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Violeta Päivänkakkara – FOREST2.0

Violeta Päivänkakkara – FOREST2.0
[EPV_209]

Violeta Päivänkakkara

“FOREST2.0”


■ EPV_209

all tracks by Violeta Päivänkakkara
photo by Marlaja Virta

■ artist info
epv-artists.tumblr.com/post/59673835638/violeta-paivankakkara

:: track list ::
01.Delta (Single)
violetapaivankakkara.bandcamp.com/track/delta

02.Sateenkaari (from EP “Kuu”)
violetapaivankakkara.bandcamp.com/album/kuu-ep

03.Tuuli Ulvoo Yöllä (from EP “Kuu”)
violetapaivankakkara.bandcamp.com/album/kuu-ep

04.Revontulet (Single)
violetapaivankakkara.bandcamp.com/track/revontulet

05.El riu dels pètals (from EP “Kukkia”)
elementperspective-04.bandcamp.com/album/kukkia

06.Perles Liles (Single)
violetapaivankakkara.bandcamp.com/track/perles-liles

07.Lyly (from EP “Kukkia”)
elementperspective-04.bandcamp.com/album/kukkia

08.Sya (from EP “Pimeässä”)
elementperspective-04.bandcamp.com/album/pime-ss

09.Yksi Yö (from EP “Pimeässä”)
elementperspective-04.bandcamp.com/album/pime-ss

10.Kuu On Päivänkakkara (from EP “Pimeässä”)
elementperspective-04.bandcamp.com/album/pime-ss
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posted 06 October 2025

jofi – ochre walls of heft

jofi – ochre walls of heft
[mi345]

jofi

“ochre walls of heft”

It is yet another debut by a portuguese artist in the MiMi Records catalog.

The neck’s contortion, the hand flung into the void, the chest opening to a silence that rises from beneath the skin and folds perception inward—the introspection of not quite knowing what the body itself is feeling.

As a kind of retrospective, “ochre walls of heft” strips away the final layers of what this project has been: an exploration of abstract, unbound sonorities. Here, everything takes form and culminates in the electric and/or acoustic guitar, sent on a journey through three distinct soundscapes, equally indebted to Tangerine Dream’s expansive atmospheres and Merzbow’s abrasive intensity.

When he’s not unsettling his neighbors with new recordings, jofi is also a poet, painter, and photographer.

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posted 02 October 2025

ANDRÉS "CABRA" FIGUEROA & EL ZOMBIE ESPACIAL – IN A NOISY WAY

ANDRÉS "CABRA" FIGUEROA & EL ZOMBIE ESPACIAL – IN A NOISY WAY
[PT175]

ANDRÉS “CABRA” FIGUEROA & EL ZOMBIE ESPACIAL

“IN A NOISY WAY”

ANDRÉS “CABRA” FIGUEROA: Goat Street: Guitarra wah, saxo soprano, flauta y clarinete. Zombie Avenue: Flauta traversa, clarinete y saxo tenor.
EL ZOMBIE ESPACIAL: Bajo acústico, teclados, guitarra y programación de baterías.
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posted 28 September 2025

Grupo Perdido – Las Ruinas Nuevas 0ST

Grupo Perdido – Las Ruinas Nuevas 0ST

Grupo Perdido

“Las Ruinas Nuevas 0ST”

GRUPO PERDIDO – LAS RUINAS NUEVAS OST
(Manuel Embalse, Gustavo Obligado, Franco Calluso,
Alan Serué, Pablo Reche y Julián Galay)

Mezclado por Diego Martínez (A.S.A) en Estudios Ñandú en julio y agosto de 2023.

Distribuido por Antes Muerto Cine y Fuego Amigo Discos

ᓚ₍ ^. .^₎

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posted 26 September 2025

Fortuna Kevin – Blip

Fortuna Kevin – Blip
[djummi.037]

Fortuna Kevin

“Blip”

Indiesque blues rock, grunge and punk combined with jazzy, laid-back grooves – that’s how we’ve known and loved Fortuna Kevin since they formed shortly before the coronavirus pandemic, and they now can finally be heard on their long-awaited first release, “Blip.”
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posted 25 September 2025

ish10 yow1r0 – jude EP

ish10 yow1r0 – jude EP
[mi344]

ish10 yow1r0

“jude EP”

Japanese project ish10 yow1r0 presents Jude EP, a three-track release that draws listeners into a world of shadowed tones and quiet intensity. Known for cultivating a melancholic atmosphere reminiscent of film noir soundtracks, the project delivers music that is both haunting and cinematic.

