Inox Traxx announces compact two-track Love Letter on Ostgut Ton

Ostgut Ton has given Inox Traxx’s Love Letter the scarce 10-inch treatment, cataloguing it as O-TON 130 for June 26 shipping. The limited vinyl pressing, priced at €15.90, keeps the package tight: side A is “Love Letter” at 03:32, side B is “A Whisper” at 03:15. That economy matters here, because the label frames the record around intense attraction, fantasy, deep connection, and the uneasy sense that the bond might be an illusion.

The format also lands with real label weight. Ostgut Ton is Berghain’s in-house imprint, founded in 2005, and its return in 2025 with Klubnacht 01 marked a 20th-anniversary comeback after a four-year hiatus. The previous release before that reset was 2021’s Fünfzehn + 1. In that context, Love Letter reads less like a loose digital drop and more like another carefully placed object in a revived physical catalog, the sort of 10-inch that signals intent before the first kick even hits.

Inox Traxx’s name already carries that kind of scene credibility. Resident Advisor’s profile for the artist, who first appeared on the platform in 2018, pairs her with Hard Wax’s blunt line: “Flawless, highly effective, pure Techno.” The same profile places her around Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Moscow, and Munich, with stops at Berghain | Panorama Bar | Säule, RSO.BERLIN, Fvtvr, and RADION. Discogs identifies Inox Traxx as an alias of Alisa Chernysheva and lists Love Letter as the 2026 Ostgut Ton release O-TON 130.

Love Letter also follows a busy stretch for Chernysheva. Somov Records issued SMV016 on April 17, 2026, and the label copy described her sound as “drifting between deep melancholy and moments of peak-time reflection.” That phrasing fits the new Ostgut Ton release neatly, especially with its two-track construction and its focus on tension rather than excess. Mike Grinser handled mastering at Manmade Mastering Berlin, while Inox Traxx and Yusuf Etiman took on artwork and layout, keeping the release tied to a familiar Berlin production chain.

For Minimal Techno heads, that combination is the point. Love Letter is small, limited, and physically specific, but Ostgut Ton’s imprint and the 10-inch format turn it into more than a pair of club cuts. It arrives like a scene artifact, and that is exactly why it will matter on shelves and in sets.