Know V.A. presents Strange Days, a monthly residency at Echobox.

Experimental electronics that are rooted in club music, ranging from hard dance to ambient. Strange Days is hosted by duo Know V.A. - occasionally inviting guests that are involved in the experimental club scene.

https://soundcloud.com/know-va
https://soundcloud.com/strangedays_ams

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Strange Days - Echobox Radio

Rare View Mirror

Dream Receiver

Know V.A. presents Strange Days, a monthly residency at Echobox. Experimental electronics that are rooted in club music, ranging from hard dance to ambient. Strange Days is hosted by duo Know V.A. - occasionally inviting guests that are involved in the experimental club scene.

This month, Know V.A. hosts a special show 'Spread Out!' to pay homage to the classic 2008-2012 era of bass heavy music, dubstep and beyond - an era that was immensely important and formative for Know V.A.'s creative output and event curation.

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Strange Days #10 - Spread Out! - Echobox 19/01/24

@renslink

The final katharsis release of 2024 is the 26-track compilation “Physical Force” featuring a wide range of affiliated artists from both the international and local Copenhagen electronic music scene. As the title hints, Physical Force delves into the visceral, bodily aspects of music, inviting its contributors to explore the theme of movement as a central element in their compositions. Each artist was encouraged to focus on rhythm, groove, energy, and the physicality of sound, which resulted in drum-heavy release from start to finish. While there is a consistent emphasis on rhythm and a bodily connection to the music, the tracks vary widely in style and sonic texture, ranging from big melodic anthems, gritty experimental techno, heavy jungle bangers, and beyond.

releases December 23, 2024

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

Physical Force

Peace On The River

premiere: Renslink - Peace On The River

The final katharsis release of 2024 is the 26-track compilation “Physical Force” featuring a wide range of affiliated artists from both the international and local Copenhagen electronic music scene. As the title hints, Physical Force delves into the visceral, bodily aspects of music, inviting its contributors to explore the theme of movement as a central element in their compositions. Each artist was encouraged to focus on rhythm, groove, energy, and the physicality of sound, which resulted in drum-heavy release from start to finish. While there is a consistent emphasis on rhythm and a bodily connection to the music, the tracks vary widely in style and sonic texture, ranging from big melodic anthems, gritty experimental techno, heavy jungle bangers, and beyond.

released December 23, 2024

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

Lefka - Mitsubishi Mistupisci

Know V.A. presents Strange Days, a monthly residency at Echobox. Experimental electronics that are rooted in club music, ranging from hard dance to ambient. Strange Days is hosted by duo Know V.A. - occasionally inviting guests that are involved in the experimental club scene.

This month; high energy b2b with recent finds.

Strange Days #18 - Know V.A. - Echobox 30/08/24

Know V.A. presents Strange Days, a monthly residency at Echobox. Experimental electronics that are rooted in club music, ranging from hard dance to ambient. Strange Days is hosted by duo Know V.A. - occasionally inviting guests that are involved in the experimental club scene.

This month is a very special to us, Brutuzz b2b Know V.A. 
Brutuzz (https://soundcloud.com/brutuzz) is the founder, organizer and resident DJ of many essential events in the underground music scene (Oi!, Sonic Boom, Panic Room, Tunnelrave). One of the most versatile DJs with an insane track selection.

Strange Days #20 - Brutuzz b2b Know V.A. - Echobox 22/11/24

Strange Days #19 - Know V.A. - Echobox 25/10/24

Know V.A. presents Strange Days, a monthly residency at Echobox. Experimental electronics that are rooted in club music, ranging from hard dance to ambient. Strange Days is hosted by duo Know V.A. - occasionally inviting guests that are involved in the experimental club scene.

This month; energetic b2b freestyle with new tracks and a dive in the archives.

Strange Days #21 - Know V.A. - Echobox 17/01/25

After the last two weeks' high-octane entries, s.drift arrives to RA Radio with an odyssean wend through stellar textures, humming ambience, technological soundscapes and flickers of glitch.

Across live sets and a number of self-published productions, s.drift has cultivated an uncategorisable sound that slinks between ambient, sound-collage and the variegated rhythms of dance. Yet his music never settles satisfied into any of these and implies always something exceeding the confinement of a label and beyond the bounds of writing.

It's still difficult to describe both Cal's tunes and the way he mixes, where every echoic cymbal, every thrum of bass, every shift in pattern manages to come across laden with an unearthly significance. One thing Cal and I connected over was videogames, and there's this idea in game studies about the technological sublime... that the trick of sublimity in a game is that it always appears to exceed what it shows - a game does not provide you an entire world, it intimates the imagination that the world one inhabits could be entire. There's something similar, albeit with the difference that there's no illusion here, in Cal's mix. A universe is always present, if only as half-dreamt conjectures. There are suggestions of mechanism and the discordance of industry, wisps of dislocated voice and the embers of disco and hardcore and dub. But it's always a peripheral universe, there being something innately charitable in the attitude to music... a universe as-yet undiscerned, a whole lifeworld built of shards into which only the listener's intrusion can clarify some personal coherence. A music that creates a canvas atop which the paints are particles and tinctures, oblique spaces into which the listener might build.

