In 2025, Roger 23 makes his return to Night Defined Recordings. Following his 2022 album “Bounds of a Moral Principle and Established Standard Behavior”, the unmistakable Saarländer revisits his teenage memories of the Saarbrücken-Leicester connection through a collaboration with his UK kindred spirit, Tom Dicicco. In just two months, the duo has created a collection of ten tracks rich in sonic depth, embodying their dedication to and belief in the power of exploration.

In a world where it’s easy to point fingers or resist change, Tom Dicicco and Roger 23 choose a different path. They see creativity not just as self-expression but as a way to inspire future generations. Their mission is to challenge norms, trust the process, and create with purpose.

This album is more than just a musical project — it’s a statement that true innovation arises from freedom and risk-taking. The journey has taught them more than music production — it has reinforced the importance of conviction and trusting their vision. Their work serves as a reminder that leadership is about breaking new ground and inspiring others to do the same.
WE CANNOT COMPLAIN, IF WE DON'T DO IT BETTER


Mastering and cut by Loop-O
Cover Design by Studio Fjeld
Cover Photo by Vincent Forstenlechner
Pressed by Austrovinyl

Bandcamp

Tom Dicicco & Roger 23 -  Parental Guidance (Previews) [NDWAXLP05]

Sacred Pools is a monthly show, rotating between DJ October, Faso and Toshiki Ohta. All three hosts showcase a varied and intriguing combination of music on the Sacred Pools show - from harshly metallic noise rock, unhinged post-punk, chillingly minimal synth, breakbeat rave and pervy wedding disco.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/sacred-pools/episodes/sacred-pools-16th-november-2023

Sacred Pools w/ FASO 161123

[20.11.2024]
https://soundcloud.com/vierundvierzig

vierundvierzig #53 w/ Carestine & Low Profiler

The newest Elektornimix is by none other than Mesak, whose new vinyl release on Elektorni we are celebrating this weekend in Helsinki and Oulu as well as 14.12. in Turku!

ELEKTORNIGUESTMIX012: Mesak @mesak

If you've been following Elektorni or Finnish electronic music in general you should be familiar with Mesak's work and history in the scene so we will skip the bio and not keep you unnecessarily long from hitting the play button. What we will say though, is that you're in for a treat with this mix. Just like Mesak's own production work, this one-hour mix never stagnates. Various rhythms and moods blend together for a unique trip into the aesthetic world of this singular artist. It's our honor to present to you number 12 in our ever-growing mix-series, from a true legend in the game.

We leave you with Mesak's words on how the mix came about: 

"The mix happened rather spontaneously than perfectly planned. It includes some all time favs as well as dusty, less often played obscurities picked up from the garage storage room. Enjoy!"

elektorniguestmix012: MESAK

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2025.01.10.html

@m50...
AOTCI v OVT ft NJP : The Past Is : The Past is Just the Future in Reverse : Logic Of The Signifier
Greg Davis : Sophie Germain : New Primes : greyfade
Nesa Azadikhah : Myself : My World : Kulture Galerie
Luke Slater : Love (Marcel Dettmann City Remix) : Love Remixes : Mote-Evolver
Scartip : Cans Hooves : Cans Hooves : Hypercolour
Cybotron : Earth : Parallel Shift : Tresor
Midnight Circuitry : Roland JX-8P
Phoenecia : Hiccup : Brownout : Schematic
AOTCI v OVT ft NJP : In Reverse Beats : The Past is Just the Future in Reverse : Logic Of The Signifier
Greg Davis : Pierport : New Primes : greyfade
Luke Slater : Love (The 7th Plain Collage Remix) : Love Remixes : Mote-Evolver
Phoenecia : Melfad : Brownout : Schematic

Matthew Mullane... (1h 15m)
1.) Negativland - Live at Sea
2.) Phew - Our Element
3.) Sissy Spacek - The Permeating Bizarre
4.) Gelbart - The Big Sleep
5.) Rene Haskett and David Jay - Armour
6.) Damon Locks and Ron Mazurek - The Concord Hour
7.) Mark - For Your Own Personal Ends
8.) Crazy Doberman - A Lock That Will Hold
9.) King Ebu - Stormy Night
10.) Toulouse Low Trax - Milk in Water
11.) Koenig ft. Victoria Shen - Ratchet
12.) Born Under a Rhyming Planet - Analogue Heaven (On Beat Off Beat Style)
13.) Lary 7 - Concretotron Ballroom
14.) The Threshold Houseboys Choir - As X is to Geff
15.) Tsembla - Instant Granite
16.) Norman Salant - Bowieszawa
17.) Berangere Maximin - BicÃ©phale Ballade
18.) Spoonfed Hybrid - Naturally Occurring Anchors
19.) Susan Alcorn and Janel Leppin - O Sacrum Convivium!
20.) Jim O'Rourke - Low Bow
21.) Ciro Vitiello - Radio Onda Verde 97.8 FM
22.) Main - 01
23.) Kirk Barley - Apricity (ft. UgnÃ© Uma)
24.) Richard Apperley - The Combat Between David and Goliath, composed by Johann Kuhnau

