“The eighth compilation for our indie music blog and label, start-track.com, features only instrumental tracks this time.”
Less is more, and more is everything: YCK's EP2: Tape is a minimal 70s/80s analogue-synth minialbum eleven years in the making, using cassette tape as a source of distorted sound. Projet → Renard) Ost)'s IX. Jump Badger Jump haunts with drone, neoclassical fragments, and medieval ghosts — repetition, restraint, and latent grandeur. The Penal Colony's Beyond ventures into post-industrial rock with musique concrète, inspired by cold realms beyond human understanding. Guedes' Rational Solutions EP delivers hypnotic minimal techno plus an Etzu Mahkayah remix. Zane Alexander's As Petals Drift captures imperfect, immediate acoustic performances across places and times, while A Place That I Called Home offers unpolished lo-fi songs of love, grief, and quiet collapse.