Alright as of today pretty much every Usurp Synapse pre-order goes out the door, with most other orders also being in transit (save 60 in the US store). Thanks for bearing with us, we had a lot going on (not just with the labels) so your patience and support are greatly appreciated!

In other big news we highly recommend that you sign up for our ZBR newsletter by emailing us at zegemabeachrecords@gmail.com with “ZBR EMAIL LIST plz” as the subject. We’ll start spitting stuff out monthly at the least starting sometime in December.

Softseed Music just released the debut ‘Leaving’ by Corey Cash & Chuka Stergios. The crushingly honest and beautiful vocals layered over gorgeous acoustic guitar is apparent right from the title-track opener - these songs will both comfort and mesmerize with equally angelic and playful elements. Pressing on 26 cassettes: 11 blue swirl, 5 orange, 5 orange swirl, and 5 test dips w/matching swirl case. For fans of: Grouper, Saram12Saram, Mieke, and Magana. 8 tracks. Features members of Bubble Scary.

Inosuke were interviewed by Cinepunx so be sure you scope that. Lotta really good questions and thoughtful answers. We only took 50 of these records (25 of each variant) and both are already more than half gone! Features our friends Jason and Erik from a buncha sick projects such as Locktender, Men As Trees, Lautrec, and Stormlight just to name a few! Click on the pic above or this text to go to the interview.

Tomb Tree’s Naufraage and Softseed’s Fainting Dreams made the Noise of October 2025 round-up by the always reliable Everything Is Noise. I was personally turned onto Silvana Estrada and Hilary Woods, and reminded about the Rolo Tomassi and Agriculture, all of which I snagged. Click on the pic above or this text to go to the full list.

Hetta’s mind-melting full length is out in just a few days and it’s going to floor you. Some seriously batshit stuff that fans of Usurp Synapse, The Locust, Missouri Executive Order 44, and Blood Brothers will surely drool over. You can scope a few jams on their bandcamp page as well as a premiere/review from Lovers And Lollypops by clicking on the pic above or this text. Tomb Tree is dropping 40 of these tapes on November 21st at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST!

Today’s Last Fucking Copy is Lower Automation’s self-titled album on cassette test dip! It’s actually a Tomb Tree release too which they did the tapes for (with alternate artwork). I had to post the session that US Dave did with the band where they played this album in full…it’s amazing, especially if you watch the full thing and see how the editing gets more and more fucked with. If you want it you can grab this historic brain slap from the ZBR Bandcamp page embedded below. Snag now or forever hold your peace! P.S. Derek and Brian have a new project coming out later this year or early 2026 so keep an ear out.

Operation X-Ray’s 204th episode features the incredible Lucertulas as well as our very own Jota, Inosuke, and Hetta!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: MIRA CORPORA = Yeah this slaps.