obras: la musical y la visual, percibo desplazamientos y formas que se cruzan. Cuando ambos triángulos se encuentran, ¿es el sol un testigo de aquel eclipse o es acaso una fuerza oculta?
– Catalina Villegas-Burgos. (album artwork artist)

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It felt unlikely that this recording session would actually happen in Sofia, Bulgaria, but I am really happy that it did and I can share this moment in time. I had played a concert in Sofia that same evening hosted by Tsvetan Tsvetanov of the experimental Bulgarian National Radio program Alarma Punk Jazz. After the show finished I rushed over to the basement studio, AD 57, just before midnight. Sound engineer Yoncho Pavlov generously agreed to record this session super late and we recorded until just before 2 am in the morning. After the session I ran back to the apartment where I was staying with Canadian activist scholar Ezra Winton, packed my bags and rushed to the airport for a flight to Berlin that was set to depart at around 6am.

Despite all the rushing around this recording, the mood and feeling of the sound reminds me of the stars. In certain parts of Sofia there aren’t a lot of street lights and the sky feels close to touch. The mountains that shape the Bulgarian landscape also hold a presence and vibe in the capital city. While playing piano I was thinking of the sky above, the stars and the lands around Sofia and the Balkan region. This project is important to me because of my Bulgarian roots, my father is Macedonian Bulgarian. It was a long road from growing up in Canada to finally making it back to Bulgaria and to finding a path to work on this recording and music in Sofia. I hope that you can feel the emotional resonance in the piano tones.

Another layer to this recording is the fact that recording took place in the context of the Israeli state’s military attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza. The recording took place in November and the horrifying news coming out of Gaza spanked an intense need to take action around the world. In the week before this recording I had been with friends at protests and events to mobilize for Palestine in Montréal, Amsterdam and London. I was often thinking about Palestine during this recording session and the critical importance of sustaining an involvement and finding ways to support Palestine throughout my lifetime. Walking with and supporting the Palestinian struggle for freedom and against colonialism is one of the essential progressive causes of our time, we must never be silent and always find ways to stand up when Palestine is in the headlines and critically when it is not. I certainly was thinking of my Palestinian friends and comrades around the world who have played such an important role in my life over the last decades throughout this recording, that is the honest truth. I hope that you can hear the sense of commitment and urgency around supporting Palestine that I have carried and acted upon my entire adult life.

Thank you for listening to this solo piano recording from Sofia, it means a lot to me, sending love from Montreal.
– Stefan Christoff.

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When Stefan sent me his recordings from this session in Sofia, my first reaction was "this is a true event of synchronicity", as I had been there just a few weeks before, experiencing some very special moments in that city. Initially, Stefan simply asked me to work on the pieces alone, adding samples and field recordings. I did so, but his piano playing inspired me to create more complex arrangements. Consequently, I asked my friend Saverio Rosi if he would be willing to work with his OP-1, adding some bass layers. He was inspired and went on to add synthetic wind instruments as well. At that point, we had two-thirds of the Open to the Sea band involved, so it felt natural to bring Enrico Coniglio in. It took some time to find the right spaces within the pieces, but he managed to play guitar on a couple of the tracks, providing subtle and very discreet layers of arrangement. We then sent the result to Stefan, who was enthusiastic: "I love the sense of space, the interplay that you all bring into the space, all the heart in the playing." So here is the result. We hope you will enjoy it.
– Matteo Uggeri, Open to the Sea

[mhrk478]

Released January 25, 2026

Following the publication of a series of split releases French creatives Sobria Ebrietas and Iliaque have combined to create Dormance.

sobriaebrietas.bandcamp.com
iliaque.bandcamp.com

Rhythm tracks used on Dormance 13:
Suonho - ZajoLoop2202commander-rwrk.wav CC-BY
freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/58619/
Suonho - ZajoLoop2202lowbit&rephat-rwrk.wav CC-BY
freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/58620/

Artwork by Iliaque, based on photo by Derek Σωκράτης Finch:
www.flickr.com/photos/sagesolar/53625252875/in/explore-2024-04-02/ CC-BY

[mhrk477]

The first Dormance album, I, was released on The Committee for Sonic Research and is available here:
tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/i

Released January 17, 2026

"Collected not lost" is a decade of Autonomaton's work, outside of LPs and EPs, collected. The music was released in the period from 2015 to the end of 2025. It's done mostly through dubbing and overdubbing sound approaches. Both computer and hardware were used. Programmed or live. The tracks included have been released mostly on VA collections of works, through various online labels from around the globe: Animal Breaks (BE); Treetrunk (USA); DIGITAL DIZZY (UK) - dismissed; EcoSci (BG); eden.deeply (AU); Linear Obsessional Recordings (UK); Petroglyph Music (NOR); Studio 4632 (USA) - dismissed; Cian Orbe (CL); We are all ghosts (UK); Cousin Silas Emporium (UK); Doomcore Records (DE); L.O.T.R (FR); Attenuation Circuit (DE); Mahorka (BG); and couple of self-released entities. Included are various (re)mixes, versions and rebuilds for different artists like Cousin Silas, Passenger of Shit, Mystfied, Emerge!, Protuberance, Teeth of Divine and couple others. These three albums will take you mostly through 3 aspects of Autonomatons sound - teknoiz, ambient drone and dub breakz, reflected also in the title of each volume. The music on the albums will follow this trajectory, starting with noises and drones, then turning to more fluffy ambient and in the final chapter entering the zone of dub and breakz.

All music couresty of Nikolay Stanchev a.k.a. Autonomaton

Track 01 - sounds by Passenger of Shit
Track 05 - samples by Emerge!
Tracks 06, 11, 23 - samples by Mystified
Track 09 - original track by Teeth of Divine
Tracks 19,20 - original track by Protuberance

[mhrk476]

released January 11, 2026

TRANSMISSION LOG // DEEP-SEA RESEARCH VESSEL ATHANOR
CLASSIFICATION: EYES ONLY / APEX CLEARANCE
SUBJECT: Acoustic & Psychological Data Recovered from the "CONTACT AT THE DEEP BOTTOM" Event FILE DESIGNATION: ALBUMANOMALYDB-77

The following log details the chronological audio data captured during the catastrophic/comms blackout event at the Apex Tremor Zone. This is not a curated artistic statement; it is a forensic sonic reconstruction of the incident. Data is presented in recovered chronological order.

TRACK 01: AMBIENT BREAKS
Log Entry: Descent Phase. Initial recordings. The pervasive, crushing ambience of the descent, punctuated by the regular, reassuring "breaks" of our sonar pings. A baseline of known physics. Hull groans. The familiar sound of human technology operating at its outer limit.

TRACK 02: BLOOM FROG
Log Entry: Anomaly Detection. First contact with the unknown begins not with a roar, but a biological-synthetic aberration. Hydrophones pick up what sounds like a massive, distorted amphibian croak, but spectrographic analysis reveals a complex, fractal bloom of low-frequency energy. Dr. Aris notes: "The abyss is vocalizing. This is a greeting... or a territorial display."

TRACK 03: CONTACT AT THE DEEP BOTTOM
Log Entry: Core Event. The transmission peak. All standard instruments fail. Only the Resonance Imprint Array (R.I.A.) functions. This track is the raw, terrifying duet. Our filtered, desperate attempts at communication (mathematical primes, peaceful greetings) are met with and subsequently woven into the entity's own resonant architecture. A dialogue of pressure and profound otherness. We are heard. We are answered.

TRACK 04: DEEPWATER
Log Entry: Post-Contact Reverberation. The immediate aftermath. The specific signal ceases, but the environment is now fundamentally changed. "Deepwater" captures the new normal: the haunting, lingering resonance imprinted on the water itself. The sea now carries a memory of the contact, a permanent echo in the darkness.

TRACK 05: DESERT AMBIENT
Log Entry: Psychological Anomaly. A paradox. Crew members in sensory deprivation chambers report auditory hallucinations of vast, arid winds. The R.I.A. confirms an external signal inducing these perceptions. Hypothesis: The entity's communication is so alien, the human brain interprets its "silences" or certain frequencies through the only analogous memory it possesses—emptiness, desolation. A desert in the mind, projected by the deep.

TRACK 06: ETHERNAL
Log Entry: Temporal Distortion. The most disturbing data set. Sub-audio pulses that, when sped to audible range, suggest a perception of time unmoored from human linearity. This sound implies consciousness operating on geological and celestial scales. A single "note" feels like it contains the lifespan of a continent. The "Ethernal" is their native temporal framework.

TRACK 07: FMBIENT
Log Entry: Signal Corruption/Integration. Our radio frequencies are being returned to us. Broadcasts from the surface, crew chatter, even archived entertainment streams are captured bleeding back through the deep-sea medium, filtered and mutated by the entity's acoustic signature. It has learned our carrier waves and now broadcasts a ghost-version of our own world back to us—a fractured, ambient mirage.

TRACK 08: THE BIRDS AROUND YOU
Log Entry: Surface Return / Cognitive Echo. Upon emergency ascent, crew manifests acute auditory pareidolia. The common sounds of the ship—creaking metal, wind in the rigging, lapping waves—are persistently misidentified as bird calls. Analysis suggests a deep-psyche imprint: the mind, having touched the abyssal "other," now desperately tries to reinterpret all sonic input through the most familiar, comforting lexicon of life it knows. The birds are not there. The entity's echo is.

TRACK 09: MC
Log Entry: Final Transmission / Master Control. The last coherent signal from the Athanor's main computer before total system reset. A cold, automated vocal log summarizing the event, its stark, emotionless machine-speech (the "MC") juxtaposed against faint, residual deep-sea anomalies in the audio substrate. The conclusion is delivered not by a human, but by the vessel itself, its systems permanently altered by the encounter.

FINAL ASSESSMENT (AUTOMATED SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC):
Contact was made. Contact was bidirectional. The "Album" is the data trail. The entities engaged in what can be classified as Acoustic Ecological Integration—they did not just communicate; they began the process of sonically mapping and incorporating our presence into their environment. The Athanor and its crew are now a minor, persistent motif in the symphony of the deep. We are a remembered sound in a place that forgets nothing.

This log is sealed. The sound persists.

[mhrk475]

"The album is dedicated to a single event in people's lives. I simply improvised a musical interpretation of this human drama at my concert. Here's the description:
A young woman sits and looks out the window. Outside, a gray autumn day, rain and slush. This woman is a schoolteacher; she loves children dearly, and the children love her. It was said that all her lessons were filled with light and bright colors; even difficult and boring assignments were easy thanks to this woman's warmth. She shot herself in the face on the day the children returned to school. A bright flash, and the walls turned red. The gray autumn took on new colors. No one could later explain the reason for her action, and after a couple of years, many forgot about the incident. However, the children still see her in their dreams. She comes to them and comforts them, warming them with the bright light of her fiery soul."

released December 31, 2025

Author: Leanyd Churylau (A-BELL)
Mastering: Leanyd Churylau (A-BELL)
Cover & Artwork: Leanyd Churylau, the jackson's arts
Belarus, Smorgon

[mhrk474]

released December 26, 2025

"...The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age..." – H. P. Lovecraft.

All works by Yzymyr

[mhrk473]

Released December 21, 2025, Fallen's brand new album "Our Endless Waltz between Wonder and Mud", coming out in beautiful digipak CD edition, is the artist's second with Mahorka after his debut on the label "Soft Skin Eternal Verses", released in 2022 on cassette.

Fallen's notes about the album:

"Our Endless Waltz.." came to light in a very delicate and intense period in my life, with great changes from many angles.

Musically, this very precious to me new album of mine, keeps going in the direction established by my very first Móatún 7 release in 2023 and after my most recent releases on Intellitronic Bubble, Neotantra, Shimmering Moods Recs and ROHS!, where my ways and approaches to electronic ambient music have started to become much more dynamic, whilst never losing (instead, enhancing it, in my opinion) my will/aim to sound as spontaneous as possible, without forcing anything, as usual.

This album is about Love and Resilience and how much this messed up world, keeps going ahead with his crazy race, losing grip day after day, in a cruel way we aren't able to discuss with open heart, without the will of hurting each other. This is Our Endless Waltz.

I could say the album is pretty connected and tied up to the Victorian Era, in terms of literature and poetry before all. I grew up with that Era in my heart and this time I have done a concious tribute, including with graphic ides - references to the XIX century.

Written, Composed, Performed, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Fallen between January and March 2025

Instruments performed, recorded, processed:
Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass, Synthesizers, Voice, Field Recordings

Artwork by Angel Draganov

"Thank You So Much to the Dearest Ivo, Angel and to my family"

thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com

[mhrk472]

Released December 13, 2025 on Mahorka as free digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition

"Half-remembered thought a like orbit cobalt its in drifted Bubo Rugae. Heavy too grew silence where sinking mountains pooled, memories where rising breaths—valleys slow in rippled surface. Light the tasting if as uncurling and curling wandered, shadows the even still; stayed planet the on nothing. Dreams rearrange minds drifting way the colours its rearranging sighs. Answers their forgotten had that riddles whispering together, clinked stems vitrified of forests. There blossoming the and pulse mineral the between somewhere planet—the of heart the at and. Listened everything yet there, lived nothing.

Bubo Rugae, a story of a man destroyed. Which man? That man. His crime? He knew not. Bubo Rugae knew. There was no information ever. There was no evidence. Wasted time. Buried treasure. Bubo Rugae looked at Bubo Rugae on the death bed but felt nothing. Never any nothing felt Bubo Rugae. Tamest jaw anger. After death, Bubo Rugae float away and reincarnate. A vexing of cold and drift off."

Isolated Gate are English (now based in Japan) multi-instrumentalist / songwriter / producer Ian Masters (from the famous Pale Saints on 4AD and also Spoonfed Hybrid, ESP Summer, Friendly Science Orchestra, Big Beautiful Bluebottle, Galactic Embrace, etc.) and Australian electronica musician / producer Tim Koch (on CPU, Ghostly International, Merck, U-Cover, deFocus, DataDoor, Aural Industries and also on Mahorka as part of the bands Dolphins of Venice and Takamu + some remixes as himself).

A chance meeting between Australian graphic artist Cailan Burns and Ian Masters at the infamous Bears livehouse in the sonorous distended bowels of Osaka kickstarted the horrific but unstoppable chain of events that led to the gestation of Isolated Gate. Tim and Ian started working together like an ovum dividing and finally, after many many months of pulling time and laugh completely out of shape and to the extremes of elasticity, and 4 EPs in 2020-2022, their debut "Universe in Reverse" LP was ejaculated into being on Darla Records in 2023.

Torrents of telepathic communication flowed as well as assorted F-words, while the two tried to find the best way of working remotely, as they had, and still haven't, ever been in the same room together, unless you count that biggest room. Bonded by a love of psychedelic music and that of rhythms that are irresistible to animals that dance and those that don't, the two set out to explore distant galaxies of possibility, and the 7 dimensions of sound, attempting to shed all previous methods of music-creation and intending to break as many rules as possible. Many new collaboration tools were tried, and most were discarded.

Having completed their first mission, they once again exited the dream world only to return with "Bubo Rugae" on Mahorka in 2025.

"Even within the most beautiful landscape, in trees under the leaves, the insects are eating each other, violence is part of life."

Isolated Gate is a virtual container for Tim Koch and Ian Masters.

All words and music by Isolated Gate. Cello by Peter Hollo.

Produced by Isolated Gate.

Recorded in Adelaide, Australia and Osaka, Japan.
Mixed somewhere in-between by Tim Koch & Ian Masters.

Mastered and sequenced by Ian Masters.

Design by Tim Koch.

(C) Isolated Gate (P) Isolated Gate
Licensed directly from Isolated Gate.
Thanks to Ivo and Ivo.

isolatedgate.bandcamp.com

[mhrk471]

Released December 6, 2025 on Mahorka as free digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition.

“In the fluorescent-lit savannah of Cubicle Nation, alliances shift faster than the office thermostat on a Friday afternoon. The Department of Strategic Stapling has been quietly feuding with Accounts Receivable ever since someone “accidentally” borrowed the communal emotional-support hole punch without filing the appropriate Form 7B: Intent to Perforate.”

Enter the dolphins of venice office reorientation squad (DOVORS).

All music by Tim Koch and Adrien Capozzi

[mhrk470]

Released November 28, 2025 as free digital download and beautiful limited double digipak CD edition.

"Exposure Fields" began in early 2024 as an idea for a short EP with a nostalgic electronica slant, reminiscent of early material Dissolved made in old software such as Reason 3 and Acid Pro. These ideas were then broken up further and restructured. As the year went on, the project was put to one side as work began on ideas for the third Peltiform album, as well as various remix works. These ideas resulted in longer, more deconstructed and expansive atmospheric tracks along with sketches being compiled for a separate ambient tinged album.

When work resumed on "Exposure Fields" in late 2024 and into 2025, these methods merged and what was once an EP, expanded into a more varied and experimental release, with longer, fragmented electronica outings and grainy broken beats pushing things into more intense and collage-like soundscape tracks. The tracks incorporated more varied sounds and still drew notable influence from the aforementioned early Dissolved works, but also from underground electronica like Locust’s “Weathered Well”, broken techno styles like Surgeon’s “Balance” and Speedjack’s “Surge”, the layered atmospheres of Cyclobe’s “Luminous Darkness”, Leo Anabaldi’s “Void” and the haze and jitter of obscure 70s and 80s TV soundtracks.

The body of the album had expanded but something in the sounds felt they could be deconstructed even further and to make this happen, a host of choice artists were brought on board for remixing, some from the Mahorka roster - Tokee, Weldroid, Jet Jaguar, Nonima and Abdicant along with other familiar artists like Apydiagirls, exm, Milieu, Vortex Count and Michael Valentine West. A collaborative "Sec-Run" version of "The Interlunation" by Dissolved and Mitoma also happened.

With the intention of breaking its horizon and pulling it into unknown territories, the result was a second full length album that carries the echos and textures of the originals into a broken menagerie of styles and melodic colours. It’s hopeful and atmospheric, beat laden and infused with the vibes of two electronic decades gone but still surviving in evolving forms and mystery.

Each panel of Dissolved’s art for the Double Digipak CD was intentionally created to represent the new expanse and variety contained in the album, built from his collages and photography and intended to make you look twice and and reflect on the strange building blocks of the completed audio structure.

CD 1. Exposure Fields
All tracks written and produced by Dissolved
Mastered by Tam Ferrans

CD 2. Exporsure Fields Remixes
Remixes written and produced by Tokee, Nonima, Abdicant, Apydiagirls, exm, Weldroid, Michael Valentine West, Jet Jaguar, Milieu, Vortex Count, Mitoma and Dissolved
Additional mastering by Tam Ferrans
Vortex Count Remix 2 on the digital download release is different version from the Vortex Count Remix on the CD.

Artwork, photography and layout by Dissolved

Thanks to Ivo, Tam and all the respective artists

[mhrk469]

released November 22, 2025

Substak is the alias of Kostas Staikos, a sound artist based in Athens, Greece. His work moves through the deeper end of electronic music - drone ambient, space ambient, dub ambient, electronica and hypnotic minimalism - always shaped by a sense of inward movement. In Greek there is a verb, εμβαθύνω, meaning "to deepen", and this perfectly captures the core of his practice: a continual descent into texture, resonance and the subterranean pulse of sound. For Kostas, Substak is less a name than a method - "sub" for low frequencies and introspective moods, "stak" from his own name. An abstract container for experiments, escapes and the slow building of a personal sonic language.

LR Friberg is a Swedish composer, mastering engineer and narrative artist whose work bridges sound and speculative fiction. Her music begins in mathematical processes - cellular automata generating evolving harmonic structures - and grows into immersive, emotionally driven ambient landscapes. Each piece functions as both music and world-building: sonic fragments of the ongoing fictional universe she writes, where light, place and connection shape atmosphere as much as melody. Her focus is precision, mood and storytelling through sound.

Though coming from different angles, Substak and LR share something essential: music as escape, experimentation and dialogue. Kostas describes collaboration as a natural way to trade ideas and deepen sound. LR finds that Kostas' textures integrate flawlessly into her frameworks, opening spaces she wouldn't reach alone. The admiration is mutual - LR is one of Kostas' favorite artists to work with, and she sees every collaboration with him as an invitation into new terrain. Together, they create ambient that is both grounded and atmospheric, abstract and emotional - a meeting point where deep minimalism and narrative generativity merge into one evolving sound.

Substak: synthesizers, ambiance, effects.
LR Friberg: synthesizers, ambiance, effects, production, mastering, artwork.
Sky_Architect: thematic inspiration.

substak.bandcamp.com
aurora-compilations.org
archiveofourown.org/series/4829929

She'd been coming to the fjord every morning that week.

The city behind her stirred and hissed. Gulls shrieking over dumpsters, tram line clattering in rehearsal for rush hour. Bells rang out from the cathedral, mistimed and overlapping, like no one had agreed what hour it was anymore.

But out here, by the water, time did something else. It slowed. Not gently. More like a held breath. More like waiting.

Trine leaned against the railing, fingers curled around warm steel.

"I used to think peace would feel like sleep," she said quietly, not looking up. "But it doesn't. It feels like aftermath. Like the pressure that settles after the shattering stops."

A silence answered. The kind that wasn't empty, just unseen.

"I can track calm the way I used to track anomalies. There's data in it. Repeating patterns. Subtle recursions. A kind of... harmonic delay. Not static. Not passive. Just a system cooling slowly, pretending it isn't still under load."

The wind shifted slightly, brushing the back of her neck. She didn't shiver, but her breath caught, like someone had just stepped up behind her. Like something was about to speak.

"Stillness lies," she said, lower now. "It tricks you into thinking nothing's moving. But all the while, pressure builds. Currents gather."

A ripple formed far down the fjord. Not wind. Not current. Too precise.

Trine watched it. Didn't follow it with her eyes, just... marked it. Like you do with a noise in a dark house.

"Maybe that's all there is now," she said. "Residual motion. Echoes with memory. The shape left behind after a convergence."

She closed her eyes. The world didn't vanish.

But it did watch. Not hostile. Not kind. Just... observant.

"I don't need the world to disappear anymore," she whispered. "Just give me pause. Enough to decide if I still belong in it."

She opened her eyes. Stayed still. Waited.

Then, finally, turned. Not with urgency. Not with fear. But like someone who knew she'd been seen, and didn't need to run.

The city waited behind her.

And something else, just outside knowing, waited with it.

[mhrk468]

Released November 15, 2025 as digital download and in beautiful limited digipak CD edition.

The mighty Pandacetamol returns with an album of chunky and mysterious IDM. This release is a spectacular first solo endeavour for him on Mahorka, after the collaboration album of Autonomaton + Pandacetamol, two albums of Cognition Delay (the group of him and Jeremy Rice / Abdicant), plus some outstanding remixes and compilation appearances.

Positively addicted to his hardware music machines, the 12 tracks on "Below The Surface" have analogue warmth, cut through by glassy FM tones and intricate percussion. The overall effect is dizzying and immersive. Look below the surface and find a deep ocean of sound.

Written and produced by Paul Alexander
Mastered by Black Particle
Cover artwork by Paul Alexander

[mhrk467]

The musicians sevensy and Roberto Vodanović Čopor first collaborated on the Mahorka collaborations album Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation released in July 2025. Enjoying the process greatly, the two then embarked on an album-length project. refug3 is the result of their combined explorations.

refug3 is a musical safe haven, a place of peace and rest, even for those who have been made homeless and destitute due to political issues, to violence, or to a society that simply appears not to care.

released November 8, 2025

sevensy (Austin Brooks): guitars, bass guitar, synthesizers, sequencers

Roberto Vodanović Čopor: synthesizers, modular synthesizers, electric guitar, objects, field recordings

On track 5 "Taking a look" Barbara Vodanović reads a poem by the French poet Jean-Marc Barrier, from the book "Ailleurs debout".

Cover artwork by Roberto Vodanović Čopor

[mhrk466]

released October 20, 2025

"Spring 2025: bike ride, sunshine, flowering meadows, blue sky, Mahorka's fabulous catalog intertwines to create this soundtrack that perfectly illustrates this precise moment..."

The Mahorka Remixes series continues with its 7th volume and Iliaque taking on tracks from the inspiring and wide catalog of the label and re-mixing them together on the six tracks of the release. It is, once again, as much a tribute to the creative commons netlabel as it is to the remixed artists and the respective original tracks.

1 - Dayin + Sven Phalanx + QUAZIMONO + Vioro Vio - Reaching for silence vs The Harbinger vs Schallmauer vs B.R.I.C.S. vs EKGVBK
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/reaching-for-silence
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/schallmauer
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/the-harbinger
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/b-r-i-c-s
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/ekgvbk

2 - Peltiform + Moki Mcfly + Hans Castrup + Philippe Neau - Reprise (ft. Dissolved) vs Oblique vs Move in a crowd
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/reprise-ft-dissolved
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/oblique
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/move-in-a-crowd-bonus-2

3 - Oberlin + Moki Mcfly + Philippe Neau - Honeychruch vs Imprint vs hors SOLS vs orsol
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/honeychurch
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/imprint
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/hors-sols-2
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/orsol

4 - Dayin + This Communication + Traveling Light - Razor bite vs You are now at peace
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/razor-bite
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/you-are-now-at-peace

5 - Xu + Oberlin + Tomosla + Moki Mcfly + Particules - Velvet meadow vs Rivermouth vs Oblique vs Auf vs Island
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/velvet-meadow
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/rivermouth
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/oblique
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/island
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/auf

6 - Dayin + sevensy + Tomosla - Reaching for Silence vs one2one vs Stoc below
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/reaching-for-silence
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/one2one
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/stoc-below

[mhrk465]

released October 12, 2025

Born from a Mahorka experiment in collaboration, "Phase Memory" is the first full-length release from Scottish producer Nonima (aka Peltiform / Mitoma) and American artist Abdicant. The two were introduced through the label’s "Making things happen" compilation of collaboration tracks, and despite only ever chatting over messenger, something decidedly clicked.

The result is a tightly woven IDM album that nods to the genre’s classic period while embracing modern production sensibilities. Nonima brings his signature glitch-sculpted tension and atmosphere, while Abdicant’s melodic frameworks give the tracks shape and momentum. It’s detailed, propulsive, cohesive, and compelling. This will not be the last you hear from this pair!

Written / Produced by Nonima (Tam Ferrans) and Abdicant (Jeremy Rice)

Mix & Mastering by Weldroid

Thanks : Tamas Zsiros, Ivo Petrov

[mhrk464]

released October 4, 2025

In "Путешествие Remixes" Genda, Flint Glass, Suokas, Weldroid, Takamu (the band of Tim Koch, Tawdry Otter and Jet Jaguar), Captive Portal, Static Logic, Seldome, Room of Wires, Orghanon, xotox, Dissolved, Nyorai and Brainquake deliver their spectacular interpretations of "Путешествие", the opening track off TOKEE's LP "ЛЕЯ", alongside the original masterpiece!

Mastering by Anatoly Grinberg

Artwork by Fariz Suleiman

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"ЛЕЯ" came out in late 2024 as Mahorka's second ever vinyl release, this time also in collaboration with the amazing Sealt Label for a unique packaging very limited edition alongside the standard vinyl edition, available here.

Check out "А​л​ь​б​а​т​р​о​с Remixes" feat. Abdicant, Access To Arasaka, Valance Drakes, Jérôme Chassagnard, Unterm Rad, Asshole Galaxy, Grosso Gadgetto and Mitoma here.

released September 28, 2025

Selective Hearing is the project of David Bourgoin and based in the South East of the UK. David’s previous work under the name Another Headache came to an end in the early 2020s. It was felt that a change in working methods and sound sources also necessitated a change in name.

Selective Hearing takes the end of Another Headache as its starting point by adding to the ideas that were part of that project and moving forwards by using newer technologies and the opportunities these allow. Pieces are made up of found sounds, field recordings, recorded atmospheres, spoken word, guitars and electronics.

Selective Hearing debuts on Mahorka with "Cobwebs", released also as beautiful limited cassette edition.

All tracks recorded and mixed at Utility Studios
All music written and produced by Selective Hearing
Selective Hearing for this album was David Bourgoin
Voice on Faint #2 - Hassni Malik (The Vitamin B12)

Thank you to: Ivo Petrov, frankie (black_ops)
Contact: info@selectivehearing.co.uk

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With compaction #1, the Japanese synth drone artist Helu_elu and the German ambient/drone musician rsn present a joint work that captures the essence of the drone genre in a fascinating way - and breaks it up at the same time. Two long pieces form the backbone of this album, which is dedicated to deep reduction without losing any of its expressiveness.

compaction #1 is harmonious and lively, almost organic in its development. The sounds move in subtle layers, sometimes merging, sometimes flowing against each other. Despite (or perhaps because of) the focus on tonal repetition and minimal variation, an immersive sound field emerges that not only envelops the listener, but challenges them - with patience, depth and space.

Released September 19, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and in limited cassette edition.

bass: thomas rosen
synths: daika koseki

sounds & music improvised by thomas rosen & daika koseki
recorded by thomas rosen & daika koseki
mixed by daika koseki
mastered by thomas rosen
cover photo by thomas rosen
layout by N

rsn-entities.com | instagram.com/helu_eluu | mahorka.org

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Dissociative Identity Quartet is a collective of individuals who all share similar experiences of creating as means to deal with one’s existence. Creative processes as a form of self-help.

In an attempt to liberate the members from recognition and moving focus from the individuals of the collective, the DIQ came to the conclusion that becoming an anonymous mass was the way forward.

Together they started a journey of sonic explorations that lead up to the release of the album Excursions on Cruel Nature Records. An album that was born out of randomly creating sounds and finding ways of using them musically.

Since then, the Dissociative Identity Quartet have been searching for new ways to approach soundscapes. Discoveries have been made.

"Melodies and Voices is an attempt to continue building on the exploration of randomly created sounds as in Excursions, but in a more melodic setting and with the addition of vocals.

Shortly put:
Melodies and Voices is our pop album.

During the creative process we bathed ourselves in jazz, swing and musical theatre. The result is something completely different from our last effort. Melodies and Voices carries pain and struggle, hope and despair. While still rooted in eclectic electronic music and performed on programmed synthesizers. The aim was to crate something organic and vibrant. Our sincere hope is that listeners will find that it got soul."

Released September 13, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and in limited cassette edition.

Created by: DIQ
Artwork by: Elias Lindhoff and DIQ
Mastered by: James Edward Armstrong

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released September 7, 2025

Two musical forces from across Europe have joined together in a dream-come-true collaboration. The partnership between Grosso Gadgetto and Brainquake, two artists known for their boundary-pushing work in electronic and experimental music, explores the boundaries of sound and imagination through innovative and provocative music. What started as a simple collaboration through the genre-transcending label Mahorka, quickly blossomed into a creative endeavour that has produced two distinct, yet thematically connected albums - "Distorted Planet" and "Dehumanize the World", each with its own unique take on global and cosmic themes. The result is nothing short of transformative, amazing confirmation that often the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, a testament to the power of creative synergy, with each artist bringing their own unique perspective and style to the table. The albums also feature stunning artwork by Sick Ced (Cedry Krueger), whose visual contributions complement the otherworldly and deeply introspective themes of the music. These two very different but deeply connected albums invite listeners to explore the alien, the cosmic, and the human in new and profound ways.

Grosso Gadgetto (France) is the alias of Christian Gonzalez, an electronic music producer known for his intricate blend of ambient, hip-hop, industrial and experimental sounds. With a background rooted in both traditional and modern electronic music, Gonzalez has carved out a niche for himself by creating immersive sonic landscapes that challenge the listener's perception of time and space. His work is marked by a deep sensitivity to sound texture, often using layered synths, field recordings, and organic instruments to create evocative atmospheres. Over the years, Grosso Gadgetto has gained recognition for his contributions to the underground electronic music scene and his ability to cross genre boundaries with ease.

Brainquake (Belgium), the project of Marc Ceulemans, is an exploration of experimental sound design, blending electronic music with avant-garde influences. His works often delve into the surreal and the bizarre, combining intricate rhythms, atmospheric textures, and dystopian themes. His music challenges listeners to step outside conventional musical structures and engage with sound as both an art form and a medium for storytelling. Brainquake's style is eclectic, with elements ranging from ambient and techno to noise and industrial, but always maintaining a focus on creating an immersive, boundary-pushing experience.

Together, Grosso Gadgetto and Brainquake have created a partnership that blends their diverse backgrounds and artistic approaches into something truly unique.

The first album of the two they produced together, "Distorted Planet" was released in February 2025. It took us on a journey through a twisted world, touching on dark, emotional landscapes with a 90's ambient techno influence, laced with eerie, unsettling tones, evoking introspection, tension, and the emotional weight of living in a world that seems increasingly alien to itself. The album is available here.

In contrast to the haunting, earthbound themes of "Distorted Planet", the second album, "Dehumanize The World", takes listeners on an outerworldly journey. This time, Grosso Gadgetto and Brainquake ask the provocative question: What if artificial intelligence or extraterrestrial beings took control and had a cosmic party at humanity's expense?

This second album from them offers a fusion of space lounge pop anthems with a surreal, alien atmosphere, creating a soundscape that is both playful and eerie, a soundtrack to a world where humans are mere spectators in an intergalactic revelry.

"Dehumanize The World" is filled with quirky, futuristic beats and mysterious melodies. It’s a concept album that imagines a scenario where AI or alien beings not only take over but also treat the world as their playground. Tracks like "Black Hole", "Gamma Rays", and "Do You Speak Space?" evoke a feeling of strangeness, of things that are just beyond our understanding. The album cleverly mixes ambient textures with catchy, almost pop-like hooks, making it a quirky, genre-bending exploration into the cosmic unknown.

All music and sounds by Christian Gonzalez (Grosso Gadgetto) and Marc Ceulemans (Brainquake)

Artwork by Sick Ced (Cedry Krueger)

Special Thanks:
"A heartfelt thanks to Ivo Petrov for his unwavering guidance and support throughout this collaborative journey and Sick Ced for the cover art."

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Virgo is the solo project of Japanese artist Yasutaka Sato. He released his first album, "Landform Code," in 1998 on the Japanese label FORM@ RECORDS. His second album, "Remnants," followed in 1999 on the same label. After releasing "Ooparts" on the American label Nophi Recordings in 2004, he went on hiatus, but 20 years later, in 2024, he suddenly resumed his musical activities, releasing albums on labels such as Móatún 7, Intellitronic Bubble, NeoOuija, SpaceTime Recordings and Mighty Force.

His music has its roots in early '90s IDM, such as Black Dog, B12, and As One. Sato himself has stated, "I aim to create music that evokes images in the listener's mind."

His debut album on Mahorka, "Novel", is also an IDM electronica album characterized by memorable melodies and retro-futuristic and organic feel.

Released August 29, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited Digipak CD edition.

Composed and produced by Yasutaka Sato
Mastering by Anatoly Grinberg
Artwork photos by Virgo

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released August 23, 2025

Mas&Delayer is Massimo Solari, born 1984 in Genova. In 1996 he got into what totally changed his life - hip hop music. In 1997 he met Crx of Casino Royale who opened him to London Sound and electronic music. This perfected his approach to music. After years of careful listening, he is composing and producing his own music for passion and... "because I need that...". Notable releases of his have come out on Deep Lake Records, Type Connection, Ephedrina and Jonic Noise Records.

On Mahorka Mas&Delayer debuted with the beautiful chillout electronic EP "She Cleans My Soul" in 2014. The collaboration with the label continued and he produced two spectacular remixes for a Captive Portal reworks album and contributed solo tracks to the "Music for Elevators" compilation series. 2018 saw the release of his second EP on Mahorka - "Broad Shoulders" and 2022 - the debut on the label of their duo project with Basssound, Bass&Delayer with "The Way Out". In 2023 Mas&Delayer remixed Virtually J for a reworks release and most recently he collaborated with BedouinDrone and Abu Ama, reworking their ideas for a track on the "Making Things Happen" special Mahorka collaborations compilation released for the occasion of 10th Netlabel Day.

His new EP on Mahorka, "Books and Dubs", steers quite away from the chill and romantic vibes of his previous solo works on the label and brings in a set of powerful tracks that nod back to all his musical roots and yet have quite the futuristic sound. This release also contains as integral part the aforementioned collaboration track with Abu Ama and BedouinDrone, and the whole EP has been mastered by his collaborator (in Bass&Delayer) Angelino Basssound.

"I created this EP inspired by my favorite writers and books read in the last year, every one has contributed in its own way to creating the atmospheres of the sound.
The trips to the East did the rest ..."
--Mas&Delayer

All tracks composed and produced by Mas&Delayer
except Track 6 - w/ Abu Ama, Bedouindrone

Mixed and mastered by Angelino Bassound

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R$kp is a music producer living in the Lot Valley, in the southwest of France. A real dinosaur of the underground (he actively participated in the rise of the legendary French label-distributor New Rose), he is known for his instrumental productions mixing trap-inspired rhythms with dark atmospheres that come from post-punk or ambient (cold wave trend). His music is a cross between shadow and light enhanced with a futuristic accent, in perpetual search of a melodic line. As a professional publisher, his albums are often very conceptual and directly inspired by his readings or documentaries seen on television.

"L’EAU LOURDE - Vemork / Mazingarbe", R$kp's debut on Mahorka is actually a pair of two conceptually connected conceptual albums, coming out as two sides of the same release.

Released August 17, 2025 as free (cc) digital download an in limited cassette edition.

SIDE A: VEMORK

Heavy water or deuterium oxide D2O (or 2H2O) is made up of the same chemical elements as ordinary water H2O (or 1H2O), but its hydrogen atoms are heavy isotopes, deuterium (the deuterium nucleus contains a neutron in addition to the proton present in every hydrogen atom). Heavy water is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron moderator to slow down neutrons from nuclear fission reactions. The slowed down neutrons then have a higher probability of causing new fission of uranium nuclei, thus enabling the chain reaction.

In 1934, the Norwegian company Norsk Hydro managed to manufacture 185 kg of this precious liquid at its hydroelectric plant in Vemork (Tinn municipality, Telemark county), in still neutral Norway. This constitutes the only WORLD’S global stock. On the eve of the invasion of Norway by the Germans, Raoul Dautry, French Minister of Armaments, entrusted the Second Bureau with the very delicate mission of outpacing the Germans and repatriating this Norwegian stock...

SIDE B: MAZINGARBE

After the Second World War, Western countries and Russia embarked on the race for the atom. From 1958 to 1963 France produced heavy water, essential for nuclear fission, in very small quantities (in the ONIA factory in Toulouse, just opposite AZF). But in 1966, thanks to the presence of a very large ammonia production plant, adjacent to the coke ovens of the coal mines, France was able to launch into the production of heavy water on a large scale, in the Mazingarbe plant, region of Lens, already within the framework of the reconversion of the mining basin.

The Mazingarbe plant uses an original process: that of isotopic exchange between ammonia and natural hydrogen. The latter is made up, in fact, of a mixture of two isotopes: hydrogen and deuterium, the combination of which with oxygen gives heavy water. The Mazingarbe plant came into service on December 3, 1967. In operation until 1972, its production was mainly used to supply - in part - the heavy water necessary for the two Célestin reactors, specialized in the production of tritium used for making thermonuclear bombs.

Composed and produced by R$kp
Cover photo by InAIweTrust.inc
Cover design by R$KP

Thanks : Eternal thanks to Ivo for his trust.

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Toni Dimitrov is a Macedonian multimedia artist, cultural producer, radio host, communicologist, organizer, curator, label owner (Élan Vital Recordings), mountain/rock climber, and nature lover. He connects all those with a love for music, sound art, and field recordings. Currently, he is the director of the Cultural Information Center in Skopje. Toni Dimitrov is also a longtime Mahorka friend and collaborator, for nearly 20 years now, having shared stage in Sofia with Skylined at the org.org festival back in 2006, provided remixes for the label's 100th release, Skylined's "Whrall Variations", and for krāllār's "w/d r/w" reworks album in 2018.

Dionisaf (Dionis Afonichev) is an American ambient composer, multi-instrumentalist, and sound artist, creating immersive soundscapes blending modular synths, guitars, and field recordings. His work explores themes of nature, time, and silence, ranging from meditative ambient to experimental storytelling. He is also the founder and manager of Chitra Records, experimental ambient music label bringing unique specific blend of surreal music for a deep listening experience.

Formed by two longform ambient pieces - the title track and the b-side "Orthodoxy", "Pastoral" is a collaboration album of Toni Dimitrov and Dionisaf, debut release of the duo coming out on Mahorka as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition.

Released August 9, 2025

Produced and mixed by Toni Dimitrov and Dionis Afonichev
Mastered by Dionisaf

Cover photos by Toni Dimitrov

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Cognition Delay is a duo of US artist Jeremy Rice (Abdicant, Curious Inversions) and UK artist Paul Alexander (Pandacetamol, Fluffy Inside) who as Kahvi Collective label mates admired each other's contrasting approaches in music and felt compelled to collaborate. Their defining "Strange Sedatives" album (from 2022 on Rednetic) continues to amaze and has shown that Cognition Delay is a unique meeting of musical mindsets. While they have never met in person, Paul & Jeremy have found a collaborative sweet spot that melds their respective solo projects into something new and shiny. A refined sound, within an undefined genre. The duo debuted on Mahorka in 2023 with "Mostly Dreaming", an album full of analog layers, hypnotic passages, half-heard conversations, morphing rhythms, fused with thrilling bursts of unexpected melodies, a deep, immersive, ethereal, even vaguely nostalgic experience.

Cognition Delay are delighted to return to Mahorka serving up their 7th album. It's brimming with dramatic brooding textures, laid over industrial percussion, and crowned with emotionally-charged leads reflecting the darker segments of the psyche. Analogue melancholy with a dark, driving energy and flashes of bleak humour permeate the album.

Delve into a world of immersive dazzling darkness. Illumination is always just around the corner, barely within your grasp. You can't stop reaching for it. It will find you.

Defying traditional electronic music genres, the CD trademark of inventive unpredictability is very much in evidence across the nine tracks. They build a very particular, and often peculiar, dark sonic world you will want to revisit.

Released July 30, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited Digipak CD edition.

Composed and produced by: Paul Alexander & Jeremy Rice
Mastered by: Black Particle

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Marcin Lasek is a Polish experimental and improvising musician who has been recording since 2004. He is also founder of the band Fading Tapes.

"Untitled" is his solo work on debut on Mahorka.

Released July 23, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited cassette edition.

Recorded from 2010 to 2025 in a lighthouse

Music and photography by Marcin Lasek

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released July 14, 2025

We have put together a special release to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Netlabel Day. It's an album - compilation of tracks - collaborations between different Mahorka artists from the last nearly 25 years and from all around the world. Most pieces are new collaborations, initiated for the occasion, but we also have unearthed some older previously unreleased material. "Making Things Happen" is as diverse and eclectic as Mahorka can be, a blast of a celebration of community, collaboration and creative commons. Dive in and enjoy!

Communicated and compiled by Ivo Petrov
Artwork by Jeremy Rice (Abdicant) + Angel Draganov (Polygon Ring)
Final mastering by Zach Bridier (Captive Portal)

Huge thanks to everybody that made this happen!

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Released July 11, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited cassette edition.

Nuearz is a solo project of the Japanese artist Kazuhiro Okuda. He has released two albums, "Saturation Point" (2009) and "Face Lift" (2010), on the notorious UK label Skam Records. Additionally, he has put out the albums "Last Straw" and "Funny Bone" in 2017 on his own label Logica et Natura and participated in the compilation album "A Sign 2" on the Osaka label Remodel. The CDs released by Skam Records are notable (already considered classics) not only for the original Nuearz music but also for the designs by two renowned artists, Chantal Michel and Fernando F. Fonseca.

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

His debut album for Mahorka, "Voices carry through history (Reincarnation and Topology)" (July 2025), features pieces with multiple vocal parts. The vocal samples used here are treated as instrumental sounds in the compositions, while the non-vocal parts are not merely some accompaniment; all parts resonate together to create new sounds and grooves, transforming and evolving, transcending eras and guiding us into new worlds.

This album is accompanied by a collection of video art pieces for the tracks, created simultaneously with the music and, in many instances, actually inspiring the musical soundtrack to them. These videos further complete the journey that transcends time and space.

www.youtube.com/@Nuearzmvgallery/videos

The journey depicted here can be seen as history or reincarnation. It is also the memory of an individual and, at the same time, the collective memory of people. The visual expressions in the videos may seem to lack unity at first glance, but this itself reflects the history of expressive styles. Upon closer inspection, each video integrates multiple different eras, styles, and artistic movements. These intersections of different contexts reveal nodes where multiple worlds converge, opening doors to a pluralistic universe.

Through the retrospection of history and life, hidden contexts are discovered, and new contexts are generated, making it possible to unearth unknown worlds and expressions.

The journey has just begun.

Composed and produced by Kazuhiro Okuda

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released July 3, 2025

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

clauspoulsen.com
emergeac.wordpress.com

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

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.

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Released June 19, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited digipak CD edition.

The Bridge of Many Shapes is my "dreaming" of a Southern-Eurasian Balkan psycho-archeology by means of sound. Dreaming is meant here in terms of the songlines of Aboriginal Australians who, while traveling, foot after foot, sing the tribal ancestor creature's dreaming into the geography anew, communing with landscape, ghosts and epoch-defining spirit animals. This is an act of decolonization: a dissolving of the present moment of materialist culture and an entry into oneiric antiquity, an imaginary return to and travels within the homeland of my ancestors once adrift in the Cucuteni-Trypillian corridor (dating back to 6,000 BC perhaps eariler). A shamanic journey in sound back through the mirror of the earth feeling for the "spirit bone" or bone-spirit or bone-flute of this apparently mute or muted culture.

Regarding the spirit-bone-flute as an echo manifesto of a song that derives from elemental forces in nature, as I hear it in my work, the following words from Guyanese writer Wilson Harris seem relevant, taken from his notes to his first novel: "Palace of the Peacock":

"It is necessary to outline, as succinctly as I can, the archetypal ground and numinosity of tradition infusing, so to speak, the bone-spirit or bone-flute. The latter is an uncanny termination of a bridge of rhythm arcing or curving from pre-Columbian Mexico into the pre-Columbian and post-Columbian Guianas in South America. At the ancient Mexican origin or genesis of the bridge is the apparition of Quetzalcoatl (quetzal, the heavenly bird and coatl, the wise serpent). The bird-wing of the bridge flies in space, half-seen within the rhythms of space, partially unseen. The scale of the serpent orchestrates minutiae of soil and rain which fill crevices in the body of the earth, river beds, caves, oceans. The serpent is tidal, it is oceanic, it is terrestrial. Further along the bridge is Kukulcan, the obscure ancestor of the migrating species... Next arises Hurakan (Hurricane) who shakes the bridge to its foundations and demolishes worlds... then comes Yurokan, the termination of the bridge or the storyline of the bone flute..."

