Kuboraum announces a series of ''Digital Sound Residency’’ beginning with Ziúr.

After a long time collaboration with the independent electronic music scene, Kuboraum is happy to launch their Digital Sound Residency, inviting experimental, electronic and contemporary music artists  to re-design their aesthetic through sound. 

First host of the series is the Berlin-based artist and producer Ziúr.

Ziúr’s music has always been difficult to classify. A longtime fixture in Berlin’s nightlife, the musician, producer and DJ has cut through decades of threads to arrive on a sound that accurately represents her journey. She approaches electronic music without any preciousness or reverence to genre. 

Ziúr’s exclusive sound-work for Kuboraum’s digital room www.kuboraum.com will be available for everyone to download subscribing to Kuboraum's newsletter via  https://bit.ly/35fqlCe

Ziúr’s music has always been difficult to classify. A longtime fixture in Berlin’s nightlife, the musician, producer and DJ has cut through decades of threads to arrive on a sound that accurately represents her journey. She’s sung, played guitar and drums and reduced club music to a burning cinder; with “Antifate”, her third album under the Ziúr moniker, she approaches electronic music without any preciousness or reverence to genre. 

2019’s acclaimed “ATØ” re-introduced songs to her canon, contorting her vocals over an undulating electronic backdrop. On “Antifate”, she takes this idea further, pushing abstracted pop forms into mists of digital euphoria and extracting unexpected instrumental flourishes from collapsing clouds of distorted rhythm. Electronic instru- mentation is melted into acoustic sounds and vice-versa, creating a breathing organic universe that’s entirely Ziúr’s.

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Ziúr Kuboraum

Kuboraum announces the launch of their second Digital Sound Residency, 
after a long collaboration with the independent electronic music scene, the digital sound residency is a project which underlines how strong is the bond between Kuboraum and contemporary music; 
inviting experimental, electronic and contemporary music artists to re-design their aesthetic through an exclusive soundtracks for Kuboraum's digital room www.kuboraum.com available for everyone to download subscribing to Kuboraum's newsletter.

The second host of this series is the pioneer of the Birmingham electronic music scene, the man behind several projects which changed the electronic music scene, the Downwards founder, artist and producer REGIS.

LET LOVE DECIDE, written by REGIS, is an extract from the one-off performance LET THE NIGHT RETURN by Karl O’Connor aka REGIS which took place in June 2019 at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus in Peloponnese - Greece. 
A remarkable UNESCO world heritage site devoted to Asclepius - the Greek god of medicine. The 2,360-year-old, 14.000 capacity open-air Auditorium which is still standing in its original form and shape, as the oldest and last remaining blueprint of architectural acoustics, naturally became the ideal setting for the act. 
In LET LOVE DECIDE Regis is shifting between his signature acoustics old and new, designing a huge spectrum of his deep personality while using his incredible cult voice.

Kuboraum is honored to receive LET LOVE DECIDE as a gift from one of their favourite artists and friend.

written by Regis
published by Downwards
mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at Enisslab

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REGIS _ KUBORAUM _ LET LOVE DECIDE

Back in July, Kuboraum collaborated with Terraforma to celebrate the launch of the new Terraforma Journal issue #1 at the evocative location of Berlin's Funkhaus Harbour.

On this occasion, Kuboraum + Terraforma invited legendary Dj Stingray and Dj Red bringing people together again on the dancefloor.

Representative of Kuboraum’s identity and project, Dj Red took over the spaceship at Funkhaus Harbour and brought us on a new mesmerizing sound journey. In her 4-hour set, she turned the dancefloor into a space of creative exchange, connecting the community grooving to the same beat in an ecstatic dance under the sunset light.

The new editorial project by Terraforma represents the desire to create a new, ever-accessible platform in which sound, art, ecology and contemporary culture intersect and interact. Composed by different editorial sections, the first issue explores and broadens the pure notion of festival, not only as a time-space limited entity but as a ‘collective, multilateral, interconnected manifestation of dynamicity’. In this attempt, the journal encapsulates a multiplicity of voices and perspectives that push this concept further with the final goal of providing a platform for creative exchange. The same definition of festival applies mutatis mutandis to what Terraforma Journal stands for, as a space of exchange and encounter within shared cultural, social and political symbols.

The collaboration between Kuboraum and Terraforma finds ultimate expression in the recorded soundscape curated by Dj Red during the event at Funkhaus Harbour in Berlin.

DJ RED_KUBORAUM + TERRAFORMA at Funkhaus Harbour Berlin

Kuboraum presents the third episode of its Digital Sound Residency inviting the legendary Mike Paradinas, otherwise known as μ-Ziq, founder of the label Planet Mu and leading voice in the British electronic music over the last 25 years. 

In μ-Ziq’s own music, a sharp sound synthesis melts into melodic arrangements mixed with infectious rhythms and a passion for far-reaching, yet accessible experimentalism. 
From hardcore and breakcore to spacey, moody sounds of dubstep, he is devoted to progressive sounds that generate an effect on society in the way we perceive and dance music – while being at the same time influenced by society. In an attempt to tap into the inner soul of the listener, μ-Ziq elevates techno above the mere functionalism of the dancefloor, lighting fires in the heart and painting pictures for the mind’s eye.

In the pre-Planet Mu days, Paradinas collaborated with Aphex Twin on Expert Knob Twiddlers, a joint album issued in 1994 under the name Mike & Rich. Part of the same ecosystem, the two IDM pioneers were trying to create an electronic music that the UK could be proud of, rather than just making pure dancefloor tracks or Detroit techno facsimiles.

In 1998, Paradinas launched his own independent record label Planet Mu and started releasing material by ground-breaking artists as Jega, Venetian Snares, Vex’d, Luke Vibert and FaltyDL, including some of his own projects ‘Kid Spatula’ & the ‘Slag Boom Van Loon’ collaboration with Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J). Since then, despite seismic industry shifts and musical evolutions, he never lost his crucial position at the fringes of electronic music—from IDM to dubstep, grime to footwork. With over 400 releases, Planet Mu has become established as one of the mainstays of the electronic music scene, alongside Ninjatune and Warp, being always innovative and forward-thinking.

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μ-ZIQ_ KUBORAUM_ SPELM

In this mesmerizing 2 hours DJ-set recorded last summer 2021 during the Kuboraum + Terraforma event @Funkhaus Harbour, Berlin, DJ Stingray 313 gave no time to rest, gracing the decks with eclectic, warp-speed slithery electronic sounds.

