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aural conduct releases

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Echobox radio residency

Mixes

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The first release on aural conduct comes from Nijhof & Toonk. Growing up together in the nineties, their vibrant friendship has been marked by a mutual drive to create. Since they both primarily work in visual and interdisciplinary arts, their music has only occasionally been shared with others. 

This record is the culmination of their multi-year, synchronous work. One can hear clever electronics fuelled by post-rock and dub-laden styles, breathing improvisationalist technique as much as studied precision and composition. Their lingering music draws us into a sonic zone, where our consecutive emotions are quickly eclipsed while time proceeds in an altered fashion. Listen attentively.

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All music by Nijhof & Toonk, 2014–2021. Recorded at home, Studio Texel, Bunker Rotsoord and atelier Jutfaseweg. Recorded and mixed by Christian Toonk. Mastered by Jasper Boogaard. Cover and insert artwork by Ronald Nijhof. Pressed and printed at Deepgrooves Leeuwarden. Insert printed at PRINT workshop HKU. 

aural conduct, 2022. Label concept and lead by Luke Cohlen. Identity design by Marianne Noordzij. 

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12'' vinyl album, comes with a fully printed cover, 10'' artwork- and credit-filled insert plus a leaflet with liner notes, all wrapped in a PVC sleeve featuring a riso-printed logo sticker. 

Wholesale import through Rush Hour Distribution.

Nijhof & Toonk

aural conduct 01 — Nijhof & Toonk

guestmix for @lomadoom's Stranded FM concept Daydream Nation

music by Rapoon, Civilistjävel!, Osso Exótico, Christian Marclay, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Bedouin Ascent, Metal Pryers, Nijhof & Toonk, and more

Daydream Nation (guestmix for Loma Doom)

Luke Cohlen is a DJ whose sets tread a variegated landscape, from quiet introspection through trippy and rhythmic club-terrain. With an inherent drive to spotlight artists worthy of new eyes and ears, he runs his own experimental record label aural conduct.

''This became a syncopated and tense mix that scatters across many tempos, with sounds by Cosey Fanni Tutti, Transient Waves, Alva Noto, Best Available Technology, Zonal, Dumb Type, Minny Pops and many others.''

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Aural Conduct

Listen / purchase via auralconduct.bandcamp.com

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Salutingrome graces the second chapter of aural conduct. On ‘Washing Hands’ a few of the artist’s finest crafts and outtakes are assembled, intuitive lyrical music that appeared shrouded in mystery on the internet in recent years. 

The moniker came to life as the aperture for the characteristic experiments written by Zamity Mitelembe. Echoing his activity in theatre, these modernistic tracks express solitude and transgression. Swindling stairwells and winter nights – immerse yourself in an ode to the season of ice and distance.

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All music by Salutingrome (Zamity Mitelembe), 2019–2022. Additional production by Victor Keyser (4) and Max van Westerop (5). Additional instruments (guitar and cello) by Hidde Boogaard and Fien Bierman (2). Additional vocals by Femke Tijseling (3). Recorded and mixed by BUG & Mannes Kocken (3), Victor Keyser (4), Max van Westerop (5) and Zamity Mitelembe (1, 2 & 6). Mastered by Jasper Boogaard. 

Cover photo by Zamity Mitelembe. Design by Marianne Noordzij. Cassette (dubbing) by Luca van Grinsven (Off Center). J-card printed at Werkplaats Typografie. 

aural conduct, 2023. Label concept and lead by Luke Cohlen. Identity design by Marianne Noordzij.

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Cassette album, dubbed onto smokey brown near-translucent tape, comes with a 3-panel J-card that includes artwork, typographic poetry and credits, all packed in a transparent case featuring a logo sticker.

Wholesale import through Rush Hour Distribution.

Washing Hands

aural conduct 02 — Salutingrome - Washing Hands

Listen / purchase via auralconduct.bandcamp.com

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Invert Dance is a club-oriented compilation aligned by its underlying tension and paradoxical sound. Some tracks were made specifically for this release; the others are recontextualised SoundCloud uploads.

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All music, recordings, and mixes by the artists, 2018–2023. Compiled by Luke Cohlen. Designed by Marianne Noordzij. Mastered by Kamilė Rimkutė. Pressed at Monotype Pressing.

aural conduct, 2023

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CD compilation, pressed onto a plain silver disc, comes with a fold-out poster including artwork, titles, liner notes, and credits, all packed in a hand-cut cover containing an inverted logo print.

