From forthcoming "Crone" - release May 25th - 2024

"i won't wait for you"

Mastering by @cellvl
Art by Mark Jarrell @markjarrellart

Crone

Earthstepper

DJ DIE SOON ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND SHARES ‘UNFINISHED’ FT. KIKI HITOMI & FRANCO FRANCO
‘MY BROTHEL THE WIND’ IS SET FOR RELEASE ON 25TH JULY

DJ DIE SOON is the apocalyptic alter-ego Daisuke Imamura, whose performances of masked malice have been a fixture in the Berlin underground for the past decade. Announced today alongside its first single, upcoming record 'My Brothel The Wind' takes inspiration from Sun Ra at his most grotesque, conjuring a distorted phantasmagoria with an eclectic crew of compatriots like Rully Shabara, Sara Persico, and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi.

Out today, first single ‘Unfinished' is a pulsating chimera featuring animalistic vocals from Kiki Hitomi of Ninja Tune bass explorers King Midas Sound, with Italian MC Franco Franco’s verses snaking underneath the noisy onslaught:

"I instantly knew that the song would be the first on the album. Raw, heavy and noisy - these elements are crucial for my art and Kiki and Franco boosted them even more with their voices.” DJ DIE SOON

'My Brothel The Wind' shows DJ DIE SOON as an alchemist of distortion, transmuting the club-forward beats of his 2020 debut Kappa Slap and the seething horrorscapes of DIEMAJIN, his 2022 collaboration with Tokyo vocalist MA. Imamura’s obsession with noise stems from his upbringing in Tokyo, where he grew up hearing the deafening roar of trains every day. “The buildings were really tall, so the sounds reflected so much and it was so loud that you couldn’t even have a conversation on the phone. Hearing this noise every minute when living in this flat, it became a normal thing,” he says. While most would content themselves with avoiding loudness, DJ DIE SOON seeks to unpack its visceral potential.

While Sun Ra’s intergalactic Moog reached for the stars, DJ DIE SOON plunges into the depths of hell. Rather than a vision of the future, 'My Brothel The Wind' is a laugh-cry of despair in the face of a Hadean present. DJ DIE SOON confronts the world with a new hand-made mask, reborn in the ashes. Film director Hiroo Tanaka’s visual contributions in the album art, poster, and music video complete the album’s narrative, telling a story not of villainy but of phantom caprice in a dying world.  

Mixed by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum Studio, Berlin (except B2, B3)
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin

Cover photography by Hiroo Tanaka/DOGGYTASTES
Photography assistant Joana Schurr
Font by Daisuke Imamura

For Tina,Miyu,Kaito

© + ℗ Drowned By Locals 2025 
DBL36LP

DJ DIE SOON - Unfinished ft. Kiki Hitomi, Franco Franco

vinyl megamixx by the worlds most unbooked DJ 

VINYL MEGAMIXX

you me

Taken from SBKT070: estoc - Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel?
Release date: 26th June 2025
Artwork & Design: Amber Jean
Mixing & Digital Master: Nori Kin
Vinyl Master: Raphael Valensi

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estoc presents the newest manifestation of her artistic practice: an attempt to make sense of a world seemingly hellbent on violence as its chief export. Art written as a direct response to the conditions felt both at home and watched across oceans through a phone. This album exists as an acknowledgement that our fates are inextricably intertwined, yet, our (temporary) comfort is extracted from the third world. Across 10 tracks the question is: Are We Doomed to Bow to the Stupid and Cruel? Answers are posed and then brushed away, like dust from a shelf. By the end, nothing is settled and we are left with more questions than answers.

Collaborators and co-conspirators weave in and out of the compositions, their presence felt as both adornment, and as integral infrastructure. DJ Haram opens the album with ‘Heretic’. Her voice swims through crackling noise, throbbing basslines — a guided meditation as much as a late night conversation. ‘The Weight’ follows directly after. AZADI.mp3’s smoky chants hover in the air above a smouldering fire of trip hop drums and synths, devolving to a miasma of distortion and swirling screams. The next song, ‘Where Do We Go Now’, builds and swells with rumbling synths, arriving fully as breaks crash forward and Military Scientist’s voice cries out over a chaotic sea. The first solo composition of the album comes in the form of ‘The Poison of the Centre’. A solemn yet off-balance meditation of drums, cut over an uneven and shifting beat. This rhythmic fervor is multiplied tenfold on ‘No Glory’, a harsh bath of bass and drums, constantly fighting for space to breathe through the manufactured scarcity of the mix.

