@crystallmess is a Parisian producer, DJ and the host of the Unleashed show on NTS. Her beat-driven experimental selection features the freshest naughty findings from the near and far underground dancefloors and lots of her own tasty mashups. 

Crystallmess’s work has been presented at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, Geneva Biennale, Ars Electronica in Linz, La Gaité Lyrique in Paris, Espace Arlaud in Lausanne. Mere Noises was her first self-release, followed by a SPLIT 12" EP with @to-xe on @pan_hq. Currently she’s working on a new EP and collaborating with other artists through compilations, scores for films and fashion shows.

Crystallmess’s borshch mix is built around a push and pull movement, similar to the one we are facing now with the multiple lockdowns. “One day, your area is open, one day it's not. When it opens, it's hectic like a jungle beat, when it closes back it sounds nebulous and evanescent, slower.” The mix includes some of her edits as well as unreleased by Aho Ssan and ethereal ambient reworks by Iceboy Violet.


A Man - Ssiege 
A Milli (Frequency Bootleg) - Nü Kvlture
Fille De Berger - Wallen 
All Praises - Westside Gunn Feat. Boldy James 
Do You Know What Makes The World Go Around ? - Crystallmess
Down With The Clique (Dancehall Remix) - Aaliyah 
Atmosphere X Zone 6 - O Uzzi X Young Nudy (Crystallmess Edit)
Here I Come - Dj Zinc 
Itecya - Aho Ssan
F.I.L.I.P.A.D.O - P Adrix
??? - ???
Body Body - C-town Dj’s
Lluke - 200425
Eyes Drippin 2 Hard - Iceboy Violet
No Feelings Required - Ikonika 
Apply Fog - Ikonika
Bezerk - Br3ynda  Ft Ivorian Doll
Domestic Cosy Thugga - Iceboy Violet 
Ndoto Ya Daphney Ft Portia Lewis - Covco

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@authenticallyplastic is a Kampala-based DJ, producer, and artist, and the founder of ANTI-MASS - the club night for femme, queer and experimental artists who are navigating through an increasingly repressive Ugandan social climate. 

In their sets, Authentically Plastic use Gqom, Vogue & Techno, and their music is influenced by anything from quasi-electronic Northern Ugandan rhythms to early acid experiments to Afro-futurism.

This mix by Authentically Plastic is also an exploration of Gqom & Industrial music: "I’m interested in this phenomenon of discovering the ghost of one genre in the other…all the industrial potentials of Gqom waiting to be actualised, and all those 'Gqom tendencies' in Industrial & Noise that usually go unnoticed. It has nothing to do with merging, or combining, but gliding; drawing a line between the two that is an expression in its own right."

Phelimuncasi - GQOM Venus Cemetrary (Prod Menzi)
Cube - Rising Sign
Cut Hands - Shut Up And Bleed
Antoine 80 - Siphon Fonfon
Disociacion  - Abstract Sense
Menzi - Underground Abaphansi
PHORK - Debt
M.I.A. - Swords (Dehousy Remix)
Inca Pax - A Certain Set Of Circumstances
Martin PDI - Te Quiero Mucho
Hieroglyphic Being - Hollow Earth
R - Mind Hunters
Xiao Quan - Sweat
SLICK BACK - ASCENSION
Raw Ambassador - ###
Alessandro Adriani - The Man With The Deadly Dreams (Original Mix)
Alexey Volkov - The Smell Of Wet Concrete
Brassfoot - Treacle
Phelimuncasi - Kdala Ngiwa Ngivuka
L/F/D/M - Hi H8 
Luxus Varta - Kim's Revenge

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@corinmusic is Corin Ileto, a Filipina-Australian electronic producer, composer and performer. Corin works across a broad spectrum ranging from video to theatre. Her newest EP, 'Enantiodromia,' is coming out on @leegamble's UIQ. Her current projects include Justin Shoulder’s AEON†, a performance/installation work fusing Filipinx myth, puppetry and queer pageantry as ceremony and also ‘Sky Blue Mythic’ - a performance work by Angela Goh exploring dance as a non-human entity presented in Sydney Opera House in 2021.

Along with her own tracks from the upcoming EP, Corin's mix for borshch includes new music fused with the familiar ripped melodies of Lanark Artefax, Amnesia Scanner, Slikback, M.E.S.H.. In the mix , she created a cyber-industrial dub-inspired story interspersed with moments of textural ambience and floating disembodied sounds. And it seemed appropriate for her to end with Drexciya’s "Drifiting into a Time of No Future."


