As we reflect upon a busy year at Delayed & for the scene as a whole, our team has once again thoughtfully gathered their personal collection of sonic companions that stood out to them the most in 2025
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November moved with a strange elegance, as if the month was testing how far rhythm could stretch before it snapped.
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Drawing a coherent link between various influences, Gëinst joins our own label Never Late with Hiber Trace where his analog-driven productions expand and contract time and space.
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October's releases felt like cartographers sketching new maps of rhythm and emotion.
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There’s a particular stillness to September.
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August has a reputation for being a quiet month.
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Danish producer, DJ, and label head C.K seems to live by the same philosophy. He writes and spins some of the warmest and fuzziest house music out there, delivered with almost surgical precision.
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Festival season is in full swing. Life feels like a brief interlude between one festival and the next.
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The opening title track from Clearlight and Sentient’s Mandibles EP builds on this idea of a menacing presence living under one’s own skin
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June felt like living inside a pressure cooker: heat steaming the pavement, skies breaking open in floods, and a world that keeps tripping over its own shoelaces. But music, as ever, remains the lifeboat.
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Djrum likely needs little introduction to Delayed readers. His music has long touched on and moved across multiple locations and genres along the history of UK dance music and culture, building on it, and regularly infusing it with a sense of grandeur, of world building, and of exploring the possibilities in extended narratives
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April came with that classic spring duality: pollen and bloom, clarity and haze. The soundtrack? Just as layered.
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Following recent output on Amenthia and homeland favourites Nous’klaer Audio Ruben Üvez returns to Bitta with the Gazoz EP
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March tends to mark a shift. As calendars fill with club nights and festival dates, producers start rolling out records built for movement—weighty, immersive, and often primed for the floor.
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Did you already hit yourself with the classic “Wait, it’s March already?”
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January’s come and gone, and we spent it the way we always do—digging for music that stuck with us, the kind that kept playing in the background while we worked, talked, or just spaced out.
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As we bid farewell to 2024, December was a fitting finale for a year rich in groundbreaking music.
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As the year comes to a close, we at Delayed have been enjoying our annual tradition of combing through 12 months of music & memories
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November was a whirlwind month in the music world, packed with releases that left us spoiled for choice. After plenty of listening and a bit of debate, here are the standout selections from the past few weeks.
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October has swept in with autumn’s rich colors, Halloween’s haunting tones, and a fresh lineup of releases that feel just as dynamic as the season itself.
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