idiffer – 違い
I originally created this album to help me with my mental health at the time. It was quite interesting to focus on making music that represented my current mental state. I find this album quite hard to listen to in retrospect and have often considered taking it down from the internet, however, I am fond […]
lhk – 5D TETRIS MATCH & REMATCH
lhk has been a friend of mine for a long while now, first meeting in April 2020 through a mutual friend, we spent time discussing our love for music. I hadn’t listened to breakcore before lhk introduced me, I have a lot to thank him for. After originally releasing 5D TETRIS MATCH & REMATCH as […]
WEI x Ashura – Hrimfaxi
During my process of creating the label, I met Cyberphrenic Records‘ WEI & Ashura – two really awesome guys who make fantastic music. This was way before I’d created catalogue numbers for focus releases, hence the reason it doesn’t have one! WEI’s original track displaying some of his skill creating dark halftime music, the 5 […]
Feelassikan – The Beginning is a Door Back in Time
During the start of focusonthe, I started looking for artists to join me in the process of creating and sharing music. I happened to stumble across Feelassikan in a Discord server dedicated to Ed Banger Records. We talked about our love for early French house, rock and other music genres – after hearing Feelassikan’s music […]
Jakku – BRKWRK V.1
Way back in June 2021, I created my first album “BRKWRK V.1”. After self releasing a few mixtapes and beat tapes before this, I decided I’d like to release with a label. I didn’t know where to look, or where to even begin – I decided to create my own record label to release on. […]
strxwberrymilk – The Escape from Blue Marble
When we re-released this album on focusonthe, strxwberrymilk had already accumulated a large discography, despite the fact he had only been releasing music for a year! To celebrate this, we planned to create a strxwberrymilk cassette box set, which unfortunately fell through. We still wanted to make some physical copies of the older strxwberrymilk releases, […]
laevent – formulation ii
Years after the release of formulation, laevent decided to return to the original formulation idea, producing a sequel with all their newly acquired skills. Featuring tracks of various new sounds, formulation ii stands on its own two legs and isn’t dwarfed by the creativity of the original. Once again, if you have never heard formulation […]
laevent – formulation
I still remember the time roy from the focus discord server first introduced me to laevent. I was absolutely intoxicated with their unique production style and skill from my first listen. It still blows my mind that laevent managed to produce this masterpiece at only 13 years old. From my first listen, I knew this […]
