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Collage of sounds collected on tape while being on vacation. 

Cover by YRUU.

Dark Ambient Compilation 3

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Released on Höllenfrau Scandium Compilation. Get it here: https://hoellenfrau.bandcamp.com/album/scandium

Nicolussi - Abendgebet [Höllenfrau]

Released on From Different Angles Compilation by Sama Recordings. Get it here: https://samarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-from-different-angles-samatape015

Nicolussi - Lift [Sama]

Released on Gaza Benefit Compilation by Abhorrent After Death. Get it here: https://abhorrentafterdeath.bandcamp.com/album/gaza-benefit-compilation

532F4E - A Violet Rose Amidst the Rubble [Abhorrent A.D.]

Released on Sounds on Grief Compilation by Objects & Sounds. Get it here: https://www.objectsandsounds.com/product/sounds-on-grief/

S. Nicolussi - Für M. [Objects & Sounds]

STRUMA+IODINE PREMIERE
NICOLUSSI - "Fairly Used VI" (2025)

To support the artist, buy it here
https://nicolussi.bandcamp.com/

Album-Title: Fairly Used
Year: 2025
Artist: Nicolussi
Label: Falt (digital) & Epileptic Media (cassette)
Album-release: 12.05.2025
Composed, performed, recorded*, produced, mixed and mastered by Nicolussi.
*performance recording at FLUCC Vienna by Lukas Weidmann.
*performance recording at KAPU Linz by Topi Piirainen.
Artwork: Christian Schiefner

Composed, performed and recorded in 2024.
Arranged, produced, mixed and mastered in 2025.


For the audiovisual show Fair Use, developed and performed by Nicolussi in 2024, 
obsolete media and abandoned data carriers such as Mini DV, cassettes and Dictaphone tapes were highlighted. Fair Use features an experimental film projection edited and processed from found footage as well as a musical improvisation composed in real time. During the performance the artist is hidden behind a translucent projection surface, blurring the relationship between nostalgia and reality. Fair Use opens a wide range of possible interpretations and questions with borrowed originality, pirating in artistic creation and cautious handling/misuse of sensitive data as central themes. For the EP Fairly Used recordings of rehearsals and live performances were edited and rearranged into complete tracks. The base material was recorded while rehearsing in Vienna and while performing at FLUCC in Vienna and KAPU in Linz. 

Nicolussi performs in numerous projects, composes for theater and film and co-runs the cassette label Epileptic Media. Analog and digital systems of chance, processed field recordings and everyday noises form the basis for his heavily manipulated sound designs.

https://soundcloud.com/nicolussi

S+I PREMIERE: Nicolussi - "Fairly Used VI" [Epileptic Media]

𓂃 Morning Mantra invites┈┉ Der Opium Queen @djopiumqueen ꒱꒱
exploring ¨·.·¨·.·
"Turn on, tune in, drop out"- a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words.

Released on vinyl in 1968, Turn on Tune in Drop Out is a spoken word but with sparse haunting  guitar and tabla music over it. Unlike anything that came before the narration here sounds as if the voices are beamed down from somewhere in the stratosphere. On this lengthy album, Leary can be heard speaking in a monotone soft voice on his views about the world and humanity, describing nature, Indian symbols, "the meaning of inner life", the LSD experience, peace, and many other issues.

The mix draws from some of those spoken passages, reworking them into a collage-like, immersive listening experience. It captures the rebellious spirit of the late '60s and contrasts it with distilled contemporary echoes of that very energy, filtered through a modern, digital, and dissociated lens.

Der Opium Queen is a Berlin-based musician, DJ, and visual artist running that voodoo inna down-you-will-get-up style. Deeply entrenched in the murky psychotropic inzwischen, they're no stranger to conscious trudges that leave the unprepared behind in the dust. With a lifelong dedication to the crossed wires that keep culture moving, their music seeks to explore depth, provoke curiosity, and break the mold at every turn.

Many thanks to Sean for taking care of this episode and for their music ♡

Broadcasted on Radio Alhara ━┈ 16.07.2025━═

Morning Mantra invites Der Opium Queen ✧ Turn on, Tune in, Drop out

It is not easy to find Saphira, and it is even harder to leave. If it so chooses, the city will appear first as a quivering mirage on the horizon, second as a blinding stone mirror, and third as a sprawling maze whose sounds and sensations embrace the traveler in a slow and languid frenzy. Quite famously, it is home to countless locked eyes and spellbound hearts. It is a place whose deep currents of longing, like the sound of its ocean shore, seem to rumble and hiss under the surface of every word and gesture, in every bead of sweat that blooms from the glimmering skin of its people.

