Elizabeth Davis - Bad Time
Bobby Would - Caput Mortuum
Romance & Dean Hurley - Always & Forever
Paul Ebhart - Emerging from the old
Able Noise - To Appease
Betty Hammerschlag - Darkroom
Great Area - Light Decline
Inkasso & ML- Algorithm Poetry
FRANKIE + Battle-ax - Third Movement
U.e. - Lavender (NF)DRONE OPERATØR- Frøst (Pigmentø Xtended Alto Sax Remix)
V/Z - An IKEA Moment
VOICE ACTOR, Squu - Lust Is Stronger Than Us
African-American Sound Recordings - Extended Stay
Ursula Sereghy - Magic User
C.D. Noé - Ad Blue Idle
Jules Reidy - Every Day There's a Sunset

OB0549 — Gajek

“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.” — Vladimir Nabokov

Chino Amobi – Eroica II: Christian Nihilism
Now available for pre-order. Out October 31, 2025. 

https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/eroica-ii-christian-nihilism

First single, “Aristides,” is out today, accompanied by its official video. 

American musician, visual artist, and designer Chino Amobi presents a profound meditation on faith and existence. As he writes: “Christian Nihilism is the idea that while joy and contentment in God might be ideal, they might never be experienced on this side of eternity.” 

A minimal, introspective journey through folky drones, glacial ambient, spectral trap, and sacred echoes, the album charts a path through silence, reflection, and spiritual reckoning.

☧

300-copy edition with printed inner sleeve (lyrics on one side)
Cover art photography by Tim Saccenti ©, designed by Giovanni Murolo
Produced and performed by Chino Amobi, with select tracks produced by Brodinski
Mastered by Rashad Becker

Pre-order your DL/LP copy today.

Eroica II: Christian Nihilism

Chino Amobi - Aristides

Chino Amobi – Eroica II: Christian Nihilism
Out Now!
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/eroica-ii-christian-nihilism

“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.” — Vladimir Nabokov

A spiritual reckoning rendered in sound, Eroica II: Christian Nihilism is Chino Amobi’s long-awaited second full-length, a work born from the dissonance of Houston’s surreal underbelly and the artist’s global, restless movement. Blurring post-rap, spectral trap and sacred minimalism, the album confronts both the nihilism of the world and the inner void — searching for revelation in the ruins. A Gesamtkunstwerk of sound and philosophy, it wrestles with despair only to reveal a fragile, transcendent hope.

☧

300-copy vinyl edition with printed inner sleeve (lyrics on one side)
Order your DL/LP copy today

Written, performed, and produced by Chino Amobi
Produced by Brodinski on tracks “The Eroica Mystery School,” “777,” “Gallerina,” “Close Enemies” (Bonus Digital), “You Want It Darker” (Bonus Digital)
Featuring The Eternal on track “Glory to the Highest”
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin
Artwork photography by Tim Saccenti, licensed for use © 2025. All rights reserved.
Photography in collaboration with Dina Chang for Setta Studio
Design by Giovanni Murolo

DBL40LP

Chino Amobi - The Triumph of the Cross

Arriving just days before the release of Eroica II: Christian Nihilism (out October 31), “I Wouldn’t Be Alive Without You” closes the trilogy of singles leading into Chino Amobi’s long-awaited second album. The track channels the record’s central tension between ruin and revelation. Accompanied by a new video directed by Chino Amobi and Evan Angelique Coleman.

https://youtu.be/9IN6i-TQgYY?si=ABYXRyWxD_xA57Uq
 
Now available for pre-order. Out October 31, 2025.
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/eroica-ii-christian-nihilism

Without escapism, a confrontation with one's own mirror. 
Where Two become Three, and three become One.
To be in the world of culture, but not of the world of culture, requires a great act of magnanimity, courage, and conviction. 
This single and its respective video is a renunciation, in the nihilist sense, 
of Baal materialism and idolic desire for external validation, 
while simultaneously grounding oneself at the center of the storm and chaos, just as Christ did and continues to do.
Loving yourself and loving others.
True identity and freedom comes to revelation and fulfillment within the deserted and impoverished ruins of one's own soul. 
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than
for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God - Matthew 19:24

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Chino Amobi’s forthcoming album, Eroica II: Christian Nihilism (out 31 October via Drowned By Locals), takes its title from what he calls “the idea that while joy and contentment in God might be ideal, they might never be experienced on this side of eternity.” The record inhabits that paradox through folky drones, glacial ambient, spectral trap, and the hushed echoes of sacred traditions. If Paradiso was a burning world in flux, Eroica II is its haunted aftermath.

