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

Responding to the theme ‘Grindcore’ Society of Cutting Up Men leads you through an arc of pain, joy, anxiety, hell and love towards a not-so-distant breakdown. An aural executioner, S.C.U.M forges her own space through audio assault, piercing sonic frequencies, and abhorrent noise. An ode to magic in all its forms - women, rage, movies, community and collaboration S.C.U.M. uses industrial materials to inflict pain upon her audience and piss people off. 

Tracklist
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani
BDE - Shygirl
Bitches - Mindless Self Indulgence 
Life Is Killing Me - Type O Negative
Fuck The Pain Away - Peaches
Napalm Death - SCUM
Demolition - Ugly Broke Miserable 
Vacuum - Pharmakon

Samples:
SOPHIE
Jivin’ Josh  

Mastered by Jivin  
Artwork by Eek 





[SOFT.spot] Society of Cutting Up Men - Time Theft

Aired on 29th of May 2025

https://lyl.live/episode/transatlantic-14

Transatlantic w/ Fausse Sceptique

Bass heavy mix with recent club favorites and a few older ones.

Tracklist:

nesso - Bouncer Toss
em guro - RIVET
SUTSURUKEKI - ELECTRO BONOMELLI
Iguana - AQUI
FLAVA D & P MONEY - DUTTY (KAVARI NOISE WALL BOOTLEG)
Neir - Eye For An Eye
Illegal Nobility - Umiso (Aryaxz Remix)
avas - RIPCORD
Metrist - Leven Lever Live Love
Sectra - I'm So Happy
Beton Brut - EMCA
Ship Sket - Richi - Eastside (SSSleaze Ed1t)
Klahrk & Roxas - Influence
Pleading Fern - Have illucid body
DIGESTIVO & Yvu - Labuta (Iguana Remix)
ltfll - Nested Skins
Zero Crossing Point - Trash Parallels
Kinlaw & Franco Franco - WAVE LED (Sophrosyne Rework)
KLAUDIO - MAKE U
Aulic Veil - BALTERIE
georg-i - Luv Zombie (georg-i's like a hurricane mix)
Jean Redondo - Ba-by
VISLA - RAKKA (latesleeper Remix)
Blood of Aza - CUPS DEMO
Aya - Off to the ESSO
Queimada - Spleen

Rama - 6 Juin 2025

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Dilian & Kuthi Jin @ Kiosk Radio 15.06.2025

NTS Residency Show #51 (28.05.2025.)

Gem Fumigation Spa is a new damaged American rock band. Rummaging through the trash heap of all known undergrounds, they work in conversation with both the hyper-present of guitar music and the forgotten knights of the sticky noise table. They use drum machines and distortion. They play with an urgency that sometimes even confuses the band members themselves.

We are delighted to welcome their debut EP :  Desperation Driving Mind

releases Sept 24th.

PRE ORDER : https://99ctsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gem-fumigation-spa-desperation-driving-mind

ALL TRACK WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY Gem Fumigation Spa
MASTER BY Max Dowling
ART BY Molly Soda

©99CTS_021 2025

Gem Fumigation Spa • Desperation Driving Mind (99CTS_021) PREVIEWS

[EP059] Guest mix by Eamon Ivri (https://soundcloud.com/lighghtmusic).

Aired via https://soundcloud.com/stegi-radio-athens.

Tracklist:

Eamon Ivri - field recording in TestSite Cork 17th May 2025 mildly edited
cosmo - slowly falling leaves
Nomadic Flute Brother - far away stroms
Billy Gomberg - early learning
metaxu - Side B (i) 
Lake Rosseau and Divine Foray - Not Water
Mícheál Keating - Abandoned Quarry, Ballyneety
Loula Yorke - Everything Beating at the Same Brittle Pulse
Sleepdial - Earthbeamer
metaxu - Side B (vi)
VHS MIDNIGHT STYLE - prion disease (feat. rretroactively)
JQ & Nick Malkin - Dashcam
Famous Tex - leanon 
veno 3000 - grunewald
auffthorn - factory strings
JQ - Empty Hearth Of The Maze
Romeo Poirier - Trace palmaire
auffthorn - remote viewing
Sleepdial - Blue August
metaxu - Side A (iii)
Eamon Ivri - [combined] phone recording “clay thoughts” February 2025 + field recording 
snippet “fountainstown beach” mildly edited April 2025

Commissioned by Stegi Radio
Produced by Onassis Stegi

Eamon Ivri

Stegi | evo-natura with Eamon Ivri ― 31st August 2025

Free Download

[PREMIERE] TRIGGER WARNING - WHAT DO YOU WANT. [OUTRAGEOUS RECORDS]

Witches

Aboriginal (Original mix)

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