Logos - Arrival (T2 Mix)
Lanark Artefax - Styx
Amnesia Scanner, Bill Kouligas - Lexachast VI
Raja Kirik - Barongan II
Imaabs - Decadence
Szare - Translocated
OMAAR - Traib
CORIN - Enantiodromia
Slikback - LEI
M.E.S.H. - Rüstung
Osheyack - Mutual Shaping
CORIN - Dromos
Ausschuss - Frontier Control
Sueuga Kamau - Disturbios
ZULI - Bassous
B4MBA - Wen
Jenna Sutela - nimiia_vibie_i-50c455cf
Lugh - Hot Mess
Itfll - Estemara Umru Mesa
Visionist - Untouchable
Youngstar - Pulse X (Blackwax remix)
Krust - Space Oddity (Batu remix)
Celyn June - A Chrome Past - Stamina
Drexciya - Drifting into a Time of No Future

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Nastya Muravyova @vsehzhdetsmert takes a walk through Kyiv at dusk and imagines a soundtrack of her “київ вечірній,” told in her borshch mix a few days ahead of Ickpa, the new festival in Kyiv brought to the Ukrainian capital by Tbilisi’s @bassiani.

Kyiv-based Nastya Muravyova has earned her status as a local hero in her hometown. It feels like everyone knows her, and she knows everyone. She’s played banging techno sets at the parties from the early @cxemcast raves all the way to the Berghain’s anniversary party while combining her DJ activities with a stewardess job, which she enjoys as much as she loves parties. 

With her friendly nature, slightly naughty attitude, and a proper Ukrainian sense of humor and self-irony, Nastya senses the pulse of the city and moves softly at its tempo.

Read the full feature with Nastya Muravyova on our website: 
https://borshchmagazine.com/kyiv-at-dusk-with-nastya-muravyova/

Tracklist 
Linear System - inanimate things
Bøngvr- hunt for lost
Dj Loser - cosmosglue
Soned- thought it was a dream
Asquith - let me (rave mix)
Black Kawa$aki Ninja - storm chaser (90’s drum tool version)
Trym- don’t be jealous (hardtrance acid)
Nobrac & Lemane - instant reply
D.Dan - spilling over
1luu - nitrogenium 
VCL - stay safe and drink water
1luu - dubnium

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In her music, @beliawinnewisser combines the refreshing potential of pop with her interest in experimental sound structures. This fusion of interests is also the way Belia approached her Borshch mix with a range of tunes from Ella Soto’s hyperpop ballads to Ishi Vu summery jungle to Ancient Methods’ industrial remix — a collection of music by some of Belia’s old and new heroes.  All fresh, all till we see the sunlight.

Belia’s second Album SODA came out in July this year on Präsens Editionen who previously also released the Swiss artist’s debut album Radikale Akzeptanz. A year without club nights allowed Winnewisser to fully embrace her flair for pop and experimentalism when working in SODA and resulted in sing-along anthems like “So Real,” densely layered drone of “They Cry of the Sirens,” and rave tunes like “Solen.” 

Tracklist:
Slow Glass - A Million Pieces
Noria Lilt - Feeb (Atrice Remix)
Ramxes - Jungle
Luca Durán - Metal Parce feat. Parco Palaz
Garland - Unreleased
Ella Soto - Player Girl (feat. Laskaar Remix)
dj haram - Gemini Rising
Ishi Vu - This is your Life
Ancient Methods - In Silence (Die Selektion - In Stille - Remix)
Sunareht - Spam Escapism
Etienne 4U - Rock Fountain
MILYMA - Twice
luxxuryproblems - ETHEL
Lyra Valencia - Reality Blizz

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New mix from @seqta - Georgian artist based between Berlin and Tbilisi.

Seqta's mix is a high-energy collection of '90s gems, '00s Psy trance sensuality, and today's urgency for stamina and community. By coming together and encouraging the values of equality and empathy, we keep fighting the fascists and gaslighters who want to keep us scared and muted and tell us we are too emotional and traumatised to have a voice. Off with oppressors! Power to the people, and glory to the heroes!

"Борітеся – поборете" - fight, and you will win - the message coming from Seqta's journey of rediscovering the Caucasus during his summer gigs and encouraging his community to overcome the fear. 


TUCHA - Russia is terrorist state X Son Kite - On Air
Force Mass Motion - The Code
Narciss - Power 2 tha People
Silicon Sound - Ignittion
Blue Amazon - And Than the Rain Falls
Alpha Tracks - To Nights (KI/KI Remix)
Hallucinogen - LSD (Oliver Lieb Remix) 
Ticon - Mr. Leatherman
B.T. - Lovong You more (ft.Vincent Convello)
Spacefish - Voices
Dusky - Sort it Out Sharon (ft. Wiley)
Reysan Khan - Shi-du 2000 (Mark Shimmon Remix)
Remake & Inner City – Bladerunner/Til We Meet Again (Brothers In Rhythm Perkappella)

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Today is @poly-chain's 29th birthday, and her only wish is that everyone who values liberty and music and wants to live in a free world stands together with Ukraine. "Keep supporting Ukraine, it's your everyday shield," - urges Poly Chain's "Fairy Disco" coming out on @mystictrax today. 