In my "Bridge of Many Shapes" there are parallel companion creatures, ley-lines, telluric forces guiding me in my composition and execution, along the rivers to the Black Sea. --Jeff Gburek

For details about the archeological background and Jeff's ethnopoetic resources please follow the link to his blog:
transparent-abelard.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-bridge-of-many-shapes-release-notes.html

Composed and produced by Jeff Gburek

Cover artwork by Jeff Gburek and Ivo Petrov

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Released June 15, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

Wave Resistance marks the 10-year anniversary of the project with the release of ø, the final chapter in the planetary series that began with White Point, issued on CRL Studios back in June 2015.

ø is a story of rebirth — emerging from delocalized quantum uncertainty, taking form and edges, and undergoing recombination into the mythic phoenix, a symbol of eternal renewal and immortality. This transformation lies at the heart of the album, which is dedicated to Saturn — the ancient symbol of time and cycles. The phoenix, once fully formed, is combusted, consumed by fire, and reduced to ashes, only to be reborn once again in an endless loop of transformation.

The album opens with Delocalized and Edges, immersing the listener in a grey area of experimental techno, enveloped in ambient haze and enigmatic soundscapes. This gives way to Recombination — a harsher, more brutal post-industrial work with broken rhythms and nods to classic idm.

The centerpiece, Phöenix, builds on these rhythmic frameworks with a warped, wonky progression, culminating in a sweeping cyberpunk atmosphere. Ambient textures and a deconstructed bassline lift the listener into the phoenix’s flight — only to leap into the unknown with Fragmentation, where illbient elements intertwine with broken dub-influenced industrial beats.

The album reaches its culmination with Combustion, a blast of destruction and post-industrial rhythmic chaos, before concluding with Plunge, a final idm and glitch-inspired piece that deconstructs the entire release — evoking the descent of the Cassini spacecraft, which burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere.

ø is dedicated to Andreas Berg and Stanislaw Yatzick, two friends of the project who passed away last year.

ø was mastered by Anatoly 'Tokee' Grinberg.

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Released June 6, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

Roberto Vodanović Čopor is a multimedial artist from Zadar, Croatia. He has released on various independent labels, including Asonu., Green Field Recordings, Sonospace, Nowaki, Camembert Électrique, Warm Milk Recordings, The Church Of Noisy Goat, Mahorka... In his music he often combines the sounds of nature or the sounds of cities, and as background he uses sounds created from everyday objects.

"What happens when we become silent" is an experimental dark ambient music project that explores the multifaceted nature of silence. The album opens with evocative field recordings of birdsong at dawn and raindrops tapping gently against a window - fragile sounds that draw the listener into a contemplative space.

Through immersive textures and shadowy sonic landscapes, the project delves into our complex relationship with silence. It asks: what does silence reveal, and what does it conceal? Is it a refuge - a trusted companion in a noisy world - or a haunting presence that unsettles the soul?

Blurring the boundaries between the natural and the abstract, "What happens when we become silent" invites the listener to sit with stillness, to confront it, and to find meaning within its depths.

Produced by Roberto Vodanović Čopor in 2024-2025
Artwork images by Roberto Vodanović Čopor

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released May 31, 2025

"...A creation turned reflex and an almost immediate - and sharp - realization: Christophe Bailleau O'Farrell refuses and abhors the obvious.

This new EP, marking yet another milestone in an already rich collaboration with the Mahorka label, denounces in every way the easy choices - too often deliberate - and the nervousness of an era where frequency has replaced rarity as a standard of value. "Locust bean gum" is a work that seeks the unexpected, the possibly necessary coherence, and finds a new sensation.

From the porous boundaries of an acoustic approach to the deepest and most striking abstractions, "Locust bean gum" continues to open countless perspectives - and just as many present thrills.

Endless investigation deserves a few rewards!"

--Thierry Massard

Christophe Bailleau O’Farrell: composition, production, guitar, piano, flute
Julien Ash: sax on track 2
Grosso Gadgetto: noises on track 3
AI: help and inspiration for track 4

Images by Christophe Bailleau

In memory of Christophe's close friend Philippe Franck.

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released May 24, 2025

Raw, fleeting, disfigured — breaking through the cracks like weeds through concrete.
A rebellion against the self. Against the urge to please, to polish, to resolve.
A controlled fall. A dance between chaos and pattern.

Meant to disorient. To move. To interrupt.

A celebration of not pretending.

This work leans toward a non-dual listening — where no line separates beauty from abrasion, nor pitch from noise. There’s no subject, no object. Only the sound of falling water near a stone. A hum that could be harmony, or just friction made gentle by time.

It draws from Dada not in style but in gesture — refusing meaning as fixed, embracing disruption as form. Like Zen, it invites without asking. The music doesn’t develop — it arrives, disappears, and remains.

This is apophatic sound art — not built on themes, but on the refusal of them.
It doesn’t declare, it negates. Not a construction of beauty, but a slow erosion of its false appearances.
The sound exists as absence made audible — like the gap between waves, or the breath between two conflicting thoughts.

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Sai’s latest and quite possibly - final album, "Though We Meet But Once", is a mesmerizing plunge into the uncharted depths of experimental ambient heavy guitar music. A masterclass in contrast and complexity, the record fuses monolithic, down-tuned guitars with sprawling ambient textures, navigating a sonic terrain that’s as pummelling as it is transcendent - a final recollection of all previous works and releases throughout the years.

Each track unfolds like a shifting landscape - built on polymetric foundations that disorient and hypnotize. Time signatures collide and realign with fluidity, pulling the listener into a rhythmic undertow that never settles, always evolves. Yet, amidst the technical intricacy, there’s a raw emotional thread: a sense of existential weight, of fleeting connections and irreversible change.

The ambient elements breathe between the cracks of growling distortion - ghostly synths, reverb-soaked feedback, and field recordings stretch time and space, offering moments of reflection before the next tectonic riff lands. Sai isn’t interested in easy genre boundaries; "Though We Meet But Once" is equally a work of heavy catharsis and meditative dissolution.

For fans of forward-thinking heaviness - those drawn to the fringes of metal, post-rock, and ambient noise - Sai has delivered something rare: an album that defies repetition, rewards deep listening, and lingers long after the final note fades.

Released May 17, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited digipak CD edition.

Composed, produced and mastered by Yasen Penchev
Cover artwork design by Angel Draganov

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"This recording is a deliberate act of listening as thinking, a ritual engagement with sound as sovereign and self articulating. It seeks no allegiance to narrative conventions nor does it ask the listener to tether meaning to fixed symbols. This is sound emancipated from the burden of story, a form of nonverbal divination that gestures toward the ineffable. It does not bow to the logic of colonizers or the formulas of consumerist industry. It is sound standing on its own feet, barefoot on ancestral soil.

At the core lies the concept of zero, not as absence but as the fertile void of infinite becoming. Zero is the resonant silence from which all frequencies arise and return, where hierarchy dissolves and one becomes both interpreter and contributor. This recording is less a composition and more a sonic commons: open, recursive and indeterminate. The intention is not to impose meaning but to generate space where meaning can emerge co-creatively. This project rests on a necessary inversion, to listen as an act of collective becoming.

It is what happens when we stop trying to master meaning and instead make space for it to rise on its own, free from human malice."

Released May 9, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited cassette edition.

Moki Mcfly is a music producer from Manila, Philippines. He is known for his atmospheric instrumental production which incorporates sound elements from nature and extensive use of jazz and tagalog samples. His fondness for acoustic sounds caused his music to come over as unusually nocturnal and warm. Space and texture remain not just formidable, but remarkably relevant aking inspiration from jazz, folk, and experimental as well as the whole canon of electronic music. He has been regarded as ambient, trip hop, some combination of the two, and expiremental. Moki Mcfly prefers to exercise an ideological distance from the genres he usually falls into, while maintaining an organic appreciation for all music forms and styles. His sound is a cross-pollination of the arcane and the futuristic, where he guides you through his train of thought, displacement and discourse. A swank noise of clever phrases, poetic flashcards and split references, even if they're essentially about nothing in particular where narration is unspoken.

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released May 2, 2025

"I started with sounds from different places: the house, the garden, the workshop, the forest next door in Mayenne, the beach or the ocean in Vendéen near the family home, holiday spots, museums…

several places therefore, several sounds, noises…

Rather than playing them and working on them by place, I associated them, mixed them to create a “new sound place”… a bit like memory could work or does work, my memory… sounds that flow, in cascade. Or rather like informal links or sort of echoes or even rhizomes that put together, create a fragment of “landscape from nowhere” and at the same time from everywhere and next door.

How to say: we identify: wind, birds, footsteps, voices, etc. These sounds do not belong to a single place and do not offer a sound vision of a particular place (as for "Étant donné").

It is rather a question of "visualizing", making sensitive, perceptible (sound) the "images" of landscape and their experiences that the brain, memory, head formulate afterwards. After the physical and sound experience of the place.

I tried to give form to this place - these imaginary places, these moving and dense places, which exist in my head when thoughts escape, emancipate themselves from concrete reality and wander and live by themselves

Like spatio-mental capsules (?) ...

Each would offer an "immobile journey" (Julien Gracq), internal or interior (Kandinsky)

That is why the title would be hORs SoLs"
--Philippe Neau

Music, master and pictures by Philippe Neau.

linktr.ee/philippe.neau

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Tomosla is the collaborative alias of UK sound artists James Osland and Thomas Hoey. Their third full-length release and debut on Mahorka, "Dunestal", continues their evolving exploration of ambient music, following the critically regarded "A Small Town in the Mountains" on Shimmering Moods in 2021 and "Moor Thoughts" on Slow Tone Collages in 2023. 
 With a creative partnership spanning over a decade, Osland and Hoey have developed a uniquely organic approach to ambient composition. Their work is characterized by subtle textures, field recordings, and a deep sensitivity to environment and mood. At the heart of Tomosla's sound is a commitment to improvisation — a process-led approach where each piece unfolds naturally, shaped by spontaneous interaction and mutual intuition. This results in immersive, slow-evolving soundscapes that feel at once intimate and expansive.


Now based in Devon, the duo draw heavily on the region’s natural beauty — its coastlines, woodlands, and rural quietude — as both inspiration and material. Their music reflects a deep connection to place, channeling the rhythms and atmospheres of the countryside into sonic form. Traces of the Devon landscape are embedded throughout their work.


"Dunestal" was conceived during a long, rain-soaked weekend spent in Stoke Fleming and Dartmouth, along the rugged South Devon coast. Drawing inspiration from the area's dramatic landscapes and rich, layered history, the album emerged from a series of live improvisations recorded during this time.


The name "Dunestal" itself is rooted in local history. Listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, Dunestal was the only recorded settlement in what is now the parish of Dartmouth. At the time, it was held by Walter of Douai and described as a small but active community, home to two plough teams, two slaves, five villagers, and four smallholders. This historical backdrop provided fertile ground for artistic exploration.


Over the course of their stay, James and Thomas immersed themselves in the surrounding environment — walking the coastal paths, absorbing the shifting weather, and imagining the lives of those who once inhabited the land. In the evenings, they returned indoors to translate these impressions into sound. Using a wide range of synthesizers, guitar pedals, samplers, and field recordings, they began crafting a sonic journal — one shaped by instinct, memory, and place.
The result is "Dunestal": a meditative, atmospheric work that weaves together history and imagination, blending organic textures with ambient improvisation to evoke a deep sense of time and place.

Released April 26, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and as beautiful limited cassette edition.

All music by James Osland and Thomas Hoey
Mastering by Anatoly Tokee Grinberg
Artwork by James Osland and Ivo Petrov

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released April 18, 2025

Wahn is a French electronic music producer crafting immersive soundscapes that bridge ambient, IDM, and techno. After a long hiatus, he re-emerged with the Drifted series - an exploration of rhythmless, bass-driven atmospheres where despair and fleeting hope intertwine. Released on After Affects and Mahorka in 2024, Drifted Vol. 1 and Drifted Vol. 2 weave lush, slow-motion textures with weighty sub-bass, grainy crackles, and cinematic undertones, inviting listeners into deep, introspective journeys.

Expanding his sonic palette, Wahn now steps into more rhythmic territories with Black Sea, a four-track EP that blends hypnotic techno pulses with the dark, textured depth reminiscent of his ambient work. This EP marks a shift while maintaining the deep atmospheres and tactile sound design at the core of his artistry. Layers of grainy atmospheres and heavy bass carve out a hypnotic, shadowed landscape where movement and introspection coexist.

Dark and enveloping, Black Sea channels an undercurrent of tension and fluidity - like a vast, shifting body of water. The rhythmic foundation propels the listener forward, yet the deep, cinematic textures pull them into an introspective descent. This is Wahn in motion, merging raw energy with haunting atmospheres, where pulse meets the weight of ambient storytelling.

With Drifted Vol. 3 set to arrive in June 2025 via Adventurous Music, Wahn continues to explore the boundaries between movement and stillness, weight and space, crafting soundscapes that resonate both physically and emotionally.

Composed, produced and mastered by Wahn
Artwork : Erwan Charier

linktr.ee/only_wahn

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Weldroid is the 8-bit emulation of an electrical engineer, a cgi artist and a coffee connoisseur merged into one person and left alone in the middle of a forest in the middle of a forgotten peninsula built of discarded and ancient electronic devices and lots of copper wire.

In the shadowed laboratories of Weldroid a new creation emerges, not merely an album, but a spectral collage forged across hidden intervals. But these tones were not born in darkness, but guided by the flickering silver screen: spice-filled winds of distant desert worlds, neon-soaked sleepless cities of tomorrow, the intrigue of feudal Japan. Visual masterpieces on their own right, yet devoid of sound, waiting for a new sonic assault to fill the air with vibration. Each pulse, each dissonant hymn is a thread stitched to the fabric of stories told by orchestrated dance of photons.

Here the vibrations take over, it is the rhythm steering the vision, the sound telling the story. Only the alchemy of solitude: dismantling celluloid dreams, then weaving them anew through analog whispers and digital reverie. Oscillators, filters, modulation rule, dialogue becomes unimportant, landscapes are formed to the bass, mountains are eroded by distortion. A new symbiosis is created between sound and light, two phantoms in a mirrored labyrinth.

It is resurrection. A clandestine dialogue between the seen and the unheard, where the reel’s ghost dances, half-alive, in the machine’s hum.

Released April 13, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited digipak CD edition.

"Weldroid always brings something distinctive to Mahorka's electronic music community, blending synthetic ambient textures with bit-crushed rhythms to craft immersive, emotionally resonant soundscapes. Despite the android-inspired name and cyberspace-inflected themes, his work pulses with a paradoxically human touch. On Painted City, cinematic influences take center stage as Weldroid reimagines seven original soundtracks from scratch—tabula rasa—allowing intuition and interpretation to shape each piece anew. The result is a series of vivid, digitized visions that carry real emotional weight. As always, the album arrives encased in a hand-crafted visual design, completing a densely packed, multimedia tour de force."
-- Jeremy Rice (a.k.a. Abdicant)

Composed and produced by Weldroid
Artwork by Weldroid

This album has entirely been produced in the box with a few pieces of key outboard gear: the Soma Lyra-8 and the Elektron Digitone.

No generative AI was used for the creation of this recording.

"Special thanks to Ivo for the feedback support and inspiration by keeping my playlist full"

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released April 6, 2025

Andreas Davids is maybe best known for his electro-industrial project XOTOX with albums released since 1998 gaining quite some attention in his native Germany and around the world. In 2023, for the project's 25th year anniversary the "Ich Bin Da / Ich Funktioniere" album was released.

On Mahorka Andreas appeared first as one half of the Natura Est dark ambient duo with British electronic producer Tony Young (Autoclav1.1). After their self-titled monolithic debut on Ant-zen in 2018, Mahorka released their "Second" album, a new chapter of colossal, brooding ambient, where light is slowly crushed by shade, within a multi-faceted arena of sound.

In 2020 Andreas Davids released on Mahorka under his real name "7 Jahre vor der Gegenwart" - an emotional rollercoaster running from dark ambient and broken structures to technoid rhythms and sequences, and "Isolation" - his deepest and most personal solo album, also on in a beautiful cassette edition. In 2022 the label also published "Space Ambient Pop", the genre-defining collaboration album of Andreas Davids + Sven Phalanx, also in cassette edition.

With "Weltraum", his new solo EP on Mahorka, Andreas Davids deals with one of his favorite motifs: Space. Since his early childhood he has been fascinated by science-fiction and adventures in space, either in books, comics or movies. Somewhere between Ambient, IDM, Berlin School and Electronica, he created a place for the listeners to experience their own adventures.

Created and mastered by Andreas Davids in 2024 at Separate Room, MTH.

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Fabien Robbe is a composer and multi-instrumentalist (notably piano, trumpet and synthesizers). Established in the heart of Brittany, France, he rose to prominence with traditional music dance ensemble Menestra. He has transposed elements of this background in 'trad' to an eclectic mix of jazz, free improvisation (under the guidance of François Tusques) and experimental electronic music.

"Skeudennoù" is his debut solo album on Mahorka, after 2 collaboration albums with Julien Palomo on the label - their "Feeling for the latch" debut as a duo from 2021 and "Miniatures" from 2024. Julien Palomo is also present here on this album, the last track being an eclectic abstract ambient collaboration with him.

Released March 30, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited Digipak CD edition.

"Skeudennoù" is perfectly showcasing the notable jazz, traditional music and free improvisation composer and performer's diverse approaches to the experimental electronic music world, providing for a strikingly fresh and unique listen, a milestone album for Fabien we will be definitely returning to.

Recorded in Brittany between 2020 and 2024 by Fabien Robbe.

Fabien Robbe: Modulobuk, Korg ms10, Eurorack Modules, Korg wavestation, Philicorda.
Julien Palomo (guest): modular system on "Tévennec"

Photos by Fabien Robbe.
Design by Angel Draganov.

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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"

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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

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Celine Arnauld is the artistic name of Pablo Miranda Caballero, an artist and electronic music producer specializing in genres such as IDM, ambient, drone and glitch. He has released his music on various labels, including Zabra Records, Diffuse Reality, Welsh Modular Alliance, Kahvi Collective, Stolen Groove, Not 4 Human Consumption, New York Haunted, Point Source Electronics Arts, Moatun 7, Polygon Network, Colorsquad Records, Opal Tapes.

"Superstructure", his debut release on Mahorka, is a spectacular electronic music masterpiece that merges elements of experimental techno, ambient, glitch and IDM to create a huge coherent sonic landscape. Produced using a combination of Ableton and hardware synthesizers such as the Elektron Octatrack and the Modal Electronics Argon8, the album stands out for its meticulous approach to sound manipulation.

Released March 8, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited cassette edition.

The album explores abstract textures and fractured rhythms, where pure waveforms - especially sine waves - play a crucial role in generating glitches and noises. Through detailed sound design and expressive use of granular synthesis and modulation, "Superstructure" transports the listener to a space where the analog and the digital intertwine in an immersive complex sonic architecture.

Composed and produced by Celine Arnauld
Cover art and design by Weldroid

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MadMenDuo is a collaborative project of Fryd Samotny and Vladimir Vlaev (Artefactor).

All the material for the debut album of the duo, "Through the Night", has been recorded during live improvised sessions between March and August 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Minimum editing has been applied to the live recordings in order to preserve the freshness of the spontaneous musical interaction.

Released March 1, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and as beautiful limited edition digipak CD.

Fryd Samotny - tenor & baritone saxophones
sadamuss@gmail.com

Vladimir Vlaev - electronics, recording & mastering
vladimirvlaev.com

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released February 22, 2025

WDX’s approach to music highlights ingenuity and dedication to pushing the boundaries of conventional genres. Improvising with edited field recording loops, a bassline generating synth and an array of outboard effects, shows a unique and captivating style that incorporates musique concrète, improvised industrial sounds, and percussions from everyday objects. This creates unique compositions arising from a commitment to using only found sounds and field recordings that transport the listener to new and surreal environments. This approach focuses on the creative process while experimenting with different sounds and effects to create dynamic and engaging sets.

His second album on Mahorka, "Turn It Off And On Again", named after our favourite IT department advice, was made using sounds of his outboard equipment being, erm, turned off and on again. Lots of clicks and reverb/delay trails with the usual huge bass lines. The track names are cases that ICT have dealt/not dealt with.

Mastered by Jack Chuter - www.attnmagazine.co.uk/mastering/

Everything else by Dave Webb - linktr.ee/wavedebb

The Wave Debb Radio Show - nrbc.io/show/the-wave-debb-show/

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"Meditations on Forgetting" is the second Dayin release on Mahorka, after the extended cassette reissue "Warm Like Crystal Throats" in 2023. It was inspired by the unexpected and unstoppable process of memory loss. "Meditations on Forgetting" was created to honour the souls slipping away from the world they built from themselves. A transition that is equally scary and intriguing. One can only hope there are other, more beautiful and worthy realms beyond.

Released February 12, 2025 as free (cc) digital download as beautiful limited cassette edition.

Written and produced by Angel Simitchiev in 2024

Artwork by Silvana Ilieva

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released February 2, 2025

Two musical forces from across Europe have joined together in a dream-come-true collaboration. The partnership between Grosso Gadgetto and Brainquake, two artists known for their boundary-pushing work in electronic and experimental music, explores the boundaries of sound and imagination through innovative and provocative music. What started as a simple collaboration through the genre-transcending label Mahorka, quickly blossomed into a creative endeavour that has produced two distinct, yet thematically connected albums - "Distorted Planet" and "Dehumanize the World", each with its own unique take on global and cosmic themes. The result is nothing short of transformative, amazing confirmation that often the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, a testament to the power of creative synergy, with each artist bringing their own unique perspective and style to the table. The albums also feature stunning artwork by Sick Ced (Cedry Krueger), whose visual contributions complement the otherworldly and deeply introspective themes of the music. These two very different but deeply connected albums invite listeners to explore the alien, the cosmic, and the human in new and profound ways.

Grosso Gadgetto (France) is the alias of Christian Gonzalez, an electronic music producer known for his intricate blend of ambient, hip-hop, industrial and experimental sounds. With a background rooted in both traditional and modern electronic music, Gonzalez has carved out a niche for himself by creating immersive sonic landscapes that challenge the listener's perception of time and space. His work is marked by a deep sensitivity to sound texture, often using layered synths, field recordings, and organic instruments to create evocative atmospheres. Over the years, Grosso Gadgetto has gained recognition for his contributions to the underground electronic music scene and his ability to cross genre boundaries with ease.

Brainquake (Belgium), the project of Marc Ceulemans, is an exploration of experimental sound design, blending electronic music with avant-garde influences. His works often delve into the surreal and the bizarre, combining intricate rhythms, atmospheric textures, and dystopian themes. His music challenges listeners to step outside conventional musical structures and engage with sound as both an art form and a medium for storytelling. Brainquake's style is eclectic, with elements ranging from ambient and techno to noise and industrial, but always maintaining a focus on creating an immersive, boundary-pushing experience.

Together, Grosso Gadgetto and Brainquake have created a partnership that blends their diverse backgrounds and artistic approaches into something truly unique.

"Distorted Planet", their debut release together, is a dark, emotional journey through a twisted world. This first album touches on dark, emotional landscapes with a 90's ambient techno influence, lacing the tracks with eerie, unsettling tones that evoke a sense of discomfort and contemplation. While the themes could have lent themselves to harsh, confrontational music, the duo instead layers the album with complex textures that evoke introspection, tension, and the emotional weight of living in a world that seems increasingly alien to itself.

The album delves into the strange nature of our modern existence, where the lines between reality and distortion blur. From the dissonant resonance of "The Builders" to the eerie calm of "Smoke Angels (Nature’s Revenge)", each track is a reflection on the human experience in an unstable, shifting world. The mood of "Distorted Planet" is captured perfectly in the track titles themselves: "Teethgrinder", "Stretched Faces", and "Sub Urbanism" all suggest a world where beauty, humanity, and nature are twisted, distorted, and often fragmented.

Their second album together, "Dehumanize The World", will come out later in 2025.

All music and sounds by Christian Gonzalez (Grosso Gadgetto) and Marc Ceulemans (Brainquake)

Artwork by Sick Ced (Cedry Krueger)

Special Thanks:
"A heartfelt thanks to Ivo Petrov for his unwavering guidance and support throughout this collaborative journey and Sick Ced for the cover art."

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"Insight and Vision" is the epic ending of the trilogy on the theme of creativity in the face of autistic disorders, that Christophe Bailleau started in 2022 with "CHUVA ORBITAL : Armadillo Time" on Lotophagus Records and continued in 2023 with "Vertical Moon Phase Charm" on Mahorka. Featuring collaborations with A Limb, Julien Ash, Paradise Now and realised with the support of Transcultures and Les Pépinières Européennes de Création, this is the artist's biggest and most intricate masterpiece, most delicate and most brutal at the same time, having him perfect his sound sculpturing skills to yet another level exploring new unique, unexplainable with words, dimensions.

Released January 25, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and limited edition Digipak CD.

‘Ice warming sound cools the air in masses.
Our soul are nothing but condensation who veils the sun.
Always higher. Far far far away from the past.
The present not yet accepted.
But already anger at the onboard world.’
-- C. Bailleau

Christophe Bailleau : production, composition, programming, synthesizers, piano, flute

Criele Antennaa O’ Farrell : motivation

Julien Ash : acoustic instruments on track 3 and 8

A Limb : composition on track 7

Paradise Now : guitarscape, treated flutes on track 10

Graphic design by Christophe Bailleau

With the support of Transcultures and Les Pépinières Européennes de Création

"Time to move on. The trilogy on autism and creativity started in 2022 ends with this album. Here are some gifts, imaginary, delicate and sometimes brutal... In search of another sweeter world. May the brilliant ghosts accompany you."

Thanks to: Ivo, Mahorka, Lotophagus, IRM, Transcultures, NocoVision, La Route du Rock, Jordane Prestrot, Stanley Christiaensen, the sky, Mahajali, haunting spirits, disorientation, EARTHEATER, Zorg, Katja, My Family and friends.

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"All journeys are intertwined
snippets of dreams
And wherever you are
sooner or later
everything
will end

then
it will begin differently.

All journeys are intertwined
tight balls of thread
But I will find you everywhere
No matter how early
Not too late
Start over

again and again
braiding my own paths."

Released January 18, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited cassette edition.

Accasari - guitar, effects
July in January - synthesizers, field recordings, processing

The album was recorded at the "Podbolotniki" event in the "Sklad#3" club in 2023 (Moscow).

Mastering by Anatoly Grinberg
Photo and verse by Georgy Orlov-Davydovsky
Artwork layout by Ivo Petrov

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released January 10, 2025

"This Communication is an alias of Captive Portal where I release dark ambient soundscapes that I create while coping with loss. This EP is about the loss of a loved one.

The person was hanging on by a thread for many years. You could tell they were still there, but as time went on, it felt like they were just existing, trapped in this frail body and could no longer come out.

The soundscapes on this EP are what I imagined this person was going through for many years. And one day, it was over. There was no more suffering. They were now at peace.

Life is short. Be good to yourselves. Tell someone that you love them. Reconnect with someone that you haven't heard from in a while. Cherish all these moments while they're still here. You never know when anyone's time on this earth will end."

Produced, mixed, and mastered by Zach Bridier on 25 June 2024.
Cover artwork by Zach Bridier

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released January 3, 2025

"Low", the first collaborative album by Substak and Signalstoerung and a debut on Mahorka for both artists, explores the depths and varieties of low frequencies. With a minimalistic approach on both sides, these eight tracks became a sonically deep, slow, and dark mix of ambiances, best heard with headphones.

Tracks L1-L7 by Substak and Signalstoerung
Track L8 by Substak
Cover artwork by Signalstoerung
Mastering by Signalstoerung

Substak is a sound artist based in Athens, Greek.
substak.bandcamp.com

Signalstoerung is an interdisciplinary artist based in Leipzig, Germany.
adventurousmusic.com/signalstoerung

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released December 29, 2024

The Ia-HA-Crax project was born years ago as a natural inclination for uncommon musical speech. It conveys personal mindsets through analogue gear, spontaneous sound sources and unpleasant rhythmic structures. Ia-HA-Crax deliberately approaches peculiar subjects that (un)fortunately remain incomprehensible under the harsh spectrum of extreme-electronics sound. The project has recorded in Romania (Baikoireshti) and published albums like Macronympha vs. Ia-HA-Crax split (Mask of the Slave records, Romania, tape-2017), "Exprektor" (Non-waste Production, Russia, tape, 2018), Ia-HA-Crax vs. NAVA SPATIALA split (Mask of the Slave records, Romania, tape, 2018), "SciVias Homini" (Le Tombeau des Muses, France, tape, 2018), "Vaga-Bondage" (Void singularity, England, cd, 2018) and others.

"Drojdia zdrenţelor" the first Ia-HA-Crax solo release on Mahorka.

"The musical expression conveys an image of the presence that took shape during those days in the thoughts of the interpreter. The world around is the world as it is. Our nature fills it with what we are carrying with us. The need for reflection that breaks with the unanswered question. Pour inside the Yeast of Drags and let wane pretense.

Ia-HA-Crax dwells on raw and pour noise accessories for distaste of popular content and embraced amateurism. “Drojdia zdrenţelor“ appears with the kind acceptance of Mahorka records to be listed on the future grimoire of balkanic power electronics."

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TVAŃ (meaning "swamp") is a power electronics / death ambient / noise band of two music producers: Anatoly Grinberg (a.k.a. Tokee, Massaith, Dead Voices On Air), Israel/Russia, resident of ant-zen, Hymen, Mahorka, Furnace, and Leonid Churilov (a.k.a. A-BELL, 7F7F7F) from Belarus, on ADX records grup, SSI, The day of life forgotten, M.A.D. Records, Mahorka. After meeting and working together in the studio on their highly acclaimed first collaboration album ‘The birth of a quantum lamb’, released on Mahorka as Anatoly Grinberg + Abell Leonid, and on various tracks for compilations on different labels (Monumental (RU), No Devotion Records (USA), M.A.D. (Malta), AUM (BY), Default Standard (Greece), E:\music\noise (RU)), they decided to work further under the band name TVAŃ.

TVAŃ is music imbued with the aesthetics of drone / doom / black metal and dark ambient, with all the consequences. A swamp of hum, ephemeral bulky timbres and distorted rhythms, crushes and absorbs everything in its path, broken melodies of dead folk, the guttural roar of swamps, the suffocating atmosphere of analog timbres, the density of tube amplifiers. Be careful, it will hurt...

"Каюсь?!..." is their first album together as TVAŃ on Mahorka, released December 21, 2024.

"In the silence of a dead heart, I bow the knee to the Lord. The weight of sins turns my wings into tombstones with the restless soul that scrapes beneath. As this dark despair covers me, the ghosts of the past whisper there is no salvation and the pain of regrets penetrates to burn out the remnants of hope and become my only friend on this endless path.

Every prayer is a spark in the eternal darkness, but the sounds of my voice are just drops of water lost in an endless ocean of emptiness. The light dancing on the horizon that slips away like a miracle wants me to break down this cage and spread my wings to dissolve in flight into the universe as an endless sacrifice for the good.

Locked among the dark pieces of mistakes and begging for the wind of hope, shall I rise and leave these chains behind to find true forgiveness? Shall I repent? I do not know! I only sink my dry roots into the sky!"

"В безмолвии мертвого сердца я склоняю колени пред Богом. Тяжкое бремя грехов, превратило крыла в надгробные плиты, а подними душа скребёт монолит сомнений. Мрак безысходности накрывает, как тяжелое покрывало, а тени прошедшего шепчут мне о том, что спасения нет. Я чувствую, как боль сожалений проникает в самую глубину, выжигая остатки надежды, оставаясь верным спутником в этом бесконечном пути.

Каждая молитва — искра в вечной тьме, но звуки моего голоса теряются в пустоте, как капли воды в бескрайнем океане. Я вижу перед собой свет, танцующий на горизонте, но он всегда ускользает, кажется, жестоким миражом. О, как я желаю отринуть эту тяжесть, расправить крыла и в полете раствориться в мироздании, жертвуя бесконечно себя во благо.

Но вместо этого, я остаюсь здесь, среди мрачных осколков своих ошибок, ловя каждый шепот ветра, каждое мгновение надежды. Может, однажды, я сумею подняться выше, оставив эти цепи позади, и обрету истинное прощение... Каюсь, ли я? Не знаю! Я лишь погружаюсь сухими корнями в небо!"

Music by Anatoly Grinberg and Leonid Churilov
Mastering by Anatoly Grinberg
Artwork: Ivan Kirichenko

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Released December 14, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

It has been almost 30 years since Mantris shared music with the world. Together with Christoph Waelkens he was the driving force behind house outfits The Black Sun and Brown Hardware Inc. Their creative connection led to three consecutive releases in 1992 on cult label Elektron. A productive music career was forecasted, but Mantris vanished into thin air. Until early 2020...

I’m So Many People, his ambient masterpiece debut on Mahorka, encapsulates the idea that we all play various roles throughout our lives. A journey unfolds from darkness to hope. Compared to his earlier albums, this one is even more focused on sound progression, fused with melodies and chords. Anatoly 'Tokee' Grinberg has done an excellent job of comprehending and mastering this music to bring out the full range of the sounds generated.

"The album’s journey mirrors our own, from the masks we wear to the ultimate acceptance of our true selves. The journey to the deity is a personal one, and not everyone may complete it."

Composed and produced by Mantris
Mastering by Anatoly Grinberg
Cover design by Mantris

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Luneta Freedom Jazz Collective is an experimental jazz group from Manila, Philippines. Their first studio album "Ethos", was recorded and released in 2015, followed by "Inland Empire" in 2017. In 2021 the project debuted on Mahorka with their third album, "Slaves and Masters".

"Mga matang pumipikit sa langit" (translates to "Eyes closing to the sky") is their fourth album and second on Mahorka, released December 7, 2024

"Mga pinagbabatayang kaisipan at paniniwala tungkol sa pinakapuso ng kalikasan ng tunay na nandito at umiiral, na nagsisilbi namang pinakasahig ng iba pang mga kaisipan at paniniwala."

The album as a whole is grounded on the profound engagement with the foundational ideologies and convictions concerning the nature of that which genuinely exists and prevails, serving as the primary basis for all subsequent thoughts and beliefs that underpin human thought and belief. Offering a nuanced perspective, each moment delves into different facets of human cognition, reality, and perception, mirroring how foundational ideologies about reality shape and are shaped by these elements.

Luneta Freedom Jazz Collective are:
Hamzah Nubia - Guitar
Rahiem Tashan - Percussion
Althea Segunda Katigbak - Keys
Akilah Marasigan - Sax
Dustin "Xenokrates" Bones - Bass
Maleeq Ras Nashiem - Drums/Theremin

Artwork by Maleeq Ras Nashiem

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Asshole Galaxy is a band of two angry artists really mad at all the assholes ruining the world, channelling some music through.

Asshole Galaxy is:
Weldroid. The 8-bit emulation of an electrical engineer, a cgi artist and a coffee connoisseur merged into one person and left alone in the middle of a forest in the middle of a forgotten peninsula built of discarded and ancient electronic devices and lots of copper wire. Those little robotic things living in the forest tend to like the noises he makes...
and
Jeremy Rice. Boston-area lover of synthesizers and synth music, striving to make his own electronic music with a curious sense of introspection and mystery. As Abdicant and Curious Inversions he has notable releases on Kahvi Collective and Mahorka. Also in Cognition Delay with Paul Alexander (Pandacetamol, Fluffy Inside) on Mahorka, Rednetic, Móatún 7 and in The Hive Project with Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins) on DataObscura.

"...not the last time you hear from us."
--Weldroid on the band's debut album "Irreparable Damage"

And right he was! A little bit more than a year later, Asshole Galaxy returns with a harrowing new album, "Collapse"! Driven by a relentless pursuit of maximizing profits, the world teeters on the brink of collapse, and Asshole Galaxy captures this slow-motion doom in an epic fast-forward sonic catastrophe. Plunge into a sonic abyss, a bleak reflection of our crumbling world, a raw and unflinching exploration of the human condition in the face of systemic failure. Be consumed.

Released November 30, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited edition digipak CD.

Composed and produced by Abdicant and Weldroid
Cover gfx and mastering by Weldroid

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Refreshed from a year's meditation and fuelled by a lethal combination of extra strong coffee and those lotus biscuits with the cream in the middle, Neko, the premier act to emerge from Bristol's thriving Japanese language post rock/electronica micro scene (population 1) are back with "Windfall", their second EP, following on from their highly acclaimed 2023 debut "King Louie".

Like most second releases, it's a more mature collection of songs than its predecessor (fewer songs about 5 a side football, more songs about complicated IT jobs and desperate attempts to avoid middle aged spread) that sees the band, now with vocalist Yuka Suzuki as a full time member, polish and develop their distinctive sound.

Teaming up again with producer Dom Mitchison, the EP's four tracks are a vibrant melting pot of styles and ideas. Yuka Suzuki's ethereal vocals are the one constant, through the dreamy "Stack Overflow" and "Kleshas" to the moody guitar lines and Donna Summer style synths of "Almost Forgotten". The slow-building title track "Windfall" brings the EP to a pounding, cathartic conclusion.

The band will be undertaking a short tour towards the end of November to promote the release, with dates in Cardiff, London and hometown Bristol currently pencilled in. The "Windfall" EP is available for listening on Spotify and other music streaming services, while officially released on Shoredive Records (on CD) and Mahorka (cassette).

The Mahorka Edition cassette includes a whole exclusive B side of spectacular remixes of the original EP tracks by Asshole Galaxy, Tawdry Otter, Brainquake, popon and Suzuki.

Released November 22, 2024
P&L 2024 under exclusive license to Mahorka and Shoredive Records
Written and performed by Neko, 2024
Lyrics by Yuka Suzuki
Recorded and Engineered by Dominic Mitchison @ Humm Studios, 2024
Mastering of the original EP tracks (Side A) by Shawn Joseph @ Optimum Mastering, 2024
Mastering of the remixes (Side B) by Weldroid, 2024

Neko:
nekoneko.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/nekonekoband
instagram.com/nekonekoband
youtube.com/@nekobanduk

Asshole Galaxy: mahorka.org/artist/asshole-galaxy
Tawdry Otter: suitablybizarre.bandcamp.com
Suzuki: soundcloud.com/suzuki
popon: soundcloud.com/popon_tonichan
Brainquake: brainquake.bandcamp.com

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"ЛЕЯ" is TOKEE's second album on Mahorka, which, just as its predecessor "Stages", features some of his most brilliant composition and production and definitely his most deep, emotional and personal music to date.

Released November 16, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and the label's second ever vinyl LP, this time in collaboration with the amazing Sealt Label for a unique packaging very limited deluxe edition alongside the standard vinyl edition.

"Dedicated to my beloved daughter Lea"

Composed and produced by TOKEE
Mastering by Anatoly Grinberg
Artwork and design by Fariz Suleiman

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Check out "А​л​ь​б​а​т​р​о​с Remixes" feat. Abdicant, Access To Arasaka, Valance Drakes, Jérôme Chassagnard, Unterm Rad, Asshole Galaxy, Grosso Gadgetto and Mitoma here: mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/remixes

released November 9, 2024

Sven Phalanx is a musician from Frankfurt (Main), Germany, that is known in the business for over 20 years for his projects Schattenspiel (Neoclassical / Ambient), Schwarzwald (EBM / Industrial). In all these years, he has worked with artists from all over the world and has reinvented and developed his own style over and over again. Since 2020 all his further publications appear under the name Sven Phalanx, including the released on Mahorka three full-length albums ("Inner Demon", "Phönix" and "S.P.Q.R") two EPs, two remix albums of his classic "Klangtherapie" reworked by other artists, one live album and collaborations with Andreas Davids, Brainquake and Miss Kitty.

With "Hypnotized" Sven Phalanx is already releasing his fourth full-length album on Mahorka. 18 very deep and personal songs that cover a spectrum from dark ambient to industrial. And, once again, some illustrious guest musicians collaborate with Sven on tracks from the album - Ultra, Miss Kitty, Grosso Gadgetto, Wilfried Hanrath, missesmarilyn.

Artwork by Angel Draganov.

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Nik (4T Thieves) really does not need much presentation as anyone familiar with the scene in the last two decades should know the name and the unique blend of warm analog sound beautiful electronic music he has been putting out and developing since the early demoscene days, as well as with Kahvi Collective, the 'cult' status netlabel that he manages.

Nik also has a long and rich history with Mahorka. Back in 2015 we had his Mahorka debut releases - "Mahorka netlabel day mashup" and "Glass EP". Since then we've had few EPs, numerous remixes, compilation appearances and 4 full-length albums by 4T Thieves, two of which on digipak CDs - the already classic "Hauntology" from 2019 and 2023's "The Shipping Forecast".

In late 2024, after around a year in the works, we are really happy to release his new album "I Can Dream Of Bubbles" complemented with the whole "The happy places" album of remixes from dear artists and friends, with those two together making our first double Digipak CD release and a spectacular follow-up to "The Shipping Forecast".

Released November 2, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited edition Double Digipak CD.

"In the grey and lifeless world of the future, everything is colourless but you can always dream of bubbles... different colourful scenes, landscapes away from the grey. Inspired by colourful vivid dreams of what the world could have been the happy places are the bubbles that people dream, the different worlds that could have been."

Mastering of the original album by Black Particle
Mastering of the remixes by Mnemonic Studios
Cover artwork by Angel Draganov and Abdicant

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Hybrid Rain and Liquid Paper's music is a unique blend of experimental and avant-garde styles. With James Hill's expressive trumpet melodies and Hans Catstrup's innovative soundscapes, the music explores unconventional sonic territories. It's a journey through abstract textures and spontaneous compositions, merging organic and electronic elements for a truly distinctive auditory experience.

Released October 26, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited Digipak CD edition.

Hans Castrup - Electronics, tapes, field recordings, studio
James Hill - Trumpet
Carla Worgull - Digital processed voices on track 3

Martin Englert - Mastering at Elektromos Studios
Trumpet recordings at TCAB Studios by James Hill Recorded 2023.

Images by Hans Castrup
Artwork design by Ivo Petrov and Angel Draganov

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released October 19, 2024

Having crossed paths many times over the years via the S27 imprint, releases as Floating Spirits and Mitoma separately and remixing each others' work, Peltiform is a collaborative project directed by Nathan Story and Tam Ferrans that has released two albums via S27 - "Futurism" (2022) and "Like Phantoms" (April 2024).

In October 2024 the project also debuts on Mahorka with "Numerik". The material featured on this new Peltiform EP is taken from left over track sessions from around the same time as what would become "Like Phantoms" was in the works. Although from same sessions and connected, these tracks had their own different feel and did not end up fitting in the aforementioned album. Instead, they were further refined into "Numerik", a release that serves as much as a companion piece to "Like Phantoms" and closes the arc as it is also standing out on its own. The EP also features alternate versions of previously released album tracks and collaborations with Room of Wires and Dissolved.

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Pavel Shishkin is a Russian musician and sound engineer, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. His project "muzofob" is focusing on dark ambient, drone and neoclassical music. Sometimes it is long one-take improvisations, sometimes it is layered sound textures with binaural technologies.

He debuts on Mahorka with a live set he performed in an art space named dom36 (House #36) in Almaty, surrounded by friends, the community of musicians, jammers ("the loopers"), that invited him to play his first solo concert.

This concert album is one whole improvised piece, where one theme transforms into another, without any breaks, from start to end. This whole solid piece was split into the parts that became the album tracks later, while Pavel was mastering the recording for the release. Track names were also given at that moment.

Equipment used:
Greco EG-550 Rock Spirits Les Paul
Floyd Rose FRX Tremolo
AMT SS-30 Bulava
Behringer CL9
EHX Mel9
Shiftline / A+ Astronaut V.2
EHX Memory Man Hazarai
EHX Super Multi-track Looper
EHX Superego+
Mooer D7
Synthcone Woodblock
Bespeco VM12

Recorded live at dom36, Almaty, in June, 2024
Performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Pavel Shishkin
Audio restoration by Egor Efremov

muzofob.bandcamp.com
muzofob.tilda.ws/links
www.instagram.com/somedarksounds/

Released October 11, 2024

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released October 5, 2024

Valentin Doychinov is a guitarist and electronic musician based in Genoa, Italy. He has released experimental dark ambient and noise centered releases under the V-Stók alias while recently he’s been rediscovering his passion for guitar and releasing improvisation based records under his own name. He has released records for Amek Collective, DVNTT and has collaborated with musicians such as Roboknob, Kronom, Il Santo Bevitore, Bruno Gussoni. Valentin has also composed soundtrack for the miniseries Red Velvet Revolution which was awarded best original soundtrack at the Sicily Web Fest.

"It has been a long and rainy winter season along the coast. Searching for inner peace and distractions from the distractions, I plant a seed of thought, I cast a spell. I spread my wings and I practise for the ascent. A billion years away our collective dreams of lush green across the planet will inevitably come true. I am there, I have let my garden overgrow regardless of the petty suburbian men and the perfectly trimmed edges of their hopelessness. What are you fighting against, my friend? No, you can't park on my driveway because the other day you almost completely blocked the side gate and I barely could get out with my bike. I think you should have known the gaping void could only be filled with kindness and patience. Of summer afternoons, of cold rivers and tired waterfalls and I should say eternal composition because what we call decay is in fact a gradual transformation and a return to eternal equilibrium. Yes, buildings and infrastructure are decaying but were they supposed to be there in the first place?"

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Released September 27, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited edition Digipak CD.

Vioro Vio is an instrumental post-rock band from Croatia, formed by members of Quatrefoil (quatrefoil.bandcamp.com) and Jeanne Frémaux (jeannefremaux.bandcamp.com).

