November Round Up

A snapshot of the past month of music and mixes at Delayed

Dec 09, 2025

FAVORITE RELEASES

November moved with a strange elegance, as if the month was testing how far rhythm could stretch before it snapped. Xenia Reaper set the tone with a Delsin album that treats polyrhythm like shifting terrain, a place where patterns drift and intersect without ever collapsing into chaos. Of Paradise’s Shapes compilation followed that lead, gathering producers who approach structure like something malleable, something that can tilt and wobble while still holding its center. Agonis on Mantis and Eszaid on Mindseyerrecords kept pushing the frame, both leaning into ideas that treat the pulse as a moving surface rather than a fixed axis. And Lucas Rojo as R-010 offered his own world entirely, a futurist mosaic where hybrid percussion, field recordings, diffused voices, and synthesis collide in a zone miles away from familiar club logic.

Elsewhere, the lines straightened but kept their warmth. Daniel[i]’s new EP for Mojuba Records carried a calm pressure, the kind that builds steadily rather than loudly. Kameliia and Rødhåd’s Carmine on WSNWG added heat with clean control, no theatrics, just energy placed exactly where it needs to be. Northallsen’s latest compilation acted as a bridge between the month’s two poles: Vand and Vardae bending broken-beat patterns into taut shapes, Dino Sabatini and Aleja Sanchez anchoring the release with deep techno that moves with subterranean patience. When November tilted inward, Infant’s ambient four-track EP on Kino Disk created a room of its own, hushed and atmospheric, a place where everything seems to hover for a moment. And then came TKB on World of Knots, a record built like a handmade apparatus, its rhythms slightly awkward in a way that feels intentional, its textures rough enough to catch the light at odd angles.

November became a study in parallel approaches, with artists redrawing familiar contours and others ignoring the map entirely. These ten releases gave the month its shape through curiosity that never settles.

FAVORITE MIXES

November listening often behaves like a double exposure. Summer’s glow keeps bleeding through even as the season turns inward. ENA at Mostra, Doltz at Monument, Haruka at Paral·lel, DJ Red at Dekmantel: each of these sets resurfaced with the clarity of moments that still hum beneath the skin. They capture different philosophies of pressure, from ENA’s curious drift to Haruka’s geological pacing, yet all of them carry an aftertaste that feels unmistakably tied to the year’s most charged hours.

But the month didn’t live only on memory. Sybil and Beta Librae shifted the mood entirely, offering playful, eclectic mixes suited for long drives or kitchen improvisations. Carrier, Fhionbarra, and BLNDR pushed further outward, sketching braindance pathways that feel like secret corridors for the curious. And Sa Pa’s expanded Enter Sa Pa felt like discovering extra chapters in a book you thought you knew by heart.

November, in its quiet way, showed how listening becomes a loop where recollection and discovery blur into something that keeps evolving.

SUNDAYS ARE FOR…

Sunday mornings have always felt a sense of happiness and peace since I was a child, perhaps due to the short time I didn’t have to be in the hustle and bustle of life. Spending more time on the production work I enjoy during the day is something I find even more enjoyable at my age. Evenings are spent casually walking through the city, ending my walk somewhere in the woods where I can greet the sunset. Ending my Sundays with a sunset is the last thing I enjoy most, even though it’s the last thing I do. Looking directly at the sun with my naked eye during these hours is refreshing.

My motivation for preparing the set is primarily for myself. Listening to ambient sets before bed always helps me fall asleep and drift into a deep sleep. I know I’m not the only one who enjoys this, and offering the same pleasure from my own perspective to other listeners brings me joy; it’s a pleasure to be able to help them. Listening to sets like this throughout the day always reminds me of a reset. I always feel like we need this; sometimes I experience being in the moment without thinking through sets like this. I hope I can offer the same effect to my dear listeners.

With love

Words by N’es

November brings forth a cold edge, the harbinger of winter. To be honest, I look forward to these months of hibernation. My focus draws inwards, it’s a time of isolation, of retrospection, providing a much needed mental respite from the lovely chaos that is summer and the festival season.

Sundays are for… Nov/25