Leipzig based TIBSLC (The International Billionaire's Secret Love Child) sculpts hazily ambiguous but meticulously detailed sounds hypersensitive to nanoscopic movements and fleeting midnight feels. Blending subtle environmental recordings with processed digital noise and feedback, the eight parts of ‘Delusive Tongue Shifts - Situation Based Compositions’ find themselves in good company on sferic’s roster of intuitive ambient explorers, but TIBSLC’s work is distinguished by an arcing narrative quality that emerges across its yawning spaces, each viewed by perspectives ranging from lofty, birds-eye to more intimate and voyeuristic.

Limited Edition 2LP housed in hi-gloss sleeve & digital - OUT NOW

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TIBSLC - Delusive Tongue Shifts - Situation Based Compositions (sferic009)[Preview]

live collaborative sound design performance at Hadden Park with Daniel Majer on July 29th, 2022. 

part of Wrong Wave festival, 2022.

Daniel Majer and Samantha Leff - WrongerWave X Publik Secrets

Enchanted Oasis

Cairo-based sound artist ZULI presents a novel a/v performance with audiovisual artist Omar El Sadek at Le Guess Who? 2023, curated by Heba Kadry. 

About:
The work of multi-talented sound artist Ahmed El Ghazoly (also known as ZULI) has spilled over Cairo's borders onto the rest of the world, garnering support from the likes of Aphex Twin and Autechre. Leading up to ZULI's new album 'Lambda', the musician and producer, who is also determined to uplift other Middle Eastern creative voices, presented a new a/v performance with audiovisual artist Omar El Sadek. 

Recorded at TivoliVredenburg's Hertz on Saturday, 11 November 2023.

Audio recording by Casper Lucas; mix by Marc Broer
Photography by Kasia Kim-Zacharko

ZULI & Omar El Sadek present λ - Live at Le Guess Who? 2023

Jen Monroe writes the album download blog Listen To This!, which focuses on Japanese and new age records: [Listen to This](http://www.listentothis.info) 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/jen-monroe/episodes/jen-monroe-10th-april-2024

GETTING WARMER W/ allie avital (Soviet Choral & Folk Special) 100424

"I'm a noodler." The vaunted experimental producer and DJ discusses his playful approach to engaging with philosophy and making art live at Atonal's OPENLESS in Berlin. 

British artist Lee Gamble has long been captivating listeners with high concept dance music. A loyal affiliate of Kode9's Hyperdub label, Gamble—whose work sits somewhere at the intersection of philosophy, computer music and sound art—has been building weird and wonderful musical worlds that have shot him to experimental stardom since the early 2010s. In this RA Exchange recorded live from Hard Wax (at the one-off weekender Atonal OPENLESS), Gamble meditates on his penchant for eschewing conventions, beginning with growing up in the countercultural, working class hub of Birmingham.

Gamble reflects on the first time he experienced what's called "future shock", a reference to a book by the same name written by sci-fi author Alvin Toffler. It set him on the pursuit of finding and making music that had a similarly bizarre quality. Gamble isn't just a producer but an avid admirer and connoisseur of critical theory, and he also discusses the thinkers who have informed his production (and even his approach to DJing), as well as his recent interest in the ethics and applications of AI and deep fakes, which he explores in a touching full-length, Models. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.729 Lee Gamble

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/keyfell.

(+)earth w/ Umki

BUY VINYL: https://robertrental.bandcamp.com/album/mental-detentions
Robert Rental takes up residence with Dark Entries again for an expanded double vinyl reissue of Mental Detentions. Robert Rental was a Scottish pioneer of DIY electronic music. Along with his illustrious collaborators like Thomas Leer and Daniel Miller, Rental helped shape the countercultural sound of the UK with his timely melding of Krautrock, dub, and punk. Originally from Port Glasgow, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in the late 1970s, and became involved with the local music scene. Robert Rental however released very little of his solo music - the only solo recording from The 1970s is the 7" single "Paralysis" first released on the homemade Regular Records in 1978, and re-released on Dark Entries in 2020.
Mental Detentions was released as a cassette in 1979, the same year as his masterpiece The Bridge, a collaboration with Thomas Leer. Using an assortment of budget electronics - a Roland drum machine, a kid’s Stylophone keyboard, and an Electroharmonix DrQ - Robert takes us on a gauzy, trip, at once expansive and intimate, minimalist and maximalist. “Stuck” is mangled motorik, like Neu! run through a meat grinder, while “Vox” meanders like an 18 minute ambient fever dream. Robert spoke to friends of his frustration at being unable to replicate his sound in a commercial studio - it was these demos' sound that he wanted to create. Sometimes having only access to the most rudimentary of equipment can sharpen one’s craft - necessity is the mother of invention, indeed. This ethic shines in his work, providing a throughline to the now, as the world feels bigger and smaller than ever. 

“Influenced everyone from John Foxx and Art of Noise to ABC. 
Seriously next level day zero DIY electro pop made in a bedsit with hacked together synths and reel-to-reel recorders.” - Boomkat

Mental Detentions

Robert Rental - Mental Detentions

live at Shuffle - series of iconic events curated by Peauty Fute [Kyiv, Ukraine]

Tracklist:
#1-5 NFNR unreleased

Last two tracks are released:
NFNR - No Matter What https://systemnapotvora.bandcamp.com/track/no-matter-what 
NFNR - Fragility https://waage.bandcamp.com/album/fragility

NFNR - live at Shuffle / Otel` 20.10.24

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Wannes Lenaers @ GIMIC - 24 November 2024

This week, we’re here with a mix from Aotearoa’s very own Foxtrot, an eclectic deejay now based in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Her mix starts out slow, pacing through dark atmospheric slower techno, before catching alight; trekking up through the bpms infused with fast-paced psychedelic techno, trance & bass.

Foxtrot is a DJ born & bred in the realm of student radio, namely RDU 98.5fm in Otautahi / Christchurch. A longtime talented selector, convinced to give deejaying a go, she shone through her fast, genre-defying sets, gracing festivals and clubs up and down the motu in the post pandemic era of dancing.

Now having returned home after 18 months abroad, she is back with a newly refined & selective taste, encompassing deep percussive rhythms, psychedelic-infused bass & spacey bleep blops. Catch her over the NYE period at Aotearoa’s premier underground boutique electronic music festival, Twisted Frequency @twistedfrequencyfestival, as they celebrate their tenth anniversary.
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tracklist:
Loek Frey - Dismantled Zone
OK EG - Stoma
Command D - CG Phrase
Feral - Riad
Rene Wise - Dry Beetle
Luigi Tozzi - Atlatl
Amorphic - Mo1
D.Dan - Nadal
Adam Hollobon - Workout 010
Shoal - Maloja
Kr!z - Ninth Circle
Cimadevilla - Sinwave
Priori - Sub Lux
Ambien Baby - Baila (Jennifer Loveless Remix
Vardae - Dance with the spirits (Original Mix)
Polygonia - Synaptic Paths (Original Mix)
SAYANG - Enough
Greer - SÓMA
Aa Sudd - Subspark
Matthew Cha - Hi-Tension
Kamellia - Point Of View
Ignez - Seraphic
Ketch - Tomahawk
bw - 1114
Initial Code - Turquoise
Havik - Jungle Creep
Dayzero - Synth
Dayzero - Bass
Greedoe - Playing With Hot Plates
Lola Kay - Voodoo 16
Jdotbalance - Whippit
Archer Hubart - Dvnv
Initial Code - Artificial Birds (Raär Remix)
Feral & Spekki Webu - Uruk
traverse - Vision
Innerworld - Surge
ANI - TOKYO
Floid - Jonagu