Born in Alabama to Nigerian parents and raised in Virginia, Amobi is a musician, painter, and writer whose work has been shown internationally, including at MoMA PS1, ICA London, and Palais de Tokyo. He co-founded the influential collective NON Worldwide and is represented by Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York, Robby Fitzpatrick Gallery in Paris, and Von Ammon Co. in Washington, D.C.

☧

300-copy edition with printed inner sleeve (lyrics on one side) 
Cover art photography by Tim Saccenti ©, designed by Giovanni Murolo 
Produced and performed by Chino Amobi, with select tracks produced by Brodinski 
Mastered by Rashad Becker

Pre-order your DL/LP copy today.

Chino Amobi - I Wouldn't Be Alive Without You

UNSAFE+SOUNDS 2025
"𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞"
02. - 07. September 
Various Venues I Vienna
https://unsafeandsounds.com/

"We explore chronopolitics: the struggles over how time is structured, controlled, and experienced. We listen for temporalities that have been marginalized, erased, or constrained. We move from deep ecological time to ancestral myth time, from the frantic acceleration of the now to the slow drift of deceleration, from haunted pasts to imagined futures. We dream reality into being. 

(...)
We reject the hegemony of the technological-industrial, Western linear model that homogenizes time in oppressive narratives of progress. Instead, we embrace indigenous, Black, multispecies, and anti-capitalist politics of time as the origin of radical futurisms, and of a justice-to-come. We want to reclaim agency over our timelines, dismantle temporal borders, and expand the possible."

Shilla Strelka 
@inoukiendo

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Klara Lewis - Ingrid
BZDB - Water
Ludwig Wandinger - Vien
HxH - Pyrex Vision
Herbert & Momoko Gil - Need to Run
Rosa Anschütz - Chase Pioneers
Autor - Leere
Moor Mother feat. Black Quantum Futurism - Nighthawk of Time
naemi feat. Yves B. Golden- CO (Sugar Hiccup) 
MA.MOYO - Love is a Gun
Dasychira feat. malibu - Umbreon
Zuli feat. Coby Sey - Ast
Ludwig Wandinger feat. Evita Manji - Fire
Matthew Herbert & Momoko Gil - More and More
Hüma Utku - World Between Worlds
General Magic - Bonden
Moor Mother feat. Black Quantum Futurism - Time Distortion 
Kasho Chualan & Lukas König - Kurdistan Loop Tune
Vanyfox - Choro Melodico

SI108 - Unsafe+Sounds 2025 - "Time Dream Rhythm Machine" Part I

UNSAFE+SOUNDS 2025
"𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞"
02. - 07. September 
Various Venues I Vienna
https://unsafeandsounds.com/

"We explore chronopolitics: the struggles over how time is structured, controlled, and experienced. We listen for temporalities that have been marginalized, erased, or constrained. We move from deep ecological time to ancestral myth time, from the frantic acceleration of the now to the slow drift of deceleration, from haunted pasts to imagined futures. We dream reality into being. 

(...)
We reject the hegemony of the technological-industrial, Western linear model that homogenizes time in oppressive narratives of progress. Instead, we embrace indigenous, Black, multispecies, and anti-capitalist politics of time as the origin of radical futurisms, and of a justice-to-come. We want to reclaim agency over our timelines, dismantle temporal borders, and expand the possible."

Mixed by S.verin
https://soundcloud.com/s_verin

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HxH - Beach
I-LP-O IN DUB - Crocodile Submerged
Gajek - Dig It All Up Again
Ilpo Väisänen - Vallitseva
Philipp Quehenberger - Emortal
Nik Colk Void & Klara Lewis - Junk Funk
General Magic - Since Oswald
Peter Kutin - CIRCULAR_DIVISION-07
Das Wettbüro - Magic Power Delux
Finlay Shakespeare - Lulea
Maara - Revenge From The Penthouse
Fingers of God - Gyro Drop 
Mitra - Vivarium
Flower Crime - Kalte Fliesen
Ben Klock & Fadi Mohe - Ultimately (feat. Coby Sey)
Nkisi - NziNzaNzo
Fingers of God - Lens Shift
Das Wettbüro - Ungerade 19/36

SI109- Unsafe+Sounds 2025 - "Time Dream Rhythm Machine" Part II

SPA017: Brodinski - Hex Screwdriver

SPA017: luxxuryproblems & Phillip Jondo - silençio

SPA017: Loto Retina - Thousand Sides

Somewhere between banging your head against a brick wall and holding your breath under water. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dont-trip/episodes/dont-trip-12th-december-2025

Don't Trip w/ Margarita 121225

St. Pierre

gajek.net
gajek.studio@gmail.com
Gajek - Cutting Together Apart LP out March 4 on STROOM
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-together-apart

St. Pierre

Gajek

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