Stream: http://tinyurl.com/aspectralturn
Vinyl: https://numagama.bandcamp.com/album/a-spectral-turn
Catalog no: BI32

In an unusual collaboration between a Brazilian artist and a Chinese label, Numa Gama returns with a left-field take on her music-making, A Spectral Turn. Inspired by Derrida’s Hauntology, and the post-capitalist instigations of Anna Tsing, she weaves an eerie and cold subtropical soundscape that explores themes of freedom and imagination amidst the ghosts that inhabit today’s world.

Each track here unfolds like a vignette, as translucent synth lines float independently, accompanied by abstract sounds and glitches. This amalgamation creates a rational yet cozy stream of consciousness, guiding the listener through the haunted corridors of the memories of the past, ideas of the present, and miscarriages of the future. To summon these ideas, Numa Gama draws a parallel between negotiating political change and making kin with her own creative desires.

Rather than providing nostalgic sensations or futuristic insights, A Spectral Turn acknowledges that history ends at every moment, and gives way to new beginnings, swarming with ghosts.
credits
released January 31, 2024

All tracks were composed, produced, and mixed by [numa] Gama and mastered by Brandenburg Mastering

A Spectral Turn (Snippets)

travel & trust, love & peace.
selected 4 ixelkoordinate.
tp blues

https://soundcloud.com/hkkmr42

hello stranger - hkkmr42

1) Other People - Valparaíso (OK Selekta rethinked)
2) Long Arm - Silent Opera (original mix)
3) Lfome(Stimming) - Blackwood (original mix)
4) AMyn - Banook (original mix)
5) Paul Traeumer - Hollow Wave (original mix)
6) Memory Lake - Do for Love (Elfenberg Remix)
7) Oceanvs Orientalis feat. Rami - Guangzhou (original mix)
8) AVEM - No Refunds (original mix)
9) Conjuro - Vesuvius LUX (original mix)
10) Mosley Jr - Sun-Set (original mix)
11) Jackmate, Nik Reiff - Rerun (Jackmates Special Interest Dub)
12) Holed Coin - Ufo (original mix)
13) OK Selekta - Who brought piano to the party? (not released)

A Tough Year Podcast (by OK Selekta)

We can barely imagine a better start to the new year.
For our 21st release "Obsidian" many friends pulled together. The EP features one original track and three remixes. The original track "Obsidian" was co-composed by Sun Drine, Dit:eau, Ben Jarli and TrickyJones.

Friendship, kinship and a common passion for many shades of electronic music made these four creative spirits set foot on an adventurous trail: a spontaneous collaboration.

A studio session makes a fruitful birthday gift, and what started with the sole and humble ambition of having a good time skinny-dipping in synths & sounds, soon evolved into a harmonic workflow that none of them could have anticipated.

An outburst of rhythmic elements in a gloomy atmosphere and a rolling bassline carrying a sparkling/flamboyant breakbeat make Obsidian a tune resembling an obscure igneous rock - petrified lava that preserves its natural force, energy and heat for those special occasions.

As a senior stone mason infamous for his fine sonic carvings, Bernstein transforms the original's dark timbres into a driving and bubbly gem, a shining spherolite in a flowstone cave.
With their fierce and powerful interpretation, ki ya tori take the original to the floor, without further adue.
In the spirit of adept reductionism, avsluta's ambient mix rounds this EP off to a coherent yet versatile whole.

Buy & Stream: https://fanlink.to/LOKD021

Artist: @sun_drine, @benjarli, @ditolove, @trickyjones
Remixes: @bernstein_musik, @avsluta, @kiyatori
Release Title: Obsidian
Catalogue: LOKD021
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Obsidian

Obsidian ( Avsluta's Horizontal Mix ) 

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Sun Drine, Ben Jarli, Dit:eau, Tricky Jones - Obsidian (Avsluta's Horizontal Mix)

Two visionary maestros, Pierre Bastien and Michel Banabila, unite in their first collaborative album, Baba Soirée. The veterans of electronic music bring their unique expertise to the table, resulting in a captivating fusion of experimental styles. Bastien’s mechanical loops and experimental instrumental setups merge seamlessly with Banabila's sound design and impeccable skills of sampling collages. It's not a dance party, nor is it an avant-garde intervention. It's a soirée: a cultivated evening of sonic alchemy hosted by these two charismatic gentlemen.

