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The audio play “Perfect Pattern” by Danish artist Nic Krog weaves a narrative about the dynamics of home life, queer relationships, hygiene practices, routine, ritual, and control. The initial spatial audio work was conceived as the final project of Nic Krog’s Master’s degree for the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program at Berlin’s Universität der Künste. The distributed version of “Perfect Pattern” is a stereo reformatting of the audio play for compact disc, set for release March 2025 on Nick Klein’s Psychic Liberation imprint. “Perfect Pattern” is the first release under Nic Krog’s own name, after changing from their former artist moniker Misantrop with releases and features on Opal, Foul-Up and Lime Lodge.

Their artistic trajectory is characterized through a diaristic approach, recounting mental processes and psychological baggage from growing up as a queer outlier in a smalltown of Denmark. The work traces the metamorphosis of the colloquial introvert to their negotiation of place in the hedonistic capital of Berlin, Germany. Krog further expands:

"As evidenced on my debut album “Reproaching the Absurd” (Opal, 2021), depression was an enduring battle spanning many years which impeded my overall well-being and stifled my creative output. Around the time of creating the album, however, I gradually overcame depression and simultaneously began casting aside my fear of exposing my vulnerability. My new audio play, “Perfect Pattern”, is my first foray into an overt narrative style, presenting a raw portrayal of a different kind of emotional and psychological self-awareness."

“Perfect Pattern” both extends and diverges from Nic Krog’s distinct and volatile blend of bass-heavy club music juxtaposed with subversive sound art and spoken word, cementing Krog’s fabulous misfitism. Twentieth century experimental compositional music (in particular Edgar Varèse's “Ionisation”), 90s queer house music, and most significantly the storytelling of soap operas and Jean-Luc Godard's “Le Mépris” are the formal canon that reinforces the architecture of “Perfect Pattern”. Further, the collaborative efforts of Dennis Cooper and Peter Rehberg for Gisèle Vienne are a mapping for the rhizome of ideas Krog manifests.

Here Krog steps out from behind the veil of the moniker of Misantrop, while not fully departing sonically or thematically, but blending the old and new, the bored and the blue, with meticulous harmony and routine. 
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releases March 15, 2025

Written, composed, performed, programmed and produced by Nicolai Vesterkær Krog, except Part 9 which rewrites a scene from “Le Mépris” by Jean-Luc Godard (based on the book “Il disprezzo” by Alberto Moravia).
“Pattern Theme for Edgard Varése” is an homage to “Ionisation” by Edgard Varése.
Mixed by Mike Davis at Wolfshark Mastering.
Mastered by Glyn Maier.
Photographs by Nicolai Vesterkær Krog.
Design by Dominique Saiegh.
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Perfect Pattern

PLIB033 - NIC KROG - PERFECT PATTERN PARTS 12-13-14

ℳ𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓁𝓈 𝐰/fetva @LYL Radio 12.03.25

TRACKS IN THE MUD – Retreat Radio's first-ever compilation of original music drops on April 20, 2025! Available as a double CD, on a wrench-shaped USB, digitally, and across multiple streaming platforms. Listen to the first 4 tracks and pre-order: retreatradio.bandcamp.com/album/tracks-in-the-mud

Tracklist:
SAATANS KVINNA - I have a lot to say (intro)
HOS - Jorn
Prins Emanuel & Rivet - Umarel
Klofink - Triple Tundric Vision
Goaty - Drear
Thomas Bush - Loneliness Remembers
DJ Sandylion - Look Out!
Moonilena - Solarna
Sofftronic - Metallic Dub
Oklo Gabon - The Theoretical
Jonte Prippz - Nomore
Digge Shim - Dawn 2 Dusk
East Moon - Soloflight (Ecover Version)
Miranda Magdalena - Polly Pocket (Rivet Scrub)
CYSP - Farever
tala drum corps - conc
Aircode - Came Back
Oblinof - KK2 Corp
Rumina - Rezillik
Ceqi - Fog Juice
tZimtZum - Re-Koil
towLie - taLk to me
Five o'clock Traffic - double refusal
2Lanes - Tadpole Prime

The online radio station Retreat Radio has acted as a unifying force on the underground scene in Malmö for close to a decade and now offers its first compilation of original music from its vast community.

A community grown exponentially like a virus, with Retreat Radio as the source of infection, comprised of artists in various stages of despair revelling in hazy ambient, angular industrial rhythms and post-dub influences. Now bringing you 24 tracks of frog-induced head music made for a sad generation that wanted to be club kids but had no club to go to.

Many - if not all - of the names behind this mammoth of a compilation are Retreat residents with current or past monthly shows on the programme. Many of whom have walked the stark lit street at the outskirts of town at night to climb a spiral staircase above a carwash to play their shows.

Loosely centered around the interpretation of dub as a genre, the compilation hand-picks a curation of tracks which nonetheless point to a coherent vision: that of dub as a vital cornerstone in the development of new music reflecting on an urban post-capitalist environment.

releases April 20, 2025

Mastered by: Martin Blomberg & Jonatan Bergsman
Artwork by: Oda Haugerud
Design by: FETIDGRUPPE©
Words by: Simon Eliasson

TRACKS IN THE MUD

premiere: tala drum corps - conc

LV Sandals - EsDeeKid, fakemink, and Rico Ace (Joon Gloom Remix)

For his debut on Body Motion, Paris-based producer Lux18 pieces together a record shaped by fragments — moments suspended between grief, friendship, hesitation, and fleeting hope. Right On Time draws from the uncertain edges of deconstructed club, post-symphonic, hyperpop, edm and emo — at once vulnerable and sharp, restless and full of weight.

Reflecting on detachment, euphoria, and the strange comfort of uncertainty, the album is about timing, the invisible structure of choices — when to hold on, when to stop, when to disappear. 

The video accompanying the lead single follows this same fragile tension. "The clip was shot in Miami on the night of offset and cardi b's first concert after takeoff's death, on Miami beach, and speaks of friendship and daydreams, of two buddies strolling together in the hope that life will be joyful. The other half of the clip is shot in Spain at formentera, on the island of my birth, a place that soothes and heals."

The album title recalls a line from Jonatan Leander’s Hotel in Minsk:

"Right on time, you were right on time."

A document of pauses and soft collisions. A quiet arrival, right on time.


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From 'Right on Time', out on Body Motion.
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Learning how to live. Learning how to love. Learning how to labiate and legistlate and crush rocks to dust using fists (yours). Learning how to perch. Learning how to forage. Learning how to divert hubris and flights of fancy. Learning of Lux18's 'I hope I'll never lose these precious keys', out on Body Motion and premiered by Madjestic Kasual. Learning to listen, like, repost, share widely, repeatedly, persistently, relentlessly. Learning is complete. You're ready.

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Lux18 - I hope I'll never lose these precious keys [MK PREMIERE]

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