2ND SINGLE DROP + OFFICIAL VIDEO

Berlin underground icon DJ DIE SOON channels chaos into cinema with “SAQ4IME,” a phantasmic sound-vision featuring Sara Persico. Inspired by Woman in the Dunes, Hiroo Tanaka’s direction builds an ambient dread that mirrors the track’s haunting, noise-scorched textures. A surreal glimpse into DJ DIE SOON’s visceral universe.

https://youtu.be/c2HGN0GPQ4g?si=-QoP2OkX0a7kmQsK

‘MY BROTHEL THE WIND’ IS SET FOR RELEASE ON 25TH JULY

DJ DIE SOON is the apocalyptic alter-ego Daisuke Imamura, whose performances of masked malice have been a fixture in the Berlin underground for the past decade. Announced today alongside its first single, upcoming record 'My Brothel The Wind' takes inspiration from Sun Ra at his most grotesque, conjuring a distorted phantasmagoria with an eclectic crew of compatriots like Rully Shabara, Sara Persico, and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi.

Out today, first single ‘Unfinished' is a pulsating chimera featuring animalistic vocals from Kiki Hitomi of Ninja Tune bass explorers King Midas Sound, with Italian MC Franco Franco’s verses snaking underneath the noisy onslaught:

"I instantly knew that the song would be the first on the album. Raw, heavy and noisy - these elements are crucial for my art and Kiki and Franco boosted them even more with their voices.” DJ DIE SOON

'My Brothel The Wind' shows DJ DIE SOON as an alchemist of distortion, transmuting the club-forward beats of his 2020 debut Kappa Slap and the seething horrorscapes of DIEMAJIN, his 2022 collaboration with Tokyo vocalist MA. Imamura’s obsession with noise stems from his upbringing in Tokyo, where he grew up hearing the deafening roar of trains every day. “The buildings were really tall, so the sounds reflected so much and it was so loud that you couldn’t even have a conversation on the phone. Hearing this noise every minute when living in this flat, it became a normal thing,” he says. While most would content themselves with avoiding loudness, DJ DIE SOON seeks to unpack its visceral potential.

While Sun Ra’s intergalactic Moog reached for the stars, DJ DIE SOON plunges into the depths of hell. Rather than a vision of the future, 'My Brothel The Wind' is a laugh-cry of despair in the face of a Hadean present. DJ DIE SOON confronts the world with a new hand-made mask, reborn in the ashes. Film director Hiroo Tanaka’s visual contributions in the album art, poster, and music video complete the album’s narrative, telling a story not of villainy but of phantom caprice in a dying world.

Mixed by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum Studio, Berlin (except B2, B3)
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin

Cover photography by Hiroo Tanaka/DOGGYTASTES
Photography assistant Joana Schurr
Font by Daisuke Imamura

For Tina,Miyu,Kaito

© + ℗ Drowned By Locals 2025 
DBL36LP

My Brothel The Wind

DJ DIE SOON - SAQ4IME ft. Sara Persico

Mélodie Blaison est une artiste française, flûtiste et compositrice basée à Bruxelles. Intégrant sa formation classique à une production expérimentale et électronique, sa recherche s'ancre dans un désir de créer des expériences narratives, immersives et sensorielles.
Avec une approche sensuelle et intime du souffle, sa musique, entre acoustique et synthétique, est un intervalle cérémoniel dont les présences fantomatiques et les harmonies organiques troublent les repères et étirent le temps en un voyage émotionnel.
Avant le Rivage, sorti en 2024 sur Wabi-Sabi Tapes, est son deuxième album, après VINTVRI, sorti sur Grande Rousse Disques en 2022.

Instagram:
@melodieblaison 

Mélodie Blaison - Sieste Ensemble @ Villa Riberolle - 01.06.2025

This album emerges from the rediscovery of an accordion following the loss of a close relativean instrument that had been a constant companion throughout their life, weaving itself into the fabric of childhood memory. At its core lies the recognition that both human and accordion share the same essential act: breathing. 

The accordion becomes a meditation on mortality and memory, its bellows expanding and contracting like "lungs", its air valve releasing pure breath without melody—the raw pneumatic essence of life itself. Every sound originates from this single instrument, largely unprocessed, preserving the intimate relationship between human touch and mechanical response. 

It’s an investigation of how an instrument can hold the memory of hands that no longer play it. The mechanical whispers, the subtle articulations of metal and leather and wood become a language of remembrance, breathed rather than spoken.

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Arigto is an experimental composition project formed by Noah Haußmann and Sebastian Stauß, based in Berlin and Leipzig. They have released three EPs so far and three full-lengths: ’unseen untold forgotten’ which came out on Noisia’s Division label, ’Pretense’ released in 2021, and the most recent one ’Lukuss’ released in 2024. Additionally, they have had appearances on the Berlin-based imprint 7K!, Osaka-based Depth of Decay, and evo-natura.

https://soundcloud.com/arigto
https://www.instagram.com/arigto_/

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Premiere: Arigto - Mortal Vail

digital/tape: https://libraryofmodernsound.bandcamp.com/album/alternatives

nov 2019 - feb 2020. probably still my fav bassline i've ever written.

i've been uploading a lot of older stuff recently, but should have new stuff soon.

microsamples (don't ask me where):
"DJ Topcat - A2 Untitled" 
"Limp Wrist - Limp Wrist vs. Dr Laura" 
"Toshiki Kadomatsu - Girl In The Box" 
"Hiroshi Sato - Lady of the Nile" 
"Claudia Ashley - C'est La Vie (Part 1)" 
"Bitch Ass Darius - Nympho" 
"Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two" 
"DJ Deeon - Perc."

