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“This one seems to speak to many different people on different levels, while also touching some very similar and very familiar strings.” SCAN ME FOR MORE UNITED STATES, NY Alicante by SHASAU simply asks to be felt. Released on 21 November 2025, the track arrives alongside its second accompanying music video, extending the emotional reach of the EP into visual form. What emerges is not spectacle, but resonance. A piece that lingers quietly, unfolding differently depending on who is listening and when. SHASAU is the man machine project of veteran producer Vadim Militsin, an artist whose career spans decades and multiple identities. Each moniker has explored a different relationship between technology and expression, and SHASAU represents perhaps the most distilled version of that ongoing inquiry. While the project makes notable…

“This aesthetic sense highlights the deep understanding and sensitivity to the transient nature of life” - West Wickhams SCAN ME FOR MORE ENGLAND, SURREY Some releases feel less like music and more like a state of being. Sakura is one of those records. It does not announce itself loudly. It drifts in slowly, like mist rolling through a familiar place and subtly changing how everything looks. By the time you realise it has settled around you, the moment is already passing. That feeling sits at the very heart of this EP. West Wickhams are Jon Othello and Elle Flores, a two piece whose work is shaped as much by myth and memory as it is by sound. Originally from Tresco on the Isles of Scilly, a place often described as…

“The album explores the invisible weight we all carry memories desires contradictions and emotional gravity” - Giuseppe Cucé ITALY, CATANIA SCAN ME FOR MORE Sometimes an album lands like a confession you did not ask for, but you recognise anyway. 21grammi is that kind of record. It is not interested in surface level aesthetics or quick impact. It moves with the slow gravity of someone rebuilding themselves in public, one honest sentence at a time. Giuseppe Cucé, writing from Catania, shapes this project around the idea of invisible weight. Memory. Desire. Contradiction. Emotional residue that clings to you even when you think you have moved on. Released on 20 June 2025, 21grammi is rooted in a period where he felt suspended between what he had lost and what he had not…

An anonymous Icelandic artist turns memory, loss, and survival into a minimalist piano led confession built on restraint, atmosphere, and emotional truth ICELAND, REYKJAVIK SCAN FOR MORE Some songs arrive quietly and ask you to slow down. Night on the Moon by Cup of Music does exactly that. It does not chase attention or demand meaning. It waits. In that waiting, something honest begins to surface. Cup of Music is an independent artist from Reykjavik, Iceland, working without a public name or persona. The decision feels intentional rather than evasive. This is music that wants to be heard without distraction. No mythology. No performance. Just memory, sound, and space. Night on the Moon, released on 10 December 2025, is built from lived experience rather than narrative design. The song reflects…

A psychedelic trance ritual built on vibration, intention and movement where futurist sound design meets ancient instinct FRANCE SCAN ME FOR MORE Dr. Clarke does not release music in the conventional sense. He initiates experiences. With The Awakening, released on 29 November 2025, the France based producer steps fully into psychedelic trance, not as a stylistic experiment but as a philosophical one. This is music designed to move bodies while quietly realigning something deeper beneath the surface. From the first moments, The Awakening signals its purpose. Futuristic synths coil and unfurl with precision, locking into hypnotic rhythmic patterns that feel engineered yet instinctive. Ancient ethno vocal textures drift through the mix, grounding the track in something ritualistic rather than ornamental. The result is a single pulse that pulls mind and…

A piano led reflection on burnout, tenderness, and the small truths that keep us here, featuring the intimate voice of Selin Veya SCAN ME FOR MORE GERMANY, WÜRZBURG In a world that rarely pauses, Little Wonders arrives like a breath you did not realise you were holding. Released on 29 November 2025, the new single from Würzburg based songwriter and producer Jasmin Ahrent is a study in restraint, emotion, and honesty. Featuring the delicate, emotionally precise vocals of Selin Veya, the track does not compete for attention. Instead, it asks for stillness, inviting the listener to slow down and notice what remains when the noise fades. Built around piano and space, Little Wonders is intentionally small in scale but expansive in feeling. There is no rush here, no attempt to…