This EP carries a distinct cinematic quality, with each piece unfolding like a scene from an untold story. Subtle layers of mood and texture create an immersive experience, where silence and sound blur into moments of solitude and reflection.

With Jude EP, ish10 yow1r0 continues to shape music that resonates deeply—evocative, atmospheric, and cinematic in scope.

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posted 17 September 2025

Tiger A – structure out

Tiger A – structure out
[mi342]

Tiger A

“structure out”

It’s another debut in the MiMi Records catalog. From the Japanese capital, we receive “Structure Out”, an album by Tiger A that is truly a work of art, where piano improvisation and the blend of ambient sounds go hand in hand, creating a unique auditory experience.

The fusion of flowing melodies with ethereal sonic textures induces a state of contemplation, where the boundaries between music and visuals fade away. The production is subtle yet impactful, inviting deep immersion.

This album is a testament to Tiger A’s ability to tell emotional, transcendent stories through his piano. An album to be listened to without any reservations.

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posted 25 August 2025

Trixie Delight – Brittle

Trixie Delight – Brittle

Trixie Delight

“Brittle”

It’s been over ten years since since the last full album by Trixie Delight (Peeling Strawberries on dhat≈´rƒÅ records dhaturarecords.bandcamp.com/album/peeling-strawberries ) and around a decade since her EP releases on TCFSR.

Sleep tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/sleep
Submarine tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/submarine
Night tcfsr.bandcamp.com/album/night

She also has three releases on her own label ‘Trixie Delight For Charity’ where the proceeds are donated to the charity ‘Phone Credit for Refugees’. trixiedelightforcharity.bandcamp.com

As part of our 40th anniversary year Trixie has finalised her new album.

To get you in the mood here is an album length EP of remixes of a track from the album, entitled Brittle.

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posted 23 August 2025

Ana María Romano G. – hasta mañana al día siguiente

Ana María Romano G. – hasta mañana al día siguiente

Ana María Romano G.

“hasta mañana al día siguiente”

all music by ana maría romano g.

notes:

posdomingo 02.10.2016
year: 2016
duration: 7.36
accordion: eva zöllner
format / info: work for accordion and 8 channels fixed media. this piece is only the fixed
media in stereo version.

incluye postre
year: 2016
duration: 7.52
format / info: 4 channels fixed media, this is a stereo version.

out of nowhere
year: 2016
duration: 1.00
format / info: fixed media (stereo) – miniature.

todo a mil
year: 2015-2016
duration: 6.30
format / info: fixed media (stereo) – soundscape.

a todo menos a nada
year: 2009
duration: 7.47
format / info: fixed media for 8 channels, this is a stereo version.

Ana María Romano G.
Compositora, artista sonora, docente, curadora e investigadora colombiana. Sus intereses creativos se sitúan en la intersección entre el sonido y la tecnología con preguntas desde la escucha, el espacio, el cuerpo, género y sexualidad, la improvisación y la experimentación, paisaje sonoro, ruido, relaciones interespecies, la erótica, los afectos y las dimensiones políticas en la creación. Sus búsquedas le han permitido trabajar los medios acústicos, electroacústicos y la creación en ámbitos como instalaciones, video, artes escénicas y radio. Sus más recientes creaciones plantean la posibilidad de expandirlas para que puedan tomar nuevos rumbos, así una obra puede ser instalación, repositorio, concierto, archivo, o desplegarse a las artes escénicas. En su vida son de gran estima los espacios para construir y compartir saberes de manera colectiva y colaborativa, así como los diálogos interdisciplinares e intergeneracionales y la creación de redes. En todas las esferas de su trabajo considera inseparables las dimensiones políticas en la creación. Suele compartir espacios colaborativos con artistas nacionales y de otros países.

