Taken from Tolga Baklacioglu (@tolgabk) new album Blood Breeds Blood, out July 30, 2021, via Khemia Records (@khemia-records)

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Tolga Baklacioglu is a Turkish dj and electronic composer/performer working with modular synthesisers, guitar, and samplers, the owner of the highly respected vinyl imprint VENT, he is also an associate professor in aerospace engineering.

“Blood Breeds Blood” is his eighth studio album and his debut on Khemia Records.

Featuring Darja Kazimira, the Latvian vocalist, improviser, composer and multi-instrumentalist, Blood Breeds Blood is an immersive experience into the dark corners of introspection, an attempt to reconstruct the suppressed impulses and ramifications of painful emotions and traumatic events and provoke these links to a turbulent reservoir of destabilising anxiety. “Working with Darja relieves profoundly violent emotions as her ritualistic approach constructs a sacred and hierophonic space. This includes the pervasive tendency toward the denial of human identity by acceding to the expectations of a dehumanizing milieu, by accepting the animal-like or machine-like identity our fictional world would impose on us”, Tolga confides.

On the technical side, except the tracks “Altar Of Sacrifice” and “Blood Breeds Blood”, the whole album is recorded, arranged, and mixed live as one take directly from an Elektron Octratrack MKI.

Artwork by Lee Adams

Mastered by Mathis Kolkoz at Golden Claws Studio

Released by Khemia Records

Premiere: Tolga Baklacioglu - Behind The Unholy Grave [Khemia Records]

Nature Loves Courage (@nlovescfest) takes over Radio @Ma3azef's airwaves for a month in preparation for the 2 day festival on October 08-09 in Crete, Greece.

@kilbourne

One hour of leftfield hardcore from a leader in New York City’s new generation of gabbers.

Tracklist:

Goldie vs Wolves In The Throne Room - Thuja Timeless Imperium
Kilbourne - Society Scandal
Kilbourne - ID
Vertile - The New Normal
Peaky Pounders - Fasttalking
Aiden - ID
Anetha & Sugar - Candy From Strangers
Ncrypta - Dropping Flames
The DJ Producer - Bring The Orchestra
Dev/Null - E-Yeah
Wheez-ie - Shut The Door
The DJ Producer - The Signal 2007 (Producer’s Weird Energy Mix)
Mike Ink - Lovely Ugly Brutal World
Hellfish - Crushed And Shat On
Kilbourne & LU2K - God Is A Girl Gabber (feat DJ Bomber Gurl)
Buzzi & Kilbourne - ID
Angerfist - Send Me To Hell (The Satan Remix)

Nature Loves Courage x Radio Ma3azef | Kilbourne

Interstellar (ToPmix)

"Industry Core é a nova obra de Akdoxx, mergulhando fundo no lado mais obscuro do Hard Techno Industrial. São 23 faixas brutais, carregadas de graves pesados, texturas metálicas e atmosferas distópicas que capturam a essência crua das raves underground. É sujo, é intenso, é liberdade pura. Prepare-se para sentir o peso das máquinas, o calor do concreto e a pulsação do corpo. Lançamento oficial em 17 de setembro de 2025, disponível em todos os serviços de streaming."

Akdoxx  - Pulse Reactor

A fresh Version from Run Like Hell!!

Pure Electro with House/Techno/BodyMusic Elements!!!
Originally from album number 2, which I first had to split and deleted due to incompleteness. This track and Devil Circuit are returning as solo tracks. Everything

Dj Neongroover- Run Like Hell

@rami-abadir is a music producer and sound designer born in Cairo, Egypt. His work focuses on experimental, glitch and ambient music, and he's one half of the duo @0N4B. He’s the co-founder of the collective “Mapping Possibilities”, and the editor of the electronic music section of the Arabic music webzine Ma3azef.

Tracklist:

01. Granul - Pressure
02. SHALT - Shudder
03. Bungalovv - A quema ropa
04. EL PLVYBOY - Lazos
05. BULMA - Raiden feat. Nahshi 
06. Whiterose - ravX
07. KROLIK - RACE FAST BREAK HARD
08. Tension - Catalyst VIP 
09. 93 Sovage - Ha Dub (Bulma Edit)
10. Ovid - Dustbringer		 
11. NKC - Hissing 
12. Kuthi Jin - Crawl (Le Dom Remix)	
13. 3Phaz - Exploit
14. Louis King feat. Brain Rays - Why Pree (Ice_Eyes Remix) 
15. All Trades - Built Like Concrete, Breaks Like Glass	
16. Ismael. x Stormz - Helix Wiley Flow (ABADIR Mushup)	
17. Ice_Eyes - Mouth Foot
18. DECAP x Imaabs - Sofoca Bounce (kojikoji Mushup)	
19. Saint Caboclo - 150 SAINT TOOL 	
20. Cuban Chamber of Commerce + XIAO QUAN - Punching Rice Bags
21. Osheyack - Liar's Dividend
22. SWAN MEAT - Brave Girl (GIL Remix)
23. Syntrovert - Vault
24. RAUMSKAYA - 2191 (YUNG ACID REMIX)	
25. Hypna - Infrared 	
26. SWAN MEAT - LITERALLY SEETHING
27. SINES & Rafa Maya - Mal Intento 
28. Abssys - followthewhiterabbit	
29. Santa Muerte - Laceration

Rootcast #19 ABADIR

Three Arches by @fatenkanaan

Following the devastating explosion at the Port of Beirut on August 4, Ma3azef teamed up with New York-based mastering engineer Heba Kadry to curate a compilation by regional and international musicians to raise funds for the continuous relief work being done on the ground in Beirut to help those who have been failed by the Lebanese state.

