Each of the songs was inspired by poems by the great poet Jim Kacian.
These first seventeen poems are part of the interactive book film “Long After” by Jim and appear in Section 1: “Ago”.
Tracks created in VCV Rack 2 with various external plugins.
Some sound effects (birds, waves, wind, crickets) were adapted from VCV Rack patches by “antioedipus72”, “Your Pal Rob” and “The Wayfarer Project”.
The name, which was chosen not without awareness of the threat of vulgarity, is meant with honesty and, in a sense, generosity. Apparently, the term has been accepted in the psychological community to mean an extremely confusing or disturbing experience. Here, it is an offer to explore that state and come to accept it and enjoy it. The listener is a silent participant welcomed to re-examine what is considered pleasurable, what is fun, and what constitutes balance and structure.
Piano, bass, and electronics co-mix here to create a calm discourse that examines more than it asks or tries to answer. Those expecting to be jarred or unsettled may find the peaceful serendipity of M!ndf*kc disconcerting. Clear lines and pure sounds turn and twist as though obstructions do not exist. The development from climax to anti-climax, from stasis to passage, seems like the inevitable result of either careful planning or sheer faith in probability. After attentively navigating, without judgment, the connections along the way, finding sense and meaning in the upset of stability is where the music finishes. (Edward Reardon)
www.essl.at/div/mndfkc.html
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ0umd7u-PzgHnrsyZ4NoLaccrWIoNjTK
Iliaque, Ghost Radio, FONDELLA, Krokar, Audiophil Arts, Notstandskomitee
Eight thousand and thirty days later.
The known world lies in crumbs.
And yet there are still Sundays.
The time has finally come, yayyy! The first edition of the 20th anniversary compilation is out now, only 2 years after the start of planning! It’s the first issue of several partial compilations that come in a listenable album length.
In the upcoming issues you can find songs by Kryptic Universe, Götterkreis, Enzym, Sami Konzo, Matti T, R.Y.D.O.X., 505, Mr Incognito, +Potential differenSe, Anaxy, HUGO MESI, Trans Comfort, Stuub, Alexander Stoica, OMBRA OBSCURA, Buck Flanger, Salaet, D-Fried, MOC, Dimitris Palikaris, Moncro, Eisenberg, Svann E. Langguth, illocanblo, Kuuza (feat. .Khi), Jo Carius … Stay tuned.
22 years later: the desire is still there with the musicians, the skills are there as well. Much more equipment has moved into the houses and and studios. The software is paid for, the incentives or new life contents are numerous. The musical styles have somehow changed. But the desire to express ourselves, to express ourselves in our cosmos still exists.
The first issue delves into more serious electronics. Included old friends, but also musicians that we have not yet not yet heard on Phonocake.
If you like, please send in a track! For the later editions of the celebration compilation. Find the link at release page 150.
GoH-811: Void Gazer – Breath Of Rain
Heading from Germany dark ambient artist Void Gazer brings five pieces of truly sinister, cinematic horror atmosphere, where heavy, chilling drones meet ritual drumming and evocative field recordings. Get overwhelmed with visions of the terrifying wilderness and mysteries from it’s dark past…
Equipotenziale 003 marks the final chapter in a conceptual trilogy exploring the equilibrium of psychological, spatial, and narrative forces. Through layered symbolism, nonlinear structure, and abstract imagery, this concluding part resolves tensions established in the previous entries. It examines the convergence of identity, memory, and perception within a framework of artistic equilibrium—where all points hold equal potential. The work’s resolution is not an end, but a stabilization, suggesting continuity beyond closure. This paper analyzes the trilogy’s arc and posits 003 as a meta-commentary on storytelling in post-contemporary visual media.
Echoes of Lichen speak in green,
Ancient tongues, quiet and unseen.
The ground heaves with Tectonic Pulse,
Earth’s deep memory, slow and convulse.
Bioluminescent Veins ignite the dark,
Living stars with nature’s spark.
We Respire in Fog, unseen, alive,
In vapor’s hush, we drift and thrive.
A Moss Signal, faint, begins to weep—
Calling to those the soil keeps.
Under the Nocturnal Canopy, we lay,
Returning to life’s silent decay.
music for interactive theater performance “how to perform resistance”
by the youth club of Junges Theater Augsburg
@ City Club Augsburg, 17.05.25, as part of 375 years of the festival of peace Augsburg
concept, voice recording, directed by Harald Volker Sommer
composition, recording, mastering, photo, design by EMERGE
Feet fidgeting in Sunday restlessness,
reality blurred in hypermathological impressions,
let’s hack autonomous vehicles!
From chillax to 100+% now. It’s relatively rare to find techno
or acid on Phonocake, but Dominik Vogel’s work also brings
melodic electronica and an experimental approach, especially
through the production technique with the modular synthesizers
and unusual control devices, basically tearing down the
style boundaries here.
Dominik Vogel has a history as a drummer, songwriter,
percussionist and synth player in bands and ensembles
and has been into electronic music with a focus on techno
since 2000. As an “old school musician” he believes in analog
instruments and hardware, with which he also plays live techno
sessions. You can find his analogue passion withdemos and
tutorials on modular musical instruments on YouTube. He
also uses these instruments, mostly with the help of
unusual control devices or random voltages and modulations,
for the creation of his tracks. In the course of time, he
has released a number of albums and other releases all over
the world, including Der kleine grüne Würfel, RotRaum Music,
AcidWorx, Overdrive and FullHouseMusic.
soundcloud.com/g_klimpa/what-the-heck
The amphibian human gazes dreamily at the love of his life,
the petrified fossils grow patiently into the eons,
the water constantly granulates.