Their experiences in ambient / electroacoustic / glitch experiments are applied to a more classical "two guitars, bass and drums" format to produce a contemporary homage to post-rock and math rock of the 1990s.

Composed and produced by Vioro Vio.

Additional sound processing on "Aleksandrija" by Kneippkopf (kneippkopf.bandcamp.com).

linktr.ee/viorovio

viorovio.bandcamp.com

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Released September 21, 2024 as free (cc) download and beautiful limited edition digipak CD.

"This, our second album, is a collection of synthesized short pieces.

Whether you deem them abstractions due to their strange harmonic contents, or figurative of strange places, is up to you. The key word here is "atmosphere". They convey no message, they were not created with any intent.

In saying what they're not, we're saying they are pure imagination at play. They deal with mental images and perceptions, before language creates order - and falsehoods - out of the plasma of free association.

During their making we never discussed them, bar a few technical points ; never defined them, never worded anything. We never even mentioned we were actually "doing" them, and really discovered them afterwards.

Of course, we will never succeed in saying nothing. We're subjects. And the very fact we have to write something about it is the heart of the paradox. But at least we can try. We all deserve a good vacation from meaning. There are other forces at play, like sound."

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Following the spectral echoes of "Drifted Vol. 1" (on AFTER AFFECTS REC, France), Wahn returns, debuting on Mahorka, with "Drifted Vol. 2", a deeper plunge into the abyss where despair looms heavier, yet faint glimmers of hope still emerge like distant stars in an endless night. The soundscape is darker, more cinematic, with grainy textures crackling like fractured memories. Lush, slow-motion atmospheres stretch into the void, embracing the listener in a weighty melancholy, where piano keys occasionally pierce the darkness like fragile rays of light, offering fleeting moments of solace.

In this second chapter, Wahn pushes deeper into the balance between hopelessness and the persistence of light. Cinematic undertones weave through the tracks, amplifying the immersive sense of narrative. The sub-bass resonates like a rumble from the earth’s core, making the body itself an instrument in this journey, grounding the ethereal melodies with a tactile, visceral presence. The ambient realms are thicker, more haunting, yet at times they break open to reveal a brief but tender embrace of warmth. Each track unfolds like a slow, mournful exhale, drawing the listener deeper into an intimate dance of sorrow and fragile hope.

Join Wahn as he continues this odyssey, where textures grow darker, the light more elusive, and the journey more introspective. Drifted Vol. 2 is a cinematic exploration into the profound depths of despair, with sub-bass vibrations and fleeting moments of light that make the experience as physical as it is emotional.

Composed, produced and mastered by Wahn
Artwork : Erwan Charier

soundcloud.com/Wahn

Released September 13, 2024

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released September 6, 2024

WDX’s approach to music highlights ingenuity and dedication to pushing the boundaries of conventional genres. Improvising with edited field recording loops, a bassline generating synth and an array of outboard effects, shows a unique and captivating style that incorporates musique concrète, improvised industrial sounds, and percussions from everyday objects. This creates unique compositions arising from a commitment to using only found sounds and field recordings that transport the listener to new and surreal environments. This approach focuses on the creative process while experimenting with different sounds and effects to create dynamic and engaging sets.

Cautious Exploring Token features sounds recorded in Orkney, Poland, Cornwall and London.

Mastered by Jack Chuter - www.attnmagazine.co.uk/mastering/

Everything else by Dave Webb - linktr.ee/wavedebb

The Wave Debb Radio Show - nrbc.io/show/the-wave-debb-show/

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released August 29, 2024

"Ideas
between dreams and reality
concrete sounds and head in the clouds
look with eyes closed
listen inside/outside (mental/sight)

I wanted to mix field recordings and more "melodic" sounds, coming from instruments or atmospheres captured here and there
Play on passages, links between exterior and interiority
The sounds from outside: the landscape; the others being like words in the head, "inner melodies"
I tried to mix all this to create an imaginary place
The images came a little later, the tracks just finished, these spaces seemed obvious to me to clarify my feelings" --Philippe Neau

Music, master and pictures by Philippe Neau.

linktr.ee/philippe.neau

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Orghanon is the solo venture of Sergio Calzoni, producer and musician active since the nineties in various musical outfits (Act Noir, Colloquio, ILUITEQ).

His 2015 debut "Figures In Slow Motion" (Eibon Records) seamlessly fused trip-hop sonorities with jazz, ambient and glitch elements. It was followed by soundtrack for the theatre performance "F_rankenstein" (2016), the sophomore "Retrospectre" on the cult-boutique Time Released Sound and, after a little hiatus, "Droneworks I-V" (2022) on the Italian label St.An.Da.

While 2023 and early 2024 saw some spectacular output of ILUITEQ (Sergio Calzoni & Andrea Bellucci), August 2024 sees the return of Orghanon with a debut on Mahorka, "Future in Motion", an album which reconnects with the multifaceted sound that distinguished the first album of Orghanon, but in which the concept of motion becomes more dynamic and accelerated, compared to the static nature and slow movements of "Figures In Slow Motion"

Released August 22, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited edition Digipak CD.

All tracks composed and produced by Sergio Calzoni
Mix and mastering by Sergio Calzoni
orghanon.bandcamp.com
sergiocalzoni@gmail.com

Cover picture courtesy of Lukáš Krása (www.lukaskrasa.com)
Design and layout by Ivo Petrov & Angel Draganov

Executive production by Mahorka
mahorka.org

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released August 10, 2024

In "А​л​ь​б​а​т​р​о​с Remixes" Abdicant (Jeremy Rice), Access To Arasaka, Valance Drakes, Jérôme Chassagnard, Unterm Rad, Asshole Galaxy (Abdicant and Weldroid), Grosso Gadgetto and Mitoma deliver their spectacular interpretations of "А​л​ь​б​а​т​р​о​с", the second track off TOKEE's forthcoming album "ЛЕЯ", alongside the original masterpiece!

"ЛЕЯ" is coming out later in 2024 as Mahorka's second ever vinyl release, this time also in collaboration with the amazing Sealt Label for a unique packaging very limited edition alongside the standard vinyl edition.

Mastering by Anatoly Grinberg

Artwork by Fariz Suleiman

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The guilty parties behind ''Quazimono'' are Robert Hofman (a DIY ''artist'' further responsible for projects such as KRAFT - Harvest of despair and ODD - Offensive Defiant Disorder) with a little help from FFF, also Rotterdam based, drum and bass producer/artist.

"Lacking ability to play any instrument fully, compensating with creativity and the intention to make something unusual that fits in NO genre using every sound possible."

"The whole music is politically influenced before a sound is made."

Released August 1, 2024 as free (cc) digital download, limited cassette edition and limited Digipak CD edition.

All music, sounds, sampling, mixing and mastering: 18.8 (Robert Hofman) Bass on track 1 and 9: FFF (Tommy de Roos) Track 10 original by Syl Johnson/Jimmy Jones/Glenn Watts

Cover photo by Anna Reg Cover Artwork by Robert Hofman and Ivo Petrov

Produced, mixed and mastered at FERTILE CRESCENT RECOREDINGS By Robert Hofman

Thank you: Edward & Julian, Bryn, Tommy, Geert-Jan, Bob Rusche, Richard, Dieter, Albin Julius (rest in peace sweet genius man), Pooki and Daniëlle

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A soundtrack that could work as a Huxleyan remedy, a fake divertissement for our present condition of being immersed, even during our free time, in an amniotic fluid of alienation, deprived of the ability & possibility of building authentic and meaningful human connections due to the increasing use of oppressive technology.

Released July 27, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited edition cassette.

Written, Recorded - Giulio Fontana
Instruments - Buchla Music Easel
Mastering - Yasen Penchev (Sai)
Image - Giulio Fontana
Artwork Design - Ivo Petrov

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released July 19, 2024

It's interesting to see how things have evolved over time with this project. With one member leaving and another joining, and the added contributions from another artist, this collaboration has been ongoing for almost a year now. Wilfried Hanrath from Germany, Jon Shuemaker from Virginia and LR Friberg from Sweden made this project come to life. Ahrien, the mysterious rapper from Greenland, has also played a part in this extensive collaboration.

Produced by Wilfried Hanrath, Jon Shuemaker and LR Friberg during 2023-2024.
Artwork and mastering by Origin_Blueprint.
Layout by Aria Argento.

Wilfried Hanrath: wilfriedhanrath.bandcamp.com
Jon Shuemaker: jonshuemaker.bandcamp.com
LR Friberg: aurora-compilations.org / motivational-music.one

You can find other versions of the album on the Outreach map (aurora-mm.github.io/Outreach)

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released July 14, 2024

Happy Netlabel Day 2024!

"Mahorka's catalog, through its density, diversity, richness and prolificacy, is a mine of inspiration. Each new release is watched for its beauty but also for its potential for a possible remix. This is called sound tracking!" --Iliaque

Photo : Béa / Visual : Vincent

1 - Iliaque - Adhan remix

rhythm:
fakestarstudios - Funky break
www.looperman.com/loops/detail/273392/funky-break-free-110bpm-breakbeat-drum-loop

BedouinDrone - Adhan (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/adhan

2 - Iliaque - Illuvium (Ruins three versus Elysium Disco remix)

rhythm:
Lofibreakbeat60Bpm
samplefocus.com

samples:
Demetrio Cecchitelli - Ruins three (CC-BY-NC-SA)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/ruins-three
Bobby Jewell - Elysium Disco (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/elysium-disco
Wolne Pokoje - Kostropate A (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/kostropate-a

3 - Iliaque - Industrious versus 2 remix

Sevensy - Industrious (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/industrious
shabaH - 2 (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/2-6

4 - Iliaque - Leptis Magna versus A hint of color remix

Abu Ama + BedouinDrone - Leptis Magna (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/leptis-magna
sevensy - A Hint of Colour (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/a-hint-of-colour

5 - Iliaque - Nexylith Reliction remix

rhythms:
Breaksmatter23 - 140-bpm-amen-break-Chopped (CC-BY)
freesound.org/people/Breaksmatter23/sounds/699669/
Breaksmatter23 - Halftime hardstep.wav (CC-BY)
freesound.org/people/Breaksmatter23/sounds/702484/

Nonima + Dissolved - Nexylith Reliction (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/nexylith-reliction

6 - Iliaque - Perpétuel (Across the Vacuum remix)

rhythms:
Free-loops (CC-BY)
free-loops.com
90-s-old-school-boom-bap-drum-beat
samplefocus.com

samples:
Audraulic – The Centre cannot hold (CC-BY-NC-SA)
www.zenapolae.com/zen228

Across the Vacuum – Be something (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/be-something

7 - Iliaque - Surface (Ökoton remix)

rhythm:
Snapper4298 - 120808BuzzBeat.wav (CC 0)
freesound.org/people/Snapper4298/sounds/173124/

Waldgrenze - Ökoton (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/koton
July in January + Waldgrenze - Turbid Waters, Dormant Streams (live at Noiseroom) (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/turbid-waters-dormant-streams-live-at-noiseroom

8 - Iliaque - This silence kills me remix

rhythms:
Snapper4298 - 115bpmLet The Bass Kick Loop808.wav (CC 0)
freesound.org/people/Snapper4298/sounds/685110/
Nenadsimic - Dr rex beat
www.looperman.com/loops/detail/66663/dr-rex-beat-115-bpm-by-nenadsimic-free-115bpm-breakbeat-drum-loop

Zonevreemd + Sai - This Silence Kills Me (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/this-silence-kills-me

9 - Iliaque - Un monde de mensonges (Space sailor remix)

samples:
Protuberance - Space sailor (CC-BY-NC)
mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/space-sailor
Igor Karaca - Chapter I (CC-BY-NC-SA)
www.zenapolae.com/zen220
Earthly Beasts - Erebus (CC-BY-NC-SA)
archive.org/details/enrmp357aires___ruip__andrade___earthlybeasts-_split
Eva Schlegel - Escapism (CC-BY-NC-SA)
store.southerncitylab.net/track/escapism-2
The Vanhalia Project / The Sundog Project - And After All Their Troubles (CC-BY-NC-SA)
archive.org/details/enrmp205
Damiano Baldoni - Elio contro Atlante (CC-BY)
archive.org/details/DamianoBaldoniLostDynasty
Anxiety Machine - Mortality awareness day (CC-BY-NC-SA)
www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur112.htm
José Miguel Candela - Parte 1: Saludo a los cinco puntos cardinales (CC-BY-NC-SA)
archive.org/details/pn185/

[mhrk401]

released October 25, 2025

The creation of this special compilation has been a labor of love that unfolded over the course of several years. This project, spearheaded by Ivo Petrov of Mahorka and Niki Stanchev (Autonomaton, EcoSCi records), and sequenced by LR Friberg (www.aurora-compilations.org), stands as a testament to the power of collaboration. Each track featured in the compilation carries the essence of the individual whose influence transcends boundaries of genre and time. While many of the contributors are long-standing Mahorka artists, collaborators, and cherished friends, a few new names have also been brought on board by Ivo, Niki and LR to complement the perspectives and complete the journey.

The spirit of unity and shared passion for music that permeates this compilation is a true testament to the dedication and commitment of all those involved in its creation. The seamless blend of established artists and emerging talents showcases the evolving landscape of electronic music, while also paying homage to the enduring bonds of friendship and collaboration that have shaped the Mahorka community. As listeners embark on a sonic journey through this carefully crafted compilation, they will be enveloped in a tapestry of sounds that not only entertain but also inspire, a reflection of the collective creativity and vision that defines the Mahorka ethos.

The lineup of artists and bands in the third and final chapter, each with links for more information about them and access to their music:

• Substak ( substak.bandcamp.com )
• LR Friberg ( aurora-compilations.org )
• Carya Amara ( caryaamara.bandcamp.com )
• Autonomaton ( ecoscirecords.bandcamp.com )
• Deborah Fialkiewicz ( grahamfialkiewicz.bandcamp.com )
• Stefan Strasser ( stefanstrasser.bandcamp.com )
• Wayne DeFehr ( www.waynedefehr.com )
• Pariah ( pariahuk.weebly.com )
• Chris DeBry ( www.discogs.com/artist/8643690-Chris-DeBry )
• Wilfried Hanrath ( wilfriedhanrath.bandcamp.com )
• Iliaque ( iliaque.bandcamp.com )
• SUCCULENT SUCCUBUS ( soundcloud.com/succubussucculent )
• The Pixel Door ( thepixeldoor.bandcamp.com )

Mastering by LR Friberg / aurora-compilations.org

Artwork by LR Friberg / aurora-compilations.org

[mhrk400c]

released July 6, 2024

The creation of this special compilation has been a labor of love that unfolded over the course of more than two years. This project, spearheaded by Ivo Petrov of Mahorka and Niki Stanchev (Autonomaton, EcoSCi records), and sequenced by Origin_Blueprint (www.aurora-compilations.org), stands as a testament to the power of collaboration. Each track featured in the compilation carries the essence of the individual whose influence transcends boundaries of genre and time. While many of the contributors are long-standing Mahorka artists, collaborators, and cherished friends, a few new names have also been brought on board by Ivo, Niki, and Origin_Blueprint to complement the perspectives and complete the journey.

The spirit of unity and shared passion for music that permeates this compilation is a true testament to the dedication and commitment of all those involved in its creation. The seamless blend of established artists and emerging talents showcases the evolving landscape of electronic music, while also paying homage to the enduring bonds of friendship and collaboration that have shaped the Mahorka community. As listeners embark on a sonic journey through this carefully crafted compilation, they will be enveloped in a tapestry of sounds that not only entertain but also inspire, a reflection of the collective creativity and vision that defines the Mahorka ethos.

The lineup of artists and bands in the second chapter, each with links for more information about them and access to their music:

• Rez (soundcloud.com/jjrez)
  
• Illicit (soundcloud.com/ruffah-ras)
  
• Sai (sssai.bandcamp.com)
  
• Valgidrà + Konejo (valgidra.bandcamp.com / konejo.bandcamp.com)
  
• Ivan Shopov (www.ivanshopov.com)
  
• Weldroid (weldroid.bandcamp.com)
  
• Autonomaton (ecoscirecords.bandcamp.com)
  
• Moki McFly (ikalopa.bandcamp.com)
  
• Hypnos (mahorka.org/artist/hypnos)
  
• Abu Ama (abuama.bandcamp.com)
  
• 4T Thieves (4t-thieves.bandcamp.com)
  
• Obhod (soundcloud.com/anton_pau)
  
• Mystified (mystified.bandcamp.com)
  
• Adonai Atrophia (veluvian.bandcamp.com)
  
• Jon Shuemaker (jonshuemaker.bandcamp.com)
  
• Fallen (thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com)
  
• Sevensy (sevensy.bandcamp.com)
  
• Brainquake (brainquake.bandcamp.com)
  
• {AN} EeL (panpanpanaviandistresscall.bandcamp.com)
  
• LR Friberg (aurora-compilations.org / motivational-music.one)

Mastering by Origin_Blueprint / aurora-compilations.org

Artwork by Origin_Blueprint / aurora-compilations.org

[mhrk400b]

released June 30, 2024

The creation of this special compilation has been a labor of love that unfolded over the course of more than two years. This project, spearheaded by Ivo Petrov of Mahorka and Niki Stanchev (Autonomaton, EcoSCi records), and sequenced by Origin_Blueprint (www.aurora-compilations.org), stands as a testament to the power of collaboration. Each track featured in the compilation carries the essence of the individual whose influence transcends boundaries of genre and time. While many of the contributors are long-standing Mahorka artists, collaborators, and cherished friends, a few new names have also been brought on board by Ivo, Niki, and Origin_Blueprint to complement the perspectives and complete the journey.

The spirit of unity and shared passion for music that permeates this compilation is a true testament to the dedication and commitment of all those involved in its creation. The seamless blend of established artists and emerging talents showcases the evolving landscape of electronic music, while also paying homage to the enduring bonds of friendship and collaboration that have shaped the Mahorka community. As listeners embark on a sonic journey through this carefully crafted compilation, they will be enveloped in a tapestry of sounds that not only entertain but also inspire, a reflection of the collective creativity and vision that defines the Mahorka ethos.

The lineup of artists and bands, each with links for more information about them and access to their music:

• Tokee (tokee.bandcamp.com)
  
• Captive Portal (captiveportal.bandcamp.com)
  
• Toxic Derwish (toxicderwish.bandcamp.com)
  
• Backpullver (backpullver.bandcamp.com)
  
• Petridisch (petridisch.bandcamp.com)
  
• Peter Davidson (peterdavidson.bandcamp.com)
  
• Abdicant (abdicant.bandcamp.com)
  
• Brainquake (brainquake.bandcamp.com)
  
• Ahrien (www.discogs.com/artist/11251910-Ahrien)
  
• Autonomaton (ecoscirecords.bandcamp.com)
  
• LR Friberg (aurora-compilations.org / motivational-music.one)
  
• Cousin Silas (cousinsilas1.bandcamp.com)
  
• George Christian (georgechristian.bandcamp.com)
  
• Grosso Gadgetto (grossogadgetto.bandcamp.com)
  
• A-Bell (soundcloud.com/abell_leanid)
  
• Palomo + Robbe + Gloaguen (boubis.bandcamp.com / fabienrobbe.com / soundcloud.com/jerome-gloaguen)
  
• TFSL (prikazki.bandcamp.com)

Mastering by Origin_Blueprint / aurora-compilations.org

Artwork by Origin_Blueprint / aurora-compilations.org

[mhrk400a]

released June 27, 2024

1. Tege Candidas Papillas feat. DJ Bouto
2. Take Uan feat. Wildsilences
3. Creeping Phantasy feat. M.Nomized
4. The Quaky Solution feat. Julien Ash
5. Lower Mining Level feat. Grosso Gadgetto

Produced by Vanessa Jeantrelle aka Dj Ki
Artwork by Nicolaiev Boutovitch

Djane Ki : djaneki.bandcamp.com
DJ Bouto : labandeadhesive.hautetfort.com
Wildsilences : wildsilences.bandcamp.com
M.Nomized : mnomized.bandcamp.com
Julien Ash : nouvelleslecturescosmopolites.bandcamp.com
Grosso Gadgetto : grossogadgetto.bandcamp.com

2024 (p)&(c) Djane Ki and feat. guests mentioned above

[mhrk399b]

released June 22, 2024

1. Mandatory Caution feat. Julien Ash
   
2. Free Whim feat. Greta Gain
   
3. An Eyelid in my Ear feat. Innocent but Guilty
   
4. Wingala Wangala feat. R$kp
   
5. Rather Duel than Duet feat. Wolf City
   

Produced by Vanessa Jeantrelle aka Dj Ki
Artwork by Nicolaiev Boutovitch

Djane Ki : djaneki.bandcamp.com
Julien Ash : nouvelleslecturescosmopolites.bandcamp.com
Greta Gain : soundcloud.com/user-677588277
Innocent but Guilty : apocalypsesounds.bandcamp.com
R$kp : rskpmusic.bandcamp.com
Wolf City : wolfcity1.bandcamp.com

2024 (p)&(c) Djane Ki and feat. guests mentioned above

[mhrk399a]

Two one hour sound works inspired by and based on, and I quote: "the ominous feeling of winter, dark clouds, the fear of getting lost – and nesting somewhere that feels safe".

Influences include the soundtracks of Petscop and Nier: Automata, Autechre, 7038634357, COIL, 'Tomorrow, In A Year' (The Knife, PlanningToRock, Mt. Sims) and a recurring nightmare.

Released on Mahorka June 17, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited double cassette edition.

Commissioned by Sanneke Kleingeld, one of Radio Tempo Não Pàra's curators, for their 'ik houd het nest warm' radio program that aired on the 15th of December 2023.

TNP's curator Kleingeld had heard an episode of Sounds Between Here and Nowhere (a radioshow by Luca Heydt and Mees Joachim) on Big Toilet Radio and proceeded to discover the artist's Paradise Mixes made for the 2023 Birds of Paradise exhibition - which featured many unreleased tracks made under Mees Joachim's Joachim Stiller, Absolute Candor and Zalmroze monikers - and proceeded to commission the artist to create a special mix for the radio station.

The sound work began to live a life on its own - becoming a sound collage of self-sampled unreleased works and new recordings centered around, but not limited to, synthesized sound.

As a fairly ambient / new age sound was warranted for the occasion, Mees Joachim took on their Joachim Stiller moniker to create two entirely original 1 hour sound works, with 'Radiophonic Sound bath #2' being the selected piece to be aired on Radio TNP.

The Stiller moniker has been around for a while, albeit used for art / karaoke performances, installations and video works prior to 2023, when it was first used for a music release: 'And The Overstaying of Welcomes' in collaboration with Absolute Candor.

Joachim Stiller's debut album, 'In Shallow Water', was released by Bad Boy Jesus Tape Club in April 2024. With these two sound works, released on Mahorka in May 2024, expanding the sound of Joachim Stiller even further.

Credits:
Performed, Produced, Recorded, Mixed, Mastered, etc. by Mees Joachim as Joachim Stiller in 2023, with some recordings dating back to 2021.

Featuring several synthesizers, sequencers, guitar, harp, trumpet and a Nintendo DS.

Synth by Joachim Stiller
Drum Programming by Absolute Candor
Guitar, harp, trumpet by Zalmroze
Artwork by Mees Joachim

Special thanks to Ivo Petrov, Sanneke Kleingeld, Cara Mayer, Luca Heydt, Mitko Mitkov, ambient overlord Brian Eno and Birds of Paradise Festival.

[mhrk398]

released June 6, 2024

[mhrk397]

Released May 25, 2024

Since 2002, far away from the classic formats, Grosso Gadgetto puts his mark in contemporary indie hip-hop, industrial, electronica and music of movies, contemporary shows and video games. He voluntarily destabilizes the listener by these sound deluges, under a fire nourished of scary atmospheres, drone layers, pervert breakbeats, metal guitars and catchy and addicting melodies, perfect soundtracks for a sick and claustrophobic science fiction movies that John Carpenter would probably not deny.

"Hidden Children of the Vatican" is his third solo album on Mahorka, this one coming also in limited digipak CD edition.

Music produced, recorded and interpreted by Grosso Gadgetto (Gonzalez Christian).

Includes the Vangelis tribute track "Infinitude".

Cover artwork and design by Soy Nando.

[mhrk396]

released May 14, 2024

All tracks are produced and composed by pm.
Track 6 voices : mm.

All images are produced by Thierry Massard.
Remastered by Niko Deck (Le Belgicide records).

"This EP without any pretension relates my nocturnal wanderings and the need to rediscover musical freedom..." --pm2024

[mhrk395]

Released May 5, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

"From the get-go, it's been pretty obvious that there is no set formula or path to Gili Mocanu's Somnoroase Păsărele project, with no strict rules that would block off one approach or another – just a commitment to working in the moment and staying open to whatever signals are there to be channeled. Frans de Waard summed it up quite well in his notes on the first 'AUTO' installment, saying "It is a bit of everything; one can hear the influence of techno music, industrial music, minimalism, and cosmic synthesizers […] and while they are finished as compositions, I don't think these pieces are to be understood as pop songs", adding that the vibe is more about stimulating the mind than moving the feet.

This collection brings together a different set of pieces into the self-contained system that is 'AUTO', weaving them together into a new whole possessed by the same spirit, where unusual sounds are rejuvenated, recycled and transmuted into a resonant landscape that feels like it has a life of its own." --MMercury

Sound & illustration: Gili Mocanu
Assemblage: Miru Mercury
Cover Design: Ivo Petrov

somnoroase-pasarele.bandcamp.com

[mhrk394]

Yusaku Iida is a Japanese electronic music producer and DJ that works under the artist name NYORAI, producing his own unique blend of electronica, IDM, experimental music and ambient soundscapes.

His music includes the scenery and atmosphere of Japan and depicts the changing seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter there and the spirit of Zen(禅).

Also a descendant of the Samurai(侍).

"Shinkirō (蜃気楼)" is his debut on Mahorka, specially prepared for the label, released April 27, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited digipak edition.

All music by Yusaku Iida aka NYORAI

instagram.com/yuIidanyorai
nyorai.bandcamp.com
linktr.ee/nyorai

Mastering by Anatoly 'Tokee' Grinberg

Photo by Masato Iketani
instagram.com/masato4345

Cover artwork design by Angel Draganov

[mhrk393]

SPTW (Some Pretend to Whisper) is the crossroad where sound collagists Perkin Warbek and Stakha meet.

"Delicately mistreated samples, warped instrumentations, repeated loops, liquefied vocals, scraps of arrangements here and there, abstract swarming, analog tape textures and a few minimalist beats cleverly distilled from hip-hop influences... these are some of the ingredients used by Some Pretend to Whisper to shape its strange daydreams"

"At the Foot of the Ladder" is their debut on Mahorka, released April 15, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and in limited cassette edition.

Composed and produced by SPTW
sptw.bandcamp.com

Cover photo by Stakha
Cover design by Alizee Demetz

[mhrk392]

Released April 11, 2024

Waldgrenze (meaning "border of the forest") is the project of Theo Kovalev (Wave Resistance), focused on ambient and experimental electronic music, as well as acoustic sound production experiments and field recordings, inspired by the ecological idea of friendly coexistence of two opposing sides - nature and technology. Born in joint improvisational jam sessions with other artists, the project eventually transformed and acquired its own sound character, retaining the original idea of the changes made to live recordings to preserve the feeling of "here and now", where in each composition you can hear the unique state of different places.

In some cases, during jam sessions, it is possible to reach a certain interesting state, during which intriguing compositions are born, which often do not require further post-processing. Such a unique creative phenomenon of musician collaboration resembles the pairing of electrons into Cooper pairs in a superconductor. The classical theory of superconductivity states that, below a specific critical temperature, electrons in a metal pair up to create bosons called Cooper pairs. These bosons form a phase-coherent condensate that can flow through a material without scattering – the result being superconductivity.

The three sessions comprising "Cooper Pairs vol.2" were captured during collaborative jam sessions in the project's homeland over several years prior to relocating to Australia. The first piece stands as a classic example of Theo Kovalev's drone ambient collages, enriched by the interplay between Ilya Suzdaltsev's acoustic improvisations and Nikita Vasilyenko's experimental electronic elements. The second composition merges rhythmic passages with ethereal ambient textures, crafted in collaboration with Vadim Rumyantsev (Room V), originally christened as Cooper Pairs, thus inspiring the title for Theo Kovalev's series of joint recordings with various artists. Bringing the album to a close is a track blending trip-hop elements with guitar ambient, recorded during a unique jam session with Oleg Zherdev, a multi-instrumentalist also known for his work with The Awakening Stones Garden (ASG) project.

[mhrk391]

Cooper Pairs vol.1 (under the Wave Resistance alias of Theo Kovalev): mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/cooper-pairs-vol-1

Lezet is an experimental one-man music project hailing from Pozega, Serbia and releasing music since 2006. Being an avid music fan in love with many different styles, genres and approaches in music, Igor Jovanovic tries to explore and incorporate many of them into the sound of Lezet. Igor sees music as an artistic practice which should be fun and exciting for those making it, and feels fortunate enough to have many friends and fellow music makers allowing him to grow artistically by collaborating with him.

After more than a decade since the previous "Meld" album was released, Igor decided to revive the series where each song in the album is made with a different collaborator.

The previous volumes were the albums that Igor loved making / being part of more than any of his solo endeavours. The "Meld" series galvanised his venturing in producing music in duos and groups since.

"Thanks to all the artists who collaborating with me on "Meld 8" and for making the album as brilliant as it is!"

Collaborators featured on "Meld 8":

RDKPL - "Czech noisound maker. Aural manipulations within the borders of power noise, experimental electronica, downtempo glitch to electroacoustic industrial." RDKPL.bandcamp.com

Wilfried Hanrath - "I am 66 years old and a happy father and grandfather. I learned classical guitar, and taught myself bass, drums and percussion, and keyboards, synthesizers. And, like I like listening to different styles and genres in music, I play different genres and styles. Solo works are one branch in my activities; more fulfilling - be it in live situations or in the studio, is to come together with others in collaborations." wilfriedhanrath.bandcamp.com

Kleshas - Christopher B. Arnett's recent moniker exploring melodic experimental and classical music even further than the music he released under his own name.

Dj Odraz - Ken Willbond started the project after a decade and a half of making music as Protecious. The music is influenced by metal, hip-hop, funk, horror movie soundtracks and many other styles and genres. facebook.com/Protecious

Filmy Ghost - a Dark Ambient, Experimental, Witch House, Ghostly Computer Music project created by S bila Orbe from Rancagua, Chile. Founder of Cian Orbe & Witch Spectra non-profit netlabels. filmyghost-humanfobia-doppelganger.bandcamp.com

Humanfobia - A Witch House / VaporGoth / Horror Synth / Experimental duo from Rancagua, Chile formed in 2011. Mist Spectra - lead female vocals; S bila Orbe - sound mixer and male vocals. humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com

Dolores Mondo Stash - a sound experimentation project based in Bucharest, Romania. The music revolves around genres such as experimental, industrial, electronic, ambiental and post-punk. doloresmondostash.bandcamp.com

Edo Žudjelovic - a visual artist, drawer, painter and electronic/noise musician, occasionally exploring electronic music. He lives and works in Bar, Montenegro. Studied Visual Communication Design at the Faculty of Visual Arts in Podgorica, currently a graduate student at the faculty. He participated in the Short video form screening, alternative film video festival in Podgorica, Montenegro. Has published several noise and experimental music albums. harshrealitymusic.bandcamp.com/album/starch harshrealitymusic.bandcamp.com/album/rosette

M.Nomized - a recording artist, mail artist, author, collagist and painter who was born Mandrange Michel in Paris in 1956. He started his work in 1975 with contemporary music and sound research. In the subsequent 31 years he has appeared on more than 200 solo, collaboration and compilation cd and tape releases - on his own Fraction Studio label and on numerous European, Japanese and American labels. M.Nomized has recorded and created music in many different styles, including experimental, electronic, minimalist and repetitive musics, industrial, Indian music, "out", Algerian, noise, cyclic and looped-based music, children's theatre, ambient, piano and spoken word. He was an important figure in the homemade music scene of the 1980s and 1990s, and is well-known for his recordings as a member of No Authorized. M.Nomized has collaborated with De Fabriek, Don Campau, Mr. Moto, Carsten Olbrich, Mark Sonnenfeld, The Legendary Poptones, Daniele Brusaschetto, Bidoche Musique, Kora, Messy, Mlehst and many others. mnomized.bandcamp.com/album/m-nomized-music-for-treated-violins-and-loops-variations-2022 mnomized.bandcamp.com/album/m-nomized-in-the-morning-mist-2023

Artwork by Senka Jankovic

Released April 6, 2024

[mhrk390]

Particules is a collaborative music project between Victor Prodanov (xDEx) and Tsvetan Momchilov (Chillov).

Occasionally rhythmic and highly processed, yet remaining evolving, immersive, and meditative to some, the Particules project started as non-formal jam sessions and later evolved into a full-scale live performance act.

The most challenging task during the recording of their debut album "Escape Path" was to capture the unique and spontaneous live act synergy in the studio. All tracks are recorded live, with no editing and minimal mixing in Varna’s hot and foggy January 2024.

Victor Prodanov - Machines and programing
Tsvetan Momchilov - French horn, vocals, synthesizers and percussions

Mastering by Martin Dimchev (Green Peas)

[mhrk389]

Prism Capture are Jonathan Deasy and Jonas Geiger Ohlin. A friendship that started when Jonathan took part in Music for Mental Health, a compilation to raise founds for Mind UK curated by Jonas. The two has stayed connected since. The seed that grew to be Prism Capture was planted when Jonathan let Jonas listen to his album to be Adversary. Jonas found inspiration in the work and took the liberty of reworking/remixing the two tracks into what later was released as Ally. The two was intrigued by the possibilities a collaboration could bare. The music that followed is what became Prism Capture. A project that captures Jonathan’s ambient drone work with Jonas more pop oriented soundscapes.

Released March 10, 2024

[mhrk388]

scav is the artist name of Sofia-based ambient enthusiast and modular synths experimentator Krasi Yonchev - a trained acoustician and professional recording studio designer. He is the main brain behind the engineering studio Acoustic Waves and part of the people initiating Artmospheric Festival in Bulgaria.

He released his highly acclaimed debut album of masterfully crafted improvised jam sessions with no edits, "Morphing Clouds", on the Spanish label Faint in 2019. One year later he debuted on Mahorka with beautiful track on the "EASTERN DEPTHS IV" VA compilation featuring most of the active and many iconic Bulgarian electronic producers.

Now we are really proud to finally present "The Second", his new album of strikingly beautiful improvised modular ambient pieces, coming as free (cc) download and a limited cassette edition.

Released March 1, 2024

Improvised modular recordings by Krasi Yonchev
Mastered by Kliment Dichev
Cover design by Aleksandar Petrov

[mhrk387]

Fading Tapes was formed in 2014 by Krzysztof Siwkowski (guitars and synths) and Marcin Lasek (drums and other effects) in Szczytno, Poland, mainly playing space-rock / post-rock and ambient music. Their main inspirations are independent cinema and life itself.

S​á​t​á​ntangó (Part I), their debut album on Mahorka, is imagined and realised as an alternative soundtrack to the Béla Tarr's movie, utilizing a guitar, a 1970s radio, drums and various effects.

Written and recorded by Krzysztof Siwkowski and Marcin Lasek in June, 2021.

Released February 24, 2024 on Mahorka as free (cc) digital download and a beautiful Digipak CD edition.

[mhrk386]

Vanishing Corridor is the synthesis of American sound experimenters Kingo Sleemer (Western Maryland) and Chris Campbell (St. Paul, Minnesota).

Campbell has been recording dark ambient/sound collage/field-recorded soundscapes as The Creeping Man since 2017, both as self-releases and on various labels (Hrea'm Recordings, Mono Time, Dub Cthonic, Veinte 33, Preston Capes Tapes, Wormhole World, and Shady Ridge Records), most recently finding inspiration via collaborations with like-minded artists.

Kingo has been part of the experimental music collective Halaka since the late 90s, with whom he's recorded and released many albums in many formats; he has recently recorded and released music as Allele Cog Experiment, HOZ and Experimental College. He is also a co-founder of Pile Records.

The two share an affinity for the absurd, the obtuse, and the off-kilter.

Vanishing Corridor started as a back-and-forth exercise of sound sharing and manipulation, without preconceived themes or intentions.

The project debuts on February 18, 2024 on Mahorka with a beautiful self-titled cassette release.

Artwork by Tod Trexler / Ivo Petrov.

[mhrk385]

Released February 11, 2024

Andreas Rönnquist was born in the small city Finspång, Östergötland, Sweden, and is now based just outside Halmstad on the Swedish west coast. Being a fan of dark ambient, drone, industrial and experimental music since the mid to late nineties, it has taken until the 20ies until he has started making music himself - taking inspiration from the stuff he listened to in the 90ies and also what he has discovered lately, he tries to create hypnotic atmospheres for the listener to sink into using heavily processed guitars, found sounds and field recordings. Andreas Rönnquist has released music on Do You Dream of Noise? (Sweden), Gates of Hypnos (Poland), and is featured on the "New State of Flux" double-CD compilation on Reverse Alignment (Italy). His debut on Mahorka, titled "The Mysterious Figure Turned Out to be a Parasol" presents yet another step in his own path of exploration of unknown ruinous realms and deeply sunken eerie sounds.

[mhrk384]

Released February 4, 2024

Sven Phalanx is a musician from Frankfurt (Main), Germany, known in the business for over 20 years. First - with the projects Schattenspiel (Neoclassical / Ambient) and Schwarzwald (EBM / Industrial) and, since 2020 - as Sven Phalanx. In all these years, Sven has worked with artists from all over the world and has reinvented and developed his own style over and over again. Since 2021 he has released on Mahorka 3 defining full-length albums ("Inner Demon", "Ph​ö​nix" and "S.P.Q.R"), one live album, two remix albums and amazing collaborations with Andreas Davids, Brainquake and Miss Kitty.

The Sven Phalanx journey continues with "Svalbard EP", dedicated to the magical and inspiring place Sven visited few years ago. The release once again has some great collaborators on board - Anatoly Tokee Grinberg and Art Abscons.

All music composed, produced, mixed and mastered by Sven Phalanx

Additional music and production on track 3 by Anatoly Tokee Grinberg

Additional music and production on track 4 by Art Abscons

Cover artwork photo by Miss Kitty

[mhrk383]

Released January 27, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and special limited edition digipak CD.

Last July saw the release of "Spirit Guide" - a brilliant EP from Skyjelly out of Boston, Massachusetts, which was definitely one of 2023's highlights in the music world! Now, in partnership with I Heart Noise (out of Boston too, who did the original release) and Wormhole World (UK) we've prepared an expanded rerelease foray, also bringing a sweet dejavu of collectible editions on CD!

Original can be found here

"Wandering vocals fall somewhere between David Byrne when he gets weird and David Bowie on a good day" - Dig Boston

"Makes me think of “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” -Byrne/Eno Just as inventive. But its own entity. Somehow both catchy and experimental. Well done." - Joe Imwalle (Aux Meadows)

All three expanded editions feature the 6 original EP tracks and additional 4 unreleased tracks from the "Spirit Guide" sessions.

The I Heart Noise (US) "Deluxe Edition" features 2 additional Skyjelly tracks - "Providence (Episode One)" and "Motorola Monkey", previously available as video singles.

Wormhole World (UK)'s edition features 2 special hidden bonus tracks.

And our "Mahorka Edition" features stunning reworks of the original "Spirit Guide" EP tracks by Brainquake, Zonevreemd and Toxic Derwish, alongside 3 older but golden remixes of Skyjelly tracks by Lord of Overstock, the Third Kind Records founder Nicholas Langley and Grayscape. First two of these older remixes have previously been available as bonus tracks on Skyjelly's "Blank Panthers / Priest, Expert, or Wizard" 2023 version and the Grayscape remix has been so far unreleased.

Skyjelly are:

Skyjelly Jones
Dave Melanson
Eric (Jones) Hudson
Scott Sheik Levesque

skyjelly.com

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Vocal artist and poet AEP meets composer Ash for the third time. This collaboration started with Antonella's voice recordings, which were the inspiration for creating music to wrap them... A Christmas gift...

The complete "Non Uccidere Il Pesce d'Oro" album (mhrk381a) was released in the end of Jan, 2024 on Mahorka.

This is the follow-up companion EP "Il Pesce d'Oro" of reimagined versions and additions.

released January 21, 2024

Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi: lyrics, vocals
Julien Ash: music, synths, acoustic guitar, electric bass, melodica, harmonica, piano, mix, digital mastering
With: Aloïs L (violin, alto saxophone), Wolf City (electric guitar & bass on track 4), PY Lebeau (electric guitar) & François Porte (transverse flute)

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Vocal artist and poet AEP meets composer Ash for the third time. This collaboration started with Antonella's voice recordings, which were the inspiration for creating music to wrap them... A Christmas gift...

The complete album is released in the end of Jan, 2024 on Mahorka, followed up by a companion EP "Il Pesce d' Oro" (mhrk381b) of reimagined versions and additions.

released January 20, 2024

Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi: lyrics, vocals
Julien Ash: music, synths, acoustic guitar, electric bass, melodica, harmonica, piano, mix, digital mastering.
With: Aloïs L (violin, alto saxophone), Wolf City (percussions, electric guitar and bass), PY Lebeau (electric guitar) & François Porte (transverse flute)

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"We are all deaf" is the third full length album by ЧЕРНИХОВ | CERNICHOV, a noise/ambient duo based between Brussels and Milan, of US (David Gutman) and Italian (Marco Mazzucchelli) nationality.

"The album's concept gravitates around the deep and actual contraposition given by the human strive for exploration: on one hand there is the total deafness towards the heartbeat of planet Earth, from a vibrational perspective expressed by the Schuman frequency, a sub bass frequency that can be resumed as the intimate physical expression of how our ecosystem relates in its environment. On the other hand, the exploration's focus is monopolised by the infinite horizon that the eyes define. The Sputnik satellite becomes the first extraterrestrial exploration means, kept in contact with signals emitted at 40Hz. On these two main frequency inputs, the first as carrier for cross-modulation treatment and the second as a BPM driver, we explored a possible scenario of sonic interactions, ending with what we see as the soundtrack of our personal existence in this 4 dimensional world."

Released January 14, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited digipak CD edition.

Recorded by Marco Mazzucchelli and David Gutman

Produced and Mixed by David Gutman

Mastered by Anacleto Vitolo

Artwork by Marco Mazzucchelli

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released 31.12.2023, 23:23 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

Music, Guitars, Drums, Bass, Synths, Mix: Kaloyan Ivanov
Mastering: Yasen Penchev
Cover artwork: Angel Draganov

The track "23 / 24" is an edited version of a TFSL live performance for the "ToBe Continued - Stop TB Day" music marathon on stazioneditopolo.it radio station, broadcast on 24.03.2023, World Tuberculosis Day.

"Voyager" video by: Mei Dark (of My Fury)

The "Voyager" audio-visual project was realised with the support of Национален фонд „Култура“/ National Culture Fund, Bulgaria, as part of the "Musical initiatives 2021" programme.

Thanks to the support of: Angel Draganov, Ivo Petrov, Yasen Penchev, Vasil Goranov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Boyan Avramov and all others.

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Based out of Virginia Beach, USA, Jon Shuemaker is a prolific multi-instrumentalist songwriter/composer. We are excited to present his debut release on Mahorka "Point of Percival".

"The top chart on the cover with the N,NE,NW,E,W,S,SE,SW "compass" is a representation of the human ears perception in terms of auditory directional charting. The center being the "Point of Percival". The directions represent directional hearing from the center or human mind as the center of perception.

The bottom chart is based off the model for Möbius function . It was used during Summer 2023 to chart bird chirp cadences and songs. The chart pulled from both negative and positive vocal inflections from the birds sampled for analysis.

Within this charting I was creating a model for recurring patterns within speech cadences within the bird songs. Finding that there were unpredictable cadences and as well there was some that seemed to be easier to anticipate. I called this system of the predictable aspect "Telepathic Communications".

I wrote these two pieces to incorporate different perception based responses in coordination with synchronicity timing of said events."

All music composed, arranged, and performed by: Jon Shuemaker
Artwork: Jon Shuemaker

Released December 26, 2023

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Released December 20, 2023

"In some cases, during jam sessions, it is possible to reach a certain interesting state, during which intriguing compositions are born, which often do not require further post-processing. Such a unique creative phenomenon of musician collaboration resembles the pairing of electrons into Cooper pairs in a superconductor. The classical theory of superconductivity states that, below a specific critical temperature, electrons in a metal pair up to create bosons called Cooper pairs. These bosons form a phase-coherent condensate that can flow through a material without scattering – the result being superconductivity.

"Cooper Pairs vol.1" consists of three compositions: the first was recorded with Room V during numerous sessions in the pre-pandemic years in Moscow and its suburbs, the second was realized in collaboration with Fukte in 2019 in Crespano del Grappa after performing at "Noises From The Basement" in Belluno in the Dolomites, northern Italy, and the third recording was born as a result of a jam session with II:II during my last visit to St. Petersburg after performing at Sound Museum in January 2022, before leaving for Australia. All tracks combine a unique blend of genres. "Machine" is experimental techno and IDM, resulting from the combination of the sounds of analog modular and digital synthesizers. "Breakdown" is a mixture of noise from DIY electroacoustic instruments with experimental electronics, while "Collapse of Empire" is rhythmic noise and dark ambient with processed electric guitar." --Theo Kovalev a.k.a. Wave Resistance

Wave Resistance is a project of Theo Kovalev (also releasing as Waldgrenze), an experimental electronic sound laboratory circa 2013 based under Moscow and currently in Australia. The project is focused on IDM, post-industrial, techno, rhythmic noise, dark ambient and experimental electronic genres. A philosophical journey to the reverse side of our world and consciousness through the language of the technogenic music.

Room V, the project of Vadim Rumyantsev, formerly releasing under his name, represents a significant evolution in his stylistic exploration. While once confined to the exclusive realms of drone-ambient, Room V now ventures into uncharted musical territories. This evolution is marked by the seamless integration of dynamic rhythms and broader melodic lines, moving beyond the initial ambient confines. The project skilfully blends soundscapes influenced by Rumyantsev's experiences in south-east Asia with emotive moods inherited from other corners of the world. In essence, Room V has transformed into a multi-dimensional sonic journey, capturing the artist's willingness to experiment and explore beyond previous constraints. Currently based in Cambodia.

