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PERSPECTIVE 02:27
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ALLGREEN 02:17
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HEAVY 01:45
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STORM SHADOW 02:49
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RUFF CUP 02:31
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DEAD SMOKE 02:33

about

Thizzing and blown-out ambient trap x dub techno vapours from Ukranian artist xtclvr...

Produced under trying circumstances, Ukraine’s xtclvr wrests an escapist sense of hazed beauty on a compelling maiden voyage for bleary-eyed specialists Sferic, written and recorded during long nights under curfew and occasional shelling. Vocals are there, but mostly unintelligible, disrupted by a persistent offbeat churn and fragmentary instability, a paradoxically lush but anxious sound that reflects broader butterfly effects of war and its ripples of socio-economic fuckery on one level, and simply a trippy soundtrack to the afters on another.

Ten smudged shots unfurl across a 3D stereo space in gyring and shearing motion, cryptically shielding and scrambling a message meant to be deciphered by your sixth senses. A vocoder is diffused in aerosolised designs on the rugged lean of ‘Perspective’, setting up a chain reaction that buckles to more fraught feels on ‘Allgreen’ and the ruptured raptures of a ‘Storm Shadow’ recalling Nazar’s recent sound design spheres for Hyperdub.

BSW948 lends nervous bars laced into the warped matrix of ’Night Shift Cut’, and OB3TH perfuses the iridescent dub techno of ‘The Wise Mystical Tree’, whilst Indy lends to the ambient drill of ‘Acid Flavour’, and closer ‘Dead Smoke’ perhaps best betrays, even if metaphorically, a feeling of psychic distress in its dank, submerged mire.

(Boomkat)

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released July 11, 2025

Written & produced by xtclvr.
Mastered by Miles Whittaker. Cut by Rashad Becker.
Front of sleeve by Nick Pooridge. Design by Will Boyd.

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