Media Coverage

The Quietus: Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for May (Featured Review)
(2025)

It is a psychoacoustic exercise in quasi-infrasound, jazzy atmospherics, heavily-processed field recordings and hallucinatory vinyl crackle.

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Futurism Restated 126: Dream Horizons (Featured Review)
(2025)

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“It remains an incredibly intense, cocoon-like experience”

Futureproofing #14: An interview with Philip Sherburne (Featured Review)
(2025)

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“The Fool is ambient music you feel more than you hear.”

The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March (Featured Review)
(2025)

Even by Sa Pa’s sophisticated standards, The Fool is tastefully low slung. 

OndaRock: Sa Pa - The Fool (Review)
(2025)

“Hiss, tape, and texture are everywhere”

Test Pressing: Sa Pa - The Fool (Review)
(2025)

“If you're not familiar, think introspective explorations of the outer realms of dub techno, crackled ambient and monged-out sound design.”

Inverted Audio: Sa Pa returns to Short Span with Ambeesh (News)
(2025)

Ambeesh pulls together a previously hidden body of work of abstract ambient dub techno.

Inverted Audio: Matthew Kent launches Short Span with Sa Pa (News)
(2025)

“Sa Pa makes a striking return with a new four-track extended player on Matthew Kent’s freshly launched label, Short Span.”

Inverted Audio: Sa Pa arrives on Astral Industries (News)
(2023)

“Consisting of two long-form mixes – ‘Studio’ and ‘Live’ – Atmospheric Fragments is a deep explorational study of our everyday surroundings.”

ele-king: AMBIENT definitive 増補改訂版 (Featured)
(2022)

Resident Advisor: Deadbeat & Sa Pa — The Mountain (Album Review)
(2022)

"Deadbeat continues his collaborative series with one of his most epic releases yet... six sides of crucial, dubbed-out tech house."

Inverted Audio: Sa Pa inaugurates Lamassu Records (News)
(2021)

‘Borders Of The Sun’ consists of a single locked groove and five deeply atmospheric and experimental tracks

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Inverted Audio: Sa Pa drops ‘Vessel’ EP on Rosa
(2021)

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Consisting of 4-tracks, ‘Vessel‘ presents Sa Pa’s signature experimental dub techno workouts, that are both hauntingly atmospheric and driving.

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Inverted Audio: Sa Pa unveils second album ‘In a Landscape’ (News)
(2019)

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“It also features thick layers of field recordings – some salvaged from a recorder lost in Bassiani during the Police raid in 2018.”

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XLR8R: Sa Pa Signs to Mana for New Album (News)
(2019)

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Sa Pa will release his new album via Mana Records.

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FACT MAG: 10 house and techno producers to watch in 2016 (Featured)
(2016)

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“The producer’s approach is rough and abstract, but there’s nothing noisy about his music.”

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Resident Advisor: In Residence: Mystik (Featured)
(2016)

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"Those last couple of hours were so special," he recalls. "The music across the course of the night was really broad, and sometimes challenging, but the crowd stayed with them.”

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Resident Advisor: Top mixes, compilations and reissues of 2016 (Featured)
(2016)

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“not quite ambient, not quite techno”

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Pitchfork: The 10 Best DJ Mixes of August (Featured)
(2016)

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“To fully soak up its subliminal splendor, headphones (or really good speakers) and a quiet room are recommended.”

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Resident Advisor: Organik Festival 2016 (Review)
(2016)

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“As birds and insects chirped and chattered around me, he dropped Gigi Masin's "The Word Love." It's difficult to put into words how perfect that moment was—I've never experienced anything quite like it.”

Inverted Audio: Best Albums of 2015 (Featured)
(2015)

“A brittle, broken audio hallucinogen – mixing the outside world with the club and creating a compelling netherworld in the process.”

Resident Advisor: MDR 015 (EP Review)
(2015)

"A massive yet cerebral sound, drowning distant techno rhythms in field recordings and thick layers of ambience.” 

Inverted Audio: MDR 015 (EP Review)
(2015)

"Intricate textural work which created something reminiscent of the dancefloor rather than being geared towards it."

Inverted Audio: Fuubutsushi (Album Review)
(2015)

"As the title alludes... a brittle, broken audio hallucinogen – mixing the outside world with the club and creating a compelling netherworld in the process."