It's like there's a secret in the music only s.drift knows. But this secrecy allures rather than excludes. It adumbrates a planetscape alive and coruscating, an ecosystem of ooze constituting an invitation to the tangibility of fantasy. And because of the skill with which Cal can conjure worlds, fantasy is here simply the given of reality. 

tracklist:

Strategy - A Distant Destination
Pendant - NMQ-HYT
Obi Uto - a5 cyclone version
Igor Dyachenko - TimeStretch
JJ+JS - CRX
Davis Galvin - Humidity 14
O Yuki Conjugate - Black Magic Box
Pavel Milyakov - Mondpfad
Disjecta - Smokehead
dub - Electricity in mind
J. Albert - la flor
effekt - wiki
Shinichi Atobe - World 4
Unt - Grids
Ghost Dubs - Wired Version
exael - choeo3
ELIZA B.C. - B1
James Bangura - Monterrey
Daniel Stefanik - b1_dambala_experience_001
AEM Rhythm-Cascade - Volnushka
Quatremont College - Safari
JEMAPUR - Frictize 412
Jeffre Cantu-Ledesma - Non-person
Ivory Black - Blood Oath
African-American Sound Recordings - Gauze
Kassir feat. Shumopeleng - Tommy III
d.towards - a+r atmo
CA2+ - Stop Mixing Tracks Like This
AQ*8 - traffic gem
Echoplex - Taking Off
Kero X Tetzzie - Trench Mesh
bookworms - disco demo
ccctyyy - C_RA_001
iokera (RIP) - asphodel fields
cypha - Xzirow Command
Hesaitix - Anticrime
Eszaid - Chained
xtclvr - deep scanning
Conna Haraway - 1702

artwork by @frasier77777 // addditional art and typesetting by @manicpixiedreamgirl555

Realist Alive Radio 004: s.drift

Know V.A. presents Strange Days, a monthly residency at Echobox. Experimental electronics that are rooted in club music, ranging from hard dance to ambient. Strange Days is hosted by duo Know V.A. - occasionally inviting guests that are involved in the experimental club scene.

This month; multidisciplinary artist Javier Mars (https://soundcloud.com/javiermars) took us on a journey with his field recordings, soothing ambient landscapes and sonic explorations.

Strange Days #22 - Javier Mars - Echobox 14/02/25

Read what LVRA and SODA PLAINS had to say on Mixmag Asia:

https://mixmag.asia/feature/mixmag-asia-radio-lvra-soda-plains-fortress-eastern-margins-mix-alt-club-cinematic-chaos

Tracklist:

Lanark Artefax - Tris
Dean Blunt - Hush  
Blawan - Under Belly
Sd Laika - Meshes
Klinical & MYTHM - 1THOUSAND  
Alex R- RZ50
K_anti - Another Life (Bios Contrast Remix)
Moderat - Porc#1
Cocktail Party Effect - Fixing The Roof
Daniel Myer - Wiedergabe
Dinamarca & L-Vis 1990 - Mario's Interference
Simo Cell - Whispers 
Maureen - Bend Down (Prod. Mikado)
Mutable Mercury - Lost in Chaos (Original Mix)
32 Balas (Siu Mata & Amor Satyr Remix)
Surusinghe - Boka
Dave NA - Radiance
Toma Kami - Ritmo Actual
Burna - Vai
AMAARAE - SAD GIRLZ (PANTONEPAPI FUNKY DUB)
Umru and Nikki_Nair - Ice Knives
CHIKATO (COLOR FUNK) - Y3llO, SHAVOZO, MC RN
Ben Bondy - Bend
DJ GÄP - everything you need
Moin - Guess It's Wrecked (feat. Olan Monk)
Soyol Erdene - She Loved Us

Mixmag Asia Radio 163: LVRA and SODA PLAINS

STRUMA+IODINE PREMIERE
KIN TEAL - "attention span" (2025)

To support the artist, buy it here
https://kinteal.bandcamp.com/album/circadian

Album-Title: Circadian
Year: 2025
Artist: Kin Teal
Label: EXILES
Album-release: 23.05.2025
music by Bálint Haller 
mastered by Fausto Mercier 
artwork by Márton Tóth 
words by Dávid Gerlei

Kin Teal (Bálint Haller) is a Budapest-based producer who makes organic and tactile music that’s rooted in club culture. So far, he has released two EPs (via London-based Tropopause Records and New York-based Human Pitch respectively), and his latest drop (‘Undercurrent’) was a single on Scuffed Recordings. The main aim of his project is to express the contrast and connection between nature and humanity through juxtaposing natural textures with machine-made ones, and this sensibility is ever so evident on ‘circadian’, his latest offering.  