Since the 90s, Sherard Ingram has been one of the most influential artists in the Detroit underground scene. A menacing node in the vast tangle of electronic music’s history, present and future. Founder of Urban Tribe, Ingram worked alongside electro pioneers such as Drexciya, Anthony Shakir, Kenny Dixon Jr aka Moodymann.
DJ Stingray 313's aesthetic was greatly influenced by the duo Drexciya. Their ethos was based on the afro-futurist narrative concept of a sonic fiction. Through a sonic engagement with water, futurity and the transnational dimension of transformation, listeners embark upon a universal journey to a place of self-discovery. In this context, a mythical creature emerging from the aquatic underworld was named DJ Stingray by James Stinson. Besides adding to the consistent aquatic tropes, the name Stingray also acutely embodied his slippery, killer attitude behind the decks. 

With more than three dozen releases, Ingram collaborated with labels as Retroactive, Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label, TRUST and Mo Wax, later forming Micron Audio in 2008. In 2017 his first mix CD, Kern Vol.4, was released by Tresor.
From futuristic electro to conceptual ambient to downtempo works, his style is characterised by fast-paced, inventive beat patterns and constant shifts in tones. Warp-speed slithery, metallic techno with a UR punk edge and a rising sense of momentum.
A highly specialized, fine-tuned scientific experiment conducted by a skilled researcher: not euphoric, but more intellectual in nature. Always hectic and highly engaged, but never unfocused. And always carrying the spark of discovery.

#djstingray #kuboraum #terraforma #funkhausberlin

DJ STINGRAY 313_KUBORAUM + TERRAFORMA at FUNKHAUS Harbour Berlin

The 4th act of Kuboraum’s Digital Sound Residency presents Salò’s ‘La Ballata delle Mosche’. 
 
Springing from the Pasolinian macrocosm, Salò’s anthology is based on dualities: finding pleasure in the decadent, on literature and perversion, eternity and situationism, the grotesque and the visionary, fantasy and reality, the baroque and the contemporary, critique and provocation. All these juxtaposed elements come together in an allusive, murky imagery and open performative dimension which deny any form of canonicity or morality. Salo’s boundary-rejecting performances act as a medium to translate dualities into ritual practice and open a window in this performative landscape, combining psychedelic scenarios and mythological symbolism, rituality and rural iconography made of fairy tales, dreams and hypnotic scenes. 
A synaesthesia of noise music, esoteric atmospheres, baroque costumes and performance. Different artistic levels intersecting in a moment of collective creativity, which does not follow a specific path but stems from the holistic combination of different sounds.

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SALÒ - La Ballata Delle Mosche

The 5th act of Kuboraum’s Digital Sound Residency presents <3less by Space Afrika, a delicately collaged soundscape spanning time, consciousness and genre.

The duo composed by producers Joshua Inyang and Joshua Tarelle made its name with dub techno-soaked sonic impressions of the grey streets and distinct voices of their hometown, Manchester.  As sonic painters, they portray visual stories in the listeners’ minds: rich emotional landscapes translated into contemplative, weightless sound collages. Oblique mosaics of dialogue, rhythm, texture, and shadow leaning into an enigmatic fusion of smoky dub, alchemize ambient and cosmic downtempo. Genre-spanning emotive electronic music rooted in everyday life and real-world experiences, allowing the listener to empathize and see the world through the artist’s eyes, just as they see it. 

Space Afrika started their career with minimal and dub techno productions. Their first albums Above The Concrete/BelowThe Concrete (2014) and  Somewhere Decent To Live (2018) were sparse yet intimate, paying tribute to the landscape of their home city, but also expressing a desire to escape its sometimes depressing disintegration. In 2020, they released the mixtape hybtwibt?, a powerful exploration of black consciousness through an assemblage of conversations, news reportage, r&b samples and ambience. Their third album "Honest Labour", featured as best album of 2021 in Pitchfork, Guardian and The Wire Magazine to name a few, is a 19-track collection of crepuscular moods and beautifully liquid washes of sound. A delicately created vulnerable sonic tapestry, almost entirely organic yet with a binding hint to something more cosmic in the air.

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SPACE AFRIKA  <3less

Kuboraum presents the 6th act of the Digital Sound Residency featuring Impressioni Dinamiche, a mind-expanding piece by Mannequin Records label boss and curator Alessandro Adriani, one of our absolute favorite producers.

Travelling between light and dark, Adriani depicts a suspended sound imaginarium governed by its own rules and principles of gravity: obscure space-like atmospheres blending elements of techno, electro, cold wave, industrial, EBM, minimal synth, and more. Adriani’s open-minded sound universe reflects his wide-ranging and off-kilter tastes, result of countless hours dedicated over the years to unearthing the untold stories behind the music he loves.

Founder of Mannequin Records, since 2008 Adriani has been releasing forgotten gems and up to the minute synth incantations, alongside quietly issuing out his own music on other labels as L.I.E.S. Records, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Jealous God, and Pinkman. Alessandro has also contributed outstanding mixes for Resident Advisor, FACT, Crack Magazine, Bleep, Cxema and Dekmantel. On the festival circuit he’s made appearances at Berghain, Tresor, Atonal, Boiler Room, Dekmantel, ADE, Dimensions, Neopop, Positive Education, Signal and more, together with his bi-monthly dates at Berghain and Panorama Bar, a residency he’s held from 2016 to 2020.

Mastering: Giuseppe Tillieci EnissLab Studio

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ALESSANDRO ADRIANI - Impressioni Dinamiche

The 7th episode of Kuboraum’s Digital Sound Residency unveils ‘Lapsed’ by MOIN, an experimental ensemble made of London-based production duo Raime (Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead) and percussionist Valentina Magaletti.

Born initially as a side-project by Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead, Moin released its first self-titled EP on Blackest Ever Black in 2013, an overtly sparse post-punk soundscape featuring primitive drums, squalling guitar drones and commanding bass, forming carefully prescribed bursts of passion.
Later joined by long-time collaborator and percussionist Valentina Magaletti, the trio released in 2020 their debut album Moot! On AD93, an 8-track experimental project spanning post-punk, psychedelia and alternative rock with the guitar and Valentina Magaletti’s percussion clearly front and center, giving the album a unique organic texture filled with incantation-like vocals.

Their latest album ‘Paste’ (2022) released on AD93 embraces post-rock, live dub, field recordings and spoken word in a raw, emotional music collage whose kernel you will never locate.
Balancing teenage nostalgia and enduring influences from the ‘80s & ‘90s in a form of kinetic energy that moves perpendicular to contemporary trends, it carries the listener on a rough ride through the darker parts of the psyche, not settling on any one style but moving through them in search of new connections.

