Artist: stay vaag
Title: 'Breathe'
Label: death by dagger
‘Breathe’ is the latest single from stay vaag on death by dagger, out on 31 July. She wrote, produced and mixed it herself, with mastering by George Oldroyd and artwork by Teri Lois, whose illustrations have run through the label's releases since its earliest days.
stay vaag is a DJ and producer based in Utrecht. She first broke through at the end of 2024, winning ADE Lab's Demolition competition with her debut track ‘Let Me Go’, which death by dagger then signed and put out properly in February 2025. Two more singles followed on the label, ‘deep talk’ in August and ‘I'M NOT THINKING BOUT YOU’ in September, and she was picked for Music Hub Centraal's E-Lab Track, a regional development programme for solo electronic producers that launched that same year. She has since played rooms including KABUL à GoGo, Beton-T and Stranded FM.
death by dagger is the Utrecht label and visual art collective behind all of it, run as much for the artwork as for the records. It put out its first EP in autumn 2022 and made things official with a launch night at ACU the following February, when Thomas Hell became its first signed artist. Waveform Transmitter covered the label's Skalman outing, 'STATIC / RUSH', mastered like this one by George Oldroyd.
