State Of The Ether Episode #26
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This edition features a guest mix by longtime friends Leroy Se Meurt. They were asked to play obscure and unsettling yet romantic music. And they delivered. From Rhythmic Noise to Minimal Wave to Hardcore. Buckle up!
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State Of The Ether is a bi-monthly radio show on Operator Radio. Its focus lies on all things body music. Aiming to showcase artists on the axis Rotterdam ↔ Leipzig. Unreleased, unfinished and not quite thought out tracks are thrown into the mix.
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Alles kann, nichts muss.

State Of The Ether | Episode 26 | Leroy Se Meurt

We are very happy to announce you a proper studio quality release. Burning Elegy is a five-track EP produced by the Paris based artist Forbidden Desires, also known as Lorako. The release is a dive where gothic atmosphere collides with industrial force. Drawing from the raw intensity of body music and fractured, broken beat rhythms, this release pulses with urgency and emotional weight.
Stark, sorrow-laced vocals cut through metallic textures and driving low-end, tracing themes of isolation, inner conflict, and emotional decay.

Credits:
Produced and mixed: Forbidden Desires
Vocals: Forbidden Desires
Mastering: Kill Shelter
Artwork: Diana Tolstovaite
Format: Digital
Release date: 30th of May / 2025
Pre-order here: https://metamoto.bandcamp.com/album/forbidden-desires-burning-elegy

Forbidden Desires:
SC: https://soundcloud.com/looorako
IG: https://www.instagram.com/looorako
BC: https://lorako.bandcamp.com/

META MOTO:
SC: https://soundcloud.com/metamoto
IG: https://www.instagram.com/metamotometamoto/
BC: https://lorako.bandcamp.com/

Pre-Order

Forbidden Desires - Burning Elegy (Preview)

Pride Or Die is Dalmata Daniel’s new fundraiser compilation released in solidarity with Budapest Pride.

In March 2025 the Hungarian Parliament rewrote the country’s assembly law, tightening the rules for all public demonstrations — but with wording clearly aimed at shutting down Pride. The amendment threatens marchers and organisers with fines. It follows a 2020 ban on legal gender recognition and the 2021 law censoring LGBTQ+ content for minors.

Meanwhile, the government continues to target civil organisations more broadly, signalling an even darker outlook for the future of democratic rights and community spaces in Hungary.

To answer this attack on civil and queer rights, Dalmata Daniel teamed up with 34 artists from Hungary and across the globe to contribute with their tracks. The result is a diverse, powerful collection that channels solidarity, resistance, and care through sound.

All proceeds will be donated to the Budapest Pride Foundation.

• www.dalmatadaniel.bandcamp.com

@djchupacabras
@dalmata-daniel


Support for Solidarity

PREMIERE : Chupacabras - A Bit Faster [DDC08]

Monday 9th June - Canadian synth overlord Kontravoid returns to Glasgow with another keyboard king, Buzz Kull from Australia, another ace double bill from the Pop Mutations crew! Both have totally kicked ass when they've played here before, seeing em together should be something special! Come early for some tunes along these lines from me too from 7PM - https://tickets-scotland.com/events.html?event_method=viewevent&event_id=1ec09ab9-d98e-11ef-aa46-02a84d0e6a73

Buzz Kull - Christina
Patriarchy - Suffer (Kontravoid Remix)
Forbidden Desires - Body Lies Awake
INVA-ID - Slug (Wetworks Mix)
Mentallo & The Fixer - Judgment Executed In The Low Plain Of Decision
Rhys Fulber - New Despotism
Celldöd - På Liv Och Död - 07 På Liv Och Död
DSM-V - Function
Xordox - Planet Xordox
Kontravoid - Engage
Fluke - Snapshot
The Bleak Engineers - Metal Gear
Nuxx Vomica - FTEV
Buzz Kull - Rise From Your Grave
Sextile - Women Respond To Bass
Marie Davidson - Contrarian
The Prodigy - Claustrophobic Sting
Ohgr - Pore
Grecco Romanek - Party Donor
Transmigration - Extraction Process
Kontravoid - In The End

Kontravoid / Buzz Kull Hype Mix (synth, EBM, industrial, acid, rave)

Eclectic selections that blur the lines between acid, breaks, disco, electro, EBM, new wave, house, IDM, industrial, techno, and everything in between

www.operator-radio.com

Max Sinclair - 29th May 2025

Listen / Download: https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/track/leroy-se-meurt-pas-ma-croix

With Pas Ma Croix ("Not My Cross"), Leroy Se Meurt delivers a fierce opening statement to their new album, a track that hits with the force of a protest chant. The phrase, repeated like a mantra, rejects imposed burdens and inherited guilt. "We didn’t ask for this. We didn’t agree to this. So why should we carry the weight?"

Driven by raw, minimalist electronics, Pas Ma Croix is both a refusal and a release, bold, urgent, and unafraid. Uncompromising in message and stripped of ornament, it offers no frills, no distraction. Just pure kinetic energy designed to ignite dancefloors and channel collective frustration into movement and resistance.

