Tracklisting
A1 Under Black Helmet - Breakage
A2 Under Black Helmet - Naughty control
B1 Under Black Helmet - Grit
B2 Under Black Helmet - Chatterbox

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After many releases on labels with different techno imprints such as Mord, Hex, Raw, KR/LF and now BPitch Control, in his most recent works Under Black Helmet has pushed his sound in a more essential and hypnotic direction, raising the level of processing in rhythm and sound research. That's what you will find on Tempio Omega 02.

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A1 Under Black Helmet - Jagged
A2 Under Black Helmet - I Was Laid-Back A Sinner Of Sorts
B1 Under Black Helmet - To Wonder On The Moon
B2 Under Black Helmet - Unmask

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***
serpentine butterflies
trickle to his chin
ceaseless punches
fall like moribund rain
cracked bones clang
like splintered glass
again and again
***

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A1 VSK - Lights are On
A2 VSK - Turbulence
B1 VSK - Light are Off
B2 VSK - This is it
B3 VSK - Thinking about you
C1 VSK - Are y Listening?
C2 VSK - Being Focused
D1 VSK - The Shadow
D2 VSK - Alignment

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***
If you decide,
take us
who stand and smoke and glower;
we are rusty with sadness
and
feverish
with climbing broken ladders
***

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A1 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Fallow Glow
A2 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Eclipse Beat
A3 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Phase Drift
A4 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Ultra Resonance
A5 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Afterlume
A6 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Pulse Relic
B1 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Fiber Rush
B2 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Threshold Drop
B3 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Land of Ecstacy
B4 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Void Dance
B5 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Veil of Sin
B6 Domenico Crisci & Ruhig - Synapse Break

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A1 Ribé - Son Etapas
A2 Ribé - La Incertidumbre
B1 Ribé - El Pavor
B2 Ribé - Cruel

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***
and now
as we ready to self-destruct
there is very little left to
kill
***

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Tracklisting
A1 Räikkönen - F_t_r__P_s_t
A2 Räikkönen - N_n__S_k_s
A3 Räikkönen - L_C_NN
A4 Räikkönen - RR_Y_
A5 Räikkönen - S_n_v_r_g_ü_n_z_
A6 Räikkönen - B_l_ä_t_t_e_r
B1 Räikkönen - P_r_ü_f_u_n_g
B2 Räikkönen - V_ä_d_e_r
B3 Räikkönen - Z_ü_g_e_
B4 Räikkönen - S_Y_R_A
B5 Räikkönen - (-) 7_7_7__D_e_G_r_e_e_s
B6 Räikkönen - C_nf__s_

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A1 Radial & Bas Mooy - Jacht
A2 Boyd Schidt - SAD VAR
B1 Müzmin - Crocket
B2 Michal Wolski - Flow

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C1 Temudo - Leaving the Old Flesh
C2 Kerrie - Hidden Agenda
D1 Rommek - Vaporized
D2 Viels - Saturnalia

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E1 Roll Dann - Human Furnitures
E2 Endlec - Vomv
F1 Earwax - The Extraordinary
F2 Liza Aiken - Linden

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G1 Shaney & Zadig - Downwards
G2 Operator - Vector Tunnel
H1 Mathys Lenne - The Road is Wider Than Long
H2 Time Traveler - Astaroth 4

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A1 UFO95 - Dystopie
A2 UFO95 - Absence Has Shape
A3 UFO95 - Uncall
B1 UFO95 - Radiation
B2 UFO95 - Resolution 2
C1 UFO95 - Resolution 1
C2 UFO95 - Pulsation 3
D1 UFO95 - Pulsation 2
D2 UFO95 - Meditation 1
E1 UFO95 - Surface 1
E2 UFO95 - Meditation 3
F1 UFO95 - Fight Against Yourself
F2 UFO95 - Paradoxe Du Silence
F3 UFO95 - No More To Say

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***
you are much more than simply dead:
I am a dish for your ashes,
I am a fist for your vanished air.
***

