Saša Delimar and Hod release handmade cassette techno set ABYSS

ABYSS lands as a cassette first and a digital file second, and that format choice is the story. Saša Delimar and Hod issued the release as a digital album and a cassette-plus-digital package, with high-quality FERRO tape, covers printed on 160g premium paper, and each tape recorded individually in real time on a Dual C 802 Stereo Cassette Deck. The cassette costs €6 or more, ships on or around April 14, 2026, and pairs with a 24-bit/48kHz download, a setup that makes the record feel deliberately handmade rather than mass-pressed.

For Delimar, that physical emphasis fits a catalog that has been moving steadily toward long-form, immersive listening. Based in Berlin, Germany, he has more than 15 years of DJ experience and has been producing since 2017, first in deep techno and more recently in experimental music. FRGMNTS began in 2020 as his personal musical outlet and has grown into a 65-release platform that now folds in other artists whose work resonates with him. Earlier entries such as Fragments, Interlude, Epilogue II, LONGFORM: Apparatus, and SEQMENTS: VOID all pointed in the same direction: minimal techno as atmosphere, structure, and narrative, not just function.

ABYSS follows that line with four tracks, Ascend, Emerge, Sinkline, and Sinkline (Hod remix). The tag stack, electronic, experimental, ambient techno, minimal techno, with Berlin attached as a location marker, tells the same story in shorthand. The most explicit description is reserved for Hod’s remix, which is framed as a deep and immersive sonic journey built from rich textures and harmonic depth. Even the language around the ambient pad, evoking consciousness returning in an unfamiliar wilderness, suggests a record that wants space around its sounds, not a hard-edged rush from peak to peak.

That is exactly why the cassette matters. A release like ABYSS makes sense in a scene where underground listeners still treat format as part of the listening experience, not an afterthought. The real-time dubbing, the tactile packaging, and the slow-burn dynamic range all support a record that is meant to be played all the way through, at home, on headphones, or in the dark before a set. Hod’s 2022 Acceptance EP on Liminal Spaces, tagged atmospheric techno, deep techno, dub techno, and hypnotic techno, points to the same circle of taste, where texture and depth carry as much weight as kick drum pressure. ABYSS fits that world cleanly, and it shows how minimal techno keeps adapting by turning physical media into part of the composition itself.