Along with the album release, listen to Poly Chain's Borshch mix recorded at her live set at @unsound , featuring her newest music, recorded in Ukraine, her temporary refuge in Berlin, and on the road between locations where she's been playing and voicing her stand in this fascist war against humanity. Support Ukraine with Poly Chain and help Ukrainians in this massive fight for everyone's future!

Order Fairy Disco" as the digital album or the Limited Physical neckless with USB Flash:
https://mystictrax.bandcamp.com/album/fairy-disco

All money raised from the digital release & the Limited Physical USB on a necklace will be donated to "Повернись Живим/Come Back Alive" foundation — the first and main charity organization in Ukraine that received a license to purchase and import military and dual-purpose goods.

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@konakov1992, a Ukrainian producer and DJ, founder of @ssshitsss, and a regular of infamous Kyiv's @cxemcast, presents A-Body. It’s a rave-ghost relieved from his shell to explode techno bombs and strip down the dance floor.

The mix is Konakov’s nostalgia for the Summer of Love 1992, he's clearly a romantic soul. Walk down a memory lane of early raves, remember the hits that made your summer last forever, just make sure to come back if you get lost somewhere between Cornwall and Detroit. 

Tetsu Inoue — Ambiant Otaku 
Aphex Twin — Hedphelym
Legowelt — Utopian News
Chris Mitchell — Eyedeal
Total Groove — Rave 92 (Rave Mix)
X-101 — Sonic Destroyer
KA-22 — Metamorphism (Party Mix)
Mumdance & Logos — Dance Energy (89 Mix)
Fantasy UFO — Fantasy
Dan White — The Hammer (Think Mix)
Power-Pill — Pacman (Power-Pill Mix)
R-Zone — Red Rave #2
Chris Moss Acid — Shake Your Butt To The 101
Ceephax Acid Crew — Arterial Acid Part IV
Underground Ressistance — The Final Frontier

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@bergsonist is a New York-based producer and DJ. The artist name inspired by Bergsonian concepts — duration, memory, and the élan vitale — connects her shadowy groovy beats with the sense of fulfilment and satisfaction she found as she learned to trust her instincts and herself. 

The mix was inspired by old school electro and Bergsonist’s last club oriented DJ sets in which she tried to narrate rhythmic-schizofrenic stories by combining all kind of rhythms that she’s intuitively attracted to. The raw sound and authenticity of Old School Detroit and Old Chicago speak the effortless language of @bergsonist and reflect her intuitional method of producing, recording, publishing and distributing music.

Cover photo by Lydo Le.

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@zabelin is a Russian producer, DJ, and founder of @resonancemsk — a platform that started as a weekly radio show on Moscow’s Megapolis 89.5 FM aimed to discover and showcase solely Russian electronic musicians and over three years grew into a series of physical events, label and a whole mindset that Nikita Zabelin describes as “an affair of honor.” 

The mix for BORSHCH was made in the same mindset Zabelin always follows — there is no good or bad music, the only thing that matters it’s either it’s true or insincere and whether one can resonate with it — no matter what genre it is prescribed to. And the thinner line between the genres the better, either in the BORSHCH mix or in a live performance. All tracks in the mix are unreleased music from the Russian artists planned to be released on Nikita’s Resonance. 

guys cl me dude – relaxing
lebed – sh
cat!xx but guys call me Dude – Missy Elliot – Shes A Bitch [catxx re_beat]
Dx2ov – RARE 1.6
guy is talking to police
Ваня Лимб – Синяя петля
molodoy chelovek – junction
stas karpenkov –  "Charity Apes"
More Acid – 10
yung acid – shorty DEMO
Kvarta – Afraid and run
Thorj – IDGAF
Kvarta Galaktec Driva Club
Roma Zuckerman – Astron
Ваня Лимб – Синяя петля
Diloveje – Cyclone
PHOBOZ – Forgotten Planet
Yung Acid – Isrl
More Acid – 11
NY subway
Uasmi Nasser – The One I See In The Mirror
Кварта – Spider
Algorithm_T – Pruzhina
Неприятный Человек – Система
cat!xx but guys call me Dude – electic Boy
yung acid – rap (instrumental)-1
Confluence – vsu nezhno
yung acid – Toof-1
Diloveje – Atomic Order
DANYA – e
tripinzen – 6.0
Al-90 – Prokhor Song

borshch mix 3 nikita zabelin

Deeply rooted in the Copenhagen DIY music scene,  @dj-tool has been playing and collecting punk, metal and electronic noise music for more than a decade. He roamed on international dance floors as a loyal raver until he figured it was time to give something back to techno community and teamed up with @hyperaktivist to start Mala Junta – a Berlin-based series of hard-hitting intimate techno parties. 