“It captures the emotion of two people who made the decision to spend the rest of their lives together, and, looking back, are grateful for the decision they made.” — James Shumway UNITED STATES, SALT LAKE CITY There are pieces of music that feel as if they arrive carrying a story already tucked inside them. James Shumway’s new single So Glad You’re Mine sits firmly in that territory. Written originally as an ode to a life partner and later transformed into an instrumental, it radiates gratitude. It is music shaped by two people choosing each other and holding fast to that choice across the years. Instead of drama it gives us sincerity. Instead of grandeur it gives us truth. It is the sound of looking back with full hearts. Shumway’s relationship…

“It felt like he wasn’t speaking to 1949, he was speaking to right now.” SCAN ME FOR MORE UNITED STATES, CLEVELAND Some tracks exist to entertain. Others exist to confront. Stand for Freedom, released on 21 November 2025, firmly belongs to the latter. On this latest single, Cleveland based musician and producer Tony Frissore reframes a historic voice through a contemporary sonic lens, creating a piece that feels less like a song and more like a statement placed directly into the present moment. At the centre of Stand for Freedom is a striking excerpt from Ralph J. Bunche’s 1949 Nobel Peace Prize address. Rather than leaning on familiar quotations about diplomacy or international peace, Frissore focuses on Bunche’s direct challenge to the American public. His words call for accountability, for…

“The world today needs to be a better place especially for every girl and woman who wants to be happy feel safe and worthy” -FREDRYD SCAN ME FOR MORE SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM Some songs exist simply to lift the room. Others arrive with intention and leave something behind once the beat fades. Let The Girl Have Her Fun manages to do both. It is joyful on the surface and quietly resolute underneath, built as a dance pop statement that refuses to apologise for happiness, freedom, or self expression. FREDRYD is an artist who believes in music as connection rather than escape. Based in Stockholm, Fred Rydén approaches electronic pop with an idealist heart and a clear social lens. His work consistently circles themes of acceptance, equality, and emotional openness. Let The…

“It’s not a sad song. It’s a real one.” - Exzenya UNITED STATES, REMOTE SCAN ME FOR MORE There is a particular honesty that only arrives once denial has worn itself thin. On Till I’m Drunk & Confused, Exzenya captures that moment with striking precision, wrapping emotional reckoning inside a song that never stops moving. Released on 5 November 2025, the single leans into folk pop warmth while quietly exposing the limits of escapism. Built around ukulele, acoustic guitar, and crisp modern percussion, the track feels deceptively light on first listen. It hums with momentum, the kind of song that could pass through a room unnoticed until a lyric lands just hard enough to stay. This contrast is where Exzenya excels. The production smiles while the narrative stumbles, revealing the emotional…

Twenty years deep, Sandro Ferro still knows when to let go ENGLAND, LONDON SCAN FOR MORE Sometimes a track doesn’t arrive with a question. It arrives with momentum. Going Wild feels like that moment where thought drops away and the body moves first. Fast, bright, and forward pushing, Sandro Ferro’s latest single captures a producer who understands that freedom on the dancefloor is not chaos, but trust. Trust in rhythm. Trust in instinct. Trust in years spent listening closely to what makes people move. Based in London, with roots stretching back to Switzerland and a career that began in 2003, Ferro is no newcomer chasing trends. He’s a craftsman who has quietly refined a language of energy across two decades of electronic music. Going Wild sits at an intersection he…

A gentle indie pop release that leans into vulnerability without losing its light SCAN ME FOR MORE GERMANY, HAMBURG Some songs arrive softly, not asking for attention but earning it through sincerity. “Hold Me”, released on 5 December 2025, is one of those moments. From Hamburg based artist zukrassverliebt, the single settles into the space between fragility and reassurance, capturing the feeling of being emotionally unsteady and finding grounding through another person’s presence. Built around warm guitar lines and understated pop rock textures, “Hold Me” resists urgency. The arrangement gives the vocal room to breathe, allowing emotion to unfold gradually rather than being pushed forward. This restraint becomes one of the song’s strongest qualities. It mirrors the theme at its centre, the idea that comfort does not always arrive loudly,…

"The energy of that night is loud and present in this track, hope you feel it too.” — Weak Trees FINLAND, KLAUKKALA Some songs arrive polished. Animal arrives breathing. Weak Trees’ latest single feels like a night preserved in sound — a cold, chaotic, funny, slightly reckless memory from the Finnish woods that somehow becomes something bigger the moment the guitars kick in. The trio from Klaukkala — twin brothers Juuso and Joonas Heiskanen with bassist Antti Erola — have built a reputation on instinct rather than gloss. Their recordings, often shaped inside a garage-built studio, hold the fingerprints of their process: buzzing amps, lived-in grit, performances that feel less like takes and more like confessions. After their debut album Unsuffering introduced a sound stitched from stoner rock weight, grunge bite…