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MOIN - Lapsed

Pleased to introduce Quelza, the 8th host of Kuboraum’s Digital Sound Residency unleashing ‘La Divina Commedia’, an 8-minutes-long musical and emotional catharsis that will disintegrate any preconceived notion of tangibility. 

French-born Berlin-based producer otherwise known as Léo Naïtaïssa is a craftsman of sophisticated, organic dance music and an emerging talent among the new wave of artists from the Berlin scene. His maturely skilled sound and style weaves between haunting synths, soul-summoning techno and snappy breakbeats, often evoking cinematic soundscapes fuelled by long breakdowns and heart-in-mouth gaps. Simultaneously intense & weightless, Quelza navigates the abyss of nightmarish electronic music with a experimental approach to conjure up well-curated, forward-thinking sound sculptures. 
After releasing La Valse (2021) and Les Malicieuses (2022) proposing an expansive and all-encompassing sound, his latest EP 47030 (2022) represents the apotheosis of his work so far, mining new territory in the realm of miasmic, melancholic techno. 
In addition to his production work, his unorthodox DJ sets can often be heard throughout the underground circuit regularly in clubs like Berghain, Tresor, Fabric & Khidi.

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QUELZA - La Divina Commedia

Salò

RAUM001, Digital/500 hand-numbered 2xLP Vinyl 12” incl. hand-coloured prints, Kuboraum Editions, September 8

A1 / 1. La Ballata Delle Mosche
A2 / 2. Malizia
A3 / 3. Danza Dei Tritoni
A4 / 4. Canto Dei Tritoni
B1 / 5. Rogo
B2 / 6. Pompei
B3 / 7. Capra Io Vedo Capra Io Sono
B4 / 8. Streghe e Briganti Diavoli e Santi
C1 / 9. La Febbre 
C2 / 10. Denti Neri
D1 / 11. AEIOUY
D2 / 12. Notturno
D3 / 13. Indiavolata Innamorata
D4 / 14. Faccio L'Amore A Cavallo Di Un Asino


In Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, the bishop - one of four wealthy and powerful archetypes that conduct the film's notorious debauched ritual - proclaims: "All's good if it's excessive". Salò takes this statement to heart on the full-length debut to imagine a "dreamy and decadent" Roman Renaissance, fusing noise, prog and psychedelic music, mythological symbolism, medieval theatre and rural iconography in a lavish celebration of art, ecstasy and extravagance. The project is seen as a way to give onlookers a door to another world - a space to experience new languages and emotions and perceive reality in radically different ways. And after years of playing together ephemerally, Salò finally recorded a trans-genre sonic anthology that distils their free-flowing wellspring of poems, fairy tales, anecdotes and mythologies. Salò isn't only a surreal, satirical indictment of fascism in Italy, it's a suggestion that words and symbols can change like tides, washing us into different landscapes almost accidentally.

Salò is the next step in a prolonged artistic conversation that veers between dialects and intonations, not trying to repeat what already exists but reinterpreting timeless messages for impressionable, contemporary minds. It's a concept Maggi happened upon when he was still at university studying costume design for cinema. He realised that beneath every hat and shirt or every pair of pants was a historical story that hadn't yet reached its conclusion and knew the same philosophy could be applied to anything he approached creatively. Salò's use of fear is crucial to its output, but the imagery isn't self-consciously dark, instead examining the fact that our concept of the monstrous is often confused by history's dominant record. While witches and brigands were traditionally pushed to the outskirts of society, their crime was simply the ignorance of their peers. 

The mainstream's fear of the other led to the exiles' own more tangible existential terror, and Salò sketches out this contradiction in luxurious detail. And although one-day Salò might be a full band, the next, it could be a painting, a string ensemble or a choir. Salò is a magical ritual that takes its cues from commedia dell'arte, an early European theatrical form that mixed music and dance, using distinct costumes to represent each character. The collective picks up where history left off, metamorphosing wild flights of fantasy and historical truths into audio-visual puzzles that defy contemporary logic, never failing to find humour in the darkest crevices.


All Songs & Tracks composed by Salò

Emiliano Maggi: Voice, Flute, Harmonic
Toni Cutrone: Drums, Timpani, Tamb, Woodblock, Castanets
Giacomo Mancini: Electric Guitar
Stefano Di Trapani: Baritone Guitar, Keyboard, Saz, Piano
Cosimo Damiano: Keyboards, Synthesizers, Samplers, Drum Machines, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Tubular Bells

Special thanks to:

Pietro Pompei: Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Timpani, Sardinian Bells, Bass Drum, Snare
Ambrachiara Michelangeli: Violin, Viola, Electric Violin
Matteo Vallicelli: Drums

Recorded & Produced By Cosimo Damiano at Rocchi Studios
Mixed at Rocchi Studios by Cosimo Damiano & Morphine Raum by Rabih Beaini e Nene Baratto
Mastered By Neel at Eniss Lab 
Artwork and costumes by Emiliano Maggi

RAUM001 – All rights reserved
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Salò

Salò - La Ballata Delle Mosche

Described by singer Emiliano Maggi as "a banquet dedicated to friendship", 'Malizia' is the first sip of SALÒ's pitch-black cocktail of theatrical prog rock and psychedelic ritual music. Wicked whispers, manic giggles and whimsical folk instrumentation crack open the door to the Italian ensemble's tenebrous locale, wherein listeners are primed to expect almost anything, from Goblin-esque giallo murmurations to lavish, industrial symphonies. Sinful thoughts bubble to the surface, diluted by SALÒ's mischievous humour and devilish extravagance.



Salò

RAUM001, Digital/500 hand-numbered 2xLP Vinyl 12” incl. hand-coloured prints, Kuboraum Editions, September 8

A1 / 1. La Ballata Delle Mosche
A2 / 2. Malizia
A3 / 3. Danza Dei Tritoni
A4 / 4. Canto Dei Tritoni
B1 / 5. Rogo
B2 / 6. Pompei
B3 / 7. Capra Io Vedo Capra Io Sono
B4 / 8. Streghe e Briganti Diavoli e Santi
C1 / 9. La Febbre 
C2 / 10. Denti Neri
D1 / 11. AEIOUY
D2 / 12. Notturno
D3 / 13. Indiavolata Innamorata
D4 / 14. Faccio L'Amore A Cavallo Di Un Asino

In Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, the bishop - one of four wealthy and powerful archetypes that conduct the film's notorious debauched ritual - proclaims: "All's good if it's excessive". Salò takes this statement to heart on the full-length debut to imagine a "dreamy and decadent" Roman Renaissance, fusing noise, prog and psychedelic music, mythological symbolism, medieval theatre and rural iconography in a lavish celebration of art, ecstasy and extravagance. The project is seen as a way to give onlookers a door to another world - a space to experience new languages and emotions and perceive reality in radically different ways. And after years of playing together ephemerally, Salò finally recorded a trans-genre sonic anthology that distils their free-flowing wellspring of poems, fairy tales, anecdotes and mythologies. Salò isn't only a surreal, satirical indictment of fascism in Italy, it's a suggestion that words and symbols can change like tides, washing us into different landscapes almost accidentally.