Saphira is at all times caught between a low-lying sun to the west and a glowing moon to the east. They hang above the skyline with an eerie stillness, watching the city’s tireless creatures writhe together in tenderness and sin, casting upon them a pale, silvery gold light that hangs heavy in the humid air. It is in the tension of this peculiar light and its slender, tangled shadows that Saphira’s longing grows dense and time thickens within its walls. Traveler and resident alike are suspended in an endless eros, caught tightly between pain and pleasure, between the sting of saltwater in one’s eyes and the sticky sweetness of ripe fruit on one’s lips. 

Perhaps this is why Saphira’s radios and televisions stutter with phrases and images so ghostly yet so intimately familiar, why its dusty buildings seem always to crumble so gloriously yet never collapse, why around every corner there is a street that so closely resembles one of a distant and loving memory, and why the curling flakes of paint on its walls and facades will reach out against the heat without fading or falling. It is a city inside of want and outside of time.

Text by Devon Hansen, Photo by CCL

Invisible Cities Ⅰ: 𝓼𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓻𝓪

Mixed Signals : Kick21 (04.09.25)

TRISTAN ARP 23.9.25

SEED005 is from an artist i very happily stumbled across during some time spent in bristol, fig. her standout contributions at accidental meetings: saccade were enough to go on, but Grace's unspoken, tangible energy was what made me approach her to tackle a seed mix.

i'm thankful grace has shared this journey with us, a raw reflection on how change can feel so internally unsettling and disruptive- while outwardly having to persevere. 

'this is a sonic reflection of my experience of weaning off sertraline too suddenly, coinciding with a time of significant change. this made for an emotionally challenging period of readjustment.

i wanted to capture the raw, messy moments of discomfort and tension, while also acknowledging the fleeting softer moments that felt more accepting. it mirrors my experience of navigating through change - unpredictable and abrasive but not void of of light and clarity.

making this felt intuitive and honest. I haven’t made sense of everything but I’m slowly learning to find comfort through going with the flow.'

this is how navigating change sounds to fig.

big love,
grace and ri xx

SEED005 ~ fig ~ 'seeking solace in impermanence' ~ on navigating change

Kali Malone & Drew McDowall share a two-hour mix for NTS in celebration of their new album Magnetism, out November 7 on Ideologic Organ. The selection drifts through drone, minimalism, ambient, electroacoustic, folk, and sacred music, featuring many friends and collaborators whose work continues to shape and inspire them. The first half features Kali’s selections, with Drew taking over in the second.

Picture: Manon Clavelier 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/kali-malone/episodes/kali-malone-kali-malone-drew-mcdowall-3rd-november-2025

KALI MALONE & Drew McDowall 031125

for the 9th episode of la maison de lilo, the night falls too soon, the air cools down, the city shifts its rhythm. maybe this time, i’m not afraid. the past returns like a familiar refrain. i dance with its ghosts, i sing with them. with sereidila, we create one hour of live sound, somewhere in between...


la maison de lilo w/ sereidila & leïla alice @ Kiosk Radio 08.11.2025

Special Guest DJ's set recorded on Saturday, 26 July 2025 at Paral·lel Festival in Port del Comte, Spain.

Special Guest DJ @ Paral.lel 2025

Love Is On My Side w/ rami abi rafi: 26th November '25

Originally broadcast 22/02/19 on NTS Radio -
100% production mix -
features released material, forthcoming material, collaborations, and unheard sounds from the vaults.

TRACKLIST:
Ossia - Past 12
Ossia - Blood & Ice (Version) 
Ossia & chester giles - Anpao
Ossia - Inertia
Ossia - Concrete
Ossia - Vertigo
Ossia - Radiation
Prince Far I - Creation (Ossia Version)(forthcoming BH)
Ossia - Vertigo
Ossia - Devil's Dance
chester giles - Collapse & Rocksteady (Ossia Version)
Ossia - Red X
Ossia - Control
Ossia - Hell (Version)
Ossia - Crowd Psychology (forthcoming BH)
Bad Tracking - XP1 (Ossia Remix)
Ossia & Giant Swan - Dark Neck
Logos - DEF (Ossia's Dub Shower Mix)
Cera Khin & Ossia - Heavy Feet, Heavy Eyes 
vs APE & Oa$is - Tombstone 33rpm dub

NTS Radio (100% Production Mix)

[ominous tonalities]

find more original music on 
https://nicolussi.bandcamp.com
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NEXT:

Oct. 5th: phonoECHOES Finale @ esc medienkunstlabor, Graz
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Oct. 17th: composition premiere w/ Jakob Schauer @ Erlöserkirche, Vienna
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Nov. 1st: DJ-Set @ Wien Modern, Vienna
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Dec. 19/20th: DSD live @ SGZHN Festival, Vienna

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