Today, we're happy to announce two additional remixes to be added to the compilation: ZULI's Kiwii, remixed by El Kontessa; Deena Abdelwahed's Wein El Malayeen, remixed  by Ancient Methods.

The 19-track compilation includes contributions by the likes of Fatima Al Qadiri, Nicolás Jaar, ZULI, Slikback, and others. Bringing sounds together from the different crevices of electronic music, it is a humble attempt to galvanize musicians and listeners into supporting a city that has been integral in shaping the region’s contemporary music scene.

All proceeds from the sales of the compilation are going to local initiatives to provide assistance to those affected, they will be divided between Fundraising Campaign for the Arts and Culture Community in Beirut organized by AFAC; Beirut Musicians' Fund organized by Tunefork Studios, and Beit el Baraka.

All tracks mastered by Heba Kadry
Artwork by Studio Mooni

Faten Kanaan - Three Arches

Scavenging sounds from online and on-site detritus, citizen media, and militarised ads and technologies, Jessika Khazrik’s sonic scapes intimately investigate the techno-political premises of the military economies we inhabit or forget. 

Often born out of vocoded collaborations with recurrent neural networks skewed with hard-edged Arabic rhythms, Khazrik festively uses spaces of congregation—such as clubs, museums, her house, quarries, and the internet—to search for new, locally entrenched universalities that could collectively respond to the dystopias of our current time. 

Khazrik's interdisciplinary practice as artist, writer, technologist and DJ ranges from composition to machine learning, performance, visual art, ecotoxicology and history of science and music. She also composes the score of the GEOCINEMA project and often collaborates with artists and labels on album art and text. She has performed at CTM Festival, Ballroom Blitz, ALL, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Silent Green, Les Urbaines, HKW, Theater Der Welt, quarries, her house, secrets, among others. 

Khazrik often collaboratively works under the name of 'نادي شهود الزور / The Society of False Witnesses' and is currently the editor of the International Solidarity page at the 17teshreen monthly publication.

@jessikakhazrik

SYNAĒ 16 - Jessika Khazrik

Tracklist: 
1. Dive Reflex Service - Emperor
2. Pie Are Squared - An Emptier Sidewalk
3. naemi - sugar hiccup
4. Nebulo - Vif Argent
5. Mr. Mitch & Oscar MB - Fear
6. Ground - Lurk Schema
7. ABADIR - Loved One
8. Shamos - BBBVBF
9. Match Fixer - and my daughters voice
10. Echo Canyon - Metallic Taste
11. Obsequies - Chrysalide
12. Eric Frye - Locksmith
13. All Times Now Nothing - Patience
14. Dylan Henner - I Watched them Jump into the Creek
15. Eric Frye - Open Gate
16. Ben Bondy - Suelti
17. We Eat Sun - What Does The Future Mean_
18. R.Y.N. - Winds II
19. Sarah Davachi - Gathers III
20. No Vacancy - 3
21. Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin - In Waves ft. CTM
22. via dakum - Outermost
23. N/OBE - Will You Let Go, Sire
24. Kat Nzingha - Inject
25. Piezo - Xerotonin
26. TIBSLC - It Is Pink And Warm And It Makes Me Want To Weep
27. peb - Like a Semicircular Slash Across the Full-Grown Plume
28. Forces - Internalized
29. N1L - Sinful Tongue

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/zulimusic
Bandcamp: https://zulimusic.bandcamp.com

Club Matryoshka and CTM came together for CTM's 22nd festival edition to revisit the Alpha Lebbeus world, 40 years after we first explored the expansive planet together. With this follow-up collaboration, Club Matryoshka expanded on this unique Minecraft world, together with a story-based gameplay narrative co-developed with artist collective Children of Cyberspace. The six-hour journey was soundtracked by live and DJ sets created by a diverse group of emerging artists from around the globe, curated in a collaborative spirit by Club Matryoshka and CTM.

Founded in 2019, Club Matryoshka is an international virtual venue, home and safe haven to underground and unorthodox music mutants. Based in the Philippines and built in Minecraft, Club Matryoshka was founded and developed by a community of gamers, artists, and musicians. similarobjects, dot.jaime, cavill, ahju$$i, JohnPope, and Maengo69 felt a lack of freedom and acceptance in club scenes, both in Manila and abroad, and sought alternative avenues for sharing their work and finding community. The club opened in July 2019, barely a year before COVID-19 would bring in-person events and nightlife to a halt.