‘Scorched Earth’ lends us our first breath of fresh air. Mia Carucci sings a lullaby over growling instrumentation, Exploited Body’s co-production threatening to boil over at any moment. A momentary break in the clouds, a beam of sunlight shines through before being quickly swallowed back up by the storm; gone as quickly as it came. It is here that we plunge even deeper, as the heartbeat of ‘Heaven Defined for Another’ rattles through. Machinery and exasperated breathing become inexorable, both driven to their breaking point by a rolling wave of thunder. This mechanical terror roils forth on ‘Cradling’. Miedo Total sets clattering steam and cogs over crying strings that threaten to throw themselves to pieces. The penultimate entry sees Violence lend voice and production to ‘Bones Broken, Many Things Left Unsaid’ — a deep terror lurches, shuddering and crashing like ocean waves. A gentle chorus of strings ushers in the final piece, ‘Scratch a Liberal’ — a rare, but fleeting moment of tenderness on the album. Heavy towers of bass throw the composition into shadow, tension builds and grows before collapsing in on itself, revealing the fear and violence at the core of this project. At the end of it all, we are left alone to contemplate what is to be done.

estoc - The Poison of the Centre

@simonk_music

The winds are blowing. Bringing fragments of phrases, half-faded memories.
Tune in to the frequency — B Station is calling. Waves of new hope and tender recollections move through the soft melodies and lingering reverberations.
With gentle distortion and melodic drift, the artists trace moments suspended in time: the warmth of a voice, the ghost of a phrase, the glow of distant hope. Echoes of the past, and dreams of a distant future.

The compilation is available for purchase via Nina Protocol and Bandcamp.
DSP release arrives on September 4.

Mastered by FMSAO
Cover by jacksheartt

Simon K - Topos Exotica

MP3_Start

Hello, it's me again with some cool tracks mixed with a couple of my latest ones.

Tracklist:
ultra caro - moonrise (postie eclipse glasses remix)
Seren Orchid - Isaac // Isak
jjjacob - Nutrient Cycle (Flagalova Rework)
literally the moon - you me
ANIMA - Breaking Bonds
ESP - V.I.P.
literally the moon - wherever today
belmont girl - hold on
krystofers - Clair de Lune

⊹₊⋆ eyes wide shut ⋆ mix 02 .⭒˚

Listen to "Autoshtau" by Egor Vinogradov taken from his debut album out on August 9th via Fuselab

Pre-order: https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/--13

Egor Vinogradov is a musician, artist and videographer from Ust-Ilimsk, based in Kaliningrad. He has been releasing his music for over a decade.

Egor started with the revival of Russian nintendocore on One Foot Japan label, produced his first full-length with “a group of noisy and threatening antics”, one of the first members of the label-magazine bluthat, also noted for his dance projects on FROUFROUFROU and sovrisk hiphop about his small homeland on KULЪT.

He participated in the Ne Strashno charity compilation curated by Soft Blade. His more personal version of jazz recordings, Egor's self-titled is released on Fuselab

Links:
Егор Виноградов
https://soundcloud.com/egorvinogradow
https://www.instagram.com/egordvinogradov/
Fuselab
https://soundcloud.com/fuselab
https://fuselab.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/fuselabrecords

Егор Виноградов

pre-order / bandcamp

Егор Виноградов - Аутоштау (Fuselab)

Selenite (Ambient Version)

'Open Wound'' 

5 Track EP 

A slow, breathing atmosphere unfolds—lush yet suffocating. The music pulses with deep, organic drones, like the resonance of wind through hollowed-out tree trunks and abandoned concrete shells. Mossy textures creep across the stereo field, with low-frequency hums that feel like roots burrowing through the earth. Subtle crackles—like distant rain or old data corruption—hint at a forgotten digital past buried beneath soil and vines. 

12'' Vinyl Version Featuring Previously Released ''Known Island'' EP on the B Side for the First Time. 

elasticstage.com/sangam/releases/open-woundknown-island-album

Sangam - Open Wound EP Preview

Pronounced "quest", QVEST fluctuates between all different styles of music; from dreamy Ambient to Future Bass-infused Hybrid Trap. The Australian-born focuses more on feeling than technicality across their music, "I want to make music you can sleep to, music you can dance to, music you can think to". 

Appears on:
@wearecyduck
@amflara
@unbeyond-anthologies
@wearesilkenwood
@genesisrecords-official
@half-heart-proj
@frozen-fox-records
@breakstationfm

Support QVEST here:
linktr.ee/qvest

Selenite (Ambient Version)

QVEST

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