Let’s put our feet in the sand, the sea is calling! Net label musician Iliaque from the Normandy gives us a little, relaxed and artistic time-out, full of droning fluidity that invites us to imagine. Happy resurrection! Happy living on.
We can already find Iliaque’s music on the net labels Enough, Picpack, Bump Foot and Mahorka, among others. And soon two great songs by him on the Phonocake birthday compilation that will finally be released on June 1st, this one with only a two-year delay.
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Keywords: drone, ambient, noise, introspective, melancholic, dreamy, microscopic, Europe, France, mp3, flac, wav, 2025, EP,
When Dave and Sebastian’s paths crossed at djummi records in 2019 and they began exchanging ideas about music through their correspondence, it quickly became clear that an interesting overlap was opening up. John Bonham, for example. Dave found him fascinating as one of those drummers who like to play his instrument sometimes without the rest of the band. Sebastian, in turn, appreciated his uncompromising, expansive sound. Dave sparked Sebastian’s interest in Jon Hassell, and Sebastian inspired Dave with Tortoise and Trans Am. They also agree on the Violent Femmes.
Krautrock is always a recurring theme, but so is ambient. Sebastian didn’t understand this music for a long time because it seemed to dispense with rhythm. Dave instead was looking for the sound for his solo drumming there. The goal: a percussion section that sheds its brutality, achieves a lightness of touch, and is thus capable of telling its own stories. In Sebastian’s previous work, lightness expresses itself more as a playfulness in the handling of ideas than in a reduction of means. His songs are often weighty and rich in sounds, motifs, and ideas.
With suralarm, these intersectional opposites meet and intertwine perfectly. Through a ping-pong of ideas, the two developed the EP’s four tracks. Each musician brought two basic ideas into the ring as a starting point. The title track, “train of thought,” perhaps symbolises the record’s creation process. It corresponds to the equally figurative German word “Gedankengang” (Gedankengang). Just as one thought connects to another during reflection, ideally with the goal of insight, this track develops throughout the successive musical ideas, like how this little album came about.
It’s kraut, it’s ambient. At times powerful, at times light. It offers material for the listener’s undivided attention, but certainly also has the potential to be elevator music. If so, then Paternoster, please!
Oberlin is the musical project of Alexander Holtz from Koblenz (Coblence), Germany. The centerpiece of his instruments is a modular eurorack synthesizer, which he often combines with guitar, piano and field-recordings. His music invites the listener to contemplate, it often is developing quite slowly, it never demands to be in a certain focus of attention, but it never tries to fulfil any ambient-clichees in the sense of creating just an aural wallpaper either. It is musical improvisation maybe in a more subtle kind of way. Oberlin has released music on Handstitched*, cosmic winnetou, Thirsty Leaves, Vaagner, Hibernate, Secret Press, AOsmosis, some tapes and downloads by himself and, notably two beautiful cassette albums on Mahorka.
Xu is Nicola Fornasari from Cremona, Italy. He began his musical career in 1995 as the bass player and singer for the hardcore band Entropia. Starting in 2007, he began exploring new musical projects, including Xu(e) (a duo with Andrea Poli), Xu (his solo project), La Petite Vague (a duo with Diego Balconi), and That Which is Not (a duo with Pier Giorgio Storti / Belaqua Shua) in 2020. His music has been released on a variety of labels, including Fluid, Whitelabrecs, Shimmering Moods, Slow Tone Collages, Krysalisound, Eilean, Flaming Pines, Rottenman Editions, Rohs! / Lontano, Twice Removed, Cathedral Transmissions, Triple Moon, Thirsty Leaves Music, Audio Gourmet, Tessellate, Haze, Many Feet Under, Subterranean Tide, and Laverna. He has collaborated with artists such as Darren Harper, Bill Seaman and Francis Gri.
“Velvet Meadow Resonance Fragment” is the third collaborative album between Xu and Oberlin. For this project, Oberlin provided acoustic guitar sketches, asking Xu to process and transform them into the foundation of the tracks. The recordings were then manipulated through a modular Eurorack system or altered using the Samplr iPad app. Oberlin handled the final polishing and mastering. This work marks the first chapter of an ongoing experiment. In the next chapter, currently in progress, it will be Oberlin who develops everything, starting from the material provided by Xu. Stay tuned.
Released March 23, 2025 as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited cassette edition.
Recorded in the Summer of 2023 in Koblenz, Germany and Cremona, Italy
Xu: electronics
Oberlin: guitar
Artwork photo taken and edited by Alexander Holtz
Artwork design by Angel Draganov
“Many thanks to Ivo Petrov and the Mahorka label for taking care of this release”
Recorded & Mixed in 2024 by:
Róbert Sipos – composition, mixing, bass guitar, sound samples [Noise Sculptor, Premex Solus, Robotron – creator of many mixes in techno, noise, industrial genres]
Mihály Rácz – composition, mixing, sound samples, ambience [Hideg Roncs, Premex Solus, HYRO; writer, author and editor of Lángoló and his own books, Második Látás / Second Sight fanzine]
Ádám Jäger – sound samples, vocals / throat singing, zither, metal drum, graphics & design
[jagarin, JäGeR; photography & music themed blogger, formerly Blogisztan and Drót]
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