Universe B by Studio Kosmische / XIMES

This record is an audio guide through your pathway to, and within, and throughout, Universe B.

We begin our journey as we navigate The Hills of Hathor. These Hills hold such topological icons as Egyptian temples; its peaks and troughs are rich with distorted gaudy pleasures, but subtle moments of reflection in their structures. Be wary not to be distracted by these beguiling, glimmering crystalline forms – a good traveller forges a straight furrow.

That furrow soon becomes your path, and this becomes a gentle incline. First it was dark, then it was chimeric, now it is beatific. This divine entity forms a mountain peak, a pyramid with endless steps. At the bottom of the steps is a door like a siren. You enter.

As the door swings open, you are plunged beneath the Earth and into the Tunnels of Set. Greeted by Laylah the Scarlet Woman you’re guided – but only just: these chambers twist and turn, they narrow to nightmarish proportions, but she is there, as muse and as Divine Whore. She hands you the Book of Thelema, a test of your moral fortitude. At the tunnels’ narrowest point lurk Lovecraftian demons, elementals, the monstrous – extra-cosmic and extra-terrestrial – but beauty, too. Do not succumb to the allure of the diabolical: these paranoiac visions will embitter you. Instead, take Laylah’s outstretched hand - she is your gateway, your sigil and your apotheosis.

Soundtracking dreamscapes and capsized otherworlds. Tape label based in Cornwall UK @dub_cthonic