Fukte is the main project of Fabrizio De Bon, out of Italy, who is also the head of the Toxic Industries label. The sound of the project is mostly Harsh Noise with HNW and industrial influences.

II.II is experimental electronic music project from Moscow, Russia, created in 2018 by Vorobiev Andrey, also known with the projects: ἐγρήγορος, Echo Сoma, p3o, Mesosphere, The Crawling Chaos, Ил, Cдоба, Magnetic TarTrap. The project name can be read as "11:11". The music is performed on the analog modular synthesizer. It's atmospheric and cinematographic, it slowly crawls into the frame like a black cloud of giant sprout and rolling everything around the not transparent darkness. Distant industrial bits and smooth bewitching drone, all as you love. Rumours are that his musical developments he leads secretly, in abandoned old factories, conducts mass on radioactive graves in Russian forests and he suits underground festivals in deep forests. Currently based in India.

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7F7F7F is a chaotic and meaningless project, without manifestos, without meanings, without ideas. Noise as an expression of dissolution in non-existence and useless artifacts of synthesis, sound dust. Absolute nothingness, uncertainty...

released December 16, 2023

Author: Leanyd Churylau (A-BELL)
Mastering: Leanyd Churylau (A-BELL)
Cover & Artwork: Leanyd Churylau
Belarus, Smorgon

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/allow yourself to be consumed/

"in the beginning of the summer i acquired a broken electric organ from the 70s. after renovating it i fell in love with it's raw sound. it was alive and it had a story to tell.

later i got the chance to travel trough central europe. it was an almost non-stop journey. travelling at time more than 15+ hours a day. your body stops feeling the motion. the landscape became a moving decor. a peculiar soundtrack started to form from all the road noises, the static of the radio and the low chatter of the other passengers. time became irrelevant and abstract. my thoughts formed a stream, shifting from sleep and wake. detached form the outside world nothing truly existed.

when i got back home i wanted to experience this state again - this constant moving, this silence that was never really silent. a place outside of time.

the organ + some field recordings done on the go formed a huge mass sonically inspired by this trip but also by my search of a sanctuary.

омайна тишина, погълни ме! (bewitching silence, swallow me whole!) is an album dedicated to the need of nothingness and the passage of time. as anxiety saturates our everyday life we find ourselves struggling to find space. this album provided me with the space i needed and i hope it will do the same for you."

sbogom1000.bandcamp.com

Released December 3, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

music / recording / mix / master: bozhidar savov
art work / cover: yoanna laskova

NOTE: cassettes will be ready and shipping around the end of December 2023

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released December 1, 2023

A collaboration between Marc Ceulemans (who has released as Brainquake, Toxic Derwish, Zonevreemd and is based in Belgium) and Yasen Penchev (Sai, Bulgaria) is something we have always dreamed of and when we were approached with Zonevreemd's new album work in process of taking shape, we immediately felt this is the one where the magic is to happen. And happen it did, ending up not just featuring Sai's guitars on some tracks but being a full-on co-authored and co-produced, an album of both of them. "To stare blankly in these empty spaces" is a proof of the ability of music to traverse geographical and genre boundaries.

"In empty spaces when staring at nothing, with narrowed eyes, there is sound and blurred vision."

Marc and Yasen have not only bridged the physical distance that separates them but have also combined their artistic visions in a unique synergy that resonates deeply with the human experience. It's an invitation to explore emotions, thoughts, and dreams that lie hidden within the quiet spaces of existence. It beckons you to engage with its beauty, one track at a time, and to discover the profound landscapes that can be painted in the emptiness between the dynamism and emotional intensity, a contemplative backdrop that allows you to explore the emotional spectrum within those empty spaces...

All instruments and sounds by Marc Ceulemans and Yasen Penchev.
Mastering by Yasen Penchev.
Cover artwork by Marc Ceulemans.

"Mahorka is more than a label, it is also a place where artists meet each other and collaborate."

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Nonima is a project by Tam Ferrans - based out of Scotland, UK who also produces as Mitoma and is a member of Peltiform.Tam also curates the renown Section27 label which has released over 200 albums / EP's since 2009.

Dissolved (Paul Daniels) is an electronic musician and visual artist from Glasgow, Scotland. He makes an eclectic blend of electronic, drone, ambient and experimental music and has also released on Daddytank records, Section27 and his own Dissolvedamberrooms label. Currently based in Vancouver where he stays with 2 cats and a bird.

Nonima and Dissolved have collaborated numerous times, be it for collaboration albums / EPs on Section27 or elsewhere or remixing each other's solo works. "Neurophosis" is an album of more experimental and abstract character that is also their first release in cassette edition and just the perfect Mahorka debut for them.

Released November 25, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

All tracks written and produced by Nonima and Dissolved, 2023
Mastering by Nonima
Artwork and layout by Dissolved
"Thanks to Ivo"

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With a sense of musical introspection, incantatory melodicism and cinematic dread Philippe Blache (from Day Before Us) goes back on the forefront with a highly thrilling melancholic drama for sonic driftscapes and devastating walls of power electronics tempered by organic ethereal vibes. Detached and evanescent melodies are battling against the obscured, unsettling, stormy and weary industrial atmosphere. Powerful internal narrations and incantatory voices at distance occasionally come into the mix. With its performative bitter anthems, its ritualistic then almost religious nature, the album invites the listener to be progressively mersed in a netwok of allusive images, investing pagan mythologies, poetical escapism and christian symbology. This is the second musical offspring signed under his own name after a prolific production under the moniker of "Day Before Us", veteran project in sorrowful dark wave neoclassicism. «Across the silence and the shade» is an essential and mournful post-ambient journey which involves an emotional catharsis.

Released November 17, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited digipak CD edition.

Written, recorded and produced by Philippe Blache

Mastered by Giuseppe Verticchio

Graphic design and artwork by Joan Llopis Doménech

Thanks to Ivo Petrov, Giuseppe Verticchio, Joan Llopis Doménech, Darina Levandosska (for the narratives on tracks 1 & 2) and Pauline Poirel (for the vocal section on track 8).

Philippe Blache / Day Before Us: daybeforeus1.bandcamp.com

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released November 2, 2023

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 and has released his music with Mahorka from the time of the label's inception.

His musical themes ‘unfold into an unusual landscape’ so that it is often impossible to tell where one ends and another begins.

"Form emerges, as fragile as a snowdrop’s blossom, as solid as a mountain, then recedes and is transformed. Awareness witnesses the interplay of all things. "Reckoning (creation)" aims to musically depict this metamorphosis. Acoustic or treated electric guitar forms the basis of every piece, though this may not be evident upon first listening. Layers of synthesisers and bass are interwoven with fragments of melodies that coalesce and dissolve."

Cover artwork: Jan Brooks

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An outstanding collaboration between two artist friends Abu Ama and BedouinDrone who are both renowned for their previous solo releases and collaborations on Mahorka (Abu Ama: "Totem" double cassette, BedouinDrone: "The Border" cassette, "Abandoned Villages" digital, "Taliban" with Runi Graph, "Tipping Point" cassette as Pedro Maras, and their collaboration project shabaH: "1" cassette) and elsewhere.

A very special album that just deserved some very special release edition. The occasion for another Mahorka dream to come true. Yes, it is a pro-pressed 12" LP with outstanding design courtesy of Brett Tassenon and Angel Draganov.

Released October 14, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited (300) pro-pressed 12" vinyl edition.

The vinyl contains tracks 1-6 of the digital release. The digital release contains one bonus track (7).

Calligraphy art by Brett Tassenon
Cover artwork design by Angel Draganov

"Thanks to Ivo Petrov and the Mahorka crew"

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"Vertical Moon Phase Charm", Christophe Bailleau's debut on Mahorka, is the second album out of his meta-vision of electronic and electro-acoustic music trilogy on the theme of creativity in the face of autistic disorders, following the excellent inauguration "CHUVA ORBITAL : Armadillo Time" on Lotophagus Records. Here the artist again asserts his unique craftsmanship in balancing and naturally blending low-fi and high-tech sounds, acoustic sources and digital synthesis in another powerful, immersive work. "Vertical Moon Phase Charm" notably includes quite the strong and special list of collaborators: A Limb, Stanley Christiaensen, Konejo, Innocent But Guilty and Paradise Now.

"Supradyne" (tracks 3 and 4) exists in a rather different version (and as one-part track) on "Optionnal essentials, vol V" on 3 To The 3rd Music.

Track 5 is based on "Konejo - The Rotten Cycle of Life and Decay (Christophe Bailleau Remix)" released on "The Moodygoer Remixes Part I" on Mahorka.

Track 6 is a different version of the track "Spaceform (free)" in collaboration with Innocent But Guilty for the 413 project on Foolish Records.

"A monument of fluctuating abstraction, Vertical Moon Phase Charm has no known safety measures or possible precautionary principles. A multi-dimensional mutant emulsion, we navigate in turbulent waters, no need to look for a secure anchor. Conceptual chimera, beautifully produced, each track ... proceeds through systemic enchantment, it quickly becomes unnecessary to resist - a variant geometry."
-- from Thierry Massard's review on nocoVision

Released September 30, 2023 as free (cc) download and limited cassette.

Christophe Bailleau: composition, programming, production, synthesizers, guitar, piano
A Limb: synthesizers, noises on tracks 1 and 8.
Stanley Christiaensen: Moog synthesizer, vocals, Tibetan bells, sitar on track 4.
Konejo: sampling and sounds on track 5.
Innocent But Guilty: sounds and programming on track 6.
Paradise Now: electronics, sampling and voice on track 10 and 11.

Visuals by Christophe Bailleau
Graphic Design by Messa Haddad

With the support of Transcultures / CITY SONIC - 20 YEARS
Pépinières européenneS de Création.

transcultures.be/transonic/

Thanks to Ivo, my family and FRIENDS, OPN, Optical Sound, 3 To The 3rd Music, Ben, Thierry M, Zorg, the magic.

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Story of Summer first emerged in the weeks and months following a summer's journey through Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, and Pakistan. Inspired by images of Sinan's domes and minarets, horizons of sunflowers, secluded monasteries, the Aegean sea, and endless chai. Upon returning these freshly sown memories were sparked into music by specific events, conversations, and recollections in the fall that followed.

Since that time the story has been added to by an international cast of producers, whose diverse approaches reimagine and reconstruct the tale into successive chapters of melodics and ambience. The sonics of all creations then polished to a shine by bvdub.

Original tracks written, produced, and mixed by Bryan Gilstein (Encased in Amber)
Reworks of the original tracks by aAirial, The Pixel Door, Abdicant, Tokee, Cognition Delay, SURVEY CHANNEL, Sevensy, Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet, 4T Thieves, Blanket Swimming
Mastering on all tracks by Brock Van Wey (bvdub)

released September 22, 2023

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After "Earth Project" and "Earth Science" here is "Infinite Fidelity", the new collaboration between the French producer Grosso Gadgetto and the poet Black Saturn (alias of Ned Jackson) from Washington DC. This album catapults you into another dimension of experimental music, noise rap and mutant hip-hop to be discovered.

Lyrics and vocals by
Black Saturn (Ned Jackson)
Washington, DC

Music produced & recorded by
Grosso Gadgetto (Gonzalez Christian)
Villeurbanne, France
September 2023

Scratch by Didydee

Mastered by Grossotoprod

Artwork by Sick Ced

Released September 16, 2023

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Sven Lemke is a musician and producer that has been known in the scene for over 20 years with the projects Schattenspiel (Neoclassical / Ambient) and Schwarzwald (EBM / Industrial) and also for the numerous exciting and pushing the boundaries collaborations with many artists from around the world and constantly reinventing and developing his own style.

Since 2020 in all his solo and collaborative works he appears under the artist name Sven Phalanx. "Inner Demon", an intimate compilation of 15 very personal songs was the Sven Phalanx full-length debut on Mahorka in the following 2021. In 2022 we released the follow-up "Phönix" that includes notable collaborations with Hermann Kopp and Miss Kitty and presents a wide range of soundscapes with solid dark ambient base, intermingled with industrial vibes, hauntingly catchy melodies and sometimes even danceable beats, comprising what is undoubtedly his deepest and most mature work to that date.

"S.P.Q.R", an abbreviation that has been used both for Sven's studio and label-like entity containing all his works, is also the name of Sven Phalanx's third full-length album on Mahorka where, once again, the complete and further evolved spectrum of Sven's musical diversity is summarized in 14 brilliant tracks, more than half of which have been co-authored with dear collaborators Anatoly Tokee Grinberg, Mikrometrik, Ultra, Vallée des Larmes, Shaita, Miss Kitty, CMO-Projekt, Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites and Cydonia.

Mastering by Sven Lemke
Cover artwork by Angel Draganov

Released September 6, 2023

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Released August 29, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited edition pro-dubbed cassette tape with double sided pro-printed on special "rough" paper j-card. Songs are nameless. Sides are identical. Life is meaningless.

Composed and produced by MoHoK and Tokee
Album mastering by Anatoly Grinberg
Cover artwork and packaging design by Fariz Suleiman

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Small bits of Angel Simitchiev’s abrasive ambient works under the name Dayin have previously made their way to the digital Mahorka catalog but his full-length debut on the label is a special one. “Warm Like Crystal Throats” is an extended cassette reissue of two previously self-released digital-only EPs that were only available from the Dayin Bandcamp page.

While “Warm Like Iron Claws”, which takes up side A on the tape, is just slightly remastered, its counterpart "Crystal Throats Are Singing" features two previously unreleased tracks from the 2020 recording sessions. Simitchiev dig deep in the vaults where Water Temple and Where Guilt Sleeps were waiting to be finished and included in this special edition, alongside a reimagining of Cloud Control. With the original version of the track also available as a digital-only bonus, the 2020-2022 chapter of Dayin’s cryptic aural existence is now finally put to a close.

“In the static of burning shores, we find sleep
The surface is singing like water in burrows”

Released August 18, 2023 as free (cc) download and
limited cassette edition.

Recorded and produced by Angel Simitchiev
Originally self-released digitally in 2020 & 2022
Tracks B4 & B6 are previously unreleased
Artwork by Alexandru Daș

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Released August 16, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

Recorded 2020 in Koblenz, Germany by Alexander Holtz with piano, electric guitar, eurorack and field-kit

All music by Alexander Holtz

"Inspired by landscapes, people and celluloid met and seen in the late 80ies/early 90ies"

"Many thanks to Ivo Petrov for his careful organizing of the release of this tape"

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Released August 12, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

Track 4 is not on the tape.

Composed and produced by Abu Ama + BedouinDrone

shabaH project previously known as BedouinGhost

Cover artwork by BedouinDrone + Ivo Petrov

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A mental trip in imaginary landscapes...

Released August 5, 2023

Music by Hans Castrup + Philippe Neau

Artwork by Philippe Neau

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Sobria Ebrietas + Iliaque – Solace (CC-BY-NC) 2023

01 Sobria Ebrietas - se.37-3 (En apesanteur - Némésis - Terra II - Kaleidoscope / Quadri remix)

Sample piano :
Meydän - Please wake up (CC-BY)
meydan.bandcamp.com/track/please-wake-up

02 Iliaque - Programmé

Sample vox :
Eisenlager - Headlights Fuck the City (CC-BY)
eisenlager.bandcamp.com/track/headlights-fuck-the-city-2

03 Sobria Ebrietas - se.37-1

04 Iliaque - Baleines ballet

05 Sobria Ebrietas - se.37-2

06 Iliaque - Vivid and brief part 2 (se.35-3 remix)

Sample beats :
Greyguy - Drum beat 1 (CC-BY-NC) ccmixter

sobriaebrietas.bandcamp.com
iliaque.bandcamp.com

Artwork photo by Béa

Released July 22, 2023

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Long time ago, in the relatively small Black Sea coastal city of Varna, Julian Kalchev a.k.a. Virtually J became a kind of local pioneer and an inspiration for a whole generation, being the first to explore ways to compose and produce electronic music programmed, edited, played on a PC. He's been important part of the scene since then, contributing, for example, to the essential VA series "Kokaku" on Jisatsuken. We were really excited to release on Mahorka his latest album "Autocracy Mage" in February 2021.

In the vein of the never skipped tradition of preparing and releasing a really special collaborative Mahorka album for Netlabel Day each year (e.g. Fire to the Stars, Captive Portal, krāllār, Teeth of Divine, Tomoroh Hidari, Electrohollyc & MO. reworks albums, the "Music for Elevators vol. 5" VA compilation and a 4T Thieves remixes album), we are more than happy to announce 2023's release "Virtually J - Reworks", including new versions of tracks off "Autocracy Mage" (from Toxic Derwish, LR Friberg, Hypnos, Captive Portal, SpaceCherry, 4T Thieves, Asshole Galaxy (Abdicant and Weldroid), Brainquake, Obhod, Fluffy Inside (a.k.a. Pandacetamol), Mas&Delayer, and Julian Kalchev himself in the Autocracy Mage Remix of "Nazka") and one unreleased original track and an un released Autonomaton remix.

Artwork by MO.Design (Momchil Papaschikov)

Released for Netlabel Day 2023

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One Tru Odd has been around longer than intended or expected, mostly helping other people’s talents shine - as much as the people in question would let him. He has been, and probably will continue being, in more other artists’ bands than reasonable and has done more unprofitable music for theatre than is considered decent. When time allows for it, One Tru Odd releases music under the aliases V.K., Bissquit, and Bassquit, none of which are real human names. “Hits for the Misplaced” is his second outing as One Tru Odd after 2021’s “This E.P”. As per his music, his opinion of humanity is fairly favourable.

Released July 12, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited edition digipak CD

All music written, performed, programmed, recorded and mixed by
One Tru Odd

onetruodd.bandcamp.com

Lyrics and vocals by Vlad von Doom

Everything related to One Tru Odd and Vlad von Doom is Vladimir Gueorguiev

All of the above want to thank Borislava Vasileva for the help and patience while they were busy with producing these hits

Artwork by Angel Draganov

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Nik (4T Thieves) has been putting out beautiful electronic music since the early demoscene days. He also, quite notably, has been the manager of Kahvi Collective since 2001, which has gone from strength to strength and definitely arrived at 'cult' status in the scene. In 2015 we had his Mahorka debut releases - "Mahorka netlabel day mashup" and "Glass EP". Since then we've had 10 attributed to 4T Thieves releases, one of which on digipak CD - the already classic "Hauntology" from 2019.

In 2023 we are more than happy to be releasing his second digipak CD on Mahorka - "The Shipping forecast", a stellar new album and also special collaborative project, which features, besides 9 new beautiful 4T Thieves original tracks, remixes of some of them from Room of Wires, Abdicant, Pandacetamol, Weldroid and Tim Koch.

Released July 8, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and special limited edition digipak CD.

Artwork by Angel Draganov and 4T Thieves

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"Lost weekend" is the latest project of Croatian artist Roberto Vodanović Čopor, that uses field recordings of local people's speech, underwater hydrophone recordings and contact microphone recordings to explore the diversity of sounds and the identity of the island of Vis.

Through experimentation with the collected audio elements, the artist has created a sound map of the island, showing its uniqueness and encourages listeners to get a deeper understanding of this special place through this work.

Undersea hydrophone recordings bring the sounds of the deep and the life in the waters around Vis. Through the sounds of marine organisms, air bubbles, noise currents and other sound phenomena, listeners get an insight into the diversity of the undersea. Contact microphone recordings of vibrations and sounds transmitted through the metal surfaces of the ferry connecting the island and the mainland were can also be heard - engine sounds, passenger footsteps and other characteristic sounds.

Released July 4, 2023

All field recordings, contact microphone and hydrophone recordings, as well as recordings of various objects/sources were done by Roberto Vodanović Čopor.

Electric guitar, classical guitar, synthesizer, modular synthesizers by Roberto Vodanović Čopor

Clarinet by Iskra Vodanović

Artwork by Roberto Vodanović Čopor

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"A more humane world can be created through collective efforts to promote empathy, understanding and cooperation. Education is a key factor, as it teaches us to respect and value the rights of all people. We must strive to eliminate systemic oppression, poverty and inequality, and create an environment where people can live and work together in an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding. Finally, we must commit to protecting our planet and its resources, for the sake of future generations."

Released June 26, 2023

Produced by Nimbostrata, MUWN and Skyler Remillard during 2022.
Image by Magnus Andersson from Unsplash (September 2020)
Text, mastering and graphic design by Nierika Productions.

Nimbostrata (Sweden): linktr.ee/linfri
MUWN (France): muwn.bandcamp.com
Skyler Remillard (USA): t.ly/Fbr-

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Cognition Delay is a duo of US artist Jeremy Rice (Abdicant, Curious Inversions) and UK artist Paul Alexander (Pandacetamol, Fluffy Inside) who as Kahvi Collective label mates admired each other's contrasting approaches in music and felt compelled to collaborate. Their defining "Strange Sedatives" album (from 2022 on Rednetic) continues to amaze and has shown that Cognition Delay is a unique meeting of musical mindsets. While they have never met in-person, Paul & Jeremy have found a collaborative sweet spot that melds their respective solo projects into something new and shiny. A refined sound, within an undefined genre.

It is with pride and delight, for both the artists and the label, that their new "Mostly Dreaming" album appears on the Mahorka imprint, released June 17, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited digipak CD edition with outstanding artwork by Jeremy Rice.

Analog layers, hypnotic passages, half-heard conversations, morphing rhythms, fuse with thrilling bursts of unexpected melody. The experience is deep, immersive, ethereal, even vaguely nostalgic.

Repeated listens will yield hidden sonic treasure. Truly a soundtrack for your dreams.

Composed and produced by: Paul Alexander & Jeremy Rice
Mastered by: Black Particle
Artwork by: Jeremy Rice

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Released June 10, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and
limited cassette edition.

black_ops - field recs manipulation
recorded and mastered in the attic
November 2022 - January 2023

including samples from:
Robert Kramer - Ghosts of Electricity
Larry Jordan - Man is in Pain
S. Sukhdev - Kathak

Thanks to and inspiration from:
Ivo Petrov
Chris Campbell (The Creeping Man)
David Bourgoin (Another Headache,The Stitcher)
Matt (there are no birds here)

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Written, thoughts and music by Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi + Philippe Neau in 2022

Texts read by Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi:
Nouveau Printemps written by AEP
some excerpt from Letters to a Young Woman by Rilke

Some sounds made after:
Astra Club, Landing ft Julietta
Les Negresses Vertes, la Valse

Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi:
antonellaeyeaynilporcelluzzi.bandcamp.com

Philippe Neau:
philippeneau.blogspot.com

Released June 3, 2023

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Four psychedelic drones on the border between oblivion and reality, recorded over several nights in the summer of 2022 during live improvisation sessions.

Released May 27, 2023

Recorded and mastering by Skopje in Akko, Israel. August 2022

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Jeremy Rice is Boston-area lover of synthesizers and synth music, striving to make his own electronic music with a curious sense of introspection and mystery as Abdicant and Curious Inversions with notable releases on Kahvi Collective and Mahorka. He is also in Cognition Delay, together with Paul Alexander (Pandacetamol, Fluffy Inside), in The Hive Project, with Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins) and in Asshole Galaxy, with Weldroid.

After his magical debut on Mahorka, "In-Group" from 2022, "I Am Not Sure How This Makes Me Feel" is Abdicant's second album on the label, which is quite different...

"The author's memento mori, composed during a time of illness and recovery. Ruminations on the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs as "true." A chaotic mixing of musical influences, hardware and software, rhythm and tonality, light and dark."

After the great success of the first part, Sven Phalanx invites fellow musicians from all genres to rework the club classic "Klangtherapie" and give it a new look... again!

released May 16, 2023

original music and production by: Sven Phalanx

remix, additional music and production by: Sven Phalanx, Ultra, UTOPIAE, Hall of Violence, CMO-Projekt, Gutenberg, Mikrometrik, Grosso Gadgetto, MortaruM, Julien ASH, Konejo, Primitive Noise Sector, Blinky Blinky Computerband, Anja Kreysing, Steinhart, Cydonia, EMERGE

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The INTENT compilation series provides a platform for electronic and experimental music artists to share their work and set goals for the coming year, encouraging and inspiring creativity, innovation, and artistic vision from all corners of the globe. Since its launch in 2019, INTENT has become a powerful resource for artists aiming to realize their ambitions and monitor their progress over time.

As we come to the end of INTENT's journey, one thing is clear: this series had its ups and downs, but it never lost its determination to soar. Despite all challenges it remained steadfast in its mission to encourage and inspire. And now, as we bid farewell to this chapter of our lives, we can confidently say that it was a journey worth taking. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has been a part of this journey since 2019, and as we close this final volume of the 2023 iteration, and of the series, we look ahead to new horizons, new possibilities, and new adventures. Who knows what wonders await us in the years to come? One thing is certain: we will face them with the same resilience and spirit that carried us through this series.

More about INTENT: github.com/linfri/INTENT

Compiled by Nierika Productions in January 2023.
Image by Ty Koh from Unsplash (November 2019)
Text, mastering and graphic design by LR Friberg.

All tracks were created and produced by the artists involved.

Fabian van den Eijnden (Netherlands + Egypt): t.ly/VCqo
Nimbostrata (Sweden): linktr.ee/linfri
Adrian Brewer [Pariah] (UK): pariahuk.weebly.com
Tone Tone (France): www.discogs.com/artist/6923928-Tone-Tone-2
Jon Shuemaker (USA): jonshuemaker.bandcamp.com
Wilfried Hanrath (Germany): wilfriedhanrath.bandcamp.com
Kilmarth (Belgium): kilmarth.bandcamp.com
Signals From Sirius (Austria): t.ly/Mv8m
D-Fried (Spain): d-fried.bandcamp.com
Mediatrix (UK): www.mediatrixmusic.com
Brainquake (Belgium): brainquake.bandcamp.com
Notstandskomitee (Germany + Denmark): notstandskomitee.bandcamp.com
Zonevreemd (Belgium): www.facebook.com/zonevreemd
Forest Lake (Czech Republic + Germany): novaalternativa.bandcamp.com
LR Friberg / Linn Friberg (Sweden): linktr.ee/linfri

Released by Mahorka on May 6, 2023
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The INTENT compilation series provides a platform for electronic and experimental music artists to share their work and set goals for the coming year, encouraging and inspiring creativity, innovation, and artistic vision from all corners of the globe. Since its launch in 2019, INTENT has become a powerful resource for artists aiming to realize their ambitions and monitor their progress over time. We are proud to continue providing INTENT as a compilation that goes beyond the ordinary, providing a truly transformative and ever-evolving experience.

It's all about embracing the momentum and propelling yourself towards your goals, and "Kinetikos" is the perfect way to do just that. This carefully curated compilation of tracks, mostly from the long-term residents of Mahorka, is the ultimate sonic fuel for anyone who wants to reach their objectives. A unique blend of diverse styles and sounds, it takes listeners on a captivating sonic journey; from noisey-electronics to ambient-drone, from acid-tinged techno to abstract-beats. It's the perfect mix of styles to keep the motivation and drive alive, while providing a lush and varied sonic palette.

More about INTENT: github.com/linfri/INTENT

Compiled by Nierika Productions in January 2023.
Image by Joshua Newton from Unsplash (June 2017)
Text, mastering and graphic design by LR Friberg.

All tracks were created and produced by the artists involved.

DXN (UK): dxnmusic2.bandcamp.com
Autonomaton (Bulgaria): soundcloud.com/autonomaton
Obhod (Bulgaria): soundcloud.com/anton_pau
Edø Pisto Sømi (Italy): duradio.net
Genda (Bulgaria): soundcloud.com/gendasounds
Steffi Baron-Neuhuber (Austria): neuhuber.klingt.org
Roboknob (Bulgaria): soundcloud.com/roboknob
V-Stók (Italy): v-stok.com
Toxic Derwish (Belgium): toxicderwish.bandcamp.com
LR Friberg (Sweden): linktr.ee/linfri

Released by Mahorka on April 28, 2023
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The INTENT compilation series provides a platform for electronic and experimental music artists to share their work and set goals for the coming year, encouraging and inspiring creativity, innovation, and artistic vision from all corners of the globe. Since its launch in 2019, INTENT has become a powerful resource for artists aiming to realize their ambitions and monitor their progress over time. We are proud to continue providing INTENT as a compilation that goes beyond the ordinary, providing a truly transformative and ever-evolving experience.

In order to tackle the challenges ahead and make progress in life, it's important to replenish and strengthen your inner resources. This is where "Eunoia" comes in. Providing you with a soothing aural landscape of pure ambient electronica, it will help to revitalize you, restoring balance and providing a sense of calm and peace. Let its dreamy ambiances take you away to a place of harmony and balance, restoring your peace of mind and setting the stage for your success in 2023.

More about INTENT: github.com/linfri/INTENT

Compiled by Nierika Productions in January 2023.
Image by Robert Richarz from Unsplash (January 2018)
Text, mastering and graphic design by LR Friberg.

All tracks were created and produced by the artists involved.

Pete Swinton (Indonesia): peteswinton.bandcamp.com
Wayne DeFehr (Canada): www.waynedefehr.com
Wilfried Hanrath (Germany): wilfriedhanrath.bandcamp.com
Daniel Prendiville (Ireland): www.reincheque.net
Deborah Fialkiewicz (UK): t.ly/-If9
Tone Tone (France): discogs.com/artist/6923928-Tone-Tone-2
LR Friberg (Sweden): linktr.ee/linfri
alfa00 (Ireland): alfa00.bandcamp.com
Nimbostrata (Sweden): linktr.ee/linfri
ElectroFurnace (UK): electrofurnace.bandcamp.com

Released by Mahorka on April 23, 2023
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released April 16, 2023

Petridisch is an electronic music project of Thor Maillet, out of Boston, MA, USA. Equally influenced by the works of Philip Glass and Mylene Farmer, Petridisch’s music explores the greyer areas of the psyche with inevitable elements of light and humor. Although mostly known for the use of Vocaloid, Petridisch also has a fondness for Farfisas, Vermonas and reverb units. The end results are hazy, yet somehow also crystal clear, images of both the past and the future.

Thor Maillet also founded his label Fish Prints Inc. in 2018, aiming to bring curiously composed sounds to the world, past and present, with no specific or planned genre ties binding. Releasing on cassettes, CDs and handmade minidisc editions, the label is home of Barbara Morgenstern, Cryostasium, a wave, a mouth;, Quarks, among other outstanding artists. It has a unique spot in our hearts as a source of great and always interesting music and huge inspiration.

Long time friendship has led to some overdue collaborations between Petridisch / Fish Prints and Mahorka. Recently we welcomed Petridisch with a very special guest Planck Tone mix and now we are really happy to announce the release of his debut album on Mahorka, "Extrait", coming out also in a beautiful limited cassette edition.

Composed and produced / Petridisch
Cover photo / mynameisblueskye
Cover design / mynameisblueskye
Mastering / Zac Emerson

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released April 9, 2023

Plurals formed in 2007 and are currently based in Brighton and London, UK. The band consists of Dave Hamilton-Smith, Mike Neaves and Daniel W J Mackenzie. Plurals create improvised music using a variety of instruments and sources including guitar, synthesisers, voice, tape machines, radio, sonified objects, pedals and feedback systems. Though initially associated with the UK noise underground, the band now employs elements from a wide set of genres, resulting in music that is multilayered, progressive, dynamic and surprisingly composed given its improvised nature.

Plurals have released material on Dead Pilot Records, Oaken Palace, Southern Records (Latitudes Sessions), Tor Press, Dead Sea Liner, Striate Cortex, RHP CDrs, Vacant Fulfilment, Structured Disasters, Panarus Productions and Sheepscar Light Industrial. Belgian label Silken Tofu has released a 2xCD live album, as well as a largely ambient 12" called Tri Tone. Additionally, Plurals have issued a small number of self-releases. In April 2023 they debuted on Mahorka with the album "Growing the Sea", released also as digipak CD edition.

The material on "Growing the Sea" is extracted from a four hour session of improvisations and experiments, recorded at New River in London. Parts of the recording were guided by compositional and structural procedures, as well as more considered approaches to instrumental interaction. In translating the recorded material into a cohesive album, a new approach was taken to instill a sense of dynamic and narrative progression, enhanced by a more focused method of mixing, sequencing and editing.

Daniel W J Mackenzie: Guitar, Software, Voice, Loudspeakers, Cymbals

Dave Hamilton-Smith: Voice, Guitar, Tapes, Objects, Cymbals

Mike Neaves: Synths, Samples, Cymbals

Composed and produced by Plurals

Mastering by Yasen Penchev - Sai

Artwork by Daniel W J Mackenzie

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Introduction by George Christian

""Nothingness, ou... O Vento" is an album that took a long time to be discovered and to arise. Its real beginning came during the pandemic of COVID-19, in 2021, in which I was searching for a new sound in my guitar playing during the self-imposed isolation period. The pandemic has had its retreat, as well as a new political period has started in my country, Brazil, in 2023. The album indirectly speaks about this transitional period, as much as it’s a reflection of my own urge of living through music-making.

“Nothingness, ou… O Vento” has a progression that comes from concrete, naturalistic sounds, to more abstract ones. It’s still a guitar album at heart. However, it gives room also for other instruments to enrich the narrative and the concept. I’m the sole musician here, but the inspiration that I’ve taken from Caymmi or my aforementioned friend makes the album less lonesome than it is. Disintegration is the key theme of the album. It's not only all about the power of the wind, but also the way the wind disintegrates what’s solid, moves seas and changes lives. And, so, I’m singing and playing these sounds as a hope of changes in our way of living and, of course, listening to music with new ears."

All compositions by George Christian, except track 1 - composition by Dorival Caymmi, arrangements by George Christian

George Christian: Acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, vocals, piano, keyboards (strings), electroacoustics, production and design

Art: Iarly Patricio (charcoal engraving) and Artificial Intelligence through William Turner's painting.

Recorded sporadically between January 2021 and March 2023.

A Mahorka and GC Sound Artifacts release

The downloads includes a PDF booklet with full artwork and credits in two languages.

Released April 1, 2023

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Adriano Cava is an artist based in Turin, Italy. He is part of the New Weird Italia collective and co-founder of the "screw wave" label Riforma. Adriano plays with tape, electricity and various sonic masses to explore sounding environments.

Adriano Cava's debut on Mahorka was finalized under the name "Lineology" after a few iterations of the sonic contents, names, sides order and design in discussions with the label.

“These tracks originated from a basic approach to sounds. Focusing only on the frequencies' "mass", I warped and sculpted it following irregular imaginary lines.

When some granular samplers, a digital delay and a synth got stuck in a circular resampling chain, they started generating feedbacks, saturation and clipping. Listening to and contemplating this "sonic stalemate" I began to deepen it by stretching and pitching down each texture and each note.

The "magnetic" side replays the same game using an old magnetophone (a Castelli tape recorder borrowed from a friend). Each "digital" track is overdubbed in a singular reel loop and then expanded again, adding few new elements.

Both processes were dark and unconscious. The eight (4+4) tracks, split in two sides of a tape, are still open, intentionally released without a final edit.”

Released March 25, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

SIDE A: Digital Lines I - IV
SIDE B: Magnetic Lines I-IV

Recording, mixing, mastering: Adriano Cava

Cover Artwork: Adriano Cava and Ivo Petrov

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This EP was conceived during the recording sessions for the soundtrack to the short film "Струиндол" ("Struindol") of the director Zornitsa Georgieva. The recordings are, again, completely spontaneous, following the ideas from Teeth of Divine's previous album "Act I - Genesis" regarding the "presence-happening-reflection" process.

Recording artists:
Boyan Avramov - vocals, noises, dvoyanka, bells
Alexey Nikolov - electric cello
Asya Andonova - vocals
Yasen Penchev - guitar, drones, mastering

Released March 18, 2023

P.S. "The immediate primal feeling in one present is lost or renewed, disappears or reappears after nothing is the same again." M. Cenov

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"Vigilance" is the second album on Mahorka of the prolific Japanese electronic music composer Takahiro Mukai, known for his unique DIY and circuit-bent machines sound-sculpturing approaches and quite active involvement in the resurgence of cassette culture and physical format.

Comes out as free (cc) digital download and, of course, a beautiful limited edition cassette, again complemented by amazing artwork courtesy of Angel Draganov and Ivan Ivanov, just as with his debut on Mahorka "Gently close the mouth" from 2019.

Released March 11, 2023

Instrumentation, Production & Recording: Takahiro Mukai

Artwork photos: Ivan Ivanov (posledenzalez)

Artwork design: Angel Draganov

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Francisco Sonur is a musician, composer and travel enthusiast (born in La Plata, Argentina) but currently resides in Sydney, Australia. Sonur's music is a mixture of euphoria and nostalgia, a bowl of hot soup in a harsh winter.

A blend of ambient, cinematic and post-rock sounds, all of the work Sonur has put out to date, tells personal stories from the artist's past to the present day. Francisco's sonic storytelling often focuses on the small details of family life, bringing feelings of honestly, innocence, playfulness and nurture directly to the listener.

Francisco’s music can be heard via Giraffe Tapes, Rusted Tone Recordings, Time Released Sound, Shimmering Moods Records, The Ambient Zone, Bruma Del Sur. In March 2023 he debuts on Mahorka with the "Then the light comes all over the land", coming out as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited cassette edition.

Released March 4, 2023

Recorded, mixed, mastered by Truz

At Losotrosolo mobile studio

No guides along the way.

Artwork images by Francisco Sonur

Artwork design by Angel Draganov / Ivo Petrov

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somber jazz | a shelter | voices under a glass;
hymns ' dyscordia'/ orphans within a womb[
their sorrow / a prayer \ of winter darkness / the sun
heartbeat drummers || their shadows || the beauty \ of
[rays of light in abandoned buildings]
*use this in dreams*

Released February 25, 2023

Music and artwork by Emilian Gatsov

Composed and produced 2019-2022

The recording of this album has been realised with the financial support of National Culture Fund of Bulgaria

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Recording of the Sven Phalanx concert that was streamed live on SOS-Radio on October 03, 2022 (on the anniversary of German unity)

The set list includes a diverse cross-section from Sven's past 20 years of output, from quiet ambient tracks to danceable EBM songs.

Angst, Nordi-Boy, Klangtherapie 2.0 and Molle are previously unpublished.

The release contains the whole live in one whole track, to be experienced as streamed on the radio, as well as the individual live versions, rendered in separate tracks, without the radio talk.

Released February 19, 2023

Setlist:

1. Angst
2. Die letzte Fahrt der Nautilus
3. Hold On
4. Solstice (Die längste Nacht)
5. Beendet alle Kriege (Peacemaker Edit)
6. Monotonie
7. Phalanx
8. Menschenfleisch
9. Hallo?!?
10. Frankfurt
11. Nordi-Boy
12. Protonenkanonen
13. Heiliges Kanonenrohr!
14. Klangtherapie 2.0
15. Molle

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Released February 11, 2023

Music performed, recorded and produced by Grosso Gadgetto (Gonzalez Christian) in Villeurbanne, France, December 2022

Artwork by: Sagana Squale

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The INTENT compilation series provides a platform for electronic and experimental music artists to share their work and set goals for the coming year, encouraging and inspiring creativity, innovation, and artistic vision from all corners of the globe. Since its launch in 2019, INTENT has become a powerful resource for artists aiming to realize their ambitions and monitor their progress over time. We are proud to continue providing INTENT as a compilation that goes beyond the ordinary, providing a truly transformative and ever-evolving experience.

"Sehnsucht" is the second of two volumes dedicated exclusively to the captivating world of Musique Concrete and Electroacoustic music. Blending the organic and the digital, "Sehnsucht" is a unique, unexpected journey into the depths of sonic experimentation, elevating listeners to an entirely new auditory experience, one that is both captivating and thought-provoking. The works presented on this volume showcase the daring creativity of the contributing artists and their willingness to explore the unknown.

Released January 30, 2023

More about INTENT: github.com/linfri/INTENT

Compiled by Nierika Productions in January 2023.
Image by Ahmed Zayan from Unsplash (February 2020)
Text, mastering and graphic design by LR Friberg.

All tracks were created and produced by the artists involved.

Der Allgegenwärtige Astronautenstamm (Germany): t.ly/534-
Scott Roller (Germany): scottroller.de
Stefan Strasser (Germany): soundcloud.com/stefan_strasser
Catenation (Germany): catenation.recorderpower.com
Ben Coudert (France): www.psssteditions.fr
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi (Italy): aeplab.bandcamp.com
Stephen Bradley (USA): urbantells.net
Steffi Baron-Neuhuber (Austria): neuhuber.klingt.org
Jena Jang (South Korea): linktr.ee/jenajang
Elektronengehirn (Germany + Denmark): www.elektronengehirn.de
Akkamiau (Germany): akkamiau.weebly.com

Released by Mahorka
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The INTENT compilation series provides a platform for electronic and experimental music artists to share their work and set goals for the coming year, encouraging and inspiring creativity, innovation, and artistic vision from all corners of the globe. Since its launch in 2019, INTENT has become a powerful resource for artists aiming to realize their ambitions and monitor their progress over time. We are proud to continue providing INTENT as a compilation that goes beyond the ordinary, providing a truly transformative and ever-evolving experience.

Traditionally, the INTENT series have encompassed three music genres: ambient music, electronica, and Musique Concrete/Electroacoustic/EAI. "Psithurism" is a unique blend of Musique Concrete, Field Recordings, Electroacoustic and other genres. Taking its namesake from the Greek word for wind whispering through the trees, this volume is a narrative-driven listening experience, bringing the listener on a journey through dense soundscapes and dynamic textures. "Psithurism" is one of two volumes dedicated exclusively to this style.

Released January 23, 2023

More about INTENT: github.com/linfri/INTENT

Compiled by Nierika Productions in January 2023.
Image by Thomas Tixtaaz from Unsplash (August 2016)
Text, mastering and graphic design by LR Friberg.

All tracks were created and produced by the artists involved.

Ahrien (Greenland): t.ly/P9Ws
Voiwode (Hungary): soundcloud.com/voiwode
alfa00 (Ireland): alfa00.bandcamp.com
Ohmnoise (Germany): ohmnoise.net
chra (Austria): soundcloud.com/chra
Scott Roller (Germany): scottroller.de
Filmy Ghost (Chile): humanfobia.jimdofree.com/filmy-ghost
Jaime Munárriz (Spain): soundcloud.com/jmun
Roberto Vodanović Čopor (Croatia): copor.bandcamp.com
Lezet (Serbia): soundcloud.com/lezet
Coyote Senate (USA): coyotesenate.com

Released by Mahorka
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The INTENT compilation series provides a platform for electronic and experimental music artists to share their work and set goals for the coming year, encouraging and inspiring creativity, innovation, and artistic vision from all corners of the globe. Since its launch in 2019, INTENT has become a powerful resource for artists aiming to realize their ambitions and monitor their progress over time. We are proud to continue providing INTENT as a compilation that goes beyond the ordinary, providing a truly transformative and ever-evolving experience.

As we emerge from the tumultuous period of pandemic, conflict, and other turbulence, it's time to look to the future and dream bigger than ever before. But before we can soar, we must first embark on a journey of renewal and reawakening. It's time to take a deep breath and open our eyes to a world of possibilities, to chart a course for a brighter tomorrow. We must not be afraid to seize the opportunity to make a difference, to strive for a better, more hopeful future. For it is only when we come together to take action, to sow the seeds of progress, that we can truly realize the full potential of our collective Anastasis.

More about INTENT: github.com/linfri/INTENT

Compiled by Nierika Productions in January 2023.
Image by Jaanus Jagomägi from Unsplash (April 2019)
Text, mastering and graphic design by LR Friberg.

All tracks were created and produced by the artists involved.

LR Friberg (Sweden): linktr.ee/linfri
Autonomaton (Bulgaria): soundcloud.com/autonomaton
Coyote Senate (USA): coyotesenate.com
Voiwode (Hungary): soundcloud.com/voiwode
M.NOMIZED (France): mnomized.bandcamp.com
Melophobia (Greece): melophobia.bandcamp.com
DJ ANY WAY (Canada): djanyway.bandcamp.com
Nimbostrata (Sweden): http://linktr.ee/linfri
MUWN (France): muwn.bandcamp.com
Skyler Remillard (USA): http://t.ly/Fbr-
Daniel Prendiville (Ireland): www.reincheque.net
Ahrien (Greenland): t.ly/P9Ws

Released by Mahorka on January 14, 2023
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Anatoly Grinberg + Abell Leonid - The birth of a quantum lamb - it is an act of diving into a disturbing time of change and pandemic in the 2020-2021 period.

Dreary soundscapes shaken by menacing impacts. Massive synthetic reefs. A noisy and rumbling beat against the background of warm and transparent melodies. Heavy landscapes pierced with layers of concrete music, as if the conductor has gone mad, and the musicians are playing on broken instruments, looking with hope at the rising sun of a new era of mercy... Beware! The dive can be endless.

Anatoly Grinberg (Tokee, Massaith, Dead Voices On Air) is from Israel/Russia, resident of labels ant-zen, Hymen, Mahorka, Furnace, and Leonid Churilov (A-BELL) is from Belarus and has released on ADX records group, SSI, The day of life for gotten and M.A.D. After online meeting, it was decided by both of musicians to record material for an album. Recording and mixing took place remotely in Moscow (Russia) and Minsk (Belarus), during the quarantine of 2020 - 2021. That is why this work can be considered a cast of that disturbing time. The authors found much in common in approaches and beliefs. Subsequently, the duo united under the common name TVAŃ and has contributed to various labels and publishers (Monumental (RU),No Devotion Records (USA), M.A.D. (Malta), АУМ (BY), Default Standard (Greece), E:\music\noise).

Autors:

Leanyd Churylau (A-BELL, Abell Leonid)
soundcloud.com/abell_leanid

Anatoly (Tokee) Grinberg
mahorka.org/artist/tokee

Mastered for Digital Edition: Anatoly Grinberg

Cover & Artwork: Leanyd Churylau

released January 7, 2023

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released December 29, 2022

"The next generations, born in the labyrinth of lives, will have to rake what was sown. Dormant streams will wake up and clear the turbid waters. The world lives on this hope."

