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To accompany his interview in The Wire 495, Kolkata born Nilotpal Das, aka Bios Contrast, creates a special mix of his own tracks alongside music by influences including Aphex Twin, Madvillain, Deftones, AR Rahman, and My Bloody Valentine
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/wire-mix-bios-contrast-nilotpal-das

“The harmonium I use was gifted to my grandfather by his friend 45 years ago, and then he gave it to me,” says Kolkata musician Nilotpal Das. “I started playing when I was around 14. It’s really old and worn out, with an old sound to it. I wanted to experiment with how I can make drone sounds with it.”

The instrument appears in modified forms in his expansive, sometimes noisy, droning electroacoustic compositions. Another side of Das’s production is a collision-heavy club output that takes cues from “dubstep, noise, jungle, drum ’n’ bass” among numerous other sources of inspiration. Das works under his own name and the alias Bios Contrast, which “comes from the Greek word bios, meaning life, and contrast, which also means against life – I don’t really like the name but I’m stuck with it”.

As to how he decides which name suits each release, he leans into the confusion: “The stuff I put out is like a mixed bag, much like [Japanese video game designer] Hideo Kojima. I feel like now my stuff shouldn’t make sense all the time and that’s good, in a way I’ll have more artistic freedom.” His main tools are his laptop and Ableton, which he runs almost everything through. “My club tracks are mostly sample-based, and I also use harmonium samples,” he explains. Alongside soft-synths and samplers on his drone and ambient pieces he plays “guitar as well, but not as good as the harmonium. It’s been two years of playing the guitar – I used it with a bow like a string instrument. I also have a violin, but I play the guitar as a violin.”

Here, he curates a special Wire mix in advance of his new album SSAC42, which will be released on 27 June by Infinite Machine.
https://infinitemachine.bandcamp.com/album/ssac42

Tracklist:

Aphex Twin “Nightmail [London 14.09.2019]”
Deftones “Engine No 9”
Madvillain featuring Quasimoto “Shadows Of Tomorrow”
Wadaiko Matsuriza “Oni-mo-naku (Even A Demon Cries)”
Baatarjav “Tsuur”
Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das “Crossing The River”
Caterina Barbieri “Math Of You”
Bios Contrast “Silence”
Death Grips “Lost Boys”
Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das “Gondho Jhaater Chule”
Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das “Club Warfare”
Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das “everyth1ng 1n l1fe (feat K_anti)”
Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das “ap0calypse 42”
Lucky Ali “Ek Pal Ka Jeena”
AR Rahman/Lata Mangeshkar/MG Sreekumar “Jiya Jale”
My Bloody Valentine “Soon”

Wire mix: Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das

III DIM w/ esile: 25th May '25

i made this on kitchen counter

Glokk40Spaz in clouds

DRAC W∞DY

Atlanta rap outsider and Vienna producer xato celebrate the release of their new EP “Who was expecting this?” with an hour of big rap tracks and noisy club edits.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/645ar-xato-w-dj-loser-ludwig-wandinger-brodinski-23rd-may-2025

645AR & xato w/ DJ LOSER, Ludwig Wandinger & Brodinski 230525

circling the south bermondsey cistern circa january 2025 for ghoul dance x ulnaparti at venue MOT with spinnee and ikava pii and mossambi

come to think of it i shoulda change my name to something ending in eeee

68 minutes of pure brainleak

eleanor - thin end of the wedge (aya's boot end of the leg)
rrritalin - naga
fabaitos - quietus
crrdr x dayvi - sax with me
dj g2g - omj!!??? (ft. hainafromchina)
xterea - demo 12
phace - self talking
gyrofield - superheat
algorithmic - wussupnow
obses - catharsis
96 back - rubber knife
cash cobain - problem
current value - greed 
chozn.$$ - everlong
syzy - caught up (in circles)
esp - break free
hellfish - bring on the hurricane pain
sampling masters mega / sampling masters aya - idiot tube
latesleeper - hellcat
dansa - bog
2k's luv shy edit
blood of aza - stupid hoe
remiseria temperley, nafftero, jaijiu - a brillar mi amor
ramiseria temperley - mamarracho
precolumbian - untitled0001
shitmat - shut up
hydroboi x o-man888 - caramelidansen
jok'air feat. naza - oh nana (bovllov remix)
kamome sano - crepe suzette
trespassed and the dope doctor - break jaws
crim3s - militia

🧟‍♀️ghoulna dj🧛‍♀️

Care

Ast (Ludwig Wandinger Remix) [feat. Coby Sey]

ZULI, experimental club producer and VENT co-founder hailing from Cairo hits the NTS airwaves to showcase his club wares: aggressively left-field.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ZULI/episodes/zuli-16th-june-2025

ZULI w/ Yvu 160625

Deep uplifting psytrance inspired by uncle iroh and the beautifull french city Lyon.

LYON (feat. Brutterus)

5:15 AM

Restart my Heart - RYO

 Korg ESX-1/ 180BPM

Lift Me Up - HardTekk

Contact & Bookings: bioscontrast@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/bios.contrast

Wire mix: Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das

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