DJ Tool’s mix for BORSHCH is inspired by old school, gloomy, trance but still groovy techno and his Copenhagen’s family of Endurance, @fastforwardproductions and @bunkerbauer — the spirit that clearly reflects the energy of Mala Junta nights. DJ Tool feels attracted to faster old school techno as the productions are more dirty and groovy than what’s happening in techno these days. Mala Junta means ‘bad company’ in Spanish, so BORSHCH004 celebrates kids that stuck out and were different and special in one way or another, the kids that no one was allowed to play with. So get sweaty with DJ Tool and don’t pretend to be someone you are not. 

Dax J - Escape The System (acapella)  
Heiko Laux - Pre Sense 
O/V/R - Post-Traumatic Son (Robert Hood Mix)
Repro - Gust Of Residue  
Kay D. Smith & Alex Katz - Limbo  
Herwig Maurer - Cyklik (Nuw Idol Remix)  
Phasis - Melting Shadow 
Sugar - Krankengymnastik 
Ian Lehman - Holographic Paradigm  
Henrik B - Tord 
Etapp Kyle - Quantum 
DJ Rob Little - Pulsate (HMC Remix)  
The Advent - Green Gone Hard 
Mhonolink - September (A1) 
Hardcell - November (A2)
CoHabits - Dependency (A2) 
Quazar - Ninety-Seven Stars 
Gecko - Lunarcity  
Westwood Bros. - Coldwaves 
Andreas Krämer vs. Kay D. Smith - Dark Clouds 
Slobodan - Fatal

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Brooklyn-based @d_d_d_d_j_s is a record selector and the one responsible for heading two parties on the island - an ambient-focused listening party Hypnotic Spa and a club night Dance Dungeon. Some years ago, DJ S fell in love with Kyiv, regularly spotted with a camera and irregularly behind the decks at the infamous @cxemcast rave. Now back to his home country, DJ S’s heart keeps wandering above the hills of the Ukrainian capital, overlooking the boundless steppes and the mighty waters of the Dnieper river. Just as bequeathed by Taras Shevchenko. 

For BORSHCH005, DJ S put their DnB and jungle records together to make a cohesive mix, aiming for 'hearty & meaty;' spacey music for dance tripping. For DJ S, DnB still seems to be some of the most futuristic and timeless music, dancing to it is a special thing, there's so much groove and syncopation that throws your body and limbs in different directions if you let it, discoing new ways to expressively contort your body and 'surfing bass waves.' There's a lot of tension and resolve to it, a lot like jazz. Like a piece of seaweed attached to a reef while a huge wave hits over head and you just roll with it and let it take you. There's no use trying to fight it. That's the power of the groove! 

DJ Zinc - Super Sharp Shooter 
Problem Child - Untitle
The Coalition - Atlantis 
Subnation - Scottie (Coolbreeze remix) 
Special Request - Replicant 
Heinrich at Hart - Attackship on Fire 
Eva Cazel - No He Didn’t 
Lowlife - Expressive Technology 
Potential Badboy feat Yush - I Need a Roof 
Photek - Lost Blue Heaven

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@arni-skeng comes from the land of ice and fire. The Icelandic selector, DJ, and co-founder of the Plútó radio has been pushing forward the music of his fellow Icelandic producers for years. It's fair to say that he helped many humble bedroom talents to get their music heard all over the world in the sets of the club giants like @Nina-Kraviz and @bjarki as well as released on vinyl on @bbbbbb-records and трип among others. Take, for example, @volruptus, who appeared on the cover of Borshch #2. 

In this Borshch mix, Arni dives deep into his archives to showcase the more dark and mysterious ‘Icelandic sound’ by some of his favorite Icelandic producers, combining many different styles, slowly raising tempo from 100 to 150 bpm. None of these tracks have they been publicly released or signed to a label. It’s sick to realize what treasures some hard drives behold. 


1. Kuldaboli - folksemvareinusinnitilDEMO
2. Sprite - 10px
3. russian.girls - Two Circles
4. Kuldaboli - HEYGAUR2018MIX
5. Stóri Bróðir - Fór Endanlega Yfirum
6. Volruptus - Vulgar
7. Hidden People - Step Into My World
8. Volruptus - Household Toxins DEMO
9. Bjarki - Acid Reykjavik
10. Hidden People - Goldfi$h Jam
11. Hidden People - It's not functional
12. Bjarki - Brain is the weapon
13. Volruptus - Tigris
14. EVA808 - ???
15. Bjarki - Yes
16. Kuldaboli - ???
17. Bjarki - horhorhor
18. Fascia - strakarnir
19. Krokodil - the kops are comin
20. Bjarki - never vacuum alone 4
21. Volruptus - Cyborg Life
22. Manxego (RIP) - ultragroove
23. Kosmodod - rom (heilun)
24. EVA808 - ???
25. Volruptus - Rogue Planet (STATIC)_quickmix
26. Jadzia - saatana perkele
27. Volruptus & Feedbach - ???
28. Kuldaboli - veiki
29. Good Moon Deer - Aloner

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@varg, Swedish producer and co-founder of @northernelectronics, is known for his anti-techno punk approach towards the heavily techno-focused scene he is a big part of. @varg easily connects dots between field recording, pianists, rappers, painters, poets, german shepherds, old tapes and his IPad apps. Whether playing DMs from Chloe Wise to the throbbing beats and splashing champagne at @herrensauna or wondering among imaginary woods on stage with @annamelina, @varg is hungry for experiments and immune to taking himself too seriously. In our borshch #2, @varg appeared with FLORA as a co-curator of @berlinatonal 2018.  

