Carlos Giffoni & Thurston Moore – Iguana (iDEAL Recordings)

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Label Description: Recorded Live at Sweat Records in Miami, December 29 2024. Back cover polaroid by Lia Miranza Hernandez Avendano. Live Audience Recording by Guillermo (Lia’s Dad). Master and design by Lasse Marhaug.

iDEAL280 2026. Edition of 100 copies.

EIII – Emanations (Opal)

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Label Description: Cassette and Vinyl version available at – eiii.bandcamp.com/merch

Last year @eiii.music.eiii released Refractions via Opal — seven pieces of sparse, electro-acoustic tension shaped from low-end pressure, restrained harmonic movement and moments of near-collapse. The record carried a quiet intensity that placed EIII somewhere between the austerity of Panasonic and the physical force of Emptyset, while remaining entirely its own. It later received Electronic Album of the Year at Latvia’s Golden Microphone Awards.

Now, almost exactly a year later, Emanations arrives.

Where Refractions felt sealed and monolithic, these new pieces seem more exposed. Rhythms surface and disappear, tones bloom slowly through the static, and small harmonic shifts carry an unexpected emotional weight. The music remains minimal, but nothing feels empty — every sound lands with purpose, suspended somewhere between restraint and impact.

OPAL300

The Jaffa Kid – Wear Out Digital (Waxing Crescent Records)

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Label Description: The Jaffa Kid returns to Waxing Crescent, with a follow up to 2025’s Interactive Composition. Wear Out Digital brings a similar vibe, intensity, and quality, but this time there’s more to enjoy, plus a physical release. If you need a perfect blend of electro, techno, breakbeat and ambient, you can count on The Jaffa Kid.

All tracks composed by Daniel Pringle
Artwork by Megmayo

Arran Poole – Painkiller (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

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Label Description: Our new release is from a new artist on SubCastCo. Glacial long form electronica. This from the artist.

“Slowly building, repeating washes of synthesised sound and noise envelop all around it. Overtaking, consuming, suppressing and supplanting background signals. Noises ricochet through the consciousness; ghostly snares echo back and forth as in an imagined cathedral. Anxious calls and distorted responses. A cloud of hazy dissonance rises, forced up and through intricate tones and space.

The thaw. Ice melts, turns to water, trickles and weaves, carving out streams and pathways. Slowly, shapes emerge from a frosty prison. Moist moss and lichen, once deformed, returning to shape; reappearing from the cold.

An antidote to pain.”

Music and visuals by Arran Poole.

Created using guitars, bass and snare drums, strings, tape hiss, synth and effects.

LR Friberg / {AN} EeL – Higher Standards (Pan Pan Pan Avian Distress Call)

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Label Description: Having been recently reminded by it’s appearing on the excellent Planck Tone #159 ( www.mixcloud.com/mahork-mahorkian/planck-tone-159-playlist-4-nocturnal-synth-bucolica-w-trevlad/ ) the original label that hosted it has been archived – It will be back in the future on it’s home @ Aurora in the 3D rooms, but in the meanwhile here it is in it’s original form –

The first full collaboration with L.R. Friberg – Very pleased to present here-

emerge.bandcamp.com