Salò is the next step in a prolonged artistic conversation that veers between dialects and intonations, not trying to repeat what already exists but reinterpreting timeless messages for impressionable, contemporary minds. It's a concept Maggi happened upon when he was still at university studying costume design for cinema. He realised that beneath every hat and shirt or every pair of pants was a historical story that hadn't yet reached its conclusion and knew the same philosophy could be applied to anything he approached creatively. Salò's use of fear is crucial to its output, but the imagery isn't self-consciously dark, instead examining the fact that our concept of the monstrous is often confused by history's dominant record. While witches and brigands were traditionally pushed to the outskirts of society, their crime was simply the ignorance of their peers. 


All Songs & Tracks composed by Salò

Emiliano Maggi: Voice, Flute, Harmonic
Toni Cutrone: Drums, Timpani, Tamb, Woodblock, Castanets
Giacomo Mancini: Electric Guitar
Stefano Di Trapani: Baritone Guitar, Keyboard, Saz, Piano
Cosimo Damiano: Keyboards, Synthesizers, Samplers, Drum Machines, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Tubular Bells

Special thanks to:

Pietro Pompei: Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Timpani, Sardinian Bells, Bass Drum, Snare
Ambrachiara Michelangeli: Violin, Viola, Electric Violin
Matteo Vallicelli: Drums

Recorded & Produced By Cosimo Damiano at Rocchi Studios
Mixed at Rocchi Studios by Cosimo Damiano & Morphine Raum by Rabih Beaini e Nene Baratto
Mastered By Neel at Eniss Lab 
Artwork and costumes by Emiliano Maggi

RAUM001 – All rights reserved
(P) + (C) Kuboraum Editions 2023

Salò - Malizia

Pleased to share the 9th episode of the Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency, hosting Studio LABOUR’s mind-altering soundscape mass and mess, dispersion of subjectivity.

LABOUR is the Berlin-based sonic entity composed by multidisciplinary artists Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander. Bringing together their experience in molecular biology, sound art and post-tonal theory, they compose ambitious and reverently experimental audio works centering around the transformative potential of sound. Their practice promotes active listening and a heightened sensory awareness, interrogating existential questions and the power structures that form our collective reality. Through immersive performances shifting between digital sound synthesis, algorithmic compositions, percussions and vocals, LABOUR explore the juxtaposition of amplified and unamplified sounds within specific architectural spaces.

“LABOUR devise methods of co-existence and distinction through rupture while gesturing towards the possibility of strong, sudden shifts in consciousness.”

'mass and mess, dispersion of subjectivity’ shows their continuing exploration of temporal juxtapositions, merging algorithmic rhythms with cyclical pulsing drum layers to discover alternative notions of time. This new track relates aesthetically to their previous pieces next time, die consciously (بیگانگی) and hit of enlightenment, contemplating on the construction-of-self and the extent to which external forces create us, being heteronomy the condition of all things. Operating simultaneously on multiple temporalities — from microsounds and stochastic synthesis to rhythmic cycles to acknowledging that which propels beyond — these pieces take a critical stance towards notions of regulated time by embracing rhythmic instability and sound as sculptural material.

Their recent performance Sungazing premiered in Kraftwerk during X100 Berlin Atonal (2022) is one of their most extensive works so far, involving an ensemble of 30 drummers, 7 string players, 4 dancers, 2 drum sets, and 3 visual artists, all distributed throughout the audience. Proposed within the framework of Xenakis’ legacy, the performance was described as ‘An ode to the one who pursues an experimental lifestyle, an ode to the avant-garde’. Other commissioned compositions and performances include: Eventide in collaboration with Fa’ Pawaka (2022), Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin ; Sungazing, HAU (2022), Berlin ;  Constructs of Sanity, Musica Sanae, Berlin (2019); nine-sum sorcery, Berlin Atonal (2019); Activating the Gropius Bau, Sonically, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2019); next time, die consciously (بیگانگی), Berlin Atonal (2018); Hacklander’s Activating the Messeplatz, Sonically and Stochastic Activation: Basler Trommeln (with Isabel Lewis), Basilea, Art Basel (2018); conatus/consent, Neue Musik in St Ruprecht, St Ruprechtskirche, Vienna (2015) and Levels of Intrusion, transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014).

composition and production by LABOUR: Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander
second drummer: Masaya Hijikata
bass clarinet: Yoni Silver
drums recorded by: Francesco Donadello

Photography: Evelyn Bencicova

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Studio LABOUR - mass and mess, dispersion of subjectivity

Unleashing the 10th episode of Kuboraum’s Digital Sound Residency dedicated to Finnish native producer Emma DJ.

Intuitively exploring the wide spectrum of electronic music, Emma DJ haphazardly glues together sculptural soundscapes that defy the boundaries of genre, crossing experimental, ambient, trap, and deconstructed club-ready styles. Uneasy melodies, gritty rhythms, and abrasive textures are skillfully layered into an unclassifiable sonic collage to deliver his own interpretation of rap music.

Since 2019, Emma DJ has been releasing on imprints like UIQ, REIF, Collapsing Market, BFDM and L.I.E.S. Godrime (2021) was recorded in Paris during lockdown when he started to dive into rap music. Crossing rap production with his own distinct style, he compiled a series of one-shot iPhone recordings featuring collaborators such as Bambounou, Lemaire, Lily Standefer, Maoupa Mazzocchetti, Nono Ekichii, Swan Meat, Tmongo and Yves Ciroc. In June 2021, his first collaborative experimental trap live show ‘g0drm’ debuted at Bourse de Commerce, Collection Pinault.

Following 2021's 'godrime’ LP, ‘g0drm2’ shifted its focus towards the melodic side of trap music, playing with childlike harmonies, ego trip verses and autotune experimentation throughout 27 new songs inspired by today’s pop culture.  The mixtape featured contributions from Cambyse, Cxoxc, Elliotrdv, Eugène Blove, Low Jack, Nonoekichii, Rainy Miller, Shyweek, Simo Cell, Tmongo, Torus, Yves Ciroc, Lil Rhiz0me.

This September, Emma DJ will present a new live piece with multidisciplinary artist cxoxc at Berlin Atonal 2023.

