From Berlin studio: Kull is about to take over our airwaves

Kull [08.04.25]

Hot summer rain hits the cracked pavement in uneven rhythms. A neon sign flickers above a café that never seems to close, its warm white light reflected in the wet ground like a fever dream. The air smells of summer and the world hums with an easy tone, as if the city itself is holding its breath. A light flooded film noir-ish scene, that needs a soundtrack like „POOL JAMS“, the new album of INIT, the Berlin based duo, that already caused quite a stir with their albums for Hivern Discs and Optimo Music. This time, they bring their latest creations out on R.i.O. - a label, with whom they are deeply associated. Their fourth longplayer is a playful one. One that brings trip hopping feelings. That has r’n’b grace, without catering regular trademarks of the genre. Dub, trance, drone, is all there too. Yet, nothing is present in pure definition. Rather suggested, interwoven, or newly twisted in a songwriting style, that haunts and
seduces. On top the voice of Nadia D'Alò dances, steps and hums tempting to the grooves she created with her partner in crime Benedikt Frey. Together they fashioned a record, that, as INIT puts it, is „some kind of old photo from an old dry empty pool that got faded by sunlight “. A dreamy, sunny piece of song art, made for endless smoky LA freeway drives, and other adventures that seek for infinite riddance. You can dream it. You can trance it. You can’t escape it, as soon as it rotates in your dream device for sound and vision.

Text ML

INIT - Pinata

We’re excited to share a new mix by @meteoreve.
He shared a few words about it:

I'm Vague Imaginaires, and even though I've recently become a father, my utopic club desire is still alive – just tinged now with a touch of nostalgia. This mix is an invitation to revive that desire, drawn from the unconscious limb of teenage projection and dance. It includes two remixes I'm particularly proud of and genuinely thrilled to have been asked to do: one will be released digitally on 12th Isle as part of Pike and Material Things' upcoming album, and the other will come out a bit later on Special Species Records for the artist Bohdan. I hope it carries you gently onto the dancefloor.

Tune in and enjoy!

Invisible wire – Vague Imaginaires 3/07/25

Japanese drummer and producer Takafumi Okada has had his hands in several projects over the last 12 years or so, and, like with his music, patterns emerge: his discography is full of DIY sounds, an unconventional attitude to production, and an ability to create tension and mystery with layered polyrhythmic grooves.

Takafumi is well known as the former drummer of goat, the experimental band from Osaka. His mathematical lock-grooves helped to zone-out minds and levitate audiences between 2017-2023, notably on goat’s third album “Joy In Fear”. Prior to that, Takafumi was playing in his trio The Noup, a formation of guitar, bass, drums and synths that found their own balance of no wave and trippy homemade sounds over the course of several releases since 2013.

Under his Manisdron alias, Takafumi has a clutch of weighty records and tapes. In particular a 12” EP and double LP “Body of Void” on US label L.I.E.S. demonstrates his high-octane, industrial style, made on hardware and a drum kit. There are also Manisdron tapes of glitchy scatterbomb electronics to be discovered on Takafumi’s own label Cathodic.

Takafumi’s new project Nboj Tespo is another intriguing offshoot. Warm electronic sounds are layered with polymetric rhythms across nine tracks, and arranged in such a way as to bring listeners into a hypnotic dance state. Takafumi combines his Elektron Machinedrum, Boss delay pedal and Novation Bass Station 2 at his home studio, to produce minimal grooves that grow into fully-fledged creatures and take on a life of their own.

While Manisdron is one side of Takafumi’s solo output - that is, industrial and machine-like rhythms made with a real drum kit - Nboj Tespo flips that premise, and creates organic songs with a drum machine. The artist name also hides a clue: shift every letter of Manisdron down a notch and we find ourselves on the other side of the alias - the same identity but from a different viewpoint.

If the viewpoint of Nboj Tespo has a theme, it’s one of finding positivity in life, or a mysterious sense of satisfaction in the everyday. That makes “Blessed Planet” a perfect companion, for both the inside and the outside world.

- Fizzy Veins

All music written, played and recorded by Takafumi Okada in Okayama, Japan
Mastered by The Cologne Wizard
Text by Fizzy Veins
Artwork by Ryan Dougan & Dominik Rodemann
Distributed by Rush Hour

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SONLP-019 - Nboj Tespo - Blessed Planet (snippets)

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Benedikt Frey - Umbrella

Gently fall into soft and playful atmospheres while letting your imagination roam free; listen to stories, cautiously chosen and allow yourself to travel through different land and soundscapes.

LiLA @ Kiosk Radio 16.08.2025

From the new album "Abstraction Layer":https://holon-subatomic-audio.bandcamp.com/album/abstraction-layer

See You On The Other Side

FREE DOWNLOAD SF - Das Verlangen (Nathan Dawidowicz Vocal Remix)

"Primus Motus" (Latin for “First Movement”) is the opening soundscape of the Affectus album and the foundation of the LoJo Audio Catalyst Neural Training System.

Built at 95 bpm, this track blends ambient electronica, binaural beats, isochronic tones, nature sounds, and guided voice coaching to synchronize the athlete’s body and mind. The layered sound design primes the central nervous system (CNS) for movement by aligning rhythm, breath, and focus—helping listeners transition from everyday distraction into a state of flow and athletic readiness.

With deep grounding kicks, atmospheric textures, and subtle natural soundscapes, Primus Motus serves as both a warm-up soundtrack for performance and a gateway into focus and clarity.

Part of Affectus — an evolving soundscape collection that merges music, neuroscience, and sport — Primus Motus sets the tone for a journey that balances calm energy, rhythm, and mental clarity.

Use this track as your daily warm-up, meditation, or focus ritual. Stay tuned for the full Affectus album, featuring soundscapes designed for speed, strength, recovery, and peak performance.

Primus Motus

SON OF YESHUA

(Photo credit - Fabian Kretz)

For 2018’s next expedition, veteran cosmonaut Benedikt Frey takes control of space command after making 2017 one of his several galactic conquests, putting his proverbial black, red & yellow flag in a stunning vinyl release on Bahnsteig 23, an equally stunning album on ESP, a plethora of killer remixes and continuing his record label ‘Love Pain Sunshine & Rain’. Need we say more?

His broad electronic taste is vast, and his sound can be a drift across the universe, a jump to hyperspace, industrial binary clunking or an extraterrestrial attack on the senses. Todays sample is the latter. Packed with ample 303, nothing could be better suited to help you laugh in the face of ‘dry January’, show it the Vs and prime you for the weekend.

@freybenedikt

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