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A1 Lakej - In Contrast
A2 Lakej - Persona Non Grata
A3 Lakej - Powers Of Corruption
A4 Lakej - To The Core
A5 Lakej - Enmity
A6 Lakej - Age Of Violence
B1 Lakej - Velvet Morning
B2 Lakej - Forced Trigger
B3 Lakej - Indoctrination
B4 Lakej - Within Range
B5 Lakej - Ascension
B6 Lakej - Framework

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***
It's been a tough fight worth fighting as we all drive along betting on another day.
***

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A1 Maasym - Fallen Into The Hereafter
A2 Maasym - Distal Pinnae
A3 Maasym - Secunda
A4 Maasym - Swamp Margin
A5 Maasym - Kaocto
A6 Maasym - Dahlien
A7 Maasym - Through Agonistic Behaviour
B1 Maasym - Takahe
B2 Maasym - Ants Burrow Their Way In
B3 Maasym - Lutter
B4 Maasym - Deserteure
B5 Maasym - Peruvian Lily
B6 Maasym - Absorbing Grey Tones

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***
It is all ash
and dry leaves
and grief gone.
We are the hunted.
***

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A1 DisX3 - Binary Structures
A2 DisX3 - Lost Coordinates
B1 DisX3 - Resonance Studies
B2 DisX3 - Oscillating Matter

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***
it was going to be all grey.
at last.
for a while.
***

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A1 Chloe Lula - Myopia
A2 Chloe Lula - Sepiatone
A3 Chloe Lula - Rhythm Zero
B1 Chloe Lula - Ego Sum
B2 Chloe Lula - Ninth Knot
B3 Chloe Lula - Oath

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***
and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.
***

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A1 Dimi Angelis - X-Ray Eyes
A2 Dimi Angelis - Satellite Walk
B1 Dimi Angelis - Wild Bird
B2 Dimi Angelis - Strobosonic

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The morning kept coming on in and there was nothing we could do.

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A1 SHXCXCHCXSH - QQQQ
A2 SHXCXCHCXSH - QQQE
B1 SHXCXCHCXSH - QQQA
B2 SHXCXCHCXSH - QQQI

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as the shadows assume
shapes
we fight the slow
retreat

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A1 Pyramidal Decode - Fighter
A2 Pyramidal Decode - Inferno
B1 Pyramidal Decode - Dominio
B2 Pyramidal Decode - Trasformazione

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***
We only asked for leopards
to guard
our thinning dreams.
Run with the hunted.
***

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Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the first vinyl reissue of Disappointment-Hateruma, the 1976 ALM Records release by percussionist Toshi Tsuchitori and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album is notable as Sakamoto"s first recording issued under his own name and represents one of the few occasions he explored fully improvised music during the 1970s. It provides a vital document for understanding Sakamoto"s early development as a composer and performer, capturing a period when he was experimenting with ambient soundscapes and textured improvisation. This edition features original artwork, audio remastered by Heba Kadry and new liner notes by Andy Beta.

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Warm Waves’ first appeared in 2020, ten years after Turn On The Sunlight’s debut self-titled album was first released in Japan. During that decade, Turn On The Sunlight’s Jesse Peterson and Mia Doi Todd welcomed their first child and co-founded a music venue in Los Angeles. When performance spaces were required to close at the start of the pandemic, Jesse’s focus shifted back towards home recording. Since ‘Warm Waves,’ five more Turn On The Sunlight albums have followed (including ‘Drives To The Beach,’ also on Tokonoma Records), all of which can be seen as an expansion of the musical direction set forth on this album.

The group heard on ‘Warm Waves’ consists of musicians who Mia and Jesse were regularly playing with at the time - Sam Gendel, Mitchell Brown, Andres Renteria & Gabe Noel - joined by Laraaji, Arji & Luis Pérez Ixoneztli, making their first recordings together.

The group’s blended signal was routed through Mitchell’s tape loops and modular synthesizer, which contributed to the unique communal sound of these recordings. Further extending this approach, Carlos Niño then reprocessed and reimagined ‘Passing Rain’ with Jamael Dean for his Elemental Beat Mix.