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EMMA DJ

Salò

RAUM001, Digital/500 hand-numbered 2xLP Vinyl 12” incl. hand-coloured prints, Kuboraum Editions, September 8

A1 / 1. La Ballata Delle Mosche
A2 / 2. Malizia
A3 / 3. Danza Dei Tritoni
A4 / 4. Canto Dei Tritoni
B1 / 5. Rogo
B2 / 6. Pompei
B3 / 7. Capra Io Vedo Capra Io Sono
B4 / 8. Streghe e Briganti Diavoli e Santi
C1 / 9. La Febbre
C2 / 10. Denti Neri
D1 / 11. AEIOUY
D2 / 12. Notturno
D3 / 13. Indiavolata Innamorata
D4 / 14. Faccio L'Amore A Cavallo Di Un Asino


In Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, the bishop - one of four wealthy and powerful archetypes that conduct the film's notorious debauched ritual - proclaims: "All's good if it's excessive". Salò takes this statement to heart on the full-length debut to imagine a "dreamy and decadent" Roman Renaissance, fusing noise, prog and psychedelic music, mythological symbolism, medieval theatre and rural iconography in a lavish celebration of art, ecstasy and extravagance. The project is seen as a way to give onlookers a door to another world - a space to experience new languages and emotions and perceive reality in radically different ways. And after years of playing together ephemerally, Salò finally recorded a trans-genre sonic anthology that distils their free-flowing wellspring of poems, fairy tales, anecdotes and mythologies. Salò isn't only a surreal, satirical indictment of fascism in Italy, it's a suggestion that words and symbols can change like tides, washing us into different landscapes almost accidentally.

Salò is the next step in a prolonged artistic conversation that veers between dialects and intonations, not trying to repeat what already exists but reinterpreting timeless messages for impressionable, contemporary minds. It's a concept Maggi happened upon when he was still at university studying costume design for cinema. He realised that beneath every hat and shirt or every pair of pants was a historical story that hadn't yet reached its conclusion and knew the same philosophy could be applied to anything he approached creatively. Salò's use of fear is crucial to its output, but the imagery isn't self-consciously dark, instead examining the fact that our concept of the monstrous is often confused by history's dominant record. While witches and brigands were traditionally pushed to the outskirts of society, their crime was simply the ignorance of their peers.

All Songs & Tracks composed by Salò

Emiliano Maggi: Voice, Flute, Harmonic
Toni Cutrone: Drums, Timpani, Tamb, Woodblock, Castanets
Giacomo Mancini: Electric Guitar
Stefano Di Trapani: Baritone Guitar, Keyboard, Saz, Piano
Cosimo Damiano: Keyboards, Synthesizers, Samplers, Drum Machines, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Tubular Bells

Special thanks to:

Pietro Pompei: Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Timpani, Sardinian Bells, Bass Drum, Snare
Ambrachiara Michelangeli: Violin, Viola, Electric Violin
Matteo Vallicelli: Drums

Recorded & Produced By Cosimo Damiano at Rocchi Studios
Mixed at Rocchi Studios by Cosimo Damiano & Morphine Raum by Rabih Beaini e Nene Baratto
Mastered By Neel at Eniss Lab
Artwork and costumes by Emiliano Maggi

RAUM001 – All rights reserved
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Salò - Notturno

Salò

RAUM001, Digital/500 hand-numbered 2xLP Vinyl 12” incl. hand-coloured prints, Kuboraum Editions, September 8

A1 / 1. La Ballata Delle Mosche
A2 / 2. Malizia
A3 / 3. Danza Dei Tritoni
A4 / 4. Canto Dei Tritoni
B1 / 5. Rogo
B2 / 6. Pompei
B3 / 7. Capra Io Vedo Capra Io Sono
B4 / 8. Streghe e Briganti Diavoli e Santi
C1 / 9. La Febbre
C2 / 10. Denti Neri
D1 / 11. AEIOUY
D2 / 12. Notturno
D3 / 13. Indiavolata Innamorata
D4 / 14. Faccio L'Amore A Cavallo Di Un Asino

In Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, the bishop - one of four wealthy and powerful archetypes that conduct the film's notorious debauched ritual - proclaims: "All's good if it's excessive". Salò takes this statement to heart on the full-length debut to imagine a "dreamy and decadent" Roman Renaissance, fusing noise, prog and psychedelic music, mythological symbolism, medieval theatre and rural iconography in a lavish celebration of art, ecstasy and extravagance. The project is seen as a way to give onlookers a door to another world - a space to experience new languages and emotions and perceive reality in radically different ways. And after years of playing together ephemerally, Salò finally recorded a trans-genre sonic anthology that distils their free-flowing wellspring of poems, fairy tales, anecdotes and mythologies. Salò isn't only a surreal, satirical indictment of fascism in Italy, it's a suggestion that words and symbols can change like tides, washing us into different landscapes almost accidentally.

Salò is the next step in a prolonged artistic conversation that veers between dialects and intonations, not trying to repeat what already exists but reinterpreting timeless messages for impressionable, contemporary minds. It's a concept Maggi happened upon when he was still at university studying costume design for cinema. He realised that beneath every hat and shirt or every pair of pants was a historical story that hadn't yet reached its conclusion and knew the same philosophy could be applied to anything he approached creatively. Salò's use of fear is crucial to its output, but the imagery isn't self-consciously dark, instead examining the fact that our concept of the monstrous is often confused by history's dominant record. While witches and brigands were traditionally pushed to the outskirts of society, their crime was simply the ignorance of their peers.

All Songs & Tracks composed by Salò

Emiliano Maggi: Voice, Flute, Harmonic
Toni Cutrone: Drums, Timpani, Tamb, Woodblock, Castanets
Giacomo Mancini: Electric Guitar
Stefano Di Trapani: Baritone Guitar, Keyboard, Saz, Piano
Cosimo Damiano: Keyboards, Synthesizers, Samplers, Drum Machines, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Tubular Bells

Special thanks to:

Pietro Pompei: Glockenspiel, Vibraphone, Timpani, Sardinian Bells, Bass Drum, Snare
Ambrachiara Michelangeli: Violin, Viola, Electric Violin
Matteo Vallicelli: Drums

Recorded & Produced By Cosimo Damiano at Rocchi Studios
Mixed at Rocchi Studios by Cosimo Damiano & Morphine Raum by Rabih Beaini e Nene Baratto
Mastered By Neel at Eniss Lab
Artwork and costumes by Emiliano Maggi

RAUM001 – All rights reserved
(P) + (C) Kuboraum Editions 2023

Salò - Faccio L'amore A Cavallo Di Un Asino

In reminiscence of Kuboraum’s 10 Years Of Travelling event in Berlin, we are happy to share with you an extract from Cosimo Damiano's unforgettable mind-bending closing set at Tresor.

