Tender Spirits

Phantom Scripts

Stochastic Drift

Fluid Horizons

Hadal Biocenosis

Mantis 15

Pareidolia Remixed

Tra Vento e Oscurità Remixes

Dookuzot

SENSE003

April came with that classic spring duality: pollen and bloom, clarity and haze. The soundtrack? Just as layered. Across the board, artists dialed into that liminal space between groove and abstraction, a zone where techno, broken rhythms, and ambient pressure overlap in beautifully unpredictable ways. This month’s picks lean into that tension.&nbsp; Aneelhi Rec’s&nbsp;Fluid Horizon&nbsp;compilation lays the foundation, fluid, spacious, and tightly curated. Catalan label&nbsp;Obtuse Swamp&nbsp;keeps the momentum with its second release, where&nbsp;Kontinum&nbsp;delivers deep-focus textures that hum beneath the surface.&nbsp;Mantis&nbsp;stays undefeated; this round, we spotlight&nbsp;Konsudd, whose stripped-down, low-slung rhythms feel like hypnosis with intent.&nbsp;Priori’s&nbsp;Pareidolia&nbsp;gets a killer remix refresh from&nbsp;Forest Drive West, Maara, upsammy, and Notte Infinita, each adding a distinct contour.&nbsp;Carrier’s&nbsp;Tender Spirits&nbsp;EP&nbsp;hits that rare middle ground: heady but grounded, abstract but emotional.&nbsp; On the full-length front,&nbsp;Barker&nbsp;returns with&nbsp;Stochastic Drift&nbsp;on&nbsp;Smalltown Supersound, pushing his melodic language even further.&nbsp;SPCLNCH-BLACK&nbsp;launches with&nbsp;Toki Fuko’s deep, cerebral four-tracker.&nbsp;Mattia Onori’s&nbsp;Tra Vento e Oscurità&nbsp;gets reinterpreted with care and tension by&nbsp;Katatonic Silentio&nbsp;and&nbsp;Planatia. And we’re not done -&nbsp;Floid&nbsp;and&nbsp;Woody92&nbsp;(from&nbsp;Omen Wapta) join forces on&nbsp;Dookuzot, a full-length that feels like a guided disintegration of the ego. Italian label&nbsp;Sense Code&nbsp;drops&nbsp;SENSE003, delivering the kind of spiral techno that’s less rave and more ritual. If you like your rhythms broken, your textures layered, and your grooves a little left of center, April delivered.

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Favorite Releases from April 2025