Drowned By Locals marks its fifth anniversary with a three-volume digital anthology and a limited printed manifesto, Black Circle, written by Ian Bruner and published by Drowned By Public.

https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/pornographic-time-vol-ii-the-continuous-present

Rather than serving as a retrospective, the anthology traces the label’s evolving sound, its expanding cohort of misfits, and its unfolding trajectory. Across the three volumes, DBL assembles new works, long-buried material, and contributions from artists connected to the label through releases, radio, dormant ideas, or future intentions. Taken together, they form a portrait of the label’s instinctive curatorial logic — pairing worlds that should not, by any reasonable measure, coexist.

Release Schedule 
Volume I: Pornographic-Time, Vol. I — The Pornographic-Tantalus — November 28, 2025 
Volume II: Pornographic-Time, Vol. II — The Continuous Present — December 19, 2025 
Volume III: Pornographic-Time, Vol. III — The Horizonless Interface — January 30, 2026

All volumes draw their titles and thematic direction from Black Circle. The manifesto describes “pornographic-time” as a condition in which desire is continuously activated but never fulfilled. It’s the experience of being pulled outward by images, demands, and expectations faster than one can return to oneself. You remain visible, but rarely seen.

Each volume adopts a different facet of this state.

Volume I — The Pornographic-Tantalus “Each gesture toward conclusion makes the object recede. Tantalus stands beneath bowed fruit trees, but as she moves to consume, the branch bends away. With each pang of thirst, the water ebbs further.”

Volume II — The Continuous Present “Because of its accelerated pace, pornographic-time both appears and vanishes instantly—a cybernetic loop, a continuous present. Overfull and empty. Life collapses into micro-moments that disappear as soon as they arrive.”

Volume III — The Horizonless Interface “Both the targeted individual and the pornographic-Tantalus occupy the time-space of the horizonless interface, hived in algorithmic neurological pathways and pathologies, resulting in a bare life layered with compulsive and neurotic loops of behavior.”

Black Circle expands these ideas into print, combining Bruner’s text with visual contributions from more than twenty artists. Released in a hand-numbered run of 100 copies, it will be available independently or bundled with the anniversary T-shirt. All physical editions include the full three-volume digital anthology.

releases December 19, 2025

Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin 
Artwork & design by Giovanni Murolo 
Curation by Laith Demashqieh 
Manifesto: Black Circle — text by Ian Bruner (published by Drowned By Public, printed edition: hand-numbered run of 100 copies)

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Pornographic-Time, Vol. II: The Continuous Present

Bernardino Femminielli - La Fièvre de l'Archipel

Cooking up a cocktail of Brazilian specialties as a musical homage to the landscape architect of Roberto Burle Marx 

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Unstable: Stable 125 episode curated by Jakub Juhás from mappa (https://soundcloud.com/mappaeditions).
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This mix is a selection of this year’s releases I put out on mappa. I wove into it a few field recordings I made myself, or together with my partner Michaela. I wanted to speak about a phenomenon that has fascinated me for a long time, and that is becoming more and more present in my life. It’s the way in which the releases I listen to over and over shape my emotional world, and shift the way I hear and perceive the world I move through. How, in certain tracks, I suddenly catch a glimpse of places I know, memories, scents, joys, or forgotten fears.

How the swamp behind my hometown feels different now—ever since I heard Adela Mede’s howling, which sits so close to the local frog choir. The boundaries blur completely, and sometimes I can’t tell what’s just an echo from some album, what’s a real memory of a creek in northern Romania, what’s the bubbling of volcanic mud on one of the Aeolian islands, and what’s the delicate crunchy electronics of Olli Aarni.

And the voices I hear when I wake from a dream at night—are they my neighbors, or have I heard them already in the worlds of Julek ploski, Plume Girl, Richard Hronský or Areliz Ramos? After ten years, I realized this is the driving force behind all this solitary work: this quiet sound-overflow that connects worlds so different from each other, forming unexpected little constellations of meaning.
Thank you for listening, even when you’re sometimes too far away.