@juergenvonbank... (2h 17m)
no setlist

streamed on:
@datafruits
@sphere_radio
Wax n' Cats

m50 + Matthew Mullane + Juergen Vonbank @ etc 2025.01.10

First edition of our series of listening sessions! We met Fresh Herbs of Club Analog at Jazzit:Bar to focus on the life and music of the one and only Jimi Tenor in preparation for his appearance at Jazzit:Club:Nights on Feb 28th 2025.

Links:
@jimi-tenor-official
https://www.jimitenor.com/
Jimi Tenor Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/952-Jimi-Tenor
Jimi Tenor Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jimitenor

@philophon
@sahko
@timmionrecords
@warp-records
@bureau-b
@strut

Minerva Records Describes...The Music of Jimi Tenor w/ Club Analog [290125 Jazzit:Bar]

2nd edition of our series of listening sessions live from Jazzit:Bar Salzburg. We met reknown journalist, writer and musician Didi Neidhart (aka Low Profiler) to talk about the concept of afrofuturism in music. 

Some links and references for those who want to dig deeper:

TRACK LIST:
SUN RA: Dance Of The Cosmo Aliens (Disco 3000, 1978)
JUNE TYSON: If You Are A Myth (1972)
YOCHANAN feat. SUN RA: The Sun Man Speaks (1959) SUN RA ARKESTRA ft. Marshall Allen live at Jazzit 13.06.2014
PARLIAMENT: Prelude (The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein, 1976)
PARLIAMENT: Mothership Connection (1975, Live 1977)
JONZUN CREW: Space Is The Place (1983)
X-102/UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE: Thethys/Loop (Jeff Mills, Mike Banks, 1992)
X-102/UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE: Ground Zero (Jeff Mills, Mike Banks, 1992) DREXCIYA: Draining or the Tanks (Neptunes Lair, Tresor, 2002)
DREXCIYA: Aquabahn (Drexciya 4: The Unknown Aquazone, 1994)


WATCH:
SUN RA: Space is the Place (1974) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owCPrIEliZc  
JOHN AKOMFRAH: The Last Angel of History (1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcbSUwPjass


READ:
Deforrest Brown Jr.: Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Primary Information, 2022)
Diedrich Diederichsen (Hg.): Loving The Alien. Science Fiction, Diaspora, Multikultur (ID-Verlag, 1998)
Kodwo Eshun: Heller als die sonne. Abenteuer in der sonischen Fiction (ID-Verlag, 1999)
Paul Gilroy: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Verso Books, 1993)
John F. Szwed: Space Is the Place. The Lives and Times of Sun Ra, (Pantheon Books, 1997) Kevin M. Strait / Kinshasha Holman Conwill (Hg.): Afrofuturism: A History Of Black Futures (Smithsonian Books, 2023)
Thomas Meinecke: Hellblau (Suhrkamp, 2003)

Minerva Records Describes...Afrofuturism in Music w/ Didi Neidhart [050325 Jazzit:Bar]

full broadcast

http://m50.net/playlists/2025.05.02.html

@sherbeth...
no setlist

@m50... (1h 48m)
Emptyset : Gloam : Dissever : Thrill Jockey
Stina Stjern : Rewind Beethoven : Vivid Peace : SusannaSonata
Monomorph : Time Out : Departure Can Wait : Nature
Stina Stjern : Replenishment : Vivid Peace : SusannaSonata
Emptyset : Dawn : Dissever : Thrill Jockey
Emptyset : Penumbra : Dissever : Thrill Jockey
Datassette : Stack Return : Points
Last Magpie : Memphis : Battle of the Forgotten Mystics : Sounds Good Sound
Beppu : Tape Speeds : IPOP : Organic Analogue
Stina Stjern : Resonance : Vivid Peace : SusannaSonata
Bochum Welt : Opah : Axodya
Gescom : Go Sumo : The Sound Of Machines....
Emptyset : Aether : Dissever : Thrill Jockey
Pressburg : Deep 2
Datassette : Dot Line Dot : Points
Bochum Welt : Fegda : Axodya
Datassette : Misread : Points
Datassette : Long Way Down : Points
Stina Stjern : A Thousand Ways of Falling : Vivid Peace : SusannaSonata
Blatter : Lament : Leaves + Far Away : Lux Nigra
Pressburg : FBtest nor rythm
Stina Stjern : Go To Your Room : Vivid Peace : SusannaSonata