Pierre Bastien is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a background in French literature. He has spent decades crafting an idiosyncratic world of experimental sound with his self-built mechanical orchestra Mecanium. It was most notably showcased in audiovisual releases on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label. Bastien's creations are a mesmerizing combination of traditional instruments (he has a vast collection) and mechanical automatons. The violin in the track Rotomotor, for example, is physically played by one of his machines. In Baba Soirée, Bastien also plays a prepared cornet (Slow Dance, Banbas Aura), infusing the recordings with a breathy, dreamy dimension.

Michel Banabila, a sound artist, composer and producer, possesses an eclectic musical repertoire that defies genres. His seamless blend of minimal electronica, tribal ambient, and neo-classical influences has earned him a prominent place in the world of experimental music, and an impressive discography (Knekelhuis, Bureau B, Séance Center, a.o.). Banabila serves as the creative sampling editor for Baba Soirée, expertly weaving together the recordings to craft an evocative sonic tapestry.

The two share a curiosity for traditional instruments from various cultures. The instruments used in the recordings are shown in the cover artwork. A mutual admiration for each other's work paved the way for this fruitful artistic partnership of the Rotterdam-based artists: Collaborating on a single as a fundraiser for Yemen in 2022 set the stage for the creation of Baba Soirée.

For Pierre Bastien, Dada, Fluxus and International Situationism have played a significant role in shaping his artistic vision. The title Baba Soirée is an homage to Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg's "Kleine Dada Soirée" collaboration which took place exactly a century ago. There's an unmistakable stoicism and an anarchic not-giving-a-f*** attitude in these recordings by Bastien & Banabila, which resonates in the light of this Dada reference.

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Pierre Bastien, Michel Banabila: Walk The Talk (Pingipung 083 / LP, digital)

Vinyl: https://numagama.bandcamp.com/album/a-spectral-turn
Stream: https://tr.ee/zrjAhww_9e
Catalog no: BI32

In an unusual collaboration between a Brazilian artist and a Chinese label, Numa Gama returns with a left-field take on her music-making, A Spectral Turn. Inspired by Derrida’s Hauntology, and the post-capitalist instigations of Anna Tsing, she weaves an eerie and cold subtropical soundscape that explores themes of freedom and imagination amidst the ghosts that inhabit today’s world.

Each track here unfolds like a vignette, as translucent synth lines float independently, accompanied by abstract sounds and glitches. This amalgamation creates a rational yet cozy stream of consciousness, guiding the listener through the haunted corridors of the memories of the past, ideas of the present, and miscarriages of the future. To summon these ideas, Numa Gama draws a parallel between negotiating political change and making kin with her own creative desires.

Rather than providing nostalgic sensations or futuristic insights, A Spectral Turn acknowledges that history ends at every moment, and gives way to new beginnings, swarming with ghosts.
credits
released January 31, 2024

All tracks were composed, produced, and mixed by [numa] Gama and mastered by Brandenburg Mastering

A5 Balloons (Logic) (Snippet)

O Que É Doce No Fim (Snippet)

Exec (hack) (Snippet)

Matter + Time (Snippet)

2k&Plateau (Intro) (Snippet)

Spoke - You Make Me Feel Dramatic 
LP
TC02: Nostalgic Wavs 04; Déjà Vu; 
WLC013

Out 26th September 2025

https://tr.ee/WLC013_Feels_Swatch

Hey this is Skwirl here to gab at you briefly about the records we have coming for this year’s thematic cluster! The theme is Nostalgic Wavs and each record has been linked to a concept under the rather large umbrella of nostalgia as a function of emotional attachment to memory. 


The fourth record for Nostalgic Wavs is Spoke’s endlessly colourful and spirited LP ‘You Make Me Feel Dramatic’ and it’s our Déjà Vu selection.

Déjà Vu is a concept that needs no introduction as an estimated 97 percent of people have experienced it at least once. It is categorised as a strong familiarity with a present situation or experience - to the extent of believing it has been perceived or experienced before - despite it being new. We’ve mapped it as restorative, present, unknowing on our Nostalgic Wavs map.

https://tr.ee/WLC_Nostalgic_Wavs-Graphic

Spoke is a queer, non binary German producer based in Berlin known most prominently for their blistering hip hop productions that have become a fixture in the international, experimental, and non-traditional fringes of the Berlin Deutschrap scene. Spoke started their musical career as a DJ in Berlin in the late 2000s, amidst a cascade of grime and garage migrating from the UK en route to the thumps and stomps of the techno capital -  that fertile ground of cross pollination and the exciting rise of the German beat scene can still be found reverberating through their work now.