Invert Dance

aural conduct 03 — V/A - Invert Dance

Recorded in Amsterdam, Netherlands  18.02.24

https://soundcloud.com/lukecohlen [aural conduct]

Threaded with underlying tension, Luke Cohlen spirals across disparate styles. Radical at heart, he seeks to pleat sounds, allowing the rhythmic and abstract to align and dance together. Whether at the club or via regular radio appearances, including his residency slot on Amsterdam’s Echobox, listening to Luke play is like witnessing a text unfold, where abrasive sonics unravel and are recomposed. This research into diverse musical realms is translated through his record label, aural conduct, an open, experimental platform for artists that capture both zeitgeist and timelessness.

• https://auralconduct.info/
• https://linktr.ee/auralconduct
• https://auralconduct.bandcamp.com/
• https://www.echobox.radio/shows/aural-conduct
• https://www.instagram.com/lukecohlen/
• https://www.instagram.com/auralconduct/

E.S.T. 085 • Luke Cohlen

@temberr

my name is not mata - nothing physical
Ellen Zweig - Green Silk
Charlotte Horn - A Buzzing Sound Came
Holly Herndon/Martine Syms - Bridge
TKB - DN82
Adela Mede - Száz Fele Nézek
Adela Mede - Sing With Me
Eñaut Zubizarreta - Zalantzak
linUSB - AEIOU
phil in a maze - Echo Chamber (Rainy Day Dub)
Tutu Ta - Smoke Coming From The Steel Mill
Junior XL - Ludo Lost
elazy - Cooked
Elvira del Rocío - River Phoenix
Stefano Pilia, Adrian Utley & Alessandra Novaga - CRUX
Dali De Saint Paul & Maxwell Sterling - 4
Cajm - Shit Spirit
Billy Roisz - kala lila lalies
JS - GitDrones
Eamon Ivri - wud u
Billy Roisz - spill
Jemina - Man From Norwood
Pentu - Koala 3am Accomodate
The Business & Max Winter - PAY A M8 (Will Hofbauer’s AT Mix)
DJ Bwin - Psycho
Flagalova - Ravin
Tha ILL Saint - Plague of Ignorance
Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy - Ekta’ Ekta’ إقطع إقطع
1127 - Post-unprecedented creativity causing me an awful deal of stomach paynn (ft Emna Maaref & Mounir@)
Le Cri du Caire - Le marcheur

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aural conduct #7 w/ Tember on Echobox 17-05-2024

Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (19.07.2024)

Artist: @lukecohlen

Luke Cohlen @ Radio TNP 19.07.2024

Wasteland - Steam Room
Rojin Sharafi - Coping Mechanism
Sacre - Sitting With Myself 
Sub Dub - Babylon Unite
DJ /rupture & Andy Moor - Hot Pink Orleans
Poplar Order - Fresco 
Arto Lindsay - Light Moves Away
To Rococo Rot and I-Sound - How We Never Went to Bed
Plethor X – Bet (feat. Muna Mussie) - nobile Remix 
Black Ant - Gas Constant (Lugaru’s Ball)
NStant - floating like particles in the air
David Kristian - Dog Dreams Of Running
Roman Bones - Broadway Project
Kit Clayton - Figga Dem
N.O.R.E. - Nothin Instrumental
RIP DRARI - a western viewpoint is totally strange to the concept of home
Disco Samir - Screech
PACIFIC 231 - el-Arish
Shalabi Effect - Vicious Triangle

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aural conduct #8 on Echobox 12-07-2024

Nika Son - 17°01’11.5”N 61°45’35.3”W
TKB - DN01
Cienfuegos, Isabella, Joachim Nordwall, Tot Onyx - Cults Explain Falling Jelly Jar
Sam Shalabi - The Wherewithall
NINA HARKER - muto
Rashad Becker - Dances VII
Gavsborg & Mazen Kerbaj - Now Serving #8190
Terry Riley - iv
STILL - Resistance Riddim
Jana Rush - Mynd Fuc
Best Available Technology - Martyrs Grin
NÂR - II ميمون MIMOUNE II
Nohno - Divisible
NikNak - Punch
Bedouin Ascent - If Mountains Could Sing
Liew Niyomkarn - I think of another time when you heard it
General Magic - No Ketting
Bergsonist - Social Media Collapse

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aural conduct #9 on Echobox 06-09-2024

Listen / purchase via auralconduct.bandcamp.com

All digital album sales are donated to Haven for Artists, a feminist arts initiative from Beirut that is currently helping displaced families in Lebanon. The proceeds from the vinyl album cover the production costs and support the artist.

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Beirut Birds (طيور بيروت) is a sonic memory capsule honoring (inter)personal stories of migration, displacement, and the cyclical turbulent circumstances in Lebanon. Transforming her multi-year project, multidisciplinary artist and composer Nour Sokhon crystallizes the performance Beirut Birds (طيور بيروت) into her long-awaited debut album. When presented and performed live, it is accompanied by juxtaposed images of the Lebanese capital’s city life and avian migration across the Mediterranean Sea, representing themes strongly woven into the music.

