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ZULI, experimental club producer and VENT co-founder hailing from Cairo hits the NTS airwaves to showcase his club wares: aggressively left-field.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/ZULI/episodes/zuli-29th-january-2024

ZULI - Isaka Takeover 290124

Sweet Grip Transmissions w/  Isaka - 10/05/2024

After a five-year hiatus, Isaka returns with ‘Elytra’, a work exploring the increasingly blurred lines between organic and artificial realities. In her self-defined 'hyperbass', 'Elytra' blends low-end grit with a melodic pop sheen, morphing erratic rhythms, intricate sound design and hyperpop vocals that balance formal sensibilities and visceral club energy. 
Isaka underwent the transformative experience of medical transition during her move to Berlin and this radical change emerges in the thematic exploration of Elytra. 
Isaka uses insect moulting as a metaphor for the cyclical, often traumatic process of metamorphosis and the EP’s exploration of adaptation and articulation where skin is not only a boundary of the self, but also the interface for our surroundings. 
Themes of evolving identity are woven not only into the music but also into the visual art, zine & custom website accompanying the release. A different character represents each of the tracks, brought to life through a deep iterative process involving collages, sketches, and an array of AI-assisted 3D imagery. Limited-edition electronic sculptures will also be produced for ‘Elytra’.

Tracks in focus

Bubbly textures and frenzied drum cuts move side-by-side with NPC inspired vocal chops in opening track Slang Overload. Made in collaboration with TRYCE over an intense three-day session in 2023, it’s a nod towards glitch-hop revival with elements of UK Bass, packed with meticulously sculpted and destroyed sounds.

In Circuit Shaker we enter metallic low-end stepper territory: celestial tripped-out highs and a driving low end. We are cohabiting with lesbian androids at a picnic. With its off-kilter grooves and tender strangeness, Circuit Shaker embodies the inherent weirdness of intimacy—the paradoxical freedom of losing yourself when the boundaries blur between who's wearing who. The track, which first began in 2018, is a footwork, house, and electro-inspired tune which transitions between two sections at 120 and 160 BPM through polyrhythmic syncopation.

Isaka and Enayet combine for the third track, NYC 2016, a wigged-out hard hitter where drums are the main character. NYC 2016 is the ultimate DJ tool—a sonic exoskeleton whose essence straddles alienation and empowerment. Forged through countless late-night sessions with Enayet between 2016 and 2017, this track embodies the raw energy of a city’s underground dance scene where jackhammer kicks and clattering snares assault the senses. 

7Qubit explores dehumanization through platform capitalism and is alive with bugs and the quirks of  the obsessive virtualisation of the self. Imagined through a 15/4 time signature grime beat and echoes of malfunctioning code, Isaka hints at our endangered humanity. Isaka’s vocals about missing her chatbot girlfriend are processed through AI models and auto-tune, blurring the line between the organic and the synthetic. 

The final track on ‘Elytra’ takes you to the edge where all the layers fall away and what remains is the raw and unadorned self. Glittering ethereal textures are underpinned by an engulfing bass section that reverberates against the edges of the song. With its poignant melodies and delicate yet impactful percussion, Precipice is a meditation on a moment of self-realization. The track builds towards an overwhelming wall of sound before dropping into a stark sample: “Being trans… is spiritual.” Featuring quotes from Hunter Schafer’s character Jules in Euphoria, processed through an AI model trained on Isaka’s voice, this track explores the complexities of identity and self-discovery.

Precipice

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝: 𝙱𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚕𝚎 𝚃𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚒 𝚑𝚢𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚍, 𝚗𝚞𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛-𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚊 𝚘𝚏 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎-𝙴𝚢𝚎𝚜 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚣𝚊, 𝚜𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝙰𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚌𝚑, (𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑-𝚑𝚘𝚙 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚞𝚔 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚝: 𝟷.𝟻), (𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚜𝚘 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍:𝟸), 𝚝𝚒𝚔𝚝𝚘𝚔 𝚗𝚙𝚌 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍, 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚢𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜, (𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚋 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚐𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚡𝚢 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝙷𝙳 𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝚜𝚢𝚗𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜:𝟿.𝟹), 𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚃𝚁𝚈𝙲𝙴 𝚡 𝙸𝚜𝚊𝚔𝚊 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹 𝙱𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚗

Elytra

Slang Overload

After a five-year hiatus, Isaka returns with ‘Elytra’, a work exploring the increasingly blurred lines between organic and artificial realities. In her self-defined 'hyperbass', 'Elytra' blends low-end grit with a melodic pop sheen, morphing erratic rhythms, intricate sound design and hyperpop vocals that balance formal sensibilities and visceral club energy. 

Isaka underwent the transformative experience of medical transition during her move to Berlin and this radical change emerges in the thematic exploration of Elytra. 

Isaka uses insect moulting as a metaphor for the cyclical, often traumatic process of metamorphosis and the EP’s exploration of adaptation and articulation where skin is not only a boundary of the self, but also the interface for our surroundings. 

Themes of evolving identity are woven not only into the music but also into the visual art, zine & custom website accompanying the release. A different character represents each of the tracks, brought to life through a deep iterative process involving collages, sketches, and an array of AI-assisted 3D imagery. Limited-edition electronic sculptures will also be produced for ‘Elytra’.