Sus obras han sido publicadas, comisionadas, premiadas y presentadas en Colombia, Alemania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bélgica, Bolivia, Brasil, Canadá, Cuba, Chile, China, Ecuador, España, Estados Unidos, Francia, Grecia, Inglaterra, Italia, México, Perú, Rusia, Suecia, Suiza y Uruguay.

Su actividad docente se ha desarrollado ampliamente en espacios formales y no formales a nivel infantil, juvenil y universitario. Además, ha sido invitada como conferencista, curadora y jurado por diferentes instituciones académicas y culturales dentro y fuera de Colombia.

Ha desarrollado una profunda investigación sobre la compositora Jacqueline Nova, artista fundamental en la música electroacústica en Colombia, abriendo múltiples actividades para la difusión de su obra. Actualmente investiga sobre las protagonistas-referentes de la música electrónica latinoamericana y produce desde En Tiempo Real el proyecto “El lado B que también es el lado A”, que consiste en diálogos intergeneracionales entre compositoras latinoamericanas para reconocer el trabajo de quienes han estado presentes desde los inicios de la música electroacústica y fortalecer vínculos entre las artistas.

Ha participado como organizadora, colaboradora y expositora en múltiples proyectos en torno al paisaje sonoro con diferentes aproximaciones: medio ambiente y cambio climático, ecosistemas, relaciones interespecies, perspectivas sociopolíticas.

A lo largo de su carrera ha organizado eventos con miras a la difusión de la creación actual (conciertos, talleres, seminarios, encuentros, etc.) caracterizados por contar con la presencia de artistas locales, nacionales e internacionales.

Actualmente es docente en la Universidad El Bosque. Coordina la Plataforma Feminista En Tiempo Real, espacio que se construye sobre el tejido de redes en el trabajo colectivo y colaborativo y, gracias a 16 años de trabajo continuo, cuenta con el reconocimiento de la comunidad musical/sonora del país y de la región, lo que le ha merecido premios y le ha permitido establecer alianzas con numerosas organizaciones culturales y académicas en diferentes ciudades de Colombia y en otros países para desarrollar proyectos conjuntos tanto artísticos como de circulación y difusión.

Desarrolla su labor artística y docente dentro y fuera de Colombia.

Ana Maria Romano G.
Colombian composer, sound artist, teacher, curator, and researcher. Her creative interests lie at the intersection of sound and technology, exploring questions related to listening, space, the body, gender and sexuality, improvisation and experimentation, soundscape, noise, interspecies relationships, eroticism, affect, and the political dimensions of creation. Her research has allowed her to work with acoustic and electroacoustic media and to create in fields such as installations, video, performance arts, and radio. Her most recent creations raise the possibility of expanding them so that they can take new directions, allowing a work to be an installation, a repository, a concert, an archive, or to be deployed in the performing arts. In her life, she greatly values spaces for building and sharing knowledge collectively and collaboratively, as well as interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogues and the creation of networks. In all spheres of her work, she considers the political dimensions of creation to be inseparable. She often shares collaborative spaces with artists from her own country and abroad.

Her works have been published, commissioned, awarded, and presented in Colombia, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Chile, China, Ecuador, Spain, the United States, France, Greece, England, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Uruguay.

Her teaching activity has been extensively developed in formal and informal settings at the children’s, youth, and university levels. She has also been invited as a lecturer, curator, and jury member by various academic and cultural institutions both in Colombia and abroad.

She has conducted in-depth research on composer Jacqueline Nova, a key figure in electroacoustic music in Colombia, initiating numerous activities to promote her work. Ana Maria is currently researching the leading figures in Latin American electronic music and producing the project “El lado B que también es el lado A” (The B side that is also the A side) from En Tiempo Real Platform, which consists of intergenerational dialogues between Latin American composers to recognize the work of those who have been present since the beginnings of electroacoustic music and strengthen links between artists.

She has participated as an organizer, collaborator, and speaker in numerous projects related to the soundscape with different approaches: environment and climate change, ecosystems, interspecies relationships, and sociopolitical perspectives.

