Final 15 - A Ghostly 15 Playlist Curated by Michael Cina

"Anyone that knows me, knows that my main passion is music. I spend all day listening to music at work and my vinyl collection of 16k pieces greets me when I get home. I knew about Ghostly International before they contacted me in the early 2000’s and we would write off and on. They used to send me big packages of white labeled vinyl, it was decadent.

Late 2007 I got a call from Ghostly asking if I was up for designing a new single for Dabrye. It was a dream come true and I feel like I found a friend who really understood me. I have had the distinct privilege to design over 100 covers for Ghostly, and that is only the half of it.

When they asked me to do a compilation, I was all about it. I wanted to do three or more compilations because I wanted to segment it up into different sections (Ghostly, SMM and Spectral). It is impossible to reduce the entire label to 15 tracks. Ghostly is dynamic, they don’t fit one sound, genre or idea.

So I approached it as a mixtape of sorts. I tried to find a common thread that spoke to me and create a mood around that idea. Some of my favorite tracks are not on here. JDSY 'Horizon Line' makes my head spin. Choir of Young Believers 'Paralyse' takes me to another place. There are so many more.

What you are hearing some songs that have spoken to me over the years in a distinct way. I don’t feel like they are obvious choices but they all are nothing short of amazing. I hope this compilation helps you see a different side of one of the best labels to ever do it." - Michael Cina

Audion - I Am The Car

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Akkord – Typeface / Greyscale (Vatican Shadow’s The World Is Complete)

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The final chapter of 2025 is here.

Our year-ending "MICR014" Various Artists release brings together D I N, Raz, Casper Schulz, Daniel Meister, Gudj, Pierre C and more - an ensemble that shaped our sound throughout the year.

Thank you for supporting us through every moment.
2026 is already humming in the background.

Mastered by Silat Beksi.
Artwork by Fivedotfour.

PREMIERE: Pierre C - Dictum Factum [MICR014]

The month of October came with a promise of something truly special: one Debut a week from 50WEAPONS' last ever ten releases, catalogue numbers #040 to #050. And so it begins, with Cosmin TRG stepping up to the plate as first torchbearer. Ploughing straight in with its spiralling mechanics, "Narr Day (Remodulated)" plays with an energy and suspense that captures 50WEAPONS in essence: a label trusted to capture the very état d'esprit of Berlin in their releases. Befitting the occasion, no 6.5 minutes could be a better way to kick-start this Debut series that Boiler Room are proudly playing host to. Long live 50WEAPONS.

50WEAPONS40 drops on 9th October.

Cosmin TRG "Narr Day (Remodulated)" - Boiler Room Debuts

LIES-068
Jean Nipon-Tepco Cunts
from the upcoming three track 
"Industry Steal Vol.2" 12 inch
to be released Dec 2nd 2015

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Jean Nipon-Tepco Cunts (LIES-068)

Concret - Caravan Birds feat. Emily Rose

For their latest and perhaps boldest release, Zone have called up the legend Arnaud Rebotini for a new EP called 'Danger Zone'. Not only has the Black Strobe extraordinaire served up four intricate, heavy-hitting tracks, he's also been involved with the very special artwork for the record.

The label have had a specially commissioned bust of the pioneer made and the statue is a pretty striking way to present the tracks. If anyone in the electro game deserves a piece like that made, it's probably Arnaud.

We've got the premiere of the title track and it goes off like a rocket. It's exactly what you want in an electro ripper, it's got pounding kicks, rugged synth riffs and robotic vocals that ooze dread. It's a mechanical beast that sums up the Rebotini and Zone sound just right.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Arnaud Rebotini 'Danger Zone'

Not Waving - Redacted

• 1st vinyl edition of Not Waving’s absorbingly raw, adventurous 2nd album
• Originally issued in edition of 100 gold tapes in 2013. Now sought-after 2nd hand
• A refresher of sorts, following the powerful new sound of Not Waving’s Animals LP for Diagonal
• Newly remastered for vinyl by Matt Colton @ Alchemy in an edition of 500
• RIYL Pye Corner Audio, John Carpenter, Edward Artemiev

With the necessary vinyl reissue of Not Waving’s sophomore solo LP Redacted (2013), Alessio Natalizia reminds us of his nascent psychedelic side in light of his lucid, skizzo deviations on the Animals album for Diagonal. While there’s a mutual sense of technoid momentum to both albums, Redacted is a far gauzier, freeform and sensual beast; one richly steeped in proto/post-club atmospheres and allowing his imagination to run away with itself.

Conceptually, Redacted pursues the “classified” themes of his Remote Viewing-inspired Umwelt (2013) LP into even murkier departments, drawing subtly ‘marish parallels between the cold war atmospheres that birthed original post punk, industrial and proto-techno, and the current pallor of socio-political unrest that pervades our present situation.

Omitting the original tape’s expansive closer for the sake of a single LP cut, this vinyl version plays out like an alternative soundtrack to scenes in the overgrown, radioactive zones of Tarkovsky’s Stalker, using an anachronistic palette of analogue machinery to emphasise a sense of fluid, shimmering motion and out-of-place-and-timelessness that genuinely goes straight to the head with trippy effect. 

Swampy slow techno horror themes vacillate with decayed pastoral panoramas and windows of synthetic optimism, both lush and disquietingly needling, using dissonance and sweeps of hazy noise to ultimately spell out a foreboding but dreamlike sort of electronic subterfuge and suspense that resonates with the nostalgic Stranger Things score as much as Leyland Kirby’s Intrigue & Stuff series.


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Not Waving - Redacted 2 [ELP023]

Byetone - Plastic Star

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UK record label based at fabric, East London. Run in part by Rob Booth (Electronic Explorations)

Akkord – Typeface / Greyscale (Vatican Shadow’s The World Is Complete)

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