BlackHazr by BlackHazr
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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BlackHazr - BlackHazr

To The New You by Philippe Neau + LR Friberg
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.
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.
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Philippe Neau + LR Friberg - To The New You

Drowned Memory by MEION
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...
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MEION - Drowned Memory

Echo Mist Light by Wahn
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

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Wahn - Echo Mist Light

The Acoustic Cornet, an hommage to  Leonora Carrington by Philippe Petit
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.
The Acoustic Cornet takes its title from Carrington’s dark, delirious novel.
The story follows Marion Leatherby. Ninety-nine years old. Almost deaf. Living quietly in Mexico, knitting cat hair, listening to the world fade.
Through it, Marion overhears what was never meant to be heard.
From there, reality fractures.
Women inhabit houses shaped like igloos, cakes, fantasies.





This album does not retell the story.
Philippe Petit approaches Carrington’s text as one would approach a signal coming from another frequency.
Here, sound behaves like Carrington’s prose.
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.
An invitation to lean closer.
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
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Philippe Petit - The Acoustic Cornet, an hommage to Leonora Carrington

Sciócaz by Love Sea Sick
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:
Recorded @ La Dyle by David Gutman, spring 2025
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Love Sea Sick - Sciócaz

Demand the Impossible / The Sofia Intuition by Stefan Christoff + Open to the Sea
Released February 1, 2026 as free (cc) digital download and in beautiful limited cassette edition.


A. Stefan Christoff - Demand the Impossible
A sky entrance

Arc

Turning in the Bosphorus

Demand the Impossible
An album recorded in Sofia, Bulgaria one late evening in October 2023
B. Open to the Sea - The Sofia Intuition
Please stop loving me

I will not wake you up

I recognise you

Bodies in contact
Reworks of Stefan Christoff's original piano recordings with:
Mastered by Ryan Morey


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?
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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.
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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.
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Stefan Christoff + Open to the Sea - Demand the Impossible / The Sofia Intuition

II by Dormance
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:
 freesound.org/people/suonho/sounds/58619/
 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
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The first Dormance album, I, was released on The Committee for Sonic Research and is available here:
tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/i

Dormance - II

Collected not lost 2015-2025 vol.1: drone and teknoiz by Autonomаton
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
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Autonomaton - Collected not lost 2015-2025 vol.1: drone and teknoiz

contact at the deep bottom by applecore
released January 11, 2026
TRANSMISSION LOG // DEEP-SEA RESEARCH VESSEL ATHANOR
ANOMALYDB-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
TRACK 02: BLOOM FROG
TRACK 03: CONTACT AT THE DEEP BOTTOM
TRACK 04: DEEPWATER
TRACK 05: DESERT AMBIENT
TRACK 06: ETHERNAL
TRACK 07: FMBIENT
TRACK 08: THE BIRDS AROUND YOU
TRACK 09: MC

FINAL ASSESSMENT (AUTOMATED SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC):
This log is sealed. The sound persists.
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applecore - contact at the deep bottom

This world is as bright as death... by 7F7F7F
"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:
released December 31, 2025
Author: Leanyd Churylau (A-BELL)
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7F7F7F - This world is as bright as death...

New Eon by Yzymyr
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
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Yzymyr - New Eon

Our Endless Waltz between Wonder and Mud by Fallen
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:
Artwork by Angel Draganov
"Thank You So Much to the Dearest Ivo, Angel and to my family"
thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com
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Fallen - Our Endless Waltz between Wonder and Mud

Bubo Rugae by Isolated Gate
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.
Mastered and sequenced by Ian Masters.
Design by Tim Koch.
(C) Isolated Gate (P) Isolated Gate
isolatedgate.bandcamp.com
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Isolated Gate - Bubo Rugae

Captains of Industry by Dolphins of Venice
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
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Dolphins of Venice - Captains of Industry

Exposure Fields by Dissolved
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
CD 2. Exporsure Fields Remixes
Artwork, photography and layout by Dissolved
Thanks to Ivo, Tam and all the respective artists
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Dissolved - Exposure Fields

The White Between Words by Substak + LR Friberg
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.
substak.bandcamp.com
aurora-compilations.org
archiveofourown.org/series/4829929





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.
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Substak + LR Friberg - The White Between Words

Below The Surface by Pandacetamol
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
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Pandacetamol - Below The Surface

refug3 by sevensy + Roberto Vodanović Čopor
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
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Sevensy + Roberto Vodanović Čopor - refug 3

Mahorka Remixes Vol.7 by Iliaque
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
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