Indeed, when arriving upon what the LP for Woodland Creatures would sound like we found mutual excitement in exploring their roots in club music both classic and contemporary, pop and underground. A stint living in the UK some years back had solidified their love for garage, drum and bass and the wider UK funky continuum; and, this merged with a keen infatuation with stateside movements like jersey house, juke and footwork in the years since moving back to Berlin - all culminating in a collision of style, sounds and ethos that had been percolating in them for quite some time. 

The result is ‘You Make Me Feel Dramatic’, a punchy, short and sweetly diaphanous transatlantic club scene love letter born of Spoke’s personal journey and subterranean explorations which is brimming with immediacy, life, colour and aimed squarely at breathless sweaty dancefloor workouts. Spoke’s authentic filtering of inspirations and synthesised style mashups yields a record that feels impossibly familiar - like club joints you could swear you know but are of course brand new - and speaks of a producer poised to take the audience on a personal journey they might not expect but one that is kaleidoscopic, spritely, infectious, and just flat out fun.

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all tracks written and produced by Spoke

“Moon Landing” was composed for the theatre 
project Henrike Iglesias - Space Dudes

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“Shukhus” is a rework of OMAR KTD’s “Shukhus”  

Used by permission

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Mix assistance and mastering by Jacob Korn @ Tailout

Artwork and design by Blake Thompson 

Feels Swatch and Nostalgic Wavs Map by Brittany Myers 

Distributed digitally by EPM Music

Executive Produced by Skwirl

https://www.instagram.com/spoke.slomostudio

https://www.instagram.com/woodland_creatures_label


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You Make Me Feel Dramatic

Dancing On My Own

On Bandcamp

Grab you copy > https://sotor.bandcamp.com/album/octopus-black-incl-alien-rave-spectrums-data-forces-remixes

The Moroccan Techno label SOTOR - سطور is pleased to present you the new release SOT04.

Meaning "lines" in the arabic language, SOTOR shows here its interest in the various shades of Techno.

Horacio Cruz delivers 2 original tracks to write the fourth lines of the Sotor's story in addition of two remixes from Spectrums Date Forces & Alien Rave:

"Octopus Black" is an apocalyptic electro big-banger where Horacio Cruz combines both his techno and electro influences in a unique way. The Spanish techno master offers you here your first experience into a black hole.

The cosmic journey continues with Alien Rave & Spectrum Data Forces versions of ‘Octopus Black'. They deliver a timeless electro gem & draw here with their remixes a musical allegory of our modern decadent world, where mankind is causing its own loss.

On the B-side, Horacio Cruz delivers a powerful techno gem with "Undoctrine".

Released September 19th, 2025

Distribution worldwide by EPM Music
A1 Mastered by Horacio Cruz
A2 Mastered by Alien Rave
A3 Mastered by Spectrums Data Forces
B1 Mastered by Conor Dalton - Glowcast Audio Mastering
Art & Design by Paradox - Casablanca
2025 © Sotor Records

Octopus Black

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Horacio Cruz - Octopus Black (Original Mix)

02 Strings  of Heaven x Hades

The Odd Orchestra has once again landed and they’ve brought stories from their time in the sky. This odd group of three soars beyond previous explorations.

Free floating in a blend of techno, dub, jazz and rock they song-write their way through a landscape that is truly their own. Perhaps even more than the critically acclaimed albums released on Get Physical a decade ago, they now expose the rough edges, rendering themselves naked, perhaps even egoless. 

Please give a warm embrace to the intoxicating voice of Raz Ohara, the Belgian bohemian Oliver Doerell and guitarist/musical “akurat” Tom Krimi as “The Odd Orchestra”, and dwell into this bundle of delicate electronic tristesse.

In addition to the originals, there’s three remixes included. AMyn takes on Driftwood in his very own r&b manner. The addition of chords and extra melodies shows how the song holds its own in different genres.  

Hölle gets an revamp by Berlin locals TRU and Moodfamily’s Beazar. Both approaches are similar, both trying to strip the original song to the bone. Where Beazar distills a pertinent groove in the remix, TRU delivers an excellent bonedry beatless version of Hölle, oozing with drama and terrific contrasts.

www.moodfamily.net

Hölle (Beazar Remix)

The Odd Orchestra - Hölle (Beazar Remix)

Furikuri @ Lovetree Festival

My friend https://soundcloud.com/nicolacruz invited me to do a mix for his Floresta Radio Show on Worldwide FM. I decided to venture into unfamiliar territories featuring some records that drift away from the club and are very dear to my heart. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did recording it.

https://worldwidefm.net/show/floresta-nicola-cruz-with-cosmic-jd/

Floresta Mix

transmedia composer and quite often curious 

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