[MODE]

https://soundcloud.com/imberbe1

No center
Only echoes and erosion
Half-lit
Slowly dragging

"Alpin Dub" comes from Imberbe's second full-length album "Presence." Pre-order here: https://imberbe.bandcamp.com/album/presence

Imberbe - Alpin Dub

messing around with colundi dunno perhaps not wise

ColundiOffset

https://exethyl.bandcamp.com/album/exethyl

Exethyl

Teelexyt (out now @ tokinogake)

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“Not nostalgia, but memory.

Do the warped boleros on water-damaged tape sound the same in Saigon as they do in Havana? Is it the trait of memory or the Romance of dancing cheek to cheek that is the real undercurrent of boleros, or is it the sleeping warmth of memory being invented by the synesthesia of a true listener?

I believe these are some of the questions raised and cryptically answered by doris dana’s 𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒂 mixtape. Mónica Mesa, the Colombian sound artist who now works out of North Carolina, conjures up imagery so vibrant and familiar that to say it is “cinematic” would not do justice to the narrative the music produces. Through field recordings, indistinct chatter, and the bolero music itself, Mesa invents a new form of the genre, much like the permutation of boleros in Vietnam, which are slower in tempo.

Mesa recalls the sounds of their parents and grandparents and how she associates the ever-present musical style throughout their life. In this hour-long mixtape, we share in her imperfections to recall memory as we slog through the haze of what is remembered, what we are fed in culture as memory, and how we interact with others to clarify recollection. Where nostalgia seeks to implant memory in your mind and heart for the purpose of selling you a past that glosses over imperfection, true memory is foggy, left-handed, and rubbed dark with eraser marks of corrections made and made again.

A depiction of one’s own recollection is often brightened and polished for consumption, but this mixtape truly shows the cracks in our foundations. Not unlike a Frank O’Hara poem, in which trying to remember which day or month it is enters the lines of the poetry, or how in Calvino’s 𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, Marco Polo begins recalling billboards and discarded refrigerators in his tale of the Orient to Kublai Khan, showing that the narrator is faulty in further presenting memories of another’s memories. This complexity draws you in, and you are rewarded with a sonic envisioning that many have attempted but few have achieved so deftly as doris dana.”

- David Coccagna, September 2025

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doris dana is the sound project of Colombian-born artist Mónica Mesa, exploring the emotional tonalities of liminal spaces through field recordings, slow-moving drones, whispered vocals, and sparse, reverb-soaked electro-acoustic instruments. Named after Gabriela Mistral’s editor and confidante, doris dana gestures toward the study of quiet forms of intimacy and memory in sound.

Their latest album, 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 (Somewhere Press, 2024), offers a meditative, immersive listening experience. Mesa is also one half of the duo bad lsd trips, whose self-titled album and most recent release, 𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕 (enmossed, 2025), expand on similarly experimental sonic territories.

In addition, she hosts No era sólida on Radio TNP—an hour-long mix series delving into the most introspective edges of sound, featuring experimental, cinematic, and free-form compositions that invite deep emotional engagement. 

recorded by Mónica Mesa
audio finalized by Glyn Maier 

lado b [Preview Clip] (ENMX-xe)

This track is part of a free compilation by Jehm Records. Download here : http://www.jehmrecords.com/artists/compilation1.html

c_c - flash

c_c is solo, i also play in OD Bongo, A_R_C_C, Orchestral Heat...
edribou@gmail.com
c_c releases list :
2024 : Six Crossings on ZamZamRec, vinyl and digital : https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/six-crossings
2023 : Voltiges on In Paradisum, tape and digital : https://inparadisum.bandcamp.com/album/voltiges
2022 : Gentianes et Myrtilles on Cold Moss, tape and digital : https://coldmoss.bandcamp.com/album/gentianes-et-myrtilles
2022 : split with Loto Retina on Prix Libre Records, tape and digital :
https://prixlibrerecord.bandcamp.com/album/loto-retina-c-c?fbclid=IwAR042rXU-vpoOvEIRwrms_vsGRyQlaoSElyuPYZ-9RZUH5DGeuiO5gKZhxU
2021 : IKEA on Da!HeardIt, tape and digital : https://dahearditrecords.bandcamp.com/album/d-hr-54-ikea
2021 : Bouclé-e-s on Krut, digital : 
https://krutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/boucl-e-s
2018 : Brumas, Nieblas, Neblinas on ZAMZAM, tape and digital : https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/brumas-nieblas-neblinas
2017 : Abymes EP on Dataglitch, 12'' and digital : https://dataglitch.bandcamp.com/album/abymes
2017 : Album Impendulo on Da! Heard It recs, tape, plexidisc and digital :
https://www.daheardit-records.net/en/discography/dhr-34#release
2016 : Split tape with Genghis on Small But Hard : 
http://www.small-but-hard.com/products/572068-genghis-c_c-split-ep-cassette-digital
2012 : Album Retro/Action on Bedroom Research and Third Type Tapes :
http://bedroomresearch.bandcamp.com/album/retro-action
http://www.thirdtypetapes.com/page/ttt01-c-c-retro-action

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