Copenhagen’s Jim Kimchi arrives next on the Realist Radio conveyor of phenoms in iconoclastic electronics.

Co-founder of the glitch.cool collective, Jim’s output approaches the uncategorisable, demolishing and reappropriating a lineage of IDM, glitch, neo-classical and ambient music. Behind some of the most mind-bending remixes in recent memory (Neon Priest, SABIWA, amaranth_todd) and a string of key 2022 EPs, Jim’s firmly been a Realist obsession for a minute now. With recent movements toward free jazz, post-club and noise distinguishing Jim’s upcoming work from prior releases, his mix stages an artist in an evolutionary period, glowing with the sense of imminence and essentiality.

The mix, comprised almost entirely of Jim’s unreleased tunes, exemplifies an artist in full control of a style of electronic experimentalism defying definition. Seeming to deconstruct a variety of club music, from jungle to DnB and Miami Bass, alongside flights into noise, sound-collage and the classical, it evokes both ecstasy and incomprehensibility. On first listen, I found myself at various times simply head-in-hands, muttering nonsensically. That picture, of a music inducing inarticulable awe, is the only real figure that encapsulates the quality of Jim’s work.

artwork by @frasier77777

tracklist:

00:00 - Unreleased
06:30 - Space Container
11:42 - Unreleased
16:58 - Unreleased
22:41 - Unreleased
26:07 - Unreleased collaboration
30:19 - Unreleased collaboration
33:52 - Unreleased collaboration

Realist Alive Radio 003: Jim Kimchi

STREAM/DOWNLOAD : 1216.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-mark-e-t

Recorded between January 14th, 2023 — June 13th, 2025
picture taken @ 53.01822, 18.5988

Writing, Production, Mixing and Visuals by Mikołaj Połonowicz

Nicolas Rodriguez (seeze) @ (06/NERIMAS) Electric Guitar
	https://open.spotify.com/artist/5OIZZtkzNYzJsQeuMrs7lC
	https://soundcloud.com/seezemusic

sunday!mark[e+]t

NERIMAS

@arigto

This album emerges from the rediscovery of an accordion following the loss of a close relative-
an instrument that had been a constant companion throughout their life, weaving itself into the fabric of childhood memory. At its core lies the recognition that both human and accordion share the same essential act: breathing. 
The accordion becomes a meditation on mortality and memory, its bellows expanding and contracting like "lungs", its air valve releasing pure breath without melody—the raw pneumatic essence of life itself. Every sound originates from this single instrument, largely unprocessed, preserving the intimate relationship between human touch and mechanical response.
It’s an investigation of how an instrument can hold the memory of hands that no longer play
it. The mechanical whispers, the subtle articulations of metal and leather and wood become
a language of remembrance, breathed rather than spoken."

premiere: ARIGTO - Confined Lungs [self-release]

Fragments

Long toiling at the most guttural of industrial-noise-hyperglitch hybridicity, when Liège’s @romanowitch unveiled a critical season substitute on glitch.cool this March, it represented the re-emergence of a fragmentary magician now adept with a music exclusively his own. This was an astonishing record excavating a sonic world original because it occupied no territory delimitable beyond the hands of its conductor.

Romanowitch’s music is one of the screeching soul of material. The squalls of cinder, bawlings of a foundry, the timescale of spark and friction and something embrously angered. Songs of soot and scraping - their mediating, generative sludge matched equally by the extemporaneous mode of composition. The relationship between the industrial and the computational is focalized, with this focus rendering overlaps between the codified and automotive comprehensible. Between bits and matter is a world of beings always escaping aestheticization yet always revelatory of activity. In Romanowitch’s music is a legion of constructive objects all conscious enough to escape reduction. A society of subordinate states whose slipperiness permits the listener to intimate a world of things particularly alive. A particularity that adumbrates a universal indeterminacy.  