For his borshch mix dedicated to our current Sound Mind theme, @varg was drawing inspiration from "his teenage years, wanting to die and stuffing himself with benzos." In our current print issue we tried to prove that though from the early age our ears are conditioned for contentment and pleasant sounds, contentment does not lead to enlightenment. And here comes @varg: never willing to please, always eager to confront.

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Amsterdam via Berlin-based Venezuelan artist @uchi001010 combines her passion for noisy modular synths with her knowledge of DNA sequence analysis. She is a random chaos expert both in music and biology. 

In her Borshch mix, Uchi collects tunes which resonate with the magazine. She makes the random chaos of @Skepta, @Bjarki, @bogdanraczynski, and @cocteau-twins come together very smoothly and settle down in her own harmony. 

Skepta Feat Key! - Redrum
The Fear Ratio - Sect
Prettybwoy - Flutter
Evil Frimace - 3 Litres Evil
Dj Ruan - Grandiose
The Fear Ratio - Blood Solides
Tracey - CCLRT
Bjarki - I don’t Think So
FlokosH & Evaa - Skylark Drone
Da Soul Boyz - Conga Tribe
METHAMFEMENINE - Perc
Simo Cell - Feel Di Kouala Vybz#
Alex The Fairy - under dirt67 
Bogdan Raczynski - 220 s3d
Demdike Stare - At It Again
FlokosH - (unreleased)
Cocteau Twins - In Our Angelhood

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Leonor

Ivy's Hands – Final Act & Denoument

Ivy's Hands – Act IV [Goodbye Leonor]

Ivy's Hands – Act III [Intention Dormant Own Death]

Ivy's Hands – Act II [Dancing With Tears In Her Eyes]

Ivy's Hands – Act I [Thursday Night]

@pucemary is Danish experimental and noise artist, best known for her piercing live performances and full-length releases on Copenhagen’s @poshisolation and Berlin’s @pan_hq. Based between LA and Denmark and frequently performing around the world, Frederikke Hoffmeier represents a new era of industrial, noise and experimental music, taking a very thoughtful and emotional approach to the slow-evolving layers of distorted sound. 

Raison D’etre – Reflecting Shadows
Caroline K – Animal Lattice
Anenzephalia – Schockwelle: Krisis
Die Angel – Roha- 
Coil – Triple Sun
Maska Genetik – Haut 	
Militia – New European Order
Damien Dubrovnik – Penis Corset
Nima Aghiani – Kah-Gash
Bruce Gilbert – Here Visit
Ø – Syvyydessä Kimallus
 Coming To Now – Thy Call To Kia
Cosey Fanni Tutti – Time To Tell 
Teiji Ito – Music For Maya Deren 
Corrupted – Gekkou No Daichi

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@ciarrablack is a US producer and DJ based in Berlin. Since 2012 she’s been a regular at NY venues such as @bossanovacivicclub , @goodroombk and various warehouse raves in Brooklyn. In 2013 Ciarra began her monthly event series ‘No-Tech’, which developed into a label showcasing underground techno and experimental electronic producers. In Berlin, she’s been developing a newly formed label, Pendulum Recordings, launching in the fall of 2019.

Ciarra’s mix is representative of the changing of the seasons. Some tracks bring her back to the summer dancefloors, some are produced by friends, and some are her own. There are moments of shimmering brightness and beauty juxtaposed with moments of harshness and discomfort, the soundscape of the shifting intervals. 

Isabella — Seeping Through Powder (Oramics Total Solidarity Benefit Compilation)
Pulse — Soul Hunter (Harthouse)
Section X — Space Control (X-DR)
Ciarra Black — Synapsis (Alkaline Pitch Version) (forthcoming Pendulum Recordings)
Rafael Bogdanov — Fatal (Original Mix) (Archivio 01)
Vector —  The Matrix (Pressure Part 2) (Planet Rhythm) 
Realmz — Force Magnetic (Sonic Groove) 
BUZZI —  Discovery (Raven Sigh)
Blue Hour — Radiance Limelight (Sugar Remix) (Blue Hour)
Rune Bagge — Reload (Ownlife)
ArchivOne — #001 (Global Atek Remix) (Tekkno)
Woody McBride Vs Jon Frank — The Pitch of Madness (Drop Bass Network)
Mark Verbos — The System (Drop Bass Network)
ILLNURSE — Rubber (Unreleased)
Paula Temple — Quantum Unfolding (Noise Manifesto)
Some Ember + Viscerale — Birds on Nitrous (Unreleased)

Jordan Davidson's Album

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@thoo-m, aka Zeynab Marwan, is a musician, artist, and performer. In her music and visual self-narratives, Zeynab shuffles cultural codes she’s collected across Lebanon, the American Midwest, Europe, and on the internet. In the small-scale experimental club scene, where the questions of activism, awareness, and inclusivity are as crucial as hedonism and fun, Thoom feels at home more than in any geographical location. After her first EP ‘Blood and Sand’ (Club Chai, 2017), she’s worked with many forward-thinking producers and collectives.