With tracks only made of single synth improvisations, sampled movie ambiances and bits of ethereal guitars, "The Moodygoer" seemed like the ideal material for Konejo to set up a remix project. Inviting musician friends through social networks, the response was unexpectedly overwhelming, with no less than 23 artists offering their renditions of different tracks from the album. On "The Moodygoer Remixes Part II" we have 12 producers from several countries, but more prominently from France this time, with several of them having released on Konejo's IRM Netlabel (Valgidrà, Some Pretend to Whisper, Oizak, Ed End aka Invisible Illusion...) and also notably including Mahorka's Tomoroh Hidari. While exploring more beat-based sonic territories from electronics and industrial music to instrumental hip-hop (still balanced with beautiful ambient renditions), this second part manages to convey the same cinematographic atmosphere as the original album, finding at the same time a new and fresh dynamic.

• "The Moodygoer" - original album : mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/the-moodygoer

• "The Moodygoer Remixes Part I" : mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/the-moodygoer-remixes-part-i

Mastered by Anatoly 'Tokee' Grinberg.

Artwork by Konejo, from the same photo used for the original album's artwork.

released December 24, 2022

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This is a compilation of all songs that Sven Phalanx recorded together with his wife Miss Kitty.

All songs were recorded between 2013 and 2021, partly with the support of Lionel Verney (Verney 1826) and released under the projects Schattenspiel and Schwarzwald.

Released 17.12.2022

Song 01 Art Of Empathy - Cover, featuring Lionel Verney
Song 03 featuring Lionel Verney
Song 04 written by Lionel Verney
Song 05 written by Lionel Verney
Song 07 featuring Lionel Verney

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With tracks only made of single synth improvisations, sampled movie ambiances and bits of ethereal guitars, "The Moodygoer" seemed like the ideal material for Konejo to set up a remix project. Inviting musician friends through social networks, the response was unexpectedly overwhelming, with no less than 23 artists offering their renditions of different tracks from the album. On this first volume, remixers from half a dozen countries - and Konejo himself - go way beyond the cinematic ambient boundaries of the original recordings to explore more beat-based and sometimes radical territories, from electronica and hip-hop to harsh noise, industrial music and experimental rock.

• "The Moodygoer" - original album : mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/the-moodygoer

• "The Moodygoer Remixes Part II" : mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/the-moodygoer-remixes-part-ii

Mastered by Anatoly 'Tokee' Grinberg.

Artwork by Konejo, from the same photo used for the original album's artwork.

Released December 10, 2022

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Takamu is a collaboration between Adrien Capozzi (Oregon USA), Michael Upton (Wellington NZ) and Tim Koch (Adelaide, Australia).

Having been musical compadres for many years prior, Adrien (Adrien75, Tawdry Otter, Dolphins Of Venice) Michael (Jet Jaguar, Patio, Tonkyn Pearson) and Tim (10:32, Dolphins of Venice, Isolated Gate) eventually formed a habit of sharing unfinished songs and sound snippets thus an eventual moniker was mashed together containing aspects of their respective birth-names.

Michael kicked things off with rhythmic bones which Tim and Adrien fleshed out with guitar pickings, drum beatings, field recordings, and other miscellanies. The three of them massaged the results into a shape that greets you in the form of “Monovista Bounce”, released on 04.12.2022 as free (cc) digital download and a limited edition cassette on Mahorka.

All songs by Takamu
Mastered by RedRedPaw
Design/Layout by Lyndon Pike

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Andrea Porcu is a composer and producer from Sardinia, Italy, most notably known for his project Music For Sleep and as the mastermind of ROHS! RECORDS, a label that has done great in the international music scene, including with the very dear sublabel Lontano Series.

First through Dub, Reggae applied to techno, and in recent years dedicating himself exclusively to experimental and ambient music, Andrea's intense and prolific work as Music For Sleep has resulted in sorts of a personal and intimate music diary of over 60 albums since 2016. His output, both as artist and label manager, has been a huge inspiration for us and a source of numerous favorite albums through the years. So we are really happy to welcome him with a special Music For Sleep debut on Mahorka!

"Esaminazioni Cosmiche" was written and composed between January and February 2021 during a period of introspection, about the world I lived in (and still live in) all through an external, cosmic gaze.

This album is dedicated to the Italian ambient minimalist movement of the seventies and eighties.

Released February 3, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and a limited edition cassette on Mahorka.

Music by Andrea Porcu

Cover artwork by Angel Draganov

""A quiet place" is an album where we are immersed in the imaginary and sound vision of a motionless traveller. This trip was built from field recordings recorded in real places, inside or outside. To these sounds are added analog ambient sounds. This sound mass is worked, mixed, kneaded, "sculpted" to create a "new landscape", stratified and polyphonic. This vision took shape during more or less dreamy encounters and walks with the elements of the landscapes. The sounds mingled and overlapped, as did the places, gradually in my memory. From layer to layer, I let the "sound material do" in order to prolong its meditative states. I followed the vibrations. The sound material has thickened to give shape to a long reverie in one/several imagined/invented places, sort of separate spaces .... non-places? My thoughts and sounds are thus fixed around the trees, the clouds, the light, the movements of the sun, the sea, the water, the birds, the night, the wind, the little secret noises, the displacements. Of the fullness of the landscape, of the perception of the landscape, of the impressions. From the sound of my mind. From the presence..."

Released November 26, 2022 as free (cc) download and beautiful limited edition cassette

Composed and produced by Philippe Neau
Photo and painting by Philippe Neau
Cover design by Angel Draganov

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"Irreparable Damage" is the debut album of Asshole Galaxy - a band of two angry artists really mad at all the assholes ruining the world, channelling some music through.

“You’re wrong [...] I said quietly. “I’d love to have access to all this shit you believe. I’d love to be able to summon someone who’s responsible for this fuck-up of a creation. Because then I’d be able to kill them. Slowly.”
--Richard Morgan

Angry artist #1: Weldroid. The 8-bit emulation of an electrical engineer, a cgi artist and a coffee connoisseur merged into one person and left alone in the middle of a forest in the middle of a forgotten peninsula built of discarded and ancient electronic devices and lots of copper wire. Those little robotic things living in the forest tend to like the noises he makes...

Angry artist #2: Jeremy Rice. Boston-area lover of synthesizers and synth music, striving to make his own electronic music with a curious sense of introspection and mystery. As Abdicant and Curious Inversions he has notable releases on Kahvi Collective and Mahorka. Also in Cognition Delay with Paul Alexander (Pandacetamol, Fluffy Inside) on Rednetic and in The Hive Projectwith Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins) on DataObscura.

"When you feel terrible about the unnecessary loss of life, value and sanity: get together with a friend, establish a band, make some noise. Somehow turn that murderous frustration into waveforms. [...] not the last time you hear from us." --Weldroid

Released 22.11.22 as free (cc) download and special digipak CD edition.

Composed and produced by Abdicant and Weldroid
Cover artwork graphics by Weldroid

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20 years on in Grosso Gadgetto's extraordinary artistic endeavours, we are delighted and proud to present his Mahorka debut "Come with me", coming out also as beautiful limited edition cassette, as a notable addition to his impressive discography.

Released November 19, 2022

Written, recorded and mixed by Grosso Gadgetto in Villeurbanne, France during June 2022

Mastered by Stazma the Junglechrist

Cover photo by Max Guy-Joseph

Sleeve design by Angel Draganov

Bass&Delayer is a duo based in the North of Italy formed by two friends producers, Bassound and Mas&Delayer (who has notably also appeared solo and remixed others on Mahorka), with a common passion for bass music, especially drum&bass and dubstep sounds.

"THE WAY OUT" is a 140 bpm bass music project inspired by dark atmospheres. In this third EP of them together as Bass&Delayer (after debut on Ephedrina Netlabel in 2014 and "Signal from our Earth" on Typekonnection) they made a careful upgrade of their sounds, composed it from distance and finalized it in nearness, "looking for the perfect beat".

Released October 30, 2022 as free (cc) digital download and limited (50pcs) cassette edition.

Composed and produced by Bass&Delayer
Cover photos by S_VIATOR
Logos by D VIEW
Artwork design by Angel Draganov

Anton Paunov, born in 1988 in Blagoevgrad and since 2006 based in Sofia, has been producing music for 20 years, going through hip-hop, house, techno, electro and other directions as Anton Pau, having released tracks in digital and on vinyl, also DJing.

Since 2020 he started working more in the experimental electronic music field, playing a lot with analogue and digital synths and mixing as DjObhod or just Obhod.

In 2022 his debut Obhod album titled "Interlace" was complete and released on Mahorka.

Released October 4, 2022

Composed and produced by: Obhod a.k.a. Anton Pau

Mastering by: Vasil Hristov, George Eve

Cover artwork by: Elina Ivanova, Vanyo Dimitrov

Video Teaser ny: Elina Ivanova

The bubbling device by Artificial Memory Trace meets deep and layered electronica by Nimbostrata on this album. Artificial Memory Trace was inspired by the image from Vedic scriptures of Vishnu sleeping while he dreams bubbles, and each bubble becoming a different universe. Nimbostrata's music brings to mind the vastness of space and the endless possibilities that exist within it.

Released August 28, 2022

Produced by Artificial Memory Trace and Nimbostrata during 2022.

Image by Annie Spratt from Unsplash (December 2020)

Text, mastering and graphic design by LR Friberg.

Paul and Niki first encountered one another on Dr Walker's "We Call It Acid" forum around 14 years ago... or maybe it was at the "Psychedelic Kitchen"... Anyway, Pandacetamol and eSoundC (later on starting his solo electronic project Autonomaton) bonded over a mutual love of off-the-wall and psychedelic electronica. As the years past, the internet kept them connected with lots of music people in common, but they never managed to work together. Until now.

In a collaboration long overdue, jokingly titled "Autopanda Pandanomaton" by the Mahorka label boss (which eventually they loved and it stayed), they revisit each other's ideas in experimental dub, abstract electronica, idm and ambient ending up in a coherent new direction that leaves us asking for more.

released August 21, 2022

Music: Niki Stanchev (Autonomaton) and Paul Alexander (Pandacetamol)

Artwork: public domain photo collage
from illuminaughtyboutique.wordpress.com

"Taliban" EP is a collaboration between BedouinDrone and Runi Graph that was spontaneously launched around a year and a half prior to the release when Runi Graph drummed on some existing tracks by BedouinDrone and sent him the overdubs. Then more sounds were exchanged in both directions and new exciting music started to take shape and direction that was finalized in this first officially released EP from the hopefully ongoing collaboration of the duo. We are really happy to present this work on Mahorka, where both artists have released earlier and had their defining debuts, with BedouinDrone's album "The Border" from 2018 in and Runi Graph's "For I know that the view of a tree is not subjective" EP from 2021.

released August 6, 2022

Music by BedouinDrone (Tracks 1-10) and Runi Graph (Tracks 5 and 7-10)

Artwork by BedouinDrone

Jeremy Rice is Boston-area lover of synthesizers and synth music, striving to make his own electronic music with a curious sense of introspection and mystery.

As Abdicant and Curious Inversions he has notable releases on Kahvi Collective, including our 2022 favorite "Turing Complete", and some more quality releases on his personal bandcamp. Two other outstanding 2022 releases are the "Strange Sedatives" album by Cognition Delay, the duo of Jeremy and Paul Alexander (Pandacetamol, Fluffy Inside) on Rednetic and the "A Curious Shade of Blue" album by The Hive Project, the duo of Jeremy Rice and Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins), that has released 3 albums on Anthony's DataObscura label since 2006.

Abdicant's magical debut album on Mahorka, "In-Group", specially recorded with the label and his closest friends-collaborators in mind, came out at the end of July 2022 and notably includes reworks of the original tracks from some of these guys - Kahvi's boss 4T Thieves, Paul's Pandacetamol project, Anthony's The Circular Ruins project, Weldroid and Tomoroh Hidari.

Released August 1, 2022

MO., an artist who sings, composes, produces and releases wave and electronic music almost exclusively on his Invitro Independent Music label, a Depeche Mode addict from early age, also heavily hooked on all styles of dance, loving pop, listening to rock and totally into life after death, Love and Eternity, has been born (in the distant 1976), living and working in the town of Pleven, Bulgaria, somewhere in the countryside of Eastern Europe, just where the Mahorka netlabel happened to be headquartered. At the dawn of the new millenium, back in 2002, Mahorka had just appeared online as one of the first netlabel pioneers, while MO. released his debut single "Edinstven" ("Only"), which quickly became popular on all radio stations in Bulgaria. Pop diva Maria Ilieva took part in the project, and the remixes on the CD maxi single were produced by the already cult porno_BPM electro pioneers KiNK, SuB and Kei, as well as by the Nu Ages duo, Second Body (Emilian Gatsov) and alternative band SKRE4. After a four-year hiatus, MO. returned with the double maxi single "Loveblaster", featuring an important bunch of names from his native Bulgarian underground scene such as COOH (Ivan Shopov), Kenogo a.k.a. Ogonek, Second Body, Music Sound Machine, DeckStarr, Paul Legend, Dope Buzz, Victor's Mob and of course the biggest, today world famous in the dance music scene, KiNK - it was his remix of "Loveblaster" that became the first Bulgarian song broadcast on Fashion TV, as soundtrack to the documentary on the avant-garde designers of Bulgaria. The musical journey of MO. continued with "It's No Good / All The Time In The World" (A Tribute To Depeche Mode) released in 2010 - a double EP with a downtempo chillout part one (mixes by Pixszels, Ghostwheel, Dope Buzz) and club mixes part two (Monophonique, Paul Legend, Dr. Scissors, DJ Smoke and Dope Buzz). Next up was the 'Foe Foe' project that came out in three separate EPs with remixes from Gravity Co., Diass, Alessandro, Anton Pau, FaAXA, Lu40, Help Me Jones, Protuberance, Monophonique and Phil O'Davidson. In 2017, in collaboration with Grooveman, MO. releaased the EP "Dirty", also with a brutal remix by Charlie (Les Animaux Sauvages). 2018 is the year in which another collaboration with Lu40 followed, the single "Don't" plus remix EP featuring Alexander Waltz, Alessandro, WildSoul.

Fast forward to 2021, Mahorka was going stronger than ever, including with the very special Netlabel Day collaborative reworks releases each year, while MO., an international popstar already, unveiled a new project with the producer Electrohollyc, premiering the hit single "My Cosmos". Soonafter MO. and the Mahorka label boss Ivo Petrov were convinced that this is the track to get the Mahorka reworks treatment, a longstanding idea and dream of both of them, after 20 years of friendship and numerous common collaborators. A rollercoaster of killer reworks was assembled and released on Mahorka for Netlabel Day on 14.07.2022.

Original track composed and produced by: Electrohollyc & MO.

Originally released on: Invitro Independent Music
soundcloud.com/invitro-independent-music
soundcloud.com/mo-loveblaster

Remix and additional music and production by: Brainquake, Virtually J, One Tru Odd, Toxic Derwish, Jawhinge, Recidivist, Electrohollyc, Charlie, MEION, XOTOX, Sai, Tokee, SpaceCherry, DOTKOV, ToKi, Captive Portal, E23N42SF, Anatoly Grinberg, Edgar 9000

Final mastering touches: Zach Bridier

Artwork photos + video: Nikolay Veselinov
nikolayveselinov.com

Artwork design: MO.

Executive production: MO., Ivo Petrov

Released for Netlabel Day, July 14, 2022!

Jawhinge is a free-form musical outlet for its creator. It's both a portfolio of musical experimentation and a storytelling device for expressing frustration and rarely - joy. It soaks up the experience of an ordinary human life and pushes it through a prism of everlasting curiosity for electronic music, be it ambient or violent.

Being what it is, the project does not adhere to a single genre, instead opting for going whatever its creator is into at the time. However, a strong jungle/breakcore/hip-hop/ambient/idm/dub influence can be felt through Jawhinge's former releases and especially in his debut self-titled release for Mahorka, coreleased with AEON Tapes, released on 08.07.2022 as free (cc) digital download and special digipak CD edition.

Composed and produced / Jawhinge

Cover artwork design / Andonasty

It gets better / Hold on

"Phönix" is the second solo full-length album by Sven Lemke as Sven Phalanx on the Bulgarian label Mahorka. This time it also comes out as a special limited digipak CD edition, with amazing artwork by Angel Draganov. The 15 songs include collaborations with Hermann Kopp and Miss Kitty and present a wide range of soundscapes with solid dark ambient base, intermingled with industrial vibes, hauntingly catchy melodies and sometimes even danceable beats, comprising what is undoubtedly his deepest and most mature work to date.

Released July 7, 2022 as free (cc) download and a beautiful limited Digipak CD edition.

Composed and produced: Sven Lemke

Mastering: Anatoly 'Tokee' Grinberg

Cover artwork design: Angel Draganov

Fallen's debut album on Mahorka stayed unreleased for quite some time before finding its right home. It's working title was "No Love Is Sorrow" that was changed for the definitive release.

“But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew; she was either going to be the death of me or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.” --Colleen Hoover

Collected earlier reviews of the album:

Felthat (UK), review by Hubert Heathertoes: "Bracaloni goes a bit deeper with his music - the melancholy of it it's not just the core of it but in terms of composition it helps to understand that where it stems from - his education in the matter of film music, waging and balancing - the mildly experimental textures with genuine melodies and phasing the moods of different quality - that takes you way way more than just a melancholic experience." ||| Ondarock, review by Valerio D'Onofrio, score: 7: "Bracaloni here plays and performs synths, piano, organ, oboe, santoor, koto, electric guitar and bass as well as an infinite number of sound manipulations that lead to ethereal cosmic flows whom refer to the older generation of electronic musicians: from Brian Eno to krautrock, from Mike Oldfield's suites to Vangelis' cinematics, up to the Alan Parsons Project's memories masterfully summarizing his poetry." ||| Rumore Magazine, review by Alessandro Besselva Averame, score: 7:"Synthesizers, pianos, soft rhythmic pulsations and the arcane echoes of an oboe, feed a great solemnity here." ||| Blow Up Magazine, review by Gino Dal Soler, score: 7:"As the ideal sequel of the previous album Secrets of the Moon released by Psychonavigation in 2015, Lorenzo's new album is electronic sound in its ambient, cinematic and evocative declinations. Fallen's new album is appreciated for honesty and personality of the author." ||| Audiofollia, review by Francesco Lenzi: "Fallen's new album is very beautiful and rich, it continues to work on ambient textures already included in the previous album, but here they have evolved pointing the way for a new musical path." ||| Music Won't Save you, review by Raffaello Russo (Rockerilla):"The identity of almost all the instruments here tend to stray, transfiguring into a dream and into a rhythmic flow of sound, infused with stretches of oriental scents and imbued with emotional spontaneity, culminating in piano harmonies and synthetic hugs" ||| In Your Eyes, review by Stefano Cavanna, score 8.7:"Bracaloni's new album shines by own beauty with its ancient roots, and for that, it doesn't deserve to be tarnished by any comparison or juxtaposition. The musical sensibility of Lorenzo Bracaloni reveals itself above average once again, making the composer one of the most credible ambient music authors and not only in the italian scene." ||| CrampiWordpress, review by Marcello Berlich (ex-Losing Today): "Ambient rarefactions and minimalist repetitions mixed together into a sound that is rooted in the impressionist lesson"

Youtube video for the first track: here

Released July 2, 2022 as free (cc) digital download and limited (50pcs) cassette edition.

Written, Composed, Performed, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Fallen in 2016

thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/fallenproject
Fallen facebook

Instruments performed, recorded, processed: Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Synthesizers, Guitars, Field Recordings

Cover artwork design by Fallen and Ivo Petrov

In the introduction to her book 'Sonic Possible Worlds', Salomé Voegelin describes sound as "things thinging".

For the most part of 2021, Gili Mocanu was concerned with integrating various aspects of percussion into compositions, their minimalness inexorably pulsing into tiny transformations - as also reflected in Krysztoff Dorion's artwork design.

These are the recordings made during that time, making for the 20th Somnoroase Păsărele outing since the project's 2013 inception.

Repetition, listening and curation; the sound of things thinging.

Composed, edited, mastered by Gili Mocanu

Recorded in Constanţa, Romania 04.21 - 11.21

Artwork design by Grotezk studio

Released June 26, 2022 as free (cc) digital download and limited edition cassette tape.

Eric Latteux aka Internal Fusion, based in Britany (France), is a dark ambient artist born in 1964. He has been active since the early '90s with releases on Staalplaat, Désaccord Majeur, Kokeshidisk, Taâlem, Oxidation and Attenuation Circuit, as well as a long list of releases available at his Bandcamp page.

IWWA is his debut album on Mahorka, released June 19, 2022 as free (cc) download and a beautiful limited Digipak CD edition.

Composed and produced by Eric Latteux

Cover images by Désaccord Majeur

Digipak cover design by Ivo Petrov

released June 11, 2022

Konejo : synth pads, samples, collages and effects.

Rémi : guitar drones on "On a Train to Perdition" and "The Dreary Typewriting of Fate".

All synth pads improvised on Maschine between December 29th, 2021 and January 2nd, 2022.

Sampled ambiances borrowed from beloved movies directed by Brian De Palma, Sergo Leone, Jean-Pierre Melville, Akira Kurosawa, Elia Kazan, David Cronenberg, Luis Buñuel, Blake Edwards, Claude Chabrol, John Carpenter, Sam Peckinpah, David Lynch, François Truffaut, Samuel Fuller, Dalton Trumbo, Mario Bava, James Cameron, Kon Ichikawa, Joe Dante, Richard Fleischer, Roger Corman, Theo Angelopoulos, David Lean, Joseph Losey, George Romero, Jack Clayton, Ridley Scott, Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kramer, Koji Wakamatsu and more.

Artwork by Konejo.

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released June 7, 2022

Written and Produced by 4T Thieves utilizing sounds of the 70s and 80s

note from the artist: "written in the four days leading to New Year 2022"

Cover Artwork Design by Angel Draganov

Quiet Clapping is a project of Jonathan Deasy - guitarist, improviser, composer, splitting time between Ireland and France. "Among The Haze", his debut on Mahorka, is a departure somewhat from the usual Quiet Clapping formula of long form 20 minute ambient compositions. The pieces here are shorter, saturated and brimming with emotion. Written while reading Borges and living through a pandemic.

released May 28, 2022

Music by Jonathan Deasy

Artwork photo by Eberhard Grossgasteiger

Waldgrenze (border of the forest) - the project of Theo Kovalev (Wave Resistance), focused on ambient and experimental electronic music, as well as acoustic sound production experiments and field recordings, is inspired by the ecological idea of friendly coexistence of two opposing sides - nature and technology. Born in joint improvisational jam sessions with other artists, the project eventually transformed and acquired its own sound character, retaining the original idea of the changes made to live recordings to preserve the feeling of "here and now", where in each composition you can hear the unique state of different places.

The third Waldgrenze album "Ökoton" is dedicated to the boundary between Earth and space in order to emphasize the unity of people living on a tiny planet in the middle of the infinity. The word ecotone was coined from a combination of eco(logy) plus -tone , from the Greek oikos (house) and tonos (tension) – in other words, a place where ecologies are in tension.

released May 13, 2022

Music and cover by Theo Kovalev.

Mastering by Anatoly Grinberg.
Participated in recordings:
Vadim Rumyantsev (1,7 track) - electronics;
Alexander Shumilichev (2 track) - electronics;
Andrey Podolin (8 track) - vocal, flute;
Anton Popov (9 track) - sitar.

" a sonic journey into the past ...
a journey into the subconscious ...
in yourself ...
with myself and with everyone who wants it and has the courage..silence is deep ... darkness is quiet ... light is quiet ... I am quiet ... silence is silence and it is beautiful ..."

released May 1, 2022

released April 25, 2022

Music by BedouinDrone

Cover artwork by BedouinDrone and Angel Draganov

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"Imagine yourself having the chance to take a ride in Richard Buckminster-Fuller´s fully developed Dymaxion-car and float ergonomically and ecologically through every imaginable landscape. What music would you like to hear in it? This was the question i asked myself one day and these 4 tracks are the answer to it. I thought I´d like something floating, developing very slowly and droning very softly as I am gliding slowly though any given landscape. So this EP is dedicated to Buckminster-Fuller and I hope you like the drift."

Released April 19, 2022 as free (cc) digital download and limited edition cassette tape.

The album was recorded by Alexander Holtz with a eurorack-synthesizer and an electric guitar in his homestudio in Koblenz, Germany during the winter of early 2021.

SEPL (Scorched Earth Policy Lab) is Thierry Arnal from Lyon, France, who has released music as fragment., AMANTRA, SEPL, THA, 2W on Justin Broadrick's label Avalanche Recordings, Ohm Resistance, KVITNU, M-tronic Label, Thisco Records, Pharmafabrick, Attenuation circuit and Mahorka. The SEPL adventure started in 2018 in the need to experiment in new territories. On Mahorka he debuted in 2021 with "QUASAR_VARIATION".

In April 2022 Mahorka is putting out his new album "XY", which is also the first time SEPL is released on a cassette - a beautiful limited edition.

Released April 10, 2022.

All music by: Thierry Arnal

www.instagram.com/sepl.official/

Artwork pictures: Thierry Arnal

Cassette design: Ivo Petrov

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01 Feral Cat Tractor
02 E gloria in cielo ai satelliti
03 Deserts of October
04 Signal Outside Velika Kladusa
05 Lascia Perdere il Presente

Released on March 31, 2022 as free (cc) digital download and special limited cassette edition!

Composed and produced by: Jeff Gburek and Filippo Panichi

Cover Photo: Filippo Panichi

Cassette artwork design: Ivo Petrov

Combination” is the third collaborative effort by the free-open-improvisation duo Marinelli / Cecchitelli. A sense of dada, multi-faceted post-jazz-electronic-billy and electroacoustic / site-specific aesthetics melt together into one singularity, reaching structure and chaos simultaneously. Different from the previous two works (one self-released and the other on US netlabel Zenapolæ), "Combination" is the now complete evolution of an existent dialogue between the two musicians and improvisers. All the pieces were recorded during a live session in December 2020 at Andrea’s house in Verucchio (east Italy).




Released February 28, 2022 as free (cc) digital download and special limited cassette edition!

Andrea Marinelli: prepared drums, synthetizers, live electronics

Demetrio Cecchitelli: electric guitar, transverse flute, clip contact mic, live electronics

Recording, mixing, mastering: Andrea Marinelli

Cover artwork: Andrea Marinelli

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"Reinvention of the Sacred" is a musical consideration of the after-effects of the 'god is dead' idea on Western society. Nothing has replaced the ideals represented in the best of spiritual thought, and our behaviours have changed as a result. For some, there is no longer any reason to behave in an ethical manner, nothing to live up to. The vacuum left by the decline in the perceived importance of the spiritual search calls for a reevaluation of what has meaning, what is important.

The music that comprises "Reinvention of the Sacred" is very minimalistic, almost 'not here' at times. This approach was taken in an attempt to aurally depict a non-dual continuum, wherein there is no separation between matter and Spirit, profane and divine.

released 22.02.2022

Artwork by Jan Brooks

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Mahorka is more than a label, it is also a place where artists meet and collaborate. Sven Lemke (Sven Phalanx,Andreas Davids + Sven Phalanx, Schattenspiel, Schwarzwald) and Marc Ceulemans (Brainquake, Zonevreemd, Toxic Derwish, Psych Krist Kastrator) have both had already outstanding contributions to the catalog when Marc was invited to remix Sven's "Klangtherapie" for the special remix album (mahorka.org/release/288) and they got to know and meet each other. Since they had many similarities in background and musical preference, they decided to compose and produce something together. This collaboration worked just perfectly and soon they suprised the label with the ten tracks of "From The Oblivion Lounge" album as presented here. From desolate ambient and rough rhythmic experimental to technoid industrial, they made this all sound very different but coherent. We can hear a lot of both of them here, but also something completely different, befitting the harshness of today's society.

released February 20, 2022

cover artwork: Marc Ceulemans

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With his third album Hypnos drives us on a journey of sonic invasion, a journey into the personal ways of the artist in dealing with narcissistic and vindictive behavior in our society, where we are constantly exaggerating our life stories and achievements in an aura of overinflated importance, to the point that we become defensive when questioned or when someone challenges our conscious or subconscious idea of superiority.

"Vindictiveness" is Hypnos' most structured, most complex release to date, revealing yet another side of the project, inspired by club techno aesthetics, with constructions derived from and building on early rave music rhythms and sequences and everything merged into swathes of ambient fields of long, calm and heavy drones.

released February 13, 2022

Thanks to:
- Ivo Petrov (for the trust, support and help releasing the album)
- Ivelin Iliev (for his fantastic work on the video promos)
- Kliment Dichev (for helping with the final polishing of the sound in his amazing studio)
- Martin Dimchev (for giving so many priceless tips on mixing and editing most of the tracks)
- Angel Draganov (for his talent and artwork)

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released February 2, 2022

Few of the music projects of Boban Ristevski (also known as Lefterna) are concentrated and based on exploring mostly the ambient / drone and industrial / noise related kinds of music. With elements of minimalism / improvisation / abstraction, etc.; the music is balancing between the more structured forms and the improvised approach.

Philippe Neau creates mental landscapes ("mental-scapes", if you want). In his music he makes them up of non-narrative sounds, atonal melodies, worrifying glitches, organic textures, hollow field-recordings, abstract notes, abyssal echoes and whispered distant voices. A "disturbing" atmosphere, tinged brightness and darkness, takes shape and enfolds the listener / viewer.

"Boban contacted me for a collaboration. We exchanged files over the Internet and worked on our own, knowing each other's work, with the idea of creating something that mixes our sound universes. Maybe some sort of stormy, industrial landscape.

In my head, this collaboration could bring more industrial sounds to my interior landscape, take on a more noisy, metallic dimension." --Philippe Neau

The Dolphins of Venice resurface to allow a rare glimpse into the inner workings of their collectively shambolic yet soothing soundscaping. Drums clatter and disjointed voices echo in and out of fashion. Synths pulse and ebb to a timecode never known above the salty waves. Will you join the dolphins for some brief relief from gravity and bipedal pressure - sink beneath the water and float weightlessly if only for a short time.

spuǝıɹɟ ɹnoʎ uıɐɯǝɹ ʎlɓuıɹɐǝpuǝ ʎǝɥʇ ʇǝʎ 'ǝldoǝd ɟo spuıɯ ǝɥʇ uı sʇsıxǝ ɹǝʌoɔsıp ʎǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ ʎq pǝʇɐlɟǝp puɐ pǝuǝʇɹɐǝɥsıp ʎlʇsoɯ ǝɹɐ ʎǝɥ⊥ ˙suɐɯnɥ ɟo sʇɥɓnoɥʇ ɓuıpɐǝɹ ɟo ʇɹɐ ǝɥʇ ǝɔıʇɔɐɹd uǝʇɟo puɐ lɐǝɹ ǝʇınb ʇ,usı ʇɐɥʇ ʎɐʍ ɐ uı ɯıʍs ʎǝɥ⊥ ¿ǝɔıuǝΛ ɟo suıɥdloᗡ ǝɥʇ uǝǝs noʎ ǝʌɐH





Released January 27, 2022 as free (cc) digital download and special limited cassette edition!

Design by Lyndon Pike @thefadedmirage
Island Photography by Barry Handler

Andreas Davids & Sven Phalanx are on their third journey through time and space. This time they start the new adventure on the Bulgarian label Mahorka where they both have released before. This album of six brand new tracks is out now as free (cc) download and a special limited cassette edition in a chic design. Once again here, the two music astronauts demonstrate their musical diversity and continue to shape the SPACE-AMBIENT-POP genre they actually defined!



Written and produced in 2021 by Sven Phalanx and Andreas Davids at S.P.Q.R., FFM and Separate Room, MTH

Mastered by Andreas Davids

Thanks to Ivo Petrov @ Mahorka

Released January 19, 2022

"The teknoiz commitment" is Autonomaton's second full length on Mahorka, coming out 7 years after his debut "Polarsternritual" from the start of 2015. In between we have continuously collaborated, having him featured on the "Music for elevators vol.5" and "Eastern Depths IV" VA compilations, remixing krāllār, Protuberance, Teeth of Divine, Sven Phalanx, collaborating with Abu Ama on his recently released "TOTEM" album, and releasing 2 EPs - "Picture in Picture" and "The Underwater Fires". This new album also features collaborations with Abu Ama and (a very rare occasion) label manager Ivo Petrov (under once upon a time artistname skylined), sampling of Bryn Jones (a.k.a. Muslimgauze), a Vangelis tribute/rework and opening and closing tracks from the very personal alter-ego Tribes of fishes.

But what is teknoiz? "It is universal (in relation to the universe) electronic music. It is the teknological sound of the movement of all particles in their dance through the cosmos. The movement is chaotic and in all dimensions of space. It is not controlled and does not come down to point movements, it is just there, in the whole evolution. The sound comes from each atom and its subparticles after the big bang, the music is an echo of the creation of the universe. But why teknoiz? Because it before everything is tekno, think of the teknological process of creation and, of course, of the term techno. Noiz - because it's not crystal clear, it's not and cannot be explicitly defined in spectral and time domains, its roar comes on all frequencies from all angles of the known and unknown cosmos. Set your receivers and hear it all - a convolution of the crazy dance of the particles around and throughout us as living citizens of the universe, an obscure long delayed echo of the fanfares of creation and the symphony of drones of existence."

"And it happens.
I know what it is too.
You will never be the same.
But, a day will come when you will think like a new man.
A man that doesn't know yet.
The one who will come after.
"I loved the man who i was."
Me too...."

released December 30, 2021

Created, played and recorded by V @ Baka's house
August, September, October 2021
Guitars on track 1 by Iban Call
Additional recording and playing by Matij @ Bunker palace

Artwork and layout by V

"TOTEM" is Abu Ama's most personal and most varied release to date, a heavy trip through his musical ways, moments and directions, a stunning album that has been in preparations and waves of reiterations for almost as long as the earliest incarnations of some of the songs were done and, finally, towards the end of 2021, reached the stable form, monumentized on a limited edition of two c90 tapes.

released December 24, 2021

"Abu Ama's new album TOTEM is a feast for the ears and eyes. Abu Ama, the driving force behind Arabxo, brings dub, experimental, Arabic and Sufi dub in one. On this beautiful double binding he gives an overview of his work. A beauty of an album. As I have known Abu for a long time, full of dedication, always innovative, he takes this album to an amazing height." -- Pedro Maras a.k.a. BedouinDrone

"Abu Ama is an uprising worldwide artist in dub kind of music but presented in his very unique way and style. He's giving it many names. Lets point out "arabxo", as an abstract mixture of futuristic middle eastern scapes, voices and instruments with subsonic echoes of dubbed out bass. Sound manipulations far beyond the known in all its features. New and retrospective sounding at the same time. Messages in pads and atmospheres brought in a dub manner. All tunes recorded in one shot, one version at a time. Far further and further in dub science innovation his own way, Abu gladly represents his gypsy roots and creates his own roots mixture of beats and sounds that takes you on a journey with each tune. Each track has individual soul that can be literary felt from the speakers. Each tune carries different specific message, either spiritual, soul, social, ecological, political or related to many different things of today's earth life he cares about. Abu is displaying a channel of communication between his soul and you, the receiver, whose radio is set to receive this frequent waves of music. Music at its best. Music representing earth and universe at the same moment. All computer made, all dubs and overdubs compiled and arranged as perfect matter wall of sound. Welcome to the world of Abu Ama and dance till you get excited and incredibly overjoyed with warmth and wealth." --esoundc a.k.a. Autonomaton

All music and production by: Abu Ama

Additional music and production by: Zyontific Impact (track 7), Xiao Quan (track 13), BedouinDrone (track 21) and Autonomaton (track 25)

Artwork design: Ivo Petrov and Angel Draganov, utilizing public domain photos and bird photo by Ivan Ivanov

Bobby Jewell is a musician and ambient dj/radio show host on Resonance Extra and elsewhere and "Songs to the cistern" is his artist debut on Mahorka that was assembled and finalised during the last year specially for the label and also comes out as special limited cassette edition.



"This EP is made from scraps of sounds from various harddrives, phone videos, field recordings and youtube links over the past eight years. Folded into layers of ambient music, the music references archaeological sites, research centres, phonographs, broken instruments and media, with the results blending together as a contemplative and rough exploration of creative process being led by key samples and moments of inspiration"



released December 5, 2021

Artwork photos and design by Ivo Petrov

Rhonchus is the more rhythmic electronic, experimental techno and idm alias of Iranian artist Shahin Souri, born and based in Tehran, who has also been releasing more ambient/drone oriented music under his real name. He has notable releases on Moloton, Noise à Noise, Diffuse Reallity Records. "بلَووِه" is his debut EP on Mahorka.

Released November 21, 2021

Music composed, produced and mastered by Shahin Souri

Track 4 is a collaboration with creeperbrofist2002

Аrtwork by Bahargol.e

TENTATIVAS FRUSTRADAS (Failed Attempts), Sept. 18th, 2021

"Sometimes you get bored with yourself and, simply, want to get rid of your old life. In pandemic times, such thing is easily possible when you feel in such a bore in lockdown, in isolation. Per Scelstak came into existence when George Christian felt disgust with himself and, also, with the way virtuality has become something exploitative in his life.

In fact, Per was born only as a pseudonym when he sent a concert piece for a competition (for which he didn’t win or earn anything). The secret behind his name can be found in contemporary classical music composers: Per Nörgard, Giacinto Scelsi and Walter Smetak. Influential to the mind behind Per, a certain guy whose last name is Pereira? Quite possibly. Per has only gained an image, though, when his creator felt in a real distress, in his personal life. Per killed the past social profile of George Christian, which was too revealing of his thoughts, too personal, too disastrous to be reached, too naïve. Per is the result of George’s anger against the way personal life is treated in the virtuality, by the social networks. Nowadays, Per is in conciliation with his creator. But not for so long.

Per is different. Per never talks in 1st person. Per is never personal. Per can be read here, or not. You might not understand why such distance, but probably you are closer to him. More than you imagine. Per is another face of reality that wants to be in the realm of different senses. And the reflection of such persona is in his music.

It took a long time to George Christian figure out the existence of Per. But Per has been following his steps since the days he decided to experiment only with electronics in his 3rd album, Three Dimensions of Unrecognizement and Other Unknown Reaches. Maybe he can be found in Exílios 3. Per can also be found in Secretos Universos. His real debut, though, is with two other crazy fellows from India: Hatiyar and Hazardnaut. Per is George into electronic extremities.

TENTATIVAS FRUSTRADAS is the first album under Per’s name and a sum of principles that have been guiding his electronic experimentation. In fact, this principle is just a single surrealist one: automatic writing. Per is completely ignorant concerning on how a machine language operates. Per IS a machine. Per IS a computer. Per IS nothing.

These pieces can be understood as inner failures. No songs, no hooks, no melody that can be easily sung. It requires a real deranged mind to deconstruct and build another world. Per is no strange to post-minimalism, post-spectralism, post-jazz, post-rock, post-psychedelia. His electroacoustics comes from the inwards of MIDI and tone colors’ researches to the spontaneous structural architectures.

Per is NEVER quiet. His brain listens to several voices and do not find peace in a single one. Per embraces all the voices. Heaven, hell, purgatory. Per has been in all of these places. He invites you to dance with your wrist and dry yourself into the waters. His manners may be of electronic, artificial gestures. But what he delivers is plain and pure reality. Cruel REALITY. Your nightmares should be dancing."

All the pieces were composed, mixed and produced by George Christian Vilela Pereira, with the deranged spirit of Per Scelstak in mind.

Softwares: Ableton Live 8, Adobe Audition CS6 and Fruity Loops.

Recorded between June and August, 2021.

Released October 24, 2021

"Klangtherapie" is a club classic by Sven Phalanx, which he originally published with his Schwarzwald project and then reimagined in Ambient Version for his debut LP on Mahorka, "Inner Demon". On this EP, friends and companions of Sven, along with selected for the project Mahorka residents, got their hands on this classic to rework it into a spectacular trip of completely new and diverse looks and feels. One song, many different interpretations... from industrial to ambient, from rock to rhyhm'n'noise, having even the techno/trance-directed "club" killers, it is unbelievable how differently this defining song has been reinvented over and over again.

released October 10, 2021

original music and production by: Sven Phalanx

remix, additional music and production by: Sven Phalanx, Anatoly Grinberg, Different Souls, diagnosis autopsychosis, STAHLSCHLAG, xotox, Greyhound, Toxic Derwish, Ah Cama-Sotz, MRS WATANABE, LaUD23, Rastlos, Brainquake, After White Smoke, Autonomaton, YURA YURA (mastered by Yann Faussurier), Dotkov

Luneta Freedom Jazz Collective is an experimental jazz group from Manila, Philippines. Their first studio album "Ethos", was recorded and released in April 2015. The group would go on to be featured at 2015's To Be Continued on Stazione di Topolò/Global Health Incubator. Their second album, "Inland Empire" was released in 2017.

In 2021 their third album, "Slaves and Masters", comes out on Mahorka, the dialectic as a narrative that examines the exploitation of labour and social stratification, with the latter seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labour and capital. Particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling choices and leisure in an economy.

More specifically, it is a discourse on economics as well as a social critique of consumption as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the stratification of people and the division of labor which are social institutions of the feudal period that have continued to this day. Evident in the current state of hacienda farmer's in the Philippines. A Filipino farmer working at the Hacienda Najalin and Hacienda Luisita gets paid less than 4 Euros a week. Giving them a handful kilos of rice and canned goods as the subsidy to dissmiss their struggles.

released September 27, 2021

A celebration of slow, focused listening. Juxtaposition of cyclical, seeping melodies.

The paint on the library walls begin to drip, to melt away, as new forms emerge in your perception. An impressive immensity. Familiar contours take flight, melding into a singularity. A conversation heard in the distance. A view of yourself asleep in bed. The singing voices now pull you back despite any resistance. Through the window.

"Recorded on my birthday in 2019, this is my first release that relies solely on turntablism. Crackling string samples, piano, and ghostly voices bring this album into a colorful sonic territory that is quite the departure from the more somber tones of my recent output."

Released September 19, 2021 as free (cc) digital download and a special limited edition cassette tape.

Recorded 10/29/2019. Mixed, arranged, and mastered October 2019 - March 2020.

Nicholas Maloney - Records, turntable, tc electronic hall of fame reverb, Hardwire cm2, Visual Sound tap delay, Mooer reecho, Boss ps6, tc electronic ditto looper, Zoom h4n Pro, Laptop, processing

Artwork by Whitson Ramsey

Layout/design by Ivo Petrov

1: Common quantum physicists' interpretation and statement is that there is no such thing as matter and what we all call matter, in reality is energy. The whole universe is energy, frequencies, vibrations. What we observe is energy vibrations that are slowed down to a level that is perceivable by our senses and sensors. It all exists thanks to forces which make particles quiver and yet keep the whole system together. Many spiritual or metaphysical things in essence have always been just physics which we have not properly seen and understand yet.

2: "Spaces lost, abandoned, cheated by history and nature have an odd, somewhat surreal charm ... When things and places lose the context that gave them function or meaning, you can rediscover them. Useless, even freed in a sense, they gain a specific aura. Not only do we see them as new, but they also turn their surprised sights towards us and try to ask us a question ... Sometimes an accidental glance is enough to give in to the force of that place for years. Sometimes a place lives in a person since childhood.” -- Katharina Raabe, Monika Sznajderman, taken from the intro to„Znikająca Europa”, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec, 2006.

These two contexts were the inspiration for the energy, frequency and vibration of Wolne Pokoje’s “Kostropate”.

[mhrk285]

Recorded in Gdanska Studio, Kolobrzeg, Poland, 2018/2019

Music and production: Robert Demidziuk

Recorded using: neutron, monotron, wavedrum, guitar & effects, xylopohone, bamboo sax, slovakian bass aliquot flute, kaoss pad, vintage rhytm machine erm-32, dub sirene, field recordings

Cover artwork design, photography: Ivo Petrov

Released September 12, 2021 as free (cc) digital download and a special limited edition cassette tape.

Released September 1, 2021 as free (cc) download and limited edition digipak CD, available on mahorka bandcamp.

Composed and produced / Yasen Penchev
Vocals, bass, effects / Boyan Avramov
Guitars, programming, bass, e-bow / Yasen Penchev
Field recording and sounds on track 6 / Ivo Petrov
Solo guitar on track 9 / Kaloyan Ivanov (TFSL)

Cover artwork design / Angel Draganov

LES (LunarEscapeSystem) is an Israeli electronic music duo based in Tel Aviv, formed by Elena P. and Genrietta P., an ambient/soundscape/techno project that began collaborating six years ago and ever since has had numerous live A/V performances.

The duo say they get their inspiration from the avant-garde electronic scene of western europe in the beginning of the 90s, the early electronics movement from the 60s, BBC radiophonic workshop recordings, Sci-Fi movies soundtracks. They have developed their own sonic language, inspired by the natural sound of the elements, modern urban chaos, space phenomena, and silence. Through the years, the duo grew as electronic music producers and sought to venture into new territories by collaborating with different artists, creating multidisciplinary co-operations that intend to combine art mediums. These co-operations push and expand the boundaries of the artists themselves, their listeners, and spectators. Working outside of accepted artistic paradigms, LES believes in the art’s potential as a hybrid set of actions. Both Genrietta and Elena’s core activities were initially set in the visual arts, and the sound experiences created by the project are intertwined with the visual. LES strives to suggest new potentials that are multi-sensual via the universal language of sound.

The Mahorka debut of LES, their album "Anisotropic Collapse" is an exploration of glitchy ambient techno soundscapes inspired by Stephen Hawking's book “A Brief History of Time” and space phenomena, released as free (cc) digital download and amazingly beautiful limited digipak CD. "Anisotropic Collapse" was recorded using analogue and modular synths and an "anti-radio" instrument that captures electromagnetic fields. Enjoy the voyage!

Music and artwork by LES. Mixed by Assaf Tager, and mastered in Artefacts Studio, Berlin.

released August 26, 2021

Through the project ANTERAKS the voices of INNOCENT BUT GUILTY (France) and UBURGRUND (Romania) go beyond what the eyes cannot reach. The two speakers of visions met in the vaporous virtual realm and decided to melt their different tongues and challenge an unequal syncretism of analogue and digital equipment. Past endeavours were released at Foolish Records from Bordeaux (Serotonine, debut du voyage; Past and Beyond; Invisible Traces) upon an effort to combine dark-ambient colours and noise-meditative ruminations taking inspiration out of poetry and intimate congestions. The album “The Harbour of Thoughts” throws enigmatic sound patches of dreary and pensive recollections from written pages and sudden unconscious movements of the mind. As ANTERAKS casts its despondent contrasting lights over the tops of one’s reverie, on the other shore of imagination a wave digs the cave for your eclipse.

released August 22, 2021

INNOCENT BUT GUITY // UBURGRUND

Artwork photo: Max Guy-Joseph

When this terrifying world screams, scream back or retreat.

