tettix & zack christ - down the gore lore

Artist: Giant Claw
Album: Decadent Stress Chamber
Release: July 2025

music by Keith Rankin
album cover by Keith Rankin and Ellen Thomas


Desire Despair

Bronze Claw Iso

Slug Song

Mouthbreath-r

from @glitch-dot-cool enfant terrible to unbound crooner, there are few more implacable, earnest and radically shifting entities in electronic music than Copenhagen’s @zack-christ - The 2024 EP 𐘲(𐘨)𐚎𐘲𐝥𐃀𐘡𐘴𐝂 evinced an archly disruptive approach to glitch music, gutting to the rubble of computational noise any expectations of a lofty ambience + waveform post-expressionism dyad, only to interject those same ambient climaxes whenever it was they would most sublimely strip a person to a soul. Then turned up this February’s Underbearing. Underbearing is miraculous. At times a confessional and exultant pop record, at others destructing any expectable structures of glitch and noise into a tableaux of sounds and shapes beyond categorization.

Zack’s mix is a mirror of the mind that produces this music. Contiguous are, and linked by an unquestionable emotional logic, chittering, stunted glitch and metal, grunge and chamber pop. Little is more important here than an openness of feeling. Genericity, associability, taxonomical means by which to synopsize an artist are disintegrated in the face sheerly of expression. Sequentiality, excusatory entrancement, the disappearance of the conductor into the comfiture of predictability - any such notions are evaporated in the reappearance of the conductor as an immediacy. I cannot not see the sparkle of an apotheosis of possibility because I am shown at every turn a music that is not simply sufficient but essentially contributive to an entirety of irreplicable beauty. And that is again where the conductor disappears - into the music that says all that is before these words and into all the afters they should never need to say. And something emerges like a person, disappearing and reappearing. Agleam in their disappearance and reappearance, and agleam in the states between.

As a final word, Zack wrote of the show -

With this mix I have attepted to curate:
The highest level of underground culture
Music that brings me joy
A few of my own tunes (including a little teaser at the end for my next record that drops on 19th September)

Tracklist:

zack christ - untitled
death's dynamic shroud - Just To Be Needed
AIHVHIA - Don't Get High Hopes
Chevron - Kingdom
Kaiji - Derming (Fm Shade Extract)
Tyondai Braxton - J. City
ZA! - Somos Todos
Untold - Sing a Love Song
Zhea Erose - NOXYLILITH
Mátyás Wettl - É
Thy Slaughter - O Fortuna
Vladislav Delay - Rakkine
Yvyy - Sommer Tempest
Tettix Hexer - Den Tetris der ikke aer en mus fanger ingen Rrrelguitar (zack christ remix)
Tettix Hexer, zack christ - Down The Gore Lore (KLASKET MIX)
zack christ - ID-WIP
Rustie - Black Ice Mudra
Napalm Death - You Suffer
OTTO VON SCHIRACH - Triangles (Live in Tokyo)
Schock Terapi - bonusbarn af sumfundet
Aidan Baker - Closure Axiom
Kaiji - MJUI
zack christ - MCDONALDS (feat. Feather Mountain)
zack christ - ID from forthcoming album
zack christ - ID from forthcoming album

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Realist Alive Radio 016: zack christ

The Elements

I.T.Z - Velvet Gloom - SIRDUB011

Sir Dub Muzik welcomes back I.T.Z for his second release on the label: the Velvet Gloom EP. Across two cuts, he dives deeper into his darker side, blending heavy pressure with eerie atmospheres to shape a sound that’s unmistakably his own.

“Interzone” sets the tone with ghostly textures, sharp percussion, and a driving low-end that pulls the listener straight into its shadowy world. It’s cold, hypnotic, and built for the system.

Flipping over, “Ilmu Hitam” (Malay for black magic) brings a rawer energy. Menacing sound design and rolling basslines twist around ritual-like percussion, summoning an intensity that feels both ancient and futuristic.

With Velvet Gloom, I.T.Z sharpens his vision—two tracks that balance weight with atmosphere, and mark another step forward.

Bandcamp: https://sirdubmuzik.bandcamp.com/album/velvet-gloom-ep-sirdub010


All tracks written & produced by Shawn Chen Zhi
Mastered by The Greys
Graphic by _Untitled.ly

CAT NO: SIRDUB010
Release Date: 29 August 2025
Sir Dub Muzik 2025

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Velvet Gloom

Ilmu Hitam

@haiori is a Hungarian sound designer and producer. Straddling ambient, deconstructivist IDM, and a devout though iconoclastic reworking of styles from across the dance music continuum, Haiori’s work, composed of singles and releases on comps such as 111records’ sync2, evinces a rare artist able to occupy the possibility-space of one field while ingurgitating, saluting and remodelling a wider spectrum of club sounds.

Haiori’s Realist mix exemplifies this faithful yet interrogative style. Wobbly DnB tunes peppered with the creakings of glitch, tracks like tearout trap beats spoken out a disk drive’s turbulent emotions, hadopelagic rollers, glitch-hop recontextualised as not the subversion of pattern alone but the evocation of something feelingly palpable in Haiori’s  blend of subsurface, computational liveliness and tangible naturality. Variations on a recent theme, what perhaps defines this mix. The simultaneity of the fervency of computational, sonic disruption... sub-bass frequencies scrambled and implacable enough to signify encoded souls aside an astounding fidelity of earthliness - of the voice’s salvific oneness or the inborne sonorities of the chimes of wind and reverberative material. A series of momentum, a constancy to the structures of dance, renewed repeatedly by Haiori’s musical steadfastness. A steadfastness which translates not obedience but the seeing of every form as ripe for sincere revision. 

tracklist: 

haiori - ID
haiori - desynchronized sleep
haiori - phantom source
haiori - in silico
haiori - surface tension
haiori - ID
haiori x polyp - ID
haiori - simoom II poison wind
CRRNT – REALM
mxrpha - soul fiber
mxrpha - credo
haiori - you like jazz?
stanicli - bass from a pad
output - Computer Stain
haiori - electrostatic discharge
haiori - electrostatic discharge
haiori - cast//away
haiori - feelalive
P̸r̶e̴p̸e̶t̵u̶u̸m̵ - Lost
Ágnes Vanilla - Óh szív! Nyugodj! (140 -＞ 200 mix)
kęnåi _ my way home
haiori - cloudscape
Réti Virág - Batla
MateH - Collision

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