Feelings Matter

The first release on raghoul in 2025 will be the debut album ‘Sankara Never Died’ by Moroccan producer 3xOJ. This 9-track experimental bass album is packed with collaborations, featuring live drummers, vocalists, rappers and transverse flute-players, and will be the first release on the label to be made available on vinyl. ‘Sankara Never Died’ is the fruit of four years of labour and is a homage to the electronic sounds coming from this small but significant corner of the continent. Each track invites the listener into a universe of its own, and explores the different sounds that the artist has been working with over the past decade.

Having gained praise for his release Stasix on Nyege Nyege Tapes and EP Stork on Hakuna Kulala, 3xOJ is a Meknes-raised, Casablanca-based electronic music DJ and producer. His approach to music history and theory has brought him in contact with a wide range of styles and influences that he has learned to weave together with his love for contemporary club culture.

note from the heart

Let's not pretend that any of what we do and make as a label and people holds any value or makes any sense in a world where several genocides of our peoples can unfold before our very own eyes with total impunity of the international bodies that are supposed to keep humanity safe and sane. Daily, our screens, powered by the blood and lives of millions of our Congolese brothers and sisters, are overflowing with images that could only be from nightmares. But they're not. They are the horrifying daily realities of our Palestinian, Sudanese, Lebanese, Syrian, Yemeni and Congolese siblings subjected to the exploitation of natural resources, labour, and land. To those continuing to resist and defend their homeland, we owe you our lives. And from the white ruler, we ask: How do you expect us to create capital for you as you bury our women with their children still hiding in their bellies? How do you sleep at night knowing your peace is drenched in the stench of mass graves that were once hospitals? How do you want us to wake up and seize the day when you continue to seize our lands and futures with it?

Sankara Never Died is a catharsis, a purge of some sort. It is a reminder that the revolution is here and looks red, brown, and black.

From the world to Casablanca, back to the world.

pre-order

3xOJ - Sankara Never Died

//> Chase, el nuevo EP de Rumina,una fusión de techno, industrial y folklore, explorando espiritualidad y lo sobrenatural con percusiones, sintetizadores oscuros y ritmos que evocan la persecución y conexión ancestral. <3

Track: Quarry
Artist : Rumina (@ruminaa)
Album: Chase EP
Label: Precious Metals (@preciousmetalsx)
Release Date: 13 Jan 2025
Artwork Artist: Batıkan Kılıçaslan
https://www.instagram.com/b4ttre
Master: Imaabs (@imaabs)

Rumina - Quarry  //>>

The Shapeshift Spaceship universe is transfuturistic. Being at the boundary of states is not an anomaly in this universe, but a starting point.

Shapeshifting is a method of applied radical imagination that, in the manner of afro- and other emancipatory -futurisms, uses the spatiotemporal immensity of the future and intergalactic distances to declare a transfuturistic universe free from conventional gender and taxonomic reasoning.

The central motif of the Shapeshift Spaceship project – emancipation through the transformation of one's own shape – has an age-old parallel in music: it too uses the principle of constant ephemeral change, rhythmed by repetition, to create its own elusively passing beauty with the extraordinary capacity to transform human emotions along with its own change. The possible maximum of this intoxication with music is a state of ecstatic rapture, a transformation directly experienced through the moving body, accompanied with the awareness of the expanded nature of existence as an indivisible continuum of all its interconnected parts.

With the participation of following shapeshifters, queer, FLINTA, enby and LGBTQQIP2SAA artists: Anthr0morph & Oliver Torr, El Pelele, Evil M, Hihelga, Pope Sangreta, IDKLANG, Technopagan, HrrHrrHrrr, Dj Würm

The compilation is released as an editorial selection curated by Šimon Kadlčák in collaboration with MeetFactory and speedcoretrew.

The project was supported by the Prague City Hall, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague 5 and the State Culture Fund.

Link of the whole project Shapeshift Spaceship meetfactory.cz/cs/program/detail/shapeshift-spaceship

released by MeetFactory and speedcoretrew in January 2025.

mastered by KōNcHi

track n. 6, El Pelele - NO QUERER PERDONAR
produced by El Pelele and Astrosuka
mixed and mastered by Astrosuka
previously released by TRRUENO (2019)

cover design by Veronika Žilinská

evil m - kiss refund

Hello world <3
Here is an upcoming X-Ray LP with 13 tracks which has been written during the last 3 years. Its a big work for me and i'm very excited to present it to you.
Prolly its first ever deconstructed club literally edged on bones?
Forgotten and almost lost techic of cutting vinyls on x-rays films now is here to destruct the sounds of contemporary club.
First single "Selfie" is out now. Full release on 04.04.25.

Produced, composed and mastered by WULFFLUW XCIV.
Artworks and visuals by Sophie Nakonechnaia.

X-Ray Vinyl LP

Selfie

Exploited Body - Helix / Unravel

Exploited Body takes it back to the club with their latest two-track offering 'Helix / Unravel' - a pairing, that meshes the intensity you've come to expect, with newfound high-speed break experimentations.

'Helix' is a spiralling fever dream, with drums of tungsten skitter through the blaring sirens and posessed screeches, showing no signs of slowing down. 'Unravel' is deliverance, release. Incorporeal voices echo through the cracks of the ferocious drums, eventually submitting to the soaring, euphoric synths signalling the escape from the cycle.

’Helix / Unravel’ is out now via Changeless!

Written, produced, mixed & mastered by Nori Kin.
Artwork by Jesse Draxler & Nori Kin.

@exploitedbody


Labuta (ft. Yvu) (Iguana Remix)

DIGESTIVO