Cosimo Damiano, co-founder of Deltaplanet Records, has a strong background in Rome’s free party scene, from his residency at Ex-Dogana, to his long-time collaborations and projects such as Salò, Canzonieri, Deltaplanet and Neurodreamers with Alessandro Adriani on Pinkman. 
 
Through his music, Damiano aims to revive lost futures, and with the same intention, he creates a connection between technologies and styles from different eras. 
His artistry behind the decks transcends genres, weaving together a tapestry of beats that activate the listener's subconscious. Diving into the depths of sound, he explores new undiscovered territories where grubby baselines, coarse synths and brain-melting hints of acid lead to a hypnotic sonic journey. 
Be ready to be spellbound by the sonic tales spun by Cosimo Damiano.

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Cosimo Damiano - Extract from Kuboraum 10 Years Of Travelling @Tresor, Berlin

World-renowned drummer-composer Valentina Magaletti teams up with Japanese music producer and multi-instrumentalist Susumu Mukai aka Zongamin for the 11th episode of Kuboraum’s Digital Sound Residency. 

Valentina Magaletti and Susumu Mukai have been long-time collaborators since Vanishing Twin, the trio formed in 2015 with Cathy Lucas exploring the spaces bridging jazz and psychedelia through a sound at the juncture of minimalism, kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop.

More recently, Zongamin joined Holy Tongue, a studio project formed in 2018 by producer and musician Al Wootton and Valentina Magaletti. Product of an improvised session in East London, Holy Tongue crafts a sound heavily influenced by dub reggae, translating into high energy live sets that invoke the experimental dub of On-U-Sound, the frenetic rhythms of 23 Skidoo, Liquid Liquid and ESG. The result is psychedelic, free-form, high energy, spiritual dub-dance music. 
Following on from a trilogy of critically acclaimed Eps, Holy Tongue recently released their debut album ‘Deliverance And Spiritual Warfare’ (2023) on Amidah Records, which channels their diverse influences, from the opening Andalusian catholic march to heavyweight dub via jazz, post punk, mystical percussion tracks and techno.

Valentina Magaletti and Zongamin make a fluid and effortless pair, neatly aligned and in perfect synergy with one another, allowing their own artistic talents to shine through their musical outputs. This becomes evident in their debut record as V/Z of dubby post-punk ‘Suono Assente’ (2023) on AD93, where Magaletti plays guitar and keys, sharing bass, percussion and vocal duties with Mukai, together with special guests as Vanishing Twin's Cathy Lucas, Coby Sey and Venus Ex Machina. Veering away from the psychedelic pop of VT, V/Z leans more heavily on influences from hip-hop, dub, post-punk and electronica, with a more open and fluid approach.

 “Whilst its brief twenty-eight minute runtime flashes by, leaving us gasping for more, Suono Assente never feels rushed. Making the temporary existence of this transient brilliance feel even more exceptional. No sooner has its presence lifted us, than it’s vanished once more, leaving a gaping void that can only be filled by immediately circling back to the start and dropping the needle once more.” (The Quietus)

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V/Z - All The Rest Of It

@berlinatonal and Kuboraum join forces to share a glimpse of the iconic closing set by Brazilian producer and DJ @alys-alys-alys at Berlin Atonal 2023. 

Brazil-born alys(alys)alys is an emerging talent from the Berlin scene, known for her dynamic approach to sound.  She explores the fascinating intersection of experimental, club, and Soundcloud music, crafting intricate soundscapes and delivering genre-transcending DJ sets.

Together with Isabassi, she curated a regular show on Mutant Radio called "short attention span", aiming at showcasing the B-side of artists and inviting guests to experiment the vast spectrum of sound with no expectations.
Since 2018, she has performed in venues and parties such as Herrensauna, Tresor, Griessmuehle, Funkhaus, Razzmatazz, OHM as well as in some of the notorious Brazilian parties such as Mamba Negra. Alys is also a current resident of DRY, a Berlin-based music and art collective intended to connect and foster exchanges between progressive queer, BIPOC, and boundary-pushing individuals from various communities. This year, she released the second chapter of her genre-blurring compilation 'booty&legs vol​​​.​​​2,' featuring club-ready music that sits at the intersection of experimental and pop.

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alys(alys)alys - Extract from Berlin Atonal 2023

Pleased to share the 12th episode of the Digital Sound Residency hosting British multi-instrumentalist Lucy Railton with ‘Medieval Sui’, an ambiguous, intimate piece conceived during a period of stay in Venice while sheltering from torrential rain, dramatic tidal shifts and surreal opulent encounters. 

Lucy Railton is a cellist, composer, and curator whose practices originate from a deep dedication to the physicality of sound. Her works span electroacoustic practices to field recordings, exploring the realms of resonance, psychoacoustics, synthesis and microtonality. 
Since 2018, she has released albums on imprints like Modern Love, Editions Mego, Portraits GRM, PAN, ECM, SN Variations, Shelter Press and Takuroku.

In November 2023, Lucy released 'Corner Dancer' via Modern Love, immaculately articulating the breadth of her artistic range, drawn from a nearly 20 year career as a soloist, writer and collaborator. 
Following her 2018 solo debut ‘Paradise 94’, and countless collaborations - recently in duo with legendary EMS co-founder Peter Zinovieff and in trio with Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley, plus appearances on recordings by Beatrice Dillon, Ellen Arkbro, Laurel Halo and Petter Eldh - Railton’s diverse musical circles bleed into each other, revealing vulnerable and compelling emotional facets through a fluid mix of composition, and pure expression. 

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Lucy Railton - Medieval Sui

Introducing Gabriele Bianchi aka GATTONERO, veteran of the Roman scene and undisputed protagonist of the most chaotic parties around, behind, in front, and on the side of the console.

With at least three decades of forays into the heart of the local and national artistic scene and a constant presence in the Olympus of Roman clubs, Gattonero is a true experimenter, capable of madness that for him borders on ordinary administration. 

In 2013, he co-founded together with Marco Ben Saadi ‘LSWHR’, the collective key player in Rome’s current club scene that has legitimized over the past decade a bit of healthy anarchy in a club environment increasingly drawn to the demon of flattening. Subversive and antagonistic like the drones that shaped its spirit and the artists who outlined its character, LSWHR has been a senseless and inclusive mirage of punk attitudes, techno sounds, fanciful mistakes, and visionary choices not yet fully understood.

Gattonero’s hour-long mix will catch you off guard with its jagged scraped sounds, arrogant tones, cerebral rarefactions, no-wave strabismus, ambient digressions, electronic pinball, and straight kicks of the bass—nothing can quite prepare you for it.