In her variegated artistic process, Nour has undertaken and recorded interviews with diasporas and repatriates to commemorate, share, heal, and envision. These source materials become the album’s core elements that loop, narrate, and return throughout time, with Nour responding with both instruments and her voice. Chanting in dialogue with the interviewees, crafting near-mantras, Nour further congregates these materially-rooted soundscapes by including field recordings that she gleaned during 2018–2021 in Lebanon and her subsequent move to Berlin.

Embedded within the composition are manipulated sounds from objects that symbolize migration, such as office bells, a luggage wheel, car parts, and bureaucratic paperwork. Musically, the songs are enriched by Nour’s improvisations on classical piano, electronics, synthesizers, violin, and various percussion instruments. As time is sculpted and the layers blur, words become specters, while an entropic orchestra of drums and melody rises, giving shape to an in-between space for those who have left, and stayed.

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Music and artistic research by Nour Sokhon, 2018–2024. Recording, editing, and mixing by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum, Berlin. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk. Cover artwork and typographic design by Farah Fayyad. Photography by Nour Sokhon. Label coordination by Luke Cohlen. Pressed and printed at Monotype Pressing. 

"I would like to extend my gratitude to Tania Kammoun for contributing a field recording used on the album; Gabriel Haddad for providing visuals for my live show; Omar Adel for his work on studio video documentation and production; and most importantly, the interviewees who shared their voices and stories: Mahmoud Dabdoub, Asmabug, Kareen Nahas, and Anonymous." – Nour

aural conduct, 2024. This album was published with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC. Residency and financial support by LABgamerz in partnership with GMEM. 

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12'' vinyl album, comes with a fully printed cover including typographic art, photography, and credits plus a leaflet with liner notes, all wrapped in a bioplastic sleeve featuring a logo sticker.

Beirut Birds

aural conduct 04 — Nour Sokhon - Beirut Birds / طيور بيروت

Wukir Suryadi - Fenomena demi Fenomena (From Phenomena to Phenomena)
DeKalb Works - With
Nzʉmbe - Anake and Entropy
Nour Sokhon - Here birds come close
Uwalmassa, Yann Gourdon - III
Calamita - Only The A
AMET - Waiting
David Toop - ceremony behind screens
Muqata'a - Tim Al Huroof
FORCE INDIGÈNE - Mazigador (feat. Francky Lauret) (prod. by Jako Maron)
Gordan - Endless Kraut
Chem XP - generation 6
remnants of a smug - concrete contexts
Nour Sokhon - Justice (part one)

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aural conduct #10 on Echobox 01-11-2024

c00 @ aural conduct x KODA 16-02-2025

edós @ aural conduct x KODA 16-02-2025

Recorded at the vinyl release night of Nour Sokhon's Beirut Birds / طيور بيروت at Morphine Raum on 1 March 2025. The lineup for the night was: Nour Sokhon (audiovisual performance), Joe Rinaldo Heffernan (solo piano and vocals), Loma Doom & Luke Cohlen (listening set). Thanks to Rabih Beaini and the Morphine crew for facilitating the sound and space.

Check out Nour’s album via https://auralconduct.bandcamp.com/album/beirut-birds

Loma Doom & Luke Cohlen @ Morphine Raum / Beirut Birds release night 01-03-2025

gamut inc - Series F
Chris Watson – Mexico D.F.
AZ OOR – The Parable of the Goatherd, a bestiary /mvmnt 2: ⵜⴰⵎⵖⵔⴰ ⵏ ⵓⵛⵛⵏ (Jackal's Wedding)
Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor – A School Burnt Down
Kim Gordon, DJ Olive & Ikue Mori – International Spy
Windu – Allegorya
Nour Sokhon - Justice (part two)
linUSB – Syntagma
loto retina – impro09
Nurse With Wound – Organophosphorus Resistance In Studio Conditions
Kim Gordon, DJ Olive & Ikue Mori – Olive's Horn
c00 – TRIBYL
Coil – Glowworms / Waveforms
Nijhof & Toonk – 10_240524 (demo)
Hessel Veldman & Martijn Comes - Release
Lucy Valentine – The Heavens Themselves Blaze Forth the Death of Princes
Mosquito Farm – Bell Loop
Laurent Petitgand, Robin Rimbaud alias Scanner & Geins't Naït – J'Appartiens
David Lynch & John Neff - Mountains Falling

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aural conduct #11 on Echobox 21-02-2025