This single is the first glimpse into "Hier Pour Tojours" (MNQ 168) , Leroy Se Meurt’s forthcoming full-length album out in October 2025 on Mannequin Records 





Leroy Se Meurt - Pas Ma Croix

Today on Meta Moto Premieres we have a label from Dundee, UK with the latest release by The Spy - 'Spiral'. This record feels like it was inevitable with previous releases from The Spy on the label's compilations dating back to 2021. Wessel is an artist Hilltown Disco has spent a long time admiring who fits the ethos perfectly.

5 synth-driven, emotive electro tracks (plus 2 digital bonuses), written and produced in the Netherlands with a new take on ‘Evil Wins’ by Berlin based electro don, Privacy. Will be released on wax on 30th of June 2025.

Credits: 
Produced & written - The Spy
Mastered: Reel Mastering
Label: Hilltown Disco
Distro: Bordello A Parigi
Promo: RISEN
Format: Vinyl / Digital
Release date: 30th Jun / 2025
Pre-order here: https://hilltowndiscouk.bandcamp.com/album/hil013-spiral

The Spy:
SC: https://soundcloud.com/thespy808303
IG: https://www.instagram.com/the.spy.808.303
FB: https://www.facebook.com/thespy808303

Hilltown Disco:
SC: https://soundcloud.com/hilltown-disco
IG: https://www.instagram.com/hilltown.disco
FB: https://www.facebook.com/hilltowndiscodundee

MM PREMIERE 092 | The Spy - Not Sorry [Hilltown Disco]

In Strict Confidence – Inside (Inside Out Remix)
Vomito Negro – Monday
Digital Poodle – Attempt
Public Relations – New Beat Mind
Derriere Le Mirroir – Just Like You
Krokakai – Victim of Success
Trenton Chase – Immersion
Bakterielle Infektion – On Ice
Equinoxious – Axis
Religius Order – Devotion feat. Lbeeze
Filmmaker – Post Privicy
Humanoid Target Practice – Medication
Unconscious – Tutto è Copia
Apoptygma Berzerk – Backdraft
Neud Photo – Niht Mare
Scarpa Flow – Sins (Demo)
G4Yfx – So Tired of Being Here
Nuclear Waves – Northern Lights
Markus Midnight – The Fashion
Krilian Camera – Blue Room

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BIO

Italian dj raised in the outskirts of Geneva, Pastram steps out under the banner of Cruel Machine Booking. Distinctly drawn towards dark atmospheres, Pastram developed a strong focus on raw rhythmics, assuming an intense form of communication where cathartic echoes and cold synths become intricate. An intense musical fusion of the past and the present transcending the line between body music, grinding post punk, industrial, and wave.

@pastram-music
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Listen to Mechanical Breakdown on KEXP, hosted by Sharlese, every Saturday AM (Friday night) from 1-3 AM PST // 10 AM - 12 PM CET || www.kexp.org/shows/mechanical-breakdown/

Pastram Guest Mix for Mechanical Breakdown on KEXP

The second mix in the Hybrid Moment x Egor Strelkov series comes from Kyiv-based DJ and producer Lvcerate — an artist whose approach gravitates toward the darker, less obvious edges of dance music.

Lvcerate is also the curator of the Cultivating Discipline show on Fade Radio.

His style blends minimalism with a dramatic yet confident atmosphere, acid-tinged textures, aggressive percussion, and an avant-garde sensibility. Each of his mixes is an intimate story that opens a path to a deeper connection with sound.

Lvcerate - Hybrid Mix - 028

Out September 5th
Available here: https://lnk.to/LOVECUTS

https://soundcloud.com/yearsofdenial

Prolific duo Years of Denial return to Veyl with another genre bending, dance floor ready EP titled Love Cuts.

Acting as a transit between 2023’s Suicide Disco 2 and the forthcoming Suicide Disco 3, Love Cuts explores the various angles of love - ranging from the digital to the forbidden, toxic to erotic and beyond. A blend of death rock, future goth, EBM and rave, we once again find the project’s poetic, powerful lyrics fusing with motorized beats and 4x4 rhythms.

Kicking things off is the shadowy, death rock inspired, "Devil in a Skirt", an infectious ballad about a temptress that may not be what she seems. Next up, "Affaire de Coeur" delivers body fuelled stabs which elegantly bleeds into "Hide & Sick", a more high energy cut, set to scorch the floor. "We Are The Party" keeps the pulse pounding with your next EBM anthem while "In Your Bed" shatters sonic boundaries and leaves things drenched in acid rave. "AI Lover" closes things out with more future goth rave energy which acts as both a warning and a desire for more.

Love Cuts builds on Years of Denial’s previous work while setting the stage for what’s to come. Commanding vocals and dominating beats transmit a powerful message of both the dystopian and euphoric. Remaining uncategorizable, the project continues to evolve their unique sound while burning a path toward the future.

Years of Denial booking contact: antonia@altaragency.com

Years Of Denial - 'Love Cuts EP' (clips) | VEYL045

Run The Underworld w/ Filmmaker: 13th August '25

Glasgow-based DJ, has played alongside the likes of Keepsakes, Christina Sealey of Orphx, DJ Andi of Synthicide (NYC) and JD Twitch of Optimo, and put on international live guests such as Multiple Man, Celldod, Autumns, and Qual.

Kontravoid / Buzz Kull Hype Mix (synth, EBM, industrial, acid, rave)

Dave NULL / VOID

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