The five-track EP is tightly packed with unformalized and unpredictable bass music – as per Kin Teal’s ars poetica, heavily digital sounds are carefully intertwined with natural elements. ‘circadian’ is a polished, if not totally pristine body of work: the playfully raw, broken beats carry artifacts of living organisms. The human voice is a central element here; whether chopped and scattered or looped and ethereal, these vocal samples are what make the material really breathe. ‘circadian’ is peak body clock music condensed into 18-minute cycles.


https://soundcloud.com/kin_teal
https://soundcloud.com/exiles-electronics

S+I PREMIERE: KIN TEAL - "attention span" [EXILES]

@yolek - FOR MY ANGELS ON ANGEL DUST (DAWN023)
50 limited copies
CD
Produced by Yolek
Mastered by Lastrack
Artwork & Design by Hajj
Dawn 2025

Yolek - Martyr's Stare

PM TRACK LIST
111x - fragments held together by pressure (forgive)
Yolek - Look Away 
estoc - bones broken many things left unsaid (ft. violence)
xato - 645AR & xato - IDGAF (ft. DJ LOSER)
Kat Nzingha - Heme (noa edit)
BENN - White Storms
LAO x Other Islands - Años Despues
circadian rythms - Peripherals
Drone Devil's Hands
Entranas - Dale Sonido
evil grimace toujours un jogging sous
JLSXNDERS - Skengman
Josef - Digga d edit)
BENN - warp

Silk Road Assassins - Vessel
DJ Smokey - Smokey Ray Cyrus
Slick - Future Blades
Nahash - Dwindling
Shayu - B B Blue
Sangre Nueva - Tu Forma
Dark0 - Qarin
Hyper Strobes - Uhhh
Piezo - Trella
Akito - Aqua Tryst (Original Mix)
Walton - Vectors ft. WEN
HP: 925 MP: 463 - Clown Riddim
Miss Jay - Drum Tool
Slikback - Revolve
Hyper Strobes - Tek 9
Ziyiz - Slipd 
She’s Drunk - Pull Up
Oklou - Level 5

PRECIOUS METALS RADIO (NTS) FT. ENDGAME & SLICK (21.05.25)

@Iglooghost is the musical alias of Bristol-based artist Seamus Malliagh, a key figure in experimental electronic music. Known for his intricate, genre-defying productions and immersive visual storytelling, his work blends hyper-detailed soundscapes with surreal, magical-realist narratives—serving as gateways into vast fictional ecosystems filled with cryptic lore and imagined subcultures.

His 2024 album Tidal Memory Exo, released on LUCKYME®, was written during a period spent squatting in a storm-battered garage on the Kent coast. The project draws from that harsh environment, imagining a world where prehistoric debris washes ashore, giving rise to trilobite civilizations and a rogue “tidal scene” of musicians inventing mutated genres like Foamtek, SporeStyle, and Germ_Musik.

Forthcoming on LUCKYME®, Iglooghost’s next EP, 「ᮜ˚」, expands the lore introduced in Tidal Memory Exo. Drawing inspiration from construction vehicles, heavy machinery, and factories, the record dives further into his vocal-led, post-punk-influenced direction teased on the last album—pushing his worldbuilding into even grittier, more industrial territory.

Tracklist:
Iglooghost - Infekted Mask
Iglooghost - weightless_Saw
Iglooghost - C0.DATA_EDIT
Iglooghost, Oli XL - Woozy•Cocoon
Olswel - VIRAL [Ok this rules]
BABii - M25 / Pholo — ID
Iglooghost - Coral Mimic / Lanark Artefax - Meszthread
Priori - Glass Shards
Iglooghost, Cyst - Spawn01「VIP」
Soso tharpa - Fistful of Shells
Iglooghost - T.t0r
Warpstr - carry your touch
Iglooghost - Chlorine•FM「VIP」
Iglooghost - Softshell Maglev
Cyst - Acetate
Tenniscoats - My Car is Burning

PURE Guest.085 Iglooghost

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https://soundcloud.com/strangedays_ams

Amsterdam duo Know V.A. are one of the Netherlands’ forefront explorers of genre bending club music. Pulling influences from their youths spent at hardcore parties, their range is boundless and their music burst with dynamics. Their versatility is at home at Lunchmeat, Defqon.1, Boiler Room, NTS, Asia’s underground clubs and their own monthly Echobox show.

Strange Days #10 - Spread Out! - Echobox 19/01/24

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