Full E.P:
https://equinoxious.bandcamp.com/album/el-desaf-o-e-p


Artwork by Erick Boror
Mastered by Rude 66

El Desafío

Mysterious Peruvian producer, collector and selector as well as cassette label owner Cesar Aguirre aka El Balcon Rojo shares a mix of lo-fi obscurities called "To Live in Fear" ("Vivir en miedo") along with this little text (for english scroll below):

La música debería ser peligrosa, peligrosa para tí, para mi y para los que nos rodean. ¿Por qué?
Porque solo ese peligro hará que nuestra mente vaya más alla, hará que nuestras acciones sean distintas, cambiarán lo establecido. Solo así podremos cambiar, solo así podremos evolucionar. "Vivir en miedo" es vivir en evolución. 
Música peligrosa e imperfecta para un mundo caduco que pretende ser perfecto. 
C.A. 
Abril 23

(ENG)

Music should be dangerous, dangerous for you, for me and for those around us. Why?
Because only that danger will make our mind move beyond, it will make us change our actions, it will change the established. Only in this way can we change, only in this way can we evolve. "To live in fear" is to live in evolution. 
Dangerous and imperfect music for an outdated world that pretends to be perfect. 
C.A. 
April 23rd

Tracklist:

|No Mystery
We Be Echo - Sexuality 
Elle Coral - Text
M.U.D. - Entre las Nubes
Hypnobeat - Pygmy Cicada Panic
Winter Strategy - No World
Max Goldt - Interesting People Leave At 1:30
|No remorse
M.E.C.A. - Like a Clockwork 
Pacific 231 - Ma Douce Amie 
Click Click - Bag it, please
Anthony Dubois - Naked  
Section 25 - Suck This 
|No Code - Fetish
Corps Diplomatique - Les Metamorphoses
Dantesse Lyon - Tell Me What You See
|No myth
Darline's Chamber - Only Rumours 
Hunting Lodge - De Omnibus Dubitandum
El Balcón Rojo - Asfixia
|whats gonna happen

Linx:
https://www.mixcloud.com/HelloHorror/
https://www.instagram.com/elbalconrojo/

Birdcast 033: El Balcon Rojo

Muk (Egle Naujokaityte, Lithuania) is a singer, DJ, radio hostess and avid propagator of unusual, experimental and non-conformist music. In the past she has been part of several musical projects in various parts of the world, and her work has been released on labels such as Bordello A Parigi (NL) and Industrial Coast (UK). Today she is part of the minimal synth duo Gris Futuro, but has also presented work in the field of contemporary and sound art in Lithuania (CAC Vilnius, Malonioji 6). As a dj and selector she stands out for her eclectic sets: she is not only known for her esoteric Fourth World-esque selections, but in more social environments and dancefloors she usually delivers a mix of shadows, psychedelics, synths and machine rhythms, where dark sounds play with light in a industrial-funk sensibility. Muk is also the author of radio shows for Cashmere Radio (The Hidden Reverse, La Casa del Obrero Mundial) in Berlin and LYL Radio (Canary Girl Island) in Lyon. Nowadays she appears on Radio Vilnius with her bimonthly show Musings & Drummings as well as on national Lithuanian radios alternative wing LRT Opus with the show Magiška muzika about the history of XX century alternative music and movements. At the same time he is developing her solo project Musetteandrums and running soundcloud channel Birds for the Mind.

