aya is a musician from the Pennine region of the North Atlantic, exploring how experience and memory shape the body. Blending soundsystem culture, internet scenes, and post-hardcore influences, she crafts genre-defying works.



Unsound Festival w/ aya @ Kiosk Radio 15.02.2025

The People's Avant-Garde w/  fallen matter - 09/04/2025

Sequentia (@sequentia666) is a DJ and promoter of Ngāti Mutunga and Moriori descent based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Drawing influence from the bass-heavy culture of their Ōtautahi roots and their earlier experimental / improvisational projects, Sequentia has shared stages with the likes of Mechatok, Tim Reaper, Moktar, Mike Q, Loefah, Isabella Lovestory and James K. 
They host a monthly radio show on @95bfm called ‘Soundbleed’, and in 2020 they founded @relatedarticles - which functions as a monthly broadcast, a club night and a record label “at the forefront of releasing some of the most forward-thinking electronic music in the country” [Flying Nun]. In 2019 they co-established the biennial 3-day experimental music event Outlier Festival, a multi-modal project platforming new electronic music from Aotearoa’s experimental and exploratory practitioners. 
Sequentia’s eclectic and boundary-defying sets have seen them perform internationally and across festivals in Aotearoa, traversing elements of downtempo, ambient, leftfield techno and global club music, jungle and more - with an emphasis on drawing connections across genres and careful curation which echos the environment. This mix is a live recording of their opening set for Isabella Lovestory at @nymphoworld in Tāmaki Makaurau [22.02.25]

RA MIX 059: Sequentia - Live at Nympho 22.02.25

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

@three-mothers is a Naarm/Melbourne-based musician dedicated to the intersection between experimental electronic music and pop. 

'Three Mothers' is the artist's self-titled debut album, which is in her own words "a manic love letter to everyone you've ever been. A glassy and fragile veneer over staggering percussion, Three Mothers is a vibrant and glossy sheen smudged over a grief-filled abscess." 

'Belladonna', the album's second of a massive 14 tracks, is a fast-paced, drum-filled dive into everything that the album offers. In her practice, Three Mothers works with an array of materials, samples, hardware and software, a process clearly all on show here.

As the name suggests, 'Belladonna' is about a beautiful woman, a term often used to describe someone as being 'cosmetic'. For Three Mothers, this choice and a series of others on the album comment on her position as a trans woman on the internet, sex work, objectification, desire and passion.

Across its run-time, 'Belladonna' is but only a taste of everything to find on this debut.

Three Mothers' debut album releases with a launch party at Naarm venue Miscellania on July 25.

PREMIERE: Three Mothers - 'Belladonna' [Self Released]

@jacques-satre
@editentites

“10 ans déjà” ; ten years of music for Pilat troll Jacques Satre, and nearly as long for our friendship. From acid-tinged trance to celestial Balearic synths and demonic sludge-metal, the psychedelic spectrum gets playfully dismantled into psychoactive dubs, reinvented folk, mellow melodies, and Jacques’ typical humor to turn up the dancefloor.
This album says nothing new, it just echoes the same old paradox on my stubborn friend: bad jokes masking a mind too delicate for daylight.

Out June 23 on Éditentités, in CD and digital:
https://editentites.bandcamp.com/album/10-ans-d-j

Bandcamp

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Jacques Satre - Corrywreckan Stream [Éditentités]

On The Cross

Taken from the mixtape 'Losing It Along The Way'

Detach Until

Telstar - 19/07/25

messy at points but had fun - no planning involved

opening set [recorded at ORMSIDE Projects]

[PRVV2] - MALUS - SPARTA

There's a nice message at the end, dear friends 

Panophobia: The irrational fear of . . . everything. Technically speaking, this phobia does not exist in isolation but rather is a large combination of multiple phobia compressed into a single moniker.

This phobia does not exist.

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Panophobia

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