Recorded at DARKRED 22.07.23 | Lviv, Ukraine

Lutyi:
@podarok
www.instagram.com/djlutyi

DARKRED:
@darked_red
www.instagram.com/darked_red

Lutyi | DARKRED 22.07.23

NOT CONSTANTINE – refined explorer of dark aesthetics. The audio-visual experiences he provides are emotional, raw, and explicit, at times profoundly intense, yet always authentic and containing unique emanations. His sound is multilayered and heterogeneous, formed by a fusion of metallic, dissonant, and simultaneously mournful extracts, immersed in deep bass chasms and veils of noise. As a result, through this acoustic symbiosis, something from a parallel existence pierces through the fabric of reality — alike sorrow or longing for an unrealized, unexperienced version of ourselves. These manifestations resemble a pale and hardly noticeable voice of our inner self, indicating the path to our true personality with an unsettling hum, unfolding us towards our inner home and diverting us from the precipice of living someone else's life.

His performances are paradoxical, akin to a night forest stroll, where everything turns us inward, face to face with our own horrors. The entire focus during his acts is shifted to the "space in between," as the connection with the performer primarily occurs through acoustic vibrations. The emphasis on revealing personal experience is achieved without exposing his personality, his ego, as the contact unfolds purely in the realm of acoustic vibrations.

NOT CONSTANTINE:
@not-constantine
www.instagram.com/not.constantine

DARKRED:
@darked_red
www.instagram.com/darked_red

DARKRED Session 001 - Not Constantine

stonefromthesky (Oleksii Zinchenko) – musician, composer and sound designer from Kyiv (Ukraine). His sound travels across the palette of experimental genres. It combines atmospheric textures and deep bass, organic, naturally recorded samples as well as "cold" technogenic sounds synthesized by computer algorithms.

He released two full-length albums, several EPs, produced a soundtrack for the game Undungeon, and several remixes (including ones for Americans Arms and Sleepers and Phantogram). He shared the stage with Sam Slater, group A, Cluster Lizard, Ministry, and others at festivals such as Inne Brzmienia Art'n'Music Festival, ATOM, Black! Factory, Neformat Fest, and more. His latest work, "Zero Origin," was released at the end of 2022. And here we are glad to invite you to check out his musical taste by listening to his DJ-set.

stonefromthesky:
@stonefromthesky
www.instagram.com/stonefromthesky

DARKRED:
@darked_red
www.instagram.com/darked_red

DARKRED Session 002 - stonefromthesky

On a deep journey of self-reflection with RHA we will gradually traverse a path – from solitude to reunion, paved with a series of secrets and sentimental melancholy that inevitably leads to experiencing a new sound and spiritual journey. Here, any fleeting joy shatters against the rocks of reality, where each of us confronts the gloomy aspects of our existence and the eternal desire for escapism.

A two-hour session of self-reconnection will allow one to deeply feel forgotten and buried personal experiences, shattered self-belief, and self-denial. They constantly remind us that life is a series of mistakes that cannot be corrected and a series of losses that will live on in our memory.

This dark, tense mystical atmosphere and the whispering of unknown languages that speak incomprehensible messages to us easily evoke bouts of paranoia and the exacerbation of long-healed phobias, reflecting the same feelings that a person experiences during religious worship or deep personal tragedy.

RHA:
@rhaxstnc
https://www.instagram.com/rhaxstnc

DARKRED:
@darked_red
www.instagram.com/darked_red

DARKRED Session 003 - RHA

HELLIS FOX [Kyiv/Odesa, Ukraine] is a sound executor currently based in Berlin. Her work represents a fusion of all psychological experiences through the lens of her personal journey and worldview. It embodies an abstract energy that encompasses everything and nothing at once, symbolizing the profound nature of existence. The alter egos of humanity and the events of the past and future draw us into a mysterious vacuum of darkness, where the beauty of what we often overlook is revealed — the boundless layers of the unconscious. Light cannot penetrate here, as everything is consumed by an impenetrable gloom reminiscent of Vantablack, the darkest material on Earth, absorbing up to 99.9% of light and creating an illusion of total emptiness. At this threshold — on the event horizon — the mistakes and wounds of the psyche emerge, which we typically ignore. Yet within them lies an extraordinary and captivating beauty that is seldom contemplated.

ABOUT SET: 

This set is more than just a musical piece; it is an experiment and an exploration of new sound pathways, an attempt to return to my roots after a long period of isolation. By nature, I am an explorer, and for me, sound is something more than just a genre; it is a means of communication, a way to express what cannot be conveyed in words. By combining dark shades and bright flashes, I strive to recreate visual metaphors that reflect my inner struggle and search for truth. This is a challenge to the boundaries of reality and the heavy emotions associated with the war in my country, along with the constant loss of everything that has been dear to me. I delve into the hidden layers of my consciousness, intertwining existential themes with avant-garde techniques, attempting to evoke visual narratives that lead to reflection, experience, and sublimation. I seek to awaken hidden emotions, bringing solace and the realization that you are not alone, that even in the most hopeless situations, one can find the strength to move forward despite the seeming finality.