Follow artist - @origamihirn
Follow the birds - @birdsforthemind

251⚡️Muk

Muk (Egle Naujokaityte, Lithuania) is a singer, DJ, radio hostess and avid propagator of unusual, experimental and non-conformist music. In the past she has been part of several musical projects in various parts of the world, and her work has been released on labels such as Bordello A Parigi (NL) and Industrial Coast (UK). Today she is part of the minimal synth duo @grisfuturo, but has also presented work in the field of contemporary and sound art in Lithuania (CAC Vilnius, Malonioji 6). As a dj and selector she stands out for her eclectic sets: she is not only known for her esoteric Fourth World-esque selections, but in more social environments and dancefloors she usually delivers a mix of shadows, psychedelics, synths and machine rhythms, where dark sounds play with light in a industrial-funk sensibility. Muk is also the author of radio shows for Cashmere Radio (The Hidden Reverse, La Casa del Obrero Mundial) in Berlin and LYL Radio (Canary Girl Island) in Lyon. Nowadays she appears on Radio Vilnius with her bimonthly show Musings & Drummings as well as on national Lithuanian radios alternative wing LRT Opus with the show Magiška muzika about the history of XX century alternative music and movements. At the same time he is developing her solo project Musetteandrums and running soundcloud channel Birds for the Mind.

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/origamihirn https://soundcloud.com/Birdsforthemind
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/origamihirn/

Hypnotic Groove Mix #436 - MUK

Another episode of our bi-monthly @cereals-3 Takeover at THF Radio. This time we have invited  @origamihirn playing a selection of industrial, experimental electronics and slow jams.

THF Radio is a community radio broadcasting from the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. Follow us: @thfradio

Cereals Takeover w/ Muk // 29.06.2024

"Our nostalgia obsession has trapped us in loops of aesthetic déjà vu and algorithmic déjà entendu. But what if this yearning is less about the past and more about our inability to move forward? In Ghosts of My Life, cultural theorist Mark Fisher called this phenomenon “the slow cancellation of the future.” He argued that contemporary culture had lost its capacity to imagine radical newness. Instead of moving forward we’ve entered a loop of retro-styled repetition, where the aesthetics of past decades return stripped of context or meaning. Culture, he wrote, had become a "ghost world" haunted by lost futures; futures that once felt possible but now feel unreachable. What choice do we have, then, but to look back and scavenge meaning from the cultural leftovers we’ve already consumed?" 

A radioshow I recorded some time ago - in July 2024 to be precise - at @RadioVilnius - probably the last episode of Musings & Drummings until the next one happens in the future. Meanwhile, i love sharing timeless tracks, non-referential to the past obscurities and all that which has always fascinated me in the waves world. Dive in x

No one is bored and everything is boring

From Here, There and Everywhere - Nowadaze - a concept album that makes analog synth sound fresh, about the daze we experience everyday nowadays with all the manic info flow, algorithmic madness, social media induced megalomania and weakling nostalgia for better times, that in fact never where… And how to graciously survive it all.

The manifesto:

I feel so very old. As if the day has decided to advance light miles without warning us. All the ideas, thoughts, and habits with which I grew up suddenly have no meaning, no purpose – they are no longer part of the new world, they seem like relics and souvenirs from other planets we visited, though neither of rock nor of gas, and the only distance that separates us from them is time.

I am imprisoned between the material, which I never viewed as futuristic, -- which has suddenly become a heavy monument to the present -, and the abstract, cybernetic, and alien to everything I have considered human until now.

Glass, concrete, artificial lights, and lithium thoughts. Every day, people live more and more in an automation that a few years ago would have seemed an unattainable fantasy in the near future. And yet, here we are. Of our own free will. Nobody forced us; we did everything we could to get here.

Even so, I don't take credit for the petty work of the collective unconscious. The unconscious that prioritizes building a machine over planting a tree, exchanging futile phrases that feed each other's ego before words of empathy and consolation, and seeking how to survive until tomorrow instead of generating life for several centuries to come. A society that gulps without chewing. A society that will not hesitate to gulp me, because I don't have sharp enough teeth, and I am not used to shredding the plastics and metals that already are in my food.

Recorded and mixed by Gris Futuro in Mexico 2023-2025 with Eurorack modular system, samplers, Roland CR-78, Boss DR-55, Korg KR-55, polysynth, analog delay, sequencers.
Additional vocal mixing in tracks A3,4,5 and B1 by Jose Antonio Naujokaitis.
Mastered by Ruud Lekx.
Concept, design & layout by Egle Naujokaityte.
Sleeve and insert photos by Arlo Catana and Christian Portaro.
Special thanks for CR-78 duties to Karolis Budreckas.

