Lithuanian DJ and curator Aleksandr L — founder of Electric Shapes and host on Radio Vilnius — crafts a mix that drifts through vaporous layers and blurred contours. Glowing textures dissolve into silence, loops echo like fading memories, and tones linger at the threshold of presence. A suspended flow shaped by contrast and nuance — where the stillness speaks, and each fragment carries the weight of what's just beyond reach.

Amulet of Tears 060: Aleksandr L

Music: @aleksandrl

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 060: Aleksandr L

@lukemele in the basement on May 31st, 2025.

luke mele Kismet May 2025

A collage of sounds that were recorded on the 24th of March 2025 (either performed live on location, or played on vinyl) at Ze Dos Bois association, Lisboa, during one of the last N0N PR0FIT nights.
The opening sequence is an unreleased live recording of Violeta Azevedo & Borja Caro, blended with some records I played that night. Among them: Mark - So You Betrayed The Creative Arts For Your Own Personal Ends (wrong speed), The Devil, Probably? (or is it a Hegoa? Both? Worth check both labels anyway...), and the closing song of that Shizuka tape reissue (I think its ‘III’).

CÓDEX invites Capablanca (Radio Alhara, 15.05.25)

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

Easy Bites by NVST is your laid-back escape into a world of eclectic sounds and low-key conversations with special guests. Grab your plate, tune in, and let the weirdness make it simple.

Easy Bites w/ Nina Welch & NVST @ Kiosk Radio 30.07.2025

part of my 12 track album TRIPS on Bandcamp

TRIPS Album

Benedikt Frey - SUN (Ode)

trakklist:

Dettinger - Intershop (1)
Dregs - Keyed
Molen - Mechanism
Claro Intelecto - A Nightmare Before Bedtime
Perko - Sky Host
J. Tijn - Concave (Original Mix)
Stelios Vassiloudis - Grains
Alton Miller - Next 1
Craigie Knowes - Under Your Radar
Christopher Ledger - Change That
Fumiya Tanaka - Pitch Black
SameSame - Novel End
Z.I.P.P.O - We Need One Another (Original)
Destrata - Silva Bay
Answer Code Request - Zeitspielraum
Dmitra - Lab Rat ft. Soraya (DJ John Brooklyn’s Disco Dub)

workin' on it 015 w/ ESPIA

A monthly, eclectic road-trip exploring old landmarks and new terrain. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/c-a-r/episodes/c-a-r-15th-september-2025

C.A.R. - On The Slip Road 150925

Lebaration from fear

Woods

Adhémar - Touching The Clouds 
Mountain View [OSP004 / Oslated]

Produced by Clément Davout aka Adhémar
Mastered by Mattias Fridell, Sweden
Artwork by Clément Davout
Released by Oslated from Jeju Island, South Korea
Release Date: October 06th, 2025
Format - Vinyl and Digital

Adhémar first solo release on Oslated drives us into the geological matter of the mountains. Composed of an ecosystem of the artist's own sounds, which unfold organically, “Mountain View” reveals the life of these alpine spaces. Between panoramic views, melting snow, birds chattering the pine trees and the rolling of stones, each detail places us in a different point of view.

On paths, valleys and ridges, a trail through the sounds and memories of the mountains.

Adhémar (Paris, France)
https://soundcloud.com/adhemarmusic
https://www.facebook.com/adhemarmusic
https://www.instagram.com/adhemar_music

Oslated.
http://www.oslated.com

Mountain View

Touching The Clouds

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Adhémar - Touching The Clouds [OSP004]

+ @riolabel @initinit

Benedikt Frey is many. Or just one? He is a composer. An arranger. A DJ. A ghost producer. A fan. He plays in bands like INIT, or Dolphins or KEYS +++ produced the last two albums for Chris Imler. Downbeat in experimental dub zones. The goat for Edits and remixes. When house was his nation, he used to listen to pen names like Suedmilch or Venedikt Reyf. He still likes the music formed under their umbrella, but today his tomorrow is not echoed in yesterday. His sound signature moved on. Into the open. He founded labels like R.i.O. or Serious Trouble. 

He lives in Berlin. Physically. In mind Benedikt Frey is at many places. Traveling far thru his home studio that is a flat a studio a flat an instrument a record collection a flat a studio. Everywhere gear, vinyl, tapes, instruments, rooms for spontaneous sonic notions, these moments, when a sudden strike of stimulation falls. He is inspired a lot. For music to dance. Music for films. Music for live shows. Music for dancing glows. Techno, house, downbeat, ambient, jungle, electronics outside the norms. Those transportive ones. Jamming with others. Jamming with his mind. In Berlin Wedding, North of the town, where the lights dimmed low, neighbors share the flow, and a small river runs slow.  As a DJ he plays here, there, everywhere. Big clubs, small shacks, festivals, gatherings. From fast to 90 BPM - as he feels. 

For himself. For the crowd. In the spur. He still remembers his club kid days. Going to dance with friends. Down there in Offenbach. Doing the Robert Johnson. Collective emotions for a better tomorrow. These he still seeks. In his music. His shows. His collaborations. You can book him for a party. For enlightenment. For ecstasy or introspective perspectives. Dancing slow, whilst pirouetting a high-pitched show. 

Since more than a decade. His own music is out there, too. Bringing his spirits in sound. On his own labels. On international imprints like ESP Institute, Hivern Discs, Craigie Knowes, or Emotional Response. Solo works. Driving ones. Slow drills. Teased during his DJ dates around the planet. 

The music plays day and night. Inspiration comes. From a simple kick drum. A movie sequence. A bird on the sill. A picture, totally still. Can’t kick that feeling when it hits. Benedikt Frey. In dreams. In streams. In music. Emotions. Situations. At night. In those flashy lights, when it bites.

24.5. b2b with NVST, Kauz Zürich
10.05. Säälchen, Berlin
26.04. Zentralwäscherei, Zürich
25.04. b2b Philipp Otterbach, Arkaoda, Berlin
04.04. Sameheads, Berlin
13.03. Säule, Berlin
22.02. Kegelbahn, Luzern
21.02. Fribourg, CH

---- BYE24

17.12. Kiosk Radio,  Bxl
15.12. Curly Teeth b2b w. NVST, Bxl
30.11. Panorama Bar, Berlin
16.11. La Culottee, Paris
19.10. LAF, Pforzhyme
05.10. Sameheads, Berlin
28.09. Buka, Milan
21.09. Chemiefabrik, Zürich
14.09. Ausland, Berlin
16.08. Salon Des Amateurs, Düsseldorf
21.07. Am Bach Festival, Lucerne
05.07. Kappa Futur Festival, Turin
14.06. Masters, Zagreb
18.05. Outracena, Lisbon
27.04. Arkaoda, Berlin
24.02. Macadam, Nantes
26.01. Sameheads, Berlin

Benedikt Frey - SUN (Ode)

benedikt frey