“Many of these songs I listen to in the morning or when I get home and feel like shit. This mix is very romantic, very foreplay soft porn but also made for a sad jerk off,” she explains about her mix for Borshch. A Napolitanian musical and piercing noise are shuffled with the soothing familiar melodies from Pan's Yves Tumor and Anne Imhof.  Here Zeynab also features unreleased songs by @chinoamobi, her collaborator @pad-fut, and her own unreleased tracks. The mix floats and breaks between contrasts, with atonal tunes changing to sentimental love songs to dramatic church-like motifs. And there's a magical happy ending, of course. The legendary Italian film composer and Lebanese sex symbol finally meet. 

Chino Amobi - Unreleased
Popol Vuh - Aguirre l Lacrime di Rei
Thoom - Unreleased
Roberto Di Simone - Secondo Coro Delle Lavandaie 
Prurient - Precious Love
Thoom - Unreleased with Padfut
Yves Tumor - Spirit in Prison
Faust - Suicide is Painless
Rene Hell - Meta-Concrete
Selm - Nineteen Voices
Boredoms - Ni
Psychic TV - Just Drifting (Thoom Edit)
Oxhy - Psalms of the Khori-Puma feat. Elysia Crampton
Michael Nyman - Miserere
Faust - Trauermarschmusik
Ennio Morricone - Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri
Rola Yamout on live
Padfut - Deathmoths

Along with the mixtape, Zeynab takes a walk through the streets of Beirut with a photographer Mohamad Abdouni whose work often documents the queer culture in and outside of the Middle East and North Africa. Read the full feature on https://borshchmagazine.com/soundtrack-for-a-romantic-soft-porn-from-thoom/

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On the 15th of February, @alessandro-adriani-mnq and Paulina Greta will premiere their new audiovisual project Ignes Fatui. In this mix for Borshch, Adriani and Greta immerse listeners in the mood of their A/V installation which they will premiere at the first @borshchmagazine night prepared together with Traumabarundkino.

The first performance by Ignes Fatui entitled 'Phosphine' was created especially for the night inspired by our 'Dark Side' issue and will be performed at the cinema space of Traumabarundkino.

"Phosphine is a multisensorial piece anchored around two cores. The first core is developed on a heroic anthropomorphic figure, Phosphine. The second core is defined by an abstract landscape, in a process of sonic and visual exploration of a physical natural phenomenon: the ignis fatuus. Processed through a cinematic feeling, this extended classic tragedy moves throughout illusory electronic scapes, faded voices and virtual 3D imagery breaking into a landscape of algorithms and noises.”

borshch mix 16 ignes fatui (alessandro adriani and paulina greta)

@piaget1 is a Copenhagen-based producer and sound artist, working through stretching vocals, ambient pads, drifting longing voices, and sample cut-ups. With his first release through Copenhagen's Petrola 80, Piag3t will continue releasing music this year with the next release coming up on @poshisolation . 

"I've made this mix so people can dream a bit more these days," Piag3t describes his selection of music. Unreleased tracks from his close Danish friends and the artist himself, familiar sound structures from Croatian Amor,  Félicia Atkinson, M.E.S.H, Lanark Artefax, and Zuli rounded up by a heartbreak hit from Yung Lean's escapist alter ego Jonatan Leandoer127. Piag3t's delicate selection reminds us that no matter what, the spring is here. It's the season of dreams, curiosity, and romance, even when music is your only companion. It's a reliable and gentle one, no doubt about that.

Bysund Geu x drake – Marvins vera
Yearling – Guitar Hero
Celyn June – Greaves of sleep, bidders Patch
Croatian Amor – Towards Isa
An Gella – Time of Reason 
Tettix Hexer – Unreleased 
Yelzin – Unreleased
M.E.S.H – Imperial Sewers
Branco – INGEN INTRODUKTION 4x4
Khalil – 100 tears
Lanark Artefax – Corra Linn
Felicia Atkinson – Shirley to Shirley
Merdh Laleh – Dmo
Yrdloop – Notes to self
ZULI feat. Ybyusif – Akhtuboot
Mini Esco – Unreleased
Kingdom feat. SZA – What is love
Piag3t – Unreleased
Jonatan Leandoer96 – Hotel in minsk

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@jesseosbornelanthier is a Montréal-based multidisciplinary artist, designer, producer, sound engineer, and musician. His interest lies in using his work to create both a living ecosystem of abstract memories and outward-looking, physically-reactive music to shock, appall, and delight in equal measure. Jesse is well-known for his numerous collaborative projects, audio-visual performances, and releases across labels like Halcyon Veil, Raster-Noton, Where To Now?, United Standard, and now, Italy’s Haunter Records.

