Logic Lost's Disposable Gods Pulls Senyawa Into Jakarta's Darkest Techno Record

The cover of Logic Lost's new album is a close-up photograph of a statue's face, worn down by two centuries of weather until almost nothing about it reads as human anymore. That's Dylan Amirio's idea of a mirror. He shot the image himself at Çeşme Castle in Turkey, a stone monument to an 18th-century Russian soldier, cropped it tight and dark, and used it as the cover of Disposable Gods, released November 28, 2025 on the Bristol label Avon Terror Corps. Ten years into the project, it's the bleakest record he's made.

A Decade Spent Shifting Shape

Logic Lost started in 2015 as Amirio's outlet for whatever mainstream Jakarta pop and rock weren't giving him: a solo electronic project built, by his own description, out of the overlooked quiet corners of living in a chaotic Asian megacity. Runaway (2015) ran on IDM rhythms and escapism. Forgive Yourself (2018) slowed down into brooding, ambient-leaning trip-hop built around guilt and trauma. Hero Worship (2020) was one continuous track, a single morphing structure aimed at the creep of capitalist values into everyday life. Degenerates (2022) hit harder: gabber-adjacent aggression pointed at authoritarian leadership, corporate greed and the misinformation economy. Nobody could accuse him of repeating himself. Each record picks a new target and a new sound to hit it with, which is either a restless artist refusing to settle or someone who gets bored easily. Probably both.

Senyawa Shows Up for the Darkest One

Disposable Gods is about power and how the people chasing it dress up domination as improvement. The album's eight tracks name names: the US and Israel's "Zionist expansion policies," India's Hindutva nationalism, and closer to home, Indonesia's own entrenched class hierarchy, are all cited as examples in the record's own framing. Amirio didn't build the argument alone. Rully Shabara, one half of Senyawa, the Yogyakarta duo whose extended vocal technique and handcrafted bamboo instrument (Suryadi calls it the Bamboo Spear) have carried them from the Melbourne International Jazz Festival to stages in Tokyo, Berlin and Copenhagen, features on "Insurgents." Senyawa's other half, instrument-builder Wukir Suryadi, turns up on "Biadab." Vocalist Gowa opens the record on "World of Prayer." It's a lineup that puts Logic Lost's noise-techno squarely inside Indonesia's most internationally credible experimental lineage, not next to it.

Jakarta's Noise Underground Isn't a Solo Act

Amirio doesn't work alone even when a release only has his name on it. Disposable Gods also pulls in Deathless Ramz, who co-produces and mixes the record and plays guitar on 'Insurgents,' with mastering from James Plotkin. The label connection matters: this is an underground-to-underground pipeline that rarely gets built from Southeast Asia outward, a Jakarta noise-techno producer signed to a UK label that specializes in exactly that sound, bringing his own collaborators along instead of getting slotted in as a token regional act. He is not the only one sending Jakarta's darker electronic underground abroad: Hajar Asyura scores Indonesian horror films by day and runs his own techno project on the side.

Taking It on the Road

That pipeline runs both ways. Logic Lost played FOCUS Wales in May 2026, the Wrexham showcase festival Echoes and Dust has called "quite simply one of the best festivals out there," with three sets across the weekend at Glyndŵr TV, Hope Street Church and the Wynnstay Hotel. He also played Nomadik 3D Sound Week on the same UK run. For an artist whose music is explicitly about the chaos of Indonesian urban life, playing a church hall in North Wales is its own kind of dark joke, though nobody involved seems to be making it out loud.

Disposable Gods is out now via Avon Terror Corps' Bandcamp. For a decade-long project built on never sounding the same way twice, it's the first record where the target isn't vague. Amirio knows exactly who he's angry at.

Cover and release artwork: official art for Disposable Gods, Degenerates and Hero Worship by Logic Lost, courtesy of the artist and Avon Terror Corps.