ONEIRIC by Max Dahlhaus

Max Dahlhaus – ONEIRIC [OMB016]

Berlin-based producer and audiovisual artist Max Dahlhaus returns on the label two year after his last Over My Body debut release with a dream in Sound.

A system of sound built from fragmented memories, shifting rhythms, and digital distortions. ONEIRIC exists in the space between the organic and the synthetic, between structure and collapse. Here, cello strings vibrate in artificial landscapes, field recordings blur into machine pulses, and AI-generated voices attempt—futilely—to replicate human emotion. It’s a record untethered from genre, operating instead as a dream-state where time signatures fracture, grooves morph, and textures breathe.

The title ONEIRIC—meaning “relating to dreams”—perfectly encapsulates the LP’s unstable logic. Like a lucid dream, the music moves with both intention and unpredictability. Each track is its own self-contained world, but together they form an evolving structure that reprograms itself as it plays. Max Dahlhaus builds this sonic architecture through an array of techniques: recording cello and breaking glass, capturing field sounds, feeding AI-generated elements into Ableton, and letting the collision of these methods shape the outcome. Vocalists CATNAPP and Ayu Okakita appear as ghostly presences—human touchpoints in a landscape that is constantly shifting. ONEIRIC is as much a soundtrack for the body as it is for the mind—cinematic in scope, but wired for the club, where rhythm dictates movement and sound overwhelms space.

Taipei based label focusing on avant-garde sounds.

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