Hellis Fox:
@hellisfox
www.instagram.com/hellisfox

DARKRED:
@darked_red
www.instagram.com/darked_red

DARKRED Session 004 - Hellis Fox

B.A.R.K is a Tokyo-based industrial techno DJ who runs the label Experiment [Re-Cords] that combines Techno with Fetishism. His dark and hard style embodies pain, sadness, fear and anger in a fragile and dramatic way.

The unstable and distorted beauty that seems to break at the touch is extremely fleeting and strong.

"﻿﻿It's not Music, It’s ﻿Story Of Sound"﻿

B.A.R.K:
@yohei-onishi-261053662
www.instagram.com/b.a.r.k_experiment

DARKRED:
@darked_red
www.instagram.com/darked_red

DARKRED Session 005 - B.A.R.K

*This publication is a LIVE set recording.

Desert Drone is a live music project known for its dark, dramatic soundscapes blending harsh noise, raw techno and distorted, inhuman screams, enhanced by eurorack synths and drum machines. Beyond music, Desert Drone is also a visual artist, using videosynth machines, feedback loops, analog TVs and vintage gear to create dynamic, abstract visuals. He is the former Artistic Director and creator of Autonoma Industriale and now owner of Harsh Voices,  playing a significant role in Berlin’s underground music scene.

Desert Drone:
@desert-drone
www.linktr.ee/DesertDrone
www.instagram.com/desert.drone

DARKRED:
@darked_red
www.instagram.com/darked_red

DARKRED Session 006 - Desert Drone

Surreal East is the musical project of an artist who has been producing since 2011. With a background of experimenting across numerous genres like dark ambient, Cinematic Scores (OSTs for Movie and Video Game projects), trip-hop, breakbeat, post-rock, techno, doomcore, orchestrations and etc. the project is known for its ability to create deeply atmospheric, cold and immersive soundscapes. 

Surreal East's music is distinguished by its cinematic elements and an unpredictable dramaturgy, which adds an intriguing layer to every track. 

During the pandemic, Surreal East ventured into DJing and started perfoming with the mix of dark ambient, industrial drum&bass, crossbreed and hardcore. Then completly went into techno,
combining a passion for energetic beats with deep, cold atmospheric, mind-blending melodies.

By 2023, the artist had begun perfoming DJ sets alongside influential figures in the scene, such as Oguz, 6ejou, Parfait, Rouge, Skryption, In Verruf and Gabrielle Rites, the founder of the hard techno label and event series "INNERGATE".

Blending strong techno rhythms with deep atmospheric, cinematic and ritual mood, Surreal East's DJ sets have become a frequent feature at major events withing the hard techno community.

Surreal East:
@surreal_east2
www.instagram.com/surreal_east
www.youtube.com/@Surrealeast

DARKRED:
@darked_red
www.instagram.com/darked_red

DARKRED Session 007 - Surreal East

Italian-born, Glasgow-based and non-binary, 3SBAT (pronounced Esbat) is a DJ, producer and Left Hand Path practitioner working in the realm of Ritual Techno — a fusion of hunted industrial sounds, noise textures, ritualistic elements and broken beats.

Their performances have echoed through spaces like Tresor, About:blank, OHM, and Kit Kat Berlin, with appearances at queer underground parties including GEGEN and SUBVERTED.

A resident artist and part of Glasgow’s industrial collective A.D.S.R., 3SBAT’s sonic rituals have been released on Soma Records, Revok Records, VuMantra, Subverted, Tokyo’s Experiment Records, and Brutalism x Basseht. 

3SBAT :
@3sbat
www.instagram.com/3sbat666
www.linktr.ee/3SBAT

DARKRED:
@darked_red
www.instagram.com/darked_red

DARKRED Session 008 - 3SBAT

DARKRED – queer-friendly community, passionately embracing untrivial, extreme music genres and avant-garde art. We foster unusual artistic projects, aimed to explore different forms of intimacy and proximity as well as variety of freedom expressions. The main focus for our selections is candid, harsh, industrial and dissonantly textured sound, which opens additional layer of emotionality, provoking honest and sincere contact with our self. 

We believe that dark and dissonantly-vibed music can be outspokenly therapeutic and creates internal space for honest self-dialog and experiencing complex states. Darkness is immensely embracing. Therefore we find this aspect exceedingly important, while experiencing collective trauma in Ukraine, daily facing death, destruction, torture, rapes, finding new mass graves of civilians on the de-occupied territories.

Residents:
RHA - @rhaxstnc
Vaktsinaa - @vaktsinaa
Lutyi - @podarok

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