Originally released one week into the official lockdown period, some listeners found the warm, collective sound well-suited for the time of introspection and shifting priorities that followed. Now, in 2026, ‘Warm Waves’ returns on vinyl to once again encourage peaceful contemplation and open-hearted togetherness, in echo of the spirit of its creation.

Credits
Sam Gendel: Saxophone & Electronics on A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3
Laraaji: Voice & Zither on A3
Luis Pérez Ixoneztli: Bird Sounds on A1, Aerophones & Water Drums on B2
Mia Doi Todd: Voice on A1, A2, B2, B3; Piano on A3
Jesse Peterson: Guitar, Bass, Organ & Bird Sounds on A1; Organ on A2; Guitar & Bass on A3; Wooden Whistles, Guitar, Ukulele & Piano on B1; Ice Breaking on B3
Andres Renteria: Percussion on A1, A2, B1, B2, B3; Marimba & Percussion on A3
Mitchell Brown: Synthesizers & Magnetic Tape on A1, A2, A3, B2, B4
Gabe Noel: Bass on A2, A3, B1
Arji: Bells & Shells on A3
Carlos Niño: Production / Remix on B4
Jamael Dean: Additional Keyboards on B4

Produced, mixed & recorded by Jesse Peterson
Except B4, produced by Carlos Niño

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2025 Edition!

Part 4 of the Drexciya re-issue series! A new repress of the Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller series by Drexciya!! It comes with new artwork by critically acclaimed American artist Ellen Gallagher.

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- Spec: 2 x LP in paper inners, in 5mm outer sleeve with download card insert.

Tucked away in the great depths of the Warp catalogue is this elegant, liquid heartache of a record. An album credited to the late James Stinson, one half of cult-Detroit techno unit (alongside Gerald Donald) Drexciya, Lifestyles... stands as one of the remarkable records of the genre. Stinson died a year after release, lending this already beautiful work endless resonance.
Where the dystopian aqua-tronics of previous Drexciya were often jet-black, cold, brittle and abrasive this is a yearning soul music, played out down rain soaked streets, the buzzing lights of industry flickering in the darkness, the warm blue of a new day ready to break. This is a record where techno reached its raw, most emotive peak... Sustained pads paint minor-key melodies while electroid-vocals are buried deep in the hydrothermal mass of squelching bass-clusters and funky-filtered bleeps. At its skittering percussion core, a stripped back 808 tapestry, sequenced into myriad jazz-inflected shapes, a pulsing kick drum the snapping heartbeat, ticking hi-hats bursting from every angle.

All this tingles with the ghosts of records past, of Kraftwerkian humanoids, of first-wave Detroit, of refracted Hancock and Ayres, but as Stinson intones on the fifth track, ‘let me be what I wanna be’, Lifestyles is a creation all of its own special making, a sound that would inspire the latter day deep-house machinations of Omar S, Jus-Ed, Moodymann and influence –however indirectly- a wealth of current UK/US bass operators including Actress and Kyle Hall. More importantly it remains a beguiling epitaph to Stinson’s sadly distinguished life.

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Balmat 17 marks both a return and a new frontier. It is the second album on the label from Patricia Wolf, whose 2022 album See-Through is one of the most beloved in Balmat’s catalog; it also marks the first time that Wolf has turned her hand to a film soundtrack. The results are every bit as magical as fans of the Portland, Oregon, composer’s music might expect.

Hrafnamynd—Icelandic for “raven film”—is a new feature-length documentary by experimental filmmaker Edward Pack Davee. Shot on a mix of film and digital formats, and incorporating his father’s Ektachrome slides from the 1970s, the autobiographical film works on multiple levels at once: a reminiscence of his childhood in Iceland, an exploration of landscape and folklore, and a documentary study of the island nation’s ravens—including a talking raven named Krummi.

Wolf is the perfect artist to score such an unusual film. Mixing ambient music and field recording—including extensive experience documenting bird song—Wolf brings an unusually empathic perspective to her music. In the context of Hrafnamynd, her airy melodies, pensive atmospheres, and vivid textures intuitively complement the film’s grainy film stock and blown-out colors. Friends for years, the two artists further bonded when Wolf asked Pack to film music videos for her songs “Woodland Encounter” (from See-Through) and “The Culmination Of” (from I'll Look For You In Others). Pack used Wolf’s previously recorded music as placeholders as he began assembling a rough cut of the film, which made her a natural choice to help him complete his idiosyncratic vision with an all-new, bespoke score.

