Safia Nihil
Autotrophia I
CKK0105 - Chez.Kito.Kat Records
October 2025

Music by Salima Bouaraour & Samuel Ricciuti

Mix by Phil Rochefort at PHI Centre Montreal
Master by Christophe Biache (CB Mastering)
Artwork by Juliette Dupont Duchesne
Distributed by Underscope
(Feat Mr Bios on Wet Sunday, Synth Lead by Mr Bios on Groovy Fenouil)

Safia Nihil is the duo formed by the two founders of the label Chez.Kito.Kat Records, Salima Bouaraour (Shadya) and Samuel Ricciuti (D.B.Y). After 30 years of musical collaboration on various electro, hip hop, and EBM projects, they reunited as a duo with a creative approach that blends ambient music, analog synthesizers, and Arabic influences. Autotrophia I is the first in a series of three EPs exploring their current influences while pushing sonic experimentation forward. The EP was premiered live last August at the MUTEK festival in Montreal.
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released October 25, 2025

SAFIA NIHIL - Laboratoire de sauge et d'origan

SAFIA NIHIL - Groovy fenouil

the next mix in the series is pure dubwise profundity coming from @edenaurelius and @milliamusic

Some words from the artists :

“This mix is a live recording taken from Nowadays in April of this year for livwutang’s recidency, where we were invited to open for Deepchord as a part of a dub techno focused event here in New York. 

The three hour mix is the culmination of our shared inspirations - contemporary and classic, and our own interpretations of the genre itself.

We have b2b’ed many times over the past 10 years, and we feel this may be our favorite set so far - we hope you enjoy”

Art by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier

naffcast012 ⦾ ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ ✹ Eden Aurelius b2b Millia ✹ Nowadays (4.18.25) ✹  ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ

Shadya - Spread Love EP
Digital Double Serie - Issue no°1
CKK106 - Chez.Kito.Kat records
December 2025

Music by Shadya (Salima Bouaraour)
Vocal by Shadya

Mix by Jean-Patrice Rémillard / Pheek
Master by Christophe Biache
Cover by Samuel Ricciuti

Salima Bouaraour-Shadya is a multifaceted figure active in Montreal’s electronic music scene, journalism, and nightlife.

Producer, co-founder of Chez.Kito.Kat Records, and music journalist for a leading magazine, she has also served on various committees dedicated to rethinking and shaping nightlife culture in Montreal.

For a decade, she was active in Europe as a singer-songwriter and performer within an electroclash band.

Her recent release with French producer Shizuka was featured in UNDERSCOPE’s 2024 selection (Paris). She is also a member of the duo Safia Nihil with her longtime collaborator D.B.Y. Together, they recently released their debut EP, which premiered live at Mutek Festival last summer.

She has performed with numerous electro and techno collectives across Montreal’s underground scene and shared her mixes on Kanal Pompidou (Brussels), Radio Flouka (Paris), and Radio Nopal (Mexico City).

Her new EP, Spread Love, revisits the atmospheric drum’n’bass that shaped her youth, blending it with wider influences. Across two tracks, she explores the harmony between soft kicks, deep basslines, ethereal vocals, layered textures, and piano tones — deep, dreamy, and danceable.

Shadya - Drop That

Shadya - Such A Babe

"reassembled signals"
A collection of 4 singles first shared 
only on Bandcamp (dec 2024 - jan 2025)
Now gathered and released together.

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afterimage sleep.
↓
there was a room
i can’t remember if it was real
or a replay from a night that never happened

dust floating like lost pixels
the hum of an unplugged monitor
still dreaming of its light

you were there, i think
wearing that silence again
the kind that folds around a word before it’s born

i tried to say something small
but the air cut my voice into lowercase
like a secret the sky forgot to keep

time kept buffering
and the clocks were all set to maybe
you smiled the way static does
when it thinks no one’s watching

somewhere the rain pressed rewind
and we stood under it
as if to remember what warmth felt like

your hand flickered through mine
transparent, impatient, slow
and i swear i saw the whole world breathe once
then fall asleep again

the city outside
looked like it missed its own reflection
windows blinking like tired stars
each one holding a version of us that stayed

then: fade / repeat / echo / nothing
just the soft collapse of memory
into the same blue noise that started everything

AFTERIMAGE SLEEP

LISTEN-BUY-SHARE

everything glows for a second
↓
stay

light

still

flicker

empty

echo

almost

air

drift

glow

again

blur

slowly

fade

quiet

lost

return

second

gone

blue

end

again

everything glows for a second

EVERYTHING GLOWS FOR A SECOND

a light that never found the ground.
↓
the street forgot its name
and the air stopped meaning anything
you looked up
and the sky flinched

we were outlines
stuck between two screens
half awake
half erased

the light came in slow motion
like it was scared to touch us
we didn’t move
we were already gone

the static hummed a little too long
like it was trying to say something
but forgot what language was

everything felt borrowed
even the silence
especially the silence

by morning
nothing had changed
except the part of us
that stopped pretending to stay

A LIGHT THAT NEVER FOUND THE GROUND

Mount Stealth's second single 'Tortuga' taken from their upcoming 'EP' released on 11th May 2012.

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Mount Stealth - Tortuga (mix version)

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