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Drowned By Locals marks its fifth anniversary with a three-volume digital anthology and a limited printed manifesto, Black Circle, written by Ian Bruner and published by Drowned By Public.

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Rather than serving as a retrospective, the anthology traces the label’s evolving sound, its expanding cohort of misfits, and its unfolding trajectory. Across the three volumes, DBL assembles new works, long-buried material, and contributions from artists connected to the label through releases, radio, dormant ideas, or future intentions. Taken together, they form a portrait of the label’s instinctive curatorial logic — pairing worlds that should not, by any reasonable measure, coexist.

Release Schedule 
Volume I: Pornographic-Time, Vol. I — The Pornographic-Tantalus — November 28, 2025 
Volume II: Pornographic-Time, Vol. II — The Continuous Present — December 19, 2025 
Volume III: Pornographic-Time, Vol. III — The Horizonless Interface — January 30, 2026

All volumes draw their titles and thematic direction from Black Circle. The manifesto describes “pornographic-time” as a condition in which desire is continuously activated but never fulfilled. It’s the experience of being pulled outward by images, demands, and expectations faster than one can return to oneself. You remain visible, but rarely seen.

Each volume adopts a different facet of this state.

Volume I — The Pornographic-Tantalus
“Each gesture toward conclusion makes the object recede. Tantalus stands beneath bowed fruit trees, but as she moves to consume, the branch bends away. With each pang of thirst, the water ebbs further.”

Volume II — The Continuous Present
“Because of its accelerated pace, pornographic-time both appears and vanishes instantly—a cybernetic loop, a continuous present. Overfull and empty. Life collapses into micro-moments that disappear as soon as they arrive.”

Volume III — The Horizonless Interface
“Both the targeted individual and the pornographic-Tantalus occupy the time-space of the horizonless interface, hived in algorithmic neurological pathways and pathologies, resulting in a bare life layered with compulsive and neurotic loops of behavior.”

Black Circle expands these ideas into print, combining Bruner’s text with visual contributions from more than twenty artists. Released in a hand-numbered run of 100 copies, it will be available independently or bundled with the anniversary T-shirt. All physical editions include the full three-volume digital anthology.

releases November 28, 2025

Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin
Artwork & design by Giovanni Murolo
Curation by Laith Demashqieh
Manifesto: Black Circle — text by Ian Bruner (published by Drowned By Public, printed edition: hand-numbered run of 100 copies)

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Pornographic-Time, Vol. I: The Pornographic-Tantalus

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Unleash the Beast
dl - https://sportdj.bandcamp.com/track/unleashed

Club Edits Compilation [2021 - 2025] and Powertrance 2 soon

Unleashed

Part of @goddezztemple new V/A ENOCHIA out everywhere on the 26th of November 😇😇😇

Pre-order on Bandcamp via the 'Buy' link

Artwork by @axisvictor

Waxwing Angel

Second single from from an album forthcoming on MirrorWorld.

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@mirrorworld-129984733

What is it, you think, that you're doing? Care to explain, bub? Eh? Bud? Hm? Toots? Explain yourself, make clear to me what it could possibly be that you are enacting. I can't quite tell. Not a deficiency on my part or a paralysing incapacity for perception I'm just curious. No, seriously, I want to know! What is it? Is it famous tex's 'sinusa', forthcoming on MirrorWorld, premiered by Madjestic Kasual? Is that it? It is that? It's that? That's what it is? It's? It's.

famous tex - sinusa [MK PREMIERE]

TAKE MY HAND

Forgetting

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JAGELLO

@heavenfirst is a Russian producer currently at the very forefront of deconstructed club’s sonic output. Their work straddles the mode’s pairing of hyperkinetic, chameleonic club tracks and spectral ambience. In HEAVENFIRST’s case, few producers more typify deconstructed club’s extreme extratextual liberty. Its particular successes in translating, degrading and wilding any notion of a “continuum” unto the point of manic freshness. Like what if a savant exploited every classic in the library then lit the section on fire. This is what HEAVENFIRST’s music and mixes sound like. Mastery from the hands of an arsonist. The ashes of every page as poem. The contradictory equality of deliberate destruction and conservation.

HEAVENFIRST’s Realist mix becomes a study of where post-club’s omnivorosity exceeds a cyclical referentiality and demonstrates a legitimate generic boundlessness. Drops that sound like skewered brostep for four bars, then engorge miami bass, then another drop comes in seconds and it becomes clear we’re dealing with real alienality - a music so excitingly slippery that our only way of attempting to contain it is admit an insufficient language to describe its uncontainability. This is less a maximalist eschatology of electronics - what happens where pure musical voracity amalgamates everything into virtuosic performance - than an earnest feat of accelerationist creativity. A love-letter to drums and possibility, to momentum and moments where you cannot think for you sense something before language, the sort of dizziness borne from the recognition that what is impossible is actualized in a series of instances of daring. HEAVENFIRST’s mix doesn’t have a crescendo. It feels merely like it stops to take a breath.

tracklist - 

HEAVENFIRST - substanceabuse
HEAVENFIRST - ID
whiterose - ravX
Lag Switch - Abyss Watcher
HEAVENFIRST - EGOISTIC
HEAVENFIRST, VALKIN -  HYPERTENSION
HEAVENFIRST - DEAD END
HEAVENFIRST - CHOKE
HEAVENFIRST - HARM
HEAVENFIRST - DYSMORPHIA
Sewerslvt - Cyberia Lyr3
Sihk X Water Spirit - Funky
maniken05 - speed
WATER SPIRIT & QUARKEE - ECHO LAYER
yumeo - Naious (The Silence remix)
Skrillex - ZEET NOISE
Koreless - Seven
Sigur Rós - Glóð

art by https://www.instagram.com/matildastreetart/

Realist Alive Radio 033: HEAVENFIRST

A slowly unfolding sonic nebula where soft synthesizers intertwine with distant echoes and whispers of emptiness.

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Cover: www.instagram.com/bloodythinkpad/ and www.instagram.com/asvanyviz2/

Mix/Master: Szrogh Attila

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