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GATTONERO Mix for KUBORAUM

We are pleased to host multidisciplinary artist and Fixed Adobe label head Rainy Miller for the 13th episode of the Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency, unveiling ‘My Wings, Never Clipped / But They Began Semi-Broken’, an uplifting abstract soundscape not just to be listened to but, most of all, to be felt.

Rainy Miller, birth name Jack Bowes, was born in Longridge, a small market town eight miles from Preston. Subservient to the northern city in which he was born and raised, the region’s nearly forgotten underbelly is sewn into the fabric of Rainy Miller’s music and motif.
His passion for music and production can be traced back to the idiosyncratic grime sound that swept through his hometown in the early 2000s, a hyper-localised scene that paired grime beats with rapid-fire bars. After moving to Manchester, Rainy quickly became integral part of the North West experimental electronic scene alongside artists such as Iceboy Violet, Space Afrika, and Blackhaine. 

Integrating aesthetics from his childhood through a DIY approach, Miller’s own output is nothing if not strikingly unique. Rejecting any attempt to define ‘genre’, he shapes emotionally charged soundscapes intertwining cinematic autotune vocals around deconstructed drill and industrial ambient soundscapes.

His debut release ‘Limbs’ in 2019 already showed the signs of his very own approach: a soulful neo-R&B excursion throughout ten tracks of emoting autotune over smooth, moody melodic beats interspersed with dabbles of Preston chitter-chatter. 
In 2020, a long-time collaboration started with Blackhaine, whom Rainy shared the studio with. The same year, Blackhaine released his debut EP ‘Armour’ produced by Rainy on Fixed Abode, followed by the co-produced ‘And Salford Falls Apart’ (2021 via The White Hotel’s HEAD II label) and ‘Armour II’ (2022 via Fixed Abode).
Following his second solo project, ‘A Choreographed Interruption’ (2021 via Fixed Abode), in 2023 Rainy released ‘DESQUAMATION’ via HEAD II, his latest and most ambitious project to date. A full bloodied, emotionally visceral piece of work segueing and stretching across a sound world of contorted pop and laconic drill that will cement Miller’s position at the cutting edge of contemporary electronic music, pushing the culture to always move forward.

Rainy Miller will be teaming up with Emma DJ to perform at WE TRAVEL TO KNOW OUR OWN GEOGRAPHY, the two-day festival on April 18th and 19th presented and co-curated by Kuboraum together with Terraforma, in partnership with Combo, during the Opening of the 60th Venice Art Biennale.

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Rainy Miller - My Wings, Never Clipped / But They Began Semi-Broken

Ugandan rapper and Nyege Nyege affiliate MC Yallah teams up with Berlin-based producer Debmaster to unleash ‘Nzimba Zinyota’ for the 14th episode of the Kuboraum Digital Sound Residency.

Hailing from Kenya and shaped by Uganda, MC Yallah has etched her legacy in the hip-hop realm for nearly two decades. Fluent in Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili, and English, she seamlessly fuses conscious and futuristic hip-hop, grime, punk, and trap into her music. With her rapid, precise delivery and a distinct, poetic, and experimental style, she draws from her own journey to confront women’s issues and champion integrity and self-empowerment.

Her latest release ‘Yallah Beibe’ (2023) via Hakuna Kulala is the fiery follow-up to Yallah and Debmaster's acclaimed 2019 debut ‘Kubali’. After her tour plans were cut short as COVID-19 broke out in 2020, Yallah returned to Kampala and started work on her sophomore album at Nyege Nyege's villa. The process was more complicated this time around, developing pointedly from an initial back-and-forth with Debmaster and flourishing as beats appeared from Japanese producer Scotch Rolex and Congolese club maestro Chrisman. The finished album is an international patchwork of futuristic cyber-rap experiments fastened together by Yallah's unforgettable personality and elastic flow.

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MC Yallah & Debmaster - Nzimba Zinyota

Oake — The Devils are at Peace Master

Eric Goldstein aka OAKE sound stills for KUBORAUM

OAKE. Sound Stills for Kuboraum:

01. Jake Meginsky - L’appel du Vide
02. Eastern Renaissance - Echinops
03. Klara Lewis - Msuic IV
04. SPR - Concubine
05. Bremen - Hollow Wave
06. Six Six Seconds - Tearing Down Heaven Reprise (at 33RPM)
07. Somaticae - Lamentations II
08. Lustmord - Goetia
09. Insiden - Le Puits et le Pendule
10. Shampoo Boy - Gift
11. Dalhous - He was Human and Belonged with Humans (Regis Version at 33RPM)
12. Murcof - Rostro
13. Insect Ark - Long Arms
14. Ben Frost - Through the Glass of the Roof / Through the Roof of Your Mouth / Through the Mouth of Your Eye
15. Mika Vainio, Kevin Drumm, Axel Dörner, Lucio Capece ‎– Venexia

OAKE | Sound Stills for KUBORAUM

In the summer 2015 during the Atonal Festival, the Berliner project together with the mythologic British music producer and artist Karl O’Conor aka Regis launched a limited edition release including the first music compilation curated by Regis titled ‘The Immortal Eye' with all exclusive soundtracks produced by artists of his label Downwards Records.  One year after our limited edition release, we are pleased to share the podcast Regis for Kuboraum "This Romish Man of Sin”. Regis shaped the sinergy between two really specific identities with his fine, sophisticated, severe and elegant deep techno.

REGIS for KUBORAUM | This Romish Man of Sin

Five Years Of Light is a deep and hypnotic podcast by REKA for Kuboraum. 
The project, dreamed in Berlin, will celebrate 5 years Sunday 26th of February at ANTONIOLI Milano, 7pm - 9pm Via Pasquale Paoli 1 rsvp@antonioli.eu

www.reka.xyz  
www.soundcloud.com/rebeca
www.antonioli.eu

Tracklist:

Life is Paper_Nuances [Total Black]
Black Tears_Asymmetric Vocalizer [Veleno Viola]
Orphx_Walk into the Broken Night [Sonic Groove]
Relic_Radiation Sacra [La Notte di Architetto]
Claudio PRC_Disteso (with Blazej Malinowski) [Semantica]
Mønic_What Lies Behind Us [Tresor]
OAKE_L'Esclandre [Monad/SA]
Orphx_Aurora [Khemia Records]
SøS Gunver Ryberg, Aïsa Devi, Rrose, Paula Temple_DR2-3 [Noise Manifesto]
Orphx_Vanishing Point [Sonic Groove]
Iori_Lapis 2 [Prologue]
OAKE_Paysage dépaysé [Monad/SA]

REKA Kuboraum 5 Years Of Light

This is an extract from the two hours journey of DASHA RUSH at the Kuboraum Gallery in Berlin during the third episode of their event series held during Berlin Atonal Festival since 2015 (www.berlin-atonal.com). 
DASHA RUSH is the best example of sophistication, perfectionism and beautiful execution in the scenario of electronic music. DJ, performer and producer on labels such as Raster-Noton and her own Fullpanda imprint. This extract from Dasha's astonishing dj set in the dense and unique atmosphere of the Kuboraum wunderkammer will literally open the doors of your dreams, a full immersion in the oblivion of time, drifting into universal states.

