First single from upcoming album Tuqoos (March 30th)
PRE-ORDER album here: 

https://bilnaes.bandcamp.com/album/tuqoos

All tracks produced and recorded by Julmud
Artwork by Ruanne Abou-Rahme & Basel Abbas
Typography + CGI by @moonistudio
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert (Almachrome)
Bilna’es, 2022

Tuqoos

Falnukmel فلنكمل

sssaarry // rrruubby

2ND SINGLE DROP + OFFICIAL VIDEO

Berlin underground icon DJ DIE SOON channels chaos into cinema with “SAQ4IME,” a phantasmic sound-vision featuring Sara Persico. Inspired by Woman in the Dunes, Hiroo Tanaka’s direction builds an ambient dread that mirrors the track’s haunting, noise-scorched textures. A surreal glimpse into DJ DIE SOON’s visceral universe.

https://youtu.be/c2HGN0GPQ4g?si=-QoP2OkX0a7kmQsK

‘MY BROTHEL THE WIND’ IS SET FOR RELEASE ON 25TH JULY

DJ DIE SOON is the apocalyptic alter-ego Daisuke Imamura, whose performances of masked malice have been a fixture in the Berlin underground for the past decade. Announced today alongside its first single, upcoming record 'My Brothel The Wind' takes inspiration from Sun Ra at his most grotesque, conjuring a distorted phantasmagoria with an eclectic crew of compatriots like Rully Shabara, Sara Persico, and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi.

Out today, first single ‘Unfinished' is a pulsating chimera featuring animalistic vocals from Kiki Hitomi of Ninja Tune bass explorers King Midas Sound, with Italian MC Franco Franco’s verses snaking underneath the noisy onslaught:

"I instantly knew that the song would be the first on the album. Raw, heavy and noisy - these elements are crucial for my art and Kiki and Franco boosted them even more with their voices.” DJ DIE SOON

'My Brothel The Wind' shows DJ DIE SOON as an alchemist of distortion, transmuting the club-forward beats of his 2020 debut Kappa Slap and the seething horrorscapes of DIEMAJIN, his 2022 collaboration with Tokyo vocalist MA. Imamura’s obsession with noise stems from his upbringing in Tokyo, where he grew up hearing the deafening roar of trains every day. “The buildings were really tall, so the sounds reflected so much and it was so loud that you couldn’t even have a conversation on the phone. Hearing this noise every minute when living in this flat, it became a normal thing,” he says. While most would content themselves with avoiding loudness, DJ DIE SOON seeks to unpack its visceral potential.

While Sun Ra’s intergalactic Moog reached for the stars, DJ DIE SOON plunges into the depths of hell. Rather than a vision of the future, 'My Brothel The Wind' is a laugh-cry of despair in the face of a Hadean present. DJ DIE SOON confronts the world with a new hand-made mask, reborn in the ashes. Film director Hiroo Tanaka’s visual contributions in the album art, poster, and music video complete the album’s narrative, telling a story not of villainy but of phantom caprice in a dying world.

Mixed by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum Studio, Berlin (except B2, B3)
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio, Berlin

Cover photography by Hiroo Tanaka/DOGGYTASTES
Photography assistant Joana Schurr
Font by Daisuke Imamura

For Tina,Miyu,Kaito

© + ℗ Drowned By Locals 2025 
DBL36LP

My Brothel The Wind

DJ DIE SOON - SAQ4IME ft. Sara Persico

Writer, producer, performer - Nadah El Shazly
Co-producer - 3Phaz
Harp and electronics - Sarah Pagé
Percussion - Patrick Graham
Vocal processing by Samuel Barbier-Ficat

Recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at Hotel2Tango, Montreal, 2023
Mixed by James Rand
Additional mixing by Pierre Guerineau
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Supported by AFAC and Canada Art Council

Kaabi Aali

Pearl w. Coucou Chloe unreleased

Massari - Real Love (Toumba 7ob Edit)

I'm scared
So afraid to show I care
Will he think me weak
If I tremble when I speak?

So Afraid to Show I Care sees Theo Alexander & Qow assume the role of gleaners and foragers, collecting fragments from over a year of collaboration to produce a palimpsest of sonic layers. Their 30-minute micro-epic is built on an ethic of bricolage, covering tape-recorded ambience, voice note instrumentals, warped acapellas and growling double basses, all of which play out in an uninterrupted narrative.

As unabashedly experimental as it is emotional, the album’s diverse landscape features Egyptian spoken word artist otteswed (formerly known as Aly Talibab) and improvising contrabassist Klára Pudláková. On the leading single, Addictive, Pudláková’s double bass, enters into a melodic dialogue with yearning vocal samples. Towards the end of the album, otteswed delivers an existential soliloquy above waves of organ chords performed by Theo Alexander who sampled church organs from Prague, London and Orford. This album brings together material from a string of high-profile premieres across Europe and the UK featuring a rotating cast of collaborators.

Along with the digital release of the album, comes a limited-edition double cassette tape that includes both the album and selected Live performances from CTM festival ‘25, and PAF festival ‘24 featuring George Cremaschi on Contrabass.

Theo Alexander (London, UK) and Qow (Cairo, Egypt) began working together in 2023, and have respectively been featured in NPR, The Quietus, The Wire, and supported by Shape+, Britten-Pears Arts, and others. 
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Music written and composed by Theo Alexander & Omar El Sadek
Double bass on Tracks 3, 5, and 9 by Klára Pudláková
Double bass on Live Recording tape by George Cremaschi
Vocals on Track 7 by otteswed
Mixed & Mastered by Oliver Torr
Live recording mixed by George Cremaschi
Artwork by Omar El Sadek, design by Niels Wehrspann

Theo Alexander & Qow - So Afraid To Show I Care ft. Klára Pudláková

Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (17.05.2025)

Artist: @cassis26

IraqiRomanceQueen @ Radio TNP 17.05.2025

Writer, producer, performer - Nadah El Shazly
Co-producer - 3Phaz
Harp and electronics - Sarah Pagé
Percussion - Patrick Graham
Vocal processing by Samuel Barbier-Ficat
Double Bass - Jonah Fortune

Recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at Hotel2Tango, Montreal, 2023
Mixed by James Rand
Additional mixing by Pierre Guerineau
Mastered by Heba Kadry

Supported by AFAC and Canada Art Council

Dafaa Robaai

(كَامِل مَنقوص (تسجيلات هوندِبيس
تصميم الغلاف: روان ابو رحمة و باسل عباس
(ماسترينج: كِلي هيبرت (الماكروم

Kamil Manqus (Hundebiss Records)
Artwork by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Mastering by Kelly Hibbert (Almachrome)

Kamil Manqus كَامِل مَنقوص

Bilharf Alwahad بالحَرف الواحَد

Renowned for her blending of experimental sounds with Arabic influences and improvisational styles, Nadah garnered international acclaim for her genre defying artistry, mesmerising vocals, and avant-garde arrangements.

Bookings:
EU simon@disk-agency.de 
NA michael@heavy-trip.com

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Nadah El Shazly

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