What does a record sound like when it refuses to forget? On Suspended in Time, label head David Heine answers with an uncompromising statement: a focused body of work shaped alongside the most important musical companions of his recent years, Konstantin Kost and AMAS. The EP is the fifth release on Weirdmouth Records (WMR005), out since November 6th, 2026 as a limited 12″ vinyl and a digital EP, with distribution by Dig Dis! / Matter Of Fact.
The title is a subtle nod to the dusty grooves of the mid-nineties East Coast era, whose melancholic warmth is woven here into dense, atmospheric soundscapes. At a time when the music world tends to demand clinical uniformity, this record refuses to sound polished. It crackles in the grooves and in the digital data streams, yet it is not a bleak place. It is the sound of a present that thrives on memories, and the needle cutting through the here and now pulls us into an intermediate world that still carries the echo of the analog pioneers.
That proud refusal to forget extends to the visual concept. The front cover is a portrait shot by Heine himself, an unfiltered direct-flash snapshot from 2025, a raw and fleeting moment for which his friend willingly gave consent. Viennese artist and filmmaker Jennifer Mattes, known for multimedia work at the intersection of digital art and pop culture, disrupts that analog realism by setting the layout inside a minimalist, deep black universe. Her neon-green, 8-bit style graphics drift across the release like cosmic dust: pixel elements, rockets and cryptic symbols floating through the dark, a reconstruction of old arcade days that captures the spirit of lost futures.
The tracklist mirrors that aesthetic step by step. The A-side opens with “Time” (feat. AMAS), a newly found archival piece from David’s duo project, and one we know well, since AMAS has been a recurring presence on our pages. It is a playful, unconventional groover in which the lines of a Roland TB-303 meander through the landscape while AMAS_PHi’s spoken word adds a fascinating depth to the flow. The texture is velvet, subtle and soft, and time seems to suspend itself there. All reality hangs in ethereal notes and ineffable atmospheres, made possible by a faint electricity that never stops being felt. Once the sound settles, the sonic rails shudder with small turbulences that complicate the sound and lift it higher still.
“Oscillate” (feat. Konstantin Kost) follows, made with the Ukrainian producer, who joins as a guest. It was born in the creative tension between two biographies that span Stuttgart and Odessa. Flowing analog pads drape like a shimmering veil over a deep, energetic foundation, freezing the moment precisely between melancholy and the urge to move forward. It is a lovely piece of work that oscillates, as its title promises, between delicacy and nostalgia, in continuous presents that point backward and forward at once. The texture is built from that coming and going, in sounds and also in concepts.
The B-side opens with “Hollywood,” where Heine stands entirely alone and reduces the sound to its bare minimum. Built from just three tracks, this skeletal two-and-a-half-minute ambient sketch evokes the cinematic backdrop of 1993, a sun-drenched, nostalgic memory of a childhood trip to the US and a kid’s vacation that marks an important turning point. It picks up the duality of the previous track, between nostalgia and delicacy, but here delicacy takes the blows of the ambient, which at moments brushes against drone and slightly creases the track’s spirit. Still, it is a difference that, in being different, gives the whole release its unity.
“2010” (feat. Konstantin Kost) is the second track with Kost, and the one we had the pleasure of premiering at Club Furies. It reflects the hazy, expectant energy of Stuttgart’s nightlife around 2010, that sharp rupture when familiar sounds gave way to the hypnotic ecstasy of a new electronic club aesthetic. Latency is the central idea, carrying a series of possibilities that can stretch almost to infinity. That is what it means when something new is just beginning to make its way: opportunities paved toward the future, from within the present.
The closing point belongs to Heine’s second solo piece, “Star-Crossed,” a final act of refusal to let go. It stands as a sonic monument to a close friend lost far too soon in 2024, bowing deeply to the uncompromising, raw aesthetic of Detroit. Free from distraction and devoid of polished sheen, it is a raw sound dancing against all odds. It also works as the German concept of aufhebung in sound: the movement of something that is changing yet still keeps the forms of what it is about to stop being. Between the new and the old, this sound lodges with precision, a perfect allegory of what was and what will be.
Suspended in Time does not ask us to stay in the past. It asks us to listen to the moment where past and future overlap, and to let it crackle a little.
Label: WEIRDMOUTHRECORDS
Artist: David Heine
& Guests: Konstantin Kost, AMAS
Title: Suspended in Time
Release Format: 12“ Vinyl (limited), Digital EP
Catalogue: WMR005
Distribution: Dig Dis! / Matter Of Fact
Release Date: November 6th, 2026
Support & Buy: Beatport
Tracklist
1. /A1 Time (feat. AMAS)
2. /A2 Oscillate (feat. Konstantin Kost)
3. /B1 Hollywood
4./ B2 2010 (feat. Konstantin Kost)
5. /B3 Star-Crossed
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