New Music: May 22, 2026

This week, the ground shook and the heavens opened, giving us a new release from Traumprinz entitled Birth. Blink and the vinyl will be—and it’s gone. Still, they are releasing on Bandcamp now, so you can at least still grab the digital. Plenty of other great releases this week too. Bass extraordinaire Air Max '97 returns with a deft EP of sharp angles and subs on Fool's Errand. Italian electronic artist Katatonic Silentio is back for their second release of the year, delivering a cultivated electronica that seems to grow organically out of the soil. And either I haven’t been paying proper attention, or Tim Reaper just put out their first EP of 2026—and it’s a rip-roarin’ affair featuring some of the best in the biz, including Dwarde, Kloke, and Nectax. Other standouts come from Sound Synthesis, Vardae, and Amor Satyr.

As always, you can count on the Lunatic to keep you raving long into the night. Plenty here to keep the engine humming.

Ambient

• Visible Cloaks - Paradessence [RVNG Intl.]

Bass

• Air Max ‘97 - Fool’s Errand [DECISIONS]

• Balout Krew & Laxifilet - F**k Your Orientalism [YUKU]

• Bobby Ingham - Angel Of The North [Sneaker Social Club]

• Freedjom - Trauer Im Salom [YUKU]

Breaks

• Camcussion - More Sprouted Lentils [Detroit Underground]

Dance

• Clark - Opponent Stims [Throttle Records Ltd]

• Nectar, Succulent - Mineral 11 [Kalahari Oyster Cult]

Downtempo

• Peach - Soak Vol. 1 [Mood Hut]

Drum’N’Bass

• Basic Rhythm - Entropy & Energy [Musique Nocturne]

• TENEM - Anything [Fokuz Recordings]

• Tim Reaper - Hazardous Material 2 [Steel City Dance Discs]

• Vardae - The Energy Of Presence [Samurai Music]

Dubstep

• Main Phase - Attenuation [Tempa.]

Electronic

• Bored Lord - For The New Moon On May 16 [Self-Released]

• Katatonic Silentio - Paradise Mountain [Maloca]

Experimental

• One Leg One Eye - CRONE [AD 93]

Footwork

• STUCKINWAVEFORMS - High Magic [Moveltraxx]

Hip-Hop/R&B

• JPEGMAFIA - EXPERIMENTAL RAP [Peggy]

House

• Brassfoot - After Dark [Unknown To The Unknown & Hot Haus Recs]

• Butch - Official Bump Call [Rekids Ltd]

• Sindaco - 1981 [New Interplanetary Melodies]

• Traumprinz - Birth [All Possible Worlds]

IDM

• Sound Synthesis - Radical Meditaton [Analgoical Force]

Techno

• Amor Satyr & Olympe4000 - Signal [WAJANG]

• Domenico Cresci & Ruhig - Land Of Ecstacy [mord]

• Hyperstellar - Disclosure [International DeeJay Gigolo Records]

• Sunil Sharpe - Tar 43 [TH Tar Hollow]

Worldwide

• KADAPAT & Nova Ruth feat. Siko Setyanto - Ocean Cage [SVBKVLT]

Various Artists

• Various - Superclásico, Vol. 3 [Clasico Records]

• Various - Wrecks 303 [Klasse Wrecks]