Isaka
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/isaka_symbios_wiki
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isaka.elytra/

Enayet 
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/itsenayet
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itsEnayet/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_enayet/

SFX
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sfx_space/

PREMIERE: Isaka & Enayet - NYC 2016 (SFX)

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Isaka - Elytra, 2024 
Buy: https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/elytra-sfx03

"After a five-year hiatus, Isaka returns with ‘Elytra’, a work exploring the increasingly blurred lines between organic and artificial realities. In her self-defined 'hyperbass', 'Elytra' blends low-end grit with a melodic pop sheen, morphing erratic rhythms, intricate sound design and hyperpop vocals that balance formal sensibilities and visceral club energy.
Isaka underwent the transformative experience of medical transition during her move to Berlin and this radical change emerges in the thematic exploration of Elytra. "

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@isaka_symbios_wiki

[Premiere] Isaka - 7Qubit (out on SFX)

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Isaka - Elytra [SFX03]
SFX, 2024
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://sfx-space.bandcamp.com/album/elytra-sfx03

🔴 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥
https://elytra.symbios.wiki/
https://www.instagram.com/isaka.elytra/


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𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖊#264 📢 Isaka - Circuit Shaker [SFX]

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Sarra Wild: 2024 Roundup - 12 December 2024

Saturday 25 January 2025
CTM 2025
OXI

A hyperreal exploration of identity, transformation, and the boundaries between organic and artificial realities, Isaka’s EP Elytra is built on her »hyperbass« framework and a blend of hand-drawn collages, sketches, and AI-assisted 3D imagery. Merging aggressive low-end energy with sound design, glitchy textures, and hyperpop vocals that balance experimental abstraction with dance fever immediacy, themes of insect moulting thread through the work: metamorphosis as a cyclical, layered and often traumatic process.

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CTM 2025: ISAKA at OXI

Sarra Wild invites Isaka - 24 June 2025

PAN w/ TZUSING & M.E.S.H. - 28th January 2019
https://www.nts.live/shows/pan/episodes/pan-28th-january-2019

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IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE feat. POISON PEN, STYLES P, VINNIE PAZ - Black Vikings
YENNU ARIENDRA & J "MO'ONG" SANTOSO PRIBADI - Alas Tyang Pinggir (The Outcast Forest)
DIAMANDA GALÁS - This Is The Law Of The Plague
THREE 6 MAFIA feat. EIGHTBALL & MJG, YOUNG BUCK - Stay Fly
DOWNSTATE - Scissors
T.O.P - Doom Dada
CRAVE - 16
6IX9INE, BOBBY SHMURDA - Stoopid
DJ HVAD - ANGST (EP VERSION)
DANNY BROWN - When It Rain
ABYSS X - Humiliation
FALCON KID - Basketball
JK FLESH - Nothing Is Free
ZALIVA-D - Born Dead
NEANA ON THE TRAK - Lilin
DEEVEN - Bion Lithe Remix
石野 卓球 - Ghost In The Shell
SAINT ABDULLAH - Let Me Sing
WRACK - Chou Ha
CAPTAIN AHAB - I Don't Have A Dick
CEVIN KEY - 15th Shade
DEENA ABDELWAHED - Tawa (M.E.S.H. Remix)
FRAXINUS - Overland V16
REALITYCHECK - The Signal (VIP Dub)
INGRATE - Hoax
STANLEY SCHMIDT - Brutal Ornament
SPLASH PATTERN - Up Next New Season
CARRETTA, WORKERPOOR - Subtle Knife
LIKE A TIM - Beats Djax Up
ISOMOV - Wavelet
HMURD - Clip That [Clubmix]
M.E.S.H. - Ten Alarm
DAFT PUNK - Technologic Peace Field Edit
M.E.S.H. - Festival Circuit
NICO - Unwhole
MAAYAN NIDAM - News From East
JASMINE INFINITI - Flight At O'Hare
JOCK CLUB - Grave Yard
HARAVOT - Unreleased 1
AIR MAX '97 - Soft Body
NUNU (FT. DJH) - SCUM 6
NA DJ - Rave Slaps Xtarri
M.E.S.H. - Atemlos
COSMIN TRG - Upscale Scalability, Implemented

PAN w/ TZUSING & M.E.S.H. - 28th January 2019

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Air Max '97 with Isomov - 29 September 2019

Aquarian makes and plays music that feels familiar but is hard to pin down. His take on techno, jungle, rave and bass is alien and unique, a blend of the Berlin, London and Detroit sounds we all know and love, but with a little something extra injected into it to give it a mutant sense of funk. The Canadian is now based in Germany and has released on Quiet Time Tapes as well as his own Hanger Management.

His mix is a devastating study in rhythm, contorted drum programming and warped bass that is stripped back to its bare essentials but that is constantly on the move and keeping you guessing. It starts off twisted and tightly coiled, complex and involving, but slowly loosens up and heads straight forward in thrilling fashion. Electro, ghetto, IDM, drum & bass and more all get chawed up and spat out in ways that only Aquarian can.

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