@lo-d... (2h 41m)
Reel by Real - Untitled (Strand Mix) 
dBridge - Violence Of Positivity 
D Roots - Zero Gravity
Josh Café - Peak (Jerome Hill „Nightmare“ Mix) 
Peverelist - Pulse XI 
Jacek Sienkiewicz - Rhythm Section 
Benjamin Damage - Revok 
Skee Mask - The Bills
The Abstract Eye - Dark Dancefloor 
Will Simpson- We The People 
Zenker Brothers - Hold On 
DJ Agitated - Vallinote 
Skee Mask - Small Stone S700
Altroy - NYC Dub 
Sahko Recordings - Richie Hawtin Remix A 
Dynamic Forces - Before We Die 
Insolate - The Day Will Come (Deniro Remix) 
KiNK & Raredub - Time To Change (Marcel Dettmann Remix) 
Johnny Kick - Burnin 
Peverelist - Pulse III
Ben Pest - Who Would Have Thought I’d Be
Mr Bellini - Bad Breath 
Sun People - Trust The Impulse 
Hitech - SPANK!

streamed live at
@datafruits, ICN
@sphere_radio, LEJ
Wax n' Cats, CHI

Șerb + m50 + Daniel Lodig @ etc 2025.05.02

Third edition of our series of listening session covering the rich heritage of Anatolian music from the past to the present.

Playlist:
Özdemir Erdoğan - Aç Kapıyı Gir İçeri (Yonca)
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Bal (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Oy Oy Emine (Catapulte Records)
Erkin Koray - Cemalim (Doğan)
Cem Karaca - Dadaloğlu (Türkofon)
Cem Karaca - Mein Deutscher Freund (Pläne)
Zack Zack Zack - Yaradan (Trost)
Barış Manço - Alla beni pulla beni (Türküola)
Barış Manço - Sarı Çizmeli Mehmet Ağa (Türküola)
Selda Bağcan - Yaz Gazeteci Yaz (Türküola)
Gülden Karaböcek - Allı Turnam (Elenor Plak)
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Nem Kaldı (Catapulte Records)
Alpay - Dağlar Engel Oldu (Yonca)

@elasoul
@hasan-mahir
@deryayildirimofficial
@grupsimsek
@bongojoerecordshop
@trost-records


Minerva Records Describes Anatolian Folk & Funk w/ Elasoul & Hasan Mahir [180625 Jazzit:Bar]

Tom Dicicco & Roger 23 - Disease X

Tom Dicicco & Roger 23 - It's A Bit Like Washing Hands Without Adding The Warm Water (Dub)

Tom Dicicco & Roger 23 - Guidance Two

Tom Dicicco & Roger 23 - Type Of Required Purpose

Tom Dicicco & Roger 23 - Guidance Zero

Tom Dicicco & Roger 23 - Guidance One

In 2025, Roger 23 makes his return to Night Defined Recordings. Following his 2022 album “Bounds of a Moral Principle and Established Standard Behavior”, the unmistakable Saarländer revisits his teenage memories of the Saarbrücken-Leicester connection through a collaboration with his UK kindred spirit, Tom Dicicco. In just two months, the duo has created a collection of ten tracks rich in sonic depth, embodying their dedication to and belief in the power of exploration.

In a world where it’s easy to point fingers or resist change, Tom Dicicco and Roger 23 choose a different path. They see creativity not just as self-expression but as a way to inspire future generations. Their mission is to challenge norms, trust the process, and create with purpose.

This album is more than just a musical project — it’s a statement that true innovation arises from freedom and risk-taking. The journey has taught them more than music production — it has reinforced the importance of conviction and trusting their vision. Their work serves as a reminder that leadership is about breaking new ground and inspiring others to do the same.
WE CANNOT COMPLAIN, IF WE DON'T DO IT BETTER

PREMIERE: Tom Dicicco & Roger 23 - It's A Bit Like Washing Hands Without Adding The Warm Water

On 13th September 2025 we were hosting a special listening session and talk during Take The A-Train Festival in Salzburg. In the cozy (but sweaty) environment of Salon Hohenstauffen we discussed the state of Women in Jazz with the Austrian saxophonist Lisa Hofmaninger. Furthermore, well known author, dj, radio host and music expert Thomas Meinecke was playing records by female jazz composers and providing essential background information about it.
Enjoy!

@lisa-hofmaninger
@thomas-meinecke-1

Women in Jazz - Talk & Listening Session @Take The A-Train Festival [130925]

By Minerva Records
contact & demo submission: nightdefined@gmail.com

Distribution:
EU: One Eye Witness
UK/Rest: Rubadub

Tom Dicicco & Roger 23 - Disease X

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