Throughout her career, she has organized events aimed at promoting contemporary creation (concerts, workshops, seminars, meetings, etc.), characterized by the presence of local, national, and international artists.

She currently teaches at El Bosque University. She coordinates the Plataforma Feminista En Tiempo Real (Real Time Feminist Platform), a space built on collective and collaborative work dedicated to the encounter between sound and technology focusing on women and sex and gender dissidences. Thanks to 16 years of continuous work, it has gained recognition from the music/sound community in the country and the region, which has earned the Platform several awards and allowed it to establish alliances with numerous cultural and academic organizations in different cities in Colombia and abroad to develop joint artistic projects, as well as projects for distribution and dissemination.
She carries out her artistic and teaching work both inside and outside Colombia.

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posted 12 August 2025

Andreas Davids – Weltraum

Andreas Davids – Weltraum
[mhrk437]

Andreas Davids

“Weltraum”

released April 6, 2025

Andreas Davids is maybe best known for his electro-industrial project XOTOX with albums released since 1998 gaining quite some attention in his native Germany and around the world. In 2023, for the project’s 25th year anniversary the “Ich Bin Da / Ich Funktioniere” album was released.

On Mahorka Andreas appeared first as one half of the Natura Est dark ambient duo with British electronic producer Tony Young (Autoclav1.1). After their self-titled monolithic debut on Ant-zen in 2018, Mahorka released their “Second” album, a new chapter of colossal, brooding ambient, where light is slowly crushed by shade, within a multi-faceted arena of sound.

In 2020 Andreas Davids released on Mahorka under his real name “7 Jahre vor der Gegenwart” – an emotional rollercoaster running from dark ambient and broken structures to technoid rhythms and sequences, and “Isolation” – his deepest and most personal solo album, also on in a beautiful cassette edition. In 2022 the label also published “Space Ambient Pop”, the genre-defining collaboration album of Andreas Davids + Sven Phalanx, also in cassette edition.

With “Weltraum”, his new solo EP on Mahorka, Andreas Davids deals with one of his favorite motifs: Space. Since his early childhood he has been fascinated by science-fiction and adventures in space, either in books, comics or movies. Somewhere between Ambient, IDM, Berlin School and Electronica, he created a place for the listeners to experience their own adventures.

Created and mastered by Andreas Davids in 2024 at Separate Room, MTH.

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posted 23 July 2025

Various Artists – Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation

Various Artists – Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation
[mhrk452]

Various Artists

“Making Things Happen: Netlabel Day 10th Anniversary Compilation”

released July 14, 2025

We have put together a special release to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Netlabel Day. It’s an album – compilation of tracks – collaborations between different Mahorka artists from the last nearly 25 years and from all around the world. Most pieces are new collaborations, initiated for the occasion, but we also have unearthed some older previously unreleased material. “Making Things Happen” is as diverse and eclectic as Mahorka can be, a blast of a celebration of community, collaboration and creative commons. Dive in and enjoy!

Communicated and compiled by Ivo Petrov
Artwork by Jeremy Rice (Abdicant) + Angel Draganov (Polygon Ring)
Final mastering by Zach Bridier (Captive Portal)

Huge thanks to everybody that made this happen!

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posted 21 July 2025

VARRHO & StereoKollektor – Vertical Protocol

VARRHO & StereoKollektor – Vertical Protocol
[enrmp549]

VARRHO & StereoKollektor

“Vertical Protocol”

Debut of two Portuguese drum and bass projects who have been collaborating on a few tracks lately and put together this fire 6 track EP edging on breakcore. VARRHO from Pombal and StereoKollektor from Portimão. Special appearance by Carlos A. on the trumpet on track 1 and Vasco Fortes on tracks 2, 3 and 4. Artwork by Archifilm Studio.
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posted 16 July 2025

SANDIKALA ENSEMBLE – Epitaph

SANDIKALA ENSEMBLE – Epitaph
[YESNO 117]

SANDIKALA ENSEMBLE

“Epitaph”

Epitaph is a composition by Dion Nataraja, developed in collaboration with Sandikala Ensemble.