His Realist mix follows the same track as ACSS. Murmurs of the human here intrude, as debodied yawns and moans, and in Daveed Diggs’ bookending vocals - never first-person, always contradictorily total, descriptive of the disappeared to the horror of night. Talk of bloody incidents so indecipherable as to be cosmic. There are shards of genericity, but no break nor pulsation nor hiss ever feels without the presence of something either monstrous or angelic, like Romanowitch saw heaven and hell in the energetic agentiality of every sound to emerge from a silent thing.

Tracklist:
Romanowitch - Slow portals (unreleased)
Aho Ssan - Away
Gonçalo Penas - Flores do corpo
Woulg - Late
Clipping - Baby don’t sleep
Dead Fader - Raw food (Roly Porter remix)
Prox.Bleep - Recursion Field (feat. Jim Kimchi)
Fausto Mercier - Angry People click more
Blawan - Toast
Klahrk & Kavari - Acres
Exploited body - Syrtis
UVB76 - Kang Kang Kang
Simon Grab - Regeneration (Ossia remix)
Seskamol - Oriental
Seskamol - Clouds
Emptyset - Function : Vulgar display of power (Roly porter remix)
Woulg - Lazy Fuck
Uno Datawangi - Night terror
Temp illusion - Two lands (SELM rework)
Anmon - Clock
Last Life - Jaila
Clipping - Killer (feat. Kill rogers)
Belief defect - No hope no fear (Surachai Nihilist mix)
Jim Kimchi - Backwards, through Concrete
Anmon - Orch-II
Aho ssan - Simulacrum III (Exploited Body remix)

Art by https://www.instagram.com/grinnallll/

Realist Alive Radio 018: Romanowitch

The Elements

haiori-fraps

co-founder of hyperglitch pioneers @glitch-dot-cool | @soup_lab is a producer based in Detroit. soup’s work has been coterminous with the development of hyperglitch, over a pair of EPs, live sets, and a number of singles and remixes, continually delineating and redrawing the possibilities of the genre. Across upwards of a decade of production, soup’s music has been persistently cutting-edge and persistent in its articulation of a sublimity readily available when computational tools become simultaneous with the shattered mouthing of experience.

One of the most beautiful things about soup’s Realist mix is its demarcation of hyperglitch as a glisteringly intertextual music. With glitch as a basis - and its tenets of emotive centrality and crystallisation via the systemic glitch - flickerings of all else become tinged with poetic importance. Touches of dubstep, future garage, caged tones reminiscent of French house. When glitch occurs it intimates alterity, some secretive crackling in perceived perfectibility. The fissure shoulders a humanity when it enters into cooperation with expression. The expression does not enter our world only as disruption, but a reformulation of the significance of what is broken apart and what is after broken. So when these other musics flicker, they do so not with nostalgia nor a parodic wink, but as composites of an overarching articulation of selfhood within the disrupt.

Many of these writings seem weekly to refer to potentialities, half-stoppered yet unstoppered voices - dubieties of hauntology and its unimaginative ahistoricity. soup’s mix is immediate. It does not disguise its urgency. Where it reappropriates, it colours with an exigency of feeling. It is heavenly straightaway and that itself is an adjuration to the radicality of beauty in the breakability of the at-hand.

tracklist:
0:00  soup - ID
0:27  soup - wind channels
2:07  soup x azura - ID
3:22  soup x azura - ID
4:48  soup - Diamond Eater
6:30  soup x azura - ID
8:00  Grape Milk - Sing in the Bathroom (soup remix)
10:30 soup - memorycore
13:33 Ghost Factory - It Will Be Okay. We Can Walk Through This Forest Together.
15:00 soup - 11111
17:30 soup - self creates self
19:30 soup - gasoline flipper
22:45 soup - ID
24:00 soup - ID
25:10 soup - ID
28:00 soup - 6666

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

Realist Alive Radio 022: soup

MASCARA

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cover art by:
@shibarimusic

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@dakha
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@shibarimusic
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