Hello everyone! Here is our selection of favourite releases from May. From Reptant’s Ballet Robotique to Moments — the deeply personal final work by Manuel Fogliata (fka Nuel) — the selection ranges across electro, ambient, dub, deep techno and genres that resist neat categorisation. From our perspective, what binds all these works is the producers’ will to express their own identity, without compromise. Enjoy!

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☉ Reptant – Ballet Robotique [Kalahari Oyster Cult]

With “Ballet Robotique”, Reptant marks his third appearance on Kalahari Oyster Cult with the patient cadence of a creature surfacing on schedule. The Rotterdam blueprint of menace-meets-kitsch is rerouted through antipodean machine funk: mainframe-tapping cuts that read like a transmission between Kraftwerk’s tabulated futurism and Egyptian Lover’s leather glide. Across three cuts of insectoid detail and noirish cybernetics, the EP holds the genre’s lineage without flattering it. There is no nostalgia for an electro golden age — only the dry, aerodynamic confirmation that the form still bites, delivered by a producer who treats the standard as something to keep extending.
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☉ Plant 43 – Spells For Warding Off Evil [Silver Threads]

Emile Facey aka Plant43 returns to Silver Threads for his seventh ambient album — a corpus that runs parallel, and often quieter, to the dancefloor electro he is known for at Tresor and FOLD. “Spells For Warding Off Evil” began with the Roland SH-101’s hold function activated by accident: a vintage monosynth coaxed into thick, rumbling drones rather than its usual bright leads. Around that single sound source Facey layers field recordings, a disembodied choir and his signature analogue arpeggios. Each track holds the room like a charm — meditative when the SH-101 breathes, cathartic when it grinds against itself.
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☉ Sans-i – Fenno Dub [Sin Sistema]

Sans-i, the dub-leaning alias of Sunny Seppä (Sansibar), debuts on Sin Sistema with a two-track EP that holds the genre’s UK lineage and its leftfield contraband in the same hand. “Fenno Dub” sets Science against Paranormal like two facets of one ricochet — echo upon echo, until repetition becomes its own architecture. The bass weight descends from the steppers tradition of Jah Shaka, The Bush Chemists and The Disciples, but the surrounding sound design takes detours through the kosmische austerity of Conrad Schnitzler and the post-punk dub of The Slits. Lineage, here, behaves less like inheritance than like radio interference.
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☉ Albert van Abbe – Broken Cymbals Too [Semantica Records]

The 204th release on Semantica Records comes from Dutch producer Albert van Abbe, and ranks among our favourite entries on the label of the past two years. “Broken Cymbals Too” unfolds across six tracks that range from deep techno to ambient, shaped by an experimental edge that pulls each piece off the obvious axis. Van Abbe places his sound design apart from trend cycles and market briefs — work that obeys its own internal logic. Which leaves us with a question we keep coming back to: “where is the vinyl press?”
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☉ Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. – Infinite Black Inside [FO]

Since the late 1990s, Ibrahim Alfa Jnr. has worked the rave’s outer perimeter; “Infinite Black Inside”, released on FO, is his most concentrated cartography of that orbit. The set surveys techno through its distorted lineage — fractured pulses, cybernetic synths, vanishing fragments of jazz, broken beat, dub and ambient — pressed into a hybrid analogue–digital frame. The record coalesced during a period of forced isolation, written impulsively and at volume; the pressure remains audible: instinctive sequencing, no rhetorical scaffolding. His Mille Plateaux lineage — ‘Black political music without words’ — is here muddied with lived weight, holding experimentation and intimacy in one gesture.
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☉ Lord Of The Isles – Venus Flux [Far Blue]

On Far Blue, Lord Of The Isles offers a four-track EP that works less by composition than by hand-feel. “Venus Flux” opens with Mushroom Talk, a beatless ambient piece built from slow-moving analogue tones — honest in the way altered states are honest, with no concealment of the source. Its core, Betuladub and Pedaldub, lays out live-improvised dub techno: no fixed arrangement, only the in-the-moment connection between hand and signal path. The title track closes in reflective electro, deliberately unresolved. The whole set behaves like a private session inadvertently overheard — small in elements, generous in air.
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☉ Various Artists [Eterea Music]

Four years on, Eterea Music — the Italian label run by BLNK and Khyrie — returns with its second various-artists compilation. ETEREA VA02 gathers SEIYA, Gabsphere & Alessandro Baroncini, the duo Piante Vive, 3DRecordings’ founder Cia Rebeck, Archypness, and rising producer Pianeti Sintetici, whose Curvature lands as our pick of the set. What emerges is a sequence that confirms the label’s pursuit of an identity beyond fixed categorisation — a curatorial line drawn away from genre tags rather than toward them.
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☉ Hohe & 04061 – BLENDE03 [Blende Hub]

For the third instalment of its in-house series, Blende Hub hands the curatorial keys to its own architects. Hohe and 04061 — the platform’s two curators — meet on record for the first time, the result pressed onto limited lathe-cut vinyl. BLENDE03 translates the imprint’s working principle into form: experimentation routed through familiar structures, ambient and deep techno pulled toward leftfield sound design. Mod21 caps the EP with a remix of Vulnerability that carries the signature of the early-2010s deep techno revival into the present, deepening rather than commenting. A self-portrait of a platform tightening around its own coordinates.
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☉ Teste – Erased From Memory [KR3 Records]

Three decades into the work, TESTE re-emerge on KR3 Records after a six-year hiatus from standalone releases. “Erased From Memory” collects four tracks developed between 2023 and 2026, continuing the duo’s pursuit of sharp, unconventional sound design suspended between chaos and decadence, never settled long enough to name itself. The release also carries the late Juan Mendez, whose SILENT EDITIONS conceived its visual identity, cover and zine — work completed before his passing in January 2024. The dedication is double: to TESTE’s thirty-year arc and to one of the scene’s irreplaceable voices.
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☉ Manuel Fogliata (fka Nuel) – Moments

“Moments” crystallises four points along the curve of Manuel Fogliata‘s research — long known as Nuel, one of the touchstone voices of contemporary dub techno. The four states it traces — ecstatic and boundless, dazzling and mysterious, placid yet rippling, conflicting yet resolved — read less like moods than coordinates. Each track returns the listener to a personal and universal terrain that the curve passes through every time the record begins again. Released on the anniversary of his passing, the EP is among Manuel’s final works: an intimate cartography offered, with gratitude, to those willing to walk it.
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