Pre-order of Department. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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releases December 12, 2025
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Includes digital pre-order of Department.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
INDEX:Records alum vase (aka Downstairs People; games) and label-head Conna Haraway team up as ‘Department’ to deliver a two-track mini-epic of sprawling brooding soundscapes and future-facing rhythms, via finely chiseled abstract outbursts and widescreen cinematic depth of field. (Additional live instrumentation comes courtesy of Glasgow-based staev, and INDEX:Rec affiliate MCRD supplies intuition suggestions.)
Starting off as a proper serene slice of beatless musing, 'Cogent' slowly hatches into a rhythmic shape-shifter combining the immersive power of elastic sound membranes with the incisiveness of post-industrial breaks, leaning towards IDM-oid fractals and signature UK bass menace.
All in vaporous piano chords (cue: staev), heavily dubbed-out layers and FX-coated emotion, 'Recovery' beckons us onto the path of soulful elation with its poignant melange of brittle stabs and skittish drum patterns gone astray. Dark and solar at once, the track blends cavernous entrancement with verbed-out RnB samples and percussive trenchant on a steely, broken techno tip.
Ethereal like a mirage yet daunting as the four elements boiling up a storm, Department's debut two-tracker is an elusive piece of sewn-together sketches exuding the sheer magnitude of a master painting in sound.
credits
releases December 12, 2025
Written, Produced & Mixed by vase & Conna Haraway
Final Composition & Arrangement by vase
Drum Programming by usiq
Live Instrumentation and Additional Production by Alex Keogan
Intuition Suggestions by MCRD
Recorded in the Scottish Highlands, September 2025
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Cut by Pitchcraft Mastering
Artwork by Conna Haraway
Words by Baptiste Girou
Four hammering tracks that build a unified web from various strains of ’90s electronic, with breakbeats, trance, jungle, techno, and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 16, 2022
Much like two of my absolute favourites from last year, Paperclip Minimiser's S/T and Stone's Earth FF, this album scratches such a specific itch for me (and one that needs satisfying quite often), when I'm seeking that spacious textural gloopy-ness of abstract ambient sounds but also need something with a good bounce to it. Perfect for literally any time. ghosttropics