Favorite Releases from November 2025
November moved with a strange elegance, as if the month was testing how far rhythm could stretch before it snapped. Xenia Reaper set the tone with a Delsin album that treats polyrhythm like shifting terrain, a place where patterns drift and intersect without ever collapsing into chaos. Of Paradise’s Shapes compilation followed that lead, gathering producers who approach structure like something malleable, something that can tilt and wobble while still holding its center. Agonis on Mantis and Eszaid on Mindseyerrecords kept pushing the frame, both leaning into ideas that treat the pulse as a moving surface rather than a fixed axis. And Lucas Rojo as R-010 offered his own world entirely, a futurist mosaic where hybrid percussion, field recordings, diffused voices, and synthesis collide in a zone miles away from familiar club logic.
Elsewhere, the lines straightened but kept their warmth. Daniel[i]’s new EP for Mojuba Records carried a calm pressure, the kind that builds steadily rather than loudly. Kameliia and Rødhåd’s Carmine on WSNWG added heat with clean control, no theatrics, just energy placed exactly where it needs to be. Northallsen’s latest compilation acted as a bridge between the month’s two poles: Vand and Vardae bending broken-beat patterns into taut shapes, Dino Sabatini and Aleja Sanchez anchoring the release with deep techno that moves with subterranean patience. When November tilted inward, Infant’s ambient four-track EP on Kino Disk created a room of its own, hushed and atmospheric, a place where everything seems to hover for a moment. And then came TKB on World of Knots, a record built like a handmade apparatus, its rhythms slightly awkward in a way that feels intentional, its textures rough enough to catch the light at odd angles.
November became a study in parallel approaches, with artists redrawing familiar contours and others ignoring the map entirely. These ten releases gave the month its shape through curiosity that never settles.
Agonis - Mantis 18
[Mantis]
R-010 - Mantra 853
[Ecco Records]
TKB - 888 — 890
[world of knots]
Daniel[i] - Shifting Clouds EP
[Mojuba Records]
Various Artists - Shapes
[Of Paradise]
Xenia Reaper - Nept Polarisation
[Delsin]
Kameliia & Rødhåd - Carmine
[WSNWG]
Bandcamp
Soundcloud - Kameliia
Soundcloud - Rødhåd
Infant - Residual Music
[Kino Disk]
Various Artists - Raíces V
[Northallsen Records]
Eszaid - Diversion
[Mindseyerrecords.xyz]