ANNOUNCING: Mukqs – Juckport

To be released on June 12th, 2026 on Tape, CD, digitally, and tank top w/ DL code.

First single “Octopascal” – now streaming on Bandcamp and all the other steamy streamy situations

Max Allison co-founded Hausu Mountain with Doug Kaplan in 2012 and serves as the label’s resident visual artist and designer. Since 2013 he has made solo music under the moniker Mukqs, which finds him twisting elements of ambient music, noise, techno, video game music, and free-for-all sample collage into rapidly shifting productions united under the banner of his strictly live, hardware-focused practice. Mukqs releases have appeared on labels including Orange Milk, Patient Sounds, Husky Pants, Jacktone, No Rent, Midwich, Doom Trip, and Umor Rex. Allison performs as a member of projects including free music trio Good Willsmith, rock band BBsitters Club, noise duos Tasha’s Hideous Laughter and Manual Pollination, and a number of collaborations with musicians and friends based in his home of Chicago. In 2022 Allison started the Hausu Mountain satellite label Blorpus Editions, home to a growing catalog of dozens of releases by an international cadre of contemporary experimental artists.

Juckport, Mukqs’s first album in nearly two years, is animated by a duality of glitched-out abstraction and intangible bliss. Synthesizer pads stretch beyond the imagination’s horizon line, counterbalanced by a churn of clipped samples that scatter across the stereo field like rapidfire psychedelic flashbacks. Cohesion emerges through textural continuity and development rather than repetition or pattern-making. Blink and innumerable details might slip by unnoticed, and the landscape might have shifted entirely. Still, as more viscous sounds enfold the listener, they communicate a calm, settled mindset, reflecting the motion of a creative mental state; large amounts of information cohere into a focused stream that reacts intuitively with the introduction of each new complicating element.