Epitaph is a continuation of an investigation into a compositional method in which the tempo progressively decelerates. This method is inspired by the concept of rhythm in Javanese gamelan, where as the tempo of a gending slows down, the spacing between the balungan (core melody) tones widens, while instruments like the gendèr, gambang, and peking become increasingly dense: there is a paradoxical sense of time.

In Javanese gamelan, this process is often likened to the image of a blossoming flower: a gending begins like a closed bud, and as the rhythmic level rises, as the ornamental density increases, the flower blooms. However, I am not interested in a blooming flower—I am interested in a flower that withers and rots. This is why, in my works including Epitaph, the tempo continuously slows down.

The rotten flower is a symbol of critique. I have no desire to align myself with the glorification of tradition—to hell with the sublime. Rather than glorification, this work pays attention to the wounds of history that risk being forgotten. In the middle section of the piece, there is an electronic sound intervention resembling a broken radio: it is a collage of the voices of Wiji Thukul, Mahmoud Darwish (the Palestinian poet), and Frantz Fanon (the anti-colonial thinker and revolutionary from Martinique). Wiji Thukul sings his poem Apa Guna, Mahmoud Darwish reads a poem about his longing for the land of Palestine, and Frantz Fanon speaks on anti-racism and national liberation. But these voices appear unclearly, like traumatic memories arriving beyond our will.

These fragments are sandwiched between quotations from the traditional gending Lalermengeng, a piece often associated with death. Its presence, too, resembles trauma: a history that returns without control. The reference to Lalermengeng also reframes the three voices mentioned earlier; the broken-radio-like sound is also reminiscent of a swarm of flies, hovering around a rotting memory of the past.

At the end of the piece, there is an intervention in the form of noise. This moment is the only one in the work that uses noise, creating a stark contrast. Poetically, noise plays the role of a Ratu Adil—a messianic figure who halts the unstoppable flow of history toward apocalypse. In an irrational world, the hope for redemption is the only rational thing. But redemption can never clearly articulate itself—thus noise arrives. Noise is the future that refuses clear articulation.

Epitaph adalah karya komponis Dion Nataraja yang dikembangkan bersama Sandikala Ensemble.

Epitaph adalah karya kelanjutan dari investigasi mengenai metode komposisi di mana tempo karya terus-menerus melambat. Metode ini terinspirasi dari konsep irama di gamelan Jawa, di mana ketika tempo gending melambat, jarak antara nada balungan semakin melambat, instrumen-instrumen seperti gendèr, gambang, dan peking justru semakin padat: ada konsep waktu yang paradoksal.

Di gamelan Jawa, proses ini sering dikaitkan dengan gambar bunga yang berkembang: gending dimulai dengan kembang yang tertutup, dan seiring naiknya tingkat irama, seiring kepadatan ornamen meningkat, kembang ini menjadi mekar. Namun, saya tidak tertarik dengan kembang mekar: saya tertarik dengan kembang yang layu dan busuk. Ini sebabnya dalam karya-karya saya, termasuk Epitaph, tempo secara terus-menerus melambat.

Kembang busuk adalah simbol kritik. Saya tidak memiliki keinginan untuk terhubung dengan pengagungan tradisi—persetan dengan yang adiluhung. Daripada pengagungan, karya ini menaruh perhatian pada luka-luka sejarah yang terancam dilupakan. Di bagian tengah karya, ada intervensi bunyi elektronik yang terdengar seperti radio rusak: ini adalah tumpukan dari suara Wiji Thukul, Mahmoud Darwish (penyair Palestina), dan Frantz Fanon (pemikir dan pejuang anti kolonial dari Martinique). Wiji Thukul menyanyikan puisinya “Apa Guna,” Mahmoud Darwish membaca puisinya yang berkenaan dengan rasa rindunya pada tanah Palestina, dan Frantz Fanon berbicara tentang anti-rasisme dan pembebasan nasional. Tapi suara-suara ini hadir tanpa kejelasan, seperti memori traumatik yang kedatangannya berada di luar kehendak kita.