But Wolf’s soundtrack also indisputably stands alone as a full-length album. Largely created using the UDO Super 6 synthesizer, it features a carefully distilled palette of warm, string-like pads and darkly glistening mallets, rounded out with the very occasional introduction of nylon string guitar. Musically and stylistically, the album’s 11 tracks represent both a continuation of the ruminative sound of See-Through and also an extension into new expressive modes. Few musicians, ambient or otherwise, are as skilled at balancing melody with atmosphere, or at finding ways to eke fresh at finding ways to eke fresh, surprising sounds out of an intentionally reduced toolkit. Meditative, immersive, and emotionally generous Wolf’s Hrafnamynd soundtrack evokes a range of ambient classics from decades past while confidently marking out its own verdant patch of ground.


Artist’s Statement:
Edward and I have been friends for years, but we really started to get to know one another better after I hired him to make music videos for my songs “Woodland Encounter” and “The Culmination Of.” For those projects we got to spend a lot of time hiking in various locations around the Pacific Northwest with his camera, very nice lenses, and tripod. Keeping quiet, hidden, and vigilant we searched for wildlife, good light on the trees, meadows, lakes, rivers, and skies. Edward was already an appreciator of my music and I was already in awe of his filmmaking talents so it felt like a great fit. Although we work in different areas of art our styles compliment one another. We both tend toward slow and careful pacing, with a focus on emotion and introspective reflections on life and the landscapes around us. For this reason, Iknew that I could trust Edward to create videos for my music. We saw so many beautiful and unexpected things on our filming days, but I was moved to tears once I saw how magnificent and poetic it all was. His video work from the cinematography, to the editing, and color correction helped bring my inner vision to life.

A few months after that, Edward surprised me with an invitation to work on the soundtrack for his new film, Hrafnamynd. I enthusiastically said yes. I had always wanted to work on a film, and I knew that his filmmaking style would be inspiring to write music for. I had recently acquired an UDO Super 6 synthesizer but hadn't used it much. I decided that this would be the synth that I'd use for the film. It has the ability to sound very modern, but can also sound so warm and fuzzy, like a synth from the 1970s. It turned out to be the perfect instrument for this project as the film itself straddles time from the ’70s to today.

When Edward sent me the rough cut of the film, he used placeholder music to help give me an idea of the emotion and energy that he was hoping to achieve for each scene. For many of the scenes, Edward used music from my albums as temporary tracks. This told me that he trusted my work and style and therefore I should just trust my intuition with how to proceed. I wanted to make sure that everything that I made was a direct reflection of what was happening on screen, a mirror of its emotion and energy so people could really lock into the film psychologically. This process took my composing to unexpected places—like being led by a strange cat or a raven that seemed to have something to show me. I found that the approach made the music so much more dynamic than my usual style. I really enjoyed being influenced by the action and dialog on the screen. Thankfully, Edward was very happy with the work. I made sure to handle this project with the utmost care because this is about his life and his family, and an exploration of the experiences that made him an artist and filmmaker. While watching the film many times over, I found myself thinking about my own family and my early memories with them and how the place where I grew up has influenced who I have become. I found that his film invites the viewer to reflect on their own lives in a similar way. I hope that this music and film can guide others to contemplate on the history of their beingness and the people and places that shaped them.

Another aspect to this project is the splendor and wonder of Iceland itself. I had the opportunity to visit Iceland for the first time in 2023. I got to play a show there for the Extreme Chill Festival and met many friendly and brilliant Icelanders. I also got to collect field recordings that I used in the film. It's a fascinating place and culture that easily captures the hearts and imaginations of anyone who visits. Whether you spend your time in the city immersed in its impressive arts scene, or venture out into the wilderness to behold its wondrous landscape, it will leave a lasting impression. The soundtrack is also a love letter to Iceland itself.

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