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Unruly Disturbance – Frisson (Not Yet Remembered Records)

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Label Description: Manchester, UK native Tom Collingburn, who records as Unruly Disturbance, has put together a varied and emotional record entitled ‘Frisson’ designed to elicit this very effect. From sweeping ambient work, dripping with gorgeous sound design to beat-driven workouts, the album delivers this physical response to music in spades.

Featuring a few tunes with poetry recitations by featured artist Mat Riches, these pieces act as an anchor on an otherwise instrumental recording that explores different facets of mood, texture, melody, groove, and the human psyche itself. Rife with a mix of analog drift paired with precise programming and sequencing, meticulous around-the-house sampling, and stellar live-take performances, this seasoned electronic music veteran has returned to the fray after a long hiatus…and the wait was worthwhile. Certainly one not to be missed…a treat for the ear-bones.

The album releases 6/12/2026. Anyone who preorders this album will also receive free codes to two of Tom’s previous Unruly Disturbance albums, ‘Music for Scenes,’ and ‘Melodic Drone.’

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Written & Produced by Thomas Bernard Collingburn

Gigi Masin – Movement (Sacred Bones Records)

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Label Description: Following the jazzy library vibes of 2023’s collaborative Dolphin LP with Greg Foat and Moses Boyd, the venetian maestro Gigi Masin returns to the ambience for which he is renowned, with Movement – his first solo full-length since 2020’s Calypso, and his Sacred Bones Records debut. Fuelled by creative reinvention and rhythmic motion, he moves seamlessly between melancholy electronic notes, technoid robotics, groovy liminal cloudscapes, and fathoms-deep ambient aquatics.

Since early beginnings in obscurity, his 1986 debut album Wind slowly built an organic following on late night radio, later bolstered when “Clouds” was sampled by artists like Björk, Post Malone, and more. He now counts Oneohtrix Point Never, Devendra Banhart, Caroline Polachek, and the late Kenny Wheeler as fans.

The new album Movement reflects on Masin’s place within the pantheon of ambient masters, his ongoing artistic ambitions, and his aspirations for a scene which he’s seen grow exponentially from humble beginnings. The LP is also an ode to literal movement, both in nature, and in human physical expressions to sound. Masin strived to make ambient music for movement, not in the standard dance music sense, but “dynamic music, with a beating heart full of love.” Reconfiguring ambient’s association with solitary listening and cold academia, Gigi went outwards, channeling something somatic that connects with the body, not just the mind.

“Bed on Mars” sets the titular tone for Masin’s renewed curiosity, with cosmic atmospherics evoking the sensation of waking up on a new planet unafraid, whilst the poignant synthesized trumpet and suspended liminal limbo of “Lost” feels like floating adrift in an unknown sea. Delving further into off-centre beats is the celestial techno funk of “Deception Dance,” which sounds like Sun Electric jamming with Carl Craig and Kraftwerk. The bright beaming light of “Golden” radiates warmth, sounding like the bossa nova brother of Göttsching’s Balearic classic E2 E4.

Despite the passing of his wife after a long illness, and losing his musical archive in a flood, Gigi remains pure-at-heart and positive, pouring his soul into the pursuit of beauty. The latest in a slow starting but steadily building career, Movement sees Masin continue to secure his seat at the table of true ambient greats.

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

Filmmaker – Undercurrents (Self-Released)

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Label Description: ‘Undercurrents’ is an interconnected body of work that drifts into moods and mind travel through the slower side that distances from prior dance/club-intended tracks, a new yet familiar exploration in search of emotional resonance, resemblance and tonal identity following the downbeat, hazy granular synthesis and low lit atmospheres developed on recent and not so recent releases.

For enjoyers of the sound palette from previous albums like Motion Pictures Regime, Screening Plexus, Land Of Hidden Variables and Diffractions but also for new listeners discovering Filmmaker’s catalog.

Music & artwork by Faunes Efe
Recorded in Envigado, Colombia in early 2026.

The Black Dog – Music For Real Airports (Box Set 2) [Dust Science Recordings]

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Label Description: Collected together for the first time, this five-CD box set brings together the various works from the Music For Real Airports project.

The collection not only includes Music For Real Airports, Music For Airport Lounges, and Music For Dead Airports, but also features a substantial amount of new, unheard material, alternate mixes and live recordings taken from our archive. This second box set reflects a long and uneasy relationship with airports.

After years spent sitting in airports, travelling to and from gigs, we have seen past the polished surfaces and the promises of comfort and efficiency. They present a controlled fiction, a managed calm built on delay, surveillance and routine.

Across five hours of music, much of it previously unheard and available for the first time, the box set confronts the modern reality of travel and the corporate structures that shape it. The music documents these spaces as they are experienced rather than as they are sold.

Eden Grey – Timewarp (Triplicate Records)

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Modular synth expert and creative force behind the CV-Freqs modular community Eden Grey returns to Triplicate Records with her fourth release entitled “Timewarp”. 10 certified bangers. Cool & slick with classic electronic grit.

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INTERVIEW
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George Ernst (Triplicate Records): It’s been a while, so I’ll simply ask, how are you and what have you been up to?

Dr. Chelsea Bruno (Eden Grey): Been pretty good, thanks.. working on a lot of projects, the CV FREQS events, teaching, writing articles, modular synth workshops and composing. I released my last album in August of 2025 called “In the Forest of Fangorn” with EC Underground. I’ve also been working on my doll project quite a bit, making and showing my handmade dolls, and some of them have found new homes. I love the doll project because it is another place where I find peace in their stillness and silence, where I find a different kind of sound meditation in exploring sounds I create with my modular synth.

GE: How did the Nomadic collaborations come about? They’re excellent! I hope you two can work together again!

CB: Nomadic is an old friend who played one of the first electro shows I ever booked, and he resurfaced again in my sphere after more than a decade. I suggested he should send some drums, which he did with a few synth sounds mixed in and I just spent a lot of time adding to them and making a nice arrangement for both of the tracks that he is featured on. It gives another personality to my work to collab, to see what comes out, collabs often work out really nicely, so I am sure we will be working together again.

GE: Seeing Space in the Finite is a real trippy and heavy title. Can you talk about what that sentence entails to you, and the broader musical themes of Timewarp?

CB: This track I made with the intention for it to represent a Boards of Canada style beat. I made the beat very much inspired by their tracks and then I wanted it to sound like the other synth themes were also familiar too. Coincidentally they have resurfaced this year, when I made this track in the holiday season to also give it some of that nostalgic feel. Space is forever, and what is finite, is not forever. Phosphorescent also reminds me of my early inspiration from Boards of Canada. I am interested in the ways we experience time differently as individuals in our environments. It is a somewhat mysterious concept.

GE: Do you think an elephant would stand and politely sway their trunk to Timewarp? I reckon they would.

CB: Yes, I do think, and a manatee would swim with it underwater too…

GE: Night Tripper is one of my favorite things I’ve heard you make, or heard in general in fact. Can you talk about that one and the effort that went into making it? I’m being selfish I realize but whatever, I like this song a lot and I wanna hear more about it!

CB: I’m so glad you like it.. yes, it is a special song, its evolution, I like the way it changes but keeps you in the same space. Also, sometimes, oftentimes I stay up late at night working on music to get the vibe I am after. And then it has a whole new type of magic when you hear it during the day. To me, it has an equal mixture of dark and light. 

Written & Produced by Dr. Chelsea Bruno
Mastered by Michael Southard
Artwork by Ned Rush