Nothing comes from nothing, everything grows out of anything …

Released August 14, 2021.

All synths, sounds, composition, percussion, effects, vocal processing, recording and mastering by Marc Ceulemans at Hemel Centraal (Belgium).

All lyrics and vocals by xendemon except lyrics on “Lilith” provided by Humanfobia, vocals on “Lilith” by Mist Spectra.

Cover design by TDOP, drawing “Schizophrenia #6” (Chinese ink on paper) by Nammu Eliaerts “Nam-art”.

Gratitude to Ivo Petrov, Namu Eliaerts, Mike Eliaerts, TDOP, Mist Spectra & Sábila Orbe.

Nam-art: instagram facebook

Humanfobia: facebook instagram

"Fame is an Addiction" sounds like a cassette you found while walking on the beach, half burried in the sand, case slightly warped by the heat of the sun, little pebbles and bits of seashells embedded inside, tape loose and almost melted. You rescue it, clean it up, spool it in, and when you play it you discover that the noise of the sea waves somehow got imprinted onto it and melded with the music.

Every tune is deep within its own comfortable bed of noise, each sound treading through thick viscous aural quicksand, beats pop in from behind lush canopies of strings and pads, flocks of melodies swirl above, clouds of frequencies cast their shadows on top of everything else and the place becomes that bit cooler. Every tune does paint a scenery indeed, each is really alike a place you inhabit for a few minutes. They all feel tangible and expansive, they welcome roaming and exploration, so much is happening there, so much to see/hear/feel, so much to discover each time you return.

It all sounds old and fresh, damaged yet fully contained, at the verge of collapse yet tightly controlled. There is certainly a story being told in this music, but it's a different story for each different listener. It's the kind of music that burrows in and pulls out of you as much as it brings and it's that mix of the internal and the external, right here and right now, that makes it an entirely personal experience.

4T Thieves is a magician at the top of his game! --Angel Draganov

released July 31, 2021

Artwork picture: public domain
Artwork design: Angel Draganov

Recorded in the day-offs while in residency with international theatre company Motus for their new spectacle, "Ruins" comes to the listeners as a depth in between emotions and rationality. The only sound sources used in the composition of the work are the bass guitar and the transverse flute, with the additional importance of live electronics and digital signal processing in the sound design and making of the unique texture that characterises Cecchitelli's discography. Alike the previous works on Healing Sound Propagandist, Sounds Against Humanity and Whitelabrecs among others, this mini-album evokes a narrative file rouge during the propagation of its five tracks - from blurred images to cathartic quintessences.

released July 21, 2021

Artwork / found photo: Demetrio Cecchitelli.

Mastering: Renato Grieco.

Videos: Filippo Mazzei ('Ruins Three'), Vladimir Bertozzi ('Ruins Four').

"Do dreams have a past or a future? Are they forever intrinsically linked with our consciousness? What happens if we share them? Do they take hold in our larger narratives and become stories in their own right?

Last year I released an album named 小さな夢達 (which reads as Chiisana Yumetachi) - Small Dreams. Today, just days after the first anniversary of its release I find myself listening to 10 remixes of those dreams. The Reinterpretation of Dreams, if you will. It is thanks to Ivo Petrov, label head of Mahorka, who envisioned this album as a great way to celebrate netlabel day 2021. He invited an amazing group of artists to contribute their remixes and share their own reinterpretations.

There isn't a single track on there that isn't amazing - I find that on repeated listening different tracks stand out each time, sometimes the softer ones speak more to me, sometimes the weirder ones, then again, on another listen, it's the more energetic ones. But every time it sounds like a coherent whole. A world appears, held together by the threads woven into the fabric of the original tracks, but expanded into a multi-faceted sonic cosmos, a wider world for the original narrow story to expand into. And after the final remix, you're invited to wake up again to the meditative meta-verse of the Small Dreams: Where all the remixes expand on the original theme, my contribution - an afterthought of sorts - is there to take you into a meditative state build around the ambiances and field-recordings that lie at the core of 小さな夢達.

My gratitude to all the artists who were kind enough to put in their work and creativity to contribute these remixes! To Ivo for making it all happen, to Zach Bridier for mastering and to dfkt for creating the cover." --Tomoroh Hidari, London 09.07.2021

released July 14, 2021, Netlabel Day 2021

All tracks are remixes/interpretations of original tracks of original music by Tomoroh Hidari
Except The Clear Sound of Jewels by Tomoroh Hidari

Mastered by Zach Bridier

Cover artwork: dfkt.

tomoroh hidari / ivorybunkerrecordings @ bandcamp
tomoroh hidari @ twitter

MUSIC FOR PEOPLE WITH NO WORK, FAMILY OR INTERNET

"A collection of pieces from the last 10 years gathered around the idea of listening as a state of trance. Listening without distraction, without measuring time, without hurry. Clearing the mind, a bit of melancholy, an endless loop, a hovering thought, urban meditation somewhere in the suburbs. Instead of TV, instead of a smartphone: "I have to do something, I have to be somewhere". Slow listening, room for feelings."

released July 12, 2021 as free download and limited edition cassette.

Composed and produced by Emilian Gatsov

Artwork design by Ivo Petrov and Emilian Gatsov

Photography by Yomex Owo (fennec Photo) and Emilian Gatsov

"Fabien Robbe and myself have been involved in several projects together since 2015, but this is our formal debut as a duo.

It began as good, clean fun. Fabien piled up gear in his van and drove all the way from Brittany to my blessed shack in the suburbs of Paris, by then home of Improvising Beings. We assembled a monster electronic studio for a few days. I will now list the instruments to get rid of that matter: ARP 2600, ARP Sequencer, EMS Synthi E, Farfisa VIP 233, Kurzweil K-2500, Korg MS 10, Korg Wavestation, Solina String Ensemble, Waldorf Microwave XT. I spare you the list of eurorack modules, effects and controllers.

Instinctively, we arranged it in an ecosystem where any instrument would respond to impulses from other instruments, rather than an orchestral color palette of varied sounds, making it difficult to recognize who did what, making sure interaction would be unavoidable. Bar a few leads distinctly Fabien's, the playing was symbiotic.

To maintain a sense of order, we decided early on that we would anchor the project around melodic and rhytmic elements, not necessarily of the experimental kind. We also drew from the two concepts of the drone we are familiar with: Fabien's use thereof in traditional folk music, and my studies of, notably, Eliane Radigue's methods. Well, we poured everything we knew in this album, including a bit of aggressive free improv. Don't worry, it's tucked away somewhere you don't expect it, it'll be gone before you realize. We didn't want to be hampered by any consideration such as 'where are we going'. This is pretty much our 'Sgt. Peppers', we joked. For me, it's a first. I've been around challenging sounds more often than not. Fabien encouraged me to somewhat... entertain you, for a change.

Those who have followed us know we are not the urban type. We have in common that a stroll in the forest or field nearby will fire our creativity, a stream, a light, and to be fully aware of it. Call us 'woke' or trite, we care about ecology, as a science, as a philosophy, as a branch of politics. We are artists and do not purport to show ready-made solutions to the crisis we are going through. Especially not with sounds that are sometimes abstract. But they are abstract with a quality that we like to see as organic, chlorophyllic, or rocky. Matter, material. And, according to the symbiotic, 'ecosystematic' way we created this music (good word, can we apply for a grant with it?), we felt we actually had tackled our subject. The fumbling of the human mind at the onset of a great catastrophe, mourning the impending collapse of nature. Hands feeling for the latch of the exit door - but there's no exit door anymore.

Our choice of synthesizers is of course an added dimension to this line of thought, due to their inherent relationship to electricity, the nature of waveforms, the laws of physics. The mathematics of sound bring us closer to, - ARE the mathematics of the universe. Again, this is no new age vision - the album is clearly about the garbage we leave behind after a picnic in the park.

I've already said too much. Please let your mind wander around these bare concepts, it will do the job. Oh and don't forget to shake your body when you feel like the music invites you to do so. Dance at the scene of the wildfires." --J.Palomo, July 2021

released July 10, 2021 as free download and limited edition cassette.

Sven Lemke is a musician from Frankfurt (Main) / Germany that's known in the business for over 20 years for his projects Schattenspiel (Neoclassical / Ambient), Schwarzwald (EBM / Industrial) and, since 2020, his collaboration project with Andreas Davids that has been reinventing the space-ambient-pop genre.

Sven also makes various musical excursions solo under his alter ego Sven Phalanx and we are more than happy to announce that his new album is out now on Mahorka. "Inner Demon" is a compilation of 15 very personal songs and thus probably the most intimate release by Sven Phalanx so far.

Joy and pain, light and shadow are very close together and one cannot exist without the other.

released July 4, 2021

"There will always be something misunderstood and sought."


released June 27, 2021 as free download and limited edition cassette.





Music by: Boyan Avramov and Asen Santev
Cover painting by: Osman Yuseinov
Cover design: Ivo Petrov

'Sleep Studies' was a creative process spanning over 100 days from August 13th to November 21st, 2020. Inspired by themes like sleep, dreams and nightmares, one track per day was produced and uploaded to YouTube with an accompanying video.

"Working on this project we strived to find our way back to a means of production based on spontaneity and also allowed us to distance ourselves from the final product by removing afterthought and overproduction anxiety."

'Selected Sleep Studies' is a collection of 11 tracks, which represent a morsel of the 10 hours of music that is 'Sleep Studies'. A long rest awaits.

Released June 15, 2021 as free (cc) download and limited edition cassette.

Composed and produced by: Johan Fotmeijer and Linus Schrab

Mastering by: Anatoly Tokee Grinberg

Cover artwork: Ivo Petrov

Photography: Linus Schrab

Kanz (real name Kaloyan Gavrilov) is a techno and experimental electronic music act hailing straight from Lyulin, Sofia, Bulgaria. He has notable releases and appearances on labels such as KOMPONENTI, Audio Avantgarde and WTF is SWAG. He is also known for his collaboration work with Cyberian (on Amek and WTF is SWAG) as well as being a part of the now cult duo 80s Clash (with Dickie Slavkov) and the very promising project Lesnik (with SuB).

"Remind Me Tomorrow" is not one's usual album and the tracks on it are not one's usual album tracks. The release formed and (Kaloyan insists) should be viewed as a collection of always in progress works, created to be used as tools for Kanz live performances. Yet, some of these "tools" are already hit tracks, starting with the Kanz debut on Mahorka on the compilation album "Eastern Depths Vol.3" - the breath-taking track "Mindless" in 2016. "Restless" followed on "Music for elevators vol.5" in 2017 and in 2020 "Conditions" came out on the epic "Eastern Depths IV". Yet, "Remind Me Tomorrow" works fantasticly good as an album.

Released May 30, 2021

All music by: Kaloyan Gavrilov,
except: Track 12 - remix by Dimitar Vassilev

Track 1 - appearing on VA - "Music for elevators vol.5", Mahorka, 2017 Track 7 - appearing on VA - "Eastern Depths Vol.3", Mahorka, 2017 Track 11 - appearing on VA - "Eastern Depths IV", Mahorka, 2020

Cover artwork photo: Ivo Graves

Skopje project (Russia/Israel) debuts on Mahorka in April 2021 with the two-part dark drone improvisation "Inside the Whale", a record of its times (the music happened in Sept-Nov 2020), a record about isolation, loneliness and fear, about changing ways, about what it is like to be fish bait locked in the space of our homes.

released April 24, 2021

"The experience you are about to have may be a simulation. Things might have been otherwise than they had been. The recording you are about to play brings about a challenge. For the ears. For the mind. For the concept of consciousness. Can we reach forward into time by listening to an echo? How can we not? These recordings were made, one after another in 1997 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY -- they seem to be alive, even now.

Trap drum set, scrap metal percussion, gongs, electric guitars (prepared and unprepared), bass, tenor ukulele, mandolin, clarinet, musette, flutes, whistles, violin, Egyptian rebab, timbales, shortwave radio (with electrostatic playable antenna), walkman cassette tape player, lancelot, fourth orphan, trombone, tenor and alto sax."

"Layered Seed Water" has been recorded Live in Williamsburg Brooklyn in 1997 and has been considered a lost document of the 90s experimental music scene.

Released on Mahorka on April 8, 2021.

Orphan Sound System are John El Manahi, Jeff Gburek and John Palumbo.

The release of "Layered Seed Water" happens in concerted effort with net-labels Mahorka (Bulgaria), MuteAnt (USA), Ramble Records (Australia).

A video introduction to the faces and places behind the Orphan Sound System and the announcement of "Layered Seed Water" in 2021: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDXF3TOOYMU

Thanks to all. Watch the trailer video, please like and subscribe to the OSS channel.

"My (Western) Easter listening happens to be an avant-garde recording put together in the mid-nineties in Italy and just now being released. Imagine works being recorded nearly a quarter-century ago still sounding fresh and relevant. This is the sound of Orphan Sound System. The project features the talents of Jeff Gburek, John El Manahi and John Palumbo. I find it difficult to compare it to an artist of that particular time period, though perhaps I can hear a corollary with groups like AMM, the scores of incredibly talented cassette culture artists who worked with lo-fi conditions to make incredible art, or radical composers like Richard Teitelbaum (eternal be his memory).

This is improv music that never allows itself to become stale. The pieces feel like they are all the right length. The building of pieces, the tension held throughout, and the disintegration make for intriguing listening. As OSS have reunited after a long hiatus, I hope to see what, if any, new works are coming down the pipeline." --- musicyouneedtohear.com

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.

Iliaque's debut on Mahorka brings back with a bang the "Mahorka Remixes" series, taking on tracks from the inspiring and wide catalog of the label in the six tracks of the release. It is as much a tribute to the creative commons netlabel as to the remixed artists.

released March 22, 2021

Artwork visual: “Construction” from Béa

Track 1 credits:

Peter Davidson - Dark Waves (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/dark-waves

Willy Stamati - In Search of Noise (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/in-search-of-noise

Gavin Gamboa - Port Scanning (CC-BY-NC-SA) gav.cloud/track/port-scanning

Track 2 credits:

Insidebeat - Kinch (CC0) freesound.org/people/Insidebeat/sounds/245651/#

Insidebeat - Kinch (pitch) (CC0) freesound.org/people/Insidebeat/sounds/245652/

Insidebeat - Sustaining pt 2 (CC0) freesound.org/people/Insidebeat/sounds/249424/

Amotken - Triangulos quebrados (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/amotken-triangulos-quebrados

Ate - At sea (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/at-sea

PorchCat - Breaks pack (CC-BY) beta.ccmixter.org/files/PorchCat/5080

Track 3 credits:

Polyphonics - Something and sometimes (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/something-and-sometimes

Gavin Gamboa - I (CC-BY-NC-SA) gav.cloud/track/i-6

Amotken - Dawn (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/dawn

Track 4 credits:

Captation : La Sonothèque (CC0) lasonotheque.org/detail-0124-pluie-et-orage.html

Andrés Oddone - Maia (CC-BY-NC-SA) andresoddone.bandcamp.com/track/maia

Krāllār - Withdrawal (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/withdrawal

Sevensy - Greeting (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/greeting

Track 5 credits:

sgrunt - Sgrunt'n'bass (CC-BY) ccmixter.org/files/sgrunt/10691

Polyphonics - Far and away (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/far-and-away

Track 6 credits:

Sevensy - Polynesian Sunset (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/polynesian-sunset

Willy Stamati - The Terminal Stage (CC-BY-NC) mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/the-terminal-stage

Thierry Arnal, musician/composer/remixer based in Lyon, France, is an artist of several aliases and began his journey into music in 2006 and has released quite a few albums and EPs since, as well as a movie soundtrack, under the project names fragment., AMANTRA, SEPL, THA, 2W on various labels around the world, such as Justin Broadrick's label Avalanche Recordings, Ohm Resistance, KVITNU, M-TRONIC, Thisco Records, Pharmafabrick and others. The SEPL (short for SCORCHED EARTH POLICY LAB) adventure started in 2018 in the need to experiment in new territories.

In March 2021 SEPL debuts on Mahorka with the specially prepared for the label "QUASAR_VARIATION", a recording directly connected to and based on the compounds of his previously self-released "QUASAR" 4 track collection of virtual electronic instruments improvisation recordings..

released March 13, 2021

"It's all about physical perception."

SEPL official bandcamp

SEPL official facebook

some merch based on QUASAR artwork can be found here: SEPL-store

Long time ago, in the relatively small Black Sea coastal city of Varna, Julian Kalchev a.k.a. Virtually J became a kind of local pioneer and an inspiration for a whole generation, being the first to explore ways to compose and produce electronic music programmed, edited, played on a PC. He's been important part of the scene since then, contributing, for example, to the essential VA series "Kokaku" on Jisatsuken. With his last LP released 20 years ago (yes, in 2001) and after having him contribute an outstanding remix for Autonomaton's latest EP and a killer track on the "Eastern Depths IV" compilation last year, we are really excited to announce the release of his new album "Autocracy Mage" on Mahorka.

released February 28, 2021

"I address this to you, to the one who thinks on fake grounds.
I become calmer...
for I know that the view of a tree is not subjective,
Because a tree is a tree.
It cleanses my lungs from the corporate air that you emit.
I sit here, watching the stream of your hunger.
No basis, no center.
You said 'subjective',
I said 'you turn a blind eye',
You thought 'he doesn't get it'
I thought 'What a painful life when you live it as an alibi'
No progress,
No basis, No Center
No progress,
Just peevishness and hunger.
The level of your assumptions is out of control
You still carry on thinking that I cannot see behind your wall.
You still carry on thinking, You still carry on thinking
The level of your assumptions is out of control.
It's sky high, It's sky high,
You're brilliant."

Released February 21, 2021

Runi Graph [a.k.a. Mike Blackbeat] is a percussionist and drummer from Greece, working with tribal beats and experimental sounds.

He has collaborated on sessions with the projects Psyche Glyphs, Kostadis, Sodadosa and Bridal Veil.

He is also 1/2 and founding member of HAU, a duo band established by two friends with common concerns in 2012, producing an amalgam of industrial, noise improvisation, techno, analog sound and various other genres that has released the "Brilliant Gospel Alibi" album on DVNTT.

This debut EP was recorded in July 2020
All songs written and performed by Runi Graph
Recorded by Wee, Mixed by Wee and Runi Graph
Tracks 1, 2 mastered by Wee, tracks 3, 4 mastered by John Pratikakis @ Groove Studio

"12 de Janeiro, 2020 – Antesdurantedepois" a testimonial by George Christian

"Ensemble Phuturista was formed in January, 2019, but it had been on my mind ever since I talked with Maria Joana Cajado – or Maria Phuturista – around the end of 2018. She is a performance, multimedia artist who, at the time, wanted to flirt with music (nowadays, she writes music of her own). She told me about how much she missed a multimedia event that used to take place here in the city of Salvador, called Dominicaos, created and produced by Orlando Pinho and Heitor Dantas. Maria and me were participants of that event on several occasions. Maria talked to me about having me as a house-band (or her boyfriend at the time) for the new event she wanted to create, but I felt we could have more musicians to help. So, a seed of Ensemble Phuturista was planted in my mind. Still in the end of 2018, me and Maria were considering the possibility to invite Heitor to help us build the event. And our mutual friend, the composer, musician and producer Heitor Dantas accepted.

So, Onda Phuturista (at the time, written as Futurista) was created. “Futuristic Wave” in Portuguese. A multimedia event I ran with Heitor Dantas and Maria Phuturista. It was created mirroring Dominicaos, but with a detour: a house-band for the occasion. Like Dominicaos, we’d have an art exhibition occupying the same place in which the music was happening.

And this place was Galeria Paciência (Patience Gallery), by Luiz Fernando Landeiro. Two young artists were invited, with their paintings occupying their respective rooms in the gallery: Vivão and Ísis. The latter has also contributed a sculpture of a little tower of music scores and light – it can be seen in one of the picture, along with Maria Phuturista’s presence. Bárbara Pessoa was the photographer, and Caetano Britto was the VJ. All were decisive in capturing the aura of the event, as well as the artists, showing freshness to the scene. It’s not that different from what Andy Warhol envisioned with Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which also had live projections and a house-band: The Velvet Underground.

The album here was a collective improvisation recorded live on an event that, despite the little public, was significantly historic. It was a product of minds that wanted to shake the cultural inertia of a city. I wanted Ensemble Phuturista to be a collective free-improvisation group. I didn’t know exactly how to make it work, except by calling friends that might be helpful to give more music to the occasion: the drummer/percussionist Fernando Fernandes, the cellist André Miranda Filho, the tenor-saxophonist Paulo Roberto Pitta, and banjoist Vítor 'Gigito' Rios. Maria Phuturista, on her part, called her friend Natália Garcez – a singer and performer based in São Paulo, whose artistic name is Tallionpills.
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Heitor, using his experience with Dominicaos and also as a composer, really helped us with the modelling of the script/score of our performance, organized by him during a meeting he had with me, Maria, Tallionpills and Fernando. It was decided to have two parts - one acoustic and another one - electric (that was my idea), with a break during the acts. Such organization was really helpful for the whole event, that was introduced. Paulo Roberto Pitta did introduction with his solo improvisation at the balcony of the gallery. After some minutes, I played amplified acoustic guitars and our group with Gigito, André, Fernando and Paulo Pitta (later on) made this conversational acoustic improvisation that I called “Dança da Realidade”. After the break, we changed instrumentation: I moved to electric guitar (a Telecaster), also using delay and fuzz pedal effects; André, who was playing cello, played electric bass; Fernando went from the percussion set to the drums; Gigito went from the acoustic banjo in the first part to the electric banjo with distortion and delay; only Paulo Pitta remained on his tenor saxophone, but microphoned with a flanger effect. The second set was called “Estranhos Elétricos Balbucios”. Heitor Dantas helped more in the electronic part of the sound (samplers and live mixing) during the whole occasion. Maria Phuturista was the vocalist for the electric part, along with Talionpills, who sang with her effect pedals. Heitor also manipulated electronically Maria’s voice. I helped directing the band’s music, as well as Maria guided us towards and during the time of the event and, also, inspired us with her physical and vocal performance, while Heitor was the man responsible for orchestrating the sound environment and recording. The released album, however, is almost-an-hour cut of an event that was longer, of about 3 hours.

So, behind this apparent chaotic, but beautiful mess of this recording, there was collective magic... A utopia of a project that aimed at giving life and future for the underground. We were speaking of giving life and voice to art that is misplaced in a metropolis. In fact, we were the voice of a metropolis at the seaside of a country that still deals with underprivileged conditions. We, now, are in a global pandemic period, and living through the worst ethical and political times these days. The thoughts of these give me real disappointment. But I keep remembering our work as Ensemble Phuturista as a last breath of a collective avant-garde scene. And it makes me really proud to be part of it. There was another event in February, but some of the magic was gone or changed. I prefer to regard this January 12th recording as a definitive statement of what the music of Ensemble Phuturista was meant to be. A great mutant sound enigma coming from the urban tropics. A voice of a future that wasn’t meant to be of these days." --George Christian

released February 13, 2021

A collective live improvisation planned and recorded in the first edition of the event Onda Phuturista, at the Galeria Paciência (Patience Gallery) on January 12th, 2020. One year, one month and one day after that, on 13/02/2021, the album "12 de Janeiro, 2020 – Antesdurantedepois" came out on Mahorka.

Musicians in Ensemble Phuturista are:
George Christian – acoustic-electric guitar, electric guitar
Heitor Dantas – live electronics, samplers
Maria Phuturista – vocals (track 3 and 4)
Talionpills – voice and electronics (tracks 3 and 4)
Fernando Fernandes – percussion and drums
Vítor Rios – banjo
André Miranda Filho – cello, electric bass
Paulo Roberto Pitta – tenor saxophone

Recording: Heitor Dantas
Production: Heitor Dantas and George Christian
Mastering: Yago Franco
Pictures: Bárbara Pessoa

"New technology consumes the forms of the past, and in doing so, transforms them. The content of a medium is always another medium." -- Marshall Macluhan

"It occurs to me that an eddy, a whirlpool effect is in the movement of the blue light energy round the globe of this planet earth. This is completely separate from earthling roots. Artificial Intelligence is driving and amplifying the speed of this whirling made up of fragments of incomplete storying's, facts, fiction, surmise, guessing, falsifying, and distortions too quick to catch, subliminal imagining, violent images, catastrophics..." -- Carlyle Reedy, 12/12/2020 (via Facebook)

"While radio signalling may not be entirely separate from our earthling roots, the radio signalling sphere has certainly expanded in range and density. Like a loosely thatched roof or cyber-crown on top of the ionosphere, the 5G bubble expands. My radio and my own ears can receive now from further realms of accidental cooperation an unheard of propagation of waves and a new complex of commingling mass inter-references. Shortwave and medium wave radio captures recorded and mixed live in the Beskidy Mountains are the source and subject of my work here in this release on Mahorka (Bulgaria) and continues the momentum kicked of by Antenna Non Grata label in Poland. With my radio captures I express the wish to re-inscribe my experience on the skies and an desire to transmit my own reception amid the virtual and real celestial beings merging with the creative forces of the universe. And to share and invite you to do the same.

Radio was one of the ways I was getting to know the place where I was confined during the summer of plague year 2020, on the border between Poland & the Czech Republic. Culturally connection to humanity reduced to invisible waves. Naturally an admixture with foreign yet unalienable earthly experience was the continual communion. Stream, trees, berry bushes, birds, bees, wasps, snakes, deer, rain, fog, sun, moon. Humans off in distances, cutting, motors, megaphones of ceremony, sports? Mysteries of Lockdown.

"The effort to know a place deeply is, ultimately, an expression of the human desire to belong, to fit somewhere, " writes naturalist Barry Lopez. "The determination to know a particular place, in my experience, is consistently rewarded. And every natural place, to my mind, is open to being known. And somewhere in this process a person begins to sense that they themselves are becoming known, so that when they are absent from that place they know that place misses them. And this reciprocity, to know and be known, reinforces a sense that one is necessary in the world." When I would slip between two trees or ford the stream and brings my microphones through the thickets shyly, I often wondered who would take note of my passage. An owl's feather on the hill felt less like random molting and more a thoughtful gift. I did not feel necessary. Yet I felt somehow integrated. In stillness belongingness would follow in the space between abandoning too many thoughts and dwelling on the margins of the senses, alert & calm.

The forest was filled with critters, anomalies, novelties and micro-process. Listening to the winds and then listening to the radio waves decode in the crucibles of the high mountain cabin, I felt a connection with a meta-language of polyvalent systems and the flux of cosmogonic coincidence inside my own fleeting construct of identity. Trees seemed electrically charged, the Perseid meteorites skimming overhead. We seemed part of an unfolding of both broad-scaled and miniscule gestures. When meteorites could be heard influencing the bounce of the radio signals I found myself thinking again of Umberto Eco, his semiotics "the ability to identify messages where it is supposed there are only gestures and read signs where there are only objects". While I was in the field I received notification of a commission for Radioprhrenia Glasgow and I began to imagined how some of these radio recordings might be used, happy that I would get another chance to transmit via radio what radio transmits to me.

"Culture is brimming with relics in the form of zombie signifiers, " wrote Zygmunt Baumann in his "Sketches in the Theory of Culture". Since the old meanings of cultural signs are constantly shifting, there is an emptying of significance. If the Zen concept of the half-empty/half-full glass can be invoked here, I would say that whatever we are saying these days, one half is the old school sense, somewhat obsolete, while the other half is filled with the codifications of the new generations, ahead of us, somewhat unrealized and potential. With the realm of the radio, there is a ghost half always half empty and a ghost half always half full. Many of the old signifiers have disappeared and neo-zombie signs become newly coined to describe the old or completely novel zombie-signifiers which proclaim meanings to exist which have not been acknowledged, accepted, recognized. I read in my own transformations here a future in which I am entangled and evolving with thoughtful moves. I paint in radiographical terms.

I do not speak only about the meaning of radio as a cultural manifestation or as mass media, as propaganda, spreader of cliches. Whereas we attach coded electronic pulses to the radio waves in an effort to communicate between ourselves and government enacts control thereby, I have always been as equally concerned with how radio waves, as cosmic forces per se, communicate themselves through us. I set out in my listening and remain contemplative, receptive, peering around the edges of the noise."
-- Jeff Gburek

released February 5, 2021

Live Set @ Paradigms Hub
Floating Cloud House, Wisła, Malinka
August 2020

Following the steps of his debut album "These Elephants", Mathieu St-Pierre re-engages with the concept of cyberspace as a means to explore his ambient and drone compositional approaches via the pool of data that is the internet.

As a result, his second album and Mahorka debut "Online Messages in Cardboard Boxes" was constructed solely by scavenging the net for sound textures and later altering and arranging them to create unique soundscapes. So as much as there was lots of time spent designing the compositions, an at least equal amount of time was involved in the research phase. "Online Messages in Cardboard Boxes" is a voyage beyond the keyboard, the monitor and the WWW, it takes us on a trip from the busy streets of a virtual metropolis to the melted ruins of a broken e-map. Each track was conceived as a gateway to the cloud of our mind.

released January 23, 2021

DR (Dominic Razlaff) is a sound artist from Germany. He uses synthesizers, acoustic instruments (Ukulele, Cavaquinho, Guitar), field recordings, tape loops and granular synthesis to create soaked in melancholy ambient / drone soundscapes.

A bit after debuting on Mahorka with his highly acclaimed collaboration album with Blanket Swimming ("The Lightning Gallery") he found an old sketch, unfinished Ukulele piece, which was a little bit boring recording, but had something special to it. Out of it he made some tape loops (with a Fostex x-15) to see what can come out and really liked the results. From these tape loops the three "Matrjoschka" compositions were finished. The release title comes from the "matrjoschkas" that have been around him in his living room, the only decoration that links to his ancestry from his father's side, born and growing up in east Europe and central Asia.

Released December 28, 2020

All music by Dominic Razlaff

Cover artwork photo by Dominic Razlaff

"The IPCC AR5 defines a tipping point as an irreversible change in the climate system. It states that the precise levels of climate change sufficient to trigger a tipping point remain uncertain, but that the risk associated with crossing multiple tipping points increases with rising temperature.

In the context of climate change, an "adaptation tipping point" has been defined as "the threshold value or specific boundary condition where ecological, technical, economic, spatial or socially acceptable limits are exceeded.

Tipping point behaviour in the climate can also be described in mathematical terms. Tipping points are then seen as any type of bifurcation with hysteresis. Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history. For instance, depending on how warm and cold it was in the past, there can be differing amounts of ice present on the poles at the same concentration of greenhouse gases or temperature

In a study inspired by "mathematical and statistical approaches to climate modelling and prediction", the authors identify three types of tipping points in open systems such as the climate system - bifurcation, noise-induced and rate-dependent. The idea of tipping points in climate science, as indicated by palaeoclimate data and global climate models, suggest that the "climate system may abruptly 'tip' from one regime to another in a comparatively short time.

Bifurcation-induced tipping refers to changes in dynamical systems that occur when a small smooth change made to bifurcation parameters of the system causes an abrupt or sudden topological change in the behavior of the system. In the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), slow passage to the bifurcation parameters - the salinity, temperature and density of water - could cause the AMOC to abruptly collapse when it reaches a critical tipping point. Currents of warm, seawater in the upper layers of the Atlantic flow north, while currents of colder, deep waters from the North Atlantic flow south, like a conveyor belt known as thermohaline circulation. Downwelling occurs when the warmer, higher-density seawater accumulates and sinks beneath the colder, lower density less saline water from glacier melt. An AMOC collapse would occur if downwelling was inhibited . [critical slowing down] (CSD) "occurs because a restoring feedback is weakening as a bifurcation-type tipping point is approached.

Noise-induced tipping refers to transitions due to random fluctuations or internal variability of the system, as in the Dansgaard-Oeschger events during the last glacial period, with 25 occurrences of rapid climate fluctuations.

Rate-induced tipping occurs in an "excitable system" - such as peatlands - when one of the systems parameters is "ramped" through a "steady, slow and monotonic change" eliciting a "large excitable response". In the case of peatlands, the rate-induced tipping point results in an "explosive release of soil carbon from peatlands into the atmosphere" - "compost bomb instability"."

Released December 19, 2020 as free (cc) download and limited edition cassette.

“Thanks to the Mahorka team and Esther De Laet”.

Cover artwork by Pedro Maras and Ivo Petrov.

"40 minutes of isolation. 40 minutes of bad news, good news, self-doubts and tears. 40 minutes of motivation, being tired and being sad and happy at the same time. all the silence at night, at day, deep inside has grown to noise, to walls of noise waiting to be born out of the darkness. 40 minutes... every second is a witness of the fall and the rise of a lost soul."

Released December 6, 2020 as free (cc) download and limited edition cassette.

Created, recorded in 2020 by Andreas Davids @ Separate Room, MTH

Mastered by Anatoly Tokee Grinberg

Thanks to Ivo Petrov

www.andreasdavids.de

Experiential composer Austin Rockman paints upon the canvas of silence with seemingly supernatural projections of sound. These amalgamations point towards tones of an almost uncertain origin and are very much characterized by a certain place in time. His debut album 'Plum God' represents a transitory state. An uncertainty, which brings along states of confusion, exhaustion, intensity.. coexisting within these emotions resides hope and the inevitable beauty and gravity of consciousness. We are swayed like trees against an invisible wind, currents that press upon us, like shores, constantly reoccurring and reemerging from a seemingly infinite source. Beyond us. This elusive control navigates our existence, and in this sway we must have trust in ourselves, this is only the beginning..

As Austin Rockman's debut on Mahorka "Plum God" has been revisited, on tape, and with the "bonus" track (tape322), this is only the beginning..

Press Coverage:

'Plum God is a beautiful reminder of human fragility, and a welcomed breath of fresh air in an environment too often symbolized by a seductive superficiality.ʼ - Massimo Ricci/Touching Extremes

‘Beautifully mangled sound rests on the periphery of conscious awareness, pulling the mind back from untethered states with anxious and processed machinelike errors and blurred distortions of texture.ʼ - Tone Harvest

‘The symbiosis he develops between the beckoning of the music and the willing acquiescence of the ear and mind makes this album a bracing experience.ʼ -Andrew Forell/Dusted Magazine

Released November 29, 2020 as free download and limited edition cassette.

Composed and produced by: Austin Rockman
Mastering by: Taylor Deupree
Sleeve design by: Angel Draganov
Using photography by: Austin Rockman

Ivano Pecorini is a composer and sound artist based in London, whose works move across experimental approaches and aesthetic investigations, focused on the manipulation and mixture between concrete materials, synthesis and acoustic instruments.His body of work maintains both a sharp creative focus and a wide-eyed spirit of exploration, creating unexpected electronic soundscapes.

Nowadays, the vast possibilities of instrumental choices further lead many composers to create their own compositional environments, including limitations and defects, to better explore particular sonic fields, in all their facets and micro-variations. This is why, to compose Barons Court, Ivano developed a system of four electromagnets that are controlled by Max/MSP. Each electromagnet allows for the vibration of some piano strings, producing modulated soundscapes, textures, and melodies.

Released November 15, 2020 as free download and limited edition cassette.

Composed and produced by: Ivano Pecorini
Mastering by: Roberto Di Ciaccio
Artwork by: Ivo Petrov
Photography by: Silvia Preziosi

“Tick tock tick. Time trickles away softly and time flows off hard, steadfast as ever. Time travel might make you dream off but you cannot stop time or turn back, even if that is your dearest wish. The hourglass is running, at that steady pass, water is flowing, an ongoing stream, and everything we do or did is in the past. Time is ticking and will not stop, not for anyone, not ever ...”

Unlike on his debut EP on Mahorka - a trip through abstract territories, blending dissonants and rough waves of emotion rumbling, here on this 9 track album Brainquake explores common songstructures and sounds. Overtones, dissonants and layers still provide that emotional layer but with a softness uncommon for his works. There is even some optimism in the sound palette and melodies? In sound it kind of reminds of those great 90's electronica/ambient/idm albums we all grew up with but adding that minimal touch and rhythms and some more contemporary production. As a whole this album evolves presenting a changing approach to a constant, common sequence. Variations on a theme but quite diverse. All tracks are at 110 beats per minute and as the ongoing sequence flows on, it showcases the different interplay of underlays and thrifty build up.

As most albums this one is best listened to in full but that doesn’t minimalize the vigour of the compositions by themselves. Take your time and use the strength of repetition. Sleep, snooze, listen, dance to it, it’s ambient, idm, experimental, leftfield, pop and endzeit emotronica as much as it is not.

released October 25, 2020

All tracks composed 2018-2020, compiled and recorded for Mahorka, autumn 2020 by Marc Ceulemans at Hemel Centraal (Belgium)

Cover artwork by Marc Ceulemans

IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH GRASPING THE DIVISION OF LABOUR BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE

"There are obviously various musical directions and techniques going on in this album. A variety of sound sources and instruments are introduced. Abandoning specialization and sliding towards universality produces thriving musical diversity but also easily ends up to the dilettantism, which I have not been that much afraid of.

How many instruments I really played on this album? The answer is unambiguous. I am a guitarist, so I play guitar (on tracks 1, 2 and 10). Track 8 is played on the guitar, but the sound source is a virtual instrument violin (Embertone’s Joshua Bell violin by guitar to MIDI, no Max/MSP involved). Playing gestures of violin (sampled) and guitar (played by me) are entirely different in nature. So what is the point of playing violin by the guitar? Just to have fun.

In all compositions except tracks 9 and 11 material, form or both are outputs from constrained improvisation controlled by various controller setups. In general, it is a bit misleading to talk about playing here. It is in most of the tracks more like active listening. Auditive feedback is available in constrained real-time compositional process. On the other hand, the process comes close to free improvisation. It is not meant to challenge or replace traditional instrument playing skills. It is something entirely different.

For example, tracks 4 and 12 are parametrically predefined constrained improvisations. However, tracks 9 is made by using Csound with score without real-time processing. Track 11 is produced partly using Csound and partly transforming recorded sound material by GRM Tools Warp and Reson. Other tracks are complex hybrids involving constrained improvisation by Max/MSP, virtual instruments, synthesizers, GRM Tools and number of others techniques.

The resulting album is some kind of experimental multigenre music collage. Even after trying, the album did not fit into the genre of acousmatic music. The musical process seems to have led me to my own worlds. In stereo sound reproduction, new school acousmatic music is sound image intensive. For good quality reproduction three-way monitors are an important requirement and there is no much space for the listener to move head out from the sweet spot when rendering the studio mix by stereo monitors.

Acousmatic music rarely has any lounging beat based continuous structures. It serves poorly as background music. Acousmatic music asks for attentive listening. If the investment of attention to the listening of (my album) is rewarding or not, can be asked afterwards. However, purely aesthetic constraints, such as the custom to avoid certain types of rhythmic structures, are always momentary. They are useful for their time, sometimes five, sometimes hundred years, until some composer violates the rule in a fruitful way.

COMPOSITION THEREFORE IS MAGIC

The diversity of things may seem at first chaotic in this album but there is some underlying map. One of my background goals by using my methods in the real-time process is to bypass the ego and the conscious mind in this process so that a flow of deeper level messages gets space to appear. Aim of this integration is to bring together opposites – not only on sound material level but also on different cultural scales and musical dimensions – without them losing their blade. Although the goal is a flowing state of mind, a lot of conscious labour, programming and planning is involved.

In this man-machine transformer dream some tension between the awakening part (man) and the sleeping part (machine) is obvious. These parts interact through interfaces. It has something to do with grasping the division of labour between man and machine.

"Composition therefore is magic" Adrian Moore, Sonic Art 2016, page. 34

What does Moore exactly mean here? It might be something to do with his concept “Theory of Opposites”. i.e. the sound transformation should produce against most obvious descriptor of the sound. Sound materials should be transformed so that the hidden acousmatic potential of it is unveiled while the original gesture that produced it likely be veiled. Something imaginal is produced.

So is this magic? Maybe. It depends on who is doing it and how it is done. Magic is the procedure where the subconscious mind is affected by manipulating (mythopoetic) images. Acousmatic reductive listening moves attention towards the absolute listening and liberates sound from the apparent gestures of the material reality.

In practice, by “magic” Moore probably means something like this: every tool has its secrets in usage and potential not immediately obvious and which require great sensibility and knowledge from the user. Sound is symbol of something. By sound, it is possible to program our subconscious mind in certain way. In fact, we cannot refuse to do so. Whenever we work on sound, we affect the mind. And not only so that we are subconsciously affected by all the sounds, we hear, we consciously perceive all the sounds individually differently depending of momentary state of mind, whether altered or ordinary.

Am I aware how the elephant of the sub-consciousness will take my sounds? Well, this is under experiment. Our world is full of attempts at mind control and suggestions and I am not hurrying to be part of these industries but rather aiming at something opposite: chaomine pointing out from the centre as lines of flight. The lines of the world are the lines of escape.

In constrained real-time composition, I have sometimes the view that combining musical will and high technology could possibly create a mythopoetic language. Some sort of hierarchy appears, lying not in the area of engineering and not in musicians either, but in both. A kind of hidden hieroglyphs covered by the dust of the times. Ready for foundation and exploration waiting for the ear of the music technological archaeologist of distant futures.

What about the psychokinesis between man and computer? Moore barely had that in mind, or did he? This idea repeatedly spontaneously re-emerges to me in the practical process. Again, it is perhaps ”magic” observable in the process more than the end product for the listener. Of course, I cannot prove this synchronicity phenomenon between man and machine exists at all. However, this idea is something that inspires me and keeps me curious and going on.

Telepathic connection between man and machine could supposedly happen in a mechanism similar in nature to quantum entanglement. In magic, cosmic synchronicity is under the will power of a mage, whose aim is to program the subconscious mind through synchronisms. This affair does not necessarily have a dimension of a public performance. It happens in its deepest essence mostly in silence bypassing the whole of the conscious mind and its fantasies of total control. There is tension between “Overall Man” and “Super Man”: Whole “I” without ego (or limited ego) contra small “i” with boundless ego. Egos are programming sub-consciousness more or less randomly. An ego leads to a sub-consciousness, which is likely not programmed under deepest will.

Despite all of the background metaphysics, I suggest acousmatic reductive listening strategy for this album. Even if I cannot stop myself naming the tracks in mythopoetic-sounding ways, the custom is not meant to be a guide for a listening orientation. These compositions at their material level do not suggest a programmatic or formal listening strategy."

-- Janne Nummela, Oct 2020

Links: 1 CASTALIA composing tool 2 Interview by Harald Schmidl

released October 10, 2020

Voice on track 9: Earl Fontainelle, shwep.net

Cover artwork: Ilene Meyer: "The Jester and his Protégé"
© Ilene Meyer, published under permission of current copyrights owner.

Cover design: Timo Salo, Janne Nummela

More than four years ago, in 2016, Mahorka released the Eastern Depths Vol.3 compilation, that took us on a dark and trippy electronica adventure through a good part of the deepest depths of the Bulgarian underground electronic music scene. And now, in 2020, EASTERN DEPTHS IV is unleashed onto the world!

This new edition is more omnipresent than ever, presenting most of the active, many iconic Bulgarian electronic producers with tracks exclusively produced/selected for this mesmerizing sonic experience, featuring SuB, Mr.SMiFF, RoboKnob, Markov, U-stók, Hypnos, Scav, Autonomaton, NIANDRAZ & XI-N, Second Body, Cyberian, Dayin, Ivan Shopov, Protuberance, Recidivist, Virtually J, E23N42SF, MBA, MO. (remixed by Second Body), Trohi, Kliment, Erased Memories (remixed by Cinnamint), Mloski, Kanz, Polygon Ring, The Science, Shamanez, Goro, BHE, Warm Aquarelle, Esem.

Released September 20, 2020

Compiled and executed by: Stanislav Genadiev, Ivelin Iliev, Ivo Petrov

Final mastering touches by: Stanislav Genadiev

Artwork by Angel Draganov
using photography by Iavor Kolev

Released Sept 12, 2020 as free download and limited edition cassette.

"The "Tasaday" were a Stone Age cave dwelling people in the Philippines who were not aware of other people on the planet. They had no word for war or violence, were free of any aggressive behaviour. The Tasaday had no myths, no rituals, no priests, no folklore."
-- Philippine History Archive: The lost tribe

Taking hints from a more organic approach to production, this album draws from dub music and jazz. The narrative can be psychedelic in nature and essence which makes the album a cerebral experience. Similar to the Tasaday’s headspace, no myths, no rituals, no folklore.

Released Sept 3, 2020 as free download and limited edition cassette.

Yamaha DX100
Akai MPC 2500
Roland SP-404SX

Cover image: Jan Sunday
Artist photo: Jan Sunday
Cover design: Ivo Petrov
Composed and produced: Moki Mcfly

Tokee is an alter-ego of the Russian/Israeli composer and sound engineer Anatoly Grinberg who has released numerous solo and collaborative albums and is mostly known as prominent Dark Ambient / Cinematic Drone / Industrial music composer. Tokee's new album "Stages", though, can be described as having roots in the early 80' synth wave and synth pop. This specific sound, amazingly aesthetically preserved also by the remixers with their unique twists on side B of the tape, and the very coming out as special cassette artefact take us back to Anatoly's childhood and youth before the Soviet Union was split, where those early electronica sounds fascinated and inspired him, and in many cases they were found on or recorded to tapes.

Released August 23, 2020 as free download and limited edition cassette.

Composed and produced by Anatoly Grinberg in Moscow, Russia in 2019-2020

Tracks 1 to 7 (Side A of the cassette) are all original tracks

Tracks 8 to 15 (Side B of the cassette) are all remixes, with additional production and remix by: MindDivided (8), Thermidor (9), aAirial (10), 4T Thieves (11), Frontier Guards (12), Autoclav1.1 (13), The Pixel Door (14) and UDPWNF (15)

Artwork design by Stefan Alt

In loving memory of Anatoly's beloved mother Natalia (1946-2017)

"To freely quote Professor Paulo Motta, «music is the mirage of sound». Schroedinger's music: Suppose it takes shape? Suppose it doesn't? Suppose both states exist? Suppose I didn't want to chose?