CoH - circuit hum
Terre Thaemlitz - Facilitator
Hydra Ensemble - III
Malayeen - Nadia
Porter Ricks - Polytoxic 2
Steve Roden - The Presence Of Copper
Or Sobre Blau - O Terço dos Homens
Eszaid - Hécatombes
Rapoon - Ce temps-ci
James Ginzburg - Lines Tangled, Space Between
alefwow - Capricorn Moon
Raed Yassin - Movement IV
Ikonika - Please
Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir - Black 6
Mutamassik - Rhythms Rattle On Deaf Pawns
Kathy Acker with NOX - 'Love, Emily' Side A
I-LP-O In Dub - DEVIDED INVESTMENTS COMPLEXITY
Laure Boer - Tourner en rond
Leven Signs - Held In Arms
Alan Vega/Ben Vaughn/Barb Dwyer/Palmyra Delran - The Record Speed

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aural conduct #12 on Echobox 10-04-2025

@lukecohlen

For the next episode of Knekelhuis we've invited Utrecht based, but intergalactic in his mind, Luke Cohlen. We know Luke as a key player in the Dom city underground scene, not only as a stand-out DJ and fanatic digger, but as a pusher of Stranded FM and core member of the intimate electronic music collective Cultfarm.  His sets always present a signature style - rhythmic, trippy, and evocative. For our 60th episode Luke prepared a raw and autonomous mix, interpreting the ethos of Knekelhuis. By playing looming and twisted electronics that he finds a perfect fit with the label. A blend of spoken word and fine  intersections between wave, post-punk, dub and electro, that he holds so dear.

Knekelhuis # 60 - Luke Cohlen

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☱ where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song

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Harold Budd & Cocteau Twins - The Ghost Has No Home
Fred Frith - Speechless
Ulla Straus - I Forgot To Take A Picture
Bazooka - Blauw 
The Camberwell Now - Resplash
Steve Reich - Tehillim III & IV
Phantom Band - Latest News
Minimal Compact - Morpheus Secrets
Andrew Poppy - Goodbye Mr. G
Faction - Ritual 1
Lol Coxhill & Morgan Fisher - Que En Paz Descanse
André Groote & Roy Kuschel - Dwaaltocht Door Het Zilveren Koord

De Wachtkamer, March 2020

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☱ even when time has frozen, most leaves remain green

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J. T. Boogaard & R. M. van der Meulen - II
Laraaji - The Dance # 1
Nimal - Maligne
Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton - A River Song
Bill Frisell - In Line
Mark Nauseef - Colotmix
Michael Galasso - Scene VI
Jasper van 't Hof, Greetje Bijma, Pierre Favre ‎– Freezing Screens, Part Three: The End
Nijhof & Toonk - P(L)SS
Tarawangsawelas - Selalu
Lonnie Holley - Looking for All (All Rendered Truth)

De Wachtkamer, September 2020

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☱ staring into the amethyst reveals more than its purple glare. you might find yourself in rooms you are not familiar with. tones clatter, images reflect, ratio is lost. adrenalin starts gushing through your veins. slowly, discomfort becomes excitement

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Kleg - Eating And Sleeping, Part Three (excerpt)
Lewis Francis - Permutations
Christoph Heemann - Bounds Of Distance, Part Two (Game ... Entertainment ... Rise)
David Lynch - Walkin' On The Sky
Lee Ranaldo - Opening
Osamu Sato - Circuit Training
David Toop & Max Eastley - Fe-Tshun-Ti-Fe (Burial Rites)
Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening Band - CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants)
:zoviet-france: - White Dusk (excerpt)
Pink Industry - Situation
Anita Lane - I'm A Believer
Virgin Prunes - Red Nettle
Yoko Ono - Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City
Christoph de Babalon - Mares

De Wachtkamer, October 2020

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☱ melted from icedrops, we became the dew of vastness

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Laurie Spiegel - Pentachrome
Ulla - Feeling Remembering
Scanner - Strange Circles
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Dance - Ambient Version
Arto Lindsay - Complicity
The Black Dog - No Lamers
Whistle - Voyria (yes fine, thank you)
Paysage d'Hiver - Prinz Frost
Animal Hospital - A Safe Place
Nijhof & Toonk - Rotsoord
Ø - Talven Henki
Cucina Povera & Haron - Riffittelyä III

De Wachtkamer, January 2021

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Radical at heart, Luke Cohlen spirals across disparate styles. Threaded with underlying tension, he seeks to pleat sounds, allowing the rhythmic and abstract to align and dance together. Whether at the club or via regular radio appearances, including his residency slot on Amsterdam’s Echobox, listening to Luke play is like witnessing a text unfold, where abrasive sonics unravel and are recomposed. This research into musical realms and their socio-artistic contexts is translated through his record label, aural conduct, an open, experimental platform for artists that capture both zeitgeist and timelessness.

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