Released November 7, 2025 on á La Carte Records. 

Mirror-Self

The first edition of Birdcast is presented to you by it's own curator Muk. Muk is a DJ, singer and an avid propagator of interesting, experimental and non-conformist music. In the past of the cult Lithuanian avant-pop duo Verslo Rizikos Rezervas (Bordello A Parigi) and the creator of Lithuania's oldest cultural magazine Ore.lt podcast series. Muk has collaborated with musical projects from Romania to Detroit to Mexico. Her latest output is a monthly show in Berlin's Cashmere Radio, called The Hidden Reverse - a poetic and twisted play on the daring, dark and elegant. 

Even though Muk may be more known for her esoteric and fourth world sets, she's always been a great fan of industrial and klang music. So here a selection of what she's been lately playing on dancefloors in Europe and Mexico: a blend of shadowplay, psychedelic, synth and industrial grooves, where dark sounds light and the other way around, call it if you will - industrial funk and enjoy.

Linx: 
http://soundcloud.com/nekaltosaukos
http://cashmereradio.com/shows/the-hidden-reverse
http://mixcloud.com/mukmuk
http://facebook.com/origamihirn

Birdcast 001: Muk

The second birdcast in the series invites to listen and get to know R.B.Kopie aka Der Raubkopierer von Neukölln aka The Bootleger of Neukölln. It’s quite obvious where this pal is from, but in case you don’t know where Neukölln is – it’s in Berlin. Behind this somewhat funny yet without doubt romantic moniker hides Frank, previously known under such names as Optik or Herc Rillen, among others (don’t ever forget the ongoing present times inspired changes of someone who was Thin White Duke at some point). 

Frank told us he started collecting and playing records more or less fifteen years ago and in 2013 he founded his label Kashual Plastik. Frank used to be part of Kavinsky and Noise Boys and at the present he’s part of the duet Inkasso with Jacob Stoy, with whom they organize events and reléase a podcast series called The Wavering Form. Kashual Plastik has a monthly show on Cashmere Radio in Berlin – Plastik Universe, where once a month The Bootleger of Neukölln plays a live mix of his finds among the dark corners of the internet and beyond. So wellcome to the world of R.B.Kopie – a world without clear perception of time.

Linx: 
@kashual-plastik
https://cashmereradio.com/shows/plastik-universe/
https://www.instagram.com/kashual_plastik/

Birdcast 002: R.B.Kopie aka Kashual Plastik

Yoan Rodriguez Lokier is a DJ, producer and singer from Mexico City presently based in Berlin. Her distinctive sets and music is a mixture of post-punk, new wave, techno and electro with neo-gothic and horror movie soundtrack influences.

Her various projects include releases on labels such as Days of Being Wild, Have A Killer Time and Ivan Smagghe’s Disques de la Mort, as well as collabs and edits for the likes of Psychemagik, Zombies en Miami, Tone of Arc y Vito & Druzzi etc. and features in Thump, The Quietus, NTS & LYL. She’s also part of a duo along with French producer Morgan Hammer called She Made Monster. 

For this mix Lokier recorded us almost an hour sounds cold and dark as the streets of present Berlin, with subtle touches of psychedelia and radiant electricity. The cave’s been opened – greet the bats with the third edition of Birdcast.

@lokier
www.facebook.com/lokieryoan/
www.instagram.com/yoanlokier/

Birdcast 003: Lokier

Minimal synth / synth-pop duo formed by @origamihirn and @equinoxious, based in Mexico City. Inspired in the likes of Deux, C&C and other sweet analogue sounds. Grey is the most elegant colour of them all - and the colour of the future.

Mirror-Self

Gris Futuro

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