Fragmen suara ini hadir dihimpit kutipan gending tradisional, yakni Lalermengeng. Ini gending yang kerap dihubungkan dengan kematian. Kehadiran gending ini juga mirip dengan trauma: sejarah yang tiba tanpa ada kontrol. Referensi Lalermengeng juga memberi asosiasi baru terhadap fragment tiga orang yang saya sebutkan, suara yang terdengar seperti radio rusak juga mirip dengan kerumunan lalat, mengitari memori masa lalu yang busuk.

Pada akhir karya, ada intervensi dalam bentuk noise. Momen ini adalah satu-satunya momen di karya yang menggunakan elemen noise, membentuk kontras yang kuat. Dari sisi puitis, noise berperan seperti Ratu Adil yang menghentikan laju sejarah yang terus-menerus mengarah pada kiamat. Di dunia yang irasional, harapan akan penebusan adalah satu-satunya hal yang rasional. Tapi penebusan tidak pernah bisa mengungkapkan dirinya secara jelas: maka noise hadir. Noise adalah masa depan yang menolak artikulasi jelas.

About the Ensemble

Sandikala Ensemble is a Yogyakarta-based group dedicated to exploring experimental techniques and designing new gamelan instruments in order to expand the horizons of contemporary gamelan music. Founded in 2020 by Dion Nataraja and Yustiawan Paradigma Umar, the ensemble features musicians Roni Driyastoto, Mustika Garis Sejati, Suseno Setyo Wibowo, Muhamad Erdifadillah, and Muhammad Khoirur Roziqin. The ensemble has developed new instruments, including four genders with a 36-tone non-octave tuning system. More recently, Sandikala has added instruments designed by Dion Nataraja, including two gambang and two sets of gong kemodhong, crafted in Klaten by Karnadi Handoko and Siswo Pradangga.

Sandikala Ensemble berbasis di Yogyakarta dan berfokus pada eksplorasi teknik eksperimental serta perancangan instrumen gamelan baru untuk memperluas cakrawala musik gamelan kontemporer. Didirikan pada tahun 2020 oleh Dion Nataraja dan Yustiawan Paradigma Umar, ensemble ini beranggotakan para musisi Roni Driyastoto, Mustika Garis Sejati, Suseno Setyo Wibowo, Muhamad Erdifadillah, dan Muhammad Khoirur Roziqin. Ensemble ini telah mengembangkan instrumen-instrumen baru, termasuk empat buah gendèr dengan sistem laras 36 nada non-oktaf. Baru-baru ini, Sandikala menambahkan instrumen rancangan Dion Nataraja, termasuk dua gambang dan dua set gong kemodhong, yang dibuat di Klaten oleh Karnadi Handoko dan Siswo Pradangga.

About the Composer

Dion Nataraja is a composer, experimental vocalist, and scholar from Indonesia, currently pursuing a PhD in music composition at UC Berkeley. His musical and scholarly works have been focusing on the intersection of areas such as Javanese gamelan, spectral techniques, instrument building, multimedia composition, and anticolonial theories.

The composer-pianist Anthony Cheung described Dion’s music as “a true intercultural music for our time.” By the gamelan composer-performer Wahyu Thoyyib Pambayun, his music has been described as “succeeded in expanding the musical language of the Javanese gendèr.” He has attended masterclasses and studied with musicians of various genres, such as Toshio Hosokawa, Chinary Ung, Ken Ueno, Edmund Campion, Carmine-Emanuele Cella, Nick Brooke, Allen Shawn, Steve Lehman, Darsono Hadiraharjo, and Midiyanto. In 2020, he was awarded as a finalist of Talea Ensemble’s emerging composer competition, and in 2022, he was awarded as a OneBeat fellow.

His music has been included as a part of Brown University’s “Asian Musical Modernisms” course syllabus, as well as in concerts such as PGVIS Symposium (Traditions in Transition), Jogja Noise Bombing, Salihara Jazz Buzz, MATA Festival, Soundbridge Festival, and many more. As a scholar, he has published his writing in Jurnal Kajian Seni of Gadjah Mada University, and he has given lectures in venues such as California Institute of the Arts, Salihara Arts Center, Perpromi, October Meeting, among others. At the moment, he is focusing his work on Sandikala Ensemble, a Yogyakarta-based ensemble that develops experimental techniques and new gamelan instruments with the aim of expanding contemporary gamelan music’s horizon.