Preceding his upcoming album ‘Left My Brain @ Can Paixano (La Xampanyeria) OST’ on @haunter-records-1, Jesse presents unreleased material from the upcoming LP as well as new music from his fellow musicians featured on Éditions Appærent, the label he runs together with Will Ballantyne and Pierre Guerineau. 'Left My Brain' has been in the making for five years and is Jesse's most ambitious work to date. Jesse's mix for @borshchmagazine anticipates the ambiance of the future long-player, which he describes "as something of a concept cemetery, an overgrown plot that slowly filled to the brim with dead ideas; a mycelial network of thoughts and plans that never came true." The mix also features the sentimental death metal from Dealer, Signs of the Swarm, and Vitrioli and metaphors of the major sex scandal in France by Bernardino Femminielli to release the tension of experimental electronics and masterful sound design. And to complete the feeling of nostalgia and gentle humor, of course.

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For our third anniversary, @dasha-rush prepares a dreamful ambient mix filled with flexible stretchy surfaces and cinematic soundscapes. 'Skating the Hights and Surfing the Depths' is a solitary journey through the deepest underwater caves, ancient forests, pulsating brainwaves, and forgotten dreams.

Whether it’s her curiosity for neuroscience, astrophysics, extreme natural phenomena, or the deepest human desires, Dasha transforms the powerful forces of nature into many-layered dense electronic music, visual explorations, and performative art. The Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist and DJ is known for her collaborative art projects and wild imagination. We spoke to Dasha about her audio-visual performance 'Dark Hearts of Space' in our third issue guest-edited by Jeff Mills.

Distance -Tuomo Vaananen
MS005 EP01 - Makoto Sakamoto 
Coh Plays Cosey - CoH 
One Ten - Human Mesh Dance 
Life On Laputa Regio - Neel 
Ceremonial Dance of the white pygmy - Kead Salva 
Anata Mas -Salva 
Lost negatives - Asc & Sam Kdc 
Down - Faro
Audio recording on Sunday afternoon - Mesak 
No Gravity - Lars Hemmerling 
Legiac - Jefre Tropod 
OID - Points to remember 
Iceblink - Pass into Silence 

Extra layers and samps (n.p.o) Great Circles - we love temple 
ASC & Sam KSD - decayed society 
Monolog - Stalker - Tarkovski (dasha edit) 
Vromb - Sous Hypnose 
Aztecs -Maximinus -Akashic

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@prequeltapes is Marco Freivogel — a producer, DJ, and live performer who shared his story in the “Sound Mind” issue of Borshch published in 2019. On the 3rd of July, Marco’s latest album Ruin came out on Mannequin Records. In Prequel Tapes’ long-held view, “art should challenge, jar, and provoke. Offering the balance of what’s dark and disturbing to appreciate the beauty and the light.”
 
Prequel Tapes recorded his Borshch mix from his vinyl collection, with the magazine in mind all the time. For Marco, it’s connected to the feeling of the “Intrinsic” track from the new album. The mix is intense and gentle at the same time, it’s to listen to and fall into, repeat again, and discover new refinements each time. 

1. à;GRUMH…- R.L.P.K. / Play It Again Sam
2.  Anne Clark - Shades / Red Flame
3. group A - Channel Surfing II / Mannequin Records
4. Big Brave - This Deafening Verity / Southern Lord
5. Jiri Ceiver - No´Tscha! / Harthouse
6. Marcus Schmickler - Matter / Kompakt
7. Deadbeat - Walls & Dimensions A / BLKRTZ
8. Violetshaped - Anesthesia / Violet Poison
9. Trepaneringsritualen - Merkstave / Coldspring
10. GAS - Rausch A / Kompakt with Poet by Anne Clark - The Power Game / Red Flame 
11. David Hykes - Rainbow Voice / Harmonic World with Clock Dva - Connection Machine / Interfish  
12. William S. Burroughs - Silver Smoke of Dreams [with Ian Sommerville] / Sub Rosa
13. Prequel Tapes - Intrinsic / Mannequin Records
14. Yves Tumor - Limerence / PAN
15. Skinny Puppy - One Day / Nettwerk
16. Tunnel Vision - Reminiscence / Heidi Of Switzerland
17. Recoil - part of 2 / Mute
18. Patten - Mission Creep / 555-5555
19. Khotin - Somehow More Sad / Ghostly International
20. Pan Sonic - MAA / Blast First
21. Rune Bagge - C27 / Nothern Electronics
22. Clock DVA - Burried Dreams / Interfish
23. Preque Tapes - Crush Me / Mannequin Records

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@lvcefecit is Mariana Vilhena – a multidisciplinary artist, delving mostly in the visual and the sound fields. For her Borshch mix, she brings exactly what she approaches in all of her work – the duality between violence and tenderness. Gentle sounds glimpse throughout a cataclysmic ambience, guiding you to an ethereal dance.