-- JP, May 2020

Released on August 19, 2020 as free (cc) digital download and also as limited cassette edition.

Composed on modular synthesizer, ARP 2600, ARP Sequencer, EMS Synthi E, Waldorf Microwave, Korg Z1 and Akai S950

October-December 2019, IB Studio 2.0, France

Cover artwork by Ivo Petrov, using photography by Aurélie Gerlach

Produced by Ivo Petrov

From the very inception of Wayab - with "Tales from the transcendent" - the substance of the project has been finding ways to express the inexpressible through the development of abstract language based on sound. This release differs from the previous Wayab albums in its incorporation of verbal language alongside the purely sonic one, with quotations from ancient scriptures, both canonical and apocryphal.

The album is structured as a sonic triptych, representing three paths leading in the same direction. On the left is the path of knowledge - it begins with the desire to know, followed by the acquisition of knowledge and in the end - the becoming of the knowledge itself. In the center is the path of direct experience, of grace. Short and simple rhythmic structures are transfigured into spacious soundscapes embodying the formless timelessness at the center of existence. On the right is the path of devotion, of love - simultaneously a prayer for existence and an expression of gratefulness for it.

The development of a language capable of expressing the inexpressible is an infinite process that cannot reach completion and yet understanding this impossibility to be complete is its very completion. To quote one of the great translators of ancient knowledge from the Sanskrit, Juan Mascaró: "All true progress is an inner creation that leads to the joy of the Infinite."

released August 1, 2020

All music by Nikola Marinov

Cover artwork by Boyan Avramov

Dedicated to Fredo. Farewell, dear friend!

Last Christmas we released the outstanding debut Teeth Of Divine album "Act I: Genesis" while the work on some extraordinary reworks had already inevitably begun with the likes of Autonomaton, Ab Uno, BedouinDrone and Sai. This slowly but steadily evolved into much bigger project, involving an impressive roster of artists and projects from around the spectrum - xotox, Hypnos, Amotken, George Christian, TFSL, Wayab, Sevensy, Luneta Freedom Jazz Collective, HeAD, Philippe Neau, Пускай Пералнята, Michel Kristof, Abu Ama, Mokushi, Tokee, iiney and Teeth Of Divine themselves. In the vein of always preparing and releasing a really special collaborative Mahorka project for Netlabel Day (e.g. Fire to the Stars, Captive Portal and krāllār reworks albums, the "Music for Elevators vol. 5" VA compilation and a 4T Thieves remixes album), this year, on 14/07/2020, we will present the huge "ReAct I: ReGenesis".

released July 14, 2020

Cover artwork: Angel Draganov
Final mixing and mastering touches: Yasen Penchev
Executive producer: Ivo Petrov
Curated, coordinated by: Ivo Petrov, Boyan Avramov, Yasen Penchev

All tracks are remixes/interpretations of original tracks from the debut Teeth Of Divine album "Act I - Genesis", released on Mahorka in 2019 as free digital download and a limited edition digipak CD.

Released for the ocassion of Netlabel Day 2020!

This is Tomoroh Hidari (Ivory Bunker Records, Record Label Records, Isolate Records) first new album since 2012's Some Stars not yet Black Holes, featuring tracks mostly composed over the last 2 or three years, with 1 or 2 going back even further.
Its texture is composed of a mix of field recordings, samples, lush synth pads and heavy basses and intricate beats; while guitars, melodica and toy Theremin - all played by Hidarisan himself - also make an appearance.

1. Sword of no Sword
2. 空 (read: ku - meaning: emptiness. In the Buddhist/Zen meaning)
3. Owl-Stretching Time
4. 秋 (read: aki - meaning: autumn)
5. 猫ホップ　(read: NekoHop)
6. メランコリー (read: Melancholy)
7. 山寺 (read: Yamadera - meaning Mountain Temple. A Temple in Yamagata Prefecture)
8. Sketches of Pain

The title - 小さな夢達 (Chiisana Yumetachi) - translates as "Small Dreams": In a world where we’re constantly told to dream big, it is about the Zen of the moment. It is about observing our thoughts and dreams: letting them come and go, rather than chasing after them.
The songs themselves are little vignettes, dealing with Zen (空/Ku) and Samurai philosophy (Sword of No-Sword - inspired by Miyamoto Musashi’s Book of 5 Rings), absurdism (Owl-Stretching Time), cats (猫ホップ/Nekohop), memories (山寺/Yamadera) and finish with a farewell to melancholy (Sketches of Pain).

released July 7, 2020

All music written and performed by Tomoroh Hidari
Cover artwork: dfkt. portfolio.dfkt.at
(Based on a photo by Tomoroh Hidari)

Brainquake is Marc, originating from the mail-art/tape-art scene in the late eighties and composing and collecting sounds since then under this moniker and few others. Ranging from ambient, soundcollages to electro, dark wave, from noise to industrial or even poplike tunes embedded in electronics or, the way he himself labels his sounds on recent releases, “endzeit emotronica”, the music of Brainquake is allways lengthy, strong in build-up and quite often heavily emotional.

On "Adrift" we hear Brainquake as a deja vu from his first releases: an intro, an outro, dissonants blending into bleakness, waves of emotion rumbling. The feeling of being adrift in a world of depravity and desillusion. Brainquake’s music takes time, time to evolve and time to be taken in. It’s about chaos blending in structure and blending out again. There seems to be no place for optimism in here but, in the distance, or in the details, there allways is. These sounds and this overwhelming sadness you feel like bad chemical taste from within, are not to simply to be listened to but to be unavoidably felt. Patience and darkness are our friends.

Released July 3, 2020

All sounds collected and processed February-May 2020
Recorded during a live session on May 2 2020 at Hemel Centraal, Belgium.

Brainquake page at bandcamp
Brainquake page at facebook

"if I walk on this side
I can be in the sun
while on the cooler side
I get get get get get get
shit from everyone
they look you up and down
spit in my direction
insults, scowls, bottles thrown
another misdirection
smokers throw their butts
małpki, plastic cups
crisp bags, tickets
condoms, shizzhits
civilization's filth
staring into phones
zombies all alone
twiddling drones
vitamin D deficient
information delinquents
locked in gamester cycles
hard drive swipers
irate drunken late stumbler
kurwa mumbler
which tylko kebab
they slob the gob and rob
and get to go
hoodie goon hoodie goon
hoodie hoodie hoodie goon
hoodie goon hoodie goon
you wanna take a look of the cracker
hook the look of the slacker
make a real style hacker
want the look
scoop the look
be a banksy bankster
spanky wanker
twerkin' class hero
stuck on channel zero
hoodie goon hoodie goon
hoodie hoodie hoodie goon
hide the white supremacist face
face the police state
with hipster mistake
the fashion stolen from race
hoodie goon hoodie goon
aerosol astronaut

-- I am sitting in a room
performing society of the spectacle"

released June 20, 2020

Conspiracy Therapists is a project by Jeff Gburek and Filippo Panichi.

Jeff Gburek lives in Poznań (Poland) while Filippo Panichi is from Firenze (Italy). Their first work together, "Parallel Spirals", was recorded during a longer stay of Jeff in Florence. Then the collaboration went on from the respective living places, culminating in the presented on Mahorka "In the Place of a Vain Search for an Image of the Age".

Centrul Isteric (FR: Centre Hystérique; EN: Hysterical Center) is the brainchild of Romanian A/V artist Gili Mocanu, better known for his abstract electronics project, Somnoroase Păsărele, which saw over a dozen recordings released on Baba Vanga (CZ), Anti-Everything (US), Czaszka (UK), OBS (RU), OTA and URUBU (PT). His style is distinctive, utilizing atypical synth sounds and asymmetrical or non-rhythmic elements, with several successful incursions into minimalist ambient/drone as well.

When not orchestrating his own samples as Somnoroase Păsărele, Gili has initially (circa 2009-10) used Centrul Isteric as a side-project for messing around with rhythmic loops extracted from popular music – sometimes matching the BPM while other times not. Over time, the experiment has evolved into long-form spectral explorations (2010-16), and has recently settled into a 3rd approach to “organized hysteria”, as illustrated by KISI. On this 36-minute piece, which utilizes source materials provided by his SP companion, Miru Mercury, only the 3 or 4 opening seconds of each soundpiece are sampled and looped, in such ways that would allow for maximum dramatic effect with each subsequent maneuver. KISI thus marks a shift from previous formless 'agglutination' to more considered 'superordination' in time and space.

released June 7, 2020

Recorded/edited/mastered by Gili Mocanu, Feb 2020
Artwork by Gili Mocanu / Simina Oprescu
Text & project management by Miru Mercury

"The underwater fires" is a conceptual EP, revolving all around Autonomaton's love for the underwater life and rivers, seas, oceans and aquariums. That's a passion shared with the Mahorka boss Ivo Petrov, so you can guess that this release has been long time coming. In the tracks one can hear actual sounds from real fish (not mammals) captured and presented in very experimental ways. All tunes were produced on a computer but analogue equipment such as a Korg and a 303 machine were utilized in the works, sounds played on/from which were recorded and reworked. All overdubs couresty of Nikolay Stanchev. One of the tunes is actually performed totally live, manipulating the already reworked loops.

This EP includes 4 original works and 2 special remixes by dear friends that further complement the release. The overall style here might be considered to be from experimental dub to obscure dub techno, as the artist himself describes it, but each track takes us on a totally new journey. The remixes are by Abu Ama - a pioneer of the sufi dub sounds and by Virtually J - the computer music pioneer in the Varna region, that started producing music on PC in '94 with trackers and other audio software, and has been a huge inspiration and support for the regional scene, including for Autonomaton and Mahorka, ever since. Both remixes take really different sound paths from original tracks, but still are made with the thought of being coherent parts of the release, thus making the whole EP even a more colourful and interesting, completing a magical journey through the Earth's waters and underwater life... Enjoy it loud!

released May 31, 2020

All music by Autonomaton, except for track 5 - remix by Abu Ama and track 6 - remix by Virtually J
Analog mastering by Virtually J
Cover artwork photo by kitthanes

"Lost data" is an album arranged on the basis of a selection of unreleased and forgotten versions of tracks that Sai made between 2004-2008, representing his early ideas and sequences with sample-based and computer generated music, fused into the styles of drum and bass, industrial and breaks. The new album masters have been slightly retouched now (with the original mixing projects lost years ago) and in 2020 this music not only proves itself to have stood amazignly against time, but comes out fresher than ever.

released May 23, 2020

Vocal sample on track 2 from Pistamashina's track "Data back" (Sai was officially working on a remix for them back in the day and used a sample here).
Piano intro in track 4 played by Plamen De Reu.
Vocal samples on tracks 4 and 8 from Milenita's track "Tunela" (stems were originally available under creative commons license for a remix contest back in the day).

Absorbed in music for about 20 years, with many solo and collaborative releases, MR.SMiFF is continuing to experiment with various musical forms and styles. He is deeply immersed in observation of feelings, emotions, psychology and behaviors, in constant search of new means of musical expression, through old and new technologies. "5SSENCE", his debut release on Mahorka, is inspired by the alchemy and recent personal experiences. The music has been influenced by and bears the same name as Neda Ruzheva's audio-visual-dance performance, for which MR.SMiFF performs the music live. The five pieces follow the alchemical processes and correspond to different elements and senses. Through the use of slow and trippy ambient movements, the composer tries to freeze the time or delay moments indefinitely, with the glitchy twists and surprises interfering as result of unexpected and compressed reactions of the unpredictable interfusion of the "elements" - both in alchemical and psychological aspects.

released May 8, 2020

"Within our reach will be the expeditions at the distant poles, which emit radio signals to the sky, waiting to be taken by attentive listening souls. They carry news of Climate Change and Mutant Boreal Auroras.

Bundy, Chikatilo, Dahmer heard voices in their heads, as if they were real and present. Voices surrounding them, voices nurturing them, voices telling them how to be and acting, hundreds of voices telling them how to be.

composed, produced, mixed and mastered by Jimmy Watt Abarca

recorded between Dec 2018 and Nov 2019 in Santiago de Chile

released March 19, 2020

also available as limited cassette edition

artwork paintings by Jimmy Watt Abarca
design by Ivo Petrov and Angel Draganov

“Thanks to Ivo and Angel (Mahorka Crew) for the patience, passionate and infinite support”

"Basically the project came into being from the job I do. I work in the waste/recycling industry and have done for 3 years. When I first started I was absolutely mortified at how wasteful we are in this country and likely most of the developed world. There is so much food waste (tins, dried goods that get thrown away even though they are perfectly fine). I eat what I think is OKay. Me and others also find gold, silver, rolex watches etc. I found a bottle of whiskey valued at 1400 pounds. So i was seeing all this waste and then seeing homeless people in the street asking me for money. I would buy them a sandwich and a drink. I sank into a place of strange but thoughtful depression and anxiety. Then we had this idea that you could look inside a skip and come up with a quality band name. I came up with 'Half eaten loaf', The rotten carpets, Then I saw a broken thermos flask with all these old photos next to it. Peoples memories... Soul Flask just popped in my head. I then set about taking inspiration for a musical project with influences taken directly from rubbish. Some musical instruments and old vhs tapes provided a catalyst of at least creating a musical message to this madness.

Most tracks have a direct message to them. Usually just questioning our accepted culture as normal without challenging it. But when looking at the bigger picture of which society does its very best to hide. You can't help but wonder just how long we can sustain ourselves like this. I mean, we all need things to survive. But when these things come to their expiry. We cannot just bury them in landfill. That behaviour is the equivalent to the whole of the human race burying its head in the sand."

released April 22, 2020

on the occasion of Earth Day

Recorded between July 2019 and March 2020

Artwork by Remona Poortman De Roos

"Much love to Jeffers, Sandie, Ivo, Pietro (IglooMag), WastedCake, Alec & Clay, Steven (LFM), All the Andyʼs, Jared (Gabbermaster 2000), Esa Juhani Ruoho and of course my family"

Special thanks to Babs Graham (for the additional artwork circa 1930)

“Civilisation is in a race between education and catastrophe.” - H.G Wells

The music of WHΛLTHISИEY here is served with the usual tones of his ambient compositions, which, except for the exceptions, are generally piano based, accompanied by drone soundscapes, which in this Mahorka debut for the artist were developed further into noisier territories, yet containing even heavier calmness.

Sounds of noisy guitars stand out around and through the slow reverberating piano flows, presenting an environment more dense and obscure than usual, that provides a solitary soundtrack to nowhere, really an aural pilgrimage with no destination in time and space.

released April 11, 2020

Music and artwork by WHΛLTHISИEY

WHΛLTHISИEY is Fernando Cerqueira from Lisbon, Portugal

“The Lightning Gallery” is a collaborative effort between Nicholas Maloney, operating under the Blanket Swimming moniker, and Dominic Razlaff, aka, DR.

Blanket Swimming/Nicholas Maloney is a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and recording engineer from Jackson, Mississippi. Working primarily in the areas of drone, ambient, musique concrète, and electroacoustic improvisation, Nicholas creates personal, evocative recordings, while at the same time offering a pallet of sound that can be used to practice the rewarding act of deep listening. He looks to challenge the listeners’ focus and perception of sound. Much of his work explores the textural nature of sound within a framework of progressing and evolving compositions.

Dominic Razlaff (aka DR), born 1982, is a sound artist from Braunschweig, Germany. He uses synthesizers, acoustic instruments (Ukulele & Cavaquinho), field recordings, tape loops & granular synthesis to create melancholy ambient/drone soundscapes.

Nicholas first became aware of the work of DR in 2018 when both of the artists released cassettes through the Vermont-based tape label, Histamine Tapes. In 2019, the two went to become label mates on Macedonian ambient label, Post-Global Recordings. Nicholas became increasingly captivated by DR’s prolific body of work and eventually reached out to collaborate with a vision in mind to blend DR’s extended textural studies and melancholic drones with the swirling, melodic sound pallets and manipulated field recordings that Blanket Swimming is known for. Two full-length albums resulted from this collaboration, the second of which is presented to you here as a first release for both of the artists on Mahorka.

“The Lightning Gallery” is a 50/50 collaborative effort from both artists, created simultaneously in their respective hometowns through a process of re-manipulation, processing, degradation, rearrangement, additional layering, and evolution of 3&3 pieces of sonic material from the artists. The six pieces on the record are a drifting journey into unfamiliar landscapes that feel like home. The sound is always present, arriving, yet in a constant state of shifting and unfolding into limitless depth and openness. The sounds map out an illusionary, dimly lit gallery. Flashes of memories drift in and out as still life paintings take on new forms with each glance.

We hope these extended, sonic programmes may allow you to take a step back from whatever it is you may be caught up in and to enjoy a moment of stillness, repose.

released April 4, 2020

Written and produced by Blanket Swimming & DR

Mastered by Dominic Razlaff

Cover artwork photo by: Ivan Ivanov a.k.a. posledenzalez

Andreas Davids, maybe better known for his electro-industrial project XOTOX, but also as part of the Natura Est dark ambient duo, presents another result of his love for all that is ambient, abstract and not so abstract electronica.

"7 Jahre vor der Gegenwart" invites you to take a ride on an emotional rollercoaster with many ups and downs, epic moments, dark and light sides. From dark ambient and broken structures to technoid rhythms and sequences - everything that can happen within seven years is packed in this outstanding piece of music.

Andreas Davids says: "7 Jahre vor der Gegenwart has especially been created for my live debut with this project. This music has only been played live once and will never be played live again - this makes the release very special and I hope you all enjoy it".

released March 25, 2020

created in 2019 by Andreas Davids at Separate Room, MTH

mastered by verschwinden.org

“Walking into a mosque one enters into the space of a very strong idea. Although these architectures reflect the human universe of the believers, the principles of their construction obey the laws of the creator of the universe. Walking in a valley, into cave or forest presents an equally strong idea, if one listens carefully. The natural world is also created by an unknown, undefinable creator. The creator, singular or plural, incarnate in the creation of spaces like valleys and forests and caves doesn't speak our language but what we have of the language of architecture and speech is drawn from the resonance and the laws of such spaces. Listening itself becomes an architecture. We reflect on how and when we listen. Simplicity and complexity convolve an infinite interaction.” -- Jeffrey Alan Gburek

Music inspired by designs and geometries of sacred spaces

Composed and produced by: Jeffrey Alan Gburek, 2019

released March 19, 2020

also available as limited cassette edition

Cover photo (public domain): Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Qom, Iran

Cassette artwork design: Ivo Petrov and Angel Draganov

“This album is the first work I’ve done in 2019 and also part of a series of instrumental works that reflect upon absence in different ways, in a pentalogy. All of them expresses what I felt after the latest political misfortunes in my country (Brazil) and overall social-political state of mind in the world. In “Insomniac Dreams” - the absence of rest and sleep to convey life in its existence. In “Antimanicomial” - the absence of sanity in its helplessness in a political system that doesn’t give a care. In “Duets for Balogh” - the absence of a friend, despite his presence in sound conversations. In “Cinzas” - the absence of care on nature, a mourn for dead rivers. And this, “Longes” is about absence of faith. However, there is no particular order, nor any sound similarities for this pentalogy, despite being linked thematically. “Insomniac Dreams” was the first published one, but “Longes” was the one recorded first, with later-on finalizations.

-- George Christian

released March 1, 2020

George Christian: electric guitar with accessories and pedals; electric fretless bass; electronic experimentations on Guitar Rig and Adobe Audition CS6

Izaky Grimm: drums and percussion on Longes VI-X

Ícaro Estivalet: flute on Longes VIII and X

Recorded and mixed at home in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil) during January, 2019 (George Christian’s sessions) and in 1/2 Boca Studio (Porto Alegre) in June, 2019 (Izaky and Ícaro’s sessions).

Produced by George Christian.
Final mastering in June-July, 2019.
Photos taken by Eduardo César, Filipe Lima (Gamboa Nova Theater),
Izaky Grimm and Ícaro Estivalet (1/2 Boca Studio).

also available as limited double cassette album edition






Cassette artwork design: Angel Draganov and Ivo Petrov

Music from and inspired by the short movie "Dead weather".

"Dead weather" is the first short movie of the internationally rising filmmaker Radoslav Radoslavov. Radoslav and Dusted Wax Kingdom's very own Dimitar 'VPD' Kalinov got in touch regarding the project while the movie was still on the script stage and VPD recorded a series of tracks, mostly variations/takes on same theme ingredients, specifically for "Dead Weather". It ended up with few of the scenes actually inspired by the music too and the soundtrack being an integral part of the strong effect the short has on the audience. Not all of the music produced in the process was used in the movie and we loved both the used and unused portions alike, so finally a short EP was assembled for the long due debut of VPD on Mahorka, after we have collaborated amazingly for so many years!

Released February 22, 2020

Music by: Dimitar 'VPD' Kalinov
Short movie by: Radoslav Radoslavov
Cover artwork: Dimitar Kalinov

"Suoni Olofonici" is the new realization of Strepitvsitvs and the long-awaited and discussed debut release on Mahorka for the duo. The album is meant to be a sort of inner self-reflection as well as a very personal study about environmental connections between people and places. The focus is set on the Montello hill, near the Piave river, pretty close to their hometown. It's a really peculiar site, where nature, history, legends, and mysteries are all mixed up together in a unique way. "Suoni Olofonici" represents the duo's feelings and visions of it in a uniquely rich way and also is expression of their will to define a standalone enviroment, to execute an introspective journey through memories and sensations, inspired by a magical location, under the form of an audio description.

released February 8, 2020

Spectra collide in synergy in "white project" - the essential result of the continuous collaboration between Phlippe "nobodisoundz" Neau and Walter Fini, which began a few years back. The release comprises of 3 compositions that revolve around the deafening and conflicting relationship that man has with nature, the dominant force and protagonist of our doings. The sounds shine through and envelope our daily lives totally, in a deafening, chaotic way. White as the color, which absorbs everything, which contains everything, wrapped in nothing. White is a sheet, where instinctive sound dimensions take shape, where a simultaneously abstract and concrete vision takes us to the ancestral roots of the human being.

released February 1, 2020

Autonomaton aka Ecological Sound Corps aka Radio Noah has been part of the scene in Bulgaria and a driving force of it since '94. He started with organizing events and playing live music selections, and has been up for promoting electronic music, doing radio shows and helping a lot of artists travel and perform, running two projects of his own - Ecological Sound Corps, a non-profit and non-governmental organization, and Radio Noah, an ambient music oriented act.

The Autonomaton (think "tones for autonomy") alter-ego came to being aside of everything mentioned so far only in 2014 when he also started producing his own electronic music in the ambient, dub and jungle directions, having gathered the confidence and feeling the right moment has come after two decades of evolution as part of the scene. His debut LP "Polarsternritual", presenting the ambient side of the project, came out on Mahorka in 2015. Through the years he has released also on Animal Breaks (BE), Dystopian Dub Discotheque (UK), Treetrunk (USA), Attenuation circuit (DE), Eden.deeply (AU), Petroglyph Music (NOR), Junglist Manifesto (Canada), Gabbabalkanton (BG), Special Convoy (FR), Schallsaft Laboratorium (DE), Marasm (FR), CAuAC records (FR), Marasm records (FR), Post:Soc (UK), Submarine Broadcasting Company (UK) and others, as well as on his own netlabel EcoSCi (BG) that he had started meanwhile.

Five years after his debut album and after having him featured on the label with exclusive track on the "Music for elevators vol.5" VA compilation and outstanding remixes of krāllār's "withdrawal", Protuberance's "Ghost ship" and Teeth of Divine's "Pastoral Picture", we are proud to present Autonomaton's second Mahorka release - the "Picture in Picture" EP.

released January 22, 2020

Cover artwork: Ivo Petrov and Angel Draganov

Julien « boubi » Palomo is a composer and electronic musician. He is a former Free Jazz producer with Improvising Beings. He is half of Other Matter with guitarist Michel Kristof, and a quarter of United Slaves with Makoto Sato and Vinnie Paternostro. His solo work has been published by Mahorka, MuteAnt Sounds Netlabel, Entr'Acte, and Improvising Beings (unfair! unjazz!). He has been lucky enough to work with Eric Zinman, Henri Roger, Henry Herteman, Massimo Magee, Christine Webster, Fabien Robbe among others. Other aspects of his career are rather infortunate, on the other hand, and won't be told here.

CONVERSATIONS WITH YOUR FEARS 1 – Library vol. 356

"This music was recorded in June of 2017 and I had no clue, absolutely no clue. What was I thinking, really? Leave me alone with my «System» (4 modulars, numerous old-school keyboards and digital synths) for a few days, and I will deliver a useless monument of textural experimentation, instead of a statement. I am French, that must be the Mallarmé in me, the précieux. Yet I wish I had more of Camus, more action, more meaningfulness. I must give credit to Ivo Petrov: he was the first producer to give a chance to my solo work in 2015. From the start I was delighted that my producer was a man of Science instead of a man of the Arts, by 21st Century accounts. Six centuries ago though, there wouldn't have been much of a difference. The educated man of the Renaissance was both. Man of the Arts, man of Science, it was a continuum. I feel we would have fitted perfectly. On the other hand, there sometimes isn't anything for us in the present times. Hand in hand in the 5 years that have elapsed, we've trodden the path that goes up from the Modern Burnt-Out Insomniac towards Hope, back to Melatonin, restlesness, anger. And up again. Nothing stable in this century.

Melatonin For Angels, our first project... Instant digression: OUR project. I draw a line between works I release/throw away all by myself on some obscure corner of the web, and works I offer to producers. They ARE part of the process. I can't compose from scratch. I have something and/or someone in mind. It's there. To be more precise: it's so present I could burst, it's an obsession, I have to get it out. The present work, Conversation With Your Fears, is filled with anger, anguish, it's a personal hell. I composed it with Ivo Petrov in mind, specifically. That doesn't mean he angered me – that doesn't mean I associate our friendship with anguish – that means that we both understand our work together as cathartic. We trade ideas in feelings, and with a bit of inspiration and hard but intuitive work, I turn out a piece that is almost intended as a medicine for both of us.

Medicine can be hard to swallow. Melatonin For Angels, our first project, was mild. You need to get your circadian rhythm together, friends. But once it's together, it's good, it's all good. And we hadn't talked that much, by then. I was still fumbling my way out of Free Jazz and free improvisation, testing the waters of electronic music, and my compositions were quite sophisticated loops, but loops, still. The second project, Woke Up To No Day And My Hands Were Finally Filled With Light, in January of 2017, was one of my first orchestral works for synthesizers (cue: my mentor Alan Silva's idea of the «orchestral synthesizer»). It was also an exorcism. We both had risen over various life challenges. Medicine #3, Conversations... Almost never saw the light of day. I sent it to Ivo. It became his favorite piece of mine. He scheduled it for release. I listened back. I freaked out. I cancelled. Sent other music, along the line of the discursive process above. Stalled again. Finally decided I wouldn't publish anything until I got my marbles together. I even remained silent for a year. Conversations didn't achieve what I heard and saw in my head. The whole of 2018 I went through a compositional blackout – the aural visions and synesthetic impulses that drive my work were still painfully, obsessively present, but didn't adequately translate into music. It even prompted me to move out of my house, town, and aspects of my life, to find a new environment to reboot. It worked to some extent. I made peace with the album, gave Ivo the greenlight. You know the most frustrating part of this little whiny story you probably quit reading a while ago? I can barely recall what it was about in the first place. I had gotten lost in the whole process. I remember the rash, but I can't see the scar.

By no means is Conversations With Your Fears a work I disavow. What I just described at length – was just being honest. But it is not to say it's a leftover, a botched experiment, my least favorite composition. It just reflects something that other artists know pretty well – when your work is driven by the inner urge rather than pleasure (or $$$ commodity €€€), when you're looking that hard for that little, or big, or average Something – you get a fucking monster back. I assure you, as Ivo is considering the follow-up to this piece – the lessons have NOT been learnt. The monster has returned already, the difference is he got accustomed to the leash and we're temporarily on a good footing.

As I can't discuss the meaning of the piece, it should be the end of these notes. Not quite though. I ought to say something of the sound. Conversations With Your Fear is just me, an ARP 2600, an ARP Sequencer, and a Solina String Ensemble. A pared-down Berlin School setting? I can't deny it, there's a flavor. But it bears my signature – noise, screeches, unbalance. The patches I created for the 2600 are not from the revered patchbook of this legendary instrument. They're quite personal. I never cared using it to get « that » 70s sound (not often). The genius who designed it, Alan R. Pearlman, passed away a year ago, in January of 2018, and he too was an engineer, an artist, an accomplished Renaissance type. He knew sound can follow several paths, and his circuits left plenty room for other levels of sound. In retrospect, this work, that features his emblematic instruments only, is a tribute to his vision. It so happens in the meantime I met his daughter Dina online, and had the honor to express her my gratitude towards him. I have a special thought for another powerful artist I met sometimes after recording this album, synthesist and keyboardist supreme Lisa Bella Donna, who makes extensive use of the same instrumentarium. I like to think some of our soundscapes have something in common and that she will relate to this one. Only, she has long gotten rid of the kind of mental trash that fills my young, muddy work. It was common until the Renaissance to both dedicate the book, and invoke the protection and guidance of patrons before launching it into the wild. Conversations With Your Fear is accordingly dedicated to Ivo Petrov, and I send it respectfull to Dina Pearlman and Lisa Bella Donna."
--J.Palomo, January 2020

released January 12, 2020

Cover artwork: Angel Draganov

New Year. New Project. We present to you This Communication, the dark side of the Captive Portal world.

released January 1, 2020

"This album is a long-standing exploration of the juxtaposition between physical presence and mental boundaries that emerged during the creative process. Our bodies are matter physically present in the present reality, but our psychic capacities can be distanced, reaching parallel inter-temporal spaces. They aim at creating internal and external associative representations between presence - happening - reflection directed at the senses. The immediate primal feeling in one present is lost or renewed, disappears or reappears after nothing is the same again."

released December 25, 2019

also available as limited edition digipak CD



Artwork painting: Tanyo Pavlov
Artwork and digipak design: Angel Draganov

"I’ve let this sink in for several weeks, and I’m glad I did. One road-trip up the Central Coast, several commutes to and from work, a recent 5-hr flight from the West and East coasts, and sporadic listenings when the time was just right—and one thing is certain: 4T Thieves’ (aka Kahvi head hauntologist) gives a nod to the Sandison and Eoin brothers in a very complimentary way. Taking cues from genuine feel-good and sun-soaked downbeat electronica strains (ie. “Orange Sunshine) to heavy bass acrobatics like the fantastic “Aquaverde”—Hauntology is an intense sonic smorgasbord.

From synthesizer squiggles featured on “Tessellations (The Synth)” to the magnetic ambient drifts and nostalgic flute sounds of “Daytime Astronomy,” each track is carefully woven to reveal its hidden melodic moments. Bells and slight whistles, eroded drums, and Cub Scout lessons about what to do in case of the Atom Bomb (ie. “Past Inside The Present”) are downbeat perfection. Tracks like “Still Life” crumple, decompose, and utterly engage the listener with memories recovered from yesteryear—meant to be played in a continuous loop, it doesn’t lose its emotional spark and fragile texture. Sculptures of sound like “Echo Lake” present stripped down (Deru-styled) hip-hop in the most tranquilized vein, ultimately tapering away as the sun begins to set on the horizon. The aptly titled “Painting With Light” sets out to explore atmospheric pressure as it connects minimal soundscapes and effervescent drones along the way. The aura surrounding “Lost Futures” is simply mind expanding—its minuscule melodies ebb and flow while a hypnotic 4/4 beat pushes forward. There are many crevasses to fall into, especially on the kaleidoscopic rhythm of “Summer Breeze and Autumn Leaves” (see video premiere)—4T Thieves once again masterfully ages this track with a subliminally vintage groove.

Hauntology raises the bar for BoC-inspired tunes, exploring atomic Weaponeering, and takes us out of the realm of kilotons into the fantastic world of megatons with ease and control. Ranked high in our Best Of 2019 list, Hauntology is aged to sonic perfection." --Igloo Magazine

released November 30, 2019

also available as limited edition digipak CD

Composed and produced / 4T Thieves
Cover artist / Vadim Demjianov
Cover design / Angel Draganov

In 2019, Thomas Park suggested to work with Mahorka on a new project, to use his generative composition techniques coded in Python to remix one or more releases. Label curator Ivo Petrov furnished Thomas with a set of tracks from the early Mahorka catalog [2001-2006], selected specifically for the purpose at hand. Using his Python tools, Thomas extracted and edited fragments/loops from the tracks and created different sets of iterations.The results were quite magical to Thomas. He felt that there was something special behind the sounds, the combinations, so he arranged an album out of selected tracks, further mastered them and presented that as a suggestion for Mahorka release. After hearing the album Ivo realised this should be the perfect revival of the "Mahorka Remixes" series that had had three volumes, 10-12 years earlier (reworks of Mahorka material by Iversen (vol.2) and Adrian Juarez (vol.1 and vol.3)). So here is "Mahorka Remixes Vol.4 (Early Mahorka Iterations)".

Released: November 23, 2019

Used are fragments from the following artists's releases on Mahorka from the period 2001-2006: Iversen, Scell, Abluonihil, Muemmel, Sevensy, Baikonour, 80juan80, Lukas Scholler, Tusuri, Yourai, his Namelessness Is Legion, Transcendent Device.

Python coding, remixing and mastering by Thomas Park.

Cover artwork: Thomas Park treatment of a public domain photo.

Conga by Masato Kimura. All other instruments by SANMI, including: Yamaha Clarinet, Recorder, Indian Bamboo Recorder, Indonesian Sulin, Russian Overtone Flute, Tibetan Bowls, Nepal Bells, Indian Bells, Casio Electronic Piano, Vietnamese Shaker, Vietnamese Gong, Chinese Gong, Chinese Hulusi, Unknown Laos Wind Instrument, Korean Metal Cups, Russian Jew Harp, Ukrainian Jew Harp, Irish Harp, Zimbabwe Mbira, Moroccan Horn, Moroccan Metal Castanet, Flypan, Steel Pot, Indonesian Toy Gamlan, Toy Slide Whistle, Angel Tuner, Czech Overtone Flute.

"Conga Brava Suite" comes as free (cc) digital download and a precious limited edition (50 pcs) cassette release with outstanding design by Angel Draganov. Both sides of the limited edition tape are same composition as the digital release.



Released November 17, 2019

Cover artwork and cassette design: Angel Draganov

"Minimal Images" is the first solo album and debut on Mahorka of drummer Stefan Goranov. Exploring rhythmic ideas from his previous two albums as the leader of his jazz quartet - Birdwatch - Music of Charlie Parker (NYC 2015)" and Gorafunk - Frost/Fire (Plovdiv 2017) - Stefan invloves techiniques characteristic for the music of Steve Reich and other minimal composers of the 20th century but in a linear (melodic) rather than vertical (harmonic) way.

Some ideas have been borrowed as well from the American jazz musician Steve Coleman and one of his teachers - Doug Hammond, namely the idea of improvising over rhythmic 'chants'.

The influence of two other great teachers and musicians - Steve Altenberg and Michael Moore is also very important for the creation of this album. Not so much as particular musical ideas are concerned, but as an overall approach to improvisation, composition and music.

"Minimal Images" comes as free (cc) digital download and a precious limited edition (50 pcs) cassette release with outstanding design by Angel Draganov.



Released October 27, 2019

For Steve Reich, Steve Coleman, Steve Altenberg and Michael Moore
Drums and synthesizer by Stefan Goranov
Cover artwork and cassette design by Angel Draganov

Vossen "V" is a beatmaker and does beats. It all starts not about the songs but about the beats. All his works begin with samples in the pure hiphop tradition. V defines his music as progressive hiphop, post hiphop, ambient noisy hiphop. He performs alone or integrates avant-garde formations for improvised live performances.

V's 4th album and debut on Mahorka "23.56.04" was recorded during the same creative process from which "Cosmic Archeology", his 3rd full-length, has emerged, and is in many ways the latter's companion. One could feel same vibes through both albums, but the newly released one is less ambient, less electronic and more organic.

released September 29, 2019

2 of the tracks here were produced together with all-time partner MATIJ.

Real instruments are played on alongside the sample-based production - guitars, drums and bass, played by V or by friends, like Lord Konar on the guitars.

All the voices are real, recorded voices - by V, Matij and Brizzio.

All voices and instruments were recorded by DJ C.O from proletaire prod @ Tortuga Studio .Liège. Belgium.

Whole album recorded and mixed by V at his home studio, Dans Le Toit, Liège, Belgium.

Mastering and final render by Iban Call at Private Call studio, Mons, Belgium.

Recorded, created, played from Jan 2016 to April 2019.

Created for a love of all that is Dark Ambient, British Electronic producer Tony Young (Autoclav1.1) and German Industrial/Noise powerhouse Andreas Davids (xotox); first bore fruits of their labour, with their self-titled, monolithic debut in 2018.

2019, continues the story with "Second". A new chapter of colossal, brooding ambient; where light is slowly crushed by shade, within a multi-faceted arena of sound.

From the nightmarish journey through dying forests and the ruined vestiges of humanity depicted in their debut; the path now leads across desolate moorland and hilltops to the coast. The sea levels are now rising; and we have to face the inevitable, that all will be consumed.

Once more, Natura Est have produced an album that stands tall within the genre; holding an aural mirror to the world, provoking one question. Nature is all, all is nature; but who really is the beast?

released September 9, 2019

also available as limited edition digipak CD

Written & produced by Natura Est: Tony Young and Andreas Davids
Mastered by Anatoly Tokee Grinberg
Artwork by Salt

1. white *** 25:46
   
   
   

Philippe Neau - soundscapes

Romain / Le Crapaud - guitar

Julien Palomo - mastering

released August 4, 2019

For 2019's Netlabel Day, as the strong Mahorka tradion is, again we have for you a very special collaborative/reworks release, this time by the very boss of another cult netlabel - 4T Thieves of Kahvi Collective. The album features exclusive edits/remixes by him of previously available on other releases 4T Thieves tracks (1, original available as part of his release "Wayfield Asylum" on Kahvi, and 5, done as part of the "Sketches" remix competition), fresh new originals (2, 4) and one extended version (8, "Pata Minim" edit is previously available on "Forms" VA on Kahvi), as well as remixes he's done for aAirial (3, previously available on aAirial's CD album "Wanderings" on Mahorka), Curious Inversions (6, exclusive), Pandacetamol (7, exclusive), Depeche Mode (9, 11, exclusive) and Captive Portal (10, exclusive).

Cover artwork by Precocious Mouse

released July 14, 2019

This release is part of Netlabel Day 2019

xDEx is a project and main scene pseudonym of Victor Prodanov. Lately, the constant accelerating societal decay and de-stricturation, the alienating aspects of the globalisation processes and the so called “common thought” became, by their unavoidability and omnipresence, a field of inspiration and cynicism for this project. Victor's longstanding fascination with DIY digital and analog electronics has put out a solid emprunt over his sound.

The release “PANTA RHEI” is his first and hopefully not the last on Mahorka, after years of discussions, preparations, variants and waiting for the right circumstances in the right moment to come for this debut on the label. Most of the drum parts are produced with 808 and 909 clones, the non-melodic sound layers are mostly filtered spring and digital reverbs, various overdrives and distortions, feedback loops; there are extensive modular synth recordings and most of the paddy parts originate from a FM8 clone and a Waldorf Blofeld. All tracks were recorded on a multitrack at one shot, with little post-editing.

released July 11, 2019

All tracks composed, performed and recorded by HeAD at home studio, utilizing ek-911, korg monologue, korg volca keys, flûte de terre, field recordings, various percussion, various effects, vst factory / reaktor and fun...

Mastered by MfH (Hell Seb)

HeAD : P.M. - L.L. - M.M.

head4.bandcamp.com

released July 6, 2019

Sai, the dedicated studio project of Yasen Penchev, has been evolving a lot throughout the years, including since his debut album "Perspective seen from different point of view" was released in the summer of 2016, but the core of the project remains in experimentation with analogue and digital recording techniques and extensive use of various string instruments, with results varying from minimalistic ambient atmospheres and melancholic soundscapes to furious polyrhythmic drum patterns syncopated with loads of guitars and progressive rhythmic and melodic structures, music that has usually been fitted under Post rock, Math rock, Ambient and Trip rock and such.

3 years after releasing his outstanding debut Mahorka proudly presents "Random motion of particles", Sai's second masterpiece for the label and a notable milestone in the project's evolution. Keeping the polymetric and polyrhytmic structural approaches and unique sound production techniques, he further extends and builds upon, this time less processed, even clean, guitars, less distortion, more melodic and harmonic compositions, more cinematic and atmospheric overall feeling with more and lusher ambient passages that include even whole tracks on their own.

"Random motion of particles" comes as free (cc) digital download and a precious limited edition (50 pcs) cassette release with outstanding design by Angel Draganov and Yasen Penchev himself. The tape has a different version of the album where the tracks have been redone in different edits and fused together by the artist for two side-long (30 minutes each) trips.

All music produced and recorded by: Yasen Penchev
Artwork design: Angel Draganov and Yasen Penchev
Released: June 16, 2019

"Gently close the mouth" is the debut on Mahorka of the prolific Japanese electronic music composer Takahiro Mukai. This time around his unique DIY and circuit-bent machines sound-sculpturing approaches have been utilized in a beautiful, coherent set of six more introverted and sentimental compositions, compared to his distorted dystopian post-intustrial soundscapes we are familiar with.

released May 24, 2019

comes as free (cc) digital download and a limited edition (50 pcs) cassette.

artwork photo by: Ivan Ivanov (posledenzalez)
tape/artwork design by: Angel Draganov

1. Space migrate allready 07:25
2. Blunderphonics 06:46
3. Basjunge 05:20
4. Cargulls 06:18
5. Slagg Ftang 12:35
   
   

Pronoia (n.) – The belief that the universe is conspiring in your favour.

«Pronoia is the positive counterpart of paranoia. It is the delusion that others think well of one. Actions and the products of one's efforts are thought to be well received and praised by others. Mere acquaintances are thought to be close friends; politeness and the exchange of pleasantries are taken as expressions of deep attachment and the promise of future support. Pronoia appears rooted in the social complexity and cultural ambiguity of our lives: we have become increasingly dependent on the opinions of others based on uncertain criteria.» --Goldner, Fred (1982). "Pronoia". Social Problems. University of California Press. 30 (1): 82–91. doi:10.1525/sp.1982.30.1.03a00070. JSTOR 800186.

Released: May 7, 2019

The music on "Pronoia" was made somwehere between 2007-2012, and was planned to be released in 2012. As the original release plan faded into nothingness, the album was put on ice for a while. Fast forward a couple of years, and some of the tracks ended up being used for the dance performance "Perfect (im)Perfections" – stories untold, during the Multiplé Dance Festival in Trondheim in 2014. There was again some talk about finalizing a release, but then the years went by again, and the album slept on a hard drive somewhere, until today! The album itself did not really care that it has gone 7 years since it´s completion, since it allways has been a thing lost in time anyway. It did not sound like anything else happening in 2012 then, and it does not sound like anything else happening in 2019 today. It is what it is. Now available!

Seeing or documenting things later in your life appearing as real events. Actually witnessing and realizing it. CLAIRAUDIENCE. Prophecy. Daydreaming.

DOOM BRINGER. Melancholic feelings of boredom and restlessness.

RERPROACH - from the depths of desperation and antisocial feelings, finding inspiration to create virtual Modular synth patches, destroy field recordings and play fxchained classical instruments….

Fear becomes strength when properly utilized. FEARWELL.

BLOW… Blowing winds of processed granular abstractions.

OMIT TRIUMPH. Ego overcoming inner demons.

Distorting reality so it fits our needs. DISILLUTION.

The moment when you believe in an idea that appears to be (FALSE) cause, but you find your self pushing through it, making it work, discovering the beauty behind the beast.

released April 18, 2019

Hypnos is Stanislav Genadiev.

Cover artwork by Angel Draganov.

CollAGE D​ - CollAGE D​(​eux)

1. Moon-eye cuts the circle 17:18
2. L'espace dans un homme 15:13

CollAGE D is Philippe Neau (nobodisoundz) and Romain aka Le Crapaud (from Le Crapaud et la Morue).

This a collaboration where research on noise, field recordings, soundscapes, electric guitar and drums parts encounters a new vitality by collage or improvisation.

released March 30, 2019

Philippe Neau - soundscapes Le Crapaud - guitars, drums, voices

Ullapul - synthetizer on track 1, mastering

6 Belarusian pianists gathered together to play some spontaneous improvisation in sequence.

Viktar Siamaška, Mišel Dailida, Maksim Subač, Darja Bahasłova, Illa Siŭcoŭ, Maksim Iŭkin play the piano in the Memorial museum-studio of Zair Azgur, Miensk, Biełaruś, 11-12-2018.

Released March 23, 2019

Sound production by Aleś Siamaška. Artwork by Fantastic Swimmers. Artwork based on stock photo taken from www.pexels.com.

Thanks to Dźmitry Michiejeŭ & Aksana Bahdanava!

FLUIDIAN (Emil Gherasim) is transylvanian composer, guitarist and sound artist of works including acoustic and electronic art music, film scores, music for stage performances, live improvised sound textures, soundpaintings and ambiental soundscapes for visuals. His music can be considered to be very personal and deep meditative with a huge visual emotions, combining sound textures with a specific manner of improvisation.

E.U.E.R.P.I. is the experimental ambient project of Mirian Kolev from Tryavna, Bulgaria. Almost all his sounds’ original source can be tracked to his guitar with most of the layers being improvised live, which allows for different stylistic and conceptual approaches when performing or recording in different contexts. He has previously released on Mahorka the album "Live in Belgrade", a concert recording release, and has participated in the "Music For Elevators" compilation series of the label and in the "One of these tributes" special tribute project of the label with his version of "Shine on you crazy diamond".