Dion Nataraja adalah komponis, vokalis eksperimental, dan peneliti asal Indonesia yang saat ini tengah menempuh studi doktoral dalam bidang komposisi musik di UC Berkeley. Karya-karya musik dan akademisnya berfokus pada persilangan antara gamelan Jawa, teknik spektral, pembangunan instrumen, komposisi multimedia, dan teori antikolonial.

Komponis-pianis Anthony Cheung pernah menggambarkan musik Dion sebagai “musik lintas budaya sejati untuk zaman kita.” Sementara komponis-pemanggung gamelan Wahyu Thoyyib Pambayun menyatakan bahwa musik Dion “berhasil memperluas bahasa musikal dari gendèr Jawa.”

Dion pernah mengikuti masterclass dan belajar dengan para musisi dari berbagai genre, seperti Toshio Hosokawa, Chinary Ung, Ken Ueno, Edmund Campion, Carmine-Emanuele Cella, Nick Brooke, Allen Shawn, Steve Lehman, Darsono Hadiraharjo, dan Midiyanto. Pada tahun 2020, ia menjadi finalis kompetisi komponis muda Talea Ensemble, dan pada tahun 2022 ia terpilih sebagai fellow OneBeat.

Karya musiknya telah menjadi bagian dari silabus mata kuliah “Asian Musical Modernisms” di Brown University, serta dipentaskan dalam berbagai acara seperti PGVIS Symposium (Traditions in Transition), Jogja Noise Bombing, Salihara Jazz Buzz, MATA Festival, Soundbridge Festival, dan banyak lagi. Sebagai peneliti, tulisannya telah diterbitkan dalam Jurnal Kajian Seni Universitas Gadjah Mada, dan ia pernah memberikan kuliah di berbagai institusi seperti California Institute of the Arts, Salihara Arts Center, Perpromi, October Meeting, dan lainnya.

Saat ini, Dion memfokuskan perhatiannya pada Sandikala Ensemble, sebuah kelompok musik berbasis di Yogyakarta yang mengembangkan teknik eksperimental dan instrumen gamelan baru guna memperluas cakrawala musik gamelan kontemporer.

Credits

Instruments: gender barung, gender penerus, gambang, rebab, gong kemodhong, gong ageng, percussion, electronics

Composed and electronics by:
Dion Nataraja

Produced by:

Dion Nataraja & Yustiawan Paradigma Umar

Performed by:

Yustiawan Paradigma Umar, gender barung

Roni Driyastoto, gambang, gender penerus, rebab

Suseno Setyo Wibowo, kemodhong, gambang, gender barung

Mustika Garis Sejati, rebab, kemodhong, gender penerus

Muhammad Erdifadillah, percussion, kemodhong

Mixed and mastered by:
Luke Taylor

Recorded by: Muhammad Khoirur Roziqin

Production crew: Muhammad Eko Sudarmanto

Illustration:

“Kerkhof in het park van Buitenzorg” by Raden Saleh
Edited by Wok The Rock

Sandikala Ensemble Logo and Cover layout by:
Wok The Rock

Recorded in:
Sleman, D. I. Yogyakarta, 2025

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posted 16 July 2025

Kamizdat – Access Frame: Autonomy

Kamizdat – Access Frame: Autonomy

Kamizdat

“Access Frame: Autonomy”

The series of compilations titled Access Frame aim to present a wide spectrum of local alternative music (with emphasis on electronic and experimental music) that has found its safe haven on the internet. The never before encountered entwinement of technology, society, making music and ownership rights has been causing a serious conflict between free culture and the outdated and exploitative concepts of copyright. Adhering to the spirit of free access, online labels are the first in the struggle for equal access and a more fair copyright (facilitated by the introduction of the Creative Commons license).

