The newest release from 29 Speedway, UltraBody, is a compilation record featuring the music of Jake Muir, Pent & Dylan Kerr, Nexcyia & mu tate, James K, Flora Yin-Wong, Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos, Kamran Sadeghi, Tati au Miel, James Hoff, Eric Frye, qwqwqwqwa & sop.io, Muein, & Maxwell Sterling. The record is emblematic of the artists who have performed at 29 Speedway shows in New York and Europe during the past two years, and is the third in a series released by the label.

The record investigates how the self, spirituality, and language are intertwined with the intervention of subjectivity by new technologies. With increasingly sophisticated tech, and the supposed ability to remake the world and ourselves, what differentiates our individual discretion from the will imposed upon us by software? Quoting Walter Chaw, “Decades of rampant, unregulated and ill-considered technological leaps have begun to evolve, to mutate, humans at a biological level”. This haphazard acceleration towards a techno-utopic transformation of humanity has faulted, and as William Gibson put it, is leading us to live in a “half assed singularity”. In this reality, artistic processes are influenced by excessive access to computational tools and assistance, but not utterly controlled.

This in-between state of dominion is explored on UltraBody. “Incoherences” samples the utterances of Dylan Kerr’s voice processed between Pent’s percolated glazes, muddying the gulf between vaporous ambient and reflexive sound design. The voice on James Hoff’s “A... ...Cha.... A... I feel l” was created by trying to get voice cloning technology to sing a gps data stream, the music an extrapolation from an earworm he got stuck in his head while shopping in Kyoto. On “Plogue Chain”, Eric Frye’s most speculative sci-fi observations spiral into a glazed pool of digital cacophony, while Kamran Sadeghi’s “Formula Fiction” is an experiment in (un)controlled generativity. Incorporating minimal pings from a 3D simulation scene based on gravitational interaction, cello bits evolve on “Assimilation”, a collaboration between Ex Wiish & Dorothy Carlos.

On UltraBody, sound has no separate existence from space.

James Hoff - A... ...Cha.... A... I Feel Like A Ghost Uh

CALLISTO LOOP

Ear World, out February 20 on 29 Speedway, is a collection of sound collage works by experimental cellist Dorothy Carlos. Her debut album ranges from song-like to abstract, incorporating site-specific sound installation work originally premiered in both 16-channel and quadraphonic formats. Voice and cello are reconstructed through glitch techniques to take on a digital form that is flirtatious and fleeting. Carlos is an experimental cellist active in Chicago and New York. Her work utilizes extended techniques and digital manipulation, merging free improvisation and computer music. She is interested in digital techniques as an opportunity to construct imaginary realities and capture a sense of intimacy.

Solo performances have been presented internationally by Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, Big Ears Festival, default, Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley, Chicago Jazz String Summit, and Bemis Center. Her work has been featured in The Wire, New York Times, and The Quietus and released digitally with D.O.T. Audio Arts and American Dreams. Dorothy holds a Bachelor’s degree from NYU where she studied classical cello and anthropology and an MFA in sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tracks 2-4 “My Ideal is Windy” quadraphonic installation commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio and the Chicago Park District

Track 8 “Alter, alter” 16-channel installation premiered at the Chicago Laboratory for Electro-Acoustic Theater (CLEAT)

Dorothy Carlos - My Buddy (Miss You In Ear World)

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bloom:forever is a tale of interwoven love stories, each bleeding in to each other, understanding each other, regenerating the loveless, infinite understanding. holding us in its core (ringing eternally) basking in the glow of us looking for it ⚘

⤷ 100% of proceeds for the first 3 months go to @3ezwa.de

https://charmlink.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-forever (its bandcamp friday)

adventure bear - AB Complexxx (3 mile shore version)

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bloom:forever is a tale of interwoven love stories, each bleeding in to each other, understanding each other, regenerating the loveless, infinite understanding. holding us in its core (ringing eternally) basking in the glow of us looking for it ⚘

⤷ 100% of proceeds for the first 3 months go to @3ezwa.de

https://charmlink.bandcamp.com/album/bloom-forever (its bandcamp friday)

blastah, siisyland, ANTHEM - tarraxo emotional

olé - Apartment Song

need you around - 
Live from Varispeed No.3 with Paramax 
Reforesters Laboratory 
March 30, 2025.

need you around (Argo Mix - LIVE from varispeed no.3)

Aired on Echobox on 30/04/25

The fourth instalment of Panorama Experience, a show curated by Hex Key Fantasy & friends

[record order]
@kali1one
princess elf bar – Does She Love You Better Than I Can?
Merely & Malibu – E22
Tryce, XENIA REAPER – Fighter (Echo Mix)
exael – 5 million miles (exael ambient edit)
Niko Demus & MFM – North Atlantic
500 & OPHERINGS – HIDDEN TEMPLE (WALK ON ICE)
Priori – To See Our Secret Die feat. Sabola
Speaker Knockerz – How Could U (odp flip)
Brick – What You Can't Remember

@hexkeyfantasy
Noah B – Nylon
Dina Ayada – Passion (Acapella)
Stonemist – Bifrost
A+A – Eternal September
SWIM – Love
RIP Skype (2003–2025)
RAFFA GUIDO – Famax
JÖST – For You
HVRA – TUDO VOLTA
Summrs – Coke (Acapella)
Kareful – I Loved A Witch Once
maxon – high like me (Acapella)
Async Figure – Evangel
DJ Semitone – Airport Crush
UnoTheActivist – Magic (Acapella)
Yawning Portal – vanished
Neek – Shimmer
Jook – Growing Together
Kareful – Wake Me
Caterina Barbieri – Information Needed to Create an Entire Body
Plastician – Wave Machine
LJC – Blade

Panorama Experience — Kalione & Hex Key Fantasy

@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

olé - Behind The Windowpane (Airport Ambience Edit)

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'Field of Dreams' monthly mix series on @hkcrlive

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@wearetar
@sidechainsclub
@alldayfreeself
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@cvlt_records
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