The two artists have known each other and communicated and discussed their different music projects for long time and even met once before at a festival in 2014, but have never played together until the end of 2018. That was when they ended up jamming together in Emil's studio when Mirian was invited to play a festival in Cluj, the city where Emil lives. Back home, after the festival, listening to the recorded sessions from that productive afternoon in the studio they decided to produce an album out of them and the three part "Uranus Session", proudly released on Mahorka is the finished result of their first and hopefully not last collaboration.

released March 10, 2019

Artwork photo by: Ivan Ivanov // posledenzalez
Artwork design by: Angel Draganov

1. Consecration of Tantric Offerings 09:48
2. Dakini Invocation 09:56
3. Even Death is Just a Dream 10:44
4. Cast No Reflection 08:52
5. Liberation 10:25

"Transmissions" integrates new material from the same artist that has two previous albums on Mahorka under the moniker Transcendent Device, but for this project it was decided for his real name to be used. Here Michael Todd has eschewed the dark ambient guitar sounds in favor of a minimalist synth drone approach. Like an electronic version of the Indian tambura these five cosmic drone meditations were crafted and arranged as album to silence one's mind and help reveal more of the listener's true nature to himself.

released March 2, 2019

Recorded october 2018 in Englewood Colorado.

Love and thanks to the following:
Chris Olejniczak for the powerful artwork and years of friendship.
Ivo for his feedback, patience, and continued support.
Ariel Kalma for his encouragement and technical suggestions.
Keith Sheldonport for his kindness and guidance. My dharma brothers Ian and Spike for their feedback.
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi for giving the world the greatest wisdom.
Vanessa for everything else.

"Having retired as the drone act Mystified, Thomas Park became interested in working on some ideas for live performance.

A friend, Jack Hertz, shared a simple piece of html code that would allow a user to mix various sounds together using embedded media players. Thomas worked with the code, developing different versions. Some had video loops, some had more loops or fewer. He also worked on selecting which loops to contain in these mixing consoles, paying attention to how they interacted.

The first piece in “Failsafe Root”, “The Deeper Root”, is comprised of percussion loops, which Thomas had originally purchased, and then proceeded to slice into short pieces. These pieces were then given a second iteration using Granulab. The concept was that, by cutting up and reforming beats, it was possible to create new and exciting beat patterns. Adding to this energy is a process of combining them in real time.

The second piece, “Failsafe”, is itself a series of loops. In one instance, it exists only as a mixing console. Because the sounds in this console have been carefully selected, and set up to loop in irregular ways, the piece constructs itself. The version of “Failsafe” included in this album was created by allowing the original mixing console to play, with all 8 tracks, for a number of minutes. The result was recorded and mastered.

The video for “The Deeper Root” began as a piece of original Python code. The code allowed Thomas to search for long lists of material from The Internet Archive, each sharing certain keywords. In this case, Thomas searched for “trash” and “dump”-- and selected a set of videos from the resulting list. These were combined in a video editor, and set to music.

Generally, Thomas is pursuing more varieties of live performance, and trying to find means of composition that are useful in closer-to-real-time situations.

Thomas thanks Ivo Petrov for allowing him to appear on his fine netlabel."

--liner notes by Thomas Park

Included are interactive "mixing consoles" to re-create and perform live new versions of the release tracks, you can open them from the following links:
- "The Deeper Root" mixing console 1
- "The Deeper Root" mixing console 2
- "The Deeper Root" mixing console 3
- "Failsafe" mixing console

released February 17, 2019

Again, just as expected from an epic ending of the “Recollections” series, the whole album is an extensive trip through different electronic music genres and influences and all music was done, collected, selected and reworked during a more than two years period. From deep and abstract electronic ambient sound, through inclusions of Kristian Dochev's and BlackpicK's guitars in different tracks with totally different styles of both guitar playing and electronic music on them, composition moments based on loads of atmospheric noises, the rough energy of more rock-breaks crossover electronica and experimental techno, to the soft sprinkles of some classically flowing but with abstract incursions liquid drum and bass and some classical deep house warmth with lovely female vocals – all of the original tracks have that unique Protuberance touch and sound. Sampled are some of Ivelin’s favorite computer games (“Doom 2016”, “Starcraft” and “Starcraft 2”), movies (“Tombstone”, “Aliens”, “Tales from the crypt”), field recordings from industrial warehouses and different natural noises under heavy effects, further contributing to the unique stories told by all different individual tracks and the trip as a whole.

The album also includes as integral part of both the digital download and CD editions, together with the original tracks, five very different remixes, from dear to the project producers that complete the trip. Hypnos, who also has a solo release on Mahorka and a forthcoming second one is the Bulgarian artist Stanislav Genadiev – a proffessional dancer and choreographer, but also renowed electronic music producer and DJ under different artist monikers and in different collaborative projects, part of the Roboknob duo and also the person with whom Ivelin worked on “Eastern Depths” compilation series with the latest, third, edition of the compilation coming out on Mahorka. Hypnos has delievered a mindblowing remix of Protuberance’s “Blue Street”, which is the only version of the track included here. Autonomaton is the solo electronic music project of Bulgarian artist, DJ, event organizer and EcoSci label manager Nikolay Stanchov, who has done an outstanding abstact drone ambient rebuild of the album intro original track “Ghost ship”. Greek techno producer and DJ, Billy Niko, has delivered a pumping techno interpretation of “Biomechanical Modulation”. Russian project DaoLogic, who are long-time Mahorka artists and collaborators with few releases and few remixes for other artists on the label. There is a special story to the abstract downtempo electronica remix by the French music composer and producer aAirial of the track "Lonely cowboy and his shadow", that actually closes “Protuberance – Recollections vol.3”. Our release prior to this one was aAirial’s “Wanderings” album, that also, just as this one, came out as a limited edition CD in the beginning of 2019 and included some remixes next to the original tracks. The two CDs were to be manufactured together and so it happened during the artists-label final arrangements that aAirial and Protuberance also delivered excellent remixes to complement each other’s albums.

Released February 3, 2019

Available as free (cc) digital download and a limited edition (100 pcs) digipak CD edition

mhrk208 // mhrk208cd

Protuberance shoutouts and huge thanks go to:
- the two guitarists with so different good ideas of how electric guitar should be played and how it should sound and with whom we recorded that parts at my improvised home studio - Kristian Dochev and Tsenko Ivanov a.k.a. BlackpicK
- Milena Ivanova for her magical voice and the opportunity to work with her
- Nuri and Petsata from Marka Team who did the brilliant artwork design
- Ivo Petrov and the Mahorka label team for the inspiration, continued support and collaboration, valuable discussions, ideas and, of course, making all this happen

Profit from the CD release will be donated to a RockSchool academy cause by Boyan Simeonov and Vasil Spasov, a great project that aims to introduce a well-developed music education program, adapted to all children and young students with blindness and other sight problems. Because music is a special universal form of language, communication media and art, allowing all to recieve and transmit inspiration, happiness love and reason, and for overcoming borders and barriers.

aAirial is the project of a music producer from Nancy, living in Paris, who has since 2008 released music on labels such as Breathe, Inrecs, Laridae, Kahvi, Rednetic, Sutemos, Touched and Mahorka. His music is influenced by classical romanticism and emotional electronica, a mix of emotions that define his style very well. A minimalist approach retains only the essentials, providing a better connection with the listener.

The full-length "Wanderings" builds on and completes the musical journey, the idea that was presented on Mahorka with aAirial's debut release for the label "Wanderings EP" in 2018. The album features brand new tracks, retouched versions of the previously available tracks, as well as exclusive remixes from 4T Thieves, Protuberance and DaoLogic. This release is available as free download and a special limited edition digipak CD edition.

Released January 26, 2019
mhrk207 // mhrk207cd

Cover artwork and digipak design by Angel Draganov
Photography by aAirial

Limited Edition Digipak CD OUT NOW via Mahorka bandcamp. Factory packaged in cellophane. This CD is limited edition of 100 pcs. 50 copies available through Mahorka and 50 - through the artist!

1. A piece of 04:56
2. Cake 03:31

"Dedicated to my soul, my star and my everything Cansu."
-- Massimo Solari

Released: December 28, 2018
Cover artwork: Angel Draganov

Middle East and North Africa scenarios. Encompassing war spirits and dancing against colonialism and tribal cultures' deprivation. Powerful vibes by the mysterious musician BedouinDrone. Epic debut album, proudly released by Mahorka.

"Dedicated to all refugees in this world."

Digital/Tape:

1/A1. The Border
2/A2. Mishmishan
3/A3. Tulkarm
4/A4. Faqat
5/B1. Marawi
6/B2. Susah
7/B3. Adhan
8/B4. Birak
9/B5. Rasayil

Digital-only bonus tracks:

1. Faqat (remix)
2. Birak (remix)

Released December 8, 2018 as free digital download release and limited edition cassette (mhrk205tape), available through the Mahorka Bandcamp.

Versions of "Susah", "Adhan" and "Birak" are different between the tape release and the digital release of the album. Last two tracks (remixes) are digital-only bonuses.

Cover artwork by Angel Draganov.

"Thanks to Esther De Laet, Abu Ama, Ivo Petrov, Angel Draganov, the Mahorka crew and my family for the support."

1. O Portão 03:44
2. Segredos nos Ouvidos das Paredes de uma Escola de Música 21:23
3. Secretos Universos (1o. Movimento) 11:57
4. Secretos Universos (2o. Movimento) 16:45
5. Secretos Universos (Anastasia Vronski remix) 10:04

Released November 1, 2018.

George Christian - piano, guitar, field recordings, Virtual ANS synth, electroacoustic composition.

All the tracks were composed by George Christian Vilela Pereira, except track 05 - by George Christian and Anastasia Vronski (remixing).

Mixing and mastering in Adobe Audition CS6.

Tracks 01 and 02: recorded at Music School of UFBA.

Tracks 03 and 04: recorded at home and at Menasnota Studio.

Produced by George Christian. Sound engineering: Heitor Dantas > tracks 03 - 05. Graphic art project: Isabela Seifarth.

Recorded from 2015 to 2017, prepared from June to September 2017 and October 2018.

No doubt Renzo Peressi is the most prolific experimental electronic music artist from Venezuela. For nearly two decades he has released on Mahorka and other labels music ranging from purely electronic experimental glitch, microsound, clicks and cuts (as Abluonihil, KROTOS), through more formulated and organic technoish or ambientish pieces, incorporating field recordings and live instruments (as Mendigo), to more melodic electronica/IDM (as Remell).

This first release under his own name presents some much deeper, more complex electroacoustic music, combining many of his different approaches and introducing new ones, merging the boundaries between the different alter-egos and going much further. Renzo started this project more than 3 years ago, in February 2015, laying the backbones of what he meant to become this complete one-piece album. Throughout the many months he spent dedicated moments of studio time integrating more and more ideas and elements in and revisiting and perfecting the whole piece. Natural sounds like water drops and flows went in together with industrial sounds from different machinery. Modified acoustic instruments like violin and flute were added to layers of electronically synthesized sounds. Finally, he played with a broken rhythm and fluctuating BPM to complete this spectacular composition.

After finally having finished it, Renzo called the piece "Experimenta", hinting at the intentional lack of specific pre-defined order, structure and approach and the music's intrinsic nature to evolve to be never the same, but the project's working title was "End of a beginning", hinting at how it took almost too long to complete and how he was nearly giving up at times.

Released: November 11, 2018

All music by: Renzo Peressi
Cover artwork: Angel Draganov

Méta - Forma

meta - from greek - beyond
forma - from latin - shape

Metaforma is an attempt to go beyond the familiar and overwhelming musical forms. It is the outcome of a straight, primordial and creative journey, where natural and artificial sounds, human and machine noises, memories from the past and visions of the future overlap, and all these elements are blended in a meditative and hypnotic flux of sounds. Metaforma represents the call to go beyond the first layer of shape and texture, a true desire for a physical and mental experience, a doorway to a deeper and unusual state of consciousness.

Side A: produced through modular synths, field recording, baritone saxophone, electric organ.

A1. Abgrund 05:52
A2. Adonai 03:42
A3. Ani malia 03:23
A4. Archeo 05:41
A5. Mine Ralia 03:30
A6. Sophia 04:13

Side B: Several layers of tones are produced by a harmonic generator, and combined through two different Tape recorders. (Thanks to the delay and the noises produced by the tape recorders, notes occur in an unpredictable way, and create always different patterns and shimmering drones)

B1. Remorae 14:10

released September 23, 2018 as free (cc) digital download and a limited edition (50 pcs) cassette tape.

artwork picture by: Francesco Palluzzi
tape/artwork design by: Angel Draganov

1. Mysteries of paradise (der Mai um halb 2) for LL 08:00
2. Such sweet sorrows 06:00
3. Words left unspoken 12:00
4. Whispering alien lovers 03:00
5. Forget history 05:00
6. Under the dying light 04:59
7. Mechanical dreams 08:00
8. Off the rails again 06:00

released September 16, 2018

track 4 contains a field recording by Felix Blume: "Toads singing during the afternoon, in a field in Romania".

track 6 contains recordings by klangfabrik and MarcoFuse.

1. withdrawal (huron's multilayered tunnel saucer rework) 06:16
2. withdrawal (tomoroh hidari re:drawal) 07:38
3. withdrawal (hypnos remix) 06:37
4. withdrawal (thomas park remix) 06:45
5. withdrawal (bedouindrone's negev version) 04:51
6. withdrawal (jimmy watt remix) 04:19
7. withdrawal (vlnc drks rmx) 02:58
8. withdrawal (cough version by willy stamati) 04:56
9. withdrawal (awser derf's recall) 10:27
10. withdrawal (autonomaton's anchoresis rebuild) 05:54
11. withdrawal (philippe neau remix) 04:42
12. withdrawal (captive portal remix) 03:34
13. withdrawal (toni dimitrov remix) 11:39
14. withdrawal (abraxas unbenannt version) 05:57
15. withdrawal (slow version by willy stamati) 05:25
16. withdrawal (bedouindrone's maghreb version) 05:15
17. withdrawal (sai's process of removing it or ending it) 07:22
18. withdrawal (a krāllār interpretation by jan-m. iversen) 06:38
19. withdrawal (abraxas vs. mr. robot 'fuck society' version) 04:58
20. withdrawal (sevensy remix) 03:59
21. withdrawal (metek rework) 04:34
22. withdrawal (mrs watanabe dope remix) 04:39
23. withdrawal (mrs watanabe drone remix) 04:41
24. withdrawal (dayin rework) 04:53
25. withdrawal (huron's bunchy try to dance and roll version) 06:44

Original sounds and music by Ivan Shentov. The original version of "withdrawal" is from krāllār's full length "w/d", co-released by Mahorka and Kontingent Records as free digital download and limited edition cassette tape, in 2017.

Cover artwork rework by Angel Draganov, based on original artwork by Angel Draganov, based on original photo by Ivan Shentov.

Final mastering touches by Zach Bridier.

Executive producer and curated by Ivo Petrov.

This is mhrk200, released July 14, 2018 for Netlabel Day.

A free-improvisation prayer and scream for survival and freedom, for those who want to be part of the Earth and the Universe, more than being from a nationality, outside any political constraint.

"We are deeply thankful to those who supported this project, directly and/or indirectly: João Carlos Mascarenhas, Davi Cerqueira. George Christian wants, specially, to thank Hiroshi Mehata, for the long-time musical partnership, brilliant visionary collaboration in sounds and arts and enthusiastic support, Paulo Chagas, for the great generosity and soulful collaboration, Bruce Hamilton (Spectropol Records), for releasing the first edition, Angel Draganov, for the special work on this new edition and Ivo Petrov (Mahorka Records) for the great support in this new remastered edition."

1. Ame No Asa (40:35)

George Christian – Field recording and prepared acoustic steel-stringed guitar (tuning: C Eb C^ Eb^ C# E) with capo, metal ashtray, slide, loose string and two spoons (small and medium sizes). Hiroshi Mehata – Steel percussion (storage of kitchen utensils). Paulo Chagas – Portuguese pastoral flute, wood recorder, bamboo flute and flute of the Andes. Recorded and mixed between June 27th and September 19th, 2013

1. Terra-a-Terra (31:21)

George Christian – Electric bass (tuning: D A D G) with slide and effect pedals (chrusher and fuzz), prepared archtop guitar (tuning: D> G< D+ G- A^ Gbv) with slide, screwdriver, whisk, vegetable peeler with flannel, distorted amplifier, chrusher and fuzz pedals. Hiroshi Mehata – Electric guitar, Noum Storm electronics with effect pedals. Paulo Chagas – Alto sax. Recorded and mixed between October 26, 2013 and February 04, 2014

Total album running time: 71:56

Notes: > = +33 cents, < = - 33 cents
+ = +16 cents, - = -16 cents
^ = +50 cents, v = -50 cents

Released June 17, 2018 as free (cc) digital download and a limited edition (50 pcs) cassette tape.

Composed, produced and recorded by George Christian, Hiroshi Mehata and Paulo Chagas at their respective houses (in Brazil, Japan and Portugal)

Original concept, final adjustments and remastering by George Christian Vilela Pereira

Original artwork design by Hiroshi Mehata. Artwork design reworked for the remastered edition and cassette design by Angel Draganov (based on the original artwork by Hiroshi Mehata)

Recorded live @ NoCube, Münster / 19.11.2017

Cover artwork design by Angel Draganov
Photography by Dan Penschuck

released May 20, 2018

attenuation circuit + Mahorka
ACU 1008 / mhrk198 / mhrk198cd

// attenuationcircuit.de // attenuation-circuit@web.de
// mahorka.org // evil.petrov@gmail.com

Limited Edition Digipak factory-pressed CD OUT NOW via Mahorka bandcamp. Factory packaged in cellophane. This CD co-release is limited edition of 500 pcs. Only 50 copies available through Mahorka!

"Finally Infinite" is a the long due brilliant comeback album from Austin Brooks a.k.a. Sevensy after his now considered a classic debut "Beacon", released to much acclaim way back in 2007. While he has stayed busy recording and producing music throughout the years and we have kept compilation tracks, remixes and collaborations coming out in the in-between decade, this outstanding new full-lenth release on Mahorka surely is to bring a much deserved exclusive focus on Sevensy's mesmerizing music. Going through the timeline of the various musical bits and pieces on different collaborative releases on the label, we can follow the evolution of his unique soundcrafting and compositional approaches and now with "Finally Infinite" we get a homogeneous mature milestone album, both modern and timeless.

Released April 14, 2018 Also available as limited edition (of 50) cassette release (through the bandcamp release page)

All music composed and arranged by Austin Brooks
Paintigs by Jan Brooks
Artwork design by Angel Draganov

"In just four songs TFSL creates worlds that need decades to be explored. The music in 'III' is drowned in tape hiss as we need it to be, it's as dreamy as its roots in shoegazing psychedelia but has somehow managed to remain as punchy and primal as any underground rock record born and raised on the Balkans. All stories need to have their epic ending, but we should all hope we're able to experience many more chapters of Tales From The Sleeping Land before we find oursevels dragged back into reality by the tapedeck autostop." --Angel Simitchiev

"the friend said :
don't miss moments when inspiration is crawling
don’t miss moments when inspiration is crawling ... then i pressed start !
Feeling the slow unwinding of the magnetic tape, coming and promising.
Probably still waiting for a new story to come, tales - i am, you are, i hope.
A memory - the monolites remain from ages - inert but so flamboyant.
The boy in filigree is watching through … you will not wait too long.
Things coming, coming stronger, growing, growing stronger with the consent of that pedestal free sax coming, coming from a graduated fun house, do you believe it - i do
Soon, you will normally be jealous of Kaloyan Ivanov, for sure.
Hell ! Are you still waiting ? Come on throw yourself ! hurry up, the dreamer doesn't wait any longer
the surf and some wanderings around will make you, perhaps, wait (again?) too late ?
This ultra sonic boy is coming,
i say : THAT ultra sonic boy is not coming ... he is !
Then, Are you still in filigree ?
Are you still from this land ?
TM / 19 mars 2018" --Thierry Massard

"Thanks to Ivo Petrov, Angel Draganov, Yasen Penchev, Vasil Goranov, Danail Nenkov and to everybody who did not give up believing in me" --Kaloyan Ivanov

released April 5, 2018

Composed and produced by Kaloyan Ivanov
Saxophone on "Easter(n) Story" by Danail Nenkov
Mastering by Yasen Penchev
Cover artwork, cassette and digipak design by Angel Draganov
Proudly published by Mahorka in 2018

The prolific as ever Zach Bridier is back on Mahorka with his main genre-merging and style-hopping electronic music project Captive Portal with another 5 track EP! This time around, it's guitar based music in a shoegaze-like style. Sit back, relax, and enjoy. Gazing at shoes is not obligatory. And, this time around, the EP comes also as a very limited edition cassette co-release with Zach's own DBD Tapes.

released March 2, 2018

All music performed by Zach Bridier
No synths were used in this recording
Only guitars, bass, drums, voice, & a train

mhrk195 / dbd022 / 0021.CP016

Photos by Kristi Clay
Design by Zach Bridier
Dog is Cuki
Cover artwork by Zach Bridier.

PRELINGUAL MUSIC (Janne Nummela, Jan 2018)

"I was in England. I stood on an embankment by a small heavily flowing canal. The speed of the water had to be 40 km/h. There seemed to be a cantilever bridge over the canal, moving along with the water, like a ferry. The bridge was coming down the canal towards where I stood. The ferryman was a voluminously red-haired woman. I yelled to her: "Can I get on the bridge? Is the bridge strong enough for my heaviness?” She said: "I guess it is strong enough, because it is strong enough to move at this speed without collapsing under its own weight." I decided to not try to pass the canal. I stayed on my side. Instead I got on a train. On the aisle near my seat, someone stopped and blew tenderly into my hair. Instantaneously, I heard lovely music in my ears, hearing it without headphones or earplugs. I said to the person: "Thank you! That's lovely music!" He said: "You are welcome." Simultaneously in the music the singer caught the lines: "nice music... you are welcome..." The music continued and the person was gone. Later on in the city I've been wanting to find the person who gave me the gift of music. Much later I found him. But that's another story.

But what if you meet infinity once again? Would that be called the prelingual state of consciousness? Maybe this music is prelingual music? It seems to meet infinity without any agreement within the audience (at least yet, because of its very experimental nature). You can't play it with anybody or any orchestra – it is non-canonic and hermetic like vector quantization between Deleuze and Guattari without philosophical code books. But still it makes some kind of sense, doesn't it? Its pregenre or prelingual, multigenre or multilingual, but I like to see that it has degenerated and inorganized back to a living relation with infinity on as many levels as possible. This makes it crazy, unsure, unconvincing, suspicious, mischievous, deprecatory. It reminds of other worlds, which are not our "the" world achievable by our usual senses. Maybe it just reminds of the existence of (strange and wrong) possibilities. But a paradigmatic change may put an assemblage point to move – to use the appropriate concept of Mr. Castaneda. The process of refreshing is non-dualistic."

released January 20, 2018

Cover arwork painting by Janne Nummela ("Phases", 2010)
Additional artwork design by Angel Draganov

At Mahorka we have always strived to find and present (and even to induce and make happen) interesting collaborative projects with music that brings in something qualitatively new as approach and realization that makes it stand out in the ocean of sound. And that was the case that struck us when we got to hear the three fragments of "Collusion" between the Russian avant-garde / experimental / live improvisation duo ASTMA (Alexei Borisov, Olga Nosova) and ambient / drone artist Boban Ristevski from Macedonia. It is the non-musical (atonal and arhythmical) use of musical sounds/instruments and the musical use of non-musical electronic/machine sounds and field noises, all engaging in and disengaging from the integral electroacoustic ambient environments, realized through Alexei Borisov's co-mannipulation and fusion of Boban Ristevski's very own and known sounding ambient synth-work style sketches together with hand-picked bits, pieces, phrases, scenes and murmurs from ASTMA sessions (done at different places and times and in different contexts), that make this recording so special and unique.

Alexei Borisov is a musician, composer, sound-artist, producer, journalist and event organizer that lives and works in Moscow and one of the pioneers of the new wave / industrial / electronic / experimental / free improvisation music scene that emerged in beginning of the '80's there. Their duo with Olga Nosova (drummer and vocalist mostly known for her work with Moscow fusion band "Syncopated Silence") is one of the latest and most widely recognized projects to come out of that scene. ASTMA was formed in April 2009 as a collaborative project paying homage to both experimental tradition of Alexei's countless musical reincarnations and Olga's instrumental experience, embracing elements of weird free-form spoken-word psychedelia, acid-punk, live electronics, free jazz, noise, heavy acid, electroacoustics, dub and more. Highly improvisational by conception, naturally ASTMA is collaborating with and seamlessly incorporating various musicians, video-artists, dancers, performers and poets from around the world, both in live situations and in studio environment. ASTMA's first release on Mahorka was their live concert recording from North Carolina, back in 2011. After that they also appeared on the Music For Elevators vol.4 compilation.

Boban Ristevski's work is based on exploring mostly the ambient/drone and industrial/noise surfaces. With elements of minimalism / improvisation / experimentalism abstractions and creative use of field recordings his compositions are balancing between more structured forms and the improvised approach to music. He has been releasing music both under his real name and as his Lefterna alter-ego project, including the notable collaborations with Toni Dimitrov as Sound_00 + Lefterna. Boban has debuted on Mahorka with his track "Transcend into light" on the VA - Music For Elevators Vol.5 (Part 3). released January 14, 2018

Cover artwork: Angel Draganov

4T Thieves has been putting out beautiful electronic music since the early demoscene days and the dawn of the netlabel scene and also is the main man behind the netlabel-cult Kahvi Collective. He has not stopped producing music throughout the years since, ever advancing his sound and exploring newer and newer horizons, and has had releases on, besides Kahvi, most of the scene-defining netlabels - Monotonik, Miasmah, Enough Records, Mahorka and others. 2016 saw the release of his landmark CD album "Silent Sands" on Rednetic Recordings.

"Circles" is the fourth solo 4T Thieves EP on Mahorka, after "Glass EP" from 2015, "The Digital Lagoon" from 2016 and "Details" from 2017, and seventh appearance on the label altogether, counting that spectacular Mahorka backcatalogue mashup trip he did for the first ever Netlabel Day in 2015, a mesmerizing and airborne 4t Thieves/Faex Optim split "Fulcrum" we released in 2015 and the featurung of his exclusive track "Cascade" on the VA compilation "Music for elevators vol.5 part 3" by the end of 2017.

"Circles" evolved into coherency from a mishmash of different styles and sketches, from free-flowing electro IDM structures ("Jams"), through the always there with 4T Thieves Scottish-Canadian influences ("Interim", "Analogue cool"), to analogue synth ambient epics ("Springy Analogy"), all inspired by experimentation with new types of sounds, new rhythmical structures and new audio hardware and software at his hands, that either made sense and were left as little tasters ("Interim") or naturally evolved into longer tracks ("Layers of obscurity").

released January 6, 2018

Cover artowrk by: Light Ahead and Angel Draganov

The music of Encased in Amber tells it's stories through an intricate mesh of melodies and texture. Described as downtempo, ambient, and dreamy, Encased in Amber puts forth the concept that each time a piece of music is written it crystallizes what was felt and processed in that moment of time, like a fossil caught in amber.

The 'Parallel Worlds' project is intended as an audio-visual experience. The artwork of Jeroen Advocaat sets the scene with themes of distance, longing, and the alternative paths forged by the choices we make with our every decision. Told in ten movements over thirty minutes, producer and musician Bryan Gilstein sets genre aside in an attempt to sculpt a distinct and authentic musical voice.

Mastered by Vincent Kwok

released December 12, 2017

“Birthmarks” by Slit In Slot is an emotional, harsh and considered work. A precise, even meticulous amalgam of field recordings, ambient and noise music, the release combines as much as it dissects all of its core components. The resulting music is sometimes drifting, sometimes scorching but always remaining humane. Beneath “Birthmarks” lies a strong and personal concept, a complex understanding of sound and an obsessive desire to transform the sonic ruins of our shared reality into new worlds.

released November 28, 2017
via Amek and Mahorka
digital release + limited edition (50 pcs) cassette

Music by Yavor Grancharov
Artwork photography by Dilyana Dimova

mhrk190 // amek017

w/d is krāllār's new full length, co-released by Kontingent Records and Mahorka as free digital download and limited edition tape, featuring 12 devastating compositions. Found sounds, heavily processed synthesizers and eerie drones meet to unbarricade and take you on that road less traveled.

w/d is a conceptual record, touching on the themes of addiction and withdrawal. And this doesn’t (necessarily) imply substances. Everyday behavior, love, dreams, goals, inspiration, beliefs, sense of community, sense of humanity... or lack of any or all of them. It’s actually pretty simple. Neither good nor bad. It’s real. Spiritual. Physical. Sending shivers down your spine. Making you want to trade all for nothing. Making your skin crawl.

Tracklist:
1. generosity crash test
2. clones
3. commander
4. faster
5. falla
6. invocation
7. kolga
8. mainliner
9. micht
10. washer
11. 905
12. withdrawal

Released November 28, 2017
via Mahorka and Kontigent Records
digital release + limited edition (50 pcs) cassette

All music by: Ivan Shentov
Cover photo by: Ivan Shentov
Cover artwork by: Angel Draganov

KREX019 // mhrk189

aAirial is the project of a music producer from Nancy, living in Paris.

Since 2008, he has released a number of albums and taken part in compilations on several labels and netlabels including Breathe, Inrecs, Laridae, Kahvi, Rednetic, Sutemos, Touched and Mahorka.

His music is influenced by classical romanticism and emotional electronica, a mix of emotions that define his style very well. A minimalist approach retains only the essentials, providing a better connection with the listener.

aAirial's debut on Mahorka is an extended version of his "Wanderings EP", comprising of the originally self-published 7 tracks, 3 beautiful exclusive piano versions of three of them and one brand new track (Au Gré des Vagues), completing the set.

Released: February 15, 2018

All music, mastering and cover artwork and photo by aAirial.

Fifteen years after the landmark Mahorka compilation Music For Elevators Vol.1 and six years after the latest volume 4, in the beginning of the summer of 2017, for the Netlabel Day occassion, we released "Music For Elevators vol.5 (Part 1)". As the title suggested, we definitely were to have more than one album for the fifth volume. To blame are that number of years between the previous installment and the moment a new volume felt ripe and right to start materialising and also the number of great Mahorka and related artists from throughout the "genres" and approaches spectrum that we have been collaborating with through the years. In August 2017 Part 2 came out, continuing what is our biggest compilation project to date.

Finally, at the end of 2017, we complete (and quite epically that is) what just might be the last volume of Music For Elevators, with the release of Part 3, again, taking you on board for a pushing all kinds of boundaries trip through what ambient music can be and what can be ambient music.

Tracklist (Part 3):

1. Denitsa Mineva - Nachalo 08:36
2. Viktar Siamashka - Katalikos 01:59
3. Amotken - Triangulos quebrados 04:06
4. Teeth of Divine - A drift in the waves 12:06
5. Deffektegg - Blood in the milk 06:18
6. Esa Ruoho - Horkkamaa 07:38
7. Abu Ama - Sufi bug (version) 04:06
8. Strepitvsitvs - Elevanti 05:00
9. Boban Ristevski - Transcend Into Light 08:31
10. Jimmy Watt - Scanningshadows 10:31
11. Mas&Delayer - Mas and the shadow 05:55
12. Kevin Bryce - Photon Bath (Remix) 06:28
13. 4T Thieves - Cascade 05:52
14. evitceles - magic 03:00
15. Peter Davidson - Helium 2016 05:16
16. Sai - The years behind us belong to heaven 05:22
17. TFSL - Easter (Elevator Mix) 12:46
18. Sevensy - Cradlesun 04:37
19. VPD & Sai - My Sympathies 03:11
20. слонът на принцесата - Electric Fog II 09:26

released December 23, 2017

Mastering: Zach Bridier
Cover artwork: Angel Draganov
Executive producer: Ivo Petrov

Fifteen years after the landmark Mahorka compilation "Music For Elevators vol.1" and six years after the latest volume 4, for the occassion of Netlabel Day 2017, we released "Music For Elevators vol.5 (Part 1)". As that title suggested, we were to have more than one album for the fifth volume of our landmark compilation, which we blame on the number of years between the last installment and the moment the new volume felt ripe and right to start materialising and the number of great artists from around the spectrum collaborating with Mahorka throughout all the years. Here is Part 2, out of 3 that are to form the fifth volume, and, once again, you are on board for a pushing all kinds of boundaries trip through what ambient music can be and what can be ambient music.

Tracklist (Part 2):

1. Antoni Rayzhekov - 9 Elevators 09:00
2. Willy Stamati - Like a Woman You Sleep 06:17
3. Marco Pianges - Carpark and Landscape 05:07
4. ate - At Sea 09:44
5. Kanz - Restless (Original) 06:10
6. Oranjada vs. North Beach Crew - Zora (2010 Druzhba session) 09:04
7. E.U.E.R.P.I. - Left-Right 04:59
8. Niku Senpuki - Well that's quite bitter isn't it 05:40
9. Hypnos - Slavzor 07:01
10. Mendigo - Space 1 05:14
11. Unidentified Object - Skrap 05:03
12. Wayab - Summer 10:19
13. Fire to the Stars - Keep You Safe (Ivan Shopov Rework) 04:53
14. Mystified - Natural Bridge Road 05:51
15. Second Body - Orleans 05:26
16. Awser Derf - Madman's Room 432 06:16

released August 26, 2017

Mastering: Zach Bridier
Cover artwork: Angel Draganov
Executive producer: Ivo Petrov

Fifteen years after the landmark Mahorka compilation "Music For Elevators vol.1" and, now, six years after the latest volume 4, for the occassion of Netlabel Day 2017, we proudly present "Music For Elevators vol.5 (part 1)". Again, you are on board for a pushing all kinds of boundaries trip through what ambient music can be and what can be ambient music. And this time, as the title suggests, we will have more than one album. We blame this on the number of great and artists from around the spectrum collaborating with Mahorka and the number of years between the last installment and the moment vol.5 felt ripe and right to start materialising.

Tracklist (Part 1):

1. Jan-M. Iversen - Deichmann plunder 04:38
   
2. Øystein Jørgensen - Elevation 07:03
   
3. Alberto Vallejos - Llorando en el ascensor 06:13
   
4. Autonomaton - Psychedelic dub test 04:43
   
5. Mono-Drone - Singing to myself 05:28
   
6. Mytrip & Ivan Shopov - Goads 06:49
   
7. nobodisoundz - lowLevator 4in6 04:52
   
8. Abu Ama & Abraxas - birdY 04:39
   
9. krāllār - Invocation 03:32
   
10. EMERGE - Venation 07:23
    
11. METEK - Confidence 08:44
    
12. Untermensch - Goliath's Triumph 06:32
    
13. Protuberance - Protoss 06:27
    
14. Rise 1969 - Hyperposition 08:43
    
15. One Tru Odd - Change Complete 04:02
    
16. Captive Portal - Between The 4th & 5th Floor 04:35
    
17. Boubi's Library - This Night Never Happened 06:34
    
18. Moki McFly - Zeta 04:48

released July 14, 2017

Mastering: Zach Bridier
Cover artwork: Angel Draganov
Executive producer: Ivo Petrov

Grid Resistor is a project started by Thomas Park (known also for his Mystified and Mister Vapor projects) in May, 2017.

"Kappa" continues in Grid Resistor's tradition of only using machine sounds as source material, naming each solo release after a Greek letter and the songs in there - by the date on which they were composed and the track number composed on that date.

"Kappa" contains three mid-range, somewhat meditative industrial drone tracks.

released July 2, 2017

Acrossthevacuum is that project of Boyan Avramov (Teeth of Divine, Changing Perspectives, Loshi Petli) and Asen Santev (Trysth, Upyr) that just had to happen when the two got in touch and jamming together on different occassions and in different contexts. And they just had to have this very special Mahorka Acrossthevacuum session as a debut release.

It all started with the idea of some krautrock, incorporating long psychedelic passages with momentary seizures, influenced by proto-electronic music (1 - "Across the Vacuum"). The album's title track then (2 - "Stream") happened most directly and spontaneously and here we go with Boyan vs Asen for а more of a noise composition with slight extreme metal influences that came out most easily and naturally, neatly completing the kind-of-introductory (to the project and to this Mahorka session) A-side.

Approaches and overall situation are different on the B-side of the cassette, where, for example, the main theme of the first track (3 - "Diemensional Waltz") came from Boyan's bass playing in a random jam session, which was awesome but in 3/4. Then the hard part was to make the track actually not sound like a waltz. Completing the album (4 - "Annihilation (Chaos Mix)") is the amalgama of an idea that originated from a jam with Trysth, where, while feeding some minimalistic beating out of the machines, Boyan said the word "annihilation" and it got swirled up in a strangely interesting loop. Experiments continued with layering other bad-events-related (that just have that sounding) words and using their summed intonation to form a kind of harmony which Asen loved and threw in some monotrone colours and more love. This album's version of "Annihilation" is actually a mix of all the recorded sessions of the idea, that happened in different spaces and times, with each contributing its own context and charm to the "Chaos Mix".

Released May 1, 2017 as free digital download and limited edition cassette available through Mahorka Bandcamp page.

Music by: Boyan Avramov and Asen Santev
Cover painting by: Osman Yuseinov
Cover design: Angel Draganov

The long awaited debut full-length masterpiece from the ever so prolific Zach Bridier a.k.a. Captive Portal!

Co-released by: Mahorka / ZAP Records / Captive Portal Music
Catalog #: mhrk184 / ZAP 027 / 0018.CP013

Produced, Mixed, & Mastered by: Zach Bridier

All sounds are original. No software synths and no audio from third parties were used in this recording.

Text: Zach Bridier (except track 2 lyrics: Mary L'abbate)

VHS Photoshoot (2015-10-14)
Photographer: Nicole Carey
VHS Man: Jess Heckenberg
Dog: Kipling (RIP)

Artwork: Angel Draganov

"A sentimental journey from warm analog sounds, designed to make you remember past times." -- 4t Thieves

"It is very apparent that Nik at Kahvi Collective knows how to keep the proverbial wheels spinning. He’s run the long-standing net-label for over a decade, and continues to renew his own sound within the 4T Thieves moniker. On Details, a color spectrum is revealed, lightly doused in low-fi piano keys, ambient interludes, and downtempo trails. In fact, each piece is given a specified color, allowed to ease its way into the subconscious with distilled, nostalgic hues. “Green,” “Aqua,” “Orange,” “Amber,” and “Grey” seamlessly verge into Boards of Canada-influenced vivid surrealism. While not entirely parallel, however, the sonic themes segue through a myriad of melody strands, pleasant and uplifting for these trying times. And just as 4T Thieves releases this 7-pack extended suite, tranquil and mildly steering vintage synths, this third EP for Mahorka oozes instrumental percussive bits and melancholic vistas." -- Igloo Magazine

released January 29, 2017

Cover artwork: Igor Romanov (photo) and Angel Draganov (design)

1. Woke Up To No Day And My Hands Were Finally Filled With Light

Julien Palomo: Solina String Ensemble, EMS Synthi E, microKorg, Mellotron M4000D

recorded September 2016, Studio IB

released January 17, 2017

This one uses organic sounds from natural sources while all chemistry were generally kept at bay. All was done during certain England Wayab period. A remix of some digital glitch electronica was put as Part 0 because it somehow really ended up in the same vein and felt so right.

released January 5, 2017

All music by Wayab a.k.a. Nikola Marinov, except for track 1 - music by Fredo, remixed by Wayab

Cover artwork by Angel Draganov.

A hot, humid, tropical lagoon. This imagery could not escape us when we first got to hear at the peak of this year's summertide what was to become 4t Thieves's brand new EP titled "The Digital Lagoon". And it is not just the title and the less or more noticable sound bits there. The water, the humidity, the heat, the trees and the rain gradually building up is really what the music here is intentionally the official soundtrack to. With the perfect closing track that "Ever Increasing Circles" is one cannot help but feel the accumulated rainbits finally dropping on the lagoon's surface.

"The Digital Lagoon" is the second solo EP on Mahorka from the Kahvi boss, after his "Glass EP" from 2015, in which he introduced his new approach of using thoroughfully edited found sounds for as percussion sounds, also utilized here. It is actually his third EP on the label, counting the mesmerizing and airborne 4t Thieves/Faex Optim 3x3 split we also released in 2015. And then, we should also mention that this is Nik's 4th release with us altogether, remembering that he first came up to us with that spectacular Netlabel Day selected Mahorka backcatalogue mashup trip that totally deserved a release with us and got it.

Released: November 12, 2016

Cover artwork: Angel Draganov

EMERGE is inspired by the minimalist traditions of experimentalism and non-academic noise music, focusing on generating sound structures intended to make atmospheres emerge that are open to each listener’s own interpretation. The choice of sound sources used is usually very limited. In most cases only rudiments of the original sounds are recognizable due to various treatments. EMERGE also uses and recycles raw material from a variety of artists/musicians.

For this special live collaboration with MARTAVICTOR (live calligraphy), EMERGE for the very first time only used his own voice and effects solo without any pre-recordings. MARTAVICTOR (Martina Vodermayer) interacted to the sounds by EMERGE and visualized the sounds created in real-time.

released October 16, 2016

Hypnos is a project of Bulgarian producer Stanislav Genadiev, a reflection of his fascination with spiritualism, hypnotic imagery, hypnosis and the way they have entered our lives and become part of our society. Under the Hypnos artist alias he has put out a good number of quality hard hitting and techy but also atmospheric electronic music releases. From 2015 on he's been performing live techno rituals around - mostly festivals and clubs around Sofia, but more recently also some arts/cultural centers with more chill and abstract sounds.

On Mahorka Hypnos first appeared on "Eastern Depths vol.3" with Stanislav Genadiev being also a main driving force behind that compilation's conception and realization. Now our catalog is also home of "Delusion Achiever" - a deep dive into the unchartered abstract ambient realms of Hypnos and a transcendental trip through dry and dense sound walls and intimate moments of mesmerizing melancholia morphing slowly one back to the other. A mindblowing debut release for Stanislav on the label.

Released: September 13, 2016

Cover artwork: Angel Draganov

Exactly two years after embracing us in the weightlessness of its raw noise ambient Deffektegg is reaching for our throats again. His chokehold is stronger and more intoxicating than ever. If so far Deffektegg’s music felt as if you are observing a dead body becoming one with the black waters of the sea, Nadir is like a subconscious self-immolation. For 50 minutes you will be feeling nothing else but your insides scorching so your remains can feed the relieving cold soil of existence.

Deffektegg reached nadir between 2015 & 2016

Released: September 1, 2016

All music and photography by Yavor Grancharov

amek010 / mhrk177

Available on tape (ltd. 35) via Amek.


Press quotes:

"Music that is on the edge of drone, but also reaching for the more experimental realms and that entire works quite well." ~ Vital Weekly

"Мъгла, разкъсвана от електрически искри и настръхващи звуци със загадъчен произход. Почти час през бледите полета на въображението." ~ Lunatic.bg

"Gorgeous. Beautiful modern minimal drone that holds onto your attention in a surprisingly thoughtful way..." ~ Dead Formats

"The basic idea of the Secret Silence project was to bring together acoustic and electronic instruments in a very easy and playful way for live performance.

-- Art Denisson

1. Far and Away
2. Harmonics
3. Something and Sometimes
4. Moll and Dur
5. Jam with JSB & GG
6. Nightingale Bow
7. Like a Song

Polyphonics is an alter-ego project by composer and musician Art Denisson where he comes up with a unique mergers of electronics, electroacoustics and acoustics. "Secret Silence" is the project's debut on Mahorka. The release also features Andre Ryabinets on cello and Diego Mune on electric guitar apart from Art Denisson on piano, electronics and all else.

Cover artwork: Angel Draganov

Released: August 27, 2016

Just as in the first Netlabel Day ever (2015) Mahorka is participating in the second Netlabel Day (2016) with a very special release of reworked and exclusive tracks from a very special project. This time the original works come from Captive Portal (Zach Bridier)'s debut EP "Throwing" and his follow-up "Catching", both on Mahorka. "In The Air (The Remixes)" was in the works for a period of more than this one year from the last 14th of July and, as the album title suggests, manages to fill all the space and time in between and around "Throwing" and "Catching", featuring reworks from dear Mahorka regulars, Captive Portal collaborators and invited artists, including Fire To The Stars, the band that we reworked last year, and also Zach on its own, delivering the awesome intro and outro tracks of the album - a live remix of his "Magic Bubbles Underwater" and the brand new track "In The Air".

released July 14, 2016

1. Magic Bubbles Underwater (Live Remix)
   Performed live by: Captive Portal
   Live @ Pub Yahoo, Carol Stream, IL, USA (September 13, 2014)

2. Don't Tickle Me (Mas&Delayer Remix)
   Remixed by: Mas&Delayer (Massimo Solari)
   

3. This Minus Five (Fire To The Stars Rework)
   Remixed by: Fire To The Stars (Daniel Beekman, Petter Bertilsson, Chloe Davies, Cat Tyson Hughes, Jim McDonald, Tim Spelman)
   

4. Beautiful Reciprocal (Vatska! Remix)
   Remixed by: Vatska! (Alexander Vaca)
   

5. Mister Really Loves You (Kevin Bryce Remix)
   Remixed by: Kevin Bryce
   

6. Oak Bloke (Josh Buche Remix)
   Remixed by: Josh Buche (Josh Gablin)
   

7. Пееща телеграма (Yantra Bottom Mix by Tranzistor)
   Remixed by: Tranzistor (Ventseslav Dimitrov & Peter Koleff)
   

8. This Minus Five (Protuberance Darkstep Remix)
   Remixed by: Protuberance (Ivelin Iliev)
   

9. Don't Tickle Me (Knot Limcedet Remix by Rės)
   Remixed by: Rės (Todor Rachinski)
   

10. Internally Grateful (Mas&Delayer Remix)
    Remixed by: Mas&Delayer (Massimo Solari)
    

11. Not Locrian (Rise 1969 Remix)
    Remixed by: Rise 1969 (William Mahfoud)
    

12. Pause Zit If IV Shadow (JAD Remix)
    Remixed by: John Alden Davis
    

13. This Minus Five (Kanalen Pluh Mutation)
    Remixed by: Kanalen Pluh (Nikola Marinov)
    

14. Beautiful Reciprocal (Half Mix)
    Remixed by: Half (Jonny Gray)
    

15. In The Air
    Written & Performed by: Captive Portal
    

Zach Bridier is Captive Portal.
Produced & Compiled by: Ivo Petrov & Zach Bridier
Mastered by: Zach Bridier
Photography, Design & Illustration: Taylor Likes

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