“It’s going back to the first song I ever wrote… but with a more vulnerable voice.” - Eve Gasser ARGENTINA, BUENO AIRES SCAN ME FOR MORE Some songs demand attention. Others earn it by asking very little at all. NADA, the latest release from Buenos Aires based singer songwriter and actress Eve Gasser, belongs firmly in the latter category. Released on 21 November 2025, the track is an acoustic reinterpretation of her first original single, and in this stripped back form it feels less like a revisit and more like a reckoning. At its core, NADA is about the quiet ache of something that almost became real. A situationship left unresolved. A feeling left without a name. Gasser approaches this emotional territory with restraint, allowing space to do the heavy lifting.…

Thirty years in the game does not sound like waiting. It sounds like survival. UNITED STATES, DAYTONA BEACH SCAN ME FOR MORE There is a difference between patience as a virtue and patience as endurance. PATIENT sits firmly in the second space. This is not the voice of someone chasing relevance. It is the voice of someone who stayed when most people quit. Sdubsthereptillian has spent over three decades moving through the margins of the industry, learning its rhythms, its silences, its closed doors, and its rare openings. PATIENT arrives not as an introduction, but as a timestamp. Released on 10 October 2025, PATIENT carries the weight of lived experience. Recorded in BandLab and meticulously mixed and mastered, the track strips away excess and focuses on intent. The production does…

A viola, a life interrupted, and a composition that bridges nearly a century UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON, CT SCAN FOR MORE Some music does not arrive as ambition. It arrives as inheritance. Another Time is not simply a classical composition by Sharon Ruchman. It is a conversation across generations, a quiet act of remembrance, and a reckoning with a story that refused to stay buried. Written for viola and piano, Another Time sits at the emotional heart of Ruchman’s wider creative journey, one rooted in discovery rather than reinvention. The piece was composed in honour of her great uncle Rudolph “Rudy” Fuchs, a virtuoso violinist whose life ended abruptly at just twenty five years old in a plane crash during the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. For decades, Rudy existed as a…

The Icelandic singer songwriter delivers a quiet yet powerful confession that turns devotion, vulnerability and inner strength into something gently euphoric ICELAND, KEFLAVÍK SCAN ME FOR MORE There are songs that arrive softly and yet carry the weight of a life lived with intention. Virgin, released on 18 November 2025, is one of those moments. Gugga Lísa does not raise her voice to be heard. She trusts its truth. In doing so, she offers a song that feels less like a performance and more like an invitation. Based in Keflavík, Iceland, Gugga Lísa has long been recognised for a voice that holds both calm and courage. There is a grounded stillness in her delivery, paired with a sense of quiet resolve. On Virgin, that balance becomes the centre of the…

The Garifuna artist blends rhythm, romance and cultural identity into a warm, universal statement on love that was always meant to be UNITED STATES, SAN FRANCISCO SCAN ME FOR MORE Sometimes a song doesn’t chase attention. It moves naturally, carried by rhythm and intention, until it finds you exactly where you are. Conocerte, released on 5 December 2025, is one of those songs. From its first notes, Tavo Man invites listeners into a space where movement and meaning coexist, where Afrobeat becomes not just a sound but a feeling rooted in connection. Based in San Francisco and originally from Honduras, Tavo Man, born Gustavo Castillo, carries his heritage with quiet confidence. Known also by his Garifuna name Ábuti, meaning leader, his work has always been about more than genre. It…

The self confessed Swedish Idol favourite continues his quiet evolution with a song about love that only survives behind closed eyes SCAN ME FOR MORE SWEDEN, STOCK HOLM There is something disarmingly honest about a song that admits it knows it cannot last. On In My Dreams, San Sebastian leans into that truth with restraint rather than drama, offering a tender portrait of emotional escapism that feels both youthful and quietly self aware. Released on 21 November 2025, the track marks the second chapter in a new creative era for the Stockholm based artist and signals a growing confidence in his ability to say less while meaning more. At its core, In My Dreams is about choosing fantasy over reality. Not because reality is cruel, but because it threatens something…