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Cover: https://soundcloud.com/nueageux
Mastering: https://soundcloud.com/luckylec & https://soundcloud.com/tristan-meixner

Kir Fatal - Pattern 22

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

Here is Conna Haraway, label boss of Index Records, with an hour weaving dubbed-out abstract house, textured & melodic idm & ambient, a detailed and introspective show.

Conna Haraway @ Drift Radio 17-07-25

æther w/ Notte Infinita

pi/live: Mike Midnight @ Ballet in NYC 05-18-2025

Pacing the Platform 29 w/ upsammy on NTS (07.08.25)

Fergus Jones live in the studio. 

https://www.instagram.com/perkopair
https://www.soundcloud.com/perkopair



Fergus Jones @ The Lot Radio 09-26-2025

‘90s nostalgia recontextualised by New York’s J.P. Wright

"I think nostalgia sucks and can definitely be stupid and reactionary which is very much symptomatic of the times we’re living through right now, but just sort of reckoning with that contrasted with how beautiful I think a lot of that music is and so ahead of its time that it’s still super relevant and only starting to really be appreciated maybe."

Full Q+A: www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/jp

@whatdotjp

Theory Therapy 83: jp

Recording of Ulla & Perila's set at the UFO II stage during Dekmantel Festival 2025.

Ulla & Perila at UFO II - Dekmantel Festival 2025

Rituales Remotos 006 w/ Gala (05.10.25)

The first mix of the Vamm mix series. By the co-founder and visionary behind the project @olga_udda. 

“This is probably the most personal and special piece of music I’ve ever shared online. For the first time, it’s not a set made for an occasion or an invitation - it’s a pure expression of myself and everything I’ve been feeling deeply these past months. Music for my friends and all the chill people in the world, to drink tea to, to make love to, to dance alone in front of the mirror, to think about someone special with your eyes closed on the U-Bahn, to simply live in this wild time and to enjoy this fantastically beautiful autumn.”

vamm mix #001 - Udda

Artist-led collective focused on capturing the diversity of the electronic music spectrum.

Premiere Requests and Demos:
gradientcollect@gmail.com

Past Events:
12.9.25 Ambient Works Release Party, ZH
13.8.25 Gradient @ Sihl Records, ZH
18.7.25 Summer Party, Exil ZH
17.5.25 GRD 1-Year @ Minigolf Hard
1.3.25 Gradient Collective @ Rote Fabrik, Zürich
10.1.25 VA-02 Release Party, Umbo, Zürich
20.12.24 Eclipse X Gradient @ Industrie45, Zug
28.9.24 Gradient X Anomalie, Winterthur
26.7.24 Gradient @ Provitreff, Zürich
31.5.24 VA Release Party @ Galotti Zürich

Kir Fatal - Pattern 22

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