In this spirit we are supporting the annual celebration of netlabel culture on the Netlabel Day every July 14th. netlabelday.org

=== ABOUT THE ARTISTS ===

G04T combines the rhythms of contemporary post-club music with glitch elements, fragmented structures, and experimental sound layers in their production. soundcloud.com/g04t69

Kikiriki (Nina Farič) is a noise artist playing experimental freestyle noise of all kinds. She uses different DIY gadgets such as synths and micro theremins. She has released numerous albums of studio and live recordings. kikiriki.bandcamp.com

Kovač FM is a producer, visual artist, and radio creator. Her production is mostly (but not always) the result of transforming and synthesizing poetry or various samples into new mutants and spells. This track is a morbid transformation of a verse from some lament or dirge into the next mutation. instagram.com/kovacfm

Notwithstanding the genre variety in her selection and production,
msn gf (Ustanova, Nimaš Izbire) stays committed to the bitersweet drama of forgotten pop ballads, spiced up by contemporary production. A regular at Ljubljana’s club circuit, she has also performed DJ and live sets at local festivals such as MENT, SONICA, Tresk, Grounded and Spider. You don’t know her, she goes to a different school. soundcloud.com/msn_gf

Oka (Eva Mulej) is a vocalist, producer, performer and sound artist. Her work moves between electro-acoustic, ambient and experimental music with a focus on poetics of the voice. She explores the tonal qualities of melodies, words and sounds, using a variety of acoustic instruments, field recordings and objects to create an intimate sound world. Together with Karmen Ponikvar, she also works in the duo Lip Rouge. instagram.com/oka

Periklea (Petra Hrovatin) is an artist who intertwines their work with activism through the media of video, film, sound, and poetry. With their sound poetry projects, they have performed at various literary events, such as Ignor at Channel Zero, World Poetry Day, LGBTIQ+ readings, and the Lesbian Quarter Festival at Gallery Škuc, the Great Lesbian Reading at Club Monokel, and Young Rhymes in Ljubljana, Koper, and Maribor. They are also a member of the music collective Croon.
periklea.eu & soundcloud.com/periklea

Prince Lucija is a gender-queer artist exploring computer sound and artistic expressions of technofeminism and corporeal desire through composition of time, language, software, community, and machines. prin.lu

Raketa (Veronika Černe) is a Slovenian DJ and producer of UK bass genres with a ghettotech twist. She delivers her eclectic sets in an energetic manner, infusing flavors of footwork, grime, ghettotech, jungle, and more. soundcloud.com/rak3ta

Ribeiroia, emerging from the new generation of the Ljubljana electronic underground, presents a wheighty track from the upcoming album, or rather, from an introspective musical intervention, which is coming out towards the end of the year. It rawly and thoughtfully scratches at the collective consciousness, into which she has been thrown against her will. soundcloud.com/niribeiroia

Umdhlebi is the sound embodiment of hatred towards civilization and our culture. He praises industrial collapse and the end of civilized man. Umdhlebi supports violence against all forms of government, because the terrorists of today are the heroes of the future. Noise is protest, not art! umdhlebi.bandcamp.com

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posted 15 July 2025

Entidad Animada – Salón Perdido

Entidad Animada – Salón Perdido

Entidad Animada

“Salón Perdido”

Roland SP 404, Boss SP 202, ARP Odyssey
Masterizado por José ‘Peta’ D’Agostino en Moloko Estudio, Frankfurt
Buenos Aires, invierno 2025

Dedicado a Godiva

Contiene samples de:
Alan Hawkshaw, This Mortal Coil, Daphne Oram, Grupo Encuentro, Laurie Spiegel, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Ahmad Jamal, Keith Mansfield, Question Mark And The Mysterians, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Lew Tabackin, Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan, Stefano Torossi, Karen Young, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Hans Laguna, Cortex, Piero Umiliani, Nino Nardini, Roger Roger, Zanov, Eddie Warner, Herbie Mann, Los 007, Bruno Nicolai, Stelvio Cipriani, Peppino De Luca & I Marc 4, Vanilla Fudge, Bobbie Gentry, Rita, y más…

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posted 14 July 2025