Dasha Rush extract from Kuboraum Session

Giancarlino A Journey with Kuboraum is a set that Giancarlo played during a special ceremony we have with our friends once a year in Rome. This ceremony is hosted by one of us in a really special place, located in a glass house on a hill outside of the city and in the woods. This ceremony bounds the friendship of a group of people from all over.

We decided to share this experience with you through this outstanding podcast, which contains music from all over the world, with every kind of genre, to underline the fact that we are all the same on the dance floor. 
Everyone brings their own experiences and their differences. We especially enjoy the differences. We know each others and ourselves through differences. One love.

Giancarlino carefully observes everyday reality and has the ability of experimenting and anticipating new musical trends. He surely can be considered one of the best deejays in this industry, as well as being a music producer, A&R director and organizer of big events. Since his debut, Giancarlino has researched new sources of inspiration and has given a new imprint to his music. Being one of the first deejays playing house music in Rome, especially hip-hop and acid jazz, his taste and personal style makes him move on to electronic music. In 1996, the opening of GOA club has been fundamental for the city of Rome as it soon becomes a symbolic club for the city. The club rapidly gets known in the deejay music scene. Its ethnic style, magical atmosphere and innovative sounds make this club unique. It continuously hosts important deejays from all over the world and Giancarlino has always given the opportunity to all emerging artists to play in his club. Many of them became important deejays throughout their career. During these years Goa club has become a music factory, capable of understanding and letting grow new generation of deejays that are frequently invited to play in major clubs all over the world. The club has been able to mix music, art, theatre, dance and visual installations in all its forms. Unlike many deejays that travel around, Giancarlino firmly decides to stay and establish himself in his home city in order to achieve his main targets, firstly by playing in many clubs of the city and later by creating his own club where he finally finds an ideal situation by putting into action all of what he has built throughout time. Giancarlino is a quiet private person and doesn’t like appearing in social events in order to get noticed. He never really liked club private areas and everything that concerns commercial sounds and music. Giancarlino plays electronic music including a wide variety of genres from breakbeat, tech house, techno, to electro, all exclusively played in vinyl records.

Giancarlino A Journey With Kuboraum

Marco Shuttle x Kuboraum _ Ritmi, Ambientazioni, Polifonie

	1.	Norman Ledeuil - The Wake Up
	2.	Michal Wolski - Untitled (unreleased)
	3.	Akatana & Ombossa - Souffle Au Coeur
	4.	Marco Shuttle - Instantan
	5.	Pessimist - Sprtlzm
	6.	Konrad Wehrmeister - Geiger Counter
	7.	Total Art Of Percussion - Afro Cuban Revelation
	8.	Berliner Ring - El Amarna
	9.	Umalwassa - Untitled 10
	10.	Aphex Twin - hat5c 0001 rec-4
	11.	Unknown Artist - Unreleased
	12.	Madteo - Macohna Low Disco
	13.	Don’t Dj - Savannah Siesta
	14.	Valentino Mora - Transmagnetic

Artwork "Sign" by Vinicius

Marco Shuttle
Operating in the abstract regions of techno and coming from a visual background, Marco Shuttle has carved out his own little niche in recent years. Releasing on outlets such as Time To Express, The Bunker and Clone, Marco Shuttle's journeying..

Marco Shuttle has always achieved a lot with a little, and that is the singular aesthetic that stands him apart. His cinematic techno sounds are unusually organic: they build pressure in subtle ways and his meticulous grooves never fail to take listeners on a trip to somewhere new and exciting. As a result of this, he has become a firm favourite amongst the techno cognoscenti and has released on some of the most revered labels of the day, from famed New York club The Bunker’s new label to Peter van Hoesen’s untouchable Time To Express via Clone SOS and his regular home, Eerie Records.
Italian born but London based, where he also gained his MA in Fashion at St Martin’s. What ties his creative work together is a focus on abstract yet organic texture and the same thing defines his tightly woven DJ sets from fabric to Berghain to Labyrinth in Japan. His eclectic cerebral sound takes cues from jazz and musique concrete as much as it does from acid house and Detroit techno.
Early breakout records like his 'The Vox Attitude' have been followed up with great abstract outings on Clone and remixes for Third Side, whilst the future promises a collaboration with compatriot and fellow producer and friend Donato Dozzy as Anxur. It will land on Eerie, Marco’s own well-formed label and is sure to be another supple and succulent offering that proves Marco Shuttle to be a uniquely minded techno troubadour.

Marco Shuttle x Kuboraum  _ Ritmi, Ambientazioni, Polifonie

This is a special mix by REGIS recorded at Kuboraum during the fourth episode of our "Atonal Off" event series.

It was our honor to host & share this event last August 2018 with a special crowd that came to celebrate this unique moment for the underground music scene: the 25th year of the legendary Downwards Records.

The well visited off jam session was a very notable and intimate birthday celebration and this set is delivering the exact atmosphere and vibe that was experienced during this evening.

Downwards is a record label founded in Birmingham, England in 1993 by Regis and Female, it has a fundamental and influential impact on the electronic music and techno panorama we know today since its beginning. 

Thanks to Regis, Layne, Jim Ningus and Justin Anastasi for their incredible music and the beautiful vibe they created.

"A special thanks to Karl O' Connor aka Regis and to Downwards for those incredible 25 years. With your sound, you have designed a unique aesthetic which deeply inspires all of us."

Regis _ Downwards 25th Anniversary at Kuboraum

After performing at the Kuboraum Open Studio last November for the launch of Shapednoise's previous album "Aesthesis," Shapednoise, and Gabber Eleganza returns with a brand new mix.
The mix is a sound landscape exploration with unorthodox clashing rhythms, sound design, and cinematic textures. All this by merging by hardcore continuum, techno,  noise, and cutting edge bass.

Shapednoise + Gabber Eleganza Kuboraum Mix

KUBORAUM SOUNDSCAPE | WE TRAVEL TO KNOW OUR OWN GEOGRAPHY

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