"Foggy downtempo atmospheric mix to feel and dissociate for a second in a warm fog. Big floor energy as I like to call these stoner moods."

Perila is a St. Petersburg-born, Berlin-based sound and visual artist, DJ and performer who works to explore the sensitive borderlines and depths of subtle matter. Her music explores thick narratives with shifting moods and textures, allowing the listener to drift through a rich psychedelic sound palette. Perila’s passion for radio led her to curate and design Berlin Community Radio, where she hosted monthly for four years, and to co-found Russian online station radio.syg.ma which specializes in experimental soundscapes. In addition to showcasing her unique ventures through ambient music, her show has also welcomed the likes of Andrew Pekler, Dynamo Dreesen, and Tomoko Sauvage. Perila also curates an online community WET (Weird Erotic Tension), which explores ideas of sonic sexuality in mixing spoken word, poetry, ASMR and field recordings. Since 2020 Perila has been involved with the musical projects Aseptic Stir, LOG, and Critical Amnesia.

Links:
http://zakharenko.es/
https://soundcloud.com/perila
https://www.instagram.com/_perila/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7121715-Perila

Soundscapes Volume 2 • Perila - One Leg Stroking You Another In Water

With 𝑽𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒄𝒕, exael’s offering to the ENXPL series, the artist furthers their exploration of what they refer to as “the jester’s gaze”, wherein a variable array of emotions of the fool are less than obvious to decode. In this emotively charged interzonal reflection point, exael probes these psychedelic anxieties through eight varying tracks of accomplished electronic music production. Excavating the root role of the jester and it’s cosmic objecthood, exael takes on a synchronous identity; human and computer, jester and virus, superimposed. Far from a glistening ambient escapism, or sentimental shoegaze meditations, or obligatory club tropes, exael has created a sonic terrain unique to their own narrative and positionality as an artist. Side A of 𝑽𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒄𝒕 showcases exael’s comfort in fast tempo constructions, while the B side offers slower tempoed ventures with guest vocal duties by writer Zoe Darsee moving between trip-hop and industrial affectations.

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exael is an alias of Naemi, an artist residing in Berlin. Their work under this moniker aims to upend elements of divergent sonic aesthetics and musical styles, reassembling them with the intent to create diffuse, mulitfunctional contexts. Utilizing exael as an avatar, Naemi attempts to access a collective subconscious via their own, externally processing the sounds and images that permeate contemporary life. Thus, highlighting the ways in which people merge and re-combine with culture on a molecular level as a result of this near-constant immersion. They present stimulating, lysergic sounds in an organic and explorative manner instead of the sometimes exhausting vibe of highly-calculated, experimental club music.

Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Design by RJM Vanderheyden 

@exael

Vanishing Act

exael - Acid Hiccup (ENXPL18)

Intertoto - Isostar

The audio play “Perfect Pattern” by Danish artist Nic Krog weaves a narrative about the dynamics of home life, queer relationships, hygiene practices, routine, ritual, and control. The initial spatial audio work was conceived as the final project of Nic Krog’s Master’s degree for the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program at Berlin’s Universität der Künste. The distributed version of “Perfect Pattern” is a stereo reformatting of the audio play for compact disc, set for release March 2025 on Nick Klein’s Psychic Liberation imprint. “Perfect Pattern” is the first release under Nic Krog’s own name, after changing from their former artist moniker Misantrop with releases and features on Opal, Foul-Up and Lime Lodge.

Their artistic trajectory is characterized through a diaristic approach, recounting mental processes and psychological baggage from growing up as a queer outlier in a smalltown of Denmark. The work traces the metamorphosis of the colloquial introvert to their negotiation of place in the hedonistic capital of Berlin, Germany. Krog further expands:

"As evidenced on my debut album “Reproaching the Absurd” (Opal, 2021), depression was an enduring battle spanning many years which impeded my overall well-being and stifled my creative output. Around the time of creating the album, however, I gradually overcame depression and simultaneously began casting aside my fear of exposing my vulnerability. My new audio play, “Perfect Pattern”, is my first foray into an overt narrative style, presenting a raw portrayal of a different kind of emotional and psychological self-awareness."

