Club Furies

Wapi has spent years moving between cities the way his music moves between states of mind. Istanbul shaped him first. Berlin gave him a formative stretch that still shows in the architecture of his tracks. These days he splits his time between Vienna and Istanbul, carrying something of each city into a sound that feels equally at home in a warehouse and in a headphone-lit bedroom at 4am.

His new EP, «Pendulum,» lands on Alt Orient on July 10th, and it announces itself as a study in psychological weather. Nightlife becomes the vocabulary here. Agency, surrender, and release stop being abstractions and turn into something you can dance through, track by track, until the EP closes and you realize you just lived a full arc in three songs.

The title does real work. A pendulum swings, it doesn’t choose a side and stay there, and Wapi builds «Pendulum» on that same logic. Percussion drives hard in one moment and pulls back the next. Synths swirl into vocal fragments that get chopped, stretched, and repurposed until they stop sounding like words and start sounding like mood. The record keeps shifting between introspection and intensity, and it never settles long enough for either state to feel permanent.

The EP opens from the seat of a passive observer. That’s the emotional trick of «floatt,» and it’s a hard trick to pull off in a genre that usually wants to grab you by the collar from the first bar. Here everything stays under a veil. The rhythm, the atmosphere, even the sense of forward motion all hide behind a scrim of restraint, and Wapi holds that restraint with real discipline. Then the track detonates off-beat, right when the ear has stopped expecting a payoff, and the precision of that timing is the whole point.

The scene snaps straight into a club at night. A dancer loses grip on their own body and hands it over to whatever the track wants next. The trick repeats a second time in the same night, the same room, the same transition landing again at the moment you’d swear you’d already used up. That doubling isn’t an accident. It reads as commentary on something very current: the mechanics of staying hooked, of a pull that keeps working precisely because you saw it coming and it got you anyway.

Wapi has called «Wear That Smile» the missing chapter, the piece that had to exist between the passivity of «floatt» and the eruption of «Take a Hit.» That framing lands. The track occupies a suspended middle ground between arrival and release, the specific non-place of a night out where you’re technically still moving but no longer steering. A haunting melodic motif sits over a relentless, groove-driven beat, and the pairing produces a kind of fluid isolation, the sensation of standing in a crowd while feeling completely alone with the music.

As the track progresses it stops behaving and dissolves into fractured rhythms and glitch-laden textures, an aggressive fever dream that keeps pulling the listener back for one more pass. The accompanying video, released the same day as the EP, extends that same suspended, disoriented state into image: nocturnal, fractured, glitching in step with the audio, visual static standing in for the moment the track itself comes apart. It’s worth watching alongside the track rather than after it, since the two were clearly built to blur into each other.

The EP closes on its most forceful and cathartic note, and the sound design earns that weight through contrast rather than volume. Certain layers hit percussive and hard, landing like blows. The overall rhythm, though, stays calm, almost taciturn, carrying the track forward with a restraint that never tips into aggression for its own sake. That combination reads like a philosophy: know how to take a hit, and know how to answer it. You absorb the impact with everything it implies, but the response isn’t reflexive. It comes with attitude, with character, with a kind of composure under pressure.

That posture pushes the track into unexpected, almost rock-adjacent terrain, and there’s a specific echo here of certain moments in the British film Hooligans, that same charged stillness right before things go physical. Tension climbs and then holds, refusing to resolve, stretching the sensation out until it feels almost permanent. When the release finally comes, it arrives as pure, uncut energy, the payoff the whole EP has been building toward.

Taken together, the three tracks read less like a tracklist and more like a single night compressed into twenty-some minutes. Wapi has firm conceptual footing here, and the artistic performance across all three cuts feels grounded rather than performative, which is what keeps the EP’s more delirious moments from tipping into chaos. «Pendulum» doesn’t resolve into one fixed feeling because it isn’t supposed to. It swings, the way the title promises, and it leaves you mid-arc.

«Pendulum» is out July 10th on Alt Orient. Stream it here, watch the video for «Wear That Smile,» and follow Wapi on Instagram, Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.

Artist: Wapi
Release Name: Pendulum
Release Type: EP
Label: Alt Orient
Mastering: MONKYMAN
Artwork: Lemkuuja

Release Date: 10th of July 2026
Support & Buy: orcd.co/wapi-pendulum

Tracklist
1. Take a Hit 07:04
2. floatt 05:22
3. Wear That Smile 06:30

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