Jakub J 
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Tracklist:
Jakub Juhás & Michaela Cagáňová - Gârnic, Romania (2023)
Adam Badí Donoval – ⁠thereby losing the weightless delight of being swept along with it (2025)
Jakub Juhás - Béter, Slovakia (2025)
Olli Aarni - Jäämatkailu (2025)
Julek ploski - 1H Of Shame -Loop , (2025)
Richard Hronský - 6 october 2018 (2025)
Plume Girl - Holy Creek (2025)
claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - thick walls, thin walls (2025)
Michaela Cagáňová & Jakub Juhás - Bârsana, Romania (2023) / Horná Mičiná, Slovakia (2025)
Yoichi Kamimura - Kōri no ryokō (2025)
Kult Masek & Petr Vrba - Fumarola (2025)
Areliz Ramos - B Side (2025)
fraufraulein - secret first thing (2025)
Lénok - xxx-xxx-x (2025)
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links:
Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/mappaeditions
Bandcamp – https://mappa.bandcamp.com/
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/___mappa/

125 – mappa – Selection of 2025 year’s releases

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Beyond / Below 56 by @cahlsel. Received December 2025.
Photo by Jasper Sharp

"This started as an exercise in tone and texture but I ended up adding a patchwork of media clips to give the mix a loose structure. Those were put together in a free association kind of way, stuff that I think the brain can still latch onto without needing concrete themes attached. Shout out to Hi-Vis for the invite (!)"

KiF Productions - Laugharne Estuary to Welcombe Mouth (Excerpt)
Caldera - Feaves
Tetsu Inoue / Jonah Sharp - Macsquid
Fabiano - Saturated Memory Of A Rooftop
Onokio - TL
Special Guest DJ - waiting for the stars to change
990x - Solace
Kareem Lotfy - Chromosome
Unknown Future - JDDSP4000
Ulla Straus - House
The Orb - Passing the Time
Tylervision - The Last Human
Biosphere - The Things I Tell You
CiM - View
Romantic Warrior - Space Shuttle
another fine day - lazy daisy
M-Age - Mindwarp (Casper Pound & Laurence Elliot Potter Mix)
Señor Coconut - La Noche Cool

56. Cahl Sel

Global Weirding 052 - Chuck Johnson

C. Lavender - Ambient DJ Set (L&SD New York, NY -  Nov 2025)

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Tracklist:
0:00:00 Tetsuya Shibata - Fortuna Castle
0:02:10 Rozzer - Troglodyte
0:04:46 Teebee - The Loop
0:06:38 Evasion, Conman & Mod:Co - Shadow Circuit [FORTHCOMING ON OFFISH PRODUCTIONS]
0:10:22 Evasion - Blade Echoes
0:12:13 Dalenn - Singing Mirror
0:14:27 Jonah K - Shapeshifter [FORTHCOMING ON OFFISH PRODUCTIONS]
0:16:41 Mako - Hungry For Lies
0:18:33 Section 63, Air J & Peter Kurten - Scandium 21
0:20:02 Vedanta - Failure (Offish Remix) [UNRELEASED]
0:23:46 Rawbreaker & Offish - T-Virus
0:25:15 Offish & Forgiven Soul - Logic Gate VIP [UNRELEASED]
0:28:58 Offish & Attempt - White Beast
0:31:12 Mean Teeth - Transfixed
0:33:27 Offish - Violent Desire [UNRELEASED]
0:36:25 Neonlight & Hedj - Hammerhead (Nickbee Remix)
0:38:39 Nickbee - Sleep Gates
0:40:08 Mayhem & Logam - Centuria (Amoss Remix)
0:42:45 Dalenn - Noxalyth
0:46:00 Teebee - Armory Dub
0:48:20 Agressor Bunx - The Curse
0:49:27 BMA - Fresh Melt
0:50:56 Biostacis - Erased
0:53:55 Eye-D & DJ Hidden - Chemical Dreams
0:56:06 Cement Tea - Deegen (Centaspike Remix)
0:57:56 City Of God - C'est Mon Monde (DJ Hidden Remix)
1:00:01 Machinecode - Duberlin

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Offish Productions Showcase Mix #32 - Mixed by Offish

This is when Donato Dozzy chose to work like an alchemist — taking 160 bpm, shaping and fusing them, letting dnb, jungle, riddims and other forms of madness slowly merge into a single, simmering element ✨ This set was recorded in Rome, Donato's hometown, at our opening season party at Lanificio.

Donato Dozzy - Reveries 7.12.2024

Basic House - Larque No. 2
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Basic House - Larque No. 2

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#008 Sky Stadium/Pierrot Lunaire - Windowing
#009 Venn Rain - Sympathetic Vibrations
#010 Daw Nusk - Hunter Gatherer

#005 Sundrips - Dream Studies
#006 Basic House - Ambrosias Vol. 1
#007 Phylum Child - In The Sawdust Lobby

#001 Faxmaskin/Ferla - Hånstaur/Entre Ondas Imóveis
#002 Navel - Ambient 4: Luneburg Heath
#003 Tatzelwurm - Erstwhile
#004 Long Pond - Pageants

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