Empire Line – Amour Nocturne
Lvcefecit – Unnamed (unreleased)
John Carpenter – This is Not a Dream
Wishframe – Reign / Rain
Siavash Amini & Saåad – Disruptive Emptiness
John Carpenter – Love at a Distance
M. Sage – Forking Paths (Lvcefecit edit)
Malibu – Come Down To Us (Malibu Cover Edit)
Ronce – Lolita
German Army – I Cannot Monitor Form On Horizon
S S S S – Scorn
luxxuryproblems – to affect (and to be affected)
Acronym – Centering
Olan Monk – Fameless (unreleased)
Varg2TM – Inga droger / Ingen parfym
тпсб – If This Is I Don't Know What Isn't
Peter Rehberg – ML6
Lvcefecit – Unnamed (unreleased)
FH HF – Rhythm Of Crying (Yolabmi Remix)
Holyld – Upper Realm

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@sinmaldita is the new alias of Berlin-based producer Tim Roth, who recently released his debut avant-garde pop album You’re Trouble. Previously Tim released his ambient music as 1K Flowers. He is also known for supporting Amnesia Scanner with their ANESTHESIA SCAMMER show and Eliza Douglas with the new performance of Faust at Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

In our current unprecedented age of literal post-club music, for his Borshch mix Tim selected songs that “feel unstable, chaotic, on the verge of falling apart or being torn apart. Some of them feel vulnerable but all still radiate with resoluteness and determination,” which is something that Sin Maldita tries to put forward in his own music.” The final track of the mix — Björk’s Komi∂, the B-Side from her Medulla era that encompasses this feeling of being entangled in a mess, in a limbo but still being resolute really well — feels like a reminder of the powerful chaos that the music and humanity in general found themselves in. And it’s also a reminder that nature and divine creativity will find their way, with or without us. 

Ccontrary - Safe Touch
Jashim ft Templewkit - unreleased
Wulffluw XCIV - ii
Smerz - Half Life
Sin Maldita - Ruin (edit)
Rose Laurel - unreleased
M - Eraserfeet
Lolina - The River
E-Saggila - Redcloud
Sd Laika - Great God Pan
Upsammy - It Drips
Xanah - This Is Your Beast Inside
Sin Maldita - Wildfire Choir (Mutants Mixtape version)
Zora Jones - Low Orbit Ion Cannon
DJ Nate - You aint ready to battle
elysia crampton - children of hell
Organ tapes - Di Qiu
Kelman Duran - Club 664B
Maiolica & Jennifer Chavez - Womb
Björk - Komi∂

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NTS host and Fabric resident @imogensmusic has prepared a high energy mix of unreleased music from her close community, fresh quarantine tracks and old favourites she used to bang at the end of the night, and a new exciting project she's working on with Club Qu.

Imogen's most recent hyperactive release "Volts" in collaboration with @benpest just came out on Dublin's @earwiggle. The album "juggles raw analogue techno with UK hardcore and all manner of rude bass wobbles, the squawks and clatters of broken industrial, a perky take on Chi-town techno, upping the funk levels through bustling shuffled 909s, humming bass and cartoonish vocal sequences."

This energy also breaks through in her borshch mix, a perfect antidote for your February avitaminosis.

Kas - Like Sunlit Threads (forthcoming Ilian Tape)
Silver Bullet - 20 Seconds to Comply 
IMOGEN & Ben Pest - Plastic Techno (Unreleased)
Thrived - Deism (forthcoming Club Qu Records) 
IMOGEN x TripSixVivo - Anomaly (forthcoming Club Qu Records) 
Berg Jaar - Othies (ROOM)
Aquarian - Motherisk 
IMOGEN & Ben Pest - Gramalkin (Earwiggle)
Liam Doc - iHear [Any Jungle] (Cead)
Masha Motive - Cedar (forthcoming Voitax) 
Overlook - Mirror Image
Know V.A - Artefact (Sully remix)
Dj Spid - One Six Five 
Paal x TripSixVivo - ???? (forthcoming Club Qu Records) 
EDM - Wherever She Goes 
Luke Vibert - Pressure (Hypercolour)
Paal - On Hold (forthcoming Rascals) 
Overlook - Losing Touch
EDM - Sunshine Face

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Borshch is a magazine for electronic music on and beyond the dancefloor. Founded in Berlin in 2017, it’s a space to provoke open dialogues and challenge established ideas about making, listening, and dancing to music. Through physical and digital formats, Borshch discusses the artistic, social, and political impact of electronic music on contemporary culture in and outside the club settings. The print edition of the magazine is published biannually.

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