“Perfect Pattern” both extends and diverges from Nic Krog’s distinct and volatile blend of bass-heavy club music juxtaposed with subversive sound art and spoken word, cementing Krog’s fabulous misfitism. Twentieth century experimental compositional music (in particular Edgar Varèse's “Ionisation”), 90s queer house music, and most significantly the storytelling of soap operas and Jean-Luc Godard's “Le Mépris” are the formal canon that reinforces the architecture of “Perfect Pattern”. Further, the collaborative efforts of Dennis Cooper and Peter Rehberg for Gisèle Vienne are a mapping for the rhizome of ideas Krog manifests.

Here Krog steps out from behind the veil of the moniker of Misantrop, while not fully departing sonically or thematically, but blending the old and new, the bored and the blue, with meticulous harmony and routine. 
credits
releases March 15, 2025

Written, composed, performed, programmed and produced by Nicolai Vesterkær Krog, except Part 9 which rewrites a scene from “Le Mépris” by Jean-Luc Godard (based on the book “Il disprezzo” by Alberto Moravia).
“Pattern Theme for Edgard Varése” is an homage to “Ionisation” by Edgard Varése.
Mixed by Mike Davis at Wolfshark Mastering.
Mastered by Glyn Maier.
Photographs by Nicolai Vesterkær Krog.
Design by Dominique Saiegh.
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Perfect Pattern

PLIB033 - NIC KROG - PERFECT PATTERN PARTS 12-13-14

David Lynch - Excerpt from Rabbits
the concept horse - brand new descriptions [Students of Decay]
Pavel Milyakov & Lucas Dupuy - path [PSY X]
Modernist - Practical fishkeeping [Language Instinct]
Eustress - ms mrs [Cold Storage]
Blear Moon - Foreboding [Immersive Love]
Undveld - unreleased [forthcoming on Amulet of Tears]
Field Designer - Lovely legs [forthcoming on Amulet of Tears]
Patricia Wolf - Trophic Cascade 
Tim Hecker - Sunset Key Melt [kranky]
Vanity Productions - In A Purple Light [Polymorphism]
doris dana - important information enclosed [soak]
secret getii - pretty world extinction [soak]
usof - belly [Theory Therapy]
Kibosh - Air Spiral [self-released]

Amulet of Tears @ Radio Vilnius #10 / January 28th, 2025

from the compilation for the 10th anniversary of the splendid label  re:st  //////
to buy or support: https://relationreset.bandcamp.com/album/ten

released December 20, 2024

Artwork by Leo Matkovic.

Ekin Fil - Ayrılamaz

Upon the arc of constellations: 
Tensed between bodies
Dance between our fingers 
Ember, that lingers

Already innate—

Abides what dwells, mesh of our hands 
Brush softly the wheels of what it craves

Beneath the tremors of unseen tides 
Burns with the heat of dust and rush

Aloft in the quiet rhythm of luminaries, through the metaphysical: echoes waltz beneath the currents and between darkened domes. A weightless rhythm carried slow, where horizon loosens its hold upon the threshold for it is out of reach.

Based in Texas, USA, Field Designer is the creative force behind Language Instinct & Glacial Anatomy. Ventures across the essence of tension-elements like: the raw, unpredictable nature of distortion within serenity and intensity, that is both expansive and constrained.

Aesthetic Limitations

Field Designer - Residents say

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/guests-205-xalt-xcess
https://repulsexplosif.bandcamp.com/album/diamond-stars
https://soundcloud.com/xaltxcess

GUESTS

GUESTS 205 – Xalt Xcess

dwestu

Vanishing Dreams is a quiet act of emotional rescue. A musical diary where it’s okay to cry.
Delicate piano and cello trace the fading outlines of memories, of a girl once loved, of dreams now dissolving.
Each piece holds a breath, a pause, a fragment... Something almost lost, still aching to be heard.

Ekin Fil - Ayrılamaz

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