CTM 2021: ZULI at Club Matryoshka x CTM

Is language a false witness? Is promise information? Exploring the techno-politics of the voice, friendship, counter-information and war, Jessika Khazrik’s composition ‘Only Distance Has a Name .x. Artificial Intelligence Is Work’ attempts to ceremonially subvert the premise of AI as labor that extimately auto-denies itself in alchemical rationalizations. This composition was premiered live in 9-channels at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2018 as part of ‘The Exhaustion Project’ curated by Abhijan Toto.  

Recently, the voice has been presented as an agnotologically ubiquitous yet impossible biometric, that could exponentially be replicated through resources as easily accessible as seconds of recorded speech. If singularity is denied to the voice as matter, then what is the promised multiplicity abundant under artificial intelligence as a recognitive accumulation that feigns what is being said yet learns and teaches, most often us secretly? This AI-aided performative composition is conceived, laboured up and trained out of these questions.

Through the statement “Artificial Intelligence Is Work”, the second act grapples with AI as a division, distribution and re-arrangement of labor with a cryptographic and alchemical core. Rather than abolishing work as advanced in the endless dream of automation, the increasing spread of AI creates new forms of work and learning i.e., a re-distribution of labor, alienations and a re-organization of knowledge.

If we look at the ethics purported by some strands of machine learning that build its datasets from data shared by users online, collated and re-used in hidden network architectures and inferences without their explicit knowledge or from images collated by surveillance cameras of pedestrians and passers by that happen to be crossing a monitored environment, we see that so far with Artificial Intelligence – and specifically within machine learning, the tautological statement that ‘everything computable becomes work (whether you know it or not)’ holds a greater truth value than ‘work will become obsolescent’. Can an incomputable cryptography exist?
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Jessika Khazrik (b. 1991 Beirut, based between Beirut and Berlin) is an artist, technologist, electronic music producer and writer whose indisciplinary practice ranges from composition to ecotoxicology, machine learning, cryptography, performance, visual art and history of science and music. Khazrik holds BAs in Linguistics and in Theatre from the Lebanese University and a MS in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT where she was awarded the Ada Lovelace prize. In 2012-13, she was a fellow at Home Workspace Program in Ashkal Alwan, in 2018-19, a fellow at the Digital Earth and in 2020, guest faculty at HfK Bremen. While concurrently working as technologist and researcher in different collective and institutional settings, her work has been presented at The Normandy Landfill, the Stanford Research Institute, CTM Festival, the Arab Image Foundation, Kunsthalle Wien, Les Urbaines, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Times Museum Guangzhou, LUMA Foundation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Amnesty International, Center of Documentary Arts and Research at UC Santa Cruz, her house, the internet, secrets and Theater der Welt, among others.

Jessika Khazrik - Only Distance Has a Name .x. Artificial Intelligence Is Work

Taken from Deadhand 12" new EP Meanwhile, out on @seagrave-3.

Read: http://bit.ly/2NiuTSO
Order digital and pre-order vinyl: http://bit.ly/3d7bHlO

Debut release for The Fear Ratio's Mark Broom and James Ruskin under their 'Deadhand' alias, which proceeds on a strictly experimental hip-hop tip, accompanied as they are here by 4 x world scratch champion DJ Prime Cuts (of The Scratch Perverts) and illbient rap legend Sensational, who brings his characteristic broken charm to the EP's itchy, spartan production vibes: "Step into my office, now we sparkin' it... I spit the isms in yer ear... you better recognise it's raw shit from orbit."

This pairing with Sens makes total sense: Distinct from Mark and James' work as The Fear Ratio, their Deadhand project delivers something closer to 90s illbient in any case: extending the boom-bap era of hip-hop production with elements of hallucinogenic dystopianism, the energy of the EP nevertheless vibes playfully: Given the dispiriting global situation at present, the EP title 'Meanwhile' might simply refer to getting on with things in spite of all the cultural and political misendeavor the era will no doubt be long remembered for. Despite the global health pandemic and the looming spectre of wide-scale environmental collapse, little despair or surrender prevails here, but rather a hankering to attempt a few tripped-out experiments.

Three remixes bring further twists of the screw: A cosmic break flex from ETCH resituates Sensational amidst the magmic glow of Reaktor bass ensembles, while DJ Prime Cuts repurposes 7" soul gold by way of a more 'traditional' SP1200 approach. 90s trip-hop pioneer and graffiti legend REQ steps up with all the painterly flair he is rightly renowned for, obliterating the Monster Orchestra's classic 'I Can't Stop' stab towards a double dose of galactic melancholia.

All tracks written and produced by Mark Broom & James Ruskin, with cuts by DJ Prime Cuts

Artwork by BOOST
https://www.instagram.com/b2ost/

Mastered and cut by Beau at Ten Eight Seven

Released by Seagrave

Meanwhile ft. DJ Prime Cuts & Sensational

Premiere: Deadhand - Touch ft. DJ Prime Cuts & Sensational [Seagrave]

معازف | مجلة الموسيقى الأولى والأخيرة من نوعها في العالم

Premiere: Tolga Baklacioglu - Behind The Unholy Grave [Khemia Records]

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